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DEATH ENDS THE BITTER FEUD THAT BEGAN WITH A QUARREL THE NIGHT EDWARD VIII ABDICATED

From the Files

Brothers Lived 23 Years In Same House 25

Britain's Smallest Baby Now Nearing 21

TARION CHAPMAN, the smallest baby ever to survive In Britain,

M is getting ready for her TWENTY-FIRST birthday party, and

un her coming-of-age cake will be an icing model of the inch-long bootees she wore 21 years ago when no one thought she would live.

Then she weighed 10 oz. Now she is 7 1.8 lb.

Then she was under 12 in. long. Now the is nearly 5 ft. tall.

Said Morion's father, factory worker Mr John Chapman, at their ecuncil housime in Gorse Averse, South Shields, Co. Durham: "The pink and white buotes un the cake will be a symbol that cur worries are over now.

"Because Marlon wes so iny we have always worried about now she is reaching 21 we are sure she is perfectly fit and healthy."

her. But

Those original, dall-size boolees, are still treasured by the Chupmens, who recall that they had fallen on hard times when Marion was born on June 5, 1938. Mr Chapman had been out of work for five years and there were other children,

In clothes basket

two

Marion was born six weeks prematurely in a little upstairs room in a back-street house, and only a neighbour attended the birth.

Said Mr Chapman: it took me an hour to find a nurse. As soon as she saw the child she said 'Send for a doctor quickly."

"When he came he wrapped Marlon in ectton wool and put her in a clothes basket beside her mother. There was no incubator.

They fed her with drops of brandy and water and glucose through 2 fountain-pen Aller every hour.

Doctors said she would never live.

more than two days.

No other baby so small had lasted

Her skin was so tender she could not be washed. Instead she was rubbed down gently with olive oil,

"After a month she could lle snugly in the palm of my hand. Her legs were no bigger than my fingers. Most of her clothes were doll's mifis

dresses because wool was too rough.

"It was a year before we were sure she would live."

Mr Chapman added: "She was Britain's smallest baby, and she has been Britain's best daughter."

So lovely

Said Marion's mother, 31- year-old Mrs Ena Chapman "She was so small, but so

"I still have a leiler every Christmas from a nursing sister in London who sent me my first enough to cover a billard ball.* woollen captis jim

big

lovely. And her features are The Chapmans keep the cap the same now as when the was in the sideboard along with the born.

that

we

will look after her as well as we have. But so for she has no one in mind."

five she was like a baby will.

"We were frightened when she was out of our care the wind would blow her away. • Among the ecoming-of-age "But at nine she was eating greetings will be those from the mcala big as ours. At 18 doctor who visited Marlon Ave she weighed more than me.” times day during her first Sold Marion, who is a typist: weeks. He Is Dr Marlon

"I have always been happy- Shearer,

This is Marion Chapman, the girl who weighed 10 oz, at birth and who was just under a foot high. Now she weighs 7 st. 8 Ib. and is nearly five feet tall.

Without Speaking

by THOMAS JENKINS

years AGO

HALF empty bottle of chloroform on a nearby table, a small automatic pistol with two expended shells on the floor besida. THE feud that kept two brothers—her and a bullet wount in living in the same house, working in Guerra, wife of the Consul her left temple, Madame the same

sawmill-from speaking a General for Portugal, was word to each other for 23 years is over. her room on the fifth floor dlacovered unconscious in

But the Warwickshire village of of the Peninsula Hotel Shipston-on- Stour, where Reginald shortly after 6 p.m. yester Monders quarrelled with his brother | George on Abdication Night, 1936, still made by the husband when he does not know whether the foud ended Consulate in Hongkong. in peace or war.

For

Reginald Manders

Deorge always left by the dead. I stood beside his grave, back door, Reginald by the marked as yet only by an iron front. tag numbered 1780, in the cemetery 03 the hill above They drank their elder in

separate public-houses.

Shipston,

A vase of wallflowers, put there by the brothers' only cle- ter, Violet, fluttered in the wind. Reginald, aged 58, died in a sursing home from thrombosis. George, who is Cour усата younger, went to the funeral walking beside his 70-year-old mother.

But till no one outside the family knows George spoke to his brother before he died.

Their

On

At Mayo's sawmill, George worked on the big saw that rips up huge trees. Twenty-stone Reginald worked machine apart. Their workmates knew about their feud and accepted

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Five years ago, after 18 years of allence, Goorge, reaffirmed: "I shall never speak to my brother as long as I live."

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And Reginold: "When the

broke, I said the-I repeat it now that I would never speak to him again.”

Last year the cottage was

foud started night in December 1030, when King Edward Vili abdicated. There was a bitter row. Tho brothers swore never to speak to each other again.

Different doors

They nie in separate rooms, slept apart in the old cottage in Cripplegate Row, Shipton, where the unmarried brothers lived with their mother and Bister.

Japan To Have Facsimile Newspaper

Tokyo.

from their Tokyo bases, have been selling up to 80,000 copies

centres in Hokkaido.

that is, getting the plate on to the presses for printfig the newspaper.

condemned and

the family

day.

The terrible discovery was

returned to the Hotel from the

She succumbed to her in- juries less than 12 hours later,

One of the popular younger members of the local Portu- guese community passed away at her residence at No. 4 Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon, ok Tuesday in the person of Miss Aurea Angela dos Remedios at the age of 19.

She was a daughter of Mr J. C. dos Remedios, one of the oldest members of the star of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

GTA

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It is learnt that the British Imperial Airway Company will shortly dispatch presentative here to negotiate with the Government for the joint operation of a Shanghai,

moved to a new council house Hongkong-Singapore service. In Pittway Avenue.

But behind the eny,, pink door, behind the windows" with china dogs on the sills, the feud went on. The brothers hed insisted on separate rooms.

Then George became ill. He wys taken to Stratford Hospital. "Surely." sald

neighbours "they'll speak now."

But did they, even when Reginald's cate -100% STO- nounced hopeless, and he was moved to Shipston House, a home for chronic cases?

they has

a

seo Job

☆ ☆ ☆ OWNER drivers will be

glad to hear that work men from the PWD were busy yesterday marking out spaces for the car park at Pedder Street.

Mise H. F. Skinner, Head- mistress of Bellios School for girls in Hongkong, who 10K18 awarded an OBE ala months ago, is leaving Hongs kong on retirement on June 10.

'dolls' clothes Marion wore.

'Two stories' Mro Chapman told mei "She walked and talked at *There is only ៦០ further

Newsagent Mr Len Bradley; a the same age as other children,

close friend of the family, said: but when she went to schoat at Worry. When she marries

Miss Skinner was appointed want it to be to someone who The first newspaper to be reproduced by the a day in Sapporo and other

"I've heard two stories. One in May, 1014, and up to the facsimile system in a centre remote from its

was that Mrs Manders pleaded year 1981 acted as Assistant The time saved in this

with George to go and see Reg. Mistress at the Peak School head office will appear on a commercial basis It ia known that Asal! closely-cstimated programme but he refused.

insisted that the new venture would still leave a disadvantage in Japan on June 1, the Japanese national should pay its way, and it la It the usual offact process were near, the end, but Reg was too

"The other was that he went and Queen's College,

She was in charge of the therefore Dssumed that newspaper, Asahi, has announced here.

the used The big rotary pres

talk: far gone to

Il's still a Kowloon Junior School from newspaper's administration ex- printing off a cast metal plate, mystery

1921 until appointed Head- Tests, using British-made bullon delays once arrived, for peels a considerable increase in

can run much faster. Th

A neighbour will not

in Pittway mistreat of Belilios Public communications in Hokkaido, circulation and income, It has technicians now practising in machinery, were carried out still a frontier area, are dificult, an extensive domestic

explain Avenue sald: "I heard George School in September 1921. and I've never felt any different Portcbelio, near Edinburgh.

news just how they have achieved & broad greater speed

was persuaded to go and with the affect Reg. but for being born so small. My

reporting system and a He said: "She was a marvel-successfully in April be-

Using two Muirhead transmli- cover of foreign nowVA

process, but it involves speeding convincing him. parents Took wonderful care of cus Hitle child, nich amtween Tokyo, where Asahi me in those years when I was so delighted to hear how well she has its main office, over the ganisation allows 27 minutes to Mainichi, is understood to have

ters in Tokyo, the Asahi or..

One other national newspaper, the plate.

up the method of cleaning off "I can't understand it-they THE funeral of the late MF tiny. end because of their is keeping. 1, too, keep at home

always spoko to other people."

THE A, M. B. Rocha took plac affection I have always been me of the tiny bootees she first 600 miles to Sapporo, contro ser facsimiles of two news--

placod orders for facsimile They": Bay that they have÷de: |==Old=Mrz-Monderse very: fra at the Roman Catholic Cemios well.

wore."

of provincial government in Baper pages to Hokkaido.

machinery from the United veloped abi-metallic plate ow sometimes walks out. tery yesterday and was at- the rugged and still sparse- In

This may Sa oro, there will be States.

the with one alloy absorbing the leaning on & stick, with Violet tended by a large number of ly populated northern is four receivers, picking up, the Timestax system which has been oils used in printing Ink and rd their little dog.

friends. Amongst those presentj. 1th from cries-of-uted experimentally already one which jects these alls silent about the fu

But the family de kooping were the father of the deceased. land, Hokkaido...

microwave relays. These carry a but not an a continuous THE they say, the cleaning

Mr L C. F. Bellamy, Mr W, F. The Japanese technicians trong signal, subject to little commercial basis.

Violet said: "It's all finished Simmons, Mr A. E. Coates, process can be considerably re- report

if any distortion, but like tele- having responsible

The Muirhead system was possible the

duced and time saved to make now Reg hos passed away and members of the staff of thứ vision signals can be used at worked

output of 90,000 1 shan't say anything more Hongkong Tramway Ce, and a out Improvements

present only

over direct or developed in Britain and the

about it." per hour.

detachment from the Portuguese) which make it possible for the

Manchester Guardion at one eye-line" routes,

And George said: "I've got Company from the Hongkon British Muirhead machinery to

time considered using it to Inquiries about a possible nothing to say."

Volunteer Defence Corps. handle the Bne lines of ideo-

produce a London edition. The facsimile reproduction system graphs, the characters, derived

Guardian, however, had to go- began in 1933, but not much from the Chinese, used to write

nounce that it was postponing progress was made until, in down or print the Japanbae

this development because of 1854, Asahi learned of the Mon- language.

opposition from the printers" chester Guardian's proposals. union.

Work with the Muirhead recchinery began after 1953, and Another big Japanese news the Asahi technicians here way paper system, Yonfurt

that they were first blocked enterprise with another Muir- the finer squiggles" head system.

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Japan has developed the microwave system extensively, They further claim. having with the big, saucer shaped re- developed improved methods of lay antenna providing direct offset printing. This will give links from mountain-top to # finer uzupł newspaper method of network. direct printing on paper from cast metal. Ordinarily, It would Asahi will use the Tokyo- have been too slow.

Sapporo microwave systemat times when. It is not required With the improvements made for conumercial telegraph or here, it is claimed that Asnhl's, telephone traffic. office in Sapporo will be ablo

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reproduction, than the mountain-top in a country-wide expected to parallel the Asahi by the difficulty of reproducing

26. Hours

..

Cinese characters,

Promising

in the

With time a major factor in techniciens said that they were their considerations, Acahl

finally able to establish a system which will carry, two newspaper.

consultation with Muir- pages to Sapporo in 27 minutes, head, they found what they be- Hleved to be the answer and a The extra receiver and

final equipment.

successful test was re-

to produce 00,000 newspapur ed to follow suit. Their pre-

Rival newspapers are expect coples an hour. They will use sint alternative, to meet com plates made from film repro- petition, duced in Sapporo of the alec business

will be the extensive monitoring tronic signal sent from Tokyo.. printing Hokkaido

of selling up and Sapporo will be to ensure the Ported on April 14, -..

editions In highest possible standard of Commercial production is to the normal way.

reproduction there. They start on June I in an island estimate that using the offset with a present population of But their circulation pos printing process will tave them 3,000,000.. This is an t- sibilities pro, not farge, and. It 14 minutes which would other developed part of Japan and is estimated: that development wise be required to ebat the newspaper executivos regard it By rall and rallway forry, it by ordinary methods would be more usual printing press plate, as a promising field. at present takes 20 hours to unprofitable, especially against travel from Tokyo to Sapporo, the established Hokkaido Shim.. They allow seven minutes to It is, in fact, the Jart new. The air travel time is three bun, a newspaper with an es process and dry the photo- opening left here for newes hours to Chitose, an almtleid timated circulation of about graphie · Blm which will be paper enterprise. Elaowhere, abou! one hour and twenty 200,000 crnies a day in mon- produced at the Sapporo end of the huge droulation of Japan's minutes distant by bus from faig as well as evening odllitus, the facsimile transmission. De- daily newspapers are practient- Sapporo. Bo newspapers, from....

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"n" newspaper, may, or 21 minutes, and five minulescrow, as the island's (reSGLORÍM for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited of 1-3 press at high ent. They hays audited. It is estimated that are allowed for what the ore brought into production Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, boen subject to further distri Japan's national newspapers, printers call "make ready”: China. Mali. Special

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