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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14,

War

Soldiers Serve Roast Pig On Menu

The Wine Waiter Wore

WHITE GLOVES,

GREEN BOWLER

From D. SEFTON DELMER

Madrid, Doc. 28.

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 turcenful 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 than two hours, we bread and real butter and unlimited jugs of local red winc.

to be most securely in the hands of more Spanish militia and the Italian bat- had talion of the International Corps.

Colonel Quemarla, the little be- comaunder of the spectacled Spanlarda, was Kiving for Colonel Pacelardi, commander of the Gari- aldi battalion.

The occasion was a lunch which

And where, you ask, did 1 get this meal? Nol, to be sure, in Madrid, where food is so scarce that I am getting fatter.

(Impossible to keep up a diet. You have to cat what they give you: brend, potatoes, cabbage, rice, cuuli- flower, occasionally fried sardines, eggs or a piece of dry ment, never butter, milk or coffee).

Front-Line Feast

No, this feast was ut a little front- line vittage at the base of France's wedge drive into Maurid, which the have repeatedly claimed insurgents

THE NEW KING AS

FREEMASON

GRAND MASTER OF SCOTLAND

LODGE WITH OLDEST

RECORDS

The dishes were served by two buxom, seventeen-year-old milla Iris in khaki reccties, khaki shirts, leather riding boots, Sam Browne belts and revalvers in their holsters.

#4

The wine was tipped out by

who had shed his uni- militioman

form

in favour, of a pair of black dress trousers, a white jackel, white loves and a mildewed green bowler hat which was too small for him..

On the wall hung in rudely- sketched red fng: CE radlo-grami phone was part of the Jiter swept fur into a corner to make space guests the most cosmopolitan collec- tion I have met.

Apart from the Italians und

the

Feast:

Hundreds Hand Kisses..

Jor

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

A Web of Blackmail

Spaniards there were a Chinese Action Fails To Upset Wills Involving Ambrose

leutensat, a German girl emigree, an anti-Fascist Italo-American from New York, and an Ethiopian chief- tain bent on fighting in Madrid the battle against Mussolint he had be- gua in Africa.

Stout Soldiers

But most remarkable of all was Enrico Azzi, the Socialist political commissur of the Garibaldi, He is

Small Estate-Judge Describes Purported Confession Of Widow As Forgery

Toronto, Dec. 28.

A sensational story that vanished Ambrose Small was murdered seventeen years ngo, based on a confession ascribed to

1937:

RADIO BROADCAST

Violoncello Recital By Mademoiselle Clement LONDON PROGRAMME

Radio. Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W, on a Wavelength of 355 metres (845 k.e'c), 31.40 metres (0.52 megacycles).

II.K.T. p.m.

12.30 The Philadelphia Symphony Conducted by Leopold

Stokowski.

1 p.m. Time and Weather. 1.03 Tilo Schipa (tenor) Yehudi Menuhin (violin).

and

130 Reuter Press, Rugby Press;

King George VI., an Duke of York, small and fat- have been rather his wife, collapsed late to-day when Mr. Justice Nicol Jeffrey dis-Weather, Time and Announcements.

in

achieved high erninence In Free

Installed Grand masonry. Ho was Master Mason of Scotland during the

celebrations recent bleentenary Edinburgh,

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

The Grand Lodge of Scotland was founded in 1736. It resulted from the

struck by the number of important small and stout men one meets in this war with the face of a famous brand of ketchup.

missed with costs an action to upset the Small wills, involving a $2,000,000 estate. *

. "Incredible," the judge called the ense made out in an oight-day trial He has the gestures of a trage- dian, the humour of a Falstaff, by witnesses for Mary Florence and the cloquence and courage of Small, sister of the long-lost million- Garibaldi Limaclf. This is. haire theatre owner.

Rotarian

In an oral judg Convention

third armed insurrection against ment lasting an hour and ten min- Mussolini, Azzi took me for a stroll across the utes in non-jury Supreme Court, he the purported murder no-man's-land between the enemy asserted trenches 350 yards away and his confession of Mrs. Therean Smuuli was activity of a very old Lodge, Canon-own trenches, "just to give you an "unquestioned forgery," gate Kilwinning No. 2, which, in thrill and to show our chaps there is that year, initiated William St. Clair, no real danger, you know! by immemorial tradition hereditary

Grand Master of Scotland.

On his initiation St. Clair resigned his hereditary claim, and was almost immediately elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. Thirty-three lodges were represented at the event.

very

hill

`SOLELY RESPONSIBLE- The whole case against the dead

In June

NICE AS VENUE

Nice, Jan-1 Rotarians from the United Mrs. Small, in the judge's opinion, States, South America, prac- was instigated by Patrick Sullivan,

1.40 Variety Programme. 2.15 Close Down.

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

6 From the Studio,

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

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Baritone Solo-"Faust"-Avant de quilter ces lleux (Gounod): Band- War March of the Priests (Mendels- sohn); Morche Herolque De Szabady (Massenet, arr. Dan Godfrey); Bari- tone Solos Song of the Flen (Goethe Moussorgsky Pilgrim's Song, Op. 47, No. 5 (Tolstol Tchulkovsky);

art); Xylophione Solo--Rio De Janeiro (de Gredos); Baritone Solo-Lover come back to me (Hammerstein and Romberg); Band Hiawatha-March (Moret); Liberly Bell-March (Sou su); Xylophone Solo-Dance of the Raindrops (Evans).

7.15 From the Studio,

We went over the parapet into the best-built trenches have seen In Spain. They run all round a which has a commanding view of the territory of the Casa de Campo who spent years investigating the tically every country of Band"Floradora Selection (Stu- and the University City.

Small mystery, and sald from the There were dugouts burrowed deep witness stand this week that he Europe and many from Asia Into the clay soil of the hillock-and watched Mrs. Small sign the confes will assemble on the Cate

necessary they were, too, tosion in Toronto in 1920, six TREASURED MINUTES Judge by the number of bomb and before her death.

year d'Azur in June to celebrate Among the most treasured posses-shell craters about.

convention. annual "Would you like to fire a gun at ; "would put nothing past him," their sions of Scottish Freemasonry ni the Fascist lines?" Azzi asked me. said Mr. Justice Jeffrey, referring to The mass gathering will take Edinburgh is the record of a visit by I politely declined.

Sullivan. The ease he called 'n web Dr. John Theophilus Desaugliers on

The soldiers were taking things of scandal and blackmail.“

place in the city of Nice, Aug. 24, 1721 preserved in the minutes of the Lodge of Edinburgh pretty easily on the whole. A few manned machine-guns, scanning the (St. Mary's Chapel) No. 1.

Desaugliers, who had been elected Fascist lines, while the rest lay on the floor of the trenches or in the held to have torpired the food dugouts, eating tinned food, sleep

have the foundationing, or playing cards, of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.

Buck brough a ruined chateau. to The minutes of the Lodge of Edina barricade of stones and mattresses burgh (St. Mary's Chapel) No. 1 go across a village street. backe

to July, 1598-the oldest of any

"I should keep close to the wall lodge in the world.

here," said Azzi, "und make for the

The early pages incorporate the mattresses. The Fascists are up in "Schaw Statutes,"

good shots,"

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BURNS AS LODGE POET

Small's disappearance in 1910, when

It was the plaintiff's contention France's fifth largest city that the entire mystery surrounding and world-known tourist cen- he walked out of his Grand Operu tre, from June 6 to 11 in- House here and never was seen clusive. again, was solved by production of document signed "I. Small." Six handwriting experts for the plaintiff testified the signature was genuine.

EXPERTS REFUTED ·

of him.

A Violoncello Recital by Mad. emoiselle Adele Clement,

Lindsay A. Lafford at the Piano. 1. Prelude for 'Cello alone.... Abbiate; 2. Ode....Tcherepnine; 3.

Pavane pour une Enfante defuncte .Ravel; 4. Danse de Conchita.... Voormolen.

tons and Hongkong Exchange Market

7.30 Closing Local Stock Quota.

A "Rotary Flotilla" composed of eight ocean liners, will stearn Report. out of New York and other" 2. An evening with some of 33 London-"John Londoner at | American porta next May, carry-

8 p.m. Time, Weather and An- 8.03 From the Studio-A Chin-

11 D.m. Close Down.

ese Concert.

his many and various acquaintances, dated Dec. 28, those trees and some of them are The typewritten statement, which ing more than 4,000 American Presented by Pascoe Thornton. Schaw, who was Master of Work As we cut by the mattress barr Sullivan said was delivered to him Rotarians to the 1937 conven- to His Majesty the King of Scotland, cades talking to the soldiers a six-shortly after Mrs. Small died a cation in Nice. They will debark nouncements.

walked ago, also was subject to examination and General Warden of the Craft teen-year-old girl soldier there, lasued statutes and ordinances gally up, apparently entirely uncon- by defendants' experts, who said the their passengers in English, for the regulation of lodges, and de-cerned, a rifle slung over her slim signature was undoubtedly a forgery, French and Italian ports, from clared that Edinburgh "shail be for shoulders, a white ribbon drawing Sullivan did not produce the woman which points the pilgrimage to

8.05-11 p.m. European Pro- a serene fore he suld delivered the document to Nice will continue by land, with. all time coming as of before the first back her hair from

gramme from ZEK on a fre and principal lodge in Scotland." It head, trying to munch a piece

tourist visits on the way.

quency of 640 kilocycles. was in those days, and for long after bread and smile at the same time.

She was dressed in the kind of Specifically Mury Florence Small This will be the first time that the 8.05 p.m. Tunes of Not-So-Long- wards a lodge of operatives, but al-

lumber, Jocket tunic the soldiers sought to prevent payment of most Rotary Club has held its international Ago by Carroll Gibbons and His most from the start included a

to Roman

and wear, khaki trousers much too big of the $2,000,000 estate

convention in France, the French Boy Friends. "speculative" clement until it eventu

for her and heavy boots. For the Catholic organizations in Toronto,

welcome Steepytime down South; Life is ally completely changed.

laut four weeks she has been out named beneficiaries in Mrs. Small's Rotarians are planning a

just a bowl of cherries; Thanks a at the front, with two weeks of will. Her witnesses attacked the which will be remembered for many

years. Although the Rotary move-million-Selection; Coronado--Selec- trenches.

probated will of Smail, made in 1903.ment dates only from 1921 in France, tion; Love is love, anywhere; Let's "My two brothers were killed by as a forgery. This will left Small's when the first club was formed in fall in love. one of the most important and valu-the insurgents," she explained. csinte to his widow..

Paris, it has spread quickly and to- 8.25 Music by Light Orchestras. day includes many businessmen, pro- Nicolette (Van Phillips); Fairies in fessional and political leaders in its

the Moon-Intermezzo entr'acte ranks. Many French cities, Bordeaux (Ewing); An hour with you (Elscle); Avignon, Saint-Malo, Angers, Mar- Ninon (Pepper, Kaper and Jurmann); seilles to mention but a few-now Love, for ever I adore you. have thriving Rotary circles, and the Holary wheel is almost as conspicuous on French tapets as the, waz rosette. (bass), 4

Go down, Moses (Burleigh); (a) I' The French Rotary now publishes an attractive

magazine setting forth the stood on de ribber; (b) Peter, go (arr. Burleigh); principles of this

American-born ring dem bells movement, and is instrumental in Shenandoah (arr. Terry); Jes' mah

in song (Strickland). making many new converis

The "Schaw Statutes" are naturally

able

possessions of Freemasonry,

The Holl of Membership (Mary's Chapel) includes many famous names of Scottish peers and worthles.

B

The names of James Bowell, the blographer of Dr. Johnson, and of lis uncle Dr. John Boswell, appear in the records of Canongate Kilwinning, while Robert Burns was entered there In 1767. Burns was "assumed" member of Canongate Kilwinning No. 2, of which he is reputed to have been Poet Laureate, although that position was not assigned to him until 1016, many years after his first asso- ciation with the lodge,

Burns is always regarded as being no less famous as a freemason than as a poet, and the records of No. make clear that he was a member of it. This is also shown in n draw- ing which includes many famous Scottish freemasons, and purports to deplet a gathering of unique Im- portance.

The Grand Lodge of England has as those no such ancient records which were shown to the King when,

as Duke of York, he paid his recent

visit to Scotland.

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WOMAN'S FIRST FLIGHT

AT 102

"WALKING'S TOO SLOW,

SHE SAID

As a birthday present, Mrs. Isabella Munro of Melbourne, who will shortly be 103 years old, has just had her first acroplane flight,

hitherto unorganized ellics.

8.42 Songs by Paul Robeson

ka

8.55 p.m. London-News and An- Nice is already known to thousands nouncements.

of Americans, many of whom are in

It was arranged by an old friend Mrs. Hinkler, mother of Berting the war, and even General ed by Antal Derati

Hinkler, the famous airman who lost his life on his last flight from England to Australla,

"I've travelled by sailing ship, bullock wagon, train and motor car in: Australia' and by caravan in India, and. I think it's time I travelled by 'plane," declared Mrs. Munro.

She has 12 children and 180 descendants Hving, says Austral News, but she is the first of them to fly She still walks a mile or so a day. "But it's too slow,” she said, "that's why I'm flying,” sai

9.15 "Le Beau Danube"-Ballet the habit of talking their vacations in Music. (Johann Strauss, arr: the region about the city. It was Desormiere), played by the London also a leave centre for the A‚Œ.F. dur- | Philharmonic Orchestra, Conduct-

9.40 The First Act of "La Pershing come here for a rest after the signing of the Armistice. Many Rotarians will therefore be returning Boheme (Puccial), by Members to the centre of good memories next and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. May. During and after the conven- tion they will be able to visit the French and Italian Riviera, the Alps and other attractive places along the sunny shores of the Mediterranean. United Press,

10 p.m. London-Big Ben.

· 10.13 · Ambrose and His Orches-

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