THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, MARCH
1936.
THE MAN WHO WON THE GREAT WAR
Story of British Officer's Trick
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, aged 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, Ile was discharge).
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The girl is a daughter of a re- tired Army major. She was finlist in "MIss Seaside" beauty competition at Rhyl last summer.
At the time of the alleged offence she was Miss Baines. She Was the morning of the married on
police court hearing of the case tal Mr. Frank Jones, a witness, who is an estate agent at Rhy. They went straight from the wedding ceremony to the police court.
Cin, Vermouth, Sherry
Mr. Goodman Roberts, prosecut. ing, said on New Year's Eve the girl went with Mr. Jones, then her flance, to a Rhyl hotel.
She had a ginal deal of drink. Subsequently they went to a Halkyn dance hall, taking half a dozen bottles of beer,
At the dance hall Miss Bulnes hud a good deal to drink, including Kin, vermouth and sherry.
Still she went wi drinking. AL two in the morning she was seen by a police ofleer with Mr. Jones.
Amazing
FOR THE SWEET,
BYE AND BYE
EASTER is still a month, abend, but egga are ready. Hert are some ready for despatch from a factory near Bristol
Earl Jellicoe
Leaves £13,370
DIRECTIONS FOR BIOGRAPHY
DMIRAL of the Fleet
Jellicoe, whose, will
Earl
was
She man walking unsteadily, and proved at Somerset House, last. was extremely drunk,
month, left £13.370 (net për....{ Mr. Jones put her in his cny, covered her up with rugs, and then sonally £4.992).
went back to the dance hall, Mrs.
He directed thr trustees of Jones would say that all she re membered was that, after being ill, the deed of trust relating to his she woke up a strange barn with historical documents, MSS. &c., man she did not know. She was to permit Admiral Sir Reginald devolt of all her clothing
Bacon to have access thereto for Shortly before 3.30 a.m. Donn the purpose of writing his arrived at the dance hall. 1is lips biography, wore slained. He sald to a police officer: "There is a chap who has lost his wife. I have been with a woman in the car. Don't say any thing."
Mr. Jones, who wore L Krey squirrel coat, then went info the box. She said she was red cigk-i 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 Beuses in tlie barn "with nothing whatever on."
Mrs.
Jones said she tried to scream in the barn, but Dunn put his hand over her mouth.
She was pressed to state what also the accused said, but she wol bod and cried, "I can't possibly tell you all that he said."
Eventually she wrote something down, and a slip of paper was par sed by the judge to the jury.
Mr. J. I. Elsden (cross-examin. ing): May I take it that you had not intended to limit your attention to your flance that night?
Mrs. Jones: I might dance with other people. Continuing his questioning Mr. Elsden said, "I suggest that your] story is quite untrue."
Mrs.
"It is not untrue," cried Joncs striking the lodge of the wit ness box with her hand.
"'No Right To Do So❞
Mr. Eladen: I put it to you that he offered to take you for a run in the car sa you wanted to get frosh air.
do 80," "Ho had no right to cried Mrs. Jones, wiping the teara from' her face. "He was only a car park attendant."
Sho aid that she did not T- member getting into u car withi
Dann and using endearing terms. to
him..
Mr. Elsden: Did you also any that this man had boon kissing you ardently during the evening 7-1 do
not remember.
Ilis Naval books and hooks in connection with the Grent War to his song
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 astute trick which resulted in almost certain 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 beaten, were no longer able to withstand the decisive attack which they knew would come at dawn on. October 29.
Then a British, officer, Captain Roger Bradman, who was in command of a British destroyer on North Sen patrol work. put into opération a daring scheme.
and
THE SHEIK OF OXFORD ST.
Jalal Quraishi, a shelk in flowing. robes and scarlet skull cap, sits in n laboratory in Oxford-street, blending parfumes. He has travelled roun the world in order to gather rare recipes and los sense of smelt har been insured for £2,000..
with CHILDREN
OF "COUSIN MARRIAGES"
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
converantion tish uniforms which his vessel had following n been carrying for the 1st Cameron Captain Bradman, Highlanders.
The account is published in the Ambulancés
of ammunition current issue the Atlantic trucks were rushed up close to the Monthly. shore and by torchlight the crates After the Armistice, Bradman containing the uniforms were went to Canada and changed his transferred from the destroyer and name. ferried to the land.
The events which led up to the The Belgian soldiers then broke landing of the uniforms
and up the crates with bayonets and machine-guns are described by assembled the uniforms in orderly Buckner as follow:- piles.
At a meeting of high staff officers i An amazing scene then took of the Belgian Army, called by
In the current issue of place. By the flickering light King Albert, it was decided to send of a fire 180 men donned the kilts a small body of picked men to the The Lancet Professor J. B. and khaki tanies. An hour be-sand dunes to overcome the Ger-
INVESTIGATING THE CONSEQUENCES
fore dawn the task was finished man sentries there, and signal out S. Haldane appeals for more and the disguised Belgians were to sea in the hope that a section of detailed information, so that
the British Weet would give rendy, 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: mut 'eut to yen.
"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.
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
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 anong Scottish uniforms and machine the children of related parents To the Germans' astonishment
gung over to the Belgians,
than among the population in gen they found themselves confronted
Shortly after he had returned to cral, but this fact does not afford by what was apparently a crack the destroyer the Germans began a definite answer to the question British regiment. To the German their attack. The Year, swollen pored above. command it was obvious what had happened. The British had lauded by heavy rainfall had converted the Flanders plain into a veritable substantial reinforcements
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 cake presented to him by the late King, his Flag down the Battlo cover of night. of Jutthod, and other articles-as- heirlooms to follow the title:
£100 to Mr. Lavender, wife of Mr. Lavender, signal boatswain in the Royal Navy, who was serving in H.M.S. Shannon during 1917, "in care of my of her kind children during several years"*;
One year's wages to each joiner the servant of five years' service and not under notice:
memory
£200 to Alex Macintosh, Secretary to Messrs. Cayzer, Irvine and Co. The residue of the property goes to his wife for life, with re- muinder 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 in the village of Fibiswald, near here, is unsured of free music for some time to
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so-called
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come,
Informed that friendly association dance really a secret Nusi gathering, the palico cleaned up the ball-room the hand on well an transporting the dancing couple, to jail,
The revellers are being held pending investigation into their alleged Nazi activition.
underi
swamp.
A speciul "Committee on Ilumi Genetics" appointed by the Medi- cal Research Council la collecting By late afternoon The awamp information from certain hospitals 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- Belgians mowed them down oldiers 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 badies were piled three deep,gians opened the lower dykes of already the results are showing This remarkable story is told the Yser. The battle was over points of interest, but ho is in-
by Robert Buckner, a graduate of and the Allies' left flank was saved.sistent that more Information is From that hour until the end of still required, especially regarding the war the Gernians, never nd-child patients in country districts, vanced # foot farther through where more inbreeding occurs Flanders.
than in towns,
Rare Caves Found In Tasmania
A subterranean cavern of sur passing beauty has been found in a Tasmanian forest.
An axman felling 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 undergrowth he
came across
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400 MILLION LIVES LOST
IN FLOOD AND FAMINE!
CHINA'S LOSS IN SIXTY YEARS
Shanghai, March 6.
War, pestilence, drought, flood, famine and other
yawning cavity into which the natural calamities during the last 60 years have robbed limb, bad disappeared. Following China of no less than 400,000,000 lives, a number the track of the limb he groped his way about with matelies until, approximately equal to her present population.
he found cavern.
the himself inside
few inches to 50 feet in lengtli,
Yet in the past 60 years, the natural increase in In large subterranean chambers population has approximately equalled the same figure, he discovered fantastic Imestone formations in rich colours. Thero and despite the toll of lives taken each year, the nation is jare stalactites, varying from still faced with the problem of caring for its too numerous Roberts if it was wise to proceed stretching from a weird colling; population, according to Professor Chiao Chi-ming, of with the case.
stalagmites reaching upward in the College of Agriculture and Forestry of the University Mr. Goodman Roberts consulted majestic splendour, miniature with the chief constable, and then rivers and fellke figures. of Nanking. announced that he thought that it One limestone column is 60 foot would be a dangerous position to high and 7 feet 6 inches in girth.
To cope with this situation, Professor Chiao suggests that I put it to you that far from cry; put the accused in Jeopardy on Artificial light shows myriads of the legal marriage age be regulated by law and that early mar- ing out you yourself said you would evidence which was, at any rate a dazzling stalactites of
various moct him the next evening? faulty recollection.
riage be strictly prohibited. He favours birth-control, niso, but hues, length and shape. One of The judge said he thought the the subterranean passages is 500
feels that because the masses must be educated to it, it would prosecution were acting rightly.
take many years to poularise this method of reducing the popu Dunn had made a long statement, Yards long.
There are chamburs 70 feet to Intion, in which he admitted frankly his association with this woman, but 80 feet wide and of similar height.
not only gave her Fossilized remains of Tas- The majority of China's 400,000,000 people live in the rural .consent, but more than consented. mania's marsupial wolf, now al- districts of the country and gain their livelihood from the cultiva-
"She was not quite a girl with-most extinct, were found. out experience," said the
juilo,
Hot springs emitting steam are tion of the land. Since, however, there are only about 228,997,707 "and there is no doubt that she was close at hand, the temperature acres of land under cultivation in the country, China now has very drunk indeed, and things might have happened that night which being 104 degrees Fahrenheit. only about three-fourth of an acre per were not creditable to anybody. Twenty yards away is a crook with
said I would meet him so he would let me go,
Sho added that she did not re- member giving Dunn a brooch 80 as to mako aure he would meet.her the next avoning. She had re- ceived her brooch through Dunn's, mother..
Sho declared that in one of har statements, when she said that sho must have consentou, she did so be- causo she was told that if she did. the case would be suppressed.
said that cha
The jury consulted together, and ley cold water. Water from the
acro per capita.
In comparison with China's rate of population increase,
the foreman said that they con- hot springa was sent to a labora- Prof. Chino points out, Soviet Russia would require only 27 years
that the case
case should be tory, and it was found that when to double her population, Japan 64 years, the United States 99
warmeil it generated gas, a
Mrs. Jones said it was some one sidered that the
who had told her mother that it stopped,anted strongly The caves are about 40 miles years, Germany 116 years, Enghind and Wales 142 years and
·would be suppressed if che said she. The judgo
had given her consent. Faulty Recollection".
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 hall for inspection.
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