LONELY FLIER

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 374, 8 November 1932, Page 7

LONELY FLIER

ADOLPH KLAUSMANN SILENTLY BROODING IN AU STRALI AN MENTAL HOSPITAL. LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES. Perth, Saturday. Bitter against his lot, lonely with the terrible loneliness of a dumb and deaf stranger in a crowded place, German mecbanic Adolph Klausmann broods silently in Point Heathcote Mental Observation Home. Unlike Captain Bertram, who is at present in Melbourne, and is shortly expected in Sydney, Klausmann can speak no English. And because those with whom he constantly associates cannot speak German, Klausmann is mentally isolated. Klausmann is a vastly changed man from the smiling mechanic who came J south a few months ago, with his mind app'arently restored, after his temporary insanity,. due to th'e terrible hardships when he and Bertram were lost in the north. i j Nothing to Do. .^ow Klausmann meanders around, with nobody to talk to except the few Germans who pay him an oecasional I visit, nothing to read, and nothing to do. He is in the dreadful position of . a man >vho feels sane, and is, in consequence, nursing a grievance against those who placed him at Heathcote. Germans who visit him are divided in their views. One section says that ha is sane. They declare that he talks sensibly on a variety of subjects, and discusses engineering, motor cars and aeroplanes rationally. But let the subject turn to the tragic flight, and Klausmami hecomes vehement. j On November 3 Klausmann will j leave for home, on a German steamer. His chief fear is that on the ship he will he treated as a lunatic, and that he will have to land in his own country as a lunatic.