WESTMINSTER ABBEY AS PARISH CHURCH!
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
TO INSPECT JAPANESE UNITS
MARCH
3, 1936.
THE question whether Westminster Abbey is a parish church was raised at Bow-street Court in London last month during the bearing of summonses arising out of a scene in the’Abbey,
Henry John Cole, described as a guide, of Albert-road N., was summoned by the Abbey authorities for alleged violent behaviour, and be in turn summoned George Drake, head varger at the Abbey, and Charles Barnes and Evelyn Foote, two other vergers, for alleged Risnuit,
Colo handed to the magistrate a | copy of a letter which he said he had written to Sir Edward Knapp. Fisher, custodian of the Abbey, and in which he stated, "Unless I receive an apology. I shall take certain action."
"I intended to write to the Home Ofice," Cole added.
Pass Withdrawn
Mr. L Barker, who appeared for the Abbey authorities, pointed out that Cole originally had a pass to act as a guide in the
abused Abbey. Cole
this by bringing people into the Abbey on Sundays, which was not allowed,
the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London.
The Magistrate-Wo have got to prove that the Abbey is a parish church.
Mr. Tanner: Yes, we can prove that.
Cole said he was proving that the Abbey was a pufille building and they had no right to exclude him. There were great public ..men buried there, "Including the Unknown Warrior, who might be my brother or anybody else's brother."
Colo maintained that all violence had been committed by the police and the Abbey authorities.
the
and the Dean gave instructions "Only the other day," he added, for the pass to be withdrawn. "the biggest constable in
After this, Cole persisted in Metropolitan Force, P.-c. Hunter, going into the Abbey, and he in-was- called In. He got hold of terfered with other guides. On me, pulled me off n chair December 30 he went in just throw me out..
before the afternoon service.
He was asked to leave first of sil by the head verger, and then by Sir Edward Knapp-Fisher. In order to avoid a scene just as the service was starting, no steps could be taken to put him out.
Whon the service was over, Cole was ngala asked to leave by two vergers, but he refused to go, and pushed his way into one of them. Mr. Barker said that Cole was shouting and struggling, and be having in a violent way, and the police had to be called. He made
and
Admiral Neboru Hirata, naval aide-de-camp to the Emperor of Japan arrived in Shanghai last wock. He was dispatched by Emperor Hirohito to Shanghai to convey the Imperial consola tion to the members of the Japanese Third Fleet in Chinese waters. Picture showa Admiral Hirata · (second from right) leaving the stammer accompanied by the staff of the Third Fleet.
How League Sanctions Affect Britain
The effect of Sanctions on British imports from, and exports lo, Italy is shown in the trade returns for December recently issued
were striking
Comparing with December, 1934, there decreases in Italian exports to this country, including the following:
n remark outside about the Abbey ETHIOPIAN JUDITH Wheat Products
officials being drunk.
Mr. Barker added that in spite 'of an' undertaking not to go into the Abbey, given in the court a fortnight ngo, he had been in the Abbey almost every day then.
nince
"A Parish Church"
Lawrence Edward Tanner, Keeper of the Muniments, West. minster Abbey, gave evidence that the Abbey was constituted under Letters Patent granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1560. Be- cauise of the privileges con ferred by the Letters Patent, the Dean claimed exemptiona from the Jurisdiction both of
PRIME MINISTER IN FULL DRESS
During the Proclamation of King Edward VIII the Prime Minister Mr.
dress. Stanley Baldwin wore this The photographer snapped him on his way from Downing Street to St. James Palace.
Decay Perils House Dickens Made Famous
WITH A PUNCH
Dennie, Feb. 28.
100men
* Judith is bring told at Densie. The story of an Ethiopian Threa Ethiopian captured in the North were In taken to an Italian camp. the night one of the women, Reized the nurd'a sword - and killed him:
Taking his gun and ammuni- tion she crawled through the Italian lines to safety.
The two other women, 80 be the story runs, torre to
executed next day.
BREATHED AFTER HEART STOPPED
Mr. Francis Joseph Durkin, aged thirty-three, of Wors ley-road, Winton, Lancs; lay on the operating table at Salford Royal Hospital. He was chatting to Dr. William Broadhurst, who was to give him an anesthetic while he had his tonsils out.
The doctor - adminis tered chloroform and ether. Thirty seconds after Mr. Durkin-had- stopped speaking his heart stopped.
But he continued to breathe.
Artificial respiration—was applied and the heart was massaged direct. In vain. Mr. Durkin died.
At the inquest at Salford last month this story was told. Verdict: "Death by misadventure.” .....
Sailor Recalls.
Foto By 'Bounty'
Mutineer's Kin New Bedford, Mass, Feb. 29.
in this city lives a man who more than a half century ago was guest of the daughter of the lender. of the Bounty mu tincera on Pitcairn's island.
Samuel W. Brush, then n whaleman, was entertained by Marin Christian, a daughter" of Fletcher Christian and his Tahitinn bride. Marla, who was 104 then, was the second to be born on Pitcairn, immor talised in both motion picture and novel entitled "Mutiny on the Bounty."
of
Several other members the crew of the sperm whal ing vessel Canton were so en- tranced with life on the South Sen land paradise that they jeft the ship, married Tahi- tian girls and settled on the island-United Press.
Dec. 1934 Dec. 1936
£
(Meal and flour)
7,610
70%
Totni grain and four 12,487
2,030
Cheese..
27,076
04
Lemons
76,309
42,668
Wine (in caska)
2,860
10,370
Sulphur
81,336
483
Silk (waste)
2,780
Sak (raw)
4601
Hemp
69,823
120 1,082)
(undressed)
39387 10,535
Miscellaneous raw
14,724 materials .. Miscellaneous goods 33,024 Marble
1,852 8,174
32,907
20,858
Pottery, glass, &c. 41,284 Hides and skins
21,730
Waallen and worsted 15,008
2,647
Silk yarna
16,050
Other textiles
38,387
2,208 66
Apparel
45,283
2,680
Chemicals and
"Reform"
drugs, &e.
17,680 12,377)
The Increases
6271
There were certain increases, as follow:
Alinonde
Dec. 1934 Dec. 1935
£
£ 35,860 4,657 5,726 12,207 04,331 39,800.
Negroes To
The World
ANGLO-AMERICAN CO-OPERATION
New York, Feb. 24. Assured by their god that There were also some big decreases President Roosevelt and King in British exports to Italy, as follow: Edward must co-operate or come
Bottled and tinned
fruit Tomatoes
Herrings Coal Wool
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10 p.m. Big Bon:
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| 10.30-10.45 p.m. A Relay from Daventry.
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11 p.m. Close Down.
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Dec. 31 to grief, 5,000 estatic white and
1935
negro followers of Father Divine 3,267 of Harlem have begun the re- 14,001 formation of the world.
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Their first goal is a. Inw compel- ling the telephone company to take 1,380 cognisance of "Peace" as a greeting 998 supplanting "Hello", but they in- 827 tended, as soon as that is achieved,
to obtain laws to:-
hardware. 16,9433,747
Electrical goods 44,300 Machinery
8,440 21,793
741
2,145
0169807
Cotton goods... 5.284 Woollen and worsted 22,012 12.220 Chemicals and drugs
181 Leather Miscellaneous
26,073 0,947 Sanctions came into force on November 18. The Order in Council) provided that the Board of Trade could authorise importation of prohibited goods, if satisfied that the price had been wholly paid on or before. October 19.
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH News Of The World Garnered
By United Pross..
Make physicians guarantee eures; Abolish tariffs;
Effect government operation of financial Institutions;
Prohibit vaccination;
Compel the government to operate idle factorien;
Prohibit words drawing a race or class line;
There were many more objectives but some were to be won by moral suasion rather than laws,
Example: "All true followers of Father Divine will stop buying on the instalment plan:"
Example: All stolen goods should be nt once returned, by Individuals and nations.
The renaissance 'got under way at the end of a three day, conven- tion of the International Righteous Government convention of Father Divine's peaco mission. Father) Divino, wizened little negro who has convinced thousands of persons, that he is God, snt lost on the smoke-hazed platform amid his de Police Chief Lee Smith of that thriv.putles but kept the entire conven- ing centre has announced he wouldtion in religious fervor, extend protection to bachelors who fear some woman may propose mar
to them during Leap, year." "If any
male citizen complains of being made an offer of marriage, the police will give him such protec tion as the law provides," the edlet said
rage
A United Press glance through the News periscope reveals that society women in New York have found a new game which enables them to remove excess weight while entertaining in the drawing room at the same time. Yarmouth, Feb. 25. * A row of glasses is placed on the The boat-roofed bouse which mantle. A pound of ordinary white beans is dumped or the living room Charles Dickens made famous Roor. The players must pick up the "in "David Copperfield" na.Peg- beans, one at a time, and place them gotty's is fast becoming a ruin, in their individual glasses on the mantle. The one who gets the most and local Dickens enthusiasts beans wins the game and a back- are trying to arouse interest in ache.
Doston presents a different proce preserving it as a museum.
dure, The best way for women to The boat forming the roof of the develop, maintain and even recapture house belonged originally to a well-proportioned figuro, necording amugglor. Caught In the Thames to the Massachusetts Osteopathic one night with an illegal cargo, le society, is to get down on hands and old- knees and Indulge. In some was permitted to keep the boat
fashioned floor scrubbing. "House only on condition that he nøver.
not even men- mald's knico" was use it on the river again.Later he toned. built a house near the Thames and placed the vessel over it for a
There's a man in Red Oak (Iowa) roof
bedrooni, and
Window whose faith in woman's ability to frames were cut in the hull, and
keop secrat has been shattered. the bedroom reached by a step-lad-| Ellen Carmor and Arthur Franzon dor, in
were married 18 year ago. Living with their parents, they kept the About three years ago the build- marriage a socret until recently ng was condemned and later of when the truth leaked out. Sighed fered for anlo., Lovers of Dickens Arthur: "I guess it's impossible to suggested at the time that it be keep a secret when there's a woman moved to a local park to serve as
involved.
a masoum, but a lack of money
has prevented carrying out plans
de préserve it United Press.
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Timid-youths may find sanctuary "tis: said. Burlington, Ontario,
John Lamb, his white secretary, read the platform that Father Divino's followers will use, an's yardstick next November to mea- sure the good intentions of all candidates.
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Transmission 1
(G.B.N.. G.S.D., (2.8.D.)
2.15 p.m. Dig. Bon. The
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metroc
B.B.C. BANC
Orchestra, directed by Herz
Tall 1,469.m. Prose, Banding.
A Recital by Gurald Gover (Fland
forte). Greenwich Tima Bignal at-4.15 p.m. 4.30 p.m. "Tseking Horse Winner,"
D. H. Lawrence. Adapted for the microphone by Chell Lawia.
4.55 p.m. Halcal Interlude.
The News.
B. v. Close down.
Transmission 2
(0.8... (1.8.0.)
by
T p.m. Big Ben. The 'Compeer at the
Pianoforte 7.15 p.m.Press Randing.
7.10 p.m.The Walls Orchestra, conducted by
Bir Hamilton Harty. Greenwich Time Dienal #1 1 p.m. 1.25 3. Jock and Jill go aut of Town.”
p. The News.
· P.15 p.m. The Manchester Tavsday. Midday
Sockty's Coneart. 9.43 p.m. Clos down.
Transmission 3
(0.8.0.. G.9.2.)
10 p.m. Big Ben, The Birmingham Thenits
Royal Orchestra. 10.20 p.m. Talk: "Imparia? Affairs." Dy
H. V. Hodien. 18.45 pa. Interlude. 19.50 p.m. The Norris Stanley` Beziet. 11.38 pm. "Twang Ideen,** .13.5 a.m. Danes Music.
Growwich Tims Signal at 13,80 a.m. 17.30 am. The Kewan 11.49 a.m. Diner Masle.
Clain down.
THE TEA MARKET
Iba
STOCKS REDUCED AND CONSUMPTION INCREASE While ho
read, negro white disciples milled tumultuously
London, March 2. around the edges of the jammed- But then, Leap year has its ad
A substantial advanco in tea prices hall, persona noar. the platform
as forecasted by Router at the end vantages. In Fond Du Lac, Wis)., Rosella Kranig and Lester Snyder shouted "shush" toward the rear of the year, is beginning to take place were given the first free marriage voice after voice shouted "Ho's in view of the industry's sound noal- licence offered by County Cork A. J. God" and Republican and Deme- tion, and as a result of the successful control Kreme
"if the bride popped tho
cratic observers sitting, by invita- operation of the output The bride blushed coulution on the platform squirmed. scheme. and said she asked Lester marry
United Kingdom stocks on January her. All Leater would say, between up the last page of the document, compared with 306,422,000 lbs. at
When Lamb concluded, he held:
31 amounted -to 271.470.000 fingernail bites, span: "Aw shucks,"
showing the signature of Father the end of January 1936, and it is Divina, and all the 6,000 sang "He's estimated that, provided the normal God! He's God!" to the tune di course for the past six years is again Marching Through Georgia.
followed, the stocks, will be reduced Lamb said Father Divine did not to 210,000,000 lbs. at the end of intend to start a third party but August, which would be the lowest
1092 confiscation of arma, racial equality consumption is well maintained, to wants the other parties to advocate sineo.
Moreover the improvement in Home "and the constitution 100 per cent."
January "Father Divine, God, will give us compared with 88,875,000 lbs In Jan: power over all who oppose his "uary 1985-Reuter will," Lamb said.--United Fress.
And a last glance through the newk-o-scope reveals that besidoa whirling the heads of America's rako audiences, that latest of song hits, "The music goes round and whirled two mon into court. Police Around" (and comes out here), has caught Loais Krieger and Sam Plot- nik in New York going round and, Fround peddling bootleg coples of the lyrics in violation of the copyright law. Hy-do-10.
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