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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1937.

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KINGS Demolition of ALHAMBRA

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Church in City Ordered

ALL HALLOWS IS SALVAGE

SINKING IN MUD DEMOLITION has been ordered for the little church

of All Hallows, in Lombard Street, designed by Wren in 1691.

It is sinking in mud. The foundations are considered dangerous.

The church lifts a slender but secretive head, almost hidden by its own archway and courtyard and the blocks of offices which surround it on all sides.

At

It lies among a group of venerable City churches, a few yards from its companion church of St. Edmund the King. the corner of the street is the Queen of the City, St. Mary Woolnoth.

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WORK ON H. M. S.. NATAL

1915 WAR MYSTERY

It is believed that a salvage com- pany is to begin operations on the

work.

wreck of H.M.S. Natal, which blew up on New Year's Eve, 1915, of Invergordon. April is the probable month for the beginning of the A New Year party was being held In the battleship when the disaster took place. two benefices will be combined. It cluding women and children, went Some 400 people, in- is hoped as a result of the sale of the to their death. The cause of the site that a dozen churches will be explosion was never ascertained. constructed in the London area.

Several years ago a Middlesbrough The rector, the Rev. Dr. Tissington-salvage firm were engaged breaking Tatlow, said: "The foundations are in up the vessel, and large cargoes of mud. We had to pull down the East twisted machinery, bulkheads, con The building is unpretentious, but wall two years ago when we found densers, and other Attings were its fittings are outstandingly beauti-that it had been built on the same basis as the old one, of which a large part still remains.

All Hallows was built on site valued at £150,000 on which stood the aid church of All Hallows Grass- church, built in 1653 and destroyed in the Great Fire.

ful.

WESLEY'S PULPIT

A special church to house them will be built in one of the London suburbs.

Presumably these fittings will in- clude the fine reredos with the car- ving of the "Pelican In her Piety" the organ erected by Renatius Harris in the latter half of the seventeenth century, the carved woodwork pulpit from which Wesley delivered his first extempore sermon, and the framed copy of the "Curious Sayings" of Charles I., in which this most talka- 1ive of monarchs advises himself to use words "tew, honest and feigned."

un-

Two. unpleasantly appropriate figures stand over the West doors--a gnarled and knowing skeleton, re- presenting Death, and a figure Time.

TWELVE CHURCHES

of

The decision to demolish the church was made by the Judicial Committee pf the Privy Counell,

salvaged.

It was intended then to blow up the ship, but this was considered "The marks of the Fire can still be dangerous owing to the large num→ seen on it. At the moment it is ber of live shells which, having covered on the outside. by asbestos survived the explosion, are still sheeting."

stocked in the ship's magazines.

Mutiny

A

Among Franco's Moors

SHOT DOWN BY SPANIARDS

MUTINY among General Franco's Moorish troops was recently reported to have led to serious fighting between the Moors and Spanish Nationalist troops called to quell the outbreak.

According to reports from Santander, the centre of Considerable opposition came from the revolt was at Espinosa de los Monteros, on the

the City Corporation, the Conference

of Learned Societies and Mr. P. Mar-Escurial front.

teno, a parishioner.

The stipends from All Hallows and St. Edmund's total £3,058, and the

Error Cost Newspaper Big Sum

"Mr. Hesacin Kamill, until last year" a student at Reading University, was awarded £400 damages with costs for libel against "Reading Press, Limited, proprietors of the Reading Evening Gazette, by a special jury sitting with Lord Hewart in the King's Bench Division recently.

The Moors protested that many of them had received only

30 pesetas since the beginning of the war.

When their complaints became

too numerous Nationalist' soldiers were called in to restore order, and fighting began in which there were casualties.

Executions were carried out ruth- lessly, and one company of Moors was reduced in numbers to only 10

men.

Armada

On The

A Basque Government communque Screen

some days ago reported that heavy fire had been heard coming from Espinosa.

When Government-mailida-nd--| “FIRE OVER ENGLAND”.

vanced to Pico de la Leruosa, claimed the communique, they found 80 dead, Including Moors,

Fascists, and one Civil Guard.

IN PARIS

Paris, Mar. 1. "Fire over England" the latest

A message from Almeriu, on the English film to have its premiere east coast, 100 miles east of Malaga, abroad, is based on A. E. W. Mason's reports that the town was bombarded story of plot and counter-plot be- by the insurgent cruiser Almirante tween Catholics in league with

The cruiser in turn was bombed by Government planes, the encounter between them lasting for half an

It was stated by Mr. H. J. Wallington, K.C., on Mr. Kamill's | Cervera, behalf, that the issue of the Evening Gazette of June 11, 1936, contained a report which said that Mr. Kamil was "defeated" In an

action

at hour. Rending County Court where he was sued for £10 and that the proceedings followed an adjourn- ment of the case from the Henley court, where the Judge threatened to Impound the papers.

The defence was a plea that the

words complained of formed part of a report of legal proceedings which was fair and accurate and that the word "defeated" was an obvious error for "defendant,"

The

County Court Judge hud stated that he accepted Mr. Kamill's evidence; that the action should never have been brought, and that. he dismissed it, with coats in Mr. Kamill's your.

Following the discovery of five dead

теп, believed to bo Spaniards bound hand and foot, on the Brittany

coast

A sixth body, headless and with arms bound, has been washed ashore at La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendee. It is supposed that the

Philip of Spain, and patriotic English- men defending the life of Elizabeth. The defeat of the Invincible Armada is the climax of the picture.

The role of Elizabeth is filed with proud vigour, no prettiness, and real majesty by Miss Flora Robson. Mr. Raymond Massey, also makes an Im

pressive Phillp of Spain. Most of the rest of the film is little more than a colourful costume adventure story with а rather banal love

interest. victims

were Spaniards, and were executed at sea or were thrown into the sea along the Spanish coast.

AIRMAN BANKRUPT

VANISHES

NO NEWS OF LIEUT.

CATHCART-JONES

CLAIM BY AEROPLANE

MANUFACTURERS

Spain, Protestants versus Catholles, The great theme of England versus is constantly referred to in words, but Ands litle or no expression in photography. There is not even any scenes in the great balls of the very marked difference between the

palaces of Spain and of England.

The opposition between Catholic order and despotism on the one hand, and on the other the Protestantism of Elizabethan England, less orderly, but the beginning of the great move- ment towards political and intellec- tualety might surely have been

rendered vatially.

Counsel also complained that a apology printed by the newspaper appeared among advertisements and the "Children's Corner." (Laughter.) Lord Hewart, summing-up, sald that the words could be read to

LITTLE SCOPE FOR HEROINES. mean that, sued for £10, the plata- tlf was "defeated"; that he had

Lieut. Owen Cathcart-Jones, The two heroines, Miss Vivien Leigh, the English girl, and Miss ut the airman, who in 1934 made Tamara Desnt; the Spanish giri, axe forward the shadowy defence ΟΙ infancy and that the circumstances the record flight to Australia bath attractive, but their short parts were such that the Judge mentioned and back with Mr. Kennetli do not give great scope. Impounding the papers. Had the Waller in 13 days 6 hr, 30 min., man Michael (Mr. Laurence Olivier) The escape of the young English- jury any doubt that those words were defamatory?

failed to appear at the first meet from the Escorial is excellent melo- ing of his creditors at the drama of the old Wild West type. London Bankruptcy Court.

The behaviour of the Governor of the Escorial, who Ands his wife in The airman's father, Mr. Cathcart Jones, of Earl's Court Road, S.W, told the arms of Michael in a moonlit

patio, is surely not a London reporter: "I have no

in knowledge of my son's whereabouts. even with the probabilities of real keeping either. with "cloak and sword"! traditions or His wife and two children have been life. Bombay, Mar. 1.

staying with me, but have now gone The flim suffers from a rather slow Except

to the country." extremista, among

The Assistant Official Resolver, Mr. person after the film and was warmly. beginning. Miss Robson appeared in political significance is seen in India In the postponement of the King's Me. Cathcarl-Jones had failed to sur-

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stated in court that applauded by the French audience. visit for a Coronation Durbar at render under the proceedings. Last

Grosvenor Street flat and the goods had been obtained against him. January a distress was levied at his proceeds, and a judgment for £160 were sold.

-WILL THE KING

GO TO INDIA?

Delhi.

ΠΟ

Some suggest that the Budget posl- tion might give a handle for agitation against the cost of the Durbar, which, is said, would be about £1,000,000.

VANISHED LAST-AUGUST Another view is that, if the Indian National Congress (Home Rulers The petitioners, Messrs. Phillips continues to win elections, the ques" and Powis Aircraft, of Reading, stated tion of whether the King will visit that Mr. Cathcart-Jones look an

Mr. Nowman said that Mr. Carth- cart-Jones had disappeared since last August, when he was alleged to have landed in Czecho-Slovakia with two Spanish anti-Reds.

It was believed that he was in Eng- * "MAN OF IRON” with Barton MacLane India at all will have to be consacroplane to South America for de- land on December 22.

sidered. A Congress boycott of the monstration purposes. Ho sold the The case was left in the hands of Durbar might be effective.:

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QUEEN'S COLLEGE

OLD BOYS ASSOCIATION ELECT OFFICERS

Mr. C. G. Anderson; Vice-President, Mr. W. L. Handyalde and Mr. S. 3. Churn; Hon. Secretary, Mr. Gurbux Singh Hon. Treasurer; Mr. Leung Pinlin,

The 15th annual general meeting Committee:" Mesars. H. K. Woo, of the Queen's College Old Boys J. F. Grose, Chow Ping-un, Te Association took place on Thursday Ching-fong. M. A. Khan, Wel Tat, in the Great Hall of the College." Man Hung cho, Kwok Yen co th

The following general committee hon, Leung Sik-kwan, Wong Yee- chiu, Ching Pin-sno, Mak. Cheuk- was, elected for the year: President, wa, Hung Shek-chlu.

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