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MONDAY, MAY 30, 1955.

Greenwich Palace

'Church Launch' Takes Worshippers To Morning Service

JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK

HIS OWN STORY

H

E was a master of his He was told he ought to return to England for treatment, and craft. And in a dozen he came back. Here, as well as countries; if you mentioned his writing, people remembered Simon's name, there would his crime. not be lacking men to you how expert Simon at his trade-which writing.

Cautiously, Simon felt his way

By Vivien Batchelor

THE popularity

mirals It is the Arst time a

These portraits were com- missioned ailer the last war. There are pictures of King HE river is bringing a George VI and 17 of his ad- to collection of portraits of our ad- Greenwich. In the time of mirals has been painted for the the first Elizabeth, when the Navy since 1885 in the time of Charles II, after the Dutch Thames was London's main Charl

wars. thoroughfare, the Court The famous Painted Hall is was at the Palace. From now used as the officers' dining in the afternoon there Drake, Hawkins and ball. But

Yeoman Taylor is pleased to Raleigh went out to discover tell visitors the story of this

remarkable room. the new world.

"Now the Palace has become for the Royal Navy,

of the

a college and Londoners have reawaken-

ed to the beauties tell towards a job. He was halfway architecture and the interest of Maritime Museum across was into excellent one, that the

travel to people

was would have, fully used

In steamy bars not far from the Equator, in the capitals of continentai Europe, Simon's time to name crops up from time.

"Remember

that

book he did abou:

one says.

are

Bre

Three long tables stretch the full length of the room,« lit by silver candelabras.

"Eighty of the chairs made from wood salvaged from warships of pre-Trafalgar days," says Mr Taylor proudly. his the road,

Many

The walls and celling talents, when the firm that was Greenwich by river as in the covered with allegorical paint- to employ him learned about

of the original days

of former Eliza ings and portraits

and queers. It is the his past.

bethars. Some go down river to kings

of Sir James Thornhill Sunday morning service in the work

and it took him 19 years college chapel.

This was the of the complete. chuniain he Rev. dsail Watson.

launch

BRILLIANT

BUT

Ireland,

and

บ

for the

SIMON went tong there before he was put in prison for obtain-"I arranged for a

bring people in time excellent ing money by false pretences.

Then I sug- morning service. ... sortic-

The day he

released was

they have gest to them that policemen

London were unch in the restaurant from

at the waiting to arrest him.

museum and visit the museum In his short stay here before and the college in the gciaz to Ireland he had obtained £10 from one source, £20 from

"What's And if knows

Then someone asks: become of him now?" anyone in the company

right answer, a miserably the awkward silence follows.

FOR

VANITY

another, £10 each from a third

noon."

Naval portraits

ater-

£3 a yard

SHEAFFER'S

21

ADMIRAL SNORKEL PE

JUNIOR NAVAL OFFICERS on a course at the Royal Naval College. Greenwich, zo to a lecture in one of the rooms of Green Palace. In the time of Queen Elizabeth I the court was at the Palace. The public can see the Painted Hall,

the

Nelson's

is

Treasury.

that it

From Our 100 Years Ago

Files

We have been favoured with the following exposition of the Tariff of Sir John Bowring's Treaty with Siam, in order to clear away the difficulties which, it seemed to us, were involved in the apparently authorised statements that had already appeared on the subject:--

used as a picture gallery, and learn every detail of the officers dined in the room lite.

the museum Although underneath it.

At this time of year there is maintained by a fine display of tulips at the only £350 a year is allowed for

The fact The purchases. entrance to the college. bulbs are sent every year as houses what is probably the gift from the Netherlands Navy Anest collection of nautical relics He was pald by contract to commemorate the association in the world is due

mainly to James and received £3 a square yard between the Royal Navy

and a private citizen, Sir for the ceiling and £1 a square the Netherlands Navy during Caird, who has spent nearly yard for the walk. Altogether the war. They are looked after £1,000,000 on the museum. he got less than £7,000 for his by the First Lieutenant of the It was he who paid for the 19 years' work." Mr Taylor said. College, Lieut. - commander restoration of the Victory, Nel-

It was in this hall that Nelson Little.

son's flagship. in state, and the small ante-

Sir James is a shipping magnate whose life hobby is Under the present system, tributable rather to congestion room to which his body was re- night is still called

nautical research

there are a variety of duties produced by the great quantity moved

which, alcoholic liquor, About 250,000 people a year paid on the sundry. article of of

had visit the museum,

Exports from Siam,such as, besides what deceased "But now that people Across the road is the Mari-

are duties on planting the sugar already vomited, was still found of a mess by King George VI, in

Museum-and

the stomach at the post here past using the river more, we hope cane duties on manufacturing in 1939.

on Before trat i had been raval glories come to life. You the number will increase," said it-duties consumption mortem examination,

was Commander W. E. May, the outles

farmer of

The can see the coat Nelson

care is undergoing in- wearing when he was killed in bearded deputy director. It is revenue duties on exportation.

the vestigation by

proper the Battle of Trafalgar. and an appropriate way to arrive at These are all to be abolished, tribunal.

one duty is to be from Mr M. Morris, the warder Greenwich which is so steeped and only in the Nelson room, you can in the history of our Navy."

charged. If the article be tax-

.

lay

to

and a fourth, by false pretences, The parts of the college open to the public are the chapel and At Bow Street Simon's solici-the Painted Hall. For one hour and said: "One has in the afternoon the officers' OR Simon, whip is so gifted, for rose

in seeking mess is open for the public difficulty great can write so well..and is sumitigation for a man like this see the Birley collection equally at home in three langu-

naval portraits. ages, has spoiled all that might been by taking to crime have on the side.

He looks what he has been, a man about the world, the kind of man to whom airport staffs give preferential treatment in-

with a bad record.

"He is brilliant at his job, but once he comes back to this country he falla upor hard times. If his leg had not broken down in Africa, he would ret be here now..

"Since that sentence of four years he has made a deter-

stinctively. He is bronzed hand-mined effort to go straight. I

some, distinguished to look at.

ask you to say you can deal with this case here and not send him

NO SHRED OF HONESTY

People were only too glad toto Sessions." cash him cheques, and all the more bitter when the cheques proved to have no bank account behind them. For they had been sa thoroughly taken id!

"Simon was sent to prison for four years in 1946 for 18 cases of that sort of crime.

By then he already had a police record, but mostly for smaller offences, the product of his vanity-wearing military uniforms, to which he was not entitled, during the war.

BACK AGAIN

said much more in the some vein. But when. he sal down, Mr K. J. P. Bar- said: raclough, the magistrate, "I don't think I can deal with this case here.

"It is quite plain he has no regard for the truth whatsoever. There is not a shred of honesty in. him.

"I don't know what he's like

in other countries-perhaps it is that our police are more or that we don't like vigilant, being cheated ..."

WHEN he came out of prison, W Simon

weat Africa. He knew the continent send

to

Central He turned to Simon. "I shall you to Sessions for sen-

well and he quickly put his old tence," he said.

skill as a writer to excellent use. Not by the slightest hint of a seemed change of expression did Simon

The lamentable past

dead

But in the hot climate a game leg began to give him trouble,

SIDE GLANCES

show his feelings. He limped away-a man of many talents,

a gifted writer, living, instead

of setting down, a minor tragedy.

By Galbraith

"Don't start dinner yet, Mom! I want to ask Marge what time to meet her, tonight-it ought to take about half an hour!"

Printed and published by WILLIAM ALICK GHINHAM for Bod on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 yndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.

the Nelson Room, although it is now a kitchen.

The hall was first opened us

THE DIRECTOR of the Museum, Mr F. G. G. Carr (left) and the deputy director, Commander W. E. May, examine a new piece for the collection: a gold and enamel box which contained the Freedom of the Cits of London presented to Captain Sir Edward Berry, captain of the Agamemnon at the Battle of Trafalgar.

IN THE MARITIME MUSEUM, 11-year-old David Relf Fron Hythe, Kent, watcher the Harrison Marine Timekeeper. In 1764 it won for a carpenter called Harrison a prize of £20,000. It was the forerunner of the modern ship's chrongmeter,

Nelson's coat

"They send 7,500 bulbs every year," he said

time

SOME of the 7,500 tulip blooms at Greenwich College grown from bulbs presented by the Netherlands Navy, Lieut.» commander. D. P. Little, who is responsible for them, chats with the gardener, Mr F. D, Sims.

MES HM BROWNE, of Streatham, whose hobby is building model: galinona, examines the uniform, which was ready for Kelsen ir be had survived the Battle of Trafalgar,

10. the

the

ed for consumption, the export is free; if not taxed for con- sumption, it is to pay the tariff duty as paid by the Siamese or Chinese; except in a few cases where the tariff has been lower- ed.

tariff, which is The

all settled.

is attached

to

the

Treaty. The export tariff is not to be a percentage one, but

the duty on every article is fixed in the coinage of Siam.. PERCENTAGE DUTY The Import duty is to be a percentage, to be paid, as may be arranged, in money at ad valorem calculation, settled by the Consul and Siamese au thorities, in case of dispute, or in three parts in a hundred of the commodity itself.

ап

I thus appears that a tarif

of duties on the different articles

of export is attached to the Treaty; and we submit that

was

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BOSS & WOODBERRY The Boletim do Governe of the 12th instant contains some particulars about Ross and

Woodberry. After in albert

narrative 어 what

happened

Sydney

in

Formosa, Okinawa, U.S.A, 6'p.m. Pakistan, Great Burna, India,

Britain & Europe, 8 p.m.

Japan, 6 pmThe

Thailand, Middle East, Africa, 8 p.m.

By Surface

Macao, & pitth.

TUESDAY, MAY 31 By Air

Iraq, 8 a.m. Indo-China, 11 a.m.. Philippines, 3 p.m.

N. borge, Australia, New land. 2 p.m.

Prilippines, & pink.

ZeA-

Thailand, India, Pakistan, Middle East Gt. Britain & Europe, & p.m.

Korea, & p.m Hewall, USA, Canada, 6 p.m. Japan. 4. p.m. Formosa, Okinawa, 6 p.m.

Radio Hongkong

H.K.T.

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ond Jubilee Season. Henry Wood September 1863, on board the Promenade Concert London Philhar."

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but

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Rost met on hythm; 7.16, "Box 200 Bert Woodberry

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who were going to seize him." Commentary (London Relay) or. Woodberry was taken to the Special Announcements, 8.15 Short Hospital

where be died at 10 Story The Lady who loved insects" the same night. Deceased said Raad by David Fordan (Btudio); 8.30. mindo Hos and his Orch- that Ross was his friend, and estra. A programme of Latin Ameri- the only cause of complaint he can Musle (BBCTS); 9, Time Signal. would have against him might Concerto. Concerto for violin and whi orchestrar in A Minor K. 219 be perhaps because he (Wood (Mozart); 3.30, Elizabethan-estre. berry) had on a certain occasion written by H. A.La Craig and. B.D. compelled him to land from his smith No. Ye Murdring Minia

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