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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 9, 1940.

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MAGAZINE

Why they watch the East Indies

C10 far, the situation deve- loping in the Dutch East

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Indles is one of diplomatic hints; but the stakes involved are high. It concerns security, welfare, and future of

four empires-Britain, Japan, Holland, and the United States.

This trouble in

the Pacific is

really a side-show of the war in the Europe; for I began wester

threat of a possible invasion of Holland, whose empire includes

the Dutch East Indles,

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Holland has £300,000,000 in- vested in these islands-four ompires are concerned in case their security be threatened.

action in the event of any belligerent Power doing anything to affect B status of the Dutch East Indies,

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I that meant anything at all, it meant that Japon was rendy to step into the Jndles if Holland became involved in the war in the West.

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So it was interpreted by the United States, and Mr. Cordell Buil who looks after America's foreign policy, calls on the nations-meaning Japan-l respect the status quo of the Dutch East Indles regardless of what happens to Holland.

That is followed up at the Ha-

Dutch

Foreign gue, where the Minister tells the Japanese Minis- ter that "the Dutch Government have not sought, nor will seek in future,, any emintry's protection of the Dutch East Indies."

Which is the diplomatic way of saying. "Keep your bards off!"

Of course, the United States is concerned because the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies would alter the balance of power in the Pacife.

Then for Britain, the Dutch East Indies are near enough to the great naval base of Singapore to war- rant our interest In that direction.

The islands, which old-Limne sailors called "the Indies." pro- duce pearls, spices, rare woods, and many countries depend sub- stantially on them for their sup- commodities. plies of importan! such as rubber, tin, quinine, and copra-four products specifically mentioned by. Cordell Hull.

The islands, of which Java and Sunatra are the

cover chiet. 730.000, most of whom, of course, are the brown-bodied, beautiful people mode familiar to us by the tourist geney posters Inviting us to "Cone to beautiful Ball."

AS long ago as 1691 Dutch ad- the set aut to claim venturers islands, but for a period of eleven years during the Napoleonle wars the Islands were temporarily un- der British control.

Like British India, the Nether- Lads Indies--a-lites-are-called. officially-re divided into States under the rule of native princes.

bill the Dutchman's grip on inter- nal government is much

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The overlordship of the

tighter.

native

princes is stronger and, in fact, about five-sixths of the population are ruled from Batavia, capital of the Dutch administration.

Certainly there is a local Parlia ment called the Volksraad, but the Teal' power rests in the hands of a man who sits in a tropical pulare

His Batavio,

Excellency

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A. W. L. Tjarda van, Junkheer Storkenborgh Stachouwer, Govern- ar-General of the Netherlands in- dies.

The colonial Dutchmen live well, but the natives do not enjoy 11 higher standard of living un those of British India.

The old Dutch adventurers did not know what a prize they were bringing to their homeland, when they set out to claim the islands. Oil from Borneo and Java, rub- ber from Sumatra, tn from Bong- ka, tea, tobacco, sugar,, coffee, and rice.

TO show what these islands mean to the Dutch and what a tempting prize they are to envious allons-please note that Dutch Investments there are valued at about £300,000,000, and about one-sixth of the people of Holland live by their trade with the Netherlands Indies.

The figures, help to explain why it is enid that Wilhelmina Queen of the Netherlands is one of the rich- est rulers in the world. She has never visited her rich possessions.

So no wonder eyes are now on the Dutch East Indies and that heavy hints are dropped by the diplomats.

Round and about the islands are key Pacific possessions of the other nailons-Britain's Malaya, Burma, Sarawak, New Guinen and Hong- kong: France's Indo-China; the United States Philippines, Guam, American Samoa; and Japan's two le possessions, the Spratly and Mandated Islands,

Four empirea are involved, but meanwhile the security of those is- landa must rests they have done for year on the British Navy. The Dutch alone could not hold them in this ambitious world.

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Beauty

Get Rid of

~Lines

SPRING hats and spring weather aren't kind to us.

The new hats call attention to days show up our faces. Bright Imperfections we'd like to hide.

Like crow's-feet.

Now removing lines is not an easy job or one which can be done overnight. Like all such treat- ments, it needs regular effort and patience. I wish I could show you a royal road to beauty but there isn't one. All I can do is to assure you that you will get marvellous results if you persevere.

due to muscles Crow's-fect are slackened by age, by worry, fati- gue or strain.. There is a certain shrinkage of the underlying tissue, of course. The skin surface be- comes baggy-and there you are.

What we must do, first, is to get the epidermis (top skin) supple. We must all it, just as we oli har- ness to make it pliable and "vase- line" patent leather shoes to pre- vent their cracking.

I'm giving you a list of skin- types and their appropriate treat- ment-so all you've got to do is to sco under which heading you' come and choose your preparation - cordingly.

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All dry skins need a turtle oil lubricant. After cleansing night (with cream, please), this preparation should be very gently tapped in round the eyes and left on all night.

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Durk skins, dry, should use a spectal blend of several waxes. After cleansing, with cream, this wax-stick should be smoothed gen- tly over the skin and left on all night. In the morning it can be removed with cream and soft tis-

sues.

Medium dark skins, greasy, and fair, greasy skins should be treated with the wax in exactly the same way, except that a cleansing milk should be substituted for the cream. All other types of skin need an lubricant. Cleanse oil Avocado

with cream or milk, according to texture, then tap in the avocado oll preparation and leave on all night.

Now for the second part of the treatment, which is muscle-toning. You should add it to your routine after a week of the skin lubrien- tion.

Every night cleanse, then tap in as lightly as you possibly can a muscle-tightening preparation. Do this directly you begin to get un- dressed which will leave it 15-20 minutes in which to do its work. Just before you get into bed opply your lubricant, and, as usual, teave it on all night.

In the morning, after cleansing, apply a foundation, which will help to make the flesh and muscles

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NEWS FROM AMERICA

The Story of

SIX

MURDERS

NEW YORK.

ERE as briefly as possible

HERE as is murders

-six out of what may turn out to be thirty or more com- mitted, inspired or instigated. by a group of men with the morals and manners of apes.

Each of the members of this group is entitled to call him- self a gangster, a word which both in and out of the United States has acquired a romantic glow, a connection of daring. and adventure.

The six murders which are here selected,

as fairly representative examples of Brooklyn underworld technique, have been recalled and recounted as part of the compli- cated picture drawn by various big and little gangsters now in the care of the palice.

Murder No. 1-Walter Sage had been on the gang's payroll at five been dollars a murder and had allowed to make ú little extra money by running a slot-machine racket in an area where the gang controlled alf the rackets. But presently he got to know too much,

He was invited by other 'mein- bers of the gang to take a ride in a car. At a given spot the car was stopped and Sage, who was in the front seat, was attacked and stabbed to death with an leepick. His body was then chained to a slot-machine which the gang had brought along in the car. The body and the machine were thrown into fake..

The man alleged to have done the stabbing has been arrested in Hollywood. He was playing small parts in gangster flims.

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Murder No. 2-Irving Ashkenas was given the job of clubbing to death with a sawed-off billiard-cue an inoffensive New York dress manufacturer, who had refused to which pay the "protection" money

He the gang demanded, arrested, but the gang so terrorised witnesses that he got away with a few years in gaol on a manslaugh- ter conviction. When he came out of gaol he began a taxi service with the money he was still regularly receiving from the gang.

Suddenly the gang-got tired of paying him. He complained. His bullet-riddled body was found one day in his own taxi.

Murder Number 3-Irving Penn, a perfectly respectable music pub- fisher who had never met a gong- ster in his lie was shot dead as he

emerged one morning from his apartment in New York on his way be to his business. It turned out to all a mistake. The thugs, who hnd fired the shots from a car, meant to kill another man who was ta ben witness against a gangster - whose trial was pending. They mistook Penn for him.

Murder Number 4. Solomon Goldstein had

quarrel in n Brooklyn haberdashery store with a fellow employee of the Kang named Robert (Boggy) Feuer,

He pulled out his guri and, fired

By Justine Glass five bullets paint-blank into Feuer,

who died in hospital after six months of agony.

Shortly after- wards Goldstein got married. While he was on his honeymoon he received a telephone call from a member of the gang instructing him to attend a meeting. He left his new wife to go to the meeting and has never been sech since. Its body is now believed to be at. the bottom of a lake, wrapped in a weighted blanket.

Goldstein and Feuer were both 24 and had been friends since childhood.

Murder Number 5.-A gang- member named John

(Spider) Murtha Was strolling along

with Brooklyn street

his girl. Florence Nestfield, when two men

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appeared, motioned the girl to stand aside and shot him dead. -That-was-in-1935-Nat-until-this- week is the girl said to have told the police that the two men were Max (The Jerk) Golob and Frank (The Dasher) Abbadando, whom the pollee are now seeking to in- dict. Detectives are guarding the girl day and night.

Murder Number 6.-Three men, not members of the Brooklyn gang. took a bookmaker named Josephi Caroselll for a ride intending to rob him. They learned during the ride that he

was paying prolection money to the Brooklyn gang, so they shot him, knowing that if he were allowed to tell the gang he had been robbed they would all be rubbed out.

What has happened within the last few days is that recently elected District Attorney O'Dwyer is "cleaning up" Brooklyn und has arrested some of the gang leaders. They bear such names-often self chosen-as Abe (Kid Twist) Reles, Harry (Pittsburgh Phii!) Strauss, Martin (Buggsby) Goldstein, Harry (Happy) Malone.

Most of the "singing" (inform- Ing) is being done by Kid Twist Reles. He seems to be an unplea- sant little bully whom O'Dwyer bas adroitly frightened by confronting him with evidence that his col- leagues are double-crossing hlm. The revelations have not yet reached the point of showing which politicians

protecting this were Brooklyn gang in its heyday (for you must remember all the time that the police in the United States are under local 'political control, so unsafe in that murder is safe or any given locality in accordance with instructions which come down from the elected bosses), but the Investigations are throwing very clear light on how gangsters are made. Kid Twist and his friends never had Kny dimeulty in

in getting recruits. All that was necessary was to lend some East Side youth

he some money and when

พร deeply in debt give him a small hold-up job to do, with the pro- mise that when he had done it he would be considered to have pald the money. When the gang "had something on him" the rest was easy.

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