Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1928, Page 24

2i'® S ESHE HOWARD ~TORETRE IN 193 British Ambassador to Leave | Diplomatic Service on Reach- ing Age Limit of 65. By the Associated Press. | LONDON, October 13—The British | foreign office announced today that Sir | Esme Howard, British Ambassador to | the United States since 1924, would be | retired in December, 1920. He will | then reach the age limit of 65 and, ac- ; cording to civil service regulations, must | relinquish his post. i Sir Esme's five-year term will ex-| pire in February, 1929, but it will be | renewed so that he may comjlote his diplomatic career in the United States. | HAS HAD LONG CAREER. 'Served as Counselor Here From 1906 to 1909; Was Carnarvon Aide. Sir Esme Howard has had a long and | Histinguished career in the British for-! eign service. He was counselor of the embassy at Washington from 19806 to 1909 and has held the office of Am- bassador to the United States since March 9, 1924. Born at Greystoke Castle, Cumberland, September 14, 1862, he was educated at Harrow. In 1885 he passed the competitive examination for the British diplomatic service and Was made assistant private secretary of the Earl of Carnarvon in Ireland, and in the following year was made an attache of the embassy at Rome. Later | he was made third secretary of the | embassy at Berlin. | In 1894 he returned to London and | served as private secretary to the Earl of Kimberly, secretary of state for for- | eign affairs. During the Boer War, in | 1900, he served as a trooper in the Im- perial Yeomanry, 13th Battalion, and | ‘was awarded a medal and four clasps for gallantry and efficiency in action. Since then he has served successively as secretary of the embassy at Rome, con- sul general for Crete, consul general at Hungary and in 1911 was appointed Minister to Switzerland, where he served for two years and. then he served in a similar capacity in Bweden for six years until 1919, when he was promoted to the rank of Am- bassador and sent to Spain, which of- fice he held until his transfer to the ‘Washington mission. He was a member of the British dele- gation at the Paris peace conference in 1919 and was & member of the British commission on the specid international aliled mission to Poland in the same year. He is a member of various orders of the British government including knight commander of the Order of the Bath; knight commander of the Order | of the Garter. | MEXICAN TOWN PUT UNDER MARTIAL LAW Fatal Stabbing of Magdalena, So- nora, Editor, in Political Strife, L | squeaked: __(Continued from Yesterday's Star.) INSTALLMENT XXXIL ONG after the others had left, Dighton lay back on the pillows, thinking, with the bright sun- light throwing squares of yellow light on a green carpet and the distant hum of traffic drifting up to him from the Via Venti Settembre. Lunch was brought in presently by a slim day nurse, who measured out some medicine in a glass and straight- ened his bed before leaving. It was an invalid’s lunch, moist and singularly unattractive to a man in Dighton's state of mind. He accepted it, how- ever, without comment. getting on his nerves. A vague sug- gestion of disinfectant hung every- where, of supercleanliness. He was profoundly glad that the nurse's shoes that, and the occasional ringing of some other patient's bell, were the only noises that jarred upon the depressing silence of the home itself. It was in well ordered places like these that babies were born, he reflected. Surgeons came here, with implements in unobtrusive little hand- bags, and removed appendices; physi- cians flourished their stethoscopes, nurses their clinical thermometers. He could imagine it an ideal refuge for those who were seeking quiet and rest. Dighton, as it happened, had no desire for either. He wanted to be up and doing, to snatch Greta from the clutches of the formidable three and to take part in that final assault on Ahl- borg’s house. ‘The thought of Greta at the mercy of the Lizard brought on a paroxysm of impotent fury. The entire universe seemed to have entered into a conspir- acy against him: Greta had been spirited away almost under his eyes— and they were keeping him from going to her assistance. He was incensed with Marney for having brought him there, with Taverner for not giving the instructions to the matron that would have set him free. They spoke of him as a crock, a back number—and he had headed a counter attack in Flanders when suffering from far more serious injuries than he had now! The whole thing was ridiculous! A plan began forming itself in his brain, a reckless, extravagant scheme that commended itself more and more to him as he considered it. A grim smile hovered on his lips. He would show Ahlborg whose was the best secret service! The Lizard, Marney and Tav- erner were all very well in their way, but this final scene was one which would be settled by the bigger men— himself and Ahlborg, whose extra inch or two in height and greater girth made him pass for a glant. For a full half hour he stared at a distempered wall, pondering the thing until every phase of the proposed ven- ture stood out in his mind with all the vividness of a series of stereoscopic views. The sheer impudence of the scheme staggered him. It was as if some other person had thought of it and imparted it to himself. It was by no means water-tight. Embarked upon half-heartedly, it would be doomed to instant failure, but daring and determi- nation might pull it through. “By heaven!” he muttered aloud, “I'll do it, if it kills m He must get out of that home—an The atmosphere of the place was | absurdly easy thing when compared with the bigger issues, and yet, when faced with the problem of slipping into his clothes and along the passage to the outer door, jt assumed tremendous proportions. 2 He was still debating this when the nurse returned with the news that a lady was in the drawing room, asking to see him. Miss Leckie was out, it appeared, and the visitor refused to go Brings Army Rule. By the Associated Press. NOGALES, Ariz, October 13.—Mar- tial law supplanted local government in the city of Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico, today, the result of the fatal stabbing of a newspaper editor, which was fol- lowed by the deposition of city authori- ties and the arrest of several of their The editor, Enrique Woolfolk, was a victim of “political strife,” Gov. Fausto Torev.e said, upon placing the city under military . Woolfolk was attacked by four men with knives. The slaying’ caused the governor to force the newly elected city council, with Jose Menegas as mayor, to resign and send a former mayor, chief of police and several officers to jail. Investiga- tion of the violence was started after Lieut. Col. Carlos Aguirre was installed as prefect of the district. S/ TR 0 A Chinese Trick. PERING (#).—The Chinese “fatten” watermelons before taking them to | market to sell by the pound. A needle and thread affair, the needle piercing her business with you is ul away. Dighton frowned. “Does she give any name?” he de- manded. “None whatever; but she lnsli!.s that ent.” He was conscious of a wild, impos- sible hope. “Is she English?” She shook her head. “Oh, no, Mr. Dighton. Italian lady. “What does she look like? pretty?” ‘The nurse smiled. “Very, I should You have had two visitors already today, you know, and I feel sure Miss Leckie—-" “Show her in,” sald Dighton. ‘The girl hesitated for some seconds at the door, shrugged her shoulders and complied. Mafalda Pasquali came suddenly in. She paused between the doorway and She is an Is she the melon and the thread reaching to & bucket, “siphons” the water to the the bed, then dropped on her knees by his side in an agony of tears. melon’s flesh. 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Listen,” she con- tinued breathlessly, “you must leave Italy at once. It is no longer safe for you here. Ahlborg knows you are here. If he found out I had come here to warn you, he would kill me.” Dighton nodded. “Why have you come here to warn me, Mafalda?” She stretched out her arms to him and her beringed fingers pressed into his arms hungrily. “Because I love you, Alan,” she de- clared. “Because I love you in a way that girl they have up there could never understand. We are all spies— you, I, the Lizard and the little Ameri- can who brought you to this house. Why do you shake your head at me like that? You know that I am speak- ing the truth. Ahlborg paid me to lure you into his clutches, and your people paid you to assoclate with me. I am a fool to have come to you, but because you were wounded and broken, because I saved your life once down by the seashore, and because I am a wom- an, I came.” She rose to her feet, a pathetic, dra- matic figure in mauve, with a bunch of violets pinned to her breast. If she had never been sincere in her whole life before, she was so now. Dighton knew it and was deeply touched. “What fragment of truth,” she con- tinued, “have we left out of all this miserable subterfuge? I love you more than my life; and you—" A lump rose in his throat. “I have always liked you, Mafalda,” he told her. “Nobody hated deceiving you more than myself.” “Liked me, eh? And, I suppose, that is all! And yet, if that other woman had not come into your life first it might have been so diffei~nt. I have heard her story, Alan. I saw her in her room last night and she told me every- thing. She begged me to help her to es- cape—so that she might go to you.” She shook her head. “I am not built for self-sacrifice, Alan—at least, not in that way. I want- ed to hate her—and I couldn’t. We had something in common, you see. We both of us wanted something that we could never have. I knew then, as I know now, that you would not desert her for me—and Ahlborg is keeping her there for the Lizard.” Dighton started. l-tle was learning something vital at last. “Keeping her until when, Mafalda?” “Until he succeeds in getting back those guns. Dighton’s heart was beating wildly now. Her revelation of the conditions existing in the Villa Sabino was all- important. It meant that Greta was safe, that he had yet time—" “Guns,” he echoed. “What guns?” She gave him a faint smile, full of wisdom and understanding. “You know, Alan,” she assured him. “You know better than any one else. You have fought well, caro, but_the odds against you were too big. Karl Ahlborg is mad. Does that surprise you? 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Colombo is still hop- ing—and they have no notion what Ahlborg has in mind.” Dighton's brain reeled. Something told him that she was speaking the truth. Prevented from avenging himself per- sonally, Ahlborg was going to the police whom he had hitherto despised.. Digh- ton could not afford to be arrested. It was conceivable that his enemy would bring along a host of witnesses to give evidence against him, and not a soul would come to testify in his favor. That was the recognized fate of the secret service man who had failed to avoid ar- rest! “I have killed nobody, Mafalda,” he said quietly. “It was somebody in the grounds who wiped out Dopmann, and I have never heard of Von Roeschen.” She picked up her gloves from the floor, to which they had fallen. 5 “No one will believe you,” she re- turned. “That is why I assure you that you must go at once. It is fortunate that he has been so long making up his mind. He has been busy all day in the laboratory, and tonight he goes out at 8 in the car. But tomorrow——" Dighton’s brain had suddenly become active. “You go to the Casino?” he inter- posed. “No. Karl goes out alone; where I cannot tell you.” Thoughts for Mafalda's safety prompt- ed him to suggest an appointment which he would never keep. “I will get ou* of here this afternoon,” he said. “I shall wait for you in the dancing hall tonight at 8. We will have one last dance together, for the sake of a frierdship which I value. I may be a little late—" She bent over him impulsively. “It is not safe,” she pleaded. “You are risking much this afternoon, Mafalda.” “Addio, caro!” kissed his lips. At the doorway she looked back. “I shall be there, dearest,” she added —and was gone. she whispered and (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) Lighted Candle Starts Blaze. 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