THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 19, 1940
G.B. SHAW COLOURED- 5 GUINEAS
If a man with a clay pipe is worth a guinea, what is Mr. Bernard Shaw worth?
"Five guincas," said Deputy Judge Hamblen, who put and answered this poser at Westminster County Court recently.
Mr. L. Leigh, professional photo- grapher, of Cleve-road, West Hamps- tead, N. W., had sued Mr. Henry. Stead, camera dealer, of the Strand, for £18 18s., the value of nine photo- graphic slides loaned and not re- turned.
A coloured slide of Mr. Shaw and one of an old man with a clay pipe were among those mission.
It was submitted that the slides were over-valued.
Mr. Leigh: It was the first time 1 had tried a colour film, and as I did not think I would have another chance of shooting Mr. Bernard Shaw-.
Judge Hamblen: You must rot put
it that way, you know.
Mr. Stend said he did not know the value put on hte slide of Mr. Shaw.
Judge Hamblen: Perhaps
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correct to say that he is pri eless?
Judgment was given for Mr. Leigh for £5 5s. for the slide of Mr. Shaw, and £1 1s, cach for the missing slides, with costs.
SPIDER'S PARLOUR
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ing his words with the tips of her fin-. gers.
"You couldn't stop me," she said. “I had to help, dearest. It was your chance, and you had to take it. I wanted to help-I have helped—”
He kissed her tenderly.. "But for you, Betty, it wouldn't have been possible. It would have taken weeks. Perhaps more men, and that would have meant someone else getting the credit. And if it hadn't been for you Magee would never have got- me -'arrested'-the best thing - he could have done for me. And that telephone call—”
The girl who was engaged to In- spector Jones of Scotland Yard drew back, frowning, '.
"Which telephone call?" "The one the station got about twenty minutes ago, telling us to come now--"
•
She shook her head. Things were clear now:
"That wasn't me, darling, That was someone else who had a debt to pay. He saved my life just now-Joe
Loftus. If it hadn't been for him-"
She dropped her head against his
shoulder and quietly cried. A plain- clothes sergeant appeared.
"They're both dead, sir-the Spider and Nigger Joe Loftus. And here's a red book with all Spider's arrange ments about dope supplies, ships, suppliers, and aH the rest of it———-”
"Did you say Spider was dead?" asked the girl suddenly stirred by a horrible thought of what she had done with that heavy bottle..
"Yes, miss. Fell on his own knife. Made a mess of--" The sergeant coughed. "If I may say so, sir,” he said, "this ought to be a good thing for you-we've been trying to get Spider and his outfit cleaned up for five years. Now we know the whole game, players and all. We'll be able to make it a clean sweep. Yes, sir, It ought to be a very good thing
**Thanks, sergeant," said Jones of Scotland Yard, Jingo of the waterfront. marriage is a very good sound institution wise investment of a fact.
he smiled.
A Pirate gets home in the Softball match with the Cardinais.
FREUD'S SON TELLS HOW HE RESCUED FATHER'S CASH
Dr. Martin Freud, son of Professor | Nazis came in Sigmund Freud, the famous psycho- analyst, told reporter recently how he smuggled half his father's capital out of Austria.
"It was the sheer stupidity and in- competence of the Nazis that made it possible," he said.
"My father had not troubled him- self with money matters for years, and left everything in my hands. The
NAZI OVERTURES TO DENMARK
London, Jan. 14.
The "Sunday Graphic" re- ported this morning that a group of German officials ar- rived in Copenhagen yester- day by special plane.
The officials are believed to be high personalities and to have been sent by Field-Marshal Hermann Goering.
It is understood that their mission consists of obtaining assurances from the Scandinavian states that no Allied
troops will be allowed to cross the territories of these states on their way to Finland. In exchange, they are said to be offering a guarantee that Germany will not invade Scandinavia and a promise that the Reich will ob- tain a settlement of the Soviet-Finnish conflict. Havas..
WEATHER
REPORT
"The Royal Observatory reports that anticyclone has increased slightly ity, if remains stationary over and the neighbouring seas, pres- highest to the north depression is indicat-
"north of: Hokkaido.
lon-Smith, of Watson's summoned
to
my
office and
ransacked the place again and again. "They searched here, there and everywhere, and took away papers of no consequence.
"They seized all the money they could trace, but they were so stupid It never occurred to them to examine my father's bank accounts or his in- come-tax papers.
"If they had done so it would have been impossible to save a penny of his capital...
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TOMMIES SALUTE FIRST
.. British soldiers in France are to take the Initiative in saluting the French troops-that" is to say, they will salute first because the British Army are regarded as guests of France.
The rule was laid down in an offl- cial British Army statement in Paris recently.
In the last war, the order of salut- ing between the British and French Armies was not publicly laid down.
The official announcement says: "The uniforms and rank distinctions of the French Army should be studi- ed by all officers and men.
"It should be an accepted rule that no afficer or man passos or is passed by any officer or man of the French Army without some act of recogni- tion.
This is how the rule was explained to me by an official:
If a British captain passes a French captain, the British captain should
salute first.
If a British private passes a French private the British private, should take the initiative in the
tion,
act of recogni-
Where a group
of British officers with a captain and Junior officers are saluted by a French private, all the officers must acknowledge the salute. If such a group were saluted by а British soldier the captain only would acknowledge the salute.
ROYAL VISIT TO ALDERSHOT
London, To-day. Their Majesties yesterday paid a visit
to the Aldershot Command. During the tour, the King covered nearly cight miles on foot and the Queen
Reuter. about half that distance.
BOY-FRIEND ACCUSED
Alleging that an intimate friend Yeung, had proved a thief, Leung
at No. 5, Peace amah employed
| Avenue, visited the Mongkok Police Station yesterday and reported the loss of $690 in money and jewellery.
Leung stated that at about 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Yip Lau, an intimate
After male-friend, visited her.
he had left, she found the money Jewellery missing.
and
"How did I manage to get the £22,- 000 out of the country? That is quite an amusing story. One day I may be able to tell it, bu tI cannot do yet without implicating friends.
All I can say now is that it was done in a strictly legal way legal, that is, according to the laws of the old Austrian Government, but not according to the laws of the Nazis."
Professor Freud's fortune, as shown Dr. Y. Newton, of the Kowloon Hos- in his will published recent, amount-pital, has reported that someone en- ed to £22,850. The Nazis believed, tered his bedroom between 3 a.m. and when they turned him out of Austria, 14 a.m. to-day and stole a fountain-pen
that he was penniless.
HOSPITAL THEFT
and money.
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TEOFANI
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bluzking.