1939-02-16 — Page 15

Thursday, HONGKONG TEL

February

1939.

THE TRAGEDY OF A PERSECUTED GIRL

A

STORY of despair following persecution in Germany was revealed recently as the secret behind the death

of 22-year-old Helene Lent Stolt, who was found gassed in her flat In King's-road, Chelsea, S.W.

Discovery of the tragedy cume) when a man telephoned.

Leni Stalt, student of photography.. wha very pretty. A few days before she told friends that she was soon to be married to British arts student,

It would have meant that she

Napoleon's

Tomb Saved

Paris.

would obtain British nationality, FIRE recently destroyed part. Friends said that Lent's father of the roof of the famous died in a Berlin prison several years Invalides building in Paris, ngo; she had said her mother wast missing, her brother was in a con- France's great military museum, which shelters the tomb of

centration camp.

HOME IN BERLIN

She had been hoping to obtain a visa to go to America.

Napoleon.

In the dry, cok air, the flames which apparently originated in the vast apartments set aside for the Her home wan In Berlin. Since military archives of old France, April, 1930, she had been living spread rapidly along the roof of the

gent central pavilion, facing Esplanade.

London. Her permit to stay in this country was to expire within a few months,

but this fact did not stem to have worried her.

Miss Billingsworth, who has a fat in the same building, sald, "A tele- phone call for Mis Stolt came from ja man who did not give his name. I went to her room, then told him those did not seem to be in and he

seemed very surprised.

Bilas Molly Bishop weds Duchess of Gloucester's brother: The bride leaving for her wedding at St. Margaret's to Lord George Franels) John Scott, of the 10th Royal Hussars.

Turned Traitor For Sweetheart

PARIS.

SUB-LIEUT. MARC AUBERT,

who turned traitor to Francel to provide his sweetheart with money, was sentenced to death

FORCED DOOR

the

No documents of any historie value were damaged. It was only recently that they were moved to ground-floor raons for greater safely.

A silver-helmeted first brigade omeer

sald that the museum and the portions which contain the and the vault, with the great sarcophagus beneath which Napo- icon

lies, surrounded

by the trophies of his victories, are safe, "I went upstairs again, notice Firemen made sure that, whatever smell of gas

fold the police might happen to the central pavilion, They forced the door.

the

flames did

did not spread back to the The

gas stove was turned on and great museum galleries, with their Miss Stolt was lying on the bed in priceless collection, or to the chapel grey flannel Trousers and a blouse." and the tombs.

tid

a

Police found several letters. One . M. Daladier, the Prime Minister, M. was from Berlin, and another-re-Zay, Minister for Education, and M. gistered-had a London postmark. Sarraut, Minister of the Interior,

Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, who, before her marringe to the Duke

of Hamliton's fourth son, was Prunella Stack, seen as she made a purchase after opening the Animal Defence Society's sale in St. James's Place. Their marriage, it may be remembered, brought some 1,500 people to Glasgow Cathedral, including nembers of the League of Health and Beauty,

Clark Gable's Gift-

Himself (in Marble)

New York.

Friends said that Miss Stolt had were among the thousands of on-WORKMEN struggled recently outside the home of Carole

very distressed about her ( lookers. been

tople In Berlin. They had been imprisoned for political reasons, she

said.

by a Toulon naval court-martial THEATRE HAS "CRY" recently,

ROOM

Powder Makes Your Mashed Potatoes!

MASHED potuitoes, favourite at

companiment of the humble sausage, can now be made from a powder.

The girl, Marie Morel, was sen- tenced to three years' imprisonment

DUNKIRK, O. for complicity. She collapsed on

Mothers who bring their babies hearing the sentences, but Aubert

with them to the newly remodelled heard his fate unmoved.

Aubert met her in 1935 when he Dunkirk theatre no longer need to was a midshipman at Drest. When leave the show when junior starts to she pressed him for more and more cry. William Day, owner and op- money, according to a statement he crator of the theatre, has installed a is alleged to have made to his sound-proof observation superior officer when arrested, he accommodate mothers and their in- resulting mixture is indistinguishable |

fants.

room

wrote to the head of the secret ser- vice of a foreign Power offering his services.

the Navy, which was sent to the For over two years he gathered all foreign Power through the medium! kinds of secret Information regarding of his sweetheart.

The finest

The tiresome business of peeling, cooking, and mashing the potatoes is

vor.

All that you have to do is to add milk or water to the powder-and the

from mashed potatoes.

It looks the same, lastes the same, and even smells the same.

Dr. Voilerias, a Lithuanian, Invent- ed the powder.

Lombard manoeuvring a huge marble statue into place. When they had finished they rang the bell, said, "Tell Miss

Lombard Mr. Gable's outside," then walked away, hiding their

smiles.

Miss Lombard came out, stared at the statue, recommised the well-known Gable features and physique, then shrieked with laughter.

late.

The actor's Christmas present to her had arrived—a little

The idea is, according to Hollywood, to enable the actress to see Gable in replica by just glancing out of her window.

Japanese Desire Friendship With Britain

world."

London.

Complaining that there seemed to THE

TIE importance of Anglo-Japanese)

be almost wilful misinterpretation of friendship for the preservation the facts concerning Japan's position, of world peace was emphasised re- Mr. Shigemitsu sald, "We are very cently by Mr. Shigemitsu, the new inept And Inexperienced pro- Japanese Ambassador, making his pugandists, and it is partly our fault Brst pubile speech since his arrival that we have throughout the present trouble And an extremely pcor in England three months ago at arou

press," dinner of the Japan Society given in He recalled how on his arrival be his honour at Claridge's Hotel, Sr told journalists, quite truthfully, that Francis Lindley, a former Ambassa-he Eked the fog which met him, and dor In Tokyo, presided.

onc

"I can

Mr. Leslie Burgin, the Minister of paper sald lie had replied diplo- matically and that it was a typical Transport, who was also present at ease of

case of Japanese politeness. the Dinner, astonished the guests by assure you, Mr. Shigemitsu said, speaking for five minutes in Japan-that a diplomat can tell the trull, est. He was proposing a toast and the whole truth; and nothing but when he suddenly changed the the truth as well as anybody." vehicle of his

eloquence, Mr. was a heavy handicap to have your Mamoru Shigemitsu raised his eyes honesty always discounted because in amazement. Japanese guests de- you were a diplomatist.

clored that Mr. Burgin's Japanese

keen

was perfectly Intelligible and his uccent excellent. Few people are aware Mr. Burgin is

that student of Oriental languages, but though he reads Japanese, he very rarely attempts to speak 11.

his

Shigemitsu voiced the hope in

that more speech

publicists would take the trouble to learn Comething of the Japanese language. He stated

"It now seems to me time that the two Island empires of the East und West saw eye to eye in shaping their polley of enhancing peace." Anglo- Japanese friendship was one of the main pillars of world peace and an Integral of the fabric of peace and

APP

"When the clouds are lifted we shall see our everlasting friendship emerge glittering like a great Alpine peak in the radiant sunshine."

Japan was sincerely pursuing policy designed to ensure lasting peace and prosperity in her part of the world by establithing law and order. "Friendship with China more than anything else is what we desire. We are seeking earnestly to readjust our relations with her by removing mistrust and suspicion and replacing them with mutual understanding, thus ushering in an era of enduring co-operation and conciliation with a view to contributing materially to the advancement of the peace of the

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER

Only the finest cream is good enough for Australian butter. A rich golden food which adequately supplies your diet with the needed vitamins.

It supplies fat in its most easily digestible form and is unequalled for growing children,

All-Australian butter is produced under strict government supervision, and comes to you guaranteed for quality and purity. Buy only Australian Butter",

Obtainable at all leading compradores,

If

I had done

as i was told-

I wouldn't have this nasty cold!

Give me

[BAYER

ASPIRIN

59

●Bayeru

It

NEW LIGHT WEIGHT

Jumpers & Cardigans

Priced from $795 to $1950

These lovely woollies are made to fit perfectly, and come in a beautiful range of fashion-right colours. Get one or more to and for your Spring keep you warm now →→

Suit later on!

"Off-the-face' Berets

French make, very new, of pure. Angora. In colours of Navy, Brown and Black.

95

Price:

$49

each

Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

Alina

DRUMS

Men fight, live, love and

die. bravely, as the ride of

empire sweeps on in the most dramate seuing Na ture ever created...amighty pageem of adventare sweeps across the wicen in vivid new Technor

250000c

IN CLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR

wuh SABU - RAYMOND MASSEY

DESMOND TESTER ROGER LIVESEY

VALERIE HOBSON

Anda Cesto!3,000 - Directed by ZOLTAN KORDA From worry A. E. W. MASON » Rioned chew Vami Arme

SATURDAY MAJESTIC

AT

THE

THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE- BAY HOTEL:

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL)

HOTELS

LIMITE

リッ

Page 15Page 16