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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER

1938.

WXUNTORY

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HE COULDN'T

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She out-stated, ove talked, out-thought bic-but the put up a gome fight, Withou! doubt the strawlost,

dizel, doffiest, fun-

nigs force the

res

came out of Holly. wood,

SAMUEL GOLDWYN prescutt WOMAN CHASÉS MAN

with MIRIAM HOPKINS

MORROW

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Herbert Marshall

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MAJESTIC

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THREE GIVE LIVES FOR TWO FRIENDS

Brothers Judgment On A

Gassed

She Was Only The Gaoler's Daughter--

Lexington, Cal, Oct. 6. TWO prisoners here have just discovered a new way to get out of prison.

They made love to the gnoler's daughter!

While her father, slept, the girl took the keys to the gaol from his pocket, opened the doors and kissed her sweet- hearts good-bye.

She has been sentenced to 60 days Imprisonment for releasing the two men,

NEW P. & 0. LINER SETS

OUT FOR H.K.

Canton Leaves England On Maiden Voyage

LONDON, Oct. 7. THE LATEST ADDITION to the liners maintaining regular services between Europo and Hongkong will set out from here to-day for the Far East.

It is the P. & O. liner Canton which, under the command of Captain Jack, formerly of the Naldera, will start on its maiden voyage,

In Pit

Wellingborough

(Northants). Three men died recently trying to save two work mates from a fume-filled pit twenty feet deep.

Will Of 1785

Boswell Papers To

Be Shared

dated

A dispute under the will. 1705, of Jamen Hoswell, blographer of Dr. Johnson, has been enled by the ja reserved judgment given in Court of Session, Edinburgh.

The action" War to decide the manuscripts ownership of valuable and loiters by Boswell recently found in Fettercairn House, Fetter

Fettercairn All five men-two of them were cairn, Kincardineshire. brothers were dead when Poller House is owned by Lord Clinton, the Sergeant Farrem, weuring

soldest descendant in the direct line: mask, brought them out.

of Sir William Forbes, Daywell's extcutor.

The tragedy occurred at a tannery In Little Irchester, near Welling- borough, owned by Nicholson, Sons

and Danicis,

Two workmen. Alwyn Sharpe, of Wintstanicy road, Wellingboroughs, and William Smart of Earl's Burton, were cleaning the plt when they collapsed.

Smart's brother, George saw their danger. He knew the pit was alling with deadly carbon monoxide gos but he went down the ladder to their ald. He collapsed at the bottom.

LOWERED ON ROPES Two other workmen, Alfred Heary Dayton of Jackson's-lane, Welling

George

uf Clow, borough, and Irchester, then went to the rescue.

They, too, collapsed.

Two men from a flour mill were

The manuscripts included Boswell's London Journal, 1762-63, and part of his Journal for 1770. Among the letters were 1,030 sent to him by celebrities.

There were four claimants. Lord' Stevenson, Lord Commissioner, in bis Judgment, decided that the many- scripts and letters were the property, In equal shares of

Lieut.-Col, H. H. Ishının, of Park Avenue, New York, and

Cumberland Infirmary.

LARCE COLLECTION Licut-Col, 1sham owns a large

Boswell collection of

manuscripts which he bought from Lord Talbot

de Malahide in 1923. He claimed as who the assignee of Lord Talbot, succeeded to the "books and pictures Auchinleck-Bos- in the adeno

the next to go into the pit. They put on respirators and were lowered well's residence-under the testamen- tary writings of his aunt, Boswell's on ropes.

great-granddaughter, Julia Boswoll Mounsey.

They had to be inuled out and one The fumes were too much for them,

of them-Oliver Linnell, of Well- street, Wellingborough was taken to hospital seriously

were

one

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NEXT CHANGE

At The QUEEN'S "CRIME SCHOOL”

At

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QUEEN'S

Cumberland Infirmary claimed as residuary legaters of Mrs. Mounsey.

were Humphrey Bogart, "Dead End" Kids The unsuccessful claimants

Cum- It took Sergeant Farram. In his Lord Clinton and Mrs. Mary

of Halley, claiming as half an hour before heberlege,

Boswell's descendunt of gos maak, could bring up all the bodies.

Three of the five dend were younger children. Married The single men

The dispute hinged on the location. when Boswell Sharpe and

Gayton was of the manuscripts Gayton. engaged to be married to Miss signed his will in London in 1785, 10 Gladys Corby, aged twenty-one, of years before he died. Bletchley, Buck. They planned to marry early next year. This is the first accident in the which Boswell regarded as the home Claritası-it. Du the Far

respects out-thirty years' history of the tannery, for his papers run, has been specially de- signed for the Far Eastern trade and ia the Inst word

The ship carries a full load of passengers, Including very many for Hongkong and Shanghai. Practically the entire cargo space for 7,700 tons has been booked for weeks.

Even the bhanges of tem- to prevenEWELL Sweating of cargo."

The Manchester Guardian ma farewell article says that the Canton typifies the heartening faith in the Far East when the war there is not www | yet, even in sight.--Reuter.

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ADDERS BIT SHEEP

They Sunbathe On The Roadside

An Ardnamurchan (Argyll) crofter, carrying home a load of hay on his back, felt something cold creeping on his neck.

Lord Stevenson came to the con clusion that they worn

CHALLENGES CHURCH

Demands Subsidies

Who

For

Starved To Aid

parsons

THE

Parsons

Poor

"He must watch his wife, once a charming. Hghted-hearted girl, change gardener and scrubbing-mald, all into housemaid, drudge, nursemaid, rolled Into one.

"Pittance Parsons," who must his miserable pittance, give, and give keep up appearances ni all costs, generously, to the poor, while his even to the point of secret starvation, own family are in need of the bare have staunch chomplon in the necessities of life. Marchioness of Townshend, of Rayn- ham Hall. Fakenham, Norfolk.

"Poverty among country is far greater than any one reallas, [sho

Sunday Express repre- said to {sentative.

"Their potion is all the harder "I should, Hke to see the average because the must keep their plight country parson running a cat, eduenik- a secret, and actually give away what ing his children without constant little money they have to spare to sacrifices from himself and hla wife, the poor of the parish.

table to affurd-a snuiti, and- to-live in

reasonable comfort.

lot a

"When I once said this to a certain

"On one secasion I paid the fine caught a parsons son who was poaching. His family were without well-known bishop he said: 'I don't any food in the house. The boy had approve of parsons going to cinemas gone out, athis wits' end, to try to and getting about the country top get some fok.

much. They are better staying at home looking after their flock."

"On anoller ocasion a parson, and his family d to let their furniture 80 piece by piece, to make ends meet. came to me in desperation. They urfire was on the hire purchase ind was all to be taken the the next fay If they could not And

£20.ve them the cheque.

He shook his head and an adder, nineteen inches lang fell at his feet. This is only one of many recent incidents on Lord Trent's 45,000- | AF*C acre Ardnamurchan estate which is infested with adders.

Several sheep have been bitten. Cattle and even horses have died from adder bites.

One ewe died within a few hours, and its flesh turned 0 greenish black. Adders, some of them more than three feet long, can be seen basking in the sunshine on the Ardnamur- chan roadside. Old stone dykes are being demolished in the effort to root out the reptiles.

"But a bishop is not forced to make ends meet on little over a couple of hundred a year-and he probably doesn't know what it is like to see his children going hungry.

"The very nature of their calling "I have for the past fifteen montiis, prevents the elergy complaining. been looing for a minister for wish they would complain-through living onmy estate. The salary is the columns of your newspaper.

They under £30 a year.

could do so anonymously. Then I think we might persuade the Church to do its duty and look after its par- sons and their widows adequately.

"I am of the opinion that any living "CONTANT SACRIFICES" under £400 for a married man with "It is arugle state of affairs when a large vicarage and П garden to: the man tho ranks next to the keep up, should be subsidised by a squire in puntry districts must out of grant from ecclesiastical funds."

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Lord Mayor's

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functions of the year, wany virtually boycotted last night and only 800 guests attended instead of the usual 700:

The remainder are reported to have sent their 400 Individuni regrets at ne being able to attend, u bagi ma

The reason

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