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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER ∙15, 1935.

"Sea Devil" Pays A Visit To Former

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Harold Farquhar, the wealthy first ascrotary of the British legation in Mexico City, and Fritz Bieler, German pilot, who were in Hongkong last week, have arrived safely at Saigon. The men are flying from Mexico City to London in easy stages." Farquhar's plane

la pictured above.

Names in A Convict's Diary Hushed Up When

Produced In Court

Α SECRET document, written by a convict in his cell at the Old Bailey, was produced at the resumed hearing of the charges against the two Nottingham fire assessors, Ronald Alfred Relph and Harry Davis Hayden, at Bow-street Police Court, London, last week.

Harry Gould spent his time while awaiting sentence with Leopold Harris and the rest of his gang, writing out a long memorandum--virtually a diary with names and dates.

This document the convict pans- ed to Superintendent Yandell, the Scotland-yard chief, and it has: been kept a close secret during the two years Could has been in gaol. He was sentenced to six years penal servitude.

Carefully Hidden

Gould Is a witness in the present case against the two Assessors,

and when he returned to the box thu-document-was-produced.----

Only a part of the pencilled memoranda on the first page of the convict's cell notes was revealed-, the rest of the tell-tale document was carefully concealed.

ALLEGIANCE TO EMPEROR

Mr. Roland Oliver, K.C., the

·lending counsel for the prosecu. tion, disclosed the reason for this.

On the notes werɛ a number of¦ names, which, Mr. Oliver explain-; ed, bad nothing whatever to do with the present ease. The only name relevant to the hearing was that of the defendant Hayden, and for that reason he asked that the rest of the document should not be for mooling with Emperor Haile disclosed.

Counsel in the case conferred-to- gether, while the magistrate re- tired to his room. They studied

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the document closely, and when handed over to the care of the the magistrate returned to the clerk of the court. Bench, Mr. Oliver announced that i

Blackmail Outburst

It had, been fair from every pointj Gould's wife was agaju in court, of view if any name except the re- She heard her husband twice levant one, were seen."

dramatically demand the right to The hush-hush diary of the man clear his hume of a suggestion of from Maidstone Gaol, still with|blackmail. The convict was under most of its secrets unknown oxcept | cross-examination when the word to three or four persona, was then blackmail was introduced.

Enemies In London

HE BLUFFED OUR NAVY

SLIPPED THROUGH BLOCKADE BY SINGING "TIPPERARY”

POLICE IN SKIRTS

THE “SEA DEVIL" IS IN LONDON, COUNT FELIX VON LUCKNER, ROBIN HOOD OF THE, SEA. YOU KNOW HIM. THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS HIM.

He is the huge, hawk-nosed, laughing fellow who took a sailing ship out to sea from Germany during the war, glided gaily through the dense British blockade under the very nose of Jellicoe, gained the ocean and played havoc with British and Allied shipping in the Atlantic and Pacific.

He sank £8,000,000 of Allied shipping with his Police Corps, who serves at War- old windjammer, raiding the trade routes of the oceans in the guise of an innocent trader.

He was one of the greatest while he is in England. He would menaces to shipping in the latter particularly like to meet Beatty days of the war. Yet he escap- und Jellicoe.

"In Germany both these names | ed capture to go and raid England last month with a smile are greatly respected," he said.

that would open the gates of a prison.

Never once in all his raids did he cause the loss of a single life. He sank dozens of ships, yet not even *22 ship's cat was drowned.

"I have come to raid your hearts," he said to a London press representative when he bounded down from the air-liner

at Croydon.

The Count ran away from home His father want- as a boy of 18. Jed him to be a'Heutenant in the farmy but the boy wanted to do

s.aething different,

"My ambition was to become self-made man and my ideal of a really great man was Buffalo Bill. "I travelled 20,000 miles by sen soek. Buffalo in and land to Colorado, but when I got there they told me:

Buffalo Bill has gone to Ger- many to give a Wild West show

"Ah! How did I get through there.

the blockade?" he laughed in answer to a question,

"Well, 1 know the British are

"That was the greatest dis- appointment of my life."

Lieutenant At Last

Poland has now got its firat Woman

anw. Their task is mainly to protect women and children from the traffic dangers in the city, in their nice uniforms they give a now aspect to the town.

£20,000 Claimed For Use

Of His Name

PROTEST TELEGRAM SENT IN "LOBBYING" Columbia (South Carolina),

Oct. 1.

A SUIT for £20,000 damages

has been filed here by a Post conservative. They believe what In America Count von Luckner Office worker as a result of the they see until they see they are came into contact for the first current Congressional inquiry wrong. Then they never believe time with the Salvation Army. into lobbying" activities in you again. As I approached the "I didn't know what kind of an Washington. Grand Fleet 1 was an innocent army it was," he said, "but I join- Norwegian. My old schooner was ed It. I thought should be ing facts about the methods

The inquiry elicited astonish the most peaceful ship at sex.

pleasing my father by becoming This is the Count's boast:

used hy a section of "big a fleutenant at lust. "I sank a good many ships, bet

"They gave me some War Crica business" in their efforts to I have this to relieve my con- to sell, and I sold them in the defeat the science from those old days of streets of America.

Rayburn (Wheeler Utilities Bill. the way- never deprived a "I have a great admiration for Evidence before the Senate dis- mother of the life of her son, the Salvation Army, and I am sure closed that thousands of false wife of her husband or a boy of

names taken that they don dislike me, for they signatures, or his father, I took on board all have since made me an honorary random from telephone books, had the crews and passengers of the lieutenant of the American bran-been attached to telegrams sent ships that I sank"

He said that the name "Seah I am very proud of that rank

In the Salvation Army" Devil" was given to him by the British.. is famous. raider was

the Seendler, a Norwegian clipper

(formerly American-owned. Clue To

Broke_The_Blockado

"We broke through the blockade

in the North Sea by convincing the British Fleet that we were

| Norwegians."

"Before we sailed out every one of us learned Norwegian. We mastered the language HO that even the British-then the most cautious and suspicious people in

world-believed, we the neutral Norwegians.

were

"We dressed one young sailor up as woman. He was supposed to be my wife. As a sailor he looked rather tough, but in the clothes we made him wear he was quite a handsome

'woman.

We had a gramophone, and when a British ship came along to challenge us we put record, "It's 21 long way Tipperary,"

meet

some

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Missing Millions

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It

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them to

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Fred Turnipseed, a local postúl

For Prospectus worker, claims-£20;000-from-the- Broad River Power Company of apply:- |Columbin, a unit of the Associaled Gas and Electric system, alleging that the company had signed his name without authorisation to a telegram of protest despatched to Washington.

Mr. Turnipseed further submits. that the telegram was aent in "utter disregard of his rights, and with the object of promoting the company's' interest to influence Senator Byrnes to vote and use his Influence against enactment of It has hitherto been believed the Utilities Bill," and that this that Kruger, President of the caused him great mental angulsh Transvaal, buried them in

The Turnipseed action is

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South Africa as he fled from and loss of sleep. the advancing British Army. Now Carl Hens, an old German garded as a test case which may settler, has announced that he establish the right of individuals to helped to ship them to Holland in whose names were used without their sanction in the campaign 1000 on board the German steamer

hard

against the Utilities Bill Konly. "

receive compensation from the companies.

to

Old Foos Count von Luckner hopes It was in that year that Kruger former combatants himself fled to Holland, where he spent most of the remaining years af his life at Utrecht.

than Hens, who has been more 145 years in Africa, states that from 1890 to 1904 he was a ship's chandler in Lourenco Marques. "

One day, towards the close of the year 1900, he alleges the manager of the Netherlands Bank in Lourenco Marques asked him for the use of two boats used in his busineas as ship's chandler.

The English Training ship Warapite arranges annual competitions among the students so that she lors in the making have the opportunity to show air capacities in seamanship. Here they are seen

climbing the rapoa.

Contained Gold

to

Influencing Congressman Legal circles are interested in this case because it points the way to what will probably be tho lobbying" tacties in the future. one means of preventing such

It is thought to be unlikely that any measures will be taken against those who admitted responsibility for these tactics before the Senate.

On the other hand, If individual members of the public are success- ful in winning cases on the same lines as Mr. Turnipaced, "lob- At midnight a hundred boxes, byists" for powerful Interests will weighing about 300 lb. cach,be deterred from resorting to such. were loaded into his boat and means of influencing Congressmen carried across to a German ship in the future. Reuter.

Hens declaros emphatically that the boxes he carried over to tho Konig had been sent from Pretoria,

and contained the funds. of the Transvaal Republle.

He says that the manager, of

ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION

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Melbourne, Sept. 28.

the Netherlands Bank, whose name Having survived for 11 dnya in

an

Aus-

ie cannot remember, but whose the artificial respirator, Ruby chlef feature was a huge beard, Currio hus cotablished told him that the boxes contained tralian record. gold. The nature of the packing The girl yesterday spent four- and 'the weight of the boxes con- hours outside the respirator. The. Armed that bellof.

world record tenancy of an arti ficial respirator by a patient who has recovered is three weeks.

Hens swears that the name of the captain of the Konig was Sober, and that one of the

A recent message stated that officers was Meisling.

Ruby Currie, aged six years, was Asked why he had not revealed struggling deperately for life in thene facts before, Hens said that the Children's Hospital.

ho had informed the Union Govern- She has been living in an arti- ment in 1923 that it was a waste ficial respirator and broathing only. of time looking for the Kruger by artificial means. millions in Africa, and had told The child is suffering from the Government what had hapnon-diphtheria and paralysis of the ed to them.

diaphragm. The hospital author!-- Hens stoutly maintains that his ties say there is hope of hor story is true-Reuter.

recovery.

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