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WAS SHE RIGHT IN TELLING ALL?

JOEL MCCREA JOHN HALLIDAY C. HENRY GORDON

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"LORD RICHARD

IN THE PANTRY

BSTABLISHD 大英七月十五號 禮拜六 中華民國辛未年六月十一日 1845

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1931.

'MOST WONDER MAN

EVER MET."

fident. convictions about the utility of the airship.

He was sincere in his MR. H. B. TOURTEL

"Then one day my telephone bell rang in Bukarest and I was told that R.101 had crashed. At

DEAD.

Lord Thomson's "Lady first I could not believe the news The Passing of a Great

of the Emeralds.”

PRINCESS'S: ROMANCE.

was true. I had lost the best friend any woman ever had.

"Tam translating his book into French and I intend to write a j long biographical preface to it in which I shall tell the story of our friendship in detail."

•

of

Princess Marthe Bibesco Roumania told a Press man her story of her romantic friendship with the late Lord Thomsona friendship which has been re vealed by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in a foreword to a book written by Lord Thomson five years ago and called "Smarandaland."

Lord Thomson's Story. Lord Thomson was 40 when he met her. She was then 31 and had a daughter.

A passage in Lord Thomson's book describes his first meeting with the Princess whom he had enthroned. It was with Smaran da at a concert in the royal re-, sidence of King Ferdinand, (Carol's father) in Bukarest.

The book was written in the form of the diary of General Y and concerned a Baikan country. When the music ceased," thinly disguised under the name writes "General Y-," "the lights of "Smarandaland." There was

wore turned on, and shortly a princess called Smaranda to

afterwards a

couple descended whom the general was devoted, from a gallery at the far end of and the book related the inci- the room. dents in their romantic friend- King (Ferdinand), the lady I The man was the

ship.

had not seen before.

Princess Marthe Bibesco lives alternately in Paris and Bukar- est. She is a kinsman of Prince Antoine Bibesco, husband of Lady Asquith's daughter.

"The elder one remarked in French I believe that English colonel has an eye in his left ear with which he is looking at you. She of the emeralda laugh "When Lord Thomson Hed ined and made some inaudible re- the R101 disaster," she said, "I | ply.” lost the best friendship any Lord Thomson or "General woman could wish to have.. He secured an introduction was the most sincere and won- to "the lady." . derful person I have ever met.

The First Meeting.

But

"I knew all about Smaranda when the book was written. It was a secret between us.

the British Prime now that Minister has disclosed it I do not object. Mr. MacDonald told me about the foreword he was writing.

"I first met Lord Thomson when he came to Roumania dur ing the war. I said goodbye to him the last time in Westminster Hall, where he was fated to die in state.

"He was sent to Bukarest as military attache when all the nations on each of our frontiers were at war. My father at that time was the leader of the Rou- manian Conservative Party and a rather important personage. Colonel Thomson did not know many people in Bukarest, and he was a frequent visitor at our house. He became very attach- ed to me and my husband and, in a few months, he was a close friend of our family.......

"When Roumania joined the Allies he became influential and he took a big part in the final evacuation at the time of the in- vasion of the Germans. He was subsequently sent to Palestine but we maintained a regular correspondence. He wrote, most beautiful letters all of which I have kept.

"She talks English," he tells in his diary, "with an accent that is delicious, and knows more about the British Museum than I do...

Unforgettable, "Although I did not like to mention it, her face and some- thing indefinable about her arc oddly familiar.

Fleet Street Figure.

RAPID PROMOTION.

“

The death is reported from Bad Nauheim, in Germany, of Mr. H. B. Tourtel, who was for many years one of the chief exe cutives of the Daily Express edi torial offices.

Mr. Tourtel, a Guernsey man, went straight from Cambridge to Fleet Street in 1901. He joined the Daily Express in the follow- ing year as a reporter, and at once made a reputation as a writ- er as well as a man of initiative, resource, and wide knowledge.

In

Promotion came rapidly. a short time he had risen to the post of assistant editor..

The strain of the war, during which time he never took a holi- day, but was at his desk many hours a day, eventually under- mined his constitution, and he was obliged to relinquish work seven years ago.

He retired to Italy, where he lived in Florence with his wife. Mary Tourtel, the talented crea- tor of Rupert the Bear: He was fifty-seven years of age..

Tourtel had the reputation in Fleet Street of being a man who could work brilliantly for days and nights on end without tiring. He had also the reputation of be- ing one of the most loyal col- leagues and friends in the Street of Romance.

ANGULAR MOMENTUM.

Calcutta, June. 25. Professor Sir Chandrasekhara

"Now that I have had time' to collect my thoughts, I remem ber an evening in Paris, just after the South African war, and Venkata Raman, Nobel (Physics) a carriage halted on the Rue de prizeman, has discovered proof Rivoli with a young girl in it, a that light consists of particles, radiant creature, the memory of possessing, in addition, the st whom haunted me long after, and, tribute of angular momentum does so still; at any rate it has which hitherto has been regardad been revived" to-night." She as an uncertain theery. might have been sixteen then.

This may be that some woman Incarnates each man's ideal of female loveliness, and once seen, is unforgettable. The lucky man finds her early on, and she is some one within his reach.⠀ .

"At least, at the time he thinks that he is lucky, and that is all one can expect."

The word "Smaranda," he ex plains, theans emerne.

Rare Companionship. He visits Smaranda at her country place outside Bukarest, and finds that she has a great knowledge of art, of French literature and French history.

Smaranda has a castle on the mountains. One night the tele phone rings and Smaranda says her castle is on fire. Their cars After the meet a few minutes later, and Peace Treaty we met often. He then together they tear for came to stay with us on two oc-twenty miles across the plain and casions in Bukarest, and I saw up the mountains to the burning him every time I went to Lon places to

"I did not meet him again un- til after the war.

don.

Amadora de

Letters about R.101, "The last time was in the House of Parliament. I had tea with him in the House of Lords and afterwards we walked round the building. We were both in terested in architecture, and I re member that we made along, tour of Westminster Hall We leald good-bye at the steps and I

never saw him again.

He wrote me several long let ters about R101 and said, how rauch he was looking forward to the Journey to India. He was keen enthusiastic, and

con

The discovery was made by, seat-

tering light in gases, whereby the professor determined the state of polarisation and rolecular spin.

Smaranda's burning castle, when he heard the same cry come from the forest. Now, when he gets home, there is a telegram from Smaranda asking if he can come to Paris. She is about to undergo an operation. He goes over.

"I would give everything," he Bays, "to comfort her, to make She her feel less alone. knows the danger that she will pass a portal through which there may be no return, ....

"If She Died." "I have been sitting at her bedside, all the afternoon; she has sent for no one else except a tew members of her family, so But this day has been mine.. if she were to die. I can't imagine

what I should become or what my world would be without her.

It was a roaring furnace. They watched until dawn, and then, he Bays, for the first time I saw Smarands weep; formerly, in my "Smaranda dead! The thought presence, anyhow, she had been is terrible, unbearable it blinds too proud for tears," and stuns. As I walked back this He spends & holiday with evening Paris, the gay, the bril- friends including Smaranda, on lant, the flaunting, the city of the Brittany coast. Then he light, seemed dark comes to England and becomes a Sociallat candidate for Farlin ment.

He hears an owl ory, It re minds him of the scene at

But Smaranda Loved! There seems to be little doubt that Lord Thomson was in love! with her and never even admit ted it to himself.

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