THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 9, 1939.
BUCHAREST
EXPLOSION
Terrorist Bomb Making Plant In Apartment House
Two Organisers Victims
Bucharest, To-day.
A mysterious explosion, which occurred in a Bucharest suburb on Saturday night is believed to be in connection with the illegal activities of the "Iron Guard.”
The Sunday papers were not allowed to report on the incident. The explosion completely des- troyed a small apartment house.
Two young men had rented the apartment only two weeks ago. One of them, a 30-years-old engin- eer named Dumitrescu was seriously wounded
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and died before he could be examined.
The other, apparently also in-the laboratory themselves in view jured, managed to escape.
of the failure of their plans but could not get to safety in time.-
It is learned that parts of bombs were found among the debris of Trans-Ocean. the house indicating that the apart- ment was actually the secret la- boratory of a terrorist group of the
Iron Guard whose
Mr. K. C. Hamilton, winner of one of the K.F.C. bowls competitions, receiving his trophy from Mrs. Man ners at the club on New Year's Day.
leader Codreanu BROTHER REPORTS RATTLESNAKES IN
was shot some time ago.
Omcial quarters point out in this SISTER TO POLICE LONDON ZOO WOULD
connection that the police had learned of several bombing at- tempts planned recently which however had all been prevented by vigilance of authorities.
Official quarters surmise that the two terrorists possibly blew up
HUSBAND IS SNOB SAYS PEER'S SISTER
Miami.
Vienna, December 17.
highly-respected Nazi in Graz, has An 18-year-old girl, sister of a
prisonment on a general charge of been sentenced to nine months' im- slander, following a report made to the police by her brother,
After the annexation of Austria in March, the girl, known as Greta, was sent to Central Germany to take up an excellent post in a fac- tory producing war materials. She became friendly with a 23-year-old worker, named Gustav, in the same factory.
They went to many dance halls and took part in night life. This Mrs. Calypso Liddell, society work.
gave Greta a distaste for regular beauty and sister of Lord Reve! Graz, and to explain her arrival She suddenly returned to stoke, accused her husband of be- told her brother that she and ing "an unmitigated snob," and Gustav had made photographs at filed at Miami a plea that their the factory in which they worked four children should be left in her and betrayed State secrets. care to be "properly and demo- cratically educated" in the Unit- ed States.
SOLVE THAT PRESENT PROBLEM
W
There was a Curator who lived; Trans-Atlantic generosity they've
in the Zoo;
been and gone and sent us 104.”
These rattlesnakes at birth only have one segment of rattle on their
He had so many rattlesnakes he didn't know what to do. This curator is Mr. E. G. Boulen-tails. ger, curator of reptiles at the Lon- don Zoo, who announces that rattle-extra segment
"It is not true that they get an snakes may now be purchased on Mr. Boulenger, "nor that they get every year,” said highly advantageous terms, writes one every time they bite a person, a reporter.
as some Red Indians say.
He would not quote. price, but "Actually they get a new seg- he assured me that rattlesnakes are ment every time they slough their positively a dead snip. In fact, skins, which happens three or four they are an obvious solution to the times a year. high degree the unusual with the present problem, combining in a useful.
TOOK HIS WORD "But as they often lose some of small rodents, they will keep the can't
Since their favourite diet is the old segments by friction, you even approximately tell a mice down, as well as amuse the rattlesnake's age by counting the
segments in its rattle."
"GENEROSITY"
The brother, after a night of baby. great mental distress, notified the The plea is an answer to a ha- rogated. As a result Gustav, in batch all prairie rattlesnakes Graz police, and Greta was inter- The Zoo has 104 of them, in one beas corpus action by which her Central Germany, was arrested and from the Northern part of the husband, Captain Guy Maynard suffered a great deal until he was United States. They are a present Liddell, a kinsman of Lord Rav-brought to Graz. There he ensworth, is seeking custody of confronted with Greta, who broke
was from the Philadelphia Zoo. the children.
"We asked them to send us a down and confessed that her story few rattlesnakes," said Mr, Boulen- was concocted.
ger, "and with characteristic
Mrs. Liddell, who ís grand- daughter of the late Pierre Lor- illard, U.S. tobacco multi-million- aire, said of her husband:
"He is firmly convinged that all people are born unequal, and that certain people must, by virtue of their birth, be educat- ed to expect preferential treat- ment in the enjoyment of good things of life.
'Our Differences'
the
Son Says 'I Fixed Father's Suicide'
While
bespectacled, matronly parations for his father, who was Mrs. Marie Burckhalter faced a "no good." New York court on the bizarre "Differences of opinion between charge of aiding and abetting her his father was dead and did not He declared that he was glad my husband and myself regard-husband, Eugene, ing American traditions, stand-suicide, her 20-year-old son Donald matter.
to commit want his mother mixed up in the ards of living, and methods of claimed that he also had, taken part. education have been constantly in the suicido preparations. matter of acrimony and dispute."|
-"He was insufferable, and a moat egotistical man,” Donald said. "He used to get crazy drunk and his 'she
Mrs. Liddell, who is thirty- Mrs. Burckhalter said that three, arrived in the United fixed a hose to a car. exhaust pipe States in July 1985, and was de-so that her husband could inhale tained by immigration officials in carbon monoxide comfortably, gave New York,
him a cocktail of eggnog, tucked Then the children--a boy now him up with newspapers, took á aged eleven, and three girls, aged snapshot of him, and then went ten, eight, and seven-were al-shopping while he slowly killed
lowed in as "temporary visi-himself.
business went to pieces.
killed himself. I just helped to fix "I wanted to kill him, but he
fault. He made life hell." things for him. It wasn't mother's
Most of the new arrivals seem to between two and three feet long. have five or six segments, and are They are adult at the age of three years, but go on growing all their
lives, only so slowly that they are never much more than a yard long. I had to take Mr. Boulenger's. word for the number.
They are all in one biggish glass- fronted compartment in the Reptile House, and I soon gave up trying to count them for various groups. of a dozen or 20 or perhaps 30 had tied themselves into a series of communal. knots.
FOUND NEAR NEW YORK Sometimes you could spot six or bunch, like radishes. seven heads all in one tight little.
come from.
"These rattlesnakes the Northern States, from a clim- they hibernate during the winter,” ate quite as cold as our own, and Mr. Boulenger told me.
"They can be found quite close to New York, actually within sight of the skyscrapers 20 miles away.
"They are vipers, of course, and their bide is very nasty, though not quite so bad as that of the Indian vipers.
Meanwhile the police hint that there may be a more serious charge "Their venom can be used in the against Mrs. Burckhalter. After treatment of haemophilia, and I "tors," while Mrs. Liddell
But Donald said that this was describe the whole story of her as the venom of Russell's viper, examining the eggnog glass, they believe that it is nearly as effective admitted as a "quota immi- not so, and insisted that he fixed actions grant."
the hose and made the suicide pre-1 picious.
as being gravely sus which is supposed to be the best.
was
of all.