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THE CHINA MAIL - WEDNESDAY, JULT 8, 1936

FAMOUS HORSE AT

AT OLYMPIA | VALUABLE

AMAZING RECORD “QUICKSILVER”

NOTED BOTH IN PEACE AND WAR

Ridden Through Last Two Years Of War

`SUBSEQUENTLY BECAME BEST LONDON POLICE HORSE

Entered at the recent Horse Show at Olympia was a horse] famous both in war and peace. Quicksilver. The horse was

Three war medals glittered on his forehead, and he has a re- -cord many men might envy.

Foaled in Ireland in 1910, he

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, son of the famous Theodore Roose- velt, is here shown with his wife as they arrived at Cleveland for the Republican Convention last month.

joined the staff of Sir Aylmer NEW REGIME İN

Hunter-Weston, commander of the, Eighth Army Corps, at Marieux in March, 1916. In the next month he

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to Sir over handed

present Assia- Percy Laurie, the

of the Metro- tant Commissioner

ridden! and was politan Police, -continuously throughout the war.

At the battle of the Somme he

was wounded in the neck by shell!

splinters, but he soon recovered.]

across

the Hohenzollern November, 1918.

the

Bridge

INDIA

DRAFT ORDERS IN COUNCIL

EFFECTS OF PROVINCIAL AUTONOMY

London, To-day.

BOOK FIRST EDITION

DISCOVERED IN PUBLIC LIBRARY

Problem Of Present Ownership

“ALICE IN WONDERLAND" . VALUED AT $400

Surbiton (Surrey) public bbrary officials were trying to- day to unravel the tangle con- cerning the ownership of a first in Wonder- edition of "Alice"

£400, which land," valued at has come into their possession.

The chief librarian was prised to discover the book among a collection presented to the library three years ago, which had

BANNED PAINTINGS been waiting to go into the cata-

Refused Entry For London Art Show

SURREALISM

Two paintings sent by prominent Scandinavian artists to the forth-

Hogue.

It has been established that the book was in the possession of Miss B. A. Naylor, aged 76, of Worple! road, Epsom, and her niece, Miss A. L. Spencer, Albert-villas, Mecp-

haru.

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To Give It Back Mr. W. E. Dommett; chairman of coming International Surrealist the library committee, said: “The

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Harry Richman and Rochelle Hudson are in "The Music Goes Round," which will be shown at the Alhambra Theatre to-morrow.

STANDARD TIME IN EAST AFRICA

234 Hours Ahead Of Britain

1:

SETTLED BY CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS

Nairobi.

ship-

Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, has decided to introduce a dard time for Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

Draft Orders-in-Council under exhibition in London have been re- council will be prepared to give The conference of East African He went into Germany with the the Government of India and used entry into this country by the book back as soon as its right-governors which has been meeting

Castors the British.

the ful owner is established." Second Army from Roubaix to Government of Burma Acts are

A member of Miss Naylor's Cologne

Rhine by published. The first of these pro-grounds of indecency.

When the pictures were first ex-family explained that the book be- ia vides that from April 1, 1937,!

Provincial when the

Autonomy amined by the Customs they were longed to Miss Spencer's mother comes into operation throughout ordered to be destroyed, but as a who, as a child. gave.It to her sis- British India, the existing. Chief result of a last minute appeal by ter, Miss B. A. Naylor. Quicksilver stayed with Sir Commissioner's province of Aden, the organisers of the exhibition Percy in Cologne till February, will cease to be part of British the authorities have now agreed to India The draft order makes "reprieve" the pictures, provided provision for a Government Aden from that date.

Best Trained Police Horse

ARREST OF HYDERABAD MILLIONAIRE

"Charged With Counterfeiting

Hyderabad.

Investigations into complaints of the circula- tion of counterfeit Hyderabad currency notes in the city led to a sensational climax recently.

CID. 'Inspectors and a strong posse of police raided a house in Begum Bazaar, which proved to den of counter- be a veritable feiters.

A millionaire Hindu Bakar and five other well-known persons were arrested.

a.

The arrests have created

city commercial Kreat stir in circles.

of

Has Transfer To Britain Been Proposed?

The second draft order regular- FRANCE'S INDIAN COLONIES ises the position.in regard to the superannuation allowances, com- pensation on allowances and re-l tiring allowances for members of the staff of the India Office who from April 1, 1937, when Part III Act of the Government of India comes into force, will cease to be servants of the Secretary of State for India-in-Council and will be-i (come subject to the control of (the Treasury.

The third provides for the grant of relief, from double in- come-tax where the same income is taxed or taxable in India Burma.

or

The fourth defines the boundar ies of certain areas in the Karen

Hill tracts, which, being backward

1919, and accompanied him when areas, are

Madras.. According to the Gazette Coloniale of Paris the follow- ing item of news appeared in Annales Coloniales, a neuz- paper published in Paris. “Our Foreign Ministry is actively negotiating the possibility of ceding the French Settlements in India to. Great Britain."

Both newspapers are report- ed to have asked the French Government to issue an official statement in this connection

practically excluded they do not remain in the country. [from the operation of the new the They are consequently now on be joined the Metropolitan Police that year. Since then he has been constitution. British Wireless their way back to the artists. present at every State opening of Parliament, the Victory March

Service.

INDISPOSED

and Celebrations, the weddings of MR. ANTHONY EDEN Princess Mary-now the Princess Royal-Princess Patricia of Con- naught now Lady Patricia Ram- say, the Duke of York, the Duke! of Kent and the Duke of Glouces ter.

Doctor Advises Rest For A Week

Londen, To-day: Mr. Anthony

Mr. Rupert Lee, chairman of the exhibition committee, told me that authorities were

the

Customs

very reasonable", and that he was grateful to them for not des troying the pictures.

This will be 21⁄2 hours ahead of Greenwich time, instead of three When Miss Spencer and Miss hours, as at presert, and will be- Naylor left Surbiton, where they gin on January 1 next.

Other decisions include the had been living together, they dis posed of their books, and, not creation of a standing medical re- knowing its value, gave “Alice” to search committee to co-ordinate the library.

existing work, and it is hoped that the Sudan will join. Name On Fly-leaf

As protection against specu- "Miss Spencer. I understand lators, the conference decided to does not prefer any claim to the introduce tariff changes by exeCD- book, as it belongs to Miss Naylor.tive order instead of waiting for whose name is on the fly-leaf," he legislative sanction. Brig. Gen. Sir said.

Joseph Byrne, Governor of Kenya, First editions of "Alice in did not support this decision, as Wonderland have fetched high he believed that constitutional ob- prices in the auction rooms.

jections would be raised by Kenya.

The maximum is £5,000, given în 1928 by an American.

ACCIDENT TO FILM FAVOURITE

Marlene Dietrich Injured

‘DESERT SCENE MISHAP

Hollywood.

It was decided to ask the British Government for the services of an acknowledged transport expert_to jadvise the East African Govern- iment.

"HIT-AND-RUN” DRIVERS

Increased Penalties In New Zealand

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Wellington (NZ). Five years' imprisonment or a fine of $500 for the "hit-and-run” Misa Marlene Dietrich appeared motorist are provided in the Motor recently before the cameras film- Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, the Jing her new picture, "The Garden second. reading of which was of Allah," with a bandaged foot moved by Mr. Semple, Minister of

Transport, last month TELEVISION MAST FINISHED and hand.

The penalties, said Mr. Semple, This was the result of an ac- Britain's frst television mast, atleident which occurred when she might appear pretty drastic, but Field-Marshal the Earl of Ypres Eden, Foreign Secretary, on the the Alexandra Palace, London, N., was trapped in the carriage-door the "hit-and-run driver was not of a train. It happened at a spot only a potential murderer but a rode him on his last parade, and

advice of his doctor, has decided is finished.

road casualties B.B.C. engineers at once started 30 miles from Eollywood, where coward. the State drives he attended all

to take one week's rest in coun- and visits of foreign royalty. He' try. Viscount Halifar (Lord work on the aerial that will be "desert scenes were being shot New Zealand's

Her part required her to hurry during the-last 13 years exceeded was also in the Funeral ProPrivy Seal) will act for Mr. Eden attacked to it. sions for King George through in his absence.

The mast is 202ft.high and rises through a crowd of extras dressed her casualties during the war. In London.

Although his general health is to nearly 600ft above sea level as Arabs and board a train about the past seven years, 1,250 people Quicksilver was the winner for good it is understood that the Ten thousand rivets have been to set out to cross the "desert." As had been killed and 35,000 injured. the best-trained police horse in Foreign Secretary is in need of a used on it, and its foundations are she did so the door was accidental- lly slammed on her "£200,000" leg the International Horse Show and rest. He had planned such a res-deep in concrete. the Royal Richmond Horse Show pite for the Easter Parliamentary The greatest care has been taken and, her hand.

Last night X-ray photographs

in 1920.

vacation, but, owing to the pres to ensure that the mast can with- sure of work, which also interfer-stand the strongest wind, and an were taken to determine whether ed with his projected holiday ear-allowance has been made for some any bones had been fractured.

established that none lier in the year, he was unable to feet of "play" at the top of the was carry out his intentions-British mast Wireless Service.

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The Rev. George Garrett, a Church of England clergyman, of Ryde (LO.W.), was fined £5 with 15 guineas costs at Ryde, last month. for cruelty to a dog. He' was disqualified indefinitely from Evidence was given that Gar- rett, clad in a gaudily-coloured

Kept Annually Oct. 10 holding a dog licence.

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That October 10 be made Shang- rate.

Leung Kwok-chi, aged 22, a dresser, appeared before Mr. W. Girl members of a cycling club, Schofield at the Central Magis- hatless and wearing shots and tracy this morning charged with socks, were refused admission re-assuming the cently to the Roman Catholic Police officer for unlawful pur-hai Day was one of the important The statement of accounts sub-Oriental" coat, set out from his Wong. Che-to, resolutions adopted by the Pro-mitted by the City Government house on a motor-cycle, with Your the dogs stumbled, and, was a Chinese doctor, was the com-visional Board of City Counsellors for the year 1935 was also ap-dogs chained to the back. One of

Ac-proved. The hearing was postat a meeting held recently. They tried to enter the church plainant.

When it was picked up to see the wedding of two of their poned until next Saturday at 11:30 (cording to Dr. Herman Lin, who The meeting was presided over dragged for a considerable diy-

made the recommendation, the day by Mr. Wang Hsiao-lai. Other tance. friends, but were stopped at thejam, bail at $250 being granted.

lis to be dedicated to the revival members of the board present in it was too dazed to stand. entrance by the verger. Offers of:

and reconstruction of Greater cluded Mr. Tu Yreh-sen, President Garrett was alleged to have and General Manager of the used vile language, when passers- overcoats from friends were re-

FLYING KICK AT A TIN Shanghai fused and the girls remained out-

The recommendation for the in-Ching Wai Bank; Mr. Wang Po- by remonstrated with him, and Stafford Evans, aged nine, of crease in land evaluation tax to be chí, General Manager of the Sin when wife came up and spoke to that of Buenos Ayres, Margate, whooped collection by the City Government Wan Pao; Mr.. Han Yung-cha, him he picked up the injured dog Mr. John Aston, of Atherton-with joy when he saw a tin on the of Greater Shanghai was approved noted public accountant; Mr. Smg and struck her on the head with it loh H, General Manager of Na Garrett, in evidence "said that street, Battersea, president of the ground near his home, and took a in principle: vn Scion Mixed Tandem Club, and flying kick at it,

With regard to the increase in tional Commercial Bank, Mz. Kwok as the dogs had previously failed Miss Elsie Gosling, of Haydock His shouts turned to cries of house tax proposed by the City Shun, General Manager of Wing to follow him, he took road, Bermondsey. The couple pain when the contents of the tin Government it was decided at the On Cotton Mills and Dr. Herman of tying the started for their honeymoon on acaustic potash-splashed over meeting that the tar should be cal-C, E. Lau, President of the Univerkner -tandem cycle.

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