MOTHER COUNTRY.
GUBERNATORIAL APPOINTMENTS. London, April 30. Brigadier-General Sir William Manning has been appointed Governor of Ceylon vice Sir John Anderson, deceased. Sir Leslie Probyn will succeed Sir W. Manning in Jamaica, and Licut.-Colonel Charles O'Brien, Governor of the Seychelles, will succeed Sir L. Probyn at Barbadoes. INTERNED GERMAN'S SUICIDE. London, April 30. Frederic Brandauer, a German millionaire pen manufacturer, who was interned in the Isle of Man, committed suicide l>y taking poison. He had lived in England for thirty years, but had not been naturalised. He was recently informed that he would shortly he repatriated, and said lie would rather die. He left a letter to the coroner saying that he preferred the agonies of death to the cruelties of living in Germany. Brandauer's sister is the wife of a German general.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1918, Page 1
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133MOTHER COUNTRY. Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1918, Page 1
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