DUKE OF WINDSOR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22839, 21 September 1937, Page 12

DUKE OF WINDSOR

LIKE IN AUSTRIA NIGHTLY TALKS TO LONDON DUCHESS A BUSY WRITER [FItOM A SPKCIAL COHHF.SI'ONDKNT] LONDON. Scut. 4 Every night a telephone call is put through from Castle Wasscrlconburg, Vienna, to London. The Duke of W incisor, nine months after leaving the country, still keeps in close touch with Knglaiid. He usually talks for about 20 minutes. A London-Vienna telephone call costs Gs i)d for three minutes after 7 p.m. The I)uke and Duchess are often alone in their honeymoon castle when the Duke puts, through his calls. They arc leading a simple life. In the morning they breakfast on a terrace beside the small, flowerbordered swimming pool looking out toward the mountains of Austria, Italy and Yugoslavia. After breakfast they read the, London daily papers, two American and four Austrian papers, as well as several magazines.

Fishing and Mountaineering

After attending to his mail, which has now reached normal size, the Duke has a light meal. He devotes almost every afternoon to exercise. He plays tcjinis, sometimes goes fishing, sometimes plays golf. But his favourite exercise is mountain climbing. The villagers have a great respect for the Duke as a climber. He recently climbed the Gsooft. slopes of the rocky Dobraseh Range behind Castle Wasserleonburg in three hours fourteen minutes, and one of his guides said no "ran most of the way down." lhe Duke has put on weight slightly and is very bronzed. The Duchess leaves the castle grounds on loot vorv seldom. When she does go out it is in a car with the Duke or one of their visitors. When she has no visitors the Duchess spends a great deal of her day writing. In the locality it is freely rumoured that sho is writing a book. Duchess' Favourite Clothes Villagers who thought they would see many new Paris frocks worn by the Duchess have been disappointed. Her favourite clothes have been simple costumes and. dresses, almost always in Wall is blue or white. At the castle gate stands only one notice: "Beware of the dogs." 'lhis is a reminder that Snookie and Pookie, the two Cairn terriers of the Duke and Duchess, are growing up. If one asks the villagers what they think of the Duke and Duchess, one gets only one reply: "They look happy."

ESCAPE FROM PRISON YOUTH WHO WISHED TO WED CAPTURED 160 MILES AWAY [FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT] SYDNEY. Seut. 3 7 A housebreaker, Jack Hamchard, aged 19 years, who escaped from Long Bay gaol, Sydney, on Saturday, was captured at his home in Orange, 160 miles away, on Monday. Ho told the police that he had escaped to marry a girl ol his own age, who was living at his home.

The raid 011 Hamchard's homo was made 011 information received from Sydney police headquarters. The police quietly surrounded the house. One of them knocked on the front door. Almost immediately Hamcliard leapt from a window into the arms of a waiting constable. Hamcliard was in ordinary clothes and did not say where he had discarded his prison clothes. He was alleged to have been in the house for at least six hours.

SLAIN IN DESERT AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY SEARCH FOR YOUNG MAN ENDS [from oun OWN correspondent] ■ SYDNEY. Sept. 17 Saddle packs, a dingo trap, and a man's skeleton were the clues to a tragedy of the wild interior of Western Australia discovered by a police partv. Mr. Edward Joseph WilkiiiSj a vouiig Englishman, had been missing for n year. A young pastoralist, lie had set out from his station on a dingotrapping expedition. A search party set out 011 his trail but was forced back by lack of food and water. Detective-Sergeant Larson left W ilruiui on July 1 with another party, and a few (lays ago returned, after covering 800 miles of arid sandhill country with few waterholcs. Two aborigirils the party brought back have been charged with the murder of Mr. Wilkins. Getting information 011 the track from drovers, the searchers made a forced inarch and came upon a family of blacks, about 200 miles' north of Wilruna. A woman took the detective to Mr. Wilkins' last camp and pointed out two men who, she said, were the murderers. Close by were saddle packs, a dog trap and Mr. Wilkins' skeleton. Detective-Sergeant Larson was told that, while Mr. Wilkins was away getting his horse, the blacks took his rifle from the camp. On returning, Mr. W ilkins was speared twice. He ran to his camp for his rifle but was pursued and killed with tomahawks.

AIRSHIP SERVICES LINKING THE EMPIRE BRITISH AVIATOR'S SCHEME [from a rpkcial connksponijent] LONDON, Sept, '1 Airship services linking Australia, Now Zealand and South Africa with London are being planned to operate in the near future as part of a scheme to restore Britain's position in the field of craft. Captain J. A. Sinclair, formerly executive* officer of Polegate Air Station, and prime mover behind the scheme, is enthusiastic on the future possibilities of airships. "With the loss of the Hindenburg," he said, "many people imagined that airships would die a natural death. They might equally well have imagined that the loss of the Titanic would sound the knell of big ships. We have not yet even glimpsed the beginning of the airship age. "Hy April we hope to have the first of our ships in the air. She will bo small, non-rigid, twin-engined, and filled with helium gas to ensure absolute sal'etv. Slip will bo used for 'joyriding.' advertising, survey work and the training of crews." A modern airship station is part of the plan, and this will be built within easy reach of London. The cabin of Britain's first new airship will seat six passengers in addition to the pilot. Smoking will be permitted because of the non-inflammable gas, and easy conversation will be possible.