THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 14, 1941.
A MILLIONAIRE'S COTTAGE DEATH: "END AS BEGAN
BORN 81 YEARS AGO in a cottage, Lord Vestey. millionaire meat and shipping king, wanted to die in a cottage and did so.
With his wife, he rented a small cottage in Buckinghamshire, in which he died after a heart
attack.
"I don't want a big house," Lord Vestey, whose vast interests extended to Australia, told the estate agent. "I was born in a little house, and I want to All I want is a small room die in a little house. where I can be happy and comfortable."
He was a sprightly little man,
and seemed always to wear the POPEYE
same unostentatious dark suit.
He had a white beard, which ;
he kept carefully trimmed.
Just before leaving the
local
hotel where he stayed before tak-
ing the cottage, the licensee told him he was short of eggs.
Lord Vestey recommended it
TYPHOID IN WEST GERMANY
•
Reports of a severe typhoid epidemic in Western Germany are confirmed by an offi- cial letter from a hos- pital director received by the New York re- latives of a woman who died in Saxony.
The letter, states the New York "Daily Post," explained that the body had to be burned because the hospital had innumer- able typhoid cases. The paper adds that the censor passed the letter presumably be- cause it was official.
IN CRYPT 400 DIE:
Meet the Brown family.
"I am the stage manager
brand of egg mixture which the and M.C.," Mr. Walter licensee agreed to try.
"Take £5 worth; it's my own mixture," said the magnate.
Brown, aircraft worker,
told a London reporter.
Later, he said: "That's the first
He was in the crypt of a Bristol deal I have done in 11 years. Cei - | church, and German 'planes were
KRUPPS
BOMBED
An R.A.F. bomb on
a
tainly I buy and sell shares, and | overhead. The crypt is a com- Krupps armament factory might make A few thousand munal shelter for working people, pounds -- or lose it but this is different, because I have sold £5 worth of my own stuff."
Brilliant Brothers
wn from the front row,
and in part of it about fifty chil- dren were shrieking with laughter at the film adventures of Popeye "This is my Denis," said Mr. Brown, extricating a small boy Lord Vestey and his brother, Sir | aged three in pyjamas and dress- Edmund Vestey. who is also ang meat and shipping magnate, were the sons of a Liverpool provision merchant who
them sent America to try their luck.
He paid their fares, then left them to rely on their own brains and energy.
to
Edmund went to Chicago and Lord Vestey to Buenos Aires. where he found thousands of pheasants for sale but no local de- mand.
This started him in the ro frigeration business. He had the birds frozen and shipped them to Liverpool, where he built cold
stores.
This was the great Union Cold pany.
beginning of the Storage Com-
The brothers, who
formed one of the keene.t working partner- ships Britain has ever known, held jointerests worth more than
£6,000,000.
Lord Vestey's widow was for- merly a clerk in the Chicago bran- ch
"I like air raids,” said young
"It means Denis, solemnly.
sce Popeye before I go xo bed."
Oan
"Band"" shouted Mr. Brown, and reached for his drums. "This is my Herbert," he added. "He is the accordion player,'
"I like air raids," said Her- bert, aged ten. "We have pretty good band here, and am the only boy in it."
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"Meet my youngest," said Mr. Brown proudy. and the singers parted to reveal Colin Brown, aged three weeks, asleep on his mother's knee.
"It is pretty good down here," said Mrs. Brown. "Colin sleeps
at Essen penetrated shelter under the works killing 400 employees and injuring 1800.
This is reported by a British United Press correspondent the German frontier,
on
He also states that ล recent bomb broke a watermain in Ber- lin and simultaneously blocked an air raid shelter.
This became flooded, drowning 700 people.
"I am astured," says the cor. respondent, "that these reports are authentic, "They certainly are widely be- lieved in Germany, where the facts regarding R.A.F. raids are spreading slowly throughout the population.
"This enlightenment is taking
speedy place despite
repairs which hide much of the bomb damage, and the absence of cas- ualty lists."
STRANGE
at night, and I can have a bit DISEASE
of fun and see the films just the saine,'
Mr. W. Bishop, who puts on the free film show twice a week
IN OSAKA
said: "The trouble is we are only The source of the working people, so we can't afford
of the Vestey Company, many films. We take a collection strange illness which has
and once
mporarily replaced
among ourselves to hire some for Lord Vestey ivate secretary. the children."
Later she took charge of the
branch, then married Lord Ves ey.
BIRCH FOR BANK ROBBERS
'SECRET' SESSION 'REPORT'
...
a
already taken the lives of five residents of Osaka has been traced to poison gas, according to an announce. ment made by the health and sanitation officials of the Osaka Prefectural Of- fice,
"Japan says the Times and Advertiser."
The mysterious illness, which has caused worry to many Sentence of eighteen months im- physician, first made its appear- Two men were ordered at Dorset | prisonment in the Second Division ance during the first week of Assizes to receive twenty-five was passed at the Old Bailey on December. Since then several strokes of the birch each for tak Roy Leonard Townsend Day, a health officials, in collaboration ing part in a bank, robbery, twenty-seven-year-old, clerk, who with the authorities of the Osaka was found guilty of publishing a Iperial University hospital, have report of, or purporting to des- tracked down the source to the cribe. a secret session of Par-260 tons of iron alloy stored in the Kimura Hament, and of communicating in the warehouse of formation which might be directly Trading Company, or indirectly useful to an enemy.
Day, who was stated to be a conscientious objector, was found not guilty of doing an act with in- tent to assist an enemy.
One of the men -- Frederick James Rolph, aged forty, clerk was also sentenced to four years penal servitude, and the other James" Kyle, aged forty-one,
oook—to three yours." Mr. J. L. Pratt, prosecuting, sala the men hired a car, and robbed a Bournemouth bank of £184 10s. during the lunch hour.
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• They were challenged by a bank] *= if was stated that Day pub-
However, the real cause still. remained uncertain, although all medical minds agreed that it was due to some sort af pól- ment gan .-*** possibly cyśnia fumes.
The Osaka prefectural officials
clerk, Mr. Foster, and Kyle struck * lähed a pamphlat" "called “Un- have solved the puzzle by claim- him with a glove in which a piece - Cansored British News Bulletin,” fog that the cause of the illness "of lead wrapped In fur was hidden;
* Passing sentence Mr. Justice Wrottesley said the men hired the car obviously for a quick - jet-
Suph get-aways were al- vays attended by danger to
human live
giving the wavelength and times is a gas, which is produced when of the radiation of a "new. Brit. * phosphorous compound comes lah, broadesáting station! in Gür-i in contact with and is dissolved kila" of air raid, either by water or acid in a damp
"many)
damage.
In a statement he said: "It has
been my intention o do any
rie nhout,the crime never men had a deadly thing f in a gloves
hich i woulda injure să me
place.
It still remains to be seen whe- ther the pile of iron alloy is itself responsible for the disease that is
lethal gun or not. Havasum