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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1951.

The Stone of Destiny was found in two pieces in the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey. Kay Matheson, the Girl in the Story, and her student confederates decided to separate and get the two portions back to Scotland by different routes. They wished each other "Best of luck," and today, in the second instalment of her full ac count, Kay discusses her nightmare journey out of London with her portion of the Stone

Drove

In

Constant

Terror That Morning

By KAY

HAD been told to make £3712923021218 for Knightsbridge Road, and I found it at last, How I ever got there I shall never know for I beenme hopelessly lost.

There was no trafic on 'the road and I kept going at breakneck speed. That

MATHESON

glimpsed the tartan

was almost my undoing. At Abbey

scarf and though! It was the Hyde Park Corner, I pulled collar of my coat up sharply at the trafic lights. I heard the Stone thumping about inside the

hoot.

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bumped against

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At any rale, unwittingly, had changed into a coat that elosely answered much more the description than the blue one I had been wearing.

the lid DAYLIGHT WAS and burst it open. There was BREAKING a clash on the roadway. "The Stone." I gasped to myself.

I fairly tumbled out ce the ear, and sure enough there was precious burden still wrapped in the rug lying in the middle of the street,

i tupped and i pulled. seemed 15 dead weight. but somehow desperation and faith in cur action seemed to

Rive me strength.

The Stone must have weigh ed over a hundredweight, and

I had never lifted such a load

before.

STONE KEPT ROLLING IN THE CAR

Later, when my piece was in Glasgow another girl tried to Hift it and couldn't even move

But there in the

heart of Landon that Christmas orn ing somehow I managed to get

that Stone back in the bool.

closed the lid, but the lock

was broken, and from then on- wards 1 drove in constant terror that the Stone would fall out. No

matter what I did It kept rolling about in the back of the

On

car.

Knightsbridge Road

was overtaken by another ear driven by two men who.seemed to have been out celebrating. was not too sure of my way. 50 1 asked them.

I said I was out later than should be and had get to Reading as quickly as possible. They cheerfully agreed to lead me part of the way.

CHANGED INTO TARTAN RAINCOAT

After they left me I stopped the car at a lonely spot and changed my clothing.

Until then I had been wear- ing slacks. a blue coat and Mackenzie turlan scarf,

of

Strangely enough

1

Daylight was breaking as I reached Reading and in the village I passed, the milkmen were already oul. To keep me awake-for I ha:! had le sleep and less "food I look benzedrine tablets. I decided to head for Oxford, following the

road signs,

The police. I am sure, would

I arrived at the time for lunch,

house

in

They' were surprised to see me, but I said I had been visit Ing Oxford to meet my brother who was In the R.A.F. and thought I would drop in. I mentioned I wes 1 Hittle worried about the state of the roads ahead.

I realised I would have to take the girl and her husband-a Jeyal Scotsman-into my con- ficience. I had decided I could -not go any farther by ear. They entered into the spirit of the thing splendidly,

Then, to my horror. they

that one of that announced guests for the Christmas dinner was a retired police officer.

My car was quickly moved into the garage beside the house and locked up.

While we were at lunch, the B.B.C, one o'clock news came ok, but the guests were 100 busy thatting to "listen to it. They were waiting to hear the King's Speech,,

the read. by now be watching all along I HEARD MY

OWN DESCRIPTION

I feared I would tention because

in the car.

attract at- was alone

So on the way I

But I was listening keenly enough to the news, and heard

ond

I had already warned her in a letter written in Gaelic pent before I left for London, that I was up to something, and that she was not to be surprised if she heard I was in gaol.

Almost as soon as I got home, heavy snow felt and the roads were blocked, No mull or news- papers could get through.

To make matters worse, our radio accumulators ran out, and

could not

them get recharged, so we did not even hear the news bulletins.

we

came

At last iny telegram through, and it read "Happy New Yent"—and was J relieved

Local people jokingly asked: "Did you take the Stone?" 1 answered, "Of course I did," and that disarmed them,

Some of them had connected the radio description with me, pily, I suppose, because I had arrived home late for the holl- days, and partly because of my Nationalistic views.

In a final long instalment in tomorrow's China Mail Miss Matheson whit tell how the two portions of the Stone finally were taken across the Border, how they were pieced together, and what happened when Scot-

offered

a to two old ladies that the Stone had been missed land Yard took up the chase, going to a Christmas dinner. I felt safer with them beside

me.

News of the removal of the Stone was not generally known by that time, so the subject was not raised in conversation. Later, when I had dropped the two old ladies at their destino- on, I gave a lift to a soldier, "I was alone again by the time I reached Oxford, and there I had to ponder my next move.

and I heard also detalls of my own description,

It was also announced tirat, as I had feared, ronds over the Border were being watched and traffic stopped. Car and Stone would have to remain where

they were.

The Stone was removed from the cor and hidden and the next morning I drove the car to the station.

While passengers rode. with On the train 10 Glasgow ine, however, I passed two everyone was talking about the poileemen, which convinced me disappearance of the Stone, and that the Stone way destined entered into the conversation to return to Scotland-undis- and indicated I was as curious covered.

as anyone to know who had removed it,

POLICE NET WAS EXTENDING

At the back of my mind had been the idea that I might at a pinch, call on friends of mine who lived in a Midlands town.

It was now daylight. I had made good time, but I knew that as the day advanced the

In police net would be extending.

Moreover, the roads were in

a bad state, and having had

the

from

All the same, I was glad to reach Glasgow.

I was due to catch a train for I had only a short time before my home, but I had to telephone

0 sister of one federates. LETTER IN GAELIC

was.

of my

con-

Back home, I told my mother

STONE MISSING

historic Coronation Chair in A picture of the Westminster Abbey showing the empty position under- neath the seat from where the famous Stono of Scone was stolen. The Stone had been in the Abbey for 650 years after it had been brought from Scone, the ancient enpital of Scotland; by Edward 1. Known as the Stone of Destiny, .it

used for the cornnation' of the Scottish kings.

(Central Press)

was

THE MALICIOUS MIGHT SAY SHELAPS IT UP THAT IS NOT TRUE

THE WAR HEROINE, 1946,

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WHAT FAME HAS

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THE BRIGHT LIGHTS. 1951.

ODETTE, G.C.

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RS ODETTE CHUR- On May 0 she crossed to fu" at a nursory-nursing college 'CHILL, the wartime France to take part in a family in Highgate, and Lily (17) and secret agent, was 39 memorial ceremony for her only Marianne (15) at their convent Naturally, I could not say the other day. It is six years brother, who died there during boarding school there is not so some experience of their much on the telephone, but I did

much to do beyond arranging a treacherous condition on the say I was back and my part of now since that other birth the war.

meals for husband Peter now a the Stone was safe, although

day whenFritz Suhren,” Scotland I had Way

"On July 31 she is oil of a five slipped on a skirt and since

lecturer and author. it commandant of the Ravens wecks 8,000-mile tour of Canada. I visions of being stranded with could not tell her where thought, a description of me my "hot" cargo. would be wut, I put on a tartun

bruck concentration camp, where she was invited by Mr Odelte enjoys giving a hand I saw little hope of reaching She was able to assure me, suddenly whisked her from Gurfleld raincoat.

Weston, the biscuits- with the housework and takes too, that the others were still when the is by road unrecog

decided, therefore, to at liberty, and said she would her prison cell on his mad and-Fortnums millionaire, to over the kitchen on the cook's Issued-their-description-make for the Midlands." send a telegram to my home drive to give himself up-to-head, the party-of-50-girls-he-is-two evenings off producing a ane it mentioned a green The girl I was going to see I when they arrived. The tele-the Americans. You remem. sending there on a goodwill trip. good French escalope done in checked coat which bore some had known as a student, and I gram would read: "Happy Newber the scene in the film..

It will be speeches all the way. red wine or resemblance to the tartan

maybe one thought I could drop in on her Year.” I was wearing.

without

omelette, always using a lavish Inviting awkward

In London her public engage hand with the garlic. I can

She spent the day quietly at only assume that the questions. She lived there with of my part in the removal of her comfortable policeman who saw me at the her husband and her parents.

ments average three a week. six-bedroom the Stone.

house in Notting Hill Gate with You might say that in view of her husband Peter (her Resist- her definitely stated dislike of ance_group_commander whom. Hresonal glorification. Odette she married four years ago), Churchill would detest all this. hard physical work, She SHE would not now be capable and the three teen-age daugh- Malicious people might retort injured her spine climbing that ters of her first marriage.

that she laps it all up.

-Into the studio (decorated

She is not usually so quiet, Mrs Roosevelt herself is not

Neither is true. with six pictures of the late above taking a small part in the Odeite Churchill has become a realism, she President, three of Mrs. Roose- inescapable commercial opera-public. figure in spite of herself. it She likes to makes a job of velt and one of the Grosvenor tions without which, under the After her Square Memorial to FDR) have American radio system, no pro-appearances in glittering royal presence

personal

think that her trooped

Gertrude Lawrence, gramme can survive, Tallulah Bankhead and

or even and presidential premieres of platform draws Helen

get a hearing.

She may murmur

distinguished the Odette film in London and money for question, "And

to the end of guest, comes

Paris, she has become inexiti- semtion to the now I believe cably confused in Elliott would like to say some mind with Anna Neagle, just as women who

the public deeds of the 12 by Evelyn idden, thing,"

Disraeli got mixed up with went to Ger- George Arliss,

many with her

The radio Roosevelts

pull in the ads.

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LORD Hayes to talk about the theatre. diffidently, os a

by FREDERICK COOK

NEW YORK. UT of a tiny, cluttered studio in a skyscraper hotel, mopping her fore

ex-secretary wife of New York's Mayor, Mr Vincent There's a Impelletteri. The model for your house (see ilustration); telescople little man who had been

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before they were both captured. Since coming home she has had five operations. She never but sinoked cr

drank spirits, she did like a glass of red wine: was a bit of a connoisseur of Bordeaux. Now she can est only frugally, and wing is for-

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Your Employee

Have you noticed him? the last year-or-so

a gradual change has taken place. Slightly paler, yes, thinner. Inclined to

What Elliott turns out to want to say, of course, is always a word or two for the sponsors, different from most of the un-

she intends to cast in the Amazonian mould work. ("I don't mean committees. happy announcers

who make of heroism.. She is of their bread

wearily plugging height, slim, with neatly waved among children. I'd have liked I mean practicat work, especially Movie stars, authors, scientists other people's products with have contributed something at forced enthusiasm

auburn hair. Her most striking to be a nurse.") In response to the ; American air.

feature her squirrel-brown 1 razor-sharp' questioning of the

tall, tireless Mrs Roosevelt, just will say, "the other day when tanned face,

She never uses notes, rises "You remember, Mother," he yes, set in an oval, slightly sun- admirers "the Greatest Living we were driving home to Hyde voted by

without a tremor to make neat. Impromptu and appropriate re- Woman in the World."

Park and one of the "children" She has lived -in-England-for- marks. She never falls to make-

"Just ari suddenly cried out that there nearly 20 years, arriving first in it plain that she is was a great big bird in the sky, 1932 with her first husband, Roy ordinary woman." Ten seconds later he was being In trying to account for the And so there was, a huge blimp Sansom; yet although she speaks But, of course, Odette is not an and Introduced. "I have with me smash-hit success of a projec: advertising So-and-so's orange and writes English fluently, she ordinary woman at all. She has today a man I'm sure you all they had laughed on as a certain fulce, Orr remember, has as stagey a French accent as ideas about yoga. know, the former Prime Minister failure, America's radio pundits: Mother, years and years ago you Alice Delysia, to

Slre doce Suppress a cough but. of France. How do you do, M. how say "the secret lies in the

to give those 'Blank

whom she not merely believe that mind he has not said anything overpower matter, she about it... he knows by Paul Reynaud?"

fact that the voice is the voice of Co. radio sets

bears for Christmas

small-scale likeness, can

Janows from extreme ex- now, but... he's probably Eleanor, but. The recording machine in the hand of Elliott."

the hand is the presents. They were the best She tries hard to Improve it, perience, She saya that

then, as they still are.”

married because of it she feels pain less three or four children. ... probably has minute clothes cupboard just off the studio had stopped spinning

than the average person,' Elllot Roosevelt, FDR's tall, There has been some.crliicism "I am just a simple, ordinary

and can't afford to confess only. long enough for a fast husky second son, officially boss hero among the columnists and port of women," sho stid switch of dises.

of the

his trouble. Can't afford to show as president of commentators. who like nothing when she got the Copios of photographi

first George Roosevelt and Joner

Nase his job. You will dis- to attack anyone Cross won by a woman in the (which better than takon by, the South China

Invites your subsort in helping to usud were the latest in a long with advertising, and sell it as

Mrs Impelletteri and M. Roy- records the programme, complete bearing the Roosevelt name. Morning Post, South China | train the Hongkong

war. "From now on I am going IN 1920 when she was eight, cover him sooner or later. parade of notables-and plain, 4 a remy-for-the-alr "package"

Elliott and his mother shrug to stay at home and do my blind for two years, Then sheThere are thousands like him Odette went blind. She was and then what will you do? Sunday Post-Herald, and to-morrow. Subscriptions should be

anonymous men-in-the-street to the studio) finds tho

that off. "You always get carp-nitting" But public Ute keeps thrned how to create her own in sent to: The Hon. Treasurer The and their wives to have made rounds it up and presents: it to ng critica," saya Elliott, "people breaking in. China Mail Staff Photo-Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association unrehearsed appearances over

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Hongkong, and it is world inside herself. Doctors because of those that The who sneer that it's nothing but a for her "{graphors 'aro on "view in the War

mother

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broadcast which has won its nonchalance there turks a keen Mother now has a real feeling of respondence which deluged her country herbalist.

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