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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MARCH
6, 1936.
WOMAN WHO WATCHED MAN
STEAL SWORD
IN THE TOWER
ON August 30 last year Frau Maria Rump, of
Cologne, took her small daughter. to the Tower of London to see the Crown jewels and the ancient arms. As it was not her first visit she dispensed with the services of a guide, and mother and daughter made their way alone through the dark dungeons and passages.
Balkans' Queen For Six Months
DEATH OF PRINCESS
OF WEID Extraordinary was the experi- ence of the Princess of Wied, who died last month in Roumania, Twenty-two years ago she be- came Queen of Albania, but for only six months. Then, with her husband, Prince William of Wied, sho fled back to Germany.
an
Albania suddenly became Independent principality as the result of the Balkan war of 1912- 13. Its search for a king led to Prince William accepting the throne. He took over the kingdom In March, 1914, but troubles came quickly.
Following a revolt in May, with his wife and children he sought safety in an Austrian warship and theh in an Italian steamer,
The rebels, however, proved a reasonable that he returned to the palace. Shortly afterwards the Queen and their children followed, with some of the 70 trunks and boxes that had been hastily ro- moved.
They came at last to a large hall through the small windows of which shone a dim and ghostly light. They were alone.
Frau Rump continues the story in a supplement of the Cologne newspaper Stadtanzel- ger.
"We remained for some time standing by a glass case which contained old weapons. On look Ing up, my attention was caught by the dark figuro of a man in the shadow of a corner... a man of about twenty-three years, whose Appearance made no good imprès- sion on me.
"He did not seem to have seen us, and as we watched we saw him make a quick move- ment to the wall and remove a sword from its place above him.
"We were too surprised to mako sound or movement. The thief then opened his walscont and slid the sword, which was about three feet long, down under his clothes.
Throatoning Look
"With alow, silent steps he came in our direction. He looked threa- teningly dirst at me, then at my little girl. He left the hall and disappeared through the next room.
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Shanghai
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Society
ALL MISOGYNISTS
Shanghai, Feb. 20.
"In the next room we anw B Shanghai's unmarried girls will rain. The thief must have passed prospective husbands, if the now- Beefeater quietly watching the have to look elsewhere for behind him.
ly organised Bachelors' Society
"I was too excited to tell him:
and hesides, my knowledge of larity. or any one else what we had seen, continues to increase in popu English was too small to have been able to give an account,”
With "economy" and "Individunt- ism as their battle-cry, about On arrival at the palace ahe
thirty young men have rebelled shook hands with half a dozen
And that to the inside story of against the "unlimited sufferings Albanian women who were stand-the theft of a Drummer's Sword both financially and spiritually" of ing idly by the gate,
from the Armoury in the White married life and have joined forces | Tower.
In September the King and Queen fled with their family a second time. They never re- turned, although Prince William
The Princess of Wied was Princess Sophia of Schoenburg- Waldenburg until her marriage in 1906. She was a woman of many accomplishmenta, a singer, com- poser and musician whose reputa- tion before the war as a hostess in Potsdam and Berlin was consider- able.
in a manful effort to maintain their
Frau Rump says she thinks single blessedness.
fa still missing. She is wrong.
Taronga Zoo
The Society, which includes seven. The sword is worth only five non-Chincse among its members, more than ones has said he ahillings. The police found it would do so if his old subjects lying in a junk shop in the Eastceived_its_first rebuff when the so desired.
End. But they never found the Shanghai Kuomintang (political thief.
party) headquarters rejected Its application for registration on the grounds that it was "detrimental to the progress of the race."
Undaunted, the Society, whose major requirement for memberaliip Is that all members refrain from marrying and that those who are already married make every en- deavour to maintain individualiam, reorganised its regulations and now requires that members be over fifty years of age and that their common objects be "economy" and for some unexplained reason,
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St. Paul's Aids
London's Wish
To Dine Early
London, Feb. 20.
→
Has A Pet For Sale
IT'S YOURS FOR ONLY £15
if anyone desires to buy a "sanitation."-United Press,
nice little red-blooded lion, full of fun and fight, now is the time.
Taronga Park Zoo in Syd
has one for sale, as a going con- cern at £15.
It has been
a poor senson in
But not one offer was received for a lion that could literally cat his owner alive with exuber. ance of affection. ・・
Churchgoers at St. Paul's Cathe Sydney for llons. The specimen dral, in London, are impatient to offered was put up a few months get home early to their Sunday
ago at £501- evening dinners. 1. As a result, enthedral authori- ties, faced with steadily diminish- ing congregations, decided to change the hour of the Sunday evening service from 7 p.m. to | 6:30 p.m. At the same time they introduced more music into the service to increase its popular ap- peal.
Both theag innovations have met with marked succces, Canon S. A. Alaxander of St. Paul's told the United ProBs.
West to Mark Buffalo Bill's
90th Birthday
Cody, Wyoming, Feb. 26. His namo Is Stop; his age is
A celebration to commemòrate two-a frolicsome, happy-go-lucky the birthday of William (Buffalo two-and he is the son
of the Bill) Cody, famous old scout, la- famous Watch.
dien fighter and wild-west per- Too Many Boys
former was held here to-day. Reasons for sale? There are just too many boy lions at tho took its name from Buffalo Bill, The town of Cody, Wyo., which "I think the numbers of our Zoo; that's all, and Stop upsets congregations have certainly im- the regular balance of the sexes, sponsored tho birth-day party: proved. After all, I'm afraid St. Besides, the lion which Bert Old-Had Bufalo Bill lived he would Paul's was rather behind the field, the famous cricketer, saved have been 90 to-day. times, because the majority of from being shot in South Africa London churches now have their will be in Sydney shortly. Sunday evening service at 6:30. We have
"If you see any nice lions, or programme, held an essay contcat congregation of people anything while you are in Africa, in connection with the celebration. from all over the world. We have you might let me know," said the The contest was open to any found that the earlier, more secretary of the Zoo (Mr. Bruce student attending a public or musical service has proved more Brown) over a game of cards, or private school up to and including convenient and at the same time something at the home of the the eighth grade. The essays had famous wicket-keeper before hoj loft.
more attractive."
Canon Alexander, said there was no truth in reports that the Sun- day evening germons were being curtailed becauso people dialko longthy sermons in these days.
"Our preachers have a complete- [ly from hand," he said.United
Priss.
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The Cody Club, in charge of the
to be on some phase of the life or "I'll do more than that," Old history of Buffalo Bill and 600 field assured him, "Til bring words was the limit. 'em back allve?”
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