Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 9, 1939.
BANK
LONDON MAGNATE'S
DEAL COST £1,650,000
AMSTERDAM.
WHEN Siegfried Wreszynski, the Mayfair financier,' arrived in Holland last October with Eva Busch, 25-year-old Ger- man show-girl, he had just caused share- holders of the Amsterdamsche Bank to lose £1,650,000.
This was revealed by the Public Prosecutor here recently when Wreszynski was accused of defrauding two people of £500 and £700 each.
"I have the honour," said the prosecutor, "to demand from the court the maximum sentence of four years? Imprisonment."
POSE AS CONSUL
Wreszynski was accused of defrauding Miss Tony Mauner, Jewish refugee from Vienna, living in Hol- land, and Mr. P. H. Hollander, a Dutchman.
Miss Mausner was sald to have handel over 10 Wrezzynski about 2500 after he had assured her that he was able to provide her and her family with Amerl- can visar,
Hollander, said the prosecutor, entrusted him with £700 on liis promise that he would make a profit of £1,090 in Swedish transactions.
Wreszynski hud posed as in Argentine consul, bod shown to both n letter from the Amsterdamsche Bank in which £120,000 had been promised to him if he arranged certain transactions.
This letter, said the prosecullen, referred Lo
offer made to
Wreszynski and another man after they had "thawed" certain frozen errits for the bank.
CIRL'S HOTEL BILL
As a first test of their capabilities, the bank asked them to "thaw" about £25,000 of credits. They returned about 83 per cent, of the credits in cash.
Later, snid the prosecution, Wroszynski and the other man were
Phone Threat ToK.C.'s
Film Actress Daughter
Hollywood. [ Kruff gangster valce telephoned her THREATS to "get" blonde Vir-home five times with death threats. entrusted with the "thawing" in the ginin Field, twenty-year-old English Iler secretary, Irene Watson, an- United States of a further £2,350,000 lm actress, daughter of Mr. St. swered the telephone. The caller In credits,
caused left this message: "She better watch! The shareholders of the bank re- John Field, K.C., recently reived only £700,000, the rest was Hollywood police to place a guard out. You tell her this: She's being
around her home.
watched and if she dosen't look out: Miss Field said that a man with we'll get her. We're watching every
step. every movement."
lost.
When Wreszynsiti returned to Hol- Jand he was penniless. He could not even pay the hotel bill of Eva Busch, who had preceded him from the United States.
Miss Field said: "I don't know I saw two men whng It's all about.
Notables
Meet
President Roosevelt, en route. to Warm Springs, Ga., is greeted at Tuskegee, Ala., Institute by Dr. George Washington Carver, noted Negro scientist and Tus- kegee faculty member, Later the President spoke at Auburn, Als, urging the South to become self-sustaining and to "get out of hock to the North."
Man Who Fled
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BRIGHTON.
PRISON sentence and a re-
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FEDERAL DEFICIT
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MELBOURNE.
The continued reduction in Cus- loms revenue strengthens the pro- bability of a large Federal deficit this The March Customs figures were only £214,000 above Budget estimate. Pastal revenue was £00,- Uud below estimate.
Policewoman's Gold
Medal.- Police-woman Jessie Clearcy Fitzroy won the King's gold medal and 30 guineus for an essay open to the police of the Empire on the subject of juvenile crime, its causes and treatment. Her 11,000 words essay Was completed at daylight on Oct. 22 and posted two minutes before the elosing of the air mall with the last entries.
SCHOOL FOR LIBRARIANS
SYDNEY.
seculor described Wreszynski os and international crook sought by the police of many countries, crook
# When Miss Busch was examined who bought jewels and clothes and a car outside my home on Sun-
commendation for deporta- Perhaps they have In court, the prosecutor asked her: flowers for women while his children day morning.
something to do with it.
tion has shattered the newly- Anyway, "Why did you leave him in Holly-yere starving in Switzerland.
won happiness of a Jew and his is being established by the Pubile A permanent school for librarians wood?"
Wieszynski, in reply, declared that I'm not frightened."
Miss Field has played in "Little wife, for whose sake he had Elbrary of New South Wales the "Well," she answered, "he got into he still had a vast fortune in London, trouble with detectives about a ring and that if he had not been arrested Lord Fauntleroy," "Sing, Baby Sing." trudged across Europe from request of the Government. It is to which he had not paid for and had he would have been able to repay and "Lloyd's of London."
Vienna to Antwerp, sometimes open immediately, so that librarians could pawned. I thought 1
not Tony Mausner and Hollander.
A few months ago she threw up a
will be avaliable when the Govern- marry such a can."
Wieszynski's sentence will be de-contract of £150 a week with Twen-through snow three feet deep.
ment's new policy for Ibrary service "VAST FORTUNE"
cided thority. He has been in prison tieth Century-Fox to take a chance
In Vienna, before the Nazis came in the country comes into operation. Ion her own. At the end of the evidence the pro-since last November.
there, the man, Police-Sergeant Leon In January. Municipal Fillp Drexlern, and his wife, Anny throughout the State are to be helped and shire councils were happy. When the Germans marched into Austria Dreslern had to establish and maintain libraries. to become a road sweeper and his India wife came to Hove to enter domestle service.
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Thrown into a concentration comp and released after six weeks, he left the country, spurred on by the desire! to see his wife and fear of the secret poflee.
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RAJKOT DISPUTE
AWARD
NEW DELHI.
Sir Maurice Gwyer, Chlef Justice
At love, Drexlern came into the of India, recently announced his hands of the police for landing in award in the Rafkot dispute, which this country without permission. His led to Mr. Gandhi's fast at the be- solicitor stated that arrangements ginning of March. were in hand for the couple to go to the United States.
BRIEF JOY
Sir Maurice abserves that In his opinion the true construction to be put on the documents submitted to [hiên"is" that the Thakore Saheb-who Drexlern was given bail and has been charged by Mr. Gandhi with walked away from the police station breach of Inith--undertakes 10 ap- arm in arm with his wife, smiling, point persons whom Mr. Vallabhai and saying in German "What a Patel, the Congress Leader, may re- happy country England is. I never commend, and does not reserve to thought I would have such happiness himself any discretion to reject those again."
jof whom he does not approve.
Later Drexlern again stood In the dock for the resumed hearing. His solleitor stated that the necessary vish for the United States had not como through.
WIFE COLLAPSES
The award expresses no opinion on the charge of breach of faith..
Mr. Gandhi's first reaction to the award was one of great relief, which produced a distinct improvement in ls physical condition. His doctors were examining him when the terms of the award were communicated to him.
The Mayor (Councillor A. W. Hill inan) said the Bench must adminster the law. "Drexlern," he said, "will Statue of King George YA bronze go to prison for 14 days and be re-statue of King George V. was unveiled commended for deportation.
at Calcutta recently by Sir Robert
Drexler's face blanched and his Reld. Acting Governor of Bengal. wite slumped unconscious in her seat The statue, which is about 11ft high, and had to be carried out of ecurt. deplets the late King in the robes he Friends tried to assure them both wore at the Delhi Durbar. It forms that the Home Office would not insist part of the George V. Memorial now on deportation.
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WHEN VINCENZO CAIVALO, The then Archbishop of Athens is Greco Italian architect, mony of Caivalo's wife. The con rested from his vigil over the was brought to the church with the coffin of his dead wife in the mummilled head of the dead woman church he had built ostensibly as visible through a glass screen. a memorial to her, suspicious Chivalo told everybody that he police who searched the church could not forget his wife. found a wireless set, but no body because he insisted on eating niono Servants refused to stay with him
at a table laid with a place for his Maps, plans and other compromis-dead wife. ing papers were found in his safe, It is reported.
In the coffin.
Caivulo, who is alleged to be the chlet of the Italian sples in Greece, was arrested in the church at Piraeus after he returned from a trip to Istanbul.
BUILT CHURCH AS MEMORIAL
He was sold to have built the inmemorial church at a cost of £7,000 Jat Piraeus, two miles froth the {Greek naval arsenal,
From the church, 'It is said, he operated the high-powered broad- casting set, which was concealed' in the coffin.
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