THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH., THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1936,
THE MAN WHO WON THE GREAT WAR
Girl-Bride In Barn: Accused Man
Acquitted
A
REMARKABLE case which followed a beau- tiful girl's visit to a dance hall was stopped by. Flint- shire Assizes jury.
They found Arthur Dunn' nged. nineteen, a' car-park at- tendant, of Halkyn, near Holy well, North Wales, not guilty of a serious offence against the girl, Mrs. Elizabeth Jones. He was discharged.
The girl is a daughter of a re- ired Army major.. She was a Analist in "Misa Sonside" beauty competition at Rhyl last summer.
At the time of the alleged offence she was Mias Baines. She was married on the morning of the police court hearing of the. case to Mr. Frank Jones, a witness, who is an estate agent at Rhyl. They went straight from the wedding ceremony to the police court. Gin, Vermouth, Sherry
Mr. Goodman Roberts, prosecut- ing, said on New Year's Evo the girl went with Mr. Jones, then her fianco, to n Rhyl hotel.
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She had a good deal of drink. Subsequently they went Halkyn dance hall, taking half a dozen bottles of beer.
At the dance hall Miss Baines had a good deni to drink, including gin, wermouth and sherry.
Still she went on drinking. At two in the morning she was seen by a police officer with Mr. Jones, She was walking unsteadily, and was extremely drunk.
car,
Amazing
FOR THE SWEET
BYE AND BYE
EASTER is still a month ahead, but eggs are ready. Here are some ready for despatch from a factory near Bristol,
Earl Jellicoe
Leaves £13,370
DIRECTIONS FOR BIOGRAPHY
ADMIRAL of the Fleet Earl
was
He directed the trustees of
Jellicoe, whose will proved at Somerset House, Inst month, loft £13,370 (net per- Mr. Jones put her in his covered her up with rugs, and then sonally £4.992), went back to the dance hall, Mrs. Jones would that all sho zo-
kay membered was that, after being ill, the deed of trust relating to his she woke up in a strange barn with historical documents, MSS., &c., a man she did not know. She was to permit Admiral Sir Reginald devald of all her clothing
Bacon to, have access thereto for Shortly before 3.30 a.m. Dunn the purpose of writing his arrived at the dance hall. His lips biography. were stained. He said to a police officer: "There is a chap who has lost life wife.. I have been, with al woman in the car. Don't say any! thing."
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Mrs. Jones, who wore 11 Krey squirrel cont, then went into the box. She said she was aged eigh-{ teen.
"Tried To Scream"
She said she did not remember anything from the time she was -taken-to-the-car-until-she came to
her senseH in the barn - "with i Hothing whatever on."
Mrs. Jones said she tried seream in the barn, but Dunn pat his hand over her mouth.
She was pressed to state what else the accused said, but she sob bod and cried, "I can't possibly tell you all that he said."
Eventually she wrote something down, and a slip of paper was pas sed by the Julge to the jury. -
Mr. J. Elden (cross-examin- ing): May I take it that you had not intended to limit your attentlun to your flance that night?
Mrs.
other people might dance with i
Continuing his questioning Mr. Elsden said, "I suggest that your story la quito untrue."
"It is not untrue," crled Mrs. Jonce striking the ledge of the wit- ness box with her hand. -
"No Right To Do So"!
Mr. Eladon: I put it to you that | he offered to take you for a run. in the car as you wanted to get fresh air.
"He had no right to do B0," cried Mrs. Jones, wiping the tears from her face. "He was only a car park attendant."
She said that she did not re- mamber getting into a car with
His Naval books and books in connection with the Great War to his son;
His decorations, swords of honour, other articles presented to him in recognition of his services during the European War, the gold watch, silver cigar box, and silver cigarette eare presented to him by the late King, his Flag flown at the Battle of Jutland, and other articles an heirlooms to follow the title;
£100 to Mrs. Lavender, wife of Mr. Lavender-signal-boatswain -In the Royal Navy, who, was serving in IM.S. Shannon during 1917, "in memory of her kind
care of my children during several years":
One year's wages to each domes tic servant of Ave yearservice and not under notice;"
£200 to Alex Macintosh, Secretary to Mesara. Cayzer, Irvine and Co. The residuo of the property goes to his wife for life, with re- mainder to his son, Lord Jellicoe, adding that he had already made provision for his daughters.
FREE MUSIC FOR
THIS PRISON
Grus, Austria, Feb, 29, The local jail is the village of Fibiswald, near here, is used of free music for some time to Cottle.
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Informed that so-called friendly association dance was really a accret Nazi gathering, the police cleaned up the ball-room transporting the band as well as the dancing couple to jail
The revellers are being held pending investigation into their alleged Nazi activities,
Duran and using endearing terms to Roberta if it was wise to proceed
him.
with the case.
Story of British
of British Officer's
Officer's Trick
DRAMATIC CALL
TO FLEET
AND A DARING RUSE THAT
STOPPED GERMANS
AN astonishing story of how a British officer was responsible for winning the Great War by an astuto trick which resulted in 'almost cortain | victory being snatched from the Germans was
revealed in London last month.
....
The incident took place on the final days of the first battle of Flanders, October 29, 1914, when the enemy were on the point of routing the Allied forces completely and seizing Paris.
The Germans had attacked France from three direc- tions, through the Vosges, along the Marne, and through Belgium.
The Belgian Army, retreating day by day, exhausted and beaten, were no longer able to withstand the decisive attack which they knew would come at dawn on October 20.
Then a British officer, Captain Roger Bradman, who was In command of a British destroyer on North Sea patrol work, put into operation a daring scheme.
He landed on the sand dunes, Edinburgh University, who declares near Nieuport and arranged for that he verified the facts from 180 Belgian soldiers to wear Scot-official British and Belgian sources Lish uniforms which his vessel had|following A conversation with been carrying for the 1st Cameron Captain Bradman. Highlanders.
After the Armistice, Bradman
Vivela
(DAY)
THE SHEIK OF OXFORD ST.
Wn thoil && C» {u},
Jalal Quraishi, a sheik in flowing laboratory in Oxford-street, blending robes and scarici skuli cap, elts in ä parfumes. He has travelled round- the world in order to gather rare recipes, and, his sense of smell has been insured for £2,060,
CHILDREN OF "COUSIN
The account is published in the Ambulances
ammunition current Issue of the Atlantic and trucks were rushed up close to the Monthly share and by torchlight the crates
uniforms containing the transferred from the destroyer and name. ferried to the land..
were went to Canada and changed his MARRIAGES"
The events which led up to the
the The Belgian soldiers then broke landing of
uniforms and described by up the crates with bayonets and machine-guns are assembled the uniforms in orderly Buckner as follow:- pilea.
At a meeting of high staff officers An amazing scene then took jof the Belgian Army, called by place. By the dickering Hght King Albert, it was decided to send
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the British
INVESTIGATING THE CONSEQUENCES
In the current issue of of a fire 180 men donned the kilte ja small body of picked men to the The Lancet Professor J. B. and khaki tunics. An hour be-sand dunes to overcome the Ger- fore dawn the task was finished man sentries there, and signal out S. Haldane appeals for more and the disguised Belglans were to sea in the hope that a section of detailed information, so that ready,
Fleet would give The last kilted figure disappeared assistance either by landing men a scientific answer may be into the dunes and the destroyer or by bombarding the German obtained to the question: "Are marriages of first Battle In Swamp The signals were seen by the Cousins likely to produce destroyer and Bradman landed diseased offspring?" with a dozen men.
put cut to sea,
Signal From Shore.
At daybreak the German barrage came down again and the attack was launched. The final day of the first Battle of Flanders had be- gun,
To the Germans' astonishment they found themselves confronted
lines.
There are certain rare diseases Bradman thereupon decided to of the skin and eyes which are take a chance and turn the known to be far commoner among Scottish uniforms and machine the children of related parents guns over to the Belginns,
than among the population in gen- Shortly after he had returned toeral, but this fact does not afford by what was apparently a crack the destroyer the Germans began a donite answer to the question British regiment. To the German their attack. The Year, swollen posed above. command it was obvious what had by heavy rainfall had converted the happened. The British, had landed Flanders plain into a veritable Genetics" appointed by the Medi- A special "Committee on Human substantial reinforcements under swamp.
cal Research Council is collecting cover of night-
By late afternoon the swamp information from certain hospitala The surprised Germans soon was almost choked with German where all patients are being asked wavered and were lost. The bodies and thousands of enemy whether their parents were re- Belgtans mowed them down soldiers were drowned in the river.lated, and, if so, how.... with machine-gun fire till their
Just before nightfall the Bel-
Professor Haldane states that bodies were piled three deep
gians opened the lower dykes of already the results are showing This remarkable story is told the Yaer. The battle was by Robert Buckner, a graduate of and the Allies' left flank was saved. sistent that more information is over points of interest, but he is in- From that hour until the end of still required, especially regarding the war the Germans never ad- child patients in country districts, vanced A foot farther through where more inbreeding occura Flanders,
than in towns,
Rare Caves Found In
Tasmania
A subterranean cavern of sur- passing beauty has been found in a Tasmanian forest.
400 MILLION LIVES LOST IN FLOOD AND FAMINE!
An axman folling a tree was mystified at the complete disap- pearance of a limb, as though the earth had swallowed it. Cutting his way through thick bush' and War, pestilence, drought, flood, famine and other undergrowth" he came scross a
natural calamities during the last 60 years have robbed yawning cavity into which the limb had disappeared. Following China of no less than 400,000,000, lives, a number the track of the limb he gropod his way about with matches until approximately equal to her present population.
CHINA'S LOSS IN SIXTY YEARS.
Shanghai, March 6.
ho found himself Inside
Imself
cavern.
the
In large subterranean chambers he discovered 'fantastic limestone formations in rich colours. There
Yet in the past 60 years, the natural increase in population has approximately equalled the same figure, and despite the toll of lives taken each year, the nation is are stalactites, varying from still faced with the problem of caring for its too numerous few inches to 50 feet in length, stretching from a weird ceiling: population, according to Professor Chiao Chi-ming, of Mr. Eladen: Did you also any that:
stalagmites reaching upward in the College of Agriculture and Forestry of the University Mr. Goodman Roberts consulted. majestic this man had been kissing" __you}
splendour, miniature ardently during the evening?-I do with the chief constable, and then rivers and lifelike figures. of Nanking. not remember.
announced that he thought that it One limestone column is 60 feet would be a dangerous position to high and 7 feet 6 faches in girth.
To cope with this situation, Professor Chiso suggests that put the accused In jeopardy on Artificial light shows myriads of the legal marriage age bo regulated by law and that carly, mar avidence which was, at any rate a dazzling stalactites of various
hues, length and shape, One of ringe be strictly prohibited. He favoure birth-control also, but yards long.
take many years to poularise this method of reducing the popu- There are chambers 70 feet to lation. 80 feet wide and of similar height.
Fossilized remaina of Tas- The majority of China's 400,000,000 people live in the rural mania's marsupial wolf, now al districts of the country and gain their livelihood from the cultiva- "Sho tras not quito a girl with most extinct, wore found, tion of the land. Since, however, there are only about 228,097,707 out experience," said the Judge Het springs emitting steam aró "And there is no doubt that she was close at hand, the température neres of land under cultivation in the country, China now has very drunk indeed, and things might being 104 degrees Fahrenheit. only about three-fourth of an acre per capita.
I put it to you that far from cry
ing out you yourself raid you would
moot him the noxt evening 7-faulty recollect he thought the the subterranean passages is 500 feels that because the masses must be educated to it, it would
said I would meot. him so he would let me go.
The judge said
prosecution wore acting rightly. Dunn had made a long statement, in which he admitted frankly his
She added that she did not re- momber giving Dunn a brooch so-association with this woman, but as to make sure he would meet her
Bald that cho not only gave her the next evening. She had ro-
"consent, but more than consented. ceived her brooch through Dunn's mother.
She declared that in one of her statements, when she said that she must have consented, she did so be cause she was told that if she did the case would be suppressed.
have happened that night which Twenty yards away is a creek with were not creditable to anybody.”
The jury consulted together, and icy cold water. Water from the In comparison with China's rate of population incrense, the foreman, said that they con- hot springs was sent to a labora Prof. Chiso points out, Soviet Russia would require only 27 years
Mrs. Jones said it was some one sidered that the case should be tory and it was found that when to double her population, Japan 54 years, the United States 99 who had told her mother that it stopped.
would be suppressed if she said she
had given her consent,
“Faulty Recollection”-
warmed it generated gas.
The judge commented strongly The caves are about 40 mlics years, Germany 116 yours, England and Wales 142 years and
on the way in which these young south of Hobart. They are to be France 289 years. China's natural increase rate is second only people had been allowed to drink opened up and electrically lighted to that of the U.S.S.R.-United Press,
The judge asked Mr. Goodman outside an unlicensed dance ml." | for Inspection.
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