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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1935.

SPY CHIEF MEETS MAN

HE HUNTED AFTER 18 YEARS

The "Sea Devil" Swaps

ROYAL PARADE IN IRAQ

att

King Charl of Iraq attending military troop ravlaw which recently took place nt Badhead

the occasion of the ancond anniversary of his Recession to the throne of Iraq.

SEVEN MILES HIGH

92 DEGREES BELOW FREEZING POINT MOSCOW, OCT. DILOT VICTOR YEVSE- YEV, one of the most ce- lebrated of Russian air- men, flew an airplane, a single-seater, into the stratosphere and reached a height of 39,384 feet, which is just over seven statute miles.

Fingers Frozen

And how cold the stratosphere is may be judged from the fact that he reports noting on his in- struments that the temperaturo 92 degrees below freezing

WAA point.

In spite of his special gloves and clothing the fingers of hia right hand were frozen.

Before this flight Yevseyev had five times flown his airplane to a height of 31,000 feet.

War Yarns With Admiral

Sir Reginald Hall

EIGHTEEN years ago a tall schooner was sailing the Southern Atlantic, looming up beside a merchant ship at dusk, threatening her with guns, ordering the crew into bonte, sinking the ship. The crew would then be takon aboard the schooner and landed at a neutral port. Allied merchantment christen-

ed the ship the Sea Dovil. The daring of her commander, the German Count von Luckner, was Jegendary.

Meanwhile, in London, a White- [haired, keen-eyed man whe Buingi all the remurces of the Admiralty to lay hands Ølt the laughing rnider The man was Admira Str. Reginald Hall, head of Naval Intelligener. Three or four mes The nearly cornered the Sen Devil,. but always he managed to escape.)

They have met at last-this greatest of all the German raidera, eulogined in our official history, and this brilliant ad- miral who crippled the Ger- mans' secret service and is re- ferred to by them as "the one! genius of the war."

They met at the admiral's lovely home in the New Forest.

You fellows hat all the fun,” was one of bia drst reñarly. “Wo has all the hard work."

very

Honest "Norwegian" The hit, boyish tiernan langheil.! blockade," he remarked, "a

"Retase I ever got through the

nice young oficer, searched m

hip and raw for himself that I է. peatedly innocent Gernian than a little dachshund Norwegian, with nothing

on board.

HONG

"He was su safished, with my honesty that he even wished me fa

merry Christmas. You 2017

right, admiral, It was great fun."

The admiral chuckled at his wartime enemy.

"What about your

naked the admiral,

papers?"

"They were faked Norwegian jpapers, of course. Do you know, I have seen the British Imperial seal in use during the war. It was made in Germany.".

Costly Slip

A smile crossed the admiral's shrewd face. He went out of the room for a moment and back with a small piece of wood with a seal on the end.

came

"That may interest you," he said, "that is a German Imperial

England! It

asal-made in

was used, too.

"It enabled me to catch one of) your most redoubtable spies-von Rintelen. I met him years aftor- wards, and he asked me how I had

The world altitude record for an airplane was once held by Bri-spotted him. tain. Now it is held by Italy. In April 1934 Renato Donati reached

was

"I told him his passport not in order-it was not a German

a height of 47,340 feet-in a Bri-passport, of course. He told me tish-engined airplane.

Balloon Heights

Much greater heights have been reached by balloons, which have an advantage over airplanes for stratosphere exploration because they have no engines to be affect- ed by the rarifled air.

The Soviet hold the world re- cord for balloon ascents into the stratosphere. In April Last a Soviet balloon reached a height of twenty-five miles— and then burst.

that was impossible.

"It must have been all right, ' be said. I made it myself."

"Then I showed him that while faking the passport he had used the seal, which should be half on the passport and half on the photograph, before the gum of the photo had dried. When he stamped it he moved the photograph a fraction of an inch. That was enough to show me the passport was a fake.

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"He got four years for that little slip. Hard luck, ch?" The admiral laughed and slight-

That balloon was not manned, but carried an automatic radioly changed the subject. He took apparatus which recorded Kreas.

pro-

When the balloon burst the instruments floated down by parachute.

In January 1934 a Sovlet bal- loon carrying three people reached a height of 12 miles.

That also is a world's record.

SALESMAN SAM

STAND BACK, FOLKS! GIVE'EM LOTSA AIR!

the count into the library and showed him the references to the Sea Devil In our official history, The count's big finger settled on & line.

Boy's Death Fall

"They say here that I read the burial service over a little English

HUH! IT'S HOWDY AN' BUNN,

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CHAZ?

JERITZA'S FIRST

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AGREES TO US. DIVORCE

The arce and remarriage tangle of Mme. Marlo Jerliza, the opera star, was cleared up to-day by the lawyers of herself and when a jolt statement was issued! Baron Popper, her first husband.

Mme. Jeritza married Mr. Win- held Schechun, the Hollywood film producer in August, after divore- ng Baron Popper according to Arkanras law. Baron Popper. when he heard of her remarriage denied that he had been divoreni.

Today's sintement says:1

"Pul nerord exista over the divorce and the economie dissolu-| tion of the household in Vienna and leewhere. The ardationi of the marriage relationship st Haken place with metaal consent [of hath parties"

VETERAN DIVER

BATTLES SHARK

Panama, Oct. 1.

A 37-year-old pear! diver has died following a fight with a huge tunting, 'shark 60-feet below the surface.

Th

had dived off the islands in search of pearls for 6fty years, believing that sharks- never attack human beings.

The shark attacked him while he was collecting shells.

Up above the churned waters at- tracted the attention of his fellow pearl divers. Plunging in, they found the veteran fighting a de- sperate losing battle with his hands and feat..

They succeeded in rescuing him and bringing him ashore, but he died soon afterwards.-Reuter.

cabin-boy who had been killed by my men in mid-Atlantic when we annk his ship.

"We did not cause his death. He fell and was killed by accident. I never caused a single death in any of the ships I sank.

"But I took the blame for his death, and read tthe service over his little body, covered with the Union Jack, so that his record should read: 'Died in Action, and his name go on the Roll of Honour.

"One question. admiral: An officer. saved my life in New Zea land when they wanted to hang me for a sinking when all hands were lost, but with which I had nothing to do."

"He asked me in court point- blank if I had sunk the ship. I told him I had not.

CRAC

Was

"Have captain, you have." "The

dismissed, What was his name, admiral?"

"Hall Thompson," anid Sir Reginald.

"That's it," exclaimed the count. "For years I have tried to remem ber that name."

An they took leave of each other the blg German gripped the ad- miral's hand. "I am really happy to have met a very gallant sailor," said the admiral.

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1 There's so much merriment in it

that it must be killing.

6 The result of a broken boom. 9 Censure.

10 A coastal feature.

11. Sounds like a scraper bat is big-

ger.

12 Showing some sense anyhow, 19 Feminine name.

14 1 across might cause this; and it

is old at heart.

17 National adjective.

19 The version current in banking'

circles.

22 British essayist, -

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26 Artistic aid. 26 Films have

fumous,

made this place

29 Oil is to be obtained from this.

fruit.

30 Sound entertainment In Switzer

Land.

31 It may be admitted that this is

inserted (two words). 32 Botanical specimen used in per-

fumery.

DOWN

1 Shoot that might come to grips. 2 Fruitful cause of man's miseries, 3 Hardly a favourite part of the

Joint.

4 Form of a treaty that comes in refreshingly in the afternoon.

5 This song should be a warning

to you (two words). 6.This doca not form the favourite

walk at the seaside.

Not in the most. fortunate man-

ner.

8 Without the fourth letter this expression of impatience might be a favourite weapon.

fungus.

14 A

15 A forerunner of the scientist, 16 This colour has the sound of

finality.

18 The warlike form of rag.

20 One of the family and an article

in foul association.

21 Is a covert allusion to this cry

allowable?

A gorgeous

English showplace, 23 Double the last letter to describe

a kind of stoel.

27 Stang money.

28 A boat that may be seen numbers on the Thames..

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