1939-05-09 — Page 3

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

LONDON MAGNATE'S DEAL COST BANK £1,650,000

AMSTERDAM.

WHEN Siegfried Wreszynski, the Mayfair financier, arrived in Holland last October with Eva Busch, 25-year-old Ger- man show-girl, he had just caused share- holders of the Amsterdamsche Bank to lose £1,650,000.

This was revealed by the Public Prosecutor, here recently when Wreszynski was accused of defrauding two people of £500 and £700 each.

"I have the honour," said the prosecutor, to demand from the court the maximum sentence of four years' imprisonment.”

POSE AS CONSUL

Wreszynski was eerused of defrauding Miss Tony Mausner, Jewish refugee from Vienna, living in Hol- land, and Mr. P. H. Hollander, u Dutchmani,

Miss Mausner was sald to have handed over to Wreszynski about 1500 after he had assured her thot he was able to provide her and her family with Ameri- can visas.

Hollander, said the prosecutor, entrusted him with £700 on his' promise that he would make a profit of £1,030 in Swedish fransactions.

Wreszynski had posed us on Argentine consul, had shown to both a letter from the Ainsterdamsche Bank In which £120,000 hod been promised to him if he arranged certain transactions.

This letter, said the prosecution. referred lo N oller made to Wreszynski and another man after they hat "thawed" certain frozen credits for the bunk,

GIRL'S HOTEL BILL

As a Arst teat of their capabilities, the-bunk naked them to "thaw" about £25,000 of credits. They returned about 85 per cent. of the credits in cash.

Later. saiet the prosecution, Wreszynski ant the other man were, entrusted with the "thawing in the

In credits.

Phone ThreatToK.C.'s

Film Actress Daughter

THREATS

Hollywood, je gruff gangster voice telephoned her |

to "get" blonde Vir-home five times with death threats. United States of a further £2,350,000inia Field, twenty-year-old English, Her secretary, Irene Watson, an-

film actress, daughter of Mr. F

St.swered the telephone. The caller recently The shareholders of the bank re-John Field, K.C

caused left this message: "She better watch ceived only £700,000, the rest was Hollywood police to place a guard out. You tell her this: She's being

around her home.

watched and if she dosen't look out Miss Field said that a man with we'll get her. We're watching every

step, every movement."

Jost,

the

Miss Field sald: "I don't know

Notables Meet

President Roosevelt, en route to Warm Springs, Ga., is greeted nt Tuskegee, Ala., Institute by Dr. George Washington Corver: noted Negro scientist and Tus- kegee faculty member. Later the President spoke at Auburn, Ala., urging the South to become self-sustabilng and to "get out of hock to the North."

Man Who Fled

From Gestapo

BRIGHTON.

May 9, 1939.

EMPIRE NEWS

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CAPE TOWN.

A start was made recently on the construction of a township on the Cape Flats, near Cape Town, to pro- vide decent habitation for at least 30,000 of the Cape coloured com- munity.

The scheme provides for at least 7,000

houses. The initial section will take the form of 400 three-roomed single-storey houses in blocks of four. This "satellite township" for non- Europeans, which will be equal in nize to the European part of_Bloem- fontien, will be the largest Coloured settlement in South Africa. The scheme is being undertaken by the City Council of Cape Town.

"In a recent statement in the House

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FEDERAL DEFICIT

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MELBOURNE. The continued reduction in Cus- toms revenue strengthens the pro- bability of a large Federal defelt this year. The March Customs figures were only £214,000 above Budget estimate. Pestal revenue was £96,- 000 below estimate.

Policewoman's Gold Medal. Police-woman Jessie Clearey Fitzroy won the King's gold medal and 30 Culncus for an essay open to the police of the Empire on the subject of juvenile crime, ity causes

and treatment. Her 11,000 words essay was completed at daylight on Oct. 22 and posted two minutes before the closing of the air mall with the last entries,

SCHOOL FOR LIBRARIANS

SYDNEY..

When Wreszynski returned to Hol- tand he was penniless. He could not even pay the hotel bill of Eva Busch, secutor described Wreszynski as on who had preceded him from the international crook sought by United States.

police of many countries. crook what it's all about. I saw two men When Miss Busch was examined who bought jewels und clothes on in a car outside my home on SunA PRISON sentence and a re- in court, the prosecutor asked her: flowers for women while his children day morning.

commendation for deporta- Perhaps they have "Why did you leave him in Holly-were starving in Switzerland. something to do with it. Anyway, tion has shattered the newly- wood?"

Wreszynski, in reply, declared that I'm not frightened."

won happiness of a Jew and his is being established by the Public A permanent school for librarlans "Well," she answered, "he got Into be still had a vast fortune in London, Miss Field has played in "Little wife, for whose sake he had Library of New South Wales at the trouble with detectives about a ring and that if he had not been arrested Lord Fauntleroy," "Sing, Baby Sing." trudged across Europe from request of the Government. It is to which he had not paid for and had he would have been able to repay and "Lloyd's of London." pawned. I thought I could noi Tony Mauser and Hollander.

A few months ago she threw up a Vienna to Antwerp, sometimes pen immediately, so that librarians marry such a man."

Wreszynski's sentence will be de-contract of £150 a week with Twen-through anow three feet deep.

will be available when the Govern- ided shortly. He has been in prison tleth, Century-Fox to take a chance

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In Vienna, before the Nazis come there, the man, Police Sergeant Leon Filip Drexlern, and his wife, Anny were happy. When the Germans marched into Austria Drexlern had to establish and maintain libraries. to become a road sweeper and his India wife came to Hove to enter domestic service.

Thrown into a concentration comp

and released after six weeks, he left the country, spurred on by the desire

to see his wife and fear of the secret

police.

RAJKOT DISPUTE

AWARD

NEW DELHI.

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Sir Maurice Gwyer, Chief Justice

At Hove. Drexlern came into the of India, recently announced his hands of the police for landing is award in the Rajkot dispute, which this country without permission. His led to Mr. Gondhl's fast at the be- solleitor stated that arrangements ginning of March. were.in. hand for the couple to go.to. the United States.

BRIEF JOY

Sir Maurice-abserves-that-in-his opinion the true construction to be pui on the documents submitted to him ls that the Thakore Saheb-who Drexlern WIS given bail and has been charged by Mr. Gandhi with walked away from the police station breach of faith undertakes to np- arm in arm with his wife, smiling, point persons whom Mr. Vallabhai and saying in German "What a Patel, the Congress Leader, may re- happy country England is. I never commend, and does not reserve to thought I would have such happiness himself any discretion to reject those again,

of whom he does not approve.

The award expresses no opinion on the charge of breach of fah.

Later Drexlern again stood In the dock for the resumed henring, His solicitor stated that the necessary visa for the United States had not come through.

Mr. Gandhi's Arst reaction to the award was one of great rellet, which produced a distinct improvement In hla physical condition. His doctors were examining him when the terms The Mayor (Councillor A. W. Hill-of the award were communicated to man) said the Bench must adminster him.

WIFE COLLAPSES

the law. "Drexlern," he said, "will Statue of King George VA bronze go to prison for 14 days and be re-statue of King George V. was unveiled commended for deportation.". at Calcutta recently by Sir Robert

Drexlern's face blanched and his Reld. Acting Governor of Bengal. wife slumped unconscious in her sent The statue, which is about 11 high. and had to be carried out of court.depicts the late King in the robes he Friends tried to assure them both wore at the Delhi Durbar. It forms that the Home Office would not insist part of the George V. Memorial now on deportation.

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WHEN VINCENZO CAIVALO, The then Archbishop of Athens is

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sald to have attended the burial cere- architect, rested from his vig over the was brought to the church with the mony of Calvalo's wife. The coffin coffin of his dead wife in the mummifted head of the dead women church he had built ostensibly as visible through a glass screen. a memorial to her, suspicious Calvalo told everybody that he pólice who searched the church could not forget his wife. found a wireless set, but no body because he insisted on eating alone Servants refused to stay with him in the coffin,

at a table Jald with a place for his diend wife.

Maps, plans and other compromis- popers were found in his safe, it is reported.

Colvato, who is alleged to be the chief of the Italian sples in Greero, was arrested in the church at Piraeus after he returned from a trip to Istanbul.

BUILT CHURCH AS MEMORIAL

He was sold to have built the memorial church at a cost of £7,000 at Piraeus, two miles from the Greek naval arsenal.

From the church; ft, is said, he operated the high-powered broad- casting set which was concealed in the comin.

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