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THE CHINA MAH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1936
PENSION FRAUD MRS. MARKHAM'S
BY WOMAN £1,117 Obtained In 19 Years
MONEY DRAWN AFTER RE-MARRIAGE
FLIGHT
Congratulations From
Air Secretary
London, To-day.
The Secretary for Air, Lord Swinton, bas sent to Mrs. Beryl Markham, the Kenya airwoman
aplendid
NEXT EVEREST ATTEMPT
Steeper Route May
Be The Best
NEW TACTICS DEVISED
Brixham Harbour. On board his converted-lifeboat
his impressions and conclusions in an interview. He has decided noti to lead another expedition toj Everest.
Mrs. Daisy Eleanor Elzabeth and first woman pilot to fly solo yacht, "The Eternal Ware." Mr. Lee, aged 49, of Tilbury, was at across the North Atlantic from Hugh Ruttledge, leader of the 1930 Grays, Essex, last month sent to east to west, a telegram of "hearty Mount Everest Expedition, gave prison for three months for ob-congratulations on your taining money by false pretences achievement.” from the Ministry of Pensions. Leaving Abingdon last Friday It was stated that the frauds had evening in a Percival Gull been going on for 19 years. plane Mrs. Markham was forced Mr. G. J. Ball, prosecuting, said down in Nova Scotia on Saturday on the death of the woman's first afternoon by lack of petrol after husband, a soldier, she was award-an arduous flight against" "strong ed a pension which had been in-winds and through fog-British creased from 10s to 26s 8d a week. Wireless Service.
.
In May it was discovered that she jhad married again.
Offence Made Worse
She had drawn altogether £1.117 after the death of her first hus-
"POISON PEN" LETTERS
There has recently been
aero-
"I am 51," he said, “and it is time a younger man took on the as conûdent ae job. But I am
be scaled. We were beaten this time by cruel weather luck. That is all, and luck will alway's play ja very large part in the attempt
ver I was that Mount Everest can
"The most important discovery an of the expedition is probably that which resulted from our final des-
(band 19 years ago. The fraud was epidemic of "poison pen" letters made all the worse because, short-on the council housing estate
before she married for the se-Enfield. cond time, she wrote to the Minis- try of Pensions asking what her position would be in regard to the pension if she did marry again.
at pairing attempt to find a way up to the North Col by way of the main Rougbuk Glacier, after try- ing from the other side.
"We found that, although the have met with very little success slope is steeper, it appears to offer! The rebels are understood not to better chances of success than our
2
She was told that the pension have agreed to the terms offered old route." would be settled by a lump sum by the defenders under which the Stores At Monastery She then wrote back saying that
livs of the 625 hostages held by Asked whether plans for she would not be getting married
the city would be spared and in-future expedition would be likely again after all.
cendiarism would be prevented. to be modified in view of his ex- found "I am glad I bave been
If the talks finally break down periences, Mr. Ruttledge said: “It out With the fear of being found
the rebels are prepared to storm is hard to say, but there are out always hanging over me my the city, this inevitably resulting several matters of controversy. life has been a terrible one." Lee
in very great damage before the now said.
Government forces evacuate. In the meantime 8,000 loyalists, mostly Basque Nationalists. preparing to put up a stout de- ¡ience.
TOLEDO THE NEXT GOAL
(Continued from Page 1)
HUESCA OCCUPIED
OFFER REFUSED
are
་
Оде
ex-
is whether a future pedition should be smaller and more lightly equipped, more like Shipton's reconnoitring expedition last year.
"It may be that a future expedi- tion will be organised on a dif- Barcelona: A loyalist communi-ferent basis. It might be possible to arrange well in advance for al college and the towers of Alcagar,que states that the powder maga- Toledo, where the cadets are be-zine at Huesca was blown up in cache of stores and equipment to seiged. Twelve large bombs were a bombardment by Government be kept in readiness in Tibet, per- haps at the Bongbuk Monastery, The city is now com- dropped yesterday. Two six-inch aircraft. guns are bombarding the towers, pletely occupied by the Govern- where we were given so friendly a
reception on this occasion.
"Then, in a season when propi- two of which have collapsed: The ment forces.-Reuter. front tower is on the verge 01:
tious weather was reasonably cer- destruction.
Hendaye: The leaders of the tain, the expedition could traveli Washington: The United States Nationalist troops have rejected out to this base by aeroplane and Consul at Serville reports that the offer of the Civil Governor of begin ascent at once." General Franco has expressed re-San Sebastian to surrender if the gret at the bombing of the U. S. Basque Separatists were guaran- destroyer Kane on August 31; General Franco added that inves That the failure to achieve al tigation had failed to show that humanisation of the Spanish civil any aeroplane of his was involved, war is due to the attitude of the of- but the possibility of error
Spanish Government is now such deplorable circumstances ficially confirmed by a statement
FRANCO'S REGRETS
could not be excluded..
teed a full amnesty,
GOVT. RESPONSIBLE
The Foreign Minister,
in
:
INDIAN FLOODS ESCAPE
Starving Man's 16-Mile Swim
Bombay.
of the Ambassadors now in St. NEGOTIATIONS FAIL Jean de Luz, which stated that St. Jean de Luz: The Spanish the Spanish Foreign Minister did Government's attitude with regard not permit the measures to be India's monsoon, though heavy, to the question of humanising the carried out that were proposed by seemed to be playing strange war, rejecting the suggestions of the doyen of the Corps, the Argen- pranks last month. Through ill- the diplomatic corps to that end, tine ambassador.
distribution it had resulted in between стара is stated to be due to the fact that
an-drought-ruined the Burgos junta has not yet ap, swer to the requests put to him, Poona and Nasik and floods in the! pointed a representative to con-answered that he was willing to United Provinces. Elsewhere there! tinue the negotiations, while Senor do everything to alleviate the was no cause for alarm. 2DAYS TO-DAY • TO-MORROW.
Largo Caballero, the Prime Minis suffering caused by the civil war The United Provinces were still GONLY
unwelcome deluges, accept any co-operation, receiving YOU'LL LIKE THIS SENSATIONAL DETECTIVE MYSTERY!ter, is understood to desire the and so
diplomatic corps to return to Ma-"as soon as the conditions neces-causing acute distress Hundreds drid.
sary therefor have been satis-of villages were under water, and The diplomatic conference is at fied.”—Trans-Ocean Service, was impossible to estimate the damage to crops. In one centre! COMMITTEE TO MEET
alone the
numbered refugees London: A meeting of the In-10,000. ternational Committee of the re-l In another district 300 villagers church presentatives of 24 or more coun-were marooned inside a tries who have joined in prohibit-standing on higher ground. They ing the export of arms, munitions were living on the fish they caught and aircraft to Spain, will open in the flood waters.
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Attempt To Save San Sebastian
PARLEYS BEING HELD
Hendaye: It is reported
at noon to-day at the Foreign Of- Driven by hunger, Mr. Hamil- fice with the Financial Secretary ton, one of the refugees, swam 16||||| that to the Treasury, Mr. W. S. Morri-miles to Shahjahanpur and was parleys are being held between son, in the chair. It is not yet taken exhausted from the water. the Government and rebel de-known whether, the Portuguese Igates, aimed at saving San Government will be represented................ Sebastian from destruction, but British Wireless Service.
Embarkation Arrangements
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MISSING VICAR
Left Home In Car On
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The Rev. Roger Sharpley, Vicar of Thorpe Thewles, near Stockton- on-Tees, was last month reported
London To-day-The War Office (the Royal Army Ordnance Corps missing to the Stockton police. has announced the arrangements follow in the steamship Naldera. His official description is: Six feet! for the embarkation of the rein-and the next day the 2nd Battay in height, of thin build, with dark] forcements for Palestine. From lions of the King's Royal Rifle hair and complexion. September 12, when the 2nd Bat- Corpe and the Wiltshire Regi- He left home on July 7 in an talion of the Royal Northumber-ment leave Southampton in the Austin-Seven car for a tour. The land Fusiliers, the Royal Irish transport Neuralia,taf
last letter his wife received was Fusiliers and the Royal Engineers The 2nd Battalion of the Scots dated July 20, and was written sad from Southampton in the Goards and the Royal Army Pay from Hereford.
transport Dorsetshire, till Septem-Corps leave on September 20: in It is thought that Mr. Sharpley ber 22 the troops will leave at in-the steamship Van Dyck, to be may be suffering from loss of tervals of two or three days followed two days later by the 2nd memory. He was a patient from Headquarters staffs and adminis- Battalions of the Hampshire Regi effects of partial shell shock dur- trative units will travel in the meat and the West Yorkshire ing the war. steamship Laurentic, from South-Begiment in the steamship Cali- ampton on September 14. The 2nd fornía
Battalions of the East Yorkshire: The embarkation arrangements. Regiment and the North Stafford for the 3rd Battalion of the Cold- shire Regiment sail on the same stream Guards and the 2nd Batta-
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