1935-11-27 — Page 3

LATEST ROYAL PORTRAIT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY,

DRAMATIC MEETING

Here is a new photograph of the new Duchess of Gloucester, the former Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott, who married H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester in Buckingham palace on November 0.

BRITAIN'S CIVIC

AIR POWER RANKS US ONLY FOURTH

AMERICA, FRANCE,

GERMANY

NOVEMBER 27, 1935

ON BRIDGE

ACROSS RHINE

ESPIONAGE PRISONERS

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

FILM: STARS

chot Tong and Joan Crawford, who recently married, snapped by the The two popular. Elm stars, Fran

cameraman during a shopping tour in a big New York storg, ...

German side was a forest of swastika flags de- Canadian Book corating the houses in honour of the released On Executions prisoners..

Only a solitary Tricolour flutter imprisonment between them, and I had been condemned, to ten years' ed modestly in the breeze on the were delivered up in exchange for French bridgehead to Emile Schneider, the forty-year-old also totalled ten years.. -

welcome the Frenchmen, whose sentences engineer condemned to elght yours Imprisonment in Leipzig in May

When the formalitics were com- 1933, Andre Burkhardt and Martha pleted, more handshaking, clleking Nussbaum, two young French con-of heels from the Gormans, and the aular clerks condemned for offences prisoners at last were allowed to against the German currency laws march oft 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.

Here they were met by German police commissaries escorting the three French-

mca.

In War Begun

Toronto, Nov. 15. The story of Canadians who were executed for cowardice and desertion during the World War is to be told for the first time in the oficial record of the 1st Canadian Division, "The Patch," now being compiled,

Red

On the French side Mme. Burkhardt, the blind old mother head of the division association "Our history," Harry E. Munn, of Andre Burkhardt, was wait- sponsoring the book, declares, ing for her son. Never has "could give the names and the there

been anything so story of every moving as the blind mother's executed in the Canadian Corps, man who WAB 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 "Yea, it is he, my, darling Do-De."

:

Mme. Schneider, wife of the en- ginger, fainted when she set eyes

The police officera shook hands on her husband. and then the prisoners shook hands,"

HAVE BIGGER SKY FLEETS

All the men retired into a near-by then laughed, and all she could say When she recovered who cried and BRITAIN is still fourth among the Powers in officers were signing papers and indeed M. Schneider was thin. She shelter, where, while the police was: "You are so thin, cherie," and the number of civil aircraft. We have only completing the last formalities of told me that when he was arrested 165 engaged on regular transport, and 1,445 in all. each other of their experiences.

the exchange, the prisoners told he weighed 170lbs.

ja bare 100lbs.

Now he weighs America lends the world with the basis of years of imprisonment and then went off smiling and happy Actually the exchange was on The men shook hands once more 7,110 civil aircraft, 518 of these to be served. The two Germans to their homes, regularly engaged. France comes Becond 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 Commercial Information," 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 Germans have just imported Jacobs, the young girl whose two Boeings from America, cruis- "genius" he claims to have dia 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 Hanasa married.

flect, thirty-eight are "Ju. Dža"- identical with bombers, except When John comes back to Now 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

lished statements to the contrary, That Moth

Elaine said: "I must straighton things out. In the first place, John Barrymoro loves me. proposed marriage to me. Natur- 'ally we could not make It official

Ho

There's

as a betrothal while he was still Other

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

"Little Baby"

Ways!

There are more ways of kill- ing a moth than swatting it.

Here are ten methods of ex-

"He called me three times. Ho! told me he was coming here Imtermination given in. a booklet mediately to send out official published notices of our engagement. He Museum. said, 'Listen, little baby,'-ho calla me little baby more than anything elso-nobody's keeping Snookle Caliban from his Ariol. I will como to your arms immediately"." A month has clapsed since Barrymore's 'wife divorced him and his promise "to come here im- mediately" is still unfulfilled.

The friendship between Barry- moro and Miss Jacobs recolved tre- mondous publielty in the United States and last month it was stated that "the glamorous episode is!

onded."

Royal Memoirs Banned

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,

The book breaks a 45-years'

the men will be respected, we pro- pose to furnish the book with a portrayal of executions in the graphic and hitherto unpublished grim dawn."

1

full detalla of every man who was he has the names, numbers and Kim Boattic, the historian, asid

shot.

"This book," he said, "will dia

pel the rumour that still persists. that no Canadians were executed,

secret prison and released at the for desertion were confined in a and that those condemned to die

end of hostilities."

SUPER-LINER TO REPLACE

COSTLY LEVIATHAN

AMERICA WILL BUTED 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 suicido tain's Queen Mary and France's Normandie, after killing his mistress, a 17- year-old baroness. The sensation occurred in the Prince's shooting

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 long bors of the present Government time to come. with their idens of restoring the]

Habsburgs. 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 Leviathan:

America entered the war. she remained until 1917, when

Lost Money Each Trip Then she was taken over by the United States, renamed the Levi- athan, and used as a troop trans port.

on

each trip, and special moorings

She carried 12,000 troops had to be made for her at the American base, in France.

After the war the United States United States Lintsa State sub- Shipping Board sold her to the sidised line.

Daughter's Protest

He has not yet made public any details of her construction, Princess Elizabeth Windisch but they must be far advanced, graetsch, daughter Rudolph, has protested against

o Princo for his announcement says that: the publication,

"Contracts for construction saying that!

will be placed by December by the British "Piety and those religious feel- 15."

Ings which

my mother has,

It may be taken for granted Dislodge the egga from clothing hor from such an act."..

always paraded should have kept that she will be built with all with a stiff brush.

possible speed. Before putting winter clothing

Even so she will start her away, spread out before a fire,

The widow tells how sho watch- "working life" at least a year Damp clothing and treat with a without being able to stop it. "My

ad the Prince's life of dissipation after the Queen Mary and two hot iron.

years after the Normandie, She was then renamed oneo Store garments in boxes, the offorts to make his marriage happy edges of which should bo necured wore in vain," she writes, "be

holder of the Atlantic-crossing again. She became the President with adhesive tape.

record, and now laid up for the Harding this time; but her. old cause he had Vacuum-clean upholstered furat- family life as the result of his

no feeling för winter (and for alterations) at name, the Leviathun, still stuck. ture and carpets at regular in-adventures with women from his

Le Havre..

She la still talked of as the Lovi- tervals.

America's Inst venture with an athan. Use camphor, but only in an air-

early years.

Atlantic super-liner-the Levi- tight cupboard or container.

"He depised

athan-cost many thousands of Sprinkle blankets, carpots, etc, thing lower than men, but he

woman as some good dollars. with paradichlorobenzene or naph could be a loyal friend to moh. Ho thalene, then roll in wrapping never loved the Baroness Marle paper.

Fumigate by hydrocyante gas. Votsera. For him she was only This is a job for an export.

one of many, but he did not want method niso should be left to an ex-sacrifice herself.

Fumigate by aulphur, This to die alone, and persuaded her to pert.

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 star was asleep and could not be disturbed. The same The book is entitled "Clothes "Her love for him was deep and day she issued a wireless appeal Motha 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 you need mo, The SOS went At the price of sixpence it is a on the grave of the unhappy and

cheap insurance,

blinded girl,

unanswered.

...

The Leviathani was built in Hamburg as the Vaterland for the Hamburg-Amerika Line, and started on the At lantic run early in 1914. She has a gross tonnage of 54.282. is 907 feet long, has a speed of twenty-four knots, and until 1921 was the world's largest Fner..

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

She was laid up for thirteen months from May 1933 to June 1934 On her first voyage after that she lost. £28,600.

She continued to lose money, and carried only 135 passengers on her last voyage from America in March when the war broke out, and there ad at £8,000,000

She was in New York-Harbour She had then lost a aum estimate

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