1938-10-10 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER

10, 1938.7

New 'Lawrence of Arabia' Wins His Biggest Battle

Miss Mary Walsh, 16, a lovely brunette, above, holds the cup. she won in a beauty contest to determine the girl to represent Florida in the Atlantic City finals.

BLUE-EYED GIANT

FIGHTS DESERT

GUN-RUNNERS

JERUSALEM.

Fighting terrorists on the desort borderlands of Palestine, swooping on arms smugglers, rounding up agitators and negotiating with Bedouins, a second "Law- rence of Arabia" is striving for peace in Palestine.

His offorts are smashing the terrorists' outbreaks and help-

ing to restore security in the Near East,

He is Frederick Gerard Peake, 52 year-old founder of the world's strangest police force-the Arab Legion.

Peake is using his influence

with the

Bedouin tribes of Transjordania to keep them out of the Palestine quarrel between Arab and Jew. Also be has had

to tackle the armed gun runners who try to enter Palestino through TransJordania.

Peake, alx

feel of bone

and

"Perfect

Servant" Goes

inusele, blue-eyed, forceful, has had To Prison

an even greater influence on the

Arabs than Colonel Lawrence. His

official title is officer commanding Lovely to look at was the blonde

the Arab Legion and Director of Suzanne, radiunt and sprightly, with Pubile Security for Transjordan.

HIS DESERT PATROL

sparkling blue eyes, hier beauty en-

After the war, in which he work-hanced by a pastel-blue tailor-made, ed and fought with Lawrence, he diaphanous with perky little shoes to found himself in the Middle East match her costume.

and out of Job. He organised the Arab Legion.

Araba, Kurds, Circassians and

Unfortunately she was in the dock

of a Brussels correctional tribunal. Sealed in the well of the court,

| Turks became his legionaries. There

were half a dozen British officers. was the chief witness in the case,

With this little police force, a few her Inte employer, Mme. Dupont.

hundred strong. Colonel Peake im Suzanne had answered An ad-

posed order on the tribes who live in Transtordania's 25,000 square miles of descri

vertisement for a chambermaid and Mme. Dupont explained her embar- was so young and His main task now is to keep arassment: "She

and well-spoken that I close check on the movements of beautiful

her because I agliators filtering into the country hesitated to engage

He have a grown-up son as well as A

husband.

from Syria, 'Iraq and Palestine, has an air patrol to assist him.

TWO MEN

CLAIM

A BOY

Rival Fathers Ask For A

Ask For A

Solomon Judgment

HEMINGFIELD (South Yorks).

"However, I have never had a better servant. She grasped the ways of the house at once. There was not even a wink for my son or my husband, and on her days she was always back before her time.

"She told me she had a sweetheart

Famous Porcelain Tripod

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The "Porcelain Tripod", the only art curio of its kind

and that she would soon be getting in existence, valued at half a million dollars, will be taken marrled."

Then one night when the Dupont trio returned from

a theatre they

found Suzanne on the four in the Impaired by two black eyes, she was

bound hand and foot, and she was Kakged.

to the U.S.A. in the near future and exhibited at "The 1939 World's Fair," by Mr. Van Jing, manager of the Communi-

cations Company, Importers and Exporters, French Bank Building, Hongkong.

as an heirloom. The This exquisite plece of art is one of jealousy and A doctor was sent for, and Suzanne the only eight priceless burners be-secret of the formula dies with the of the family so to last survivor was released and given stimulants. queathed by the former Empress speak or it may be destroyed by nccl- "Chi-hi" of the Ching dynasty some dent. Imitations have been made, Sitting at his desk in the village school of Heming-answering a ring at the door-beil the relie has been further enhanced failures, since they do not appear to

she told her story. On 80 years ago. The latrinsic value of but the results have been

total field recently, sturdy eight-year-old Albert knew nothing she had been confronted by three by the fact that the location of the be able to withstand any scrutiniza-

of the court struggle between two men, both of whom men, who had forced their way into other seven pleces have never been lon.

the house, beaten and bound her, ascertained. Measuring only 3* by

claimed him for their son.

One of them is Albert's real father, Albert Burkinshaw. coalface worker at Wombwell Main colliery.

Since he married a few months ago and settled in Wombwell Burkinshaw has wanted the little boy to live with him,

The other "father" is Herbert, the report of a probation officer, who Hyde, unemployed miner

whose is visiting the two homes, to decide wife, the mother of Albert died in this "Solomon problem" as to whom June, two days before her thirtieth Albert is to call father. birthday.

In his neat little estate home to-

rifed the rooms.

The police were notified, and, ar for poor Suzanne, they discovered that it was the third time that she had been bound and angged before a burglary.

occasions

On the

was an

two previous there had been no proof that she accomplice, but this time she turned "King's evidence," and Since then his 10-year-old aunt, day Mr. Hyde said: "My sister Rose all because of the two black eyes. Rose Hyde, mothered him.

gave up a good job to took after In accordance with established Some weeks ago Mr. Hyde naked the three children,

practice, she had let into the house Barnsley West Riding magistrates to "Before I was married my wife Charles, her lover, who was also in make a formal order giving him the and I took Albert with us every-the dock, separated from her by a custody of Albert. During six years where. Since our marriage he has gendarme. of married life he had brought up been with us always and has been the boy.

The Court granted the order.

boys.

treated just like our own two little however, Charles had accused her of Before getting on with his job Then, this week, the magistrates "He knows nothing of the court being too friendly with another man were asked to revoke the order in proceedings, and not a word of the and had given her a hiding to teach favour of Mr. Burkinshaw, described real facts has been whispered in his her to behave herself in future. in court as the "pulative" father.

And for that Suzanne had given Mr. Burkinshaw sald: "Albert is evidence against him. my son, and I want to be respon- Suzanne went to prison for eight It was stated that Burkinshaw had alble for his upbringing.

months, while Charles, who had a pald nearly £180 in respect of the "He knows me quite well, because little affair of drug-tracking to be boy since 1930.

BOY DOESN'T KNOW

presence."

I have often spoken to him in the liquidated as well, was given five

The Court will meet again to hear street."

years.

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2% in size. Its delicate beauty is re- vealed In its ancient skilful work-

manship. The art of porcelain-ware, of which this tripod is a supreme example, is one which requires ex- pert craftsmen, and such trained men are found only in China,

Fascinating History The actual history of this priceless object of art makes a fascinating atory. Hang Hei on the accession to the throne ordered eight of these burnern for the exclusive use in his private chapel during the official ceremony, and as the Emperor was a cultured man, he spared no efforts to design them personally. For a long manent fixtures of the late Ching time they were inventoried as per- Imperial Household until the Em- 35 the press Chi-hi, better known Empress Dowager, the late Grand- Bunt of Henry Pu-yl, and Regent for Kwang Sui carse into power.

She secretly bestowed one of these burners on her favourite eunuch Lee, who was known as a miniature Ras pulin. When eunuch Lee was libe- rated after the revolution of 1911, he secreted among his personal belong- ings this burner, and went into hid- ing Desperately in need of money. he was dually forced to sell it.

An art connoisseur, Mr. Mes finally purchased this relic, among

A fow other pieces of art, for the sum of $2,000,000, This noney was believed to have been spent by the Pelping Government then in existence, for the renovation of Platoric structures. When the burner was last exhibited in the military department of Genc- rai Chiang fok-lang, a quarter of a million dollars was offered for it, with no success, by one of the Eu ropean merchants of Tung Kau Man Hồng of Peping.

The above photograph of this valu- able art curio does not show the original in its true light.. The opaque white ground is egg-white. The other colours were blended to secure perfect contrast on, this white back- ground. The formulas for the var- lous compounds were handed down from generation to generation with

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