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THE

MONDAY, `HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NOVEMBER

1937.

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Sign His Will...

Woman Lost £12,000

A will in the hands of Treasury officials, would have made 58-year-old, stone-deaf Miss Florence White richer by £12,000-if the man who agreed to its terms had lived to sign it.

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But Falc-and the man's excentricities - decided that he should die intestate.

The man was John Thomas. Wil- matt, almost a hermit since his wife died 20 years ago. Recently it was revealed that he left £10,207.

Miss White was his devoted house- keeper for nearly 25 years. She is now unable to get other work bew cause of her affliction, and is penni- Jess.

But the story does not end there.

Because of the existence of the undigued wil, and other evidence of Mr. Wilmott's kind Intentions toward his housekeeper, the Trea Bury are to consider the possibility of making Miss White a substantial Bifowance.

As Wilmott died intestate, and has no known relatives, his entire fortune goes to the State.

WILL DRAMA

The drama of the unsigned will was told to a Sunday Express re- presentative by Mr. Hallett, friend and neighbour of the dead man.

"Miss White looked after him after the death of his wife as though he had been her own father," Mr. Hal- lott sald. She kept the ten-roomed house spotless. Yet her wages were only £25 year

"I often sat with Mr. Wilmott when he was ill, and i would remonstrate on the shameful gently with him wage he paid Miss White.

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"Io would say: "That wan contract she signed, and I see no reason to alter it. But don't wor- ry, I'm going to look after her well before I go,'

"Then, when he seemed very 1, 1 called in his bank manger-Mr. Wil.. moit himself was a bank manager to before he retired-and we tried persuade the old man to draw up a will.

"DRAWING UP"

"We got as for us drawing it up. The will directed that eight large houses owned by him at Slough, worth £12,000, should bo lett to Miss White.

"He,would say to us; 'I don't want to leave Miss White a large sum of money. I think it better to leave her something that will bring in money.

"When we would press him to sign the wilt he would always put as off, 'I'm not going to die yet, he would say, there's plenty tline."

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"He told me he hated to sign the will too soon because people would think he was going to die and their attitude toward him, especially if he left them money, would change.

"The bank manager and I are go- ing to do our utmost to see that Miss Mr. White is provided for. It was Wilmott's Intention.... We have am- ple proof of that."

NEW PLEA FOR ABOLITION. OF DEATH PENALTY

MURDER 'ACT OF IMPULSE'

Every year one hundred murders are committed in Great Britain, and the majority of them are acts of lm- pulse.

Mr. John Polon, of the National Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, made this statement at a conference on problems of prisons and prisoners at Liverpool. He said:

"I hope before ten years we will have a Rome Secretary who will have the

courage to put the abolition

the capital punishment on

book.

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"The theory that hanging L 1 special deterrent breaks down practice. How can such horrible punishment prevent people commit- fing hasty, unconsidered pels?"

STOP PRESS

Miss Betty Cooper who was select-

ed "Miss America 1037" in Atlantle City is nu usual Beauty Queen. After the verdict she surprised all by fiecing Atlantle City and announcing that she would not accept any of the many theatrical offers made her.

SAVINGS WANTED

FOR GUNS

GERMANS

URGED TO

BE THRIFTY

DR. SCHACHT REJECTS INFLATION

Speaking at a Gavings bank con- ress at Easen, Dr. Sehneht, President of the Reichsbank and seling Minis- to the ter of Economics, referred necessity for thrift in helping to finance the German rearmament pro- gramme (cables the Daily Tele-

reph Berlin correspondent).

"The uninterrupted stream of sav- bgs which must low into our econo- mle system to keep it alive can only continual be kept going through thrift," he said.

"Such saving is Indispensable to guarantee the normal course of our national economies: it is vital when the great burden of rearmament iz also imposed.

"We sometimes hear that renrmá- ment should be financed by means of taxation alone. That may be all But taxes sery well theoretically. which are really nothing more than compulsory savings must be reln- forced by voluntary thrift."

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To carry taxation too far, be added, would destroy the mainspring of eco- nomic activity and progress.

Dr. Schacht denounced inflation as a method of financing rearmament. "There are actually still people in Germany to-day," he said, "who are that the to bellevo naive enough printing of banknotes has lost its terrors because owing to currency control its results can no longer be read every day in the dollar market. INFLATION_DANGERS

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"One thing is certain. If a man refrains from building a house a gun can be cast from the steel which he saves. Not a single gun, however, can be constructed out of banknotes from the printing press, for notes are made of paper and guns of steel. "But what is more important that an inflation deprives the ex- change of goods of any calculable Basis, and an economic system which can make no calculations but depends on chance la doomed. For one man will hoard and another starve, and all production including that of wea- pons will come to a standstill.

"I realised clearly, therefore, when the Fuehrer entrusted me with a share of the task of financing German rearmument that I would depend to a de live extent on the assistance of the German saver. It is also clear to me that if the State made a claim on the savings of the German people It was obliged to see that these sav ings maintained their value."

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ROME RECALLS ENVOY.

Latest Italian Action Creates Mystery

for the Christmas holidays. There's also talk of a reshuffle of Itali [diplomatic appelntments, in whi

Signor Cerruti will be given another post and the Parls Embassy left leg porarily in the hands of the Chape d'Affaires.—Reuter,

FRENCH SOCIALISTS - $2

Lille, Oct. 31; The Radical Socialist meeting copi cluded with a unanimous resolution showing that all internal disscrisidas- Paris, Oct. 31.

were settled and proclaiming waym

for the There is myslification at the reasons support

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for the sudden recall of Signor Government.-Reuter,

Cerruil, Italian Ambassador at Paris, The oflelal explanation is that the French Ambassador at Rome abieni.

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The Count de Chambrun, French Ambassador to Italy, retired last year

NON-INTERVENTION.

and has not yet been replaced as Committee May Submit Brist

presentation of credentials would in-. volve recognition of the King of Italy!

as Emperor, of Abyssinia.

It is strongly rumoured, however,

Plan to Spanish Parties

London, Oct. 306

It is hoped in London that, 'blin'"

that Mussolini is angered by speeches meeting of the full Non-Intervalai at the Itadical Socialist Congress at Committee of 27 states, which appr

Lillo yesterday. On that occasion M. been summoned for Wednday,

Xerlot, former Promler, hinted at

sinister developments in Africa and authority will be secured for ub asked, "Are we sure that the Spanish mitting, the British draft plan, tid flag is dying over Palma?"

Ing arrangements for withdrawabl

M. Yvon Delbos, French Foreign non-Spanish combatants, to the two Minister, at the same function, alluded parties to hostilities in Spain,, to Manchuria and Abyssinip. He sold Differences regarding the granting that manoeuvrings for breaches of of belligerent rights - conditonally, treaties encouraged Imperialism by provided for in the plan, will be discouraging the threatened countries. further examined at an adjourned It is rumoured that the connection meeting of the Sub-Committee on

Tuesday,

when

the draft plan will between the recall of Signor Cerrut!]

and the speeches of M. Herlot and M. be again discussed, but it is foll that resolving these, if they Delbos was quashed by the disclosure prospects of But a note was presented last night still remain alter Tuesday's mering, Lefore the text of the speeches could will be improved if progress is made 'n the direction of approaching the have been available in Itome.

authorities at Valencia and Salonenco The Italian ofcial explanation is on the lines suggestedBritish Wire that the Ambassador was returning|less.

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