Thursday
HONGKONGA TELEGRAPH
January 5, 1939.
Naval OfficerFalls From Express Train
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WITHAM (Essex).
NAVAL officer, Leiutenant Guy Slater, nged thirty-one, whose wedding the following week was to have been a leading event of the London season, died recently in Chelmsford Hospital, after he had fallen from an express train.
A few hours before the ac- cident he and his bride-to-be, Mia Patricia Adams, had called together at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, W., and had
1. MOUSE RUNS UP BROKER'S
LEG
A Mouse held up City traffic discussed with the vicar final through Throgmorton Street, E.C., arrangements for their wed-for five ininutes. It raced out of the ding.
Four hundred guests had been in
was to have vited. The reception been held in a Mayfair hole. A Continental honeymoon was runged.
SEEN IN MOONLIGHT
Left Lieutenant Slater Then. Lendon for Ipswich on an express train from Liverpoot-street. As it thundered past Witham at sevenly miles an hour he was thrown out sprawled and lay unconscious, across the other rails.
It was bright moonlight. The dri ver of a goods train following the express saw the unconscious man on the rails along which an up train was due.
The driver jammed on his brakes. Lieutenant Slater, his head severely injured, was talcen to Chelmsford Hospital.
While doctors there prepared to operate, telephone calls brought the dying man's fiancee and mother hurrying to Chelmsford.
For four hours surgeons fought to save his life. For four hours mother and sweetheart walled together in
nearby hotel.
His mother, now Mrs. Borlon, had travelled to Chelmsford with her husband, Air Vice-Marshal Borton, of Cheveney, Kent.
In the late afternoon the two wo- then were summoned to the hospital. The
operation had been In vain. They stayed by his bed as the un- conscious man died.
Lleutenant Slater's father, Mr. S.
HL Sinter, of Guildford, Surrey, is a retired Indian Civil Servant.
Just three weeks ago," he said, "I saw him off from this door. He was to be back here in four days.
"One thing I must do at once: must go up and see Pat Adams, who should have been his bride."
Stock Exchange, followed by the Stock Exchange eat.
The mouse ran for safety up they trousers of a stock-broker who was standing outside in the street.
A crowd made a ring round the broker while he took his trousers 60. He eventually released the mouse-but the cat did not.
2. MOUSE RUNS UP LAWYER'S
LEG
Mr. 1. V. Roseman, a lawyer, is suing a cinema at Cleveland, Ohio. for £50 damages because, lie says, a mouse ran up his trouser-leg while he was teatching a picture.
He declared he was scratched und bitten, was unable to sleep that night.
George Formby
Is Upset
A few words spoken during à "Lis- Iteners Requests" programine of gramophone records in the National recently have upset Programine comedian George Tormby.
Lieutenant Slater, attached to the depot IIM.S. Ganges, was due to start on leave.
His danece is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Adams, of Bourton-on-the-Water, Glos.
At his home in Palace Gate House,
Typical of the 18,000 Itallon families that of the 19 ships that carried the emigrants across have left their native land to colonize Libya is the Mediterranean, to be greeted by Governor the Amadeo Maestri famlly, left centre, emigrat- Marchat Italo Balbo, right centre, on arrival at ine from their home In Pescaro-di-Ferrara, An- Cirene, Top right, statue of 11 Duce at Tripoli. nouncement that the government had chosen waving the Sword of Islam. Colonists found them caused much interest in the home court- hoines and forms completely equipped, awaiting yard, lower right, while Muma Maestri, lower them. Families from some Italin towns are left, got her identification tag. Top left, some kept together,
"Pull Up Your COUNSEL SAYS THAT
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The King!"
Renfrew (Ontario).
"We have had a number of re-Suid Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor- quests," said the announcer, "for Mr. General of Canada, to a group of George Formby's 'When I'ni Cleaning children at Renfrew;- Windows. But they are not yet
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"Children. I have a word for you.
CHINESE EMBASSY
REFUSED EVIDENCE
A
COMPLAINT that the Chinese Embassy had pleaded diplomatic privilege, and refused to give evidence in
W., Air Vice-Marshal Borton, step We will try to find one of his songs The King is coming, so I hope you a case in connection with an alleged transaction concern-
Iather of Lieutenant Slater, sükk:-.
"My stepson came here to say good-bye to me and his mother yes- terday,
"We never thought that when next we saw him he would be dying in a hospital bed,"
Cotton
Golf
will all brush your hair and pull up
Your socks, for the King is especially ing arms for China, was made by counsel at Bow-street
Sald George Formby In London interested in children." one night: "It is one of my most famous songs. It the man in the The King and Queen are to visit B.B.C. studio didn't like it he need Canada and the United States next not have mentioned it at all."
May.
Praises the
Ashridge (Herts), Henry Cotton, most famous gol! professional in Britain, recently told the full story of the match in which be partnered the Duke of Windsor to beat two other players.
crack
He described the Duke's game as he talked enthusiastically in his home at Little Gaddesden, near here.
"We played Mr. Max Aitken and Cloud Percy Boomer on the St. (Paris) oourse," he said, "In a four- all foursome. Mr. Aitken has a handicap of one, and Boomer is one of the finest players in France. The Duke played off 0.
"At the first few holes we did not do so well. The Duke was
un-
ruffled, however, and drove steadi.
ly.
"He has a good swing, and near-
Duke's
Cocaine "Burned Hole!
In His Pocket”
recently.
Mr. G. Du Cann, who appear- ed for two of the three defend-i ants, submitted at the close of the hearing that no stone should be left unturned to bring some- body from the Embassy to speak about Mr. Chou Tin Shi, who had been mentioned in the case,
"Justice cannot be done if the Chinere Embassy are going to shelter behind their diplomatic privileges in this way," he declared,
The three defendants, Frederick Willing, aged 50, a Dutch subject and
Fiance Ran
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metal merchant, of Tavistock-court, A MAN who was said to have ordered a suit for the wed- Tavistock-square, agent, of Park- Jane, W., and James Ol Herbert ding and worn it at the opening Willing, aged 24, metal merchant, of
all committed of a Lonely People's Club which Dorset House, were
The founded, was ordered at
DEFENDING, at Bow-street, London, W.C., recently, a twenty-for trial.
nine-year-old hairdresser accused of possessing cocaine, Mr.
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All three defendants pleaded not Dublin Civil Court recently to The three were charged with have pay £150 damages for breach of mu
promise. ing conspired between December 1,
R. E. Fearnley-Whittingstall said that it was a case of moral guilty and reserved their defence. cowardico by a perfectly respectable man,
A short time, ago the man, 1937, and May 30, 1938, with Chou Francis Behan, of Curzon-street, George McGowan, received by Tin Shu and others unknown, to Dublin, was sued by Miss Margaret
Classics Read post from a man he had met in cheat, and defraud M. Theodore Gallagher, of South Circular-rond,
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By Younger Generation
London,
lively controversy has been
Paris a packet of cocaine, who fitte, stated to be manager of Dublin. Both are aged 35.
well-known firm of Paris armament
Mr. J. Fitzgerald, for Miss Guling- suggested he should sell it and agents, of £7,250. |keep anything over £20.
also were
charged with her, sald that the couple began keep- They obtaining the £7,250 by false pre-ing company in 1920. About 120 For more than a week McGawalt tences and with attempting to obtain letters had passed between them. wandered about miserably, wonder £4,000 from M. Lafitte by fulse CUIDE TO MISGUIDED ing what to do, the packet "burning pretences.
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"For some, reason," said Mr. Fitz- A Lonely gerald, "Behan started People's Club in Dublin and hoped | DA1541 to make money out of it.
"He subsequently ran excursions DA1651 and organised donces for 'misguided lonely people in the city."
ly every time ho pliches well up the aroused in the Press Uy statements the West End, fairway. It is on his approach by Sir D'Arcy Thompson, Professor almost at once.
of natural history at St. Andrews, Magistrate Sir Rello Graham- shots that he loses points.
Charles Grant Robinson, Campbell bound McGowan over. "We were three down at the turn, and Sir
University, but the Duke's good driving counter-Principal of Birmingham
In February of this year Behan balanced his weak points, and at the suggesting that the younger genera-
the In are unacquainted times, 13th we were all square. Slowly wotton of students
of the Possibilities of a new California handed Miss Gallagher a letter in forged ahead and won by one up. with the classics of English Ilterature. "Gulliver's Travels"--one
The Timer to-day publishes the books mentioned in Sir D'Arcy fruit growing industry is that of which he stated he had met another went round in 09, and the Duke in
a number of librarians Thompson's opinions of
indictment-copies in bananas. John Rose has successfully girl on the previous June and they whose evidence, while not Immedi-the lending library of one London experimented here with a tree that intended to get married. This was the first time I have ately relevant to the complainta of borough have each been borrowed was 14 inches tall when he planted it played with him, but I saw that he the eminent university teachers, do more than 50 times in the past year 18 months ago, and is now 10 feet! Miss Gallagher, in evidence, sald ripened for Lonely People's Club correspon- is a really good player. I think that at least conflict with any idea of a while ni Croydon it was reported high, with a Baincter of 18 inches and j that Behan used his home as an office
dence.
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he should very soon have a handleap generat decline of public interest in Lo In low single figures,"
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