THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1937.
First Man
Man to
to See the Lusitania After 21 Years
Diver Meets Shark
The
Shark on
Liner's Deck
Biggest
Salvage
In History
By a Correspondent
Byfleet, Surrey. Mar. 1.
THE only man to see the Cunard liner Lusitania since she was torpedoed in 1915 with the loss of 1,198, lives told me to-day of the preparations for toe biggest salvage task in history.
He is Mr. Jim Jarratt, the "man of iron" diver, who first located the liner, and will be the chief diver in the salvage operations which will begin in the Spring.
"It was a strange experience," he told me, "seeing the Lusitania for the first time, I could not help thinking of the hundreds who died, many of them still imprisoned between her decks.
"While I was standing on the ship a shark circled round me, brushed its noge against my diving suit, then calmly went away. Apparently my all-metal diving suit was not sufficiently appetising.
"In this suit, which weighs 8121b. | and in which I can scarcely move n muscle on the surface, I neemed to be wearing an ordinary bathing suit,“ OCEAN-DED FILM
Table Tennis Is
a sport which has made great pro-
After the finding of the Lusitania! stormy weather prevented further gress in the last work.
n film stur,
Great ten years, interesi in the game
was shoKTE rathe United
When the three-year salyage pro- gramme begins Mr. Jarratt will be- come
Captain John D. Craig, the under-Stales, from where *water photographer, is to make a complete film record of the opera- ilons.
It will show Mr. Jarratt and his three assistant divers break- ing into the purser's room and laying explosive charges für splitting the hull.
Raising the whole vessel to the surface is impracilcable. Her brut will be broken up into small pieces, which will be raised to the surface by powerful magnets, and shipped by lighters to Swansea as valuable rerap
"My first task when I am lowered down will be to drill or blast my way to the purser's room in the vessel, Mr. Jurrall told me. "We hope to recover about £250,000 worth of valuables locked away in the safes," EXCITING MOMENT
Mr. Jarratt, Gft. lin. tuli, wiry and 34 years old, has been a diver for six years.
The most exciting moment of his career was his finding of the liner.
To the captan of the Orphir he gave the dramatic message: "I am standing on the plates of a ship... I can see her two-inch rivets... There is amazingly little sign of corrosion covers her."
Inere
of
under the slime which
For many years the exact position the 31,500-1on liner was a mystery. Cly after a four months' search by the Orphir the salvage vessel; was Mr. Jarratt successful in finding her, 312 feet below the surface of the Atlantle, about 11 miles from Kinsale Head, Ireland.
On May 7, the 22nd anniversary of the tragedy, arrangements are to be made for a broadcast from the wrecked liner.
TOURISTS STRANDED AMONG LIONS
NIGHT IN BIG GAME
PRESERVE
Nelspruits (Transvaal), Mar. 1. Surrounded by thousands of wild animals 130 American tourists from
the. Bner Franconia are stranded for the night in
the Kruger National Park.
They are sitting in their currs on Pretorius, Kop through the night, heavy rains having turned the roads into quagmires.
The river is running strongly, and the tourists, who were due at White River Camp this evening, are not now expected until to-morrow. They are adequately protected against all don- gers from lions and other nulmals.-- Reuter.
this trio made the
long trip across
the ocean in order
to participate in
the British cham- plonships.
300ft. Under the Sea
£2 A Minute Heart-Throbs
Binnie
Barnes
'Phones Love To Ex-Husband
By A Special Correspondent
£2-a-minute heart-throb talks between London and Holly- wood are doing a good deal behind the scènes just none towards reconciling several estranged husbands, wires, and lovers of the film world. “ For instance:
"ANOTHER three minutes" may reunite Miss Binnie Barnes, the British actress, with her husband, Mr. Samuel Joseph,
a London bookseller.
The marriage was dissolved last October, but since then Mr. Joseph has spoken from his offico in Charing Cross-road to her in the Hollywood studio, where she played in "The Private Life of Don Juan."
Playing Cupid In this iltile druma off the screen was a make-up expert. He threw a party in Hollywood and had it “linked-up" z to London by Transatlanile telephone, Miss Barnes, sinong Vie
guests, called for Mr. Joseph in London-sent her love to him.
re-
Said Miss Barnes afterwards, to a Marzol Grahame from Hollywood correspondent: "A reconciliation is called for her estranged husband, likely. We had a long private talk by Franels Lister, from whom she phone last week. We are still united cently admitted contemplating divorce. mentally. The necessity of our liv- Mr. Lister, also, wasn't present at ing apart for our respective careers is the other end. But Margot said:
unly
obstacle to remarriage. "We're still in love. I wanted Stories of my romantic associations much to tell him go." with other people are untrue,"
Said Mr. Josepli:
our
"I may have
con-
more Transatlantic telephone versations with her.. Binnie is right when she says the trouble is our work. I cannot stand in the way of her career, and I cannot give up my own and be just my wife's husband,
But he could not be sure of the out- come of future phone talks. "f's not so easy to fix things up over 6,000 iniles at £0 for three minutes." he said, sailing wryly,
*
These, however, aren't the only heart-throb talks which have bren crackling through the ether.
Merle Oberon from Indon called
recently reported to have broken her engagement. Niven wasn't "getable," but 'phaned later from Hollywood, returning her love message.
Judge Decides Bug Was
A Guest
MR.
SO
for David Niven, from whom she was R. Justice Hawake dis- cussed at Liverpool Assizes recently the question of whether a bug found by a woman in an hotel bed was "resident or non-resident." Miss Ada Bircher, of Denton- drive, Wallasey, Cheshire, claim- ed damages against the Castle Hotel (Bangor), Ltd., alleging that she had suffered from bug
the hotel.
£2,000 Damages
Divorce Suit
In
DAMAGES of £2,000 were awarded to a husband bites while staying a night at
against an old friend of his wife in the Divorce Court in London recently.
The husband, who was granted a decree nisi with costs against the co-respondent, is Mr. Fredarick Scott Maxwell, a commercial traveller, giving an address at an hotel in Montagu Street, W.C.
Announcing judgment with costs for the hotel company, Mr. Justice Hawke said:
to
my
not
"I am inclined to say the beg non-resident. No-one has scon his father or mother and-if He was not an only child—ħla brothers and sisters. He charged his wife, Mrs. had lost his wife and, to some ex- "It has not been proved Florenco Emily Maxwell, with tent, his child,
Batisfaction that the hotel company adultery with Isune Edward Cherfas, Referzing to Mr. Cherfor having was hurbouring a bug. I am
peen a friend of Mrs. Maxwell before saying Miss Bircher brought it there. at a London hotel.
Mrs. Maxwell did not put in on the marriage, the judge observed that I am satisfied that the company took answer; ond Mr. Cherfas, who had not infrequently it was the "old every precaution." defended the sult, did not give friend" of before-marringe who came "BUGS MAY NOT BITE" evidence denying adultery.
In afterwards and did damage such Miss Bircher said that she was Its had been done in that case.
bitten at least 40 limes and was un- He ordered £1,000 of the damages able to do her work as a demon- to be paid into court within 14 days, steator of hats for and the remaining £1,000 within 201 Mr. Justice Hawke: I suppose a days.
bug does not come within the prin- Mr. Justice Buckmill said Mr. Müx- Mr. Maxwell was granted custody ciple of the dog, which is entitled to #well's-home' had been broken up; he of the child.
only one bite..
CEC
De Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell WELC norried at Hammersmith in 1929, and there was one child.
HOME BROKEN UP
month.
Queers Tangle
Of Human Lives
IN THE NAUGHTY 'EIGHTIES
L
ITTLE MORE THAN A STONE'S THROW FROM THE SURGING TRAFFIC OF LONDON'S GREAT SHOP- PING MART OF OXFORD-ST., IN THE ARISTOCRATIC QUIETNESS OF MAN. CHESTER-SQUARE, STANDS A STATE- LY MANSION.
It houses one of the noblest collections of art treasures to be found in this country. Indeed, a collection unique in the world. But more than that
The home of the famous Wallace Collection symbolisce as strange and wayward a mystery of human lives as we may ever find in fiction or in the musty pages of old records.
Why is this wonderful treasury of art coiled the Wallace Collection? Who was this man whose name it so proudly perpetuates? From what stock did he spring? Was it old, noble, illustrious?
SCANDALOUS NOTABILITIES
He WAB Richard Wallace, this strange, enigmatical figure. But to explain his name, to trace his stock, brings us back to figures even more extraordinary than himself.
Churchgoer Speaks Up
And Amazes Minister
Pueblo, Mar. 1.
Dr. Will Gordon, pastor of the Park Hill Baptist church, put ikis question to a male member of his congregation:
"If you could remove the one thing from the world that causer the most radners, what would it be?"
The man "answered, enphail- cally: "Women."
Dr. Gordon concluded the man musi be
bachelor. United Press.
Mr. Bevin
Next Labour
Prime Minister
MR. ERNEST
BEVIN,
burly dockers' K.C. and chairman of the Trades Union Congress, is planning to be dictator of Britain in everything but name.
He is already marked out as the next Prime Minister in 11 Lobour Government.
A few months ago lie was offered a peerage. He spurned, It.
Hitherto he has kept fairly well aloof from Parliamentary politics. He has been content to pull the strings from Transport House.
MAN WITH VISION He will be due to retire under the
from
om his union post age limit secretary of the Transport Workers the next just about the time of General Election.
Ile will then come forward ns. Parliamentary candidate, and his election as leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party assured
AE
He is a big · inan in bulk and vision, and he plans reorganisation on u big scale. The fact that he 40 unlons
has amalgamated over Into the organisation which he now lends is proof of this. He has schemes ready for: 1. Nationalising and amalgamating all the transport of the country road, rail, and water-under one huge State trust.
2. Taking over the Bank of England. 3. Putting all the coal, gas, elec
tricity and oil resources of the country' in the hands of a great publicly owned coal trust. Under his policy all the present owners of properties that he would take over for the State will be properly compensated. There will be no confscailon.
Mr. A. B. Miller (for Miss Bircher): Bugs are not entitled to any bites,
Miss Bircher added that when she saw the manager of the hotel ho sald, "It is a good old Army bug"
Mr. Justice Hawke: An ex-Service
bug.
Mr. Christopher Horrison, the monoger, dertied-in evidence that he said this.
To the great, splendid, scandalous notabilities of London of the Eighteenth century. The Earl of March "Oki Q." and that Lord Hertford who was the prototype of Thackeray's Lord Steyne; queer George Selwyn, who loved better than anything else to watch men being hanged...
"Old Q.," the "Star of Piccadilly," is dead and gone more than century. Yet British horse-racing as we know i to-day owes almost its existence to his efforts.
And the fourth Marquis of Herl- ford,
# bigger take than "Old Q.,” If that were possible, the husband of "Old. Q.'s natural daughter, half- Italian Maria Emily Fagnan, has also long been in his grave.
Yet he made his mark on the cuil- tural life of Britain just as surely ns "Old Q." made his on the annals of the Turf!
My Lord of Hertford, Irish noble- man and cosmopolitan rake, had a passion greater, than women, wine or song-an abiding, devouring love of
art.
He formed in his lifetime a marvel- lous collection of glorious paintings and other artistic treasures. He Пiled his vast mansion of Bagatelle, near Paris, with these, and also his London home.
When he died he left his treasures to. Richard Wallace, whom some thought to be bis half-brother, the natural child of his father's wife- herself in turn "Old Q." illegitimate offspring and others recognised as
own son and that of a Scottish Indy named Agnes
Wallace,
his
This Richard Wallace became Sir Richard; his widow, French-
woman, bequeathed his priceless colication to the British nation.
To-day, you may see it in that stately
mansion mansion
in Manchester-
Are. Connoisseurs and
from
all the cord art lovers corners of the earth to feast their eyes upon it.
Now, a skilled, unravelier of ro mantic mysteries of the past, Bernard Falk, in his latest book, "Old Q's'' Daughter" (Hutchinson,
185.
net), unhesitatingly follows a trail which led him to believe that Sir Richard Wallace was the son, not of "Mie Mie," "Old Q.'s" daughter and George Selwyn's adored ward, but of her son, the fourth Márquis of Hert- ford.
has
Brilliantly, vividly, relentlessly, he reconstructs for us the drama, the Rives and loves, the vices and'virtues, the splendours and the sordidness of all those old, old generations of reck- less men and light women.
PICCADILLY VOLUPTUARY
Reading through his scholarly pages, we see "Old Q." the Pirendlý voluptuary, avid of pleasure even into his old age, with his successions of mistresses, among whom, greatly favoured, were those of Itollan race.
The charming, unscrupulous, beau- tiful Marchese Fagnant came to be entertained by the wicked and ad- miring Earl of March, and some time afterwards departed as gally as she had come, leaving a pale-faced, dark- haired mite of a child as the some- what embarrassing carnest of her love.
This child, who provides Bernard Fall, with the title of his book, was, strangely enough, brought up tender- ly by another rake and man of fashion-lovable George Selwyn.
She made a brilliant marriage, to Lord Yarmouth, Inter to become Lord Hertford, helr to a distin- guished family.
Followed a long and hectic life for each of this couple. Lord Yermouth was no better than he should have been, and "Mie Mie" quite evidently
match. was his
They lived in Paris and pursued a multitude of amours; he was one of the bad companies whom many-nc- cused of leading astray George IV, ihen Prince pl Wales.
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