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Soldiers

Girl

/ Roast

The Wine, Waiter. Wore

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY

Serve War

Menu

Pig On

WHITE GLOVES,

GREEN BOWLER

"

From D. SEFTONTM DELMER

Madrid, Dec. 28.

I HAD the best lunch to-day since I came to Spain. We had ham, as much as we could stuff away, followed by soup with pieces of dried liver.

Then came some slabs of goat cheese, a tureenful of pork and beans, roast sucking pig, preserved fruit, coffee and liqueurs.

meal, to have captured, but which I found

Throughout the which lasted a little more than two hours, we had bread and real butter and unlimited jugs of local red

wine.

And where, you ask, did I get this meal? Nol, to be sure, in Madrid, where food is so scarce that I am getting faller,

(Impossible to keep up a diet. You to cat what they give you: have bread, potatoes, cabbage, rice, cauli- sardines, flower, occasionally tried eggs or a plece of dry ment, never buiter, milk or coffré).

Front-Line Feast

No, this feast was at a little front- line vinge at the base of Franco's wedge drive into Madrid, which the Insurgenta have repeatedly claimed

to be most securely in the hands of

Spanish militia and the Italian bat- llon of the International Corps. The occasion was a lunch which

Colonel Quemada, the little be- commander of the spectacled Spaniards, was, giving for Colonel Pucciardi, commander of the Gari- baldi battalion.

The dishes were served by two buxom, seventeen-year-old militia Kirls In klaki breeches, khaki shirts, leather riding boots. Sam Browne bells and revolvers in their holsters.

The wine was Hpped out by fl who hail shed his uni- militiaman form in favour of a pair of black dress trousers, a white jacket, white i gloves and a mildewed green bowler that which was too small for him.

On the wall hung a rudely- 43 radle-grano- sketched red flag: phone was part of the litter swept: into a corner to make space for guests--the most cosmopolitan collec- tion I have met.

THE NEW KING AS Apart from the Italians and

FREEMASON

GRAND MASTER OF SCOTLAND

LODGE WITH OLDEST

RECORDS

King George VI., as Duke of York, achieved high eminence in Free masonry. He was installed Grand Master Mason of Scotland during the In recent bicentenary celebrations Edinburgh.

Although the United Grand Lodge of England has precedence of all others by virtue of its having been in 1717. Scotland can established claim the oldest records in the his- tory of Freemasonry.

Spaniards there were

the

Feast:

Hundreds Hand Kisses..

of

ON visiting days hundreds of people line up

In turn to kiss the Pope's hand, and newly- married couples travel miles in order to receive the papal blessing.

Story of Murder of

Vanished Millionaire

1937.

RADIO BROADCAST

Violoncello Recital By

A Web of Blackmail Mademoiselle Clement

Chinese Action Fails To Upset Wills Involving Ambrose

eutenant, a German girl emigree, an anti-Fascist Italo-Americno from New York, and an Ethiopian chief- tain bent on Aghting in Madrid the: battle against Mussolini he had be- | gun in Africa.

Stout Soldiers

But most remarkable of all was Enrico Azzi, the Socialist politient commissar of the Garibaldi. He is small and 10 have been rather struck by the number of important small and stout men one meets in this war-with the face of a famous brand of ketchup.

He has the gestures of a trage dian, the humour of a Falstaff, and the eloquence and courage of Garibaldi himself. This is મધ against hled arined insurrection Mussolini,

Small Estate Judge Describes Purported Confession Of Widow As Forgery

Toronto, Dec. 28.

A sensational story that vanished Ambrose Small was murdered seventeen years ago, based on a confession ascribed to his wife, collapsed late to-day when Mr. Justice Nicol Jeffrey dis- missed with costs an action to upset the Small wills, involving a $2,000,000 estate.

LONDON PROGRAMME

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Wavelength of 355 metres (045 k.e'c), 31.49 metres (0.52 megacycles).

5 p.m. A Relay of Dance Music from the Roof-Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel.

From the Studio.

A Children's Concert. 6.30 Lawrence Tibbett (Bari- tone), Rudy Starita (Xylophone), and the Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards.

de

Baritone Solo-"Faust" Avant. quitter ces lieux (Gounod): Band- "Incredible," the judge enlled the | Small's disappearance in 1810, when War March of the Priests (Mendels- case made out in an eight-day trial he walked out of his Grand Opera sohn); Marche Heroique De Szabady by witnesses for Mary Florence House here and

never was scen

(Massenet, arr. Dan Godfrey); Bari- Smail, sister of the long-lost million-again, was solved by production of a Solos Song of the Flea (Goethe are theatre owner. In an oral judg-document signed "1. Small." SixMoussorgsky); Pilgrim's Song, Op. ment lasting an hour and ten min handwriting experts for the plaintiff

No. 5 (Tolstoi-Tchaikovsky); Selection (Blu- utes in non-jury Supreme Court, he testifled the signature was genuine.

Barradora"-S the asserted

purported murder

arl);

Solo Rio De Janeiro confession of Mrs. Theresa Small was

(de Gredos); Baritone Solo-Lover and an unquestioned forgery."!

The typewritten statement, which come back to me.

SOLELY RESPONSIBLE

EXPERTS REFUTED

47,

Sullivan said was delivered to him Romberg); Band Duch

shortly after Mrs. Small died a year The whole case against the dead ago, also was subject to examination Mrs. Small, in the judge's opinion, by defendants' experts, who said the was instigated by Patrick Sullivan, signature was undoubtedly a forgery, who spent years investigating the Sullivan did not produce the woman Small mystery, and sald from the he said delivered the document to witness stand this week that he hum.

(Moret); Liberty Bell-March (Sou- sa); Xylophone Solo-Dance of the Raindrops (Evana).

7.15 From the Studio, A Violoncello Itecital, by Mad- emoiselle Adele Clement.

Azzi took me for a stroll across the The Grand Lodge of Scotland was no-man's-land between the enemy founded in 1730. It resulted from the trenches 350 yards away and his activity of a very old Lodge, Canon-own trenches, "Just to give you p gate Kilwinning, No. 2, which, in thrill and to show our chaps there is that

your.

Initiated William St. Clair, no real danger, you know!" by immemorial tradition hereditary We went over the parapet into the

Grand Master of Scotland.

|best-bulit trenches I have seen in On his initiation St. Clair resigned Spain. They run all round n hill his hereditary claim, and was almost which has a commanding view of immediately elected Grand Master the territory of the Casa de Campo

Lindsay A. Lafford at the Plano of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, and the University City.

There were dugouts burrowed deep Thirty-three lodges were represented

Abbiate: 2. Ode....Tcherepnine; at the event.

into the clay soil of the hillock-und very Becessary they were, too, to

"I would put nothing past him," Catholic organizations in Toronto, Pavane pour une Entante defuncte TREASURED MINUTES

Judge by the number of bomb and said Mr. Justice Jeffrey, referring to named beneficiaries in Mrs. Small's..Ravel; 4. Danse de Conchita.... Among the most treasured posses-shell craters about.

Sullivan. The case he called "a web, will. Her witnesses attacked the Voormoten.

7.30 Closing Local Stock Quota- Freemasonry at "Would you like to fire a gun at of scandal and blackmail.' sions of Scottish

probated will of Small, made in 1003, Edinburgh is the record of a visit by the Fascist lines?" Azzi asked me.

It was the plaintiff's contention as a forgery. This will left Small's tions and Hongkong Exchange Market Dr. John Theophilus Desaugliers on

I politely declined.

that the entire mystery surrounding estate to his widow. The

soldiers were taking things Aug. 24, 1721 preserved in the

A few minutes of the Lodge of Edinburgh pretty easily on the whole.

manned machine-guns, scanning the (St. Mary's Chapel) No. 1.

Fascist lines, while the rest lay on.

watched Mrs. Small sign the confes- Specifically Mary Florence Small 1. Prelude for 'Cello alone.

Grundlers, who had been elected the floor of the trenches or in the

Master of England in 1719, is dugouts, eating tinned food, sleep- held to have inspired the foundationing, or playing cards.

of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.

sion in Toronto in 1929, six years sought to prevent payment of most before her death.

of the $2,000,000 estate to Roman

'DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

THINK ONLY OF THE PAST AS TTS

3.

London-"John Londoner at Home," 2. An evening with some of his many and various acquaintances. Presented by Pascoe Thornton.

6 pm. Time, Weather and An- nouncements. Lam Yan, aged 24. unemployed, 8.03 From the Studio-A Chin- Back through a ruined chateau to REMEMBRANCE GIVES YOU PLEASURE was charged before Mr. J. A. Fraser

ese Concert. The minutes of the Lodge of Edin-a barricade of stones and mattresses, Jane Austen.

nt the Central Magistracy this

11 p.m. Close Down. burgh (St. Mary's Chapel) No. 1 g across a village, sircet.

morning, with returning from a

8.05-11 p.m. European Pro- back to July, 1599-the oldest of any "I should keep close to the wall

period of 10 years' banishment im-

fre- lodge in the world.

1938. Detective gramme from Z.E.K. on a "I have no-one in the country," posed on July 24, mattresses. The Fascists are up in was the statement made by a 62-year- Sub-Inspector A. J. Johnson sold the quency of 640 kilocycles.

8.05 p.m. Tunes of Not-So-Long-. those trees and some of them are sid unemployed man, named Ho Ng, case was for committal, and asked for who appeared before Mr. K. Keen at

Ago by Carroll Gibbons. and His Boy Friends.

10

here," said Azzi, "and make for the

good shots,

Sleepytime down South: Life is

The early pages incorporate the "Schaw Statutes," dated Dec. 28, 1508.

at a formal remand of one week, which Schaw, who was Master of Work

As we sat by the mattress barri. the Central Magistracy this morning was granted. His Majesty the King of Scotland, endes talking to the soldiers & six-for breach of the Deportation Ordin- and General Warden of the Craft teen-year-old girl soldier walked ance. Defendant was banished from there, issued statules and ordinances gally up, apparently entirely uncon- the Colony for 10 years on November spoons, a silver dessert spoon and for the regulation of lodges, and de-cerned, a rifle slang over her slim last and was found here yesterday. silver dish handle from the Officers' tion; Love is love, anywhere; Let's clared that Edinburgh "shall be for shoulders, white ribbon drawing Accused won sentenced to six months Mess of the Seaforth Highlanders, fall in Music by Light Orchestras. all time coming as of before the first back her hair from 71 serene fore-

and principal lodge in Scotland." It was in those days, and for long after wards a lodge of operatives, but al- most from the start included u "speculative" clement until it eventu ally completely changed.

BURNS AS LODGE POET

The "Schaw Statutea" are naturaliy

head, trying to munch a piece of bread and smile at the same time.

hard labour.

ca

For stealing nine stiver coffee Just a bowl of cherries; Thanks

ก mililon-Selection: Coronado Selec

8.25

entr'acte

Murray Barracks, a mess boy was brought before Mr. K. Keen at the Nicolette (Van Phillips); Fairies in

Moon-Intermezzo Central Magistracy this morning on the She was dressed in the kind of lumber

Tin Wan, 25-year-old unemployed, a charge of larceny. Defendan!, Pau (Ewing): An hour with you (Elscle); Jacket tunic the soldiers wear, khak! trouser's much too big was brought on remand before Mr. Sing-ling, aged 24, pleaded not Ninon (Pepper, Kaper and Jurmann); for her and heavy boots, For the J. A. Fraser at the Central Magistracy guilly and was remanded for 24 hours Love, for ever I adore you,

8.42 Songs by Paul Robeson last four weeks she has been out this morning, charged with the lar- on the application of Det. Sergeant

(bass). at the front, with two weeks of ceny of an Iron steam pipe, valued Davies, who provocuted. trenchies.

$IB, from the Wah Yik bullding

Go down, Mases (Burleigh); (m) I one of the most important and valu-the insurgents," she explained.

"My two brothers were killed by co January 6. At a previous hearing. Chin-you and Weng Liu, were arrest

contractor's matshed in King's Hoad, Three women, Sa Ma-chuen, Chung stood on de ribber; (b) Peter, go ring dem bells (art. Burleigh); Inspecto

T. O'Connor

said defendant

dated yesterday and brought before Mr Shenandoah (arr. Terry); Jes: mah had rendered the pipe useless, and. Keen at the Central Magistracy song (Strickland). defendant was remanded us he offered this morning on charge of posses- 8.65 p.m. London-News and An- to make good the damage by repairs. sion of a large quantity of heroin pouncements.

9.16 "Le Beau Danube-Ballet On being brought before the Court pilis, found at their house in Pok again. inspector. O'Connor suld fulam Road after a raid by Revenue Music. (Johann Strauss, arr: nothing had been done by defendant. Ofcers. Revenue Officer A. W Desormiere), played by the London Sentence of one month's hard labour Grimmitt asked for a week's formal Philharmonic Orchestra, Conduct- was imposed,

remand, saying the case was for the ed. by Antal Dorati. Sessions. The remand was granted.

9.40 The First Act of "La Dall in $2,300 each was fixed.

Boheme" (Puccini), by Members and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan,

10 p.m. London-Big Ben, 10.13 Ambrose and His Orches Falling Leaves (Kennedy, Carr);

Alleged Killer

May Recover

Оп enquiry ut the Kowloon

able possessions of Freemasonry. The Roll of Membership (Mary's Chapel) includes many famous names of Scottish peers, and, worthles.

The names of James Bowell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson, and of his uncle Dr. John Boswell, appear in the records of Canongate Kilwinning. while Robert Burns was entered there In 1787. Burns was "assumed" - a member of Canongato Kilwinning No. 2, of which he is reputed to have Hospital this morning, it was learned been Foet Laureate, although that that Chung Cheung, the cabin-boy cutter," said Sergeant Sullivan when position was not nasigned to him until of the Chinese

"You will only get into more 1915, many years after his first asso Cheong Keng, alleged

he prosecuted Yuen Foo, aged 58, be trouble by trying to bribe a police- slayer

Central ciation with the lodge.

Captain D. L. Campbell, is slightly dore Mr. K. Keen, at the Burns is always regarded as being better..

Magistracy this morning for unlawful mas," said Mr. Macfadyen at the tra possession of 50 cattles of tree Kowloon Magistracy this morning

Customs

no less famous as a freemason than The Chier oficer, Chlu

cruiser

"Defendant is a professional tree-

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Receiving severò injuries while ¡dynamising dish, a fisherman named You Yon-chni, aged 56, of Nàm Wal village, Sal Kuen, was taken to the Kowloon Hospital for treatment yes-

as a poet, and the records of No.. 2 Kech, however, is only just holding branches. Defendant was arrested in wh, was charged with allgem ley, Plecadilly (Meskill, Harvey, Carr): KING AND QUEEN OFF o

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11 p.m. Close Down.

ed, was stealing an Iron When Day Is Done (Do Sylva, Kats- Pokfulam Road carrying the bran- ches. With a long string of similar cauldron and a tin cover from u bulcher, arr. Munro).

10.30 Dance Music. convictions against him, defendant in Fuk Wah Street on January 13, was ordered to pay a fine of $60 or und bribing PC. B848 when arrested Scottish, freemasons, and purports to

undergo two months' rigorous Im-by him for the theft. Acting Sub- depict a gathering of unique, im- Awoman named Mok Sai-yuen, of prisonment Another man, nanted Insp. Hughes sald Ll gave the con-

•portance,

40 Tai Yuen Street, was taken to the Wong Hung, aged 52 was reatenced stable 12 cents on the way to the The Grand Lodge of England has Government Civil Hospital yesterday to a fine of $10, or one monus's hard police station, and asked to be freed:

·rio - such ancient · "records as those suffering from injuries received when labour, for unlawful porsession of 55 Sentence of two weeks hard labour which were shown to the King when, she accidentally fell off a blank of cattler of tree branches. Defendant was passd on the first count, and a as Duke of York, he paid his recent wood whit caffying coal for the was arrested in Seymour Road yes- line of $5, or an additional two visit to Scotland,

weeks, on the second. Hongkong Electric Company My terday.

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Jan. 13.

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The King and Queen ended a brief visit to London to-day and, left Lon-G The forthcoming wedding la

don for Sandringham by ordinary nounced of Mr. James Wilfred Ala-afternoon-train from Liverpool Street

Station. baster, chartered accountant, resid=

Large crowds had assembled at lng at 10 Peak Mansions, and Miss Majorie Huntingford, nurse, of the the station to cheer Their Majesties,

War Memonial Hospital..

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