LEAGUE DRAMA.
LUX DIES FROM INJURY. WELL KNOWN WRITER. REGRETTED NOTHING EXCEPT LEAVING WIFE. GENEVA, July 3. Stefan Lux, employed as a Press photographer by the “Prager Presse, ” who shot himself in the diplomatic gallery at the League Assembly, was taken to the Geneva Hospital, where the chief surgeon decided that an operation might save his life, but he died at 8.30 a.m. An X-ray examination revealed two bullets in the chest, one having been there since the Great War, when he fought for Australia. He was a wellknown German-Jewish writer, and it is believed hie object was to focus world attention on the plight of his “Jewish brothers” in Germany. During a moment of consciousness he declared that he regretted nothing except leaving a wife and son.
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Wairarapa Age, 6 July 1936, Page 5
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128LEAGUE DRAMA. Wairarapa Age, 6 July 1936, Page 5
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