GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1967, 22 April 1919, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

LIVED WITH CANNIBALS. Captain Konrad Ilelzler, a Ger» man engineer, was surveying the boundary of German-British Papua when the war broke out. Hiding his uniform, and wearing only a waistband, Hetzlor escaped to the bush, and lived with a cannibal tribe the whole four years. Learning of the armistice, he retrieved his dollies, and returned to civilisation, his skin being quite dark like a Polynesian. On his arrival at Sydney he was interned. ' "GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY,” New York detectives recently had a long night search for £4,000 worth of jewels which were purported to have been stolen from a lady's handbag. When they called at her home late at night to report that they had made no progress, they were disgusted to be informed that she had found the jewels under her pillow, where she had left them, forgetting to take them with her. BURNING THE EVIDENCE. A-German official who is carrying out a research among the archives of the Berlin Foreign Office, declares that the new German White Book will contain all documents relating to the war, from the Sarajevo murders to the invasion of Belgium, and will be in three or four volumes. "Many of the documents which will appear in it,” says the investigator, "are annotated in the Kaiser’s own hand. No documents are missing from the Foreign Ollice. It is only at Potsdam that papers have disappeared. All the Kaiser’s correspondence has been burnt, and nothing of it- remains. A ROYAL GERMAN DUG-OUT. Prince Eitel Friedrich’s dug-out on the Western trout, a two-storey frame b.umiiag with electric lights, tiled bathrooms, and suites sumptuously furnished, will be one of the most interesting attractions to the prospective war zone toiuf-T. Close by is a theatre. The whole position has been preserved intact:. Pilgrimages from the New World may well prove a useful form of reconstruction activity, for it will bring a great deal of money into stricken areas where for a time husbandry will be impossible. AVIATOR’S DANGEROUS VISIT. Coppens, the Belgian aee, who has 33 German machines to his credit, has just told how he saw his father and mother in Brussels while the war was at its height. He How from the Belgian lines to Brussels, located his old home, and circled over it, making a great noise with his engines, As the aviator swooped low he saw his father and mother stop out upon the balcony and wave to him. Leaning over the fuselage lie waved in reply, and was off amid a hail of anti-aircraft shrapnel. He returned safely to the Belgian lines.