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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1928, Page 4

BARON’S DEATH IN POVERTY. VIENNA, July 2b With coins worth two shillings which he had borrowed from his landlady yesterday lying upon lire bedside table, Baron Friedrich Karl von Helmholt. aged 51, "'as found dead this morning. AVith him were his wife and her daughter by her first marriage, Ell'riede Carpenter, aged 13. Tho tragedy took place at Deciding, Vienna. Born at Altcnburg, Saxony, the baron had owned estates in Austria, but for the last two years was impoverished and suffered great hardship with his family in Vienna lodgings. It was found that he had made two holes in the bedroom door and attached rubber tubing to each gas tap in the dining-room, passing the tubing through the door.

TOO LUXURIOUS. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 24 The Soviet Government lias taken action to arrest tbo increasing luxury of Soviet women agents here. It Ims been usual for members of the Soviet Embassy and trade delegation to bring their wives from Russia. They worked a.s secretaries and typists. Tims a double salary was pocketed and these Soviet women members of the stalf began to compete with members of “bourgeois” society around them in their luxurious style of living. They began spending extravagantly on dresses, jewels and furs. Moscow has now decreed that wives may not he employed in tho Embassy nr delegation with their husbands.