1938-12-19 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 19, 1938

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TYTAS

Noel, the baby chimp, born at the London Zoo last Christmas Day, is now within a few days of his first birthday. Here is a new picture of Noel with his mother, Sally, in their home behind the scenes at the zoo.

SILVER CUP

COURAGE

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SNUFF STARTS £110,000

BLAZE

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M.P. WINS MAN HIS FREEDOM

An M.P.'s fight to win a reprieved man his free- 'dom has succeeded.

Mr. George Hicks, Socialist M.P. for East Wool- wich, announces that the Home Secretary has de- cided to release Roland Hurn, forty-four, who, at the Central Criminal Court in February, 1929, was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, but was later reprieved.

Friends of Hurn asked Mr. Hicks to try to persuade the Home Secret- tary to free him and he did so.

Hurn, at the trial, was described as a carpenter, of Amatol-avenue, Eltham, Kent. The charge was of the murder of his wife, Kathleen Hurn, forty-two, by shooting her with a revolver at Wharfdale-road, King's Cross.. He pleaded not guilty..

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The prosecution stated that Hurn told a policeman at King's Cross that he was looking for his wife, who had left him three months be- fore.

Mrs. Hurn

A few minutes later Mrs. Hurn came out of a house and shortly.

For rescuing a Danish

Fermenting snuff is believed to afterwards the constable heard two from drowning in Copenhagen Har- have caused a fire at Chateauroux revolver shots, found Mrs. Hurn. bour, Edmund Edwardes, merchant (Indre, France) which lasted five and Hurn wounded.

tons of died soon afterwards. seaman and Barnardo Old Boy, has hours and destroyed 600 been presented with a silver cup by tobacco and cigarette-making plant. the Vice-Consul of Denmark at Damage is estimated at £110,000. Southampton,

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AND NOW "SWING” JEWELS

"Swing" jewellery will soon be the rage of New York, Paris and London. The "idea" is that every piece must have long, loose ends that sway as one walks, and swing- gaily as one dances. Earrings must reach nearly to the shoulder. Rings ́ will have drop-ends that move with the rest of the set.

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ROUND WORLD → FOR

HEALTH

Earl Beatty has sailed for Ameri-

THE KING LENDS WAR DRUMS

War drum of the King of Ashanti, with a human jawbone attached, is among treasures the King has loaned to the British Museum from his collection at Windsor Castle.

Others are: Wad Bishora's war drum, which Lord Kitchener pre- sented in 1896 to Queen Victoria, and a Maori chief's carved wooden staff, presented to Queen Victoria by the Maori 'chiefs în 1884.

ca, in the Ile de France, with JOCKEY, BRIDE, Countess Beatty and his brother,

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Mr. Peter Beatty. He is making a WIN HAPPINESS round-the-world cruise to recuperate from his recent serious accident in the hunting field.

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KRITAIN'S LOST MILLIONS

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* * * WIFE WOULD NOT RETURN

Hurn, in evidence, said that he was wounded and gassed in the war, had attended hospital up to

1924.

Several times he had asked his wife to return to him and she said she would, but did not do so.

He stated that he gave his wife a revolver which he had in a hand- kerchief, and he thought she was putting it into her handbag.

A "crash came" and caught him in the back of his head. When he was on the ground he heard an- other shot.

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MEN OF STEEL IN FILMS

A full-length feature film of the romance of the British steel indus- try may soon be made.

Mr. Charles Boot, director of Pinewood Studios, plans the film as a counter-blow to a striking Ameri- The love story of Dorothy can technicolour film entitled the (“Dinkie") Dale, eighteen, daugh- "Men Make Steel". ter of Mr. David Dale, Newhaven racehouse trainer, had a happy ending.

She was married quietly by special licence to her jockey sweet- heart, William Alan sylvester, twenty-three, or Cheltenham, who had worked for her father.

"At least £700,000,000 is owed to Britain by other countries, and the interest paid on this certainly aver ages less than 1 per cent," said Mr. H. D. Leather. (Leeds), addressing Miss Dale asked. Cheltenham ma- British Chambers of Commerce in gistrates for consent to wed. They London.

granted her request,

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"It is no exaggeration to say," he went on, "that during the last SOME ANGLER SHE twenty years the British investor

has lost on his investments in for- Despite a gale and rain at Rams-, eign countries at least £650,000,000.” gate angling festival, Mrs. K. Had the money been spent at home Rhodes, of Stuart-road, Peckham it would have employed at least Rye, S.E., one of the few women 250,000 people a year............

Our loss! competitors; had a remarkable haul. Of the total of 184 fish hooked sho caught thirty-three--and won three prizes.

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RECORD EMPIRE IMPORTS

Imports of canned fruits from Empire countries to Britain last year established a record and repre- sented 45 per cent. of the total. .

In all, 183,000 tons were import- ed with, a declared value of just under -£6,000,000.

A whale of an angler!

* ** THE MAYOR'S DAY OFF

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During his term of office as Ma- yor of Sutton, Surrey, which has just ended, Alderman G. R. Glegg officially attended 364 meetings.

The London County Council has accepted an offer from the Gener- al Post Office for the supply of- old-type telephones to be used for instructional purposes in schools....... Already. 200 schools have made applications for these phones which can be used for inter-class- room: communication and enable scholars to learn how to "phone,

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GOALPOSTS IN CHURCH

Service for footballers was held at St. Paul's Kingston Hill, Surrey, the other day. The football drib-

bled across No-man's-land by men of the East Surrey Regiment when they went into action during the war, was handed to the Rev. A. Wellesley Orr in the pulpit.

Miniature goal-posts and foot- balls were suspended from pillars behind the lectern and pulpit.

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2-MINUTE PAID HOLIDAY

Only "holiday" for which pay is received by some workers in the Lancashire textile trade is the Two Minutes' Silence on November 11, it was alleged at a London confer-

ence.

The discussion was organised by the London Trades Council Youth Advisory Council.

Mr. D. Murray, Hammersmith Trades Council, criticised the choosing of representatives on Ju- venile Advisory Committees, and said he found that some of the "workpeople's representatives were a travesty-nominated by firms.

CABLE KING DIES

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Mr. Clarence Hungerford Mac- kay, the United States "Cable King," has died in New York, aged sixty-four, says Reuter. One of his daughters by his first marriage is married to Mr. Irving Berlin, the song writer.

His father was an Irish immi- grant who made a fortune in the California gold rush.

MEMORIES HIT A "NEW HIGH"

That Londoners' memories are improving is shown in the annual report of the LP.TB. for the year ended June 30 last, which states that although more phasengers were carried on the trams, tubes and buses, the articles received by the Lost Property Office was 320,949, or 27,523 less than in the previous