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The Pickwick Papers

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in aid of the British Red Cross Society Hongkong Branch.

Clare

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Keswick Chairman Film Première

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY: DECEMBER 31, 1954.

"Two-Gun" Cohen's Plea For New Use For

Sun Yat-sen Memorial

London,

General Morris ("Two-Gun") Cohen, former aide to China's first President Sun Yat-sen said Communist China had promised to perpetunte Sun's memory.

2

Nazi S.S. Camps

Glasenbach, Austria,

· Chintz curtains, potted geraniums and children's toys now brighten the in- famous Glasenbach barracks In An Interview Mr Colen mald "Although I am a member off Sun was lucky and escaped to ho had

c:dled

on Mr Huan | the tribe of reel I am not a Britain where he started again where Adolf Hitler's SS Halong. China's recently approphet of Israel but it is my to organise exiled Chinese Into kiliers once trained for pointed Charge d'Affaires In beller that China will be unified a revolutionary movement and terror. Londen, to nek vilm if Sun's a great do:1 sooner than. the to distribute anti-Menchu pro- The Glasenbach camp is the martial

the Chinese world at this moment believes paganda throughout the world, newest home established in Embassy would continue to be When Ching is united it will

Austria by the United States He was so successful that the Escapee Programme (USEP) for maintained and honoured. mean economic salvation for the

In October

was United States and Europe for at Imperial Government of China families who have escaped frein 1890 Sun

least 100 years," Mr Cohen sald. put a price of £100,000 on his behind the Iron Curtain. kidnapped by the then imper

head. list Chinese legation and kept

Nearly 300 men, womca tad He said he first met Sun Yat- prisoner for some weeks in an

He was warned by British children from eight Communist upper FOXTEN al 40 Portland cen In 1007 and, after World

friends that the Chinese lega-countries live in barracks rebuilt Place which eventually became War I he went to China to be-

aldo and body- tion would seek to capture him; homes,

normal private the Chinese Nationalist come Sun's

Their quarters Embassy.

guz.d in which his duties g.v spirit him away to China and

separate units complete with Sun

eventually treed rise to the legend that he put him to denth

cooking and washing Inc!lltits. carried iwo holstered through the good offices of an

There

kindergarten, English friend, Slr James, under his armpits,

library

central laundry, re- Cantile and finally returned to

creation rooms, and shops where refugees toarn skills to fit them China to overthrow the Manehu dynasty nod became the "Father

Sun Ignored, their warnings for

to carpentry, of the Revolution" which

and one night in October, 1890 cobbling, tool making, plumbing. estrblished the Chinese Re-

he was seized by Chinese lega-cooking and more than half a public.

tlen zervinia and imprisoned in dozen others. a small upper room with barred windows, an iron bedstead and a bare wooden table,

was

Kept Prisoner

For nearly 10 years the roum in which Sun was kept prisoner has been maintained thumorial by n succession Chinese Ambassadors.

013 Д

of

On January 6. 1960 when Britain withdrew recognition of the Nationalist regline the Embassy was vaented.

With

of

the appointmedi Communist China's Brut dip Jumalle cavey in October, how- ever, renovations were under- and there Was some question as to whether memorial

Sun's

Mr Would be maintained.

a lifelong friend of

Sun Yat-sen said his visit to

the Chinese Charge d'Affaires

was to ask

undertake

memorial.

China woul:1

10 maintain the

An Assurance

I could make this publle and

Funs

"1 wasn't just hits bodyguard. Hix was his lifelong friend. famous inree principles for the urs! Chinese Republic forin the basis of polley in China to day-there in no difference but Sun was no Communist servant to Marxism," Mr Cohen satď.

Sun Was Lucky

Sun Yat-sen attempted his first revolutionary coup China in 1803. I falled and his fellow conspirators were caught and put la death.

Stepping Stone?

to resemble

now

are

Since 1948 more than 100,000 East Europeans have braved Communist secret police, barbed wire, bullets and landmines to It was this room which has escape to the West. They con- since been maintained As a tinue to slip through the Iron shrine to his memory and a Curtain "at a rate of several room which, "Two-Gun" Cohen hundred a month," officials say. inleyes, can serve as D stop- The United States Escapec ping stone to pence between the Programme was ect

two up two Chines of today-United years

to assist their ago rehabilitation-United Press.

Press.

Emilie's Death A Tragic Blow To The Dionne Quins

lives

Corbell, Ontario,

The four surviving Dionne quintuplets are still trying to live normal but none of them have managed to get over the death of their sister last August.

Most of Canada and millions fuced a long illness, rather than throughout the world shartd | midden death. the

SOTTOW

when

Friend:

for

**

Said one family doubt if they will ever be the that Emilie is same again now

gime forever."

family "I was received by a coun-

They were not prepared sellor named LA Hsin-a Emline Dionne--whom they had ner death so suddenly and Canimest. He assured me that prayed for at birth, whom they fur from home. the room in which

had watched Sun was

grow up,

and Imprisoned would be maintaine ! whom they felt they knew as In its original intimately as the girl next duur as a memorial stato, asked him particularly died of an epileptic stroke.

Thus a dlacose which rarely ho agreed most cordially and kille separated Canada's fome

quintuplets, taking the life of courteously," Mr Cohen said.

Mr Cohen said he

regarded the shycet, least happy of the Communist China's avowed re- healthy, fun-loving girls. cognition of Sun Yat-sen as

It Wes more than Emtite "most

significant" "Alepping stones

to China's peaceful unification.

and

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Dionne's death, It was the way the diet that troubled so many. From the time she was born,

until she was 18, she was rarely alone. She slept in a room with her

other sisters, played with them in the nursery and kat side by side with them to have her meals.

She Was Alone

to

But when death camo Emilie Dionne, she was alone,

10 ta

After Emilie's death, the four survivors picked up the turenda of their lives and tried to seitio down to a now lite

Abandoned Plans

I

Marie had abandoned her anu plans to become

nun entered a Montreal college w The story of her death and

study French Herature with funeral was told in the world's

her sister, Annette, who was and Over radjo

studying music. The other wspapers 4tations around the globe.

two, Cecile

and Yvonne, started Thousands fied silently punto train as nurses in a Montreal her bier. Crowds gathered out-

Ville suburb, St. Laurent,

But this month, Mario, itill terribly shaken by her sister's death, suddenly left her liter

ture studies and returned bone, The girl, who was the youngest of the quins and who fought a battle for survival for a week after her birth, was again in I health. Fraft and thin, she is suffering appetite, certainty.

side the Dlonne sympathise with the parents. There were telegrams of car dolences from such high church dignitaries as Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York.

But even kufore Emilie's death, the quins, as was natural, had started to go about their individual ways.

Left Convent

The first break camo

when

from loss weariness And

of

th-

She had only recently become Marie, the smallest and the termed, none of the quins have

a

a fortime

But as far as money is cou-

and was frallest, a probationary nun

As Emilio died to worry. deelded to enter a slaying at a Laurentian

ho minor, her share

of a honte operated

Test Quebec City convent of the estimated at well over a $1,100,- by the. Oblate Sarvunts the Blessed Sacia- Sisters of Immaculate

Mary

000 will go to

to the other four. ment น year ago. Il-health- On August d, she complained or not feeling well at breakfast forced her to leave nine months Next May, the four come into later, a month before Emilles the money which is the pro- death

ceeds of contracts. for food advertising, film rights to their in the morning and zc-

story and publication Meanwhile, Annette, Cecife birth ported she was steeping com- and Emilie wero studying at rights to photographs which fortably. At 10.30, the nun re- the Institut Familiar in Nicole, sold by the millions. turned and found Emille dead. Quebec, and Yvonne was study- Famille died exactly 20 years, ing art at the Notre Dame Con two months and nine days after gregation in Montreal. her birth.

and returned to her room, nun locked in her room at 9.15

When they graduated

แน

21 Next May

So far, the four, who will be The surviving quints and the their teens, on May 28, 1054, 22 Acxt May, have not, had Their father, whú boyfriends, other members of the Dionne only four of the famous sister family took her death hard, were together. to open their was neither richer nor poorer than his neighbours until the They know, she was £ bo presents and to rejoice' over, a cause from the time she was joint gift, a convertible from quins birth, says they will three she had had fainting their father, Olive Dionne, Tho know when the man each wants! spells, But they thought Emilie fifth, Marie, was at the convent,

marry comes along.

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