The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-19
DAME GOSSIP BUSY
SAYING HES DEAD"
White, Very Much
Alive. on Her List Of Lon
don Fatalities"
HAMEL'S MEMORY CLEAR

Special Core spondence 90 Tnr stN q.
LONDON. Dec. 10.-There appears to ~
in London a great number Of people who
have nothing else to do but invent base
less rumors about persons In the pub
lie light. In this manner the most sense
less reports are circulated from mouth
to mouth and az n natural result NJ the
nervous condition of England many ar"
those who arc willing to believe anything
at ALL. In this manner scores or well
known persons rave been reported 10
rave been sho, in the Tower OF London
as German spies. =. rumor was spread
one day about Claude Grahome-White.
the well known aviator. and the story
went all around London. although the
noted Hier could be seen to be dining
every night In a well known restaurant
in the West End.
Soon after the war began the tale
went round tina Gustav Hamel. the brill
liant young Rirman who disappeared In
May of last year, was alive and ny!ng
for the Germans. This triumph o. In
vention. helped by the fact that his name
was obviously not English. caused much
pain to DR.. Hamel. NJ. V. O.. his father,
a British subject; he was OF Danish
, origin, born at Hamburg when that city
tllKe tsuDeCk anu OtueT toWno vi ~
ancient Hanseatic Ieague) was tnds-
pendent. Once and for all Gustav Ha-
mel's honor IL now cleared the fanrily's
lawyers intimate that such q story Ia
ian insult TO his memory" and the
| Probate Court has issued letters or adj
minlstpatlon. with leave to presume his
death.
4 very little known and interesting
fact is recorded by Truth, II appears
that can easily send small war
! craft of shallow draught from Antwerp
10 the Black Sea under their own power
without once v~enturing into blue
water" Some years ago Messrs. Yarrow.
Limited, OF Glasgow. completed two
email monitors for Ruman!a, and these
two vessels steamed across Europe to
their destination. They first went to
Antwerp and then up the Rhine to be-
You'd Mayence. After this they pro-
ceeded by canals to the upper reaches OF
the Danube, down which they steamed to
Baiatz. a Rumanian town about Atty
miles from the mouth Of the Danube In
the Black Sea. Although Serbia does not
possess a single inch OF seaboard. It Ia
auite possible that the German navy as
sisted M~ackensen in hts attack on Bel
grade. The official German reports OF
the ngntlnR Waue nentlON VI BoNeThS
types Of war vessels which have never
formed part Of the Austrian Danube
hotilla.
The intricate problems created by the
income tax rules. which no one seems To
be able to understand. have brought
forh a number Of peculiar cases. The
latest Is that OF a naval officer who
has beer informed that the now law
which states that the income of a mar
ried woman living with her husband
IL deemed to he the husbands income
refers to his case, although ne has been
afioat since July. 1914. The officer has
written a letter OF protest, In which he
declares that all the authorities In the
world will never induce him to believe
| that his wife is living with him. His
appeal. however. has been In vain. inas'
much an the law Ia specific. and thst
for the purpose OF the income tax the
officer n his wife are living together
In law II moi in fact.