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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1928,

CAB DRIVER WHO SANK SUBMARINE.

STRANGE STORY OF LOST L55.

Pairs, Aug. 24, A man who claims to have sunk the British aubmarine L56 near the Fortress of Kronstadt, in the Gulf of Finland, in 1919, is now a taxicab driver in Paris.

Ho presented himself at the office of a Paris evening paper and told a remarkable story.

TRACKING DOWN MURDERERS.

CLAIRVOYANT AND HER

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Berlin, Aug. 23. The "Sybil of femelland," Frau had Gunthors-Geffers, who astounded Germany by her clair voyant powers in discovering crime, who had been acquitted of fraud amid the congratulations of the spectators in a caso brought by the Public Prosecutor, and who "I am, he said, giving only his only at the end of last month initials, "Mons. N.N., at pre-tracked another murder, has now sont, a taxicab chauffeur here, but caused Dr. Weiss, the Berlin Vice- formerly comander of the Police President, to draw up a ro- Kraannya Gorka (Red Hill Fort), port of her activities. at Kronstadt...

It was I who bombarded and Bank the British sumarine 156 on May. 29, 1919, in. Kaporsky Gulf.

"As the published account of that event is not wholly accurate, It has occurred to me to give you the exact detalls.

tho

LB5

In the "Kriminalische Monat- sheft" (Criminal Monthly Review) ho deals fully with one of her noted "experiments" of second sight in a double murder case. Ho her actions and enumerates "evidence," and then proceeds to criticise them.

Dr. Weiss, in the саве ho Call of Conscience.

describes, declares that the first "The sinking of occurred," the man went on, "In netion of the medium was to in- exceptional circumstances. I was dicate that the murdered persons In command of the fortress, and were driving along the road in the was preparing L counter-opposite direction to that which revolutionary, or anti-Bolshevik, they were proved later to have moremont. It is, therefore, not taken. without deep regret that I recall to-day the death of sailors who were once our allice.

"But I had to obey the call of a higher conscience. Every even ing villages on the coast

being

and bombarded,

com- I received not merely plaints, but orders. What could i do?;

wero

"If I had not acted I should have been dismissed and my object would have been doomed to failure.

Pillars of Spruy.

Police Dissection. Secondly, she went up to a bush In her trance and asserted that the murderer had stood behind it. Police evidence, Dr. Weiss declares, proved that this was Impossible. It also indicated the correct place, which was behind an elder tree.

The clairvoyant then gave.a and description of the horse carriage in which the murdered

I should have alienated the supersions were driving and of the. port, on which I depended, of the site of the murder. This was mostly correct, but the Police population of the villages.

President duelares that she could "At first I obeyed superior have read all the detalls in the orders to the extent that from my newspapers and come to her con- fort I fired a number of salvoes inclusions by a clever plece of the hope that the English war deduction. Vessels would go away. But they carne again,

"On May 29'1 had to give orders to dire 00 a submarine, the nationality of which I did not then know.

"The shells of my big long-range guns sent up great pillars of spray I can see them now-at the spot where the vessel was seen.

"When the aring coased there was no sign of the aubmarine. "I thought it had plunged, but the news now published shows that 1 Back it.” "And your counter-revolutionary movement?" he was asked.

"I had eventually to take refuge in a neighbouring country with 6,000 men. Later I went to Poland, where I enlisted.

"There is so much to tell, think of it all every evening after 1 have garaged my taxicab.

And the man who sank Lab took up his gloves and hut and went off to pilot his taxicab about the boulevards of Paris.

THE CAVALRY COMES

BACK,

Furthermore he said, that she of the had seen a police notice murder before going into her trance.

Dr. Weiss's last point is the most important. Frau Gunthers Geffers gave the name of the murderer and These details of his past life. statements the police president declares were carefully examined by the criminal police and found to be entirely wrong.

May Have Head Details. Moreover, Dr. Weiss maintains that the clairvoyant had most probably read the details about the supposed murder in a paper and described them later in her trance.

From the Police President's evidence, report "clairvoyant" which was becoming popular in Germany, will doubtless be dis- credited; but it remains to be seen whether similar, evidence may be given from such a high source to prove thut Frau Gunther's other were clairvoyant feats, whloh accepted in the Inw courts as genuine, were accomplished by deduction or other means,

Staff managed by some device to make his escape, enabling him to

BRILLIANT COUP IN A MIMIC dash to his Army to report the

BATTLE.

disaster.

For a time the "brain" of this Army, as it were, had suddenly Salisbury Plain, Aug. 24.

become paralysed. Consequently The 2nd Cavalry Brigadé to-day provided a good lesson in that kind the senior officer of the fighting of enterprise in which the mount- troops (if he were still alivo) had cd arm at times excels namely, the to take command of a demoralising

happens execution of a wide turning and situation. It was a situation that in perce enveloping movement in which rarely

manoeuvres. Guns, too, had been mobility and time are the essential lost (two batteries), and some factora for its successful execu armoured cars had "laid out" a tion.

The pursuit by the cavalry to-day was remarkably successful, The mounted men had opposed to them the 9th Infantry Brigade, which embraces the 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fualliers, 1st Batta- Hon Welch Regiment, and the 1st Battalion Özfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, with some artillery."

platoon of the Fusiliare,

Royal Scota

A Perplexing Situation. Needless to say, the confusion of "battle" was considerable, but officers were found to carry on," and they made the best of a per- plexing situation.

Colonel Brooke had carefully studied the plan of campaign, and There were no mounted men for he did not waste men and horses reconnoltring. This was in itself on minor enterprises. His column a great handicap to the commander he employed on a wide enveloping of this force. There was, how-movement which had the effect ever, aerial reconnaissance which described. was not particularly informing.

Fording the River Avon at Mijs- The cavalry (or opposing force) ton, he crossed Bulford Field, had some armoured cars and some crossed Silk H, then turned guns. There were some imaginary south to Rabbit Hill, on through troops taking part in the exercise. Park House and Cholderton to Had these phantom forces been Quarley Hill, near Grateley, and actively engaged it seems, taking across to Boscombe Down, where a wide survey of the situation, that the "enemy's" Brigade Head- the misfortune that attended the quarters were captured, and guna Infantry would not have happened. and infantry in the neighbourhood The cavalry were commanded were at the same time surprised The cavalry, by Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey by armoured cars. Brooke, of the 16th/5th Lancers, In their wide turning movement, and those familiar with that com- had covered some twelve miles in mander's propensity for initiating about two hours, and then went a bold and decisive action with a straight into a fight of 30 minutes' big element of surprise, expected duration before they captured the something unusual to happen, and "enemy's" headquarters. were not disappointed.

Both horses and men, after their "Hostilities" opened at nine forced march over undulating and Com-wooded country, were in no sense Brigade o'clock. The mander's headquarters, were then fatigued. There was evidence of Fifteen minutes this in the dash, and resolution near Larkhill, later his Dragoon Guards, with which they captured Tower: Hussars, and Lancers had begun ill and momentarily demoralised an exploit which coded so the "enemy" by their surprise disastrously for the infantry force, action, The Commander of the culminating in the "cuppering" of 9th Infantry Brigade was Lieuten- their Brigade Headquarters. ant-Colonel G. Fleming, of the Fortunately, one of the Brigade 1st Battalion Welch Regiment.

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