Zurich Herald, 1929-06-20, Page 2Wolves of
Revolution
•
Political Murder is 'Rare
England, but Recent
in India Show that the
Assalain's Bomb is Still
a Revolutionary
Weapon
The recent bomb outrage in the
n Parliament is only the latest
long series of "political" crimes--
illegal
rim
gal acts, generally of Violence
red to intimidate, or comet
n to" overthrow, an existing
Gal/ -
eminent or order ot society.
Acts of this kind have been much
more common on the Continent
the 'United States than in Britain,
at one time our shores
favourite haunt.. of political rein
—some of thein desperate criminals.
And, in a few eases at any rate, these
people were responsible "-for sensa-
tional happeniug8, over here.
"Agin'. Every Government"
partly this was because they
posed to law and order everywhere;
partly because our police had to
eye on aliens of this kind, in
that we might not be held responsible
outrages committed abroad,
need and prepared in Br
Of foreign Royalties were
auxins occasions, as they presented
these blotters with new opportunities.
One amazing crime planned thirty-
five years ago by a foreign anal
mad Eourdin, was the blowing,
Greenwich Observatory.
chose tide Observatory is a puzzle,
Prosed his own undoing. In
reach it he had to climb a
hick was broken every yard
Lilt steps, formed of balks
I3ourdcn, probatrly dreaming o
sensation he was about to
stumbled against one of these
ncl fell, ,bus exploding the bon
as carrying. So he was "hoist
sown petard."
The underground haunts of
anarchists were mostly
eighbourhood of Soho and Totten-
ham Court Road. On Bourdin's
was found a membership card
utornomie Club, a notorious anarch-
ist club situated off the Tottenham
Court Road: This lad to a
n the club, led by the late Superin-
tendent Melville, head of the
Branch at Scotland Yard.
Melville, whom i knew very
was the terror of anarchists,
whom had threatened to take his
However, threatened. people proverbi-
ally
r
11y live long, and .Melville
�ception to the rule. He was
man, with massive
auk, a grip of iron and the
bear. He was absolutely fearless.
Whenever he saw. a "wanted"
st he event for him on the spot,
her he was armed or not.
On one. or two occasionshe
in the street. His
ventured into his own
anctum at. Scotland Yard in
ng effort to "get him."
A Mysterious Visit
A man called, asked for
and told a plausible story
gained him admission to the
dent's room.
He was -very mysterious in his man-
ner, however, and Melville's keen
eyes, running his visitor over, caught
the gleam of a revolver barrel pro-
trudling from a handkerchief in an in-
ner pocket!
Next moment the `detective had his
grip on the visitor and the revolver
quickly changed hands. The man
was secured and turned out to be a
notorious anarchist.
I shall never forget the thrill Mel-
illo gave me when he described how
Poiin
E Events
In-
die of
a e s —
ille , de-
signed sometimes
eve Gov-
ern
Arnd
in
but were -a
favgees
nals.
An
ensa-
tio
were
opposed ere,
keep
an order,
for but
planned itain.
Visitsalso
an
ities.
cbist
up the club were strolling along the side
of named Why he of Peckham Rye. As they passed
clich but some tumble-down old cottages a
itorder stranger suddenly appeared, shot two
to path of their number dead and made off.
or so closely followed and find -
by of
timber.f the
se cause,
st' steps
a bomb he
was with
his
borders, even to distant and prattle
Peckham!
Shots In the. Street
An Armenlan club wee, established
et an old coruer house faoiug the end
of Peckham,, Rye. Secret meetings
were hold, plots were hatched and as-
sassinations arranged.
One. of those who attended these
meetings was m wealthy member of
the Armenian Central Committee,
Sagatel :Sagounie, who never stirred
out of doors without a "dagger and a
loaded revolver.
He had installed himself in a
humble lodging at Nunhead Grove,
not far from the club. As his arma-
ment suggested, he went in constant
fear: of an attempt on 1210' life.
His fears were well founded. Night
after night the neighbours noticed a
mysterious individual, a foreign -look-
ing man with a dark noustaohe, who -
paraded up and down opposite Sa
gounie's lodging.
One wet night • the vigilant watcher
was there as usual. He saw Sagouuie
walking towards his lodging and
towards him... A -second later the
peace of Nunliead Grove was shat-
tered by several revolver shots.
The Final Reckoning
People hurried •to the spot. They
found Sagounie lying dead on the
pavement outside the house in which
he lodged. The mysterious watcher
had disappeared. -
That was the first murder In con-
nection with the Armenian Club meet-
ings. A little dater came a double
assassination. -
One afternoon several members of
Melville of Scotland Yard
these
foreignin the
otten-
h� body
of the
Anarch
is
police raid
o Special
B
well,
many of
} is life.
overbi
a was no
e a big,
strongchest and;
flhug of
a
anarch-
ist
narch
i who-
- ther at-
tackedenemies
evenprivate
s adar-
i
Making Canada Famous Abroad
T-.
ool Headed Pilot Wins Battle'
Against Fire and Death in Air'
Elko, Nev,—Two thousand feet
above the unevfln Nevada plain Pilot
Hugh I3.aricer, trapped In the control
compartment of,a fiamia g tri-rnotored
transport 'plane. with 'seven men and
one woman aboard, played a grim
game with death.
Fro. m a faulty portside motor, .wind
whipped the flames around the cabin,
the wings and fuselage. Before Bar-
ker could right the plane from a mo-
mentary twist caused by the failing
motor, the flames had enveloped the
right of the huge monoplane.
Barker clung to his controls while
his mechanic and passengers sought
to escape the flames which licked
against the right side of the cabin.
With - a skilled !land, Barker righted
FAMOUS CANADIAN QUARTETTE TO TOUR EUROPE
The Hart House String Quartette will this .summer 'act as: ambassadors
of Canada's culture in Europe,; to which they are sailing shortly on a musical
tour. The Quartette, acclaimed as one of the world's best, recently closed
their Canadian season with.a unique concert .under the auirnces of His Plxcel-
lency the Governor-General and Viscountess Willingdon. on beaelE of the
Toronto Social Hygiene Council. 'The members of the Quartette are as fol-
lows, left to right: Gaza de Kress, first violin; Harry Adaslc'in, second violin;
1liilton Blackstone, viola; and Boris Hambourg, 'cello.
"Managers" charming what a pity she
Those ia1lIlg�rS drinks!„
Equally =likeable is the woman Needless to remarks, the aforesaid
who perisits in' 4pianaoing every- equii ocation exists solely in her fer-
woman,
but
But he was c ose y , true imagination.
lug inevitable, thin h radius,re It always•
turned his revolver on a • les of whether they are friends r some enter irisin" official las
S merest acquaintances. thong! o g
but i
that capture was .nevi a o,,1 body who comes within. her seem to me such a pity
1 himself gid f i d a that s 11 not
Was this man the assassin ofag-1 nt f raisin a' tax on tale -bear -
the
hes t
ounce? He was clean-shaven, u he
might, for purposes r of disguise, have things.. gis especially1cceptaaninvitation ll lug. I am sure one mousiy to the revenue.—The ul add
S Stand -
To eller-
shaved
off his moustache.
To test this, he police resorted to to hunch with her etherclub or some aid, Montreal.` ��
a gruesome experiment. They fixed i restaurant, and happen to express a •
an artificial moustache -on the mouth wish to sample some particular dish reach � +�
of the corpse and then photographed upon the menu, she immedfately says: e�
Th `fiche altered the face "Oh, my dear, I should not have that
Melville,
which
superin
ten
dent's
it. a mouse Have this instead" In the
e
one. the Forth expands into the German
entirely.
the plane and, after the shifting oR his!
frightened passengers, 'unbalanced it..
He sot his plane into a long glide
for the earth, eitle..alippiug to keep the
YLames' from the cabin. Ae a small,
even landing spot appeared, Harker
manoeuvred his flaming ship to a
pancake landing. Abe Warner, as•
sistant pilot, smashed the cabin door
and the passengers scrambled out, un-
injured except for the shaking up re-
ceived in the landing. Barker was
the last to leave the plane, -
,The spot where Barker landed was
surrounded by ruts and ditches.
Chance alone afforded the small, safe
lauding spot. -
The monoplane was destroyed toe
gather with its load of mail. The lose.
was estimated at 7100,000,,
"Auld Ree ies"
Has Birthday
600 Years. Since Granting of
Oldest Existing Charter by
Robert the Bruce -to be
Celebrated -
Edinburgh—This city en . May 28
celebrates' the. 600th anniversary of
the granting of her oldest existing
charter by Robert the Bruce. A great
historical pageaut is to be held, and
the Duke of York will unveil statues
to the national heroes, William Wal-
lace and Robert the Bruce, on the
Castle Esplanade. F
Edinburgh's romantic situation lends
itself to pageants. As Robert Louis
Stevenson says, "The ancient and
famous metropolis of the north -sits
overiooking a windy estuary from the
slope and summit of three hills. No
situation could be more commanding
for the head city of a kingdom.; none
better chosen for noble prospects.
From her tall precipice and terraced
gardens she looks far and wide on
the sea and broad champaigns. To
the east you may catch at sunset the
"�• Loge Animals spark of the May lighthouse where
end, for he sake of peace; you eat Ocean: and -away to the west over all
They then showed the photograph w In an address at the recent Ontario the Carse of Stirling you can see
the
to witnesses who had seen the silent something you loathe.forst snows from Ben c
watcher of Nunhead Grove, and they Nobody dares even to express a i Conference of S.P.C.A. workers at To -1
identified it as that of Sagoanie's mor- wish to the managing female, because ronto, M. J. J. Kelso strongly advo-I The old Castle has of •ocent years
deter Eventually the police were they know if they do it -will never be cated the extensicn of Humane educes, been very much the center of na-
satisfied that all three murders had granted. I often wonder victims tturned, earlyuld Ition a life," helcsaid, "thats only in tional effective i visiting
life,
it daily s ice numbersof
(people
Scottish
been committed by the same man. like the if rine of
worm of proverbial fame, and ' d anent impressions can be � 11Iemorial was Placed on its rocky
started . to manage her. •
Almost. as heartily do I detest the parlance that no other. su pec castle mass, soaring
an permanent
and we have found in our ex -1 summit. The rock on which the
b' t can so C tl stands is volcanic,
v
he "shadowed" a 'notorious anarchist
named Polti. The latter was carry-
ing - a little black bag. Melville feat
confident that it contained a bomb.
He followed him for a considerable
time, keeping quite close to him, sit-
ting beside him on a bus, riding in
the same railway carriage, and so
on, until at last .a favourable op-
portunity presented itself for the ar-
rest.
I•le was right about the bag. c
Man Is
& striking
woman who persists in asking inter -'completely capture the heart and nn specimen of an erupted n s ,
s bile the Caste ramparts Play frocks for
JUST RIGHT FOR PLAY
youngsters
o iceman Too both boysd girls a t dly up,w must be
minable questions. She gleets the . agination of o an rr see
uaintances with a string i talks about birds and animals. I form an esplanade"which slopes chic and serviceable. This little!
concernhng the intimae Thera are now many Junior Hu- gently, into line air the hill
slightest acq
0'f inquiries
Jan
t u
Ja Mayen Becomes Inteoral t f their father, their lane Leagues in existence, but not running down to Holyrood. Perhaps•
fancily history
ridgge
o n
Part of State to mother and their brothers and sisters nearly so many as we desire to see.. nowhere in the world has more his
Meteorological
Station
Protect
Oslo, Norway.—The island of Jan
Mayen has been officially incorporated
in the Norwegian state. At the same
time the director of metorological sta-
tion there was given full police au-
thority over the place.
The annexation of this land, the
Foreign Affairs Department an-
nounces, is the natural consequence of
the foundation of a -weather forecast-
ing station in Jan Mayen by the Nor-
wegian Meteorological Institute in
connection with the occupation of the
island in 1922 and 1926.
In the summer of 1921 a wireless
station was built and on September
1st the same year the first wireless,
connection between Norway and Jan
Mayen -was obtained.
On duly 1, 1922, the Geophysical In-
stitute at Tromso (northern Norway)
took charge of the wireless station in
San. Mayen and practically at the same
time the first occupation was under-
taken. In 1925-1926 foreign whaling
expeditions began to .produce difficul-
ties for the station, and, accordingly,
the director of the Geophysical recom-
mended that the whole island be oc,
cupied. This was commended in Feb-
ruary, 1926, and completed the follow-
ing April.
The annexation which took place
on May 8, according to the resolution
of the Storting, authorizes Norway to
regulate the access of foreigners to
San Mayen.
The great question now is whether
likewise, should they -happen to pos• It is an almost unexplored field as yet,
sess any. and is capable of indefinite expansion.
Failing the production of an acre- If in the future our Humane Society
quate family, she will ask her victim
for full details of her present and
future plans. With a singular lack of.
tact she will frequently demand to
be told the reasons of an unsuccess-
ful matrimonial venture. Alterna-
tively ,should a marriage prove sue-
.cessful, he will inquire the reason, as.
if such an occurrence were an unpre-
cedented event.
She reacts upon her victims like a our country at large."
boa -constrictor, and literally 'paralyses large."
She
them into replying to her. Such corn-
pliance is fatal, because it encourages
her to extend her activities. • Whereas
if one of her victims only had suffici-
ent moral courage to up and telh"her
what they think of her in their in-
most hearts to be—an interferring
busybody!—her efforts to acquire
knowieclge at the expense of riding
rough -shod over other people's feel-
ings might be ,nipped in the bud.
As it is, the majority of them, being
Paralysed by her flow of language, an-
swer her questions meekly, with the
result, that she never realises what a
nuisance she really it.
tory been compressed into a sma
space than into the Royal Mile of
Edinburgh as this ridge from the
substantial bequests this summit of the Castle Rock to the
dress` is made of silver plaque.
Reductions •
• • •
vs• Limitation
receives any
will be one` of the first departments hollow at the foot of Arthur's Seat is The biggest and most complicated;
of our work to be put on a thoroughly called. At one end lies- the Palace question facing the League of Nations
efficient basis, and in the meantime of Holyrood House, and at the crown at the present time is disarms tions
we ask all our friends everywhere to of the rock near the beautiful Na- and it cannot be said that' so far any
do what they can to get groups of tional Memorial stands the little I very material be said
ss has made
children organized. for the study of chapel built at the en doe the eleventh A learn oral Pr in the has been.ehow-1
animal and bird life, believing as we century by Queen Margaret and Mal- eve is of Tighe the a der s mi
seen T • tions from;
do that no better work can be done colin Canmore. United States that the question
for the children `themselves and for There is -little doubt that the Castle theshould be approached on the basis of
Rock early became a desirable place
in the eyes of the ancient inhabitants armament reductions rather than limi-1
of the district. On its windswept tation, 1
•crest the earliest settlers built wet• This is made with particular refer-,
tled huts. Indeed it may jruthfully ansa to naval strength and means
be said that Edinburgh only became much more than is expressed in the
the capital of Scotland because of the difference in terms. Briefly it sug
great strength of its: Castle and not gests that the nations could protect
their commerce and be prepared for:
the menace of war just as well by the,
maintenance of relative strength on a
low as on a high level. Smaller navies'
on the relative status agreed to at the
Washington Conference would mean
an enormous "saving to the taxpayer
p annex and the almost entire elimination of
English?" the competitive feature which is the
Is he well on E b most menacingfeature in the present,
`My Erie'ud, he fills. in crossword'being used • to -day. He built Holy-
The Mischief -Maker
There is a type of woman even
worse than the one I have just des-
cribed, and that is the "catty" wo-
man.
The mischief and heartburnings this
type has created and the homes that
have been wrecked through herr ver-
bal would fill a volume.
he vaguest ru-
mor about anybody to instantly Magni
-
on economic or political grounds. Had
Scottish history' • been more peaceful
Inveresk and nt Edinburgh would
probably have been.the -chief town of.
the region, but the strength of•,Edin-
burgh was its Rock.
David I was Scotland's great town
1 and his work which' began
in 1124 was so well done that it is
e for the monks, the Burgh situation.
puzzles with an indelible pencil." rood Abbey
of Canongate for the lay brothers and
. el'9
The vicar of a country church ask- burgh for the burgesses and nobles,
od his clerk to give out the following while the Castle Rock -was used as a
announcement:— (fortress and royal residence.
"Next Sunday there will be no after -i Scotland in spite • of Ito poverty;
noon service, as the vicar is going to seems to have had a passion for edu.c-
another parson. t days, This
GOING FISHING trad , the Royal Burgh of Edin-
Whilst not committing itself to any!
specie proposals ,Great Britain has
expressed its ` hearty approval. The
Motherland desires not only reduction
but its application to all classes of ves-
sels. Furthermore, Britain showed its
good faith more than a year ago by
intimating its readiness for; a still
c ifl at Yo I aturn from its earliest aY .
. t. Ja Y hal mendacities
It lid •u Being rather deaf, the clerk.mus- may acc0ttnt• for its repeated sting- further cut in the categories covere
1 She has but to heart g t age. Imagine the hies for religious independence. The by the Washington Agreement and by
contain a brushha `live" one—which 'it will be possible to provide a harbor Being
the message. Hent of sub-
the miscreant had hisnot had time to fact vicar's consternation when he heard flet statutory enactments in the ad- the entire abandons
education was in 1494 marines
oc co, w
make use of. In pteular female has recognized that Scat The q
sub -
o m e r
th E it into ministrationE
„Melville!" island might become a base for evhal This pantheNext Sundaya there will be no after and to -day it is g
b those who are
works for Norway considers that body; but if by some mischance one o nether arson•" th rld out for res reduction ion sea
s bog woi flshhng with a p
't might perhaps be possible to pro, true continually before
r b p
vide a harbor on the northwestern
side of the island. But this would be
costly.
The greater northeastern part of
�` the island is occupied by a volcano
almost certain to be armed, made no
difference. Melville' tackled him at
once. .
A terrific struggle ensued, which
ended in the anarchist being over-
nower•ed and secured. He was carry- San Mayall consists of masses of be. -
plya .loaded revolver and a lame sup- Saie lava. Here, too,'are chof bis
ply of .ball cartridges and had, been
on his, evay to the Continent, bent on
sone villainy er other.
alelei11e retired iu 1903, after
thirty years' service, but came back to.
tlo Secret Service work during the
War. He died at his house at Clap
!barn in 1918.
Speaking of poltical crlines com-
mitted by aliens, I recall a remarkable
series of murders committed by an bears. tip to about 1060 the Dutch rt,�rS�G, tF� ass r
Armenian at Peckham twenty-five carried on whaling from the island.
Years ago, But since then few human beings have
" At that time there wae a deal of visited its desolate shores.
ctnrest In Armenia, and rovoluntiou•'
active. There were'fac- Doctors no longer use leeches, but. an a lar a observation bung ,flit ear is the most lu
dries Sucreg
Bart fights, bleed feuds and bendottas, they contr'iv'e to produce about the tirety to Patrons of the'1"rans•Canai4a Yimit�cl,
"hese extended beyoftd the Arnieiaian same affect IV Sending a bill.
found scribbled:
should
- I tbook was In Jan Mayen. As it is placed, e y a not 'a following announcement made:— o hole question is a highly tech.;
uunioss e
"Vile .bout any- n c l one and
V ,� The director of bar single good word to say ••b
fn expeditions, non service as the parson is a going tisk education still holds its own in ntcal that o are
Perhaps the most sensational en t f l d t' l p
counter which Melville ever had wa
named Meunier, which occurred at
Victoria Station.'
The fact that the detective had- his
wife with him at the time, and was
-- mite unarmed, and that Moonier was
named 'Beerenberg." Itis about 2,400
hitters high and wholly covere dwith
ice. From all sides of Beerenberg
glaciers push down to the ocean.
The -smaller southwestern part of
and cones of ashes. The latest rec-
orded volcanic eruption took place In
1818.
Sea birds abound in the island, and
there are not a few polar Vexes. Every
now and then a polar bear finds its
way to its lonely precints.
'Jan Mayen was discovered in 1011
by the Dutchman whose name it
h ld happen to trip off leer tongue, a-
o to increase church .them their
fel immuivocat qualifies , by a od ' children should b A sure way at- campaign is likely to become swamped
feline equivocation, such as; y,., rienewo in the wren Inn of the experts and
"I met Mrs. �— the other day, screened and not heard. tendance—put the churches on wheels g • b
deluge o
- f technicalities. Meanwhile
the heavily burdened taxpayer in. Bri.
The 'Praias��azauda tain who pays one-third of his total
income to the State must wonder why
it is necessary to pay for a huge navy'
when a smaller one would be equally
effective. If public opinion in other
countries comes into line with this
commonsense point of view' we may
soon see some real progress towards
naval redaction, _
Idleness
'
What heart can think, or tongu4!
• express,
The harm that groweth of idleness"'
'a —John Heywood,
J.
each n evenin , Tlio all -steal equipment of fhb
This is !tow' the Trans -Canada appears as she leav4s14iantre Pacific; is epitomized la lila Solarium car
train, which. was built at the Angie Shops of the Canadian Railway
men's and. ladies' smarinn-room
which is carried, at the rear enol. With a vita -glazed solarium, two shower baths, - . . en'
e 's a xurleun'to operate over Canadian lines and is open In
There 's something strengtheningy
something soothing ;and at the camel
time humbling, in acknowledging that
we have done wrong. --4. W. Ecbeet4
son. oeo
„ •
Lorne is a quest and marriage i(
conquest, divorce an. i questa.., , ,