IS HERE DIESEL ALIVE?
STORY FROM GERMANY. Times and Sydney Sun Services. . (Received March 24, 5.30 p.m.) Berlin, March 23. / 7 A story is current here to the-'effect that Herr Diesel, the inventor of the Diesel oil engine, who was reported some months ago. to have been drowned, is alive and staying in Canada.
NORTH SEA . MYSTERY. ' While on a voyage > from Hamburg to London Heir • Diesel mysteriously disappeared. He was left by some of his. friends late at night ' walking up- and down the ship's deck, as he had been complaining' of insomnia. Next morning. not a trace of him could; be found, and it was popularly supposed that he had fallen overt A body was later found on the Dutch coast, and this was" supposed to be that of .Herr Diesel. * An examination, . according to the' German newspapers, disclosed that Herr Diesel's affairs -were in a very , unsatisfactory state,' indeed his family was said to be in want, and a. fund on its.belxalf wasopened.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15566, 25 March 1914, Page 9
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