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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
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July
June 13, 1939.
HIS OLD PUPIL London Now Is Full
TO RUN SCHOOL
'Head' Has Caned Only One Boy In 44 Years
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The Rev. II. N. Asman, white-haired and benign headmaster of Owen's School, Islington, who in forty-four years of teaching. has enned only one boy, is retiring at the age of sixty-two,
Smallest Baby Is On Brandy Diet
In her cotton-wool bed, lies Rose Marianne Bass, zmaliest baby ever born in the Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway, She now weighs 216. boz.- Daz, heavier than at birth, Her diet includes brandy.
Asleep, Drove
In London
LEA that he drove a car from Plcendilly-circus to Trafalgar-square while asleep was made by John Angus McDonald Teacher, twenty- seven-year-old advertising agent, of Glebe-place, Chelsen, at Bow-street Public Court recently.
It was stated that he was left in
the back of the car while friends
went to a restaurant after a bolile party. The next he remembered was waking in the ear at the traffic lights In Trafalgar-square,
Of Hidden Treasure
Articles stored in London sate] deposits are estimated to have In- creased by £100,000,000 in total value in the last few months.
"This is largely owing to a rush by foreigners to honrd gold, jewellery and art trensures,
The custodian of one deposit nald that the total value of the treasures kept underground now was pro- bably about £400,000,000,
Many valuable paintings recently flown from the Continent are now packed behind grilles, Thousands of rich people have turned their cur-j rency into gold and brought it to London.
"talked in slEEP
į "Tazzy." us hin 500 pupils catt him, will have lig portrait-painted Regen!-street, W. where Queen Mary The London Safe Deposit in by an old boy of the school-present has a safe, has recently fitted several ed to him by the governor and the safes with combination-number open- school.
Ing systems so that foreigners need His successor Is Mr. Oliver carry no written record of their de-
posits, Mitchell, of King's School, Peler~| borough, a former pupil of Owen's.
Mr. Asian taught the лен headmaster history, English and Latin.
In his study Mr. Asman told Sunday Express representative of his recollections of the new headmaster as a boy.
"It is twenty-four years since I taught Mr. Mitchell, who is now forty," he said. "I have kept in elosest touch with him and used to visit him at Oxford,
BOYS AGAIN
A few days ago one foreigner asked for his combination num- bers to be changed. He said his wife had told him he talked in his) sleep.
One big sale is crammed with trea- pures put there by a Spaniard nearly three year sago when he went lo Aght for Franco.
He has.never come back.
"We shall wait another ten years for him." the custodian Esid. "Then we shall open the safe and try to traco his relatives,**
One man has paid for a wall to be built round his trunks so that
- "On the alight when the gover-others cannot watch when he is open-
deciding definitely ing them. 1105N were whom they would appoint to suc-) eeed me. I was turning over some old papers when I found a Latin
written exercise prose
by Mr. Mitchell when he was one of my pupils.
"When i told Mr. Mitchell he begged to have it back.
Secretary To Duke Saves Wife
Belfast.
As Commander Oscar Henderson,
"Both Mr. Mitchell and Mr. private secretary to the Duke of Edmund Capp. who has painted | Abercorn, Governor of Northern Ire- my portrat for the school, fell me land, and his wife were motoring they always feel like boys again near Dungannon their car skidded when they are with me."
and plunged 8ft. Into a awamp, it was Mr. Asman is a bachelor.
revealed recently.
He believes that physical punish-j
Mrs. Henderson received a severe
Teacher was Aned £20 for being under the influence of drink in charge of a car, and was disqualifiedment is a Sign of weakness in a wound in the head and her arm was from driving for a year.
Singapore Designer
For Australia
Sir Leopold Savile, the enginecr who was responsible for the design and construction of Singapore Dock- yard, recently left Home for Aus- tralia at the end of the month to confer with Australian Government officials on the proposed building of a dry dock.
moster.
"I was never much good at that kind of thing," he said, "and i have
card only one boy in my time here." Candidate Wins, 18-0
Campbell, Cal. Etlun E. Lanphear feels that he has acquired an unusual distinction in the history of democracy.
broken.
Commander Henderson, slightly in jured, pulled his wife from the over- turned car unconscious, and used his shirt to bandoge her head.
University Library Enriched
Omaha, Neb.
The elaborate library of the late He re- Charles N. Dietz of Omaha, some 9,000 eelved the unanimous suffrage here volumes, replete with manuscripts of all votes cast for local fire com- possession of the University of and
For years Italy's leaning tower of Pisa has been famous, but Just recently Italian designers adapted it to summer hat styles for 1039. Here's Eltzabeth Boyce, first American visiter to wear one,
Canon Who Was To Wed Girl Of 18
LESS than a fortnight after the proposed date of his marriage to an eighteen-year-old girl, the Rev. Ralph Porter Wade, fifty-seven-year-old Canon of Lincoln Cathedral and Vicar of Clee-with-Cleethorpes, was found dead in bed at his vicarage recently. Death is believed to have been due to gas poisoning.
His fiancee, Miss Margaret Adcock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Adenek, Į He announced last October that he of Ocgodby Manor, near Gran- had become engaged to Miss Adcock; tham, Lines, unaware of what had who was then seventeen, and had happened, was in London to see her left Grantham High School only three nineteen-year-old sister, Constance, weeks before the announcement. off to Tanganyika, where she is to
Mr. Canon Wade had returned-to-his-The wedding was at first urranged
Gordon Parker.
DISPLEASURE
after arleit Miss
to take place on April 18 at a village was found by his house church near Grantham, but later was
went to his room to postponed until the summer. keeper who call him, thinking he had overslept.
News of the canon's death was The engagement caused much con- broken to members of the family by troversy ot. Cleethorpes. It a friend at Corby, Lines,
caused the writing of anonymous
There have been reports that amissioner. second "Singapor" might be built at showed that all 18 ballots were cast Nebraska. The university acquired! Sydney.
for him.
the library for approximately $8,000.
marry Tabulation of returns books of years ago, is now in
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A visit to
Adcock.
even
A relative said that there was letters, which worried Canon Wade so no question of the engagement much he had to arrange that his having been broken off.
correspondence should be read before Canon Wade lind been a widowerIt was given to him. for four years.
It was stated that some of his parishionera were trying to secure his resignation.
The Rev. A. G. Summers, who until three months ago was Canon Wade's curate at Cleethorpes, said that the controversy had made little difference to the romance.
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WAGES SNATCHED
Delinquent Receives Two Months' Imprisonment
"The displeasure of some of the Sentence of two months' hard Inbour was Imposed on Wong Shing, the announcement of the engage
parishioners was expressed soon after 20, unemployed, by Mr. R. A. D. ment," he said, "and If it was to make Forrest at the Central Magistracy any difference it would have done so yesterday when he pleaded guilty to then."
the theft of $0 from an amah, Chan A church official said: "The church Lam, 40, at Tin Lok Lane, Won- has not been more than half full since
chal, on Sun Baker sad the the canon announced his engagement,
Inspector A.
I believe that this had grieved him Woman had just been paid her wages and was walking along the considerably.", street when Wong snatched money from her hand.
Other incidents
the
Henvy prison terms and canings were imposed on two men when they were charged before the Magistrates at the Kowloon Court yesterday with snatching.
Key To Peace In Pay Cheque
SEATTLE. LI Iu-ming, 23, was sentenced to Celebrating bts 65th wedding six months' hard labour and 12 anniversary, 86-year old William strokes of the cane by Mr. Q. A. A. Park said the whole secret for A Macfadyen for snatching a pair of happy marriage is to let the wife gel earrings from Mrs. Shek Miu-hing, all her husband's pay-cheques. Park 50, of 23 Jordan Road.
retired 13 years ago after working inspector Wright said that Mrs. for a rail-road freight department. Shek was walking in the Yaumati district when Li went behind her und snatched the pair of earrings she was wearing. One of the woman's cars was hurt
L can through two atreels to es- cape but was arrested in Woosung treet by Wong Nam, 31, a broker. Li had a previous conviction for larceny last month.
Ho Kam, 20, was sentenced to four] months' hard labour and 10 strokes of the case for snatching wrist watch} from Yiu Chuen-lan, an 18-year-old girl, who was walking in Tung Chol Street pear Nullah Rond, on Sunday. Ho had one.previous conviction.
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