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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

A

PRUSSIAN BLUE DISCARDED IN

BARBARA· HUTTON⠀⠀

BUYS £240,000

HITLER

RESTORES

BANNED

NAPOLEON GEMS UNIFORM

-Says Paris Report

Paris, July 10. COUN

OUNTESS 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

Kobe, July 10.

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

Ile came

from The 15 years ago. ment estimates that he hits spent 140,000 yen at the hotel during that period.-United Presa.

here

Indla

mannge.

Debts of Woman With 36 Dogs

They are said to have been sold for £240,000-by Mme. Ganna Walska, the Polish prima donna and former wife of Mr. Harold F. McCormick. Chicago millionaire.

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

When Mme. Ganno Walska was asked about the report to-day, she said, “I don't wish to discuss the matter."

The anke, it is stated,, was made when the countess was in Paris re- eently on a shopping tour.

HITL

Berlin, July 1. TITLER has approved

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

JULY 17, 1936.

GERMANY

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 nailors" and fire- time Board, meeting in Loudon, men's panel of the National Marl- renched an agreement which will reduce deckhands' working hours from eighty-four a week to sixty- four.

MORE MEN NEEDED This will necessitate a three-watch rota and the employment of larger

crews.

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Maori's

Protest Was Effective

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

Sailors will work eight hours for warfare.tiny, at an additional eight hours a unsuitable

week for maintenance work. Reuter.

If overtime is worked at sca-ex- cept in an emergency-there will be on a bush timber line held up a in locomotive for several days and compensation either by time off

seriously curtailed the activities of port or by payment at fixed rates.

The agreement becomen operativen sawmilling company. Her action Was Th protest against alleged It applies to all British ships ex-breaches of an agreement between on October 1. ceeding 2,500 tons gross in foreign the Native owners of the section going tende.

All branches of the German police have been united by the appointment of 'Herr Himmler, Chief of Staff of ter's Black Guard, as head of all

police forces-arere the German criminal and State.

Shot Dead in Mistake

SECOND DEATH SENTENCE ON MUSICIAN

N.C.O. FIRES AT MOVEMENT IN BUSHES

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Auckland (N.Z.), July 1. SENTENCE of death for mur- dering his wife was passed at Auckland for the second time to-day on forty-two-year-old "DADDY WILL PAY"

Erie Marco, London composer Colchester, July 1. and conductor..

He was When Misa Dorothy Tollem-

found guilty of ache, of Colchester, a grand-poisoning Thelma Clarice Marco, daughter of the first Baron netress, aged twenty-nine, with ton. Tollemache, and a member of a veronal,

well-known Suffolk family, ap peared in the Colchester Bank- ruptcy Court, to-day with a de- ficiency of £1,413, she attribul- ed her insolvency to living be- yond her means.

"I have a rich nume," said Miss Tottemache, and people trader on

it/"

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She admitted that she had allowance of us much as £55 month from her father. When she left home five years ago she stayed at a London hotel at £25 a week, and went to Vienna, her father pay- ing the bills she incurred. She then stayed at Felixstowe, went to Swit- zerland, und later took a house at "Frinton, wherekhe had four servants: The Official Receiver-What dick you want all them for?

Miss Tollerauche-1. was a fool. You have done your best to muddle everyone?No.

that

Miss Tollemache-No, a very small amount.

SENTRY at Gosport who

for Rabbit

To Kulti, N.Z., July 1, Recently a Maori woman sitting

and the company, From Tuesday

to Saturday, Mrs. Maburi, ured about 50, remained siting in the centre of the line without fobi r drink, and resisted all appeals to free the line for the locomotive, Eventually a truce for a month was called to enable the matter to

RUDOLF FRIML submitted to arbitration. SHOWS HOW TO CONCENTRATE

Yokohama, July 12.

Father Of 12 Children A Bigamist

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was shot at by an N.C.O. RUDOLPH FRIML, the Ameri- can composer, gave a demon- who saw a movement in some

was stration of remarkable musical) bushes and thought it

while visiting caused by a rabbit, has died in concentration

London, July the Royal Victoria Military here in connection with pre-

of Wellington Sidney Martin Hospital, Netley Abbey, near parations for his forthcoming Saying that he was a widower,

Chinese grand opera.". Botley, Hampshire.'

While at dinner in the New leath proposed marriage to Grand hotel with Burton Crane, widow with six children,

They went through the wedding song-writing newspaperman, Friml was perusing the scores for some!

He was Gunner Alexander Bar- aged 21, of the 4th Medium Brigade Royal Artillery, stationed at Fort Brockhurst. Gosport. His

A

The trial was the first case of home dress was Reyn Taff. Aber of Crane's recent musical efforts ceremony but six months later, he

fan. Glamorgan.

clarge of

the

"murder by veronal" ever heard

A jazz band blared noisily a few Ja The N.C.O. in New Zealand.

Marco was first sentenced on guard fired some cumshot into the feet away, setting up a powerful

counter-melody. see uz was horrified to February 26. The jury recom-bushes

screaming with mended him to merey and the Barton leap out death sentence was commuted to pain.

Burlon was taken en miles in an life imprisonment.

ambulance to the military hospital. The county coroner held, an in- quest,

An appeal failed, but when new evidence was received from Australia, indicating that Mrs. Marco was an habitual drug-

taker and her death might have AGED 24, SHE

WANTS TO WED

been accidental, he was granted] a retrial.

Gold Jewel Makes FOR 19th TIME

On

of

A Sailor Happy! PROBABLY the happiest man Bisley Common last Miss Tollemache further admitted month was Commissioned-Gun-

she kept 30 dogs at one time.

ner Swire. The

Omcial Receiver-A large Commissioned-Gunner Swire had number of your debts are in respect already, distinguished himself in the

team events. of them?

He crowned the day's work by winning the coveted honour champion rifle shot of the Navy. He won the Gold Jewel with a majority of 18 points in a series of three shoots.

This is

the third time Swire has won the Gold Jewel. would Another man who had every rea- son to be 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 champion and the accompany- business of mine. That's all I have ing Gold Jewel.. His aggregate was

440. to say, Good-day.

dare say when compared with the debts you ran up for clothes- Daddy will pay all my genuine debts. In the end. Miss Tollenmache agreed that she knew she had been Insolvent for two years, and added: "I always thought daddy pay, and he will."

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*1

Warsaw, July 1----

was arrested and charged with bigamy.

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

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Baronetcy Goes To Son Of Nine

-Sir-Herbert-Sharp, Bl., of M&S= nell Lodge, Felixstowe, joint JARUSIA LARKOVÁ, twenty-A GRAND old Victorian lady in

Hampshire, who was given managing director of the famous four-year-old Moscow stu- dent, wrote last week to Stalin, three weeks to live at the age of toffee firm, Edward Shanp and Sons, Ltd., died at the Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, last month. protesting that she had been 90, died recently aged 99. refused permission to marry for She was Mr. Fanny Elizabeth He was fifty-seven years old.

Crosswell, of Brook House, He began his career in 1903 the nineteenth time.

This. the authorities refused because Darley, 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 cum- laws.

Five years ago Marusia married her room a month ago, when she mercial traveller. Brst husband. After a few weeks she slipped and fractured a hip. became tired of him, divorced him, remarried.

"I must, go on looking unti I have really found the right man," she wrote as her reason for her

When his father, a small swet-

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Her 70-year-old daughter, Missatul mandfacturer, who was to be come the first baronet, launched But she could not remain with her Charlotte Crosswell, who was her out in 1911, the young Sharp play- new husband, nor with any of the constant companion, said: next sixteen.

"When mother heard that theld a great part in transforming

business into thee one-man doctors had only given her three national concern. weeks to live she had all the

Sir Herbert leaves a widow and medicine thrown oul uf the

The boy. aged in, cottage. She refused to do any inherits the title. thing the doctors told her, and she got over her mainty. She was as active as ever again within a few months".

many marriages.

Stalin replied that marriage and

not the raising of families were sport, and refused to intervene.

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Week-End Problems

PROBLEM 1. MULTIPLICATION SUM BOOB 3003

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III.

PROBLEM IE

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PROBLEM III.

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