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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

"HOW I SHOT GEBHARDT"

New York, Apr. 20.

Vera Stretz, described as "the icy blonde," told a hushed court. to- day the circumstances in which she came to kill her lover, wealthy in- dustrialist Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, in his luxurious skyscraper apartment in New York.

She told Arst how he persuaded her to go to his rooms on the pretext that he was in pain. She had already told him that she wished their love affair to end.

"Suddenly," sho eald, "he grabbed hold of me and auld he was not ill.

"I just wanted to know If you loved me, he whispored. Then he pulled me towards him. I screamed You beasti Let go!

"I threatened him, and said, "Let me go or I'll do something desperate.'

"You dammed,' he replied. He caught hold of my hand, pulled me to- 'wards him."

Mias Stretz, who described how the run she had grabbed went off when she pulled away from Gebhardt, then told how he came towards her, and she fred again.

"Did he stagger?" asked the judge. "I dont know," she replied, crying bitterly. "I just saw blood."

The judge tried to make her clarify her story. She broke down Robbing,

"I don't know; I just shot and shot and shot. I camet recall any details."-Renter.

Dr. Gebhardt, a wealthy German economist, bad employed Miss Stretz as his secretary. They had) adjoining flats on the twenty-first floor of a New York akyscraper.

Gebhardt was found shot dend

APRIL 29, 1936.

The Athenaeum

Capitulates At Last To Women

The five months mystery concerning disappearance of the luxuriously fitted Standard Oil Co. plure moved nearer solution when the wreckage of the plane was lifted from the waters of Great Salt Lake. after weeks of work. It was towed under water 23 miles from the point where it was located by dragline and divers, and was being raised at a railroad cutoff for dismantling when this phots was taken. Bodles of the three crew members were recovered earlier from the lake.

Briton Head

Of Overseas

PLAYS CRICKET AND IS DEVOTED TO HITLER

Herr Ernst Bohle, fender of the dressed only in a nightshirt, in a Nazis outside Germany, is a Bri- sumptuously furnished room in his fiat.

Misa Stretz was found sitting ton. He is the director, in Berlin, of a German Government organi- sution with branchen all over the

on the stairs of the bullding.

"Conchita Will work. Live Again," Says Husband

He was born In Bradford, edu ented in South Africa, speaks Eng- lish like an Englishman, and hus

have never become since ! naturalised German.

"Under the German law I count Las a German because of my parents.! three-in 1906-wej When I was

Nazis

Round The World In 30 Days For £600

CALL AT HONGKONG

New York, Apr. 25.

MR. BOLIVAR FALCONER, of Marlin, Texas, will try to went 10 Capetown. I reniained fly round the world in thirty there until 1919. I went to school days. at the South African College High School.

We will leave Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 7 in the now German Zeppelin for Frankfort.

he Thence

will fly across "I played English games-foot- many friends in the Midlands adult, cricket, and so on-and ved Europe, Iraq, and India to Singa then on to longkong by Ile in Use head of the

the life of a South Africun. My pore.

From Hong- Mine. Conchita Supervia, Spanish North.

father was--and still a prò. Jordinary air routes,

kong he will travel by boat to prima donna, who died recently.Auslands Organization, the ruling

fessor of Capetown University.

Manila.. will sing again for her halund, body for Nazis abroad.

From the Philippines he will y Mr. Ben Rubenstels-on gramo

Francisco and then to phone record.

The total cost will be £600.- Reuter.

"I was born of German parents

As he sat in his flat nt Lowndes-in Bradford in 1903," he said. "I square, S.W., Mr. Rubenstein said

an now 32.

to a press representative:

"My greatest trensures now are,

"As English law provides that

the gramophone records of my all people born in England are wife's voice. I shall often play

British, I am technically a Briton, them and Conchita will live again."

Crew Hurled To Sharks

Ship Explosion By Ship

HURLED into the dreaded Red Sea when an Italian war materials ship was blown up, men watching sharks devouring colleagues,

minutes of torture

That was the night of terror KREUGER AND TOLL described by Lieut. Col. P. R.

WINDFALL

£4,000,000 CREDITORS A report of the Committee for the 5 per cent. Secured Sinking Fund Gold Debentures of the Kreuger and Toll. Com- pany has been received in Lon- don from New York.

"In 1920 'came back to Colegné and Berlin Universities, where to San continued my studies until 1923. Texas. Then I obtained my Bachelorship of Commerce."

"From 1923 until 1933 I was withi various export and import firms in the Rhineland.

"In 1931 t heard a speech of Hitler's in Bambury. } Was impressed with him that I joined'

Salvaging Wrecked

the Nazi Party immediately. He Vincas

was marvellous,

HITLER THE MASTER

"It was not the principle of National Socialism that attracted

It was Hitler.

mc.

"Hitler is National Socialism and National Socialism is Hitler. What will happen when he dies it is im- possible to say. But that is too far ahead to contemplate. He is still young,

here

HONGKONG LINK

Sydney, Apr. 11. Efforts will be made in a few days to salvage the steamer Vincas, which broke away from the Paringa some months ago, and now lies, with her anchors fouled, one and a half miles off the coast and four and a half miles south-west of Lakes En- trance, Victoria. "My organisation

and Mr. T. M. Banks, of Banks. abrond. I have branches in all bigi cities, but it should be clearly Bros. Sydney, agents for E. H. understood that the organisation is Summers and Co., of Kobe, only for Germans who wish to be Japan, said he had received a members of the Party. It has cable from Summers and Co. nothing to do with foreigners, instructing him to co-operate "We have about 100,000 follow-with the Master of the Kawatiri ers abroad. London is very favour. in effecting salvage, Jable to National Socialism in a The Kawaliri, which was Seven of the Italian crew of quiet way. I hope to go over to recently sold by. the Union | England soon. I have not been Steamship Co. to a Japanese twenty-two perished.

there for seven years,

firm, left Westport, New Zealand, "Oh, I forgot to tell you. Among with a crew of 41, and is ex-

of to arrive

Lakes other things I was a member of pected the Reichstag in 1933.

Entrance on March 16,

Butler, of Stockbridge. Hants, passenger in the Newcastle ship Cheshire which picked up the survivors of the Italian steamer Marchigiano (746 tons).

The Cheshire landed the men at Port Said.

MAULED

~

Colonel Butler said Lo Te It discloses that the Swedish

"Seven of the men were eaten, by and American bankruptcies have sharks. Others, terribly mangled resulted in a much more favour by the explosion, were hurled into able balance than had been anti-the water and some were maled cipated. General assets of about by the monsters." $20,000,000 (£4,000,000) are

CX-

un- this acerut

pected to be available for Man Of 130

secured creditors. Most of

is likely, ultimately, to To Marry

to the Kreuger and Toll Debenture

holders.

An agency will, it is proposed, Girl Of 25

the

be established to bid for the ac tual bonda held, apart from amount mentioned above, na col- Jateral security for the Debentures to prevent their realisation, at sacrifice prices..

HIS 23 CHILDREN

OBJECT Alexandria, Apr. 25. Egyptian man aged 130 is about to marry again--for nineteenth time. His bride will be a girl of twenty-five.

The Debentures, of which $10,-A 000,000 of a total of $50,000,000 the were issued in London, word quoted in New York recently at $3234 as against $6.25 at an earlier stage of the liquidation.

Some 160 companies were con- cerned in the group which com-his bride-to-be.

the interests of Ivar pribed

.

All his other wives are dead, but his twenty-three children object to his marrying again on the ground that there a difference of 105 years in the nges of their father and of The old man replied Indignantly that he enjoys perfect "health, and Kreuger, the match monopoly therefore has a right to marry again

34 AM | if he wishes.—Router.

Anancier.

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A

SCHEME is on foot to make the International Broadcasting Union at Geneva 'a world centre for the distribution of all forms of radio intelligence.

It has arisen from suggestions put forward by the 80 delegates attending, the Inter-Continental Radio Conference.

The broad idea is to extend the scope of the work of Mr. Arthur Barrows, secretary of the Broadcasting Union, so that he can keep in constant touch with every broadcasting organisation in the world.

He will let them know:

Details of foreign tours by broadcasting artiste National celebrations, big events and important ednoorts of possible interests to other countrics;

Suggestions for international talks by world-famous men. and women; and

Means of exchanging grantophone recordings,

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All this would be in addition to the present work of technical super- Ivision and collection of broadcasting information among European or- ganisations.

1,000 YEARLY RELAYS Mr. Burrows at present handles ar rangements relating to 1,000 inter Inational relays yearly,

If this new scheme is adopted the figure, with special inter-continental programmes, may be doubled.

It should also mican remunerative foreign tours for radio artists whose names are forwarded to the Geneva contro.

The Athenaeum, for 112 years impregnable strong- hold of the clubman, has de cided that Woman can no longer be barred from its dignified amenities.

But wiver and féminine friends will still be. excluded from the club itself; they will be corraled in an annexe, which will have a dining-room.

A private meeting of members, Lord Macmillan (Lord of Appeal) in the chair, decided to acquire No. 6, Carlton-gardens, nearby.

Only nineteen of the 220 pre- -sent went into the "no", lobby. B.B.C. chief Sir John Reith re- Klatcred an enthusiastle "nyo." Bishops abstained

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Til fifty years ago smoking was not allowed in any part of the Athenaeum; it is still forbidden in the library, and in the coffee- room till after 8.30 p.m.

QUAKE BABY

When a detachment of troops re- cently arrived at Southampton after service in Indin, one of the soldiers arrived with his three months-old baby, born at Lahore.

Jock McAvoy's Wife

Files Petition For Divorce

The wife of Jock McAvoy, the Lancashire boxer, has filed n petl- tion for divorce against him. There are three children of the marriage.

Jock McAvoy, whose real name. is Joseph -Bamford, comes Rochdale.

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