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Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1921, Page 3

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“HATE” CAMPAIGN IN U.S. NEW Y T ORK, Feb. 26

Judge Daniel E. Colialan, a leading American supporter of Sinn Fein, at a dinner given at Chicago by the Committee of One Hundred for the Irish Republic frankly declared his desire l to see the British Empire dismembered. He designated the British Empire as a menace, to the United States which must be removed, and argued that the United States should insist on the British Government “liberating” Canada and the West Indies as a basis of negotiations for the settlement of its debts to the United States.

Judge Cohnlan’s statements are typical of the agitation now being conducted throughout the country with the object of disrupting the friendship between the United States and nations with whom she was associated during the war. The danger of this agitation and the widespread character of the German propaganda which is being operated hand in glove with the Irish campaign of hate are now clearly recognised here. Only yesterday, the American Legion, a body composed of veterans of the Far, issued a circular to all its posts warning them to he on their guard against this propaganda and to counteract it. Adding his voice to that of General Pershing and many others, General Leonard Wood has exhorted American politicians “to stop heckling other nations and irritating them,” adding, “if we ever go hack on our Allies, the millions who are dead and buried in France and Belgium will have died in vain.”

RED HAIR GIRL

BERLIN, Feb. 2(5, After a long search, the Berlin police have arrested a beautiful girl swindler whose long red hair settled all doubts about her identity. Tile girl, Anna Sannek, had assumed title after title in her career of crime, and when arrested she had, from a German “countess,’’ become the “wife of a Russian Grand Duke.” At 18, says the Berliner Tageblatt, Sannek had a. 14-roomed house, a carriage and pair, and a handsome motor-car, in which she was seen every afternoon driving through Unter den Linden. She had gained most of Iproperty by swindling tradespeople, who described her a* a royal-looking woman with copper-coloured hair. After being imprisoned for 21 years she again took up her criminal career. As Countess Furgold, when she was 21, and later as Fraulein von Werner, she swindled different people of money. Recently, it is said, she swindled a Berlin banker of £15,000. She was arrested as the result of a telephone conversation during which another hanker overheard her mention large sums of money. Charged wish swindling, she said it was a ease of mistaken identity, for she was really a Russian Grand Duchess. She was identified hv tradespeople as the woman who had fornferlv swindled them. Her red hair, they said, could not easily bo forgotten. FAITHFUL DOG. BRUSSELS, Eeh. 2(5. A remarkable instance of a dog s faithfulness is reported by a baker from Coronvillo, in South-East Belgium. His dogs, who are employed during the afternoon and evening to do the round with the bread, have a run alone in the woods in the morning. On Monday they went into the woods as usual, hut did not return. Not until Wednesday were they found. • The younger dog had caught his paw in a trap for wild hoar. The older dog, loath to leave his companion, had remained by his side. His master found him howling and licking his companion’s wounded paw alternatelv, although lie must have been exhausted for lack of food and water.

KX-M.P. SPY. 'nmOBITSCH LINCOLN’S PLOTS. VIENNA, February 2G. AVnnted by the police of many European countries, including Retain, Gciinany. and Hungary , Tromtsch Lincoln ex-A1.1’.. for Darlington, ex-curate in charge of a Kentish parish, and exspy, was arrested to-dav by the Vienna, police on a charge of fraud. For the last, five weeks Lincoln has been living in the Dark Hotel, Hiotzing, a suburb of Vienna-, under the name of Lawrence. He possessed official papers made out in that name and in several others, such as Lambreeht., Lang, Lakkatoseh, all beginning with the letter L. In these documents he is described as of no nationality, which he explains by the fact that his English naturalisation was rescinded after the war j began. ] l'oarn that Lincoln has been denounced to the A'iennese police by the Ozeuho-Slovakian Government on the grounds that documents he sold to them were forgeries. The price paid is said to have been 500.000 crowns (nominally £20,000, now about £300). “For months,” he says, ‘‘l have been working in secret in Bavaria will Colonel Bauer, the leader of the German militarists, and in Hungary "ith Admiral Horthy (the Regent) to organise a great, uprising in Central Europe of the old Royalist forces “Our plan was to l>egiu h v suddenly overwhelming Czecho-Slovakia, following up by an attack on Poland, in which we should have been helped by C/.arist forces from Russia. The ultimate aim would have boon . restoration in victorious Germany. lust when all was ready for the favourable auspices, the Hungarians alleged I was a Jew. ‘lt is impossible,’ said my enemies, ‘for Us to restore the German Empire with the part of Bismarck played by a Jew. “Tt was accordingly decided to assassinate me. A certain Bavarian major wrote to l’orni one of the heads of the : militarist movement in Hungary, advising him to have me removed. Porni, : \yho is a friend of mine, showed me the letter, and I crossed the frontier into Austria, where I have since reimwned.” i Lincoln complains that fie was given an unfair deal in the division between themselves by various leaders of the militarist movement of some £30,000 collected for propaganda purposes.