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Russian Royal Jewels Held In Pawn By Eire
BY CHARLES J. MCDONNELL
As pawn broker to the Soviet Union since 1920, tiny Ireland still holds a trove of Romanoff jewels worth an estimated 10 times the amount for which it was pawned.
HIS DOGS
ARE PAID
A SALARY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1948.
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Discovery: Robot eye is on Mars
new
In February with the planet Mara nearer than it will be for two years, astronomers, using a robot eye the electron multipfier-examined its surface. By coupling a powerful telescope, scientists examined the Martian "canals." KRUAN RAKATANENTNÍ
BOOK TO READ
Can hatred drive men to this?
KINGSBLOOD ROYAL,
by Sinclair Lewis. Cape. 98. Gel
VÄMERE OF MARS
13}Zimonia
MARS.
MMY,
NIGHT.
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MOST astronomers agree that between the poles of Mars-which are capped with a thin layer of snow-are vast areas of brick-red deserts.. A greenish belt which may be moorland or the decaying remains of primeval forests runs round the equator. There are no seas and no mountain ranges. The atmosphere is thin. The extremes of temperature are severe.
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by CHAPMAN PINCHER
SCIENTISTS of the British Interplanetary Society belleve that within 60-years it may be possible to visit Mars by space-ship and return safely. Equipped with pressure sults and carrying a supply of oxygen, explorers, would be able to move about the surface of 'the planet. Because Mars weighs only one-tenth as much as the earth Its gravitational pull is weaker. Men would be able to carry super-heavy weights and Jump record heights. Animal life is probably extinct.
Attlee should meet the doctors now
EXPECTED that 80 per- Lcent of the doctors would disapprove of the Government's National Health Act as it now stands, The proportion is NODAY British bookshops higher than that nearly 90 and libraries release this percent on the over-all figure. simple story of suburban The basic question, was direct- people. It begins. artfuflyed to approval or disapproval of enough, by making you smile, the Act as it now stands. That perhaps a little enviously,
been
An important statement
DUMB-BELLS
REGISTERED LESAI
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PATENT OFFICE
BUT HE'S NOT EVEN
FATHER
• McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
Six Clubs Makes, But 3 N. T. Is Off
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY COME of the most exciting rubber bridge games in the country are those at the New York Bridge Whist Club,
according to Life Master Harry Feinberg, formerly of Cleve- land and now in charge of the club's card room. Harry says they take their bridge very seriously, and the cards go right along with them to make it a serious game.
Today's hand came up in a du- plicate game recently held at the tioners who are chiefly affected by club. At several tables South; mnie
three no trump.
At one table four
the scheme; consultants, medical on the Health Act dead-
officers of health and representatives no trump was made, at another three lock.....contributed
of the Women's Medical Federation by
LORD
HORDER
no trump went down one. Six
are also included. The Committee has the complete conildence of the Spades was made and six spades niso was defeated. At one table Prof. profession.
Ernest Zerner arrived at six clubs and that
Mr Bevan has, deplored "the fact with the bidding shown that the best elements in the profes-was the only contract on this hand
that could not be defeated. ston have been thrust on one side by the medical politicians who pro..........
But the Negotiating Committee of the BMA dare not take any step for which the profession has given mandate.
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The present
Impasse could have really relates to the fact that Mr Be- Married Couple. It ends with
avoided, but for Me Aneurin van's refusal to give way on any of that sensation-beloved of our Bevan's intransigance.
them makes it clear that the ultimate The lengths
The BMA' Is a very democratic [ grannies of having somebody to which he took this attitude could intention of the present Government
body, Every member of the Council walking over your grave. be judged by his speech during the is to nationalise medicine.
Commons debate, Doctors who hnd WHY? Because
'Once this intention was revented, is elected by the representative body, this is an epic not met him might previously have doelace have understandably refused It is certainly as representative of tragedy of our times played out putt-wondered whether the Negotiating to yield on those points, such as the the profession as the House of Com- lessly, relentlessly, amid sleck abun-
sale of practices, which protect them ons of the people as a whole. dance and slick sanitation. Because Committee had failed in their job. it is a fierce tract about race-hatred, Any such doubts must have beer from becoming Civil Servants.
And the BMA constitutes the only the most sinister force in the world.
settled by this exhibition of his stub- When Mr-Bevan agreed to meet piece of machinery available to the Tals is the greatest of the 18 books bornness, mixed with offensiveness. the Negotiating
expressing its views Committee of the profession for of Sinclair Lewis, creator of Babbitt. Hero is a personable
I think that his speech undoubted- BMA after the Act had been passed, and negotiating with the Minister. I was may say that I am not a member of redhend. N c
ly influenced the result of the plebis- he knew that this Committee Kingsblood,
cile. A great section of the pubile only empowered to discuss the Act the BMA Council myself. I have must also have wondered why the on, condition that amending legisla- een elected to the Negotiating Com Government held this debate at all, tion was not excluded from the dis- mice as a representative of Maryle- unless they had some doubt about cussion. whether the Act is in the public in- terest.
officer with a game leg, an Basured
amid
The collection is said to in-career at the bank, a magnificent tiara.. a a charming wife clude
with diamond necklace intertwined connections
the highest with pearls. and earrings and the commercial aris pendants with a total estimated tocracy of their Westerni Middle value of US$400,000.
the city,
.
But then....the needle head
Inther. The old man
and The jewels rest solidly in the sweetest-too sweet- vaults of the Bank of Ireland, still for me-itle a beautiful as they were
before daughter. twilight cellpsed the Russian royal When the Moslem Nawab of family, claiming their lives as well Junagadh, in Western India, fied as their possessions. his state and sought refuge in Story of the jewels, now ni- Pakistan from invading Indian most a legend to those in Irelaist Union army forces, he left he who knew of the transaction, has the pubile because of
The
hind on his country estate 1,500 reached poilties.
thoroughbred dogs.
The two Dakotas at his disposal
were hardly roomy enough to trans-
by
In
wonders
of
if
this tragedy is a whim of N they have royal blood, and the son undertakes a search of the family true. The search shows the pedigree to contain a fall-blooded Negro. Hu so far back that our promising bank executive is only one-thirty-
coloured. De Valera Speaks Up
second
the Inenacing subversive Bul port his 30 wives, £20,000,000 worth! Eamon de Valera, fighting for his undey which is racialism is shown Lewis to be as ingrained Sinclair of jewellery and the carefully pre-political ille, was forced to reveal
the blameless character of Nell as served and documented love leiters that Russia hnd never redeemed the
It is
is in the prosperous Middie Wes-, from his harem, treasured over, the jewels. They had been given to past 30 years.
representatives of the Irish Republic and menint jobs for "coloured only." fern city, with its reserves of slumns Dozens of small-time Hindu Maha- in the United States as security for
For Neil immediately begins rajas from the principalities sur- a tonn estimated at. between feel that he in different. At first. morbidly, he goes slumming in the De Valera was answering Dr Negro quarter. Then he works One barrel-chested prince, finding Patrick MacCartan, who
opposed an affinity for coloured people and no pickings In Junagadh itself, which him in the Irish general
clectlogs Ands friends among then. From that his Highness had divested of every-recently.
moment his doom is taking shape, thing valuable when he fled, con-
Only handful
The savage 'consequences of of Irishmen
his soled himself with bearing off,300 of
mostly
members of the old Irish blurted confession
begin mlidly. Republican Brotherhood, knew of There is a little social snubbing: un- The Nawab had spent a lifetime the deal whereby a mission of theil at last we see this Happy Young
American Couple bounded out collecting dogs, some from all over dolla Soviet Union received the their claims to be human beings in
rounding Junagadh have now divided US$0,000 and US$10,000, this canine loot among themselves.
the valuable animals.
Lifatima Hobby
Europe, and arranging their nuptials,
jewellery "tely
in
it wanted for the It was said that the collateral I doubt
valued wns
at the time of the uses
on ench-of-which-he-spent thousands exchange of rupees
part
of the Tsar's
to
up
of
a great democracy,
Groat-literature? -great-story-s
it when Sinclair Lewis arch circumlocutory words
Whenever a pet dog and pet bitch transaction ut around US$400,000. for kids at a, party; "The half-dozen were "married" the Nawab forced While the, collection was not
to join in the of the his sullen prople
crown Jewels, it had be-girls and the four screaming but at- celebrations.
longed to members
tentive young 'gentlemen.......... Each of the animals was allotted family. a monthly salary of £16, although! the highest salary of a governmeni offletal, excluding Cabinet Ministers, was not more than £13.
Smuggled Into Ireland
The jewols, it is reported, were
The Nawab's Hindu subjects, more turned over to the Irish mission in than 00 percent of the population of New York. De Valem was a mem- his state, agilating for his deber of that mission. position.
are
Sardar Patel, Minister of States in the Indian Government, favours his return under, a democratic plebiscite.
ARE
YOU SURE? ANSWERS
Qucations on Page 9
1. Inner Hebrides-Rum, Elgg and
. Coll. 2. Because it, often hovars just
above the surface, as it walking on the water. 3, River of Asia Minor,
account of
With the greatest of secrecy, the jewels were smuggled into Ireland in upholstered furniture, The most bolievable how the jewels reached the govern- ment coffers was, disclosed by Mrs Kathleen Boland O'Donavan, whose brother, Harry Boland, was froland's representative in the United States at that time.
Entrusted To Valora Boland, it is said, was the actual recipient of the Russian security.
JOHN PUDNEY
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Following is the play used by Mrs Sylvester Gintell to defeat three no trump. Declarer won the opening
POINTS IN DISPUTE
LEARLY the impasse must be re-
Parliament and expressed the will solved, and means contrived
of the people. He could not under- adjust the differences between medical profession and Mr Bevan take to alter the Act. So the Nego differentes, which, regarded indivi- tating Committee lost confidence in Mr Bevan, because he had gone back dually, should not create any dif- on the understanding which enabled Aculty
the negotiations to be reapened. The Importance attached to
the public and are experienced in Six spades also was defeated with
ing
heart lend and ruffed a heart in points in dispute by the profession How can this impasse be resolved? matters requiring negotiation might nice play. Declarer won the open-
It is very clear that the profes- be formed by the Government.
dummy, then took two rounds of ston can get no further with Mr De-
But the profession needs a much trumps and led a club. If West had There is no point in bringing Mr-stronger assurance that it is not the made the mistake of cashing the aco Intention of the Government to make then, there would have been nothing Bevan and the Negotiating Commit- the doctor a Civil Servant. If the to the hand. However, he refused tee together again.
Government gave way on some of the first club and won the second. Nor is there any reason for chang- the points at issue, that would give East was careful to play first the the Negotiating Committee the assurance which is required. eight and then the deuce, showing which has been appointed by
For they would thereby rule out "down and out”—so alt West had to profession. The majorly of
the the possibility of nationalising mcul-do was to lead the third club and,
give his partner a ruff. committee consist of general practi- cine.
On the very first clause which the
ATTLEE'S TURN Negotiating Committee thought might be amended, Mr Bevan de-
NOW the Negotiating Commitice clared that he could not amend the is still in being. The other heart lead with the ace and lald party to the discussion can and down the ace of spades. West play- ed the deuce, dummy the three and Mrs Gintell (East) played the eight- should be changed.
Why should the Prime Minister spol. Decinrer reasoned that if the
Was a
a bad one, he would spade break Tiot act in the place of Mr Bevan?
And if not the Prime Minister, and the spades in, the West hand, so then a small body of impartial per- he cashed his other high spade and sons who possess the confidence of went down to defeat.
CHESS PROBLEM
van.
By L. FTHEX
Black, 8 plecca.
ing
White, 12 pieces. White to play and mate in two.
Solution to yesterday's problem:
B-R5. 1
.PXB; 2, Q-K13; .B-B7; 2, Q-RI (ch); Kt-D2; 2, P-B3 (ch); 1... PRS; 2, B-QKt4;1...P-KA; 2. K-85 (ch).
Rupert's Silver Trumpet-25
now called Mendera. 4. Elgs. 5. In 1022, during the civil war, he NANCY
Her Cardboard Lover." 6. Boar, was found mortally wounded in the rabbit, foxhound, roe. 7. (n) Ox-Dublin mountains.
fore; (b) Cambridge.. 8. Lacrosse. 9.
(a) None (b) two; (c) no creature. 10. London Pride.
such
CROSSWORD SOLUTION
Solution of yesterday's puzzle.- Across: 1, Chocolates 7 1.0.U Hazard; 11, Soak; 12, Sad; 13. Ape 13, Monk; 17, Rider; 10, Tile; 22, Memo; 23, Tate; 25, Sper: 20, Loom; 27, Fert; 28, Earn; 20,
21,
Brought to his mother's house, according to his sister, the dying Boland directed that the Jewels should be held and entrusted to De Valera when he returned to power which he did in 1932.
De Valera told a recent political there had never been an attempt gathering that as far as he know to redeem the pledge, or to obtain any expert Assessment of thele .volue,
Highly placed sources in Dublin Down: 1, Cigarette; 2, Hospital; 3, said that the transaction; was Chameleon; 4, Oak; 6, Trade minrk; shrouded with sfercey to keep it 0, Eddy; 0, Zine; 10, Aak; 14, Edling: from being used, as propaganda to 10, Ore; 10, Leper; 20, Foris; 24, Amp; injure the young republic.-United 25, Spa.
Parka,
Press,
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