THE CHINA MAIL, "MARCH 20, 1939.
Library, Supreme Coust
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HAPPINESS AT FOR TRAGIC BRIDE
SCHUSCHNIGG'S NEW HOME
IN EXILE
London, Yesterday.
WHITE SLAVERS' "CHARITY”
UNWANTED GIRLS REARED FOR TRAFFICKERS
Marseilles, Yesterday. the home was questioned.
'She said the girls had been Daby girls, sent from England placed in good jobs. But the police
dren near Marseilles, have been
Watch was kept.
In a tiny chalet high up in the Bavarian Alps, just
below the line of perpetual snow, a woman to a home for unwanted" chil-were not satisfied. who has given up a title and a life of luxury to help the man she loves is carefully prepar- ing the home where she is to spend the rest of her life.
the victims of a white slave scandal Now the police declare that the which has shocked even the most girls have been sent to notorious housea and that the baby-farmers hardened of the chiefs of the had a contract to furnish these morals branch of the French police, places with attractive girls still in
For many years a charity with a high-sounding name, has run the home, and has advertised that
payment of any premium. adopted by the society.
She is tall, blonde, beautiful, thirty-four-years-it would take baby girls without
old Countess Vera von Fugger, the woman who has stood by her husband, Kurt von Schuschnigg, ex-Chancellor of Austria, through a year of heartbreak and misery.
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In few weeks' time Vonfused, telling him "duty to your Schuschnigg is to be released country comes before your love of from his prison in the Belvedere me.” Palace, and with the Countess, Schuschnigg stayed on to be whom he married a few days after arrested by Hitler as the "mur- the Anschluss last March, he is derer" of thirteen Nazis. to rotire to the chalet to start life afresh under another name.
Although she has been “Frau the Schuschnigg" for # year, Countess has not seen her hus- and band except at a distance, even then she only saw the top of his grey head through the iron bars of his prison window. He was not even at his own wedding. Schuschnigg married his wife, by proxy, his brother Arthur tak- ing the bridegroom's place at the altar,
Countess
: NAZI "HUMOUR” At her wedding the carried a bunch of red roses and after the ceremony she took them herself to Government agents and personally asked that they should be delivered to her husband.
But with typical Nazi “humour,” the roses were not delivered until they had faded. The Countess's loving message had been removed and another substituted, saying: "As these roses have faded, will her beauty before you her."
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children, the
The mother of four divorced from her husband, Countess met Schuschnigg in 1936, a year after he had lost his wife in a tragic motor accident which he suspected was deliber- ately caused by the Nazis..
Heartbroken by the tragedy, Von Schuschanigg practically re- tired from public life to spend his time with his twelve-years-old motherless son)
DUTY FIRST
Then one day he unwillingly consented to attend a reception given by a member of his Cabinet. Instantly he was attracted by a tall, and lovely woman who seem- ed, to sense in trouble and inme-
his son. ately inquired abou
hußühnigk – found 1 Tove with the
son" "callėd
mself
In 1997 be Would have retired from his position as Chancellor to marry the Countess but she re-
their teens.
Some of the girls were sent to England with the aid of faked passports. Others were shipped to
South America. But the majority Hundreds of children have been were sent to houses of ill-fame in
France and Belgium.
Most of them were the unwant- ed babies of foreigners living in France. But others came from Bri- tain, Belgium and Italy. VANISHED
A few months ago the police dis- covered that when they reached the age of fifteen these adopted girls vanished.
A gang of more than a dozen men and women are said to have run the home. The majority were Italians, but the matron is said to be an English-woman,
Ten arrests have already been warrants have been made, and issued for the others, who are said to have fled to England.~Our Own
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