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THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY
20, 1936.
BRITONS ARRESTED IN
Californians are never bored. The pretty, mermaids seen above are jockeying the rabbits in position as they partkipate in the annual Rabbit Derby.
ITALY
Vanished Tutor and Pupil
CAMERA, BUT NO PASSPORTS
Mentone, May 8.
THE
HE 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 pienic lunch and dressed only in pullovers and flanu
their trousers. They did, not take 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.
hig The Pope, sitting on throne at one end of the ball, listened with pleasure as the chorus of the Vienna Opera Company, numbering 106 men] and women, gave a special pro- gramme at his invitation.
n
The Vienna Opera chorts, which is now visiting Rome, had been re- quested by the Pope to perform at the Vatican. After the chorus had pro- completed
forty-minute gramme Including suered music and, two folk songs by Bralims, Herr Weingartner, the director, begged his Holiness to hear them in their "av purite piece."
Danube," to the delight of the car- dinals and
£1,500 For One Night's Sleep
Indian Merchant's Offer
Rouses America
Two months ago a rich merchant advertised an offer The singers then gave the "Blue of a reward of £1,500 for members of the Papal anyone who could give him a 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
years.
kissed.
with
He later added that if anyone All the women in the chorus wore
Ιπ accordance black veils,
could permanently cure him he Pupal custom.
would make him rich beyond his This was the first time that wildest dreams. women had taken part in large
India is accustomed to strange numbers in a concert at the Vall offers, so it is not surprising that
that i demands Tradition female voices sunuld be replaced there was no reply to his advertise by boys' voices,
A copy of the paper containing his The Vatican Choir of the Sistine advertisement-reached America,_re Chapel-composed exclusively of men sulting in the newspaper reporters and boys-is famous.
can.
Quintuplets Born
ment,
Mentone
SUSPECTED OF "SPYING"
When they did not return the hotel proprietor informed the pallee and the British Consul.
Extensive searches were made and it was feared that they had fallen hotel received 11 letter from Mr. Johnston.
over a precipice. This evening the
He said they had weeldentally- strayed over the Italian frontier and been arrested--not only for be ing without Identity papers, hut as suspected spies, since they had pocket taken snapshots with
camera.
Their five days imprisonment ap- pears inexplicable, for the entire Riviera Press has been full of the story of their disappearance and the have been Italian authorities must woll aware of their identity.
It lo said that their passports are now being forwarded to Venti- miglia from Montone.
born in
Mr. Johnston, who was indin in 1889, is a brother of the Rev. Hugh Johnston, of Cranleigh, Surrey. master at Trice's School, Fareham, and his pupil is the son of Mr. H. T. Privett, who is the surveyor to the Fareham Urban District Council,
Mr. R. O. Johnston is a well-known
Interviewed by the News Chroni- "We cle, Mrs. Hugh Johnston said:
ve just heard that they are safe. My husband has been telephoned by his brother.
"I seems that at the moment they are still under arrest, but I under- stand that when their passports are sent on they will be released."
REX RECORDS
NEW SHIPMENT JUST ARRIVED. 8730-Moon for Sale. F.T.
White Cliffs of Dovor. FT. 8729-Love is a Dancing Thing. Moon Over Miami. F.T.
F.T.
CASANI CLUB ORCHESTRA.
8738-With All My Heart. F.T.
When April Come Again, F.T,
8747-Charlie Kunz Piano Medley, No. 14.
JACK PAYNE & HIS BAND.
CHARLIE KUNZ.
8746-Dixon Hits. No. 5. Organ.
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REGINALD DIXON.
8737-Sandy Goes Fishing, Humorous.
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SANDY POWELL. otc., etc.. atc.
TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY Marina House, 19 Queen's Road, Central, Hongkong.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
#3
19-1-12).
1 Show that might be on dormant
sito. 8 Shakespeare puts words into the mouth of this flower in "Twelfth Night"
Dress for show; people used to take a dip in part of it.. 11 Put vegetable down. 12 Crack.
14 Okl Roman name-for
16
only?
to render.
women
Accounts the artillery are ex. 10 Ties an article in the centre. 18 Twill give, 'Its lace perhaps. 21 She muy bo convicted, but not sentenced for uttering false notes.
22 Feminine name,
12/-CHANGED HER Brings you into action, but in,
CAREER
27 The
nevertheless, a sell.
superfluous five hundred in Kont? 28 A space to shan. 20 Play.
und the broadensters recognising
Paris, May 10. what they called a good story. In- mediately the sleepless merchant was JOAN WARNER, the American 30 Calm, but impudent at heart, deluged with cables.
dancer who "shocked" Paris.
Doctors offered their services with
or without payment, some even stat by dancing nutic and was after- ing they were ready to fly to India.wards fined 12s. for the offence, In a Ditch:
threw open. the has found her whole career Research workers doors of their laboratories for this changed by the incident, man to enter in order that they could
Since that case Miss Warner experiment with him. Old ladies sent May Not Survive m
ent Tetins received offers to appear in [him urgent Instructions to Bucharest. May 8.
tuce, onions, rillk tablets, and even alalmost every country of the world.
a: grass.
THEATRE SOLD OUT A rich young lady of New York Tel. 20071. MARIA LINGURARU, a 25-certain kind
year-old gipsy, gave birth to
She eventually signed a contract ing from sleeping sickness for years
be possiblo to exchange to appear at the Casino de Paris a ditch alongside a field in which it might she had been ploughing near serums.
By mail cane thousands of letters here, and she is co-starred in the
new production with O'Dett, The lettera sent Hodos, in the province of Bihor.
parcela. and She was discovered by the woman sympathy, prescriptions, warnings, owner of the field, who, after render-recriminations, and offera of mar
ringe.
The parcels contained pilis, ing Arst-ald, rushed for a doctor.
charms.
Tol. 68900.
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO. quintuplets to-day while lying in suggested that as she had been suffer-
Kowloon Phone 57032.
The MING YUEN STUDIO has removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road Central.
JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.
So great was the demand for scate that the house was sold out weeks before the opening night. It in necessary now to wait a week mer-dancer."
A physician declared that the lotion, tonies, patent foods, and lucky for a glimpse of the celebrated "In
babies three boys and two girls are Engulfed by his mail, the
HI am naturally glad that the 4 private healthy, but it is feared that the long chaat to-day engaged exposure and inattention at birth will
secretary. Tie la sending his many onormous publicity I received has # doctor for increased my box-office value," Miss have fatal results. The mother is
saniple medleines to
Warner said, "but I hope to be recor analysis. expected to live.
He said "As for the love potions nised as much more than a dancer
who
almost nude.' appeara The quintuplets were born two
and offers of marriage, they are use
Miss Warner lives with an elder months prematurely.
The only quintuplets that have less. I have tried those a hundred ever lived longer than 50 days are times, but no relief has come. In-sister who accompanies her avery
ahe that
led the famous Dionne, girls, who were deed, the very thought of having a where, and at the recont trial many
"blameless" life, born near Callander, Ontario, on May wife would now keep me awake more people testified
than ever."! 20, 1934.
a
nevertheless.
DOWN
2 This may be correctly placed only on one side of an envelope, so run away,
3 Something like a zebra.
4 Hallows partly led with foot-
wear,
5 This lion is obviously up in arms, 6 Hair arrangement,
7 Drug.
8 No, he is not a fighting parson, CANTON RUMOURS HEAVY DEPRECIATION OF PAPER CURRENCY
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he assists the bishopa. (Hyphon, 5, 7.)
10 Take silk, for examplo, (Two
words, 6, 7.)
13 Old Addles.
17 A famous run-maker who is also.
a shirtmaker.
10 This may be tinder a foot in a
small lathe.
20 Change, but to make one sounds
different.
21 Not so blunt as a swindler.
23 Heavy weather round the moan-
tain top, ch7
25 Most useful vil.
20
think I've clued this word in every conceivable way, and I do not consider it perfect,
Yesterday's Bolution
NOURS IMPO:S TURE
T ETHEREUROPE AN REL ONOME IS LO STRESSES AND YEM BASSE-RESTOBD SA
R INSING ASSENTS NEEM USB NEAR EDEN AIREDALE MADE ME 04 USES MEDITATE SHRIMP L NOT DEIHÄD PORTFOLIO UN'I TY NEY NE SEROGAZE
KANSU EARTH TREMOR NO DAMAGE AS YET REPORTED
The shock, which was only a minor Iremor, lasted for over ten seconds.. No damages have been reported.. Wals Kiu Yat Po
Canton, May 19.
Lanchow, May 19. An earthquake occurred this morn- Wild rumours concerning, the poll- tical situation here are prevailingng at 0.35 at Lanchow, Capital of following the sudden appearance of Kansu Province. posters all over the City denouncing the Nanking "dictatorship."
The local currency has been greatly affected and has further depreciated resulting in the Hongkong currency goining a premium of almost sixty
against in Nanking are mortgaging the silver.
factors hoard is also one of the that responsible for the slump of the believe tents for every dollar Financial circles Canton's paper currency. rumours that the Chinese authorities 'bani:notes.-Reuter.
Ag
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Cold Tongue Sausage
Vegetable Salad, French Dressing
Browned Chicken Stew with, Mushrooms
Boiled Potatoes
Iced Sunkist Prunes Tea or Coffee (Iced or Hot))
SALESMAN SAM
YA BEEN ACTIN' AWFUL FOOLISH ABOUT) YEH, I EXERCISIN' TH' HOSSES! WHAT AN EX-SHOULDA
KNOWN ERCISE BOY DOES IS RIDE'EM!
THAT, PINTO!
Twenty-Five Pounds To Go
HOW MUCH
DO YA WEIGH?
140'Los
IN MY STOCKIN' FEET!
TOO MUCH!THEM HOSS ES IS USED TA CARRYIN' 115 LBS. YA'LL HAFTA REDUCE. SOME BEFORE
RIDIN' 'EMI
HUH?
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By Small
WHO'S S'POSED TA (PUFF) GIT TH' EXERCISE 'ROUND HERE (PUFF).
ME ER TH HOSSES?