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Ex-Countess Threatened Breach of Promise Suit OFFICER FOUGHT AT PARTY
Now They're Reconciled-"She's Withholding The Action"
RS W. H. PATTERSON—formerly the Countess
MRS Anna Monici-instructed her solicitors to sue Capt.
Henry Dobinson, friend of her late husband, for breach of promise.
Later he was involved in a fight at her studio-Hat in Blooms. bury after a Christmas party-and recently they were reconeiled) -"the Countess has agreed to withhold the action for the time being," he said.
Mrs. Patterson is an artist-still signs her paintings "Monic!"-opera singer, and formerly lived in Venice.
STAYED IN VENICE
write her memoirs,"
direction. I have already been Capt; Dobinson, a member of the Working in collaboration with her to Committee for Non-Intervention in Spain, has been her friend for many years, and was entertained at Venice by her and the Count.
He served in the war with her second husband, who died a year ago. He stated recently that he still hoped the ex-counless would marry him.
Pointing to a deep cut on his fore- lead, Capt. Dobinson said: "Let me first assure you that this has nothing to do with the fight that followed the Countess's party, and has nothing to do with the proceedings that have been started against me for breach of promise.
outside the
"The fight occurred flat, and arose because, I obfected to remarks made by certain people at the party.
NOT HURT
ment-"Captain Dobinson has been Mr. Patterson nodded her agree- very kind to me," she said, "and hope we can settle the whole busi- ness amicably. He knows so much about my Italy and speaks fluently the Venetian dialect which I love to hear."
"ALL I HAVE"
She told of the parties she once uve at her house in St. John's Wood, and that she was now trying to re- gain wealth and fame through her paintings.
"They me all I have left," she
Pupils of the George Goncharo School of Dance as they appeared
In the recent ballet presentation at the King's Theatre.
'Unknown' Woman Buys
MR.
Canute Relic
'R. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST'S collection of silver from St. Donat's, his castle in Wales, was sold in four hours for £41,882 at Christie's, Lon- don, recently.
The most exciting mo-
cried, sweeping her arms out the ment of the four hours was studio, which was full of her con-when an ox's horn, sparsely them to-day and I am practically liv-decorated with Larnished silver, vares. I cannot get anybody to buy ing in poverty with my dog and cats. was held up. At once there was
"Beatrice Lille, Alice Delysta. Richard Tauber, and scores of
a buzz of talk among the 300 "I was uninjured in the fight.
other famous people have paint-
men present. ings by me. Now.. The wound you see how happened some time later, I do not propose in 1921.
She met Capt. Patterson in Milan to discuss how it was received."
They fell in love. As an alien she was forbidden Referring to the breach threat, he England, but she followed him in a 10 enter said, "Some misunderstanding arose French fishing smack dressed as a over a slight criticism 1 made of her saltor. paintings.
"While I think Highly of her art. I told her that she should have a business man to self her paintings and I agreed
She was sent to prison and then escorled to a boat to leave the coun- try. Capt. Patterson followed took her to Paris, where they were and to help her in this married.
Looked Through Window, Saw Mail Being Rifled
POLICE looked through the window of a house in Gough-road, Edgbaston, recently and, Inter at Birmingham said they saw a stolen mail bag being rifled,
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as tem-
The relie, is the Pusey Horn, given to William Pewse by King Canute, Danish ruler in England in 1917.
Killed Warming Her Hands
HOW a "wonderful mother,"
February 3, 1939. Library, Supreise EMPIRE NEWS
AIR DEVELOPMENT. IN. NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand.
Mr. F. Jones, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, announces that the Cabinet has approved the provision of additional base facilities for the Trans-Tasman air service at Hobson-
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The work will be begun im- mediately. It will include a repairs shop and administrative and meteoro- logical buildings. “
The Harbour Board is providing a landing-stage and pentoon.
AUSTRALIA
WIRELESS DISPUTE.
SETTLED
Sydney.
The dispute between the Post- muster-General, Mr. Cameron, and
the
Socialist-owned commercial tarcadeusting station 2KY in Sydney, has been settled.
.. The controllers of the station have undertaken to publish in the Socialist newspaper an apology for suggestions that one member of the Federal Ministry was controlled by a foreign organisation and that Mr. Cameron censored telegrams going to Part Kembla, where the wharf labourers have for some weeks refused to lond Iron ore for Japan.
Air Merger Plan.-Federal Minis- ters are unofeinlly discussing a plan for closer merging of the interests of Australian internal air lines under a single controlling company like Im- perial Airways. The object is closer Co-operation with oversens air linea and elimination of wasteful com- petition by more economical use of aircraft,
A Premier's Daughter Engaged.— The engagement is announced at Melbourne of Miss Elwyn Margaret Dunstan, daughter of Mr. A. A. Dunstan, Premier of Victoria, and Mr. J. 11. Chinner, Rhodes scholar from Victoria for 1039-Reuter.
SOUTH AFRICA
NATIVE WELFARE
REFORMS
disguised himself as a shepherd and took, lost her child in a bedroom Pewic, an offleer of Canute's army. despite the precautions she spied on the Saxons. He discovered fire was told at an inquest at
Cape Town. Far-reaching plans are under con- a plan to ambush the, king, and saved his life.
Barnet, Hertfordshire, recently.sideration for widening the sphere of The horn
The child was Joan Mary Native Affairs. I activities of the was kept in the Pusey.
Department of family until 1935, when it was sold Gilson, aged, 7, of Lime-cottages. centralise the native welfare activi
is proposed to to Mr. Hearst for £1,900.
The recent
tes at present distributed among bidding opened at Green-street, Shenley.
Government Evidence was given that her night- various rose in £20 jumps to £1,000,}
departments £800, and then by £50 lids to £1,800. dress blazed up while she was warm-under the one department, This Sgure was reached in
ing her hands by the bedroom fire.
Mr. D. L. Smit, Secretary minutes.
Native Affairs, told the Native Re- presentative Council that the Govern- ment intended to introduce legisla- tion abolishing the issuing by traders of credit tokens to native mine workers.
two!
At this price the horn was knocked down to Mr. J. Pruncls Mallet, whoj said he was neting for woman who is keeping her name sceret. She is giving the rolle to the Victoria and Albert Muscum.
Instinct Told Her
charged Its con- sort
Mrs. May Gilson, her mother, sald the grate was fitted with a big heavy treguard which she thought was per- fectly safe.
Police Constable Pearce, the coroner's officer, said the flreguard was of the type used in schools and he considered it most effective. Mrs. Gilson, who had ten children, was described by all her acquaintances
a wonderful mother.
The coroner. Mr. T. Ottoway, said
Three men and two women were who had been employed charged with stealing and receivinɛ] porary mail a mail bog.
trivers during WE were supposed to be married the tragedy might have been caused Christmas, were remanded John Thomas Dalt, of Gough-road, with stealing the bag and
on October 5, but I had af by a spark coming through the guard, Edgbaston, and Martin hemy Bay tents,
of presentiment," gald Miss He felt very sorry for Mrs. Gilson, ss, of Wineman-terrace, Edgbaston,|
Florence Flint recently at Marylebone who was obviously a mother who had Frederick John Collinson, Ed Police Court when she alleged that taken great care of her children. Weldon, nged
and thirty-nine-year-old Walter Evans Florence Richards, aged ninetten, all took her savings of more than £240
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twenty-two,
of Gough-road, were remanded on a and disappeared on the eve of their charge of receiving.
Inspector Oates said
wedding else.
in order to marry somebody
accepted.
Guitrys Still Play Love Scene
for
He described as "a public scandal" allowed to let natives mortgage their the practice whereby traders were
entire wogES. INDIA
TIGER KILLS MORE THAN 40 PEOPLE
Calcutta. - A man-eating tiger which has been terrorising the Nowgong district for two years was the subject of a question in the Asiam Legislative Assembly by Mr. P. W. Blenner- hassett, of the European Group. He asked the Government if it was aware
40 persons,
he saw Col- Evans, it was said, took room at Enson cutting the string of a num- Miss Flint's house in Pimlico-road. ber of parcels, Weldun was burning S.W., and after a few days proposed i
PARIS. the wrappings and Richards was to her und was holding a blue dress which had
He suggested that they should take ALTHOUGH Jacqueline Delubac, that the animal had killed more than twenty-eight-year-old actress, las apparently been in one of the parcels, a
small
restaurant together. Sh: Aled papers for divorce from her He added that a man and a girl withdrew her savings of more than Afty-three-year-old actor husband had recently been fatally mouted on
£300 and handed the money to Sacha Gultry, she still
performs a tea garden within two minutes' Evans to put into a joint account. love scene with him on the stage of walk of the Forest Ranger's office.
Out of the money Evans bought a Poris theatre every night.
The latter had not attempted to her a wedding ring and himself a
nor The play, written by Sacha Guitry, follow up the bearl,
had watch. On October 4 he dis-is colled "A Crazy World."
Government done more then offer appeared.
Sacha Guitry said: "Jacqueline and
£2 reward for his destruction. Evans pleaded guilty, and wasi I are comedians. So what difference Mr. Bardoloi, the Premier, said he sent for trial at the Old Bailey. I does it make if we play a love scene?" | would have inquiries made.
Women Of India Regain Position
Although history told us that women in India occupied a very high position in the ancient days, they had only started regaining that position within the last two or three decades after a long period of deterioration, sald Miss Flora Kalaht, the new Activities Secretary of the YW.C.A., Sing- apore, in a talk on "Women at the Singapore Y.W.C.A.
The meeting, organised by the Lotus Club, was presided over by{ Mra, 5. A. H. Shirazee, president of the Club,
Miss Knight said that Mahatma Gandhi in his message to the recent conference of women in India had stated in o
women of India depended the freedom of the country. She also referred to a recent utterance of Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, the Indian portens where she said that women should be dynamic and creative, and not merely imitative.
Miss Knight achled that Indian women should adopt the best from the West and East for their progress. The Parsees of Bombay were the first to encourage education among jwomen by recent times and other communities had followed that lead satisfactorily, continued Knight.
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The home should be the main centre of women's activity be- cause from that developed com- munities and nailors.
Sho laid particular emphasis on the fact that women Jn India devated preut attention to social work, particularly among poor vill- agers. She impressed on the Indian wamen in Malaya, the outstanding need for such work among labourers in Malaya.
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