1939-09-21 — Page 19

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English Society Success

Woman Executed

For Spying

Behind nine executions earried put it th: dreaded Moabit prisen, Berlin, lies the story of a beautiful English-woman who, to "Do Her

Bit" and for the thrill of advanture | threw

Story

HERE is a story of success to inspire all shop girls.

Mins Ethel Frances Newth be-

Up zonance and a life of gan work when she was 19 as

luxury and safety,

.

fler entrer la nn eple of the Secret shillings a week. Then she be- u milliner's apprentice at a few Service, for, despite the elforts of Gestapo, agents whe were on the came a shop assistant with a look-out for her, she was able to wage of £1 week and was obtain some of the most vital in-eventually promoted to be the formation concerning German buying manager of a London

that hns passed into

istore with a four-figure anlary. She WHIS only rought nt lost She died at the age of 54- through being betrayed by a man two years after retiring-and sind eight men, taken with her, have her will reveals that she made paid the penalty of their calling.

armament British hands.

she trusted ns nt associate, and she

To-day is possible to tell she story of this heroine, of the Service that never sleeps.

For months she had been a thorn in the side of the Nazis because of her many during raids into Germany to direct the operation of British Intelligence agents.

a fortune of £38,170.

There is no extrudition In such cases, but the Nazi rulers of the city found a way of getting over that dimculty.

She and eight men suld to have been acting for her were seized dur ing the night and smuggled into

A brunette, strikingly beautiful Fast Prussia, afterwards being trans- and highly cultured, she was reported to Beriin.

celved in Berlin Society, her Ger- Brought before the dreaded man being so perfect that no one People's Tribunal they were quickly doubted her clan to be member condemned to death, and the sen of a distinguished Prussian family: tences were carried out with unusual Some time ago, it is stated, she rapidity, providing the headsman went to Danzig to organise an es- with one of his busiest mernings. plonago service for Britain,

No numes have been given in Ber- in, but it is asserted that the woman

Thic Gestapo gai on her trail through the perfidy of a German was well-known' in London Society posing as French. 1 suspicions before she took up Secret Service

were

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 21, 1939. By Ernie Bushmiller

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London's evacuation schemes worked splendidly during the 'crisis week. Here is a school with tea- eliers, lining up before boarding & bus lo take them to the country, (Air Mali photo).

Girl Who Has Never

Worn A New Dress

aroused, and he approached work, and that she had been pre-thum, Middlesex, recently on a charge of stealing two drcases TWENTY-YEARS-OLD IVY PARSONS, bound over at Fel- her with the suggestion that the sented at Court. should co-operate with him in the Because of her desire to follow the from the house of her employer. Lady Haslett, of Holmbank, Service.

adventurous work of a spy in a for- Upper Halliford, Shepperton, said at her home in Halliford that. PELL INTO THE TRAB

elgn country..she broke off her she has never worn a new dress, She fell into the trap, accepted the gagement some weeks before the offer, and was teft at liberty until wedding was to have taken place in her associates in the city were dis-one of the fashionable London

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SATURDAY

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The report of the Director Education (B. C. G. Selik), for 1930 has just been issued.. Priced at $1,20,

it is in the new form of departmental

repart and begins with an excellent "Now I have' to work hard to re-julstory of the Colony's education. pay her for her kindness. I never have any pleasure like other girls, The report states that the con- of dunces or pictures., 1 sit at home tinued unsettled conditions in China and envy other happler girls,""

caused by the Sino-Japanese conflict of both Chinese and Europeans and were again responsible for an influx

It was stated in court that she took the dresses belonging to Miss Mary there was a sharp rise in the atten- Ila lett, because she thought they had Faeen, thrown away.

WEEK'S TRAFFIC TOLL Three People Killed In

Street Mishaps

dance Ogures of educational Institu- tions. The maximum enrolment in all classes of schools reached the re- cord figure of 104,134, an incrcpse of 17.141 over the previous year.

The Government Trade School was officially opened by Sir Geoffry Northcote on April 12. Heads of schools had consultations with the Air-Tuld-Precautions Officer,--and during the latter part of the year were engaged in formulating plans for enses of emergency.

During the week ending Saturday there were in Hongkong 95 traffle Accidents, ns the result of which three people, were killed and 44 During the year a revision of the were injured. Or those killed, Hongkong School Certifiente syllabus Chinese, uged 16, was knocked down was undertaken. Great assistance in and killed by a taxi while running this task was given by the Hongkong across the road,

Teachers' Association. This body A Chinese woman, aged 27, and, also inaugurated a scheme for ex- ahother, aged 38, died from injuries hibiting educational films in schools. received while lighting from mov-

During the year a committee was appointed by the Governor to review

Ing buses.

•

A Chinese, aged 81, of the Home and report on the teacher training for Aged, was knocked down and in-syllabus in operation at the Hong- jured by a car while walking nerea classes held in connection with the kong University and in the normal The road. He was sent to Queen

Mury Hospital and discharged but evening Institute and to make re-

died.

commendations in relation to either

New Subsidy Scheme

Of those injured, 33 were pedes or both systems. Irions, who were either walking! running across the roadi and were During the year no changes were struck by vehleles. Two bicycle rid- made in the Grant Code.. A new 1% and one tricycle rider were in-subsidy Jured as the result of colllaions be-schools was drawn up and was under-

scheme for vernacular tween vehicles. Two lorry passen- consideration at the end of the year, gera were injured on falling from and the syllabus of the Hongkong moving lorries.

School Certificate examination was

A tram passenger and five bus under revision. Changes adopted for passengers were injured while alight- the 1930 and subsequent examina- ing from a moving tram and mov- tions were as follows: New cylla- :buses respectively,

buses in English, Geography, Urdu, Of 15 accidents, 30 were collisions Portuguese, French, Physics, Che between vehicles; 44 were collisions mistry, Botany, Algebra and Trigono- between vehicles and pedestrians; 21 metry were approved. neeldents were due other causes.

Latin will no longer be included Type of vehicles involved. Private in the examination. No provision motor car 55, meter lorry .20, motor will be made for an examination in bus 15, publie motor car 10, motor sel books in the English syllabus. A jcycle 3, tramenr 9, trleycle 2, bleycle pass will be awarded on the aggre-

4, ricksha 1.

Kate of the remaining sections, Eng. CASTLE. PEAK ROAD CRASH

lsh, General English and Dictation. Swerving his car to avoid running General Phyales together with either Candidates In Physica must offer down a European who was on horse-Hent, Light and Sound, or Electricity back near the 17-Mile stone. on Monday. Mn Sik-hung, driver of the and Magnetism. The oral car, could not check the turn in time modern languages will not be in and the vehicle ieft the

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The expenditure for 1930 was di Ma, reporting the incident, sok he was driving towards Castle Peak follows: Provided Schools $1,558,345 from Taunwan when he met Schools: $307,203 against $350,940.

against $1,401,183 in 1937, Afled. Furopean on horseback. When be who about to pass them, the horse sites, and Mo aworted, leaving the Froad fusn result.

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against $190,000, Sludents in Train- and Inspection $208,205 'ing: $24,601 against $30,630.

The total expenditure for 1038 was |$2,109,608 against $2,042,844, TRAFFIC MISHLAFS REPORTED

The revenue, from school fec's was A.. W. Googles, driving, along Hennessy Road near O'Brien's Road $20,003 against $205,038 in the pre- yesterday, knocked down Cha Cheuk, vous year, leaving a net expenditure 61, who suffered injuries to the body of $1,170,044, which is about $100, and was removed to the Queen Mary: 050 more than the figure for the pre-

vious year. Knocked down by d'car driven by During the year, a total of 0,186 Banitary Inspector E. N. Ponsford in medical examinations were inade in the Central district yesterday, a 10 Government schools. One thou- 80-year-old woman, Ma Ng, was sand nine hundred and fifty-eight. sent to the Queen Mary. Hospital entrants were inspected and 1,108 with Injuries to her left forearm." found to have defects.

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