THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 4, 1937.
LUFTHANSA PLANE SAFELY
BACK IN GERMANY
Berlin, To-day.
The German Lufthansa plane which was detained in Eastern
Turkestan several weeks ago, landed at Tempelhof Aerodrome at noon yesterday..
An immense crowd was present at the airfield to greet the fliers, who at one time during their captivity were given up for lost.
von
General Milch, Secretary State for Air, greeted Baron Gablenz, Director of Lufthansa, who had grown a beard during his captivity, and was not recognised] by his children.
Describing the return flight from China, he said that a slight defect »
> occurred in the port motor of the
Girls of the Radio Theatre, at the Exhibition at Olympia, dressed to represent the nations of the world. (Fox Copyright).
three-engined JU 52 machine, ne COUNT'S SECOND
cessitating an emergency landing] near Chotan.
FOUR WEEKS IN PRISON
"
ESCAPE ON MONT BLANC
11,000 FT. UP
Just as the plane was about to SNOW BLINDNESS AT take off again soldiers appeared and they were arrested and imprisoned} for four weeks..
Baron von Galbenz thanked the Chinese, Iranian, Iraqi and Afghan- istan authorities for making flight possible.
the
RESCUE AFTER FOUR DAYS ORDEAL
Baron de Golcz, a daring Pol- ish alpinist, was rescued on Mont Talking of the proposed new Blanc for the second time in his service to China, he said that life after hopes for him had Germany had been refused per- been abandoned. mission to use the route over the Soviet and also the long route over India
He set out to climb the 15,000 ft. summit by the perilous Red Sentienel route. He failed to re- turn.
-
They could surmount these dif- ficulties, however, and Sianfu couldį Then a rescue party discover- be made the meeting point of all ed him in the hut at the Col de la air traffic between Europe and Fourche, at a height of 11,866ft. He was suffering from snow- blindness.
Asia.
Nanking.
-NOTE TO- ITALY IN DUPLICATE
Paris, To-day.
The Anglo-French approach to Italy over Spain consisted of two identical Notes, one in English, the other in French, and were presented to the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, by the Bri- tish Ambassador and the French Charge d'Affaires in Rome.
The text may not be published for several days.-Trans-Ocean.
ITALIAN COUNT SNUBBED BY THE POPE CITY DIVIDED IN. ALLEGIANCE
LANDLORD SHUNNED BY PEASANTS
The Pope has excommunicat- ed Count Vittorio Ferraris di Celle, a wealthy landowner of Cuneo, near Turin, and the city and diocese of Cuneo is in a state of intense excitement. The
FRENCH FRANC trouble arose through a dispute
FALL CAUSES SENSATION
London, To-day.
over some land.
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After 1870 the land reverted o the family, which lost patron- age of the Canonicate. In 1934,
be-
For a considerable time before the fall of the temporal power of the Pope in 1870 the di Celle family had the patronage of a Canonicate of the cathedral, Collapse of the French frane which was richly endowed
Hand ANOTHER FLIGHT SOON The Baron is an Attache at tion in London, and the week- on Saturday produced a sensa- the Polish Consulate at Stras-end newspapers splash the story While the present disturbances bourg. The Red Sentinel route under banner headlines. continued in China, the service na-which he chose has been scaled turally could not be extended to by very few climbers. Among French. Cabinet, some quarters de virtue of the Concordat
The decisions arrived at the them is the British alpinist, Mr. F. S. Smythe, of Mount Everest clare, have not yet had effect on ween the Holy See and the Ital- ian Government, the Holy See He said the flight to China across fame.
French public opinion. the Pamirs would be undertaken
The financial correspondent of di Celle, offering him patronage began to negotiate with Count
again soon, and would ultimately
the Evening Standard" declares of the Canonicate again, but de- be the route between Germany, in
that the probability is that a new manding that the land should be the heart of Europe, and China, the When the Baron failed to re-franc crisis will arise in the next given back to the Church, Count "Central Empire" in the Far East, turn to Chamonix grave fears few days.
di Celle demanded both the land and would bind the two continents were felt for his safety on ac- The correspondent adds that in and the patronage. The negotia- closer together. Trans-Ocean.. count of the intense cold at the France the situation, both political-tions have been long and acri- higher altitudes and the factly and economically, is very un-monious, and the Count refused that he was not equipped for favourable-Trans-Ocean.
to give in. bivouacking.
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He was found by a caravan of! (Continued from Next Column) young climbers from Chamonix, tian burial.
Papal Alternative.
who set out to search for him. Many of the townspeople shun Recently the Sacred Congre
It appears that he was over-the Count. Others are determin-gation of the Council, one of the taken by thick fog and was com-ed to keep up their friendly re- departments of State of the pelled to remove his snow-glasses lations with him in spite of the Holy See, was instructed to to see his way. The result was decree of excommunication. look into the matter The Pope that he was attacked by snow-i The peasants on his land are looked through the papers and divided in their allegiance and decided that unless Count di
blindness.
He was brought back to Cham-cannot decide whether or not to Celle gave up the land he must omix and is now little the worse obey the excommunication order, be excommunicated. for his adventure. The Baroness which means refusing to speak Mgr. Rosso, the Bishop of de Golez has arrived in Chamo-to the Count. Many of them Cuneo, has now declared that nix, overjoyed to find her hus- firmly believe that terrible things the Count has been excommuni- band alive.
will happen to themselves, their cated. As a result the Count On a previous occasion the families or their livestock if may not enter the Church and Baron had a remarkable escape they even meet their landlord's the clergy may not communicate from death on Mont Blanc. He eye.
with him.
fel 200ft and lay unconscious for Count di Celle, perhaps for He may not be married in the a day and a half before he was tunately for himself, spends Church. In the event of his found
most of his time in Turin.
death he would be refused Chris