THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1937.
Duke of Windsor Repudiates Noted Author Solicitors Deny He Inspired Compton Mackenzie Autobiography
RASPUTIN FILM LIBEL CLAIM
SETTLED OUT OF COURT
-
Prince's Name in Film AROUND
by Accident
Settlement of a libel action brought by Prince and Princess Chegodieff against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pic- tures, Limited, was announced in the Lord Chief Justice's Court recently.
Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., said the case had been settled on terms satisfactory to all parties. The action
THE EMPIRE
INDIA'S POLITICAL
PRISONERS
Calcutta. Mr. Gandhi's three weeks' stay in. turned to his home at Wardhin, Central Provinces. He broke hisi
was one for damages for libel arising out of the publica-Calcutta has ended, and he has re tion of the film "Rasputin, the Mad Monk.”
The film purported to portray events in Russia in 1913 and during the war years, and particularly the life and assassination of Rasputin..
"HIGHEST CIRCLES"
Prince Chegodieff, continued Mr. Birkett, was of very ancient family, and in 1913 moved in the highest Imperial Court circles. He was the only prince of that name who held Court dignity, having also been Vice- Governor of Erivan and Luvin.
Princess Chegodieff was the 'daughter of General George Bobrikoff and niece of General Nicholas Bobri- koff, the Governor-General of Finland. She, too, moved in the highest Imperial Court circles.
66 New Drug Is In Vogue
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Nembutal, described by a pol- sons experi into fashion," was the subject of questions at an
Inquest at Camberwell, S.E.. rently.
1 was the resumed inquiry into the death of Miss Irene Popps, aged 27, who died at her fodgings in Offey-
road, Brixton, as her gramophone played "Gloomy Sunday.' famous Hungarian love song, sald to be the cause of 19 suleides,
Dr. J. A. Gardner, lecturer In toxicology at St. George's Hospital. said the woman must have taken
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considerable quantity of nembutal,
which was the cause of death. PRESCRIPTION ONLY
journey at Hill to visit the detention camp for political prisoners, says a
correspondent.
Throughout his stay here Mr. Gandhi, at daily meetings with hard for the release of political de- Ministers and police officials, pressed tenus and convicts. I understand decided on a line of action which may be the subject of a communique to-
that the Government of Bengal has
morrow.
The polley adopted is likely to be a general release of several hundred persons,
whose movements ore restricted to the villages in which)
they are dumielled. There will be n speeding-up of the release of others, Including convicts who, the Govern The Prince at Princess complain-ment believe, have explated their ed that the flim depicted the char-crimes and have sincerely reformed. acter named Prince Paul Chegodieff}
Convicts of the "gunman" class, as one of the parties concerned in the with bad records, before and since murder of Rasputin, and that theletion will, I understand, not be
released prematurely.
woman whom the Prince Paul of the film was depicted as having married might be identified with Princess Chegorieft,
The relationship shown between Rasputin and that woman in the film constituted the gravest tibel upon;
the Princess.
"GRAVE IMPUTATIONS"
mitter as most serious and it was
She and the Prince regarded the Imparative that their names should be freed from the very grave impu- tations in the film.
That result had been achieved by the cu-operation of the defendants both the Prince and the Princess had who had satisfied themselves that
Just cause for complaint.
The compuny had behaved with complete propriety in their desire to vindiente the Prince and Princess They had obtained from America evidence that the name Chegodief in the film was used Inadvertently-a} fact which the plaintiffs accepted.
Read Synopsis And Changed His Mind
DUKE EXPLAINS. BAN
The Duke of Windsor's solicitors have denied that he had inspired or authorised the biography which Mr. Compton Mackenzie, fifty-four-year-old Scots novelist and historian, proposes to write.
SCARRED BY WAR, appeared in the Press, it seems de-
REDEDICATED
India Boy Scouts' Association, which Boy Scouts' Decision-The All- has hitherto been affiliated to Imperial Headquarters, is to become an inde THE BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL pendent national organisation. A-OF SOISSONS, in the North of plention is in be made for affiliation France, which to the International Bureau.
was seriously dam-
aged during the Great War twenty By Air to Singapore.-Imperial after thorough repairs. The phalo- years ago, was recently re-dedicated Airways Empire flying-boat Cordelia graph was taken during the has left Calcutta for Chittagong, monies. night, wileh started at Karachi, is Bengal, en route for Singapore. The i
a prelude to the
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regular passenger and mail services
establishment between England and Singapore. South Africa
NATIVE RIOTS
Johanesburg.
In view of the widespread attempts to connect the September riots in the Vereeniging district, on the borders Free State, with Communist agita- of the Transvan and the Orange tion, special interest attaches to the finding of the Government Com-
mission of Inquiry.
cere-
LEPER ISLE "A CHARM"
Penang-
(From A Correspondent) "This drug has been rather coming
"What a delightful_plaçe!" into fashion in recent years, I have
The Commission says that "Activit- In these words Mrs. Mary South- heard it suggested_that_in_cases_of_; Mr. Sylvester Gates. for the com-les-of-Communist-agencies-played notern, aged 50, ot-Blackpool, summed trouble of a certain type of person pany, expressed their sincere regret part in cnusing the disturbances."
up to me the lonely leper island in they might take nembulul as a nice, that they should have used, however easy way of getting out of this unintentionally, a name sufficiently the riots, in which three palicemen has come to keep her son company It is stated that the main causes of the Straits Settlements to which she world."
similar to that of the Prince The coroner, Mir. A. Douglas Cow-Princess to cause them pain and were killed, were resentment of the ecause his attractive young wife
natives at the use of a police patrol refused to join him, Van and anger at the rough methods of the police. The
of sambok-a leather whipls plored.
burn: We don't want to encourage | suffering. that. This type of drug is so much in you think it ought vogue now.
Don't
to be taken only with the prescrip- tion of a medical practitioner? Yes.
Recording an open verdict, Mr. Cowburn sald: "This is a sud story of a woman who had for some time taken considerably more alcohol | than was good for her health, and she was to some extent or other a drug addict."
REFERENCE DESTROYED
Before the production of the film, precautions were laken to ensure that no living persona should be intro-i duced into the Alm.
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use
Mrs. Southern's son, who super- the intends about 1,000 kepers, offered de-is wife, Mrs. Rona Southern, of Glastonbury-avenue, Marton, Black- The "Communist menace" figures] pool, a luxurious bungalow, servants, largely in the Nationalist party cam-la car, and a motor-launch if she paign. Members of the Dutch Re-would come out, but she said she They desired to assure the plain- formed Church ure warning The was afraid to do so. tiffs that no reflection was ever in-country of the seriousness of Com tended upon either of them, or upon munist activity among the natives. "BEAUTIFUL VISTAS“ the name they bure.
Indians in Kenya.A mass meet- Mrs. Southern sen. sald: "I came Ing of
of Indians at Nairobi, Kenya, his out determined to keep a brave front passed a
a resolution opposing the land however awful the conditions. I am reservation scheme adopted by the agreeably surprised to find the leper. Legislature in August. The scheme island totally different to what I recommends the defining of the imagined it would be. boundaries of the Kenya highlands within which land will be reserved for White settlement.
Radio Used In Test
To Discover Real
Cure for Cancer
Short wireless waves have opened up મ new and hopeful line of cancer research.
It has been found, experimentally, | A certain food chemical has been that one application of four minutes, found to set up similar cancer, and setting up a temperature of about 50 It is suggested that the prevalence in degrees centigrade, his produced Java may be due to the highly-spiced cures in animals.
food consumed there.
The work has been done ut the
A new million-volt X-ray appara- Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, under Dr. Frank Dickens, and is re-tus is now being used at St. Bartho-; vealed in the annual report of the lomew's Hospital to treat cancer. British Empire Cancer Campaign.
The wave-length, used was be- tween
three and four and a half metres, and the effect was produced by the heat destroying the tumours.
It is the possibilities of heat-t temperatures not exceeding that of high fever-ng distinct from radium or X-ray, which is exciting the enn cer experts,
At Mount Vernon Hospital, North- wood, Middlesex, a 400,000 volt generator has been erected to study the effets of a bombardment of can- cer iuinours with neutrons, the atomic particles discovered only a few years ago but which have been found to have destruelive action and to set up blood changes, similar to those of X-rays and radium roys.
STUDYING RAIN
|
New Zealand
WHEAT SHORTAGE IN NEW ZEALAND
Auckland, Owing to drought, a serious whent shortage is anticipated in the next harvest. In South Island the area in crop is 188,000 acres, compared with 224,000 teres in 1930.
The wheat committer is arranging tor heavy import from Australia, Jamaica
BANANA WORKERS'
WAGES
Kingston.
The small local strikes of labourers on banana plantations which have een taking place in one or two dis- tricts have been settled. The men have been demanding higher wages. The Jamaica sugar planters recent- ly announced Increased rates
of
This healing is of a very special character, for it can be localised within very narrow limits and con-
The effect of rainfall on certain wages for harvesting the erop owing trolled with an accuracy which was forms of cancer is the subject of a to the increased cost of living. quite impossible before the applica- statistical study by Dr Percy Stocks,
tion of the newer methods resulting of the General Register Onice, Lon-|Austraila
from modern wireless technique," don.
sald Lord Horder, referring, at the
annual general meeting of the Bri- tish Empire Cancer Campaign, at the House of Lords, yesterday, lo new wireless waves research.
DIET EFFECT
Certain diets a
the
as a chuso for cancer
are being examined.
Cancer of the liver, rare among Europeans, is common among the Bastu.tribos in South Afrlen and in Java and certain parts of India.
Io shows that where the annual rainfall exceeds 30
inches the
mortality from cancer in several
of the internal organs is below tling of cancer of the skin, but that
·
RICHARD TAUBER'S
TOUR
Sydney. where the rainfall is below that tenor, will appear on the Australian Richard Tauber, the well-known figure the positión iş reversed.
concert platform next year. He will Mortality from cancer of the skin give the fest of a series of 25 con-
in almost twice as high in Lancashire certs early in July.
as in London. London has half as Ins tour will be under the direction many deaths again from organic and of the Australian Broadcasting Com- lung cancerz
mission.-Reuter,
"The climate and the Įvista on every hand are
Indeed."
beautiful change
They Issued the followingg:- "In view of statements which have
sirable to make It. cleor without de- Jay that the Duke of Windsor has nd Intention of approving the con- tents of any biography, nor is his Rosal Bbness prepared to supply Information for such a biography."
IN THE BALANCE Publication of the biography, which Mr. Mackenzie claimed would videate the Duke,
been arranged by Rich and Cowan, Ltd.
It is understood that the suggestion for the biography was first made by Mr. Mackenzie to the Duke. Corres- pondence pássed, and a meeting in Paris was suggested, but came to nothing.
Commander Charles Rleb, man- aging director, said:
A decision will be reached only after we have consulted Mr. Macken- zie. Careful consideration will be given to the Duke of Windsor's obvious wish."
Lord Strobelgi, a director of Rich and Cowan, Ltd., said:—
This announcement came ns 4 complete
surprise to mc. Mr. Mackenzie had been in touch with the Duke's representatives."
Mr. Compton Muckenzie's literary atenta
pointed out that he had made quite clear that he would not have access to off
official and private documents.
COULD NOT ASSIST The Duke of Windsor's solicitors of have issued this explanation his attitude regarding the publication of the biography by Mr. Compton Mackenzie, recently announced by Messrs. Rich and Cowan
"It is fair to Mr. Mackenzie and Messrs. Rich and Cowan to say that Mr. Mackenzie approached the Duke and was given to understand that his Royal Highness would welcome u book to be written by Mr. Mackenzie. "But after full consideration of the
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synopsis supplied to him, and of what would necessarily Involve, His Royal Highness at the end of October last wrote to inform Mr. Mackenzie that he could not supply information for it.
the
"The recent announcement in the Press
made it necessary for His Royal Highness to come to a final decision
of Immediately, in the terms statement already issued.'
This declared that the Duke had no Intention of approving the contents of formation for such a biography, my blography or of supplying in- followed
The solicitors' statement one issued by the publishers earlier in the day in the following terms:-
"We entered into an arrangement with Mr. Compton Mackenzie in July 1937 to publish a biography of His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor, which Mr. Compton Mackenzie was about to write with the Duke's approval.
"Correspondence was passing t that time between his Royal High- ness and Mr. Compton Mackenzie which showed clearly that the latter hud asked for and obtained nuthority to write on authentic account of the Duke's life, more particularly of the events leading up to the abdication. and to publish it after it had been submitted for approval to His Royal. Highness.
"So for from disapproval being ex- pressed, it was not until the begin- ning of November that any Indication was given that a change of mind was possible."
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