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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DONALD. DUCK..

4.15

Hitler shot

declares

Round The World GAY

In An Hour.

Using only hall u gation of petrol it la possible to make a tour of the world-to say nothing of a Journey to tha "other world' -providing one starts at Holm- Brth, Yorkshire,

Within an hour one "cad· vill Odessa, Melbourne, Alm, Mon- treal, North America, Paris and Amsterdam.

All these places are villages, kamics or cluster of farm build- ings within six miles of Holni- Arth. How they acquired their manes nobody seems to know,

And for variation one can drop in at Hades, locally known as "Hell," and at Elyslum, which is five minutes away. Elysium is a threepenny bus ride from Holm- firt. It costs the same to go to "Ifell."

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Cope, 1940), Whár Diary Production World Kleine Brezsel

own

Otto

GIRL'S

dead

niece Strasser LIFE

TERRORISM

By PERCY BANYARD

HITLER'S first murder was committed by his own hand. The victim was his own young nicee. She was found shot dead in Hitler's Munich house

nine years ago.

This is the dramatic accusation made by Otto Strasser in an astonishing book, "Hitler et Moi," published by the Paris house of Bernard Gasset. The girl's name was Angela (with her uncle Adolf. Four Raubal. They called her Gely. years later she was found shot She was pretty, attractive and dead. gay. In 1928 she went to live

Secret Of How

Are

U-Boats

Located

While major attention has been attracted by the sinking of another British destroyer, fewer headlines have been devoted to Britain's claim that it is "pretty certain that half the U-boats with which Germany began the war have been-sunk."

The words were those of Mr. Winston Churchill, formerly First Lord of the Admiralty,

Simple division indicates that this claim would account for about 35 submarines, for the Reich started the -war with about 70... The toll indicates

the marked advance that submarines! detection methods have made since 1914-18. -

The sound detecting devices of the World War era operated on the theory of picking up and amplifying noises transmitted through the water.

When the apparatus was in use, the observing vessel had to stop, naise made by 1s otherwise the propellers prevented the reception of fainter sounds. Despite this hand- cop, the results obtained were very saliktnetory.

Submarines Must Move

As would be expected, strenuous deade: sounds in submarines, but

SHE HAD TOLD THE GESTAPO

PUCHAREST.--For more than

The Andings of the court was sui- dde, but to many it did not seem atisfactory. In his book, Strasser who knew Hitler Intimately from 1023 to 1031, reveals some of the horrors which this young girl suf- fered while living with Uncle Adolf.

Strasser says when he was living i In Munich in 1928 he puid the at- tractive Gely a good deal of atten- dances and tlon, taking her to masked balls.

One day as he was dressing for a dance his brother Gregor burst does into his room saying, "Adolf not want you to go out with Gely,”. and as he spoke the telephone rang" and-Hiller shouted into the Instru ment, "I hear you have an appoint ment with that litle husky Gely. I won't have her going out with married men. I won't stand your

thy Berlin ways in Munich." Next day Gely told Strasser, her eyes rea

red with tears: "He has locked me up," she cried.

"There was no need to ask her writes Strasser. many questions." "With anger, disgust, horror she

strange told me of the

proposals with which her uncle persuaded her.

Priest's Message

"I was quite aware of the impos- siblitics of Adolf, I had heard of the outrageous demands to which Milc.

(en earlier 'flame' of Hiller's) had been submitted.

Strasser reveals that last Novem- ber, after he had revealed part of French newspaper, he the story in

following received the

message from nn Austrian priest in exile. than more

"It is 1 who buried Angela Raubat. 20,000 Releh Germans in this city the intic Gely of whom Strasser no one has come forward.

a fortnight now a German man and woman have been lying In the Bucharest mortuary walt- Ing for some one, to claim them for burial,

Although there are

There

Germany. And the German Consul

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£15,000 INQUEST JURY GETS £3 2s.

THE longest inquest in the history of the City of London came to an end at the Guildhall last month. But only just.

Seven months ago this in- quiry into the cause of the big gas explosion near St. Paul's Cathedral last August began..

Since then Illness has relentlessly

BERLIN'S

SAWDUST

BREAD

GENEVA.

WHILE Russian, Polish, and

PRISONERS taken from Ger- man U-boats are little more than boys, the average age of their seamen being about twenty to twenty-one-Average.. age...of petty officers is only about twenty-fourds Seadus, ka4254

This was revealed recently by a naval authority. There is growing evidence that U-boats are being sunk at such, a rate] that, apart from training crews, Germany is finding it difficultto build new ones Bufficiently quickly to replace them..

Small losses of ships in convoy are clear proof that what few U-boats are still hovering around the shipe ping lanes do not like the experience of attempting to attack ships in-con- voy.

One week's shippiar losses re- cently were the lowest since the first week of the war and the fourth lowest since the war be gan..

During seven days one British tanker and three neutral ships, tal- ling 13,901 tons, went down through enemy action.

Another German stulp, the 4,007– ton Miml. Horn, scuttled herself when Intercepted by a British war- ship.

the Sho

twenty-eighth German shilp to be scuttled, and brings the total German, losses to 303,946 tans."

"

Record Marred Unfortunately, what was thought la be a record, when it was on- nounced that the Barn Hill, 5,430 tons, which was bombed and set

onate, must now be considered

a total loss,

The week's losses only

represented

one-third of tho average weekly since war began and only -one-tenth of the average weekly- losses during the first seven months of 1017, when the U-boat cam- palen of the last war was at its height.

the

The British ship sunk was tanker Daghestan, 5.742, tons. Her loss

off the north-east coast of Scot and was due to an explosion-The master was killed, the second offleer and two of the crew are missing, but the remainder of the crew were saved.

One of the neutral ships, Protinus, a Dulch vessel dr 202 1015, 18 Included in the neutral vencel lost. Twenty-nine ships had been lost in British,, Allied and neutral ships escorted, or one in 515. Only three neutral ships have been lost in con- voy out of 2,215, representing only. the in 138.

efforts were made to reduce and has been no word about them ONE WORD complete elimination of noise was im- has declared himself disinterested in permitted the interment of a suicid were twelve to start with, Gradual the world is served at mode-

possible.-because n. submerged sub- marine is never in equilibrium and Just keep moving so it can be con- trolled by the diving rudders

As long as the propellers revolve, there is noise and only on those rare occasions when it can rest on the submerged sub- ocean bottom, la marine completely quiet.

n

To-day, however, pumps may clank and motors whirr without being riven a thought, because the old type sound detector. has been superseded by a far more efficient piece of apparatus which operates on an entirely differ ent theory:

A Dearching vessel emits a high- pitched signal and delicate receivers catch and record any echo that may come. And the searcher does not have to stop while using it.

what becomes of them.

in consecrated ground. From the fact that I gave her FO Christian So in all probability they will be burial, you will be able to draw pre- which I am for- given a pauper's funeral by the vise conclusions

bidden-to-commnunicate-ta.......You Rumanian authorities

Such in the fate of Germans who direct,"

up against the Gestapo

come Rumanla.

The dead man was Franz Lutke, an engineer representing the Krupp

CHINESE

works. He was working in Buchar LABOURERS

est as a spy for the Germans.

them Corsp Reported To Have

The Gestapo suspected him, how-j double-crossing ever, of They discovered that formerly ht had been working for the Com munista. So they sent one of their best women agents after him.

"Out For A Strol!"

searching vessel heads toward it. It Bucharest park.

·

Loft For Front

ly they followed the example of the Little Nixer Boys and became fewer_and_fewer.

The Verdict Was---

If the inquest had hot ended, when there were only seven jurors leti, there

rate prices in most German hotels, the staple food of the working people is bread made from sawdust and potatoes.

This contrast picture of life In

Is every likelihood that the whole German was given to me to-day by Inquiry would have had to start all a disting ished neutral, who has just over again....

returned across the frontier to Swit- One juror in the box looked as zerland.

and has had exceptional facilities for observing conditions in Germany.

Here are other highlights:

he had German measles (I could For the past month he has been see some apots), and another one mixing freely with prominent Nazis, had put of an appointment with| his specialist in the hope of win ning the race with incia. Anyway, at seven minutes to threa on the 31st day of the inquiry, the

Hitler: "He is looking sun-tanned, seven Jurors retired and after two but his face is thinner, hours they returned their verdict. cadaverous.” ---

more

KILLED HIM

BRENTWOOD.. SIXTY-TWO-YEARS-OLD

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Before anybody could stop him,uw he ran out of his house and dived Into a deep pond, He was drowned.

The story of his tragic mistake Vol. X No. T was told at the Inquest at Brentwood recently.

THE It was stated that he had been suffering from a nervour complaint for some ilme.

In the Inst war a large force of Chinese labourers mostly from Shan- tung Province, was recruited for la-

"I've Got to Gò". bour work behind the lines in France.

It was that the fire and explosion Goering: The Field-Marshal has Mr. Frank Fickles, Relieving or- The British claim that their instru-

She was Wanda Ingelborg, beaul Many present residents of the Far

Bardwell came to ments will reveal the presence of a ful and clever. Lutke fell in love East were transferred from militant on August 4 were caused by a sub- lost several stones in weight in the fecer, said that

officers of that sidence of subsoil removing support test few months."

him with a medical report which submarine anywhere within a mile of with her, and soon she discovered units and became

gas and water mains ond

would admit him to hospital When a vessel equipped with it. The same that he was in fact working against corps, which was one of the high-from

Dr. Schacht: The famous high he opened it, Bardwell read it over sound systers is available for use in the Nazis, while pretending to work lights of the Orient's participation in causing an accumulation of explosive submarines and can be used for for them. She reported him.

mixture which became Ignited by the collar of the former President of the his shoulder and ran out. He had the conflet.

In recent weeks there have been breaking of an electric wire. playing a sort of hide and seek game. Somehow Lutke found this out

Reichsbank was the only starched evidently misread one word in the The Inquest may easily have cost collar I saw in deimany--starch is. Bardwell said that when her Locating the Sub

Maybe the confessed it to him her many rumours that a similar force

£15,000, Counsel fees alone have

husband came home he took off his When an echo-la received, adjustself, for it seems that she had fallen was to be recruited for this war but

a denial was issued from Chungking smounted io some-2600-a-day. On practically unobtainable”

ngo. Circumstances a few months

My informant siw Hitler and hat-and-cool-and-said, "I lava rot ments are made which determine the in love with him,"

โป bearing of the submarine, and the He took her for a walk in aj arc, of course, much different now top of that there have been solicitors

People who saw

Becker in Berlin ten days ago. They something wrong with my brain."

His daughter caught his arm, but two or more searchers are present, them together say they looked like with the Japanese more or less in and the payment of witnesses' Goering at the funeral of General 10 go-to-day. They think there

occupation of Shantung, and it is expenses.

arrived at the church in separate he wrenched himself free and dashed the submarine's exact location is an ordinary happy couple out for considered it would be difficult to re- Exempted for Life.

out to his death. quickly revealed, as it is where the stroll in the spring sunshine.

cruit such a corps, even if ons were

The Jurymen,

A verdict of suicide while the courses of the searchers Intersect

They wore cheered by the crowd, balance. of the mind was disturbed after all have headed toward the

revolver. The girl did not seem in

Then they saw Lutke pull out it was reported in Hang-] months have had to spend two daya echo, And it is there that a pattern

a Chinese labour force of a week away from their businesses, but appeared very preoccupied and was returned, the cast surprised, they kay. She konsort was in fact now. being re-have each got £3 2s, out of the in- look little notice of the demonstra- did not cry out. In fact it seemed some almost as if she had been expecting cruited and it was stated that the quiry-at the rate of 28, a day.

Many Workers III

Scotland Yard Hunt "Can't you make it a bit more, Arat batch of men had left Hongkong They saw Lutke shoot dead the gri yesterday for Europe. This report Jim?" one

Talking of the food situation, my

For Pearls was mentioned during the broadcast coroner's meer. He has listened to informant sald: "Every hotel serves can detect a submarine of great and then himself.

Scotland Yard are searching for a depths,

Investigations in Luke's hotel from Manila last night.

Efterts in Hongkong last night to 1,074,000 words in this case, so he Russian, Polish, and Persian caviare Under less favourable conditions, room reveal that he had been work-

confirm this report were pol muccess«/ Was quite well able to resist eight-tho best in the world at moderate string of pearls belonglhkito, Lady i

prices.

Theodosin Cadogan, wife of Sir Alex- detection is more difficult, but it faing against Germany.

ful. It is understood, however, that more blameying ones.

But the coroner, Mr. Milner Keime, "On the other hand, bread made ander Cadogan. Permanent Under- always possible at greater. Uan

It any men are about to leave. long- periscope depth, and if a submarino

The pearls have disappeared and it suspects the presence of an airplane, effect of the airplane is very great, kong they are a comparatively small had a nofter heart. "You are ex-of sawdust and potatoes is the staple Secretary for Foreign Affelis, It takes a chance. In coming up far as the detonation of a bomb is often number and it is probable that they empted," he told the fury at the food of the workers. It la 60 bad enough to look through the periscope, the dirst intimation of a plane being are being recruited by private con- finish, "from serving as jurors in this that I developed a serious rash after is not known whether they have been

tractor and not omelally,

court for the rest of your lives," eating some and had to see a doctor alolen or morely mislaid. Within-tho-submarino, the moral near

of depth bomba is laid.

Airplane observation, imposes new Imitations on submarine operations. In clear, bmooth water where there

Is a white sandy bottom an airplane

that

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who for seven

of them asked the

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