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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1937.

Ex-King Edward Will Keep Decorations,

New Coat Of Arms

BOYS

POACH

TROUT

FOR DUKE

Dec. 23.

HONOURS AWARDED THERE arrived at the castle to

FOR HIS SERVICES

AL

LL is now settled regarding the orders and decorations held by the Duke of Windsor, before he surrendered his throne.

He 1# to retain }}ទ various knighloods-of the Garter, the Thistle, St. Patrick, the Bath, Star of India, St. Michinel and St. George, the Royal Victorian Order and the

Order of the Brush Empire,

Mrs. Simpson Talks-

A now Garter stall is to be erected Of Books And Theatres in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, for the ex-King at the end of the other stalls for Royal dukes.

Cannes, Jan. 10, Mrs. Simpson, for the first time since her arrival in Cannes, agreed to talk to the Press to-night, and re- ceived reporters before dinner. Her hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Regeru were with her as they entered the cosy drawing-room of the Villa Lou Vici.

When it is ready a new coat-of- arms will be suspended above it. It will show the Royal Arms "differ-c enced," as the Heralds say, to show that the holder has no longer any rights of inheritance.

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Looking youthful and slim, in The Duke of Windsor's honours were bestowed on him one by one, black, tightly Atung dinner gown, round her The Dominions and Indian orders with a rope of pearls

onc came after state_tours overseas, neck, and an emerald ring on They were, it is felt, bestowed by of her Angars, Mrs. Simpson greeted King George V. on a pubile ser-them with vant for services rendered. On that scare the Duke will retain his Kulshihoods, and on suŝtable occa- alons may wear the insignia,

The only similar case which the Crown has had to settle is that of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," who wore the Garter to the day of his death though there was no Warrant in existence for him to do so.

There may be no new Worrant for not the Duke of Windsor. It necessary.

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smile.

She seemed very cheerful as she talked readily on many topics, in- cluding books, the theatre In Lon- don and New York, and current

events.

But of the one event in which! she was most directly concerned: she did not say a word.

Mr. Rogers said that Airs, Simp- son does not intend leaving the Riviera for the present. I asked him when she expects to see the Duke of Windsor. "Not for several months," he replied.

U.S. Bandits Foiled By

"Innocents Abroad"

New York, Jan. 10.

BECAUSE M. Emil Mathis,

a

French motor manufacturer, is unfamiliar with American customs he was able single-handed to defeat two armed bandits who tried to rob his wife et costly jewels in front of the Hotel Plaza in Fifth Avenue.

Madome's clarion voice helped to nut the robbers to rout, though no police appeared and other New York- ers who heard the disturbance "knew enough" to leave the robbers alone.

M. Mathis and his wife had spent

a gala night, beginning with a din-

ner at which their guests included

Therese Princess

de Cormann Chimey as well as a daughter of Mr. Waller Chrysler and a member of the French Embassy.

While visiting night clubs they were spotted by the thugs, who fol- lowed the couple's taxi to the Plaza.

As they drew up, one of the bandits leapt to the door, stuck his revolver la M. Mathis's face and demanded a diamond and emerald necklace which his wife was wear- Ing.

Finally they were glad to leap in- to their own car and slip away.

M. Mathia upbraided the taxi- driver for indiferenco.

The driver shrugged nonchalantly as he replied:

"1 didn't wanna be no hero!"

'day two trout, poached in a nearby stream by two village boys.

It had become -known in the village that the Duke of Windsor had asked for trout, but could get none. Ita. Ale them for dinner and Rent Its thanks to the poachers.

The Duke was on a ladder iis morning helping to put up the -decorations for the Rothschlid family Christmas party. In the evening he played the plano. p- Otherwise his day was the same-up late, letters and dicta- tion in the morning, lunch, golf with his hosts till tea ime, skittles until dinner,

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The Duke, it tw learned, has declined the invitation of Dow- ager Queen Marie of Rumania lo spend Christmas at Sonnberg Cartle in Lower Austria.

Recent photograph

.

of Mrs. Wallis Simpson, whom ca-King Edward

in expected to marry in

May.

Man's Heart

Patched

For First Time

SHE PAYS

£800 A DAY

IN TAXES

ANGINA VICTIM IS

New York, Jan. 10. FIT, WELL MRS.

RS. HUGH DILL- MAN, widow of the motor - car magnate, Horace Dodge, it is re- vealed to-day, earns £1,200 a day, from the estate of her husband.

She receives only £400 a day, the rest- £800-goes in taxes.

How Buddy and I

Fell in Love

MA

-By-MARY PICKFORD.

New York, Dec. 23.

T

Sensation

In Court

New York, Jan. 10. OLICE JUDGE W. T. HOR-

PTON, of Jackson, Missis sippi, without looking up from his NIXTY - FOUR YEAR - desk, barked, "Oue dollar fine" to a SIXTY

OLD Robert Eaton, motorist accused of violating the

traffic lawa. after having had a patch A few moments later he had to put over his heart, walked dive into his pocket to produce the into a London newspaper dollar fine, office recently healthy

enough, he said, "to burst."

The motorist was his wife.

He had just been discharged MATCH-END USED after four months in hospital

following an operation believed TO WRITE LAST

to be the first of its kind.

It was done by Mr. Laurence O'Shaughnessy, a young London sur-

NOTES

geon. It has been repeated, also SOLDIER'S SUICIDE IN successfully, by Mr. G. A. Mason, in Newcastle.

Collapsed In Street

"I had two or three attacks of | angina pectoris," said Mr. Eaton. "In July I collapsed in the street and in Lambeth Hospital I was told my only hope of doing any work again was this operation.

STOLEN CAR

FIREARMS MANIA-

Reference to entries in a notebook, written with the cods of matches, was made at a Godalming inquest recently on Pte. Leslie Mortimore, 22, of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Tid- worth.

It lasted four-and-a-half-hours car, which had been stolen, at Mill

His body. was found in a stationary Dr. O'Shaughnessy collapsed my left ford, near Godalming, on Wednesday. lung, cut through the wall of the There was a bullet wound in the chest, then put a patch of vascular tissue through the diaphragm, attach-

-ARY PICKFORD is to marry Buddy Rogersing it to the heart so that it connee-

in England. The "world's sweetheart" and ted up the arteries. her dance-band leader fiance are spending, "The purpose of the operation was to augment the blood supply from Christmas in New York, and on Boxing Day Buddy the diaphragm." ignorance of American customs re- Will sail for Britain.

At this point the Frenchman's

vealed itself.

Instead of fatalistically submit-

ting, he threw himself upon the rob-

Miss Pickford will remain to clear up business Foreign Words

ber, gripping him by the wrist to matters and will follow by a later boat.

prevent him from shooting.

While they struggled in the gutter

"It will be sudden when it happens," said Mary when I To Be Banned

the other bandit covered the taxi-interviewed her at "Pickfair," her famous Hollywood home. driver and tried to grab the neck-"And it may happen in England," she went on.

lace.

Madame ducked and shrieked.

"We have not decided the time and place for the wedding,"

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The driver kept qulet (according she said. "I do not like to have too many plans. What I like THE Post Ofice is joining in the

were worried by M. Mathis and his vocal wife.

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Shanghai....

Sudan Princess in New Film Cast

PAUL ROBESON'S "JERICHO"

(By A Film Critic.) Princess Kouka, who has travelled straight to London from her native village in the Sudan, ls to take the leading part opposite Paul Robeson in his new picture, "Jericho."

head

A verdict of suicide was returned. The coroner, Mr. G. Wills Taylor, sold that Mortimore had left a note,

but there was nothing very definite about it, although it was indicative of something unusual.

DISLIKED ARMY LIFE

Mrs. Phyllis Borker, of Waverley- grove, Southsea, said that her brother had been very peculiar and depressed during the ten days that he had been home on Christmas leave. He had been in the Army two years. For the first year he liked Army life, and then began to take a dislike to it, and said that he wanted to desert. "The coroner showed her the note- book

match-stick en- containing the

that

plane. tries, and statut, fiunt 127 round of

language of foreign words.

in the new telephone, dooks the word "cafe" is to be excluded, and its place is to be taken by "koffeehaus" “kaffcestube" (coffeehouse, er

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Miss Pickford said she does not remember when Mr. Rogers "popped the question," or, indeed, whether he formally did so.

"After working together in 1928,"coffee-room).. she said, "we hardly met until a year or so ago, Then somehow we began to find ourselves drawn to one an- other, and a calm, quiet courtship followed.

"LET'S MARRY” "Finally one day one of us said, 'Why don't we get married?

Other words to po are "lokal," etablissement," and "distillationen."

Russian 0.T.C. for Girls and Boys

were

the car and 41⁄4d in money.

A police constable said that three matches were found in the ear.

Replying to the

the coroner,

Mrs. Barker said that she did not think her Brother was sound in mind.

Detective-sergt Young, of Ports- mouth, stated that on Monday even- ing he saw Mortimore at Southsen and questioned him about a bicycle which he had been trying to sell. Later that night the bleycie was ported as having been stolen, as also was the cur in which Mortimore was found dead.

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On Thursday he visited Morti- "Which one said it? Well, it

TYPE of O.T.C. for girls as well wasn't I. I think the newspapers as boys is being formed in all more's home at Southend and found Winchester repeating rifle, fully does not speak

Leningrad schools. About 3,500 child-loaded with ten rounds of ammuni- should get the blame. They had Princess Kouka one word of English, and she is to asked that question so'insistently, ren between the ages of 13 and 10tion. Among Mortimore's belongings spend a month here learning it,

into "a pioneer were more than 1,000 rounds of "I like him for what he is, Miss are being, formed before going back to her own cour Pickford went on.

ammunition. "People are like ide division." try for location scenes. She will books, Some have beautiful leather Officers and political instructors Deteclive-sergeant Young added then return to England for studio covers but hold you only a minute. will be drawn from the children that Mortimore probably knew that!

Others have only paper covers but themselves.

the police would endeavour to trace The children will wear uniform him with a view to charging him. Her father is chieftain of the vil-you can't let them go because of

and will have cartridge pouches, gas|Mortimore seemed to have o mania logo of El Faster, in the Sudan. what's inside, When he learnt that she had been

maska and haversacks. They will be for possessing firearms. armed with wooden rides and dummy confiscate the revolver and ammuni

The coroner ordered the pollee to machine-guns with rattles.

The division will have three brass tion, which it was stated were not bands,

Government property.

shols.

angry,

He

I saw how considerate he could be.'

"Buddy, fortunately, is both. offered a film, contract, he was very is so gentle and considerate. I guess "I went up to my room and cried, I began to fall in love with him when because he would not let me accept it," she said through an interpreter. Then I starved, and in the end he let me go. He loves me, you see.”

Princess Kouden ns she sat in her West End holci, wearing a beautiful African dress and great car-rings, looked very

handsome. She appear- Ed confident and composed,

Her nspirations to ilm work were aroused frequent visits to the

by "King Kong" plcture, when it was showing in Cairo. Mr. Walter Fut-

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