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FIGHT FOR MILLIONS OF ECHO OF THE ROYAL OAK 200 LOVE LETTERS TO A

MARKS.

SECRETS OF A FAMOUS BERLIN BANK.

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COURT-MARTIAL.

KING'S REGULATIONS "UNDER CONSIDERATION.".

D.S.O.

COLONEL ANNOYED BY A SCHOOLMISTRESS.

More than two hundred lova let- It is now ten months since the occurrence of the unfortunate incitors written by a schoolmistrem to dents as Maiteswhich were poŋu-

THE GERMAN ROTHSCHILDS.

Bertin, December 20th (U.P.):— A fight for millions of work

affair. **

In the course of the ferred to in the King's Bench Divi- thrilling the German public, and arly known as the Royal Oak D.S.O. lieutenant-colonel were re- what makes it all the more interest courts-martial which followed onion when Mr. J. P. Eddy asked ing is that it reveals the secrets of point emerged very definitely.

for an injunction to restrain Con one of the country's leading private This was the extremely vagus banks.

wording of the pages in the stance Wilson, a schoolmistress, of Actors in this forensic drams are King's Regulations dealing with St. John's-road, Tunbridge Wells, Dr. Paul von Schwabach, before the the conditions under which a letter from annoying Lt. Colonel James War honorary consal general of of complaint may be written to a Willes-Jengings, D.S.O., of the Great Britain and now consul gen senior officer by one of lower rank.

Junior United Bervice Club, eral of Mexico, senior partner of the As these passages stand they are banking fria of S. Bleichroeder. open to several interpretations, Charles-street, W., by communicat His opponents are Dr. Hanns von and therefore it seemed rather harding or attempting to communicate

otherwise. Bleichroeder and the executors of to penalize two officers largely with him by letters

The There was no defence. the wills of some deceased members owing to misinterpretation. of the Bleichroeder family.

argument that afficers should per

Mr. Eddy said that Colonel The Bleichroeders have been for fectly well know what is meant Willes-Jennings was & retired offi

is quite inadmisable in law. Re-cer of the Royal Army Medica! Ja, 1 No.11 No. 7. Na. Nais No.17/pTo.19, No.31.Na. #No, 12 Jo. 13

more than half a century A.MA.M.&.M. ·F.M. [P.M. P.M. P.M. F.M. IX. A... A...

Prussian Rothschilds They weregulations rely upon what is said, Corps, and since 1993 to the present and if this is said so -vaguely a time Wilson had continously and the bankers of the government and enjoyed great advantages for having advanced to the government the funds which enabled Bismarck to prepare the victory over Austria in 1966. The close relations between the first Baron Bleichroeder and Bismarck were especially evident when after the Franco-German war- 732 Bleichroeder acted as financial ex

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pert and fired the indemnity which France had to pay.

to mean anything, or nothing, it is ridicalous to contend that the spirit of the regulation has not been observed. How can anybody be expected to observe a "spirit which is quite obscured by the ambiguity of phrase in what it is clothed i

Amsadment Desizable.

In his admirable review of the Royal Oak affair in the House of The Enancial talents of the Arst Commons very shortly after the Mr. Bridgeman baron were hot, inherited by his sans courta-martial. who for years were the leaders of practically admitted this, and went Berlin's gay eet. On various oe on to say that the particular pas- casions & guardian had to be ap-sages in the King's Regulations pointed for a too spendthrift should be revised, so that there Bleichroeder, and Dr. von Schwa could be no doubt as to permK- bach became the really leading them-sibility and procedure in writing ber of the f

The third Bleichroeder generation followed into the footsteps of the second, and it was especially Baron Hanns whose escapades gave ground to much gossip. Before the war s princess of the grand-ducal family of Baxe Weimar, who was related

persistently annoyed him by writ ing and sending letters addressed to him at the club where he lived, expressing her affection for him, and requesting him to meet her.

There had been more than two hundred of such letter. She had also sent telegrams to the colonel at the club, telephoned to him there, and called there to see him.

Solicitors had asked Wilson to discontinue the annoyance, and she had promised to do so, but it con- tinued..

Mr. Justice Talbot granted the injunction.

IN GAOL.

ARRESTED IN FIVE COUN-

ATRIES,

official letters of complaint. A few INNOCENT MAN'S 3 YEARS days ago in Parliament somebody. asked, in effect," what about it The answer was that their Lord- ships recognised the desirability of an amendment of the King's Re gulations upon the points, and that the matter "The under con

Remarkable revelationa of an to all the royalties of Europe, com-sideration." This appears to be a mitted suicide, and as she had been case of reporting progress with innocent man's arrest in five coun engaged to young Bleichroeder it vengeance! Two hours would be a tries and his imprisonment for was said that he was the reason for generous time allowance for reduc- more than three years while fight her death. Later he married Marising the elusive passages into uning the cases brought against him Orska, one of the leading German mistakable English; yet apparent were made at Bow-street Police actresses, only

when Reginald. Leyland be divorced somely it has not been practicable to Court,

company years later.

devote so much time to the matter Haney, described as While these younger Bleichroeders in ten months. We are not dis director, of Waverley-road, Btreat- were not partners in the firm, they posed to dissent from the prin ham Hill, S. W., was charged on shared its profits. Before the war ciple of festina lente in dealing remand with obtaining credit to the capital of the firm was valued with matters which affect the wel the extent of £400 without disclos in the balance at 80 million marks. fare and discipline of the Service,ing the fact that he was an undis So far it has not been divulged what, but there is a limit.-Naval and charged bankrupt.«. interest, that sum bore, but it was Military Record. revealed in court that Herr "von Schwabach received about 43 per cent. and Hanne and his brother Werner about 27 per cent In case took the view that this was not an of losses they had to share accord-ordinary less but a loss of capital and that therefore the investors had ingly.

to share it according to the sun's invested. Thus he shared only a lin small portion of the loss while the bulk of it had to be borne by the members of the Bleichroeder family, The contention now is that this division of the loss was not correct. Some of the executors pretend that they did not learn of the fact before last year when young Werner died and they found the details of the transaction among his papers

This relation for fixing the various shares of profit and loss was due to the fact that Herr von Schwabach was doing practically all the work As to the capital invested in the Arm, his share was much smaller and that of the Bleichroeder family much larger.

Throughout the war and the in- fiation period this percentage was always applied for the distribution of the profits. But when the mark was stabilized and the firm had to make a new balance based on gold marks, another system was adopted. It appeared that in the balance the espital had to be reduced to one tenth, and Herr von Schwabach

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many,

Beney, giving evidence, mention- ed that when travelling in Ger- Holland, Belgium, and France, he gave cheques and was arrested in each country because the cheques were not met.

over

these

He spent more than three years

prison fighting cheques, and was eventually acquit What hap ted in each country. pened was that his personal bank- ing accounts in Paris had been garnisheed for another man's debts, every one of his cheques being re turned unpaid because of this gar

nishce order.

never

Mr. Edmond O'Connor, defend- ing, said that this prosecution and have arisen, The case is certain to be dragged would

as Heney would not have been hound- through the courts for years, owing to the amount of money in-ed as he was through Continental valved neither side is likely to suh prisons, if his personal account mit to an unfavourable verdict ba had not been garnisheed fore the Supreme Court bas given a final decision.

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Royal H.K. Yacht Club 8th Cham pionship Race.

Fanling Hunt: Steeplechase Race! Meeting, Kwanti, 3 p.m.

Star Theatre: The Loves of Pharaoh."

Tea Dances: E.K. Hotel and Peninsular Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Dinner Dances: Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, King Edward Hotel Cricket: First Division: Royal and Peninsula Hotel, 8 p.m.

European Mails:-Inward: Europe Navy . LRO, Craigengower v. University, Chinese Kowloonid Suez (Kashgar). Outward

Europe vid Marseilles (Kalyan), Second Division: Royal Navy v. LR.C., Craigeagower. University, 10.30 a.m.; Europe vid Siberis Hong Kong C.C. v. RA.S.O., Re-(Yingchow), 6 p.m.; Europe vid Siberia (Kashgar), 8 p.m. ali ereio v. Royal Engineers.

Football: First Division: K.O.E.B. v. Queen's, Chinese v. Royal Artillery, Kowloon. Re-. areio, Police v. Club, Navy v. Bouth China. Second Division: Solita China "A". Navy, K.O.8.B. v. South China B," Small. Units v. Queen's, Royal Artillery v. Chinese, Eastern University, R.A.F. . Recreio, St. Joseph's v. Kowloon.

Entries close for Chess Champion ship.

Entries close for HK.CO. Tennis Tournaments.

The Macdon

Theatre Royal Players; "Man and Super-Man," 0.15 p.

Queen's Theatre: "The Enemy."

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Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, Army Day..

Queen's Theatre: The Smart Set,'

World Theatre "Hot Water" Star Theatre:"The Loves of Pharaoh."

Monday, (January 1st.) ;~ Bale of Crown Land, New Kow- loon Inland Lot. No. 1199, 3 pm

Christian Beere Lecture City Hall, 6.46 p.m.

Mr. Fry, the magistrate, dis missed the charge.

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William Heughan, Baritone, Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: The Smart Set."

World Theatre: "The Loves of Pharaoh."

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Fred Coyne Musical Company "Keep Moving," Star Theatre," 8.15 p.m.

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