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ADVENTURE OF LONDON
SCARLET PIMPERNEL
"How I Got Jewels
Out Of Germany"
TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Miss Mary Henry, of Kensington, London-a modern Scarlet Pimpernel who attempted to evade Customs duty on jewellery and a fur coat to help German friends-described her adventures recently.
A few hours earlier it had been revealed in court at Dover that Miss Henry brought out of Germany two diamond and platinum rings, a gold locket and chain, a diamond and platinum wristwatch and a Persian lamb coat.
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At the Gloucester Road home of her father she said: could not speak German and was feeling terribly nervous when "They will be leaving Germany in the train taking me out of the a few days as refugees and will be country stopped at the frontier forced to abandon their money and
Valuables. post,
"There the adventure really began. Three smart-uniformed Nazis enter- ed my compartment and approached a man sitting opposite to me. For a few minutes the guards and the po senger red. Then the man was removed from the train. The guards returned and searched the seat vain, pulling up the cushions.
"HOME IN TEARS"
"Next they spoke to me. I shook my head, showing them my English
which passport,
had the word actress on it--i used to be on the store.
"My friend's father has been in a concentration camp urad a still l from the terrible treatment he re- ceived.
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She collected all manner of sou venirs and toys modelled on World's Fair sights. She accumulated more than 100 different objects. Twelve of each kind were then stowed away in diplomatic pouches and are now on
the way across the Atlantic addressed to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose.
News has renched that when the presents arrive they will be displayed and distributed nt a World's Fair will give at party the Princesses Buckingham Palace..
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Flity Czech doctors are to be per- mitted to study in England with a view to practising. The minimum "To get the things over the Ger- period of study before they may be man frontier my Initials were sewn placed on the British Medical Re- into the cont: the watch, which had gister is three years, and until they "Made in Germany" on it, was cover-are on the register they cannot prad~! ed by the long sleeve of my dress,tise. and I, wore the rings."
This is the arrangement made be- tween the Home Ofice and the Bri ish Medical Association.
It won stated in court that when questioned at the Dover Customs the
Actually their permit to stay is for girl refused to reveal the nome of the the period of study only. Residence German family until she was assured in Britain depends on their obtain- that it would not be disclosed. It ing the accessary qualifications.
It la possible that a few others may Was not mentioned in court.
The Bench Imposed a penalty of be allowed to come to England for amined my Englisis money, but I took78 12s. 8d., the amount of duty on research and other special work, but the the goods, and this sum included 15 they will not, if they come, be al-
lowed to practise. They they passed, Kuineas costs,
"Apparently the way I was dressed, with fur cont and diamond and plate num rigs on my fingers convinced them I was on netress, They ex-
care that they could not locket and choin.
on.
"At Dover I could have made things easier if I had explained my story at Arab-but I was afraid that; I might involve my German friends.
Miss Henry's father said: had no idea what Mary was doing, The first we knew of her escapade reached home in
when she
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July 25, 1939.,
GIRL AS
In a brief, religious ceremony to solemnize the death of the 71 French seamen who lost their lives in the line of duty aboard the French submarine Phenix, the French community of Shanghai at- Pic- tended the services held at Bl. Josepli'a Church recently, tured above is the French Consul-General, M. Baudes, accompan– led by the local French military and naval commanders. In the lower picture are seen.a group of bluejackels from the French cruiser Primauguet,
Seaside Murder Charge: Man's I Want Fairness'
WHEN 70-year-old Joseph Williams, of Ingworth Road, Bourne Valley, Branksome, appeared on remand at Poole recently charged with the murder of Walter Dinnivan (64), Mr. Norman King, his solicitor, appealed for the assistance of the Bench in preparing the defence,
Don't Mind The Army! saying that Williams was destitute.
PARENTS of girls at Queen Ethel burga's School, Harrogate, were ask ed the headmistress, Miss Young, at the speech day recently not to be alarmed because a militia camp was being built near.
WAA tears,"
"I made the attempt to help refugee friend and his parents," Miss "While we should naturally have "I had no intention of preferred to retain the peace and Henry added. defrauding the English customs-all quiet our isolated position has given I wanted to do was to bring out of us for so lang, I cannot see any real the country things of value to the reason for disquiet," she said. parents.
We had carps for two consecutive
He was told that the. Bench were unable to express years during the Great War without an opinion at the moment, and Williams was remanded any disaster.
Legends, I am sure, will be cir- in custody for eight days. culated in Harrogate and elsewhere about our doings, and people will en-i joy being horrified at the wildest and as anyone in this hall. mast impcopable imaginary scandals.
"For instance, one of the current who done it." legends states that the girls spend "The trouble in preparing the suntiner evenings motoring defence," said Mr. King, "is that their about the countryside with young we are entirely without any in-
me how gullible
formation of the grounds on which the charge has been brought against him.”
From the dock Williams declared: "I am just as innocent I know nothing about the beastly people
men. It amazes people can be."
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Jack Jones Pleads
For His Play
JACK JONES, the Welsh play- wright, who has written his way to fame from the ranks of the unem-
The police had interviewed a great ployed, made an urgent appeal re number of persons, some of whom cently for his play, "Rhondda Round- might be of great assistance to the about," at the Globe Theatre.. defence. Those persons were under the impression that they should not give any statements or assistance to the defence and had refused to make any statements.
"I am fighting for the life of the play," he said, "and I make no bones about it. Alf my life I have been a fighter-for 20 years in the mines and
"Thousands of people who, were
"You will realise the position of this as a soldier in wars. poor old man in presenting his de-impressed by the symphony of praise fence," said Mr. King.
PRISONER'S PROTESTS
played unanimously by the critics after the first performance fought aby
reality.
"I do not want to interview persons of the play, fearing its truth and whom the police intend to call, bui-ith thought many, can be so only ask that we should be given unpleasant, and reality, especially in some facilities and that those persona ita connection with the life of the whom the police do not intend call
people of Britain's most distressed should be entirely free."
arca, can be so terribly grim.
The Bench was about to retire when Williams, who had been stand- plain ing between a policeman and clothes dective, remarked: "I only want fairness and I um all right."
After Mr. King had been told that the Bench could do nothing at the moment the Mayor asked Williams if there was any reason why he should not be remanded. Williams apoke several disconnected sentences, in which he said:
THEY CAME AGAIN
"But those who came to see the play during the heat wave, when the play was fighting against odds to establish itself, were so pleasantly surprised that they have been to see it again ainee.
"Never has die Globe Theatre rung with heartier laughter than that which now shakes the place nightly.
"We have laughter and tears with unfailing interest for good measure, and I want to know from playgoers what more they can possibly, expect from any play.
SILENCE ADVICE "Well, I have that reason to say this, that I think the people who saw me by askin's nursery about nine "Already some bave replied that in o'clock that.evening I may say addition to the above they want a that the police and Scotland Yard star actor or actress, preferably Well, Mervyn Johns, who people were informed on the day both. after poor Mr. Dinnivan's death that plays the part of Shoni was by the came back on a bus passing the entire Press made a 'star' overnight." stalion at 10.58. They ought to have taken that up at once and they didn't do so apparently. I also saw a young
woman
At this point his solicitor advised him to any no more,
Dinnivan, a Ppole business man, was found by his two grandchildren dying at his flat in Poole Road, Branksome, on the night of May 22. He had severe head injuries.
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