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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST
YEARS OF SELF-DENIAL ARE ENDED HIS DEBT IS
Not Rich Now, But
THIS
He's Happy
is the story of one man's honesty and integrity
of his endless toil and ceaseless saving
of
his stiff-lipped self-denial that at last, after 38 years, ia ended.
Through lack of experience, a
slim young man, Mr. F. J. Proc-|
tor, failed in his Winchester VILLAGE IS
grocery and butcher business 38 years ago.
Deeply humiliated, he #ilest his petition in bankruptcy, just under
C200 being involved,
Thot £200 seemed like £2,000,040 | to young Mc. Proctor. His one am- bition in life became lo repay every penny of his debis.
Now at 05, he has Judged with the Official Receiver enough money to settle his debla in full,
with the statutory interest of four per cent.
To do this, Mr. Proctor has gone without nearly all the pleasures be would normally have enjoyed.
were
Cinemas, theatres-all cut. It ja over twenty угата since he gave himself a holiday. Clothes have been made to last twice as long as they should. Penny tram rides have been avoided Juxuries,
COULD NOT SLEEP Every week Mr. Proctor put a little sum aside towards paying off his debt. Every week be and his wife calculated trow much Inorg was needed,
For many years after his failure he could not get to sleep at night.
"I wanted to be able to any I didn't owe any man a single penny," Mr. Proctor, now a grey-haired be-spec Incled coal merchant in Stough, told a reporter.
"I was young and inexperienced in those days, and circumstances were against me.
"The interest which has accu- mulated is farger than the num I falled for.
"I am not a rich mun now by any means; my wife and I can't cven afford a car.
be able to
"But this year we'll treat ourselves to our first holidny for more than 20 years.
SEARCH FOR HEIRS "Paying the creditors in full, plus the interest, clears me entirely, There is no question of applying for a discharge."
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Now the Official Receiver Southampton has the job of finding where the creditors of 38 years ago are living.
Some are dead, but their heirs are to be paid instead.
CEMETERY OF 80,000 ROME WARRIORS IS FOUND
Ilome, July.
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The cemetery of 80,000 ancient warriors killed during the battle of Cannne, in which Rome's perennlet enemy Carthage routed eight Roman legions, has been discovered Italian Archaeologists.
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The necropolis, found after ceaseless search of more than ten years, is not far from the site where the ancient port of Cannae used to
be.
EXCITED BY
MIRACLE REPORT
Chavakacheri. a village In the it wild excllement by a story that north of Ceylon, has been plunged Krishna, one
of the Hindu panth- eun, has appeared to worshippers in a temple there in the guise of a king colara.
White son people were worship- plug in the temple, so goes the story, a snake crawled in, entered the in- ner sanctum and colled itself up at the foot of a statue of the god Krish-
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The congregation was armed and there was a stampede for the door when an "inexpressibly-swret" voles bad them remain. The snake hinf
now transformed itself into a band-
one young man who fold the war- i shippers that he and the snake were one and that they were incarnations of Lord Krishna. He added that Ms devotees only punished sinners.
seed not fear him as ht
likeness of a make after exhorting) The man then trok on its former the people lo make pooja (religious offerings) to Krishna,
Scepties who visited the terapie i Hay that there is a well-fed cobra there, which is apretatly protected by
the priests.
BIRTH UNDER HYPNOTIC SPELL
PAID
UFS
1938.
British Royal Princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret Boas recently wore their uniforms for the first time as members of Buckingham Paloce troop of Girl Guides. They are shown at Windsor Castle re viewing other Guides. Left to right: Princess Mury. Countess of Harewood; the Princesses; Queen Elizabeth; King George and Queen Mother Mary.
GUARDS DISCIPLINE TO
BE TIGHTENED
Troopers' Case Questions in House
STRONG measures are expected to be adopted to tighten up discipline at the Royal Horse Guards barracks in Whitehall following the conviction of three troopers at the Old Bailey recently for an offence against a young girl.
It is anticipated that questions will be asked in the House of Commons arising out of disclosures made at the trial that some of the troopers of the King's Guard stand in the yard of the bar- racks while, off duty and freely converse with girls.
One question will probably be: How is it possible for a young girl to be smuggled into the barracks--actually into the sleeping quarters without the knowledge of superior officers?
Victor Lloyd Pullin, aged 29,| Passing sentence on Thomas and
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her to a condition af misery and despair in which
would have? thought every Englishman, and evr-| ininly every English soldier, would have been anxious to help and pro- tect her.
It was only because of the men's! good characters and because they were young that the sentence WDS nut more severe.
Pullin jrz the witness-box had denied the charge against him.
The girl, who is under 15 years of age, had twlec gone into the witness- box to describe what happened when] she was left alone with Pullin in the stables at Whitehall, and when she was with Reeves and Thomas in the barrack-room, "FLIRTATION"
In his summing-up. Mr. Justice du Parca, referring to the use of lipstick by the girl, said: "I do not know that the use of these things is quito, such a remarkable phenomenon now
a trooper in the Royal Horse Reeves, Mr. Justice du Parcq said he as It was when I was a younger man
Los Angeles, California, June, Mrs. Ethel Pardic Gaynor, 48, in- stats her newly-born eight-pound daughter was born painlessly white Guards, was found guilty of an she "dozed" in a hypnotle spell. attempt to commit a serious her husband. Two medical doctors sentenced to 22 months' hard She was put into the trance by offence against the girl and was delivered the baby and attested to labour. the apparent painlessness of the birth. A few minutes after birth Mrs. Gaynor was chatting cheerfully.
found it impossible to make any dis- tinction between their cases. There was much he could say which he re- frained from saying.
"But I am bound to say this," he went on, "I have seldom heard of a His two companious, David Evan more horrible case of this horrible. Thomas, aged 22, and Henry Richard offence." Reeves, aged 25, bad already been) GIRL'S MISERY
The verdict meant that the accused
and some of you were younger,
"It is, perhaps, not very usual In a girl of 15. Some of you probably know as much or more than I do about that.
"I suppose a good many girls are quite prepared for a flirtation. Even girls as young as this one, if they are precocivus, are sometimes pre-
"I can truthfully say that this was found guilty-Thomas of an offence what might be accurately termned against the girl and Reeves of ald- painless birth," she and. known the throes of pain a mother sentenced to four years pensi ser- girl, who had gone through an ex-may use an unhappy word-love- "ning and abetting. They were each went into the barrack-room with the pared to go a certain way in--if 1 perience which must have reduced making, or pretended love-making."
endures in childbirth. five others.
I have had
vitude.
"During the birth-well, it seems like I dozed off a moment, then there was a lot of excitement around my bed and the baby was over on the operating table. I don't think I lost complete consciousness, but 1 may have. At any rate, what discomfort I experienced was not to be compared
with what I went through when my other children were born."
She is the wife Royal Leroy Guyhor, a practitioner in hypnosis, therapeulles and psychoanalysis. With the aid of an associate. R. A. Gilman, a veteran stage
hypnotist. he put Mrs. Gaynor Into a state of ion" three weeks before the birth. what he calls "post-hypnotic sugge3- Since then, he claims to have bom-) barded her constantly with sugges tions that the birth would be pain-
So far several hundred tumbs have been excavated and it appears that the great necropolis covers nearly four less. асгез. The surprising number of warriors purported to have been buried in so small an area is attri-
buted to the fact that white some of UNION JACK AS A
the dead were carefully laid in rough-
ly but strongly built graves, a great number of bodies were hastily and confusedly interred in heaps,
rock
GAG
CONVICTS RIOT AT PARKHURST
Kept Secret
THE "SUNDAY DISPATCH" IS ABLE TO REVEAL
THAT SERIOUS RIOTING HAS TAKEN PLACE IN PARKHURST PRISON, ISLE OF WIGHT.
FOR MORE THAN THREE HOURS A BAND OF CONVICTS BARRICADED THEMSELVES IN THE TOP OF THE PRISON HOSPITAL WING, SCREAMING, BREAKING WINDOWS AND FURNITURE, AND DEFYING WARDERS AND THE GOVERNOR, COM- MANDER FOSTER.
One warder was injured and hundreds of pounds of damage done by the berserk convicts.
DEFIANCE
Archaeologists, who immediately allenco a woman shopkeeper at rushed to the scene of the amazing Knockholt, ncor Sevenoaks,
By the time worders had arrived discovery, are now divided into two Kent, while they robbed her of about
they had barricaded the doors of the factions.
in men threw a
ward with furniture and bedo and skeletons respectfully buried in the fuck over her hand and Turentoneu The rioting which has been resisted all the warders' efforta to tuffa and
tombs are those of the to shoot her. She was Mrs. Kato kept a close secret by the enter. victorious Carthaginians while the Malyan, of Beech Cottage Stores, authorities, took place more
For three hours the fight went on. other remains in between the Lockwood Road, Rushmore Hill.
stacked in
Commander Foster urged the men tombs, belong
than a fortnight ago, and was the Roman legion- ta
While the men were ransacking the worst outbreak since the
to surrender. naries defeated on that
the shop some campers arrived and Dartmoor mutiny of 1932. Is of were threatened with what appeared the opinion that those buried in the to be a revolver. They ran to a The trouble began on the morning tombs are Carthaginians while the re-telephone and called the police. mainder are allied soldiers who
when the convicts concerned, led by affected. threo ringlenders, 'one a Dartmoor
The second group, Bald.
fought and died for Hannibal. They
of June 0 in the hospital ward
Their reply was they would burn down the prison rather than give themselves up.
The whole of the prison was Other convicts in their cells and
Precautions wero Immediately taken against a general uprising. A number of convicts were sent
their
It is believed that the three ring- leaders, who caused most of the damage, have been punished, but no other action is being taken against them.
The three leaders, two
of them
"lifers," are among the most des-
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point out that numerous warriors discarded when it was noted that all mutineer, suddenly rushed the ho3-workshops began to mutter. from Numidla, Spain, the Balearle the skeletons belonged to men most-pital officer, Officer Fairweather, and Islands And other Carthaginion ly between 20 and 80 years of age. irled to seize his keys, possessions were led by the Afreion General across the Alps and into the olive groves and grapevines of was happening, managed to throw Work is rapidly continuing among Officer Fairweather, realising what Italy during the second Punic War. Apulla, as archaeologista bellove that the keys through the third-flour According to the belief of this second they have finally settled the vexed window into the courtyard, group of scientists Hannibal had the question of the alte of the Baltic of bodies of the dent Romans thrown Cannen, where, in the summer of into the River Aufldus, now the 210 B.C., Innnibal defeated Oranto, and thus carried by swift Roman
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The convicts, reallaing their at- another necropolis had been un- armies of 60,000 according to Livy tempt to get the kays had failed, earthed. But this hypothesis was and 80,000. according to Polybius. went borserk.
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Commander Foster again invited them to come out, and after con- sulting among themselves they agreed to surrender.
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