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"The scoundrel must dio
at once," said von Hoet- zendorf.
The
"Honey, dancing with these Ivans is O.K.—but calling me ‘Comrade' is out.”
THE FIELD-MARSHAL SAID:
'GO and SHOOT YOURSELF
the letters were being called
For
They dashed out-Just in timo lo sex an individual leave the post ofßee and enter a taxi. By Time they reached the street the too had vanished-but not dead before they could take its
the number. down
HE four men carry
ing 1 plain collin
T
DIPOW Viennie's
backstairs
The two detectives were in a sundary. fashionable found the
By the time they tax their quarry Hotel Klemser in the early would have vanished. And it moting hours of May 25, was extremely unlikely that he 1913, had no iden of the would drive to his real address.
On the other hand failure to
identity of its suicidal oc catch their man would probably cupant. Nor, but for all neat dismissal fron the ser- nccident, would the public vive.
have ever been informed Just as they were debating that it was no less a per their next step they had another
of luck. Th than Colonel Alfred credible stroke Reill, Army Chief-of-Staff wanted taxi came cruising round
8011
of
the Imperial Austro- passenger Hungarian APDAY.
Whatever his Fruits, Colond Red was at least an obedient soldier- he had committed suicide by order
the corner It had dropped its In the nearby Cafe Kaiserhof and had returned to pick up another fare.
of his Commander-in-Chief, THE two detectives jumped in
Field-Marshal Cobrasl You
and told the driver to drive back to the Kaiserhot as fast as
driver: Herrengasse,
OR the
"Ibog to be granted the loan of a revolver," said
the Colonel,
6 .11. next day that these orders had been carried out.
He appointed a commission of four high-ranking officers to Hoetzendorf. And von Hoete could. Inside the taxi, wedged from Red how much
carry out his orders: to find out he had zendorf hund every reason~ between body and soul,
they betrayed, what had induced from his point of view to found a small Krey leather him to betray his country, sentence Brd to death by pocket-knife ense.
ensure tha! Red! committed his own hand, for he WAM At the Kaiserhof their luck stucide and to report to him by trying to hush up a scandal held. A literer told them he that was bound to bring had seen the man take another taxi after dismissing the first, shame and dishonour on the What is more he had overheard The commission of four found in his hotel room, whole imperial Austro- the address given to the second Red back Hungarian General Staff,
Hotel Klemser, in the writing letters. As they entered The room Redl, pale and shaken, got up.
"I know why you have
he said, detectives rushed called,"
"I am just again-hot on the trail. At the writing farewell letters." -- hotel they interviewed the
"Yeti. REDL. the porter.
two gentlemen, travellers from Bulgaria, had trusted Chief-of-Staff of just arrived by taxi, A gentle- the important army In man on his own? Let me sce Prague, a man who know Only, a quarter of an hour all the secrets of the Im- ago. Colonel Red!, Army Chief-
of-Stait from Prague." perial Order of the Battle, the officer who had helped to work out the plan of at tack in case of war with Russia, had been unmasked as a Russian spy.
COLONEL
Colonel Red!! Ridiculous,
One of thought the detectives. them pushed the pocket-knife case found in the taxi over to the porter. "Has one of your guests lost this?"
Just then
distinguished-
Van Hoelzendorf had known looking man came slowly down for some time that the Ris the stairs, As ho passed tho clans had got hold of several of reception desk the porter ask- his best-guarded secrets. What ed: Excuse me, Colonel Real, ever their sources they were no have you lost this?"
ordinary ones,
common spies
have gained
material known
None of their could
possibly
acccsa to
ONE OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST
STORIES
By L. P. DAVIS
He denied having accomplices son of the prison, governor
and accused
the Russian Mill- tary Attache in Vienna of having blackmailed him into betraying his country's secrets,
of his
Lemberg. · Hà had made way purely by merit without inherited riches,
And how was the secret of "Have you a revolver, Herr Redi's death' broken, despite Red?" meinber of the com- von Hoetzendorf's elaborate mission asked, Red replied: "I precautions keep it from the beg to be granted the loan of public? une. Whereupon one of
It was
the
Up
Your officers hurried to his home Simply because the left full- nearby and fetched a Service back of a Prague Third Division
jald -pistol,
on Redi's specer team failed to turn desk. his four inquisitors about- for an important match'in Sun- turned smartly and left him to day. May 25, 1913, his fate.
on the floor. Von Haetzendorf's order had been obeyed.
AL 1 Am. the next day..! Redi was found dead on the
duch of his room. A bullet had it team lost and the club'e shattered his skill, a pistol lay secretary, a young reporter named Egon Erwin Risch, was furious. But when Wagner, the Redt left a string of pedigree missing full-back, turned up at his office the following horse, two motor-cars, a valu- morning to apologise Kisch com able library, an expensive cul- lately forgot his angos
What lection of arms and a load of Wagner had to tell him
WOS debis, He had been lying far nothing less than a world scoop. above his means, spending the thing young reportere dream fortune on amorous adventures, at but rarely realise, It was one of these that had forced him to collect the tell- Wagner, a lockgrath, tale letters from Eydtkuhnen been called to the barracks# he had promised a friend a early that morning by the mill- molor-car but lacked the ready tary authorities and ordered to cash to keep his promise.
break open every lock in quarters of a high-ranking officer. Papers and documenta had been taken away, the officers conducting the search had been heard to say: "Terrible, terrible)"
Incod, this th the one mystery of the Red case that has aeyor been solved: how was it that Redl's conspicuously high stane dard of living had gone 131 noticed?
haud
the
The news of Colonel Redl's suicide had reached Prague that Kisch put two and morning.
3909 two together and the cat out of the bag ...
(COPYRIGHT)
In the brotherhood of the General Staff it was well known that he was one of the few to have
humblo come from a family-he was born in 1860 8
1
DRUGS ON THE RAMPAGE
IN JOHANNESBURG
By JOHN IVEY
Johannesburg, cised by the authorities, VERY day and night in these dangerous medicines
capital of the world's gold chemist's counter almost as mining industry, thousands easily as a tube of tooth- then of weathy men and woman paste.
are regularly taking drugs,
the
He
In every civilised country
1T9.
ctura
"Hangovers" (Johannesburg residents are great party-goers)
2. Ta induce sleep (Tho tempo DE life in Ant bustling, acryo-mcking city imposes exceptional mental and the physical ins average person).
The man
paused, the stretched out a hand for
of leather, Why More bluntly nearly a to have been little strip betrayed to the potential enemy yes," he said. "Wherever did In the East. In desperation and I As he interrupted him third of the city's wealthier in the world, except South An overdose of drugs is also with little hope of success, von self he went deadly pale. inhabitants are drug addicts, Africa, the most stringent the most commonly pies method Hootzendorf resorted to a wea- remembered where he had last
lawa-are enforced to con here of committing, valmis, o pon that had first been intro- used his knife in the taxi cut- The above staggering fact trol the sale and supply of which there are as many as BIG duced by the Infamous Chan- ting open the envelopes, cellor Matternich secret postal Putting up a brave face, Real has just been revealed by barbiturates. The laws exist cases a year among the country's
population censorship,
an inquiry following a state in South Africa too but day white pocketed the case and left the
One of the detectives ment by the Minister of they are ignored. Early in the spring of 1013 It followed him, the other rushed Health on what he des was reported to him that two to a telephone.
hotel.
cribed as "the shocking Although the drugs are suspicious letters had been Field-Marshal von Hipatzen-
about sold only on a medical opened at Vienna's General Post dorf was at a parly when the irrefutable truth" Office.
For drug-taking in this country, prescription, the patient in Both were postmarked news was broken to him. Bydikuhnen, a small East Prus- several minutes he was unable
often allowed to keep the alon town on the German to take it in. He remembered
prescription and present it Russian frontier, and were for chige of staff, clip appointed
for future Indefinitely dressed "Poste Res
Restante-Ball Chief-of-Staff,
been
WORST ADDICTS
South Africans are the supplies.
"at the Opera 13.", One contained head of the Austrian Ayinye in- 8,000 Austrian crowns in coal, telligence and counter-espionage the other 0,100 grown. There departments, and as such had heaviest drug-takers in the
Two conducted dozens of spy.driais,
were na covering letters. detectives of the Secret State Police were detailed, to keep a watch at the G.PO,, and to ar- rest whoever claimed the letters.
Wocks and month passed while, the detective twiddled that thumb,inally on the
ITH visihip
Hoelzendorf The
of the
Western world, it was re-
And there leg what My vealed by the Minister, Mr Nande, describes, ask the JR Naude and the worst threatening danger to Sout a”. Ed. Although the addicts are the wealthy)
sidents of Johannesbu
The druga
arn the barbi
forming
soporifs:
2,500,000.
WOMEN BUY: "MOST
Of the dangerous" Kirugs bought at chemie, it has been town that women are the main purchasers.
Anh
In his Wusriand about a drug-
thức ninh bi admitted that the laws “cons oot do malo, adequate pro- Infor, counterinä) the 'edili
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