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THE HÒNGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1936.

"WE STAND

BY OUR

OUR BOY"

Baillie-Stewart's Mother and Father

Prepare Tower Officer's" Homecoming

PLANS FOR HIS

FUTURE

By WILLIAM. BLACKLEY

Bristol, Dec. 1.

The father of the "Officer in the Tower," Colonel C. H." Baillie-Wright, grey-haired, ageing, but still carrying himself erect and now recovered from his recent ill-health,. told me to-day of the welcome home he and his wife are preparing for their son at Christmas and of their plans for his future.

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Ex-Lieut. Norman Baillie-Stewart, gaoled at Maidstone in 1933 under the Omcial Secrets Act, Is expected to be released by the end of the year.

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"FINGERS MAY POINT, THEY WILL MEAN NOTHING TO ANY OF US-LEAST OF ALL TO HIM," COLONEL WRIGHT SAID TO ME.

"We stand by him, we believe he will face the world with .conscience clear, ready to carve out for himself whatever career

he may choose as a private citizen."

The Colonel told me of the visits Mrs. Wright has paid to their son In Maidstone gaol, of "the terrible tension" for the past three years.

"THOSE AWFUL MONTHS" "We can never quite wipe out the memory of those awful months when Norman, even while shaving, had a fellow-officer standing over him.

"Nothing so wildly fantastic as the drama of his trial has ever been conceived in Hollywood.

The

"I am an old Army man myself. whole thing has been a blow to me 1 can never forget."

He spoke of Mrs. Baillie-Wright's anxiety for Norman; her toyally "to Norman and to myself."

"The blow to her was one that only a woman and a mother can understand

"Every other month she has to the prison to see Norman. tension has been terrible. ·

"But on

spirited as when he left us.

I intend

to have him vetted by two specialists.

FRANCO'S BROTHER

"Then I hope he will rest for a Major Ramon Franco, General time before he gets down to hard Franco's brother, photographed in Work.

"I want him to shake the dust of Rome where he conferred recently the past of his feet, and start life with the former papal nuncio in. anew. I know he can do it. He is boy full of strength and deter- mination.

"What my son may do In die future is conjecture. I know he has a flair for writing: I think he may pursue this as a career. I know he has been welling lyrics and words of songs;

believe they are very good,

I

"And there are many people who have offered to take him into busi- ness with them. Daily we received offers, letters from sympathisers.**

DEVOTED WIFE

Madrid.

SHE HAS SLEPT FOR 4 YEARS

SLEEPING

gone

Therently, was in poor health. Dul

Colonel Baillie-Wright, until re- BEAUTY

he is getting better now. Anticipation

all her visits she has of having his son home again soon AWAKENING

found him full of spirit. He will has been the greatest help towards come out of gaol with the summes recovery.

beliefs as those with which he went i The devoted nursing of his in so long ago.

wife has cased his physical pain.

PICTURE OF HEALTH

"It is almost too good to be true "He was always the picture and to realise that Norman will be with embodiment of "newith. He was u so very soon," he said. always full of vitality and high spirits. He was always optimistic, ready to tackle anything.

"I want to know when he comes out that he is just as ft. Just as full

"We shall be glad, so Immeasurably And, to have him with us again, to have him sit with us by our own reside, to walk with him, dine with him, talk with him."

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Chicago, Dec. 1. Patricia MaGuire smiled and slowly winked at her mother re- cently to assure her that she is rousing slowly out of the strange sleep into which she dropped in February 1982.

The grip of the sleeping sickness is still overpowering, but she is "a whole lot better." Mrs. Peter Miley said.

"Pat is more alert and seems more interested in what is going on around her.

Mrs. Miley sat at her daughter's bedside in the room where intimate -friends-are-allowed-to-visit-occasion- Ally. She asked the "Sleeping Benuty to raise her hand. Pai raised her hand, wearily.

NOW IT'S HER REAL NAME

When Queen

Elizabeth

Was Crowned

Q

UEEN Elizabeth's

Coronation Day chosen by the stars.

Was Just

as her mariners were guided by them, so the great Queen probably sought wisdom from her astrologer in de- termining the destiny of Tudor England.

Last month, nearly four cen- turies later, two men of science!

Dr. R. T. Ganther and Mr.in the Superior Court in Los Angeles Carol Lombard, signing a decrec George II. Gabb-told, the So-legalising her name, hitherto a pro- ciety of Antiquaries of Londonfessional cognomen. the story of Elizabeth's two! astrolabes, which, stripped of the grime of years, were on! view.

Dr. Gunther, the first curator of the Lewis Evans collection, which has now become the Oxford Muscum for the History of Selenee in the Old Ashmolean building, described how workmen, by chance, found hidden behind a cupboard in the Observa- tory at Oxford the astrolobe which Thomas Gemini fashioned In the carly Sixteenth Century.

Danube's Suicide

Brigade

Budapest, Dec. 4.

SAILING BY THE STARS Budapest is probably the By its use, Elizabethan mariners only capital in the world could tell the time and set

their

courses by the stars. Until it was which has a special police, found at Oxford it had been thought especially detailed to pre-

that, the finest example of the Eng-

lish-made astrolabe was one made vent suicides. by Humphrey Cole in 1575,

Mr. Gabb, however, declared that

This

police department,

Queen Elizabeth's

h's astrological astro-founded in 1926 by Ivan which, rusty and begrimed,

imed, Rakovszky, who was Minister came into his possession ten years of Interior, celebrated its tenth ago, and which hitherto had been

regarded as the work of Humphrey anniversary a few days ago. Coie, could, in view of the Oxford Aside from an office where per- discovery, be confidently attributed sons in despair can obtain ad- to the same craftsman-Gemini,

"On the back are engraved the vice and help, the attention of

the

arms of Queen Elizabeth, with the the "suicide brigade" of the initial letters E.R.. surrounded by police is concentrated upon the

Garter with the motto Tony Danube River. sopt qu tal pense with the Tudor Rose and Portcullis.

The

St

overwhelming majority of "There are 14 concentric scales In-Budapest's despondent consider scribed with the names and the jump from one of the five bridges symbols of the 12 signs of the Zodiac, which span the famous majestic river

the and days of the month,

mast convenient means to end, with the s 'Munsions of Astrology' in which argi

Alt all.

Under the command of two higher planetary symbols and astrological | terms,

all portending the good or officers, 20 specially trained police- baneful omens of the planels, their men, equipped with 14 swift motor altitude being found by measure-boats, are continually watching the ment with the astrolabe. By those bridges.

means the supposed influence on her With almost unfailing certainty, life and destiny could be interpreted, the river pollee rescue persons with-

ELIZABETH'S HOROSCOPE- in a couple of moments-after-they- "As early as 1663, when Elizabeth have plunged into the water. was but a girl of some 20

Of 2,083 persons who jumped from her years, üstrologer. Dr. John

the last 10

"Now wink at me," Mrs. Milay cald, ponded with her. He corras. the parapets of the bridges during

taking her daughter's head in her hands Pat shook her head free, smiled and winked. Then she yawn- ed, turned aside und dropped back to sleep.

Patricia's increasing alertness is most evident during her daily baths, feeding, massage, and being propped

In a chair for exercise.

Her sweetheart visits her weekly. Twice a day the postman leaves a mound of malt to be read and piled into the overflowing "souvenir" barrels in the cellar of the Miley home,

There are many calters, frequently lo propound "sure cures such as magie handkerchiefs or mysic herbs.

Mrs. Miley graciously accepts the suggestions, explains that her daughter is not to be disturbed, and places the "cures" on a specially re- served shelf in the basement.

"OFF FOR GOOD" Mrs. Montaga And Marriage To Lord Carnarvon

The marriage between Lord Carnarvon and the Hon. Mrs, Drogo Montagu will not take place, accord- Ing to a statement made by Mrs. Montagu in an interview with the New York Daily News Tsays Reuter). "The marriage is off for good," she said. "It has not It is by mutual mot been postponed.

consent."

The newspaper states that Lord Carnarvon sailed for England in the Europa at midnight.

Lord Carnarvon's father excavated Tutankhamen's Tomb in Egypt

Mrs. Montagu was formerly Miss Tonle Guinness.

her horos-

years,

1,033 were rescued Cast cope and, at the request of Robert by the suicide brigade. Dudley, calculated by astrological One member of the brigade, Jo- means the day most auspicious for sef Horvath, alone saved 171; an- her Coronation January 14, 1559. other, Franz Eszek, 148, and a third,

"From that time, throughout her Joser Csepesz, 122.-United Press, long reign to her death in 1803, hej was her constant consultant and adviser.

Elizabethan age on one side, and "Who," asiced Mr. Gabb. "can say cold-blooded mathematics on the what momentous decisions may have other-symbol of the rapid growth been made by those means? As a of materialistic sèlence r the human

document in bronze of our Seventeenth Century which, In 1882, greatest Queen it stands unrivalled crystallised into the foundation of "It may be said to represent the the Royal Society, with its motto: warmblooded empiricism of the 'Nullius in Verbal"

WORLD'S LARGEST PLANE

FOR SOVIET RUSSIA

WILL BE FLAGSHIP OF 16 OTHERS

Moscow, Dec. 1.

The "Joseph Stalin," flag plane of a fleet of 10 glants each of of which will exceed in size the Maxim Gorky, which crashed in May, 1935, with a loss of 48 lives, is nearing completion.

The Joseph Stalin, to be the world's largest airplane, is being built according to a design considerably advanced in comparison with the Maxim Gorky. Thousands of detailed parts have been con- structed and assembly is well advanced. No definite date has been set

for its first flight, but is expected within a few months.

The huge ship will be powered with six motors set in the wing, which has a spread of 206 feet. The fuselage is 32 feet high, and overall length 110 feet, slightly greater than the length of the Maxim Gorky

Inside cabin arrangements have been changed radically to pro- vide greater comfort for its 50 passengers.

With the design perfected, construction of 15 sister ships is not expected to present great difficulty for workers of the Central Aero- hydro-dynamical Institute of Moscow, where the Joseph Stalin is taking shape, carefully guarded from the public.

Another Joseph Stalin, designed to be the world's fastést. Ice- breaker, equipped with catapults to launch hydroplanes for ice surveys, is under construction in Leningrad-United Press.

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