TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1930.
A ̈ ̃HUMAN” GHOUL“,
Jack-The-Ripper Terror Still Spreading
POLICE BAFFLED
Hungarian Girl's Scare At Meeting With Murderer
STILL AT LARGE
THE CHINA MAIL.
MAHOMET KASSIM'S THE BANNING OF
VARIED LIFE
ENTERTAINER, TRAVELLER, *SOLDIER, & COMPOSER
AT MAJESTIC THEATRE
5,000 BOOKS
NEW EDITION OF “INDEX” IN ROME.
VATICAN CENSORSHIP
The new edition of the "Index or "Mahomet Kassim," Indian enter-Prohibited Books," "corrected and tainer, who is a member of the British revised" by special order of the vaudeville stars, "The High Steppers," Pope, was recently issued from the who are appearing at the Majestic printing press of the Vatican City Theatre, Kowloon, is a direct decend-i The terror which the long series of ghoulish murders in Dussel-nt of the Abdul Kassim family of for the guidance of Catholics as
Madras, Jodia, and is a full-blooded
an authoritative warning against dorf has inspired throughout Germany is now spreading to other Mahommedan Indian. His people have error and immotality." Continental countries:
been entertainers for many years, and Over five thousand books are have appeared before the Maharajahs condemned, including an imposing
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A crowd in Budapest, Hungary, chased a man dressed in woman's clothes. He had spoken to a 'girl who believed him to be of various States on many occasions.driay of works which have passed a Partner in our firm...
the Dusseldorf murderer.
The longer one studies the mystery of the series of murders committed in Dusseldorf the more profound it becomes.
Since February 9, when the series of murders began with the stabbing to death of Rosa Ohliger, aged 6, the hunt for the murderer Every clue has been followed up, yet to-day, with
has gone on. Germany's greatest detectives engaged in the pursuit, we seem to be as far as ever from the capture of the criminal..
PLAN OF MURDER
used for the printing of newa papers) on one of which the vive- derer drew the plan which showed' where the body of little Gertrude Albermann, another child victim, lay, and on the other the plan which
nasts,
When Mesers. "Abel and Clairs" into te ranks "of standard English American Circus visited India many classica, such as Gibbon's "Decline years ago, the family were specially and Fall of the Roman Empire," engaged for a season with that clrcus Hallam's "Constitutional History and during their engagement, in which of England," all the works of David [" the troupe performed sa Acrobats Hume, Richardson's "Pamela," J. S. Contortionists, Jugglers and gym- Mil's Mahomet Kassay was born.
they visited Australia, where Economy," Defoe's "History of the "Principles of Political He appeared in many circuses as an Devil," Browne's "Religio Medici," bebat, Contortionlit, Tiribler, hand- and Storne's "Sentimental Journey." balancer and dummy clown.
English Prayer Book included During the Great War, Mahomet en- These condemnations, however, listed with the "Australian Imperial are all of ancient date. The latest FOICES," and became one of those modern condemnations are directed known the world over ** Digger." He served with the forces on group and against d'Annunzio, many "Alagainst the "l'Action Francaise"
The police have in their possession Hungarian teacher, is convinced active service for three and a half of whose books were prohibited in two pieces of newsprint (blank paper | that she was spoken to by the years, and during that time he success 1011, while now all his dramatic Dusseldorf murderer in the maunl-soldier concert parties, and has the works and selected prose are placed fully organised and produced many cipal park here.
A person wearing old-fashioned performances. In baras, and churches,
unique distinction of having given under a sweeping veto. women's clothes, but with a man's with only ammunition cases and books are the English "Book of Among the forbidden religious volee, and, da Fraulein Marton re- tarpaulins
as covering to act an
Common Prayer.” marked, "a man's size in shoes," stage.
Thomas 飯 showed the position of the grave of accosted her on the outskirts of the Kassim was gassed. This for a time Shorter Catechisms.
Just before the Armistico Mahomet of Wesley, and the Longer and Kempis "Imitation of Christ," some
checked his career, but later he was stands the language only slightly of the Australian Headquarters Con- names of
under able to accept a position as producer am and reform, there appear the In the field of philosophy, critic gathered that she was being asked cert party in England, which proved a
Berkeley Bergson,
Maria Hahn, the murdered servant girl whose body has bean dug up.
The first was sent to the police and the second to the office of a
newspaper.
Mising Farmhand Another clue, discovered at the white house in a green valley where Maria Hahn was seen for the last time; is also being followed.
I have already described my visit
to this place, writes the Daily Mall special correspondent, and what was told about the farm-hand whe was out, very late on that Sunday night, threw up his job next day, and vanished. His disappearance on the day after Maria Haha dis- appeared is sufficiently remarkable.
park and spoke in rapid German.
Fraulein Marton, who
to go for a walk in the park, and huge success, one of the last perform Descartes, Diderot, Grotius, Hobbes, she several times hoard the wordances being given before the Duke Montaigne, Montesquieu, Pascal "Dusseldorf."
and Duchess of Somerset She rushed in terror from the estate.
on their Prudhon, Renán, J. J. Rousseau,
"Here is the Dusseldorf murderer" Ave songs, many of which became very Human Understanding" is forbid
Savonarola, Spinoza, Comte, Taine, spot and shouted for help, crying, He is the composer in all of forty-and Voltaira! Locke's "On the People in the vicinity chased the popular in Australia. During his tour den, and so is Andrew Lang's who was soon overtaken, and the tically the whole of that continent, in-Maeterlinck. Calvin and Sweden- now rapidly retreating stranger, and other shows he has played to prac-gether with all the works of in Australia with his theatre Company "Myth, Ritual, the Religion," to- crowd began to belabour him with cluding the cities of Melbourne, Sydney, borg are down, but not Luther. sticks and umbrellas.
Brisbane, Adelaide Freemantle, Perth, Miten is penalised for a pamphlet Mahomet has appeared in Africa, in support of Cromwellian policy, England, Scotland, Wales, France, Bel- and the great historians; Gregoro At the police-station they foundium, British West Africa, Egypt, vius and Jules Michelot share the
Ceylon, Australia and Philippine fate of Gibbon. g dan ma
Kings Condemned Kings do not escape, Frederick Catholic libraries for a philosopht
Latin, and a strange sidelight on cal treatiso written at Sans Souch James I. of England is banned for three dry-looking, productions in the coming visit of conciliation be-
Eventually he was rescued by Hobart, Tasmania. the police, who had difficulty in pre- venting him from being lynched.
Dr. Kopp, an important official of that tho captive was a man named falands, and from China expects to go the Prussian Ministry of the In-Alexius Bohus, of Austrian nata India and Egypt. Ho la now ap
berior, has arrived here to confer with the police.
One point has been cleared up. On the day that Gertrude Alber- mann was murdered she and a little boy were each given two pfennigs for sweets by an elderly woman in
black, with a deep voice, who asked
them to meet her again. It was thought that this person might be a man in woman's clothes and the actual murderer.
tionality. He had been confined pearing at the Majestic Theatre, Kow-the Great is cast out of Roman In a lunatic asylum for two years, toon. Itved here with relations. but, was released, and has recently
liking for wearing women's clothes, and that he spoke to Rosa Marton mere to satisfy his curiosity con-
He told, the police that he has a
cerning the latest details of the
Dusseldorf murders.
THRILLS IN FIGHT
Madison Square Garden
In "Speakeasy
Those who never have had the thrill gained from sitting in New
tween the King of Italy and the Pope-King Victor Emanual figures on the "Index" for an extract from his "Monotheistic Alliance." Of of theological grounds, there are books condemned on moral Instead spaclied "all the love tales" of
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SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN "CHINA MAIL"
Social Functions
Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, To-day-Tea Dauces at Hong. 4.30 p.m. Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, Today Dinner Dances at Hong 8.80 p.m.
To-day-Dinner Dance at Repulse Bay Hotel, 8,30 p.m.
Jan: 10 Second annual dance of the Hong Kong Ladies' Hockey
Comrades association Dinner. Club, at Lane, Crawford's Restaur- ant, 8.45 pan...
Jan. 11--Royal Marines: Old
Entertainments Today Queen's "Speak Eday
Theatre,
To-day Star Theatre, "Slide, Kelly, Slide."
Czecho-Slovak Letter Vienna, The Bratislava police This woman came to the police. state that they have received a She proved to be an entirely inne-letter saying: "I have come to-day Been the children looking into the you will see a corpse in, the Square Garden during the progress Henri Marger, George Band, Eugene "High Steppers." cent and respectable woman who had from Dusseldorf and this evening York's world-famous. Madison Balzae. Dumas,, father and 800 Elleen of the Trees," also the
window of a confectioner's shop and had given them a farthing each from sheer kindness.
Suicide Rumour
A police official said that the tale that Gertrude' Albermann's aunt had. tried to commit suicide is untrue.
The police have received a lettor with the postmark of Neuss, a town on the other side of the Rhine, near Dusseldorf, purporting to come from the murderer. The letter atatés that a woman, whose name la given, has been murdered and is buried near Neuss,
-
Danube."
"Uncle Tom's Cabin."...
Today World. Theatre,
To-day Majestic Theatre;
of a Big boxing match, need no Sue, and Italy's "best seller," Galdo. The letter seents to have been ipurney to- that celebrated, metro written by an educated person and polls to get it. In the Fox Movie demned for "Les Miserables" and Race Club Hounds meet, Hunter's
da Verona, Victor Hugo is con
Sport is regarded as a hoax:
tone production, "Speakeasy" at "Notre Dame," and Fugazzaro for
To-morrow Fanling Hunt and the Queen's Theatre, authentic plc.The. Safat." Anatole Franca is Arms, 3,80 p.m. tures taken in the sport arena are wholly banned, together with the shown.
SERIOUS CHARGE
Five Chinese Revenue Men In Court
Meeting
Today Sanitary Board Meeting,
Through the willing co-operation works of Casanova, and Grammont's 4.15 p.m. 10 BAL Rickard, Fox of the late George L "Tex "Mempires."
Movietone privileged to make pictures during
Was
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Elephants Raid Coolie Lines
Lammerts' Auction Tomorrow At Sales Room, Dud-
den Street, Bfty bales cotton blån.
kets and three cases serge, 11 am. Jan. 9At Sales Room, Daddell Street, household and office fural-
ture, 2.30 p.m.
a boxing match which was so great GAME NEAR KLANG At the Central Magistracy ybster- an attraction that every one of the day afternoon, Mr. E. W. Hamilton 20,000 seats was filed, heard a case in which four Chinese
In this sequence. one is able to No woman of this name has been Revenus Officers were charged with see and hear the frenzied response reported missing là Dusseldorf, and demanding money by menaces, and of twenty thousand enthusiastic
Jan. 9-At Sales Room, Duddell the police are opinion that the letter with robbery at Shaukiwan on the boxing fans to the various on A herd of six elephants, compris Street, one Monet and Goyon Motor was not really written by the mur night of December 28-29,
slaughts and retreats of the ing a large "usker," three others Cycle (1929 model), 8 p.m. - derer but by some other person.
The complainant was a Chinese favourite "biffer", the raucous cry and two young ones, has raided the January 10-At 8. Granville The more sensational Berlin named Teang Kwan who lives in an of the soft drink vendor, the croak Sabang Compounding Reservoir Road, (second floor) household newspapers contain a despatch from unnumbered hut on the hillside, Heina ringside know-it-all who gives situated at the 9th mile on the furniture, 11 a,1, Dusseldorf suggesting that a new was awakened at about 2 am, by advice free to the boxers, the Bukit Rajah Road, three and a half
Miscellaneous data murder has been committed. It a knock on the door. When he thundering boom of the huge-gong miles In from the main road, fa To-day British Association states that a child's bloodstained opened it he saw four Chinese and and all of the excited oratory which side the Bukit Taharahak Forest Lecture on "The Difficulty of chemise and a child's stockings have a European. All enterod except the breaks out at gatherings of this Reserve, Klang. The raids have English by Professor Simpson, been found, and that the police are European.
A kind.
been made on thres occasions, the Cathedral Hall, 5.80 p.m. searching for the body
Trang alleged that he was hand-Lois Lane and Paul Page, lead, first on the night of November 30, Jan cuffed by second accused with hand-ing players in the production, ap the second on December T and the Officers Training Camp and Scouts 11Opening of Scout Cuffs handed to him by No. 1. Then pear in the scenes taken in Gotham third on the 3rd Instant Company Ground,
I communicated with the police,
and Criminal Counsellor. Momberg
told me with rent indignation that
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he considered somebody had been playing a wicked joke.
- The police attribut no import ance to this discovery.
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