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Short-sighted Old Lady: "Have you ever tried giving your baby Dill

Water?"

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Thursday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 22, 1938.

Shakespeare Starts A Problem

SCRAWLED EPITAPH

MAY

BE

Carnation

A PRICELESS TREASURE

DISCOVERY of a manuscript, believed by ex-

ports to have been written by Shakespeare, was revealed. recently.

It consists of fragments of scrawling handwriting found buried away between the musty leaves of a copy of Michael Drayton's "Barrons Wars," published in 1603. THE BARD'S EPITAPH?

On the flyleaf is an epitaph believed to be in the hand of the Bard of Avon.

A number of distinguished students of ancient manuscripts have examined the writing and state that there is the closest resemblance to the known bandwriting of Shakespeare. There are only five copies of his signature in existence.

The romantle story of how Dray- NAT ton's book left this country in the early 17th century, remained hidden

in Italy for there centuries, was told

Keen, of by its owner, Mr. Alan Edgware, Middlesex.

"bought it three years up from North London dealer for £0," he sold. "It did not occur to me at rat that the writing on one of the pages anything DUIE of the inight be ordinary.

EXPERTS AGREE

"Then I began to study it cart

fully. Something in it recalled what |

I had already seen from the signa-)

Washington observers believe that Postmaster General James A. Faricy will quit the Cabinet, as soon as he can find a good business connection.

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FROM YOUR OWN FIRESIDE ARMCHAIR YOU MAY SOON, BY A FLICK OF A SWITCH, BE Eventually I submitted the MSS. ABLE TO WATCH AN OPERA COMPANY IN MILAN

tures of Shakespeare.

to certain experts for ink tenis, and

Grally

felt that I could put the whole OR VIENNA, SEE HITLER REVIEWING HIS MEN matter before world experts in hand-

when writing. 1 was delighted

AT NUREMBERG, OR THE DUCE ADDRESSING I found that two of them agreed.

"The writing in my book is in the form of an epitaph to Michael Dray- tm. According to the authorities, however, the writing is not by Dray- ton himself.

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A hundred radio telephony experts met in London recently | HANDS: It is not like his work to discuss plans for international circuits for relaying television

nor is it his style."

GREAT LITERARY FIND

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"All the papers connected with this matter were shown to me a time ago by Mr. Keen," Sir Squire said. "I spent three studying the details of the seript, and 1 now believe that Keen

teen has made out a very strong

case,

Jolin days manu- Mr.

If the experts of the world agree on it, there is no doubt that it is the most valuable Iterary and of Lime

A member of the firm of Messrs. Quaritch, famous London booksellers and dealers in rare MSS., said: "I certainty is a discovery which de- serves to be given the closest attel- tinn,"

'I Remember-

Day In Cutty Sark

between Britain, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Holland and Rumania. While your left hand Sir George Lee, engineer-in-chief focusses, your right fore- to the G.P.O., met these 100 delegates at Burlington-gardens, Pirendilly.

Representatives of Chili, Mexico, The U.S.A., Cuba, Uruguay, Argentina and Japan were there too.

Industry Still Comes South

10 the

Industry's continued drift South and large scale transfers of workers to industries connected with the defence programme are revealed in the annual census of the insured population issued by the Ministry of Labour.

The method of relaying and inter- changing programmes will be carried out by cable and radio linkıyıs

FIRST FOR USE Cables running between Paris and Bordeaux and Berlin and Munich wilt in all probability be the first to be used for this purpose.

Difficulties that would be experi- enced by the use of submarine cables

this now for This shows that there are

type of transmission- 15,742,850 Insured people in Great particularly across the Channel and ↑ Britain and Northern Ireland, include the North Sea-will be overcome by

system of radio relay links. ing, for the Brst time, agricultural workers

221,370 and

persona domestle employments.

in

Some significant increases In the number of insured people are: Air-

explosives, 7,000; public

ment Service, 14,000.

Countries will be able to tranmil and exchange programmes for the nominal cost of hire of the able and radio links.

This means that the B.B.C. will be

foreign programme matter at a frac

the artists to this country.

FOUR captains were among the craft, 30,000; generouble able to give its viewers the best of

14 guests, all one-time mem-23,000: bors of the crew of the Culty Works, 34,000, and National Govern- tion of what it would cost to bring Sark, who recently lunched in the small saloon of the famous old China clipper, now moored in the Thames off Greenhithe.

Sixteen people attended the lunch. the 14 guests and the Captain-Super- intendent and the First Officer of the training ship Worcester.

There are declines in cotton of 18,000; rallway service (non-perma- nent workers), 17,000; coal mining, 10,000; woollens, 10,000.

SOUTH'S SI PER CENT. Changes in geographical distribu-

During the conference idens will be pooled by the experts for the purpose of bringing about a speedier development of television inter- nationally.

AN com-

tion of insured persons again show South has now 51.1 per cent, of the First Officer Jackson of the Wor- that London and the South are at-whole insured population

Londonpared with 10 per cent, in 1920 and cester said: "The saloon of the Cutty |tracting large numbers.

an increase of 45.7 per cent. in 1023. Sark is small. It seats 12 comfort heads the list with ably

32,550, though this is only one-third

The lunch was a very good one and not at all like the hard tack of the old sailing ships. It is to be cooked aboard the Worcester."

The number of persons employed of the increase reported for the year in agriculture in Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 750,350, an in- before.

It would appear that the drift increase of 0,730 over last year or 9 London is slackening, although the per cent.

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