1936-03-24 — Page 7

Marble Sunk

In 1881 Raised

By Sanctions

Bowcombe Creek, near Kinsbridge, South Devon, Mar. 13. THE shore of this little creek is to-day ringing with the sound of chain and tackle, sledge hammers and the popping of a little motor-winch.

Lying in the mud of the low-tide level are half a dozen large seaweed-covered blocks. On the shore, scrubbed and polished to a glistening whiteness, there are more of these great squares.

Passers-by hardly give a glance mouth merchant, who lost about at the eight or nine workmen who £600 trying to salvage the marble. are busying themselves among this, More than thirty years ago he seashore Stonehenge. But those sold the wreck again to Mr. James workmen are pulling treasure Distin, of Salcombe, who salvaged worth thousands of pounds out of wood and copper from it, and this the men, beneath which it has lain is where Mr. R. II. Partridge, of defying all efforts at salvages since Salcombe, steps in.

1881 for those grent stones are! pure Italian marble.

It is sanctions that is bring- ing them to the sen surface at Jant.

Fifty-five years ago a small Ita- Han sailing vessel battled with a Kule off the Devon conat. She carried more than two hundred tons of Italian marble for delivery to a Landon merchant. But the

gale beat the Volvere, as she was

Four years ago the wreck and marble were transferred to him,

I With the aid of a diver and after a fight against the silted- up sea bed, the weather and a collision, 100 tons of marble were eventually tied to the but- tom of a barge and brought ten miles to be dropped to the bed of this creek.

CUSTOMS' CLAIM Sanctions came, affecting the sup

called, a few miles off Salcombe. Sheplies and price of marble, was smashed on treacherous rocks.

A week ago the first of the great The captain's wife, put ashore on blocks of marble the rocks, was washed back into nahore, but Mr. Partridge has had was dragged the sea. The whole crew were to fight against

drowned.

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY; MARCH 24, 1936,

CIRCUS TIME IS NO.1 TIME FOR KIDS: ANYWHERE

A cireur has arrived to the little Caucasian town and these three girls, Feodosin, Ewlampin and Tanju are present for the first time in their life.

Their features tell that it is an adventure.

ROMANCE COMES AFTER TRAGEDY

They were members of a party of four Oxford undergraduates who climbed Tryfan, 3,000 feet peak in Snowdonia lant March.

A mountaineering tragedy In¦ more than the which a girl heiress fall 500 feet weather and the sea bed. The Cua-to her death is recalled, by the ATTEMPTS FAILED

toms impounded the marble and engagement, of Miss Daphne V. The two hundred or more tons claimed £150 duties. of marble sank to

F. Simpson to Mr. R. G. G. Mor- the Ben bed. Mr. Partridge proved that as the After the underwriters had finished marble came within the three-mile gridge. with the wreck six loend fishermen limit at a time when there was no bought it. They salvaged small duty en marble he need pay no duty, pieces of marble and more than one It was claimed by the Government hundred tons of good walnut wood, as treasure trove, Mr. Partridge and then sold the wreek to a Ply, traced its ownership through the

Miss Edna Gray Pritchard, ajted Afty-five years to himself.

twenty two-who inherited £100,- Now, sanctious and duty-free, the 1000 from her father, a Liverpool the marble is at last being innded. stockbroker-slipped during

Says Mr. Partridge: "It has cost descent, injured her legs and head me £800 ta gel this 100 tons of

ALL-NIGHT SEARCH marble this far, I do not know The fourth member of the expe- exactly what I shall get for it. dition, Mr. J. N. Mills, placed her know that at present it is worth on a ledge and hurried down the

lout £1,500. The value will prob-mountain side for assistance. ably go up,

ile returned with a resete party "It depends on my success with of thirty. Miss Pritchard had this gamble-for that is all it is vanished. whether or not I shall walvage the Search for the missing girl con- Jother 100 tons or su that still lie in tinned all through the night, Mora-

the wreck."

|ing came—and with it the discovery of the tragedy. The girl's body

AGGRESSIVE POLICY BY THE KING?

AMERICAN VIEW

London, Mar. 10:

In a few days' time this first 100

Kind Edward VIII, who is tons of the Volvere's marble that aggressively interested in has been sold several times while it international relations, econ-has been lying on the son bed, will arrive at its original destination. omics and trade, is expected London, half a century inte.. to have a strong influence on!

Britain's future policies. Death:

The King's part will be played; not through actual orders or in- structions, but through the more) subtle influence of royal prestige| and personality.

The King's actual powers sharply defined. He has not one." tenth-the-authority, for instance, of the President of the United | States.

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For Torture To Cows

DAIRYMAN'S FATE

Vienna, Mar, 16. Strictly speaking, alt bills of Parliament must be given the THE possibility of having his

neck broken by a hangman as Royal assent or dissent, How- ever, it is n dead letter and no punishment for torturing cows sovereign has tried to dissent to a faces Franz Sommer, 38-year-old bill since the time of Queen Anne.

Swiss labourer. The prerogatives and functions) He is charged with twisting the of the Crown may be summed up tails of 15 cows until bones were broken. Whether Sommer is ad- as follows:

The Royal Assent; to cause the judged gulity and sentenced to the due admission of laws; to act on gallows depends on the extent of behalf of the whole community in damages fixed. Under the law if its intercourse with foreign states, damages exceed 250 schillings and, as part of that, to declare war ($47.50), the guilty person may be or conclude peace; to direct the hanged.

naval, and military forces of the Should Sommer receive the country to administer the public heaviest penalty he would be exe- revenue; to summon or dissolve cuted by a hangman who does hot parliament; to create peers; and use the ordinary type gallows. to coin money. The Monarch is: The condensed man is suspended the supreme

of the fow feet in the air and his neck church; the source of justice and of mercy, and of all oflices, honours

"Heartbreak" Tune and chartered rights,

governor

But, in practice. the King acts In every case through ministers who are amenable to Parliament,

and the choice of those ministera

in the only prerogative which can

was found at the bottom of a ra vine. five hundred feet below.

A view from the castle in Makate, the Abyssinian town on the Northern fre now under_Italian_rule,

is broken by. cumbination of twists and jerks on the rope by the hangman and two assistants. -United Press.

SONG LEADS TO SUICIDE

OF 16 LOVERS

constitutionally be exercised with- A SONG which, it is claimed, has led to the suicides of 16 dis-

out responsible advisers; but even

are

appointed lovers in Hungary may now be banned at the request

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The words of the song, "Gloomfest Sunday," were written by Laszlo Javor, a young poet, who declares that he was dis- appointed in love and for days was on the verge of suicide.

Instead he banished his sorrow by writing the lyric. A series of tragedies resulted,

over this there is much parlia of the composer and lyric-writer. montary control for the royal favour can have no practical effect unless it rests upon

men whose characters and measures generally acceptable to both hou- ses. The King's speeches are usually written for him by his ministers, or in any event, approved by them.

The Royal assent, while a for- mality, is necessary, before a bill can become law, which is one of the reasons why a council of alate is assigned the powers of the crown in event of the King's grave illness. The assent is sent to Par liament and road in. Norman- French by the Clerks of both houses, "La roy le veult." assont should be withheld, it is given in the gentle language. "Lo roy s'avisera."

Colonial Powers

If

In colonies nequired by con- quest or cession, the King_may legislate as he pleasca. Even

In the case of the self-governing | dominions he can "Ulaallow" an act, but it is made subject in the constitutions of the dominions to a period of limitation, usually one or two years-United Press.

For a time the tune was the most popular "hit" in the coun- try..

Then, in a small Budapest tavern, Boros wounded himself with a pis a young workman named John) tol after crooning the song to the accompaniment of a gipsy band. The words are as follows:--

and waited,

A bier and a priest, wax candlea

aflame.

Then gently we move thrie the

flowering lane

Once more to behold you my dead

lids will sever, Don't dread me, my darling. I

bicas you for ever, This last of all Sundays. According to a farewell, lettor

O gloomicst Sunday! I wanted found in the wounded man's pocket his sweetheart had 'quarrelled with Hundred white blossoms dearily him, and he could not bear the lone- Out went my dream-coach with her.

faded,

Hly Sundays he had to spend without fringes and bell, Without you it turned, a sud

story to tell..

Since, love, all Sundays are drea-| My tears are my wine and grief

ry and sad,

is my bread,

Subsequently 16 people who had been jilted or otherwise dis- appointed in love committed. Fuicide after listening to "Gloomiest Sunday," is As a result the composer, Rézse Seress, and Laszlo Javor have asked Ultimate Sunday! My love come to which every band in the country O gloomiest Sunday!

the Union of Hungarian Musicians, 'und' sco.

belongs, to prohibit further: par- Hundred white blossoms are formances of "Gloomiest Sunday

strown upon mo,

for the time being.

Love

RADIO BROADCAST

Talk by the Captain Of R.M.A. "Dorado"

QUEEN MARY. BROADCAST From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres. (845 kilocycles),

17 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7:11 pm. European.Programme. 7-7.36 p.m. Light Orchestral Music,

Serenade Maurceque, Op. 10, No. 2 (Elgar), Denediétus (Mackenzie).... New Light Symphony Orchestra. Spring's Delight-March-Intermezzo (About), Deutschmeister Regimental March (Jurek). Marek Weber and his Orchestra, Waldteuret Memories (arr. Finck) Orchestra,

Mangin De Groot and his Veen (Dear Isle of Man) (Haydn Wood)

***Light Symphony Orchestra, Viennese Sing- Ing Birds (Waltz); Juty on the Mountains (Waltz). (Fetras)...... Marck Weber and his Orchestra.

7.35-8 p.m. A Relay from Daven. try.

A Broadcast from the R.M.S. Queen Mary

A p.m.

Local Time and Weather Report: Closing: Local Stock Quota- tlons.

8.05-8.20 p.m. From the Studio.

A Recital of English Ballads by J. Mc. Naught Thomson (Baritone) ac- companied by Nura Kanis.

Programme

1. Loving Smile of Rister Kind...... 2. Cargoes

Gounod, Coningsby

Clarke. 3. Allah be with us... Budapest, Feb. 28.

Woodfonie FOR nearly ninety

Finden. years

4. A Song of Thanksgiving Allitsen Joseph Bruger, a well-known

5. Tommy Lad "

.....Margetson. Budapest character who begs on 8.20-8.25 p.m. "Gershwin Fox-Trut the city bridges, forswore marri

Medley" played by Harry Roy's Tiger Ragamuffins.

age.

He became known as the misogynist beggar,

Then he fell in love with a chur woman, Anna Orosz.

To-day they were married-he aged ninety and she fity-two-itl ceremony which many beggars

attended.

"It is a love match. We both felt lonely," said Bruger after the marriage.

Japan Wants Old Warships

READY TO BUY FOR SCRAP

Honolulu, Mar. 15. Steel once welded to shape a new naval destiny for the United States may be melted and mold- ed into what promises to be a new naval destiny for Japan,

Details of plans for wrecking the old schooner-cruiser Aiton re- vealed her scrap possibly will be sold to Japan.

The Alton, now moored iù de-· commissioned row near the sub- marine base, Pearl Harbour navy yard. was formerly the U.S.S. Chicago, first all-steel warship constructed by the United States."

When the Chicago slid down the ways of the John Roach & Sons' shipyard, Chester, Penna., in 1889. there was simultaneously launch- ed a new era of navy construction which had far-reaching effect upon the Industrial life of the nation.

Several months ago the navy advertised the Alton for ante, and the American Iron and Metal Co.. of Oakland, Calif., contracted to buy her for scrap. The purchase'

price was $14,680.

On New Year's Day, Louis Roth- enburg, representing the Orkland company, arrived in Honolulu to arrange for wrecking the Alton. Japan he said, was one of his best customers for scrap steel and iron and purchase of Alton scrap by Japan was quite probable.

To-day, the Alton looks more like a decayed Mississippi show. boat than a fighting craft. Sho list served a useful purpose when moored at the Pearl Harbour sub- marine base as a barracks " for officers.

So little of her original glory was left her name was changed from the U.S.S. Chicage to the Altoa, to give a modern cruiser the. former name.

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25-8.35 p.m. From the Studio; "Canossing Institute's Seventy-five Years in Hongkong" by a Former Pupil,

8.35-8.40 p.m. Two Songa by Mlle. Lucienne Boyer (Soprano).

1. Ta Main (Hunds across

Table).

the

2. Mon ami le Vent-Chasson. 8.40-9 pm, From the Studio. A Pianoforte Recital by Caroline Вгада

9.9.15 p.m. A Relay of the Daven- try News Bulletin (Copyright by Reuter).

9.15-9.30 p.m. Military Band Music,

Mirella-Overture (Ground)

The B.B.C. Wireless Military Band. Hyde Park Suite (Jalowicz).The Regimental Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards,

9.30-9.45 p.m. From the Studio.

A talk "The Confederate States of America, 1861-1806" by H. C. Macnamara

9.45-10 p.m.

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10 p.m. Big Ben 10-10.10 p.m. From the Studio, A talk by Captain J, II. Lock of R.M.A. "Dorado" carrying first Air Malls from London to Itongkong, 10.10-11 p.m. Dance Musle, Fox-Trot-Lovo's. Serenade,

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