1936-04-22 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936.

AERODROME ACTIVITIES

Boasted of Success

with Airmen

DR

¡R, Hermann Görtz, German lawyer and war avintor, has lodged an appeal against his couviction at the Old Bailey, where he was sentenced to four years' penal sorvitude for offences under tho Omcial Secrets Act, by making asketch or plan of Manston Royal Air Force station, calculated to be of use to an enemy, and by conspiring with Marianne Emig, a German girl, to commit offences against the Official Secrets Act. Vara

Son of a solicitor, Gortz was Ostensibly he was engaged in. born in Lubeck 45 years ago, collecting material for a novel, When war broke out, he joined and lå explained his interest In the German Army, anw service in the many aerodromes" he visited » East Prussia and the Western by saying that he was preparing Front, and transferring to the inn German Air Force he became a war aviator and was awarded the Iron Cross in 1917.

An illness in that year caused him to be transferred to a flying Achool, and about the same time he took up the work which was eventually to lend to his undoing.

Captured Airman

English in

essay for publication on British flying.

He appears to have been allowed to trespass on British aerodromes with Impunity, but it is tolerably certain that all his movements were care. fully noted by the body knożyn 'ns General Military Intelli.

gence.

Marianne struck up an C- Having passed examinations as quaintance with a young aircraft- interpreter

and man, Kenneth Lewis, and had French, and possessed of agree-[him to tea at the bungalow, able manners, he was appointed She was a handsome and strik- to the intelligence nem of the ing figure in trousers or shorts, German Air Service, his particu- and as she has herself suld of her lar duty being to interrogate ale stay in Broadstairs: "I think I men who were captured or.erash-created a bit of a siir." ed in the Verdun area.

"I dealt with these prisoners," he said, "as social equals and as oflicurs, as comrades and friends.

"I invited them to lunch and ten. I found there was no difficulty in getting the Information required from an enemy airman immediately after he crashed, for the ex- citement made him talk. in

At The Bungalow

Then in October Gorfz paldan- other visit to Germany, and took de- the girl with him. He, was tained longer than he intended, and a detective examined his pro- perty at the bungalow:

He found copies, of the doctor's applications for work in, the Ger- mnn Inteligente, service, and books and documents bearing on the British Royal Air Force, in- cluding a plan or wketch of Maraton aerodrome wilke an e alphabetical key to the various buildings. '. '•

fact, they really told me more than I wanted to know." Ile boasted that there was scarcely an avintor whom he was unable to persuade to make more or less important. statements This information he pieced to- A number of entries in gether into a complete pleture.

A special task allotted to him was to ascertain the organisation and development of the American Air Force operating from one of the fronts.

The American Air Force circulated a personal descrip. tion of him among their men as a "particularly dangerous Intelligence officer."

He asserted that the French manhandled him after the Arms lico when he had to hand over! an aerodrome to them.

His former partner in Hamburg says that Gortz shot down lots of Allied aeroplanes during the war. Ilis iWo brothers fre

diary referred to visits, aerodromes. A list of flm exposures had written, underneath. "ring practice."

A few days inter-on November 8-Dr. Gortz was arrested when he. arrived at Harwich..

Marianne Enig did not return to England with the doctor, and hnd she done so would have had to pip him in tho,dock. She is now living with her parents in Hamburg..

Dr. Gorta diso.husza wife living in Germany, and his daughter Welbke, ft years old, lives with his parents in Lubock.

The chief impression left by the active trial was the dispassionate way in officers in Germany, his father which it with conductedcht a time retired Vice Admiral of apparently high international Bin-law a

and his brother-in-law in the alarm. German, Defence Ministry.

Marianne Emig

Like so many men with spec-i

tacular records in the war, he

OF DR. GORTZ

Dr. Herman Gortz and pretty, neteen-year-old Fraulein Marianne Emiy, who was his companion on his "sketching-holi- day" in. England. Misa Enig was in Hamburg when the verdict was announced,

CAST ADRIFT

AMID SHARKS

Her Only "Fling"

woman

Pollco-Cours said:-

"The only wrong" thing have done in my married life was when I met the mah next door and we had a couple of *grape-frult="squashes"

gether."

ODDITIES FROM THE

to

DEVIL'S ISLANDERS RESCUED

PORT OF SPAIN

(Trinidad, West Indies),

April 10%

JAMES LIN GOES BACK.. TO SECOND WIFE IN CHINA'

Shanghai, Apr. 10.

James K. M. Lin, nephew and adopted son of the President of China, whose 'short-lived roman- co with an American five-and- fen-cent store clerks created head- lines in both the United States and China last year, is now Chinese government official in. western Inner Mongolia.

Living with him is hie second wife, one of two alstera whom he married China before undertaking his American matrimonial venture with Viola Brown of Columbus, 0.

Young Lin, who was recalled to Chipa by President Lin Sen and sub- sequently alivorend

reed by his Occidental bride, is quietly performing the duties of a secretary in the Sulyuan pros

He also vincial government.

English secretary to the provincial Governor, fra. Fu Two-yi. Ilo told Erlends that he wanted to forget the past and to concentrate on patrio- tle service.

The

youth, who was a student at Ohio State University at the time of his much-publicized, marriage

in

America, is said to have been dismis se from Lin Sen's family as a result. The President, Being childless, had adopted his nephew as his legal helt, in accordance with old Chinese cus- tom. Yourg. Lin after his dismissal obtained the Government post Saiyuen.

en. He attempted to conceal his identity.

but was easily recognized by former associates and others who had seen his photograph in the Chinese nowspapere.

in

The former collegian is reportedly bitter against American newspapers,

om he sicenses of having exploited his private affairs merely, because lo was the adopted con of China's pre- sident-Vailed Press.

New Power

Ray Invented In N. Zealand

Auckland, Apt. 18.

OR nearly nino months grined police, and sol- diprs have beon guarding Victor Penny, an Auckland, 'inventor, who is believed to. be experimenting with an invisible ray of vital import- ance for defence purposes. Nine months ago Penny's home' **** convicts, set adrift from Port in Takapuna was closely guarded by of Spain in an open boat: amid police. Penny was a

garage at- shopla of sharks, cheated their tendant, who, on the night of June captors, to-day.

19, was assaulted while on duty at The men, who, fled Devil's a garage. He was removed to Island und landed in Trinidad hospital, and, when discharged, did

RIYE cscaped Devil's Island

in October, were due to be de

proved something of a pene-time WORLD'S NEWS PERISCOPE ported as escaped convicts.

misfit. He qualified as a solicitor

and notary, practising in Ham- burg, but went to the United States, where he lived for a year and a half. Ife said he had to leave the United States suddenly because he refused to become an American citizen.

After three years in England, where he was assisting in law proceedings involving a great German firm, he entered upon a law action of his own, became badly involved.

His position in Hamburg be came desperate, and in the ap palling condition of his affairs his thoughts turned back to the Intel- ligence service in which he had) served his country so well during the war.

Last July he came to stay in England, accompanied by his charming girl secretary and com- panion, Marianne Emig, nineteen years old. His object was to con- vince, the German intelligence) service that he could gather the Information which would be most useful to them.

After a stay in the Isle of tour of Wight, they went on a

SPRING IS THIS WEEK'S KEYNOTE

San Francisco, Apr. 20. Oddities, as revealed through the News Periscope, indicate

not return home.

Taken To Island That meant being towed out. It is believed that Penny hopes to Defence authorl- to sea in an open boat and left be able to provo to drift.

ties that he can transmit a powerful electric current, perhaps in the form Saved By Police

of an invisible ray, without wires, to Island, when they roamed the seas and paralyse transport

But their flight from. Devil's stop men and aeroplanes in fight,

that Spring has arrived, poetry, youthful enthusinam, and-all. for twenty days beneath a scorch-

The poems donated by Los Angeles:

ODE TO A LADY. DOG:

G. D. McKee wapts to hire a wet find time to have any fur at all.

711780,

Experiments are said to have been

tance,

Penny was taken to Somes Island' In great accrecy aboard a Government steamer. Four soldiers vero guard with londed rifles.

OST

Keeping his wives from meeting ngaun, hall taught them to fear partly successful over a short dis- each other, he said, taxed his in-life on the waves as much as death penulty so much that he just couldn't fat the mouths of hungry sharka

A motor-launch towed them out. As the tow rope was cast off they purposely damaged, their craft and shouted for help. The police in the motor-launch, lunchment and perched on the piano. while taking pity, rashed to save them na

she played. When she finisheil, the So put the bint out but it has returned the boat sank and brought them

dally since then and peeks at the back to port. window until 1pt in

To help cut his, Scotty, her "supply is so scarce...

She had 12 pups in a bunch, And only eight places for But she took 'em in relays,

what's all the furse?

POETIC JUSTICE.

►

Ornte Albert Okendine

Didn't have to pay a fine, For climbing on his roof.

The ate that made him frisky He said, was "Squirrel whisky,"

So the Judge withheld reproof.

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Mrs. Minnetto Kirk, Chicago piano teacher, fondly exhibits, pigeon which recently Gew into her apart

And Chicago also, sponsors this: Five thousand fish were rottirned to their natural element recently in the Windy City, when a fisheries scow sprang a leak prid Bank in the Chicago They had been smoked before they river. Unfortunately for. the Ash,

returned to the water.

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And a town with an Irish name,

In Princeton, N.J. satirical students Deron and Cornwall, taking turns organized as the "Veterans of Future at stoering Dr. Gortz's motor-cyclo Wars" and issued a manifato do McCleary, (Wash), produces the fob

which ho combination,

had manding immediata cash payment of lowing, so it must be true: A re- brought from Germany. He also

versible river, that flows uphill part possessed a small camera, and it a $1,000 bonus to potential soldiers of the year and 'downhill' the re- was his custom to have the prints They said a chapter of a companion mainder, has been discovered near Association of here by Victor Turnquist who has just enlarged,

organisation, Tho Gold Star Methers of the Veterans reported the phenomenon. The stream of Future Wars," was being formed in a spring and flows down an Inclined bed to a nearby lake, when at Vassar.

water is low. When rains come, the Iako rises, and flows out through the same channel that earlier fed It.

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Well Watched Returning to Germany, he ar- ranged for supplies of money that would enable him and the girl to It wasn't so bad, declared Mrs. remain in England until the end Edith Allen of Washington, D.O. in of the year.

court, when her husband kicked her, OF Burned her neck with

lighted When he entered England again cigarette, or even when he throw gin In August they moved from place in her face and tied knots in her to place, sometimes electing to pyjamas. But when he put salt in her | stay, as in Barton Hill and Milden-bed, well, that was just too much, hall, in the vicinity of an Justico Alfred A. Whenb in District aerodrome.

of Columbia Supreme Court thought They were both members of the 60, loo, and her divorco polition was German Flying Association, and granted.

the girl was learning to be a glider. And young Viennese gentleman pilot.

han his troubles. In Vienna, Alola

From September 14 to October Stephen charged with marrying 61 21, they occupied n bungalow girls for their dowries, sighed with known as Havelock, in Stanley relief when he was faileds road, Broadstairs.

"It's the first quiet moment I've had dor years."

Trinidad is n British posses sion. There has recently been an agitation in the island to end -the deportation of escaped con victs by setting them adrift,.

Land Deal 42in. Big...

Melbourne, "Apr,. 18.. Four and a half lachen of, Col- lins-street frontage kas just been sold for approximately £25 OR inch, by Mr. P.gW. Tewkesbury,

owner of the Oriental Hotel, to Dr. Edward, Kyan, who wanted the land-for the new building to be constructed next door to the Oriental.

At present a party wall of nine inches divides the property, half belonging to the owner on either side. Now the whole nine inches belongs to Dr. Ryan.

The guard had orders not to allow yona within speaking distance of Ponny, unless a written permission. could be produced.

It an Intruder, failed to reply... when challenged, the guard was .td, shoot.

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GRAND OPENING.'

Other extraordinary precautions TO-MORROW.

were taken. A wire enclosure en- circled the buildings in which Penny worked and slept with a soldier sleep- ing in the same room.

Numerous lights were fitted so that no, he could approach the enclosure at night without being easily ob served.

Letters Censored·

To guard against night landings by unauthorised prisons, a bonfire was In readiness to be set afiry, while flares, and Verey light pistols werę kopy remained at Somts Island

Fenny until December, when he was trans- fürred to another place.

It is believed the reason was that the electrical power generated by the plant on the island was insufficient for his experiments."***

Penny's mother says her son'à letters are all "cenapred.

Sha, does not know exactly where ha is, but had a letter three weeks ago.

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