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POSSESSION CLAIM

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Court Refuses to Grant Order to Landlord'

I wo are asked to leave we would probably become street- sleepers," said Wong Mul-shi at the Summary Court yesterday, when an action, claiming possession of the second floor of 77 Bute Street, was brought against her husband's firm, the Ching Hing Construction Co., by the landlord, Kim Lal-man,

Plaintiff ping asked that the rent of

the

first floor, let to Chiu Pul, be in- crensed.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, ·OCTOBER 24, 1938.

WAS NEARLY "Perfect" Girl Growing Up:

MILLIONAIRE, NOW IN GAOL

A wife saw her husband within a hair's breadth of becoming a mil- lionaire, who lost £5,000 of her own money

gambles, heard him sentenced at the onc of h Ananelal Old Bailey recently to

conversion.

eighteen

Faces Rain And Snow In Cotton Frock

Diana Hughes-Hughes, a 18-

months imprisonment for fraudulent year-old Walton-on-Thames girl,

First thing she did on leaving the being brought up to avoid all the Mr. E. S. C. Brooks appeared court was to have a 28. 6d. lunch "mistakes of civilisation." plaintiff, and defendants were re-sent to him in the cells,

by. Mr. F. H. Loseby.

for

I told the Court that ho Her husband, David Jacoby, finan- clat agent, pleaded not guilty to wanted back the premises for his fraudulently converting 1.200, the family, who had been forced to come anoney of a Walthamstow doctor and to Hongkong from Chungshan enuse of Japanese bombardments. his wife.

be

Доог to de-

She wears the minimum of clothes, running about in sun, rain or snow

clat only in cotton knickers and frock and sleeping under a single blanket even bitter weather.

"Diana has fully justified our faith that withfa natural diet and way of life we could make her healthy a human being as possible," her mother toldin News Chronicle reporter recently, .

"Her teeth have never decayed. Her skin is radiant, her hair thick and glossy, her body perfectly prp portioned.

He bought the house for over $12,000 ARMS FOR CHINA and rented the

"second fendants of $30 a month,

"My husband was in un £8,000,000 Cross-examined, plaintiff admitted deal for arins for China but there having

a letter to defendants was a hitch at Prague and it fell demanding an increase of rent to through," Mrs. Jacoby sald in an $40 but maintained that this was interview. done before he had any desire to obtain possession. Although he was aware that the influx of refugees had caused the rent to go up, he never thought of taking advantage of the position. Wonk

Muf-shi said that when the letter demanding an Increase in rent was received, an, offer of $35 was but this was refused. At

"Your £5,000 has gone, old girl," believe it was very difficult to find

te premises, and if they were forced to leave they would probably

se me street-sleepers.

His Lordship refused to make an order for possession, but increased the rent, in respect of the second floor, from $30 to $37.50. The rent of the first floor was raised from $28

to $35.

BRUNO MUSSOLINI.

Rome, Oct. 2.

It is offelally reported that Bruno Mussolini, second non of Signor Benito Mussolini. is to marry en October 29 Signorita Gina Ruberti, aged 22, daughter of a member of the staff of the Ministry of Educa- 1lon-United Preis.

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"I was brought up by a tilled family. When I went with David that family disowned me, but I have never regretted following him,

"He came to me once and asked for £5,000. I gave it without ques- tion. He stood to win a large sum,, but the market tumbled,

he' said, "and that was that.

"Though she is average in height, her chest expansion is so deep that

buy small women's patterns for should be the normal for all ages. her. Her hips are narrow. This

"She is the prototype of what we all children would be if brought up according to the laws of nature-free from Hiness, beautiful, "Ife is in the position he is in now happy. capable of getting every through lupidity, not through ony possible joy from life and giving joy criminal Intent.

to others." "When I left him in the cells a

200 RECIPES few moments ago, he was livid with Mrs. Hughes-Hughes was shown recent temper at himself because be, a man the story of the boy in who had dealt in hundreds of thou-British Medical Journal and News sands of pounds, had been so stupid Chronicle. over a comparatively small amount.

"TL is extremely interesting to "Everything I had has gone but compare his educailon with Diana's when David comes out he will find and in find it appears to be funda- me ready to help him make a new mentally the same," she said. start."

Here is a specimen of Diana's daily diet:

Mr. Percy Lamb, prosecuting, told the Court that the doctor had ex- plained when the money was handed) over in 1935 that he wanted a safe investment.

MADE BANKRUPT

Later Jacaby was adjudged bank- rupt, with labilities of about)

£3,000.

A

Breakfast: Two or three apples, with skin, and plenty of "honey water drink" honey-sweetened with a dash of top,milk. Dinner: 1. Steamed cabbage with grated cheese, 2. Dry polalo. Suppers

1. Saind and cream cheese. 2. Fruit meringue. Between meals:

All the fruit she wishes. drinks she

Jacoby, in the witness box, said, There is no monotony about her however, that he told the doctor het food. Her mother has collected from was a gambler and that it would be cookery books and newspapers over better to buy Bank of England stock:|200 starchless reelpes, including a but the doctor was content that the Christmas pudding made with coco- money should be used in Jacoby's nut meal instead of flour. business operations.

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YORKSHIRE lass, with deep blue eyes, fair hair and wistful expression, Barbara Kershaw, is very, surprised with life to-day- and somewhat worried.-

felt different' from her schoolmates. Į Her face has been picked from

"Her one and only illness occurred 12,000 others to adorn the Women's at school. She caught measles in a Voluntary Services AR.P. poster. school epidemic.

"We were prepared to forfelt per- A detective said Jacoby was sen- "Other mothers used to wonder fection when we sent her, but I am tenced to eight months' hard labour whether Dlana would fit into or-convinced that If she had been able In South Africa for theft in 1033, dinary life," said Mrs. Hughes to have had the usual home food and while at Old Street in 1937 he was Hughes.

cart she would not have caught it. Ined £100 for being concerned in "She has now been away at a co-

The school doctor's report said; the management of a company while educational boarding school for two "Diana,, of course, was free sooner on undischarged bankrupt.

years, and has never for a moment than the rest."

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The original poster was recalled when it was found that it carried the face of a German girl.

Barbara, West End mannequin, has re- fused payment for the right to use her

face.

Her varry is caused by the fact that the picture we will see on 60,000 posters shows her in pensive mood.

know

"My friends will hardly me," she told me. "I look quite miserable,"

Impressionable young men who are nitracted by Barbara's face need not write asking her to marry.

"I am not engaged yet,” she said, "but I hope to be one day and any young men who write to me will not get an

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year chef in a West End restaurant, ex-officer of the Prussian Guards, and a Nazi chief in London, was fined £10 for theft and or- dered to pay £5 59. costs at Bow-street Police Court re- cently. He was also recom- mended for deportation.

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He has taken a prominent part in Nazi meetings in London, and frequently acted as receptionist when principal Nazis visited Eng-"] land.

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Mr. Hornby also explained that £100 found in Anton's possession when he was arrested was Anton's own money.

The theft, he said, was an isolated instance, and he naked that Anton be allowed to return voluntarily to Germany, Instead of being deported. Mr. Fry, the magistrate, and that was for the discretion of the Home Secretary.

Anton was accused of stealing goods, Including a leg of pork, liver Kaisage, butter, honey, lobster mayonnaise, ham, oranges, apples, lettuces, face towels, chocolates, Swiss roll, and bananas.

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