NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1922, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL

I WIRELESS SECT’EC'Y. LONDON, -il.ay 12. I Tile- development towards securing 1 secrecy in wireless telephony disclosed I to the Institute of Electrical Engineers oil Wednesday bv .Mr S. I'ranklin, ol the .Marconi Company, was discussed by ! Senator .Marconi with a Daily Mail reporter x esierday. j At the outset Senator Marconi sounded it note of warning. ‘'Scientists,” lie said, “etilimit employ tbe word ‘absolute’ or ‘finite’ to their investigations and discoveries. \\ bat we do not know to-day we may know to-morrow. That , is why I am not prepared to say that 1 absolute secrecy Clin be guaranteed with regnid to wireless. | “It was years ago that 1 first experimented with regard to eommunieaI tion between two given points without I the communication being picked up ; elsewhere, hut then there came the fascinating development of speaking to ; the world at large by ‘broadcasting j and I dropped the experiments. “During the war J took them up again for the ’benefit of the Italian Navy. .Mr Eranklin assisted me, and we were able to eommunicate over a distance of six miles \ without being overheard. “Since then Mr Eranklin has carried oil his experiments, and to-day wo can communicate in this way over 1(10 miles, and I see no reason why in course of time we should not lie able to speak by ibis method across the Atlantic. “1 will not say that the conversation will lie absolutely secret us between the speaker and the listener, hip t«;-duy only a station directly in lino between the two points and turned up to the proper wave-length could intercept the message. What the lat lire will bring forth—who can say l- Our experiments will go on, and I am hopeful.”

DUKE KIDNAPPED. LONDON, .May !-’

Details of a marriage drama, in whirl there figures a ducal bridegroom \x h< is alleged to have been drugged am kidnapped from Folkestone on hi; honeymoon, were published ill the London “Evening Nexvs” yesterday.

Tbe duke, a young fuieiguer, cousin ij a reigning monarch, met before ti c war a beautiful and cultured Englishwoman who was living xvitli her parents in the West End. They were mutually attiaeted and became engaged. The duke xvas a Roman Catholic ami bis fiamee a Protestant, but she xvas lereived into the faith of her -lover, and a priest married them very quietly during the summer of 101 -I. Tbe duchess herself has related the surprising story of subsequent events. News of the wedding had reached (laduke’s mother on the Continent. She xvas incensed at the marriage of betsob xxith a commoner.

The duxvager duchess came to England aci ompanied by a “rescue” party, and even invoked the aid ol the Ambassador of her country and of high Chinch dignitaries. fjhe found, to her anger, that the marriage xvas p'-rfevtly good. Appeals to the Vatican were made in xuin. The young duchess alleges that when her mother-in-law found these steps el no ax-ail the “rescue” party at I'olkestoue, xx here the first part of the honeymoon xvas spent, kidimtmed tie- did; - and took him in a drugged state b> Paris, xvliere they held him captive. The young duchess's grief xvas turned to joy xvlieii she received a message from her husband that he had escaped and was making for Calais, lie begged her to meet him there at a stated time. She xvent to Calais, but her !:usl - - ‘

never came to her. She sgys she. sub sequently learned that Dm downs -

duchess's party, by charioting a special train, caught the bridegroom just half an hour before the time fixed for the reunion. The duchess states that she Ims never seen her husband since, and that he has not supported her financially. His royal cousin, she says, lias given her a tympathetie hearing .

SU.SPECTED POISONER. NEW YORK, -May 12

A woman who has been five times married is in prison at Clex-elaiul ponding an exhaustive inquiry by the police into the manner by which three ot her husbands and two uf licr children came by tlieir deaths. She is suspected of being a. xvliolesale poisoner, but the authorities refuse to divulge her name until the body of her fifth husband, xvlio died a year ago, lias been exhumed and the organs have been analysed. The woman, it is said, has eollected £2,300 in insura nee. She divorced her first txvo husbands. Her third died in Afareli 1917, her fourth in Alay 1919. and a month after the sudden death of the fifth she boasted to a neighbour that slie bad received three more offers of marriage.

I" According to her .second husband, •who is living in Pittsburg, she was afflicted with a “mania for collecting insurance.” Some time before the death of her fourth husband she pusuaded him to apply for a life insurance. Siie informed .her father-in-law that an insurance had been refused, lull lie later discovered that she h d secretly paid the pnoniums anil collected Cl,ooo. . After collecting Cl,ooo on the death of her fifth husband,'it is staled, she applied to the Red Cross for assistance on.the grounds that he had been n soldier of the United States Expeditionary Force, and had suffered a fatal impairment of health through being gass-

She xvas arrested on a charge not con- | lieeted xx ith the suspicion of being a poisoner. In her residence the authoiities discovered a caiefnlly preserved newspaper cutting containing the re- | port of a judge’s charge to a jury, leading : “bear in mind thill suspicion is an entirely difi'ereni thing from legal jiri of, ami that it is in m-coi'dam-e xvitb proofs ami not suspicion that the verdict must.be given.” • Two of the woman's children hv hci liist husband died from “accidental noi so 11 big.” Her txvo living children, bori of the second mariinge, are lioxv in the care of the Rod Cross. Evidence collected by the authorities shows that oil the night after the death of the fifth husband the woman attended a dance, and that when Mrs Catherine Kabet xvas cniivieled of murdering her husband, she remarked, “Hoxv foolish .Mrs Kabet xvas to have her husband sUibbed. Why didn’t she give him ground grass h”

RED SPY. PLOT. PARIS, Alav (i

A remarkable Communist plot with a xvidespread network of spies and secret agents working throughout 1- ranee, especially in military and naval circles, is stated to have been discovered by tl e French police. Three ef the Communists have already been aire-.t-d and charged xvitli espionage. This evening police inspectors all oxer France have been entrusted with search warrants, 200 of xvhieh have been signed. It is expected that these searches xvill result in further ai rests an ! disclosures of the intense efforts made by the Bolshevist authorities in Aloseoxv to stir up revolutionary agitation in the French army and the naval purls and at the sonic time to amass information as to French military strength.

Police inquiries have shewed that ( ■mmiunist agents all over France were ,iu e-msiant c.immiinieation hv letter ami wire, sending to all address in the suburbs of Paris every scrap of military and naval information they could proerne. From Paris this information xvas ! citi"- despatched to Aloseoxv. PRETENCE” MARRIAGE. PARIS, Alny 12. It is stated that Allle. Jacqueline Lebntidy, daughter of the eccentric French millionaire, xxlio xvas known as tin 1 ‘‘Emperor of the Sahara.” has applied. to the Paris Court for a judgment declaring the nullity of her marriage xxith AL Roger Sudreau. sen of the. well-known French detective. She states that the marriage x-.-s purely formality to enable her to ili-i----tn-iise xxith lengthy legal procedure lb secure the control of her father's estate and money in the United States. She and her mother left Al. Sudreau verv soon, hut the young detective, having discovered tlieir uexv above, attempted to force (her girl to go away xvil h him. It is stated that Allle. 1.(-bendy, xvill bring forxvnrd deenmenis to prove that both the husb-nd and herself recognised that tin' marriage xvas only a “pretence,'’ xvliilo she xvill also call doctors to give evidence to the -same elfec-t. .Mother and daughter announce their intention of returning to the United States when .the, case i.s over.