THE
'Highwaymen❜
Roam In
Old Mansion
HIGHWAYMEN in black capes
and three-cornered hats
roamed the corridors of Osterley Park, ancestral home of the Jer- sey family, recently.
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 17, 1939, eflwers, Sarded (
LAW-BY CHARLES COBORN
In the grounds lords and Indies in the rustumes of Georgim days sat on barrels drinking beer or danced) Jo lie musle of minstrels in black- and-white costumes. The revela went on un!il down.
Nearly 1,000 people paid a guinea or more to
attend the revels, ar- ranged by Lord and Lady Jersey. The money KOCS the Georgian Society ведут the Preservation English Architecture.
to
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"I could do a Grand Burlesque of it
THE years rolled back recently
for a noble Lord of the Privy Council and a humble lord of vaudeville, and the setting. of a dreary legal debate was trans- formed into one of bright lights, laughing people and a funny little man with bushy, eyebrows singing
"The Man who Broke the Bank nt Carlo."
Monte
But alas only in Imagination. The noble lord was Lord Russell of Killowen, and the humble, but equally renowned, lord of vaudeville why Charles ("Evergreen") Coborn, the man who made the song-and himselt-famous,"
Charles Coborn, who is 87 teft his. Maida Vale flat for the Privy Coun- Since May Osterley has been af çil chambers in Whiteball; where museum bringing the Earl of Jersey] Lord Hussell and four other lords £100 a week.
*
night
The highwaymen" last wers the men who guard the man- sion's treasures on muscum days.
Several hundred pounds' worth of fireworks were thrown on to thei large ornamental lake, and floated as they threw brillant colours in all directions.
Lord and Lady Jersey entertained forty quests in town before driving down for the ball.
DRESSED AS ANCESTORS
Lord Jersey came as Francis Child, the founder of the Jersey fortunes and builder of Osterley. Its costume www a copy of the blue velvet and White when Mr. Child sat for Alan Ramsay.
were hearing the film compoates v.l music publisher's appeal in connec tion with the famous 48-years-old song
little comedian into that austere and The entrance of the still sprightly much-plushed room caused a mild
sensation.
SPREAD THE NEWS
Lord Russell beahed all over his Jovial face, half rose in hla chair, and bowed acknowledgment as the "guest" was ushered to 31 scat.
bushy Coborn's
eyebrows were teitching with delight as he bowed back to
noble lord, and "See. I'm Whispered to the usher. recognised."
Burristers in their wigs and gowns Lady Jersey came as one of the looked up From their voluminous) "black steep" of the Jersey family briefs, and Lord Rustell, still benm-
the fourth countess, who was the ing, go! up and spread the news! posthumous daughter of the notori-among his four colleagues. ous Bishop Raphoe, spere-line high- Wayman.
Woh the Jerseys came the Count bess Haugwaz-Reventlow, Count and Countess Paul Munster, Mr. Robert Sweeny, and the Maharajan of Jaipur.
Quin Must Wear Eye Patch
Marie. smallest
Charles Cobora, the man who made The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo," had arrived.
Deportation to native Australia is urged for Harry Bridges, centre, West Coast CIO leader, charged with Communist activi- Lies. Daughter Jacqueline at left, with counsel, Carol King..
English Girl Marries Without Husband
MORE than 6,500 miles separated an English bride
and her Dutch bridegroom at a wedding cere- mony at The Hague, Holland, recently, in which the groom's father, acted as proxy for his son and was "married" to the bride under the ancient Dutch practice of "marriage by the glove."
Al the previous day's hearing of the dispute, over the use of the title for a film made in 1935, Lord Nus- sell said that mention of the title The bride was Miss Rose Marie Brousson, daughter of Mr. had brought him reminiscences of Robert Brousson, a director of Shell-Mex, and Mrs. Brousson, of Charles Coborn. Well, here was de-The Manor House, Chipperfickt, Hertfordshire. Eghtful old Charles in person.
cision in favour
Francis, Day and Hunter, Ltd.,FATHER TAKES SON'S PLACE publishers, appealed against a de- The bridegroom, Mijnheer Johan Herman van Millegen, is an Callander, Canadia.
of 20th Century-official of the Royal Dutch Oil Company and is stationed at the Dionne Fux Corporation, Ltd., and Famous Tjepoe, Dutch East Indies. of
His father, M. J. H. van Millegen, quintuplets, is wearing a black patch Players Canadian Corporation, Ltd. of The Hague, acted at the ceremony on his son's behalf. over one eye following an examina- concerning copyright. tion by a specialist who found her An hour passed. Suddenly the to be slightly short-sighted.
Registrar criect: "AHL out of court, Dr. Dafoc,
the Quins guardian, please." The case had ended a day said: "There is no need for alarm. before it was expected. Judgment. Placing a patch on the good eye for it was announced, would in reserved.
a few hours each day gives the weak Charles Coborn whispered: "Man. eye a chance to develop, This may I could do a great burlesque sketch obviate the necessity for glasses about this on the stage. I would bel
a riot,"
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During the week ending & a.m. on Saturday, there were in Hongkong 105 traffic accidents, as the result of
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ARMS BOARD FOR CANADA
MONTREAL.
Mr. Mackenzie King, the Federal Prime Minister, announced recently. the formation of a new Arms Pur- chasing Board, which will control the allotment of orders and super- vise the manufacture of arms and equipment required under the Do- ninlon Government's new defence programine, The announcement was made following a special Cabinet meeting.
The Board consists of non-party business men and technical experts. It includes Mr. R. C. Vaughan, of Canadian National Railways, who will act temporary chairman; Mr. C. W. Sherman, head of Dominion Foundries and Steel Ltd., and Mr. B. Chase, the trade union leader.
An expenditure of 12,000,000 will be handled. This is the sum allotted in this year's Federal Bud- get to the maintenance and! equipment of the Dominion defenez forces,
The Bourd'a activites will be con- fined to Federal Government arms orders. British contracts affected.
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It is expected that Dominion de- fence win
speeded up and brought into Jine with Imperial defence nerds. The programine is at present build up on account of a controversy between the Opposition and the Dominion Defence Ministry over the placing of Bren gun can- tracts.
AUSTRALIA
WIRELESS BASE FOR FLYING DOCTORS
SYDNEY.
A new wireless bast, serving an area of 100,000 square miles, has just been opened for the Australian Aerial Medical Service by
the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, at Broken Hill,
Lord Gowrie said that such bases would make closer settlement of isolated areas possible, and would be a boon to the people of the outback.
The Australian Aerial Medical Service last year covered more than 100,000 miles on emergency flights, The idea behind this mar- and spent £25,000 in maintaining riage by proxy, is that in the the bases. event of international trouble Merino Export Embargo-Mr. E. Mrs. Van Millegen will travel. Body, president of the New South Wales Sheepbreeders' Association, with greater freedom as the
urges the removal of the embargo on holder of u neutral nation's the export of merino sheep. He passport.
suggests an export duty as a com- and says he has been tald She left for Batavia, Java, the next promly in Canberra that the only day, and upon her arrival there will
Ꭲ be a religious ceremony.
the continution reason for
two years
Miss Brousson met her husband] embargo is the opposition of the staying with Graziers' Association. Mr. Body de- clares that Australia cannot starve the world of an essential commodity. NEW ZEALAND
which four people were killed and friends at The Hague. ngo while
49 were injured,
Of those killed, two Chinese males, aged 24 and 53, died from injuries jured while alighting from moving received as a result of a collision be- trams and moving buses racpectively. tween vehicles and alighting from A bus passenger was injured while a P.W.D. lorry while in motion, re- attempting to board
moving bus.
A Chinese malé, aged 21, Of 105 accidents, 37 were collisions.
spected down and killed by n between vehicles; 40 were epilisions
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torry which skidded and a six-year-between vehicles and pedestrians; 28 old girl was knocked down and kili- nccidents were due to other causes. ed by lorry, while running across the road.
of
UNIVERSITY PLAN FOR REFUGEES
the
AUCKLAND;
A suggestion that distinguished Туре of vehicles involved Private scholars and scientists whe are motor car 48, molor lorry 27, motor refugees from Europe might be Of those injured, 28 were pedes bus 19, motor von 1, motor ambulance employed at Auckland University trians, who were either walking or public motor car 18, motor cycle College has been the subject of cor- running across the road and were
respondence between the president struck by vehicles. A bicycle rider,
of the college, Mr. W. H. Cocker, and a motor cyclist and a passenger were
the Minister of Education, Mr. P. injured as the result of collisions be-
Fraser. tween vehicles.
5, iramcar 14, tricycle 3, bleyele 6, ricksha 2, hand truck 1.
Car Over Embankment
Mr. V. Osurgin, residing at the The college council asked the Four
pedestrians were knocked European YM.C.A., has reported to Government to provide £300 year down and injured by a lorry which the Police that at I p.m. on Tuesday for five years so that the counell skidded. A tricycle rider was injured when he was travelling on a narrow might invite a distinguished scholar When
his tricycle overturned. A path behind the Shamshulpo Police or scientist, who was now a political tram passenger reecived injuries by station in his car It skladed
10 become colliding with
refugee, to
ถ temporary electric standard and fell over the embankment. The member of the staff. white leaning out of the window. [skid was apparently due to the road.
A bicycle rider and a lorry passen being wet,
In his reply the Minister stated: "The suggestion is one that requires ger were injured on falling from The damage done to the car was very serious consideration, as it in- their vehicles. Four trum passen-particularly heavy, but Mr. Osorginvolves the making of provision on gers and five bus passengers were in- was uninjured.
"I Had Great Anxiety Over Gaol Sentence"
FOR days Mr. Justice Croom-Johnson worried about the sentence
the estimates. I am doubtful if such an arrangement can be made, and, much as I sympathise with the praiseworthy object of the college, I am doubtful also whether the pro- vision of such a large suns in respect single refugee could be justified."
of
It was resolved to approach the Minister again, requesting him to consider whether £200 per annum. might be granted for five years, on
the condition that the colleges find
of six months in the second division which he passed on Wil- the same sum by voluntary contribu- liam Ewart Plevin, aged 36, deputy gas engineer to the Southport ilons. Corporation, for supplying the public with gas of low quality.
Had he been merciful enough? {your sentence behind the scenes, 1 LLOYD GEORGE TWINS Had he taken sufficiently into thought it better that
you should account the jury's recommenda- I should indicate why I am neilt; as
come before war in pubite and thatJOIN THE MILITIA.. tion to leniency?
I do now,"
THE Lloyd George twins of Folke Later. Mr. Justice Croom-John- Mr. Justice Croom-Johnson then George Lloyd Newman, of Marshall-
son's mind was made up. Mr. Plovinbound Mr. Plevin over. should not stay in gaol.
Mr. Plevin left the warder of his He had him brought from prison to side to join his wife in court. A car Manchester Assizes, and said to him: was walling outside. Together they "I have been thinking over this drove to their home-and freedom. case, It has given me great anxiety.
"I hope I am not letting my own
feelings interfere with my duty, but
I am little disposed I did
`atone, Lloyd George Newman and
strect, received their Militia calling up papers this week-end.
Lloyd George and George Lloyd were twenty-one recently..
horne He dopound to think the GROSSE & BLACKWELLS.
pay sufficient attention to
recomiendallon of the jury.
DUTY TO THE PUBLIC "On further reflection I am rather. disposed to think that some of the practices of the Southport Gasworks are not unknown elsewhere.
the
I hope that this trial, and tragle result of it, may make people in publie occupations appreciate more fully than perhaps they do at present the duty they owe to the public.
"Although" I. could" have "nitered'
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