THE HONGKONG TELEGR PH. WEDNESDAY,
OF
AERODROME ACTIVITIES
Boasted of Success
with Airmen
DR.
I. Herniaan Goriz, German lawyer and war avintor, has lodged an appeal against his conviction at the Old Balley, where he was, sentenced to four years' penal norvitude for offences under tho Oficial Secreta Act, by making asketch or plan of Manston' Royal Air Force station, calculated to be of use to an onemy, and by conspiring with Marianno Emig, a German girl, to commit offences against the Official Secrets Act.
Son of a solicitor, Gortz waaj born in Lubeck 45 years ago.
Ostensibly lie was engaged in collecting material for a novel, Wien war broke out, he joined and he explained his interest in the German Army, any service in the many nerodromès he visited Enst Prussia and the Western by saying that he was proparing Front, and transferring to the an essay for publication German Air Force he became a British flying. war aviator and was awarded the Iron Cross in 1917.
An iness in that year caused him to be transferred to a flying school, and about the same time he took up the work which was eventually to lend to his undoing.
Captured Airmen
Io appears to have been allowed to trespass on British nerodromes with impunity, but it is tolerably certain that all his movements were care- fully noted by the body known as General Military Intelli- gence,
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Marianne struck up art Having passed examinations naquaintance with a young aircraft- interpreter in English and fan, Kenneth Lewis, and had French, and possessed of agree-him to tea at the bungalow. able manners, he was appointed She was a handsome and strik to the Intelligence arm of the Ing figuro in trousers or shorts,, German Air Service, his partley-and as she has herself said of her lar duty being to Interrogate air-Jatay in Broadstairs: "I think I men who were captured or crash-created a bit of a stir." ed in the Verdun aren.
"I dealt with these prisonera," he said, "as social equals and as officers, as comrades and friends.
"I invited them to lunch anten. I found there was no difficulty in getting the informatiun I required from an enemy airman Immediately after he crashed, for the ex- -citement made him talk.
In
fact, they really told me more thing I wanted to know."
At The Bungalow
Then in October Gortz paid no- other visit to Germany, and took the girl with him. He was de- tained, longer than he intended, und in detective examined his pro· perty at the bungalow,
He found coples of the doctor's applications for work in the Ger. man Intelligence service, and books and documents bearing on the British Royal Air Force, In-
an 1
He boasted that there was feluding a plan OF sketch of scarcely an aviator whom he was Marston aerodrome with unable to persuade to make more falphabetical key to the various or lexs important statements.bulldinga.
entries In a
to visita to list of film
This information be placed to- A number of gether into a complete picture. diary referred A special task illotted to him nerodromes. A was to ascertain the organisation jexposures had written underneath ,and development of the American ("firing practice."
Air Force operating from one of! A few days later-on November the fronts,
The American Air Force circulated a personal deserip- tion of him among their men ns a particularly dangerous intelligence officer."
8-Dr. Gortz was arrested when he arrived at Harwich.
Marianne Emig did not return ito England with the doctor, and had she done so would have had to join him in the dock, She is j
He asserted that the French now living with her parents in manhandled him after the Armis-IIamburg.
tice when he had to hand over Dr. Gortz also has a wife ving
an aérodrome to them.
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in Germany, and his daughter Weibke, 16 years old, lives with his parents in Lubeck,
Ils former partner in Hamburg saya that Gortz shot down lots of Allied aeroplanes during the war.
The chief impression left by the brothers His, two
netive
trial was the dispassionate way in officers in Germany, his father which I was conducted at a time in-law retired | Vice-Admirał, and his brother-in-law in the of apparently high international
German Defence Ministry.
Marianne Emig
Like so many men with spec- tacular records in the war, he
alarm.
APRIL 22, 1936.
DR. GORTZ
Dr. Herman Gortz and pretty nineteen-year-old Fraulein Marianne Emig, who was his companion on his "sketching-holi- day" in England. Miss Emig was in Hamburg when the verdict was announced.
CAST ADRIFT
AMID SHARKS
Her Only "Fling"
A woman nt Willesden Police Court said:-
"The only wrong thing 1 have done in my married ite was when I met the mair next door and we had a couple of grape-frutt squashes lo- .gether."
ODDITIES FROM THE
proved something of a practiIF ́ORLD'S NEWS PERISCOPE
e
and notary, practising in Ham-
burg. but went to the United States, where he lived fir a year and a half. He said he had to leave the United States suddenly because he refused to become an American citizen.
After three years in England,
where he was assisting in law
great proceedings involving A German Arm, he entered upon a Jaw netion of his own, beenme badly involved.
His position in Hamburg be- came desperate, and in the ap- palling condition of bis affaien his thoughts turned back to the intel- ligence service in which he hadi served his country so well during the war.
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The poems donated by Los Angeles:
ODE TO A LADY DOG.
DEVIL'S ISLANDERS RESCUED
PORT OF SPAIN
(Trinidad, West Indies),
April 10.
JAMES LIN GOES BACK TO SECOND WIFE IN CHINA
Shanghai, Apr. 10.
James K. M. Lin, nephew and adopted son of the President of China, 'whose short-lived roman-
co 'with an American five-and- ten-cent store clerk created bend. fines in both the United States and China last year, is now A Chinese government' official in western Inner Mongolia.
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Living with him is his second wife, one of two alstors whom ho married China boforo undertaking his American matrimonial venture with Viola Brown of Columbus, O..
Ja
Young Lin, who was reeniled to China by President, Lin Sen and, subs sequently divorced by his Occidental bride, in quietly performing the dulica of a secretary in the Sulyunn pro vinelal government. fo is also English secretary to the provincial Governor, Gen. Fu Teo-y. He told friends that he wanted to forget the past and to concentrate on patrie- tle service.
The youth, who was a student at Ohio State University at the time of.
his much-publicized marringe in America, is said to have been dismis sed from Lin Sen's family as a result. The President, being childless, had adopted his
ted his nephew as his legal help. with old Chinese cus-
In
in accordance with tom. Young Lin after his dismissal obtained the Govorentent post ta attempted to conceal his Suiyuen. identity, but was easily recognized by former associates and others who lind een his photograph in the Chinese
Kowspapers.
The former collegian is reportedly bitter against American newspapera whom he accuses of having exploited This private nilairs merely because he. was the adopted son of China's pre- sident.--United Press,
New Power Ray Invented In N. Zealand
FOR
Auckland, Apr. 18.
OR nearly nino months armed police and sol diers have been guarding Victor Penny, en Auckland invantor, who is believed to bo experimenting with an invisible ray of vital import ance for defence purposes., Nine months ago Penny's. home convicts, set adrift from Port in Takapuna was closely guarded by of Spain in an open boat amid police. Penny was a garage at- shoals of sharks, cheated their tendant, who, on the night of June 10, was unsalted while on duty, st captors, to-day.
Was a garage. He
removed to
not return home.
FIVE escaped Devil's Island
The men, who fled Devil's
Island and landed in Trinidad hospital, and, when discharged, did in October, were due to be de-
ported-as-escaped-convicts.--
That meant being towed out to sea in an open boat and left to drift.
Taken To Island
It is believed that Penny hopes to be able to prove to Defence authori ties that ho can transmit a powerful electrle current, perhaps in the forme of an invisible ray, without wires, to stop men and aeroplanes in fight, and paralyse transport.
tance.
SPRING IS THIS WEEK'S KEYNOTE
Saved By Police San Francisco, Apr. 20.
But their flight from Devil's Oddities, as revealed through the News Periscope, indicate Island, when they roamed the seas that Spring has arrived, poetry, youthful enthusiasm, and all.
for twenty days beneath a scorch-
Experiments are said to have been Keeping his wives from meeting ing sun, had taught them to fear partly successful over a short dis- ench other, he said, taxed his in- life on the waves as much as death
Penny was taken to Somos Island genuity so much that he just couldn't at the mouths of hungry sharks.
in great secrecy aboard a Government A motor-Inunch towed them steamer. Four soldiers out. As the tow rope was cast guard with loaded rifles.
The guard had orders not to allow Mrs. Minnette Kirk, Chiengo plano
off they purposely damaged. tenchor, fomilly xhibits
their craft and shouted for help.nyone within speaking distance of n pigeon
Penny unless a written permission which recently flew into her apart- The police in the motor-launch, could be produced. lunchment nud perched on the piano while taking pity, rushed to save them as she played. When she finished, she the boat Bank and brought them So put the bird out but it has returned back to port.
daily since then and pecks at the window.until let in.
G. F. Mcken waris to hire a wet and time to have any fun at all.
VIETAS.
To help und his Scotty, her
supply is so scarec—
She had 12 papa in a bunch, And only eight places for But she took 'em in relays,
what's all the Jurse?
POETIC JUSTICE.
Ornie Albert Orendine
Didn't have to pay a fine,„ For climbing on his roof.
The stuff that made him frisky He said, was "Squirrel tullaky,”
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And Chicago also sponsors this:
Five thousand fish were returned to their natural element recently in the
| Windy City, when a fisheries scow
Trinidad is a British posses
waro on
It an intruder falled to reply when challenged, the guard was to shoot.
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CAPS THEM ALL!
RAFAEL SABATINI'S
romance
The amarnig adventures of the valant rogue who
Stormed a king's armada to was a woman's kissį
Cities razed, ships blasted, 1000's risking their lives to make every astounding scene authentic!
BY ACTUAL COUNT, A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF ADVÈN- TURE PACKED BY WARNER BROS. INTO -
CAPTAIN BLOO
"Mulltude of slave including`.
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GRAND OPENING
Other extraordinary precautions TO-MORROW
were taken. A wire enclosure slon. There has recently been circled the buildings in which Penny an agitation in the island to end worked and slept, with a soldier sleep the deportation of escaped con- ing in the same room. victs by setting them adrift.
sprang a leak and sank in the Chicago Big Land Deal-41⁄2in.j
river. Unfortunately, for the fish,
So the Judge withheld reproof.they had been smoked before they
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returned to the water.
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Last July he came to stay in England, accompanied by his charming girl secretary and com- panion, Marianne Emig, nineteen years old. His object was to con- vince the German Intelligence service that he could gather the Information which would be most- useful to them.
of the isle After a stay in Wight, they went on a tour of In Princeton, NJ. satirical students Devon and Comwall, taking turns organized as the "Veterans of Future
And a town with an Irish name, at steering Dr. Gertz's motor-cycle Wars" and issued a manifesto de McCleary, (Wash)., produces the fol- combination.
which he had manding immediate cash payment of lowing, so it must be
truc: A brought from Germany. He also
versible river, that flown uphill part
year and downhill' the re possessed a small camera, and it $1,000 bonus to potential soldiers of the
mainder, has been discovered near Association of here organisation, "The Gold Star Mothers of the Veterans rises in a spring and flows down an reported the phenomenon. The stream of Future Wars," was being formed inclined bed to a nearby lako when
Vassar,
wator is low. When rains come, the Jake rises, and flows out through the same channel that earlier fed it
was his custom to have the prints They said a chapter of a companionHere by Victor Turnquist who has just
enlarged.
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Well Watched Returning to Germany, he arjat ranged for supplies of money thabi would enable him and the girl to It wasn't so bad, declared Mrs, remain in England until the end, Edith Allen of Washington, D.C. in court, when her husband kicked her, of the year,
or burned her neck with a lighted When he entered England again cigarette, or even when he threw gin in August they moved from place in her face mal tied knots in ker to place, sometimes electing to pyjamas. But when he put salt in her stay, as in Barton Hill and Milden- bed, well, that was just too much, hall, in
Justice Alfred A. Wheat in District on of Columbia Supreme Court thought aerodrome.
They were both members of the so, too, and her divorce potition was German Flying Association, and granted.
the vicinity of
the girl was learning to be a glider And a young Viennese gentleman pilot.
has his troubles, In Vienna, Alois Stephen charged with marrying 31 girls for their dowrles, sighed with relief when he was failed:
"It's the first quiet moment I've had for years."
From September 14 to October 34, they occupied a bungalow known as Havelock, in Stanley rond, Broadstairs.
Melbourne, Apr. 18. Four and a half inches of Col. ling-street frontage kna just been sold for approximately £25 au Inch, by Mr. P. W. Tewkesbury, owner of the Oriental flutel, to Dr. Edward Ryan, who wanted the Iand for the new building to he constructed next door to the Oriental.
At present a parly wall of nine inches divides the property, half belonging to the owner on either side. Now the whole, nine inches
belongs to Dr. Ryan
Numerous lights were fitted so that no one could approach the enclosure at night without being easily ob served.
Letters Consored
To guard against night landings by unauthorised prisons, a bonfire was In readiness to be set afire, while flares and Verey light pistols were kept at hand.
Penny remained at Somes Island until December, when he was trans- ferred to another place.
It is believed the reason was that the electrical power generated by the plant on the inland was insuflicient for hia
experiments.
Penny's mother says her son's letters are all consored.
She does not know exactly where ho is, but had a letter threo weeks ago.
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