1935-11-05 — Page 3

FOUR- AND ALL

BOYS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

BRITAIN'S ANSWER TO THE DIONNE

Great interest. has been created by the birth of quadruplet boys to Mrs. Victoria Harmsworth in the Royal Free Tlospital, London, and hundreds of inquiries have been: mude na to their welfare. The mother, who, la doing well, lives, at: Watson-street, Stoke Newington.

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Here is the firal boy to be born.. arrived, at 10. p.m. and weighed 3. 714oz.

Baby boy number two, born at 10.63 p.m., weighed 21lb. 14oz.

The third boy to greet the world case at 11.7 pm. His weight was

8 02:

1b.

The last of the quadruplets was the heavicat. He weighed 311b. 13oz, and arrived at 11.17 p.m.

QUINTUPLETS

LONDON MOTHER GIVES BIRTH TO FOUR SONS.

THEIR TOTAL WEIGHT. WAS LESS THAN FOURTEEN POUNDS UADRUPLETS—all boys-were born within an hour of each other at the Royal Free Hospital, London, on October 15. Two died a week later.

Twenty-eight-years-old Mrs. Victoria Harms- worth, of Watson-street, Stoke Newington-her- self one of twins-is the mother.

She has three other children, all giris under six years of age..

...

Five women doctors were at the bedside, and as cach baby was born he was wrapped in cotton-wool and placed in a special cot close to his mother.

The first boya rather feeble, bers on the labels tied to their Infant-arrived at 10.23 p.m. wrists.

The others were born at 10.53,

11.7, and 11.17 p.m. respectively.

Mother A Twin

Their mother is herself a twin,

All survived. They are un- and until a few weeks ago was n expectedly heavy children. The firm bellever in the truth of the,

mother's condition in satisfac- cid superstition that a twin can

*tory.

not give birth to twins-or more. X-Ray Warning

More than 20 people were pre- Every preparation had been sent at the birth, which was super- made in advance for the four intended by Professor Amy babies,

Fleming, chief obstetrician to the hospital. She had another gyneco- logist to assist her, two sisters | and three staff nurses. tion numbers of doctors attended in ease of need and out of interest in the remarkable casc.

Doctors, warned by X-ray of their coming weeks ago, had planned their reception down to the last detail.

Mrs. Harmsworth, whose hus band is a metal polisher employed at Islington, visited the ante-nutal wing of the hospital some months ago.

In addi-

Mrs. Harmsworth was a splendid patient and went through her ordeal very well.

An X-ray photograph revealed The babies altogether weighed to her the startling fact that" she | 12lb. 141⁄2oz. The normal weight was to have four babice.

Until the birth of the quadrup- lete was imminent Mrs. Harma- worth remained at home, caring for her husband and children.

of one child is about Glb. The first weighed 3lb. 7oz., the second 21b. 14oz., the third 3lb. 8oz., and the fourth 3lb. 130%.

They are being fed every three Special arrangements were made hours with glucose saline, and by the hospital authorities so that every six hours they receive, a she could be rushed to Gray's Inn-minim of brandy. rond by ambulance at any hour of the day or night.

A nurse present at the arrival } of the quadruplets said the mother was very brave.

Mr. Harmsworth, grandfather of the babies, said: "The children and the mother are doing very well.

This is the first time quadrup- lets have been born at the Royal Free Hospital.

The last birth of quadruplets in England was at 'Southend-on-Sea In November 1934, and there were also cases at Birmingham in March 1934 and at Southwark in Septem- ber 1932,

Every care known to medical science is being taken to guard the first quadruplets to be born in the Royal Free; so precious are they that even their mother, Mrs. Victoria Harmsworth, whose home is in Watson Road, Stoke Newing-- ton, is only allowed to peep at, them,

They lay side by side in an elec- trically-heated cradle. On the left) is the eldest, and the youngest is on the right. But the only differ-: ence between them is in the num-

Shanghai Bride's Offer

To King of Abyssinia

RS. MURIEL PAWLEY, the young English bride MRS.

whose courage made her world-famous when she was carried off by · Chinese bandits, hopes shortly to go to Abyssinia-as a nurse.

"I don't know what my husband will say about my decision, but I am pretty sure he will be violently against it. He is on his way back from China now," she said recently.

"Tho idea came to me when I read of the Abyssinian's in- adequate Red Cross service.

"I have little experience of nursing, but I believe any English girl, willing to help, would be invaluable to the Abyssinians."

Since her return to Britain, Mrs. Pawley has been erasing the memory of her prolonged" ́ordeal. She has also found time to complete a book "My Bandit Hosts,' which was published- last month.

Wants Adventure

"I thought I had experienced enough excitement to last mo-a lift-time," Mrs. Pawley con- fessed "Now I suppose my liking for travel and a bit of adventure is breaking out again. ·

"But above all that is the feeling that help is so pitifully

· needed among the Abyssinians.

Royal Namesakes

Already Mrs. Harmsworth has decided on the names for her four boys. They are:

George (after the King), Albert (after the Duke of York, president of the hospital), Victor (after

herself Vic toria), and Alfred (after, their Father).

Gurgling lustily, the quadruplets had their first newspaper interview when they were less than hours old.

two

CLOSED

TILL AFTER THE

WAR CONE TO ABYSSINIA

SIDELIGHT IN SOHO,

SOHO SIDELIGHT. This was an Italian cafe in London-

until the owner's patrio tism took him abroad.

+

$2,000,000 HONGKONG ESTATE DISPUTE IN SCOTLAND

A

DRAFT

WILL THAT WAS. NEVER SIGNED

CASE raising questions under the will of the late Lord Inchcape, of Glenapp Castle, Ayrshire, was opened last month in the High Court at Edinburgh.

The four children-the present Lord Inchcape, and his three sisters, Lady Bailey, Lady Millington Drake, and Lady Margaret Shaw-agreed that certain pencil altera- tions on the will should be treated as having no effect, but some of the grandchildren are questioning this.

Lord Inchcape's estate was valued for probate at £2,124,707, on which duty of £1,027447 was payable.

Over $2,000,000 was admitted for probate in Hongkong, the duty exceeding $1,000,000.

The statement of the case was

The gurgling demonstrated that-Lord-Inchcape-made-his will beyond doubt their well-being, on October 22, 1929. In Septem-. They presented a quaint, doll. ber, 1930, he asked his solicitors like picture as they lay in their to send him the will, and on May 4, specially eletrically heated 1932, he returned to them the will,

on which he cradles. The eldest was placed on the extreme left and his pencilled alterations? brothers 'were beside him,

She Opened A Doctor's Letter--

AND COULD NOT BEAR THE TRUTH

had made

Home

The solicitors then sent him a |clean draft will embodying the pencilled alterations, carefully marked for signature and explain- ed that it would be sufflelent if he signed in Monte Carlo, where he then was, with two witnesses' who could give English addresses.

Died Before Signing

The clean draft will, sent to him

on. May 9, 1932, was never signed

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LADY ALICE

CREATES VOGUE

Northampton, Oct. 30. Already Lady Alice Scott has created a new colour vogue in ladies' footwear.

Following the exhibition in London of a pair of walking aboes made in green calf, to be presented to Lady Alice as a wedding gift from a North- ampton firm, an order for 2,000 pairs has already been received.

"It means full-time-em- ployment for many, and it is quito likely that further orders will follow," Mr. Ernest Bordoli, secretary of the Boot Manufacturers' Aa- sociation, said.

by him, but was found in his re- MONEY KINGS

pository after his death on May 23,. 1982.

In order

to obvinte disputes

OF AMERICA-

FEUDAL SPLENDOUR

JOAN Richmond, pretty 21-between the testator's children as FAMILY THAT LIVES IN King's Bennch-street, Hull, was residue of the estate an agree years-old art student, of to their respective rights in the killed by curiosity.

ment was entered into by which She went to ace an optician they authorised the trustees to

New York, Oct, 22. about her eyes, which had been administer the estate on the foot- The greatest "money kinga" in troubling her.

ing that the will of October 22, America are not the Rockefellers, The optician gave her a letter 1929, contained the final testa- the Fords, the Morgans or the to her doctor.

On the way curiosity overcame opened the letter.

to

mentary. dispositions of Lord Mellons but the Du Ponts, of Dela- her doctor Inchcape, and agreed that. the ware, according to Mr. John K. her. She pencilled alterations and deletions Winkler, blographer of American

should be treated as having no industrialists and financiers. testamentary effect.

Mr. Winkler has now added "The Questions, however, have now Du Pont dynasty" to his list of

testator's grandchildren

Puzzling Word

It contained a peculiar word been raised by certain of the works. which she could not understand.

effect.

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So she went to the local library whether the pencilled alterations states of the Union, living. In "Hidden in one of the smallest and looked up the word in a re upon the will have testamentary feudal splendour, is ference book.

a singular family, proud, aloof, prolife, which Cutting Out a Daughter

to-day controls a greater slide of American wealth than has IN Mr. T. M. Cooper, K.C., Solici- ever bofore fallen into private The letter was never delivered tor-General for Scotland, opening hands," Mr. Winkler writes.

The definition revealed to Jaan that she was suffering from an eye disease that was incurable.

to her doctor. Instead, Joan was the case, sald the only question

Inter found dead with her head wa what were the Inte Lord "They are the Du Ponts, of

on a cushion in a gas oven.

Inchcape's final testamentary dia She could not bear the thought positions.

soe tho nature, which, ns

of losing the power to

glories of

Delaward Unlike the Morgank. the Mellons, the Rockefellers and other financial glants of yesterday, When he died suddenly the now visibly contracting and re- naniring artist, she longed to operation was the will made

former will which was then in trenclifng, these Du Ponts are not on only the outstanding money kings October 22, 1029. The main bene- of the day, but still in ascendancy. She left a letter apologising feinrias were his widow and four Nor is their aupremacy threatened to the doctor for opening his children-the present Lord Inch by any rival."--Central News. Jotter.

paint.

"If the letter had been posted cape and his three sisters, Lady

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SOLE AGENTS:

At the time of his death he was very large residue which he left. Caldbeck Macgregor & Co., Ltd.

instead of being given to the girl. Lady Margaret Shaw.

Bailey, Lady Millington Drake and she might still have been alive," Raid the coroner, returning a verdict of Suicide' while of Un unquestionably in process of carry- The question was whether he Round 2. Mind ""at the Inquest.ng out a fundamental alteration had done so in a form to which He appealed to doctora not in his testamentary dispositions, the Court would attribute legal "I don't know what my husband to give letters to patients to be the effect of which was to cut out effect.

will Bay,

| his daughter, Lady Shaw, and her The hearing was adjourned.

MRS. PAWLEY

handed on.