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£30,000 VANISHED IN
MAGIC BOX
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A "Magic Box," which was supposed to be capable of dom- bling every Bank of England note put into it, is alleged to have been used in a London hotel by a quartette of alleged swindlers who are facing trial in a French Court,
The alleged victim, a wealthy young Frenchman. is said to have met the quartette la the hotel.
He was initiated into the my-i
The alleged chief of the gang
End of Paris, although he was under a ban of exclusion from the Paris region.
steries of the box, or "Incubator," Is Ernest Robert Lucan, who had as it was called, and given a de-registered as a banker in the West monstration of its working.
Then. It is alleged, he agreed to buy one of the boxes, and put
£30,000 in bank notes Iriside t
After much manipulation of the mechanism he was handed the box and was told that the notes would haye doubled their value.
It is alleged that Lucan had political influence which enabled him to defy the ban,
During the hearing, which was
He opened the box and found adjourned for eight days, it was only pieces of old newspaper in-stated that the victim had re- covered only about £6,000 of his money.
Bido
The £30,000 in
notes" had vanished--and so had the quar-
tette
BANKER "CHIEF"
The victim told the court that he went to Scotland Yard with his story, but no one believed it.
Only three of the quartette ap- peared in the dock, one of them. a South American, having eluded the poller
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Other visitors to London are alleged to have been the victims of the "magic box," but they were afraid of ridicule and did not complain to the police,
QUEEN WILL WEAR ROBES OF ORDER
LONDON, July 29 (By Air Mail)-When the King unveils the memorial to his father in the Thistle Chapel of St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, on Sun- day, October 15, the Queen will wear her robes as Lady of the Order of the Thristie,
The Knights of the Thistle will be present in their robes, and it is most likely that the Princesses will also attend the forenoon service in the historic chapel.
The memorial takes the form of a Communion table and reredes at the east end of the chapel, in place of the in- vestiture chair,
WIFE GETS LETTER
FROM DEAD HUSBAND
It's free and easy kit for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor when they're on holiday, as you see in this picture from Cannes, on the French Rivièra. With a short-sleeved blouse, the Duchess wears
a gally striped skirt, And the Duke has chosen his favourite holl- day clothes--shirt and slacks d up with. well, it looks uncommonly like a piece of cord!
Germans Wed At Registry
The wedding of Mr. Frank Ernest Hoebich, civil engineer, re- siding at Southcliff, Stanley, and Miss Hildegard Else Anna Marold, took place yesterday at the Regis- try," Supreme Court. Mr.-T. J. Gould, Deputy Registrar of Mazri- ages, officiated, and the witnesses were Mr. H. P. H. Hommet and Mrs. H. Tiernego.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The following forthcoming mar- riages are announced:--
Mr. Lachlan Alexander Gibson, ship draughtsman, residing at No. 2, Stanley Terrace. Quarry Bay, and Miss Jean Scott Faulds; of No. 21, Brisbane Street, Greenock: - Mr. Chow Man-wab, merchant, of No. 82, Johnston Road, third Aoor, and Miss Chow Sau-lan, of No, 199, Nanching Street, second floor;
Mr. Chow Che-sik, bank clerk, of No. 343, Queen's Road West,
WEDNESDAY'S
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Fish Cakes
Rye Toast & Jam
Coffee
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LUNCHEON
Mushroom Soup Cheese Ball Salad Liver & Bacon Potatoes au Gratin
Asparagus Glazed Carróts Date Cake
Tea
DINNER
Fruit Cocktail Salmon Salad
Deep Dish Sausage Pie Spiced Peaches
"Baked Onions.
Lima Beans"
Nut Pudding with Toffee Sauce Coffee
ground floor, and Miss L LORD INCHCAPE
hung, or No. 40, Shantung Street, ground floor;
Mr. Willie Wong, allas Wong Wal-lee, aeronautical ground en- gineer, of No. 10, Fort Street, second floor, and Miss Ruby Lym, or No. 5. United Terrace. second floor, Homuntin;
Mr. Lau For-lam, clerk of the Mr. C. E. Davis, of the Stores Colonial Secretary's Office, and Department, celebrates his birth-Miss Mae Young, of No, 91, Jane day to-day.
Road. third floor.
NEWSETTES
Mr. W. G. Humphreys, of the Re- venue Office, will observe his birthday to-day.
The Chinghal Provincial Gov- ernment has issued an order summoning the priests in various parts of the province to Sining. the provincial capital, to undergo The Bank of China is to estab-military. training. Over 100 lish a branch in" Sining, capital priests have already arrived. of Chinghal Province shortly.
Herr H. Gipperich,
German
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1939.
A SPECIAL OFFER
LEAVES £701,229 ||-
LONDON, July 29 (By Air Mail) Lord Inchcape, the shipping magnate, who died last month, aged 51, left unsettled estate of the gross value of £701,229 (net personalty £581,828).
He left to his widow the use of Chinthurst Hill, his Surrey rest- dence, his effects at his London house, £20,000 and "an
arquity during widowhood of £3000 a
year,
He left £1000 to each of his children and bequests to **- ployees..
One-sixth of the rest goes to hals widow for life and five-sixths on trust for his children attaining majority.
The share of each som is to be held on trust until he is 30, and the share of each daugh- ter is to be held on trust for life with the remainder to her husband and children as she may choose.
Lord Inchcape inherited a quar- ter of his father's £2,000,000 when Miss D. M. Carill, Kindergarten Consul-General in Hongkong. left had been expected that the for- he came into the title in 1932, It Mistress, Education Department, yesterday by ss Scharnhorst for a sailed for Boeleleng by the mis. (short holiday. Herr A. Gelewsky. it was reduced by the 1929 slump tune would reach £8,000,000, but Chancellor of the German "Con-in shipping. sulate, will be in charge of the office during his absence.-(T.O.)
Within a short time of receffing an Admiralty telegram telling of her husband's death at Wel-hat- wel, the Ching naval station, twenty-seven-year-old Mrs. A. LTinegara yesterday. Brundell heard the postman knock at the door of her home in Wood- lane, King's Lynn (Norfolk).
The postman handed her a letter It was from her husband, and had been posted in Wel-hat-wei just before his death.
The Chinese National Govern-
for the Cheklang Provincial Gov- ernment to undertake relief work
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Semmelink and infant were passengers for Manila in the ms. Tjinegara which left Hongkong yesterday.
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Among those who disembarked Murray Gubert Davies. at Hongkong from H.M. Troopship brother of Mr. A. G. Davies, of Dilwara last week was Lt. Col. E Shanghai, and a well-known bari-H. L. Lysaught-Griffin, OBE, who tone singer, was heard in Shang is replacing Gol W. A. Grey-. over the B.B.C.'s Empire Wilson as Officer Commanding, the 1st Battalion, Durham Light In- fantry, now stationed at Tientsin.
Miss M. F. D. Gemmell, Kinder- garten Mistress, Education Depart-hai ment, left by the ms. Tinegara broadcast on Sunday last. för Böeleleng yesterday."
for Boeleleng,
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The Kwangsi Provincial Gov- ernment is floating an $8,000,000-
YOUR LIPS for romancement has voted a sum of $500,000
Miss M. J. Stuart, of the Bong-. News was received in Shanghai For your complete beauty treat-
kong Education Department, sall- of the marriage of M. Pierre ment, use Tattoo Powder, "Rouze in the province. Or this amounted by the ma. Tjinegara yesterday Jordan, Treasurer of the French loan, at 6 per cent. per angum,
Concession, to Miss Henriette Roquebert, at Erest, Lady Masterton Smith arrived in July 5. The couple will be coming France, op the Colony yesterday morning by to Shanghai in the near future. the sa Tillbadak from Java for al
and Mascara (cream with brush)
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$200,000 is for undertaking re- Eet, while the remaining $300,000 to be spent for dyke repairs along the Chientang River, the con- struction of sea walls in Talchow, and for agricultural productive - short visit.. enterprises.
LEGHORN
EGGS $1.05 doz.
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Mr. Archibald Orr Lang has Major and Mis, G. S. Bates - Bank of L. A. & China, Mr. Lang joined the Board of the Chartered turned to their home in Hongkong by the as. Tibadak from a rounds the deputy chairman of the P. trip vacation to Sourabaya,
& O. Steam Navigation Co. and is also on the roards of other con- cerris allied to that company. is filling the vacancy caused by the death of the Earl of Inchcape.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. Gelewsky, of the! German Consulate in Hongkong returned from around trip holl- day to Batavia by the J. C. J. L ss: Tibadak,
He
for the purpose of readjusting the dite. The loan will be secured provincial administrative expen-
on a sinking fund which is to be derived from the provincial gov- emment's surplus business proft
from 1940 to April 30, 1951. repaid over a period of 12 years, tax. Principal of the loan will be
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tions has received a telegram
The Ministry of Communica-
bassador to the United States, from Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese, Am-
conveying the American Govern- ment's appreciation of China's issue of special stamps in com- The "Opium Suppression Gen-1 eral Administration" of the "Re-memoration of the American In- Chen Halu-chuch, magistrate of formed, Government has issued several hundred
dependence Day on July 4 Yeungkong, has been detained for 1,900,000 revenue stamps with a stamps have been sent
sets of the trial by order of the Kwangtung total face value of $1,800,000, and!
over to Provincial Clovernment,
America as souvenirs. on a ordered the stamps to be used by charge of corruption.
oplum wholesalers and retallers in the areas administered by It's the fighting in Chapel during the Laid waste by the ravages of Commander A, D. S. Murray, or bureaux Oplum that has been sino-Japanese hostilities in 1937. Emperia Airways, who has been found Sold without the due the Sikh Gurdwara in Faoshing on leave during the past two amount of revenue stamps being Road, Shanghai, is months, is expected to return to affixed to it, will be liable to con- beginning to raise up from the once again the local ofice next month,
Ascation, and opium permits or ashes of No Man's Land. As yet licences will be withdrawn from the temple presents a desolate On July 27, at High Wycombe the opium wholesalers or retailers appearance of crumbled ruins, but a daughter was born to Joan, wife in question.
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the religious organization of Khalsa have determined that the
The following passengers left shrine shall be reconstructed in Hongkong yesterday in the ma, all its former glory. Tinegara. For Manila Mr. HE Hennauit, Mr. 8. K Shen; For Appearing on remand before Mr. Boeleleng Count and Countess A.T. J. Houston at the Central Court A des Courtils and son, Major and yesterday charged with the un Mrs. A de G, Best Mr. Donald lawful-possession of 154,000 heroin Bigelow, Mr Frank Bliss, Miss L pills, three men and three women, L George, Mr. Kanak Mitra, M'as Chân Luk Lau Chel, Tang Cheung- RY. Bitcher, Mrs. H. E. Nyau, Chan Ching, Chan Mul and Stericker Mr. H. T. Van Voast, Chu Yuk-lan, were committed for FOT Bourabaya Mr. A... Beuklass
K Klein,
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de trial Mr. John Whyatt, Czuwn
Counsel, prosecuted, while
Ada Bil Appeared on behalf Cháo Lák the re
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