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THE REAL MAURICE 14 DEAD IN CIRCUS GUERNSEY'S GOOD-BYE TO

CHEVALIER.

TRAIN FIRE...

HIS PASSION FOR THRIFT. HUNT. FOR ESCAPED LION

AND ELEPHANT.

Maurice Chevalier in scared by the publicity that has been given his £4,000 a week minimum salary

in London.

They will expect too much, he says, and above everything just now he wants to make a hit with the London public,

He is quite sure ho is worth the monoy. This is not vanity. Cheva-

GARRISON.

AFTER 700 YEARS.

The last of the Channel Islands While the charred bodies of circus uten the 2nd Battalion the Queen's garrisons was evacuated last month performers and workers were boingOwn (Royal West Kent) Itegiment brought out from the burned was withdrawn from Guernsey wreckage of a circus train at the Mexican village of operations realling an African jungle hunt were going on in the aurrounding country.

Except during the Spanish war Guadelupe in the eighteenth century, there has since 1903. The only defence there be a garrison on the "island" now is a local militia of 300 men.

When, the battalion embarked in from the island 81 wives, including the steamship. Vera it took away several Guernsey brides, and children. The Royal Guernsey Militia band marched with the docks. troops from Fort George to the

A lion, an elephant, a goat, and lier is a shrewd and level-headed a trick dog-part of the menagerie, man. He makes no claim to be par-which, maddened by the flames, ran ticularly good as a singer or an rampant through the village. ̧* netor, bat be realises he is on the 'Tha disaster, according to crest of the wave.

Reuter message from New York, waa due to a collision between the cirens train and a train of tank oura con- intning petrol. The petrol was sprayed over the wooden coaches of the circus train and soon burst into flames.

In material mattera o has the passion for thrift that the French share with the Scots. He is 'n gen erous man when he chooses, and he maintains in Paris his own hospital for suffering stage performers; but he can be as close as Sir Harry Lauder if he doesn't see where his benevolence is going. His early struggles bred in him the deter mination to save his money, and he is making as much as he can.

Chevalier has no illusions on the impermanraer of popularity. "Two bad filmus," he says, and all this is gone. That is the tragie reality."

One of his horrors i lest any of his old or new friends should think tim tête montée. Another is that of being taken for a "sheik." Chevalier has the normal man's admiration for a pretty girl, but he is not a "lady killer."

The fact is, of course, that Chevalier is a thoroughly manly person. The famous smile is natur al, but he uses it mostly in his stage gaiety, and he can be very serious in private life.

Chevalier has one superstition, if you choose to call it so. He carries with him always his mother's wed ding ring, and invariably before le gos on the stage be takes it, out and kisses it.

During all the years of hardship and rising affluence Maurice kept with his mother. Only when fis went to Hollywood did he leave her, and it is the grief of his life that she died while he was away two

years ago.

As the performere and other em played's scrambled out they encoun even invaded autother, train that had tered the terrified animala, which stopped near by, giving the occup ante a bad fright.

Fourteen Ladies' wore maceverod from the debris of the circus train, and bands of men were engaged an cautiously combing out the sur rounding undergrowth and thickets in a search for the escaped animals.

STARVED SIXTY

DAYS.

DEATH SECRET OF A

FAMOUS DOCTOR.

Paris. Dr. Meral, the famous

French physician and traveller, who

wns at one time the favourite doctor. and adviare of King Menelik of Ethiopia, has died at his lonely house in the village of La Motto near Saint Brieu, after six days of voluntary starvation..

At present there is no clue to the entreation of his friends he refused cause of his suicide, for despite the

to explain his motives..

Many fellow. physiciana and officials of the neighbourhood visit

She entered into his hopes and ambitions when, a very small Ind, he was tempted by what he saw of the cafes and music-halls in Parised Dr. Meral during his self-inflicted to try his own powere as an enter-

starvation and tried to reason with tainer.

him.

Iis-story is curiously like Charlie Chaplin's in many ways. He burn rd to show that he was not depen dent upon a painted face and baggy trousers.

One day, when he had attained some local eclebrity, he went on the atnge as himself, with the straw hat that has been associated with him ever since.

At first the audience failed to re cognise him. Then it began to dawn upon them that this was the favourite young Maurice Chevalier; and the discovery was the turning point of his career.

His old servant did all she could to make him alter his de cision by cooking and putting bei fore him the most delectable dishes, but ho would hold his nose and shut his eyes so that he should: not be tempted

All he consented to do during the last few days was to take a few tenpsoonfuls of water every after

noon.

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Dr. Meral, who was fifty-three years of age, wea of Russian extrac- tion, but became a naturalised Frenchman in 1900. He was a great traveller, and historical data con-

HINESE TRANSLATOR with

Beaks POSITION ar Con pauior, Gerning the Hedjaz, the Remen, and Class Beferences, Seeks Einployment in

or Governess to Children, Willing to Ethiopia. He alap wrote some not. Any Capacity in Hora Koso or CAxlive in. For Farticulars, please apply able treatises on the arts and cus-Tox. Moderate salary to start with FATHERS' DUTY IN toms of those countries.

to 10199, ajo Hong Kong Daily Press, Floss write Box 10215, c/o Hong Kong

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CHILDREN NOT TO BE KEPT FROM SCHOOL.

SCHOOL FIRE SEQUEL..

COUNTESS PLEA FOR. BOY.

~\HINESE, 28, with Good Know- ledgo of Chinose, English and High-spoed typing, dosirea POSITION in HoNo Koxa or Canton. Exoner Beforanoes. Moderata Balary. Please write Box No. 10250 c/o Hong Kong Abercara. Unemployed fathers ous outbreaks of fire at a Warwick

There was a sequel to the mysteri.| Daily Pron.

[10250 should stay at home if their wives school, when a 15 year-old boarder al Year Experience, Scok Km. Employment. An Expert Shorthand- SHORTHAND TYPIST, with Borer. YOUTH With Previous Experience in General Office Work desires cinusly setting fire to the school on November 10.

Referanoes. Open for IMMEDIATE Correspond noe and Account No said that the boy made a state 10418, efo Hong Kong Daily Press. Please apply Box No 10247, ofo Hong Detective-Superintendent Wake Engagement. Please apply Box No. Objec lon to Outparts. At References

ment, but it was not proposed to

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may go to selfivo),”

This was the statement made by Mr. John Richards, the presiding magistrate, at the Abercan Police Court when a number of parents were summoned for neglecting to send their children to school.

It was stated in, evidence that the Central School at Newbridge was one of the best equipped in Mon mouthshire, but the attendance there was worse than in any other school. Most of the parents summoned confplained that their children had no boots, and some of the fathers added that their wives were ill and the children were kept at home to do the housework.

Superintendent. Wake naked for n remand, as there were numerous inquiries to be made, and it was difficult to get someone to look after the boy

His mother as a widow, now in France,

In reply to the Clerk, Detective- Superintendent Wake said the boy would be medically examined.

"I think," he added, "this may give an explanation.

..

Fines were imposed in a number of cases, and the magistrate said that fathers, if they were unen-

The Mayor (the Countess of War. played, ought to do the household Wake: "Do all you can to get him wick) remarked to Superintendent work, so that the children should not be robbed of the advantage of

into a nice home.” their education.

This is believed to have been due

15 THE OYSTER DOOMED?tions, and T.N.T. after the war.

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POOR "RETURN OF THE

· NATIVE."

"Ministry's Expertinents,

The planters have repopulated the beds with Portuguese and American oysters, which thrive in

Is the British native oyster British waters, but they do not

doomed to extinction?

equal the quality of the British

Mr. J. M. Tabor, of the Oyster natives.

Morchants' and Planters' Associa- The main hope for the return sion, reveals that the number of of the native" is in the success of of natives landed ench your is de experiments carried out by the creasing, at an alarming rate, Ministry of Agriculture End "While in 1880 about 100,000,000 Fisheries, who with giant tanka natives wore landed, the number have shown that natives can be

"brea" "under ruineral conditions, Mr. Tabor declares. :

If planters can adapt this me Tho cause of the decline, an ex-thod to commercial noods, the price pert said recently, is the terrible of native oysters may fall from 7s. mortality which wiped out about Rd. and 8a, a dozen to la. Od a 30 per cent. of our oysters in 1092 dozen, which was the price before (Continued at foot of next column.). 1925.

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