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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER
21, 1938.
Once-Poor Grocer Says ALHAMBRA
'Let Payment of Friendless,
Debts Wait
EORGE ANDREW SPROTT was only twenty-two when he first rolled up his shirt sleeves to serve customers behind the counter of a small grocery shop in Acton, W. His wages were less than £1 a week. His will, published recently, disclosed that he left £53,743.
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He owned a chain of grocery stores. Ho gave 100 shares to rach shop manager with more than five years' service and, pointing his son James head of the firm, decreed that he must not dismiss Mr. Fred Hurrell Kersey, who is to be a life director.
That was because Mr. Kersey Joined George Sprott in. the shop in Finchley-road just when his struggle for success was beginning to bring results thirty-two years ago.
Ilo never forgot friend and tho times of his own dimculties.
So when he was making his will he put in a special clauso authoris Ing his executore to defer calling in certain debis for such time as his solicitor would deem necessary to avoid any hardship or undue pressure.
Mr. Kersey said: "He was the boss but we all called him 'George. Whether it was a friend or just an acquaintance he never refused help Ja a genuine case.
Belgian King On Visit To England
London, Oct. 20.
King Leopold at the Belglans left; Ostend to-day for London.
Lonely--On £150-a-week
Pabilcation of his will recently revealed that Henry Philip Jobu Ince Anderton, lonely, friendless Lancashire man who moved from hotel to hotel nerows Europe ho died last March in a Swiss clinic, had an Income of more
than £150 a week..
He was worth £183,386, yet, after leaving a West End hotel for the Continent ho stayed nearly always in cheap rooms, ale sparingly, dranic
le
When he died, agod fifty-seen, he left all his money to Roman Catholle. charities, saying in his will: "AB I have no dependants or relatives... I feel at liberty in so bequeathing my residuary estato to charitable ob- Jects,"
The manager of an hotel in Vovey, Switzerland," said: "My staff knew him well; he was always alone, and seemed anxious not to mix with other. English people... Ho..was.....not in our best rooms, and that you should say he was rich surprises me.
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"Sometimes he would give very | good tips, and then for days¬nothing
"We knew he was a devout Roman Catholic; he went nearly every day
He was accompanied by his sister, at all. the Crown Princess of Italy. The visit is a private one and he is ex-to Mass." pected back in Brussels on Sunday.--
"Mr. Sprott came from Stranraer, Scotland, forty-eight years ago, to work in London. He put in long, strenuous hours behind the counter Reuter, for much less than £l a week.
"It was his ambition to be his own. Boss and, denying himself even small Juxuries, he had saved enough in seven years to open his first shop In Acton. The shop is still running as one of our branches."
Mi Sprott, who died last May, lived at Chatsworth-road, Drondes- buty. N.W.
ROBBERS ATTEMPT
ON PAYROLL
Exchange Shots With
Indian Escort
KING CAROL'S VISIT
London, Oct. 20. The London County Council at a meeting to-day decided that on the cccnsion of the visit of King Carol) and the Crown Prince of Rumania to London from November 16 to Novem- ber 18, that he be presented with an Address in a gold box, and that a luncheon in his lapuur be given all the Guildhall-Reuter.
40-Passenger
Plane Starts
A during uilempt to steal a $9,000 Channel Service
payroll was folled yesterday
when
four Chinese held up a car la the New Territories, and exchanged re- volver shuts with four Indian watch-
men.
The money, which was for the staff of the Hongkong Mines works at Lai Hong Mu, was being carried
London, Oct. 20. The Imperial Airways liner Eastan made an initial trip from Croydon to Le Bourget in 80 minutes to-day.
It the first of 14 all-metal ma-
A nurse at a clinic near Montreux, Switzerland, remembered: "Ah, yes, the Monsieur Anderton. How sorry we all were for him. He was 11. and no one to come and see him. We tried all we could to keep him
cheerful. He was very brave."
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¡CLAIM
12 MILES FROM CITY
in in car by a clerk, escorted by the chines, carrying 40 passenger DEFENCES
four Indians,
is one of the largest air iners in the
When the car rounded a bend near world. the 141⁄2 milestone on the Talpo
Some of the machines will be used While Road, the four rubbers were seen standing In the middle of the rond in the Continental service, and others üfting their hands above their heads will be put on the England-Calcutta and calling on the car to stop.
The route in conjunction with the flying- driver applied his brakes and when boat service-Router.
the car stopped the robbers whip- ped revolvers from beneath their tunles and opened fre
zon
Wołchow, Oct. 21. ronsiderable force
Dear
Chinese troops is believed to have been trapped in the Canton-Kowloon
Sheklung, Railway
Column Japanese mobile
which resumed its swift advance westward from Tsengshing on Thursday morn- Ing thrusted to within 12 miles of
The Indians.returned the fire and N. Z. BANK RATE the outskirts of Canton in the after-
coon overpowered the robbers. One;
of the gang was wounded.
SCAFRICAN DEFENCE
CHIEF FOR U.K.
London, Oct. 20.
African Mr. Pirow, the South Minister of Defence, who is going to London to discuss South African de- fences with the British Government, is visiting Portuguese East Africa en
route.
Later he will visit Lisbon at the request of the Portuguese inent. Reuter,
Govern-
Men Outnumber Women
Canberra, Australia.
INCREASED
Wellington, Oct. 20.
noon.
Arcording to a communique issued by the field pross section of the Army. Department of the Imperial Head- quarters, the Japanese mobile column at 3.40 p.m. yesterday reached The New Zealand banks have Chengkongton, 20 miles east of Can- decided to increase by ten shilling on. Only small number of per cent. the exchange rate between Chinese troops could be witnessed in the New Zealand currency and the vicinity.
sterling.
Len
The communique states that at The T.T. sterling rate of £124 10s, about 0 o'clock in the morning the will be increased to £125 New, First line Japanese forces encounter- Zealand currency for £100 sterling ed about 300 Chinese troops equipped
with several fold-pieces and Other currencies would be similarly tanks at a point 144 miles west of Tsengshing. A brisk fighting follow- fed the communique ndis-Dornel
TAYEH CAPTURE
affected. Reuter.
YORKSHIRE BLACK-OUT
CLAIMED
An official Japanese Communique Hissued at 10 n'clock this
London, Oct, 20.
morning
The Home Office has announced {claims that Tayeb, on the Yangive a big black-out over a large aren of River, has fallen, southern Yorkshire and north-east
Every state in Australia continues | Derbyshire to-morrow night. Ar- predominantly male. Out of a total | rangements have been completed be- population for the continent of tween the A.R.P. department of the C.881.840, mules number of 3,401,071Home Office and the local authorities. and females of 3,309,077,
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