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'THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, MAY .1, 1937.

GOOD POSTURE!

Dictator of Loneliest Island Goes Home

HE IS DOCTOR,

BANKER,

JUDGE, &c., &c."

"ITS A GRAND LIFE" SHORT, sturdy, plump, with an untrimmed black beard, the Rev. Harold Wilde plays the part of earthly providence to the 183 human souls who' populate the world's loneliest island, Tristan da Cunha.

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accent still holds traces of its native Lan- cashire.

He is called "Father" by the whole com-, munity.

They look to him for everything. He is a Doctor has lost only one case in his three years

on the island;

little

Dentist: is reconditioning his patients' teeth for

the "civilised" food they now cat; Banker: Regulates the harter by which the community carry on, for they have no money; Teacher: Ilus educated the people to brightness; Food Controller: Rations the people against a delay in the annual supply of stores or the ruin of the crops; Judge: Settles minor disputes that arise even on Tristan. Sanitary Engineer: Bas purged the Island of the risk of

pingue:

Agriculturist:

โป

the arid Jand

islunds.

inniting fruitful

of neighbouring

Mr. Wilde is a dictator-dictater of

a real democracy.

Here, all must work. All give equally of their labour; all share equally in the profits.

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"NO HORSES"

"I have no trodble," Mr. Wilde

"If I want anything done, I just We aturt put it oop at a meeting. next morning. I provide the tools.

"If it's building, provide the plans.

use hullocks or cows as

draft beasts. We've got no horse

the Imperial Vice-Admiral Mincich Koga, of Japanese Navy, accompanied by staff officers, called upon Mr. O. K. Yui, the Acting Mayor of Greater Shanghai. Admiral Koga and Mr. Yul are standing In

the front row.

"NO ROLES SUITABLE

FOR THE EARL OF

WARWICK"

New York, Apr. 21.

METRO-Goldyn-Mayer Corporation state that they

have not takin up the option which they had on: the Earl of Wart's services as a film star.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer estimate that they have spent thousands of star-pounds on the tests and grooming, as well as paying the earl à salary of £1,000 a week, including servants" allowances and travelling expenses.

though there are a few donkeys. "We've got stone in the hills, and enough timber to last us for fuel and building for 100 years.

"People made a scare about vation. There's no risk of it.

"In, the migrating season we birds and eggs.

1'm

get

I'm very fond of a penguin's eggy myself they're fine:

"We're exporting too. We export

They now say they do not seem

to be able to find suitable roles for

his lordship."

It is believed that strained reln-

mats, toys, woven goods, jumpers,tions were created when Lord, War- and that. We've sent out goods thiswick negotiated recently with Radio- year for the Arst time.

"GREAT SWIMMERS" "We're a modest lot on Tristan, you know.

"The men are great swimmers, but the women won't even get into inthing-dress.

"We dance, too.

"King George the Fifth gave us

a grand gramophone.

on a year's leave now, but)

"I'm on

the island's running itself under a

committee.

"I'm going back. It's a grand life.

Oop at 4 and begin work.

"Maybe a dance or a smoke In

the evening, and bed by 8.

why we're so healthy.

That's

"I went over alone and I'm going back alone, but when I've built my house and a hospital, and when, we're in wireless touch,

maybe, top...

His bright, dark eyes began to shine. "Ave, when all that's settled, then my wife 'll come out to me." So Tristan is to have n "Mother" as well as a "Father."

Keith-Orpheum without the know- ledge and consent of Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer because he was tired of wait- Ing to start his flim career,

Editor

Makes

Front-Page

News

SHOOTS RIVAL

New York, Apr. 15.

Maisie Reis was a recent prize win ner in the "Telegraph" "children's competition. (Photo: Photagem Studio).

DIVORCE LAW

A SMALL-TOWN feud "FLIMSY AND

such as the silent movies

used to portray ended to-day

| DISASTROUS”

with the death of Claude Mc- DR. WARMAN'S PLEA

Wreath For Cracken, editor of Alturas,

A

George IV's

Wife

California.

McCracke...and a rival, editor,

Harry French, had offices in the same street, but they never spoke to

each other.

FOR NEW BILL

The Bishop of Manchester (Dr. Guy Warman) has joined other leaders of the Church, including the Bishop of Durham (Dr. Hensley Henson), the Bishop of Birmingham (Dr. Barnes), and the Bishop of Coventry (Dr. Hàigh), in

Their feud began because Mc- Cracken ran a front-page article in HUNDRED years ago Mrs. his newspaper twitting his rival for Maria Fitzherbert, beauti- falling to pay his electric light bill ful morgunatic wife of George and having the current cut off.

French replied in his newspaper IV., was buried, at the Church by attacking his rival's policy. From pressing approval of Mr. A. P. of St. John the Baptist, Brigh-then on they battled, getting more Herbert's Bill to amend the

bitter with every issue.

ton.

ex-

"It is true that it extends the

Last night, as McCracken was divorce law.

with two women This month a messenger colled of dining at home the house of the rector, Father employees, French walked into the Joseph Newton, and handed him a house and fired five bullets at his wreath with the request that it rival. should be laid on Mrs. Fitzherbert's monument in the church,

MYSTERY ORDER

On a card, attached to the wreath

was:

·

of # "In honoured memory great lady, Marla, Mrs. Fitzherbert, These flowers, went on the cen tenary of her death, are a tribule from a great grand niece and great, great grand nephew of

Dorothea, Lady Knighton."

The flowers came froin

起

Ilove

From his hospital death-bed Mc- Cracken sent his last reply to rival French's attacks. It was a telegram to his newspaper, and it read:-

*To-night, about 6.30, Harry French shot Claude McCracken with an automatio pistol. The condition of heCracken is serious -(8Igned) McCracken. Then he died,

grounds for divorce, but it attempts to take them real and to get rid of the filmay pretext upon which divorce is now granted, and which is discreditable to English justice and disastrous to the oral seriso of the community.

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"The present situation makes light of the Seventh and Ninth Com mandments (Thou aimait not com mil adultery and Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neigh- bour') and the Bill attempts, at any rate, to better that situation.

FIFTEEN INJURED IN FILMING PICTURE

Bill, moreover, refuses Hollywood, Apr. 21. divorce for the first five years of florist, who a week ago received a A crash between two circus wagens married life. Some think that will postal order for one guinen and a used in a motion picture being filmed lend people to believe that marriago contract. request to send the wreath.

on location near Chino, Calif., to-day is merely a Ave years" The

"We are resulted in serious injury to fifteen Others, I among them, senders write:

belleve that a anxious to remain anonymous." persons during a chase scene being marriage which has to face the Biographies of George IV. state nimed by Paramount studios for a difficulties of the first five years will that a Sir William Knighton was one picture starring Miss Irene Dunne not be lightly made, and that when of the executors of the King's will. and Mr. Randolph Scott-United it is made it will tend to last,

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