1935-12-02 — Page 7

THE "OLD LADY"

MAURETANIA

REBORN IN

NEW GUISE

New York Hotel And Modern Flats

ALL SHIP'S BEST INTERIOR FEATURES REBUILT

The ghost of the Mauretania. a mere shell of the "Old Lady,” lies in a

breakers' yard at

en-

Rosyth. The greater part of the ship, stripped of hull, gines and funnels, has been re- vast shed at built inside a Southampton Old Docks, ready for transhipment to New York!

The recreated Mauretania is to become an, botel Here is the story, told by Mr. Walter Marth, to whom this live "ghost" DOW belons:

"As the Chairman of a company: an hotel in Guernsey, I owning happened to be looking this sum- mer for some Furniture and fir-- I visited the Mauretania with the intention of making a few bids.

tisxs.

Her Famous Rooms

"Once I started to prowl arcund the decks, however, I was utterly carried away by the grandeur of the ship. So I bought everything I could lay my hands on."

"Everything." ont comprises thiry of the

*

add. famous

New York" police say that Charles "Lucky" Luciano (above)," gangster, is the heir to Schultz. the throne of Dutch

alain racket chief. He is head of the moh that has been fighting the Schultz yang for policy num- bers control.

SUSPENDED

SENTENCES

THE CHIREA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER-2-1935

HAUNTING FEARS

TERROR OF

Th-day's Short Story

MAJOR COLE'S

COLES By Nigel

THIRD SHOT

Balchi

JAPANESE NE of the most characteris-and on this particular occasion

0

tic, and perhaps one of the the occasion which led to our hear VENGEANCE most charming features of the ing the story of Major Cole's third game of golf, is the old-estab-shot-we reached the fifteenth tee lished partnership Week after all square. I had held a lead of week, month after month, year one hole at the end of the first after year, the same single or nine, but at the fourteenth Bill's the same four-ball match can invaluable mashle ziblick had laid be seen setting out, each mem-a chip stone dead, and it was still ber, knowing to a hair the abili-all to play for.

Professor From East Dies In London

FATE OF WIFE UNKNOWN

UP TO THE END

ties, the strengths and the "The fifteenth at Royal North weaknesses of the opposition, ask is a curious hole. It is five Day and night for the past and intent on repeating the hundred yards long, with a bogey two years, Prof Timothy narrow victory, or avenging of five, and it can be played in two O'Conroy had been haunted by the defeat of last Saturday.

ways About three hundred yards fearing that a Japanese secret Bill Carter and I are one of from the tee is a long, narrow society would wreak vengeance these old-established couples. Good- on his wife and himsel

ness knows how many inatches, we {mme Professor O'Conroy, died recent-have played over the last ten years. There isn't a pin between na, and (ly in London...

His wife was not with him. She it is a rare day when one of us can is still in Japan, her fate unknown.}gain a victory by more than twoj Two years ago he said: “I am and one. Both of us play off tên, afraid they will kill her. Japan- and I suppose it is too much to ese secret societies are cruel.”

IN IRELAND English

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Before the Court Was John

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TO MORROW'S STORY

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hope that we shall ever get game, and, if I hit farther than Bill, he He had then just returned from makes up for it by being a demo clump of trees which hides the Tokyo. This was his story. at the short game, and by being green. If you are a long hitter

*I went to Japan as Professor less liable to wander, disastrously the most direct way is

to drive at Keio

University, into the tiger country" in which straight down the middle and for Tokyo..

the Royal North Lak links your second to play a long, high While there. I met my wife.labound. At the time of which I belt with a spoon, over the spinney She belonged to an aristocratic write we had not long been memand on to the short space of opa Tel 20135. Japanese family, and was very bers of the Royal North Lask, bay- fairway in front of the green. lovely.

ing migrated there together when But if you have any doubts at all "I fell in love with her, and she our old battle-ground at Foreham about your ability to get the length promised to help me with a book was bought up by speculative it is safer to drive out to the right I was writing.

builders and turned into a housing and play the hole soberly as a dog "She knew she was risking her estate. But the change of course leg. It is a peculiarly wild, de- life in helping me to unearth in-made no difference to our equality, serted sort of spot, and corres- formation for my book, which was to be called The Menace of Japan.

Immediately the Dragons, a

notorious secret society, heard of

my work, the persecution started "I was warned. My wife was

Walsh, aged 42, who was found warned. My house was burgled guilty of being a suspected person,

mabogany lounge. the maple-wood -drawing-room the tourist lounge and dining saloon, the best cabins.. and all the ship's navigation struments, even down to her exact from unattended motor-cars. lettering on fore and stern

six times, and eventually I had to

loitering in the West End to stealfice the country.

बडू am now trying to raise

The police said that Walsh was enough money to bring my wife

here." Innder a sentence of 18 months'

Such items as Mr. Martia fall-! ed to purchase at the auction he has since acquired by writing to imprisonment in Ireland, but so the various owners and offering long as he kept out of Ireland for

three years he need not serve it.

them sums 25 per cent in excess of their original bids.

-For more than 20 years the Mauretania proved that Britain NO POLITICAL BROADCASTS

ald rule the wares in the Mer- cantile Marine, in the same way as HMS Victory had done for the Navy," said Mr. Martin.

"I thank God for giving me the Inspiration to salve the innards' of the ship, instead of allowing! them to be disintegrated and sold as firewood."

England In New York

Mr. Martin, who is chairman of Martin's Ltd, the cigar firm in Piccadily, but who prefers to ivad the life of a fisherman in. Guern-! sey, has formed a syndicate, ‘and architects' plans have been drawn up which will involve:

IN NEW-ZEALAND

Government And Opposition Leaders Decline Facilities

Wellington (NZ), Leaders of the Government and Opposition parties have declined the fer of the Broadcasting Board to transmit their election speeches over the wireless

This means that no candicates will be permitted to broadcast

"It is most iniquitous," said the The building of a Mauretania magistrate, that the Irish Courts Hotel in New York, of which the pass these heavy sentences on you ship's public rooms and regal and men like you and make them suites will form the "core" on the of no effect if you keep out of the

country. Then you come ground foor; and

-A Mauretania block of 200 mo-there and proceed with your crim- dern fats in St. Peter Port,inal activities. So far as I can Guernsey, equipped with the ship's see there is no method of retalia- furniture.

tion. I wish I could make a

over

His Sacrifice

He sacrificed his health-in this endeavour.

ponds to that hole, found on every links, at which ote seems to be miles away from the club-house,

MARRIAGE ACROSS the rest of the course, and every

BOUNDARY

American Citizen And Canadian Girl

ONE MEANS OF OBTAINING "PREFERRED STATUS”

:

other human being.

We were caddying for ourselves. Why I can't remember, but I know we were alone. It was Bill's hon-1 our, and I was watching him stoop down and tee his ball, and wonder- ing whether I could risk the straight path to the hole, when: suddenly he straightened up and said: "It's my honour, isn't it?":

"Of course,” I said in some 'sur- Clen Falis, N. Marriage prise, "from the last" Last June he went to Hamp-

"Well, then, pick your ball up, o' stead General Hospital as a patient, across the international boundary There be died, aged 52.

Eines was the strange cemeny man." said Bill rather irritably, "Only once he spoke of his performed at Highgate Springs, can see it out of the corner of my wife," 2 Pressman was told at the Vermont, when Johnny Graveline hospital. "From his remarks it of Glen Falls, NX married a

Verdun looked at him in astonishment fram girl was believed that he feared she Canadian

and was about to point out that I Quebec, whose name is not dis had never beed my ball when he might be in prison in Japan.

Professor O'Conroy was born in closed-

glanced down at the tee again and Cork After serving in the Navy, After the ceremony the couple

Saw for himself that it was ocen: he worked in a Bloomsbury hotel. leaned over, the line and embraced, pied sciely by his own A look of Then he taught English at a being very careful that their feet surprise came over his face. Copenhagen school

eye.

kept within their own countries

“That's odd,” he said with After that, be held a post at thei Then they returned to their puzzled frowa; "sorry, I could have Russian Court, where he met separate homes in Canada and the swan I could see another ball.or Rasputin and Tolstoy,-

United States. Kel

the tee out of the corner of my eye, When the revolution came, he The international ceremony was as I put mine on the peg. Over escaped to Japan

performed because the American there towards the tee box" immigration, authorities refused "Go on 1 said cheerfury, the Canadian girl permission "you're seeing them. You can't start that sort of thing in the mid- Now that she is married to Mr. de of the morning. Get on and Graveline she has "preferred drive

CZECH MINISTERS TAX THEMSELVES

To Aid Civil Aviation

Prague. Every member of the Czecho-

slovak Cabinet is to pay a special

"We want the hotel to be an order to send you back to Ireland out of his own pocket, to English institution in the heart of but I cannot do that"

New York" Mr. Martin said.

help aviation

Walsh was sentenced to

f

"The sign outside will be the weeks' hard labour.

Mauretania's own lettering In the

foyer will stand her own binnacles

and other instruments Guests will CHRIST'S HOSPITAL

be able to dine and dance în; her

own rooms. She will be a skip on

store.

"By means of continual beating in the sheds we have been able to prevent the priceless panelling from warping, while the dome from the first-cinss lounge, which aloce cost £7,000 when the ship

FOUNDER'S DAY

The annual Founder's Day din- was built in 1907, has suffered in ner of Christ's Hospital, celebrating To way."

So the Mauretania's "ghost" has one more Atlantic trip to make.

This has been decided upon at

a meeting of Ministers at Prague,

at, which the "Thousand Pilots Find" was discussed..

The fund has been started "for

the promotion of civil aviation”

enter the United States.

status" as an immigrant and will: Characteristically Bill went for | find fewer difficulties in the way the safe, dog-legged route, and hit of her admission Reuter.

quite a nice one well away to the right. Equally characteristically I decided to chance my arm at the

FIGHT WITH SHARK direct way, and, for a xander, alt

AT PENZANCE

Harpooned, But Got Free Again

Penzance

a real pip straight towards the spinnes. The point I want to make clear is that, doing it the |two ways; we were nearly 1-Du- dred yards apart, when we played our seconds. 4 watched Bill play his, and thought he seemed to fid- die about for a good deal longer

A shark retired hurt with, bon- than usual, as though not alto-

and the immediate object to train ours even after a tussle with resi-gether comfortable. But he seem- a thousand new plots. They would dents of Terrance-recently,

ed to hit the hall cleanly enough

be reserves available for the de- Of all the plans for a capture, and, picking up his chibe, follo

one [zmaman's was the best he his ball round to the right of the Annual Dinner Heldance of the Republic hea

Each Cabinet Minister is to com- went on to fetch a harpoon he had spinney and out of sight Mess- In London

while I had taken my spoon, and tribute a thousand eresens (about at his home 18) to the fund-Reuter.

The shark went below for a trying probably for a bit too mach siesta, and when later he came to length saw the ball go of quite the surface for, & cruise round well, but with that nasty sensation just in case myme should fall is that it had not.Eden hit quite in his would be captors were ready, the middle of the club. If I knew The seamar launched his har-mything of that course it wonid tion of the canal,poon, hit his mark, and off went have finished in the last ten yardı to the the shark across the dock, madly of the trees, which was liable to be

Janning" "the "surface with his talk tar

the 383rd anniversary of the school, was held at the Trocadero Restaurant last monthe-Sir Char- les Bipwood occupied the chair. DEUDOSing the toast School the Chalaune

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forth

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