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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER

1995.

LATEST ROYAL PORTRAIT

DRAMATIC MEETING ON BRIDGE

Here is a new photograph of the new Duchess of Gloucester, the former Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott, whe married H.R.II. the Duke of Gloucester in Buckingham palace on November 6

BRITAIN'S CIVIC

AIR POWER RANKS US ONLY FOURTH

ACROSS RHINE

ESPIONAGE PRISONERSK

RELEASED

GERMAN AND FRENCH 'SPIES' EXCHANGED, MEET ON BRIDGE OVER RHINE

Paris, Nov. 10.

One of the most dramatic meetings between Germans and Frenchmen since Marshall Foch met German Armistice envoys in Compiegne Wood took place. this afternoon in the middle of a bridge over the Rhine, when two Germans convicted of espionage and released from prison in France met three Frenchmen, one of them convicted of espionage, released from German prisons,

Ready to greet the men on either side of the river were their wives and families. On the. German side was a forest of swastika flags de

FILM STARS MARRY

Ala has myes for only YOU

chot Tone and Joan Crawford, who The two popular film stars, Fran- recently married, snapped by the cameraman during a shopping tour in a big, New York store.

Canadian Book

corating the houses in honour of the released On Executions prisoners..

bad been condemned to ten years Only a solitary Tricolour Blutter imprisonment between them, and ed modestly, in the breeze on the were delivered up in exchange for French bridgehead to welecme, the Frenchmen, whose sentences Emile Schneider, the forty-year-old also totalled ten years. engineer condemned to eight yenra' imprisonment in Leipzig in Mag When the formalities were com- | 1933, Andre Burkhardt and Martis pleted, more handshaking, clicking Nussbaum, two young French con-of heels from the Germans, and the sular clerks condemned Ter offences prisoners nt last were allowed to against the Gernian currency laws march off into their own countries, to three years' imprisonment each. the east and the west.

It was 4.30 this afternoon when French police officers led Johann Rathke, a blind German ex-officer alleged to be one of Germany's super spies, and his associate, Alois Frischmann, his guide, to the middle of the bridge.

On the French aide Mme. Burkhardt, the blind old mother of Andre Burkhardt, was wait- ing for her son., Never has there beer

In War Begun

Toronto, Nov. 15. The story of Canadians who were executed for cowardico and desertion during the World War is to be told for the first time in. the offtein record of the lat Canadian Division, "The Red Patch," now being compiled;

WAS

"Our history," Harry E. Munu, head of the division association sponsoring the book, declares, "could give the names and the anything so story of every man who moving as the blind mother's executed in the Canadian Corps, joy, and after touching her but that painful part of the war son's face and running her will be treated delicately by the hands over him she cried, historian. Though relatives of "Yes, it is he, my darling the men will be respected, we pro- De-De."

pose to furnish the book with n graphie and hitherto unpublished Mme. Schneider, wife of the en-portrayal of executions gineer, fainted when she set eyes grim dawn."

In the The police officers shook hands on her husband. and then the prisoners shook hands.

Here they were

met by German police commissaries escorting the three French-

men.

full details of overy man who was ho has the names, numbers and Kim Beattie, the historian, said

shot.

"This book," he said, "will dis-

AMERICA, FRANCE, GERMANY HAVE BIGGER SKY FLEETS

All the men retired into a near-by then laughed, and all she could say When she recovered she cried and shelter, where, while the police was: "You are so thin, cherie" and BRITAIN is still fourth among the Powers in officers were signing papers, and indeed M. Schneider was thin. She

the number of civil aircraft. We have only completing the last formalities of told me that when he was arrested pel the rumour that still persists the exchange, the prisoners told he weighed 170lbs. Now he weighs that no Canadians were executed, 165 engaged on regular transport, and 1,445 in all, each other of their experiences. ja bare 100lbs.

America leads the world with the basis of years of imprisonment and then went off smiling and happy secret prison and released at the Actually the exchange was оп The men shook hands once more for desertion were confined in a and that those condemned to die 7110 civil aircraft, 518 of these to be served. The two Germane to their homes. regularly engaged. France comes

end of hostilities." second with 2,093, 211 of them transport machines. Germany is credited with 1,741, of which. 239 are commercial.

John Barrymore Romance Tangle

GIRL SAYS "WE ARE TO VISIT ENGLAND"

the of

These figures are taken fdom Air Ministry's "Resume

Royal Memoirs

Commercial Information, Banned

Special Issue No. 9. for 1935.

180 M.P.H.

Two of the remaining twenty- one are at present out of action owing to accidents.

New York, Nov. 1.. Notwithstanding John Barry- 'more's denials, Elaine Barrie The Gormana have just imported Jacobs, the young girl whose two Bocings from America, cruis "genius" he claims to have dis- ing at nearly 180 m.p.h. Several covered for future films, still in- of their machines are admittedly. sists that they are going to be war types. Of the Luft Hansa married.

fleet, thirty-eight are "Ju. 029" identical with bombers, except When John comes back to New for interior furnishings. York," she declared "we are all going to England. I expect to make

a serious picture over there,"

Confronted by Barrymore's pub.

Don't Swat

Moth

lished statements to the contrary. That

Elaine said: "I must straighten things out. In the Arst place,

John Barrymore loves me. Ile There's

proposed marriage to me. Natur-

ally we could not make it offcial

as a betrothal while he was still Other Ways!

married. But two days before his divorce he talked to me for hours from Los Angeles.

"Little Baby"

+

There are more ways of kill- |ing a moth than swatting it. "He called me three times. Ile told me he was coming hero ini-termination given in a booklet Here are ton methods of ex- mediately to send out official published notices of our engagement. He Museum.

by the

British said, 'Liston, little baby,'-he calla me little baby more than anything else'nobody's keeping Snookle Caliban from his Ariel. I will come to your arms immediately"." A month has elapsed sinco Barrymore's wife divorced him and his promisa "to come here im-i mediately" is still unfulfilled.

The friendship between Barry- more and Miss Jacobs received tre- mendous publicity in the United States and last month It was stated that "the glamorous episode Is ended."

A few days afterwards, when John Barrymoro suddenly left here for Hollywood, Miss Jacobs took an aeroplane and dashed after his train. At Chicago she was told that the film atar was asleep and

.

PRINCE RUDOLPH AND

HIS LOVER

Vienna, Nov. 5. The police to-night ordered the confiscation of all copies of the memoirs of Crown Prince Rudolph's widow, now Coun- tess Lonay,

SUPER-LINER

TO REPLACE · COSTLY LEVIATHAN

AMERICA WILL BUIED RIVAL TO QUEEN MARY, NORMANDIE New York, Nov: 15. America is going to build a super-liner to rival Bri- silence on the Prince's suicide tain's Queen Mary and France's Normandie. after killing his mistress, a 17- year-old baroness. The sensation occurred in the Princo's shooting

The book breaks a 45-years'

lodge after a night of wild drink

Ing.

Mr. Monroe Johnson, U. S. Secretary of Commerce, made this announcement to-day.

The memoirs, published only perience with the Leviathan, it was thought that America It is a big surprise, for after America's costly ex- this morning, have greatly em- barrassed the Monarchist mem-had finished running Transatlantic super-liners for a bers of the present Government time to come. with their ideas of restoring the IIabsburgs. It is reported that

Mr. Monroe Johnson says

the Vienna paper which published the new liner will replace extracts this morning. Is to be severely penalised.

the

Daughter's Protest

the Leviathan.

all

long

America entered the war. she remained until 1917, when

Lost Money Each Trip

on

After the war the United States United States Lines-n State sub- Shipping Board sold her to the nidised line.

He has not yet made public Then she was taken over by the any detalls of her construction, United States, renamed the Levi- Princess Elizabeth Windisch-but they must be far advanced,athan, and used as a troop trans- graetsch, daughter of Prince for his announcement says that: port. Rudolph, has protested against ."Contracts for construction She carried. 12,000 troopa

publication, saying that

will be placed by December each trip, and special moorings "Piety and those religious feel-i 15,"

had to bo made for her at tho inge which my mother har It may be taken for granted American base in France.

she will be built with always paraded should have kept that Dislodge the eggs from clothing her from such an act." with a stiff brush.

possible speed. · ·

Even so she will start her "working life" at least a year after the Queen Mary and two

She was then renamed once years after the Normandie, halder of the Atlantic-crossing again. She became the President record, and now laid up for the Harding this time; but her eld winter (and for alterations) at name, the Leviathan, atill · stuck. Le Havre,

Sho atill talked of ne the Levi- America's last venture with an athan. Atlantic super-liner-the Levi- athan-cost many thousands of good dollars.

hot iron.

Before putting winter clothing away, spread out before a fire.

Damp clothing and trent with a Store garments in boxes, the edges of which should be secured with adhesive tape..

The widow tells how she watch-: without being able to stop it. "My ed the Prince's life of dissipation

efforts to make his marriage happy were in vain,” she writes, "be Cause ho had no feeling for family life as the result of his adventures with women from his early years. `.

Vacuum-clean upholstered furni- ture and carpets at regular in tervala.

Uso campher, but only in an air- tight

cupboard or container.

"He dopised woman as some Sprinkle blankets, carpets, etc., thing lower than men, but he with paradichlorobenzene or haph could be a loyal friend to men. Ho thalene, then roll in wrapping never loved the Baroness Marle paper.

Fumigate by hydrocyable-gas. Vetacra. For him she was only This is a job for an expert.

one of many, but he did not want Fumigate by,

sulphur. This to dle alone, and persuaded her to method also should be left to an ex- sacrifico herself. pert.

could not be disturbed. The same The book is entitled. "Clothes "Her love for him was doop and day alio issued a wireless appeal Moths and House Moths: Their real. Let me, the wronged widow, to "John dear," saying "I know Life-history, Habits and Control." lay this tribute to her great love mnanswered.

Each trip she made she lost money, and at last it was de- cided that she was too expen- sive to run.

The Leviathan was built in Hamburg-as the Vaterland- for the Hamburg-Amerika She was lald up for thirteen -Line, and started on the At-months from May 1933 to Juna lantic run early in 1914. She 1934. On her first voyage after has a gross tonnage of 54,282, that she lost £28,000.

is 907 feet long, has a speed of She continued to lose money, and twenty-four knots, and until carried only 135 passengers on her 1921 was the world's largest last voyage from America in March liner.

of this year.

She was in New York Harbour

She had then lost a aum estimat

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