/ THE, CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1956.
ONE OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES
THE MAN WHO WATCHED
TRAINS GO CRASH!
A
T precisely 11.32 p.nl. Justerbog. 40 miles
Saturday, Sep- Berlin,
on
Vienna Express
across the railway
45 p.m.
West of
the
On that vecasion-at
Augurt
tember 13, 1931, the engine, røven conches and the regular Budapest dining-car of the Bante-Berlin the 30ft. thundered express toppled over
imbankment following In ex- vinduct plosion, By Inexplicable 16 miles muracle nobody was killed, but
100
uf passengera the ill-fated Bann WIC
bully Almost
2012
of Bia Torbagy, west of Budapest.
Suddenly there WIN 11
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yurcle Trun the blinding flash and a shit one of the derailment police
The oil for
hich-out the wrecker's tering explosion. gine was lifted bodily mio from which he had blown his charge--but nothing hav which the air before crashing 761IL
talentify him. to the bottom of the chasm, dragging with it five coaches and the sleeper.
Rescuers from
scene of
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of barefaced effrontery on the and later in Budapest for the part of the criminal himself, Bla Torbagy disaster-Matuski
put up the defence that spirit called "Leo" bud ordered him to commit the crimes to
atheism and “* combut
to the greater glory of God,"
"Leo," he said, had come him in his dreams and told him
Buda-
For un September 20, barely a week after the
crime of Blu Turbagy, official of the pest Ministry of Hallways r ceived from Sylvester Matuska, A Hungarian resident in Vienna, n claim for damages relating to facial injuries and loss of bag-
age sustament
result of The crush.
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To top this alarming rus of cranes the Austrian poli ported that two tempts on railway nearly been nude even carier the village. alarmed by the Bash Austrian soll. On December 31, and the detonation, discovered a 1930, and on January 30, 1931,
chus. indescribable From the wreckage they drew an unknown 24 multiated bolies, sight of hand them English tourista returning attempted to
Britam fron u Continentoi week holiday Scores of passengers had suffered serious injuries, many of them were manned in life.
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Planned
DUT » Was tal kantil several hours lule that prettier une ruk- way experts definitely establish- ed that the train had been the object of a deliberately plumnes ani carefully executed plot
Sixteen sticks of packed lightly into
dynamite.
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this case the claimant made the fatal mistake of assorting that he had eserpent from the second coach
the engine - 41! passengers la which Were believed 10 have been without exep-
By L. P.
DAVIS
الرويل
killed Dan" The kattom of ABZ- ch On Bar first dcasters part of the rail had been 10. moved Tast thr had been dis- covered a
few minutes before
the main was due, seier was narrowly averted.
On 10 second in ension a geed bar had been ladies to the ruth to bet on a switch This te the engine of the train was detalled, Bekily without over- turting, and the plucky driver iron tube stopped the train before more had been inshed to the ralls
barn was done, enough to blow up ten trains
All for allempis had been They also found the remain of
Suburtags or an electric cable that had been carried
days preceding public holidays. red to
charge. detonate the But again there was no trace
custa," the polier of three roon - of the mysterious wrecker
their were under 13 "again"--for sury
only Tries
Bl Governmenis prior to the disaster there
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seven weeks
Tonbury
been a
fentien) attempt
Gel the wiecker at all
They might
had never have sucrevied had it not an unbelievable piree bs for pai
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to emuinto the Bolshevist leader Trotsky by derailing dre
When trains.
the President asicca of the Budapest court bin whether ho knew that
Trotsky's Christian name
Naster)
Wus also
"Leo," jumped
excitedly up shouted: “No, I didn't--but it's true, it's mirneulous!"
Matuska and
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Also he added, he hug blown
the trains 10 draw the world's nitention to an invention of his, an invention that would render alt rail travel absolutely Mate!
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and
Both courts decided that V1+
simulating Insanity found hum gulity. In Austria, where the Anzbach crimes had enurut neither loss of life nor Injury, Matusin was sentencod In hard labour. to six years' When it way
zentenced to Budapest he was deaths
This shop was enough to draw the attentio of the police Sylvester Maluska devovered that he was in Berlla during the week the dueterhog ster:ulmen took place and away fram hes here in both dales of the active Austrian ruthway
For
Vanished
ME was returnext to Austria ta
Celmes arrested.
he was strenuous Haterice there alzste Gemed al Killie
of The Then he broke down and
everything- Confer st
They have except Jus moliveg femained a mystory to this day
Selveter Mulusk: was born 45 Jame
Clas 24, 1892, in vallager of Corlavar, on the Hun-
frontier. Kin-Yugordov father wa, a cobbler
Young Ma
tesselas
dad
F
during
beeame 0 World
War Tastamed officer's rank. He was ontoended for tavery and Eno an exellent record.
Prosperous
AFTER the car
Curn
he gave 140 touching and moved to Buda- pest where he amassed a small fotluk DY
merehan Toved Vienna, where he chubble real estate.
From Dere
lu
was then hunded back to the unga lalis, But The (rath sentence was never carried out," becouse Hungarian law says a man cannot be executed unRss carried 19211 his sentence with certain time after The stath smlener is puszed.
This, however, is not the end
story. of the Matuske
b 1945. Russiaus when the
willy Aght.on their
through Hungary to Austria, Matuska, he so many other criminais,
prison
caped vanished.
Nothing anlıl +1
wie heard
and
of him
pal (never verified) reached Europe during
the
Dear
war that he had been the Americans lo- gether with a gang of North Korean partisans Trying to blow up
a railway line Pusan. 10
To this day no railway can crash on the Continent without people asking themselves with
bated breath; "Matuska?"
At the time of his crime be with prosperous
und
happily married and had a 12-year- old daughter. There was no- thing
explain what had driven him to commit such un- erines. Yel he preendented had
months Planning them. He had even gene to the length of buying Ja stock quarry in Lower Audria just to Jest the power of dynamite!
A
וליאן
Austrium young
police hud witnessed
disaster.
who
the tall
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NEMRU'S 5-POINT SET-UP
LION AND LAMB IN NORTH AFRICA
Not long ago Rene MacColl interviewed American detective story man Raymond Chandler in the idiom of Chandler's famous “private eyes,” Philip Marlowe. Now MacColl, in Rome to investigate the weird Case of the Peeling Ceiling-said to have caused United States Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce's arsenic poisoning--calls" in Marlowe again to help him on this tough assignment: What caused Mrs Luce's bedroom ceiling to flake in the ghost-ridden Villa Taverna?
THE
T
GHOST WORE
HE sun was hot out-
side and it was oggi
again, oggi being
what the wops call today.
By RENE MacCOLL
The villa was on the Viale
L
Outside the bees buzzed and good-looking from somewhere not far off a I showered, skipped the Rossini,
vacuum cleaner whined, I coffee, and put on my dark- baroque place. well worth glance at the hand-out they'd down at the U.9. blue, double-breasted, heavy seeing. serge xuit, which cost. 45 Formal gardens driftext down guineas with purchase towards stately hedges, and the sound of high summer hovered? in the still alr,
in Savilerow.
tax
Out on the street all the Romans were wearing light but my suit tropical jobs. did not crumple like theirs did and if I remembere.f not to hurry I didn't sweat.
לת
given
Embassy.
BOOTS
know
about this place that is not in the hand-out, Mariowa?” I crossed a leg to gain time. was wearing the new dacron socks which lock over the top
I
of the calf. The one on display looked pretty good.
"The ghool," I said.
a ghost, Isn't there?"
"Thero's
His eyes became no hard as "Latin Inscriptions," it said, the bricks on the front walk. "found on the walls of the old "Go on, Marlowe," villa, and marble relies of Roman art found on the pros popularly supposed to be a "The ghost," I said evenly, she Perty were so arranged as to
enhance the appearance of the young girl. It is said that the clean villa which, as it stands today, good cardinal...."
to have been
Murlowe, we want That appears
this villa." structed in the period of the none of that Renaissance but
actually despe from 1923."
All I knew about the people was that they ware a Mrs Clare Boothe Luce, and thet wanted to hire u nice,
wouldn't drop detective who elgar ashes on her floor. mirt was easy because i never
smoke.
William Hickey
EXPORT DRIVE
THOSE
The rescue work at Bia Tor- bagy was allowed on one oc- rusion to be present during the
of
Hy Matuska recognised in the well-dressed with the scratched face and sensual mouth he had en- countered at the scene
of the Matuska
clutched the Japets
reporter's cont, of the shouting: "My luggage is lost and wallet is gone?" Just then the whimpering of child was heard from one of the smashed
With
of Pouches. "Save the children first" Maluska
Rover ashore rushed to the coach
had
#
shout
DRIVE COMMANDO
I can report
director
are
the
A face peered
con- "Pkaze,
I moved my toes round inside my shoes without any sound. “I was going to say," I went on, "that the good cardinal had no
I adjusted the dark glasses do young girls in his establishment, they would not interfere with but there were a couple of lay my vision and wondered about brothers during Consalvi's time. that. [ Look out one of the who Heed to sneak off to Rome elgars never smoke and put it to tie on a bun now and again," away again with the wrapper "Where did you
this, get sill! on. The sunshine was Marlowo?" asked Crinkle-hair. empty and the vacuum cleaner "It isn't in any release put out had stopped.
by the United States Informa tion Service
A door opened and a young Hla at me. face peered out Gallery that the raft,
eyebrows were
tho Kingsley
DS trim hedges in the garden and his told me: "There the which is ingeniously inflated by Adams
using the Land-Rover
of battery hundreds
Nell Gwynns, hair wove itself over his head u blower. will to drive
of cost Almost
any portrait
In well-dented ripples, more than £100.
period showing a woman with "But that hy #
fairish hair passes as a Neil Gwynn. And there are nearly as many Lady Hamiltons.
"It's the same
"commando" landings which Duke of Edinburgh will be making when he and the Queen cruise round the Western Isles next month are linked with the export drive.
has had a special The Duke raft built lo float his Land- when the royal
an island harbour.
prototype," I have no added the colonci idea how much they will cost when in production."
ARABIC GREETING
"Marlowe, I wasn't a question. statement.
suppose?" It
IC
was
1
We cred each other sound- with pictures lessly.
I hefted the display of midshipmen around the late
handkerchief in my outer left- eighteenth century-all Nelsons, hand breast pocket,
"Or with portraits
أي
curly
I am told it's the ceiling," the "bazaar heat" outside haired young men In open- I said, just to be saying some- and started wearing away at the yacht Britannia cannot get into Victoria Station u Grenadier necked hiris of the early thing. splintered bourds
Guards officer saluted visiting nineteenth century-all Byrons." King Feisal with his sword and spoke to him in Arabic.
bare hands.
with his
in
At his two trials fest Austria for the Anzbach crimes
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Colonel Tom Bull, of the has made the company which Duke's raft, tells me that this is the first of a new Inflatable barge craft which interests the world's military Services,
He said: " the Duke makes a success of his landings we are expecting to get orders from the Belgian Congo, Canada, U.S. and the NATO countries.
"I watched the Duke's proto- type raft being tested at Ports- mouth recently. It is 24ft. by Oft., drawn 4in, of water, anxi can carry 15 tons. One frogman can push it fully loaded, trad two people can paddle it with
We lowered it into water in Portsmouth Dockyard with the Duke's cur aband and naval ratings rowed it round to Southsea bench about in mile orway.
The man who designed 26-year-old Ken Recs, aboard. smoothly.
Was
Everything went very
*The craft is now on board the Britannia in the midabipe shelter with the Land-Rover."
The young king beamed with pleasure as he heard Major John Wendell, commanding the guard of honour, tell him-
"Haras al sharaf maujoud wa hadir lilta teesh, sayidi,'
of
Which meant: "Guard honour present and ready for your inspection, sir."
And what
all have
thase nomes in common? Glamour. You can't beat it for a long life in the history books.
MONROE ON THE 12th
MARILYN MONROE is
*x-
pected to be in two places at once on the night of August when the Monte Carlo
A Brigade of Guards spokes- 12
I didn't curl my lip because it is permanently curled. "No," the I said, "I got that from Rime public library"
Immensely old
The silence stalked us both,
I went on: "The brothers knew it was no good going of duty" together
and....
so they tock turna
"Go on," whispered Crinkle- hair.
"While one brother look time. He looked at me out of the off in the city the other brother "Perhaps it had to make it seem they were topa of his eyes.
both is," he said.
present." I waited again' and showed the other sack to make it plain 1 was wearing a matching pair.
From somewhere a long way off 1 heard a Vespa go past,
"Come in," he said abruptly, "You
must forgive me, Mr Mariowe, it seem impolite but we have lived through difficult days of late,"
Silent room
I let that ore drift with the
man told me: "We show the Sporting Club claims she will courtesy of the visitor's langu- be giving her first solo cabaret | tide. age in the case of monarcha." act
for which
3
We sat together in
A
dark,
As
"The one who stayed in the and
villa would tramp back
wiming his heavlest forth boots, stamping as hard as he eculd. That was in the room above
the bedroom rectally. occupied by Mrs Luco."
Crinkle-hair's manner. slipped
two notches, "cu mean....
"the ghosts. "Yes," I with the is they who
boots.
the disiceiged that plaster from the
thought for a time he had stopped, breathing, but at last he said in a
As the band played the Iraqi The occasion is the annual silent room os remote National Anthem and the new gala in aid of French polio strongroom, of a bank. "You ambassador's bedroom black, red, white and green ictima. Tickets are 16 guineas know the background of this Crinkle-hair aut flags rippled the tubby little a head.
place, Mr Marlowe?" But the company king walked up and down the
"Built by the Cardinal Cou ranks with dignity.
she le making "The Sleeping salvi at the end of the seven- Prinoc" with Sir Laurenco teenth Olivier at Elstree says that the
century, and do in
the
Roman shooting will already
have begun and it will be impossible for her to be away.
ALL NELL CWYNNS
THE saucy looks of Neli
Topping the bill last year was For Marilyn it is a challonge.
TGwyn in a newly-acquired pleture at the National Portrait her Gallery aro capturing the Lollobrigida. interest of visitors.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
curvaceous rival Gina
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MY BEAUTY!
Hey -HE
YEAH
YOU'RE
ALMOST
**THE
BROKE
MY SKULL
WAY
BEING PAID
HE KIT
ME
DOWN, BLASTED *VARLET!
QUCH HE**
DIDN'T HAVE
TO HIT THAT
HARD
glub "bluban,
seminary,"
I replied, That came out of the United
Maybe he wrote it, Crinkle-hair seemed to like it. States Embassy hand-out too.
His ps
sagged for a moment and then hardened. "But what do you
lly Lee Falk and Phil Davis
MEANWHILE
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I HOPE NARDA'S ALL RIGHT SHE DOESN'T KNOW
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I said,
I made a fist inside my pocket: to urova. I still could. Then I There was a sundial there and walked out into the garden.
1 timed my watch by it, My, watch was 15 minutes fast,
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