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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 19355

NOT BRITISH SOIL

Land Grant By King William III

FOUR AMERICANS CLAIM PART OF LABRADOR

New York, Aug. 20. ' Four Long Island resi- ¡dents claiming to be descen- dants of Joseph de la Pehna, Portuguese rabbi, have filed suits in London to recover possession of a part of the peninsula of Labrador.

The claimanta assert that, the Portuguese rabbi was given the peninsula by King William III of England in 1697 as a perpetual

Inheritance.

The four, Mra, Anna Springer, and her three children, David and Semon, and Mrs. Catherine. Epstein, allege that they have aro lincal descendants of Joseph de la Poha Mrs. Springer was associated with the late Rabbi Isaac de la Pehňa wlio died in Montreal, last April.

Isaac began a court action to recover Labrador for the descen. dants of the Portuguese rabbi.

foundland by the privy council-

timber lands and water-power potentialites.

IT'S ALSO HOT IN LONDON

A little spectator in a rather cool looking costume stands up in her pram outalde Buckingham Palace to watch the quests arriving at the brilliant, garden party recently.

Book Of Facts That Has Turned Into A Legend

but still those casualty lists.

trains Troop

thundered and through the countryside through the cities by night. Still no news.

THE ARMY LIST FOR AUGUST, 1914 Labrador, granted to New-TWENTY-ONF years ago last month the of England in litigation with Government presses printed a book.. At the Canada, is rich in mineral and time it was regarded purely as an ordinary monthly official document. There are two versions to ac- It contained no drama or counts of how the Portuguese pathos... merely hundreds of rabbi supposedly came into lists of names neatly arranged. possession of the valuable But that book was destined peninsula. The first is that

to be the most tragic of the William of Orange granted him

publications the world had ever known. the peninsula because the rabbi saved his life at вед. The second and latest story relates that King William borrowed 2,000,000 guilders from de la Pehna and that he paid the debt off by giving the rabbi the peninsula.

Want Compensation Although de la Pehna and his family did not make possession of the land his descendants seek to obtain title to it or compensation | from the British government.

David Springer, spokesman for his family, said:

J year our at-

It was entitled "The Monthly Army List for August 1914." The great war then was about to engulf Great Britain.

The book lies before me now, faded at the edges, hard and formal in its pages.

Yet, as it is read, the pagca

And then the story of Mona and its harvest was gradually broken to the nation.

The "Monthly Army Liat for August 1914" had finished its work by September.

It had become a ghostly vo- lume of Britain's history.

seem to change under your eyes. ARE YOU SURE?

The cold dry type shines. You see the names of men who be came immortal in that month, men who died with the "Old Contemptibles."

Here are a few more brain- teasers for

hour. the idle Answers are on Page 12.

1-Alternative riames for four Perhaps there is the name of different countries are given below. the man now lying in Westmins-Underline the correct names: ter. Abbey. the Unknown } (a) Abyssinia Ethiopia

Fugo-Slavia Warrior. But that secret has (b) Serbia

Holland e) Netherlands. (d) Netherlands Dutch East Indies been eternally buried with him.

East Indies 2-Addis Ababa-what is it; what does it mean; how is it pro

nounced?

"I think the British government will want to keep the land. Any- way I do not think we would want Straw Hats And Caps to live there. Our family would

August 4, the day of Britain's be willing to accept a reasonable entry into the storm, opened as cash settlement of our claims.

it did last Sunday. Holiday. "For nearly

3.Which is the highest, the torney has been working out the makers were basking in their Signal Station at the top of the

thousands in the sunshine. The Peak or Kowloon Peak? goncological aspects of this case Great Shadow was not even

4.-Would it be correct to de- and he has dente documentary then seen in all its horror by signate His Majesty King George

aro entitled proof that we

V of India or Emperor George V share in the estate. My mother England.

of India? was a Mello. Her mother was a The British Army had always Del Monte and her maiden name won. It

6. Where is Iran? would win again. 6. Does France still own, any was de la Pehna. Her father was Cheering crowds in the cities land in North America?. a direct lineal descendant of the and towns watched young men

7.-What nation has as part of original de la Pehan who obtained in straw hats and caps assemble its coat of arms a raké and a

at the recruiting stations. Wild-shovel? "My father and Rabbi Isaac de ly the watchers sang, "You made

8.-Are any counties in England la Pehna were closely associated years ago. Both were diamond me love you (I didn't want to smaller in size than the Colony of polishers working beside each do it)" and other songs of the Hongkong, including the

Territories?

the grant.

were

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OUR BRITISH · CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

1 "Have you paid it?"

3 Shell shatterers (hyphen, 3-8) 8 Vehement.

Have plenty of water for the un- pleasant fellow, in case,

10 Act; I'm in it; puts me about. 11 Stop hero in America, no matter

if it does look rather dotty. 12 Signifying a fine war effort nade

by women.

10 Names, may be proper.

17 The one profession in which a 18 Fix this so that the sharp end

is at the right. 21 Plunges like a rich man.

swell must get on.

23 The emotion which a teacher

hidem.

24 Putting up here frequently suits the gentleman who has to ask for a 1 Acron.

kome.

When it blow great guns round the mountain-top.

25 Noisy

28

as

29 They used to receive the same

training as soldiers.

The fruit that is indispensable in

New

this French settlement is, vòry

largely, grown in Kent.

but one form is peculiar SunBox.

DOWN

1 It's always telling ur

earthquakes.

to

abut

2 Pitch if you like, nover roll or

other' in a New York city shop, pre-war music hall.

9.-If you had three pounds of 81 This, also, is grown in Kent, while lasac de la Pohna studied to The last weeks of August butter, 13 ounces of salt, and one be a cantor. After ho had be-passed. No news of any great and a half pounds of sugar you come a cantor he studied to be a victory came... there was si- would have: rabbi. While he was in New York lence from the Continent. The tooles .70 ountere

84 ounces City, both as a diamond polisher dark nights

four pounds and 18 ounces becoming and later in religious work,

butterscotch 85 ounces five poundi and my father were very friendly autumn. Casualty lists of the longer with the approaching

10. Those who equivocate: and acknowledged the relationship Army began to come through.

atridulate

bowl. (argue stubbornly mislead by double meanings danco poorly

pout "Our attorney has fled cur

11-How many cities in Great claim in London and we are sure People began to fear. The Britain and Northern Ireland have it is a valid one which will be silence of the authorities was larger populations than Hongkong? recognised by the court-United ominous. Traders were advised 12.--What Was the original Press.

to carry on "business as usual"¦ Spanish name for San Francisco)

of second cousins.

SALESMAN SAM

Ominous Silence

3 yes, 3 Down, not one.

4 They are recorded by 1 Down.

It bears evidence of its pocket- burning activities.

How to arise from a mean tea 7 This sounds a very ordinary fettar of interest to the-Bishop.

I'm afraid you'll have to over, even if you are upset,

go

13 Think, and you will so that it is necessary to study the pattern. 14 Take the "tecs" off the little

archer, and it will be all up.

15 Show to be correct.

19. He received n grant of land in

America under the old Dutch .... Government, although he was nothing to his patron.

20 Sort of bath for a warm day, 21 The American traveller who al-

ways makes a big noise, 22 He holds a high position in tho

States,

but there's always a Spanish

around.

gentleman hanging

20 The warriors who form the contrepiece of a grim picture. 27 Mako away with, say, round

about fifty,

28 This head may be silly, but it's

useful to the miner,

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