1939-01-05 — Page 2

Thursday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 5, 1939.

Naval OfficerFalls From Express Train

WITHAM (Essex).

A NAVAL officer, Lelutenant Gay Slater, aged thirty-one,

whose wedding the following week was to have been a leading event of the London season,

in died recently

Chelmsford Hospital, after he had fallen from an express train.

A few hours before the ac- cident he and his bride-to-be, Miss Patricia Adams, had called together at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, W., and had discussed with the vicar arrangements ding.

1. MOUSE

1.

RUNS UP BROKER'S

A

LEG

Mouse

held

up

City trafle

final through Throgmorton Street, EC.,

for their wed-|for five minutes. It raced out of the Stock Exchange, followed, by the Four hundred guests had been in-Stock Exchange cat. vited. The reception

was to have

been held in Mayfair hotel. A

Continental honeymoon ranged.

SEEN IN MOONLIGHT

WAR ur-

lefi Then, Lieutenant Slater London for Ipswich on an express train from Liverpool-street. As it thundered past Witham at sevenly miles an hour he was thrown ont and JAY unconscious, sprawied ACTORS the other rails.

It was bright moonlight. The dri ver of a Kooda irala following the express saw the unconscious man on the ralts along witch an up tenin was due.

The driver jammed an his brakes. Lieutenant Slater, his head severely injured, was taken to Chelmsford Hospital.

While doctors there prepared to operate, telephone calls brought the dying man's fiancee and mother'

hurrying to Chelmsford.

For four hours surgeons fought to

The mouse ran for safety up the trousers of a stock-broker who was standing outside in the street.

A crowd made a ring round the broker while he took his trousera og. He eventually released the mouse-bsit the cat did not.

2. MOUSE RUNS UP LAWYER'S LEG

Mr.

1. V. Roseinan, a lawyer, la

save his life. For four hours mothering a cinema at Cleveland, Ohio.

and sweetheart waited together in for £50 damages because, he says,

A

aearby hotel. itis mother, now Mrs. Borton, had Javelled to Chelmsford with her husband, Air Vice-Marshal Borton. of Cheveney, Kent.

In the inte afternoon the two wo men were summoned to the hospital The operation had been in vain. They stayed by his bed as the un- consclous man died.

Lieutenant Slater's father, Mr. S. H. Slater, of Guildford, Surrey, is a retired Indian Civil Servant.

Just three weeks ago," he said. "I saw him off from this door. He was to be back here in four days.

"One thing I must do at once: I must go up and see Pat Adams, who should have been his bride."

Lieutenant Slater, attached to the depot H.M.S. Ganges, was due to start on leave,

His dancee is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Adams. of Bourton-on-the-Water, Glos.

At his home in Palace Gate House, W. Alr Vice-Marshal aorton, step-

father of Slater, said:

"My stepson came here to say good-bye to me and his mother yea terday.

"We never thought that when next we saw him he woull be dying inn hospital bed."

a monse ran up his trouser-leg while

he was watching a picture.

He declared he was scratched and bitten, was unable to sleep that night.

George Formby

Is Upset

A few words spoken during a "Lis- teners' Requests“ programme of gramophone records in the National

recently have programme comedian George Formby.

upset

urs

Typical of the 18,000 Italian families that of the 19 ships that carried the emigrants across have left their native land to colonize Libyn is the Mediterranean, to be greeted by Governor the Amadeo Maestri family, left centre, emigrat- Marshal Italo Balbo, right centre, on arrival at ing from their home in Pescara-di-Ferrara. An- Cirene. Top right, statue of Il Duce at Tripoli, nouncement that the government had chosen waving the Sword of Islam. Colonists found then caused much interest in the home court- homes and farms completely equipped, awaiting yard, lower right, while Mama Maestri, lower them. Families from same Italian towns left, got her identification tag. Top left, some kept together.

Almost BALD

3 months

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"Pull Up Your COUNSEL SAYS THAT

Socks For The King!"

Renfrew (Ontario).

ldren at Renfrew:

"We have had a number of re-Said Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor- quests," said the announcer, "for Mr. General of Canada, to a group of George Formby's "When I'm Cleaning Windows. But they are not yet clean enough for this programme. We will try to find ont of his songs next week."

"Children. I have a word for you.

CHINESE EMBASSY

REFUSED EVIDENCE

COMPLAINT that the Chinese Embassy had pleaded diplomatic privilege, and refused to give evidence in The King is coming, so I hope you a case in connection with an alleged transaction concern- your socks, for the King is especially ing arms for China, was made by counsel at Bow-street interested in children."

will all brush your hair and pull up

Sald George Formby In London one night: "It is one of my most famous songs. If the man in the The King and Queen are to visit B.B.C. studio didn't like it he need Canada and the United States next not have mentioned it at all."

May.

Cotton Praises the

Golf

Ashridge (Heria). Heary Cotton, most famous goli professional in Britain, recently told the full story of the match in which be partnered the Duke of Windsor to players,

beat two other crack

He described the Duke's game as he talked enthusiastically in his home at Little Gaddesden, near here.

"We played Mr. Max Aitken and Cloud on the St. Percy Boomer (Paris) course," he said, "In a four- ult foursome. Mr. Aitken has handicap of one, and Boomer is one of the finest players in France. The Duke played off 0.

"At the Brst few holes we did not do so well. The Duko was

mini-

ruffled, however, and drove stead!-

17.

"He has a good swing, and near-

Duke's

Cocaine "Burned Hole

In His Pocket"

recently.

Mr. G. Du Cann, who appear. ed for two of the three defend- ants, submitted at the close of the hearing that no stone should be left unturned to bring some- body from the Embassy to speaki about Mr. Chou Tin Shu, who had been mentioned in the case.

"Justice cannot be done if the Chinese Embassy are going to shelter behind their diplomatic privileges in this way," he declared.

The three defendants, Frederick Willing, aged 50, a Dutch subject and

Fiance Ran

Club

For Lonely

Dublin.

metal merchant, of Tavistock-court, A MAN who was said to have ordered a suit for the wed- Tavistock-square, agent, of Park- lane, W., and James Oll Herbert, Willing, aged 24, metal merchant, ofding and worn it at the opening Dorset House, were all committed of a Lonely People's Club which DEFENDING, at Bow-street, London, W.C., recently, a twenty-for trial.

The founded, was ordered at nine-year-old hairdresser accused of possessing cocaine, Mr.

All three defendants pleaded net Dublin Civil Court recently to R. E. Fearnley-Whittingstall said that it was a case of moral guilty and reserved their defence. pay £160 damages for breach of cowardice by a perfectly respectable man.

The three were charged with hav- promise.

and

and

Classics Read poat from a man he had met in

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ing conspired between December 1, A short time ago the man, 1937, and May 30, 1930, with Chou Francis Behan, of Curzon-street. George McGowan, received by Tin Shu others unknown, to Dublin, was sued by Miss Margaret Theodore Gallagher, of South Circular-rond, defraud M. cheat Lafitte, stated to be manager of a Dublin. Both are aged 35, Paris a packet of cocaine, who well-known era of Paris armament suggested he should sell it and

agents, of £7,250. keep anything over £20.

A

lively controversy

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C1037 Mr. J. Fitzgerald, for Miss Galing- They were also charged with her, said that the couple began keep- For more than a week McGowan obtaining the £7,250 by false pre-ing company in 1820. About 120

tences and with attempting to obtain letters had passed between them. wandered about miserably, wonder- £4,000 from M. Lafitic by false GUIDE TO MISGUIDED ing what to do, the packet "burning pretences. London. ja hole in his pocket." has been

At last he showed it to a man in war arrested

Graham-

the

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"For some reason," said Mr. Fliz- gerald, "Behan started a Lonely People's Club in Dublin and hoped ❘ DA1541 to make money out of it.

"He subsequently ran excursions and organised dances for 'misguided lonely people' in the city."

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In Februaryipf this year Behan.

Miss Gallagher a letter in

ly every lime he pitches well up the aroused in the Press by statements the West End, and fairway. It is on his approach by Sir D'Arcy Thompson, Professor almost at once.

Rollo of natural history at St. Andrews, Magistrate Str shots that he loses points.

Grant Robinson, Campbell bound McGowan over. "We were three down at the turn, and Sir Charles but the Dake's good driving counter-Principal of Birmingham University, balanced his weak points, and at the suggesting that the younger genera-

tion of students 13th we were all square. Slowly w with the classics of English literature.

are unacquainted times. In

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The Times to-day publishes the books mentioned in Sir D'Arcy fruit growing industry is that of which he stated he had met another DB1538- wont round in 89, and the Duke in

indletment-copies opinions of a number of Hbrarians Thompson's

in bananas. John Rose has successfully girl on the previous June and they

DA1216 whose evidence, while not immed-the lending library of one London experimented here with a trea that intended to get married,

Miss Gallagher, in evidence, said This was the first time I have ately relevant to the complaints of borough have each been borrowed was 14 inches tall when he planted it played with him, but mw that he the eminent university teachers, do more than 50 times in the past year 18 months ago, and is now 18 feet

for Lonely People's Club correspon-| in a really good player. 1 think that at least conflict with any ideo of awhile at Croydon it was reported high, with a lameter of 18 inches und that Behan used his home as an office he should very soon have a handicap general decline of public interest in to

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