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Rat-Shooting
MOURNING.
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MACHINE-GUN ON HIS HIPI
A CHIP ON HIS SHOULDER!
Laugh at his bragging
Thrill to his doods
as he risks his life for o lad who believed him!
Victor
McLAGLEN
Freddie
BARTHOLOMEW
in
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SOLDIER
with
GLORIA STUART
Constance Collier
Michael Whalon C. Hanry Gordon
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Associate Producer Raymond Gr
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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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"TROUBLE IN PARADISE"
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At 2:30, 5.20,
| 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
EDDIE CANTOR Strike Me Pink
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CLYDE BEATTY
in
· Clarence Bedlington-Kabond's Saturday Evening Post
story "Dronload"
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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