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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1929.

BY MAIL, WIRE, AND CHICAGO

WIRELESS.

Seville.Work was begun on the construction of a new dock for Seville in October,"

Santander.-King Alfonso, accom panied by the Queen, visited H.MS. Royal Oak, at Santander.

Barcelona-Two firemen lost their lives, and four others were injured

at Barcelona when a fire engine

overturned.

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MAY'S

CONFESSIONS.

HOW SHE FOOLED A COUNTESS' FOOTMAN.

GUERIN'S CONCEIT.

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Crooked money disappears like lightning. A beer pocketbook and a champagne appetite encourage further depredations.

"Prison teaches how little one can live on, and what inadequate food will support life. Cold, hunger, and filth are not sufficient to break the spirit in confinement.

"I only want to reform now from a business point of view."

Paris.--A Commission is to bé ap- pointed by the Rumanian Govera ment to study the law of countries where a minority problem, exists.

Birmingham. Several handred unfinished composition and wax and wooden dummies, intended for shop window display, were destroyed

These trenchant statements ap during a fire in a Scbolefield Street

pear in the opening pages of one factory",

of the most fascinating volumes Toulon The French authorities ever written by a woman" Chicago have decided to release the aero-May, Her Story-A Human" Docu- plane belonging to Mr. Walter Robment, by the Queen of Crooks" son, which was seized after he had (Sampson, Low). flown over the forbidden, zone at Tegion.

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Chicago May was fifty-three years old when the died, by her own den. Berlin-Herr Strosser, a National-cription a well-preserved woman, Socialist (Fascist) member of the with plentiful light red hair. Fif Reichstag, was sentenced to six teen years of her life were spent months' imprisonment for libelling in prison, and, ten of these years, prominent Republican politicians she states, were served for some-

thing of which sho was not guilty. and officials.

St. John. Delegates to the Cana dias Trades and Labour Congress convention at St. John, New Bruns wick, unanimously re-elected Mr. Tom Moors as president for the eleventh consecutive year:

Fex-A rare example of the work of El Bakri, the Mahommedan geo- grapher (early 16th century), which was discovered on a native book stall at Marrakesh, has been sent to the Sherif El Kittani Library at Fez.

Vigo.-An explosion occurred at Vigo as the acaplane Dornier 14 was about to take off for Santander No one was injured. The seaplane which was carrying 880 gallons of petrol in its tanks, was sunk by a gunboat.

Deptford. Mr. Charles Harris, 86, of Napier Street, fell in front of an electric train at New Cross Station, on the Southern Railway, and was killed. The current was cut off for 11 minutes while his body was extricated.

The opening chapters relate how she was born near Dablin; christen- cd Beatrice Desmond; how sho robbed the money-box in father's room at the age of thirteen, and ran away to Amèrica. At the

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age of fourteen she married hand some, dashing "Dal" Churchill, who gave her her first lessons in in the schools of crooks and was lynched at Chicage, leaving her a widow at the age of filteen.

"Serious Work." |

This "crime course in Chicago was followed by others in New York and London, during which Chicago May lived by "nickling" mones. She married again, came to London for serious work," and is to be found condemning the servility of English servants in hotels, who pre- vented her from carrying out ber escapades.

I was given a key to enter a room in the Russell Hotel," she says. "It was home for a gom bler who came in early in the morn Geneva. A special commissionings, with fortunes in winnings- for the drafting of a convention on if he won. the manufacture of arms, munitions, and implements of was finished its work at Geneva when it adopted & report for the Council of the League of Nations,

Pasajes-Ten survivors of the crows of two fishing boats which came into collision and Bank during the darkness, 100 miles from land. were brought to Pasajes (North Spain) on Friday. The remaining eight fishermen were drowned.

Trinidad-A telegram from Port of Spain, Trinidad, states that the captain of a Venezuelan ship has been fined £5 for overloading his vessel with refugees, and that cargo steamers from Venezuela are carry ing escorts of Government troops with rifles and machine-guns.

Home The Marchese de Pinedo, the pilot whe flow across the Atlantic to South America in 1997, bas resigned his position. as Assist ant Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force, but will remain at the disposal of the Government. He is succeeded by General Valle.

St. Lucia A bronze tablet has been unveiled in St. Lucia to the two officers and 34 men from the British West Indies who fell in the War, and to 34 St. Lucina who were serving as stokers in H.M.S. Good Hope, Admiral Cradock's flagship, when she went down in the Battle of Coronel,

OPERA IN BERLIN.'

MR. ALBERT COATES' GREAT THRILL.

"I was under his bed for five mortal hours one night, but he never came. I had to leave, because the maids would have soon been start- ing to work on that floor.

At Henley Regatia I was a guest in a house-boat where I met the Countess of Warwick. In later years I met her ladyship in her This is how it own castle.. came about.

"I was living with Baby Thomp son at the time. He had just finish- ed some business in Leamington, and suggested that we should drive into Coventry through the Warwick estate. On our way we stopped at the castle like other visitors to examine it.

While we were waiting to be shown through, I asked a footinan if her ladyship were at home. When he said yes. I told him to tell her Lady Smith would like in peak to her. The footman bowed and disappear. Baby nearly had a

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A Parta Plot.

"In a few minutes the lackey returned and ushered us into the presence. She saw the joke about Lady Smith,' especially after I told her it was only an American trick to fool the footman. Then her lady- ship personally escorted us round the place.

Then came that period when sho joined forces with Eddie Guerin, and with the gang decided to rob the American Express Company's branch office in Paris. May hid her self in the office.

"Everything might have gone well, if it had not been for Eddie's infernal conceit He Wes very The famous Berlin State Opera, proud of his ability at slinging which year after year exports its French. Two French dicks hip- conductors and singers to Covent pened to ask him in broken English Garden for the season of grand where they could find the dining- opera in the English capital, is this car.

autumn returning the complimentWe had been posing as English by importing a celebrated British travellers, but what does the chump musician to conduct in Berlin, do but answer the detectives in writes a London correspondent,

Mr. Albert Contes is to conduct in the State Opera in Unter den Linden-which is the most import ant opera house in Germany, and perhaps in the whole of Europe- the Russian opera, "Boris Godou

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French that would do credit to an. educated native. They thought ho was n French criminal they were on the look-out for. Once they had him the fat was in the fire."

Arrested in Paris for her share in the American Express robbery, Chicago May was sent to prison and Mr. Coates took the hearts of the then drifted through exciting years Berlin music world by storm, and in South America. She helped earned high praise from its facti-Eddie Guerin to escape from Devil's dious crítics when he gave a num-Island, and once again found herself ber of concerts in Berlin at the be-

in London, ginning of the year, including, ene which was relayed by wireless over the whole of Germany. Berlin has been clamouring ever since to hear him conduct opera

I found Mr. Contes full of en- thasinam for the remarkable vital- ity of Berlin opers, which does not confine itself to repeating the estab lithed successes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but pro- duces live opera of to-day.

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"Do you know," he burst out, "I am to-night going to se sn opera in United den Linden which I have never seen before and have hardly even heard of I am simply thrilled."

In the company of the man who tried to shoot, Guerin the was arrested and sent to Arlesbury Prison She stayed there all through

the war.

***Tenufa,” replied Mr. Coates, but I could not catch.. the. name, so he had to spell it for me. "JE.N UFA" Isn't it marvellous, having to apell the name of an opera-and the

NEW RULER CROWNED.

SOLEMN CEREMONY IN ANCIENT STATE, -

ONE GUN SALUTE.

A special representative of the Daily Express describes in the fol lowing graphic message the scener which were "witnessed recently, when, with medieval pomp and cir cumstance, the Prince of Liech tenstein, the ruler over a territory of sixty square miles, with 14,000 inhabitants, was enthroned in his capital, Vaduz, which has a popu- lation of just over 1,000.

Vaduz

(Liechtenstein).--Princo

Frant I. ascended the throne of Liechtenstein and was acclaimed ruler of the only Cerman-speaking monarchy in the world.

No Hollywood film producer would dare to conceive such wildly extravagant settings as those in which

́ seventy-six-year-old prince succeeded to the throne of his brother, Prince Johann" the Good."

the

From the minuto that he crossed the Austrian border and one gun Rave in salute that was heard

throughout the length and breadth of the land, when a lower-decked

procession that was also a nation passed before him, it had all been an extravagant dream.

Hational Anthem."

When he reached the capital, Vaduz, he was greeted with the local patriotic words. British National Anthem, set to "No.020 knows how we got that tune," they "we have had it for hundreds Bay",

of years here."

The big event began having been heralded at five o'clock in the morn ing by a salute of twenty-one gunt from the castle which towers over the tiny capital.

Later on the Prince and the Prin cess, whom he married ten years ago, went down to soleums Mass in

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the church, which was celebrated by the Bishop of Chur, who was the successor of the original bishop of this country when it was the very heart of the Holy Roman Em- pire 400 yearS EGO,

Afterwards the Prince walked a dozen yards to the Parliament building a Renaissance building singularly packed. Upstairs is the parliament chamber where the Pri me Minister and the fifteen mem- bers of Parliament of this Lilli- putian nation sit in office:

Around the room are the pictures of the ten former Princes of Liat tenstein. It was in the afternoon that the great ceremony of accla mation took place. Nearly the

whole of the 14,000 inhabitants of the country formed in two proces. sions, most of them in picturesque dress with medieval lancer and dragoon, halberdiers, and literally a hundred of flower-bearing and golden-haired girls,

They made their way up the mour tain side to the castle where the his Cablinct.

Prince at in state surrounded by

After the ceremony the Prince're turned to his castle and looked out on to the peaceful and happy lard stretching from the Alpine toss down to the Rhine.plains.

As Prince Franz was on his way to the throne cormosy he met three veterans of the Liechienstein army who marched in the Austro-Prus

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SICKNESS TOLL ON BRITAIN,

£20,000,000 COST OF THE COMMON COLD.

More money is being spent en doctors' bills in Great Britain than would be required to meet the de- mands of the Sinking Fand, which amounted last year to nearly £60,000,000 !

Brussels.-Powerful groups Belgian citizens have launched a

The total spent on medical bene protest against the light wines and beer prohibition law effective here fite to insured workers in England since the German occupation. The

essence of the protest is that drink and Wales alone last year reached ing of hard liquor goes on pretty nearly £10,000,000. The number of much as before the war, that the insured persona in England en liquor is purveyed clandestinely titled to benefit totalled about that the quality is inferior and often poisonous, and that hence both the Government and consumer suffer.

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The annual report of the Minis- try of Health reveals the surprising The protest issues principally from hotel and restaurant proprio items of £6,200,000 paid to pand tors, but includes a substantial doctors for treatment, and a fur- liberal clement as well. The sup ther £200,000 for medicines and ap porters of the Government' main.

All than tain that sines the modified prohibi pliances. No less a tion law has been in effect drunken. £1,840,000 was paid to chemists for ness and crime have diminished drugs and appliances and rest their case thereon,

German Occupation. Prohibition Erst saw the day in Belgium during the accupation, and

More than 30,000 doctors are es ployed in safeguarding and pro moting the health of the insured. workers of England and Wales.

was, in fact, a measure instituted The common cold is said to cosÉ by the German authorities. The the country £20,000,000 in lost work- Socialists who have ruled Belgium ing hours and doctors bills. The since then have retained the law annual bill for colds alone works as nae admirably suited to a coun out at about 55. per bead of the try so largely given over to ious population try as Belgium,

More money is being spent every The law permits the sale of beer, year on the nation's health. In wines and light aperitifs in restau-creased provision has to be made rants and cafes. I forbids the this year for maternity and chili public sale of whiskys, cognacs, welfare, the treatment of tuber liqueurs, etc... while permitting culosis and other diseases and the them to be sold in grocery shops welfare of the blind. although no more than two quarts

The number of prescriptions per person.. The law, however, did issued to insured patients last year not forbid the purchaser from going was close on $2,000,000. This will down the street to the next grocer convey some idea of the enormous nod buying another two quarts. nimount of dispensing necessary to

This very slight form of prohibi

sian war of 1866. They were the tion showed ite flaws so long after keep sickness and disease at bay.

Two and a half million pounda only survivors of that army, for the Germans decamped. It pro- the former ruler had said, "I shall duced a largo crop of rpeak-casies are spent every year on keeping the have no army; disband them," and operated much after the fashion of teeth of the insured workers free then the Liechtenstein Dragoons their American kindred They are from disease, but this, of course, passed out of being for ever. to be found everywhere in Antwerp, represents only a part of the deat the prince reviewed the other and resorts of Belgium.

In the Roman vaults of the castle Brussels, Ostend, and other cities ista anneal bill.

They ninety-six members of his phantom operate behind store fronts and in army. Helmets, uniforms, and backrooms of apparently law-abid. lances stand erect along the walking cafes, in upstairs roome, and with a sergeant in waxwork in com- several were found behind clothing mand at the end of the line. "That stores. is the kind of amy for world peace," said the prince.

Enormous Bills,

Local authorities spent nearly £100,000 more last year in fighting tuberculosis among insured work ers than in the previous year; the In Cabarets and restaurants, is total bill under this head amounted fact, everywhere save the largest to £3,209,544. More millions still It was a strangely unconvention hotels and restaurants, the after have been spent on the provision of al day. The prince shook hands dinner brandy or the before dinner institutions and schemes for check- with the Prime Minister and with highball can be obtained by the ing the disense. the Postmaster-General, who went well known high sign. True, I hack behind his counter, and the arrives in teacups, but it arrives. royal carriage drove off.

Now and then raids occur but A young man in peasant dress they are genteel affairs, compas stepped out and took a photograph tively. Consumer and server art fined but not very heavily. Res The carriage stopped.

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"Do you

anme of the composer That could graphat" asked the prince-tauranteurs would like to have the

never happen in London. There the managers only allow operas to What is it called " I asked be produced the names of which him.

everybody knows and could spell.

• (Continued at foot of next column.) à In their sleep if necessary.

The annual bill for rheumatism

and cancer is enormous. "Millions institutional treatment and "re of pounds are spent every year on

chia treatment

During the coming year the- faw, modified to permit them to nation will have to meet a health Yes, your Highness," said the serve liqueurs and brandies during bil of, roughly, £23,000,000, for peasant.

the dintor hour, and it is probable that is the estimated figure which that a project covering their wishes the Ministry of Health will require will be introduced and voted upon to run its many and varied depart. when the Parliament meets.

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if it turns out good, send me two pictures, and I will pay for them "--and the carriage drove on.

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