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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1937.

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UNJUST

WILLS URGED

By WILLIAM BARKLEY

London, Feb. 15. THE "dead hand” will

be powerless if a Bill which was unanimously given a second reading in the House of Commons yesterday, becomes law.

The "dead hand" is the one which signs a will disinheriting wife and family very ofton because of a disordered whim.

On all sides of the House mem- bors agreed that it is time to alter: the law of England and Wales which at present permits a man to will away his fortune to strangers]· while leaving his widow and chil- dren penniless.

Mr. Windsor, a Socialist MP, moving the second reading of his Inheritance (Family Provision) Bill, said that the law in Scotland, New Zealand, Australia and most of the provinces of Canada, prevents this Injustice.

In Scotland one-third of the estate

must go to the widow and another

third to the children.

"England and Wales are about the only two countries in the civi- lised world where the provisions of this Bill are not in operation," he

said.

The silvery-haired M.P. for Lich- "This field, Mr. Lavat-Fraser, said: Bill is part of the movement for doing justice to the women of the world. I am a feminist. The vast number of those who would benefit by this Bill will be women,"

For Men Too

The Bill uses the term "spouse",

so as to provide for the unlikely case

of a woman cutting off her husband with a shliling.

PHILIPPINE LEADER IN HOLLYWOOD

102 COUNTRIES

Dr. Hilarlo Camino Moncado of Cebu, Philippine Islands, who re- cently visited the film capital to stud y motion picture production methods with a view to establishing a motion picture company in the Philippines, is feted at a dinner in the famous A mbassador Hotel Coconut Grove. Left to right are Inez Courtney, Dr. Menendo and Mary, Astor,

F

Mad Engine Driver

Broke Records-And

Train

Disappeared

New York, Feb. 20.

A PUZZLE which mystified the whole of America fifty years ago has now been solved by the discovery of an old locomotive and a skeleton at the bottom of the River Colorado. The engine bore the number thirteen, which oven time had not been able to crase,

Old inhabitants remember the driver. He was an engineer named Oscar Hansen, who designed a locomotive which, he said, would brenk all speed records.

Szechuan

"I well remember the day of the first test," Mr. A. Schultz, at that time a railroad official, told the New York Sunday Referee correspondent. "Hansen was

excited when he

gave the engine driver his final instruc- tions and told him to start.

Fleas Given very

No Quarter

Sir John Withers (Con, Cam- THE poor feas in Szechuan just bridge University), a lawyer, argued don't have a chance. For the that the B would do unseen good. wlly natives have evolved a simple

I would deter people from making} title device which deals death to unjust wills.

all fleas that come to contact with

Miss Rathbone (Ind., English ft. Universities) calculated that flere

are 8,000 evilly disposed husbands The word "contact" here ta lo be taken in its literal sense. That is just

in England who might ent off their

"But the locomotive failed to come up to expectations. Hansen was told

£1,000,000 More For Home Industry

By SETON MARGRAVE.

BRITISH films are guaranteed considerably more than £1,000,000 now income in 1937 by the completion of contracts between United Artists and home producers for the release in 102 countries in the next year of 21 pictures made in Britain.

Mr. Murray Silverstone, chairman and managing- director of United Artists in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, told me:

The success in all countries of the films produced by Mr. Alexander Korda has been so great that United Artists have resolved to make the world-wide distribution of British productions a permanent policy.

"Progress made has stimulated the entire country. Attend- |ances at cinemas all over the world are increasing."

BEST PRODUCTIONS, ONLY

Mr. Oscar Deutsch, chairman of Odeon Theatres, Limited, told me that "the enterprise of United Artists will act as a tonic to British film-going. It is essential that we should have a continu- ous supply of pictures of the finest quality made in this country.”

Producers here whose work will be released by United Artists are Mr. Alexander Korda, Mr. Erich Pommer, Mr. Paul Czinner, Mr. Max Schach, Mr. Victor Saville, Mr. Marcel Hellman, and Mr. Lothar Mendes.

Stars will include Miss Elisabeth Bergner, Miss Merle Oberen, Miss Marlene Dietrich, Miss Miriam Hopkins, Mr. Charles Laugh- ton, Mr. Robert Donat, Mr. Douglas Fairbanks jun., and Mr.

Laurence Olivier.

Zaharoff Surprise: Will

No

Paris, Feb. 15.

that there was nothing extraordinary SIR Bas!! ZAHAROFF has left

about it, but the railroad company bought it for freight carrying pur-

DOLLS,

LOST REASON "Every day Hansen came to the station and waited for the engine to pul up a new speed record. It never did. Hansen lost his reason and was sent to a lunatle asylum."

I was

UP

the £20,000,000 fortune once no will, and only a tenth of

attributed to him.

That is the bellef after two months of laquiries into the arms financier's

affairs,

widows-and-chlidren--and leave |-what-proves the doom-of-the-little- tione into the driver's cab, the will. But according to Frenchi

estimate."

domestic creatures in Szechuan-con- she tact with molasses with which a trap is diabolically baited by the cunning up-river inhabitants.

them destitute.

"It is a modest said, "that one husband in a thou sand is a bad husband capable of making an unjust will. It is the meanest thing for a man to leave this life without giving any notice of his intention to leave his wife and

children pennticas.

Indeed, the trap has been used in West China for years, but seldom does it find its way to Shanghai (where there also are filcas), and to "There is no remedy at present, local Chinese it is as much a rarity and such a will often leaves a slur as it is to foreigners, says the North- because gossips say, "There must be China Daily News. some reason for it."

Sir

More than a dozen solleitors, re- One day he escaped and weni

presenting claimants from England, straight to the locomolive at the sta-Turkey, Greece and France, are in- of quiring Into the possible division He jumped worked the controls, and set the low-and Zaharoff died a Frenchman engine in motion. The trucks behind

-the contents or even the existence It were laden with dynamite for of wills need be disclosed only to blasting purposes.

legatees.

Hansen.knew his locomotive. In a few moments it had gathered n speed A member of the Greek Legation workers stood aghast as the whole if never before nitained, and railway said: "According to French law, 1

there is no will everything train roured nway Into the distance. goes to his two step-daughters, Mme It was breaking records, sure enough. Angela de Bourbon and Mrs. Leopold

Walford, of Kensington."

ENGINE DISAPPEARS

Days passed before the remulns of the train were found. The dynamite had exploded, blowing all the trucks io pieces. But there was no trace of the engine or of Hansen, and after exhaustive investigations the mystery was docketed "unsolved,"

Now, after fifty years, it has been cleared up, Workmen engaged in

The device is simply a thin bamboo Solicitor-General

Terence stick enclosed in an oblong bamboo O'Connor promised to weigh opinion, cage to prevent it from touching the but his tone did not suggest that the clothing of the person carrying the Government meant to put the pro- trap. The slick is smeared with posed BIII into law,

molasses or honey. It is put up a sleeve or inside a long yown as Mr. A Bill to promote Empire settle-Wang or Mr. Chow

Mr. Chen ment, introduced as a private men- ventures forth in fea territor cleaning the bed of the Colorado

10w or

The sure, was talked out. That is to say Rea, instead of biting the gentleman, that the House could not find forty is attracted by the fragrant molasses M.P.s, the necessary quorum, suffi- and make a fen-line for the sticky ciently interested to stay the day, stup...And, of course, gets stuck. and the House rose two hours before Before retiring, the day's catch of time.

Hitle brown fellows is wiped of the stick, which is then baited spain the next morning for a fresh hunt.

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Boer War started during the year of his trial, ended four years later.

Queen Victoria died. Four kings. succeeded to the throne.

Airplanes were favented in 1903. The great war, shook the world from 1914 to 1018.

Radio: then Television. |Thirty-nine years-and Prince had never seen greyhound racing, speedway racing, he had never seen a glant liner, not even the Mauretania, entered and passed from the seas during that life- time he spent at Broadmoor.

It will be raised from its curious ALL the profit of Burroughs grave, cleaned, and placed in the Wellcome and Co, the manu...]. museum at Kansas City with a tabletfacturing chemists, have `been describing its story.

which permanently dedicated to the ad- vancement of knowledge for the HAUPTMANN CASE bonefit of mankind.

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In a letter to a London news- paper the trustees of the Well-

COMPANY! Counsel For Defence come Foundation say

held in the mouth and allowed to carrying his Iwo-year-old dissolve blowly, emit antiseptic daughters in his armi, vapours which, circulating through

twin

Now Insane

are

Soldier Heroes Save Girl

"We believe this to be the first example, in this country at least, of a OFFICERS of France's 72nd Ar-

Mr. Edward J. Reilly, chief of whole

testamentary disposition by which the tillery Regiment_sat up and

of the profits from a great rubbed their eyes as Private Charles the battery of lawyers who demanufacturing and trading organisu- These pleasant, Aromotie lozenges, Bocquet marched into the barracks fended Hauptmann during hla tion, after certain personal int six weeks' trial for the murder memorial bequests have been fulfilled, permanently dedicated to the of the Lindbergh baby, awoke advancement of knowledge for the one day recently in Brooklyn general benefit of mankind."

New Delăl, Feb. 20.' Appents for contributions for Hospital for the Insane.

various research undertakings have PRIVATES Hinli and Hill, of the York and Lancaster Regiment, He had been takes there on an been made to them. They point out have heroically mved the life of ad emergency commliment order signed that they cannot consider them in the Indian girl at Barababulli, by his mother.

The two soldiers were attracted by The Wellcome Foundation was the screams of a crowd round the formed in 1924 to, take over all the village well and were told that a girl business activities of Burroughs of twelve bad fallen in:

Private, Hill at once, climbed pre- Wellooma and Co. and solentille research Institutions and musous cariously down the ledges Inside the established by the late Bir Henry well. He reached the water, but, Wellcome, who held the whole of after a hurried swim, was unable to

find the girl. the share capital,

Many-

the respiratory organs, dispel the Private Bocquet is a man of re- germs before they have got a grip. source.. His wife expecting another baby, and, as there is nobody at home to look after the cough or cold twins, he decided to bring them to can be arrest- the barracks. ed in its early lages by the

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Relly, fiery, spectacular counsel, who, has been four times married, four times divorced, had alimony trouble during 1030.

The twins liked it. The soldiers ΟΣ Re- gate them a feast and played games. spirolds. L AL- But the officers-ooh! They final- ter the trouble in decided, after a hasty conference, Relily was discharged by Haup!- developed that Private Bocquet's leave had mann immediately after the guilty Respirolds better be extended-they had pre-verdict, and the subsequent defence will still beviously refused an extension-so that manoeuvres were directed by Mr. C. found benef- he could take the twins back home! Lloyd Fisher."

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Ho shouted up to Private Hull list The activities of the Foundation there was suillaient water to dive will be carried on by a boord of Into, and Bull promptly took a zoft. directors, in collaboration with the

dive into the well's left, of water. trustees.

He found the girl and brought her A fund is maintained for the ad-to the surface of the water, where he vancement of medical and scientific and Hill supported her.

The Indians above made a rope of Police of this city may have to arrest dogs, cats, roosters, research in any part of the world,

The Foundation also maintains a their turbons, and all three were ducks, canaries, who bark, yowl, crow, quack, or chirp between the fund for the establishment of endow brought to the top. The two soldiers

··hours of 10 p.m, and 0 a.m. If a new ordinance being prepared bement at research - museums or applied artificial respiration and comes a law.

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