THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1986.
BRITON'S BODY HELD UP AT
"Sanctions"
Against Export
4 From Italy
Rome, May 18.
Mr. Alfred Wyatt, a Bri- tish citizen, died at Menaggio (Lake Como).
His family decided that his body should be sent to Britain for burial. The coffin was despatched. It! passed through Switzerland) and reached the French
AVIATION BUILDING DEDICATED
The newly completed office building of the National Aviation Association in the Civic Centre, K langwan, was dedicated last week by Shanghai high Chinese officials, Seven of the nine persons who formed the presidium of the meeting are shown above. They are (from left to right) Dr. C. T. Wang, Mr. Wang Hsiao-lai, Mayor Wa Te-chen, General Yang Hu, Mr. Yu Ya-ching, Mr. Ling Kong-hou and Tu Yuch-net.
frontier but was stopped by LONDON GIRL 13 Film
the French Customs officials. |
The reason given was that it SUES INDIAN
represented "Italian merchandise;
to be boycotted in conformity
with sanctions,"
The story is fold by the Comol correspondent of the Giornate; d'Italia,
re-
The body has now been turned to Como. It will be sent! to Britain by ship.-United! Press.
ARISTOCRATIC
'BRIDE WEARS SILK AND PEARLS
HUSBAND
Calcutta, May 18.
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Actresses Vow Not To Marry
10 LONDON girl's suit.
A cancel her marriage to an
Indinn opened in the little town of Khulna, Bengal, to-day.
Mrs. Marion Mitter is asking |for a declaration that she has never been, nor is, the lawful wife of Mr. Mitter,
"UNTIL WE BECOME
STARS-OR FAIL"
Hollywood, May 10.
FRONTIER
CRIME MYSTERY LIKE A
NOVEL
But Girl's
Hint May Solve It
New York. May 18.
ETECTIVE HENRY OS-
DWALD, OF THE NERY YORK police, will sail to France to- morrow on a mission involving all the elements of a thrilling in- ternational mystery.
Sixteen months ago securities worth £300,000 were stolen from tive | messenger of n Wall Street bank, and
Airman, Peeping Tom
San Jose, May 12.
Peeping Tom with a new idea is being sought by the police of San Jose, California. Sunbathers who have form-
ed colonies on roof tops and high buildings of the city have been complaining.
Peeping Tom has been awooping so low over the roofs in an airplane that the sunbathers have seen him peering at them through bino- culars.
the police believe this was the work] HISTORIC
of a gang operating in London, Paris, Berlin and Monte Carlo, writen n Daily Telegraph correspondent.
An unknown person telephoned to Detective Osvald advising the police to pursue thede investigations in} Paris Acting on this slender hint,} they soon deaned that some of the stolen bonds were being offered for sale in Park by a group of people who often visited the United States.
PITT HOUSE
TO GO
London, May 1. A young woman who divides her Historic Pitt House, a weather- {time between the Riviera and New ed stone house at Hampsteadi York was named as the person who closely associated with the 13 might help the police, and a wealthy colonies' war of independence, American yachtsman was asked to
by will be torn down soon to make get her to the United States cabling an invitation to her to stay way for a modern structure. with him
When she arrived In New York de-
Pitt House was the home of tectives-met-her-and-discovered that William-Pilt-when he was Prime although she was in no way connect-Minister of England. ed with the robbery she was in a position to give them valuable infor He went insane and shut himself mation.
up in a small room 4399 the third One person who had mentioned the floor-a room that has remained un- stoten securities to her was an Italia touched to this day-and a hole was
of
Her husband, a barrister, appenreaHIRTEEN beautiful young who was found to have been shot cut in the wall through which fourt in hils own riefence and Cross- movie actresses have voweddend only a few weeks earlier in and clothing were passed to him. examined her.
Who killed him or not to marry or become engaged New York street.
When he was a prisoner in the Mrs. Mitter states that
house his ministers revived the stamp through a form of civil marriage or failed.
she went until they have achieved stardom why is still a mystery.
Plecing together scraps of infurma- act and imposed the fea duty which July 8, 1925, At the Marylebone
tion gathered in this manner Delec-led to the Boston tea party and the register office, London, She now
Independence. Historians Hented by Patricia Ellis, whive Oswald was able to inform the war hands, continues her statement, that carries the title of Serjeant-at-Arns.rince of Monace that the thieves had have said that had he been able to her aisband was previously married they have formed a "Spinster Club.
apparently taken refuge in his prin- attend to the affairs of state there in-arcording to Hindu rites to an Indian all of whose members have taken the cality. The Prince in turn learned might have been na rebellion in the
girl anmed Radharani.
from his own police that the fugitives Colonies against the Crown. | had left for Paris, where two of them, Hungerlan and a Czechoslovakian, were taken into custody yesterday.
Calcutta. May 10, ELABORATE ceremonial,
eluding all the ritual of a Hindu caste wedding, attended the marriage at Surah of two monkeys.
The wedding was arranged by t
j
This fact, she states, wan concealed she ind kuown of tt she would never from her before her marringe, and if;
have married her husband-Reuter,
oath to remain unawed,
"It is merely a matter of putting career before marriage," said Mts Ellis, "They don't mix.
"So, to prevent mischance we have organised ourselves. The collective will-power of the group will bolster
[of us"
Sadhu (holy priest), who said that he WHAT'S-IN-A-NAME [he individual determination in each
had been told in a vision that he was
to marry his own pet monkey, Vithal,
to a monkey from one of the sacred temples at Nasik.
THAT P.S.
Jean Muir is vice-president. Other
A beaming young negro couple members are Anita Louise, Margaret appiled to Deputy Clerk Al Rosenthat Lindsay, Rosalind Marquis, Jean Ben- of Newport, for a marriage licence,hett, Linda Perry, Jeanne Madden,, Vithal, said the Sodbu, was a diree: The man volunteered, "My name's Carol Hughes, Marie Wilson, Beverly descendant of Hanuman, the monkey-Leo Brown."
Roberts, June Travis and Olivia cle Laviland.
god of the Hindus, and the "bride" was also a representative of a very "aristocratic" monkey family.
Thousands lined the streels to seei the marriage procession.
The "bridegroom," wearing rich apparel and diamond rings, was seat-
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AMERICAN A
LANGUAGE
The ancient house, standing on the highest part of lampstead Heath 400 feet above sea level, in owned by the Earl of Clarendon, Governor General of South Africa. A few months ago the Earl din. posed of Kenilworth Castle, other historic landmark.-United Press.
nn.
HIS RUBBER- STAMPED CLOTHES
TO STOP HIS WIFE
EDITOR COMPLETES
TEN YEARS' TASK
"Americanisms," considered Clerk Rosenthal glanced question.
slang in Britain, will be better ingly at the prospective bride. She P.S.-They have not yet decideu understood as a result of the re- FROM PAWNING THEM sighed, and with a flutter of her eye- how to dispose of romances which searches of Sir William Craigie, brows whispered, "True Love."
"Yes, I know it's great to be in the club-Reuter.
were begun before the formation of co-editor of the Oxford English A HUSBAND said at Bow love." said the clerk
County Court last month impatiently.
dictionary, who is shortly to That - what's---your-name?--Come;}
that to stop his wife from pawn- publish-an-American English- ¡rome."
ing his clothes he bought a rub- dictionary.
Interviewed at his home at ber stamp bearing his name, address, and the words. "Not to Ridgehurst, near Watlington, he sold or pledged," and this Oxfordshire, Sir William told a stamp was applied to his linen [reporter:
land other articles that could "I have spent the best part of the
"That's it. suh," replied the girl Two Pictures for
cd in a decorated motorcar. Ha "True Love." "bride," gay with silks and ropes of pearls,, was by his side.
All the many ceremonies connected with a Hindu wedding were per formed by the Sadhi, and after they completed he entertained hundreds of guests at a banquet.
were
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In Cleveland, Ohio, Commun Pleas Judge George W. Kerr. looked at his docket and blinked. There was the divorce case of Cash Vs. Cash. But No Assets or Liabliltles were listed. on the next line: Creditt vs. Creditt.
Queen Mary
London, May 12.
›
Mr. Frank Beresford's painting tast 10 years in Chicage in connection easily be pawned, of the Lying-in-State of King with this dictionary, returning to The husband, Mr. William Scott, of George in Westminster Hall, england only for three months each Greenwood-road, Plaistow, B., answer- And Buffalo, (NY),, reports that Mr. Frank Salisbury's painting of takes in words from
titled "The Prince's Vigil," and year
ingin judgment summons alleging do- "Mr. and Mrs. Vithal" have been two men uumed Frank Xavier Vo the Silver, Jubiler thanksgiving French, Spanish and others, it hus, snid he knew nothing about the debt. "Although the American language fault on an order to pay £1 11d. by the Indian,monthly instalments of six shillings, given a special but to live in, and hath natives of Germany, Med
Petitions for finni citizenship papers service at St. Paul's Cathedral the main, developed from inside, within 6 minutes of each other. They last year, have, it is understood, "The word used by an American He added that he had repeatedly to make them a special grant of food were related ant never heard of each become the property of Queen quite often has a different meaning to forbidden his wife to pledge his cre
other before-Duited Prane,
That of the Englishman. In some dit, and had been to pawnbrokers to cases the Americans "retain the warn them against receiving goods original inconing of a word which husin pledge from her. fallen into disuse in England.
a neighbouring temple has promised
daily.Exchange.
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Jailed Girl Stole
Key, Then Set
He gave his wife £3 10%, a week for housekeeping. There were two chil- dren, and he paid the rent of the house.
Asked if his. idea was
to get
Her Lover Free Haw where a husband can stop
New York, May 10. A jailed girl helped her lover to escape from Springfield Prison, Missouri, to-day.
A former clergyman, Perry Grif fin, aged twenty-four, and the girl, Madge Copeland, aged twenty-three, banditry were in custody on charges.
While the sheriff was out she OF NEW ZEALAND | buttered a hole in the wooden door THE HOME OF THE of her cell, opened the door, got WORLD'S BEST DAIRY into the sheriff's office, and found a
PRODUCE.
key which opened her lover's cell. Then they calmly walked out.
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| publicity over this affair, Mr. Scott Freplied," "Certainly. Surely there is
his wife going on in this manner?".
Judge
Owen Thompson, granted a new trial,
sort
of
K.C.,
CHILDREN OF DEAD BELGIAN QUEEN
LIFE PLANNED BY HER
Brussels, May 6. bring up the three children of the Every effort is being made to lato Queen Astrid of the Belgians xactly in the way their mother had "Intended,
The children are Princess Jose- phine Charlotte, 8, and her two brothers, Prince Baudouïn, G, and Prince Albert, who will be 2 in June.
-Unofficially dent in which Queen Astrid lost
Soon after the motoring ac-
New York, May 5, her life they were moved from Fulton Bond, negro, was the Chateau of Sturyvenberg to brought before a Washington police the Chateau of Laeken, where sorgeant to-day,
rooms had been propaned under "What's your address," asked the the direct orders of the King. sergeant. "United States Capitol, : Princess Josephine goes to the Sennte Wing," he replied.
palace in Brussels every day. "Don't be funny," retorted theifere ehe is taught by a Belgian sergeant,
governess on lines laid down in The policeman who arreated the official scheme for primary Bond came to the rescue. Bond education.
was right. He had been sleeping
Princo Bandouin, holr to the
in senators offices, and stenting throne, will begin his studies next food from the Senate restaurant, year under privāto tutors.
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