1940-02-12 — Page 17

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 12, 1940.

GENERAL ATTACKS "CRANKS" IN DAVENTRY BROADCAST

Kennedy of the Rawalpindi

Serenteon years ago. Captain E. €. Konnody was “axed" from the Nacy. Ho pined for the sea; rejoined, aged 60. when war broko out; and commanded the Rawalpindi when she was sunk.

The Boy Who Wanted

To Be A Sailor

I. R. A.

The Cadel Who Wanted To Be A Captain

FINANCED

FROM AMERICA

THAT the IR.A. is receiving packets of dollars from the United States and that classes are being held at which men are taught how to make bombs, was disclosed in thei Dail recently.

Asking for special powers which would authorise the internment of persons suspected of activities against the State, Mr. Boland, Minister for Justice, said the raid on the magazine fort in Phoe-

nix Park should have made everybody realise the neces- sity of the Government possessing such authority,

Sometimes it was said that the IR.A. intended to raid Northern Ireland and times that they intended to bring off a coup in Dublin.

Home-

"We cannot say what their inten- tions are." he said, "but we want to get hold of the arms and ammunition which they have got and keep these people under lock and key."

"Violent Action" Plans ---It-was- within-the-knowledge of-the-- Government. that this body contem- plated violent action of some kind which no Government could tolerate,

Large sums of money had come from Amerien for the LR.A. They' had captured packets of Amertean dollars with no labels but an intima- tion

that

money had been sent A

for

the

"We

bave a shrewd idea where 11 is coming from." he added.

He described how captured docu- ments had disclosed how the I.R.A. were holding classes at Drogheda, where men were taught how to make explosives and bombs and detona- tors. Sulphuric acid and chemicals were handled in secret.

Mr. W. T. Cosgrave, Lender of the

Opposition, moved an amendment

that consideration of the Bill should be adjourned until the Govemmen! had introduced a Bill to amend the Constitution.

It was unreasonable, he declared, that people should be deprived of their liberties or mere suspicion..

"Assassination Alm"

Mr. de Valera, replying, said that the Government hold that intern- ment was not forbidden by the Con- stitution despite the Court Judgment. The illegal organisation were ap- parently prepared to

Use arms

against the State and to embroil it with neighbouring States. Such in- <dividuals must be brought to book, "I believe that the ultimate end of tho 'activities of these gentlemen must

be assassination," sald James Dillon, pointing his finger across the House to where Mr. de Valera was seated.

Mr.

"God knows how many of us may be the victims of that campaign, but with that fully In mind I say we

must face it,'

The

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QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA

"Petting"

Nazi Prisoners

“UNHEALTHY sentimen- -tal hysteria" was the term used in a B.B.C. broadcast about British people who sent gifts to German prisoners of

war.

Major-General. Sir. Ernest Swinton, making his weekly "War Commentary," said :--

"I read that gifts

being showered on the German prisoners of war in this country by anonym- Cous British sympathisers,

nre

There is no evidence that these prisoners are not being properly fed: so if this is correct, it is a sign of that unhealthy rentimental hysteria which seems to prevall amongst some of our people at a time of na- tional strain.

'Names In Parcels'

"It would be for baller these crunks ceased to pet these, prisoners, who. even though merely carrying out orders, are the comrades of the perpetrators, or possibly, the perpe- trators, of some of the atroclites being committed by their country- men,

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EGYPTIAN ROOM THEROGLYPHICS or

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"Mind if I borrow a couple, Elwyn? I always like to have something to road on the way home!".

the ADAM” AT FAIR:

The Captain Who Wanted To Go To Sea Again

-And These Are The Medals Ho Won

[The Pekin Medal; 1914 Star; Great War and Victory Medals and

the Legion of Honour.]

Britain's Secret Weapon-

R.A.F. STRENGTH HAS NEVER BEEN DISCLOSED

enemy territory by more than four to one.

BRITAIN hag at her disposal a powerful "secret wea pon," according to a leaflet published by the Ministry of In. formation-an Air Force of a size never yet disclosed, "Assurance of Victory" is the heartening title of this heartening lenßet,

Dealing will every aspect of the struggle, the pamphlet shows that in all cases the Ailies are. in a position superior to that of Germafiy

The Royal Air Force, it says, has expanded at an-immensë râté during the last five years,

NG

For every person dominated by Hitler, six have already come in on the Allied side. For every per- son living fo Hitler's territory there are eighteen outside.

By their aggression, soya the leaflet, the Nazis have destroyed nation discloses publicly the ther own security. Faced by the Immense forces of the Allies, they of its aircraft strength and pro ways the leadet, "but are cut off from resources without

whole

to figures showing the which they cannot possibly win a officially disclosed Increase. in our prolonged war,

aircraft, we now have at home four

:

To keep their alt, force going in a times as many 'first line planes 05 "total" war against Britain and

It may not be possible to make 46

exercise of it illegal. But, in my opinion, it should be made compul- sory for the names and addresses of the senders to be inscribed on their parcels.

THE

subsequent publication of these might divert their generosity to a better objective. Parcels arriving without such inscription should be handed over to the prisoners' guards, :

Gas Forecast

There are surely other directions" In which the senders of these gifts can satisfy their urge to be kind.

There are the scattered detach- ments of anti-aircraft gunners and others to whom you might well show

hospitality and friendship. There are the widows and orphans of our fishermen, the evacuees and others who have been caused hard- ship and suffering by war."

Major-General Swinton is 71; Chi- chicle Professor of Military History, Oxford; first official eye-witness in France in last war; has written fle- tion under two pen names.

On November 9 he broadcast the suggestion that the Germans would Invade Holland and Belgium, using polson gus

Huge Income For Hitler

HITLER'S personal income is more than £200,000 a year according to Paris Radio.

It is made up of:- Salary and allowances

tis Reich -President, £25,000-sara na

Salary as Chancellor, £3,000, Salary Nuzi

as

Party lender, £3,000.

in 1834-5-apart from a growing France the Nazis would have to bulld force of several hundreds overseas.

the

more than 3,000 planes every month Four To One...

and to recruit new pllats on "But this atalement does not do sumie scale. anything like justice to the remark- When their fist "knock-out" effort nble advance which has taken place, is spent, many things, will begla to for it leaves out of secount the very tell against the Nazis their losses of Jorge number of undisclosed addi-planes, lack of plots, of industrial tions to the Boyal Air Force."

reserven, and, of oll."

Here are some of the striking The whole Rumanian and, German points brought out in the pamphlet: oil production, put together would Citizens of the British Empire not supply anything like half their autnumber

population of wartime heeds.

the

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at-

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Also A la Carte

China Bldg., Hongkong:

Hankow Rd., Kowloon..

Royalties from "Mein Kampf,"

£133,750,

Profis from publishing firm of Franz Eher, £23,750.

Profits from newspaper, Voelkis- cher Beobachter £14,300.

The Evening Standard says that

Ναζί leaders ore still providing

against inflation by converting large sums into pro

precious stones.

A recent purchase of a pearl neck- Jace worth £61,000 from ℗ denier in Rome is believed to have been made, on Marshal Goering's behalf.

Bride Takes Life As Wedding Is Put Off

The day before she was to have been married Elizabeth Madigan, thirty-three-year-old nurse,

of Bromfield-road, Clapham, S.W., took. her life by turning on the gas in her bedroom.

on

Her fiance sold at the inquest that the day before her death Miss Madigon had received notice from the registrar that owing to "some technical hitch" the wedding would have to be postponed.

Verdict: "Sulcide while the ba- lance of mind was disturbed."

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EPSTEIN

ANGRY

"I AM disgusted. It is no fault of mine." This was Jacob Epstein's comment when I told him that his statue "Adam" was to be exhibited in a London fun fair, says a special correspondent.

I saw the statue, still in its] packing case, surrounded by giant posters, standing in the fair, at Marble Arch.

I

The posters announce that the statue will be on view next week.

"Bowler" Days

At Euston

Mr.

"Joe" Harrison, the Euston station-master, has two official hats. When seeing off passenger ex- presses he wears his "topper" for workaday parcel trains he puts on

"I know nothing about it," Epstein said. "It has been exhibited in ahla bowler. very cheap and horrible way.

"It was sold, and then they started to do this with it,"

The statue is to be exhibited with a number of bronzes by Epstein, and sightseers will be admitted at Ød, a time.

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

Nowadays Mr. Harrison spends the greater part of his time in the bow- ler.

"Eight parcels trains are leaving Euston every day, some consisting of as many as 17 vans," he said.

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Recluse Slept On Papers

STRANGE facts about

the mode of life of a 77-year- old woman recluse · were disclosed at a Watford in- quest.

Miss Margaret Elizabeth Car- ter was found dying in her un-. heated nine-roomed. homo in Bushey Grove Road, Bushey.

A police officer said that when sho dfed Miss Curter had, on a brown akirt and six woollen curdigans, fos- tened with about 60 safety pins.

She wore galters and gloves but no shoes or stockings. Her hair was covered with brown paper tied with string.

Her Birds

The scullery was full of old news- papery, magazines, books and un- opened parcels.

There were beds upstairs, but they had not been used, and there had been no fire in any room for a long time.

Birds occupied several downstairs rooms, and there wero pigeons in the conservatory. They were well cared

for.

Dr. R. C. Ramsay said death was due to exposure to the cold.

Miss Cicely Doris Carter, of King's Rond, Richmonds, a niece, said she Inst saw her aunt in 1930. She had bean living as a, recluse since 1930. She had ample means.

Gate Overgrown Edward John Narroway, of Queen's Road, Watford, said he had done odd jobs for Mis Carter,

He had never known her to go outside the gate of her house. The front gate was barred and over- Krown.

To get in, he had to climb through

a hole in the fence from the garden next door.

Miss Carter slept on the bundles of papers in the scullery, He had never seen a fire in the house.

The verdict was "natural causes," the coroner (Mr. I. A. Godman) saying he was satisfied there was no lack of sympathy on the part of Miss Carter's relatives.

He had seen n letter aho had written and judging from that it would have been' dimeult to certify her.

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