THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
· DECEMBER
9.
WOMAN SAYS "PARNELL RADIO
WAS MY FATHER...
AND
MONEY
MY NOW HAS GONE"
"He Was Kind To Us But We Were Afraid"
(By A Special Correspondent)
A woman who claims to be the last child of Charles Stewart Parnell, the famous Irish politician, and Katic O'Shea is living almost penniless with her husband in a shabby London house,
She is Mrs. Katharine Moule, aged 52, who keeps a boarding-house in Mornington-crescent, Camden Town,
N.W.
In a blenk bedroom at the top of
the house, which the lets for 129, d.
A week when she ean, she told me нег вогу.
"I was born on November 27, 1084." she said, "to Kate O'Shea and Charles Stewart Partell. I am the third ond last of their children.
- "Claude Sophie, their first, was born, and died, in 1682, and Clare, who died 20 years ago, was born in 1883, so I am the last of their children and the nearest relative to Farnell living to-day.
"Cinude Sophie is the only baby of Parnell my mother mentions in her book of his life, and none of us mentioned in reference books.
LIKE HER MOTHER
Poker Club
Run By Lawyer
Lost £9,000 From a basement coal delivery
"I was born at my mother's house entrance of Bankruptcy Build-
at Eltham, Kent. My inther wasinge, Carey-Street, W.C., recent- particularly fond of me because I was
bald-headed little
the baby most like my mother and ly bobbed a
had her grey eyes. Clare nad Sophile solicitor as his creditors left by had brown eyes and were like hlm.
"I clearly remember leaving Eltham after my mother's Aunt 'Ben'
ordinary exits.
The solicitor, bankrupt William
died in 1888. We went to live at Fielder Johnson, had just attended Walsingham-terrace, Brighton, and his adjourned public examination felt very important when we heard people whispering, That is Parnell's by Mr. S. W. Hood, Official Receiver, before bewigged Mr. Registrar Kenn. Public benches of the court were erammed with creditors.
house.
"My first memory of my father was seeing him seated at his writing desk in the dining-room. He looked so gravé and rather terrifying with his dark beard and pale, sad face. He was al- ways very kind to us, but thought him rather serious. always seemed worried and en- Ille grossed, and we were
afraid of him
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As a token of friendliness with Italy, the King of Yernen, whore territory lies across the Red Sea from thiopia, sent three white horses as a gift to Premer Mussolini. Hers one of the valuable Arab steeds is led from a ralirood van, in Rome. Horsts were also sent to King Vlelor Emmanuel.
PATIENTS WON'T LET
US KEEP THEM ALIVE
-SAYS A DOCOR
A London County Council hospital doctor telephoned a London newspaper the other day. "There has been a lot of criticism of doctors recently," he said. "Why not The Official Receiver asked: "You give your readers the doctor's point of view? began to use clients' money, and
A a result of
WO He
used more
and
further losses you of clients' more
money?"
·
"He had a telescope and used to study the stars. He said in the stars lived the spirits of people dead. I
"Yes," replied debtor Johnson.
"And the amount due to those clients now is £131,8007"—"Xes," was the answer again. Jolinson admitted
his abilities
also clearly-remember-n-pestle-and were £179,042 5.10d., and assets mortar he had which used to fascinate £13,455 8s. 4d., with a deficiency of me. He used it for chemical experi- £165,500 17 Gd. ments.
For more than an hour the ques- thal continued, revealing "When I was seven I could read tloning quite well, and when he was the Johnson, while practising us u solici liked me to read aloud to him. Itor, ran a bridge, poker, and social rend, of all things, "The Last Days of cavo, and boarding houses, financed Pompell."
THE WEDDING
"But he and my mother were de- liriously happy in 1991 when her divorce from Capt. O'Shea was finally through and they were married at Steyning Register Office. I was only seven, but 1 can remember that day, June 25, very clearly.
"The horror and sadness of the house when Parnell died in my mother's arms the same year they were married, I shall never for- rct.
companies to bund an turship, carry on sports club, build a ship for trading on the River Congo.
On his poker and social club debtor Johnson estimated his loss
at £9,000,-
Oficial Receiver: "You knew you were Insolvent In 1929 ar 1930. Since then, you incurred debts amounting to £6,165 for goods and work one. Have you any explana- tion?"
Johnson: "No, except that I was
"I saw Parnell for the last time trying to make good."
"Tell them how public funds are wasted, how deserving cases are kept out of hospital beds, how the blood of donors is wasted because the poor-law doctor may do nothing to interfere with the liberty of the patient."
A reporter went to see him. This is what the -doctor-said:
Twenty-five per cent. of the beds in poor-law hospitals would be vacant, or free for fresh cases, if poor-law doctors could occasionally be high-handed with their patients.
Pints of human blood would never be taken from Red Cross donors. And we could reduce cases of tuber- culosis to sporadic outbreaks.
hospital, one of the largest and best- Let me give examples from my own
run in London. The same thing is happening all over the country.
Last week a woman was admitted with severe Bright's disease. I recog- alsed her at once as a patient who had discharged herself from hospital aix months previously against my advice.
FOUR YEARS TO LIVE
She had then been suffering from condition which occurs in 4 per cent. and personal expenses were £2,500 a of expectant mothers, and is easily year. Why did you push up your cured by short hospital treatment. expenses by £800 in the last twelve months?” “I was not living any
when we children were being shep- "You say your average household herded up to the nursery. 1. curlous, peeped through the door, of his room and saw his pale, racked fact on the pillow.
"My mother always called him differently. My garden was bigger."
'Mister." He called her "Katle,"
"I lived with my mother until 1907
"Were you supporting another
when I married Major Louts Horsford household?"—"I had a small house D'Oyly Moule. In 1910 he had to at Littlehampton." Heave for West Africa, where he was appointed district commissioner.
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"Were you supporting some one other than your relatives?"--"No." The examination was concluded,
Oil Drills Sunk 2 Milos
I told that woman I could cure her if she would stay in hospital for two weeks. She refused 10 stay more than two days.
She is only 22, and has one child. She had a normal expectancy of life.
Now she cannot live more than four {years. And for a large part of that Ume the will occupy hospital bed,
I have a man patient with a gastric ulcer. He Arst came to hospital several months ago.
We gave him a blood trans- fusion and told him we could cure his condition in two months if he would stay for treatment.
In 1021 my mother died and members of the ̧O'Shea family, with whom I was never
very popular, look my silence callousness, I was numb with mhappines. She was wonderful to her children. No one could have had a better mother. "She left me £2,000, and with it
Tulas, Okin. bought this house. My husband com- Ollarld operating equipment has muted his pension
sum of come a long way since the first well nearly £1,000, and we lived quite was drilled at Titusville, Pa., in 1859. comfortably on our capital for years. The first well was only 50 feet deep. Since then he has returned to us "Now, of course, the money bos To-day giant rotary drills are man-three times, each time seriously ill, gone. I realise we were silly now. ufactured which are capable of drill and each time requiring a blood it is dimeult to make ends meet runing two miles into any kind of rock transfusion. ́hing ́a ̈boarding-house like this," formation.
into
This Dog Earned £70
A Second In. Race.
“A dog which was bought for £2,000, Ballyhennessy Sandhills, recently won for his owner, Mrs. Cearns, of Wimbledon, £2,000 in 28.39820.
He won this sum-biggest- prize "over offered for a greyhound race-in the Whi's Cĺty 500yds, event.
For every yard he ran he earned £4, or £70 a second.
He refused, and walked out of hospital.
Д
We cannot refuse him human blood, or he would die. But each Ume he taking a pint of blood from healthy man, when, with a little co- operation from him, no more trans- fusions would be necessary.
Such cares ore occurring daily in every department of our hospital, and in every other poor law hospital.
A pallent comes to us with active Huberculosis-lle agrees-to-become-an-
in-patient.
After partial treatment he thinks he |la, well ogain and Insists on leaving | hospital.
A MENACE
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Tuberculosis wil never stamped out of the country unill doctors are given authority to de- tain patients admitted to hospital. Fathers and mothers allowed to while return to their families they sre still suffering from nctive forms of the disease are a menace to every child with whom they come in contact.
We
cannot secure
1937.
BROADCAST
Doreen Ma at the Piano From the Studio CHILDREN'S CONCERT
Radio Programme Broadcast from Z.B.W. on Wavelengths of 355 metres (045 k.c's.) 31,40 metres (9.52 m.c's).
H.K.T.
12-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Servico from St. John's Cathedral.
12.30 Lesil Hutchinson (Vocal and Piano).
I
Would You7 (Alm 'San Francisco'); Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Fingers (lm 'It's Love Again"); Empty Saddics (Alm 'Rhy- thm On The Range').
12.40 Boy Fox and His Orchestra. Fox-Trots The Touch. Of Your Lips; Gono (Blm 'Love On The Run'); When Is A Kisa Not A Kiss (fim Champagne Wallz'); Cowboy; It's Gol To Be Love (from 'On Your Toes'); What Will I Tell My Heart; On The Trail Where The Sun liangs Low.
1 Time, and Weather.
1.03 Jack Hylton and His Orches- tra
Fox-Trots-Lord And Lady Whoo- zis: When You Gotta Sing You Gotta Sing (Alm 'Gangway'); Waltz-Have You Forgotten So Soon; Fox-Trol- Did You Mean I; Orchestra-Sweet Sue (Young); Fox-Trots-Gangway; Moon Or No Moon (film 'Gangway'); Waliz Medley-Walizes From Vienna (arr. Koragok, Bittner, Clutsam and Grimths).
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements.
1.40 Chopip Compositions: Nocturne In F Major, Op. 15, No. 1; Nocturne In B Major, Op. 9, No. 3 Rubinstein (Piano); Arthur Mazurka, Op. 33, No. 4; Mozurka, Op. 24, No. 4....Ignaz Friedman (Piano).
1.56 The Band Of H. M. Cold- stream Guards,
Martha-Selection (Flotow); Par- nde Of The Puppels (Kuhn); The Changing Of The Guard (Flotsam and Jetsam): Sousa Medley (Souza).
2.15 Close Down.
B.05-11 Chinese Programme.
5 Relay of the Danen Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel.
During the intervals dance records will be played from Z.B.W.
Stadio Children's Concert, 0.45 Paul Robeson (Bass). Go Down.
Plantation Songs.
Moses (Burleigh);
8.56 Musical Comedy.
"The Love Race-Selection
(Clarke); Charlot's Masquerade' Selection....New Mayfair Orchestra; 'Careless Rapture (Novello-Has- sali); Love Made The Song....Sybil Crawley and Eric Starling (Vocal Duet): Music In May....Dorothy Dickson (Soprano).
7.10 Variety.
Humorous-Building A Chicken House (Evans)....Will Evans; Or- chestra-Tell Me Again (Grosz).. Alfredo and His Orchestra: Vocal- Granny's Old Arm-Chair; Little Brown Jug....Frank Crumit (Ten- or); Orchestra Basin Street Blues (Williams); E Flat Blues (Morris-- Williams)....Nat Goncila and His Georgians.
7.25 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions and Hongkong Exchange Mar- ket Report.
Helay-Sportsmen
7.30 London
Talking.
Harold Abrahams on the Empire Games of 1938.
7.45 Studio-Doreen Ma at the Plano.
Medley from Wake Up and Live': Intro: There's a Lull in my Lite; It's swell of you; Never in a Million Years; Wake Up and Live; 2. Truckin'; 3. Stardust; 4. for Two.
Tca
B Time, Weather and Announce- ments,
0.05 Chinese Programme-Studio Concert.
11 Close Down.
8.05-11 p.m. European Programme Broadcast from Z.E.K. On a Fro- quency of 640 Kilocycles.
8.05 Variety.
General hospitals can bring pres- Orchestral London Rhapsody- sure to bear on difficult patients, Vocal Selection; Vocalists.....The But under the present poor-law London Palladium Orchestra; Vocal legislation
the-Deep Desert; My Way (Dim Jeri- cho)....Paul Robeson (Bass): Rose necessary co-operation.
Of England ('Crest of the Wave').. Edgar Elmes (Baritone); Haven Of Your Heart ('Crest of the Wave').... Olive Gilbert (Contralto); 'Cello Czardas (Adolphe Fischer); Papilion (David Popper)....Rudolf Dietz-
Dying Horse
Falls On Girl
8.30 London Relay-At The Black Dog.'
Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar-parlour. Presented by Pascoe Thornton.
Songs by Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano).
A dying horse fell at a meet of the South Down Hunt at Ditch- ling, Sussex, recently, and in jured it rider, Miss Auriol Powell Edwards, daughter of Brahma Op. 105, No. 2); Lullaby, Col. M. J. Powell Edwards, of Plumpton.
Be praised, thou peaceful night Ever ("The Vagabond Ziehrer); softer grows my slumber (Lingg-
Op. 49, No. 4 (Brahms). 9.30 London Relay Thought.!
Food For
The horse died soon afterwards.
Three short talks on matters of Col. Powell Edwards was among topical interest. the first to reach his daughter's
9.39 London Belar-The New alde. She was taken to a Brigh- 9.50 Yehudi Menuhin (Violin) and ton nursing home.
Beniamino Glatt (Tenor),
Hungarian Dance No. 7 In A Major Op.
Col. Powell Edwards said: "When -the horse-fell It rolled over my doughter, and she was uncons- clous for a short period,
"She is suffering from slight con- cussion and will probably be de- tained in the nursing home for a day or two.";
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Death Ends Dilemma
Budapest. Peter Pordan, 31-year-old brick- layer, hanged himself because be could not decide which of two beauil- ful girls ho would marry, Five We offer to send hira to a convales- Umes he arranged a marlagu, cero- cont home, free of cost to himself, mony with each in turn, only to lose Instead, he returns, to his home to courage and cancel the weddings at infect his family.
the last moment.
(Brasato) Capateado,
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Yehudi Menuhin accomp. by Marcel Gazelle
My Mother Only Knew (Nutilor (Camalt Curch): Nigh! In Venice You Are My Life (from, the film. Becce)....Gigli; Hungarian Dance No. 6 In B Flat Major (Brahms- Joachim): Romanza Andaluza, Op. 22
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