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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH, 1926

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MR. G. B. SHAW OBJECTS "TO IDOLATRY..

BROADCAST REFUSAL.

WOMAN'S FRAUDS.'

WORKING GIRLS SWINDLED.

£30,000 LIABILITIES.

A frail white-haired, benevolent-looking Mr. G. Bernard Shaw's seventieth woman, sixty years of age, stood in the birthday was celebrated by a dinner dock at Bristol Quarter Sessions and organised by the Parliamentary Latour pleaded guilty to a series of tharges of Party at the Hotel Metropole, London, obtaining money by false pretences and on July 28th, Mr. J. Ramsay Mat- obtaining credit without disclosing the fact that she was an undischarged bank- Donald, M.P., presiding.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald said they rupt. thought and believed that on such an occasion the whole of our people froin John O'Groat's to Land's End, and thou saade throughout the Continent of She was described as Elizabeth Mar- Europe, would like to hear Mr. Shaw. garet Grant Greer, otherwise Bessie The B.B.C. was approached and was' Field, and Supt. Tanner, of the Criminal quite willing. Unfortunately, it was not Investigation Department, said there the B.B.C. that settled 'matters such as was no doubt that she was of good family. this, but the Government, and he re- Ex-Service Men Employed. gretted, said Mr. MacDonald, that owing

She was sentenced to 15 months' hard- labour.

She was born, he went on, at South- to the smallness of mind of the Governport and had relations in New York. ment, and its utter incapacity to gauge

From 1911 to 1913 she traded in New- what was in the hearts of our people, castle as the Rapid Returns Co. and left Mr. Shaw was not being broadest suddenly, and a large number of people (Shame.") The Government asked, to sought her for money. In 2013, at Quora, guarantee that he would not be contro Leicestershire, she elaborately furnished versial on public topics. (Loud laugh. a house on credit and absconded. She ter.)

was adjudged bankrupt with liabilities of more than £7,000.

Mr. MacDonald said he had never known Mr. Shaw controversial, but he know that if he gave a guarantee for his good behaviour, although he had no in tention of outstepping the bounds of good behaviour, he would do it out of sheer.devilment. He was willing to stand bail for Mr. Shaw, any day be liked at Bow Street, but never at Downing Street. He declined, and, unfortunately, Mr. Shaw could not be broadcast.

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G.B.S.'s REPLY.

The following year, as Ada Scott; she was a canvasser for a London firm; and then, as Mollie Walton, became man. Glass Works, Camden Town. ageress at the Crowndale Splinterless-

In the early part of 1920, under the name of Mary Walton, she was managing director of a toymaking firm at Maid stone, Kent. employing 40 girls and. several disabled ex-Service men. Ther were paid weekly from a bank overdraft on money lenders' cheques During this period she obtained large sums of money fraudulently from local residents, who took no action.

Mr. Bernard Shaw, who spoke with great vigour, said that the public had most alarmingly been treating him as a great man. That was a dreadful fate to overtake anybody. He absolutely de-i

At this time she leased the vicarage at clined any general literary celebration of Burnham, near Maidstone, and furnished his 70th birthday, because he foresawit on the hire-purchase system, and had that he would be celebrated as a great electric light installed in the village man. The Labour Party had discovered church, but did not pay for it. She sold ber hired furniture, absconded, and the toy arm was sold up.

the secret that there were no great men and no great nations and great States. All that kind of humbug was left to the 19th Century where it properly be longed.

Her next appearance was in 1924, in Glasgow, where, as Dora Wright, she quick lunch", business, ob- started a taining goods and money to the value of

5,40, and was then missing.

You all know I am an extraordinarily clever fellow at my job (he continued), but I have not got the great man feeling any you have not got it either. 'My Her operations in Bristol early in 1923 predecessor, in my professional business, were on similar lines to those in Scot- Shakespeare (laughter) - lived in land, and when she was again adjudged middle-class set, but there was one per- bankrupt her liabilities were £1,000, but son in that set who was not a middle-she was not to be found. class man. He was a bricklayer, and when after Shakespeare's death the middle-class generally started to celebrate Shakespeare by a folio edition of his works I have not come to that yet, but dare say someone will do it-(laughter) all the middle-class generally wrote magnificent songs about the greatness of Shakespeare, but, curiously enough, the only tribute ever quoted or remembered, at this day is the tribute of the bricklayer who said, I liked the man as well as anybody did this side idolatry."

That is a feeling I hope is prevalent. I am beginning to be bothered very much by idolatry, on the one hand and simple foolishness on the other. Que wants to get away from that and continue the tradition of the bricklayer and always keep on this side of idolatry. Get rid of the great men and you will get rid of the great nations, and then perhaps we shall be happy.

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WORLD WIDE APPEAL.

"Come to Britain " will, in a few weeks' time, "be a world-wide ery, for no scheme for popularising the British Isles and developing their trade has been so enthusiastically taken up as this one originated by the Daily Mail."

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Jenn Marsh was her trading name, in' Fall, where she wal T costumierin Jameson street in the middle and latter part of last year. There she failed for £9,823 and obtained more than £500 from various persons.

The Crash.

It was at Blackpool that, as Mrs. Frances Digby, she came finally to grief. Setting up as a baker and confectioner under the style of the Regent Bakery, she advertised for assistants prepared to pay good premiums. In all, nine men and women paid deposits of £485.

Premises were opened in Regent-street. Blackpool, and fitted up regardless of cost-on credit-to the extent of £1,079. She owed her workpeople £119 as wages, and obtained goods and money ip Black- pool amounting to £1,684.

As far as was known, since 1910 she had incurred. liabilities of approximately £30,000. She lived in expensive apart. ments and was fond of betting.

In passing sentence the Reccrder took all her offences into account, and de- scribed her conduct as cruel and heart. less. He knew of nothing worse than to induce, poor working girls to part with what was probably their last penny" in the world.

AN HONEST REMEDY

FOR INDIGESTION,

The scheme is backed by the great com. mercial and industrial concerns of the country, the great shipping and rail way companies and those organisations which cater for the entertainment, and welfare of all foreign visitors.

"Once get people to come to Britain It seems certain that more people waste and Britain will do the rest," said a money in trying to overcome their digestive member of the organising committee troubles than through any other cause of ili. "Why, one of America's leading hotel market which loosely claim to "cars" indiges. There am so many things on the proprietors who was recently visiting England was so charmed with the coun-afford

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It is estimated that every visitor goes to Great Britain from abroad spends about £5 per day, and if the steady flow of tourists to the Continent from the United States and South America can be users in all parts of the world: by diverted the effect upon every British prescriptions, and by hospitals onfers

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MUST ADVERTISE. Sir Francis Towle, managing director of Gordon Hotels, Lid, seid:

Apart from the fact that we are not getting our share of visitors to Europe, I feel that if we can only get more and more of our American cousins here it will do much to cement together the English-speaking races of the world- and that just now is very important.

Britain, I think, has more to offer than any other country in the world, for it is full of history and the scenery is unequalled of its kind, and our rail- ways are the best in the world, com- fortable, speedy and safe, while our hotels and every organisation which caters for the entertainment and com- fort of visitors cannot be excelled anywhere.

The truth of the matter is that Britain has been too diffident. She must advertise and let the world know what a splendid country she really is. Col. E. C. Heath of the British Legion, said of the scheme:

Look what it means to employment. You cannot bring people into this coun- try without "creating employment all round. They will spend money and that will be good for trade.

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