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Bandits' Captive Writes To Wife In U.K.

NEWS of Mr. Alfred

Bosshardt, the Man- chester missionary who was captured in Octo- ber, 1934, by Chinese bandits, alleged to be Communists, has reach- ed Manchester in the form of a letter from his wife at Shanghai to his parents.

Was written read

The letter, which on December 6, 1935, was

last night to the congregation at the Union Mission Hall, Vine Street. Hulme, with which Mr. Bosshardt was connected before going to China,

It appears that the bandits de- manded ten thousand dollars for the release of Mr. Bosshardt and of a Mr. Hayman, who was cap- tured with him; but when the sum Becker was produced by a Mr. (acting for the Chinese Inland that it Mission) they declared was not enough for both and re- leased Mr. Hayman only. Mr. Bosshardt remains in captivity but is apparently not being -

treated otherwise.

Mrs. Bosshardt's Letter Mrs. Bosshardt's letter part as follows:-

runs in

Mrs. Hayman had arrived from Cheloo with the haby a few days before. She naturally felt very much for me, and no doubt the Joy shall only be fl when dear Alfred has been released. The general director and executives, along with Mr. Hayman and the baby, went to meet Mr. Hayman. Mrs. Hay- man thought it would be better if I

SAVED FROM DEPORTATION

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY

31, 1936.

the Current Year Means-

Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, fore most Japanese Christian, author of 100 backs on social welfare, pictured when he arrived in San Francisco to begin a. United States lecture tour. Dr. Kagawa was held by immigration officials be cause he suffered an eye affliction and was permitted entry on President Roosevelt's personal inter- vent ion.

Widow To Wed Baron

She Accused Of Fraud

N Austrian baron, awaiting trial at the Old Bailey on a £3,500 AN

false pretences charge, was married at a London register office this month. His bride was the young, wealthy and attrac tive English widow whom he is accused of defrauding.

New Tartan

For

Duke

Of Kent

A

NEW tartan has been designed for

did not go, thinking it might bo to the Duke of Kent. It

for me.

WOR

present,

much

in the hall when they will be called Earl of St. though, arrived with the cars, and Boon there was a good number coming Andrews tartan.

One of the Duke's titles is Earl of St. Andrews,

from all siden, and we welcomed hin singing the. Doxology. The Lord enabled me sing, and with

The tartan is light blue, with a my whole heart praise God for His

in parts, and goodness to lie servant. Then dark blue shade shook hands, but could not utter: white stripes,

The first kilt made from the word. would have broken down. Before Mr. Hayman left Shanghai

д

BUT MORE

WORK

LEAP YEAR'S DEBITS MONTHLY TICKETS BRING

FREE-TRAVEL DAY.

Non-Chinese Employees Will Lose Pay For 120,000 Hours

THE month which begins to-morrow is a leap month, of 29 days. During the only year in four that it occurs, Hongkong will spend and carn millions of dollars more than in an ordinary year.

Hongkong people will have, for jed, within recent months, several Instance, to feed themselves for one schemes put forward for reforming day more in 1936 than In 1935. The the calendar, so that all years cost of the extra butter, bread and would be of equal length. One milk, to mention only three of the group of reformers would like to necessities which they will con- see 13 months, each of 28 days, with one day loft over each year aume, is put at $50,000.

"dies non." Op This means the purchase of and called a 22,000lb. more bread, 3,000lb, more ponents of this scheme say the butter and 15,000 pints more milk. drawback is that it makes equal

Monthly Earnings

quarters impossible.

Το offset Auch expenditure people 'should ordinarily have extra time in which to earn. In any case

Another group would like to see the months arranged into groups it would have only been half a day, of three, composed of two months and one of 31 because Feb. 29 falls on a Saturday, of 30 days each Nearly all Europeans in Hongkong, days, so that the quarters would however, are paid by the month, sobe of exactly equal length. This, that actually they work an extra too, would mean that there would, half-day for nothing. Taking the be one day over each year. working population as 30,000, this But perhaps the people on means that the taipan gains 120,-

whom leap year bears hardest 000 hours.

those criminals whose "ime" is measured by the year -for it means one day more for them in prison. Lucky unes

Big hongs, nevertheless, will pay out thousands of dollars in extra wages, to Chinese em- they will be ployees, hat recompensed by the extra day's production.

are

(FC the "non- marrieds" among Hongkang's wo- Season ticket holders beneft men folk. They have the tradi- because they get one day's travel tional right to Leap Year of pro- free on their February ticket. So posing to their young men.

their also a people who lease homes by the year or the quarter. The bridegroom is thirty-They secure one day rent free. four-year-old Baron Hans Phil-On the other hand, stockholders lipp Kork, of Abbey-road. St. lose one day's interest, as their BOY GUNMAN John's Wood, N.W. He was sent, money is lent out for 306 days in for trial from the West London the year instead of 366. Police Court on November 20,

and released on £1,500 bail.

For Colony's Coffers The Colonin! Treasurer is one

CORNERED

SHOT DEAD

Blonde Mrs. Lily Wooding is man who welcomes leap year, be- IN "FORT"

his bride to be.

cause it brings a day's more revenue There into the Colony's coffers,

An increase of $3,000 They told the story of their should be romance just before their mar-from Excise, $6,000 from Customs, ringe. They sat around a log fire $10,000 from the Post Office and at Mrs. Wooding's beautiful $6,000 from stamp duties. home, Tudor Lodge, in Verulam- avenue, Purley..

"It is rather like. a Christmas tale, isn't it?" said Mrs. Wooding. "Hana and I met and fell in

Wc love about ten months ago. became engaged last May.

JA

Sydney (N.S.W.),

Jan. 18. [AMES S: PENROSE, In the Army, Navy and Air aged eighteen, known for the extra day's pay which as the "boy gunman,' folls under the 1936 exand leader of a gang,

Force an increase is allowed

penditure.

7)

For many people leap year means shot Detective Terbutt

rare treat of having

the

₤1

"Then we began some business birthday. They are the people through the head on he wrote to explain to nw why new design was delivered to the negotiations. Things went wrong. who have been born on Feb. 29 in New Year's Eve as the dear Alfred had not been released. Duke last week.

The choice did not rest with one or the other. Dear Alfred was called to go and check the medicine that Mr. Becker had sent. Then Mr. flayman was called and told that the money that bad come was not enough for both. Oh! the deep.

them alisappointment for

bath. Dear Mr. Hayman did not want to leave Alfred and suggested that as he Mr. Hayman) could not walk and as Alfred could that Alfred should go, although chairs had been sent for both of them with a relay of coolicy.

Hero No. 1

-He Gave

His Sight

are many types of THERE

heroism. America's "Pub- lic Hero No. 1" is a man who deliberately sacrificed his sight in the cause of science. God has granted your dear wisit

His name has just been made that the prisoners should have the book "Streams in the Desert!" Out public. He is Clarence Brown,

of that they got scripture verses a fifty-year-old resident of Iowa and comforting thoughts. It was City. still with dear Alfred when Mr. Hayman parted.

of

Every year thousands America's Red Indians become blindness.

Mr. Hayman gave me a cap dear afflicted with total Alfred made with crochet and little owing to the ravages of trachoma, bits of wool and cotton he got here a strange disease of the eye-lids. and there where they stayed, also

a band of coloured bits of wool that

The Government has spent years

acted as a cholera belt. He has a scientific

research trying to out

the disenso. Then Brown came along.

made friends with many by doing stamp things like that.

The guards, which are continuel-

Ile suffers from an incurable! ly with them, are now very sym- disease, which only gives him a pathetic and do not mock them any few more years to live. more. When Mr. Hayman was tou

A Lost Look Brown volunteered to be mocu-

in the long marches as his heart symptoms developed. does not stand them anymore; or he te able to walk, let us pray that

how

I stood to lose a lot of money.past..years, and whose birthdays

"The engagement was broken fall only once every four years. police broke up a band off, and these awful proceedings The Marquis of Hamilton, heir of of street rowdies: were started,

"We mot, talked it all over, and became re-engaged just in time for Christmas."

Baron Korf interrupted:

"We

To-day

the Duke of Abercorn, and Sir

detectives eleven Eustace Fiennes, a former colonial

traced Penrose, who had barri- governor, are among theac.

The people who object most caded himself in a slum cellar are the which he had transformed into strongly to leap, year have been in love all the time, real-statisticians. The extra day up-la fort by tearing out the bricks ly.

sets all their calculations, because to. form loopholes for his re- This affair has cost us about it means that, for instance, the (volvers. £6,000 apart from the charges.

legal

"And I do hope that everything will end happily at the Old Bailey," said Mrs. Wooding. Then we shall go away for a long holl-

day."

For A Happy Life-

trade figures of 1936 will not be truly comparable with those for 1935 because the two years are of different lengths.

Changing Calendar

As a result the Royal Statisti- cal Society at Home has consider.

MARRIED PEOPLE ASK FOR FOUR THINGS

New York, Jan. 18.

The four things married persons consider most important are children, good 'meals, an attractive home and a wife adept in the social graces, a recent cross-section survey of American! families showed.

As the police surrounded the tenement Penrose's fourteen- slipped year-old sweetheart through the cellar door. The police captured her.

Sergeant McCarthy ran Into the collar and flashed a torch in the bandit's face. Penrose reached for his gun; the detective fired and missed.'

Penrose then turned his gun and shot himself through the head. He died almost immediately.

Non-Skid Bath Streamlined, skid-resisting bath, the outcome of three years' experiments, has ap. peared in Detroit.

Base of the bath has a wave-like tread designed to eliminate the many accidents attributed to slippery baths.

Gluttony

Most of the answers came from average men in that section marry) il to take his food with chop sticks, two of the guards rushed out to lated with an acuto form of the while collar class, and $8 at 25 and women at 20.

Eighty five per cent. of the mar fetch a spoon. What we must pray trachoma to enable the medical states are represented in the noll until deliverance is granted, is that authorities to determine how it which will be continued by "True ried people all over the country they may be willing to carry Alfred was infectious and.

it Story Magazine" until the entire believe children should be reared In some religion; 15 per cent, say The experiment was conductod country is represented.

The average American man no.

Two-thirds of the married couples

"Moths consume £50,000,000 he should not need to carry his own at the Indian Hospital at Fort marries at the age of 24 and takes bundle.

He still has the travelling Apache, Arizona, Brown took a bride who is 19%. Half of belong to the same religious faith, worth of clothing annually." rug which he had when we parted last look at the daylight and at them do not have an assured in while 60 per cent. of the persons Extract from report read at the but he had to send back books and the flowers he loved then walked come when they start out to found covered in the survey say they annual meeting of the American a home. And half of them are go- would object to their children Association of Insecticide Manu- Bibles after twelve days because heinto the operating theatre. could not carry them. Since Mr. The germs soon became active, ing through life without accumu marrying a person subscribing to. on the move, but where is dear and within six weeks Brown has inting any davings for days of another religion.-United Press. Hayman left they must have been

misfortune. Alfred? Communist troops have become-totally blind.... But, as a result of his heroism,

Two thirds of the families havo dispersed, some in South Hunan

Insurance policy, bal doctors have acquired a serum to

worth which has forced stations to evacuated; some seem to have gone prevent the spread of infection in on the average, $3,000.

all other cases. In the direction of Kwelchow.

Triangle. Drama

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facturers.

In trying to determine what la the ideal state of marriage one of the 10 questions asked was whether the young couples object- ed to living with their in-laws.

New York, Jan. 24. The answer was a thundering:

Mr. Serge Rubinstein, managing director of the Chosen against the in-laws is running Corporation, who recently Journeyed from London to New York, about 15 to 1 throughout the and is now heading for Hongkong, stopped at Honolulu to-day..

Accompanied by Counters Erbody he hurried ashore and talked by country.

Sentimant against in-laws is telephone to London and Paris.

Mr. Rublustela and the countess then attended a typical Hewalian The Anancler stated that he was on his way to a meeting of direc

the Narupt Roza of Mereare gold mining recccrn and to attend

Interests,

HULA GIRLS DANCE FOR MR. SERGE RUBINSTEIN

THREE WOMEN IN A MAN'S LIFE: At present the

HE PICKED THE THREE.

New York, Jan. 20. PAUL RICHARD WENZ, aged twenty-six, is a philosopher strongest in Ohio, Indiana, Wis

"three women in

in every man's life," he told the cosin, Michigan and Illinois where concert with hula dancing and dluging arranged in their honour. Now York Police to-day; "ane he loves, one who loves litw, and the vote on opo he marrita.”

But, according to the police, there was something wrong with against mothers and fathers dwell-tooth Hubinstein sald he was making his journey by way of America his philosophy, because they accused him of "marrying" all threeing with married children,

In the far west people wait a fusslan. women without obtaining divorces,

longest to get married. On the

the antional average of 10 to 1,

Mr.

because he feared mefestation.If he had travelled through Russia; as he is

Countess Erbody sald she was taking a pleasure trip.

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