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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, · OCTOBER 13, 1936.
MY ROMANCE: By Princess Juliana
Escaped From "IT WAS LOVE IDYLL AMID
Devil's Island
MURDERER
ARRESTED AFTER
11
A
YEARS
Paris, Sept. 30.. MURDERER who twice escaped from Devil's Island, the dreaded penal settle- ment, and is described as one of the most dangerous criminals in France, was arrested in Paris to-day after a search which had lasted 11 years.
He was discovered in, an apartment opposite a police station. The concierge declared that he was "one of the nicest and most charming tenants."
Charles Brenner (44) has had six different allases during the past ten years.
He was sentenced to death in October, 1919, for the murder of a woman in Lyons. The sentence was commuted to life im. prisonment. He was sent to Devil's Island. DESERTED HIS WIFE
In 1921 he escaped, but was arrested at Trinidad. Four years later, in July 1925, he eluded his gaolers again and was not "found" until to-day, although he had served several terms of imprisonment—always under an alias.
His second escape from Devil's Islant brought him to Venezuela, where he married, only to abandon his wife and child two years Inter.
fle returned to Venezuela under another name in 1928 and left once more in 1930 to come to Paris,
His chief occupation at that time, it is alleged, was white slave traffic.
LEADER OF GANG
Arrested in Paris in 1930 on a robbery charge-but not recognised-he left for Bacelona after three months' imprisonment.
Back in Paris in 1932 he became the leader
of a gang of desperadoes who carried out rob- beries and assaults in the business quarters of the city.
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All his accomplices were finally arrested, but he had left long before for Metz, where he set up a powerful organisation to smuggle tobacco from Belgium and Germany into France.
£10,000 CAR RACE
AT FIRST
SIGHT""
PRINCE BERNARD FIX
Received a shy smile
King George's Favourite
AUSTRALIAN CELEBRATIONS Pony Retires
EVENT
A round-Aqstralia car race, open to racing motorists throughout the world, has now definitely been decided upon as an event of the 150th. anniversary celebrations, in 1938, of the founding of Australia, which will be centred in Sydney.
Prizes to the value of £10.000 will be offered, with a first prize of £5,000, says Austral News.
Pneumatic Shorts Make
Sea Safe, Says Inventor
Vienna, Sept. 30:
Poor swimmers, claims Viennese inventor V. Veidomon, may be swept out to sea in safety if they are wearing his new "afety shorts." Victims of accidents, currents, or cramp need only inflite the shorts double front Then they can float on their backs until picked up or swept back again.
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Sandringham, Oct. 1. Jock, King George's favourite white pony has been retired and pensioned with a bunch of car- rots, daily.
It was on the thirteen-year-old pony that the late King took his last ride.
Jock will not be shot and his hair will be allowed to grow. To afford the former Highland pony company two of his old friends, Fluff and Wanda, also have both been retired to the same paddock with Jock. The two mares are quartered at night in thatched roof boxes although Jock usually spent the night in the open.
United Press.
De Beers May Seek Diamonds In Rhodesia
Bulawayo, Sept. 21.
The possibility of De Beers Con- solidatedMines, Ltd., shortly pros- peeting für diamonds in Rhodesla was announced here to-day by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, chairman of the com- pany, who s bargaining. with the Minister of Mines-Exchange.
THE ALPS
By LADISLAS FARAGO
The Hague, Oct. 1.
RADIANT, happy, and shyly holding the hand of Prince
Bernard, her fiance, in a flower-filled room at the Noordeine Palace here to-day, Princess Juliana gave me the first interview that she has ever granted to any journalist.
Holland is a land of rejoicing. Everyone is happy that the Princess has become engaged.
And happiest of all is the Princess herself.
"Only five days ago the traditions of our: court would have made it impossible for me to receive you like this," said Princess Juliana. "But now, since I am so happy, and everyone is so happy"--a shy smile at the Prince at her side-"exceptions are being made for the first time.
I have never been so happy-not only because of my engagement but also because the news of it has brought me unending messages of love and affection from the Dutch people and from people all over the world.
"How did I first meet the Prince? Was it a case of love at first sight?"
How I Met The Prince
The Princess repeated my questions with a merry laugh. Then, shyly, she rose from her seat by the Prince and, walking to a bower of dark red roses, arranged the flowers as she talked.
"I first met Prince Bernard nearly a year ago. It was 'nt the winter sports at Igels in the Tyrol.
"We found a mutual interest in ski-ing and skating, but very soon I knew-and Bernard knew, too-that it was some- thing more than our mutun! enjoyment of sport that altracted us to one another.
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"What more can I say that any other girl can say?" she said with a deep blush.
"We fell in love-it was really love at first sight-Bernard and I knew it at once. But we werd rather frightened at it all happening so suddenly,
"But when I found that my darling mother had already guessed our secret and was as happy about it all as I was, I was the happiest girl in the world.
"So we three kept our secret very closely.
The Secret Well Kept
"It was very exciting and amusing to Bernard and 1,” said the Princess with a merry laugh. "We were virtually engaged and very much in love, but we did not let anyone guess our sé et.
"There were still only six people who knew our secret-my mother, myself, Prince Bernard, Princess Armgard (my future mother-in-law), my mother's secretary, and Baron van Bout, my Becretary.
"Not until my mother authorised the official announcement did anyone else know anything about our romance.
"And now we are receiving all these lovely flowers and con- gratulations from all over the world-it's so exciting, so happy." The Princess rose to her feet and clasped her hands.with joy. The Prince, too, was smiling happily.
His popularity already is amazing. Everyone in Holland knows that he is an all-round sportsman-golf, polo, motoring and mountaineering.
Prince Bernard will become Prince of the Netherlands and will receive a pension from the State of 200,000 guilders, about £30,000
a year.
SMOKING-FOR MEN ONLY
The Victorian Raliwaya, Australia, are the latest to bow to the Inevitable. Because of the increase in the number of women
mokers, the commissioners have just increased the smoking ac commodation in the privileged "parlour car" of their crack Mel- bourne to Sydney express.
But, says Austrol News, with one pen stroke, they get ane back for men and simultaneously establish a progressive precedent. The small saloon of the coach is now sacrosanct to "smoking-for men only."
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