THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1935.
Girl Bride Made "A Wonderful Sacrifice," Says Coroner:
"IT'S
Ex-Kaiser And His
"It Was Murder," Says Law Mother
T'S ALL RIGHT, DARLING, I AM COMING WITH YOU. YOU WON'T BE LONELY," MURMURED TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD BERTHA STERN, JEWISH BEAUTY, AS SHE BENT OVER HER TUBERCULOSIS-STRICKEN AND ALREADY-DYING HUSBAND, AND DRANK * POISON FROM THE SAME CUP THAT SHE HAD HELD TO HIS LIPS A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE. SHE DIED TWO DAYS LATER...
SAID THE LAW (but not without protest from the East Ham Co- roner's jury): She was a murderess and a suicide.
Empress A Prisoner In
Her Palace
NEW light on the strange story of the diary of the Em- peror Frederick of Germany, who died in 1888, is thrown by Lord Howard of Penrith'in his "Theatre of Life," publisked this month.
virtually a prisoner in her own
SAID THE CORONER (Dr. P. B. Skeels): This young woman has made a wonderful sacrifice. Although healthy and on the threshold of
On his arrival in Berlin as third life she decided to go secretary of Embases, Esme Ho- HOLLYWOOD LINK WITH H. K. with the man for whom ward, as he then was, discovered ERROL FLYNNE has been given the titl
she had so much devo-that the Empress Frederick was tion. They entered the paince. Even letters and telegrams. Great Beyond together.from her mother, Queen Victoria,
What say you? These are, the facts revealed at yesterday's two- hour-long Inquiry on which the law, the jury, and the based their conclusions:-
role in Warners' Captain Blood. Mr. Flynn was born in Co. Antrim, Ireland, twenty-five years ago. When he had grown to be aix feet one and a half inches tall, thirteen stond in weight, a notable all-round athlète and a useful baritone singer, he wont 20 Australia to find gold.
Not finding much, he returned to London and went on the stage. One day last year he called the Warner Brothers' British studion at Tudington, determined to havo a shot at films. After the first day's work, he was given a long-term contract. And within a month. he was on his way to Hollywood.
Now he has the biggest part, In what should be one of the year's biggest pictures. And in the meantime he managed to tako a
Errol Flynn. fortnight off to clope to Yuma with Lill Damita. Fast work!
As far as Hongkong is concerned, Mr. Flynn's chief claim to fame lics in the fact that, whilst passing through here from New Guinen to Hollywood, by the steamer Tanda, he was the victim of a daring robbery, in which he was relieved of diamonds said to be worth $60,000.
Rocket Flights Into Stratosphere Soon
take
Roswell, New Mex, Nov. 20. reflection of radio waves,
A series of rocket flights, in place. Another mission will be which automatically-stabilised astronomical photography without projectiles will be seat into the interference of the earth's at stratosphere, will be carried out mosphere." by Dr. Robert H. Goddard from Practical phases of the rocketį his experiment station here development ara secondary, al- within the next three months, though it follows that Goddard, if Inspired anew by a recent visit he perfects a rocket which will from Harry F. Guggenheim, successfully carry hia Bcionti- whose family foundation is back- fic instruments to auch heights, ing him, and Col. Charles A. might well open a new field for air
transport. Lindbergh, a member of the board of control of the founda- tion; Goddard and his three as- sistants were continuing shop work on rocket development.
Already, it was revealed while Lindbergh and. Guggenheim! were here, Goddard has sent rockets many thousands of feet into the air, at speeds of 700
corner
Visited Him Every Day
On Christmas Day. 1933, the then twenty-year-old Bertha Rob- bins became the bride of Michael Stern, 1. Se, twenty-four years old and with a brillant future as n chemist before him. They made their home in Osborne-road, Forest Gate, E.
On the Jewls Day of Atonement (October 7) Michael fell seriously ill. It became known that he had contracted tuberculosis. It was the beginning of the end.
Gripping the table before him in the crowded court, Michael's father said that Bertha-visited her young husband every day.
Then, on October 21, came a tele- phone call from the hospital: "Only a few hours to live." said the doe- Fors.
Asked To Be Left Alono
Both Bertha and Michael asked
Mr. Stern to leave the bedside, to leave them together,
were not delivered,
"The long-drawn-out agony of the Emperor Frederick's illness hud no sooner come to an end than his son, the Emperor William II., then a young man of 20, ordered a. cor- don of soldiers to be placed found the palace at Potsdam where lie died and where the Empresą, was still living... The whole reason for this extraordinary, behaviour on the part of the young Emperor was, it appeared later, that Bia- marck and William II, both feared
that the Emperor had left behind a diary which might contain un- palatable information about people. and things, and especially, it was supposed, about the conduct of the
war of 1870."
A minute search of the palace was made, but without success, thi Byzantinisin of the proceedings coming as a great shock to the youthful mind of the Esue Howard, Meanwhile, the diary had been entrusted to Mr. Inman Baruard. an American newspaper corres pondent, and he walked out of the palace with it concealed under his waistcoat and delivered it to Queen Victoria.
Lord Howard's book covers the
"I had à premonition some- thing was wrong" he said. "Iyears 1868 to 1905 and in the eyes went to the door of the ward of to-day it reads like the record and saw her give him some of the golden age in the diplomatic thing from the cup. She saw
service-delightful society, nbun- me approach, snatched it from dant sport, and not too onerous his mouth, and drank the con-
dutics. tents."
Án aura of mystery sur- rounds all the work done by Goddard and his aides. No
The eup contained milk and visitor may approach within 200
kill several yards of the rocket tower. enough arsenie to
people. None may enter the laboratory, The rockets. It is known, are
was pretty, blonde Nurse.
An Ambassador Arrested
He tells the interesting story of how Lord Lyons, Ambassador in Paris, and Edward Malet, his
about 10 feet long and two feet O'Connor who, found Michael Secretary-(afterwards-Ambassador in diameter, and are propelled by clasped in the arms of his girl-wife in Berlin), were arrested as spies Kasoline and liquid oxygen, God- and heard her say: "It's all right, in 1870 when the French Govern- dard having turned to liquid fuel darling, I am coming with you.” ment moved to: Bordeaux. They after many experiments with pow-
were marched through the streets der rockets.
Bertha's brother, Morris amid hooting cries, to be lodged In Robbins, said she told him just jail before she died: "If I have saved him an hour's pain the rest of my lifo is well lost.” Word Murdor Is Horrible More poignant evidence, and all
back into their seats after the sim-
miles an hour, or more.
He has solved, too, the problem of automatic stabilisation of the Many dimculties confronted rockets while in flight through use Goddard when he started his roc- of a gyroscope.
ket experiments. Some of them Now the former head of the he has solved. Many of them re- Physics department at Clark Uni- main to be solved. Nobody, but versity, Massachusetts, is working Goddard and his scientifle în-1 to improve his rockets, making timates kuow just how far the use of the knowledge gained in work has progressed. preliminary experiments, to the One problem is that of unleseh-es were on the jury as they filed
and return
point that they will carry scienti-ing from gasollae the tremendous ming up. The foreman, obviously Ac apparatus beyond the earth's power, necessary for carrying moved, told of their verdict that atmosphere,
un-rocket to vast heights without Mrs. Stern murdered her husband damaged.
creating heat so great that, it and then committed suicide while Lindborgh and Guggenholm, would destroy the instruments sent of unsound mind. He added:- while here, did not witness nnaloft with it. actual rocket flight. The famous Another problem-a few years flier, however, studied reports of ago considered insurmountable by previous experiments, and worked conservative scientists is to bring in his shirt sleeves with Goddard the rocket to earth again without and his men in their laboratory shattering the instruments. Some method of breaking the fall is necessary
and around the 60-feet tower of shining steel, 17 miles northwest
Goddard has not published his results. But he has convinced Guggenheim and Lindbergh that the solution of these pro. blems is in sight-United Press||
"We have to record that ver. dict in accordance with the laws of our land, but we feel terribly distressed in having
to
come to those decisions. The word 'murder' is horrible, and none of the jury would use such a word, especially in such circumstances."
The coroner added his epitaph- "A wonderful sacrifice."
4,000 PAY £7. 10s.
EACH TO
TO HUNT FOR VANISHED
HEIRESS
BOMBAY, Nov. 28.
FOUR THOUSAND people have applied to a Bombay millionaire for permission to search for his kidnapped daughter.
The girl disappeared a year of Roswell, from which the roc-ago-in the wilds of Burma, it kets are designed to be fired.. is stated, though It is believed Goddard is chiefly interested in she was carried off in Bombay. the scientific data which may be Her identity has not been reven)- obtained if the rocket lights to ed, nor that of her father. great heights are successful.
Importance To Science
The millionaire demanded from every applicant a deposit
brought
of £7.10s. ms a guarantee of
faith. This good $22,500.
"Lord Lyons, instead of making trouble about the indignities offered to him and reporting the matter home, not only accepted in the friendliest way the * apologion of the master of the prison, but, as they left, he trade niet promise that he would never Ray word about to anybody. To then Im-
Font it on his mind this lesson:
it is the business of a diplo- mat, wherever he is, to avoid un- pleasant incidents. If a diplomat unfortunately becomes the centre of an Incident of this kind, it is pro- bably largely his fault and he had better keep quiet about it,"
spent some weeks in Florence;
In April, 1888, Queen Victoria
"She came with her Indinn mun- sh, and John Brown in his high- land kilt. Those attendants prent- 1y interested the Florentines, and the papers of Florence suggested that her Majesty must have made a mistake in the dates and thought she was coming for the carnival."
A Disciple of Rhodes
'On a visit to South Africa Ho- ward made the acquaintance of Cecil Rhodes.
In the Abyssinian Army thera ara numerous Mohamedan soldiers and commandera. In the picture above uch Mohamedan, officer is on doring an inspection of the troops in Addis Ababa before leaving for the front.
Steel Highway of Empire
GOLDEN JUBILEE OF A GREAT ADVENTURE "To thin green rurth Pll say farewell "And run a railway line through hell."
Fifty years ago a simple workman, helping to build the Canadian Pacific Rail- way through the almost im- passable Selkirk Mountains, wrote those lines on a skull found by the roadside.
And the grim words, typify the spirit in which a band of men, in the face of tremendous odds, built, the great steel highway to the west across Canada, a railway which was then two-thirds longer than any other system' in existence.
On November 7, 1885, the last spike which connected Vancouver with Montreal was driven in. It was a simple ceremony, to which not even the Governor-Goneral was invited, although he had ordered a silver spike to be prepared, and mounted as a souvenir.
But Sir William Cornelius Van
Horne, Chairman, Second Pre- sident, and one of those almost legendary figures to whose efforts the successful completion of the line was due, was, of the 'opinion that spikes of silver and gold were not so good as plain iron. He also insisted that all present at the ceremony must be connected with the railway, a sentiment with which the workmen were in hearty. agreement. .
Great Risks Faced
So, as Mr. John Murray Gibbon writes in his book ("Steel of Empire: a history of the Canadian Pacific"), "There wero no tele- graph wires to carry the sound of the hammer across the continent, and no arrangements to fire nalvoes of artillery in Montreni or Vancouver.
"Nor, as had been arranged at the driving of the golden spike on the Northern Pacific two years before, were any Indian Chiefs brought in formally to cede their: hunting grounds to the great chief of the Canadian Pacific to the ac companying blare of a brass band. Yet the ceremony..
..was a fit- ting climax to the greatest ad- venture in railway history.". . Donald A. Smith, as he WBB then, who was later to-become Lord Strathcona, drove in tho simple fron spike in the presence of a small group who ranged in rank from Van Horne himself to Miller, a porter, and E. Mallan- daire, described simply as "a hoy." The first through passenger train from coast to coast left Montreal Station on June 28, 1880, and passed over the entire system without mishap,
And so was successfully brought to a conclusión a work to which a
"As we walked up to the Parlia-devoted band of men with vision,
mont House I saw a large figure of
a man, with a rather rolling gait, in not over-clean grey flannels, with n somewhat battered straw hat on his head, his hands thrust, deeply into his trouser pockets and his Jacket pulled up to the waist, show- ing an enormous breadth of beam I gazed, on the curious back, deeply impressed with an astonish- ment that was only to grow as i got to knew him better.”
Rhodes made a great impression on the young diplomat, who now. affirms that nearly everything he foresaw has come truc," lle spoke as "an Inspired prophet.”
Filled with Rhodos's Idéns on the He has now made a "short list" politient and economie dovelopment Private detectives have hunted of six to conduct the search.
TE Je atated
A of the Empire, Esmo Howard went
for her, without result, and when woman sacial worker has been home in the confident bellef that he In the words of Guggenheim: advertisements appeared in the placed in charge of it, and pledg: would be able to inspire others with the same enthusinam. Họ ra "It is of the most importance native newspapers offering £7 108.d to secrecy,
that_the_girl's signed from the Foreign Office to to science to obtain data in a month expenses to anyone who regions exceeding 80 miles I would starch for her, and £1,500 family are aware of the identity stand for Parliament. The attempt halghts, where electrical phone-reward for her recofery, letters of the kidnappers. She has á por falled, and he once more entered
sonal fortune of £45,000.
the Diplomatie-Service. mena, including lonization and the poured in.
Lord Strathcona, Sir William Van Horne, Lord Mount Stephen, and mány others, hud set their hearts. Thoy had taken charge after a government attempt to build tho road had failed ignominiously, they had faced bankruptcy more than once.
Prospecting In Rockies
With men of such temper at the i head and subordinates of a similar in spirit-a party of surveyors 1875, attempting to find
a pass through the Rocky Mountains, "travelled 900 miles on snow shoos with the thermometer averaging 39 degrees below zero for 20 daya"
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