THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1986.
GREAT CHAUCER Manuscripts Reveal Secret Writing
HISTORY IN ́ STYLUS MÁRKS THAT VANISH
(By LOUIS MORGAN)
SECRET writings completely covering, manuscripts of Chaucer. have, it is claimed, been discovered. They will mean the rewriting of several chapters of English social history'
I talked with Professor John Matthews Manly, 71- year-old head of the Department of English in the University of Chicago, and his colleague, Professor Edith Rickert, of the same department.
They told me that the writing had not beer discovered earlier because it is visible only when the parchment is held at a certain angle, and often il`arems to disappear for days.
Even the finest photostats show no trace of it.
It appears to have been made by using a stylus without Ink and the discovercra refer to ns "dry point writing."
"We showed one of the MSS, to an expert, who, after careful examina- tion, declared there was nothing there," said Mr. Manly.
private
PRIVATE MESSAGES Among the writings are signed messages and comments by owners of the manuscripts such as Ann Cooke, Bacon's mother, and a close relative of Henry VIII.
I saw Mr. Manly and Miss Rickert where
in their "photostat" room, they have collected togsher for the Arst time facsimile toples of the 83 known extant MSS. of Chaucer.
Hitherto these, could be studied only in the world's great braries and museums, and in British country houses such as those of the Duites of Devonshire and Northumberland, the Marquis of Bath and Lord Lecon- field.
These are some of the Andings shortly to be published with evid- ence:
Minister
Indicts Death Merchants
Paris, July 25. The French Government's scheme for the nationalisation of war industries proposes the ex- penditure of at least £13,000,000 in buying up firms exclusively producing war materials.
M. Daladier, Minister of De- fence, told the Army Commis- sion to-day that the Government had no desire to initiate a State monopoly of war industry. Their plan was inspired by moral as well as material necessity.
There had been a world pro- test against the "scandalous profits" made by armaments manufacturers, he continued.
"Armament trusts have been! formed to mako huge proits, in consequence of which national in- terest has been ignored. French guns were sold to countries which afterwards
fired them at French
soldiers. "Thero is something mysterious about armament manufacturing." STRICT
CONTROL
Thomas Chaucer, wealtidest and most important of early fifteenth- i
thrier century. commoners and Speaker of the House, was the; poet's son.
The poet's mother was a par- Neular Agnes Chaucer among the nine known Agnes Chaucers of the
dare.
The port belonged to a wealthy and powerful family of civil ser vants which is now traced back to 1200, when his great great grand- mother, Duire Maly, of Ipswich, lent money to Edward .
He was an "AI" busineKN·MEN, He was educated at the Temple,
at a cost of £1,000 a year lu̟ preseet
The most important discovery in socint history made by the two pro- fessors is that long before the inven tion of printing there was a bly; aml
$200ks profitable trade in
in Chig country.
SMALL ERROR
They have inde a list of the nonies at 1.000 people engaged in it as stationers, scribes, binders, parch- | meul-makers and book-sellera,
'Publication` will be in eight large volumes carly next year. The 2,500,- 000 variant readings will occupy 2,370 pages.
DISCOVERY
JOURNALIST'S WEDDING
Wedding group taken at Mody House, Kowloon, shortly after the marriage of Mr. J. R. Luke, of the South China Morning Post. Ltd.
Journalising staff, to Miks May ("Pat") Coghlan.
Illness Nearly Kills
Joan Crawford
ALL HOLLYWOOD IS TO-DAY DISCUSSING THE
MARVELLOUS RECOVERY JOAN CRAWFORD HAS MADE FROM AN ILLNESS WHICH AT ONE THREATENED TO END HER SCREEN CAREER. It is now possible to disclose the secret behind the strange fact that Joan Crawford, one of the most popular of all film stars, has only appeared in one film during the past 12 months--- whereas she might have been starred in half a dozen successes.
I is estimated that-the rate of error in nating these varlanta was reduced by checking and re-check-TIME ing to one-twentieth of 1 per cent. Both professora ore convinced that many priceless Chaucer manuscripts are lying about in lumber or muni- ment rooms or in old books in un- catalogued libraries.
70 MISSING MSS.
They have found references to 70 or more such MSS. of which not a scrap has yet come to light, and are anxious to stimulate search for them among the owners of old houses.
I was told by Mr. Manly how a hint dropped by a sold
soldier during the tear led in his recent discovery of a new and important fragmen- tary MS. in a book at the rectory of Myrthur Mator, Wales.
"I probably strayed from the nearby castle of St. Donat's," he said. The rest of the M5., he belleves, may still exist in some corner of the castle, which is now owned by the millionaire American newspaper proprietor, W. R. Hearst.
21 YEARS AGO · Extracts From The "Telegraph" Files
The following extracts are from. the the Hougkong Telegraph for week ended August 21, 1915.
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The rate of the dollar on de mand was 18, 9.9/8d.
M. Daladier added that it woull be impossiblo to nationalise all war- in dustries. Many firms have only ano or two branches making armaments.
While those entirely devoted to armaments will be bought up and nationalised the rest, including The Indo-Chinn' Steam Naviga many working for the Air and Naval Forces, will be submitted to tion Co., Ltd., reported a net pro- fit of £29,539, and declared a divi- strict control.
dend of six per cont, on preference shares and of three per cent, on ordinary deferred shares,
The Government will take a share in their capital and administration.
The nationalisation of armaments Spoclai Arms will be submitted to Committee which will be prisided over by a Judge of the Appeal Court.
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Jerusalem, Aug. 13. The 708th case of subotage
on Palestine railways since the present disturbancse began occurred to-day derailed, when another train was fortunately without casualties.
"Not long ago her doctors warned her that unless she re- laxed she would have a break- down-which-might-even-have
fatal results.
"You are very near a nerrouk collapse." the doctors told her, "a collapse from which you may never "recover."
But the girl who rose from a walt- ress to be an International film stori would not give in.,
That was why, instead of limiting her work, she returned to the studies and increased it. In quick succession she made "Chained." Forsaking All Others," and "No Mora Ladies.""
But her husband, Franchot Tone, persuaded her to limit her screen engagements and so, it may be, saved
her from death,
Flying Pupil
Falls To Death!
Singapore, Aug. 1. THE airplane tiropped 1000ft., I shouted out of control. to my pupil in the rear cockpit to get it under control. There was no reply."
This story of how he discovered an air tragedy-in-which a 35-year-old Bournemouth mou, Mr. J. Living- stone-Miller, lost his life during a fly- ing lesson was told at an inquest at Seremban, Negri Sembilan, Malaya, by Mr. R. G. H. Wilshaw, u Kunla Lumpur Flying Club pilot.
Mr. Wilalaw said that after he noticed that. Mr. Livingstone-Miller was not in the rear cockpit of the Royal Air Force planes bombed airplane he saw an object falling into armed bands which attacked troops the Mambau River, 2,000ft, below, cast of Nablus. It is believed there He flow to the landing field, and Government's Now Deal for Labour Ambulance Brigade opened a fund were. Arab casunities, all from direct found that the safety-belt in the cock- the Finance Minister, M. Vincent for men wounded in the Great hits registered by the planes-pit was unfastened. Auriol, to-night appealed over the War.
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At the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. Tlu Choi, aged 19, milk cooole, was charged with the larceny of a bicycle, the property of Pang Pak-kwal, on August 7, and alter- not guilty. Another milk coolle, Lau natively with receiving. He pleaded Ping, aged 28, was charged with torceny of a bicycle belonging to Li Ning on April 20 last, and he also denied the charge.
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WEEK'S TRAFFIC ·
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In the Colony of Hongkong, in Mr. Arthur Newark, Instructor of cluding the island, Kowloon and the Kuala Lumpur Flying Club, Bald New Territorios during the week end- when the toolt Mr. Livingstone-Miller ing at 8 a.m. on Saturday, August 8, on his first fight he had given him there were altogether 47 traffic ac full Instructions about the use of the clients, as the result of which one the safety-bult.
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A careless young cyclist, Yeung Moon-wan, 21-year-old cook-boy, was brought before Mr. E. Himeworth at The fall into the river fractured Mr. Of the persons injured, 19 were M. Pirro Cot, Minister of Air, will The offices of the French consulate the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. Livingstone-Miller's skull,
pedestrians who were either walking" be saked in the Chamber on what will be closed to the general public Acting Sub-Insp. Brittain said that The Coroner, Mr. M. J. Hayward, or running, across the rond and were grounds he authorised the secret plans on Saturday, August 15, being the on Thursday Yeung was riding along returned a verdict of Accidental struck by vehicles. Two bus pas of a new aeroplana gun to be reveal Feast of the Assumption of Our Nathan Road and when near Peking Donth,
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