1937-03-16 — Page 3

Scot's Tragic

Love Idyll

GUILTY OF RAIDING A HAREM

REPORTS PREPARED FOR THE FRENCH

IN GOVERNMENT HAVE THROWN NEW LIGHT ON THE FATE OF A YOUNG SCOT NAMED ALEXANDER CAIRNS, WHOSE MUR- DERED AND MUTILATED BODY WAS FOUND IN THE DESERT SOME MILES FROM ALEPPO, SYRIA.

It is now established that he fell a victim to a harem vengeance plot.

Cairns arrived at Aleppo to take up an en gineering appointment last summer and showed intense interest in native life.

He was particularly attracted by the glamour of the Horems and their dark-eyed Inmates.

In some way he managed to get into touch with a girl in one of these establishments-a-girl who passed for a Circassian, but is said to have more European than East- ern blend in her velns.

RECKLESS VISIT

Apparently she Whe TLC much Interested in him as he in her, and the young Scot conceived the dan- gerous idea of forcing his way Into the harem by night.

He was surprised in, the course!

of a clandestine visit.

Native custohi knows only one punishment for persons se enught- senth

Exactly where to penalty was carried out on Cairns is not known.

He had been "executed" with the j special marks that denote the nature] of his crime for those familiar with the East.

TEACHING

FATHER HIS JOB

One million young mothers, and fathers throughout the king- dom are learning their duty as parents from a sixpenny booklet.

The Association of Maternity and Chifu Wellare Centres, Piccadilly, has Just announced the issue of the millionth copy of "To Mothers and Fathers" (Gd. post free), compiled by hundreds of the nation's greatest ex- perts.

Here are some of the recommendn- lons for father:

Take your wife, for short, gentle↑ " ---evening-walks. Although you

cannot help with

baby clothes, you might make a cot for baby, or other useful baby furniture.

Show your interest by regularly asking what "baby gained_in weight

Requests come from fathers all over the world for this booklet. Borough counclis buy thousands to give to prospective parents.

Laurel On New Honeymoon

Divorce To Be Erased

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.` TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1937.

Berlin ice-sailing competition held on the Rangedorfer Sea, attracted. record number of entries-this year.

Success After

14 Years' Research

DRUG TO

TO KILL PNEUMONIA

Washington, Mar. 1.

DISCOVERY of a new drug which will kill the

germs of pneumonia in mice is announced

| by Dr. Sanford M. Rosenthal, of the National

Institute of Health in Washington, --

Because of the large dosage required it cannot be applied at present to human beings, "but it is a big advance in the right direction," said Dr. Rosenthal,

"THE EFFECTIVE DRUG HÀS THE TECHNICAL NAME OF 'TAMINÙ-BENZENE SULPHONAMIDE." IT IS REASONABLY CHEAP AND AVAILABLE

COMMERCIALLY.

FOUR YEARS' WORK

"Now we have the drug to do the work, the ques- tion is to make it practical for human application," the doctor added,

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Discovery of the drug was the result of four years' research by Dr. Rosenthal, who treated more than 300 mlee before he found it.-United Press.

LEGAL RELATIVES FOR 'Tipperary'

FRANCE'S FORGOTTEN

SOLDIER

Paris, Mar. 1.

The mystery of France's "forgotten man." known as Anthelme Mangin because amnesia resulting from war experiences caused him to forget his identity, roon may be cleared up by medical experts and psychiatrists.

The case of the "forgotten mun" has received much attention, with the result that two sympathetic families have claimed him as their own and have even gone to court over the dispute.

Twenty years ago, a soldier, minus any Identiflentlon marks, was found wondering about a railroad station suffering from amne- sin. He has never recovered his memory and has been called Mangin because this was the first word he muttered when questioned by French authorities. He couldn't remember his first name, so he chuse that of Anthelme

Since then, women have come from all over France hopeful of identifying the amnesia victim as a husband, brother, son or rela tive lost in the war. The Montjoin family in Nantes identified and claimed him. Similarity of the names-Montfoln and Mangin-- Necmet

plausible, as both are pronouneed almost alike and also he bears a certain resemblance to other members of the family. The soldier could not remember the Montjoins, but was willing to join them when Mmo. I. Lapy stepped forward and sata that this man was her husband who had been reported missing since the war and had

never been heard of since.

Both families seem sure of the Forgotten man's" identity and both have furnished sets of photographs which are not unlike the umnesia victim. Mme. Lemary went so far as to bring suit for the return of her husband, but no one was able to decide the identity of the soldier.

Mangin, anxious to have the question of his identity settled and to have a fixed civil status, is submitting himself to expert physi clans and scientists who, after thorough examination of the victim and the so-called families, will decide whether he is a Montjoin or the lost husband of Mme. Lemary-United Press.

· Paper Cap May Give

Man His

Freedom

DESIGN for a rap sent by a man in Broadmoor Asylum to a social service centre has led lo efforts being made for his releasc.

Scot Paid £10,000 To Quarrel With Wife

Won't Die

TIPPERARY" is twenty-five years

old this month. No, it wasn't

written during the war, and it wasn't composed for the benefit of thousands of trumping feet.

Host To Empire's Premiers

London, Mar. 1,

this written in a public-house THE King is to attend a as result of, a bet by

حال

author,

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Mr. J. Judge of Oldbury, Worcester-Parliamentary Association LADIES'. “TELEMAC” RAINCOATS

shire.

"was with a man in a theatre bar in Westminster Hall und he bet me I couldn't write a

Song and produce Mr. Judge said.

on

it in one day," May 7-the Friday before

Coronation Day.

"I accepted the bet, went to an inn and wrote the words and music of

The guests will be the Prime Tipperary The same night I sang Ministers and members of the in the Stalybridge Theatre. In a Legislatures of the Empire who few minutes everybody was singing will be in London for the Corona-

it,

"K has earned thousands of tion, the Imperial Conference, pounds. I myself have made cs and an Empire Parliamentary a week out of it since 1915, and Conference, expoot I-shall-contiene to do 50,”

At Die Empire Parliamentary Con- But Mr. Judge is not the only one ference the Dominion Parliament will to claim authorship of "Tipperary.

be represented by delegations hend- A tablet at a public-house at cd by a Cabinet Minister and in- Balsall Common, Warwickshire, states cluding Speakers, leaders of the the song was written

there. Mr. Opposition and of other principal Judge doesn't think so, anyway. He parties in the Parliaments. makes the money out of i

There will be a delegation from the Indian Central Legislature. Invitations have been sent to thr Premiers of the Australian States und the provinces of. Canada.

Engaged To His Half-Sister

Paris, Mar. 1.

HO far

Delegates are also expected from the Irish Free State, and from the Parliament of Northern Ireland as on the occasion of the Empire Par- liamentary Conference-of-1935.- SEVEN PREMIERS ACCEPT Colonies which have reached a certain stage of self-government are also sending representatives, Includ- Ing Ceylon, Bermuda, Barbados. Bahamas, Jamaica, Hongkong and RMAND SCHWEIZ met a girl | Mauritius.. A named Juliet. They fell in love, Acceptances have

been became engaged. But

received from about 60 of the in- vited delegates, including Ave Speakers, while seven Premiers of States or Provinces have up to the present accepted the invitation to be the guests of the tary Association for the

pire Parliamen- the Empire

the Coronation Parliamentary Conference,

In recent years a number of fun- tions arranged by the Empire Pur- Bamentary Association have taken place in Westminster Hall, When present King, then Duke The half-brother and the half-York, returned from his Australian of

So that he and his wife father replied:

Armand hud not been home for many years, so he did not know that His father had married again.

He wrote to his father, telling him of his

romance, mentioning the name of the girl he had chosen. The Alderman J. Ritson, Labour M.P.

"My dear boy: It is your own New York,, Mar. 1,

could, quarrel, if they TAN LAUREL (of Laurel

for Durham, is to be asked by mem-

sister whom you propose to marry." Tallel's Mwanted to, without inter-Armand's father. and bers of the Framwellgate Hardy)

mother hod has gone on kis second Social Service Centre to help secure ference from neighbours, a

married honeymoon.

settled the differences that resulted years, from the maintenance suit filed by

the freedom of Horace H. Fidier,

Stän and wite Virginia have wito has been at Broadmoor for 34 man bought, the houses on sister cannot wed, according to law. tour in 1927, he attended a reception

Mae

Laurel, who alleged that she

Fidler, then 18 years old, was sent was the common law wife of the to the asylum fron Durham Assizes comedian, and the reunited couple on a charge of attacking a colliery have left Hollywood by car for a manager, now dead.

leisurely journey to New York.

"All our iroubles are forgotten,"

said Laurel before leaving.

HIS LETTER, Nothing had been heard of him at The divorce secured on the day Framwellgate Moor until he sent a before Christmas will be erased.

letter to Mr. C. Dent at the Before marrying Virginia in 1933, centre stating that he Stan had been divorced from Mrs. reading in a local newspaper of their had been Lols Laurel, whom he married in activities, 1020.

WHEAT

WITHOUT WORK

He wondered why they did not undertake cap-malding.

He enclosed in his letter a paper design of a cap and full instruc- tions.

so impressed

The members were

ASTRAIN of wheat which is that the secretary wrote to him lay- not need sowing annually but ising, they would follow his sugges- perennial, like grass, is being de- on. veloped and tested on Canada's

each side of his.

But the President of the Republic given by the Association to visiting £10,000 is expected to grant them a speelal members of the Parliaments of the

dispensation.

They cost him between and £15,000.

Mr. F. A. Macquisten, M.P, told Glasgow. The man was wealthy, and had gone to live in the city's "Carlton House-terrace,'

the Commons that this happened in

He complained to Mr. Macquis- ten that his aristocratle neighbours were very interfering. "Me and my wife," he said, "had a bit of a tofale (a row), and they sent for the police."!

The story came out while the House was discussing Mr. Petherick's Bill) from the ordinary procedure of police to separate matrimonial question courts. The Government promised its support, and It was given a second reading.

'TOO MANY'

the Bench, to the great embarras-

Empire.

ROMANCE OF

URSULA JEANS

URSULA JEANS, THE ACTRESS, HAS MARRIED IN NEW YORK ROGER LIVESEY, THE ACTOR. "NOTHING COULD HAVE PLEASED ME MORE," WAS THE COM. MENT OF MRS. McMINN, HER MOTHER.

"Just to say we were married this Amerles,

Ureyla had cabled her mother: holiday a fortnight ago and went to morning. my darling." The cable added that they were very happy.

Roger Livesey is playing with Git bert Miller's company, "The Country

At present, sald Mr. Petherick, Dominion Experimental Farms.

there is no limit to the number of Since then there has been a move-magistrates who hear these cases: Wife," in New York. Ursula Look a The farmer of the future may be ment in the village to secure his sometimes as many as thirty are on able to sow a field of wheat and release, and a committee has been ment of the parties. He proposed harvest crops of grain from It year appointed. after year, without all the labour of He is remembered in the village annual ploughing. harrowing and for his interest. In designing and sowing.

painting

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SWISS BUILD FORTS

Defence Drive Will Aid Workless

*Berne, Mar. 1.

LITTLE Switzerland (her population is 4,100,000, compared slith "Britain's 47,000,000) will this year spend £4,800,000 on building frontier fortresses and underground air kald sheliers, sald Minister of Economy Obrecht to-day.

Altogether $25,000,000 will be allotted to public works and Government-subsidised private works. Sums of £4,500,000 will go on (1) work for the unemployed, (2), subsidies to house-owners who undertake to spend the money on repairs.

the maximum should be three. while it was wrong to have the court Mr. Pritt; on the Socialist side, said. cluttered up with busybodies and nosy parkers, litigation involving the status of individuals and large sums Imoney should not be held without public ventilation.

of

If there was no publicity there.

Gorilla Battles With Flying Squad

Poria, Mar. 1.

"Ursula's lost play was 'The Coun try Wife' at the Old Vic, and it was at the Old Vic that she first mot Mr. Livesey three yours McMinn said.

ago,"

Mrs. "He is thirty and she is twenty- nine and they are an ideal couple. Theirs is a perfectly happy marriage," sold Mrs. McMinn. "They are fright- fully in love with each other. He is

grand man.'

Miss Jeans made her West End stage debut at Wyndham's as Angela In The Firebrand," in 1920.

In 1031 she married Robin Irvine, the actor, but it was three months before the

•

FULL-GROWN gorilla belongingcame known of the marriage be-

might be casual misbehaviour in the to Mme. Lecomte, kept at bay

The

courts, and dishonesty on the part of this afternoon six members of the the death of Mr. Irvine from pleurisy witnesses, who might believe they Paris flying squad sent to capture in Bermuda while on holiday.

e romance ended in tragedy with would never be discovered.

30 PINS IN-ER:EAR-

{it.

Trouble began when the gerilla, in 'n Of of temper, broke its okain smashed its cage, and attacked Mme. Lecomte.

When the flying squad arrived tho

..

In 1935, both Miss Jeans and Mr. Livesey

dented

rumours of their. , but Mr., Livesey added: but catry of people never get engaged,

they often get married." Mr. Livesey is the son of the late

of Ipswich, Massachusetts, suffered gorilla had barricaded itself.behind Sam Livesey. He was educated at

Ipswich (Massachusetts), Mar. 1. For thirty years Miss Nellie Gwinn,

have just revealed: the presence of half-hour battle.occurred with his stage debut at the St. James's from Intermittent carache. X-rays a pile of broken furniture, and a Westminster City School and made thirty corroded pins and needica pokers and ison Bars as defence Theatre in 1017. apparently pushed in while she was against dying chairs before It could a child. They have been safely rebe

Like his wife, Mr. Livesey has ap Thared.""

It was sent to the Parl zoo. End shows,

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