Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 4, 1939,
Übery. Stereve Coert
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Man Married His Niece
-Now Granted Decree
A
MAN who married his brother's daughter in Warsaw in 1937 was granted a decree nisi of nullity by Mr. Justice Buckmill in the Divorce Court recently, on the ground that the marriage was within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity.
The wife, who is now in }, Poland, alleged that neither she nor the husband-Mr. Naftal Perkal, also known as Nathan Pear-was domiciled in England:
The judge said he was salis. fed that Mr. Perkal had ac- quired a domicile in England and it was quite clear that, ac- cording to English law, the marriage was null and void.
He directed that Mr. Perkal pay as the court to the wife such sum might think reasonable when the matter had been investigated..
Decision On Spy Film
HONGKONG BRIDE
Mr. Wong Chin, tyrenty-three- year-old Chinese bride, travelled 9.000 nites from Hongkong to meet her husband, for the first time, was told when she arrived in England, that he was dead.
Mrs. Wong Chin married by proxy Recording to the Chinese low before leaving Hongkong. Her husband was afty-two and kept a laundry in Bridge-rond, Bootle lle died the week before her arrival,
Baby Swallows Safety-Pin
Two Girls Burned To Death
AYLESBURY.
TWO malds were burned to
death recently when fire Hall, broko out at Dinton historic country house and home of Sir William Currie, four miles from Aylesbury.
Sir William Currie, who is chair- mau of the P. and O. and the British Company, India Steam Navigation was in London when the fire broke telephone cut. After, receiving a message he went by ear to Dinton Hall.
'The girls who died in the fire were Beatrice Sirett, aged 17, of Dinton, and Vera Peti, aged 21, of Wolverton, Bucks.
Reginald Munday, a footman, was aroused by the smell of smoke, and found that the staircase was in names. He had to climb out of a
10 window down a stack-pipe
give the lar.
He ran 10 the lodge, which is oceupled by Mr. Edward Sirett, a stud room, father of Beatrice Sirett. The two men seized A.R.P. respira- tors and returned to the house,
They placed ladders against the -Margaret Matthews, aged 14, of
^ NAZI ANOTHER baby-the second window from which two other maids "CONCESSIONS OF SPY, the anti-Nazi film produced in
in eight daye was saved Cuddington, Bucks, and Bessie Bax- Hollywood by Warner Bros., and baby the bronchoscope at the ter, aged 22, of Lunark, Scotland-
for Sick Children, were trying to escape. Settlements, the F.M.S. and ned by the film censor in the Straits Hospital
was recently considered by the Com- mitter of Appeal. censor boards of Mexico and Cuba. well as in Great Britain, Indin and Trinidad among other places.
The Alm has been passed by the
it was attached,
Strett ran up the ludder but was made another attempt and got on lo
UFS
Indian Maharajah of Kapurthala, one of world's richest menj signs guest book at New York Fair. He was given 15-gun salute. His two sons, left, and British Consul General Godfrey Haggard, right, in rear,
Bogus Stamp Slips Through Post
to
the
Great Ormond-street, W.C. re-driven back by the fumes. He then breakfast table, a North London shopkeeper examined the can- WHEN he received an abusive and anonymous letter at his cently.
Five-month-old John Yorke, of a verandah just below the window: celled stamp and postmark on the envelope. He discovered that Watford, Herts, swallowed the open ife shouted to the two girls to jump, the stamp was not a proper stamp at all, but a bogus one, bear- pin and a piece of ribbon to which and after some hesitation they diding a picture of a man who is certainly not King George or any
so. He brought them safely to the member of the Royal Family. His mother removed the ribbon, ground.
Meanwhile, Mr. N. Lockley, * The decision of the Committee of but the pin remained. John was
The letter had been posted in:lle had been afraid to.go Appeal in regard to "Confessions of taken to the hospital, X-rayed, and butter, aged 52, tried to get to the
"Many of my friends are receiving a Nazk Spy" will determine future preparations were made. to use the room in which Miss Sirett and Miss the Ealing, W.5, district. The police.
Pelt were trapped. He was over-stamp was brown, like a 1d. these letters," he said. "We do not Dolley in regard to Blms in which bronchoscope.
the
We know what to do about them. The pin, however, slipped into the come by fumes and was taken to represented,
stamp. baby's
Its base carried in capital letters are afraid of the threats, and the learned Sirett major operation. The decision will also affect acidetomach, and the doctors de-hospital
Soon afterwards, the pin again daughter had not been rescued, he a political slogan. On three sides it arrogance of the bogus stamp on the
ordinary envelope
A G.P.O. offelal at St. Martin-le- British war fim, "Who Goes Next?" dealing with the escape of five British moved back into the baby's throat. wanted to make an attempt to get to was perforated like an
Grand examined the letter, "stamp" Army officers from a German prison So the bronchoscope was used after the girls' room. He was held back stamp. The top and fourth side had
and postmark. After conferring with detectives he said:- camp, and possibly also "Lancer all, and at midnight John appeared by ethers, as the room was then in been clipped near the border.
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SECRET WORKS Detectives of the G.P.O, investiga-
"The Investigation tion branch then began their working hard on similar cases. This strongest Inquiry. They are trying is one of the first, however, where to track down the sender of the the bogus stamp has been used to letter and similar unes which are frank a letter. Previously it has being brought to their notice. been used as a 'sticker, in addition
Other G.P.D. investigators are to a genuine 11⁄2d, stomp. searching for the secret printing works, thought to be in London, where "stamp" effigies of 19 new "I don't wish to disclose the "king", are being produced.
methods our detectives are using. It The man who had received it was might put the men we are trying terrified by the message it contained. to rap on their guard."
"All the complaints are from the Ealing, W.5. districi.
Bolting Horse Leaps Over Girl in Car
Salisbury, Wiltshire.
MISS A. HORSMAN, of Breamore, Hampshire, saw a run- away-horse-galloping towards her ear as she drove through Salisbury recently.
She tried in vain to avoid it. Then, as a collision seemed inevitable, the horse leaped up, and cleared the car.
As it landed, however, its hind
legs eaught the tail-board of a
trailer attached to the car.
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The horse fell, unseated cyclist who was passing, and caught by two men. Injured.
Unionists Hold Hythe
The result fo the Hythe by-election
The horse, a hunter owned by Mr. | wis declared recently as follows:-
D. J. Surgent, of Rangers Lodge,
Laverstock, broke from the tethering
post to which it was attneked.
The noise of the falling post startled
It and it galloped off to Salisbury,
two miles away!
Hospitals, Camouflage Shelters
THE cost of organising Britain
Mr. Rupert Brabner (U.) 12,010 Mr. F. Darval) (L.) ....
0,577
Mr. H. St. John Philby (British People's Party)
576
2,439
Unionist majority
No change.
Mr. Philby forteils his deposit, The by-election was caused by the | death of Sir Philip Sassoon.
Figures in the General Election
were:-
Sir Philip Sassoon (U.) 15,350 Mr. R. Ella (Lib.).. 5.082
Unionist majority 0,671-
Mr. Brabner, who is 23 and a
merchant banker, was the youngest
for defence is still mounting. member of the LC.C. when he was Another £19,400,815 was asked elected in 1937.
for recently in supplementary
Civil Service estimates.
Earlier the civil departments call-
ed for nearly £12,000,000 more.
On
FOOD PROBLEM
Wednesday £79,000,000 more was WITH GASTRITIS
usked for to meet Army needs.
Then the R.A.F. called for £40,- 000,000 more and the new Ministry of Supply for £144,350,000,
The later £19,400,815 includes
£8,091,000 for emergency hospital, evacuation and other services in England and Wales (£2,230,150 in Scotland);
and
An additional £5,310,000 for A.R.P.
£1,000,000 for reserve of plant and building materials,
For years, doctors wanted to find a food that would not ir- ritate the inflamed stomach walls of patients suffering from gus- tritis and that at the same time would rebuild the patient's strength. In severe cases of gas- tritis solld foods are out of the question, even liquid foods are often vomited. Yet the patient needs quick new strength to re- build his exhausted body. In Horlicks, doctors and nurses have found an ideal food,
Where other foods are rejected. Horlicks is
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at once patient. And almost strength starts to come back, £6.399,990 with the result that convalescence Obscuration of glare, and
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delicious to taste: expenses Incurred' by occupiers of factories, owners of mines, and public utility undertakings."
£200,000 FOR SECRET SERVICE
to the £2,500,000 is allocated Czecho-Slovak Refugee Trust Fund and an extra £200,000 to the Secret Service, whose original grant was
£500,000,
Additional sums required include: Grants towards shelters
for workers in factories £7,000,000 Protection of vital ser-
vices
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