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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1936.
Germans May Duel
Again: 'Choose Your Weapons'
Berlin, July 20. DUELLING with pistols, sabres, rapiers, cavalry swords will be legally permitted in Germany--if a new version of the German criminal code, already printed by the Ministry of Justice, is passed when it comes up before the Cabinet in about a month's time.
The duelling will have to be carried out under strict regula-
tions and with minute formali WHY THE DOGS DIED ties. Either party who breaks the regulations will be publicly ostracised.
New York, July 15. *
The town of Marshfield, Wiscon sin, until recently employed a muni- leipal dog-entcher to deal with stray dogs. Then they decided to offer
The regulations under consider tion are similar to eighteenth cen tury duelling rules, At the out-
n court of to any one bringing a dog or break of a quarrel.
its skin to the police office. honour will be set up to determine; whether a reconciliation can effected.
he
The whole population of 9,000 people
became 'unofficial +lar- The court will listen to the ver-catchers, and there are now practi- sion of the quarrel from both men.cally, no dogs in the town.--Renter, investigate whether the Jusult was Bellvered in cold blood or only in
momentary anger. whether either! mrts may have been drank.
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Are! the court decides there
the for a duel, sufficient grounds.
Bull
oflended party clionses his weapons, ¡
parties ཐཱ་སཾཝཱt༣, u!at Their www secrands, and tire, vouet derides the time and place.
If the court decides there were not Belent grounds for duetling, any private fighting between the inen will be regarded as legal, and will be met with imprisonment.
flies Army officers, according to tulations, must duel with muzzle- boading pistols, Members YEL EM7H
other bodies mity chouse any of the recognised weapons.
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SUSPECT
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Ernest Dehagen, wanted in. New York in connection with the pur- ported $11,000 extortion lot against Alfred E. Smith Jr., sun of the former governor of New York, was arrested as he stepped into a postoffice in Los Angeles.
SECRET CONVENT
CONFISCATED BY
MEXICAN ARMY
† mont
They were black sach-cloth Puebla, Mexico, July 21.
robes, and slept on boards, witinut SECRET
convent mattress,
-The Mother Superior's bathroom attached to an apart- 1 a wooden stove to heat water
Since 1933 members of the Black ment house here has been only been allowed but morally com-discovered and confiscated belled to fuel it a court of honour by the government. deculed there were sufficient grounds.
Broken Spine, But Builds King's Drome
In this city, known as one of the most religious in Mexico, the Convent of Santa Monica was established two centuries ago. It apparently disappeared during the church-and-state strife, but the nuns for long continued their devotion to the Sacred Heart. shut off from the outside world.
and behind the box is a small hote
beside the stern was a box for wood,
int the chapel. through which one may still crowi
Behind the allur
The chapel Is long and dark. Over each chair is a crown of thorns to be worn by the nuns during the Holy Week ceremonials, is a secret passage-way, Tending to a place arranged high up in a church next door, sa fixed that the nurs might attend mass, looking into the church through small holes, without being seen. From the chapel, through
hole and a long step-indder, the place of meditation, dark, with its crucifix, skull and bonus, and lastru- ments for self-torture.
Propped up in bed suffering!
There are a dining-room, kitchen. Loicoster from a broken spine, a man supervises a big contractor's Recently there was an intense drive
until recently without anybody in business with the aid of a tele-in Puebla for strict enforcement of lovely patios-all of which fumettoned the Law of the Nationalization of the outside world knowing about it. phone.
He is Mr. Ernest Bradshaw, of Properly, which provides that All the food és bight, presumably
firm euitice used for extra-tegal wership A Bradshaw Brothers, the
be confiscated by the Federal which is to improve and extend may the King's private aerodrome at Government. Smith's Lawn. Windsor Great Detectives made severni visits to an faken into the apartment, Thast looking apartment house; Who died were buried in the cata- it insle and out, but left combs down below.United Press. As Prince of Wales the King made searched frequent use of the landing ground with the conviction that truly it was when he visited Windsor and returned not the entrance to the convent. by air to his home at Fort Belvedere.
Park.
BLOWN-UP-AND-BURNED.
Inno
and
Later, one of them returned to one of-the-buck,accend-stores apartments carefully search the dining It was quite large enough for the
He saw a push-button small types of machines which the King formerly used. He now wishes watt, near a shelf where plates were
kept. He pressed it, and a
FooD.
donr
to have the ground made inte an acre i ned. Down some steps he found drome suitable for all types of pasthe run of the Mother Superior of senger planes.
Me. Bradshaw was woundhu Tour Santa Monica.
To-day, the event is a museum--
tines in the war. At Vimy Ridge hei o new that it is not listed in my of
was reseted with a broken spine.
Despite his crippled condition he has carried on the firm's business, and for several years has specialised in the laying out of sports grounds and aerodromes.
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the aide-books, but necernitur anybody Tor a fee of 20 ecatavos.
The content when found led 68 cloistered nuns, devoted to a life of meditation. prayer and self-punish-
This Paradise
Be
HERE JOHN.
MILTON: DREAMED
Lost
May
purchase of an adjoining field for
a building, estate.
Standing, on the outskirts of the village, the cottage faces not on 10 the road, but on to a sloping grassy Aeld of some three and a half acres. This, the trustees of the cottage have | Hearned, is likely to come to the
market in the near future.
They have secured the first refusal
of $1,200.
£1,200 WANTED TO it, but must raise a purchase price
SAVE VIEW
Chalfont St. Giles (Bucks...), )
July 21.
THE charm and peace of the elm-sheltered cottage at Chal- font St. Giles in which Milton completed "Paradise Lost" and began "Paradise Regained" are in danger of being spoilt by the
HE NEVER SAW IT The cottage still looks much as it inust have dono.in Milton's time, when he hurried down from plague-stricken Lun lon in 1865. He never saw its beauty, as
as tio was already blind when he went to live in Chalfont.
Parchased in 1887; to mark Queen Victoria's Jubilee, the cottage managed by ten trustees, two repro- sonting the National Trust and Christ's College, Cambridge.
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**If the field can be kept as an open space the beauty of the cottage is cer tain of preservation," a representative Kald yesterday; of the trustees
Unborn Baby Offered "The vlow, or other sides. Is well
For Sale
Vienna, July 15. In one of Vienna's leading daily papers the following advertise mont appears:
"Couple without children may take as their own my unborn baby, the child-to-bo of sober, healthy parents. Price 5,000
chillings.":
guarded by trees.
"A NATIONAL MATTER" "There is no possibility of local bodies being ablo to raise the funda necessary for the purchase.
the
for the families in the apartinent house, then smuggled through secret entrance. Sick nuns
were
MYRNA LOY TO MARRY
PRODUCER
Myrna Loy, star of "The Thin Man" and many other films. has married Arthur Hornblow, producer, Only a few friends of the bride nn,“ groom were in- vited to the ceremony, which was at Myrna Loy's new Holly- wood home.
It is possible that Miss Loy will seek release from her Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer contract, and join her husband's coni- pany, Paramount.
"As we have no other income ex- cept that from our sixpenny admis- sion fees, and from the sale of post- cards and pamphlets, we are appeal. BRITAIN PAYS · £290,000 ing for the help of the general: public"
Many residents are deeply concern- Led by the threat to Milton's home.
*Wo will do all we can to prevent
St. John's (Nowfoundland),
July 20. The Newfoundland Budget has Five thousand schillings is the fickl becoming a building estate, been balanced by 'n grant of £290,000 from the British Govern- about £200. So far no offers have) ono said, but we feel that this is n been received.-Router.
national, not merely a local, mattor."ment.--Roafer,
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