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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927.

HONGKONG AND MALAYA CRICKETERS.

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FAMOUS ENGLISH

COTTAGES.

HIDDEN ART IN SWISS VILLAGE.

MOVE TO SAVE GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE.S

FRESCOES VALUED AT £100,000.

A.D. 1-100,

London, Nov. 4.

•

PRESERVATION OF OXFORD.

SAFEGUARDING NATURAL

BEAUTIES.

The proposal to establish an A public meeting was held REPLICA OF "LAST SUPPER." Oxford Preservation Trust has yesterday at Woking, Sussex

evoked widespread interest among under the auspices of the Royal

residents in the University and "To be a "labourer in the fieldsity and in the neighbouring coun- Society of Arts, to consider steps and at the same time a Romanies, as well as among old men to preserve the three famous' Thomas a Becket houses at West Catholic priest in charge of his-bers of the University writes a Tarring, which were built about torical paintings valued at be-Times correspondent. The scheme marks the culmination of a series The property recently came into tween £50,000 and £100,000 is the of efforts made in recent years" to the auction room and was pur-paradoxical situation of Father safeguard as much as possible of chased by Mr. Mackenzie Rosa to Rocchi Battista, cure of the pic-a tract of country of great natural save the buildings from demolition.turesque village of Ponte Cap-beauty, rich in associations

The Mayor of Worthing, Council- lor C. B. Cook, who presided,

riasca, near Tesserete, in the read letters from the Aralibishop canton of Ticino, Switzerland, says of Canterbury and Earl Wintera Daily Mail correspondent, ton warmly."enmmending the ob- ject of the meeting..

4!

for nany besides Oxford men. Some years before the war the Inte Mr. Arthur Johnsen, of All Souls, with characteristle energy, and publis One of the most illustrious of spirit, set about to secure Shot- Sir Frank Baines, late Director the Italian refugees who fled to ver; and in 1919 a small group of Works of H. M. Office of Works Ticino to escape the Spanish op- of Oxford men and women, with and chairman of the Royal Society pression in Milan more than 400 the generous assistance of a few of Arts Fund for the Preservation years ago was Francesco Melzi, friends, purchased a considerable, of Ancient Cottages, said that in an intimate friend and pupil of area of ground behind the two the cottages at West Tarring they the great Leonardo da Vinci, and Hinkseys," including the Ilappy saw work of craftsmen who built in recognition of the kindness of Valley running up to Childsworth those cottages when they had an the people of Capriasca he decora- Farm and Cumnor Hirst with its invaluable appreciation of real ted their churches with frescoes cims and pines. The Hirst is to beauty, which allowed them to build of infinite beauty. Over the altar in that incomparable manner, in the church of St. Ambrose is a Cottage architecture was really copy of da Vinci's "Last Supper," traditional, and there was no other and experts have described it as country in the world which had "the world's best replica of the similar work available for Its world's greatest printing." people to see and enjoy. In no other part of the world could they see such little gens of architecture as those to be found in various parts of this country.

English architecture was peculi- arly national, and they had to bear

Unlike the original in Milan, it is in a state of perfect preserva tion and remains almost fresh and vivid as when it was painted. H

Although the existence of the in mind that once they had part-been known to connoisseurs for art treasures of Capriasen have ed with these brilliant things of

FRAUD ON A PARIS BOOKMAKER,

time, they have escaped pub-

be kept in perpetuity as an open space of rough natural ground as a memorial of Oxford men who fell in the Great War. Hen Wood which adjoins this area, is owned by Sir Arthur Evans, who, it is understood, intends to secure its famenities, for public permanently. Through the action of Colonel fennell, of Wytham Abbey, God- stow nunnery and ground were also secured and presented by him to the University,

Preliminary Purchases. Valuable as these acquisitions

the past they could not recapturelle attention, owing to the village are, it is felt that more must be them..

done, and that quickly, if the The Royal Society of Arts being off the beaten track of characteristic beauties of Oxford realised that they had to act now tourists. if the remaining, cottages in this

and its neighbourhood are to be country were to be preserved.

The interest of the authorities preserved. Accordingly, a group The mayor said that a sum of investigations of an

was recently stimulated by the of Oxford men, including some of £950 was needed and that more painter who drew attention to the saving Cummor Hirat, decided in English those who were concerned with than £100 had been subscribed.

value of the works, and they are 1926 to form a Preservation Trust now on the list of Swiss national and to appeal for a large fund monuments and cannot be re- which might be so employed that moved.

while co-operating with local au- thorities in schemos for the pro- Melzi's Great Work.

vision of open spaces and for re- Melzi's "Last Supper," 20ft. be in

gional planning, the trust might lond and 10ft. high, is about two- amenities dear to generations f a. position to safeguard thirds of the size of the Milan Oxford men and women.. Already picture, from which it differs slightly in the colouring of the been made. A hundred acres some preliminary purchases have Apostles' robes, and instead of the have been bought at Marston three windows in the original which safeguard the left bank of Melzi has painted two panels the Cherwell for three-quarters. One day last June a bookmaker's portraying the sacrifice" of Isaac clerk was collecting bets in a cafe and Jesus praying in the Garden of a mile; and quite recently

been near the Gare du Nord when he of Gethsemane.

pegotiations have

under- was pouneed upon by two plain-

taken to secure 64 acres of the clothes policemen, who took him there can be no

According to Father Battista central slope of Boar's Hill op. to the police station. There the authenticity of the fresco. Ining one of the most beautiful and doubt of the posite Foxcombe House command- station inspector said: "You owe £185 to one of your clients, M. 1519 Melzi accompanied da Vinci famous views of the spires and Knaepen. You have got to pay to St. Cloud, in France, whither towers of Oxford. There is every him or go to gaol!"

the latter had been summoned reuson to hope that support will

THREE POLICE OFFICERS SENTENCED,

Paris, Nov. 3.

Details of a Paris police scandal were disclosed in the Correctional Court today.

The clerk protested that he had by King Francis I, and on the be forthcoming more than suf- never received a bet from Knaepen, death of his friend there took ficient to permit of the retention but the station inspector insisted, possession of the original cartoons of this beautiful hill slope. and the frightened clerk signed anused for the Milan picture. He agreement to pay by instalments is believed to have worked direct the sum demanded. He handed from these. over a first instalment of £40.

·pen were arrested.

It is felt that while public bodies can do much, they cannot

be expected to do everything at the cost of the rates, and that the

Later he informed the judicial Father Battista, whose inade University and colleges may pro authorities, and the inspector, the quate stipend of £30 a year obligea perly regard the objects in view plain-clothes policemen, and Knae-him to work his own farm, spends as outside their scope as educa

most of his leisure piecing to- tional bodies. The generosity of The court sent the inspector, who gether the chain of evidence to chance benefactors cannot be re- confessed that he was the author authenticate his treasures. He is tied upon indefinitely.. What is of the plot, to prison for a year a Latin scholar, and during his required is a private society in and sentenced the two subordinates researches among the village ar uentially supported and we!! to one month each with the benefit chives has unearthed a Latin do-equipped with funds to help the of the First Offenders Act. cument written in 1803 by Antonis city and neighbouring counties

Knaepen was sentenced to four Menghells, the village priest, who months also, with the beneilt of put on record the tradition hand-in a task which is no matter of the First Offenders Act.

ed down by the oldest inhabitants mere local or-privincial interest. that when Melzi took refuge in lor of the University and the Ma- The Chancellor and Vice-Chancel- Capriasca in 1522 he begged the HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? inhabitants to procure him the yor of the city have consented to, colours to paint a copy of his serve ez-officio on the governing master's picture,

body of the trust, which will also include a representative of the

Cloverument

1. (a) A quarry brakeman, (b) a maker of chronometer fittings. (e) nextsher of When some years later he. loft Rhodes. Trust, five persons cocoa beans. and (d)

A casi trimmer, Capriasca he sent a present to the nominated by the Vice-Chancellor, Kreording to Just fossed 2, CoHna at felington, whost wonderful texture, dated 1526, eral meeting, five co-opted, and publlenton village,priest of a vestment of three elected by the trust in gea- founder was Sam Vngg. 3. Lord Melor of Landon, SEKAI

whose fewel dates to 1547. which is still used at high cere others representing persons "Boulogne Mouth" and "God encom passeth 16. 8. Iron, which the Egyptian monials of the church."

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Anding It In Meteordis, called "mota of

or

bodies interested. The articles of

heaven." 6 (8) The Takin of Tibet (b} Father Battista told me that association provide for four clas- New Zealand fixard. 7. The twenty daygroup of Americans who recentlyses of members of the trust: sub- Charina and Parlament visited Capriasca offered $20,000 scribing members, who contribute

the three-yed Sphenodon, or springbacked

truce between

Dver

ahurch S.

the demand of Parliament for the for the fresco, but although the at least 1 a year; life members, Presbyterian reform of the Michael Faraday. 8. Voltaire, in "Zodis parish is desperately poor neither who make a donation of £10: 10. In the reign of Edward IV. when the this nor the other paintings, which honorary members, elected for of whine members, had royal seualors, Europe, are allowed to leave the members, who contribute, 25. 6 The Cavalier Parliament of 1001-1679, most would grace any museum in services rendered; and associated The Shambles, York.

penalty was afing of twenty shilling. 11

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