1939-11-20 — Page 19

NANCY

OH, DARLING ·

WAIT'LL YOU

SEE MY

NEW HAT!

WHAT?--- ANOTHER

HAT ---

ARE YOU

GOING OUT

OF YOUR

MIND?

TSAR'S GOLD MISSING

Belgrade.

TREASURES, said to have been valued originally at £32,000,000, which were smuggled out of Tsarist Russia before the revolution, are missing from the vaults of Jugoslavia's Finance Ministry, where they were placed for safety.

Barely £1,000,000 now mains.

re-

This was revealed at a special court in Belgrade yesterday when two emigre Russians, Anton Gendzel and Leo Kuns- hinski, were sentenced for em- bezzling and disposing of part of the treasure worth £2,000..

Six other people-five of them smarily dressed Russlan

Weinen--

were also necused, but they were acquitted.

Minor Figures Only

Gendael, he embezzler, was sent

to prison for four years: Kuashinski, his accomplice, for two years.

But they are only minor figures in the greatest financial mystery of post-war yours--a mystery that suggests wholesale embezzlement and thefla.

In the words of their defending lawyer: "This case is in danger of developing into monster process, involving the international relations

which of Jugoslavia, beside

the minor misappropriations of Gendzel and Kunshinski are insignificant.

The ill was secret. Not a word was allowed to appear in the Press.

But from a confidential document it fa able 10 reconstruct Vie story of the treasure.

Chests of Gold

It consisted of gold and silver de- nosits from the former Russian National Bank, valuable collections of old coins from Muscow and Petro- grad Museums, and private bank safe! deposits.

Smuggled out of Russin in 1920) during the Kerensky regime, it was! placed on the steamer Sahara and landed at Kotor, Jugoslavia,

Thirty-two waggons were seeded to carry the treasure in Belgrade, There were 25,000 boxes and packets, i including 700 thests of silver, and 580 of gold and jewellery.

Some of the silver, worth £110.- ROD, was brought to London and sold by the late General Wronget. Soviet Pleas

According to the document, the Soviet Government have alcandy made representallons to Jugoslavia for the return of this wealth, or such part of it as was originally the pro- perty of the State and municipal and public institutions in Russlo.

HOW THE MONEY

IS SPENT

Air Minister Kingsley

Sir Wood took the Chancellor

of

the Exchequer to an

R.A.F.

station to show Jatni how the money devoted In the

Air

Force is spent. They chatted (right) with the pilots, inspect- acroplanes

ed

and administra- tive quarters, and cxpressed satisfaction with the

organisa-

tlon.

Monday,

BUT I'VE ONLY GOT FIVE HATS,

DEAR!

TOO BUSY TO BE ILL

The hushing-up of the trial of

The view is expressed by an officla!! Gendzel and Kunshinski suggests for the British Medical Association that the Jugoslav Government now that people had been "on busy to be fear the relations with the Soviet |][" since the war started. He was Inny be badly strained.

discussing the dwindling practices of

many general practitioners.

"Apart from their panel which Is continuing more or less as

work,

The Queen To Make usual, because, generally speaking,

Bandages

The Queen, who has returned to Scotland, has organised work party

the insured people are remaining in their ordinary jobs, the average general practitioner has not nearly as much work to do now as he has in normal times," said this official.

"Ifis practice has been very badly

private

to make bandages and garments for hit, partly because of the evacuation the Central Hospital Supplies Service under the joint board of the British of large numbers of his Ited, Cross Society, and the Order Patients, and partly because, owing to emergency conditions, people simply of St. John.

have not time to be ill.to-day, Nor She will herself take an active part (are they bothering to call the doctor in the work, and will be assisted by jin for the treatment of minor all- members of the domestic stat.of thements as they would do in normal royal household.

times."

Runaway Girls Warned of

Dangerous London.

THREE runaway girls who had been found in London by police women are to be "evacuated" to their own homes at Birmingham, Newcastle and Carlow (Eire).

They were brought before the Caxton Hall juvenile court

as being in need of care and protection.

To the Birmingham girl, who had her home three weeks ago with her been found in a distressed condition parents' consent to come to London In Hyde Park, tho chairman (Mr. A. to look for work.

You mitted leaving home without permis-

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WHAT DO YA. NEED SO MANY HATS FOR?-- AFTER ALL, YOU CAN'T WEAR MORE THAN ONE

HAT AT A

TIME. Y KNOW!

November 20, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

HOW MANY OF THESE CAN YOU

SMOKE

•AT ONE TIME?

MUMBLE--- MUMBLE MUMBLE

NAZI PLANE PUT THROUGH ITS PACES

FOUND TOO SLOW

ALLIED air technicians now have complete proof of the inferiority of Germany's fighting planes.

Britain, Australia, France to Ignore League During War

GENEVA.

BRITAIN, France and Aus- tralia, In separate notes to the League of Nations, said the special clause in the World Couri statute which calls for compulsory arbi- tration in any conflict, which they signed with 35 other naftous. no longer was valld so far as their war with Germany' was' concern-

The British ninle kaid: "All

machinery present

to maintain peace has broken up. The conditions under which the British Government agreed 10 sign the optional article of the World Court's statute no longer

Australian

ed.

The

and French notes were similar.

British troops driving Bren gun carriers through a French village

beliind the anes!"

Timing Their

Visitors

BRUSSELS. BELGIANS Are

dis- being couraged by the Nazi authorities to visit friends relatives in Germany.

Only people with special passen are allowed to cross, and these are being "clocked" in and out by the German froniler guard,

Test pilots have flown a cap- tured Messerschmitt fighter, and their reports show that the plane is actually slower than Britain's bombing many of planes.

Yet, the Messerschmitt squat little single-seat monoplane with square-cut wing tips-was one of Hitler's most vaunted weapons.

I revealed last week that captured German pilots referred to their planes as lying bricks," and com- plained that they were difficult to manoeuvre in combat, says & Loudon reporter.

оп

A German Aghter pilot Innded his machine in France

one of the Allied nerodromes, under the Im- pression that he was in Germany.

WINGS FLAP

In tests with the machine at cer- tain speeds the short melul wings flap and quickly—an essential in alr Aghting.

The maximum safe speed for the machine is reported to be lower than 300 miles an hour, and at the speed the whole aircraft is vibrating dan- gerously and rattling.

Britain's warplanes are fitted with. engines designed to ure, the most efficient fuel possible.

The engine of the Messerschmitt, however, is designed to work on a petrol little more potent than that used in a high-efficiency sports enr.

SMALL LOSSES

According to German propaganda. before the war. the Messerschmitt wns going to keep the alr over Ger- many clear of invaders.

'British and French craft have now flown millions of miles over enemy territory on reconnaissance flights with ridiculously sinali losLES,

The reports on ibo captured Bghter? seem to give the explanation.

German Parent Ships to Supply Raiders at Sea

Bre now at seR

By A NAVAL CORRESPONDENT { murine depot strips. One of these, the Valdemar Kophamel, was launched AN effective point made by at Kiel last May, and may not yet the Prime Minister in his latest be in service; but all the others are statement on the progress of the belloved to be in commission. Whe- war was that, previous to the ther any of them outbreak of war, the Germans remains to be seen. had placed their U-boats and their supply ships in the best strategic positions, with the re ault that our shipping losses had The Nazis fear that throughi contact with their Belgian friends been somewhat severe,

The reason for this tightening of the regulations is believed to be the growing discontent among the German population.

people may get much.

know loo

Letters have been received in Europe from Germans appealing to their friends to bring them

butter, coffee and chocolate.

Apart from the question of the

tain that the U-boats cannot remain

existence of parent vessels, it is cer-

for away at sea indefinitely unless they can have re-course to bases of some kind. In this connection it may be significant that the Ministry This is the first information to be of Information should have 1- published to suggest that enemy sub-nounced fast week that "the enemy marines operating in the Atlantie are may attempt to colablish submarine being assisted by supply ships. It bases on the consts of South and draws attention to the fact that no Central Amerlepn countries." fewer than ten vessels figure in the

list of the German Fleet as sub-

B. B. C.'s "ADOLF IN BLUNDERLAND"

London.

There is a tea party with the Mad

British Broadcasting Corpora Flatterer, at which State gardeners tion's stocks have been revived are busy painting white flowers red,

by a brilliant porady entitled "Adolf "In order to please Russia,"

IN THE LAST WAR

In 1914-16 there were at least three definite instances of this kind' of disregard of neutrality by Ger- many. In September, 1014, the British equiser Highflyer surprised and sank the German ormed liner. Kalser Wilhelm der Grosse while coaling in the Spanish waters of Rio de Oro, on the West Afclean coast,

During the same month another. enemy rolder, the Cap Trafalgar, was amlinely caught and destroyed by the ormed Cunarder Carmania off the

In this, Little Adolf follows thelohe party attendants include the Brazilian island of Trinidada, in the

E, Lirck, anid: "London is no place Later, said a policeman, she ad-in Blunderland."

of Heartlemen Storm South Atlantic. for a girl, especially now.

Troopers with clubs and spades, Isnow what the present state of alon, and said that she bought for White Vonribbet to its hole, get party leaders wearing. their dia- After the battle of the Falklands

return ticket lost in a pool of his own tears, and ronds, also weeping Mockboebbels. affairs is. There is a possibility of 23. td, the half of

the surviving German cruiser, the London being an unpleasant and from Newcastle to London.

Then follows a crtat in which Dresden, repeatedly took advantage dangerous place. You had better go This is not the time for girls like meets Columbrella, who, sitting on a mushroom and mimicking Chant-

of Chilean neutrality, first by hiding back to Birmingham."

you to be adrift in London," said the chairman. "We will get you back to vice from under his umbrella. your mother to-day and place you

dared to volee the feelings of Blun- | ritory of Magallenes and later by Adolf's head gets bigger and derland's

tles under the supervision of the New-

suppressed

and lying at the island of Juan Ferman- dez, where she was found and her chatle probation officer."

bigger, and when he starts eating mothers,

The Queen orders; "Off with their career ended by the cruisers Glasgow The mother of the Irish girl agreed the mushroom he grows too big.

'for his boots. 19

must swastikas!!!

and Kent, to take her back to Ireland.

The girl promised not to return to

London.

FROM NEWCASTLE FOR zo. 6d. The Newcastle girl, aged 16, when found in the West End, said shie left

berlain's unice, pluca him good ad-Voribbet blows his own trumpet

The trial concerria Guineapig, who in various remote inlets in the ter-

*

Britain-Japan

AMERICA

BLAMED

Tientsin, Nov. 18. 'Interviewed by the foreign Press this morning General Homma, Japanese Comander-in-Chief here, declared that the Tientsin blockadó! will continue until П satisfactory solution of pending questions 18 Bchieved.

added that the blockade should have ended three months ngo, when the Anglo- Japaneso negotiations were proceed. ing smoothly, but the abrogation of the commercial treaty with Japan by America causecl a stiffening of the British attitude.

General whether the Jupanese military nui- thorities would abide by the decisions reached by the diplomatie talks in Tokyo. He, smilingly replied that as soldiers they would obey orders. General Homma regratied nationals olher than Brilons

through Sutoring hardships

the blockade, but every step was being taken to reduce their inconvenience.

Homma жда naked!

ding to the United

that

were

Agonising

Stomach Pain

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in Tientsin. shortage of coat above statement has been confirmed' by the British Consul-General.

Search Not Rolaxed

Chungshan, Nov. 19.

The

In Tientsia pedestrians may enter or leave the Concessions only at three places, the International Bridge. Machlukow and Tunglowkow and hey_ture subjected to strict searchca. People leaving for outports by boat are searched twice, Tientsin and Tangku,-Central News

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