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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
Unary, Simzees Cotil
April 19, 1939.
BOY'S LETTER TO DUKE GOT 17 YEARS
HIM PLACE IN EXPEDITION
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Young Rascal" Thinks Explorer's Name Is Omen
A 15-YEAR-OLD Lancashire boy arrived at London recently on the first stage of the biggest adventure of his life.
He is Frank Wilde, secondary schoolboy, of Doe Hey Road, Bolton, who a month ago wrote to the Duke of Gloucester asking to be allowed to join the expedition of public schoolboys which goes to Newfoundland ̈ this
summer.
to be
Frank is going to Newfoundland. His expenses are paid by the Navy League,' and recently in London he met Lord Lloyd, president of the League, and Surgeon Commandor Murray Levick, IL.N., who is to lead the expedition.
"It was something my mother said that made me write to
the Duke of Gloucester,” Frank said,
"I had been reading Ballantyna's ' books about Conada and the North,” he' enkl
MOTHER'S HINT
"I bod read "Fast in the lee,' and was finishing 'Ungava' when I read about the expedition.
"I told my mother that I wanted to with the ex-
go to Newfoundland
pedition. All she said was. 'You'll get nowhere unlras you do something| about it.**
"The very next day I wrote the letter
to the Duke.
"Then one day Mr. Roscoe, the headmaster at my school-the Junior Technical School, Bolton-called mic into his room and said that he hud letters about a boy called Wilde, and Was it me.
"THE YOUNG RASCAL"
"I led up a form, had a medical examination, and the headmaster gave me a very good certificate.
"When I met Cominander Levlek to-day he said: So you
the
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"Lord Lloyd said: "I liked your cheek writing to the Duke. like that, | but it shows you have enterprise, and
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ling two years ago.
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London.
Sentences totalling ninety. one and a half years were passed by Mr. Justice Hum- phreys at the Old Bailey re cently on nine accused men in the bombs trial.
HERE are the names of the.
nine accused and the sen- Lences. given them:
Michael Janeph Mason. aged 20, engineer. of Great Nelson-street, Liverpool. SEVENTEEN YEARS.
Peter Stuart, aged 25, poster writer, no address, described in I.R.A. documents በ። Operations Omeer, Britain-FIFTEEN YEARS.
Chares James Cancy, aged 23, porter, of Vinduct-street, Bethnal Green-FOURTEEN YEARS.
of
Michael Preston, aged 23, labourer,
Pimlico Cambridge-street,
TWELVE YEARS
John Healy, aged 40, club pro- prietor, of Fordington-road, Highgate
-TEN YEARS,
James Michael Lyons, aged 28, French polisher, of Petherton-road, Islington-TEN YEARS.
George Brendon Kane, aged 23, butcher, of Harold-road, Sutton- BEYEN YEARS.
Michael O'Shea, aged 24, labourer, of Clewer-crescent, Ilarrow Weald- FIVE YEARS.
Joseph Walker, aged 20, labourer, of Great Nelson-street, Liverpool- EIGHTEEN MONTIIS' ILARD
LABOUR.
Kane had pleaded Guilty to con-
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TWO NOTES TO JUDGE
After an obence of an hour and a quarter the jury--ten men and two women-sent the judge two notes and then returned to court,
The foreman asked two questions of Dr. Roche Lynch about aluminium powder found on Walter's coat, and then the Jury retired again for an- other thirty-five minutes,
As soon as the verdicts of Guilty had been returned the Judge order- ed all the prisoners, with the ex
ception of
of Blason, Stuart, And
Preston, to go below.
Petty Officer leading to the
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All the other argused, except those three, were hustled down the steps cells. Mason, Stuart, and Preston stood in a row side by side in front of the dock, each with his arms folded, awaiting sentence.
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The expedition leaves for New-with
card on which she bad welt- foundland on August 1, and the boys ten "Admit sweep." return to England on September 15.)
Present Day Prodigal Son
post of "O.C. 1.R.A. Great Britain': In succession to a man who was killed Judgment with costs was given in by the premature explosion of a the King's Bench Division in favour
bomb on the Irish border, So Mr. Edwards, forty-seven-year of Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Stuart's correct name was Peter old "Old Contemptible" who
has Cork and
Joseph Orrery,
Не Walsh, and Captain
was born in swept the Ebbisham chimneys with Richard Shelley.
Glasgow, and was the son of a pen- i his Loreman,
greeted the Hon.
Jenkins' case was that In January,
sioned police Elizabeth and her bridegroom, the 1938, instead of being court-martiall
constable in that city, When Mason was asked by the Ilon. Guy Herbrand Edward Russell, ed, as was sentenced summarily to questions, he folded his arms across Judge whether he wished put any R.N., brother of Lord Ampthill, as they left the church.
| days' detention on a charge of his chest and, with a smile, said: "My wilfully hnd officer. He said: "Lady Ebbishom
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name is not Mason, I would like to given Instructions that I was to go More than eight years ago a Dun-up to her sun-in-law as soon as he only point for dedsion was whether
Mr. Justice Hallett said that the be sentenced in my real name.
It is dee mun quarrelled with his father, left the church, tap him on the Jenkins was sentenced for highly
Cleary." left home, yet returned shortly after-shoulder, and wish himn good luck.
AN INCENDIARY wards and lived in the same street "He didn't know anything about
Insubordinate conduct.
Then Preston broke his silence to Fax his father, without being seen this, and when I went up und said lawful command would correctly be/say, "My correct name is not Preston,
Its Fleming."
Dealing rat with Mason. Mr. Justice Humphreys, in stern, slow
London.
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"I think wilful disobedience to This strange story was told in Dundee to him, wish you the best of luck SheriT Cour! In connection with a and I hope you have lots o' kids' he con the Judge stated.
fescribed as a kind of insubordina- petition lodged by the father to pre turned round and roared with laugh- The adjective seems to me not to sume, his son dead,--the petition was rendered necessary by the
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of the Petition the Sheriff commented her and said, 'Hallo, what's happened
Counsel for Jenkins were Sir on what seemed to be the almost im-here?'
Stofford Cripps. M.P., Mr. Peter vossible fact that the son had lived Then he turned back to me and Pain, Central Portsmouth's 20-yeur within a few yards of his father for said, "Thanks very much, I wish you old Labour candidate, and Mr. An- so long without being seen.
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