Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 4, 1939.
Dheart, Sportna Coert,
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 Bucknill.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 Pearl-was domiciled in England.
The judge anid he was satis- fed that Mr. Perkal had ne- 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. Perkul pay to the wife auch sum as the court might think reasonable when the matter had been investigated.
Decision On Spy Film
OF A NAZI "CONCESSIONS SPY," the anti-Nazi film produced in Hollywood by Warner Bros., and ban- ned by the film censor in the Straits Settlements. The FM.S.com was recently considered by the Corn- mittee of Appeal.
The Atm has been passed by the censor boards of Mexico and Cuba. as well as in Great Britalu, India and
Trinidad omong other places.
HONGKONG BRIDE
Mrs. Wong Chin, twenty-three- year-old Chinese bride, travelled 0,000 miles from Hongkong to meet her husband for the ilrst time, was told when she arrived in England, that he was dead.
Mr. Wong Chin married by proxy according to the Chinese JAW before leaving Hongkong. Her husband was fly-iwo and kepta Inundry in Bridge-road, Bootle. He died the week before her arrival,
Baby Swallows Safety-Pin
Two Girls Burned To Death
AYLESBURY.
TWO maids were burned to death recently when fire broke Out al Dinton Hall, historic country house and home of Sir William Currie, four miles from Aylesbury.
Sir Wilton Curtle, who is chair- man of the P. and O. and the Brilish Company, India Steam Navigation
was in London when the fire broke lelaphone GUL, After receiving message he went by car to Dinton Hull.
The girls who died in the fire were Beatrice Sirutt, aged 17, of Dinton, and Vera Pett, aged 21, of Wolverton, Bucks.
Reginald Munday, a footman, was aroused by the smell of amoke, and in the staircase was found thu ilumes. He had to climb out of s window down a stack-pipe to give the alarm.
to Ic run the lodge, which is ocrupled by Mr. Edward Sirett, a etul groom, father of Beutrice Sirett.) The Two men seized A.R.P. respira- tors and returned to the house.
They placed ladders against the
NOTHER baby-the second window from which two other maids
Margaret Matthews, aged 14, of
in eight day was saved | Cuddington, Bucks, and Bessle Bax- by the bronchoscope at theter, aged 22, of Litnurk, Scotland Hospital for Sick Children, were trying to escape.
WIN
Sirett ran up the ladder but was
Indian Maharajah of Kapurthala, one of world's richest men, signs guest book at New York Fair. He was given 15-gun salute. His two sons, left, and British Consul General Godfrey Huggard, right, in rear.
Bogus Stamp Slips Through Post
to the
WHEN he received an abusive and anonymous letter at his Great Ormond-street, W.C. re-drives back by the fumes. Ite then breakfast table, a North London shopkeeper examined the can- cently.
made another attempt and got on to Five-month-old John Yorke, of verandah just below the window.celled stamp and postmark on the envelope. He discovered that Watford, Herts, swallowed the open He shouted to the two girls to jump, the atamp was not a proper stamp at all, but a bogus ane, 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 it was attached.
su. He brought them safely to the member of the Royal Family.. His mother removed the ribbon, ground. The decision of the Committee of, but the pin remained. John
Meanwhile, Mr. M. Lockley, n The letter had been posted in He had been afraid to go Appeal in regard to "Confessions of taken to the hospital, X-rayed, and buller, aged 52, tried to get to the a Nazi Spy" will determine future preparations were made to use the room in which Miss Sirelt and Miss the Ealing, W.5, district. The police.. polley in regard to films in which branchoscope.
Pell were trapped. He was over-stamp was brown, like a 1%d. The pin, however, slipped into the come by fumes and was taken to stump. Germans are represented. "Straits Times" understands.
baby's stomach, and the doctors de-hospital.
Its base carried in capital letters When elded on a major operation
Sirett learned that his Soon afterwards, the pin again daughter had not been rescued, he political slogan. On three sides It moved back into the baby's throat. wanted to make an attempt to get to was perforated like an ordinary So the bronchoscope was used after the girls room. He was held back stamp. The top and fourth side had also Lancer all, and at midnight John appeared by others, as the room was then in been clipped near the border.
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The decision will also affect British war alm, "Who Goes Next?" dealing with the escape of five British Army officers from a German prison camp, and possibly Spy."
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"Many of my friends are receiving these letters," he said. "We do not know what to do about them. We are afraid of the threats, and the arrogance of the bagus stamp on the envelope."
A G.P.O. official at St. Martin-le- Grand examined the feller, "stamp" and posimark. After conferring with detectives he said:--
"The
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SECRET WORKS Detectives of the C.P.O. investiga-
investigation branch tion branch then
bestan their working hard on similar cases. This strangest 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 Jetter and simfiar ones which are | frank f1 letter. Previously it has being brought to their notice. been used as a 'sticker, in addition
Other G.P.O. investigators are to a genuine 14d, stamp. searching for the secret printing "All the complalats ure from the works, thought to be in London, Ealing. W.5. district. where "stamp" effigies of a new "king" are being produced.
The man who had received it was terrified by the message it contained.
"I don't wish to disclose the methods our detectives are using. It might put the men we are trying to rap on their guard."
Bolting Horse Leaps Over Girl in Car
Salisbury, Wiltshire.
MISS A, HORSMAN, of Breamore, Hampshire, 'saw a run- away horse galloping towards her car as she drove through Salisbury recently.
She tried in vain to avoid it. Then, as # collision seemed inevitable, the horse leaped up, and cleared the car.
As it landed, however, its hink! | logs caught the tail-board of a trailer attached to the car.
The horse fell, unseated a boy cyclist who was passing, and was caught by two men. No onc Was Injured,
The horse, a hunter owned by Mr. D. J. Sargent, of Rangers Lodge, Laverstock, broke from the tethering post to which it was attached.
The noise of the failing post startled it and it galloped off to Salisbury,
two miles away.
Hospitals, Camouflage Shelters
THE cost of organising Britalo
Unionists Hold Hythe
The result fo the Hythe by-election was declared recently as follows:......
.....
Mr. Rupert Brabner (U.) 12,010 0,577 Mr. F. Darval (L.) Mr. II. St. John Philby (British People's Party) 076
2,430
Unionist majority .. No change.
Mr. Philby forfeits his deposit. The by-election was caused by the death of Sir Philip Sassoun.
Figures in the General Election were: -
Sir Phillip Sassoon (U.)15,350 Mr. R. Ellis (Lib.) .. (8.088
Unionist majority, . 0,071 Mr. Brabner, who La 28 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 w WITH GASTRITIS
For years, doctors wanted to And à food that would not ir- ritate the inflamed stomach walls of patients suffering from gaz-
asked for to meet Army 'needs.
Then the R.A.F. called for £40,- 000,000 more and the new Ministry of Supply for £144,350,990.
The later £10,400,815 Includes £8,991,000 for emergency hospital, evacuation and other services in tritis and that at the same time England and Wales (£2,239,150 In Scotland)
An additional £5,319,900 for A.R.P.
and..
£1,000,000 for reserve of plant and building materials.
the
£200,000 FOR SECRET SERVICE
£2,500,000. Is allocated to Czecho-Slovak Refugee Trust Fund and an extra £200,000 to the Secret Service, whose original grant was
2500,000.
Additional sums required include: Granta: towards shelters
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