SEARCH FOR FATHER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1934, Page 12

SEARCH FOR FATHER.

BOY SCOUT'S JOURNEY. Joseph Kcresztesi Kiss, a 20-year-old boy ecout, has set out on a journey to China to search for his father, who disappeared there in the spring of last year. Joseph Kiss starts with no money, but with a free ticket to Shanghai (given to him by the Cidna Aeroplane Company) and letters of recommendation from General Baden-Powell, Count Teleki (the Hungarian 'Chief Scout), and from Iferr von Papen (a friend of the lost man). In 1914 Mr. Keresztesi Kise, the boy's father, finished his studies at Oxford and returned to Hungary to enter one of the ministries. The war found him at Ostend, and he was taken to London and interned. After a few weeke he succeeded in securing permission to go to America, where he became barrister for several American banks and made friends with Herr von Papen, then Military Attache in Washington. He was accused of attempting to circumvent the American orders with regard to the food blockade of Germany, and returned to Hungary to practice law in Debrecen. Later, he bought an estate in Bordighera, and settled there with his second wife, formerly Mies Ida Robinson, the daughter of a British admiral.