TELEGRAPH. THE HONGKONG
FORMER WIFE TELLS
Germans Fortify Heligoland, Defy Pact: Britain Has No "Examination" Right
DE
FRISIANTS
Spiekoog
Langeoog
Nordineye Borkum.
Heligoland
GERMANY
LAST ROCKET SAVED SHIP
Adelaide, July 15.
THE Lust rocket on board the Liverpool liner Nestor saved | the lives of the crew of the Aus-1 tralian coastal steamer Mungana": when the latter's engines failed during a terrific storm.
The Nestor arrived in the outer: harbor at Addarde to-day with: This was the Mungann in low. the story the crews fold!:
The engines of the Mangana | stepped suddenly while she was driving through a stormi 200 miles: south af Port Adelaide, fortei
repair them, but were made to without aneerust and the ship wn) that! reef towards A blown threatened to rip the bottom on of her unless help came.
LONG-RANGE ROCKETS The Nestor came up, but found i that she could not appronch genter.
The Mungana one mile to than owing to shonis in this area, and the fact she is a much bigger)
Th ર. 14.629 tons. vessel Mungana's tonnage is 1,350 tons.
With the necessity of getting
a towline to the Mungan as
as possible to save her!
suon
4
Baltic Sea
REPORTS that Ger-
Konigsberg
EAST PRUSSIA
POLAND
many is refortify-NEW U.S.
ing North Sea island of
Heligoland, in spite of
Eden,
Versailles Treaty were
Mr. put to Foreign Secretary, in the Commons recently.
He promised: "1 am mak- ing inquiries,"
L
"Hay we the right," M.P. asked, "to examine and ix whether this And out
true ?**
"I don't think 20,” said Mr. Eden.
writes:
M
in
Berlin Correspondent Fortiflentions on eight Gar man islands are rapidly bring completed.
Frick-
talands
NORTH SEA. -OF lanul, islands Borkum, Nor- dineye. Langeoog, and Sple-
fortified; koog are Schleswig-Holstein. Sylt, List and Wyk.
BALTIC. - Fortifications Hide- have been built on ner, Seelin, Wiek, Bog and Ruositta,
Each island has been turn- ed into a seaplane base, with Ammunition storehouses, an- derground hangars, and wil equipment for building war- craft.
live inde- CHIL Garrisons finitely underground.
from the reef, the Nestor started. DIED AFTER
firing rockets from the distance
of nearly a
one fell short,
mile. One after
another rocket went up, and ench
SLIMMING
fired several more rockets from! Last month, two days after her
TYPE OF
WARSHIP
ADVANCE ON BRITISH VESSELS
JULY THURSDAY,
23, 1936.
OF ESCAPE FROM "SNAKE KILLER
MELOD
Still Kind of
Love
Him"
Los Angeles, July 15. [ELODRAMA. exceeding in horor the fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe, marks the trial which opened here yesterday of Robert S. James, a former barber,who is charged with drowning his fifth wife after he had failed to kill her with spiders and rattle-snakes."
The Public Prosecutor, Mr. Buron Pitts, has secured ns, one of his chief witnesses Vera Vermillion, of New York, the second wife of James, whom she married at the age of 15 and divorced.
Vern, a blonde of faded appearance, testifies that her former husband used to bring to their home "toads and black widow* spiders" which he would spend hours in watching. "I STILL LOVE HIM"
"I thought it very strange at the time," she says, "but I did not realise how lucky I was to escape with my life until I heard of the 'black widow' spiders and rattlesnakes with which Bob is alleged to have tortured his fifth wife."
ZL
Though rejoicing in this enenpe,] Vera declares: "I still kind of love Rob, curious as this may appear to you."
With James in the dock is in chief The U.S.S. Erie. at present accuser, Charles Hope, a sailor, who was Hope who revealed to the undergoing trials at the Brooks charged with being his accomplice. lyn Navy Yard, is the latest police that he had gathered a collec- type of vessel designed for the ton of rattlesnakes and deadly spiders
for use by atness. protection of trade routes.
sister ship is wing LEG IN BOX OF SNAKES The Erh completol at Charleston-is knoyen in the American Navy nsn "gunboat, but she is the counterpart of the "consos aloop" which are built for the British Navy. She however, far more powerful than the British vesels.
+1
1,
Hope declared in his confession
Priceless Regalia For Coronation
London, July 20. £5,000,000 wouldn't buy
that James, after finding that the bite the regalia which will be
of the spiders had appreciablo
Westminster She effect, phioned his unfortunate are used when King Edward is of rattlesnakes, by which she won Abbey, May 12, 1937. and thrust her naked leg into a box crowned in severely bitten.
jatu
The Convoy Sloop" came being when it became clivious that the limitations of naval treaties did not allow of sufficient verels in the cruiser and destroyer categories for the protection of trade. The London Naval Treaty of 1830 allowed any 2,000 tons to be number of ships of
carried no tor built provided ey pedo tubes, no guns of over 6.1 inch calibre, and did not have a speed in excess of 20 kot.
It was not until the spring of 1934 that Great Britain avated herself of this "free entegory" by laying down the first "convoy si sop."
It was confidently expected that the this ship would be built up to limit of the "fred entegory" as to make it as powerful as possible for the task of convoy protection.
UNARMOURED
The been ordered.
of 20 knots.
It is impossible to estimate
When this second ordeal failed to bring about her death he told Hope its actual value, but the age and that he had drowned her in a fish-historic value of the different crowns, jewels, and articles. pond wear his home.
ls :1
James describes the story told by makes them almost priceless.
Among those parts of the regalia his former friend as "delirions."
Mr. Pitts is bending all his efforts which will be used if the cofonation
the Ampulla. This to defeating any plen of insanity., Hu there is intends to press for a sentence of unediaeval term for the vessel or death against James, whom he de gold, in the form of an eagle, which It "Bend of monstrous
stores the oll for the anointing. weighs about ien ounces, and is plets as
about nine inches in height. Part cruelty.
of It is older than 1660.
Then there
IL
James's first wife divorced him, his third was found dead in a bath-tub, and his fourth obtained an annulment after living with him for a day.
BEARDLESS YEOMEN OF
THE GUARD ·
is the
ints
Spoon which the oil is poured. It is of silver gilt, the handie' set with four pearls. It is believed to date from the 13th century.
BALL OF GOLD
The Orb is a ball of guld, about six inches in diameter, with a gold band set with a number of various Jewels. The cross on its top. Is set on a large jewel.
case
But when the Enchantress came inte service she was fitted for four guns of only 4.7-inch ealibre. Her tonnage was 1,190 tons-little more
The Ring usually called "The than half that allowed. Her speed
Wedding Ring of England," is of London, July-12: and a Mansfield-narmoured. A further ship of this thirty-five, of Meanwhile, the Mungana was MISS WINIFRED FROST, aged was 18 knots, and she was completely
surface upun which la engraved a As a result of an order issued pure gold, with a jewel having a nat
the
new ring is made for euch cross... A perilously near the reef and those
third has
Erie class have been by the King. Yeomen of aboard her could hear the ominous rond, South Croydon, worried he was laid down last year, sounds as her bottom scraped the cause she was too plump. She
will the reign last. That happened shoals on the edge of the reef. took a course of slimming pills, designed right up to the limit of the Guard, who have hitherto been sovereign. An old tradition is that "free category." They have a ton-compelled to wear beards, can the closer the ring fits, the longer
lu come true in the
of Queen nage of 2,000 and a speed The Nestor changed position and tried light-lacing.
The Yeomen of the King's Victoria, for it was squeezed on 50 They carry four 6-inch guna and two how shave if they wish.
They hav another angle. Once again they return from a holiday at Bourne-3-inch anti-air-eraft guns,
Croydon an armoured belt protecting their Bodyguard, formed by Henry tight that it could only be removed fell short, and the time came when mouth, she entered the
scouting pur- the King last week.
It was and she reigned longer than the Nestor had only a rocket office where she was employed and engine and boiler rooms, and they VII in 1485, were reviewed by, by putting the finger into leed water, other European sovereign, 3 years. collapsed.
feet in length, When one considers the limits of after the inspection that His There are two sceptres. The Royal A few hours later she was dead.
and divided into three parts, of plain stated to A relative is
the "free category" as laid down in Majesty gave his permission for Sceptre is about three the 1930 Treaty, one realises that the beards to be removed. United States has taken these limits
Apparently this decision has been gold, studded with jewels, notably part of the Cullinan diatnond in the as the specification for her new welcomed by the majority of them.
One man said that he understood top part, surmounted with a cross These ships have been the subject the order for yeomen to wear beards sel on a large jewel, of considerabit controversy among came into force on the accession of American naval officers. There are King Edward VII in 1901.
The older yeomen will regard the many who maintale that it would
left.
carry # poses.
have
that
to
The captain of the Nestor then ordered
with line lifebuoy, 11 ttached, to be thrown overboard said: in the hope that the currents
"Winifred hated to think would drift
toward the
she was fatter than other women. Mangana.
When this falled a raft was I know that she tried hard built, and this was thrown over-make herself slimmer. board
with
ling 24
L
attached.
"She had an unfortunate love Again wind and tide drew it away affair some years ago, but I think
she had forgotten all about it."
from the Mungana.
The Nestor's boats had been prepared to go to the rescue of the?
crew of the Mungana if necessary. ADVERTISED CHEQUE
One of them was despatched with
a tow-line attached, only to be driven back by the wind and the
waves.
MATE RESCUED
GIFTS
seaplane for
"gunboats,"
itz
no way
any
Is
STUDDED WITH JEWELS
the Dovu The Sceptre with
It is studded with jewels, the have been better in expedite the change with some regret. In addi- rather longer than the Royal Scep- building of cruisers. This attitude tion lu being the oldest bodyguard, tre. is understandable, and
and the eldest armed corps in the Dove being moulded in white enamel, detracts from the usefulness of ships world, the Yeomen of the Guard held and set on an orb of gold.
The so-called Staff of St. Edward of this type,
the distinction of being the only
sceptre, but a long is not really a rod, with an urb and cross on the top, without any jewels. It is mere ly carried in procession.
Two
crowns are used. The one called St. Edward's is that with which
ich the
sovereigns are crowned. It is of gold and set with countless
It must be remembered that the bearded corps in the service of the United States is not preoccupied with King trade defence as is the British Em- pire, and also that, at the time these ships were luld down, America hund not laid down sufficient cruisers to of his sil-bring her right up to the Treaty ver wedding, Mr. Isador Abrn-limits in this enligory,
business man,
London, July 15.'
In commemoration
Moreover, the United States
SOLDIERS AND FASCISM
mounted by a
A mate of the Nestor tripped hums, & London
re-nut victimisul na was the British COUNSEL'S OPINION TO Jewels. On its top is an orb aur- aver a line and fell overboard dur-published an advertisement ing this operation. Seaman cently offering to send a cheque Empire by the 1930 Treaty with re- all gard to the replacement of over-are Pearson went in after him and for £5 to the secretaries of rescued him.
London and Belfast Hospitals on craiser tonnage.
and ad-
At last the captain of the Nestor receipt of their names ordered the last rocket to be fired. dresses.
As there are some 300 hospitals
cross, and Inside is a cap af velvet. The Imperial State also used 00 crown is the crown state occasions. Among the jewels is a ruby, which it is believed be longed to the Black Prince, and a in a ring of Edward the Confessor, sapphire, which, probably, was sel
BE SOUGHT The British Union of Fascists stated recently that Sir Oswald ROYAL AIDES-DE-CAMP Mosley had sent the following
letter to a firm of solicitors:- The King has appointed as per- "I think it is worth taking an in whose tomb it was found.
aides-de-camp his, three opinion on the subject whether mem- brothers the Duke of York, the bers of the active military forces of the Grown may become members of
It reached the Mungana, the line] attached to it was seized and the
in London, it can be realised that low-line drawn on board,'
After that the Nestor took the Mr. Abrahams is being kept very sonal Mungana in tow with compara-busy signing cheques. tively little difcuity.
STONE OF SCONE
Ulie King Edward's Chale and Ten hospitals from Belfast have Duke of Gloucester and the Duke political parties. We have hitherto Stone of Stone figure prominen
followed the rule that they may not in the coronation ceremony, but are The Nestor is owned by the replied to his advertisement. Mr. of Kent-and Prince Arthur of
and the Earl of Harewood,
Dermits it, see no strong reason why often called SL Edward's, is of oak, Ocean S.S. Co., Ltd., and is regis Abrahams was married at the Connaught, the Earl of Athlone be members, but if the law clearly not a part of the regalta. The clinir, and was made in 1300, by order of we should continue the practice." tered at Liverpool.-United Press. Belfast Synagogue.
the The matter, it is stated, arose from Edward 1 at a cost of one hundred
was first used as 11 suggestion by the Socialist M.P., Mr, shillings. It
been Pritt, .c.; in a recent case, that "lots! Coronation Chair for Edward II., The Chair of officers and men do belong to poll-February 25, 1300, and has tical parties"-a suggestion apparently used ever since us such.
is scored with hundreds of initials accepted by the Court.
DRINK
WATSON'S
$1.00
per! Battle
LEMON BARLEY WATER
GOOD FOR YOU. GOOD FOR YOUR FAMILY.
Sir Oswald stated in Court that and names of tourists. It rests on membership had been denied to men four carved Hons at its feet, and In the Forces because his organisa-was, it is thought, originally gilded, parts with gloss tion "had to be careful not to expose and covered in Itself to any charges of interfering mosale. with the Forces of the Cro
Crown."
The use of the Stone of Scone at It is now considered that there in coronations goes back to the Anglo- no reason why the Fascist movement Saxon days, when every English king, should be the only political movement from Edward the Elder to Ethelred, which refuses membership to mem-was crowned on a alone at Kingston- bers of the Forces provided that the on-Thames which still stands in the Union have counsel's opinion that it is market place of that town on the
Surrey bank-United Pre perfectly legal for them to join.
GREAT SUMMER
SALE
NOW ON
FRESH STOCKS ALL AT RUTHLESS PRICES. YOUR GAIN===OUR LOSS: CALL AND SEE WHAT WE CAN OFFER
PRICES LOW==QUALITY HIGH
CHECK EACH ITEM AND COMPARE FOR YOURSELF
The SHUI HING Coy.
GENERAL PROVIDERS. 187-193, Des Voeux Road, Central.
FOR HER MAGNIFICENT PERFORMANCE in 'DANGEROUS' BETTE DAVIS CAINED THE ACADEMY
PICTURE OF MOTION ARTS AND SCIENCES' FIRST AWARD
FOR THE BEST ACTING OF THE YEAR
Men!
Wives!
Girls!
Look out for this woman! She's
You took me in out of pity...that hurt my pride. I wanted to hurt yours. I teased you with all the tawdry
tricks I knew until
you tried to kiss me, just so I could" laugh in your face."
"Loving Joyce Heath is likeshaking hands with the devil the worst kind of luck! I'm bad
for people...the kind of woman who de- stroys-not builds!"
"You'll find I'm the woman men always come back to, andeach time_they_return__it_ costs them'more and more, until they've spent their career, their ambi-
tion, their hopes!"
DANGEROUS
...A bolt of drama that'll blow the fuses!
BETTE DAVIS
AS THE KIND OF A GIRL' THAT MEN REGRETİ
camed for the first time with
BRANCH OT
TONE
MARGARET LINDSAY ALISON SKIPWORTH
A Warner Bros. Picture
QUEEN'S-TO-MORROW
Page 15Page 16