THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY,
OCTOBER 31, 1988.
SPAIN PIMPERNEL
GOES TO Wife Tells of
in Dread
Albert Gourgues, 89-years- old French engineer, known as the Spain "Scarlet Pim- pornel," declared at the Old Bailey recently that time and again he was lucky to escape the firing squad while "amuggling" 159 people out of Spain.
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The people he rescued, he de- clared, included nuns, priests, people of wealth, and others irrespective of their politics or religion.
Gourgues, accused of fraud in con- nection with bla alleged attempt to get two daughters of a Barcelona merchant, described as Senor "X." across the border, was sentenced to
months' imprisonment.
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It
was stated that he fraudulently converted to his own use miniatures valued at £1,000 and a pearl neck- lace which cost £2,000, entrusted to him in the early months of the Fannish fighting.
BRIBED OFFICIALS
He told the court how he had to bribe officials to obtain permits to leave the country.
When the fighting began he was in Granada, and seeing the cruelties which were taking place, he and some of his compatriots decided to help sufferers to escape.
The agony of mind which Gour- gues' wife experienced waiting for him to return from his "Scarlet Pimpernel" exploits, sometimes days or weeks is best told by herself.
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"It has been terrible for me while he was risking his life in Spain maving people from death,
"He was so brave, and sho mid, I was so afraid for him.”
business-like Frenchwoman. Thie black-haired and dark-eyed, was dressed almost entirely in black. for her When asked the Голбор
sombre dress, she replied "So many I fear so friends in
of my friends have died...
husband's
much for my
Barcelona.
"Thank heaven my children
safe in France,
are
They were there
while my husband was doing his work in Spain. He and I lived in Spain since 1023.
"Relatives of people he res-
cued would be in grave danger if he had to mention their names in court but the English courts are Food,"
Gourgues' appearance in the dock was said to be due to a 1,000-to-1 chance. Senor "X's" son Ricardo, in
Life
W.A.T.S. JOIN UP
GAOL
Women who form the first com- pany of the Auxiliary Territorial Service in Middlesex being sworn
In at Ravenscourt Paric, WY,
RACED OUT TO SEA TO WED SAILOR LOVER
Pretty Norwegian blonde Haldis Haavik clambered with her bride- room, Second Officer Henrik Munthe Ingvaldsen, down the swaying rope ladder of the cargo boot Breda to o tiny pilot vessel bobbing three miles of the Bass Rock at the mouth of the Firth of Forth after her wedding recently.
meet her bridegroom, who was aboard the Norwegian steamer Lenda, when he landed in Secelland after a world
"PUT HIS
RADIO
FAMILY ON BROADCAST VOLCANO" Scenes from "Richard IIF
Swindon.
A man who made an elec- trical connection with lengths of old cable was aald by an engineer at an inquest here recently to have lived with his family on the edge of a volcano of his own creation.
Relayed from London
"DIE WALKURE", ACT I
Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of B045 K.e's. and on Short Wave from 0-11 p.m. on 0.52 m.c's. per second.. H.K.T.
4.0 For The Children.
"Now We Are Six" (Fraser-Elmson Poems by A.A. Mline); (a) Sneezier; (b) The Friend; (c) The Emperor's "It is a tragedy of a handy-Rhyme; (d) Furry Bear......Mimi
Crawford (Soprano) with Plano; man," he said.
Dree, I Dree, I Dropped It (Tradi Gordon Patterson, aged 40, of tional-arr, Chalmers Wood); The She had travelled from Dergen to Langford-grove, Swindon, who Farmer's In His Den (Traditional
Chalmers arr,
Wood) (Singing ,Chalmers Wood's Or- with his wife. Florener, aged 40, and Games). their children, Gordon, aged 12, and chestra with vocal refrain; Studio Rita, aged 14, were gassed in their Serial Story "Seeing The Empire"; (Fraser- But they could not be married im-sleep when the cable fused and "Alice In Wonderland" mediately as they both had not been melted a gas-pipe on which it restext. Simeon); (a) You Are Oid, Father Henry Grimes, an electrical en- William (b) Speak Roughly To In England three weeks. The only pince they could get married was in gineer, salt the connection was made Your Little Boy (c) Will You Wolk .George Baker a Norwegian ship outside the three of cable of a cheap type sold for A Little Faster..
(Baritone) with Piano accompani wireless arts and electric bells. miles limit.
ment by Gerald Moore.
voyage.
The Breda was on its way round the coust so they collected the Nor- wegian Pastor Henning from Leeds) and drove to Burntisland and took pilot boat out to the ship..
It slowed up. The captain and chief officer were witnesses, and the couple were married.
Firm Fined £25 For Selling
Bad Chocolate
"LIVE" WIRE DANGER
8.30 Beethoven-Quartet in B Flat "No experienced man would have used it to carry 220 volts," he said.ajor, Op. 130.
Played by the Budapest String Another cable, which ought to
Quartet. 7.00 have been protected by tubing, had
Crooks Songs by Richard (Tenor). been connected from a plug in the living-room to shed in the gar-
I Love Thee (David-Grieg); Ported drn.
(Weatherley-Tosti); Nirvana (Wea- therly-Adams).
The cable was wired to the fencing separating the two gardens a very dangerous practice," sold Mr. Grimes. "It moisture had got into the wire the
have become all verden fence would In a bedroom a small handlump was fed from the heating circuit and several sub-fuses had been strength- ened."
Meesons, Ltd., of Droylsden, near Manchester, were fined £25 and 15 costs, at Old-street recently, for "possessing chocolate, for the purpose "If uses of the right strength had of sale, unfit for human consumption." been used there would not have The magistrate, Mr. Herbert Metcalfe, been the danger of the wire on the described the chocolate, found in gas-pipe fusing." Shoreditch shop, 14 "uncatable muck."
For the company it was said that it was the "Oral case of this sort that has occurred to them in fifteen years."
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7.10 Closing local Stock Quotations, 7.18 Reginald Dixon at the Organ. Down The Mall (Belton); Bells Across The Meadow (Ketelbey); Mississippl-Film Selection; Naughty Marietta-Film Selection.
7.30 Half an hour of Dance Music. Thinis (film King Solomon of Bread- day'); I'm In Love All Over Again film Hooray for Love')....Paul Pendurvis & His Orchestra with
Juur Returning verdicts of Den by vocal chorus; Tangos-Don Misadventure, the jury recom- Ventarron....Orquesta Tipica Victor: For mended that regulations affecting Fox-Trots Where Am I? (lm amateur wiring should be tightened Stars over Broadway'); I Live
Love (from the fim)...... Renard & His Orchestra; Walt up.
What A Night; Victor Silverster Quick-Step-We're Friends Again Orchestra; Fox-Trots
Fox-Trota - That's What You Eat
550 M.P. H. FR.A.F.
MAN'S
RECORD
SECRET
Squadron-Leader J. W.
1938, gave him the valuables to get Gillan, of the R.A.F., who flew a Hawker Hurricane
them out of Spain.
In July last Gourgues called on a
London art dealer to sell the minin-plane from Edinburgh to tures. By a mere chance he called Northolt, Middlesex, last on the man who had assisted Senor February in forty-eight min- dealer recognised the miniatures and utes, at an average speed of Madame Gourites, who lives in 408 m.p.h., reveals a secret.
"X" to
to catalogue his collection. The
informed the
sald in
venue des Fleurs, Nice, vidence that she and her husband het Ricardo at Marsellies. Ricardo brsuaded her husband to agree to rescue his sisters, and offered him a reward of about £112 to do so.
At the close of the trial the minia- tures and pearls were handed over to the police, who will pass them to the Customs authorities. It was
stated on behalf of the Customs that dimculty would be raised in no restoring them to Senor "X" if they were removed from this country.
He probably touched 530 m.p.h. and, had he not overshot Northolt. his average speed would have been about 450 mph, for the 527 miles Journey.
At 560 m.p.h. a plane would reach Berlin from London in one hour seven minutes),
QUEST FOR A BABY TARZAN
New York.
M ETRO-Goldwyn-Mayer
have begun a world-wide search for a 5-year-old boy to play the part of the Baby Tarzan.
He must
Have bulging bleeps extraordinary strength;
and
Be an acrobat and a pro-
Actent siehainer;
Be able to imitate
jamous Tarzan yell.
Nationality and accent
the
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be unimportant because in the film he will be a creature of any the jungle unversed in human language.
Production of the picture will be started soon, starring Johnny Weismuller and Mau- reen O'Sullivan. Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer invites parents of Goliath prodigies to send pic- tures to their studio, or their office here or in London.
Squadron-Leader Gillan tells the full story of the flight in the Journal of the Royal Air Force College.
before the telegram he had sent to have petrol waiting, and on his re- QUICKER THAN TELEGRAM On his journey north he arrived at turn he flew over Northolt and wast- Edinburgh, ed five minutes in turning round and Turnhouse Aerodrome,
landing.
VANISHED AFTER QUARREL WITH HIS BRIDE'S FATHER
MAJOR'S BEQUEST TO FAMILY RUINED IN WAR
AT-
Her mother said, "This has been a
Of the departure from Edinburgh the writes:
"There were no clouds in Edin-
& His Ballroom
Thanks A Million (from the Alm); I'm Sitting High On A Hill Top (film Thanks A Million')......Paul Pen- darvis & His Orchestra with vocal chorus,
8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Malcolm McEachern (Bass)
NAVAL PADRESS and Light Symphony Orchestra,
MUST BE
Like To The Damask Rose (Elgar. Mary's arr. Haydn Wo
Wood); Queen Song (Elgar, arr. Haydn Wood). Light Symphony Orchestra cond. by lay-
Different: They Live Within Wood; I'm A Roamer (from
'Son and Stranger'); "Chu Chin Chow The Cobbler's Song (Aschc & Norton) (Bass) with (Elgar,
Lunolm McEachern
Shepherd's Son!!
Haydn Wood); Rondel; AFT. Haydn Wood).... M Symphony Orchestra cond. by linydn Wood.
Light
Their Congregations Ex-Chaplain's Memories WORKNGHAM. Archdeacon A. D. Gilbertson
8.20 London Relay Scenes from retired recently from his posi Lion as chaplain of the Navy, Richard The Third by Willam King Edward the only to take over at once theat position of resident chaplain at Fourth; Richard, Duke of Gloucester. the Royal Merchant Navy School brother of the King (afterwards at Bear Wood, near Wokingham. King Richard the Third); Henry, Earl
There an old shipmate of his, Cop-of tain H. W. Edwards, is Governor.
Archdeacon Gilbertson would have been 30 years a naval chaplain at the end of the year, for he joined the service in January, 1009.
JUST THE PADRE
Richmond (afterward King Henry the Seventh); Duke of Buck- ingham; Lord Hastings; Lords, and other Attendants;
ctc.; Soldiers, Scene: England; Production by John Richmond.
9.0 The BB.C. Wireless Singers. Where The Bee Sucks (Shakes-
Come For the last three years his job peare & Arne arr. Shaw);
Let Us Join The Roundelay (Wm. has included interviewing personally Benie); It Was A Lover And His and selecting all the would-be chap- lains for the Navy, so he has his own Loss (Shakespeare & Morley arr. J. F. Bridge); O Hush Thee, My Babie the qualities which Sir W. Scott & A. Sullivan). ideas on what go to make the ideal naval chaplain.
9.10 Leslie Jeffries & His Orches- "I have always held very strong-
idea tra
The Swan (Saint-Saens); Even- ly," he said, "to the Navy's that the chaplain is just the padre,
(Jeffries); Le Petit Capitaine we have no rank and we wear no and not a Naval ofeer. In the Navy song (Easthope Martin); Tres Jolle (Raquelle); Hey Gypsy, Play Gypsy uniform.
Maritza' Kalman); | have (Countless men "Neither officers nor
Coward).
LOVERCOATS-
-in
at
Readiness-
Overcoat
timo
approaches
and finds Mackintosh's in
readiness with a notable dis-
play of AQUASCUTUM Coats.
There are coats in the newest designs, colourings and styles
for every occasion of autumn-
and winter, and remarkable
oxamples of value for price.
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was
that precedes dusk. There northerly gale blowing and I decided that I would ay back as I felt it would be impossible to miss London in the dark.
keener on being a good fellow and a 500 mixer than on doing his real job.
KNOW HIS THOUGHTS "They want him to be different. Naval chaplains are the only parsons who have to live continuously with their congregations. It's a big test of a man when he knows that some 10 or 50 officers practically know all his thoughts. He cannot be any- thing of a hypocrile and often quite unexpected deeds or wards from him have the most powerful effect.
"Some poor men, of course, are and eliminated by sea-lcktiesK nothing else. There was once a chaplain who got no further in the beloved than 'Dearly servico
The Scriplare moveth brethren.
to move
9.30 London Relay-The News. 9.50 Wagner's "Die Walkure" Act
I.
Singers: Lotte Lehmann (Soprano), Lauritz Melchior (Tenor) and Em- anuel List (Buss); with The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter. Cello: F. Buxbnum.
11.0 Close down,
HONGKONG SINGERS
Armistice Day Recital Arranged
CENTRAL SHOWROOM:
KOWLOON SHOWROOMS:
GLOUCESTER BUILDING Phone 24704. 246 NATHAN ROAD. Phone 57341,
CURRENCY NOTES THEFTS REPORTED
Kowloon Residents Lose Money and Property
Draft Ordinance To Validate Practice
The objects and reasons state that the fund established under section 4
the Dollar
Notes Currency
"Taking off at 5.5 pm, and climb- ing at 200 mph. I noticed with some Friends of 22-years-old Iris Lid-pleasure that I had no drift and at dington, of Crowley-crescent, Croy 5,000ft. that I bad a considerable don, were still searching last month sensation of speed. This meant a for 20-years-old Robert Henderson, good wind and less chance of run- Inte of Davidson-rond, Addiscombe, ning out of petrol in the darkt near who failed to arrive at Croydon Parish London in the event of a miscalcula- Church, when they were to have been tion. married.
"The ground then disappeared and Miss Liddingien waited an hour for soon I was at my height with only
all Major Edward Harman Hicks, Henderson, who had made
my Instruments and a rapidly ring left leg. My air speed varied be late R.A.M.C., of Mount Park-rangements for the ceremony.
The postponement of the ceremony road, Ealing, who left £21.561 is the result, it is believed, of tween 305 and 125. The engine re- (net personally £21,495), made lent quarrel between her father and volutions were constant at 2,975.
"SOMETIMES I FELT SORRY" a bequest in his will to a French Henderson.
There were ten minutes of high family who suffered in the war.
The will, made in 1934, reads: terrible shock to Iris. She is ill, and cloud to go through, when the cabin Jear is keeping to her room. She last saw frosted up and hoar frost formed on "Whereas my old friend, Dr Rene Sercand, of Paris, having died Mr. Henderson a week ago, when he the wings.
appointment for them to
"Sometimes 1 felt sorry that I was did leaving his daughter, Mme. Alix made an
doing this and thought of the com- Marie Serrand, and her children in view a dat together. He
fort of my men at Northolt; at other very poor circumstances, I consider it keep the appointment.
times
was glad. After forty to be my duty to my old friend, know-
minutes I decided to descend. ing as I do, the ruin the war has
"The air spoed now was 400, the brought to them, to make some pro
revolutions
ground 2,000. The vision for his daughter,
speed was probably 550..' I had an
New York. odd feeling, flying through a clỏnớ
Fred Perry and his flim star wife, at night at a speed I know to be in exoem of 500 miles per hour. - "I believe all this trouble has
Mias Helen Vinson, paid a mysteri^ | numerous reque be taken, which, Interest earned by the fund shati dan forcing an from bar at the rear bed. at 3,000 ous visit to US. Asalstant Attorney "Coming out of a cloud ariwen through the fact that my husband and Mr. Henderson
feet, I saw momentarily a red light John Dalloy last month: The reason as laughter's
quarrelled violentty a fortnight dashing the letter of my station. But for the two-hours conference is be-entirety to the funds of St. Dunstan'a, 1 December 31 in any year any surp | from her matshed at Ting Xau somne» fact that The exact time of the performer value of current into the enteral re- berde, has been reported to 3 Carbar ago, and they came to blown. He left her an annuity of
by the time I had registered this I ing kept secret, but the
Chief Foutal Inspector James Doran which has not yet been during the life of his wife-with re-
"Henderson comes from Partick, In was seven miles further on.
von Honda was present led to reports that the fixed, will be announced later, but it shall be paid into the general re by Mrs. E. It. Childe, of No.3 Carbar The low of a gold bracelet Woma mainder to her daughter Marie Hence
Clause B of the draft Bill removed 9.15 pm. Generous support from thin Annis Malmler, but by a codiell Scotland, and he met Iris at a danço
"The signol ume from the take-off couple have been receiving extortion will be after dinner, probably or venues of the Colony. to going over Northolt was forty- letters. made in 1930 he halved the annuity at Croydon about two years ago."
The tennis star and his wife re-publié, especially in view, of, the doubts as to the regularity, of this where In the Canton earthl three minutes; the time on my own watch forty-four minutes. I return: fused to give an explanation, and charity to be benented, is confidently practice in the past by validating district on Friday has been armored.
to keep the evening free.
scope of the present amendment; ed to Northolt ave minutes later and added: "We were ordered not to dis expected, and all interested are urged much past acts both within the to the police by Miss 8. Cockey of 11.
cuss the matter with anyone !!
The residence of Mr. W. H. Kwan, catered by A draft Dollar Currency Notes at Homuntin H, Was It has become an established cus-
thleven on Saturday, when clothing as in sundry places, when he had tom for the Hongkong Singers. to Amendment Ordinance is published and personal belongings valued at
a very great hurry. give on Armistice Day Recital cach in the Government Gazette..
$108 were stolen. "In my own ume in the Navy per- year, and this year the usual concert
Chan Sul-lam, residing at the Mee haps the most striking change has will be given in St. John's Cathedral
Chow Hotel, reports the loss of $190 manent chapel in big ships, Instead | The performance, which will be of
on Saturday, been the provision of a proper person November 11. of the barnyard chapels which the under the patronage of the Patron of Ordinance, No. 12 of 1935, has been from his trouser's pocket at the hotel Clothing valued at $80 was stolen lower deck used to call the old the Singers, H.E. the Governor, and credited with the amount of notes
their President, the Hon. Mr. N. L. asued and interest earned by the from the room of Corporal A. Row- make-shift arrangement.”
Smith, will be under the conductor-fund, and debited with the coat of lands, who is at present staying at ship of the
the Hon. Conductor of the manufacture, freight and other ex- the Central British School in Nathan
to the issue of he
Road. The theft was not discovered Singers, Mr. Lindsay A. Lafford, penses incidental
until Saturday, FR.C.OR.A.M., AR.C.M., with Mr. currency notes.
The
Mrs. W. Nowbronner of Cameron Rupert Baldwin at the Organ.
Clause 2 of the amending Dill adds work chosen is the Brahms "Ro- quiem,
bracelet which was valued at $40 which has been given before three now sub-sections to section Road has reported the loss of a gold of the principal Ordinance providing from her residence on Saturday. En- but will, well bear repetition, and, that the fund shall bear the expenses trance to the house was gained b indeed, is repeated in response
"I wish to bequeath some acknow ledgment of the many acts of kind ness which I have received from Alix Serrand and her family, in the hope that
she may thereby be relieved and her from anxiety as to her own an
future
Havo de-
not
GAVE NOTICE "Iris went to his lodgings and found that he had left. She also found he had given notice at the place where' he had worked. She still believed, however, that he would arrive for the wedding.
"ince my Inves
residue, less £500, to Mme. Alix preciated in value.da
The residue to left to his wife for Servand absolutely, or, if then dead, life, and on her death the ultimate to her daughter.
landed."
FRED PERRY
RIDDLE
A collection will
to
of note-issue and management, that
usual, will be devoted in lis
into the fund, and that, on room window.
in excess of the nominal
moneys
The theft of crockery worth $36.80
time between October 25 and Octo-
Broadwood food.
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