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THE HONGKONG ⠀⠀ TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20,

Ex-King Edward Will Keep Decorations,

New Coat Of Arms

BOYS POACH

TROUT

FOR DUKE

Essenfeld, Dec. 23.

HONOURS AWARDED Test the east to-

FOR HIS SERVICES

ALL is now settled regarding the orders and decorations

held by the Duke of Windsor before he-surrendered

his throne.

He 19 10 rolain hls varlous į knightoods-f the

the Garter. Thistle, St. Patrick, the Bath, Star of

India, St. Michael and St.

George,

the Royal Victorian Order and the

Order of the British Empire.

Mrs. Simpson Talks-

A new 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 When it is ready, a new cout-of- arms will be suspended above it. It to talk to the Press to-night, and re- will show the Royal Arms differceived reporters before dinner. enced," on the Heralds say, to show hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rogers were with her as they entered the

Her

that the holder has no longer any cosy drawing-room of the Villa Lou rights of inheritance,

came

Viol.

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

one after state tours oversens neck, and an emerald ring an They were, is felt, bestowed by of her fingers, Mrs. Simpson greeted King George V, on a public ser them with a smile. vant far services rendered. On that score the Duke will retain his talked readily an many topics, in- knighthoods, and on sultable occa-cluding books, the theatre in Lon

slons may wear the insignia,

She seemed very cheerful as she

den and New York, and current events.

But of the one event in which she was most directly concerned

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

of

she did not say a word.

Warrant

In

There may be no new Warrant for the Duke of Windsor. It is necessary,

bin when she

nol

Duke of Windse

Lle

Mr. Rogers sald that Mrs. Simp- sun does not intend leaving Riviera for the present. I asked pecin 'to see the

months," he replied.

"Not for several

U.S. Bandits Foiled By

"Innocents Abroad"

New York, Jan, 10. DECAUSE M. Emil Maihis, a French motor manufacturer, is unfamiliar with American customs ho was able single-handed to defeat

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

M. Mathis upbralded the taxi- driver for Indifference.

The driver ahrugged nonchalantly

"I didn't wanna be no hero!"

two armed bandits who tried to rob as he replied: his, wife of costly jewels in front of the Hotel Plaza in Fifth Avenue.

Madame's clarion voice helped to put 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 Princess Therese de Carmnun Chimey as well as a daughter of Mr. Walter 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 Pluza: one of the

As they drew up. bandits Icapt to the door, stuck his revolver in ML. Mathis's face and demanded's diamond and emerald necklace which his wife was wear- ing.

At this point the Frenchman's Ignorance of American customs re- vealed itself.

Instead of fatalistically submit- ting, he threw himself upon the rob-

two trout, poached In a nearby stream by two village boys.

I had become known in the village that the Duke of Windsor had asked for trout, but could gei none. Ile alo them for dinner and sent his ihanks to the Doachers.

The Dake was on ladder this morning helping to put up the decorations for the Rothschild family Christmas party. In the evenior he played the piano.

Otherwise bis day

tho same-up late, telters and dicta. tlon in the morning, lunch, golf with his hosts I tea time, akittles until dinner.

.

The Duke, it is learned, has declined the lavitation of Dow- Ager Queen Maria of Rumania to spend Clarisiruns at Bounberg Castle in Lower Austria.

Recent

photograph

of Mrs. Wullis Simpson,« whom ex-King Edward

is væpreted tó marry in

May.

Man's Heart Patched

For First Time

SHE PAYS

£800 A DAY

IN TAXES

MRS.

New York. Jan. 10. TRS. 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

--By MARY PICKFORD New York, Dec. 23. -ARY PICKFORD is to marry Buddy Rogers in England. The "world's sweetheart" and her dance-band leader fiance are spending Christmas in New York, and on Boxing Day Buddy will sail for Britain.

M

ANGINA VICTIM IS FIT, WELL

Sensation In Court

New York, Jan. 10.

1937.

POLICE JUDGE W. T. HOR.

TON. of Jackson, Missis- sippi, without looking up from his

SIXTY-FOUR-YEAR-desk, barked, "One dollar fine" to t OLD Robert Eaton, motorist accused of violating the

after having had a patch tragic laws.

A few moments later he had to

dollar fine.

put over his heart, walked dive into his pocket to produce the into a London newspaper 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

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

Collapsed In Street

"I had two or three attacks of

STOLEN CAR

FIREARMS MANIA

Reference to entries in a notebook,

| angina pectoris,” said Mr. Enton. "In written with the ends of matches, was July 1 collapsed in the street and in made at a Godalming inquest recently Lambeth Hospital I was told my only on Pte. Leslie Mortimore, 22; of the hope of doing any work again was Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Tid- this operation.

worth.

the

His body was found in a stationary “I lasted four and a half hours. Dr. O'Shaughnessy collapsed my left car, which had been stolen, at MU- Jung, cut through the, wall of the forti, near Godalming, on Wednesday. chest, then put a patch of vascular There was a bullet wound in tissue through the diaphragm, attach-head

it to the heart so that it connee- A verdict of suicide was returned. The coroner, Mr. G. Willa Taylor, ted up the arteries.

said that Mortimore hud left a note, but there was nothing very definite about it, although it was indicative of something unusual.

"The purpose of the operation was fo augment the blood supply from the diaphragm."

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 1 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 shricked,

"We have not decided the time and place for the wedding." The driver kept quiet (according she said. "I do not like to have too many plans, What I like to local tradition), but the robbers is a phone call saying 'Come on, let's catch the four o'clock plane.' were worried by M. Mathis and his vocal wife,

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Sudan Princess..in New Film Cast

PAUL ROBESON'S "JERICHO"

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

will

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

"After working together in 1928," she said, "we hardly met unt!) a year or so ago. Then somehow we begun 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 morried?'

"Which one said it? Well.

In Germany

campaign to purge the German language of foreign words,

THE. Post Office is joining in the

in the new telephone books the word "cafe" is to be excluded, and its place is to be taken by "kaffeehaus"

(coffeehouse, or "kaffeestube" coffee-room).

er

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

Russian O.T.C. for

Girls and Boys

DISLIKED ARMY LIFE

Mrs. Phyllis Barker, of Waverley- grove. Southaca, 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-

trics,

and stated that 127 rounds of revolver ammunition were found in book containing the match-stick en-

the car and 4d in money.

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

Replying to tho coroner, Mrs. Barker said that she did not think her brother was sound in mind.

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

Оп Thursday he visited Morti-

A TYPE of O.T.C. for girls as wellmore's home at Southend and found wasn't I. I think the newspapers as boys is being formed in all Winchester repeating rifle, fully should get the blame. They bad Leningrad schools. About 3,500 child-loaded with ten rounds of ammuni- Princess Kouka does not speaki one word of English, and she is to asked that question so insistently.

ren between the ages of 13 and 181 tion. Among Mortimore's belongings spend a month here learning it,

into "a ploncer were more than 1,000 rounds of before going back to her own coun Pickford went on.

"I like him, for what he is," Miss are being formed

rific division."

ammunition. "People are like try for location scents. She

Officers and political Instructors from then return to England for studio books. Some have beautiful leather

the children covers but hold you only a minute. will be drawn shots.

Others have only paper covers but themselves,

The children will wear uniform Her father is chieftain of the vil-you can't lot them go bocause of

and will have cartridge pouches, gas lage of El Fasher, in the Sudan. what's inside.

masks and haversacks. They will be When he learnt that she had been

"Buddy, fortunately, is both. He armed with wooden rifles and dummy offered a dlm contract, he was very is so gentie and considerate, I gucks machine-guns with ratiles. angry.

I begōn to fall in love with him when The division will have three brass I saw how considerate he could be." bands..

I went up to my room and cried, because he wouki not let me accept she said through an interpreter. "Then

I. starved, and in the end let me go. He loves me, you see."

Princess Kouka as she sat in her West End hotel, wearing a beautiful African dress and great ear-rings, looked very handsome. She appear- ed confident und.

und.composed.

work were

to flim

Her as frequent visits to the

aroused by "King Kong pleture, when it was showing in Cairo, Mr. Woller Fut tor, the producer, met her when he was passing through her, ville

village in

I search of 10 Jericho,"! ka!

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Detective-sergeant Young added that Mortimore probably knew that the police would endeavour to trace him” with a view to charging him. Mortimore seemed to have a manin for possessing Arearms..

The coroner ordered, thé police to confiscale the revolver and ammuni❤ tion, which it was stated were not Government property.

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