1939-01-07 — Page 3

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 7, 1939.

NEW PHOTOGRAPHS OF A ROYAL FAMILY

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DOCTOR, 76, WAS LAX-G.M.C.

Dr. Northcole was convicted of the offence at Westminster Police Court last May, was fined £17, and ordered to pay three pulneas costs.

THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF KENT and their children-Intimate photo-

graphs taken at their home, Coppins, Iver, Bucks.

On the left is Princess Alex-

andra, and right she is seen with her brother, Prince Edward.

Train Door

In Court

London.

To assist a Camberwell jury in de- ciding whether a stockbroker's agent committed suicide by Jumping from a ritway earringe door window or

far us out as ascertain whether he

He Takes

The Biscuit

CTUALLY_hea 13-year- old Plymouth boy-look a silver-plated biscuit barrel, but: Its excuse at Plymouth Juvenile Court was that he in- tended to return it after it had been used as a "prop" in a school play in which he was taking part.

"What part are you taking?"

the Chairman. asked

"That of a burglar, sir,” re- plied the boy.

Case dismissed with magis- terial advice against the profes- sion of burglar.

Greek King Buys 20 Swords

KING George of Greece, re-

France's 3-Year Navy

Plan

Paris.

cently in London, where he did most of his shopping, order-ter of Marine, gave details of a

ed twenty swords to be made for him.

Except that they bear his coat of arms and monogram, they are the exact replicas of the British naval, infantry, cavalry, artillery and R.A.F, swords,

For falsely certifying a passport fell out accidentally, the door was photograph and representing that the produced in court. Each juror put applicant was a t person to hold his head and shoulders through the British passport, seventy-six-your- ald Dr. Augustus Northcote, of Wick-wintow and leaned road, Hackney. E.. was censured by possible tu the General Medical Counell. silting could overbalance. The inquest was in London recently.

Jon Basil William McDough Butcher, 34, of Argyle Mansions, Chelsea, who died after being found on the rail- way track while returning from Parts In the Southern Railway boat train. After the courell had considered The verdict was "Suleide while the their decision in private, the presi-balance of the mind was disturbed."

Some of them are for his own use. dent, Sir Norman Walker, said to Dr. Mrs. Butcher told the coroner that

Larger orders for these copies of Northcote: "The council have found during a summer her husband in- Oleted a throat wound on himself that the facts alleged against you

British swords are expected in the have been proved to their satisfac-with a safety razor. Later he went

next few years

because the King to a nursing home Zurich. A doc-

Saskatoon, Sask. intends to present a British-made [tor, stated that he advised Butcher

The giant tooth of a dinosaur. "The council regard laxity in giv-to have auto-suggestion treatment to weighing 13 pounds, was found by sword to every cadet about to enter ing a certificate of this nature as a help him in respect of his addiction workman digging gravel on the his fighting services. matter worthy of censure, as in other to alcohol. He suffered from "Es-outskirts of the city. The tooth was similar circumstances such axity has cope Neurosis" in which he could not broken in two

One sword which has particularly by the workman's resulted in injury to the State and free responsibility. In the doctor's plek, and has been sent to the Uni-captured the fancy of the King is to the good repute of the medical opinion, the thront wound was in-versity of Saskatchewan for the R.A.F. sword with ils hilt shaped profession"

Picted purely for dramatic effect,

like the end of an eagle,

tion.

Dinosaur Tooth Found

amination.

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Appearing before the Navy Com- mission of the Chamber of Deputies recently. M. Campinchi, the Minis-

of three-year programme French warship building which is estimated to give her a Fleet of 700,000 tons by 1942.

In October, the Commission was in- formed, 0 new 18,000-ton aircraft carrier was late down, I will be named Joftre, and will be launched 10 1041.

M. Campineti asserted that the Government was determined to give France the force necessary for the protection of her Imperial routes. Eighty per cent. of the capital sums voted for the Navy would, he said, be allocated to the building of new warships and aircraft.

"Our Navy is strong enough to deal with the united Navies of Germany and Italy," he declared. The situation might change, he added. int his assurance was the truth.

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