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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL

1937.

Accused Airwoman Pines for Lover In Prison Cell Awaiting Trial, She Dreads Reunion

Man Refuses To

Make

MME

Charge

Paris, Mar. 25.

[ME. Irene Schmeder, the French airwoman, charged with the attempted murder of her lover, Pierre l'Allemant, who was shot in an aeroplane they were flying together, sits in her cell at the Versailles women's prison fretting and worrying about the lover who has refused to accuse her.

She shares the cell with a woman ac- cused of infanticide, but no word of her suffering escapes her, except in her rare letters or in the interviews with her bro thers, who have special visiting privileges.

Mme, Schmeder is sull deeply in love with Pierre -'Allemant.

Eating little, seldom speaking, she pines for the French airman, but all the time she dreads the inevitable meeting with him. .

Gave Up Smoking-JARROW

Gave Up Smoking- JARROW MAY GET

ROLLING MILL

To Win His Bride

Fifty years ago Mr. George Clark, who loved pipe of tobacco, gave up smoking when his sweetheart sald she would not marry him so long as he was, a smoker.

Recently George and the wife--they live in Sultan-

terrace. Camberwell, S.E celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.

SHOT MAJOR: INSURANCE FIRM APPEALS

L'Allemant has stubbornly refused to take anyMPORTANT points affecting the law part in the prosecution, but the couple will shortly con- front each other by order of the magistrate.

While she prays for freedom Mme. Schmeder fears

be

the

governing insurance policies will debated by famous counsel before what freedom will mean for her. She can make no Master of the Rolls, Lord Wright, and

Lords Justices Romer and Scott in the Court of Appeal in London.

plans for the future, HUSBAND'S OFFER

Her husband has said repeatedly that he would take her back, but Mme, Schmeder feels that she cannot return after what has happened.

All her thoughts are of the past, on that last night-

more flight with the man she loves.

It was on December 20 that a plane bumped down

to land in a field near Villacoublay Aerodrome.

The occupants were Mme. Schmeder und Pierre! l'Allemant.

After a brief interval the plane look off again....and l'Allemant was left on the ground, suffering from 'bullet

from which he has wounde

now recovered.

Mme. Schmeder dew on alone, crossed the Channel, and then crashed

at Sclscy, Sussex.

She was extradited from England, and then before the examining magistrate at Versailles sobbed out her story.

FELL IN LOVE

She told how slie had fallen Fi

love with l'Allemant while he was giving her flying lessons, how his Attitude had changed after she had returned from a visit to Italy.

Mime. Schroeder described the „„discovery of another woman, mind then... that she was about to become a mother.

And now Mme. Schmeder walts In her cell, dreading their first meeting since their grim flight to Heiher.

Diary For Sleeping Beauty

New York, Mar. 25. PATRICIA MAGUIRE, sleep- ing beauty of Chicago, knows nothing of what has been going en in the world around her for the past five years. All that time

High

The judges will have the task of viewing the sensational "Shot Major" suit, which was tried last year.

MORTAL

in

Labour Minister's Hint

MR

ERNEST BROWN - (Minister of Labour) gave a strong hint to a Tyneside deputation last month that, at long last, something will be done for Jarrow.

- Answering their demand for the establishment of a steel works, he gave them a pledge that "Jarrow will not be overlooked."

I understand however, that there --is silll no prospect of a’steel works, hat it is probable that a re-rolling mill will be opened in the near future.

The deputation would have liked a more definite assurance that a big scheme is to be started, but they came away with the feeling that a little at least is to be done to relieve distress in the town.

IRON AND STEEL REPORT Mr. Brown also explained that the report of the Tariff Advisory Com mittee on the Iron and sleel industry

11011 would soon be available and that the Government's Bill to deal with, the distressed areas generally will be introduced next week.

The deputation was received at the Board of Trade by Mr. Brown, acting

re-for Mr. Runciman, who is ill.

It included Lord Londonderry and law-Misa Ellen Wilkinson, MP, who thus

The Royal Insurance Company, Limited, are challenging a judgment given by Mr. Justice Swift!

Divi- the King's Bench sion awarding £42,469 to Mrs. Agnes Emily de la Poer Beres- ford, of Crawford Street, Lon- don, S.W., nicce and administra- trix of the estate of Major Charles William St. John Row. landson.

COMBAT

BETWEEN

KNIGHTS

War Epic Reveals Son's

Victor To Mother

put

COINCIDENCE has

mother in Louch with the man who killed her son. And an] epic story of how two "knights of the air" met in morial com- but over the western front is retold..

"The bravest of all." is the des- eription given by Colonel Ernst Udet, the German "ace," now famous for his acrobatics in films, to the man, Lieutenant Charles Massdorp, nephew of a noted South African Judge, Sir Andries Maasdorp, whom he killed.

It was Udef'a last flight, and took place during the German push in March, 1910.

For 13 years, Mra. James Maasdorp; of Great Reinert, South Africa, has

been mystified how her son died.

Coinel Udet wrote a book on his

war experiences, and recently a Mes Ernst read it. Struck with the name Maasdorp which occurred in the book she wrote to her friend. a daughter

she has been asleep, suffering of Mrs, Maasdorp. from a strange disease.

The story of Colonel Udet, who was Patricia's mother, hoping her the victor in 62 serial combats in the

mentioned how Da daughter will awake, keeps a war, diary of what has happened in 'plane made for him.

IN A TAXICAB *

The major shot himself in a taxicah in St. James's Street, Piccadilly, on Aug. 3, 1034, a few minutes before his life insurance policy lapsed through | non-payment of premiums.

After a jury had returned a verdict that the major was sang when he shot himself. Mr. Justice Swift held that the Insurance company must pay

242,489 under the poliev on・ thei? major's life.

The company are now appealing, their contention being that to pay out on the policy is against public policy.

The Appeal Court judges will also have to consider a cross appeal by Mrs. Beresford in connection with the issue before the jury of whether or not the major was some when he shot himself,

found themselves on the same side for the Arst time in their lives.

This cellophane water-proof has been adapted by Parisians against rain, It protects the gown without At the original hearing it was hiding its elegance. This transparent stated that if Mrs. Beresford's claim dress weighs only 45 grammes and succeeded the major's creditors might can be rolled up in a parcel as big na be paid 15s. in the £.

A

A

Life

માન.

That Meant

Others

Much To

Why replied the boy, "I'm not a kid now, so I don't say—"Give a little child a plaice'."

LAX THE BELOVED GREAT Christian died last month. He was English sixty-nine years of age, and "Both firing (writes the Colonel) his name was William H. we fly at one another like two knights. Lax.

I

years he

had been associated with the Wesleyan Mission in Poplar, in the East End of London, for thirty-two of them as its super- intendent.

known and loved by

thole five years President Roosevelt's election, repeal of with lances, ... We fly at one an- For thirty-four prohibition, England's new Kings, other. Mussolini's conquest of Abyssi- "He passes over me at about a nia, Hitler's climb to power in hand's breadth....

"Yonder is the man who is fighting Germany.

the battle of his life. He or I one of To-day Mrs. Maguire made an-us must perish; there is no way out." other entry in the diary-the death of James Maguire, the sleeping beauty's father, in hos- pital, after a month's illness.

NERVES STRAINED

Five times they flew at each other. "My nerves are strained to break ing point, but my head remains cool and clear. This time the decision must fall.

"I take alm. I make for him.

"A sudden memory; I saw at Sens

He was

the

ill

พ.

When his mother died, Poplar Posle showed wonderful sympathy to Lax...

To One Woman, who said that be was looking sad, un answered:

"I am feeling sad, Ni Nandie. I've just heard that my moibwe was Kone to Heaven."

"Well, don't worry, Mr. Lax," she said sympathetically, putting her hand on his shoulders, "perhaps she hasn't"

mayor of Poplar in 1018.

ITALIAN ISLAND

all about the sordid lives of his over-Poplar, was born in Manchester in thousands of poor people. He knew William Lax, the Good Spirit of crowded area, Its vices, its braveries, 1808, became a minister of the its humours

He stayed on in Poplar long after Wesleyan Church in 1893, and, was he would have moved elsewhere in DISEASE AGES

decide to give way not an inch. the ordinary way-because he loved He told many stories of work, WOMAN OF 26,

a duel in the air; the two machines his work. Here are some of them:-

Lax called on a coster who was made for one another, collided, and with laryngitis. fell to the ground, fuselages smelted The coster was speechless, but his DEATH ENSUES together in one piece of metal. The

wings continued and fluttered to earth wife said kindly:

"Thank you, sir; I knew you'd be London, March 1.

later on. A strange andî rare discase

"Like two wild boars we ran at sorry because you, like Bitile, earn

living with 'allerin'," that aged a woman years in 3 are both last. These he swerves. In one another. If he loses his nervo we few days has been investigated this moment my trial of bullets hit by British doctors

"His aeroplane bends, turns on its

it died of old age in a few months..

'and'

him.

who were the opponents

your

There was an old man who lived alone, and with whom Lax spent

at the time much time, reading to him and pray-

kindly butcher, who anid: "If ever

let

FORBIDDEN Volcanic Rock That Commands Tunis STRATEGICTM POINT

-Bespectacled

At Billingsgate

Spectacles are a mark of Illiteracy-in Billingsgate.

Discussing the ability of a fish porter to recollect facts, Mr. L. A. Byrne, barrister at the Mansion House, asked a Billingsgate fish'merchant: "Is he not altogether illiterate?"

"Well, he's very near- sighted." was the reply.

"Then you think the wearing of spectacles evidence of Illiteracy?"

"All know is that. I knew him when he was `very young, and I bought

him his first glasses."

com-

"An entirely new defini- tion of illiteracy,"

mented the smiling Lord Mayor.

France Finds New Fattest Man

SUC-

Paris, Mar. 25. Only a few days after the death of France's fattest man, a cessor, was found to take his laurels., He is Jean Bonna who is reputed to have weighed only 900 grammes (orl. 98 lbs.) at his birth and began to

get fat, like his predecessor, after the war.

Banna, who today is one of- Paris' champion chefs, was 'n strange.caso at his birth in 1892. The doctors felt sure he would never live, and his first twenty-eight days in this worki were spent inside an incubator to keep him alive. He calls him- self "the canned baby,' as a result of this first, experience.

From 1907 to 1914 Jean Bonna lived and travelled in French Indo-China and

was known 28 one of the skinniest men in the French colony there. By the time the war came he was. Just about normal weight, 171lbs. and about 5 ft. 10 in. tall. He was accepted as a pilot and received the war cross and several citations for his bravery and skill in combat.

was

hat

ao thin," he reminisces to-day, I just passed between the bullets." LOST ARM IN WAR Johannes Bethinier, France's fat- test man, went through almost the same experience. He lost an arm in the war and the loss seemed to upset his metabolic rate. He grew fatter and fatter until the day of his death on February 6, when he weighed 430 ibs. Bonna seems to be on the same road to fame.

Demobilized and put back on normal rations as a cook in a restau- rant, he suddenly saw the arrow on the scales mounting swiftly. In 1029 began to get worried, having risen

to the aunt of 253 lbs. By 1031

he had

to 341 lbs.. Then Bonna doided, he had better do something about it. 31, 20

go on a dict," he told reporterided to decided not to eat any bread, any wine, use sauces. It was a try. Ing experience. I stood it for several weeks and then went to a weighing machine. What a jokel While I had been on a diet I had gained almost thirty pounds. I assure you it wasn't funny, after, all that suffering."

SAMPLE MENU

After his trying experiences on a [diet; sufferings which ranny Americans have experienced, but without such doleful results, Jean Bonna went off the diet band wagon. INI gave up the hopeless game," he said with tears in Thir¬throat, "and decided to be happy Lany rate. still cat sparingly however.

MEDITERRANEAN

Rome, Mar. 25,

paramount importance to all

At the time Lax was in touch with. A BRIEF decree published is of

"A"map" which accompanies the

six miles.

Asked what a sample menu of to-

day was for him, he confided, "Not much! An omlette of a dozen egga

to start with, an entree of 'three

big cater. Old Marius of the mar- kets, there was 4 pig for yout. He used to devour food

It is known as Simmonds' disease, back and disappears in a huge crater and the young woman who contractedclouds of dust, smoke

"I have never tried to ascertain you know of an old man or woman Powers in the Mediterranean She was married and 20 years old. brought down. He who fights may

I have who could do

"a mutton chop, basin. It declares: "It is forbid-pounds of meat, un entire cheese...

Icamembert is my favourite--and two Her case was taken to the Royal Free not look upon the wounds be inficts.

me know. de

jelden to fly over the island of, litres of wine... I'm not what you call Hospital. She had given birth to But this time I want to

the address of the old Pantellaria and its relative ter twins. After the birth of the Becond

to_know." man to the butcher. Some time 'child she collapsed. Three days later that the dead aleman was Lieutenant could hardly speak when he came

At a field, hospital the Colonel found afterwards. the old man died. He ritorial waters." she developed a severe headache and Mansdorp. He added, "I go back to near the end, but left the following decree fixes the territorial limits at › was unable to sleep. After a further

two days she became blind. Hery quarters. One dare not bring message for Lax: condition became gradually worse for each one you bring down a I'm going to God... But be sure to fortified. Preparations for its defence one's thought to bear on the fact that Tell Mr. Lax...'s all right.. The island has now been heavily She lost weight and her hair began mother weeps." to fall out

tell. - him,,,that it; wasn't...his works were taken in 1935 during the After some months ahe was disa result of Mrs. Ernst's interven- preaching that saved me. It was friction between Italy and charged from the hospital. Then she touch with Mrs Mansdorp, In

the Colonel was brought into the multon chops." Kad a sudden relapse. Two days later letter to Mansdorp's sister he said, "I

great stategic importance to Italy's Children everywhere greeted him fronte volcanic rock, 62 miles from she was found in bed with her aw should be grateful if you would send in the streets, often with per ques-

"A Fato, places your tions or pieces of curious informa the western extremity of the coast of

of this distion.

Sicily, It is only: 44 miles east of the and brave Avarrior

** One of these chlid friends once said African const. It commands the enabled the wonderful "The whether he was anying his prayers: 011 Although several cases have White Hell of Pitz Palu" to be filmed. "P've dropped the fishy prayer

curred on the Continent; It is very. He is head of the technical section at

In England United Press, the German Air Ministry.

"["The "fishy › prayer?" said Lax, whatever do you mean, Joey?

set and her hands tightly' clenched. mein photos

five hours she died. The disease, according to the British

brother's

sors in this casual manner, Bonne Having dismissed hts two predeces

showed that he was finally out for the world's record. "I'm still far from the world's record,

sold sadly. They tell me that theraŝis 'an over the Abyssinian war the League Indian Mabarajh who weighs 704. pounds. But I won't taked long to catch up and take the record for France. I I dont think I'll try for the world's record, after all. I think -1'1 let the Maharajah tako: the prize för ho can sit around all day with, ser vanta fanning him and carrying him around. I've got to earn my living. and that means standing in a học: kitchen for eight hours a day. It -- would be unfair to try and beat him.

with such odds.”

Redical Journal, Lancet, was Udet sakul with nero- to him, in answer to a question groat French military point of Bisorto,

riginally adscribed by Simmonds

on the count of Tunisia

Itk area is 45 àquare miles, and it is close to the main route from eqst to west in the Mediterranean.

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