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· THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1936.
.
BRITONS
ARRESTED IN
ITALY
Californians are never bored. The pretty mermaids seen above are jockeying, the rabbits in position as they participate in the annual Rabbit Derby.
Vanished Tutor and Pupil
CAMERA; BUT NO PASSPORTS
Mentone, May 8. THE mystery of the disappearance of two Richard Oliver Englishmen-Mr. Johnston, a Portsmouth schoolmaster, and his 16-year-old pupil, Martyn Privett, of Fareham-was cleared up this evening. :
They are at Ventimiglia, under arrest by the Italian authorities.
They left their hotel in for a day's walk in the mountains on Sunday, taking a picnic lunch and dressed only in pullovers and flannel their trousers. They did not inke passports.
Sixty Women Sing 'Blue
Danube' To The
Pope
Rome, May 8.
VOICES of sixty black-veiled women singers were heard in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican to-day render- ing, for the first time in its history, the haunting strains of Strauss's "Blue Danube" waltz..
The Pope, sitting on his throne at one end of the hall,
listened with pleasure as the £1,500 For
chorus of the Vienna Opera Company, numbering 106 men and women, gave a special pro- gramme at his invitation.
The Vienna Opera chorus, which is now visiting Home, had been re- quested by the Pope to perform at: the Vatican. After the chorur had completed
forty-minute pro- gramme including sacred musle and. two folk songs by Brahms, Heri Weingartner, the director, begged his Holiness to hear them in their "fuv- ourite piece."
One Night's
Sleep
Indian Merchant's Offer
Rouses America
Two months ago a rich merchant advertised an offer
a
The singers then gave the "Blue of a reward of £1,500 for Danube," to the delight of the car- dinals and members of the Papal anyone who could give him Court in attendance on his Holiness, night's sleep, says Exchange After the concert the Pope pre-from Calcutta. He had not sented his ring to the singers to be slept, he said, for many
kissed.
with
All the women in the chorus wore black vells.
accordance in Papal custom.
The This was
first time that women had taken part in large numbers in a concert at the Vall
demands that
Tradition
years.
He later added that if anyone could permanently cure him he would make Jira rich beyond his wildest dreams.
India is accustomed to strange offers, so it is not surprising that | female volees should be replaced there was no reply to his advertise- by boys' voices.
can.
ment.
A copy of the paper containing his The Vatican.Choir of the Sistine advertisement reached America, re- Chapel-composed exclusively of aesulting in the newspaper-reporters and the broadcasters recognising and boys-is famous..
what they called a good story. In- mediately the
sleepless merchant was deluged with cables,
Quintuplets Born
In a Ditch: May Not Survive
Doctors offered their services with
Mentone
SUSPECTED OF "SPYING"
When they did not return the hotel proprietor Informed the police and
the British Conrul.
Extensive searches were made and
it was feared that they had fallen over n precipice. This evening the hotel received L letter from Mr. Johnston.
He said they had accidentally strayed over the Italian frontier and been arrested-not only for be ing without identity papers, hut as suspected sples, since they had 1 pocket taken anapshots with
camera.
Their five days' imprisonment ap- entire pears inexplicable, for the Riviera Press has been full of the story of their disappearance and the have been Italian authorities must well aware of their identity.
It is said that their passports are now being forwarded to Venti- miglia from Mentone.
Mr. Johnston, who was born in' India in 1883, is a brother of the Rev. Hugh Johnaton, of Cranleigh, Surrey.
Mr. R. O. Johnston is a well-known master at Trico's School, Fareham,
and his pupil is the son of Mr. H. T. Farcham Urban District Counell. Privett, who is the surveyor to the Interviewed by the News Chroni
"We have Just heard that they are safe. jele, Mrs. Hugh Johnston said:
My husband has been telephoned by his brother.
"I seems that at the montent they are still under arrest, but .I. under stand that when their passporis are sent on they will be releasKÍ.”
12/-CHANGED
CAREER
HER
Paris, May 10.
REX RECORDS
NEW SHIPMENT JUST ARRIVED.
8730-Moon for Salo. F.T.
White Cliffs of Dover. F.T.
8729-Love is a Dancing Thing. F.T. Moon Over Miami, F.T.
CASANI CLUB ORCHESTRA,
8738-With All My Heart. F.T.
When April Comes Again. F.T.
·
JACK PAYNE & HIS BAND. 8747-Charlio Kunz Piano Medley, No. 14.
CHARLIE KUNZ.
8746-Dixon Hits. No. 5. Organ.
REGINALD DIXON. 8737-Sandy Coos Fishing, Humorous,
SANDY POWELL. atc.. atc.. atc. TSANG FOOK, PIANO COMPANY Marina House, 19 Queen's Road, Central, Hongkong,
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
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120
1 Show that might be on dormant
Aite.
8 Shakespeare puts words into the mouth of this flower in "Twelfth Night."
9 Dress for show; people used to
take a dip in part of it. 11 Put vegetable down. 12 Crack.
14 Old Roman name-for
4
Womens
15 the artillery are ex-
to render.
16 Ties an article in the centre. 18 Twill give, its lace perhaps. 21 She may be convicted, but not
Bentenced
uttering false
notes.
for
22 Feminine name.
24 Brings you into action, but is,
nevertheless, a sell,
27 The superfluous five hundred in
Kent?
28 A space to ahun. 20 Play.
JOAN WARNER, the American 30 Calm, but impudent at heart,
nevertheless, dancer who "shocked" Paris
or without payment, some even staty dancing nude and was after- ing they were ready, to fly to Indin. wards fined 12s. for the offence, Research workers threw open the has found her whole career duors of their laboratories for this
mats to enter in order that they could changed by the incident.
Since that ense Miss Warner in experiment with him. Old ladies sent
eat let- has received offers to appear him urgent instructions to Bucharest, May 8.
onions, milk tablets, and even a almost every country of the world.
THEATRE SOLD OUT MARIA LINGURARU, a 25-certain Hind of grass.
A rich young lady of New York i
She eventually signed a contract
suggested that as she had been suffer- from sleeping sickness for years ing it might be possible to exchange to appear at the Casino de Paris serums.
and
year-old gipsy, gave birth to quintuplets to-day while lying in a ditch alongside a field in which
here, and she is co-starred in the she had been ploughing near
By mati came thousands of letters new production with O'Dett. Hodos, in the province of Blhor.
parcels: The
sent leiters
So great was the demand for scats. that the house was sold out She was discovered by the woman sympathy,, prescriptions, warnings,
weeks before the opening night. owner of the field, who, after render-recriminations, and affera of mar- riage. The parcels contained pills,
It is necessary now to wait a week Ing first-ald, rushed for a doctor.
lotion, tonics, patent foods, and lucky
for a glimpse of the celebrated "fan charms,
dancer" Engulfed by his mail, the
am naturally glad that the chant to-day engaged B private secretary. He is sending his many enormous publicity I received has doctor for increased my box-office value," Miss sample medicines to
Warner said, "but I hope to be recog annlysis. The quintuplets were born two He said "As for the love potions nised as much more than a dancer months prematurely.
and offers af marriage, they are use- who appears almost nude," have less. I have tried those n hundred Miss Warner lives with an elder The only quintuplets that ever lived longer than 30 days are times, but no relief has come. In-sister who accompanies her every led a the famous Dionne girls, who, were dred, the very thought of having alwhere, and at the recent, trial many born near Callander, Ontario, on May wife would now keep me awake more people, testified "blameless" life. than ever." 20, 1934.
A physician declared that the babies-three boys and two girls-are healthy, but it is feared that the lon exposure and inattention at birth will have fatal results. The mother is expected to live.
SALESMAN SAM
a
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that she
Twenty-Five Pounds To Go
HOW MUCH
DO YA
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2 This may be correctly placed only on one side of an envelope, so run away,
3 Something like a zebra.
• Hollows partly led with foot-
wear.
5 This lon is obviously up in arms. 6 Hair arrangement.
7 Drug,
8 No, he is not a Bglsting parson,
CANTON RUMOURS HEAVY DEPRECIATION OF PAPER CURRENCY
Canton, May 19. Wild rumours concerning the poll- tical situation here are prevailing following the sudden appearance of posters all over the City denouncing the Nanking "dictatorship."
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10 Take silk, for example, (Two
worde, 5, 7.)
13 Old files.
17 A famous run-maker who is also
a shirtmaker.
19 This may be under a foot in a
small Inthe.
20 Change, but to make one sounds
different,
21 Not so blunt as a swindler.
23 Heavy weather round the moun-
tain top, eh 7
25 Most useful oil.
26
think I've clued this word in every conceivablo way, and I do not consider it perfect.
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NO DAMAGE AS YET REPORTED
Lanchow, May 19. An earthquake occurred this morn- ing at 6.35 at Lanchow, Capital of Kansu Province.
The shock, which was only a minor tremer, Insted for over ten seconds. No damages have been reported.-
The local currency has been greatly affected and hos further deprecinted Wa Kiu Yat Po. resulting in the Hongkong currency gaining a premium of almost sixty
against in Nanking are mortgaging the silver one of the factors hoard is also cents for every dollar as
circles
that responsible for the slump of the Financial
belleve Canton's paper currency rumours that the Chinese authorition banknotes.-Reuter.
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