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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1931.

THREATS TO BRITISH LADIES' RECREATION

PROFESSOR:

| MR. COLE'S SERIOUS STEP. TO BE "REMOVED BY

William Honce De Vere Cole, champion hoaxer of the world, who has made hundreds of people laugh with his practical jokes, is to be married at p London register office.

Some of Mr. Cole's most famous, jokes aro

Posed as the Sultan of Zan- zibar, and given na oficial recep; tion at Cambridge by college and civic authorities."

BOLSHEVISTS,

CLUB.

SUBSCRIPTIONS TO BE RAISED.

NEW OFFICERS ELECTED."

The annual general meeting of the Ladies' Resreation Club was

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME,

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON

235 METRES.

11 to 11.30 a.m÷Stock quotations, 11:30 a.m.-Chiness programme. 12.30 p.m.-European programmę. 1.30 p.m.-Wenther report, local.

time and Rugby Press news.. p.m.-Close down

to 7 p.m.-Chinese programme. 6 to 0.38 p.m.-Dr. K. S. Shin, M.B., B.S., will give the nat lecture of a series on "Infant Wellaro."

Professor B. J. Wilden-Hart, of Opalov Gardens, W., who has been actively engaged in the formation nf an anti-Snvict Atrocities › Les gue, states that he has been thresh at the elem May Instituto ted that if he does not ocase his yesterday when Mrs. Etheringtons anti-Bolshevist activities steps will

occupied the chair. Other mem- be taken to "remove" bira:

bers present were:-Mrs. Totion- The threat came in a typewritham, Mra Gilmore, Mrs. Railton, Roped off large area of Pieten otter, beating the Derby post Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Fischer, Mrs. cadilly dressed as a navy. mark. The writer signed himself Sommerfelt, Mes

to 10.30 p.m.-European pro Martin, Mrs. "Inspected" the British battle.

gramme of Columbia and Regal ship Dreadnought as the "Prince "Tektra Berolsky," and the letter

Comrie, Mrs. Henderson, and

records supplied by Metgri. read : of Abyssinia,"

Mr. Adams.

Anderson Music Co. Chased Mr. Oliver Locker. "Sir-We as part of the greal

Addressing the meeting, Mrs. 7 p.m.-Stock quotatione. Lampson, 31.P., down Whitehall crying "Stop thief." (Both Trovement of the Russian revolu

Etherington said that as the ro7.02 to 7.30 p.m.-- rested. Mr. Cole bound over.) ·tion warn you that if one more

port and accounts, had been with Mr. Cole's bride will be Miss notice should appear in any paper,

the members for the prescribed Mayis Winifred Mary Wright, aged British or foreign, we shall bike period, she would take it that 2, a Londoner.

steps for your removal, which will they have gone through them. No

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"The wedding is going to be a very quiet affair, for it is no joking matter," Mr. Cole told n’newspaper representative with a twinkle in his eye..

He is taking great precautions against practical jokes on the ocen sion. I have played as practical jokes in all parts of Europe," he said, "and I have never been caught out. I do not intend to let Anyone catch me this time."

"I shall not make him retire from. his position of chorupion joker alter we are married," said Miss Wright. "In future we shall

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do at least five more jokes to reneh his century, and I don't intend to stop him."

"No, I'll not tell you the date

mean your death.

7,

"We cannot now stand any of this silly business of trying to stop us from coming to your country. We have stood it for time enough, and now we shall stop it all. We have no desire to cause the death of any British people, but if any one shall go on after we have warned them we shall feel it our duty to remove them.

"We shall be back in London on February and it is then that wo shall take steps if you have not stopped.Yours truly,

"TEKTRA. BEROLSKY."

Thrice Fired At. Professor Willden-Hart told Press representative:-"I have had taste of the this sort of thing

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doubt they must have noticed a deficit of 8108.57 for the year and she explained that this was due fower members and to

many.

repaira that had

the

"A

Band Belections. Mourish March "

(Gustav Holat)Harton Colliery Band 2nd prize winners at The Crys tal Palace Band Contest. "Mighty to Save" (Marshall)~.

The Salvation Army's Band, "The Blue Danube Waltz" (Strauss). The Bombardiers' Military Band,

to be put through during the year."Prince Eugen March" (Composer

+

Now Committee:

Unknown).The Bombardiers' Military Band.

Langlan Bay March" (Y. May).~

The Carlisle St. Stephen's.

- Brass Band,

The following were then elected to serve on the couusittee for the ensuing year:-Mrs. Etherington, Mrs. Sommerfelt, Mrs Tottenham,1812 Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Fischer, Mrs. Hill, and Mrs. Railton,, while Mrs. Adams, Mrs.

Henderson,

Mrs. Johnson and Miss Looker were elected to serve on the ballot. ing committee. Dr. Montgomery was elected to serve on the ground committes, with power to co-opt two other members if he so desires. The question of raising the sub-

of my wedding," added Mr. Cole before, for I was shot at on three ription came in for a lot of disi

"There are too many friends of mine waiting to get their .hack."

own

occasions eighteen months ago at Dulwich In view of this fact am taking the letter at, once to Scotland Yord,

Mr. Cole recalled he ran down

"I have been to Russia many Whitehall after Commander Oliver

times, both before and after the Locker-Lampson shouting "Stop thief!" and fually had him taken war. Once in Nurein I was jump- to the police station necused ofed on from behind by two men, stealing a watch and chain.

but I got Anny and on to a train I got which, was just starting.

"But Commander Locker-Lamp- son had his own hack," remarked out at the next station, and, avoid. Mr. Cole, because shortly after ing frontier posts, got, out of the

wards he published a long obituary': police about me.”

country...

"Eighteen months ago I was lig ing at Byecates a large house at He described how he arranged. Dulwich. One night while I was with a dozen 'women to wait out window above my head. Another at dinner shot came through a | side a church and fling their arms night a shot was fired through a round the neck of a certain bride, window at the other end of tho groom with the words, "Don's dinner table. Nothing more hap- pened for ten days, but the very leave me, Eddy," and how at the night the police ceased to watch et minuto his relatives implored the house they had another pot at him to cancel these arrangements. me I was returning home with

My rothor Jit was one of the my wifs from the theatre, few people to play a practical joke tache to the British Embassy in Professor Wilden-Hart was At- on me," added Mr. Cole. "He staged a mock burglary and tried Constantinople in 1908-9, and from to capture some specially prized 1015 until 1919 was engaged in mili. tary intelligence work in Russia, paintings by Augustus John,"

Germany, Japan, Poland, clsewhere.

Miss Wright is a tall, graceful girl with golden hair and browa gyes. She has known Mr. Cole for three years. The wedding recap- tion is to be held. at the house of Mr. Maximilian Lobkowier and they will go to Spain, for a walking tour honeymoon.

TRUTH CODE IN DIVORCE COURTS.

SAME FOR THE POOR AS

FOR OTHENS,

www.

CROCODILE'S VICTIM,

YOUNG MAN DIVES TO DEATH IN POOL.

and

cussion after which it was decided that as from January 1, 1031, the subscription of individual members and husbands and wives be rais- ed 28 per cent, while that of the mporary members by 'raised from 85 to 81ỏ. N

There was also a lot of discus- sion regarding the cost of team, na well. visitors' fees. Some mem bore held that the former was too

cheap as compared with the charges

in some of the other Clubs and it was decided to raise this from 20 cents to 30 cents. The meeting also decided that visitors' fees be raised to 50 cents while the charges for their tea be the same as those, for membore.

SON CUT OFF IN WILL.

HUNT FOR HEIN GOES BACK TO 1418.

Overture" (Tschaikowsky).— The Regimental Band of HM. Grenadier Guardı. "Seaside Mudley" (published by Messrs. Lawrence Wright Musio" Co.). The Band of H.M. Royal Air Force.

7.35 to 7.50 p.m.-***

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Two Song' Madleys. "Florrie Forde Old Time Modley

(published by Messrs, Francis Day and Hunter). Florzio Forde and Chorus. "Ragtime Memories" (published

by Messrs. Feldman & Co.), The Jolly Old Fellow. 7,50 to 8.10 p.m.-

Operatic.

The Bohemian Girl-Then You'll Romembor (Balo, arr. Scar). -J. H. Squire Celeste Octelle. "Maritana-Scenes that are Bright.

eat (Wallace, Arr. Sear)J 1. Squire Celeste Octette., Carmen-Flower Bong" (Bizet).

Arthur Jordan (Tenor).

"The

Barber of Seville-Unn Yoce" (Roseini)-Cornet Solo by Jack Mackintosh with the. Harton Colliery Band. Faust-La Kermesso" (Gounod), -Chorus and Orchestra of the National Theatre, Paris, "Faust-Soldier's Chorus" (Gou- nod),-Chorus and Orchestra of the National Theatre, Paris, 9.18 to 8.48 p.m.----

Muzical Comedy and Talkie Tunes. The strange story of 4 disin-Mr. Cinders"-Vocal gems. The fered son and the search for a Comedy Singers. descendant of a knight who died 500 years ago, is revealed by an unnouncement in the "London Gasetto,"

Sir Thorns Brook, Knight, of Holditch Court, died about 1418, and was buried in Thorncomb Church. It is his heir male who is naked to come forward to claim on estats left by Francis Capper Brooke, of Ufford, Suffolk, who died on January 13, 1688.

The eldest son of Mr. Francis Brooke, Colond Reginald Brooke, of a tragic incident ast

Membakut Estate was the scenes still alive and is 78. He was

"hari

disinherited by his father, and bear" when a Dusun youth was

the estate camol pass to him, taken by a crocodile in the Mem- bakut river in somewhat unusual.

Interviewed recently. Colonel circumstances ays the Saraunt Brooke declined to discuss the mat Gazette.

trị, but the surviving excouter of In the early part of the day the Mr. Francis Brooke's will, Mr. J.. manager. Mr. R. K. Hardwick, Lachlan White, of Bredfielt

"There cannot be in the courts had gone out to dynamite fish in

House, Woodbridge, Suffolk, said there was a good deal of vindic

"Mr. Francis, Brooke was a very quick-tempered man," said Mr. White. He was almost a book worm, and I think he fell out with his son because of dimmilar

ty of taste..

a less exneling, code for humble the river. Having blasted oneness about the whit class people regarding telling the pool and secured what fish were truth than there 18 for other put up, his party passed on up Very Quick-tempered.". people,"

stream to the next pool. These were the words of Mr. Some Duzuns of a village through Justice Bateson in the Divorce which he passed, hearing that Court, when, on the intervention of tembak ikan was afoot. at once, the King's Proctor, he rescinded as is their custom, tacked themse Jecreo niat granted at Birmingham ven on univited. Coming to the Assizes to Mrs. May Sybil White pool which had just been worked, house, of Newhampion Road, they stopped to reconnoitre its de Wolverhampton, and dismissed her pths in the hopes of nicking up pétition.

few stragglers The youth, it appears, dived in fiat. The others were just about

Mrs. Whitehouse had obtained decree against her husband, Mr. Wallon Whitehouse, a fitter, living at "Wolverhampton."

Mr. Brooke thought his second sun would marry and have a son but he did not marry, Mr. Brooke directed that in the event of the second son not having a male heir,

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to follow suit when there was and if his daughter, Mr. Cont terrific commotion in, the pool, and

stacne Lethbridge, died without Mrs Whitehouse, in her petit next thing they saw was their issue, the property would go to tion, admitted misconduct on two comrade in the jaws of a huge the male heir of Sir Thomas Brook. Occasions in 1916, but when the crocodils and crying out for help iden, and it is more than probable

Who the heir is we have rase was heard at Birmingham sho In desperation, the man's wife, admitted misconduct once only, a young and good looking woman, he will never be found. In that and swore that her husband comitis said, straightway jumped into sent the property will pass to doned it.

had the river, immediately followed by Major. Blois, second brother of Sir

It had been proved that she had four other, me; and by their ph Blois, one of whose ances committed misconduct with three shricks and splashings, they 80 fors many years ago married inte men at least, possibly with a fourth, frightened the crocodile that it let the Brooke family Major Blajs and that there had never been con un its victim and sank out of now in occupation of Ufford donation by her husband. It was sight.

Pince, and the probability is ha unfortunate that this respectable The man, still alive, but with will eventually succeed to the husband should remain tied to his the whole of his chest badly lacertate, wife. He had found some one else ated by the brute's teeth and bleed. The reason the announcement ap. with whom he had been living haping' profusely is hauled out on pears in, the London -Gazotic” - is

ning 1922 1924. There are not har

no reason why the husband should wick had him taken to the estate not be free of his tie on taking | hospital, but the man became ún proper proceedings.

conscious and, died on the way t

#ructions that a notice."should be serted in that journal threa times & "year.

Orchestral.

"Neapolitan Nights" (Zamedonik),

The London Novelty Orch. "Song of the Volga Boatmen !! (Traditional,) - The Cossack Orch.. and Singers. (a) “Channel Marching Bong," (b) "Gipsy Sung," The Coa- sack Orch, and Singora. p.m.-Weather report, loca. me, 9.05 to 10.30 p.m.--

"Rio Rita-I'd Rather Have a Memory of You."-Geoffrey Gwyther and Edith Day. "Rio Rita-The Rangers' Song."-)

Geoffrey Gwyther and Rangers. "Orange Blossom Time" (fram "Hollywood Revue of 1929").— Gerald Adams (Tenor). When My Dreams Come True " (from "The Cocoanuts'"'),— Gerald Adams (Tenor), Down by the Old Oak Tree" from On With the Show").. Want to be Alone with Mary Henry Hearty and Chorus,

Brown (from On With the Show "Henry Hearty and Chorus,

8.48 to 9 p..

etc.

A Concert,

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Piano Solo" Polonaise in E Flat" (Chopin).—Jose Echuniz. Duet "Sweet and Low" (Ton- nyson and Barneby)-Boy and

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Girl Boprano, Evelyn Grimths FRIDAY, FEB. 27, 1931, and Charles Hantry. Duet-" Home Sweet Home":

(Payne and Bishop).—Boy and Girl Soprano, Evelyn Griffiths and Charles Hawtrey. Song" Song of lybias The Cretau" (Campbell and Elliot).

Robert Raston (Basa). Violin Solo" Caprica Viennois" (Kreisler).--Nneum Blinder, Violin Solo -- " Ava Maria "!

(Schubert,

Wilhelmj).-

Nacum Blinder. Song" Kathleen Aroon" (Bell,

Olcott and Weslyn).—William Kennedy (Tenor). Song-" The Click of Her Little Brogená" (Ball and Brennan). -William Kennedy (Tenor). Cornet and Trombono Duet-- "Tales of Hoffman-Barca. rolla" (Offenbach),—Jack Mac- kiptah and Jesse Stamp. Song "The Erl King" (Schu- bert).—Muriel Bruaskill (Con- dralti).

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Song Armourer's Song from Robin Hood."Wilfred Glenn (Bar).

Octott" Mignou— Introduction and Romance" (Thomas, arr. Robertson), J. H. Squire Celeste Octetto, Octette" Mignon Polonaise " (Thomas, arr. Robertson).-J. H. Squire Celeste Octette, Vocal Duet ** Hush !· Hero

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