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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1935.
NOT BRITISH SOIL
Land Grant
By King William III
FOUR AMERICANS CLAIM PART OF
LABRADOR.
New York, Aug. 20. Four Long Island resi- dents claiming to be descen- dants of Joseph de la Pehna, Portuguese rabbi, have filed suits in London to recover possession of a part of the peninsula of Labrador.
The claimants assert that the Portuguese rabbi was given the peninsula by King William III of England in 1697 as a perpetual
inheritance,
The four, Mrs., Anna Springer, and her three children, David and Semon, and Mrs. Catherine Epstein, allege that they have arc lineal descendants of Joseph de la Pehna.
IT'S ALSO HOT
IN LONDON
A little spectator in a rather cool looking evatuma stands up in her pram' outside Buckingham Palace to watch the guests arriving at the brilliant garden party recently.
Pete Book Of Facts That Has
Springer was associated with the late Rabbi Isaac de la Pehna who died in Montreal, last April.
Isaac began a court action to recover Labrador for the descen- dants of the Portuguese rabbi.
Turned Into A Legend
THE ARMY LİST FOR AUGUST, 1914
Labrador, granted to New-TWENTY-ONE years ago last month the foundland by the privy council Government presses printed a book. At the Canada, is rich in mineral and time it was regarded purely as an ordinary
of England in litigation with
timber lands and water-power potentialites.
monthly official document.
There are two versions to ne- It contained no drama or... but still those casualty lists. Troop trains thundered counts of how the Portuguese pathos... merely hundreds of İ rabbi supposedly came into lists of names neatly arranged. through the countryside and possession of the valuable But that book was destined through the cities by night. Still
that peninsula. The first is
to be the most tragic of the no news. publications the world had ever And then the story of Mona William of Orange granted him
known.
and its harvest was gradually the peninsula because the rabbi
broken to the nation. saved his life at SCA. The
The "Monthly Army List for second and latest story relates that King William borrowed
August 1914" had finished its work by September. 2,000,000 guilders from de la l'ehna and that be paid the debt off by giving the rabbi the peninsula.
Want Compensation Although de la Pehna and his family did not make possession of the land his descendants seek to obtain title to It or compensation from the British government.
It was entitled "The Monthly Army List for August 1914." The great war then was about to engulf Great Britain.
The book lies before me now, faded at the edges, hard and formal in its pages.
Yel, as it is read, the pages
Neem to change under your eyes.
It had become a ghostly vo- lume of Britain's history.
ARE YOU SURE?
The cold dry type shines. You see the names of men who be
Here are a few more brain- came immortal in that month,
for teasers
hour. the idlo men who died with the "Old Answers are on Page 12. Contemptibles."
1.-Alternative names for four Perhaps there is the name of different countries are given below. David Springer, spokesman for the man now lying in Westmins-Underline the correct names:
ter Abbey. the Unknown (a) Abyssinia his family, said:
A year our at
(e) Netherlancia
Ethiopia Yugo-Slavia Holland
Dutch East Indies
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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
1 "flave you paid It?"
3 Shell shatterers thyphen, 2-8) 8 Vehement,
9 Have. plenty of water for the un-
pleasant fellow, in case.
10 Act; I'm in it; puts me about.
11 Stop here in America, no matter
If it does look rather dotty.
by women.
10 Names, may be proper. 17 The one profession in which a that the sharp end 18 Fix this
is at the right.
swell must get on.
hides. 24 Putting up here frequently sulta to ask the gentlenian who has for a 1 Acros.
2 Noisy game.
"I think the British government Warrior. But that secret has(b) Serbia
Any-been eternally buried with him.
(d) Netherlands Eat Indies will want to keep the land.
Straw Hats And Caps
is it: 2. Addis Ababa-what way I do not think we would want to live there. Our family would A
August 4, the day of Britain's what does it mean; how is it pro-12 Signifying a fine war effort made be willing to accept a reasonable entry into the storm, opened as
nounced? cash settlement of our claims.
it did last Sunday. Holiday 3. Which is the highest, the "For nearly torney has been working out the makers were basking in their Signal Station at the top of the
thousands in the sunshine. The Peak or Kowloon Peak? geneological aspects of this case Great Shadow was not even
Would it be correct to de. and he has definte documentary then seen in all its horror by signate His Majesty King George 21 Plunges like a rich man.
are entitled to i
of India or Emperor George V23 The emotion which a teacher proof that we share in the estate. My mother England,
of India? was a Mello. Her mother was a The British Army had always
6-Where is Iran? Del Monte and her maiden name won. It would win again. 6-Does France still own any
the cities land in North America? was de la Pehna. Her father was Cheering crowds in a direct lineal descendant of the land towns watched young men 7.What nation has as part of original de la Pehna who obtained in straw hats and caps assemble its coat of arms a rake and a
at the recruiting stations. Wild-shovel? "My father and Rabbi Isane de ly the watchers sang, “You made
8-Are any counties in England la Pehna were closely associated
New years ago. Both were diamond me love you (I didn't want to smaller in size than the Colony of polishers working beside do it)" and other songs of the Hongkong, including the
each
Territories?
other in a
9-If you had three pounds of New York city shop, pre-war music hall.
The last weeks of August butter, 13 ounces of salt, and one while Issac de la Pehna studied to be a cantor. After he had be-passed. No news of any great and a half pounds of sugar you come a cantor he studied to be a victory came. . there was si- would have: rabbi. While he was in New York lence from the Continent.
The wafflee City, both as diamond polisher dark nights
four pounds and 12 ounces were becoming
butternootch 85 ounces five pounds and Inter in religious work, he longer with the approaching
10-Those who equivocate: and my father were very friendly autumn. Casualty lists of the and acknowledged the relationship Army began to come through.
stridulate
argue stubbornly mislead by double meanings dance poorly
pout
the grant.
of second cousins.
"Our attorney has filed our claim in London and we are sure
Οπίπους Silence People began to fear. The
20 ounets
Hi ounces
11. How many elties in Great Britala and Northern Ireland have it is a valid one which will be silence of the authorities was larger populations than Hongkong?
12. What recognised by the court-United ominous. Traders were advised Press.
Ito carry on "business as usual"! Spanish name for San Francisco?
SALESMAN SAM
WIS the
Take Your Medicine, Sam
original
28 When it blew gront guns round
the mountain-top.
29 They used to receive the same
training a soldiers, 50 The fruit that is indispensable in this French settlement in. very largely, grown in Kent,
31 This, also, is grown in Kent, but one form Is peculiar to Sussex.
DOWN
1 It's always telling
earthquakes.
abut
Pitch if you like, never roll 'or bowl, 3 ye
4
Down, not une.
They are recorded by 1 Down. It bears, evidence of its pocket- burning activities.
0 How to arise from a mean tea. 7 This sounds a very ordinary letter of interest to the Bishop.
18
I'm frald you'll have to over, even if you are upsel
KO
13 Think, and you will soo that it is necessary to study the pattern.
14 Take the "tece" off the little
archer, and it will be all up. 16 Show to be correct.
10. He received a grant of land in America under the old Dutch Wak
nothing, although ho
to his patron.
20 Sort of batit for a warm day. 21 The American travelior who al-
ways makes a big noise.
22 He holds a high position in the States, but there's always a Spanish gentleman hanging around.
23. The warriors who form the
contrepiece of a grim picture, 27 Make away with,
kay, round about fifty,
28 This head may be silly, but it's
useful to the miner.
Yesterday's Bolation,
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