San Francisco, July 6. Count Gustav Gabriel von Frederick zu Brandenburg of Denmark, claiming to be a friend of Count and Countess Kurt von Haugwitz-Revent-low, said today that the anonymous man referred to in the London court case over charges of the Countess that her husband had threatened to take her life and kidnap their son was "a handsome Belgian."
"Barbara met him in. the plane from Calais to Dover," she said.
"I am too much of a gentleman to give you the Belgian's name, but he is equally as handsome as Count von Haugwitz-Reventlow.
"I believe from what I know and hear from my London friends that Barbara intends to marry him."
He blamed the rift between the Count and the Woolworth heiress and former wife of Prince Mdivani on the Countess' "lack of a stable background... She is a lovely lady but follows the pursuit of pleasure too seriously."
He called the Count swell fellow."—United Press.
Tokyo, July 7.
A report issued at noon today by the Kobe Police puts the death-roll in the floods at 309, those missing at 429, those injured at 1,199.
A total of 1,741 houses are stated to have been washed away, and 1,955 houses are said to have collapsed as a result of the floods.
The report states that the death-roll of the foreign community at Kobe tetels four, including two Frenchmen, R. E. Jordan and Ellendorft, one Portuguese child, Manuela Augusta de Souza, and a Chinese.
One German is said to have been seriously injured through the floods.
The first task of the relief squads st Kobe was to bring drinking-water into the city, the embankments, of the reservoirs having been destroyed.—Reuter.
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