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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1937.

Girl "War Prisoner "-Aged 5

Now, At 28, She Is

German Nurse

Nurse Who

Unpublished

Keats

Letter

Dated Shortly Before

Last Journey

To Be Sold This

Month

An unpublished letter written by Kents is included in the literary documents collected by the late Mr. Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton (1004-1801), a poet who amused and his friends by writing hunting songs for the Old Tarporley Club meetings, to be disposed of in three days' sale #t Mesars. Botheby's.

himself

The letter, though undated, was, according to the postmark on the envelope, written on August 23, 1820, about a month before Keats left for Italy. It is addressed to William Haslom, a young solicitor, "a most kind and obliging and constant friend" of Keats, and reads 04 follows:

Wentworth Place, Wed.

I can

My Dear Haslam,-I have been at Mrs. Brawnes above a fortnight for a reason or by an accident I will explain when I am more 8t for such things. The purpose of the

Present not (sic) is to tell you that, manage it I certainly, Intend going speedily to Rome. I have written to Abbey for some money which he promised to lend me in case George did not remit part of the loan from me. I have written to Brown to ask. him to accompany ine; and, in fact, am all but on the Road, as the Physican tells me on English winter would do for me. Now, will you let Georgo and

Mra

Wylie know all this, and there

will

be so much

to George that

anxioly-taken off-my-Mind Fang,

in your Letter to

complains sadly of not hearing from him. I could say much more than this half-sheet would hold, but the oppression I have at the Chest will not suffer my Pen to be long-winded. My Compts to Mra, H., who, I hope, is well.

Your sincere friend.

John Keats, PS-I have read this note over, and think it goes rather snappish-- you will bellove I did not Intend it. Good-bye.

My dear Faslan

Boutis orth Places -Wednesday.

Searching For Who Saved Her Life

CAPACITY GALLERY →→→ More than 10,000 persons, a capacity gallery, fammed Madison Square Garden, New York, when Sonja Henie, Norwegian skating star, made an appearance on the ico there. Above, attired in a costume of gold sequins, Miss Henio puta on her skating boots for her brilliant performance.

Mussolini Guarded 300 Picked Men

By

THEY HAVE NO EASY JOB

By Alde Forte

Rome, Mar. 12.

Magicians, compared to Mussolini's, secret body- guards, have easy jobs.

CRIPPLED

AND STARVINC

'EXCHANGE FOR

AN OFFICER.

Berlin, Mar. 1.

Ada LITTLE

Phillips, three-year-old daughter

of British residents in South West Africa, was taken to Berlin

for tuberculosis treatment in 1912.

She was cured,

But the war broke out and she could not return to her parents. She

was put in an institution and later given into the care of a family.

Food difficulties in war-time Ger- many caused a return of her illness and she became partially crippled.

TOOK HER HOME

The nurse who was attending her had to leave Berlin, and lost track of the lille British girl.

At the beginning of 1917 she re- turned to Berlla and saw the girl in the streets in a pitiful condition. Blie took her into her own home and cared for her.

Later she arranged to have her exchanged for a wounded German

officer.

The girl was taken back to Eng-

land.

lier parents knew nothing of this. One day they. saw the picture of their daughter in a newspaper, re- cognised her, and were able to locate

her

A few years later Ada Phillips was entirely cured.

Now she wants to get into touch with the German nurse, who be friended her.

The German Red Cross are scarch- ing for her.--Reuter.

NEW YORK'S

"GUN DOLL“

EDITH AND BILLY

WITH YOU.

AT

The

Management of the

Gloucester Hotel takes exceptional pleasure in announcing

The Herseys

Edith and Billy

America's finest dressed

team. Played for 16 weeks at the Park Central Hotel, New York. The sensation of the famous Black Hawk Club, Chi- cago,

Toured with the renown- ed Hal Kemp Band throughout the United States and then LONDON.

After a brief soason in Hongkong - booked for a three months' season at the Biltmore Country Club.

THE GLOUCESTER HOTEL, Saturday, Mar. 27

MISSES FIRE WELCOME TO TOURISTS

F

New York, Mar. 10.

THE career of New York's

"black-gowned "Gun Doll"

who has been holding up. restaurant cashiers ended at the Columbus Avenue Restaur- ant this morning. ·

Il Duce's bodyguard is com- and silver skulls on their fezes, re- posed of 800 picked policemen miniscent of German hussars.

She had just extracted £3 from the who must appear at case in Italians are, however, well aware

cashier when a customer entered the dinner clothes, workmen's over-that secret police mingic Among

workmen and farmers wherever empty restaurant and she turned to malls or sport costumes,

Duce appears. Perhaps the mast look. baffled of all is Mussolini himself, who on several occasions apparently failed to recognize an agent from a worker when on tours.

I haus been at M Brawners above a pilnight for a us Jou or by an accident l' will te flas when I'am now fit for such thing The purport of the he sent mot is 5 let you but if I can manage th

•certainly intend going furchty I have written to Abbey for

·atuele he furenend bland we in the Resize that rest not part of the leav from me. I have written to Brows i asth him to accompany me, sud in fact am all but see the Road.

The Ship ceran lit's me an

·winter would to for sue Now will you let borge, and sh Woogle kun all this and there will be so much

A facsimile of a hitherto unpublished lotter by Keats, printed above,

The letter to Brown (Charles Brown, a retired Russian inerchant, and "a generous protector and de voted friend") mentioned by Keats went astray, and it was Haslam who persuaded Joseph Severn to accom- pany the poet to Rome. They sailed on September 18, 1820. The Mr. Abbey referred to in the letter is Mr. Richard Abbey, a tes-planter, under whose authority Keats was withdrawn from school at, the completion of his 10th year.

Kent's letters to Haslam, with the exception of the one above and two short notes, have disappeared. When Lord Houghton was preparing his biography of the poet Haslam sent hlm letters from Sever, but- of those from Keats he wrote, "They probably were so well, or intended to be so well, taken care of that every indea- vour to lay my hands on them has. proved unavailing

This collection, which is being sold by Lady Ashbrook, also includes let. ters of Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Con- greve, Evelyn, Gay, Richardson, Smollett; verses by Dr. Johnson, and an autographed receipt by Oliver Goldsmith in connection with the "History of Greece."

Littoria, model farm-town in the re- claimed Pontine marshes,

these agents must don'overalls and farmers' boots and, waving picks and shovels, mingle with the peasants hailing the "Founder of the Empire".

When Mussollal threshes wheat at

A joke which recently made the rounds of Rome had Il Duce com- When the Dictator, wielding aplimenting a serious-looking worker heavy pick, breaks ground to in at a public ceremony and asking him augurate work on new public parks if he had any wish to express. The and buildings scores of agents dressed worker, who was a disguised police- as labourers may be seen swinging man, is supposed to have answered: plekts with astonishing ability and "I would like to be prometed a ser- lustily cheering the Chief.

Recently Mussolini made a sur- prise visit to Terminillo, skiing resort about 30 miles from Rome. Habitual sklers were surprised to see the large number of new fans who appeared at Terminillo. All were beginners and could

hardly stand straight on their akis. Many carried their skis on their shoulders and followed 11 Duce

geant"

Bandits' £15,000 in

around on foot. They were police-15 Seconds

men.

These 300 men who follow Il Duce constantly and are always elbowing in the crowd whenever he appears

in public cost the Italian government

Nice, March 10.

5,000,000 Ure a year (about $280,000). MASKED bandits, believed to

to which ceremonies to

be Americans, carried out Musa 16-second hold-up of three of

At all public Mussolini

official "Black his

The cashler threw himself on her The and called for the dishwasher. newly arrived customer joined the other two in disarming the "Gun Doll," Qhough her pistol went off once in the struggle.

The girl told the police she was Norma Parker, aged 25. At the time of her arrest she was on ball charged with stubbing another woman. Her weapon was harmless,

SMELL TO GET

PROPER NAMES

Shades Of Scent Nice Or Nasty May Now Be Distinguished

London, Mar. 1.

·A counc!) of British wing experts, tea-tasters, gourmets, medical mes and research chemists are preparing allat of new words to describe smells.

They are members of the Smell London lawyer, Ambrose Appelbe.

"A vocabulary of 500 new words

special bodyadition to the minimbank messengers in full daylight./Spelety, founded inat year by a young

keteers (Li

of

may enter the language in this way," he declares. There are hundreds of descriptive words in English to identify colour through all its most subtle shades. Many, such as beige, are of recent origin. But we do not

clothes-men)

en) is called out. This in the heart of Nice to-day, and special corps Was

founded 14 years got away with $15,000 in bank ago when Mussolint personally pick- ed 100 youngsters belonging to the notes. famed "Dare and Dle" fascist flying squada

The notes were in an antiquated action. This bodyguard was meant to re-handcart. present, as Il Duce himself once Three Credit Commercial Bank possess a single word which speelfles pointed out, the ideal continuity messengers were a few hundred yards a kind of smell, like that of roast between

fying squads of action from their destination, the Bank of turkey, mimosa, wool, or

For "tor," for and the

powerful car.

the

Revolutied guard of the Fascht France, when two men leapt out of { instance. S

They are recruited for a period of A third man kept the messengers one year which may be renewed covered with a revolver. Their service, however, is voluntary. They are all quite tall for Italians and completely dressed in black uniforms. They wear silver daggers

4, 1885, Miss Alice Liddell (the origi- nal Alice) received the first presentn- don Copy. The second was sent

- NAPOLEON'S BOOKS There is also the well-known col- lection of books, manuscripts, en-Lewis Carroll,” records that “On July gravings, and relles relating to the captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, belonging to the late Canon - Edwin Brook-Jackson; - and Princess Ben trice's copy of the 1860 edition of "Alice In-Wonderland," in original presentation: binding of velum With regard to this copy

"Alice in Wonderland it is interesting to: note that Cour wood in his Me or

i

to Princess Beatrice, 's

D

TURNED ON THE HOSE

The two men whisked the packets of notes into the car and drove off at full speed.

TWO NEW MEMBERS -

Two of the newest members of the society are...H. G.. Wells and Bernard Shaw.

The council believes smell to be one of the richest unexplored fields left to science. They are convinced it will have a definite place in educa» tion, and that smells will be used in the classroom as an aid to memory. Smell may also be accepted one day

- A municipal street-sweeper who - saw the robbery tried to hold": up] the bandits by turning his hose on them full blast as they swept by, as legal evidence of identification:In

A privadas courts of law, as it is, already in That would be a copy of the 1805 Police quickly established barriers | Africa. Evidence is being collected edition, Ariswell "mown all re- on all the Riviera roads, but it la of the use of smell in mental healing, diplants and purchasers of this edl-thought the car was soon abandoned and as determining factor in the Jon were junked to return their patent in any per mile and a dan diagnosis of disease coples Tie 1860 edition being sup- This is the fourth daylight hold-up One of the chief-aims of the social pied in replacemelito)

of the kind within a year

Pa is the elimination of bad smellsi

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