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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.MONDAY, DECEMBER

1935

THEN-AND NOW

1914

EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH · of Austria, in a "Proclamation to my Peoples," on July 24, 1914----- day Austria declared Serbin?—

"I do not want war

war on

but

I have reflected well, I have cul.. elated ill, I have weighed every thing.

1935

an

MUSSOLINI recently, in interview with the Paris "Petit Journal".

"I have refreted well, I have calculated all, I have weighed everything."

1914

1935.

HE SPENT SIX YEARS IN PRISON: PROTESTSINNOCENCE OLDEST AUSSIE

104-AND STILL IN GOOD HEALTH

The oldest woman in South Aug- Sarah Coram of O'Halloran Hill, near Adelaide, hos

just celebrated her 104th birthday,

still in excellent health.

DANCED IN GAOL WHILE HE Mrs. AWAITED FAME AND VINDICATION Convict No. 711 has danced every night in his Park hurst Prison cell while serving a term of six years' penal servitude. Now he is planning to dance his way back into the hearts of the public.

Convict 711

A few days ago a London solicitor and his wife drove up to the prison gates. changed into civilian clothes, shook hands with the governor, and joined them. BANK SAFE THAT IS SAFE AGAINST

Dorien Deane, professional dancer, had returned to the world and to the friends who' believed in his innocence.

"Most people would say it was impossible for me to stage a come- back to the theatre," he said when he told his story. "But I am going to try. I am buoyed up by the be-

She was born in Dawlish, Devan; went with her husband, In 1854, to Adelaide, saya Austral and News. They drove away from the port in a bullock waggon. Four

grandsons served in the war. Romance Of The Hunting Field

DUTCH-BORN CHIEF OF MACKAY CLAN Melrose, Roxburgshire, Dec. 1. A romance of the hunting

REVOLUTIONS lief that I was wrongfully convicted field was disclosed here to-day

London, Dec. 1. The first bank safe ever made with a guarantee against "civil insurrection" has just been constructed by a British firm for a "foreign central bank".

In other words, it is said, à country's gold reserve, locked in this vault, can be kept forever out of the hands of any faction, Left or Right, which happens to seize the country,

The new safe is a nine-days wonder in the financial dis. trict.

Most of the safe has already... been dispatched to its destina- tion but the door is being ex- hibited for nine days in the firm's window where it at- tracts an awe-struck crowd of observers blocking up the side- walk and part of the narrow City street.

This door is eight feet in dinme- ter and thirty-four inches thick and fits into its place, it is stated, to one-thousandth of an inch, which shuts out fire or flood com-

Including To-Day pletely. In addition it is made of

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a secret stcel so hard that the British Oxygen Company, using a lance oxygen flame burning at 3,700 degrees Centigrade--sum- cient to cut the hardest armour plate is a few seconds-was un- able after a week's enntinuous work to bare more than 11⁄2 inches; what is more, after persisting for weeks it reached. 33% inches and here, It la stated, it came to a dend -stop. No further Impression could

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Secondly, while the door can be opened by the proper officials in the usual elaborate way, in the event of war-civil or otherwise it can be made quickly unopenable by these devices; in this stage it can only be opened with the assis tance of a sort of "key" which, for safe-keeping can be kept in some outside the even other bank or country.-United Press.

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I am going to try to establish my

innocence.

when the engagement was 'an- nounced between Lord Reay, "My real name is Alexander the hereditary chieftain of the Henry. In 1929 an Old Bailey Jury Clan Mackay, and Miss Charlotte found me guilty of forging two Mary Younger, only daughter wills. They were the wills of the of Mrs. and the late Mr. William late Mr. Charles E. Sparke, of The Younger, of Raveswood, Melrose. Castle, Bury St. Edmunds. was a solicitor and Under-Sheriff of Suffolk.

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"Mr. Sparke, a bachelor, adopted me when I was a child. He treated me like a son all his life.

"He sent me to Italy to study singing under the masters. He ud me taught to dance by the finest teachers of ballot and nerohatle dancing.

Miss Younger is one of the best- known horsewomen in the Border countles and is a keen follower of and Lauderdale the Buccleuch hounds.

Lord Reay, who is 30, was born in Holland and is one of Britain's tallest peers. But his 6ft. 5in, are easily carried by his athletic build. Miss Younger is about öft. Gin.

Although Dutch by birth, Lord "When I grew up he gave me Reay is of Scottish descent, and banking account. I had some years ago brought over some horses to ride, a flat in the Westhunters.from his stables in Holland. He is the hereditary leader of a End, and I never knew what it clan whose membership in Britain

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meant to lack money. "Mr. Sparko died in 1927. His will was proved. I was told that he had left me £10,000. Naturally I was pleased, though I had been I given reason to think that he would

leave me his entire estate.

"FORTUNE OF £230,000"

is 400, and of large Mackay colonies in Australia and Burma.

Lord Reay Is a friend of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, and it was partly at his suggestion that she spent her holidays in Perthshire

this year,

"KEPT MUSCLES SUPPLE" "Two years later I found in one

"While I was doing prison work of his old attache cases a holograph will entirely in my favour. There as a navvy, and later, when I was was also a draft will on the same transferred to the tailoring shops, lines. These two wille left me I was always thinking of my stage fortune of £230,000.

work.

Then I had an idea. Why not keep fit, so that when at last I was freed I would still be able to do my old difficult dances?

my

"I produced them, and they were shown to handwriting experts. I was warned that there were doubts about their being genuine. I was told that

"Each night in my cell I did If I filed the wills criminal

rigorous exercises to keep proceedings might follow.

muscles supple. In the confined "Because I knew that they space I practised steps. Nobody were genuine I went ahead, else in the prison knew of my two Was that the action of a guilty ambitions to prove my innocence man?

and to get back to the stage. They "The wills had been made by Mr. would have laughed if they had Sparke while he was: dying in a known. nursing home.

Mr.

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both ways.

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10 A wife among a certain race. 11 Hanging.

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17 A sort of room? Or a happy

hen?

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21 Explosive connected with Kent. 22 His beard reached to the edge

of

his cont.

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escape of gas. Better than a matchi 30 Metallic essentials (two words,

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1 Drying place, chiefly in Kent.

2 Two meanings implied here.

3 United by a more thread. 4 Ints.

5 Simpers don't thus, cut ico; yet

they do in a way.

7 Born, not made, are these.

LANGER AND ASSOCIATES

"By the approved will of my "I was tried and sentenced to father-as I always knew pennt servitude. When they took Sparke--I have the residne of his DAKOTA EX-GOVERNOR me to prison I nearly lost my rea- £10,000 legacy that brings me about son. My hair went white--I have £450 a year. I am not a poor man, dyed it since I came out with the you see. Many people. are not so But until I have horror that 1, an innocent man, well off as I am. should be condemned for a crime achieved my two ambitions. I shall

not rest content," I had not committed.

NAW, BUT SOME GUY 15, I GUESS! HE'S BECKONIN'. TO ME TA SWIM OUT!.

HEY! LIFE

In Case Sam Forgets

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ME IF I NEEDED ANY

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WHADDA (YA WANT,)

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YEAH, I REMEMBER! AN YA DIDN'T NEED

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ARE ACQUITTED

Washington, Dec. 8, Federal Judge Wyman has direct ed the acquittal of Governor Wm.

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The Govornor was charged with minuso of Federal rollef funds. He had been convicted provlously of soliciting political funda from workers paid with relief money.

By Small

THASS RIGHT! AN' I JUST WANTED TA TELL YA I WON'T NEED IT T'DAY, EITHER!

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