EX-KAISER'S YACHT.

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1934, Page 12

EX-KAISER'S YACHT.

Col. B's reference to the lady tim«keeper on the Endeavour reminds F.M., Potoiie, that the ex-Kaiser once had a palatial yacht. Years before tho World War, this craft was knqwn as tha Hokenzollcrn. It was she who broke tlio ribbon which opened the mighty Kiel Canal, built at a cost of £11,000,000 to allow the- passing of Germany's greatest warships. Tho Hohenzollern was a - floating palace. Tho suite of tho Empress was beautifully decorated in mauve silk, and the walls were plastered with family photographs, one of which read: To dear Willie, from mamma. During the war the Hohenzollcrn was seized by the British and laid up for years in tha London docks. Subsequently she wai sold to a Swedish company, and nowadays, known as tho s.s. Norman Star, is used for taking tourists on. summer cruises.

"BANDIT CONSCIOUS" CAR.

Car owners and ,our indefatigable if sometimes baffled police officers may be interested' in this piece of news. Two London unemployed ex-sorvicomen claim, to have invented a gadget which is guaranteed to trap motor bandits. The contrivance is said to be fool-proof and thief-proof, and can be fitted to any make of car. . Immediately any uni authorised person starts driving the car more than four miles' an hour, two red electric signs shoot out above the front and rear number plates. On these are written::— '