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Berlin, Apr. 11. Otto Braun, a leading German Communist, escaped from prison here to-day in circumstances which will bear comparison with the most nudnelous and romantic story of prison escapes in the history of
fiction.
SATURDAY," MAY 12, 1928.
GERMANY'S AID
SERVICES IN 1928.
CENTRE OF NETWORK OF
AIR LINES.
REMARKABLE “FAITH CURE" SCENES.
PEOPLE QUEUE FÖR EIGHT HOURS.
Amid fervent shouts of "Halle-
Germany's great importance in connexion with the European air traille is due to her geographical lujah" "Glory be to God," and situation which has made her the "Praiso His Name," 1,000 converta natural centre of an extensive net-to the Elim Four Square Gospel work of air lines throughout the Alllauco were one by one plunged Continent. In order to make this below the surface in a huge tank network as comprehensive as poof water in the Albert Hall re- The authors of his release were sible, a large number of services seven young Communists, armed to have been established in the coun-cently. the teeth, who, in pursuance of a try, and agreements concluded with well-laid plot, passed into the build-other European countries for the ing unnoticed: broke into a room to purpose of connecting the German great whirlwind revivalist cam- which their friend had been con- system with the air Hines maintain-paign throughout the country by
"Principal" George Jeffreys. ducted from his cell to. talk to his ed abroad. fiancee; overpowered his guards, and vanished with their fugitive and his fiancee before the exils I could be closed. It was all over. in
a space of seconds.
This was the culmination of a
The
International air services radiate
He and his colleagues claim from Germany in every direction. London and Paris can be reached hundreds of "faith cures." from Berlin by a single day's flight. Arst to be baptised was Miss F In December 1927 the German and Munday, of Southampton. She Spanish governments concluded an The ringleader of this astound agreement by which the establish- was stated to have been, bed-ridden ing adventure is a former chief ment of a service from Berlin to for 14 years with tuberculosis, of the Communist News Service, Madrid was definitely decided upon. which shortened one leg by 4% an ardent adherent of "direct ac- It was, Indeed, started in January inches. After the "laying-on of tion" as a means to political ends. this year. It covers a distance of hands" she claimed to have been In 1921 Otto Brann staged a bogus over 1,300 miles which will be police search at the house of Colonel
traversed during the summer immediately cured. Freyburg, a Russian Monarchist, months in two days, the night be and decamped with every document tween them being spent at Geneva.
As people came forward for in the place on which he could lay Air services connecting Germany baptism Mr. Jeffreys introduced hants. That cost him
agven with Austria and Switzerland have them. A man who had been com- months' imprisonment.
now been in existence for a con-pletely paralysed for many years, His next experiment in direct siderable time.
a woman se twisted and crippled action was two years ago, when The possibilities of transalpine that her head almost touched her the police discovered that the Com-flights between Munich and Milan knees, both now without a truce munists were holding "military have been investigated, big inn- ) of the complaints from which they course" under his direction. On chines being used for the purpose. are said to have suffered-these his arrest documents were found it is intended to establish a cargo were merely Expical of dozens bap- in his possession describing plans service for the present only, and to tised. for the execution of "putsches have this supplemented by a passen- and containing instructions as to methods of undermining loyalty in The-Army, Navy, -and-Givil-Service
Expansion.
ger service when experience will The specially-constructed gal- have been gathered in respect of vanlaed iron tank was covered with the peculiar nature-of-flights-across-imitation-grass-and-surrounded mountainous country,
with growing roses, afum lies, "Lovers' Interviews."
palms, and other plants. It was For the last twelve months he
filled with water, and by means of has beef in prisou on a change of
The year 1928 will not only wit-an inflow and an outfall represen- high treason, and was shortly to nessa considerable expansion of ted the flowing of the River Jor- have been transferred to Leipalg the air traffic radiating from Gerdan. The water was juke-warm, to stand his trial early next month. many, but it will also be interest- Among other alleged accomplicesing on account of various technical Waist Deep in Water.
under "contem- who were at the same time arrested innovations now
"Principal" Jeffreys stood waist- on a charge of complicity, and are plation. Mention should be made awaiting their trial, was the nine- of the so-called non-stop services deep in the tank. The candidates teen-year-old Olga Bernario, (comparable to non-stop train ser- walked one by one down the steps Braun's fiancee, who is the daughter vices over long distances) which into the water, and were plunged of a Munich barrister and a zealous will dispense with intermediate below the surface. The women believer in Communism. She, landings altogether. It has been wore white dresses and the men. however, was released, and has ever decided to inaugurate non-stop white shirts and trousers. since made a practice of applying lines this summer from Berlin to
All were smiling happily as every fortnight for an interview Cologne (four hours), Vienna with her fiance in prison,
(four hours), Zurich (five hours) they descended into the tank; some These interviews Invariably took and Copenhagen ( three hours and some were singing, and
waved their hands to the congrega- place in the presence of police of a half), ficials in the ante-room to the
Another innovation will be the tion of 10,000 who shouted forvent Examining Judge's Court at the cargo lines served by machines ex-ly all the time. There was no self- anywhere. That Central Criminal Court in Berlin, clusively designed for goods tran-consciousness which is connected by a tunnel sport. Such services are now in the people had been convinced by between Berlin and this young pastor there was по with the underground cell where existence the prisoner was lodged. The build- Amsterdam London, between Ber- doubt, ing is supplied with an elaborate in and Paris, and between a num
Every member of his vast au-1 system of alarms and other ebber of German cities. stacles to the escape of prisoners
One of the most urgent demands dience was spellbound through- his address, and when tomporarily removed from their in connexion with the future de-out calls to the Examining Judge's velopment of flying in that for he had finished explaining the! quarters.
night services, and such services symbolism of baptism no fewer than 3 people came forward de- Olga's interviews with Otto will be increased in number. Braun had always appeared to the So long as passengers are commanding to be "saved." police officials thoroughly harmless pelled to break their journeys at "I wonder," Mr. Jeffreys said, conversations between lovers, and night, without being able to con- "that men are not being saved in when yesterday she applied for antinue their flights without delay, interview, this morning her request they lose the gain achieved during thousands when they ace cripples
the day.
made whole, when they see vicious was readily granted.
growths withering away, when eyes that cannot see and care that are deaf are opened."
Only One Captured.
At nine o'clock she entered the anterbom where the prisoner and a police sergeant were awaiting her She had handed her fianco a bundle of oranges, wrapped up in the Com- munist Rote Fakne and conversed quietly for about five minutes, when seven well-dressed youths burst in, each wielding a revolver.
More than 100,000 persons were carried by air in Germany during only. The machines employed by 1927, counting the regular services the Deutsche Lufthansa covered a distance of nearly 6,000,000 miles during the same time. The cargo, luggage and newpapers conveyed by air had a weight of 2,000 tons.
His voice was carried to every loud speakers. Specially arranged part of the great hall by means of flood-lights and limelights directed on the tank while the baptisma were taking place.
wero
There were queues outside the
They called "Hands up" to the WILLIAM THE PIRATE: Albert Hall eight hours before the
sergeant, then pinned him to the ground. The senior clerk to the Court, hearing the scuffle from the neighbouring room, at once ap- peared at the door and asked the intruders, "What doen 'Hands up' mean here?" Before he could re-
cover from his astonishment, he was pushed into a corner by one or two of the men and given a blow on the head with a pistol.
In an instant Otto, Olgn and the
A BOLD BAD BOY AT THE SEASIDE,
The alleged wanderings and piratical exploits of William James Taylor, aged 14, occupied the at- tention of the Tottenham magis- trate recently.
William was before the court
In
charged with stealing £10 in Trea- seven intrudera dived out of the room, the sergeant blew his alarmsury notes from his father. whistle and the whole building rewandered into Hertforshire on two February, it was said, William sounded with a shrill orchestra of
occnsions and recently his countless whistles, the banging of
father found the home safe, a lock- doors and a tumultuous hue and cry up and down, the corridors, ed drawer, had been forced and
William had gone again. One only of the raiders was trapped in the building and sur rendered without a struggle. By a fraction of a second the remainder had escaped through the main door and were already hurrying to their freedom in a couple of motor-cara Not a trace has been scan of them since, and the captured in-
He bought an air gun, armed truder stubbornly refuses any in- with which he went to the water's formation about his accomplices, edge and, so it was alleged, began The police meanwhile have now to attack watermen. The police learned at their leisure that love said ho fired pellets from the air was not the only molive for Olga's gun at the seamen, and one shot
visits to Otio: ·
only had 10 £1 Treasury notes dis Investigation proved that not
changed into his best clothes and appeared but that William also had had taken away a change of un- derclothes. He was found days later at Great Yarmouth, a bold bad pirate. "
This is the second comic success shooting brought the police on the caught a salt under the eye. The that Communists, charged with high treason have scored in the last scene, and so, William Taylor, re- fortnight against the Berlin police, ported as missing from Tottenham, who are still smarting under their was discovered. All he had was fallure to capture the six Com 188, 920. He said he had spent munist Deputies long wanted for the remainder on amusements. treason and now deprived of their The magistrate was told that an immunity from arrest by the dis- effort had been made to get the boy. solution of the Lelchatng. They in a training ship, but he was un have not been seen or heard of inch too small In the chest, aince the night just before the dis- The magistrate said they did not solution, when the Communists want thieves on board ship. threw inkpots and spittoons about "Fractious boys, yes; they have a the Reichstag because of their way of dealing with fractioun boys,“ failure to secure an amnesty for he added.
| treasonable "comrades.
Tho led was remanded.
meeting started, and many hun- dreds who had hoped to secure admission without tickets turned away.
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