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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1936.

PRUSSIAN BLUE DISCARDED IN GERMANY

BARBARA HUTTON

BUYS £240,000

HITLER RESTORES

BANNED

NAPOLEON GEMS UNIFORM

-Says Paris Report

Paris, July, 10.

COUNTESS HAUGWITZ-REVENTLOW (formerly Miss Barbara Hutton) is reported in Paris to have bought emeralds once owned by Napoleon III.

140,000 Yen For

A Room

They are said to have been

Fold-for £240,000by Mme.

Ganna Walaka, the Polish prima donna and former wife of Mr. Harold F. McCormick, Chicago millionaire.

The emeralds were given by Napoleon III. to the Countess de Castiglione.

When Mme. Ganna Walska was asked about The report to-day, she said, "I don't wish to discuss the amatier."

Kobe, July 10, The Oriental Hotel here has guest who never leaves his room,, who sleeps during the day and who tinkers all night with watches and clocks, of which he has hun- dreds.

He came here from India 15 years ago. The MILIAL*- ment estimates thint he ha spent 140,000 yen at the hotel during that period.-United Press.

Debts of

Woman With 36 Dogs

The sale, it is stated, was made when the countess was in Paria res cently in a shopping tour.

Berlin, July 1. HITLER has approved

light green uniform for the German police instead of Prussian blue.

After the war pressure by the Allies compelled Ger- many to change the police. uniform from green to blue, which, being conspicuous, is unsuitable for Reuter.

NEW LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE DAWNS FOR THE DECKHAND

Since the sixteenth century sailors in British_mer- chantmen have worked the two-watch system of four hours

on and four hours off.

Last month the sailors and fire- men's panel of the National Mari- time Board, meeting in London. reached an agreement which will reduce deckhands' working hours from eighty-four a week to sixty-

four.

MORE MEN NEEDED

This will necessitate a threo-watch rota and the employment of larger crown

Sallors will work eight hours. à warfare. day, and additional eight hours a

week for maintenance work,

All branches of the German police have been united by the appartmut

of Herr Himmler, Chlef of Staff of iter's Black Guard, as, bead of nit the German

poller criminal and State.

wis

Maori's Protest Was Effective

Te Kuiti, N.Z., July 1. Recently a Maori woman sitting If avertime is worked ́at RE4J---0『- cept in an emergency-there will be on a bush timber line held up compensation either by time off in

locomotive for several days and seriously eurtailed the netivities of part or by payment at fixed rates.

Het action operative sawmilling company. The agreement becomes on October 1.

protest against alleged It applies te nil British ships ex-breaches of an agreement between forces sperch | ceeding 2,500 tons gross in foreign-the Native owners of the vetion

going trade.

and the company. From Tuesday to Saturday, Mrs. Mahuri, aged abrat 60, remained sitting in the centre of the line without fond or drink, and rosiated all appeals to Free The ling for the locomotive, Eventually a trure for a month was called to enable the matter to

Shot Dead in Mistake for Rabbit

SECOND DEATH SENTENCE ON MUSICIAN

N.C.O. FIRES

RUDOLF FRIML

AT MOVEMENT SHOWS HOW TO

A

IN BUSHES

SENTRY at Gosport who

CONCENTRATE

Yokohama, July 12.

submitted to arbitration.

Father Of 12 Children A Bigamist

Auckland (N.Z.), July 1. SENTENCE of death for mur- was shot at by an N.C.D. RUDOLPH FRIML, the Ameri- dering his wife was passed (who saw a movement in some can composer, gave a demon- nt Auckland for the second time bushes and thought it

was str

stration of remarkable musical ihile visiting to-day forty-two-year-old caused by a rabbit, has died in concentration Erie Mareo. London composer the Royal Victoria Military here in connection with pre-

London, July 3. Saying that he was a widower. Hospital. Netley Abbey, near parations for his forthcoming

of Wellington Chinese grand opera.

Sidney Martin Botley, Hampshire.

While at dinner in the New Heath proposed marriage to a Grand hotel with Burton Crane,widow with six children, song-writing newspaperman, Friml] They went through the wedding was perusing the scores for some

and conductor.

He WILS

"DADDY WILL PAY”

Colchester, July 1. When Miss Dorothy. Tollem.

found guilty of ache, of Colchester, a grand- poisoning Thelma Clarice. Marco, He was Gunner Alexander Bar- daughter of the first Baron jactress, aged twenty-nine, with ton, nged 21, or the 4th Medium Tollemache, and a member of a veronal.

Brigade Royal Artillery, stationed at Tort Broekhurst, Gosport, well-known Suffolk family, ap peared in the Colchester Bank- ruptcy Court to-day with a de- ficiency of £1,413, she attribut- ed her insolvency to living be- yond her means.

"I have a rich name," said Mss Tollemache, and people funded on

1 "

is

The trial was the first case of non address was Bryn Tall, Aber of Crane'a recent musical efforts. /Ceremony but six months later he "murder by veronal" ever heard fan, N.C.O.

Glamorgan.

the

with

In New Zealand.

of in charge Marco was first sentenced on guard fired zomerushint into the

mad,wa_deweifled to February 26. The jury recom-ushies

see mended him to mere and the Barton Joup of cerearning death sentence was commuted to

pal.

Barton was taken ten miles in an life imprisonment.

ambulimer to the bullary hospital An appeal falled, but when The county coroner held an new evidence was received from quest. Australia, indicating that Mrs.

(1

Mareo was on habitual drug-

She admitted that she had allowance of as much as £55 month from her father. When she Jeft home five years ago she stayed at a London hotel at £26 a week. and went to Vienna, her father pay- ing the bills, she incurred. She then stayed at. Felixstowe, went to Swit- zerland, and Inter took a house at Frinton, where she had four servants. Oficial Receiver-What did "you want all-them-for?----

The

taker and her death might have AGED 24, SHE

heen nccidental, he was granted | a retrial,

Gold Jewel Makes

A Sailor Happy You have done your best to muddle PROBABLY the happiest man

Miss Tollemiche-I was a fool.

everyone? No.

Miss Tollemache further admitted that she kept 36 dogs at one time.

The Oficial Receiver-A large number of your debts are in respect of them?

Miss Tollemache-No, a very small amount.

I dare say when compared with Daddy will pay all my genuine debts, the debts you ran up for clothes?--

In the end Miss Tollenmache agreed that she knew she had been Insolvent for two years, and added: "I always pay, and he will daddy would

on Bisley Common last month was Commissioned-Gun- ner Swire.

Commissioned-Gunner Swire had already distinguished himself in the team events.

He crowned the day's work winning the coveted honour.

WANTS TO WED FOR 19th TIME

Warsaw, July 1.

A jazz band blared noisily a few was arrested and charged with

bigamy. feet away, setting up a powerful counter-melody.

At Hereford Aasizes this week Despite the distraction, Friml it was disclosed that not only was was able to absorb and retain the his rent wife living, but that ho written tunes. Later in the even- was niso the father of 12 children. ing he hummed them over, not He was sent to prison for nino missing a note.-United Press. nionths.

MARUSIA LARKOVA, twenty-A

four-year-old Moscow stu dent, wrote last week to Stalin, protesting that she had been refused permission to marry for the nineteenth time.

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Refused To Obey Toffee King Dies: SWAN, CULBERTSON & FRITZ.

Doctors And Lived To Be 99

Baronetey Goes To Son Of Nine

GRAND old Victorian lady in

Sir Herbert Sharp,. Bt., of May- nell-Lodge,----Felixstowe,---joint- Hampshire, who was given managing director. of the famous three weeks to live at the age of toffes firm, Edward Sharp and Sons, Ltd, died at the Grand 90, died recently aged 99.

Hotel. Eastbourne, last month. She was Mrs. Fanny Elizabeth He was fifty-seven years old. Crosswell, of Brook House, He began his career in 1903 This the authorities refused because Durley, near Botley. Her death when, a Boer War veteran in his of the introduction of stricter divorce follows an accident in her bed-early twenties, he became a com-

laws.

Five years ago Marusia married her room a month ago, when she mercial traveller. · champion rifle shot of the Navy.first husband. After a few weeks she slipped and fractured a hip.. He won the Gold Jewel with a became tired of him, divorced him,)

three shoots.

But she

next sixteen.

majority of 18 points in a series of remarie could not remain with her This is the third time. Swire has new husband, nor with any of the won the Gold Jewel.

Another man who had every ren- son to. he satisfied with his day's work was Colour-Sergeant P. Light, SAID DADDY: I am aware of who won the title of Royal Marines what my daughter said. But it's no rifle charapion and the accompany- business of mine. That's all I have ling Gold Jewel. His aggregate was

Good-day.

1440.

*

10 say.

*

*

"I must go on looking uniti! 1 have really found the right man she wrote as her reason for her many marriages.

Stalin replied that marriage and

Charlotte Crosswell, who was her Her 70-year-old daughter, Miss constant companion, said:

"When mother heard that the doctors had only given her three Weeks to live she had all the medicine thrown out of the

When his father, a small swost-

in 1911, the young Sharp play- stuff manufacturer, who was to be come the first baronet, launched ed a great part in transforming the one-man business Into 3 national concern.

Sir Herbert leaves a widow and one Hon. cottage. She refused to do any inherits the title.

The boy, aged ning the raising of families were not a thing the doctors told her, and sho sport, and refused to intervene. gat over her malady. She was 'as active as ever again within a few months."

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Week-End Problems

PROBLEM I. MULTIPLICATION SUM BOOB 3003

BA = 37

Hence the product (111111)

=

PROBLEM II.

AN EXERCISE IN ECONOMICS It can readily be found by trial that the most economlent speed is between, 22 and 23 m.p.h. Mathematically, it will be found that, If m ke the speed in m.ph. the cost of the trip in £ is

50 (m2 500)

M

This is clearly a minimùm when m2 = 600. 1.0, when m = 22.36.

PROBLEM III.

À DOUBLE ACROSTIC

MIRANDA

U. M B-ROSE

SUNDAY

SAUSAGES

ONION

LITI-GATE IMPRISON

N IH I-LIST

N.CA

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