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Fancy Story. General Giraud was imprisoned with many other high French officers in Saxony's grim, moated Königstein Fortress on a mountainside 750 feet above the Elbe. There, it was said last week, he managed to obtain German maps, timetables. From gift boxes he assembled a suit of civilian clothes.* As to the actual escape, stories differed. One version said that for months, when the General and his fellow prisoners were given airings in the nearby fields, they casually picked strands of hemp, until finally they had enough to weave a long rope. Another version, attributed...
...into the passenger business. From his 14 ships, all named after Saxon castles, he chose three of the biggest and best, had them rebuilt as combined passenger & automobile transports in the New York-Antwerp trade, with stops at Southampton and Havre. The 16,000-ton Königstein was equipped to carry 300 passengers, the 14,000-ton Ilsenstein and Gerolstein 180 each. All three could still carry 450 cars apiece as against the 600 they carried as freighters. When tourists found they could go to Europe and back for a flat rate of $150, take their cars along...
...independent was welcomed with open arms into the tight little autocracy which rules the North Atlantic. After the doors of the conference opened, it was announced that Member-elect Bernstein had agreed to up his rates $2.50 one-way, $5 round-trip for the Königstein, Ilsenstein and Gerolstein, charge a minimum of $115 one-way, $207 round-trip for his 16.000-ton German Red Star Liners Pennland and Westernland...
Arnold Bernstein Line will operate the Pennland and Westernland as German Red Star Line, will continue to operate under its own name the Königstein, Gerolstein, Ilsenstein...