THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH: SATURDAY,
APRIL
1938.
60, But He Wasn't Platonic, Says Girl
In Yorkshire Breach Case
CHINA'S SILVER SAFE IN LONDON
San Francisco.
China's entire hoard of silver Currency und silver metal re- serves, with the exception of $50,000,000 which fell into the hands of the Japanese; has been removed from the country, the! Institute of Pacific Relations re-i ports.
WILE lust It
The $50,000,000 which was in the Tientsin-Peiping area. was in Mexican dollars and its actual value in American currency was less than $20,000,000.
The entire armount
the
which Chinese government was able to get out of the way of danger was $300,- 000,000 in Mexican dollar value or about $00,000,000 in American cur-
to value,
according
rency institute's information,
the
The silver first was concentrated at Shanghal, then removed to Ilong- kong and finally shipped to London for safe keeping.
With the anal disappearance of China's entire silver metal reserve which was built up in more than a century, China will be definitely! eliminated from the block of silver standard countries, says the institute.
The Mexican dollar has since bren the basis of Chinese currency although what western writers have called China's silver currency was really only a highly developed form of
AUSTRALIAN ENTERTAINERS AT GLOUCESTER HOTEL
BILLY HEÁTON and the Ritz Sisters, clever Australian entertain-
ers who are delighting patrons at the Gloucester Hotel.
Rescuers
Drew Lots To
Save Polar Scientists
barter where certified places of raw ARCTIC EPIC ENDED IN SALUTES-
silver, not even of uniform weight or shape, were traded for other com- modliles.
DOLLAR RECOGNITION NOT OLD
Official recognition was granted the. silver dollar in China only comparo- tively recently. When the American administration began purchases. agreements
concluded were
with Mexico and China.
AND A BATH
Months of loneliness and weeks of peril have ended for the four Soviet scientists who had been marooned near the North Pole..
EX-COUNCILLOR
SUED, TOOK
OUT MAID
A SIXTY-YEARS-OLD ex-member of the Redcar
Town Council-William Powell Nicholls, of Aske- road, Redcar, Yorkshire—was recently at Durham Assizes alleged to have proposed, the day after he was elected, to a 27-years-old school teacher.
He was sued for damages for alleged breach of promise by Miss Eva Willoughby, the teacher, of Queen- street, Redcar, who, it was said had helped him to win his seat on the council,
puying any ax- She stated in evidence that he dark and without told her he had already been in tra,
You did not scream for help for
and come
takc assistant to another breach of promise case, the and that he was going to take another Od?-No. her for a Paris honeymoon. She I gather from you that his con- said he would transfer his scats duct during this courtship, as you in the cinema from 1s. to 1s.term it, was 6d. when it was dark, and with yes, quite. out paying the difference.
propriety itcelf?-Oh
Mr. Justice Wroltesley: Was it what is somelianes called platonic?—
Mr. Clifford Cohen, for Miss Wil-No, I should not say so.
Miss Willoughby said that when loughby, said that she was first in- they went to hotels they sometimes troduced to Mr. Nicholls in some not only occupied different bedrooms, committee rooms in July 1934, when but were on different floors. he was fighting a municipal election. She helped him, and he was elected in the following November. On the day after he asked her to marry him.
HOLIDAYS
Later she accepted him, and he gave her an engagement ring. They met every day, and Mr. Nicholls had supper at her parents' home nearly every night for three years,
"OLD MAN OF 60"
Saying that she had never thought of another engagement, she added, "I have had quite sufficient trouble aver this man."
Mr. Paley Scott: That may be a good reason for not choosing an old gentleman of sixty. Mr. Nicholls told me he was fifty. I did not know
he was 50.
Mr. Nicholls had been the propric- ator of a Redcor weekly paper, and
was
In September 1936 they had holiday in Southport, occupying when the engagement was announced separate rooms, and later they had she told the reporters there д week in London. They arranged nothing to say.
Mr. Paley Scott: Isn't it news in to be married in September ond spend their honeymoon in Paris and Redear-headline, "Councillor So and Switzerland, and then go on a cruise. So engaged to a girl young enough In July 1937 he took her to the to be his daughter"? Isn't that news
and to supper. The nextAlmost.
Mr. Justice Wraitesley: Front note saying that
A brief message, flashed to Moscow, told of their rescue -and Moscow went mad with joy. This gradually depleted China's re-
No stranger rescue story has, He then said: "On the instruc-pictures serves of silver currency and metal
tlons of the Soviet Government, day he sent her until with beginning of Sino-Japan-ever been told than was revealed
the Talmyr and the Murman aro he could not see her and would ex-page, I should think. I await your plain later. No news came, and he at your disposal. ese hostilities, China found it ad- by subsequent messages from
did not reply to n letter she sent orders." visable to get the entire supply of one of the Soviet rescue ships,
Addressed to Comrade Stalin and In August she saw him, and asked netal out of the country.
the ice-breaker Taimyr.
this why his sister had left the house. He the Soviet Government, come
sald that it was because he had message soon afterwards:
The scientists are now taking a brought a maid into the house. He agreed that he had been taking the maid out.
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Both the Taimyr and the Murman, the second rescue ship, approached The Polar camp late in the afternoon. The rescuers drew lots to decide which of the ships should have the honour of bringing the selentists back.
bath."
ed camp.
Later the scientists heard the
Miss Willoughby, giving evidence, voices of their wives and received messages of greeting from the Soviet said that on the day it was gener, Government by radio. The Soviet ally known that they were engaged did not want anything in the The ships had forced their way up to a point about a mile from the camp flag was left waving on the abandon-he
newspapers as he had already been on the tee-floe, Then eight to ten
But with Moscow's joy is mingled in a breach of promise case. men, bearing flags, made their way
Krief, for no mention was made in NO LOVE LETTERS across the ice to the camp.
the bulletins of "Hoppy," the scien- the ML Ostalisev, of
Taimyr, shouted to the
Mr. Justice Wrotlesiey: Have you men with himists' dog.
It was on May 21 last year that got any letters?-There was no need. "Attention!"
Papaula and his three companions There were notes about business sent and "Happy"were landed from a to me, but nothing in the way of plane on an ice-floe 12% to 15 miles letters. from the North Pole.
WARNING
MONSIGNOR CESARE Orsenigo, envoy of Pope Pius to Berlin, who uttered a dramalic warning that mankind rails for peace, at a reception by Chancellor Adolf Ilitter to the diplomatic corpa in Berlin. Hitler replied that peace was Germany's aim.
Decapitated In
French Street
DRIFTING
She said that the reporters went away,
Mr. Paley Scott: They must be a tame lot in Redcar, "SLEEP ON IT”
Mrs.
Elizabeth Willoughby. Miss Willoughby's mother, said that Mr. Nicholls went to her house and asked if he could marry her daugh ler.
"He kissed
who my daughter, asked 'What shall I do, mother? I replied, I should sleep on it." "
When asked if Mr. Nicholls was a friend of the family, Mrs. Willough- about by replied "I don't know that. When he was in the house and the electric light went out he did not put a shilling in. There is not much of a friend of the family about that.
Mrs. Ada Dron, of Redear, staled Mr. Paley Scott, K.C., for Mr. Nicholls: I do not gather that your that she had seen Mr. Nicholls and is broken by what has hap-Miss Willoughby sitting together on very much hurt at a settee in "young love's way," She take Miss Willoughby into
the little party was 750 miles south,
Slowly the ice drifted. In January head? I was
of the Pole.
the time. Then came six days of incessant | Nicholls. cyclones. The lee-lloc cracked.
I was in love with Mr had seen Mr.. Nims and kiss
Did Mr. Nicholls seem to you fair-her, and on several occasions Misc Willoughby said, "Here my hero."
By aeroplane and dog sleigh, ly generous? Yes and no. Soviet rescuers tried in vain to Sometimes, I suppose, you went to reach the men, who were mar- the sixpennies instead of the eigh-turned
teen-pennies?—Yes,
After Mr. Nicholls had been re- to Redcar Council, he re- to marked to her (Mrs. Dron) that the ooned on a ledge 50 yards by 30.
very often and he would president alderman had not shaken But the ice-breaker rescue ships the shilling seats, ploughed doggedly onwards.
transfer to the is. Ed. after it was hands with him, but that he did not mind when he was taking Miss WI- fly home.
SAVED WIFE:
SOLVED
PROBLEM OF SLEEP
WHEN doctors told Mr. David Delancy, British research scientist, that his wife, ill after a major operation, was too weak to be given drugs but would die unless she could sleep, he determined to find a sleeping draught that would save her life.
For forty-eight hours without stop he and his assistant worked in their laboratory.
"We mixed one formula after another, always with the Name heartbreaking result. Then at last we came across one we thought would do," Mr., Delancey told the Sunday Chronicle. [SECRET OF SYNTHETIC SLEEP
"The surgeon was dublous.
He
Bath Cure For told me that the cedative would be
Diphtheria
given to my wife only on my own responsibility. I agreed.
bod's
Paley Scott: Would not any-
body rather take Miss Willoughby. home than shuke hands with the president alderman? Is kissing con- Aned to engaged couples? Yes.
Mr. Justice Wrottesley. What is your view of the kissing?-She
not that kind of a girl. She will not let any man kiss her.
The hearing was adjourned.
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Doctors will tell you that once your temperature falis It's all-important to rebuild your wasted, nerve and muscle tissues.
After the fever has gone, when the stomach is too weak to digest ordinary foods, a nourishing and appetising food drink is most essen- tial and beneficial.
"Mrs.
tho Delancey was given sedative. From behind a screen the A new method has been discovered surgeon, my assistant, and myself some 20 agonising St. Omer. for protecting children against diph watched. For
we waited. Then sho Middle-aged Mnie. Josephine Mory theria which may do away with the minutes
seemed to go into a state of come. stood in court at the Pas-de-Calais pain of injections.
"For hours she slept like a child. Assizes and' heard the judge tell her A type of antitoxin is inhaled as
by being The illness took a turn for the better that her head would be cut oft in fue mist and it acts pubile in the main square of Doual. absorbed from the large surface ex- Her life was saved
determined to go on with the She had just been convicted for the posed in the lungs.
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In Horlicke doctors have found a whom she considered not good enough used, it had to be tested, and seven thing like eight years in perfecting
Ilquid food that not only can be for her son.
volunteers offered to try the method | it." Mme. Mory appeared to be com-themselves.
Mr. Delancey claims that, in his easily digested, but also stimulates pletely unmoved by the terrible sen- Two of them, doctors in charge of
the diphtheria immunisation clinics in aleeping draught he has the secret your jaded appetite and gives your of synthetic sleep-a preparation Exliausted body all the nourishment eight London boroughs, describe the that is not a drug and cannot be fatal In whatever quantity It Is taken. ensures a natural eight hours' sleep.
Experts have tested 16.
tence.
LEGAL HITCH
She was originally condemned to death in October, but because of a legal hitch a retrial was ordered.
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The
SECOND TEST MADE
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It was revealed during the triat minutes in a small sealed room bathed that Mme Mory went to her son's in a fine mist of the antitoxin, keep- thouse of Lambersart, not far from ing a careful watch on each other a dose, the experiment was success
Doual, and shortly afterwoods nelgh-for danger symptoms. All seemed ful. Tests showed that the nimount bours heard shouts for help.
wall and the dose was repeated in a of diphtheria antitoxin in the blood When police broke into the house fortnight.
had much increased—in one case, by they found the
This Uma five brenme::ill, - with over a thousand times. daugliter-in-law)
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