1935-10-18 — Page 13

ROMANCE OF LOST DAUGHTER

Said To Be Egyptian Princess.

FATHER'S SEARCH

Edinburgh.

A lonely old man living in Salvation Army hostel ond his long-lost daughter, whom he be- lieves to be an Egyption princess. are the central characters in strangely romantic story here.

e. The old man. Mr. James Mackie. last saw his daughter when she

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was' four years old. She was taken away after being in an in- stitution following her mother's death.

She seemed to have gone out of his life for good.

A few years ago. however. de received a paper from Egypt, con- taining photograph of a young) woman described as 3 foundling: who had' married a Prince.

He said at once that he could trace a family resemblance in the pictury.

Now there has come a new chapter in the story.

Appeal for Help

A friend has told him that a woman on holiday from Egypt had been searching in Edinburgh for her futher. She said she had not seen him since.she

was a child..

Most photographs of the late Huey Long show him in action. This a studio portrait, made recently in Washington.

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HEIR TO ENTIRE WEALTH OF ASTOR FAMILY

's Short Story

FUTILITY

By Ronald Aggett

DRIAN was walking down he was going, or why, nor did he A

a little, endless lane, and remember the place from which he the strange thing was that had started out and, curiously although neither meadows nor enough, he did not seem to care. New York. hedges nor even the lane itself The G.$100,000.000 heir born were visible, although he was accordance with a well-established It was all very baffling, and, in to Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob walking in a darkness as com-habit, he began to search for eon- Astor L is to be guarded plete and profound and black solation in the form of cigarettes, Lagainst possible

kidnappers as that which descended upon but, in the act of fumbling in his with even more care than the Egypt. nevertheless he was pockets for his case, be suddenly second son of Col. Charles Aquite positive that it was down stopped as abruptly as if he had Lindbergh. according to thas little, endless lane that he been stung. New York Daily News..

It was astounding. was walking. The baby. who may inherit He could feel yielding beneath kets, he could not even feel his Not only could he not feel his poc the entire Astor fortune, will his feet, sodden masses of red and body. get his first yachting trip in 3 gold leaves that had long since week or two, according to his fluttered wearily to the ground; but no familiar shape of nose and He pit his hands to his face. youthful father.. Mr. Astor now they lay perfuming the lane tips met his groping fingers, and refused to disclose the destina- with their cool fragrance. Occa- almost with despair, he realised tion of the trip, but it was re-sionally he bowed his head to avoid that the action of raising his hands ported elsewhere that 19-year-unseen branches that he knew to had been purely mental. He did old Mrs. Astor. the former Ellen be caressing the lane. Tuck French, New York society where, too, a bird was singing, its there, was only space.

Some not appear to have any hands- girl would sail up Long Island song seeming anreal and fantastic, Sound with her baby to New-

port Rhode Island. for that as Adrian listened. he felt suddenly and unaccountably terri- christening....

Mr. Astor, who, despite his fied, but why he did not know. wealth, works for $25 a week darkness enguling him that made Perhaps it was the impenetrable į in a New York shipping office him feel a little frightened; per- recently bought a 38-year-old 100-foot vacht for a small summ

haps it was the same darkness. It has a wooden hull and is overwhelming him with an iner- being renovated at a

plicable sense of silence and soli- tude. that made him feel

She had found one family of the Sunday's Pairings At about $10,000.

name of Mackie in the district. but they were not the people she sought.

Fanling

The following are the Royal Mr. Mackie rushed to the police Hong Kong Golf Club starting station and appealed for help to times for Fanling next Sunday: trace the woman who he believes

is his daughter.

The police have now asked the. local Press to assist in the search.

His daughter was named Katie

OLD COURSE 3.3% a.m. 1. Monaghan. E

MacMullen.

The house in which she lived! with her father has since been de-i 938 molished in a slum clearance 9:40:

scheme.

Mr. Mackie cannot say where she was taken after leavingį Edinburgh.

He says I am now 63 and, as

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Mrs. Lithgow's first children! were twins. a boy and

girl 10.40

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TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Horrible God. by Thomas Burke.

"Vague suspicions which he had Despite his previously dismissed without con- His description of the baby strangely happy: las yet unnamed. was: "He fears, he had never, in his whole sideration now invaded his mind

aur little hor." pink and beautiful. He's a refe, felt quite so ridiculously and took possession of it. Nebu

Renter.

happy: although the fact perplexed lous images crowded him. there was no denying it.

which gradually became more

RISING BIRTH-RATE

IN GERMANY

Nazi Encouragement Of Families

Berlin.

The German birth rate. in con- trast to that of some other Gil-European countries. is showing a marked increase. Similarly, there has been a striking increase in w, the number of marriages register-

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It also occurred to him that he vivid and decisive. There was a had not the slightest idea where fringe of a counterpane-a row of bottles"containing variously colour-

AIR-CONDITIONED MOTOR CAR

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ed liquids a cool hand that had been placed upon his brow. began, almost frantically, to piece. together these images like frag- ments of a fig-saw puzzle, and-in-i finite patience, and perseverance were rewarded by a clearer recol-

Ingenious Invention. lection of his illness.

Of U.S. Mechanic

IDEA TO BE PATENTED

Now he remembered that young doctor who had so annoyed him! with his noisy and jocular bed! side manner, and the indignation which had swept over him because) the young fool would persist in Mr. A. C. McGuire, who is the treating him like a child with a

Memphis, Tennessee.

ed during the past four years.general mechanical forezian of

Imild attack of messles.

And

RC These facts are ascribed to the railroad here, has invented a there had been relatives, swarms

W. M. Barton, A. Somer. Nazi policy of encouraging family way to keep cool while driving of them it seemed, of varying his car along the sun-scorched degrees of intimacy, who had clus-

felt.

life

C. C. Black, G. Marseille. From 510,000 marriages in roads of this State in Summer tered about him like fies on

D. Edwards. Jone, L. Gold-1932, the total rose to 631,000 in

W. X. Buyer, T. R Chassels.

| 1933 and 731,000 in 1934.

From the record low level

of

de-

He has converted two motor manure, the more distant ones car heaters, into coolers, plachovering in the background, ing them in the back of the pressing him with their insaffer- E. D. G. Barlow, F. C B 957,000, births in 1933, the birth driver's seat. Instead of rable air of condolence, and the Black.

to 1,181,000 for ning the water from the engine nearer, rate has risen Col Marsh.

E. J. R. 1924-Reuter.

through the heater to warm it proudly ensconced in the bedside equally. exasperating, he has, in the luggage compart Hosky, D. W

ment, two boxes, removed from

He remembered it all now. He refrigerator, which he has had been ill, for how long he

"

Mitchell

Major MacEwen

Major Grune. Major Davies

Happy Valley v. Kowloon at Valley, Mr. A. Wood, of Lyeemun Bar-filled with ice

seats.

survived.

9.00am R. K. Collings, D. Sracks. reports that while driving | A fan connected with the could not remember, but it

his car in Gloucester Road yes-engine circulates the iced water clear that he had not terday he collided with a Chinese through the ice boxes and the And he had the faintest recollec- W. Taylor, A. Meñellar. male, Cheung Kee, who ran across heater units. He uses one inch tion, although he hesitated to ad- A..J. Dennis, W. A. the road and received slight incork to insulate the car.

mit it, but he was almost certain

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Edward.

was born, on the same day.

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juries. He refused to go to the Mr. McGuire has applied for that Rosalind had said: “Just like H. H. Mandy, J. MacKnight hospital.

a patent Reuter.

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Peiping, To-day.

W. C. Simpson, J. She- pherd.

A group of 18 Japanese educa-{*9.44 tionists, who arrived here several:

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days ago. have made, investiga

$32 tions of different schools here and

9:56 proceeded to Tientsin yesterday 10.00 afternoon.--Central News Agency. 10.04

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DEBATE IN COMMONS ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS London, to-day-The Govern

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1. Stoker, B. W. Bradbury.

Adrian!” Of course, she might not have said it It was not the sort of thing one expected a young wife to say at her husband's death- bed, but nevertheless, Adrian would not be at all surprised if she had been responsible for the remark.

Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 Mrs. McDermid, of room No. 22, It was what one might expect of hours ending at 10 am to-day was Marble Hall, reports that she was Rosalind. She was that kind of

G. P. Murphy, W. W. C. (0.10 inch. The total since January bitten by her collie dog on the leg a girl Shewari

I has been 65.61 inches, against yesterday, when she tried to se- Adrian felt justifiably annoyed. W. Afern, H. T. Buxton.

perate it during a fight. She was It seemed as if somebody had E. Murphy. J. J. King. an average of 80.84 inches.

treated at the Kowloon Hospital played a mean, despicable trick on J. D. Thomson,, T. D. Paten

Letters of administration in the and the dog sent to Mantankok him. All his life he had bossted A. Andrews, A. Macfarlane estate of Mrs. Der Do-yan, late of

that when death came it would W. Kershaw, A. W. Muir. No. 656 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Yeung Kam, driver of private find him unafraid, "but he had]

who died intestate at the age of car No. 2398, reports that, while never anticipated its coming 30 DUKE'S ILLNESS

69 on November 12, 1931. leaving driving in Shanghai Street yester-mddenly and so unexpectedly. He $19,600, have been granted to Tse day he knocked down a Chinese was young, too; surely, without Wai-san

boy, Hun On-tai, aged 8, of No being selfish. he could consider 99 Temple Street, who was remov-himself entitled to a Grave Anxiety On Eve

tew more ment “Whip," issued to their sup- Of Royal Wedding Thomas Carson, late Acting ed to the Kowloon Hospital suf-years of life. porters in the House of Commons:

Sub-Inspector of Kowloon Cityfering from injuries to his ankle Well, Rosalind would have her the i yesterday. states tha on

London, To-day. Police Station, who died on March and from concussion.

wish fulfilled She had persis- reassembly of the House nextį It was

announced yesterday 24, 1935, left local estate valued at

|tently informed him, “I do so hope While Lui Ho, aged 6, of No- the gods love you, darling, because Tuesday the Foreign Secretary, that the condition of the Duke of $1300. Letters of administration Sir Samuel Hoare, will make a Buccleugh, father of H.R.H. the bave been granted to Albert

Acting the international Duke of Gloucester's fiancee, Lady Joseph Johnson, situation and a debate will take Alice Scott, is giving rise to seri-Inspector, H.K. Folice. place which will be continued on ous anxiety. Wednesday and probably

statement

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25 Fa Yuen Street was playing I most awfully want to be a young in the Naval Recreation Ground and charming widow," and ap at Causeway Bay yesterday he parently, if only for Bosalind's was bitten on the leg by a chow sake, the gods had loved him. dog belonging to Mr. J. Dwyer, Hea Chock-shee, widow, late off No. 11 Leighton Hill Road. The On Owing to the Duke's illness it

Bosalind always seemed to hava Thursday-British Wireless. Ser-was arranged some weeks ago that Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, boy was treated at the Governmed to mistry him and al Lady Alice would be given away who died on November 24, 1933ment Civil Hospital and the dog at the Royal wedding on Novem- left local estate valued at $19,400-sent to Mantankok. ber 6 by her brother, the Earl of A petition by Daniel John Lewis, Dalkeith

solicitor, her lawful attorney, for

vice.

£25,000,000 ANNUAL LOSS DUE

TO MOTOR ACCIDENTS »

Engineer-Comnander

her own way. She had been de

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though that was the last thing he had expected, she had succeeded în doing so. Had their marriage

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» The Duke of Buccleugh is 71-letters of administration with the white, R. N. and Surgeon-Com been a success? There was no British Wireless Service.

will annexed, has been granted. mander G. L Ritchie, M.C., MB. London, today. Mr. J. D. RESTLESS EVENING

ChB RN. have very kindly ar Simpson, joint general manager of London, later: A bulletin was Herbert Phelps Whitmarsh. late ranged to deliver lectures at the “HOT MUSIC” IN REALITY the Royal Insurance Company, issued last night as follows:- of Baguio, Philippine Islands, St John' Ambulance Brigade in a speech on Wednesday night "The Duke of Bucclench passed a who died 00 April Headquarters, Tat Hang Road, Berlin-A burning wireless estimated the annual loss due to restless evening and his condition 1935, left local estate valued next Tuesday at 9 pm, the subset pouring forth fire, smoke- motor accidents at £25,000,000.is giving rise to the greatest at $41,500. A petition byject of the discourse being "De and dance music-shattered the and urged that on economic, no anxiety." It was reported that his George Gwinnett Noble Tinson, contamination Practical De window pane of a house în

humanitarian, daughter, Lady Alice Scott solicitor, deceased's lawful at-monstrations will be grounds effort to increase the fiancee of the Duke of Gloucester, torney, for letters of

less than

on

safety of the roads was British Wireless Ser

stra-sequent

will be exhibited:

might fly to her father's bedside tion with a certified copy of the this morning.

annexed, has been granted.

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