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MYSTERY OF GHOST SHIP.

SAILS SET BUT NO CREW.

DISAPPEARS WITHOUT LEAVING A TRACE,

Captain H. Kristensen, master of the Mexico, a Danish motor-ship which had been searching for the loat training-ship Kobenhavn, made Table Bay with a mystery to pro- pound.

The captain has established the fact that the Kobenhavn passed Tristan da Cunha, the lonely South Atlantic island, on January 21. She. had kail reduced to a single lib and fore-lower-tops'l. Her other were carefully stowed and

saila furled.

She came drifting in the current a quarter of a mile of Tristan reef. Nobody was seen aboard, and her helm was unmanned. When the Kobenhavn was near striking the reef she turned and the current carried her into the mist into which she disappeared.

The Marie Caläste,

"This is a mystery as puzzling as that of the Marie Celeste," said Capt. Kriestensen when the Mexico docked. "The evidence of the Tristan Islanders is unshakeable, Either the Kobenhavn had been abandoned or her whole crew was down with disease or noisoning. To the Islanders, the ship appeared undamaged, though slightly down by

the stern."

"My belief," added Capt. Kris tensen, is that the Kobenhavn is still afloat, or has been washed up on the desert coast of South-West Africa or in the Antarctic. I am refuelling at Capetown and contina. ing the search of the African coast and the edge of the Squthern ice- pack."

The Danish training ship Koben- havn, a fine five-masted barque, with 70. naval cadets aboard, left Buenos Aires on December 14 far Australia, and has not been de finitely reported since.

The discovery of the United States brig Marie Céleste, derelict near Gibraltar, on December 4, 1879, provided one of the most famous of en mysteries, as the vessel had ap parently been hurriedly abandoned by her crew without any discernible

cause.

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TWO YEARS FOR EX-MINISTER.

SIGNATORY TO THE PEACE

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TREATY.

TURF SCANDAL,.

M. Louis Lucien Klotz, who, as Finance Minister of France, was one of the signatories of the Ver- sailles Treaty which ended the war, stood in the dock na a common criminal, was recently sentenced to two years' imprisonment and order- ed to pay a small fine for issuing cheques which were dishonoured.

The actual, charges involve an amount of £18.850, but behind this lies the story of a prominent states- man ruined by love of the turf and the luxuries of life.

He had denit, in his official capa- city, in millions and the vast kupa which he then "commanded appear to have dazzled his view as a private citizen...

Als Slogan.

"Germany will pay," was his slogan during the Versailles nego- tiations: £80,000,000 was the price be agreed to pay to America for the war stocks which the United States left in France."

The disposal of those enormous stocks from railway trains to baby Inyettre is one of the greatest scan- dels of French political life. The true story has never yet been told, but the French Chamber, yesterday and to-day, have debated bitterly the circumstances under which pay. ment to America must be made.

M. Klotz ruined himself finally by betting and losing millions of francs on horse racing. He is stated to have gambled nway his mother's fortune and a large portion of his wife's estate.

A period in a mental home fol lowed; but though foremost alienists declare that he suffers from a new form of disease that is literally "money madness" they were un- able to save him from his fate to-day,

His defence was that he had acted in good faith, that but for the rais ing at the instance of the Public Prosecutor, of his parliamentary immunity, he would have attempted to pay his creditors, and that his mind was disordered.

It was learned that M. Henry Torris, who defended M. Klotz, in protesting against the

sen-

tence to the Minister.of Justice and the Attorney-General because, he states, his client should beacfited by the First Offenders Act.

The First Offenders' Act in France relieves the sentenced person of the necessity of purging his offenco.

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HUNTER.

PRINCE AND POLICEMAN'S DAUGHTER.

FORMER LONDON ACTRESS.

HORNS IN "JUNK" SHOPS

THRILLS FROM MEMORIES.

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A retired dotective of the Metro-

"There's a nice pair a' 'orns. politan Police, living at Tulse Hill, on'y a couple o' pounds." The sub- in south-east London, is the father | sequent remarka may be read in a of a princess who is related by❘ recent number of Punch, illustrated marrings to a number of the royal with one of Mr. Raven Hill's families of Europe.

characteristic drawings of a swarthy

Soon the old policeman and his pawnbroker offering a fine "head wife will pack their traps in their to an unenthusiastic Scot.

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| euburban villa and set forth to spend } „A couple o' pounds! That is what · a holiday with their princess diugh it is worth (with luck) to the old tor and her "royal, husband in a clothes man. Not a thought of all luxurious establishment at Monte those endless days of stalking in Carlo, where servants will wait on precipitous corries, when the wind their every wish.

shifted or, at the critical moment, . The ex-policeman is William the fog came down on you, writes Wegner, ex-rat-class sergeant in Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston in Country the Criminal Investigation Depart. Life. Not a thought of those mo- ment, and his daughter is H.R.H. ments when a good beast was within Princess Violette of Montenegro, comfortable range, but the trigger wife of Prince Peter of Montene. ünger refrained because he was not gro, the second sun of the late the big royal of the forest. King Nicholas, the fighting monarch

Twa Poonda! of that Balkan country.

Princess Violette was formerly Miss Violet Emily Wegner, music hall artist and dancer, billed of theatrical placards comedienne.

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Sister-in-Law of a Queen, Now she is sister-in-law to the Queen of Italy. Her husband's brother-in-law was the late Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle to the Caai of all the Russias and Commander- ju-Chief of the Russian armies dur ing the European war.

Her other relations-in-law 5 pages in the records of royal

families.

Although Prince Peter and Mies Wegner were married in Paris in April 1924, Dobody outside the two families concerned knew that the princess was a London girl and the daughter of a policeman,

Not a thought of the long night journeys and the tips to the stalkers and the bill of Mr. M. of N. for setting up the head. A couple o' pounds! But, after all and on second thoughts, what is there to grumble about? The gillies and the stalkers have filled and drained their finsks, and the stuffer has duly cushed his cheque. The hunter kid his thrill in that culminating mo ment when his finger pressed the trigger, and countless times in later years his after-dinner eyes havo looked up to the wall where the trophy hangs and he has lived again through those glorious hours;

not

Who among hunters has bought (nt whatever cost) some such

memory, and who among them would sell it at whatever a price? His first stag, that chamois he miss ed, the stalk of that markhor in the Himalaya what a rich store of re-

In Africa.

Prince Peter and Princess Vio-collections be has. lette are at present staying at the Hotel Splendide, Aix-les-Bains. They wanted Mr. Wegner to stay. with them there, but, as the ex sergeant said, 'I don't like those great hotels; so I didn't go. I don't mind a villa at Monte Carlo, but those hotels-well, at my time of lile I am past it."

With half-closed eyes he can re bush with the waters of Lake Ed- a wide expense of African thoru ward shimmering in the noonday distance. Fishing engles wail pierc ingly from their dizzy altitude, and bers innumerable hum about the flowers of the acaciaR

Across

A conspicuous portrait, in the

A waterbuck strolls drawing room of the Tulse Hill home of the ex-policeman, with its narrow glade, followed shortly by plush furniture and its ornaments,

another of seemingly gigantic ‘size ; is a photograph of Prince Peter, a third follows carrying horns still signed by him, with the inscription larger, and the. Bwana is about to

To my darling Mother."

fire when yet another, the king of "Everywhere the prince goes he waterbucks, comes slowly into view. takes my daughter," said Mrs.

A lucky shot drops him dead, a record" head by an inch or two; Wegner, with motherly pride.

the porters and the neighbouring There is nothing he would not village feast through the night, do for her," said ex-Detective Ser-while the hunter cleans the skull and geant Wegner, not to be outdone in fatherly affection.

**She comes to see us sometimes, and we go to see her every year," Mrs. Wegner added.

Her sister is married to a maa

in a good position in a shipping firm in Cardiff," said Mr. Wegner,

scalp. The end is a gloomy corner

in a London club, prelude to the old junk shop and, perhaps, a couple of pounds.

Not so very many years ago aroro

a new school of hunters, whose fint weapon was the camera, the rifo being reserved only for defence in

and one of her brothers is in the last resort. The risks that these business as a haulage, contractor in brave men willingly accept are fully London,"

"Last winter, "at Monte Carlo, the King of Sweden asked to be introduced to my daughter, the princess," went on Mrs. Wegner.

"And Mr. Baldwin, when he was Prime Minister, took tea with her over there, and Mrs. Baldwin as well," continued the father.

"Don't say much about her stage days," added Mrs, Wegner. She does not care about that. She has all sorts of people to consider. There is the Queen of Italy."

Start of Romance. Princess Violette travelled round Europe for a number of years ful- Alling her music-hall engagements, with her mother na chaperon. Then, near San Rema, she met her prince, and romance came into be

life.

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equal to those incurred by the most intrepid ivory hunter or killer of lions. The trophies that they bring back with them far exceed in hearty and in interest the heads and turks of former days.

A Pioneer.

One of the pioneers of the new school was Mr. A. Radclyffe Dug- more, who had as his assistant onk one of his African trips Mr. James L. Clark of the American Museum of Natural History. In an enthral ling book recently published. Mr. Clark relates some of his expëri- ences in the pursuit of big-game animals in Africa and other "con- tinents.

Sometimes his quarry WAR museum specimen, sometimes it was a picture, and the pictures stories always win "hands down." It is the same thing with the illustra- The princess has the beauty tions; there are photographs of the which can divert the

of author-posed beside corpses destin- history features which are exceped for the Museum, and there are tional, a complertion to marvel at; photographs of the hunting lion and

of the charging rhino. and a splendid figure.

"Her pictures have been sold all It is needless to say which of over Europe, declared her father. these really hold the reader, nor "Once, in Berlin, a photographer will anyone be found to deny that made twenty thousand picture post-a moving picture of wild animals in cards of her, and he sold them in their native haunts gives far more two days."

pleasure than the best mounted

"in a museum, group Princess Violette never forgets ber old parents. She writes to In the years to come, years that them regularly, and tells them all are not so very remote, the plains the news of the interesting people of East Africa will be as destitute the meete in company with her of game as is the South African husband. She is a princess who is voldt to-day. The herds of zebras still a policeman's daughter and a and the multitudes of antelopes will Londoner.

have gone to join the vanished

Her father and her mother just cungga. But in place of the half-" live on the thought of her in their dozen sorry stuffed specimens that London home, and they would die alone remain of the quagga there rather than do anything which will be libraries of living pictures might not be in keeping with what of the extinguished animals to thrill should be done by the father and and delight the generations of the mother of a princess.

fature.

Don't say anything the Queen of Italy might not ke," was the parting instruction of the mother of Princess Violette of Montenegro, née Violet Emily Wegner,

Debtor, lugubriously, at £hore- ditch County Court: I am not earning much. Judge Cluer: In rot earning much either.