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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 16, 1939.
THE TRAGEDY OF A PERSECUTED GIRL
A STORY of despair following persecution in Germany
was revealed recently as the secret behind the death of 22-year-old Helene Leni Silt, who was found gassed in her flat [in King's-road, Chelsen, S.W.
Discovery of the tragedy came when a man telephone:l.
Leni Stolt, student of photography, was very pretty. A few days before. she told friends that she was noon to be married to British arta student.
n
It would have meant that she would obtain British natiunality,
Friendin and that Lent's father died in a Berlin prison several years Ingo; she had said her mother was
missing, her brother was in a centration camp.
con-
HOME IN BERLIN She had been hoping to obtain a ving to go to America,
Her home was in Berlin. Since April, 1936, he find been living in London. Her permit to stay in this country was to expire within a few
months, but this fact did not ste to have worried her
Miss Billingsworth, who has a flat in the same building, cald, "A tefe phone call for Miss Stoll came from
a man who did not give his name, I went to her room, then told himį MIsa Molly Bishop weds theshe did not seem to be in and he Duchess of Gloucester's brother: The seemed very surprised. bride leaving for her wedding at St. Margaret's to Lord George Francisi John Scott,
The 10211 Royal Hussars.
مردم
Turned Traitor
FORCED DOOR
Napoleon's Tomb Saved
Paris,
FIRE recently destroyed part
of the roof of the famolis Invalides building in Paris, France's great military muscum. which shelters the tomb of Napolcon.
In the dry, cold air, the lumes which apparently originated in the vast apartments set aside for the military archives of old France, spread rapidly along the roof of the great central pavilion, facing ihe Esplanade.
No documents of any historie value were damaged. It was only recently that they were moved to ground-floor rooms for greater safely.
that
A silver-helmeted "first" brigade
Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, who, before her marriage to the Duke officer sald
the
muscum of Hamilton's fourth son, was Prunella Stack, seen as she made a purchase and the portions which contain the after opening the Animal Defence Society's sale in St. James's Place. Their chapel and the vault, with the great marriage, it may be remembered, brought some 1,500 people to Glasgow sarcophagus beneath which Napo-Cathedral, including members of the League of Health and Beauty. leon. 11es. surrounded by the trophies of his victories, are safe. Firemen made sure that, whatever
"I went upstairs again, noticed a smell of gas and told the poller.inlight happen to the central pavilion, They forced the door.
the flames did not spread back to the great museum galleries, with their priceless collection, or to the chapel
"The gas stove was turned on and Misa Stoll was lying on the bed in grey flannel trousers and a blouse,” and the tombs.
Police found several letters. One
M. Daladier, the Prime Minister, M.
For Sweetheart was from Berlin, and another-re-i Zay, Minister for Education, and M.
istered-had a London postmark. Sarraut, Minister of the Interior, PARIS. Friends said that Mies Stolt had were among the thousands of on-
very distressed about her lookers. SUB-LIEUT. MARC AUBERT,been
They had been; who turned traitor to France people in Berlin. to provide his sweetheart with imprisoned for political reasons, she money, was sentenced to death by a Toulon naval court-martial recently.
heard his fate unmoved.
oni
was a midshipman at Brest. When
Ed,
THEATRE HAS "CRY"
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Powder Makes Your Mashed Potatoes!
ASHED potatoes, favourite ac-
companiment
M2
of the
humble
Clark Gable's Gift-
Himself (in Marble)
New York.
WORKMEN struggled recently outside the home of Carole
Lombard manoeuvring a huge marble statue into place. When they had finished they rang the bell, said, "Tell Miss Lombard Mr. Gable's outside," then walked away, hiding their
smiles.
Miss Lombard came out, stared at the statue, recognised the. well-known Gable features and physique, then shrieked with laughter.
late.
The actor's Christmas present to her had arrived a little
The idea is, according to Hollywood, to enable the actress to
The girl, Marle Morel, was sen- tenced to three years' imprisonment
DUNKIRK, O. for complicity. She collapsed hearing the sentences, but Aubert, Mothers who bring their babies sausage, can now be made from a
|with them to the newly remodelled į powder.
Dunkirk theatre no longer need to Autiert met her in her leave the show when Junior starts to cooking, and mashing the potatoes is sec Gable in replica by just glancing out of her window.
The tiresome, business of peeling, i William Day, owner and op-over. alte pressed him for more and more erator of the theatre, has installed a money, according to a statement he
All that you have to do is to add is alleged to have made to his
milk or water to the powder--and the superior afleer when arrested, he accommodate mothers and their in-resulting mixture is indistinguishable wrote to the head of the secret ser-
from mashed potatoes. vice of a foreign Power offering his services.
cry.
sound-proof
fants.
observation
room 10
It looks the same, lastes the same, the Navy, which was sent to the and even smells the same. For over two years he gathered all foreign Power through the medium) Dr. Voltertas, a Lithuanian, Invent- kinds of secret Information regarding of his sweetheart.
ed the powder.
Finest eram
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114
Japanese Desire Friendship With Britain
London. | world."
PHE importance of Anglo-Japanesel, Complaining that there seemed to friendship for the preservation the facts concerning Japan's position, be nimost wilful misinterpretation of of world peace was emphasised re-Mr. Strigemitsu said, "We are very cently by Mr. Shigemitsu, the new inept and Inexperienced pro- Japanese Ambassador, making his pagundists, and it is partly our fault first public speech since his arrival that we have throughout the present hatt an extremely pear bi England three months ago at a dinner of the Japan Society given in He recalled how on his arrival he his honour at Claridge's Hotel. Sir tald Journalists, quite truthfully, that Francis Lindley, a former Ambassa- he liked the fog which met him, and dor in Tokyo, presided.
one paper said he had replied diplo- Mr. Leslie Burgin, the Minister of matically and that was a typical
press."
"I can
Transport, who was alss- present it, case of Japanese Shield
Mr.
the Dinner, astonished the guests by assure you," speaking for five minutes in Japon- "that a diplomat can tell the truth,
He was proposing a toast and i
and the whole truth, and nothing but when 10 suddenly changed the the truth as well vehicle of
his
anybody." It eloquence, Mr. was a heavy handicap to have your Mamoru Shigemitsu raised his eyes honesty always discounted because in amazement. Japanese quests de- you were a diplomatist. clared that Mr. Burgin's Japonese
are
keen
was perfectly intelligible and his accent excellent. Few people aware that Mr. Burgin is student of
of Oriental languages, but though he reads Japanese, he very rarely attempts to speak it.
Mr. Shigemitsu voiced the hope in ||i|s speech that more publicists would take the trouble to learn something of the Japanese language. He stated:--
"It now seems to me time that the we island empires of the East and West saw eye to eye in shaping their policy of enhancing peace,” Anglo- Japanese friendship was one of the máin pillars of world peace and an integral part of the fabric of peace and appeasement.
"When the ve
the clouds are Hited we shall see our everlasting friendship emerge glittering lite a great Alpine peak in the radiant sunshine."
Japan was sincerely pursuing a polley designed to ensure lasting peace and prosperity in her part of the world by establishing. Inw and order. "Friendship with Chinn more than anything else is what we desire, We are seeking earnestly to readjust our relations with her by removing mistrust and suspicion and replacing them with mutual understanding. thus ushering in an era of enduring ¡co-operation and conciliation with o view to contributing materially to the advancement of the pence of the
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