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5 New Giant 'Planes for German-U. S. Ocean Service
Berlin, July 25.
FIVE giant four-engined sea-
planes capable of carrying. 1.250. of mail and freight, and 'having a minimum cruising range of 3,100 miles, are being built for the North Atlantic air service which the German line, Deutsche Luft. Hansa, hopes to start in co-operation with un American line next year.
He said that negotiations tak- ing place between the German -Government and Deutsche Luft Ifansen on the one hand, and the British Government and Imperial Airways on the other, will deter. mine the Anal detafla of the route to be taken,
will be made from Lisbon.
Nex!
This September the first trial fight year when the regular weekly service starts both ways, letters posted in bouton will be delivered in New York nee days later.
"For the first two, or perhaps thress, Lisbon will be the base at this sid-year sald Captain von Baden- Brock, "we shall not aim at a sprvler, bat that will
of the 3,000 miles route via the passenger Azores and fit is expected; Bermuda Leone, to New York. The Journey from Frankfort to Lision will be made by ordinary and acroplanes,
von
These facts were revealed to- rlay
Baron Friedrich by Buddenbrock, the mati who orygidsed successfully the first South Atlantic Germani
air service, and who is making plans for the new crossings will characteristic German thorough- ness.
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TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1936.
Of The
JOSEPH
Still UNSOLVED
Has She Joined Tragic Band Of Lost Ships? SAILED INTO PACIFIC, THEN SILENCE
HA
AS the Joseph Conrad, last full-rigged sailing ship under British colours, joined the tragic band of lost ships? Many remember seeing her graceful lines, her bold bowsprit and symmetrical array of spars swaying over the still waters in the Singapore Roads' almost exact- ly a year ago.
She has since sailed across the East Indian scas, touched Brisbane and Sydney and called a temporary halt at Melbourne the home of her famous author-captain, Mr. Alan J. Villiers, who was to have taken her round the world with the avowed intention of "following the route of the explorers.” LAND, SEA AND AIR SEARCHES
n
course for the open sea, it was so
CONRAD
His Plot Failed
J. A. Snyder, 76, held in Los Angeles on charges of writing ex.ortion notes to Mrs. Betty Rogers, widow of Will Rogers. He demanded cash under threat of "exposing the past" of Will Rogers.
IN March this year the Joseph
Conrad slipped out of her calm that the island did not vanish master's home port with sails set from aight; the other cadets swore for a secret destination. I was that a curse lay on the vessel, and rumoured that on, or near, some "Stormatong's" life was a misery Pacific Island there was gold to be
until the calm finally broke, found in large quantities, and
IPSWICH LAST. PORT company was formed with Mr.
Hia participation in Villiers as a director, to send his mysterious treasure quest in the fine old ahip in quest of the tren-Pacific was entirely unexpected,
All his cadets hold contracta for A ROARING TRADE a world-girdling cruise on sälls; Ipswich, in England, was their last port,
sure.
The Joseph Conrad sailed into a world of silence from which no indication has been received her whereabouts, nor the course she was taking. She carries no
radio.
of
An weeks passed by and no sign was detected, anxiety grew. A fortnight ago ships Singapore reported they had heard
entering !
the Rugby station broadcasting an mariners in the appeal to all Pacific to keep a look-out for the Joseph Conrad and report by wireless if she was sighted,
ROCKETS SEEN
the
to be
Did Captain Villiers allow reason to succumb to the lustre of romance which shrouds the phrase "treasure island?"
|MAKING SUICIDE SAFE
IN HUNGARY
LESSONS FOR A FEW SHILLINGS
became a
Budapest, July 18. The sea holds many mysteries,
The Nemzeti Ujong reports that and this is one it may yet give brings to Budapest, has
the epidemic of suicide, which spring up although it has held it in its watery grasp for four months, profession by which destitute persons
are able to make money. One of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the sea is that of the quickly turns
The underworld of the city, which current tendencies to Flying Dutchman and her captain, its own advantage, has discovered Vanderdecken, who
swore he that sham sulcide is profitable, and would take her round the Cape of old hands at the game demand a fee of two penges fue giving instructions In New Zealand and 'Australia | Good Hope in the tech of a
to beginnerA searchers by land, sea and air raging head wind and was finally. The puraber of persons who really were engaged, Early last month according to popular legend, ¡deate death is now assessed at about fears seemed substantiated when condemned forever to sail the seas 10 r cent. The other 10 per cent. “A new entapúlí supply ship of
tho master of L vessel off as phantom.
of the would-be suleides are bent on 7,500 tons displacement, the first ever built specially for the purpose Porangahau on the east coast of
There was also the queer and extorting money from the charitable --the existing ones are adapted the North Island, made a report more recent ease of the 16,000-ton societies. Two or three attempted freighters--will be reaty to take that he saw three rocketa ascend twinscrew ue Aucher liner suicides occur daily, but it is no rare occurrence. for twenty or twenty-five at Bermittia Or the from a position inshore, near the Waratah.. With a crew of 120 persons to be brought into the Kakus Azores next year.,
mouth of the Parangahau River, and 92 passengers this long-lospital within twenty-four hours. "Already the Portuguese Govern- but that he had searched for two distance liner steamed out of mint has agreed to Lishon and Azores | hours without result. -
Durban for Cape Town on. July: The suicides day is Monday, as being used for the trials.
sces the last of their smaller steamer crossing, her path well or the next morning and then passed conspicuous for courage infilet over the horizon never to be seen brings them two or three days
small wound on their persons, which nor heard of again.
food and rest in a clean
hospital When the epidemic of suicide first A fine, seaworthy modern liner swept the city ten years ago the had been swallowed up in a night favourite method was to climb the without warning and without trace Turu (the Iron Hungariau excepting for a sen-worn, battered which surmount
its station
"Whether we shall fly via the Ber- mundas depends on the negotiations | with the British Government, in con- [nection with which a German civil Late delegation visited London a few
weeks ago.
BRITISH ISLES ROUTE "We have considered ake the
BLACK MONDAY
In spite of the bad weather 26, 1909, was spoken to by a Sunday usual money. Those not
and, rough seas aeroplanes took up the search and soon pointed out patches of ell on the sen offshore (the Joseph Conrad has an auxillary motor). Settlers found on the bench three hatch covers and planks which had been washed up.
SILENCE KEPT
ONE LIFEBUOY
the
Cagle
be
British Isles ruute vin Ireland to Cape The Josoph Conrad has main- and barnacle-covered Ilfebuoy Bridge), and after frightening the Have, Newfoundland, which is shorter tained her silence. What is the washed up on the New Zealand public for an hour or two. to | than the route from the Azores to the
miles famous Australian shore-7,000 Bermudas by about 150 miles, but fate of the
brought down by the fire away--two. which bas
winter nuthor-mariner, of his younger years later; the letters "Warat" more difficult
The number of ridera on the weather conditions. This, I believe, brother, F. J. Villiers who is the could just be deciphered beneath "Furil" increased so rapidly that the | will, be a roulé of Úe future,
leading hand on board, of the 12 the barnacles.
fire brigade had to be kept in constant A ense in sail, and one which readiness, and eventually the nu "I myself will go on the Brat trial seamen who hailed from the great
bears remarkable resemblance thorities stopped nulance by flight, with our crack pilot from the rain-racer Parma, and of the 14 South Atlantic route, Captain Blan-young cadels-several nf them with the circumstances attach-closing the access to the birds with
wire kenberg (the first airman to be English public school boys. ing to the Joseph Conrad, Is the netting. estapulted from the liner Europa) Scandinavian and American lads
The second fashion in suicide was loss of the Danish training aspirin, which was bought by single and a crew of four.
who were in her when she ship Kobenhaven, the last of the tablets in a number of shops, This "Tids flight will be made in the weighed anchor at Singapore last five-masted barques to float.
melind
brought-sympathy without Dornier D.Ö. 18, but the seaplanes | July?
The Kobenhaven, though a danger, and some less agroenble at we are now bulking are half is bigt Two Índs were left behind at bigger vessel, fulfilled the
sametentions in
the hospital. The next reggiano.
this port. One, an English pub role as the Joseph Conrad when fashion was drowning, but the sham lic school boy, remained in hos the fatter, was still the George Danube in the neighbourhood of one suicides took care to jump into the pital until he could be sent Stage under Danish colours. of the police motor-boats, so that risk home by steamer by the more On Dec. 14, 1928, she set her of death was very small. direct route; the other, a local anils in Buenos Aires with 45 hand, could not furnish the cadets on board. Her destination £100 fee Captain Villiers de was Melbourne, and her course lay manded of cadets who would across the southern oceans. have their apprenticeship in sails in his ship.
"The cost of sending mall on the new North Atlantic route has not been settled by the German Post | Office. but it will probably about the same as that now charged for de- Ivering to South America—that is 28. for a 5-grammes letter to Brazil, and 25. d. for one to the Argentine."
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A month later inhabitants
The
TRICK DISCOVERED fashion- of the present reason is hanging. The denizens of the city'n underworld have required proficiency in cutting themselves down in the nick of time, with marks on the throat which entitle them to aid from Tristan da Cunha, the world's charitable society. An unemployed loneliest island in the South painter has earned ninety pengos-by Atlantic, watched a salling vessel repeating this method
short which had five masts drift off space of time.
The attention of a charitable shore for three hours. They saw The
apciely which provides would-be, sui- no one move on board; only
cides with money, clothes, and shoon, single jib was set.
to accidentally drawn
a
WOR
in
the
The reason for his voyaging round-the-world in a small frigate which had never before been out- side the confines of the Baltic where she had been known as the Danish training ship George Stage, was expressed by Captain Villiers in the following words which hu A current caught the ship and businesslike organisation of the "sui- spoke at Singapore: "I was fed-up turned her off into the mist. That cide workers" recently, when a mes- reading alarming news in the was the last the world saw of the senger-bog, suffering from a slight been in sailing ships in the before a dally papers and having already Kobenhaven, and months passed poisoning calmly demanded "the five
clue was found to panges" from a charitable worker.
"What five penges?" asked the non- Australian grain trade I thought the riddle-the wreckage of a it would be good to get away from lifeboat containing five skeletons it all and forget.
of Nordic seamen was picked up "England will be reached again on the West African coast. ·
And the sen still keeps its secret, Dr. Bumpus, for many years within two years" the Mayo clinic. in speaking at the
OMINOUS INCIDENT'
Salt Lake City, Utah. July 20. Heat rather than operation is advanced as a cure for cancer in certain parts of the body by Dr. Herman C. Bumpus of Pasadena, California.
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final day's meeting of the conven- An ominous incident, of which tion of the American Urological Villiers himself wrote, occurred Association, Western branch, said after leaving Singapore astern. destroyed by hent and the chances of Tawi Tawi in the Sulu Sea of death following this procedure and a number of youthful cadets are much less than when an opera- went nshore to witness a dance tion is performed.
given in honour of their vialt by
the stout chieftain. The chief-
He asserted the most importanttain's daughter fastened her eyes
plussed gentleman. "The ave penges duo to me," the boy replied firmly.
It transpired that the boy believed that the society's gifts of Ava pengos were legal payment for any form of self injury.
WOMAN KILLED BY
HER POWDER PUFF
-Husband's Theory
thing is to discover the disease on one of them, a 14-year-old Ind A HUSBAND suggested at a London inquest recently that a powder early and determine the kind of nicknamed
"Stormalong." and
cancer to be treated. His report when this boy returned to his was the result of a study of cancer hammock on board the chieftain
Angeles general
puff might have led to his wife's death,
Leah Hammerson, aged thirty-on her chin while using his razor.
of the bladder which he undertook sent a delegation after him with two, of Radly-avenue,: Ilford, a proposal of marriage from the died from sopticemia in St. young princess,
Bartholomew's Hospital, and the. The cadet refused to leave his coroner (Mr. Dayford Thomas) ship: the delegation was turned recorded a verdict of "Death by away by the nightwatchmen. For misadventure."
at the Los hospital.
Seattle was chosen as the next convention city and Dr. Albert E. Mackay of Portland succeeded. Dr. Francis A. Goeltz, Salt Lake City, Ing President.-United Press.
"I connect this,” he added, "with using a powder puff on the open wound. A woman's, powder puff is seldom eledn. and it must have been fall of germs."
Dr. B. W. Hayward, house physicion at St. Bartholomew's, attributed death' to heart failure following septicomla
four days afterwards, while the The husband, Henry Hammerson probably brought about by the "cut
Joseph Conrad was setting a explained that his wife cut a spot on the chin,
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