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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 3, 1939.
DIAMONDS AND GOLD VANISH CONCER
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£120,000 TREASURE MISSED FROM SHIP
Brussels.
JHEN the Belgian steamer Elisabethville arrived at Antwerp recently from the Congo it was found that diamonds and gold ingots to the value of £120,000 had disappeared from the ship's safe.
No trace of any attempt to force the safe open could, however, be found.
Police boarded the Elisabethville at Flushing and began an inquiry. When the steamer arrived at Antwerp no one allowed to go on board.
A
FOUND IN LUGGAGE
stated
NEWBRapor
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that part of the missing valuables had i been found in some luggage.
The diamonds and gold were ap purently stolen from a strong-room where postal packages are kept.
During the voyage
the captain found abandoned a box in which treasures are usually stored.
Be
nude inquiries which resulted in the discovery of the theft.-Reuter.
The Ellanbethville (3,351 lons) is a passenger vessel belonging to the Cle. Maritime Delge (Lloyd Royal) S.A. (Agence Maritime Internationale, Managers) and registered at Antwerp
Widow Pays £500 For Slander
FOR saying that a fellow-member
of n London club had left the country because he was wanted by! the police, Mrs. Sulton Chapman, a|
'Seek Top-Hat Burglar'
Was
Mrs. Karen Ostrer, wife of elnema magnate Mark Ostrer, who way robbed of Jewels worth nearly £10,- 000 on the eve of her wedding an
advised
Scotland-yard niversary, hatte burglar moving among the officers recently to look for a "top- rich in the West End.
The gems were taken from a wall safe in her bedroom, at her home in Portland-place, W
W., while she and her husband were at a cinema.
She said: "The burglar took the diamond bracelet my husband gave me when my first baby was born, but left other expensive bracelets."
This group of Chinese who recently left Hongkong on the President Pierce were organised for the pur- pose of visiting the two international expositions being held in America this year. They are travelling under the auspices of the American Express Company and being personally conducted by Professor Kiang Kang-hu, Consultant of the Library of Congress, Washington. The party will proceed first to San Francisco and later in the summer will journey across the States to see the World Fair at New York. Several members of the party will return here by way of the Pacific while the others will continue round the world via Europe and return towards the end of the year.
The King May Radio Instructions from U.S.A. to His Council of State in London
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COUNCIL of State will be
widow, formerly of Queen's Güte, appointed to act for the King Bayswater, W., was ordered at Mid-walle he and the Queen are on their dlesex Sheriff's Court recently to Canadian and American four in June. The Councillors will be the Duke pay £500 duminges for slander, and
of Gloucester,
the Duke of Kent, the costa.
Princess Royal, and Princess Arthur of Connaught.
The action which was not de- fended, was brought by Mr. Harry Woudstra, nged 31, of Old Oak-road, Acton, W.
If the King had been travelling alone the Queen would have been the first Councillor.
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By letters patent under the Great! Councillors of State certain of the Seal the King will delegate to the
Mr. Rodger Wine. for Mr. Woudstra, said Mrs, Sutton Chapman fold members of the club that he Royal functions, including preroka been refused admission to Souli
tive and statutory powers. They will! Africa.
also be empowered to receive any
"That in utterly and completely untrue,"wald Mr. Winn. "There is
things that have been sald."
homage to be done to the King.
The functions will be specified in not a shred of truth in any of these the letters patent, but they will not include power to dissolve Parliament. This remains in the personal control of the King.
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The glovers lost to foreigners
MARGETTS, fifty-seven-year-old glove maker, sits at home in his council house at Stoke, nearly £500,000 in wages last year near Yeovil, wondering when he will work again. He up to October. knows where his work has gone to Czecho-Slovakia and Italy, where it helps to build bombers.
Foreigners sent 071,000 dozen pairs of leather gloves in that time- that is one pair for every fifth person in England. Scotland and Wales enough work to last 5,000 plove-
In Yeovil and the villages Slovakian must work for 30s. a week, around, centre of England's age-Must George work for that? "Not
makers a year. sold glove industry, most of the likely," he says, that if the Prime Minister should world's finest glove makers are
Czecho-Slovakia can sell gloves in If grey-haired Mrs. Margetts takes this country at 400. a dozen pairs, ask for a General Election in the King's absence the request can be working half time. Some, like in some gloves to finish, as women despite a 30 per cent, tarif. The
do round here, she is paid, 30s. a not. conveyed to the King, who can tele- George Margetts, have graph Instructions to the Councillors. worked for a year,
This opens up the possibility, remote though it is, of the King dissolving Parliament in London by an edict Issued from the seat of the American Government in Washington.
IN TOUCH WITH CABINET
From every important centre on his tour it will be possible for the King to get into touch with the Councillors of State or his Ministers in London.
The Inauguration recently of the radio-telephone link between Britain
and Newfoundland, which King and Queen are to visit on their way home, has made these facilities complete.
In the event of any emergency the King would be able to take a personal part In any consultations.
The appointment of the Councillors of State will not require legislation. They will be the first Councillors to he appainted under the Regency Act of 1937, which provides permanent machinery for meeting three con- tingencies; the succession of a minor to the throne, the illness of the Sovereign, or the abence of the Sovereign from the country.
Because they tried to buy their way in by paying cash to purse-poor.pceresses who might sponsor them, 50 girls and wo- men have found their applica lions to bo presented at the British court turned down by the Earl of Clarendon, above, British Lord Chamberlain. His office is rigidly attempting to stamp out this practice.
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Lee Boyle, 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Boyle, recovered in the hospital bere from the effects of having drunk a can of cost oil.
But what hopes? Foreigners are making nearly half the gloves worn in Britain. Czecho-Slovakia makes half of the gloves we import
When George Margetts works he'
week. Czecho-Slovakian womenfolks nearest English type is 18s. jare paid only Us, a week,
are
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The Industry asked the Import Dulles Advisory Committee last week
These Somerset men atackers. They regard it as an insult for n duty of 35 per cent., with a to go on the dole. They and their minimum duty of 15s. a dozen pairs. forefathers have been used to steady
work.
On the cammlitce's decision rest the fate of George Margetts's livell boud and the future happiness of
Is paid 709, 8-week-but the Czecho- · Now they are signing on at the 15,000 glove workers.
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