MYSTERY LETTERS MURDER IN
REICH
POLICE STILL
WITHOUT SOLUTION
SLAYER'S NOTES
STUTTGART, TO-DAY.
THE GERMAN POLICE, WHO HAVE BEEN TRYING SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER TO SOLVE ONE OF EUROPE'S STRANG- EST MURDER CASES, ARE STILL BAFFLED.
On September 18 last year the body of a young woman was found on a lonely country road near here.
Che next morning the police re-
a letter from the alleged murderer.
The letter gave details of the murder, an apology and a sum of money for flowers for the victim's funeral.^
A few days later a second letter arrived with further explanations
【拜禮念紀苦受者基!
The third annual united service of Christian witness attracted a large attendance to the open air gathering in Nathan Road during Easter, the service being conducted by the Rev. J. R. Higgs. The Bishop (the Rt. Rev. R. O. Hall) delivered an address which was translated into Chinese by Mr. Tsang Koon-kuk
Ludendorft
of the crime and an additional sum As Nazi
of money to cover the funeral ex- penses.
THIRD LETTER
Now, six months after the crime had been perpetrated, the police have received a third letter en- closing the sum of fifty reichsmarks to pay for a tombstone.
The alleged murderer wound up his astonishing behaviour by en- closing a design and inscription for the tombstone. Trans-Ocean.
WAR MINISTER GOING TO LONDON For Franco-British Association Meetings
Convert
Berlin, To-day. The reconciliation be- tween Herr Hitler and Field- Marshal Ludendorff, Ger- many's famous war-time leader, which took place at Munich on Tuesday, is com- mented upon extensively in the Nazi press.
SAIGON-PARIS FLIGHT
Pissavy And Cornet's Bid For Record
Allahabad, To-day.
NEW STAFF
EXPERT FOR
H.K. FORCES
Col. G. C. Gowlland's
Appointment
London, To-day.
Colonel G. C. Gowlland has been
The French airmen, Pissavy and Cornet, arrived here at 6.30 yester- day evening and were to resume appointed Engineer-in-Chief to the their flight to Paris at midnight if British troops in China and is as- conditions were favourable.
suming-his new appointment short- for ly-Reuter.
Attempting to set a record the Saigon-Paris flight, they flew Since 1934, Colonel Gowlland has from Saigon to Allahabad in just been Deputy Engineer-in-Chief un- over twenty-four hours.
der Major-General. H. S. Gaskell, The "Essener National Zeitung,"
The airmen set out from Paris the Engineer-in-Chief of the Army which usually voices the views of last month to fly to Tokyo In un-in India. General Hermann Goering, recalls der 100 hours but stopped at Sai-f that for years Field-Marshal Luden-gon after a very slow flight. Now dorff bore the reputations of being they are attempting to set up
Chung Pui, a coolie at the Tai- an opponent of Herr Hitler and was new Saigon-Paris
a koo Sugar refinery, was admitted record, though to the G. C. H. suffering from the considered as the main hope of that no prize is attached to the flight. effects of burns to his face when The French War Minister, M. section of German opinion which
-Reuter.
some acid fell over him. Edouard Daladier, is to visit Lon-secretly hoped for a change in re- don from April 22 to April 25. gime.
London, To-day.
M. Daladier will participate in The Field-Marshal, says the paper, the meeting of the Franco-British has now declared himself in favour Association to be held in London.- of the Nazi State. Trans-Ocean.
Swiss Newspaper Banned In Italy
Basle, To-day.
The "Frankfurter Volksblatt" em- phasises that all soldiers of Nazi Germany can now acknowledge their attachment to the Field-Marshal, since the latter has declared himself to be completely in favour of the Third Reich.
"Owing to its lying reports dis- turbing the friendly relations be- "The name of Ludendorff," says tween Italy and Switzerland" the the paper, "can never be eradicated "Neue Basler Zeitung" has been in the annals of Nazi Germany." banned in Italy.-Trans-Ocean.
Sir George Clerk's
The
Retirement
Paris, To-day.
British Ambassador
in
Another paper calls Field-Mar- shal Ludendorff's action an "historic event."- -Trans-Ocean.
CABINET TAKING
HOLIDAY
Faris, Sir George Clerk, who has Mr. Anthony Eden Back
announced his resignation from the post, is leaving Paris for the last time on Monday.—Trans- Ocean.
For Coughs
Sore Throat-Colds Bronchitis Asthma
Thoat And Chest Troubles Breathe In The Cure With
At Desk
London, To-day. The Foreign Secretary was at work again to-day at the Foreign Office after the Easter holiday.
The First Lord of Admiralty and the Minister of Labour were alsp at their desks but other Ministers are still absent from London.
The Prime Minister is not ex- [pected back in Downing Street
A
the popular antiseptic, soothing lozen- until Sunday night.-British Wire-
ges, Respiroids, They bring speedy re-less. lief. At chemists everywhere,
RESPIROIDS
The s.s. "Ranchi" left Shanghai
for this Port on the 80th instant at.
[3 p.m. and is due here to-mor
at about 6 a.m.
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