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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 21, 1938.

OFFICIAL

PROGRAMME

FOR BRITISH PARIS VISIT Foreign Office Experts To Accompany Premier

Social Functions

Leave Time For Important Talks

London, To-day.

TWINS BORN

5 MILES APART

Mme. Besson, aged thirty-six, has given birth to twin_sons— five miles apart,

The doctor attending

the mother when the first child was born at her home at Bourron- Marlotte, five miles from Fon- taineb'eau, 'discovered that 'a se- cond child was on its way.

Fearing complications, he had her taken to Fontainebleau Hos- pital, where a second child was born.

The official programme for the meeting in Paris of the British and French Ministers in the middle of this week has now been made known. The Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, accom- panied by the Prime Minister's Private Secre- tary; Lord Dunglass, the Permanent Under Se- cretary in the Foreign Office, Sir Alexander Ca-Patiently he waited until the smell of the escaping gas told him his dogan, and the Chief of the Central European beloved wife must have found final Department, Mr. William Strang, will arrive release. in Paris on Wednesday afternoon.

RECORD FLIGHT FROM S. AMERICA

PEACE

RECOGNISED VOICE AFTER 21 YEARS

of

Mr. Arthur Maw, secretary Scunthorpe Hospital, has received a letter from Mr. Ivon H. P. Watson, of Newport, Mon., a friend of 21 years ago, who recognised his voice · in a broadcast talk. ・

Both saw service in France in the 75th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, and were close friends till Mr. Maw returned to England wounded in 1917.

Broadcasting from Leeds, Mr.. Maw gave a talk on the work at the hospital.

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In his letter Mr. Watson wrote: "I listened to your talk, and

am

fairly certain I recognised the voice of a long-lost friend. I am taking a chance in writing to the 'voice,' hoping I may get in touch with the

in in the war days.”

owner and find him the man I knew

the

,

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Mr. Maw stated that he already replied suggesting "I meeting.

has

а

On the same evening, a banquet his eyes, opened the door to

Later, Johnson, 'tears of relief

will be given at the Quay d'Orsay.] nurse and doctor.

The next day the President of have just put her out of her misery.

"You can come in," he said

the French Republic, M. Lebrun, I have made my peace with God." Yung Mei San, widow, of No. Johnson was held on a homicide 209 Tong Mei Road, has informed will give a lunch in honour of the

charge. At 0.27 o'clock yesterday, the

the police that between 2.80 and British guests, and the City of Moved by the story of suffering 3.30 p. m. yesterday, some person regular Lufthansa plane with mail from South-America arrived in Paris a tea-reception in the after-L.I., refused to indict the old man, money and jewellery to the value and love, a grand jury a Mineola, entered her residence and stole Berlin, having flown over Frank- fort and on

set him free. to Berlin

noon. without landing.

Berlín, To-day.

In the evening, a gala dinner will This was the 400th scheduled be held at the British Embassy flight of the Lufthansa's mail plane

on the Europe-South-America Ser-and, on Friday morning, the two vice. On Friday, shortly before Ministers and their entourage will midday the "Nordstern" left Natal

The programme shows that, in

in Brazil. The South Atlantic was return to London. crossed in 11 hours 17 minutes and Bathurst on the African coast reached. The connecting plane from there reached Berlin in less spite of the many social events, than one day, so that the 400th much time has been reserved for postal flight was executed in record exhaustive discussions. Trans- time, although weather on the last

Ocean. part of the flight was bad. Trans-Ocean.

NEW WORLD SWIM RECORD

Amsterdam, To-day.

MERCY SLAYER FREE

Wracked by the agonies of less A new world back-stroke swim-

cancer sixty-three-years ming record was established on Sun-Jennie Amelia Noe Johnson, day by the Dutch swimmer Jet New York, lay in bed praying van Feggeln, who covered the distance in 1 minute, 13 seconds, lowering her own record, established a week ago, by two-tenths of a second.

This young Dutch girl-swimmer holds all the world records, for backstroke swimming. Other of her best performances are:

200 metres in 2 minutes, 40.6 seconds,

400 metres in 5 minutes, 41,4 seconds,

150 yards in 1 minutes, 48.8 seconds. Trans-Ocean.

A Chinese woman, Young Pak Sang, realding at No. 65 Peel Street, was yesterday admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital, suffering from opium poisoning. She died 15 minutes after admission.

the release of death.

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of $300.

53 REVENGES BECAUSE SHE WAS JILTED:

GIRL TURNED "MAN-HATER"

More curious than some drama of ancient times is the story of Sarah Hyslop.

When the police found her dead in her sitting room after the ser- vant had reported that she had mot When, years and years ago, in received her usual instructions about her early teens, she was jilted by her food for several days, she was sur- lover, she turned "Man-Hater" in rounded by more than fifty bridal no ordinary way.

dresses and other parts of a bridal · Unlike women similarly placed | trousseau. she did not shun the company of According to her diary, in which men, but decided to use her great she discloses her history in detail, beauty and charm to make them she made in her best year eleven hope-suffer.

"revenge matches." only vanishing Accordingly she set herself to when bridegroom and witnesses had acquire "fiances" at rate that few left for the church. girls could equal; and always she for went as far making arrangements

old

of

TOOK HER TEN YEARS

for the marriage before disappear- And it took her less than ten ing and leaving the unhappy lover years to attain her tally of fifty- un- desolate.

three. hus-

Unable to bear her entreaties

As the pain became almost endurable, she implored her

The facts have just come to light band: "Put me out of my misery." as the result of Miss Hyslop's death

at Nice at the age of eighty.

as the longer, her elderly husband, him-She was known locally

"Mad Englishwoman" or the "Man self in the grip of advanced heart Hating Tigress," the latter name be disease, went down to the cellar, cause of her ferocity towards the fixed a fifty-foot length of garden male sex. hose to the stub of an old gas-pipe.

**ALL RIGHT NOW?

He sent the nurse for a walk, told the maid to wait for the baker in the porch. Then, locking the doors, of the house, he ran the pipe up to the sickroom.

in order to shut herself up in the Why she stopped at that number

Riviera villa is not clear.

She would never allow anyone to Ferve her personally. The servant knocked at the door when a course was ready, gave the mistress time to disappear into her bedroom, and Only the police, with whom she then announced by three taps 'her had been obliged to register, knew disappearance so that the recluse her name, and they had to accept could sit down to her feast. · from her by proxy the most meagre details for making out her identity card,

BORN AT LEITH

In the fifty years or more she had been living this life of recluse she has had four different servants, but it was a condition of engage- According to this document and ment that they must be confirmed "Go to sleep, darling," he said the certificate granted for burial old maids who would forswear wed- to his wife.

e. “You're going to be she was the daughter of a Scottish lock for all time. all right now."

pension for life when

Writer to the Signet, and she was She paid them well and they were He went out, stuffed the cracks born at Leith nearly eighty years gu round the door, turned on the gas. ago,