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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1,
1998.
Heiress Must Wait 10 Years for Legacy
"I AM HAPPY
She Cares More
WITHOUT THE
MONEY"
About Her Job
Miss Pamela Capelli, twenty-two-year-old daughter of a Brighton sea-front hotel keeper, who was credited by rumour with Inheriting £40,000 under the will of her millionaire uncle A. E. Capelll, learned recently that she will receive nothing for ten years.
Then, prestamably, she will share; In a division of the estate among re- Intives which is ordered in the will.'
Meanwhile her father receives £001
a week, and a similar num goes to his! brother and two sisters.
How much Mr. Capelli left is not; disclosed, but he gave £100,000 to public fruitutions in South Africa, where he died.
'NO FALSE HOPES'
Miss Copell, who has been carry- ing on the hotel during her father's absence in South Africa, said: "I had no false hopes, so I am not disappoin ted.
"During the past fortnight people have been coming into the hotel and talking to me about my supposed £40,000 legacy; and people from all over the country have sent me let ters and congratulatory telegrams. But all the time I sold the rumour was nonscrise,
"Money does not mean much in my
life, anyway.
'A NEW CAR'
"If my father is well-to-do, so much the better, but I am as happy and comfortable in my job, helping my father, as ever I could be.
"It is not likely that my father's legacy will make any difference to us -except that I shall probably get a new 12 hp. car out of him in place of the little thing I trundle around in at the moment. But he had pro- mised me that after the Motor Show, anyway.
"My father is not likely to retire. been "Brighton Corporation have trying to buy the hotel from us for a long time to give a sea frontage to the new town hall they are talk- ing of, I heard, when it was rumoured that I was an heiress, that a promin- ent member of the counell said: 'Now we'll get the hotel for a song, and have the whole building razed to the -ground in no time,'
"Well, he's wrong."
Babies Beat the Camera
Girls
EMPIRE NEWS
ELECTION DATE IN
NEW ZEALAND
Auckland. The Prime Minister, Mr. Savage. announced recently that the General Election will be held on Oct. 15.
-
It has also been officially nounced that the Government guar- anteed price to the farmer for butter. for the present season, which began on Aug. 1, will be 14.09d per 1 and lb. These per cheese 8.424 for figures show a rise as compared with last season of 1.34d for butter and
88d for cheese.
The London equivalents of these prices are 124 3d per cwt for butter and 73s Dit per ewt for cheese.
The new season's dalry
trading
deficit is estimated at £1,534,000, against which has to be set a surplus! of £000,000 for lust season.
The delay in the announcement of the guaranteed prices has been due! to the difficulties of Mr. Nash, the Finance Minister, in financing the Dairy Account. He ignored the re- commendation of the advisory com-! mitee appointed by the Government that higher prices should be fixed to meet higher costs,
The rates are now 88d below the o! committee's demonstrated cost production, and this is leading to protests by the formers.
first New
After Inspecting the gear of the Cremer lifeboat which successfully participated in the Trevessa Trophy race. Mr. H. 8. House and members of the Committee are seen in consultation, while the coxswain of the win- ning boat, Mr. Boorama, tööks on,-Pictorial News.
POLICE
Kipling Scholar-The Zealand boy to be awarded Rud- yard Kipling Memorial Scholarship Is John Spencer Pallot, 13. a pupil of King's College. Auckland. scholarship is tenable at Kipling's old
Imperial Service on
school, now the College, Windsor, for three years. India
FRONTIER FIGHT CASUALTIES.
The
Simla.
GUARD SCHOOLBOYS Jugoslav Princes
Come Back to Work
FOR
HIPPO CHARGES
MAIL-VAN
As the mail-van from Kobale, in Uganda, to Mbarara drew near the river at Nsongez, the African driver saw two bulky shapes crashing about
na cloud of dust.
Two hippopotami had chosen the
The noise of the car's approach is- one of them
"Good-bye, Tommy. See you soon!" shouted Prince main road an their battle-ground. Alexander to his cousin, Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia,
the Continental platform at Victoria Station, recently-turbed them, and
Plain-clothes policemen, silent and alert, stood among the charged the ear, overturning it and crowds when four princes, all English schoolboys, arrived in Eng-
smashing it beyond repair. land for the Christmas term.
Two of them, Prince Tomislav-ten-years-old heir apparent
LOVER'S QUARRELS Girl Allegedly
Pushed Towards Lorry
A series of quarrels between two lovers, which culminated in one allegedly pushing the other towards a passing motor forry_in Kennedy Town, were related at the Criminal Sessions yesterday when Cheng Shuet-wah, alias Cheng Chup, 23, was tried before Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, Acting Chief Justice, on three counts,
Accused,, who pleaded not guilty, wak charged with (1) causing
grievous bodily harm to Yung Wal- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ping, 20. with intent to murder her; (2) causing grievous bodily harm Donations to Charitable with intent inalm or disfigure her; and (3) unlawfully and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm.
And Other Objects
The longkong Society for the
The case was adjourned until to morrow morning.
The following comprised the Jury: Protection of Children acknowledges following donations received Messrs. L. E. N. Ryan (Foreman) during October:
Cheng Kam-10, Hui
Wal-pong,
the
Johnston Wong, A. J. Rozurlo, Chiu Mr. Fok Che-ting ... $1.000
Air. Eu Tong-sen Tse-ping and Wong Sung-ki.
Prosecuting, Mr. J. Whyatt, Crown Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Co.,
Ltd. Counsel, said that accused and the
girl were
betrothed about three Anonymous (Contribution years ago in Lam Ping village, and for 2 blind boys) they remained on good terms until Hon. Mr. & Mra, S. Caine the early part of this year,
The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo On January D last they came to Mr. M. K. Lo Hongkong and went to live with Professor M. H. Rodley accused's sister in Youmati.
Mr. J. P. Dawson already Mr. A. H. Compton
The girl's mother
Street, Kennedy Tow
was
living in Hongkong--In Belcher Mr. Wan Kang-sun
Town-and when Mr. Be
Mr. W. Fuid
she heard of her daughter's arrival & Mrs. D. J. S. Crozier she went to Yaumati and asked her The Thrift Shop
"A friend I. W."
(Contribution for "Kung Mui" & "Leung Man far September & Octo- ber)....
to come and live with her.
Accused objected very strongly to Kowloon Police Magistrale this and threatened to break off the engagement. In spite of this, how- ever, the girl went and lived with her mother and, as often happened in lovers' quarrels, necused did not reak off the engagement but instead visited her from time to time.
Relations Worsen
On February B. the girl visited accused's sister and stayed with her
for three or four days, after which
Donations already acknow- tedged through the South China Morning Post
Total
500
500
54
50
10
6.30
40
$2,322.30
Further donations will be gladly
she once more returned to her mother, accepted by the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Later, she obtained employment of 4 McKellar, C.A. c/o Mackinnon
Mackenzie & Co., P. & O. Building. the Hongkong Rubber Factory at West Point Accused niso objected to
POPPY DAY FUND this because, as he put it, there were
Further contributions received by ton many men in the Factory. The
for the Poppy girl eventually gave up her employ- the British Legion ment and went to live with accused's Day Fund, 1938, are as follow: sister.
Previously acknowledged ... $2,015
Society, Hongkong At that time relations were not as St. Georick's Society
happy as they used to be, and after St.
nother
Hongkong quarrel, she went back to her mother. They remained, how- Anonymous ever, betrothed and accused continuca Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsel
lo visit her from time to time.
Dr. J. H. Montgomery
Continuing, Counsel said that mal-C. C. Willson ters came to a head on August 29, T. H. G. Brayfield when accused paid one of his cus. N. Croucher tomary visits to Belcher Street to see the girl.
On that occasion, it was the girt The driver sat fight, and the hip-
who Was not pleased, and she asked
of
100
100
$2,975
into the
In yesterday's list that the engagement be broken oft. (GL.E.) China's donation of $75 was
ilsted She requested accused to sign a erroneously document to this effect, but he re-(GLE.) Club.
Further fused, at the same time saying that
the R.A.O.B.
R.A.O.B.
will
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All night long the driver
to the Yugoslav throne, and brother of 15-years-old King Peter pos went crashing down "re--and his brother Andrei, aged nine, climbed into a large touring river. The Rozmak Brigade, while turning from Ladha to Razmak re- car which was to take them into the country for three days be- loyally remained by his mails, until rently, was sharply engaged with fore their term at Sandroyd School, Cobham, in Surrey, starts. hostile parties. Its casualiles were one Indian soldier killed and one.
indian
The other two, Prince Alex-! soldiers ander and Prince Nicholas are un-cousins of the King, and sons of known, but nine dead were observed Prince Paul, the Regent-went
Women have registered one more shock to masculine pride by stealing British ami four the Professional Photographers Ex-wounded. hibition from their inale colleagues.
After visiting the Royal Institute Galleries last month the men had to admit that the camera portraits and sttils by women were, except in the case of child studies, greatly superior to their own.
Mrs. David Jagger, wife of the sculptor and portrait painter, was
casualties The enemy
in one defile. East Africa
KENYA'S OLDEST
COLONIST
Nairobi,
The death has occurred of
colonist,
Air.
astonished when her husband praised Frank Watkins, 83, Kenya's oldest the women's work.
"I've nver before heard him say Formerly Mr. Watkins represented anything so complimentary about Barberton
artists,
she said. "Of course, he was grudging about it, but he could not hide the truth."
After sleeping on the problem, Mr. Jagger gave me his theory.
Worthen
"WORK SHY"
"Women make poor painters and sculptors. They are no good at that kind of art, which requires patience, imagination, and much hard work.
"But they are far quicker than
men at picking out essential de- talls 80, if you give them a machine to do all the work, they produce better result."
All the experimental photography work and most of the colour portraits are the work of women.
The most unusual exhibits are those by Miss Ursula Powys-Lybbe, who surrounds her portraits with miniatures of the sitters' hobbies and homes. A beautiful portrait of Lady Mary Dunn is decorated with pic-
of a pair of skis, a horse, tures couple of children, a music score, a dachshund, a saloon
and the Incade of Lady Mary's home.
car,
many
In the old Transvaal Assembly. On one. occasion years ago his death was reported, and the Assembly adjourned as a sign of mourning.
off with the Yugoslav Minister
In London, with whom they will
stay until term commences,
BORN IN ENGLAND
neat
help came out from Mbarara
FILM CHIEF DENIES INCITING CROWD
Anstey Downing Streat thinking there might be some nows sultable for
a film. He denied that he was "work- ing up" the crowd in order to gal a picture that would be worth taking.
An application for costs against the police was refused.
Among 16 people arrested dur-1get a better Alm?-I do not know, They were both born in England, ing the demonstration in White-but he was inviting the crowd to and appeared perfectly at home, par-hall recently was Edgar Arthur break through.
in the witness-box, sald he teularly Prince Alexander, who was Anstey, 31-year-old productions his fair hair and complexion locks a director of the March of Time typical English schoolboy.
The King's two brothers, smaller News Film Company. and darker-skinned, wearing
Before Mr. McKenna at Bow Street he was charged with using insulting with and behaviour, and rey overcoats over grey. suits, were
Prince Tomislav,
sald: words fur more shy. "We enjoyed our holiday tremen-obstruction. The case was dismiss dously. Most of it we spent at home, ed.
Williams, solicitor. and we did a lot of fishing. Now we
S. J. prosecuting (said it was alleged that are looking forward to this term and to playing football at Sundroyd.
King Peter was at Sandroyd four Anstey was urging the crowd to break
when the news of the the police cordon. been appointed Director of Tsetse years ago,
father, King Pulice-constable Taylor said that starch for the territory. He suc-trngle death of his ceeds Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton, who Alexander, assassinated in France, Anstey had his Ast raised and was was killed in an aeroplane crash in rat renched him. central Tanganyiku, on June 12.
TSETSE RESEARCH
Dar-Es-Salaam. Capt. 1. E. Hornby, Director of Veterinary Services, Tanganyika, has
Capt. Hornby, who is. 48. was veterinary oficer in Northern Rhodesia from 1913 to 1920, and joined the Tanganyika 1022.
Gold Coast
service
COCOA ORDINANCE
REPEALED
Acera.
in
however,
DOG IS LEFT
10s. A WEEK
Nippy, a cocker spaniel, has been
Mr.
कय
contributions received by W. J. Cole, it he was forced to do so he would gratefully
suicide. Eventually, cominit
he Acting Secretary, Earl Haig's Fund, suggested that the girl should acconi Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Build- pany
to Kowloon to see his ing. Cheques should be made pay- Inther about the matter. The girl able to Thomson & Co., and crossed agreed, and the two of them lett "Poppy Day Fund." Belcher Street about 0 p.m.
him
The atmosphere then was not a
very
happy one,
and on the
dona-
ST. VINCENT de PAUL WAY The Society of St. Vincent de Paul there were some heated words. As acknowledges the following they approached Collinson Street, tons to the Fele on November B they were seen by a lorry driver, St. Joseph's College who was driving, a lorry towards "Sparrow" West Point, in the opposite direction. Mr. A. J. Raptis
This driver, who had just overtaken Mr. M. Nemuzee a private car and was driving alongjug, G the tram frack, noticed them when he was about 150 yards away. He
$50
25
26
25
saw the girl walking on the tram sald nccused gave the girl a push track and the man about six or seven when the lorry was about three feet feet to the right of her.
to the right side, Fong Kau, coolle, gave corroborative
going from her. The vehicle was about 14 miles per hour, and ne- Pushed Toward Vehicle Among others accused of insulting
Seeing the girl on the tram track cused's action appeared to him to be behaviour was a 38-year-old typist, and in the way
of the lorry, the intentional. C. Ryder, of St. Edmunds driver sounded his horn, whereupon
Taul Pak-ying, motor driver, and Charged she went
last-named, Edmond Warburton
closer to the
evidence, The Terrace, St. John's Wood.
also accused
As the lorry was almost level with questioned by accused, denied he was them, accused was seen catching given money by the lorry-driver to hold of the girl with both his hands become a witness. and he deliberately pushed her to- ward the vehicle, Counsel said.
Irla
with her was
obstruction.
(20).
who
was
of
A pollee-constable said Miss Ryder shouting: "Down with Hitler. Save
was throwing pumphicis into people's the Czechs."
Anstey made a statement declaring faces and Warburton was brandish- that the officer who arrested himing a booklet. struck him in the stomach.
Constable Taylor denied that he struck Anstey.
.
"MY LITTLE CONTRIBUTION" Miss Ryder, in evidence, said she went to Whitehall "to make my little "A BETTER FILM"
contribution towards rallying the When Mr. Anthony Marlow (du-people to stand firm for peace be- left a pension of 10s. a week in the fending), explained that Anstey was cause who wants war?"
She was fined 50s. The charges wili, published recently, of his productions director of the March of
Ernest Ayres (30), of Bruce House, The Cocon Control Export Ordin-mistress-eighty-seven-year-old Mrs. Time Company, P.C. Taylor cald: "It against Warburton were dismissed. ance and the regulations attaching to Donna Evans. of Fawnbrake-avenue, would have been a much better nim
If the crowd broke through the police Covent Garden, who was alleged to have shouted, "Down with Mosley," it have been repealed. The repeal Herne Hill, S.E., who died recently.
She referred in her will to her cordon." will be effective as from Sept. 30.
Mr. Marlow: Are you suggesting was fined 40s. or seven days.
The charge against David Wolle Cocoa control was instituted at the "dear dog Nippy." She left F.21,447,
an artist, of Chelsen, end of April to ensure orderly mar- most of which goes to the London that he was inciting the crowd to
break through in order that he could Thomas
was dismissed. It is the babicketing of the 1937-8 crop. Mean- Association for the Blind.
A constable said Thomas was shout- scores of them-mostly photographed while a dispute had arisen between
"Chamberlain muat go," and ing: was striking out at the police.
A charge of obstructing the police Aitken (23), shop against Cyril assistant, was dismissed.
But it is not the women or the inen
who receive the most enthusiastic appreciation.
by men.
JUPITER THE STAR Master Jupiter Pluvius Junior, a 12-months-old with a mischievous glint in his eyes, is so good a sitter that he has been given four spaces on the wall.
Mr. W. G. Briggs has "shot" young Jupiter splashing in his bar" sucking two podgy fin- shiny tongue, gers, poking out
and scrowing up a tiny, nose, He is Master Peter Brookes, of Highfeld-avenue, Kingsbury, Middle-
the cultivators and the cocoa-buying pool.
out
In February it was announced that a Commission would be sent from England to examine the situn- thereupon tion, and the producers
crops. ngreed to stop burning the The Commission is now drafting a report.
THIN MAN (10in. by 82)
The Thin Man has been blamed for
GAOL RUNAWAYS RECAPTURED
were
The two men who escaped from Lewes Gaol recently recaptured one near Grays (Essex) and the other at his parents* home at Southend.
Grays.
Jolin G. Stewart (20), author, of Lambeth Road, was fined £4, or seven days, for obstruction.
2 MEN FIGHT WHALE A two-lons bottle-nosed whale, First to be taken was Archie Lewis Wainwright, aged 26.
over 20ft. long, was caught in the sex. His face would be worth the recent outbreak of school rob- Police-constable Waylette, of! Two were posted at the back while fortune in Hollywood, but his father beries at Ilford. The
colnshire, recently. This the Intends to keep him gurgling in his
We have Stanford-le-Ifope, found a car aban- their colleagues went to the front door River Trent at Gainsborough, Lin-
and knocked.
second found stranded there within the been amazed at
way he has doned on the road near his home. Kingsbury nursery.
squeezed through narrow windows,
PRISON INQUIRY
La month. Competing for the honours with but he has made a record by squeez- He was informed that a man who
walked towardi Harris, it is alleged, was seen by Skipper J. Chapman, of Newark, Master Jupiter is a curly haired girl ing through a window 101n. by 04in. left the car had
the officers at the back to climb and his mate, Mr. Stanley Odlesby, who has lain her young brother
at Goodmayes Bowling
Club.
The officer went after the man and through an upstairs window, drop on rammed the whole with the bow of across the nursery table and is busy
Mr. Odlesby their motor-barge. lie made a fruitless search of the patching his torn pants. "It's never
He ran down the garden, but was then attacked it with a boat-hook, too late to mend," by Mr. Hugh club for money, climbed out again, at Hangman's Wood, five miles on, a shied and slide to the ground.
caught as he tried to vault the fence, and the two men worked for an hour once surrendered. Greaves, is the sort of picture that crored the road to a new school, and come up with Wainwright, who al
before they succeeded in taking the He was neatly dressed, but was He was taken, handcuffed, in a van
moniler in tow, makes women visitors sigh, "How ransacked all the class rooms.
desperately tired and a few minutes to Southend central police elation.
Wainwright and sweet!"
The escape of Photographers were si a low to "Man can look at a baby and re- after entering the cells at Grays to explain why men should make main detached," he said. "Ife can await an escort from Lewes he fell Harris was the second from Lewes in
five weeks. ..better baby blotures than women. forget the human aspect and think of asleep.
Warders on duty at the time at- Mr. A. Backnell, secretary of the baby in terms only of a camera the amsciation, thinks the reason subject. That attitude la more dif-
tended an inquiry held by the pri- son.commissioners at the gnol, la paychologienă.
ficult for a woman,”
Later four detectiver went to the home of George William Harris (22), in Durham Road, South-end.
It is to be shown in Gainsborough to raise funds for the local hospital, and later it will be sent, it is under- to the Natural History {Museum, South Kensington.
stood,
Over
mun,
Cheng Shu-ching,
when
sister of ac-
The driver stopped immediately used, sold her brother had alwaya but not in time, and the girl struck been on good terms with the girl,
Acting Sub-Inspector R. G. Baker the nearside mudguard and head-testified to having found a blood- lamp.
stain at the scene, about eight feet The incident was witnessed also from the pavement. -
private car, which by the driver of was then about 10 yards away, and Sergeant T. Melanes deposed that a coolle, who happened to be walking the motor lorry was in good me- and other wit- chanical condition along at the time.
and in-
•
to go to
The girl was rendered unconsciousnesses who gave formal evidence were and she was subsequently taken to Constable Chan Sam, C424, Sergeant the Queen Mary Hospital, where she J. Allen and Yu King-yue, Police
Interpreter. weeks, for about three remained
witness- suffering from concussion
Giving evidence in the juries to the left side of the face. box, accused said that when he told
Accused was taken to No. the girl of his intention Police Station, and when charged Canton, she asked him if he wanted that he with causing grievous bodily harm to break off their engagement. He with intent to malm the girl, he said no, but she insisted made a statement to the effect that should wrlle out a document break- he pushed the girl as he was angry ing the engagement. Eventually he at her change of affections, and that promised. to do so, whereupon she he did not know at the time a lorry asked him to take her to his father
and sister to talk the matter over. was coming.
Q
After Sergeant T, Mackay, Police
Words of Disagreement photographer, and Mr. G. H. Gandy. surveyor of the F.W.D., had given
On the way, they had some words talking formal evidence, the girl told the of disagreement. She was Court of her trouble with accused loudly, and he gave her a pat on the same time and of the incident. Questioned by right shoulder, at the accused, she said she could not give asking her not to speak in such
afterwards, any reason why he deliberately gave manner. Immediately
towards her the push. She could not re- the girl walked sideways member if he had used one or both the middle of the road, and after hands, but she could recollect it was several paces she slipped. Thero- upon he stretched out both arms in a push and not a pat,
Dr. T. K. Lien, of the Queen Mary order to catch hold of her, but un- Hospital, testified to having ex-fortunately a lorry, which was tra- amined the girl and found her sul velling very fast, happened to pas fering from concussion and injuries by and knocked her down. He had to the left side of the face and lettino intention of causing her grievous onkic.
bodily harm,
Lapse of Monory
Cross-examined, accused admitted Leung Chau, mother of the girl, spoke of the quarrel at her house, that it was an a result of his pas, that and added that after the Incident the girl was injured, but maintained suffered that it was sheer misfortune that her daughter occasionally from lapse of memory and giddiness. the lorry happened to pass by,
The case was adjourned until 10 Evidence of having seen the incl- dent was then given by Li Ping-fat, amlo-morrow for accused to call driver of lorry No. 3459. Witness witnesses to testify to his character.
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