"Couldn't keep my eye
on the ball to-day!'
“Never mind, you can tell this whisky blindfold "
́THE CHINA MAIL, NÓVEMBER 7, 1939
BRITISH PEER'S DAUGHTER
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
On German Frontier, Oct. 29. "Adolf Hitler's English girl friend," Miss Valery Unity Mitford, daughter of the English peer, Lord Redesdale, and for years one of the German Fuehrer's closest friends, attempted suicide after an unexpect- ed encounter with the Fuehrer, the last time she saw him.
sions professed great admiration for the Fuehrer and has often appeared with Herr Hitler at official functions, notably at the opening of the Nurem- berg Congress last year and at the official entry into Vienna in March, 1938. It was not long ago that she figured in a violent incident at Lon- don, where a gold swastika pendant was torn off her neck and she her- self was spat upon.
In a fit of depression after he had shouted at her and insulted Britain, her motherland, Miss Mitford took Of her five sisters, Diana secretly an overdose of Veronal upon return married Sir Oswald Mosley, British to
presence of her hotel in Munich. She was Fascist leader, in the found the next morning, unconscious Herr Hitler a few years ago. An- and near death. Prompt medical other sister, Jessica, left Britain dur- given her and the latest ing the Spanish war to marry her report is that she is slowly recover- cousin, Edmond Romilly, in Spain. ing in a Munich nursing-home. He was fighting for the Republicans
Havas. Miss Mitford has on several occa- at the time. -
care was
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Yesterday's return showed no new cholera cases, but there were three police) have again unsuc typhoid, seven dysentery, two diph-cessfully attempted to track theria, two meningitis and 26 tuber- down the German Freedom culosis.
of
PLASTER RAINS ON PEDESTRIANS
Pedestrians walking in front Messrs. A. Shek and Company, No. 26A, Des Voeux Road Central, given a shock at about 2 p.m. to-day when plaster from under the veran- dah began to shower down upon them.
were
The majority escaped, but an elder- ly Chinese woman was injured about the head.
FIREMAN JUMPS OVERBOARD
was
A tragedy on the high seas revealed in a radio message receiv- ed from the master of the "Reyo Maru" on Sunday morning.
Apparently a fireman of the steamer had jumped overboard in the vicin- ity of Bias bay, but no details were
Ships in the vicinity given. asked to keep a lookout.
STERLING FALLS IN NEW YORK
were
New York, To-day. Sterling temporarily went below 3.95 on the New York foreign ex- change market yesterday with pres- sure as a result of the repeal of the
Reuter. arms embargo.
Station now operating, ac- cording to the announcer, in another district of western Germany.
The announcer said: "Several times the Gestapo were on the point of hunting us down.
"We owe it to the co-operation of friends and our own extreme vigil- ance that we were able to save the operators and ourselves from Himm- ler's bloodhounds.
"Many discussions have shown that our propaganda has fallen on fertile soll among armament workers in western Germany." The announcer began to read a proclamation by the Socialist Free- dom Party but his words were drowned by jamming. Reuter.
MINISTER TO CUBA
London, To-day,
The King has approved the ap- pointment of Sir George Ogilvie Forbes, Counsellor at the British
His Legation at Oslo, to be
Ma- Envoy Extraordinary and jesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at Havana, succeeding Mr. H. A. Grant Watson. Sir George Forbes, who was Bri-
in tish charge d'Affaires
Mexico City in 1928, 1929 and 1930, was Counsellor of the Embassy at Miss Joan Edith Rickwood is to Madrid in 1935 and 1936., He went be married to Mr. E. W. de la Mare later to Berlin, where he was charge
3.30 p.m. at on Friday, at
the ❘ d'Affaires in Sir Nevile Henderson's Cathedral followed by a reception absence in 1937, 1938 and 1939. at the Hong Kong Club Annexe. British Wireless.
Bringing Up Father
DADDY-PLEASE GO TO CHINATOWN AND FIND MY HUSBAND - HE WENT OUT TO A PLACE CALLED. "CHEW WAN CHEW”
HE MAY BE LOST!
WELL-WHY DID YOU TELL HIM TO GO THERE TO BUY. YOU THAT KIMONO THEN? BESIDES HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER THAN
TO GO THERE-
THIS MUST
JOINT
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By George McManus
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BY GOLLY-
FORGOT HE LIVED FOUR
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