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MOURNING.

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MACHINE-GUN ON HIS HIPI

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Laugh at his bragging

Thrill to his doods

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Victor

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Freddie

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Constance Collier

Michael Whalon C. Hanry Gordon

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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,

SUMMER EVENTS

London, June 1.

Court mourning ins altered

considerably Uxual summer

season revealed to-day.

The Royal Garden Party, generally held in July on the Thursday before Goodwood, has been cancelled.

Two afternoon recepitons are to be held July 21 and 22 in

JUNE 2 .1936.

Journalist To Interview Il Duce

MUSSOLINI WRITES HIM Ä

PERSONAL LETTER

1

Mr. Cecil Forster Walsh, the charge, and $25, in default three events, a programme for the European journalist who was weeks: rigorous Imprisonment, on the "I thought the big rals in Bugls arrested while he was shooting second charge. rats from a ricksha in Bugis Street were a good thing to shoot," Street, Singapore, has aniled for was the only excuse he offered the Italy to have an audience and court,

The magistrate baked Mr. Walsh interview with Signor Mussolini, whether he had enough money to pay. He replied that he had some in hand the new master of Abyssinia.

Mr. Walsh, who has been writ- and was expecting more from Eng- ing articles for English and South Innd.

He paid the $25 fine in court, and

stead

of the usual courts,~ United Press.

Midshipmen

And Cadets

and Japan,

African newspapers during a tour settled the $100 fine within the re- lof Malaya, China wrote to Mussolint from Singaporequired period of one week.

LUCKY JOURNALIST Insking for the interview on behalf

of South African newspapers. Mr. In view of the busy time which Walsh told Mussolini that South Mussolini has and the busier time Afrien was very anxious to know ahead of him, Mr. Walsh is consider- All about Italy's policy and future ed a fucky journalist to have been a special interview by Mua granted Intentions In Africa.

Mr. G. Ward Price, of the Dally pathy to Italy in the war with Abys The letter from Mussolint was re-sinia, is one of the few foreign journ- who enter the Naval Service celved by Mr. Walsh at the Metropole alists who has been granted a similar after September. 1 has been Hotel not long after he was fined for favour recently. brought into line with that of other midshipmen and cadels.

CHANGES IN UNIFORM Mussolini replied in courteous sollati.

terms. In the letter, I Duce sald With the sanction of the King, that he would be pleased to explain Mall, which has shown some ayin- the uniform of Paymaster Mid-what Mr. Walsh asked. shipmen and Paymaster Cadets!

the rat-shooting incident.

SHOTS AT 4 A.M.

down

+

----

Want To Buy It has been approved that they. Mr. Watah, who come to Singapore shall wear the round jacket on from Shanghal, got into a ricksha and

Lug An Island? occasions when this garment is the puller took

Street. worn by midshipmen and cadets.! The puller was startled to hear a Paymaster Cadets will therefore loud report Just behind him. With have a buttonhole of white twist, his first shot, Mr. Walsh hit a big with a corresponding button, and grey rat. in the neck. Paymaster Midshipmen, the tradi He red another shot and missed, tional white midshipman's patch The next development was the arrival or "turn back" with notched hole of two Malay pulleemen. of white twist and button on the collars of their round jackets, un dress coats, or "monkey jackets," and white tunics:

They arrested Mr. Walsh as he sat in the ricksha with a smoking re- volver in his hand.

The shooting took place at 4 a.m.

FINED $125

FIVE FOR SALE

IN OUTER HEBRIDES

At an upset price of £4,000, five of the most fascinating Islands in the Outer Hebrides have come into the market: The In addition, they will have a nar

arc Ensay, Lingay, row stripe of white cloth, indicative

Mr. Walsh was charged with hay-Islands

the Larger and of the accountant branch, on the

ing had possession of Arearms with- cuffs of their moukoy Jackets, as well na

round jackets and out a licence and with having dis- Groay, and

One Lesser Saghay. Ensay is the the on

was frearms. He charged oulder strap of the great ruat,

$100, in default two montha' rigorous largest, mensuring approximate- white tunic and white

the possession ly three miles in length and a imprisonment, mess jacket, and will also wear the

mile and a half in width, mid- dirk on the same occasious as shipmen and maynl endets,

Instead of the round jacket,, Pay: master Cadets

wear n jacket similar to the naval mess jacket.. with the white distinctive stripe On Films are to form part of the Their climate is surprisingly mild;

and Paymaster Midship-education of 12-year-old King Peter

sword.

watch coat,

now

the clock ront and a :

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on

WILL TEACH BOY KING BY FILMS

All these islands are altunted be- tween South Harris and North Uist, in the legend-haunted tideway of Harris. known as the Sound

re- the

English and the soil, which is peaty and The wearing of

the white mid-of Jugu-slavia, und an

woman, Miss Margery Lockett, has sandy, is exceedingly fertile. For generations Ensay has

of shipman's patch, which dates from been appointed to select them. about the middle of the eighteenth

Within three weeks she will leave muined the property century, and the dirk, are innovations

burying-ground at Luskentyre, on Car na Junior officers of the ae London for Belgrade, to stay as the Stewarts of Ensay, whose family countant branch are concerned, Boy King's guest, at his palace.

The white patch, however, with the

She will prepare a list of films in the mainland of South Harris, lies in one of the most picturesque and distinctive nurraw purple stripe on consultation with her host's tutor,

All of them will be British pro- secluded parts of all Scotland. the cuff, has been worn for

with commentaries years by Midshipmen (E) under ductions. training as engineer ofleers at the English. King Peter will have no Royal Naval Engineering College at difficulty in following them, as he Keyham.

speaks the language fluently,

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Girl Mourns Lover She Never Saw

BY. BRIAN SEGRUE

in

an

Ensay itself is within a twenty minutes journey by motor-bont from the derelict piers and buildings con Obbe, where to this day may be seen structed by the late Viscount Lever- huime when he transferred his In- terests from Lewis to South Harris, and began to develop Obbe-hitherto in- the increst clachan-inlo lustrious and thriving township.

Immediately below Enany House, whose windows afford one of the loveliest views of the Sound of Harris ind of the vian Hills of Harris be

yond, stretches a fine crescent of sand, from which a stone staircase leads p to the sea-gate, admitting the 'travel- house itself.

A GIRL-whose soldier sweetheart she had never seen but whose ler by sea to the precincts of the

romance had grown by correspondence-ran grief-stricken to tell his father the news of his death.

Miss Ivy Niven, of Luke-street, Shoreditch, E.C., an attrac- tive brunette, aged 21, became acquainted by mail with Alfred Michael Coles, aged 24, who was with the 1st Middlesex Regiment on foreign service,

FOUGHT IN FIVE WARS

father.

Chapel of St. Columba, which was

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JORMAM TALMOXI

ENLISED ARTIITS

"THE LOST JUNGLE"

NAVAL RIVALRY

BRITAIN UNEASY OVER DEADLOCKS

ANCIENT FONT Near at hand stands the ancient restored about twenty years ago, Close to the chapel's entrance may be seen a stone busin of great antiquity They planned to set up a home-probably an ancient baptismal font. A little ivy scrambles over the chapel together and he was actually on wall, and veronica scents the door- his way home with the regiment way. The chapel is referred to by Martin Martin in his inimitable "Des-

TO. when he was found hanged in a criptione" (eiren 1695), wherein men- barrack bathroom at Singapore. tion is made of the discovery of a grave on the west side of Ensay, in AUSTRALIAN

When Miss Niven read of the which were found a pair of brass MORROW

Coles's scales and a small hammer, both of

which were finely polished. NONAGENARIAN DIES-ragedy she hurried to see

The Islands of Grany and Lingay DOCTOR ATTACKED · | William K. Bryant who Ho found that cable had been sent offer fine pasturage. During low tide fought in five wars has just to him at a former address and the the latter can be reached dry-shod ASSAULT ON DR. J. W.

neighbours did not know his new ad-from the shore of North Uist.

The Saghay group, which includes

London, June 1.. died at Ipswich, Queensland, dress. He returned sadly to his

Tientsin, June 1, British naval diplomacy is blocked home in Ashford-streat, Shoreditch, the islet of Quidam, lies between En- say and the shore of South Harris, aged 97.

to tell his wife.

quite close to Obbe. No

Dr. John William Colbert, who was on three fronts. Firstly, it is dead- this group has been inhabiber of for n

acquitted on May 26 of charges of locked in the Anglo-Soviet conversa He was born in Brisbane in

"I WAS WORRIED"

that her considerable number of 1839, says Austral News. At Miss Niven told me

polsoning, was the victim of a that Germany will refuse the Anglo- of e the age of 18, he signed on the sweetheart's last letter seemed very According to Martin, already referred attempted murder of his wife by Lions; secondly, there are indications

mysterious attack in his office last German agreement in the event

collapse of the Anglo-Sevict nego evening. Victory, which was then are happy. "He was looking forward to to, "mice don't live on this Island and they die

According to a report made by Dr. tlons; thirdly, the implied Japanese ceiving ship under Admiral being home for good later this year-thither among the Corne,

Colbert to the American Consulate Intention of retaining 20,000 tons of Wellesley. On the outbreak of and of mesting me for the first time," quickly after."

The sea-ways in and around these the Crimean War, he landed on she said;

Islands are rich in Hebridean legend this morning, an unknown foreigner aubmarines, which under the London British naval circles, pending, the the Peninsula with the naval

"Until last

wrote and tradition. They are the habitat entered his office, where he was work. Treaty should be scrapped by 1937. January wo brigade. He was present when

every three weeks. Then letters of the Clan MacCodrum, the Childrening, at a late hour. The man wore the first fort on the Black Sea stopper. I was worried and wrote of the Senis, and also of the Clan his hat pulled down over his fore- June 4 meeting with the Sovit a handkerchief. contention that the potential Japanes and asked him what was wrong, but Andy of the Widgeons. The natives head, and the lower part of his face delegates, are reviewing the Russing

was covered with a was taken, and he remembered

of these parts still recount the legends

Before Dr. Colbort had time to threat is greater for Russia then fo I got no answer.. of

of the Scal-folk, and of the section of well the bombardment·

"Since then I have been hoping the Clan Anly that dorfelted human interrogate the visitor, the latter the United States or Britain due attempted to knife him through the the closer proximity.depen Sebastopol At the time he was

Meanwhile and hoping for another letter-perform for that of the longtailed lach or

heart. The doctor managed. serving on the Lord Howe,, a

haps it is now in the post and widgoon. three-decker with 120 guns.

In 1855, Mr. Bryant rejoined the Victory, und in 1857 was sent

may tell me what was wrong." Coles also stopped writing to his family in January. All his letters

out on a 62-gun frigate to the home had showed how he was longing

Indian Mutiny., He took part in to see them again.

the

march to relleve Cawnpora

In one of his more recent letters he

and in the capture of Delhi. Ha returned to England only to find wrote: himself, immediately after, sent out to the Chinese War in which he won the V.C. for scaling the walls of an enemy fort and gain ing valuablo Information Subse quently he took part in the Maori

when they chance

to be carried

STARTED OXFORD

BAGS'

DEATH OF NOTED CREEK SCHOLAR "I must economise now, as the time is getting short and I cannot

Originator of "Oxford Bags," Dr. come home with nothing, in my pocket.... So you have a room Thomas Ethelbert Page, the Greek waiting for me, eh, mum? You are scholar, died recently in a nursing home at Godalming, Surrey. He was 180. Other references are to his

He was a well-known "character" Ware and in the American Civil children. "I am longing to see War in which he fought with both children again," he wrote. "I am and, regardless of dress conventions; Federals and Confederates. After-counting the days and even the hours. wore Incredibly baggy trousers of wards he took up land near Phila-As soon as wo Three Musketeers amazing cut for half a century. With delphia, but returned to Queens rasther, father, and son are together them he had a black jacket and and fa 1882.

let the rest go hang if they want to." bowler hat.

ono for doing these nice te

COLBERT

to ward

Lon

off the blow, but an instant after awaiting Washington's response wards was knocked unconscious by a the note of May 0; In vlow of blow from a blunt Instrument, on the Japanese attitude it is bolleved head, and remained senseless for half United States will suggest retent an hour. Meanwhile the assaliant of oxcms submarines and destroys

made his escape-Reuter.

is noteworthy that A United Press report adds that States may invoke the

clause, escalator when the unknown assassin made the Treaty's attack on Dr. Colbert he said: "You

allowing American matically you!" bloody American! 1'll kili

Japanese bontage Increases pr Although he was not seriously injured tionato, to those, permitted to Br #for

---United Prox Dr.. Colbert romained unconscious telephoned to the Police and returned several minutes, after which ho home without assistance. Dr. Colbert office at 0.30 p.m. when was examining his accounts in his entered.

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