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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1936.

MY ROMANCE: By Princess Juliana

Juliana LADIES WOOLLEN

Escaped From "IT WAS LOVE Devil's Island

MURDERER

ARRESTED AFTER

11 YEARS

A

Paris, Sept. 30. MURDERER who twice escaped from Devil's Island, the dreaded penal settle- ment, and is described as one of the most dangerous criminals in France, was arrested in Paris to-day, after a search which had lasted 11 years. "

Ho was discovered in an apartment opposite a police station. The concierge declared that he was "one of the nicest and most charming tenants."

Charles Brenner (44) has had six different aliases during the past ten years..

He was sentenced to death in October, 1919, for the murder of a woman in Lyons. The sentence was commuted to life im- prisonment. He was sent to Devil's Island, DESERTED HIS WIFE

In 1921 he escaped, but was arrested at Trinidad. Four years. later, in July 1925, he cluded his gaolers again and was not "found" until today, although he had served severnl terms of imprisonment--always under an alias.

His second escape from Devil's Island brought him to Venezuela, where he married, only to abandon his wife and child two years later.

He returned in Venezuela under another name in 1928 and left once more in 1930 to come to Paris,

His chief occupation at that time, it is alleged, was white slave traffic.

LEADER OF GANG

robbery

Arrested in Paris in 1930 on charge but not recognised-he left for Bacelona after three months' imprisonment.

Back in Paris in 1932 he became the leader of a gang of desperadoes who carried out roh- beries and assaults in the business quarters of the city.

All his accomplices were finally arrestedl, but he had left long before tor Metz, where he set up a powerful organisation to smuggle tobacco from Belgium and Germany into France.

£10,000 CAR RACE

AT FIRST SIGHT"

PRINCE BERNARD NE

Received a shy smile

King George's Favourite

AUSTRÁLIAN CELEBRATIONS Pony Retires

EVENT

A round-Australia car race, open to racing motorists throughout the world, has now definitely been decided upon as an event of the 150th. anniversary celebrations, in 1938, of the founding of Australia, which will be centred in Sydney.

Prizes to the value of £10,000 will be offered, with a first prize of £5,000, 8378 Austral NewS.–

Pneumatic Shorts Make

Sea Safe, Says Inventor

Vienna, Sept. 30.

Poor swimmers, clalms Viennese inventor V. Veldomon, may be swept out to sea in safely if they are wearing his new "safety shorts.' Victims of accidents, cu rrents, or cramp need only inflate the shorts double front. Then they can float on their backs until picked up or swept back again.

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Sandringham, Oct. 1. Jock, King George's favourite white pony has been retired and pensioned with a bunch of car- rots, daily.

It was on the thirteen-year-old_ peny that the late King took his just ride...

Jock will not be shod and his hair will be allowed to grow. To afford the former Highland pony_company two of his old friends, Fluff and Wande, also have both been retired to the same paddock with Jock. The two mares are quartered at night in thatched roof boxes although Jock usually spent the night in the open.

United Press.

De Beers May Seek Diamonds In Rhodesia

Bulawayo, Sept. 21.

The possibility of De Beers Con-. solidated Mines, Ltd., shortly pros- pecting for diamonds in Rhodesia was announced here to-day by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, chairman of the com- pany, who is bargaining with the Minister of Mines.-Exchange.

IDYLL AMID

THE ALPS

By LADISLAS FARAGO -

The Hague, Oct. 1. RADIANT, happy, and shyly holding the hand of Prince Bernard, her flance, in a flower-filled room at the Noordeine Palace here to-day, Princess Juliana gave me the first interview that she has ever granted to any journalist.

Holland is a land of rejoicing. Everyone is happy that the Princess has become engaged,

And happiest of all is the Princess herself.

"Only five days ago the traditions of our court would have made it impossible for me to receive you like this," said Princess Jullana. "But now, since I am so happy and everyone is so happy"-a shy amile at the Prince at her side "exceptions are being made for the first time.

I have never been so happy-not only because of my engagement but also because the news of it has brought me mending messages of love and affection from the Dutch people and from people all over the world.

"How did I first meet the Prince? first sight?**

How I Met The Prince

Was it a case of love at

The Princess repeated my questions with a merry laugh. Then, shyly, she rose from her, seat by the Prince and, walking to a bower of dark red roses, arranged the flowers as she talked.

"I first met Prince Bernard nearly a year ago. It was at the winter sports at Igels in the Tyrol.

"We found a mutual interest in ski-ing and skating, but very soon I knew-and Bernard knew, too--that it was some- thing more than our mutual enjoyment of sport that attracted us to one another.

"What more can I say that any other girl can say ?" she said with a deep blush.

"We fell in love--it was really love at first sight-Bernard and I knew it at once. But we werd rather frightened at it all happening so suddenly.

"But when I found that my darling mother had already guessed our secret and was as happy about it all as I was, I was the happiest girl in the world.

"So we three kept our secret very closely.

The Secret Well Kept

"It was very exciting and amusing to Bernard and I,” sald the Princess with a merry laugh. "We were virtually engaged and very much in love, but we did not let anyone guess our secret,

"There were still only six people who knew our accret-my mother, myself, Princo Bernard, Princess Armgard (my future mother-in-law), my mother's secretary, and Baron van Bout, my secretary.

"Not until my mother authorised the official announcement did anyone else know anything about our romance.

"And now we are receiving all these lovely flowers and con- gratulations from all over the world-it's so exciting, so happy." The Princess rose to her feet and clasped her hands with joy. The Prince, too, was smiling happily.

His popularity already is amazing. Everyone in Holland knows that he is an all-round sportsman-golf, polo, motoring and mountaineering.

Prince Bernard will become Prince of the Netherlands and will receive a pension from the State of 200,000 guilders, about £30,000 a year.

SMOKING-FOR MEN ONLY

The Victorian Railways, Australia, are the Intest to bow to the Inevitable. Because of the increase in the number of women | smokers, the commissioners have just increased the smoking nc- commodation in the privileged "parlour car" of their crack Mel- bourne to Sydney express,

But, says Austral News, with one pen stroke, they get one back for men and simultaneously establish a progresalve precedent, The small saloon of the coach is now sacrosanct to "smoking-for .men only."

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