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77-YEAR-OLD

MAN'S ORDEAL

IN MOUNTAINS

Lying Exhausted On

Lakeland Fell

DISCOVERED BY SEARCHERS

AFTER SO HOURS

By the light of torches, po- Tice and hikers searching the Lakeland mountains for Mr. A. J. Lancaster. 3 Canterbury

hiker. found him eventually ly ing exhausted beside a boulder on a fell two miles, from Mar- dale, Westmorland.

Mr. Lancaster, who is 77, had been missing for over a month. He left his home at Oaten HILL, Canter- bury, for a walking holiday in the Lake District. He took the steam- er down Ullswater for Howton one Wednesday. intending to hike across the mountains to Mardale and stay two days at Haweswater before returning home.

As he did not return home the following Friday night, anxious enquiries were made and

Patterdale

search party.

police

the

organised

a

Unnoticed Whistle

Mr. Lancaster was carried down to a hotel at Mardale. A doctor. who examined him found that he was suffering from a torn liga- ment in the right leg.

The leader of the search party said: "When I reached Mr. Lan-

Gary Cooper, above, knocked out John Halliday i: good earnest during the filming of "Desire," with a panch that went too far.

Lionel Stander contracted lame shoulder from aiming too- vigorous arm-swings at Harold Lloyd, above, which Lloyd had to dodge, in "The Milky Way,”

RELICS OF ROMANS

INTERESTING ·

DISCOVERIES

IN LEICESTER

Several Tessellated Pavements Found

SITE OF OLD ROMAN CITY

Roman remains of great interest have been found at Leicester, where the corporation is excavat- ing preparatory to constructing new baths

The site is part of that on which the Roman city of Leicester was built, adjoining the Jewry Wall.

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THE CHINA MAIL" WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1936-

FIGHTS FOR

THE MOVIES

He-Men Not Pulling Their Punches"

MANY INJURIES REPORTED

FROM FILM FRONT

Hollywood's hulking he-men are not pulling their punches these days, judging from the number of fight injuries report- ed from the film front.:

Two recent calls for studio phy- sicians resulted from Fred Mac- Murray's failing to take the whip out of his right.

During the filming of Walter Wanger's "The Trail of the Lone

OLD ATLANTIC GREYHOUND BEATS OWN RECORD

Aquitama's Fine Run

New York The Canard-White Star Ener Aquitania (45,647 tons) recently made the fastest crossing in her years of ser- vice.

Her official time" from Cher- bourg breakwater to the Ambrose Light was 5 days 10 homes- 6 minutes, an average speed of 24.25 knots.

DUCHESS OF YORK AND CRIPPLES

A Promise Fulfilled

REPUTED TOMB OF ARTHURIAN DAYS

Site Of Castle Dore Being Excavated

TRISTRAM AND ISOLDE SAID TO BE BURIED THERE

Bude

A month ago the Cornwall Ex- cavations Committee is began a piece of excavation work which, it is hoped, will shed light on the dark ages of Cornwall

The site now being excavated is

Castle Dore, near Fowey, where lare believed to lie buried Tristram and Isolde, tragic lovers of 1.400 years ago.

The famous Castle Dore stone- a familiar landmark on the Fowey-

The Duchess of York. recently Lastwithiel road, is believed to some Fine" MacMurray and Henry fulfilled a promise made two yearsmark Tristram's burial place. Fonda had to do a rough and tum-

with a broken nose.

Sprains And Bruises

It is hoped that other relics of

ble sequence at Big Bear. At the ago when visiting the Girls' Heri- lend of it both men went to the tage. Chailey, Sussex, when she the sixth century will be discover bospital for several days. Fonda was struck by the need by better ed. The site, a prehistoric fort. accommodation for the "toddlers" and afterwards palace of King who were then housed in old Army Mark, father of Tristram, was pro huts

bably a meeting-place for the In "13 Hours by Air," it was

She then asked if it would help nights of King Arthur's Round Fred Keating who suffered. Keat.

if she promised to open a new Table, and there

are records of ing received a scalp wound and building when they could get the first Christian missionaries various sprains and bruises when and yesterday she opened "The using the old road which runs be and MacMurray mixed it up. Silver Jubilee Building

The Duchess received gifts for The work, which was to have herself, the Duke of York, and begun in April, is being directed Princesses Elizabeth and Marby Mr. C. A. Ralegh-Radford, the garet Rose.

authority on Cornish archaeology, She listened to the speeches who will have as assistants a team the crippled children, and one boy composed entirely of local unem- asked her to take a message to the

ployed. King-that the old windmill was mended which would make him very happy."

H.R.H. the Duchess of York, who, in fulfilment of a promise made two years ago, recently opened the Silver Jubilee Build- #t ing for crippled children Chailey, Sussex.

nishing the struggle by tumbling over an airport information coun-

This wall, only a fragment of which remains, is supposed to have been built between the first and the fifth centuries. It is sug-i

of the igested that it was part

quarter inhabited by the Jews! during the Roman occupation."but. this has never been verified.

Within a stone's throw three_05 caster he mattered in a whisper, four beautiful tessellated Roman "Who are you? When I told him, pavements have been uncovered.

Every facility is being given for he exclaimed Thank goodness. I've been in many a tight corner, a close watch on the excavations. Local societies have helped, and but I thought this was the last.".

was in "He was unable to tell us much, Miss M. Kenyon, who but we gathered that he had lost charge of excavations at St. A the track, and while making his bans, is superintending. way down the fellside be tripped Where a Large Building Stood

At about the same time William A space of some 120ft long has and fell into a gutter about 6ft! deep. His right mee was injured been cleared next to the Jewry Gargan appeared limping and and he found he could not more. Wall, and it is certain that there Grant Withers showed up with a "After a while he succeeded in was at one time a considerable cut lip and a bruised face at Tom Brown's birthday party. It was dragging himself out of the gut-building here.

Unfortunately excavations in revealed that the two, who are ter and crawling 10 yards along the ground. He had a whistle in mediaeval times have left hardly close personal friends, contracted his pocket and kept blowing it to any of the stones of the building their injuries during a knock-down On the other side of the wall, and drag-out encounter for "The attract attention, but lay for ove

and attached to it by a modern Sky Parade" 50' hours unnoticed "

In the course of filming "The Mr. Lancaster retired last year arch, is St. Nicholas Church, the from the secretaryship of Kent oldest in Leicester. It contains Milky Way." Lionel Stander had to County Cricket Club, which he had Saxon and Norman work, and in have his shoulder strapped for held for 50 years. He is an ac- corporated in it are some Roman days from aiming punches at

Lloyd and countant and a well-known mem-tiles. It is probable that some of Harold

tion...

from the other side of the wall.

level of an old Roman road.

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A 12-year-old schoolboy describ ed, in East Ham Coroner's Court A band sergeant of the 2nd last month how his friend Edmund Hampshire Regiment, Joseph Dag-Murr, aged 12, of Savage-gardens, nall, 31, who was found hanging was killed when a glass case con- by his puttees after his return taining a model steamship, in Win- from a tattoo rehearsal at Alder-sor School hall, New Beckton, top- shot was stated at the inquest to pled" over on him and fractured be in no trouble in his regiment, his skull.

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and to have had a substantial William Henry Clissold,

Cameron-street, New Beckton, said balance in a savings-bank'

The coroner, Mr. H. M. Foster, that he and Murr were looking stĺ recorded a verdict of suicide by the model. [harging, adding that there was no “I had my arm round his neck." evidence to show the state of the be said. "I saw the case wobble wan's mind.

MARRIED ON DAY THEY MET

and put out my hands to stop it falling. Nobody had touched i and I knocked another boy out of the way because he was nearly under the case. I ran away to s teacher and then I heard the crash."

Cupid set up what seems to be a new record during a con- The jury returned a verdict of vention of the Twentieth Cen-accidental death and said that no- tury Liberal Association at

body was to blame.. Ottawa.

Mr. John K. Wedicke, the Brantford, Ontario, delegate, was introduced to Miss Mary M. 'Seguin during an evening session

A few hours later they were married.

table, Halliday and the chair in

- LIONESS CALLS ON VICEROY

Led By A Child

Simla.

A lioness lying down with a dog

ber of the Rock-Climbing Associa-the older stone work was obtained Harold, cast as a shifty milkmanwhich he was sitting all went over and a little child leading them is At a little distance from the pion because he can dodge even if together. In this scene, which Simla's latest interest. Both ani- LONDON-RAND AIR wall a trench has been sunk to the he can't hit, kept out of range of will appear on the screen, Halliday mala are pets of Swami Krish- the hefty Stander's arm-swings, was actually, and not only for the nandji, who brought them here RACE

bit Stander kept putting some purposes of the camera, knocked from Mr. Gandhi's training school He says that lions, cows, horses thing into them nevertheless, re-unconscious in the presence of Mar- near Bombay.

lene Dietrich. The table, across which Cooper leaned to strike him, and dogs live together at the was supposed to take the elongated school on the friendliest terms A table that slipped in "Desire" leading man's weight so that the "under the infinence of Hindu sent Gary Cooper's fist against punch would be spent when it ar- philosophy."

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sulting in a lame shoulder.

Knocked Out

John Halliday's jaw with rinin-rived at Halliday's jaw. But GazY

The Honess and terrier can be

The Lord Mayor of London. Sir tended force, meaning that the leaned too heavily and the table seen walking or rickshaw riding

Comet aeroplane in which the Percy Vincent, presented the Pub- England-Melbourne air race was licity Club of Londos: Cup to Mr. won in 1934, stated recently that Sinclair C. Wood, at the Mansion he had been approached in the House last month. matter by Mr. C. W. A. Scott and The cup, he said, was regarded as the blue riband of advertising.

Flt-Lt. T. Rose mu da konnt

(Continued in next Column)

sladded.

£20,000 Swimming Pool

Opened At Minehead

with their master here. Sometimes people stroke the lioness while she looks on with bored indiffer-

ence.

The Viceroy of India, the Mar- quess of Linlithgow, and the Marchioness of Linlithgow have He had agreed that, if the ma- It was pre ated by Mr. Robert

granted the animals an "inter chine was available, he would be Thomberry in 1923, and was

view" at the Viceregal Lodge. prepared to back them in the awarded annually for the most $10,000 London-Johannesbury six noteworthy achievement in adver

Minehead the fow in this country which The lioness, which is four years old, took a special interest in the Tace which starts on Sept. 15.

tising during the previous year. The attractions of this charm-conform to the international re-

It was awarded to Mr. Wood for ing North Somerset seaside resort quirements for both diving and changing of the guard. his honorary efforts in advising were increased last month when water polo. It is 165ft long and

600 CHILD PILGRIMS the Commissioner for the Dis-Sir Robert Horne, chairman of the 60ft wide, and. Its depth varies

Great Western Railway Company, from 3ft to 15ft. There are div The Archbishop of Westminster A Londen man, Linest Taylor, tressed Areas. m

Cmdr. EL S. H. Ellis presided opened the new £20,000 swimming ing stages at heights of 15ft and

blessed of Beachcroft-road, Upper Toot-

600 Roman Catholic children" it "King's Cross Station ing, dived into the sea at Rams-and a vote of thanks to the Lord pool and sunbathing enclosure 30ft, and two springboards.

Sir Robert Horne emphasised The water is pumped up from before they left on a pilgrimage gate pierhead and rescued a wo-Mayor was proposed by Sir

the importance of swimming, the ses and filtered and purified Walsingham, Norfolk, recently. man who had fallen off the landing-Stephen Taliente. stage.

dancing and physical training The pool has a capacity of 400,000

PIERHEAD RESCUE

LONE OARSMAN'S PERIL

Mr. Frank Jensen, of Tiracom- be, who had rowed out alone, was resened by fishermen off Combe "Martin, when his bost wax in den zer of capkizire-dices to the rocka.

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US. "SIAMESE TWINS BORN (generally. "We have not in the gallons of water. There is sccom

Mrs. Diego : Florenzo of Metford, Massachusetts, OK July z gave birth to “SiamEDE": twin girls, joined back to back at the base of the skill Both died a few hours after birth.

past done enough in this direc-modation for nearly 2,000. specta- FIRE 700 FT. UNDERGROUND tion," he said, "but now we are tors, and a restaurant and bunet Jearing from Germany and Italy, bar add to the amenities.

- Officials extinguished with sand

two countries which are paying Powerfal gas floodlighting will a blaze in an electric hauling en- used for gine hearse, 700t below ground, great attention to the physical table the pool to

ness of their young people”

Minebead's new pool is one of men

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1935-EDITION

The 25 Chapters of the 17th issue of the CHIDNA YEAR BOOK, edited by E. G W. Woodhead, C.BE, have as usual been revised or rewritten with the assistance of many, experts, Chinese and foreign, and every effort has been made to bring information and statisties up to date.

The Carster on the Azumiutang covers the political" his- tory of China in 1954. The Chapter on the Chinese Govers- ment contains the Text of the Provisional Constitution, the Organic Law, and the Draft of the Permanent Constitution.

The Chapter on International Issues gives the text of the Agreement and Exchange of Notes of the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway, besides the latest documents relating to Sino-Japanese Issues.

China's Comemordeations- Railways, Roads, Port Office, Telegraphs, Wireless, Telephones and Aviation are very fully dealt with.

Father D'ES, In the Chapter on Religions, contributes zo interesting Chronological Review ut: Catholic. Basions in Ching, ---

Mr. E. Kam is again -sponsible for the Chapter es Currency and Banking, and the Lom Tables.

A new festare is a Chapter on China's Modern Industries

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