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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. --TUESDAY, JANUARY

28, 1936.

FOUR MEN ACCUSED OF SPYING FOR GERMANY

'The Duchess's Nurse Gets

A Present NURSE LOUIE ROBERTS,

who attended the Duchess, of Kent at the birth of her son, received a photograph of the baby Prince and his parents from the Duchess GIA Christmas Day.

With It was a short Christmas message.

Nurse Roberis, who, it im stated, is resting at Wilmslow for another important engage. ment," received two presents at Prince Edward's christening-a platinum and diamond brooch bearing the monogram of the late King and Queen and an initialled brooch from the Duke and Duchess of Kent.

You Can't

Stage a Play About Queen Victoria

QUEEN VICTORIA may

not appear as a character on the British stage.

The ban was announced in Bath Police Court this month, when Mrs. Consuelo, de Reyes King was, fined £10 and seven guineas costs for presenting at the Little Theatre, Bath, a new play. "Vickie, the Widowhood jof a Queen."

Queen Victorin died in 1901. The prosecution was brought under the Thenire Act of 1843. -

SECRETS OF NEW FORT GUN

WIVES ARRESTED, BUT PROVED INNOCENT

Brussels, Jan. 15. Four alleged Belgian aples two of whom were in London in wartime-have been arrested at Liege after three week's watch by the police. t

:

Divorce at 99

MR. JOHN LAFFERTY,

aged ninety-nine, and the father of seventeen children, has obtained a divorce from his third wife at Dayton (Ohio), on the grounds of desertion.

She was sixty-five-year-old Miss Jennie Smith, of Con- nersville, Indiana, and he alleged she left him two months after they were mar- ried (says a Reuter message).

BOY PICKS

They are declared to have carried on spying for the Ger- UP SOS,

Iman Secret Service, and to have

taken documents regularly to SAVES CREW Luxemburg for remission to

OF TWENTY Munster, Prussia.

Visits to the suspected men's houses are said to have led to the discovery of a detailed list of questions concerning Belgian national defence. Among instruc tions given to them, it is added were:

Irt Never keep documents chests of drawers. Pin them under chairs and other furnl- ture.

When going to Luxemburg' by i train pin documents under a rent, go into another carriage toi cross the frontler and return | for the documents after passing the Customs.

This they are reported to have carried out.

It is declared that the men were asked to supply information about a new fortress

gun. for details concerning factories on the banks of the River Meuse, about steel used in the new frontier forts, and gures on the numbers of machine guns and tanks.

Wives Released

They are said to have received up to the time of their arrest sums amounting to about £660, Their wives were also arrested, but re So the shade of the old Queen-tensed on proof of their Innocence. One of the men is stated to have doubtless "not amused"-hovers stili over Britain.

rented a house in London during the war, and another to have been attached to the Belgian military police in London.

Queen Victoria may not be charac. terised on the screen. In the film "Disraeli" her presence was Indi- rated by bowing dourtiers. That was all.

HIS HOME-MADE RADIO SET

Warsaw, Jan. 12.

A FOURTEEN-YEAR- OLD Polish school- boy, fiddling with his home-made radio act at Myslowic, near the Ger- man frontier, last night, saved the lives of twenty whose ship

4,000 foundering away in the icy waters of the Northern Pacific.

men

was

milea

Erwin Schaber, son of a poor Polish teacher, had spent the evening picking up short-wave stations all over the world.

He used a two-value set which he had bullt himself at a cost of 30s., saved from his pocket money.

10.

NEXT AT KING'S

CHANGE

THE

Miserables

THE SCREEN'S MIGHTIEST ACTORS IN THEIR SUPREME HIT?

JOSIPH) ICRINCK

Fredric MARCH Chartis LAUGHTON

» DARRYL ZANUCK production

WATER ALE

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

111

10

20

22

145

26

ACROSS

5 When scolless this apple is

shazy. 8 One of the tortoises.

Brutal, but initially far from und.

"We Are Sinking" At ten o'clock he was about to 11 English lake.

13' Uncaring. switch off his set and go to bed. 141akes little more than a juint Then, suddenly, there came to his ears a faint distant Morseing..

to give pain.

17 Animal found in sewers. in A black stream.

"SOS," it ran, "SOS." Several times the call was re-

20 Look out for conflict in the peated. Then come a message: buzzer. . During examination by the Soviet ship Lena calling. We are 23 " no ass" (anag.). police one is declared to have stat-sinking of Sakhalin. Latitude and 28 No quiet lady this. Read the story of the disrespectfuled that he was arrested in Ger longitude follows. Then silence. Victorians; then realise why the

diagram. Queen's Lord Chamberlain issued his many for illegal money traffic, and Erwin waited. Five minutes Inter 28 This land is in part of

condition that he came another message from the 20 This old prison was apparently dat: No character representing Iler released on

sinking ship. "Position desperate, undertook spying work. Majesty niny appear on the stage.

renovated in part. Engines crippled. Ship filling rapidge Poisonous with principle middle.

Innkeeper Hitler Is

Rather Embarrassed

Berlin, Jan. 12.

HERR HITLER runs a cosy little inn-one of Berlin's

3,000 inns-in a back street of a Berlin suburb. he is not the Herr Hitler you are now thinking of. that Herr Hitler's half-brother, and his Christian is Alois.

But He is name

Her Alois Hitler and I celebrated the New Year together, I drinking his beer, he telling me his story in almost perfect English, saya a London correspondent.

"Heil Hitler!"

Herr Alois, wearing his little black bow tie and the white coat worn by Berlin waiters, in very similar in ap-| pearance to Herr Adolf. He oven gone so far as to grow famous Hitler moustache.

has

the

"It is rather embarrassing to be the relative of such a famous man," he said.

Herr Alois broke off to shout, "Heil, Hitler!" to a customer who had just

him that way.

Freet Hitler !"

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call

Erwin waited no longer. Rushing out to the nearest telephone box, he rang up the authorities in Katowice five miles away.

They in turn rang up the Sovint Embassy in Warsaw, and within an- other three minutes the Moscow

wireless station had been informel. Finally, twenty minutes after Erwin Schaber had heard the first 8 0 9. the lifeboat crow in Sakhalin were

launching their boat.

They succeeded. In rescuing the en- tire crew of twenty a few moments before the Lena sank.

Erwin has to-day been awarded the Soviet Union gold medal for life- saving the highest distinction of its kind that Russia has to offer.

DOROTHY HYSON'S WHOP JUST MISSES A MEDAL

New York, Jan. 12.

Miss Dorothy Hyson, the London actress_wife of Mr. Robert Douglas, came within an ace of winning the Grond Champion Liar medal of 1936, awarded by the Liars' Club of Burlington, Wisconsin, Miss Hyson related that while on a fishing trip in Ireland she had no luck until a local boy showed her how to make a real catch. She threw snuff into the water, which caused the fish to sneeze so hard that they hammered themselves to death against a rock,

"It was funny at first to say 'Hell. Hitler," he said, "but we soon be came used to it.

"My brother is the offspring of my

my Two years ago, wrote Jordan, the weather was ao cold that mother was my father's second wife."

Herr Alois then told me of his he could not catch the rodent, which cluded the most cleverly baited it drove a large rat into his house for shelter, Do what he would, life in England, where. Among other things, he worded as a wailer in a Jewish-owned restaurant.

The championship went to Jim Jordan, of Chicago, un enter- tainer known to radio audiences as Fibber McGee.

I asked if the Lender ever visited him in his inn.

"No," he replied, "but we visit him in the Wilheinstrasse."

SALESMAN SAM

THIS THING LOOKS LIKE. IT'S HELD T'GETHER WITH RUBBER BANDS, BUT I GOTTA GET TO TH HOTEL

QUICK-

R.R. (STATION]

traps.

"That night after auppér I brought in our largest thermometer and put it in the kitchen with a big piece of cheese boneath it. The "ext morning I had Mr. Rat. The mercury had fallen so low during the night that it pinned him to the floor."

DRIVE ME TO TH' HOTEL (MACON-WUTEY!

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7 This lady is a beauty but for

one letter.

AUSTRALIA DAY

FORT

JACKSON FOUNDING

RECALLED

20

12 Letters of credit?

15 Abominable.

16 Venerating.

18 To marry round about early morning is certainly to be bur- dened.

21 The most trouble-some animal

on earth.

22 Fired, but not dismissed.

24 Air that beheaded might carry

ono away.

26 This is more than all the world

to the home-lover.

27 Eastern rular of old.

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The colobrations were held to-day because yesterday was Sunday.

the first settlement at

Mr. Bruce, High Commissioner for Australia in London, broadcasted a speech to Australia in which London, Jan. 27. stated that owing to the gloom cast The Commonwealth of Australia over the Empire by the death of the celebrated Australia Day to-day. It King he could not speak with such on January 20, 1788 when significance on Australia Day an he Captain Phillips of the Royal Navy, intended to. Reuter's Bulletin.

WAK

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN The Society asks for $25,000

in 1936 to continue its work for sick and destitute children.. Hon. Treasurers:

Th

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A..

c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co..

P. & O. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Hongkong.

By Small

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