Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 83

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 31, 1926—PART 5. M_ussolini, Italy’s Dynamic Figure, Secret of the “Flowers of Death” Is Pictured by Washington Girl Revealed in True Detective Story Fascist Leader Described asflMan Who Lives Simple Life and Seeks No Financial Gain, as ’ Amazing Record of the Work of Police Constable No. 1312 1s Taken From Files of the He Fights for His Own Political Theories. . i . International Police Commission of China. | | itselt—ull power, all wealth--every- IS Excellence the Hon. Td-| thing the i can mive. Yet| ward Schofield, high commis. | when I asked him what was his first | sfoner of international police | thought on coming into puwer this QI three vears the front pases have been telling us what Benfto Mussclini has done. but here is his own story of how wid why he has done it wias not learned in a single in terview with @ preconceived world 3 for the port and city of was his answer: Shanghal, China, tonched a ' “The first thing 1 did was to pay @ | BY VERA BLOOM. : . . . l e might Lave had the throne| BY ELEANORE BROWNE. 1 button on his desk. A sergeant of his | «taff appeared and recelved a goull command “Give my compliments to €Constable solemn act of honage o his e the King, to lay cism at the of the crown. 1t was neith sud- | den nor un impulsive decisi be | No. 1312 and convey iy desire that paper office in Milan and to an un . . | roots of the monarchy lie two dech in | ihe constable report to me at once. known Mussolini 1 4 Ital heart, and our people have| The staff sergeant, o tall, turbaned | 1t came wsbout throy the casual . too great an affection for their glori- Sikh from Turkestan, saluted and | offer of some cigareties to some ous House of Savoy and their vic- [ went smartly out the door. The high | homesick Ttalian soldiers at the fron torfous soldier-king for Fuscism to |commissioner returned his attention to tier § have taken any other cou a sheaf of documents, slips of yellow D'Annunzio had just taken Fiume, 1 asked him. with-such poverty and | paper, which lay before him. (He stud- and they were skeptical and discou obscurity behind him. how he had de- |ied the yellow slips, all of which wer ging when 1 asked them what they ‘ided as he did. Because, he told me, | headed: “Reports Officlal: Assussin: hought of my chances to pass the ! money and material things mean ab- | tion." ckade and interview him ther solutely nothing to him. ough to | The first one disclosed the detalls of tut just as the train was y . « |live on and that is oll he asks. 1le is | the mysterious slaying of Arthur Bod- t one of the boys called after us, sure that if his ambition had been ay banker's” agent. in the v the Popolo d'Ttalia!™ ¢ money, that would have taken up all | kouse at 15 Shantunz roud, in the 1 had no idea then what the Popolo g . | bis time and thoughts, and he would | native section of Shanghai. Boddy. ' Ialia. might be, but found i 1 i | never have heen able to do the things | who bad come to Shanghal to open he newspaper located in tha 1=y ; . 3 he has done. No one. not even his | branch of : London bank. had office in Mifen orst enemies, have been able to say | been found deud In his bed. without They tghl me the editor was t 2 A one word against his honesty o | maurks of ,h-lz-n: . 1le hiad been kill- Bt woni he back i that one fact be attributes his suc- | €d during tlie night. Boddy had been, it was there at midn | {in & way, an imporiant péhsonage. e . The second yellow sheet described the discovery of the body of L. (. figures but gathered bit by bit from the diy, five years ago. when chanc brought me to a dingy little news for the fivst time t . He hus always been poor. :1;"\ still ) with the square, pale face and | is. His salary, aside from his ew | 0o " o0 ight later, in his quar Ny e editor's name jenses, comes 1o about $86 a month. | . C i ter. in his a S Benite My | Tie 1s ubsolutely independent of mate- { ters at 160 Avenue Edvard VI lln lie seemed th o e o) happiness. Even his (the forelgn secton of the city. Also » of & e seot e oom, e says, fa mot for | there were no marks of violcnce, He to s male o8 L1 BOrBe oS OO o Cneonle who come | bad died while his wife slept next to Thotitative, 1o, less as an ob iyt (5 Them &t onoe:| lum: JAnd thers were no clues, dood: r yan than he is with | 3 “This is power. Here the problems | FICh Bas &5 At co . 4 packing 810t & erent mation ate sowvedrt “1ui| Snd (hs Eepreietiterlys oty pec bab : ation ers | company. A greut deal of mones stands for Jtaly itsel ¥ "’1‘:;""‘; was in a dresser drawer, brought from ;;* l"U"””'e"l‘ just as happ: 40| e bank to pay household bills dur- his voice mpty garret. New Year season, esi- tions at me in T n. brushing my 3 i |the subject when he d 1.{1:;‘1._ - .| the previous slx monthis. This money edentials aside. And as 1 soon I an sure that indifference 9| p;q not been touched. found out that he was d’Annunzio’s noney, which I consider the means | “(y e after the other, each yellow great stronghold in the Ttalian press and not the end of any life worth |y marked at the top “Assassina. The lette : next day living, has helped me more than any | ton, reveuled and described @ niur aeant e i dhumer ‘ : e e te e Bl forelgner who | HIGH COMMISSIONER EDWARD SCHOFIELD (IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES) OF THE BUREAU OF INTER- : Hett withisiare | o L et o coun, | 11 been of importunce, either Soclall | NATIONAL POLICE AT SHANGHAL AND A GROUP OF HIS STAFF OFFICERS. THE FORCE CONTAINS Instead he offered me the It vin. thy pvations and thel(ece nomn aMohbery. or. Spberently POLICEMEN FROM 68 NATIONS. use of his own editorial columns the | sucrifices T huve had to & through | @ motive. And there were no clues. next day if 1 knew what 1 wanted to to prove my ideals were not a dis- £ x e x Amel 1. “Constal 1312 he il ithe =yo = Chikwei. he A ‘n‘n"r'\—‘:fi:m-e“:"ll";’r:-'i',(.l,'."','"“.” lucentiyg MONG the documents there were | plained, “is one of our mo BB Upon the thing she hod o lGuRits SL RIS v Soon after the article appeaved 1 ~u|: m;e“;;rwn elaxetion: 18118 o cablegrams from governmental |ahle officers. She has never searchine f e % ocor % heli A % departments of both England and |signed to dung i altho he heard the name of a sma returned t convinced that T B e b « somehow, Somf v, Benito Mussolini [ = = tor car, for he Is the best amateur P Atne & he has asked rej edly i e = <AL . MUSSOLINI THE DICTATOR. A PHOTOGRAPH AUTOGRAPHED [Tacer in Italy. often tearing over e [ America, S0 i e e the | work. 1 ahill be mad if you st i brodue mentlons., dhe Chines Tut no one could have guessed how FOR THE WRITER OF THIS ARTICLE. VERA BLOOM. T O itor ta Washbingten) | International ~police department of | sociste with her and do whatever raitled the names of all trades- soon and how much, for within two = B fingia WL " And yet, he says, {Shanshal Deople at’ Home werc| s ish to do in t traordinar rmen pplied and other years, a this blacksmi S %0 | ¥ o e 2 s wanting to know why the slayer, or cosst ) . o6 ch homw Jad hecome the most powerful per-|and that even as a child the poli front, a_corporal, with 37 different | he could be as happy i it were| (A0URE 6 TOF Veen caught and pun- | T ¢ handed Constable B } e Ceh e gonality in Furope, with the destiny [field of battle singular and | wounds from the bursting single | taken away from him tomorrow. ished. = ” s i Ot e S ety "‘v“'_’::""”"“”"’j'; O i e i s army of | tremendous fascination for me. To | shell. Here is how he explained to me| 1€ has lost his private lite to xuch | “sng, mare discomforting, an Ameri Agent Markham, fight with w rrimia) record or one whor his own making army of you fight to establish that soeial syst what happened at that ti an extent that it almosi ceases 10| .0 lbracentative of the Department |down his astonishment. followed el e it men Spontaneously drawn te him by pwhich at the mement and under t The thing that spurred me on to | eNist. Aside from his norse. | T, e e, usually known as “the Se-|out the door in respor s e R R L ey T D e deten, [elreumatinces seems nerest ous own | my fical break with the Socialist | back ride. with its incidental visit 1o | 'rel service.” had arrived in Shanghai nod with which she had uck owledged PR R S R e T T il Tram Holshev- | 1deals and best of the public zond has | party was the absolute difference of | his famous lion cub at the Zoo andlyith instructions to “look into” ‘the |the partnership established by Tor| o o e | ism—behind him to the death. Aluve oemed fo me to be the most opinion between the leaders of the | the odd hours he can spend in hit | ;agter of the unsolved deaths of the |commander. Tn the corridor Mark. for the forcisn 1 s Bolses HEn Ak * o 4 worth-while thing & human_ being | patty and myxelf on the question Of | o fhe seat oLl e three Americans _;!;;i:ld::c;:lufll_\;;ntxhi_lm‘v‘x\“::k»(:_ et mime. \monz them. wt the Goodrich | ham dropped int News shop can do, aly’s entrance into the World: War. | $ in his office, yellow orts. s Servic Mura Vidal," she replied, simply. | Lon.e heen one who was called | chase for himself an espeviall F ¥ conld have been easily a new * * % | e Teatiun Socialists could nof | ment or at official functions—for it it | ygent, J. P Markhani. now sat close | She added: “I am S S e et Gled | o op e poleon. The physical likeness H urned to Socialism as his first [ realize that for Italy entrance inta Alnwflquh“_ T‘d ';" for him to attend | o the window at the end of the big |with a litle of the Oriental in me. My | iables and sarden prod we from his |that instead of being unusu; that is so oft rked might have ideal. thinking it the means to- | the war was a burning necessity:|# purely socal a bt {room, silently watching the high com- | home was at Vladivostok Tt was | store on Hask arrow, busy |able in had @ historic well, except | yird o unknown. happy ending for | that it would not only weld and ¥ x k% misstoner run the documents through | quite as if she were telling him o street at the edge ¢ sreign dis- | exorbita that he had not ed for him. [T g ot O the world | strengthen the unity of the still E thinks that only little souls [ his fingers. that some ordinary chance had | trict. e 13 remarked | was di self—he had not to overthrow But even at 18, poo sssed | Young and untried nation but would need little things, but that the The turbanned sergeant appeared brought her down from Siberia to i wher G Olivei'a ‘at ered from the | win her the place she deserves among s, but at the door and snnounced Constable | constable's duties in China. Most ineqtioned the : tims 1 and from | the great powe big 1 is llke a mountain climber, | No. 1312. The American started. He Russian refugees, wherever they are. eich Russiarn Uther side i the foreigr It was seure newspa all the glamour of his position todiay— with sume leashed lightning in Yis eves, the sume leashed thunder | | bucto pulidiup. . __lecountry boy in peasant's cape and S0 he, rabid Socialist of @ few years | oy d-hrimmed hat, he took no creed, hefore, turned his bloodless but irre- | n 0G0 "0 Cer for granted. So he left the sistiblé revolution in favor of th e T e o Eramwhell then | behind him. Two days later he had Kinz, enlisted his Fascistl ‘in | ToRiAaeite first bombshell thel | the idea of founding his own paper, | e WO uld change his mind again | oo jjp, Instead he saw a rather Agent Markham learned that her| oile ) watehful e regular army and settled down as | 4iciilusioned o ead’ at the | with his own ideas for policy. He |lomorrow if his present bellefs were | quiet young woman, oliveakinned |father had been u governor of the |1} - X = arkh was appar: Prime Minister to remake Italy. | speeches of th At “stars” of No- | told me that that very nigh e 1 found wanting. . with the bla eyes of Asia but the eas province of Sibe under 1l Wi 4 n T returned to Rome the |cialism. he made his own first speech, of the Popolo d'lalia ap-| H'; m:-eux.«m-h day as it comes and | manner of Kurope. The girl seemed | Czar. and thut she wus the world was ringing with bis name and | unheralded, ‘and denounced them to There was no staff, o paper, | 49minares fb i~ v to be somewhat shy In her approach to|of the Gumily who had es . o1 . he had become the most inaccessible |their faces presses -nothing but an empty | e practices even more than he |the commissioner's table. - Reds when they . Police- | deliveries, which he inv man in Europe, surrounded cor- | He told me he felt absolutely no oI But Benito Mussolinl was | Preaches. Everything he has asked Have you orders for me. sir?” she republic and tool \ vinced that q | himself. On his trips he don of soldlers and secretaries, not |nervousness, no indecision. e sim. |t le had borrowed .\\o.-\v(mxg_Xlhoh;r;:lnalxlx’:‘:fifdu he done twice | 4 ied. i e e . g leins developed at last. | 2% € - did so much for phy protection.—for | ply knew that he could dominate that | The paper was on the newsstands that | 85 Hie he commissioner replied in his ¥ we sgether, i il ¢ rehants are lazy ey | WOrth wh » employ can wontinue to work, often 20 hours| I understood how much Socialism | Italian life. “When telling me the | T50¥ pature of a nation by one| Yes. I am told that you made | 4s;zer0us Sisot, wimse n it e they reside far away he was absent. Agent Ma 2 day, undisturbed meant to him in those early days |Story he said TR o U 1B cequest, some weeks ago. to be as- | [ARECICUS Maver, Whose methods Bad | “rhe widow of a4 third victim of the al knew he was 1 soon found that the far-famed |when he explained it to me “You must not think that it was | &5 he explains it: | sisned by your inapector to the cases) [CTITCC 218 ArCeiver Sooret. Who Ief! |assassin, u Mrs. Forrest. also revealed | TROUTNE chep (han miere leader of Fascismo and the unknown S cialion. a8 T Knew It as a boy, | asy for me to abandon the belief and | . 1 work; they wor 1 show dis- | that are bothering the whole depart- | 10 [raees and who © “.’“‘1 Lo 1h Vic-iNeu Chi-kwei as among her trades- | VeEetables and fru e e arely two different | was quite & different thing from wha | the party to which I had consecrated cipline: they show discipline. 1 have | mept. the deaths of Boddy, Gogdrich | (. FEH BCOTE Shuential remidents (af lmen he remembered that he Every other investiz Phases of the same Mussolini and |it is now. Then it was to me a politi- | ¥ Whole existence and for which I self-respect; they have self-respect.(and the others. You sald I ballave, | i aerta it ot f‘”u,'hqm\ e e e e b0 | atendbnea In of Neu C BHses Ol e e i o | o diotiing with the fascination of |bad suffered povertyand extle. for it T um firm: they are firm. Tou thought Sou could pick up a clue | ¥ho held important posts—and who. o1’ ind the freshness of hic wares by His_antecedents were secretly groat. dim, beautifyl -room, full of |sincerity and enthusiasm, with the|as certainly the most difficult and . Recently in the trial races for the | the rest of us have missed. You were | FERERN: IC ot Fill for TODDErY. |4 pother of Neu's patr an exiled | Sembled ated his own tru Priceless works of @rt, that he has|conviction of s e e e, critical moment of my life. Only the automobile grand prix of Italy, near | refused, of course. I e F*'X'j“"‘i" ble led her Ameri- | pycsian priest. Again garden some > outside the made his private sanctum at the Chigi | erous cause. 3 et Tace for ihe | Prafounaicontietion that what Toeks | XM, iofie of the Niallajy dilvers wau | now, Bowever, tol assgn SAnEn T Jaurdier flowerst islons of fulend, the pris b Pulace, now yreign office in | people among whom I lived, my fam. [40Ing was absolutely right and sin- The director of the speedway | case, if you still wish to take o ’, ok mtner fl‘j“"f‘* s one of | ighborhood kin road. the Ttome, just. as completely as it did | iy traditions, my environment—all | C¥'¢ Rave i the strength to com. |@nnounced that the races would be| The girl's face lghted. Bhe said, S (::P,‘Sw ,!'.'”m'\ ofCh Wwh @ xiled priest bad been 3 Aty the bare little office in Milan. led me toward Socialism | pletely break all links with the past.” | calied off LD S Tn all_thers mad bee 1 refully investigated, or “checked = benind 'a hage, mat] . “Butieven within my party e | odnen came the dea ol Fascismo. Mussolini told me he sent word at {__The commissioner turned to the |, 2 & Uiefe T been soven ¢ as Policewoman Vidal weuld have | Came in from the > a2y he sits behind a buge 928) atways encretically opposed to any- | He told methat he knew =S . See—————— | The Wrcumstances of fach had beenlsain, He iwis disclgsed as o kindly pa-f P > cart. D corner of the To any hig |thing that led to parliamentary com- big it would be, and tha i, Thes will g jon & three | iple_ambitious, to be sure, for the ¢ slence indic: T Tl § b who ministered to a little | BOrSe tested, and then dvc “have told 1 et long | promises and eorrupt politics, and end: toward which he - Jre killea. But ithey inust - ito Mussol == lence dndleated” pol imme- | colony of exiles from the aristocratic | ©ut along roid azair men have tol that long | Promises amd corribl poles. mm. | working all his life. Can a battle stop because a |SONS of Benito Mussolini tely, and surgeons were convinced f.milies of Siberia. himself 1 refuges 1l police records seemed k across the great. silent room 4 B 1 It spread quickly. And soon he r falls? Where would Italy's| He says he will not influence them, some drug had been used, but from Viadivostok. What few pos- 0 be ¥ respects di 3 "% | except us they are influenced uncon- | onc that could not be identified. The |sessions he had brougit with | & merchant. That he was under the steady glare of his steely |Nal Purity of their ideals, but grad = . SN 2 @ ik e N : o > tha e | was running for Parliament on his |courage and manhood be? Race— € eves was one of the worst moments | a1y 1 had to realize that the spirit C sclously by his example. AS long as | particularly bafling mystery was how | him he had turned into v ¥ Which | PeTous in his way was e s & own ticket—and defeated. There wag [and win.” 3 of their lives—unless, perhaps, to | Of my party had changed forever and | some trouble. He e nlI)I]:rIr:nnm] And race and win they did—the |they are fearless and honest he any drug could have been adminis-|he shared generously with any of his|the total absence have to stand up facing him through | tht @ Wy eRORS Were BREEit o land when released found that he was | first three prizes. N thinks it is what they are, not what | tered, and with such care and knowl- | country folk who were in need. After | broglios. He paid prompt cross-questioning that | H1e auiekly hetame 8 e (0elor 18 | left practically deserted. One fol-| Mussolinl says that these three | they do, that matters. edge that invariably it brought death {much consideration it was decided to |€Very Six months. kept the joss sticks ollows is even worse, for ouly on | the polities of the village, where hely( o lcime to him with sympathy. ~|words have been the corner stones of | | 1 hate nevel tech him half 50 |in the night. Other agents of the,question the priest frankly as to Neu | PUrning through the tw in fro very gracious sions two great | had tollowed his mother s 100 ol | “Never mind,” said Mussolini, with | his carcer—fortitude, tenacity, dect proud of any achievement of his own | police had failed to connect any of |Chi-kwei. However, he knew little |f his shop, made his es 1 Tapestrs armenarms are placed Gppor | Y teaching ~school for several| . Sever DURG satd Sussclih SUn) o 3 as he was when his daughter saved |the vietims with any one. native or |more than the others. Neu had ap-| Buddha on all proper oce: site litis and. Tinding his opponent | Will all be coming to me in the great- | To him these do not mean holding an older girl from drowning. He|foreign, who might be brought under |peared among his house servants with | drove the devils out his But i si to aneet his | B0 SCtS S Batlots, he b e alace in Rome." on to & worn.out bellef or to am ont | 5aid it was the proof of the fine met- | suspicion. And none of those who|a request that he be patronized, and | MOFDIng by muking o terr searchi ess eyes or hear s 5T asked him if he was really | ETown situation. They mean push. | tie she is made of that makes him 5o | died had been involved in any of the his copper toms. Bec kel iense voice and doubt his | (R0 B B CECHAR Ko to prison sying, he answered frankly:|ing on to the ultimate truth-—the | 14PPY- ” native squabbles, between tongs, or nexer; answers: questions ith sineerity, which seems all the more | |8 SO PS8 GIAG “can 1 say 1 could « new achieverient, the new necessity. £ x s political families. which lead to as- 0 be infiingements Ypon- sincere because he vavely vehe. | ©4UTH i G o foreser five years ago the victory | e is as ready to chanze himself | [JE has not dedicated his greatness | sussination. | fairs no one knev ment or dramatic. It is only when CIEGA RChesRtU Rl Fascism or the triumphant march |48 to change his idea ! to himself, but to his country,| “Yet it will have a rden was lucated he is really stivred or angry that the on Rome? ut 1 certainly had a s lana it is only fair to remember that |Constable 1312 mily. “As ve been useless t pent-up power escapes, . vague but strong presentiment that | 3 no radical change in a nation's his- | we have no motive we niust suppose Every sundown And only those who have won his | viien sne and tola"me T had chosen ERIAPS his most characteristic (tory has had so few ugly pages. He |one.” ¢ casts, v s ) friendship” and who know that be- [EVIR S0 Sl the right way.” right-about.face came just after|found Iltaly rotting into Bolshevism | Agent Markham agveed that the quaint baskets carrying hunin B et is o irenmanons |1and ordered him to leave the coun-| R B BaSil | 0y Lot come, | ne beo bout-face came just after | FgC, Ceqit from moral, political and | policeman who cannot find a_ motive | trung on poles borle by runners, goe personal charm that comes from a | o yeturned to Italy and became |for he had so minutely judged the he became premier. financial chaos. P S orima. eresten one fn. His mind] out the Nankin rouad. It is the road really spontancous simplicits and a | he' editor of the oMaly and became | talian situation that he inew noth. |, I had crashed out of obscurity| He cleared the country of beggars and begins his work from that point. | the gardeners and truck mer very human sense of humor can un i _— ist paper, the Avanti of Milan. ing but Fascimo could win out and | ike a meteor—overnight. The grim, |in a month by the simple and &irect | By disproving one motive another, | E : take to their little truck farms derstand how the same man ¢an be : 5 that he must be in power in that pedranes in: the procession of g consistently grim and uncompromis- o e Avanti and Socialism | with always a higher peak ahead. had expected some alert looking. busi-| speuk of their changing adventures in zes ness-like detective, of almost any na- just such casual manner. Late v s 3 Ny 1 3 v mare trag iistie articles and tivities were so stormy that he W even exiled from exile, for Switzer: unsmiling face and the black-shirted | process of ordering the police to give | and sometlmes the right one, usually | 14 b C . tiine: figure became the trade marks of [ them their free choice of golng to | reveals itself. | 3 elener would be chattered about fo ing to a cheering crowd, suave and HEN came the war. The Social-| When that time came he was so | Fascism. . work, being put in an institution or | Between them the American and | X miles again. in the sing-Song tone subtle at a council table, reckless and ists were for neutrality; he was | supremely powerful he could have| The Lausanne Conference s in | deported to one of Italy’s African |the Russian girl-policeman decided | with which the coolies pass on thei daring with his soldiers, or racing his | for entrane overthrown | everything in Ttaly, | Session in Switzerland. where the |colonfes. upon revenge. “A Chinese will go far | X 0SS0 1o Tia @ ahioiilof hehindithem car over the mount nizht, and, | e enlisted as a private soldier the | Again a decisive judgment. He had |Bovernment had hurriedly to revoke | He freed Ttaly of helpless depend|to avenge hhnself of even a fancied | B A -\‘_‘“";‘, Constable 1312 nor Ager Tattienl amd lovibie, quick 1o laugh. | moment Italy entered the war, but | not triumphed to overthrow but to | MUssolini's long-standing order of | ence on England for coal by using|wrong. If he hasa mind for murdey 5 Mo am cond ‘epeniy, Ioliew e ter and wisiasm w e people ywas soon invalided home from the [build up. exile so that he could attend. her tremendous water power to elec- | he will slay with a clear conscience.” 3 2ad _tlm dv_~ ided not ty bring to the he likes. The mellowest diplomats of the|¢rify her railroads, and whereas three | No. 1312 explained. This trait was - Lof the matie Dhitnche world—even Lord Curzon, “that most | vears ago most of the wheat for her | familiar to Markham. who had been e hinese s s Muissolin superior person” and English gentle- | bread and spaghetti had to come | detailed to Shanghal once before. So G S s R Benito Mussolini. i : man de luxe—were waiting, perhaps | from here and from Canada for lack | they decided that a Chinese. some one el IS nehe et Cn the shou And here is his story: He told 5 with u smile on their lips, for the | of crops, he has opened up a new |of the millions herded in the vicini: it aoas plice oL PIHEER ank me that he cannot remember the time Z tastic phenomenon from Ttaly to | world of modern agriculture to the | ties of the neutral port. or a band of | Ryad Jiisr At duale: Clote ahend oThe Reijdould. not [duminate Seven {dami ) e Ttalian peasant, so that this year they | them, was taking a toll of vengeance. | e amiledialong (be rate destiny. “Destiny” as an_ab- . The Italian train pulled in. and a | will not only supply themselves but| Tt had already been established by | == iraction has mnever bothered him. o " suave, smiling gentleman, in top hat, | have a surplus crop to sell abroad. |other members of the police forces | 1ie has merely taken each episode of t frock coat, cravat and spats of the | There has not been a strike since he | that there had been 2 thread of mu- | his Tife as it came, judged it accord- " most , impeccable English cut, de-|came into power, and the factories|tual acquaintance linking all the| ) 8 ; ing to the truth as he saw it. made a . scended. It was Mussolini, and not |are working full blast. seven victims of the unknown slayer. Mouid xera N in (e Neiptiborhood decision affecting only the issue at | K : only his clothes but his bearing and | But here is his own estimate of |Each one of them had known some of Neu's garden if she succeeded in trac. Hard.fand gonelshedd ol the nes ) ‘| |manner were perfection. what he has done and the.spirit that | the others. Four of them had.been | POLICE CONSTABLE NO. 1312, |In® him fo i, Asent Marknam o p. That is what we call changing / - He out-Curzoned Curzon on his own | has made it possible: married and were accompanied to| MISS MURA VIDAL. NOW AN IN. |10t wor The next afternoon he his mind—what he could call making : = , ground and returned to Rome. Here| “If T were to find one word for my | China by their wives. These Wives | SPECTOR ON THE STAFF OF | seried 1 long the road. almost de e : : » y | | | was his reasoning, as he told it tome: | ideal, for the faith that has always | knew each other. All lived in the| ppE INTERNATIONAL F | seried now. He traveled openly o e Jias dominated evers one and T was not out to revolutionize | beckoned to me and urged me on | typical two-storv houses which are | NATIONAL POLICE |horseback. Ie watched keenly for 4 evervthing all his life. Iirst, his sis ¢ style and custom. You must go after | through the darkest days of my built for the accommodation of the | OF CHINA. - sign or signal. When he found a hi ter and brother, then the hovs of the the big things and leave the outward | reer, perhaps none would express it | foreign residents, and each main- = = of wulle Ik eaugnt an 3 Telioe oS village, on and on, in an ever-widen- 5 Symbols | that Deople e |reer D e wsed o often by | tained the usual staff of servants— | had brought a recommendation from | Some two miles vulide the Fite. by tng circle, until at last he dominates | B | |Slone. Dy top hat, my spats and my |ver preat American philosopher, | Chinese “boys.” who sometimes are |Boddy, who had handled some of the | SebPed Av the Wt of (G 1o Ttady—and his new ideas may spread.] [ frock coat stood for the type of man | Wilkiarn - James - ‘pragmatism’; in | ancient men. The servants in each | priest’s money before it was almost all | {REE, VAR & QT ey He saw nothing remarkable in thi S who belonged at such a conference. |other words, fulfillment. household had been Investigated as |given away. Neu explained that he | turbed carth. dle soraped the wowh power of his, but his mother, who . They stood for gespect and courtesy | “I have always believed with him | the deaths were reported. Con- |was more reasonable in his prices than | ilid found a tastiv s shled. mote was the village schooly s, and | e . ” 2 for me and formy country. They | that an action should be judged more | stible 1312 and Agent Markham de- | most dealers and had promptly proved | it Gk and Heare : 2 a whom no doubt he learned the | K& § 8] | established Fascism as a normal, dig- | by its results than by the basie prin. | cided to examine them again. and.|that he was. The priest had few tael bt i % vt on of his great culture, told nified government. It was not that I |ciple or theorles that inspired it, and | this time, systematically. Nearly all |coins left. and for each one of these I e B b e dere R him_that from the time he was & | i »' 5 thought the frock coat better than | that it is always far better to act | of them were still available. for it|Neu Chikwei gave him more vegeta-| thie Laettth Bup Githe IeK otithe child he was different from the other : | | the black shirt, but that each served | promptly and decisively than to lose | IS the custom in China for the serv-|bles and fruits. and of better grade, e You e bovs and destined for greatnes $ » 3§ its purpose. Oneself in endless theoretic argu-(ant to become attached to the housethan any other tradesman — even bl i e A Perhaps his greatest regret is that | k8 . : > To thdse who do not know the man ments. Truth and usefulness, knowl- | more than to the fami though he carried them each morning | ;U (LTI 1 Gl nives ther she could not live to see her prophec: : . i this change of front, this multiple | edge. and action, must go hand in |mistress customarily finds her serv-|from Haskel road across the city. With one boy. The hoy stays in the come true, for his love for her was s R i - BB | personality, might seem a pose, but | hand. “| ants-already living in her new home. Tk ok ok k e an. Bt great a part of his life that he cannot 3 . k to know him is to understand that it | *And it is to this very faith in ac-| The “third degree” as it exists in| e st i ter Ghie movie hide his emotion when speaking of i X : . 15 teally 5 consuming mher A A e otk love of life] America is not eo successtul, as a | STRANGELY, Agent Markham and | 2302 e0eil, (208 S08 P4.C 0w in the her even now. i '3 complete absorption In the matter of | and combat—that Fascism owes its| rule. in the Orient. The Oriental, - his voung associatc could find mo Helg"und are sure he does not observe lle insists that he cannot recall | K& : ; : : the moment, that changes him, I am | success. particularly the Chinese, does not [other patrons of Neu Chi-kwei in any [ (8 A8 T AT (8 FOR0 ™y ol and will not invent any early signs : 4 s sure, in spite of himself. . ¢ it has accomplished in six | ANSWer questions if he has the whim [0f the neighborhoods close to these | (' U (h ure, hut Agent Markhan) of génius or greatness in himself. : ; : He has taken nothing for himselt |short years is already a milestone of | to be silent. The Oriental policeman | houses he served at such a long dis |y pey'ihat Mura Vidal had deliberatel As hie told me once in a reminiscent | B — . p i s & or his family with all his power. history. But we will leave it to|¥ill blandly explain that a little to tance. Constable 1312 was satisfied | SI0F 5000 et K Chat i « : A 2 k He turned over his paper to his |cthers who will come later fo formu. | ture will g0 o long wey farther than | thelr clue was leading. in some mys-| y;e prove to be her deathhouse. “I could not honestly tell you that e ] ; : brother, whe is saiting 1t ool Bt | baie oue peincipics and explain our | Much {ngulry. Neither ~Constalils |teious Wey, Fito the ruwder tr | “Sfarkham obeved the girl’s Instru thore whs ansthing extrapriinary on . § that was his own to give, and with it | theories. Our aim is action. 1312 nor Agent Markham were of the | Agent Markham installed himself in | .o, ™5y 01y after noon he walke yemarkable about my childhood. T . - ¥ ! et o e o e D it | thearlen, O Al St which he | Mind, however. to resort to forbid- |& house quite close to News shob. To | \Bit™ 16 Saie stroll of the sightser think we all must discount a_great o ; - . 2 #{ |title and no wealth. o e 40,000,000 peopie ang {den imethods of torture. The serv.|the servanis he found there Be ex )i (e Nankin road until he can deal the illusions that in perfect good . g ¥ e i ; He has mot even wanted social |through inexorable will, tireless tofl | 30(S Eave useless information freely. | F IR (7 i(eus in' Shanghal, (10 the post which he had marked falth our memories weave around the recognition for his family. His wife |and incessant example has given back | DUt none other. He infopmed them that he was very | He found the path and made his tury past, unconseiously transforming and and three children live as simply and | to them in three years honor, courage L particutar about his food. especially | to the left, counted by 12 of the lit fdealizing idle t and actions quietly as cver in Milan, while he [and power, with prince and peasant | QUDDENLY, during ome of the|such things as vegetables and fruits. | thatched roofed hits in which chatie: of qur \.,‘.Jm.l, e . }"f:.: friend's bachelor apartment in | working for him side by side. many days devoted to futile|He asked that they find for him the |ing families of coolies and gardeners “But I do know that from my earli- 16q ‘T SPENDIN N ; tome. N He sees no miracle in it, but that | questioning of the Chinese 5" 'best dealer in this sort of produce, live in a single until he canx MUSSOLINI SPENDING A SHORT VACATION AT ONE OF THE One of his boys. he told me. wants | must Tebecause he ls @ miracle | who had served (e stricken familier, When he saw that e ipoduce. | 1o the better house painted white. A est days my character was_excep- tionally strong-wilied and . intenss, ITALIAN BEACHES, to be a sailor, the other a farmer— | himself, or the masters, like Boddy, who were ' chosen by his servants was not Neu! (Continued on Sixth Page) A A 4 ONSTABLE 1312 did 1 that night. As had said she F¥ieaneanss, \ 1