London, June 3.
A sensation was created throughout the world of sport today when it was announced that Joe Beckett, former British Empire heavyweight champion and once a prominent contender for the world title, had been arrested at Southampton together with his wife under the new Defence Regulations.
It is understood that before.the outbreak of the current Wer, Beckett and his wife were connected with Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union Paris, June 4.
Queen Wilhelmina, in an article published in the "Paris Soir" today, declared that Holland would "rise from the smoking ruins and overcome the injustice that cannot last In the first article she has ever written, Queen Wilhelmina painted a pathetic picture of present conditions in Holland and said that only hope and faith remained for the Dutch people.
"It is because the voice of Holland must not and cannot be permitted to be silenced during these days of terrible suffering for my people that I took the supreme decision to trans-for the symbol of my nation, which is incorporated in my person and my Government, to a place where it can function as a living force having the right of sovereignty," Queen Wilhelm ina wrote.
"Only hope subsists midst the smoking ruins of my country, the hope and faith of a God-fearing people which no human force, what ever its malignity, can ey a faith in the omnipotent justice and faith entertained by the remembrance of earlier suffering courageously endured and vainly come, "Our faith is anchored in the unshakeable belief that the injustice which the Netherlands people now suffer cannot last."—United Press.
Fascist organization.
Beckett recently joined Lord Deal's Anti-Parachute Volunteer Corps. During the Great War, Joe Beckett was a member -of the Royal Air Force—United Press.
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