PROTEST AGAINST DEATH DUTY.
FEROCIOUS
SEVEN MILES A MINUTE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1930.
ACTRESS FOUND
SHOT.
OWNER OF GOLDEN VOICE.
The Very Idea!
POWELL'S
FINE IMPOSED SPEED SEAPLANES MAY REACH BODY OF FRIEND IN THE RUSSIAN WHO CHARMED A ON THRIFT.
JUDGE'S REQUESTS,
THIS YEAR.
VITAL NEW TESTS.
That death duties were "tero-1 Will British scaplanes attain cious fines imposed on thrift" was the phenomenal speed of seven a statement made in his will by miles a minute before the end of the Hon. Sir Perceval Maitland the year? Laurence, who died on February 28, leaving £273,000.
Sir Perceval was for 30 years judge of the High Court in South Africa and for 20 years Judge President of the High Court of Griqualand. He died at Wimbledon at the age of 75.
SAME HOUSE
ROYAL COURT.
THE "DRESDEN DOLL"! LIVING IN CHELSEA.
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An old village couple, named Tammas and Kirsty, were almost always nagging at one another, and one evening, when the minister paid them a visit, he found them at it as usual,
"Dear me, Thomas," said the' good man, "why are you two at ways quarrelling?" Pointing to a dog and a cat lying together in front of the fire, he went "Why don't you take an exampla from these two? They don't quar
rel, you see."
on,
"No," replied Tammas, drily, "but tie them tegither an: see hoo they'd "real"
"I have always felt a great dread.) hood of 400 miles an hour will that Mrs. Post, who was over 59member of the Russian Imperial As noted in the
of the horrors of premature inter- ment," the will says, requesting that the fact of his death "should bb positively ascertained by the ap
test."
An amazing tragedy in the gay In a modest little house in artists colony at Laguna Beach, Chelsea there lives a man whose California, was discovered when golden voice won him the favour friends called at the home of a of the Tsar and Tearina and a won Daily paintor, Mrs. Doris M. Palmer, to derful collection of personal pro- This question (writes a Chronicle aviation correspon- find her and her friend, Mrs. Guy sents worth £100,000, which were dent) is being seriously discussed Bates Post, formerly Adele Rit- afterwards confiscated by the Bol- in air circles, and it is believedchie, a popular actress, both dead, sheviks.
He is Professor Grigori Makaroff, the attainment of such a speed is. As the police reconstructed the not impossible..
ending of this long intimate and to-day he teaches singing for a That speeds in the neighbour-friendship, they became convinced living.
M. Makaroff was for 28 years a be reached is regarded as certain. had killed her friend, twenty years
During the week the high-speed younger, and later, in remorse, Opera company, and he has sung in Gloster-Napier machine which was had shot herself. There is believ, most of the capitals of Europe. He enjoyed the friendship of the Tsar built for the Schneider Trophy ed to have been jealousy over 10 and Tsarina, and saw much of the modifications designed to add sub-did not include Mrs. Post,
the downfall of the House of stantially to Its maximum speed is
After questioning friends of the Romanoff. to be sent from Cheltenham to dead women, the police said that
The Tsar's Mistake. Felixstowe
apparently when Mrs.. Palmer wast
He has many interesting leaving the house Mrs. Post be Important Teats. Then the programme of high-gan a quarrel which culminated in stories to tell of Court intrigue in those days.when the Tsar, secure in speed research work which has her shooting Mrs. Palmer in the the seclusion of his Court, ignored been laid down by the Air Minis- back. After this the
actress had tried to go on as if all the warnings of public discon tent, and went on living his life in try will begin in carnest.
Already the Supermarine S6 nothing had happened. With
carefully guarded air of uncon-were too much attached to his per
the firm belief that the peasantry to be capable seaplane, proved
cern, she went shopping, but later on to do him harm. Course of a over a measured speed of 357.7 miles an hour, is at returning and being confronted by the body of her friend she decid- Felixstowe,
ed to end her own life. She was found shot in the mouth.
.
newspapers
Kircaldy Old Church choir great- ed May morning by singing hymns and songs, including "Hail, Smil- ing Morn!" from the church tower.
had it been raining?
plication of some crucial surgical race and has been undergoing invitation to Mrs. Palmer, which tragic history that was a prelude to But what would have happened
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Tribute to Parents,
He then directs that his body should be cremated and the ashes placed in the churchyard at Wales- by, Lincs., near the graves of his parents, to whose early training, influence and example I ascribe whatever may have been meritoricus in my way of life."
With the exception of a few per- sonal bequests to relatives, friends and servants, Sir Perceval left his fortune to Cambridge University.
"In token of my affection as an 'Alumnus of that great University and in recognition of the extent to which any success I may have at tained in life. is altributable to educative influence in its broadest
sense."
He also left to the University a
number of books from his library and directed that a portrait of him self in Court dress should be offer ed to the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. For Blind Work.
To Miss Katherine Griffith, of Hartley Wintney, "to assist her in her benevolent work for the blind"
Squadron-Leader A. H. Orlebar, who was skipper of the British Schneider Trophy, team, is in charge of the research operations
The tests and experiments are. to be of a most exhaustive nature. They are designed to show not merely maximum speeds, but physical effect on pilots travelling faster than man has travelled since time was.
General Speed Increase. There is to be no official attack
former
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Stories of the rise to power of Rasputin were told to a representa- tive of the Daily Chronicle,
The Tsarevitch had been delicate The two women, both interested from birth, and the Tsar and in the drama and in árt, had been Tsarina were greatly concerned inseparable for the past few years, about him. It was arranged that occupying nearby houses, and the child should be given an opiate taking a leading part in the social and the anxious parents then ad- life of the community. Both wo-vised to call in Rasputin, who was Mrs. Post being known as "Dres-
were considered beauties, credited with great healing powers. The Black Monk arrived at Court, den Doll" during her theatrical the secret administration of the drug was stopped, and the cure credited to Rasputin.
men
career.
Last year Mrs. Post divorced her actor husband, who is now in
on the world speed record, which Honolulu, after they had been mar-to is already held for this country ried seventeen years. At the time
Squadron-Leader Orlebar. by
On another occasion he attempted impress the Tear with his powers of divination. There was to have the members of the Order of St. George were to attend.
mis-
Two occasions on which the vocalism was inappropriate were when a Border choir, singing to
came to the words "We are at the patients in a district asylum, home! We are at home!"; in the
a Musselburgh "Soldiers' Chorus from "Faust": and when
"faded" from the front rank when slonary, leading a fisher girls' choir singing, through the streets, he, a great wit, anticipated the lines of the hymn, "See the mighty host advancing. Satan leading on!*
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The conjurer's turn had not been going too well. The audi- ence received each trick in stony silence. Not to be daunted, how- ever, he stuck steadily to his task.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "if any person will oblige me with an egg, I will perform an amazing disappearing trick.".
Nobody seemed able to produce the article, and after a momentary silence a voice called out from the gallery:-"If anybody here had an
he left £100 or an annuity of £25. But a new apparatus will be used they were married she was the been a great reception at which all egg, you'd have got it long ago!"
whichever she might select.
He left to his brother Charles the remainder of his library, and an annuity of £500.
To each of his three sisters he left an annuity of £500, and one of 600 dollars to his brother Franklin Arthur, of Friendville, Nebraska,
U.S.A.
He also left suma of £2,000 and £1,500 each to certain nephews and £1,000 to a nicco, Mary Eleanor Isabel Bemridge.
TWO KILLED IN AFFAIR.
reigning musical comedy Queen of to secure much more information New York and the toast, of the be ob- town." about speeds than would tainable by timing the planes across a measured distance.
The result of this research work will have a tremendous effect on the future design of fighting and scout planes built for the R.A.F.
That is its purpose.
It is contended that there is no reason why, in five or six years' time, the ordinary standard Ser vice machine should not be capable of a speed which is now regarded as possible only to specially de TRAGIC|signed and constructed racing
CONSTABLE AND A WOMAN SHOT.
The second floor of No. 13. Elgin Street, was the scene short- ly after 6 p.m. yesterday of a tragic shooting incident, which re- sulted in the deaths of & Shan- tung 'constable, No. 151, and n woman, said to be his wife, who was living with him at that ad- dress.
aircraft.
Already fighting planes possess a maximum velocity which was deemed impossible a few years ago, and the year's tests may well raise this to five or six miles à minute.
IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.
NOTEWORTHY LUNCHEON FOR NEXT TUESDAY.
London, May 30. The proprietors and editors of:
From inquiries made by Press representative it would Beem that the constable had been living with the woman, whose name is said to be Wong most of the important newspapers Yuk-sang, for the last two months of the Empire are now assembled or so. According to other tenants in London for the Imperial Press of the flat, these two had never Conference. There has not been a seemed to have got on well to gathering of this character for gether and it is alleged were al-
nearly twenty years. quarrelling WAYS
over minor points.
The delegates will be entertain- ed at a luncheon of welcome next A violent quarrel is said to have taken place last Thursday, Tuesday in Westminister Hall.
Additional interest will be given when the constable, it is reported, tore down the curtains of his bed to the occasion by the fact that it In a rage, and damaged a good is the first luncheon to be given in deal of his own and his wife's Westminster Hail since the King's property. Another quarrel is Coronation, where representatives also alleged to have occurred yes- of the Dominion Parliaments who terday afternoon, when the de-attended the Coronation were re- ceased constable is said to have gularly entertained. done further damage to pro- The Speaker of the House of perty in the flat He left Commons will preside, and the Pre- the premises soon after this, but mier, the Chancellor of the Ex- returned shortly before 6 p.m. chequer and the leaders of the
other political parties will wel Heated words, it is said, again come the delegates.-British Wire- passed between the constable and less. the woman, and shortly afterwards two reports were heard by the Inmates of the floor. No notice was taken of the matter, however, by the tenants, who thought the Bounds were made by the firing of crackers. On another report being heard a few seconds later, they
:
Shots Heard.
LOST BAG OF RICE.
SHOPKEEPERS FEARS HE WAS DEFRAUDED.
.A statement was made by Yeung
made investigations, and found the Sheung-chan, a shopkeeper, at No. bodies of the woman and the con-27, Kwai Lin Street; Shamshuipo, stable in a rear cubicle, which it to the police yesterday that he sub- in said was tenanted by another pects having been defrauded by a Bhantung, constable who was ab-man who had obtained a bag of kent at the time.
rice, valued at $17.70, by giving The Police were immediately false references. communicated with, and it was The customer said he was the found that the woman had been master of the Lee Sang Chan shop, fatally shot in the right chest and at Shek Kip Mei village, on the. in the hip, while the constable was mainland, and directed that the rice shot through the head. Death in be sent there. On enquiries how- the latter case, it is said, must ever, it was subsequently discover- have been instantaneous.
ed that he was not known at the The bodies of both the victims shop in question.
of the tragedy were later removed
to the Public Mortuary.
The Police had not decided last
FINE TO CLOUDY.
night what the motive of the shoot. The local weather forecast till. ing was, and it is understood that noon to-morrow is:-S.E. or vári- investigations have still to be car- able winds, moderate; fine to fled out.
cloudy:
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The very suburban housewife, had just engaged a new mald. Ba. fore explaining the duties to the
Orders were given to arrange the Miss Adele Ritchie, whose mai banquet in the Red Hall of the Palace, but Rasputin begged the of America's most admired stage- had a premonition of disaster, den name was Pultz, though one Tsar to hold it in another hall as he girl she thought she would first beauties-of the "dainty-rogue-in- porcelain" type--had not appear- ed in London for nearly twenty
years.
Rasputing's Trick, ordered a change of arrangements A good deal impressed, the Tsar
"But you don't expect me to call you Miss Smith?" went on the mistress.
inquire into her family.
"By the way, I will, of course, require your
name," said the housewife.
"Yes, ma'am," returned the girl. Her last performance was in a and in the middle of the banquet"My name's Miss Smith." repertory of songs at the Palace the Court, was petrified to hear a Theatre in 1911. She had made tremendous crash.
Rushing out to see the cause, the one previous professional visit to London, in 1897, when she played chandelier in the Red Hall had attendants found that an immense Cleopatra in "The Wizard of the fallen from the ceiling on the very Nile" at the Shaftesbury.
She was in her 57th year, born spot, where the Tsar would have been sitting. The whole affair in Philadelphia, and made her first appearance on the stage in had been stage managed by New York in "The Isle of Cham-
M. Makaroff sang at all the im- pagne" at the age of nineteen.
portant State functions for years' One of her most recent suc- and was closely in touch with Court, cesses was in "The Masquerader," history.
Rasputin.
in which she toured Austrália, He is convinced, however, that -She was married twice-firstly the talk of Rasputin'a intimacy to Mr. Charles Nelson Bell, a wine with the Tsarina was sheer Bolshe merchant, and secondly to Mr. Guy vist propaganda and that the Monk Bates Post, the American actor. was used as tool by the revolu- Both marriages were dissolved. tionaries to get inside information
about the Court.
It is notified that the forth- Petrograd when Trotsky
He was on the station at returned coming Local examination in con- nexion with the Trinity College to overthrow the Kerensky regime, accompanied by seven or eight German officers,
of Music, London, will be conduct- Mallinson, ed by Mr. Albert FT.CL., at the City Hall, on Mon- day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- Mr. Aime Joyal, of Manitoba. day, and Friday of next week. The proposes to walk from Halifax Theory examination will be held N.S., across Canada to Vancouver, at the Hongkong University on B.C. He will carry a bottle of Saturday morning, 7th June, at 10 water from the Atlantic Ocean and a.m. Mr. Mallinson arrived in the will empty it into the Pacific. The Colony yesterday by the Suwa footpath route is nearly. 3,500
Maru.
miles.
"Well, so long; if I don't get around to Mrs. Van Lucro 'bridge' luncheon, "I'll: féë' you at the country club later.
the new maid hastily, "I have an "Certainly not, ma'am" put in alarm clock."
"The customer complains that this sandwich is too small!"
"Put it on a smaller plate and take it back."
ac-
Butler (reading aloud the count of a fire)-"One girl escap ed down a waterpipe at the back of the house."
"Cook-"Oh, how splendid to be as thin as that."
Overheard by an Edinburgh teacher on her way from school.! walking behind two six-year-old] girls:-"If ye walk on the lines on the pavement) ya'll no get mairrit."
"I dinna want to get mairrit― I'm gaun to be a school teacher."
BISHOP WARNS THE CHURCH,
TO BE FREE OF STATE "BEFORE MANY YEARS." "
"It is certain that before many years, the Church of England will be disestablished and more or less drastically disendowed."
This remarkable prophecy la made by the Bishop of Durham (Dr. Hensley Henson), discussing "Westminster and Lambeth" in his diocesan publication,
Observing that the Established Church has come into deep water. he proceeds:
"Is it not high time for us to adopt a more rational procedure, and, assuming the probability of disestablishment, to shape a course which will minimise the ahock and-loss of that formidable crisis?
"The shortage of ordination candidates is beginning to tell disastrously on practical Church worki
"Not only are many inadequate- ly trained men being ordained in England for the colonies, but well staffed parishes. which are normally centres of treating clergy in pastoral work, are becoming few.
"A mortal blow is struck at sound discipline when ill-trained neophites are, as is now .con- stantly the case, preferred to im- portant spiritual charges."
The Bishop adds "that the principal causes of clerical in efficiency are inadequate income and excessive absorption in raising money for practical and other objects."
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