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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

JANUARY 28, 1938.

Murderer's Amazing Diary Confession "Heaven And Hell Within

"I'M A KIND-HEARTED MAN'

“BANZAI!”

"BANZAI}”—Topping

cient wall about tho

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Chinese city of Taochung. Japanese troops shout a fusty "Banzal!" afler capturing the city recent- ly. Toochung was one of the Chinese key strongholds of the lines west Shanghai. The Japanese pressed on from thin point toward the inland capitat of Nanking.

of

The Fish Goes Round and Around

Washington, D.C. Dizzy fish and dizzy folk will probably welcome America's latest society, the A.A.O.R.F.D., or the Association for the Aboll- tion of Round Fish Bowls

Mr. Fred Orsinger, Director of the Bureau of Fisheries, is a powerful recruit It has been aald that curved-aquaria "make the occupants dizzy physically and lopsided mentally,"

"I don't know about that" mys Mr. Orainger, "but I do know that they make me cross-eyed." "Ylobular bowls." he adds,

ülstressing to folks

who #aro want to view both sides of a fish. Try to walk around a round bowl. Why, the fish will follow you and all you see is the, side towards the outside of Die bowl."-Reuter.

Myself"

27.

Writing with a stub of pencil in his Paris prison cell, Eugen Weidmann, 'self- confessed murderer of four men and two girls, made a diary of his strange career.

The Sunday Chronicle prints below his confession, written calmly while the French police were investigating the latest revela- tion of six terrible crimes.

Weldmann, 29-year-old German has already admitted to the killing of Jean de Koven, pretty American dancing girl-strangled at his villa at Versailles; Janino Keller, Alsatian governess- shot in Fontainblonu Forest; Roger le Blond. theatrical impressario-shot in his car, at Neuilly; Raymond Lesobre, estate agent-- battered to death at St. Cloud: Frederic Fommer, German business man-shot at the Villa; and Jean Couffy, chauffeur-shot in a country road near Orleans.

Here is the diary, written by Weidmann in the cell once occupied by Landru:

Libel

Wife

Outrageous on Young in. "Debt" Letters

-Says Judge

Letters which Mr. Justice Hawke said constituted "an outrageous libel" were read in the King's Bench Division recently in an action in which a 19-year-old married woman claimed damages from a debt-collecting agency.

The judge was asked to approve the agency's offer of £50 and the woman's "party and party" costs.

Mr. Gerald Gardiner, for Mrs. Irene Green, of Norfolk street, Wisbech, said the defendants were:

Monday:

it would be I thought easy to write about myself, my thoughts and what I have done. Now I know there is nothing so difficult in the world as writing about myself.

Landru was in this cell they told me and so were other murderers, Already I know each scratch on the wall, all the patches of dirt on the floor. They were all made by mur- derers,

When I kicked in hunted despera- tion against the wall I made another mark, which my successors in the cell will look at with horror.

I am desperately trying to take

refuge in the past from the horrible present and the noise which ham- mers at my brain as cell companions chat to each other ceaselessly.

They talk about the future, about things outside these prison walls. Why do they? They must know that such talk is hell for

me.

I have enough of hell within my-

world.

Recovery and Adjustment Bureau, plications have been ignored.

"The opinion is that you are de-self without these glimpses of a lost Limited, of Cannon Street, E.C., Mr. Sydacy Charles Brice, Miss Julin liberately trying to evade payment our members who May Dutton and Mr. Frank Arnold and victimise Pryer, the directors and shareholders, trusted you. If you admit liability, and Mr. A. Orris, collections mana- we insist that you remit as much as you can afford to this address within continue doing so Ave days, and each, fortnight until the account is paid."

ger.

Mrs. Green was of humble means, the wife of a lorry driver. Last April she received a letter from the company stating:

FRIGHTENED

Tuesday Night: I am happy when the evening comes and we are allow- ed to sling ourselves on our bunks. Sometimes I am quite calmly happy. and it is like heaven. But my hap- pluess soon changes to the worst hell that one ever went through.

When the lights, go out I sco stified that girl; I hear ber screams; I see her eyes full of horror dancing before me. As soon as it is dark that American girl always appears to me.

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Mrs. Green was so frightened that, "We have been instructed by the above members to recover the sum though she never owed the money, of a. 11d., together with 1s. 3d. costs she at once sent a postal order for us. of collection. Creditors advise that 11d. She received no acknowledg- this debt has been outstanding ament or receipt. A week later. she considerable time and repeated ap-received a letter which stated:

Sometimes she talks to me with EF we do not hear from you

Why did I do it. shortly we shail, in the interests of mild reproach. trade, take steps to give publicity to She was so kind, so beautiful! May- the matter, not only locally but all be I could have made her love me, over the country, in order that other Then I suddenly awaite bathed in traders may be warned against deal-cold sweat. ing with you."

"LOST ARMY" OF 70,000 CAPTIVES

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By Artur Tietlen

Split, Jugoslavia.

LOST army" of 70,000 prisoners of the Great War-who have been given up for dead years ago by their families-exists scattered in the re- motest parts of Siberia and Outer Mongolia, accord- ing to Paul Rudolf, an Austrian ex-soldier who has escaped from a Russian labour camp.

A fortnight later, she received a postcard,

"Better It Is that than that thou shouldest not vow thou shouldest vow and not pay."

SATISFIED

Mr. Gardiner said the company was a £100 concern, and a judg- ment against it would obviously be worthless.

Mr. Gardiner explained that Mrs. Green's husband was out of work and she had a small baby. She was satis- fled with the amount offered.

---I-am-a-kind-hearted man-really...............

that I could How is it possible have done such things?

Am I mad?

WOMEN--AND ME Thursday: I was thinking to-day of when I meet Jean de Koven.

I had no money and nowhere to go. I strolled along the boulevards and entered the Ambassadors' Hotel

...an attractive American girl spoke to me. Then we got into conversa- tion.

At Brst she thought I was an

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Mr. R. M. A. C. Talbot (for the defendants) said he was instructed American, too, but I told her I was not. So we became acquainted. She to say that they were extremely

She was very attractive, but I did Taken prisoner in 1916 on the Galician front, Rudolf stated on sorry the postcards were sent. There came to my place. arrival at Split, the Dalmatian port, that his last employment was was another Mrs. Green in the neigh- not seem very much drawn towards!

not much interested her. I am digging trenches and making fortications on the Manchurian frontier.bourhood who did owe the money,

After assenting to the settlement women.

don't think I ever He and four other foreigners decided to make a dash for freedom, the judge said: "I can quite conceiveThis is one of the mysterious things I am completely He said that of the 70,000 many have married and have settled that a: some time something more

The "lost may be said about this kind of prac-in me which, when down, losing touch with their former life and families.

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secret for me as anyone else.

My parents were nice peopde. lived in a small way very respect-1 ably in a suburb of Frankfurt-on- the-Main.

Even in my early years 1 felt an irresistible desire to stea). Sometimes I realised what I was about to do, and had the strength to resist.

Other ilmes I just stole, but I did not do anything with the money and the objects I stole. I did not want to use them, only to possess them.

When I was 18 I tried to start a new life in Canada. At first I worked on farm where I felt Ideally happy... But the evil alde of me awake ngain. I committed miner offences, and was sent to prison. When I came out I was at once deported.

Back in Germany I again found myself in prison. There I met Blane and Million, who later became my nasociates,

"LET ME ALONE"

When I came to France I felt proud of myself for I had passed the frontier in my ear in apite of the guarda on both sides. Here I soon got into touch with the two French- men whom I had helped in prison.

First I tried to make ផង honest living.

Then I completely lost control of myself. I had only Idea-lo procure money at any

one

Bunday: I am writing again about what happened after I met Jean de Koven.

One thing. Jod

on the another. They keep on asking me how I did It and why I don't know. I don't [wani--to-knows is

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