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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 19, 1938.

Gunman Chose To Face Scientists' Time-Test Death

Colony School For Nazis

By Shooting

New York, November 1..

John Deering, thirty-nine, a murderer, to-day chose to die by facing a firing squad at Utah State PUBLIC ENTHUSIASM Gaol, so that scientists could test the length of time

TO BE AROUSED this form of execution takes to kill.

BERLIN, OCTOBER 31. THE FIRST SCHOOL OF

GERMANY WAS

He thought hanging too sordid.

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"COLONIAL POLITICS” IN Deering puffed a cigarette and “I wish I could know the results OPENED wisecracked a few minutes before of your experiment, but that won't YESTERDAY AT LADEBURG, his death while scientists put NEAR BERNAU IN NORTH electic wires around his wrists and be possible," laughed Deering to GERMANY, BY GEN. RITTER connected them with a delicate the scientists as they placed the VON EPP, GOVERNOR OF machine called the electro-cardio- wires round his wrists. BAVARIA AND LEADER OF graph. THE REICH COLONIAL LEA- GUE.

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Share Of £3,500,000 Fortune

LONDON TAILOR'S

CLAIM

London, October 29.

Mr. Joseph Schaeffer, of King Edward-road, Hackney, has been given power of attorney by his father, Mr. Marks Schaeffer, to claim a share in a fortune of £3,500,- 000 in New York.

Mr. Marks Schaeffer is a tailor, aged 66. The fortune was left by Mrs. Garrett, widow of the Unit- ed States tobacco king, who died in 1930 at the age of 90, without a will

The brother of Mr. Schaeffer's grandfather fled from Russia 150 years ago. He is stated to have He called for a glass of cognac, been the grandfather of Mrs. Gar- toasted his chaplain, his prison war-rett who left the money. den-and his own death.

"But I must say. I am glad I am When one of the four bullets

going to die. I have been in and out After an intensive training in the fired by the squad hit Deering's political, economic and racial as-heart the cardiograph made its 're-of prison all my life. It is nice to pects of Germany's colonial de-cord.

end it all." mands, chosen members of the Nazi party will be sent from the Scientists hurried away with the school to propagate "colonial min-instrument for study and discus- dedness" among the German people. [sion.

Fortnightly courses will be pro- cided for 50 young men at a time, so that 1,200 "colonial campaign leaders" will be turned out in one year.

Deering, who struggled fifteen seconds after the bullets struck him, lived for two minutes, but was unconscious.

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Toasted His Own Death

Lectures will be given by veterans who served in the former German colonies before and during the war. Administrators, farmers and sol- A few hours" before Deering was diers will all hand on their knowled-shot he bequeathed the corneas of his ge to the men who, if Germany's eyes to the blind and his body to demands are realised, may one day

hospital for dissection. be their successors.

“GERMANY TO CHOOSE TIME”

In his speech Gen. von Epp said that Germany would herself choose. the time for the solution of the colonial problem and would tolerate no dictation. She claimed the possessions which had been taken from her on “slanderous pretexte." The injustice must at last be made

The initiative did not. lie

The claim to the fortune was The execution squad fired from made about two years ago after Mr. behind a screen.

One of the five marksmen had a blank cartridge, so that each one could hope he did not fire the fatal shot.

Deering who was found guilty of murdering a Salt Lake City business man, had refused a reprieve.

Marriage Schools Draw Queues

Schaeffer had read of it in a paper. His son Joseph later visited New York and appointed a solicitor to act.

> The solicitor, Mr. Leonard Blau- ner, stated yesterday that hundreds of other claims had been received, but there seemed to be some pos- sibility of establishing kinship be- tween Mrs. Garratt and Mr. Schaef- fer.

SPEARS DEFEND

EMPIRE

war-

The crisis reached native riors in a mountain district of

with Germany but with the present Hundreds Turned Away Papua, who sent a deputation

mandatory Powers."

The German people must be filled with enthusiasm for colonies, so that when the leaders of the new.

From Classes

Reich had once more, made Germany Training for - Marriage classes "This lists were due to open at

a colonial Power they would regard these possessions as their own pro- perty.

The colonies must be as closely connected with the home country as any German province.

to the police magistrate to offer to fight for the British Empire, says Reuter.

can:"

Explanations of the uselessness

They arrived in full war-paint, in England have become so popular 6 p. m. At a quarter to six there I declaring "No one can fight as we that hundreds of girls are being were long queues of women' and turned away at some evening tech-girls waiting, and the lists closed as

soon as they were e opened. nical institutes.

Dressmaking, cookery, laundry "We had to turn hundreds away, of palmwood, spears and flimsy

and when the girls saw the lists shields were of no use. were closing there was almost a yet have we been beaten," the chief free fight to get into the classes."'cried proudly.

"Our people," he concluded, "re-work, child welfare, domestic elec- quire for their existence the wide tricity and hygiene are the favourite outlook of a world power. They subjects. must be convinced that they will again enter the ranks of the colonial nations."

Most of the girls who want to take them are engaged or hoping to be engaged to be married.

Regent-street Polytechnic,

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PRESS CAMPAIGN · · Meanwhile the German Press con- of the most important schools in tinues to insist that the return of London, has turned away a "tre- Germany's colonies is a question of mendous number" of applicants for "equal rights," the phrase used to cookery and dressmaking classes. justify all Herr Hitler's previous Chelsea Polytechnic has had "corrections” of the Treaty of Ver-many more girls applying than sailles. It is denied that Germany ever before, but has managed to has any interest in the colonial find room for them. possessions of smaller countries.

"It must be emphatically stated,"

the "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" de-

RUSH OF STUDENTS

clares, "that Belgium and Portugal "It is impossible for us to cope have nothing to do with the colonial with the rush of students in this dispute. Germany claims only district," said one evening school what once belonged to her, and was principal. "This year we have had taken from her on the basis of un-two extra dressmaking classes and true allegations.”

I have made arrangements to take The newspaper adds that if Mr. a few more girls in the cookery Pirow, the South African Defence | kitchens. Minister, comes to Germany his visit will-relate only to the question of, trade relations...

"But that is not nearly enough. We had one night for enrolling in these subjects.

Here's Luck!

EWO

BEER

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