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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

Heiress Must Wait 10 Years for

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1.

Legacy

1938.

"I AM HAPPY WITHOUT THE MONEY"

She

Cares More

About Her Job

Miss Pamela Capelli, twenty-two-year-old daughter of a Brighton sea-front hotel keeper, who was credited by rumour with inheriting £40,000 under the will of her millionaire uncle A. E. Capelli, learned recently that she will receive nothing for ten years.

Then, presumably, she will share In a division of the estate among re- latives which is ordered in the will, Meanwhile her father receives £00

a week, and a similar sum goes to lis brother and two sisters.

How much Mr. Capelli left is not disclused, but he gave £100,000 to public institutions in South Africa, where he died.

'NO FALSE HOPES'

Ma Capelli, who has been carry- In on the hotel during her father's absence In South Afrken, said: "I had no false hopes, so I am not disappoin- tox.

"During the past fortnight people have been coming into the hotel and Vʻtalking to me about my supposed £40,000 legacy; and people from all over the country have sent me let- tera and congratulatory telegrams. But all the time I said the rumour

was nonsense.

"Money does not mean much in my Hic, anyway,

'A NEW CAR'

"I my father is well-to-do, so much the better, but I am as happy and comfortable in my job, helping my father, us ever I could be.

"It is not likely that my father's legacy will make any difference to us except that I shall probably get aj new 12 h.p. car out of him in place of the tittle thing I trundle around But he had pro- In at the moment. mised me that after the Motor Show,

anyway.

EMPIRE NEWS

ELECTION DATE IN

NEW ZEALAND

Auckland.

The Prime Minister. Mr. Savage, announced recently that the General Election will be held on Oct. 15.

It has also been oftleially an- nounced that the Government guar- anteed price to the farmer for butter for the present season, which began on Aug. 1, will be 14.89d per lb and fur cheese 8.42d per 1b. These figures show a rise as compared with last season of 1.34d for butter and

88d for cheese.

The London equivalents of these prices are 124s 3d per cwt for butter and 739 9d per cwt fur cheese,

dairy trading The new season's deftelt is estimated at £1,534,000, against which has to be set a surplus of £000,000 for last season.

The delay in the announcement of; the guaranteed prices has been due to the dimeullies of Mr. Nash, the Finance Minister, in financing the Dairy Account. He ignored the re- commendation of the advisory com- mittee appointed by the Government that higher prices should be fixed to! meet higher costs.

"My father is nut likely retire, "Brighton Corporation have been trying to buy the hotel from us for n long time to give a sea frontage The rates are now .88d below thei committee's demonstrated cost of to the new town hall they are talk- ing of, I heard, when it was rumoured production, and this is leading to that I was an heiress, that a promin-protests by the farmers, ent member of the council said: 'Now we'll get the hotel for a song, and have the whole building razed to the ground in no time.

"Well, he's wrong."

Babies Beat the Camera

Girls

Women have registered one more shock to masculine pride by stealing the Professional Photographera Ex hibition from their male colleagues.

After visiting the Royal Institute Galleries last month the men had to admit that the camera portraits and stills by women were, except in the of child sludies, greatly superior case of

Their

own.

to

Mrs. David Jagger, wife of the sculptor and portrait painter, was astonished when her husband praised

the women's work,

Kipling Scholar-The first New Zealand boy to be awarded a Rud- yard Kipling Memorial Scholarship is John Spencer Pallot, 13, a pupil of

Auckland, King's Collego,

The scholarship is tenablo at Kipling's old school, now the Imperial Service College, Windsor, for three years.

India

FRONTIER FIGHT CASUALTIES

The Razmak Brigade,

Simla,

while

After inspeeling the gear of the Cremer lifeboat which successfully participated in the Trevessa Trophy race, Mr. II. 8. Rouse and members of the Committee are seen in consultation, while the coxawain of the win.

ning boat, Mr. Boorsma, looks an.-Pictorial NewR.

POLICE GUARD FOR 4

SCHOOLBOYS Jugoslav Princes

Come Back to Work

HIPPO CHARGES

MAIL-VAN

As the mall-van from Kabale, in | Uganda, to Mbarara drew near the river at Nsongezt, the African driver saw two bulky shapes crashing about

n a cloud of dusi.

Two hippopotami had chosen the main road as their battle-ground.

The noise of the cur's approach dis- turbed them, and one of them

"Good-bye, Tommy. See you soon!" shouted Prince Alexander to his cousin, Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, on the Continental platform at Victoria Station recently. Plain-clothes policemen, silent and alert, stood among the crowds when four princes, all English schoolboys, arrived in Eng-charged the car, overturning it and land for the Christmas term.

smashing it beyond repair.

The driver sat Ught, and the hip-

Two of them, Prince Tomislav-ten-years-old heir apparent to the Yugoslay throne, and brother of 15-years-old King Peter pos went crashing down into the re--and his brother Andrei, aged nine, climbed into a large touring river. All night long the driver turning from Ladha to Razmak re-j car which was to take them into the country for three days be-loyally remained by his malis, until rently, was sharply engaged with fore their term at Sandroyd School, Cobham, in Surrey, starts. help came out from Mbarara. hostile parties. Its casualties were one Indian soldier killed and one

The other two, Prince Alex-1= four Indian soldiers ander and Prince Nicholas- British and wounded.

cousins of the King, and sons of The enemy casualties known, but nine dead were observed Prince Paul, the Regent-went in one defile.

off with the Yugoslav Minister East Africa

are

KENYA'S OLDEST

colonist.

COLONIST

Nairobi.

un-

in London, with whom they will

stay until term commences.

BORN IN ENGLAND

FILM CHIEF DENIES INCITING CROWD

break through.

went to Downing Street thinking

Among 16 people arrested dur- cet a better Alm?--I do not know, They were both born in England, ing the demonstration in White-but he was inviting the crowd to The death has occurred of Mr. and appeared perfectly at home, par-hall recently was Edgar Arthur Frank Watkins, 85, Kenya's oldest ticularly Prince Alexander, who with Anstey, 31-year-old productions his fair hair and complexion looks n "I've nver before heard him say

director of the March of Time Formerly Mr. Watkins represented typical English schoolboy. anything so complimentary about Barberton

The King's two brothers, smaller News Film Company. Transvaal old women artists she said. "Of Assembly. On one occasion many and darker-skinned, wearing neat course, he was grudging about it, years ago his death was reported, and grey overcoats over grey suits, were but he could not hide the truth." the Assembly adjourned as a sign of far more shy,

After sleeping on the problem, Mr.¦ mourning. Jagger gave me his theory.

"WORK SHY"

In the

TSETSE RESEARCH

Dar-Es-Salaam.

Mr.

Williams, J. S.

Anstey, in the witness-box, sald he

there might be some news suitable for am. He denied that he was "work- Before Mr. McKenna at Bow Street Ing up" the crowd in order to get a he was charged with using insuling picture that would be worth taking. Prince Tomislav, however,

with sald: words and behaviour, and

An application for costs against the "We enjoyed our holiday tremen-obstruction. The case was dismiss-police was refused, dously. Most of it we spent at home, | ed. and we did a lot of fishing. Now we

Among others accused of insulting solicitor behaviour was a 38-year-old typist, are looking forward to this term and prosecuting (said it was alleged that fris to playing football at Sandroyd.

Ryder, of St. Edmunds King Peter was at Sandroyd, four Anstey was urging the crowd to break Terrace, St. John's Wood,

Charged years ago, when the news of the the police cordon:

with her was Edmond Warburton "Bat they are far quicker than Research for the territory. He suc- tragic death of his father, King

Police-constable Taylor said that (20), who men at picking out essential do. reeds Mr, C. F. Al. Swynnerton, who Alexander, assassinated in France, Anstey had his flat raised and was obstruction.

was killed in a aeroplane crash in first reached him.

shouting: "Down with Hitler. Save central Tanganyika, on June 12, Capt. Hornby, who is 40.

the Czechs.** was veterinary.

officer in Northern Rhodesia from 1913 to Joined the Tanganyika

1020, and service

"Women make poor painters and sculptors. They are no good at that kind of art, which requires patience, imagination, and much hard work.

talla. 80, if you give them a machine to do all the work, they produce a better result."

All the experimental photography work and most of the colour portraits ure the work of women.

The most unusual ́extilbits are

Capt. i. E. Hornby, Director of Velerinary Services, Tanganyika, has been appointed Director of Tsetse

1022,

COCOA ORDINANCE

those by Miss Ursula Powys-Lybbe, Gold Coast who surrounds her portraits with miniatures of the sitters' hobbies and homes A beautiful portrait of Lady Mary Dunn la decorated with ple- tures of a pair of skis, a horse, a couple of children, a musle score, a dachshund, a saloon

and facade of Lady Mary's home.

But it is not the women or the men

car,

the

REPEALED

in

DOG IS LEFT

10s. A WEEK

Nippy, a cocker spaniel, has been

Anstey made a statement declaring

C.

was

niso

accused of

A police-constable sald Miss Ryder was throwing pamphlets into people's faces and Warburton was brandish-

that the officer who arrested him ing a booklet.

struck him in the stomach.

Constable Taylor denied that he

struck Ansley.

"MY LITTLE CONTRIBUTION"

Miss Ryder, in evidence, said the went to Whitehall "to make my little contribution towards rallying the (de-people to stand firm for peace be-

cause who wants wor?"

"A BETTER FILM" When Mr. Anthony Marlow left a pension of 10s. a week in the tending) explained that Anstey was wl, published recently. of his productions director of the March of Accra. The Cocon Control Export Ordin-mistress-eighty-seven-year-old Mrs. Time Company, P.C. Taylor said: "It ance and the regulations attaching to Donna Evans, of Fawnbrake-avenue, would have been a much better film it have been repealed. The repeal lerne 1ful, SE, who died recently. if the crowd broke through the police will be effective as from Sept. 30. She referred in her will to her cordon." who receive the most enthusiastic end of April

Cocoa control was instituted at the "dear dog Nippy." She left £21,447, Mr. Marlow: Are you suggesting appreciation. It Is the babies-keting of the 1937-8 crop. Mean Association for the Bilnd.

ensure orderly mar-most of which goes to the London that he was inclting the crowd to scores of them-mostly photographed while n dispute had arisen between by men.

the cultivators and the cocoa-buying JUPITER THE STAR

pool. Master Jupiler Pluvius Junior, a 12-months-old with a mischievous gilst in his oyes, is so good a sitter that he is been given four spaces on the wall.

Mr. W. G. Briggs has "shot" Jupiter splashing in his sucking two podgy fin- gera, poking out a shiny longue, and screwing up a tiny nose.

out

in February it was announced that a Commission would be sent from England to examine the situn- tlon, and the producers thereupon agreed to stop burning the crops. The Commission is now drafting a report.

THIN MAN (10in. by 8%)

She was dined 30s. The charges against Warburton were dismissed.

Ernest Ayres (38), of Bruce House, Covent Garden, who was alleged to have shouted, "Down with Mosley," was fined 40s, or seven days,

The char

LOVER'S QUARRELS Girl Allegedly Pushed Towards Lorry

A series of quarrels between two lovers, which culminated in one allegedly pushing the other towards a passing motor lorry in Kennedy Town, were related at the Criminal Sessions yesterday when Cheng Shuet-wah, alias Cheng Chup, 23, was tried before Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, Acting Chief Justice, on three counts."

Accused, who pleaded not guilty,

charged with (1) causing

Krievous bodily harm to Yung Wal- ping, 20, with intent to inurder her; (2) causing grievous bodily harm with intent to maim or diafigure her: and (3) unlawfully and maliciously Inflicting grievous bodily harm.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Donations to Charitable And Other Objects

2

The case was adjourned until to-

The Hongkong Society for the morrow morning.

The following comprised the Jury: Protection of Children acknowledgea Messes, L. E. N. Ryan (Foreman) during October:

the following donations received client Kam-to, Hul Wol-pang,

obnsion Wong, A. J. Rozaria, Chiu Mr. Fok Che-ting and Wong Sung-kl. |Mr. Ưu Tong-sen

Prosecuting.

ting, Mr. J. Whyatt, Crown Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Co..

Counsel, sald that necused and the Ltd. girl were betrothed about three Anonymous

years ago in Lam Ping village, and

(Contribution

for 2 blind boys)

they remained on good ternis until lion. Mr. & Mrs. S. Caine

the early part of this year,

January

The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo

9 last they came to Mrs. M. K. Lo

Hongkong and went to live with Professor M. II. Roffey

accused's sister in Yaunti.

Mr. J. P. Dawson

The girl's mother was already Mr. A. II. Compton living in Hongkong in Belcher Mr. Wan Kong-un Street, Kennedy Town and when Mr. & Mrs. D. J. S. Crozier she heard of her daughter's arrival Mr. W. Fald

she went to Youmati and asked her The Thrift Shop

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to come and live with her.

Accused objected very strongly this and threatened to break off the engagement. In spite of this, how- ever, the girl went and lived with her mother and, as often happened in lovers' quarrels, accused did not oreak off the engagement but instead vialled her from time to lime.

Relations Worsen

On February 9, the girl visited accused's alster and stayed with her for three or four days, after which!

01

friend I. W?

Kowloon Police Magistrate (Contribution for "Kung Mui

& "Leung Man" for September & Octo- ber) Donations already acknow

ledged through the South China Morning Post

Total

$1,000

500

600

44

10

40

.$2,322.30

Further donations will be gladly

she once more returned to her mother. accepted by the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Later, she obtained employment of A. McKellar. C.A. c/o Mackinnon the Hongkong Rubber Factory at Mackenzie & Co., P. & O. Bullding. West Point. Accused niso objected to

POPPY DAY FUND this because, na ho

put

it, there were too many men in the Factory. The Further contributions received by girl eventually gave up her employ- the British Legion for the Poppy ment nnd went to live with accused's Day Fund, 1938, are as follow: sister.

Previously acknowledged... $2,015 At that time relations were not as St. George's Society, Hongkong happy as they used to, be, und after St. Patrick's Society of

nother quarrel, she went back to Hongkong her mother. They remained, how- Anonymous

iers

ever, betrothed and accused continued Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell to visit her from time to time, Dr. J. H. Montgomery

Continuing, Counsel said that mat. C. C. Willson

came head on August 29, T. H. G. Brayfield when accused paid one of his cus-N. Croucher tomary visits to Belcher Street to see the girl.

On that occasion, it was the girl who was not pleased, and she asked

100

100

8828288

$2,070

be

Hist In yesterday's the RAO.B. that the engagement be broken off. (GL.E.) China's donation of $75 was

Isted She requested accused to sign a erroneously

08 R.A.O.B. document to this effect, but he re-(G.LE). Club. fused, at the same time saying that Further contributions If he was forced to do so he would gratefully received by W. J. Cole,

suicide. Eventually,

he Acting Secretary, Earl Halg's Fund, that the girl should accom- Hongkong & Shanghul Bank Build-

10 Kowloon

to ace his ing. Cheques should be made pay- the matter.

The girl able to Thomson & Co., and crossed agreed, and the two of them lett "Poppy Day Fund."

4 p.m.

pany him father about

Der street about n

very

Atmosphere then was not a

one, and on the way

ST. VINCENT do PAUL

$50

25

25

20

30

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul they approached Collinson Street, tions to the Fete on November 0 there were some heated words. As

acknowledges the following dona- they were seen by a lorry driver, St. Joseph's College who was driving a lorry towards

"Sparrow" West Point, in the opposite direction. Mr. A. J. Raptis This driver, who had just overlaken Mr. M. Nemazte

private car and was driving along "F. C." the tram track, noticed them when he was about 150 yards away. He saw the girl walking on the tram. track and the man about six or seven sald accused gave the girl a push feet to the right of her.

when the lorry was about three feet from her. The vehicle was going Pushed Toward Vehicle

about 14 miles per hour, and ac- and in the way

Seeing the girl on the tram track cused's action appeared to him to be

Intentional. of the lorry, the driver sounded his horn, whereupon she went over closer to the man.

of nc-

Taui Pak-ying, motor driver, and to the right side, Fong Kau, coolle, gave corroborative when evidence. The lost-named, As the lorry was almost level with questioned by accused, derled he was them, accused was seen catching alven money by the lorry-driver to hold of the girl with both his hands become a witness. and he deliberately pushed her to-

Cheng Shu-ching, sister ward the vehlele, Counsel sold,

The driver stopped

Immediately used, said her brother had always but not in time, and the girl struck been on good terms with the girl. the nearside mudguard and head-testined to having found a blood- Acting Sub-Inspector R. G. Baker lamp.

stain at the scene, about eight feet The incident was witnessed also from the pavement. by the driver of a private car, which was then about 10 yards away, and

Sergeant T. Meinnes deposed that coolie, who happened to be walking the motor lorry was in good me-

chanical condition along at the time.

and other wit- The girl was rendered unconsciousnesses who gave formal evidence were she was subsequently taken to Constable Chan Sam, C424, Sergeant the Queen Mary Hospital, where she J. Allen and Yu King-yue, Police remained for about three weeks, Interpreter. suffering from concussion and in-

០៧៥

break through in order that he could Thomas (22) against David Wolfe juries to the left side of the thee.

GAOL RUNAWAYS RECAPTURED

were

The two men who escaped from Lewes Gaol recently recaptured one near Grays (Essex) and the other at his parenta" home at Southend.

First to bo taken was Archie Lewis Wainwright, aged 25, Police-constable Waylelte, Stanford-le-llope, found a car aban- their colleagues went to the front door of Two were posted at the back while

and knocked.

doned on the road near his home.

He is Master. Poter Brookes, of Highfield-avenue,

Kingsbury, Middle- sex. His face would be worth a The Thin Man has been blamed for fortune in Hollywood, but his father the recent outbreak of school rob- to keep him gurgling in his bries at Ilford. The police have Intends to 10 Kingsbury nursery:

been amazed at the way be hos Competing for the honours with squeezed through narrow windows, Master Jupiter is a curly haired girl but he has made a record by squeez- who has Jain her young brother ing through a window 10in, by Bin, left the car had walked towards across the nursery table and is busy at Goodmayes Bowling Club. patching his torn pants. "It's never He made a fruitless search of tho too late to mend," by Mr. Hugh club for money, climbed out again, Greaves, is Uie sort of picture that crocred the road to a new school, and makes wonen visitors sigh, "How ransacked all the class rooms. Aweet!"

Photographers were at a low to "Man can look at a baby and re- explain why men should make main detached," he said. "He can better baby plotures than women. forget the human aspect and think of Mr. A. F. Bucknell, nocretary of the baby in terms only of a camera the association, thinks the reasons subject. That attitude is more dit in psychological,

ficult for a woman,"

He was informed that a man who

Grays.

The officer went after the man and at Hangman's Wood, five miles on, came up with Wainwright, who at once surrendered.

Хо neatly dressed, but was desperately tired and a few minutes after entering the colls at Grays to await an escort from Lewes he fell asleep.

Later fout delectives went to the home of George William Harris (23), In Durham Road, South-end.

an artist, of Chelsea, was dismissed.

A constable said Thomas was shout- ing: "Chamberlain must go," and was striking out at the police.

A charge of obstructing the police against Cyril Altken (20), shop assistant, was dismissed.

John G. Stewart (20), author, of Lambeth Road, was flied seven days, for obstruction.

£4, OT

2 MEN FIGHT WHALE

A two-tons bottle-nosed whale. over 20ft. long, was caught in the River Trent at Gainsborough, Lin- colnshire.

tho recently. This is second found alranded there within a month.

Skipper J. Chapman, of Newark, and his mate, Mr. Stanley Ddlesby, rammed the whale with the bow af their motor-barge. Mr. Odlesby then attacked it with a boat-hook, and the two men worked for an hour before they succeeded in taking the

PRISON INQUIRY Harris, It is alleged, was seen by the officers at the back” to climb through an upstairs window, drop on a shed and slide to the ground.

He ran down the garden, but was cought as he tried to vault the fence, He was taken, handcuffed, in a van to Southend central police station.

The escape of Harris was the second from Lewes in Wainwright And

It is to be shown in Gainsborough five weeks.

to raise funds for the local hospital, Warders on duly, at the time" at- and later it will be sent, it is under- tended an Inquiry held by the pri-stood, to the Natural

History' son commissioners at the gaol,

Museum, South Kensington:

+

monster in tow,

Giving evidence in the witness- Accused

box, accused said that when he told was taken to No. the girl of his intention to go to Police Station, and when charged Canton, she asked him if he wanted with causing grievous bodily harm to break off their engagement. He with intent to maim the girl, he sold no, but she insisted that he made a sla

a statement to the effect that alsould write out a document break- he pushed the girl as he was angry ing the engagement. Eventually he at her change of affections, and that promised to do so, whereupon she he did not know at the time a lorry asked him to take her to his father was coming.

and sister to talk the matter over.

BAITIS

afterwards.

After Sergeant T. Mackay, Police photographer, and Mr, G. H. Gandy, Words of Disagreement surveyor of the P.W.D., had given!

On the way, they had some words formal evidence, the girl told the or disagreement. She was talking Court of her trouble with accused loudly, and he gave her a pat on the and of the incident. Questioned by right shoulder, at the accused, she said she could not give asking her not to speak in such a dme any reason why ho deliberately gave

manner. Immediately her the push. She could not re- the girl walked sideways towards member if he had used one or both the middle of the road, and after hands, but she could recollecl it was several paces she slipped. There- a push and not a pat.

Dr. T. K. Lien, of the Queen Mary order to catch hold of her, but un- upon he stretched out both arms in Hospital, testled to having amined the girl and found her sufvelling very fast, happened to pass fortunately, a lorry, which was tra- fering from concussion and injuries by and knocked her down. He had to the left side of the face and left no intention of causing her grievous ankle.

bodily harm, nagus Lapso of Memory Leung Chau, mother of the girl, Cross-examined, accused admitted spoke of the quarrel at her house, that it was an a result of his pat that and added that after the incident the girl was injured, but maintained her daughter "occasionally suffered that it was sheer misfortune that from lapse of memory and ddiddiness, the lorry happened to pam bydlen

Evidence of having seen the inci- The case was adjourned unul to dent was then given by Il-Ping-fot, am to-morrow for accused to, call driver of lorry : No. 3455, Winess witnesses to testify to his character.

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