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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 5, 1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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Danger to South America A CENTURY. Prize Offer

Of German Colonists

Although appreciations vary as to the strength and danger of the "fifth column" in South America, there is unanimity among investigators regarding the changed political attitude of German colonists. All neutral accounts agree, and the] "Christian Science Monitor's" correspondent's observations concur, that the younger generation, boys and girls normally destined to be satisfactory New World citizens, have come under the spell of racial propaganda since Hitler dominated the European continent.

Glamour Girl

Killed

OF COOK'S For Marine

Travel Agency's Record

Of Growth

The first excursion organized by.

Invention

Thomas Cook was a cheap railway The Council of the Royal So- trip from Leicester to Loughborough ciety of Arts is offering a and back on July 5, 1941. It was an prize under the Thomas Gray artful device to secure a good atten-

Memorial Trust, the objects of at a temperance meeting at

for Thomas Cook, which are "the advancement of wan .an ardent the Science of Navigation and teetotaller and secretary of the the Scientific and Educational

Midland Temperance Assocla- South, began the world-wide and interests of the British Mer-

which cantile Marine":- world-famous travel agency

then

bas attained its centenary,

Later he learned the trade of

A Prize, of £60 will be awarded to any person who many bring to their notice an inven- tion, publication, diagram, etc., which in the opinion of the judges is considered to be an advancement in the science or practice of navigation, proposed or invented by himself in the period January 1, 1936, to De-! cember 31, 1041.

Entries which have already been:

"Success Story" Thomas Cook's rise was in the best tradition of the Viclorlan "success slory." Born in the village ot Melbourne, Derbyshire, In tiny cottage that still stands, he started work at the age of 10 as a gardener's [wood-turning from an uncle and set up in business for himself at Market Harborough. The Idea for that first excursion came to him during a walk considered by the judges in the years 1936-40 ure not eligible for of 15 miles into Leicester to attend a temperance gathering. So БИС-

they further consideration unless kept busy arranging similar cessful was the venture that he was

have since been materially modified. The Counsel reserves the right of two withholding the prize or of award- conducted a party of 350 on a lour Launching out farther, in 1846 he

opinion ing a smaller prize if, in the r to

judges, no suitable invention Scotland. For the Great Exhibition submitted, and in the event of more than one such improvement being approved, the Council reserves the right of dividing the amount into two or more prizes at its dis- cretion.

ex-

Take the case of that strip of southern lakeland between Chile and Argentina. Since the first settlers three-quarters of a century ago, the German-speaking population, the majority on the Chilean side, has increased to nearly 200,000. The conduct of these colonists, especially young men and women of the fourth and fifth generations, intimates that a victorious Germany would convert them into a serious problem both for the states of which they are technical citizens and for Pan-American statesmanship

Elennor (Cookie) Young, 23, concerned with continental security,

first of the society Glamour Investigators have not found among the colonists since the war, Girls, and Nicholas Embiricos, the secret airports and armistosist that the "Ith column" has depots, so often alleged, baten exaggerated as a current power 12, member of a Greek shipping they have met with the ob-self as to what might happen if the Fairchild monoplane got lost in for evil. None cares to commit him- family, were killed when his noxious Nazi-style comportment war goes "The wrong way" in of young Germans wherever Eure. Bombastic young Nazis claim a fog and crashed into the break-cursions for the next year or they have travelled, by train, they have "friends" ready to "take ers off Carpenter's Beach, Metu-

aver" at the appropriate time. omnibus or lake and river

The presence of German colonists nuck, Rhode Island. steamer. But a few years ago in Southern Chile has been of Im- these youths would have gone mediate value to German merchant-

A guest at the Newport home of and, probably, ral out of their way, in conversa- | ment

Robert R. Young, Isles. Eleanor's father, ralders, A

In 1855 Thomas Cook mode yacht and its crew were arrested in chairman of the Alleghany Corp.. tion and conduct, to emphasisu Talcahuano by the naval authoris Embiricos tried to fly blind to Roose their New World citizenship.

tics on a charge of supplying Ger-velt Feld, Long Island, although his man ships on the high sens, Thenne helted the necessary instru- owner turned out to be a member meats. According to eye witnesses, for Deputy of the tines at an altitude of 100 feet before the ship cireled the benchi several and candidate Popular Vanguard, 2 kind of

It hit the water. National Socialist Party.

Scout Activities

Another palpable development the utilisation by young Germans of national organisations of netunt and potential military value. They form the majority in the Boy and Girl

Scout troops. They are also to the fore in the local rifle practice clubs, which are usually Government sub- sidised. The real native, whom your challenge on the subject in the town or village, is "urprised at the ques ten. For him It is just Don Federl- co or Don Curios nt his favourile sport.

"last"

in the

Local traders secretly supplied the German vessel Portland which allo- ped out of Talcahuano port last month and bas not since been heard of. The presence of German sur- face raiders off the Chilean count has been alleged. ·

Misa Young, who preceded Gloria Baker and Brenda Frazier

as the photographle favourite of society editors, made her debut at Newport 1930. Later she eloped with one Robert O. Bacon. She was divorced from him in 1930.

Free French Flier, Condemned To Death, Gains Freedom

now been told.

One of many French officers who, talk to was the prison chaplain, who left Syria alter the capitulation, he spoke French. joined the De Gaulle forces and flew with the

Governor's Insults

R.A.F. over Abys-

of 1831 he carried 105,000 visitors to London from all parts of the British

ar-

of

the

to the Paris Exhibition and so opened The Council does not claim any

angements for thousands of visitors the way for his first Continental rights in respect of any invention to tour a grand circular tour that in which a prize may be awarded. cluded Brussels, Cologne, the Rhine, Compeiltors must forward their Heidelberg, Strasbourg, and Paris, proofs of claim, between October 1

1041, to During the early sixties lu Con- and December 31, tinental activilles extended rapidly. Secretary, Royal Society of Arts, "through many difficulties, I got my W.C.2.

In 1865, as he was to write later John Adani Street, Adelph). London arst party to Rome and Naples, and

1940 Prize

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for several years our way was In 1940 the Council 'offered through brigand-infested districts, similar prize. Twenty-four entries when military escorta protected us." were submitted, and the full prize The first round-the-world tour was of £50 was awarded to Mr. H. G. made in 1972 by Thomas Cook him Walker, of Cheam, Surrey, for a de- self with nino companions. It vice known as the "Portable Valve) aroused such interest that The Times Lifeboat Equipment,"

self-con- commissioned him to send a series tained radio auto-transmitter, de-i- of dispatches. describing its progress. Į signed for the purpose of saving He

Three Generations Three-generations--of-the-Cook family have been associated with the growth of the business. The founder virtually retired in 1878 and died tu 1892, in his eighty-fourth

year, leav ing the direction of affairs in the hands of his son, John Musors Cook,

ole

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at sea.

In the Colony of Hongkong.__in- cluding the Island, Kowloon and during the week New Territories,

ended

were

altogether 113 traffic accidents as the result of which four persons were. killed and 23 persons were injured.

Last month it was discovered at San Carlos de Bariloche that the Ar- gentine Army actually lent Army trucks and miscellaneous equipment for two companies of Boy Scouts who turned out to be all German-speak- ing. Maj. Napoleon A. Trusto, whe

The adventure of a Free French flier captured in Abyss visited the Scouts

camp on Union Esperanza Island, in Lake Nahuel-sinia, sentenced to death by an Italian court-martial, and kept

thero on Saturday, in a cell for six months until the British captured Dessie, has received surprise.

Flag Set "Lost” Argentine Only German military music was played. The boys had service rifles and practised throwing heavy wooden

whose song in their turn, after Johri balls which were obvious substitutes

con- Mason Cook's death in 1809, for hand grenades. The Argentine sinia.

The prison governor Invariably in- tinued in control till 1924. In 1924 Ang over headquarters was flown at

limited When his plane was shot down by sulted him, calling him "Dirty pig" private

company halt

on Italian chaser he was the only or "Traitor," and ordering him to formed to administer the travel busi- of Hitler organisations. survivor of three who were machine- salute himi in the Fascist manner. ness, with a separate limited com- Similar exploitation of national or pinned after baling out.

His treatment became worse un-pany to control the banking business. ganisations and equipment conten

The Italian military. authorities ti a hurried transfer came to Dessie To-day the firm's normal activities from southern Chille. Both the told him he could not be treated as two days before British troops en- are perforce much curtailed by the Buenos Aires and Santiago Govern- prisoner of war und sent him to tured Addis Arison, although condi-sible both at home and among over- war, though continuing so far as pos- ments, however, are alive to the Addis Ababa criminal prison to face In Dessic dungers of the Introduction of Ger-

still, he made sea branches, Nevertheless, one de man technique and propaganda in der the Armistice Convention with friends with a native "rebel" who partment of Thomas Cook and Son these brens of settlement. They Italy.

escaped to

to tell

British omcers of the is exceedingly busy, having been have been especially watchful of the After sentence days passed with- Frenchman's plight.

officially charged with the transmis- educational establishments. More in-

his execution. During

from six Then, one morning, not the gaoler slon of letters

-private spectors have appeared to test local months in a cell he was allowed two but a British officer opened the cell dividuals to and from enemy coun- instruction

hours walk daily In the prison door. Walking out to liberty the tries and enemy-occupied territories. Ready To "Take Over" courtyard. Food consisted of" ma- French fler saw, now captive, his The beginning of the present war Central authorities, although re- caroni, with n e ment from time accusers at the court-martial which confronted the firm with the formid- cognising psychological changes to time. The only person he could had sentenced him to death.

able task of repatriating large num- bers of oversen tourists stranded in Great Britain, besides withdrawing British tourists from the Continent,

fung. This me

Ababa.

a charge of "military rebellion untions were worse

out

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