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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1929, Page 8

NEWS BY MAIL.

DANCER’S DESPAIR.

VIENNA, June 12

Frau Hilde von Gale, wife of an ex-colonel of the Austrian Army, was so disgusted with her life as a cabaret daheer in Vienna that she took twelve tablets of bromural in the Moulin Rouge after midnight, and fell insensible on the floor when n man led her out to dance. r She was taken to hospital, and is recovering. She is only 32, and has three small children to provide for. Her husband ®vas ruined 'by the revolution, and they have been separated for years. She became an actress, but has recently had few engagements. In May she went to the Moulin Rouge as what is called here an “animation lady” who dances with visitors, when asked, for an unspecified fee. She stated in hospital that anxiety for her three ohildern had alone prevented her from attempting suicide sooner, for the life of am “animation lady’’ she found not worth living. At first she received a salary of about £1 a week, with commission on the champagne consumed by men who danced with' her. Then the salary was cut off, she received only commission, and was “always hungrey,”. she said. : • v •. BIGGEST FOKKER. - THE HAGUE, June 12. Two new types of aeroplane are in course of erection at the Fokker factory lit Amsterdam, one of which, F 9, is a large, heavy machine capable of. Carrying'three tons of cargo or passengers, and the other, DIG, a- scouting machine 'fitted with thin wings. The F 9 follows much the same lines as tho FVII. 3m, with which tlife trial trips to the Dutch East Indies were made, but is considerably larger. The total width of the wings is not quito 88 feet, the thickest part being about 40 inches from top to bottom. The length of the machine is about 54 feet, the depth 15 feet, and the superficial surface, including the tail, about 120" square yards. • The net weight of the machine emjity is just* over?sjr*tons;; and- with the full cargo" !Or' full complement of, 18 or 20 passengers*amd baggage’nearly‘nine tons. 11 ( Itr •' will have-three 'eiir. girife's’ of- GOO-h’ p. l , the maximum -speed bei'rig abortt: H32'miles per Four,'-with a minimum bf 67 and .an average of about■'los.' i, ' ; -!:' ' ; ' l ' ’ > ••• . - !•-!••••«.

•This' ’will 'he: the’'largest' model yet made' bv th'e' 1 Eokkfer firm. a: ' j- y*.- ; . “FIERY* SERPENT.”, > g " n ■ o ■' u,<->• £ •• BUDAPEST, June 12. x Two cases of a tropical worm parasite disease called filariasis have been diagnosed* in Debreczin. One of the manifestations of the disease, which is transmitted : by a mosquito,! ,isdfelepliriritiasis-,;, (darkening and hardening of the skip which refc'eflibles 'elopharifil• hide):-'> '■ RegardirigP'this , 'p&‘rasite, Stcdman’s Mfe'diealtD Dictionary gives the following 1 particular :-4- -"■* ; * -' 1 l"Thte fetnale;Pin -order to liberate her: young, bbrehyas'liole* through'-the skin,j usually at tho lankly whero-,an ulcer | inch in * tlte' neighbourhood: of the. Red; Sba , 1 and" is believed to have'• been the ’ “fitify sei'perit'thatvtorment’d 'the Is-; raelites." /Mfjri'i'*. • t ■ . J

13 SALOONS RAIDED. NEW YORK, June 10. The little town of Ripon, Wav.onsin, is bemoaning the loss of its !->er following “dry” raids yesterday v ode the citizens were celebrating the ho ill in their midst of the Republican Party 75 years ago. The Secretary for War (Mr J. Y. Good) arrived as the • representative of President Hoover, but he damped the ardour of Ripon by declaring that ' “events, not men, called the party into being.” Tlien Prohibition raiders still further lessened the enthusiasm by entering 13 saloons which ! normally slake the thirst of citizens. The birthday paraders were obliged to watch the seizure of 20 barrels of beer on tap from one saloon alone, and wore forced to listen to the Prohibition agents’ mallets smashing barrel-heads and to see the agents permitting liquor to flow away untasted.

LOST EXPLORER. BUENOS AIRES, June 16. It is reported in the newspaper “La Prensa” that the revolver, compass, and other articles of the missing British explorer Col. P. H. Fawcett, of Newton Abbot, Devon, who disappeared into the vast jungle region of Brazil in 1925, have been recov-, ered. According to .a despatch from Recife, Brazil,. Capt. Alfred Morris, a Canadian engineer, has arrived there with the articles, which bear Col. Fawcett’s initials. Capt. Morris states that he bought them from bandits >he encountered while searching for traces of the missing .explorer and his companions. He is convinced that Hie colonel and his party, which included his son and Mr R. Riimell) were murdered by the bandits.