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Hardly hud Andre Francois-Poncet, new French Ambassador to Italy, arrived in Rome to take up his duties, before France and Italy elushed over a demand in the Chamber of Deputies that France re- Above, the new turn Tunisia, Savay and other colonies to Italy.

Ainbassador about to present eredentials to King Victor Emmanuel.

Ex-Premier. Laval Sells

Mineral Water

Paris.

Thursday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 12, 1939.

LUTYENS HAS A

66

JOKE SHELF ”

And "Bad Temper" Chair

By A. B. AUSTIN

WHO designed that chuir? "

WH

asked the new Presl- dent of the Royal Academy.

Sir Edwin Lutyens, elected P.R.A. on Saturday in succession to Sir William Llewellyn, looked at me amiably.

I had gone to his house in Mans- feld-street, W., to ask the architect of the Cenotaph, Government House, Delhi, Liverpool Cathedral and the Queen's Doll's House, a few questions about modern art and the future of the Royal Academy,

He pointed to one of four chairs by hi Areside and repeated his ques-

Lion.

It was a square, upholstered chair, with two of its sides high-backed. A harrow, padded rest, perhaps six Inches high, ran along its third'side. "Perhaps," I said fatuously, "you designed it."

SIR EDWIN LUTYENS, seated in the chale at his home recently,

Sir Edwin chuckled: "Nonsense. Gambling wife asks:

Napoleon the Great designed it. He wanted the narrow rest so that he could swing his legs over it.

His "Gallery"

"Napoleon, you see, was a very short-tempered man. He could ing himself back into his chair, and say: 1' You — fool."

Sir Edwin flung himself back and swung up a leg. I jumped aside just in time, catching it slightly on the

'Not at nil" I said. "A very effective demonstration."

Na tall, modern office building in in a black elbow, dir Edwin apologized.

Elysees here, a short, swarthy man in a frock-coat and a butterfly tie is bending daily over a desk heaped with papers.

He is Pierre Laval, former French Premier, the statesman who concluded in 1935 the Franco-Italian agreement regarding Tunis which Mussolini now claims France has not kept, and planned the Hoare-Laval pact for ending the Abyssinian war.

CANNOT A WOMAN HAVE ANY SECRET FROM HER HUSBAND?

SHOULD a wife's bank manager reveal to her husband how she

spends her allowance?

Mrs. Mary Sunderland, London doctor's wife who sued her the rose to its feet and made a gesturebank for damages because her husband was told that she sent towards the mantelpiece above his peat cheques to a bookmaker, recently lost her case. burning fre

"Have you ever seen tik before?" he asked.

He chose oue pleture from 11 very niture art gallery ranged along the IL WAS A

engin of the mantelpicer photograph of Venus de Milo, that argi-

Jes ancient.

Underneath was the scription: "This is what comes of biting ver

He was asked about Italy's claim that he had promised nai French support for the Abyssinian conquest in return for accord between, the two nations over Tunis.

an

" V. Lucas gave me that. Edwin happily. ere's nothr.

"I have notlung to say now," he amount of mineral water he drank miled, "but the time muy come when as a boy, while he was delivering

shat have a lot to say."

beefsteaks and mutton chops to the For the time being Pierre Laval, neighbouring farmers for his father, hailed only a few years ago as the the local butcher.

Besides his mineral water com- rentest statesman France had pro- uced since the World War, is busy any M. Laval is interested in farm- elling mineral water

ndsing, livestock, and his legal practice,

thousands

f bottles, alled from springs bub-for he is a prominent Paris lawyer. ling up in the mountain fasinesses

f his native province of Auvergne.

PREMIER AGAIN?

The farmer Premier, who is now Since the overthrow of his Cabinet, ifty-five, scribes the good health Pierre Laval has been lying low"

(Continued on Next Columin.) e has enjoyed all his life to the

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I urgan to realise that the plece gallery was meant to poke tan

L. G.'s Double

at before I had tune to compi te pra Odgment. Sir Edwin was gointing t a table in the middle of the roan.

I don't suppose you've ever seen a rless walking-stick before." he said. Here's one made of Bristol glass. Bern

e quite a lot. ton'

Freil-fnerd, Attit. with white matte tech", white hair growing rather th and a most unspoiled, humos

The age of 69, he brandished the web stek lectionately, and slowed me a

pa of old Dutch bang-bound wedding

Meta.

Singek by a chastici awazory. I sted live you ever been mistakip for Mr. Lloyd George?'

"I will put it this was he answered. "People have come up to me in the street and started to sprak Welch

Loja

"Of course, if you saw Mr. George and myself skɩing together. yo wouldn't see any resemblance.

"But I wouldn't say too much about if I were you. Mr. Lloyd Cicuma michte't like it, and I'm not sure that

I

"Not Quite—”

Leaving the 1901. I remembered modern art Bir Edwin thought about it for a moment, and then delivered film. self:

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me."

Walking towards his front door, I looked up at the Ane Georgian fanlight. Standing on a ledge over the door was a fantastic, gargoylish bust, or head, with a hat that miglit have been a pagoda or a mosque, a pair of horn-rimmed glasses. and a smile like that of the Chinese god of plenty.

It was Bir Edwin Lutyens.

in French politles. But he is being seriously considered as a Presidential possiblity when President Albert Lebrun's term of office expires,

His only dangerous rival is Edouard Herriol, the present President of the Chamber of Deputies.

Later the said :—

"Now what independence has n wife gol? Does this decision mean that a husband can ask the bank if she is being too extravagant about dress?

"I know women who spend a lot

Sleepwalking Boy Was 'Burglar'

FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy

tof their allowance on dress. Some

of them spend too much.

"One day a woman may be over-drawn and ker husband may ring up the bank and ask why. I suppose the Lank manager is entitled to say that her dressmaker's bills are too big and that she has spent 5 an a hat.".

Lord Justice du Parca, giving judgment for Barclays Bank, with cests, said the ordinary person would, say that, where husband and wilo were living together in amity, a statement could be made safely to one about the other which any one would be reluctant to make to any ne else. Society, expected a hus- band to be his wife's adviser and protector,

FAMILY ROW Mrs. Sunderland, who is the wife al of Dr. Arthur Sunderland of Hyde Oxford-while walking in his Park Mansions, W., sald that when

committed burglary

sleep.

ly, when he was charged.

she protested about a dishonoured cheque and the manager told her This was the plea made for husband that a great deal of her ac- him in the juvenile court recent-count went to bookmakers, it caused

family row. Her husband thought that her gambling was, no more than an occasional flutter. Ms Emma Clarke, of St. Mary's-

"There was an awful upheaval road, Oxford, found the boy in when he found out," she added to room at her house. He had taken me last night. "We might have been

LED.

parted. It was only because our Mr. Cecil Bartram, defending, said inarringe is on a pretty firm rock that three years

the boy in that we got over 1 LAU dulged in a childish prank.

A few days before the burglary he received an anonymous letter, demanding 30s, otherwise his em- player would be told of what occurred three years ago.

Mrs. Sunderland thinks that a wife is entitled to strict privacy about her money for housekeeping and dress, and she had the surplus for her own entertainment.

I

"I don't spend much on dress or don't play He suggested that this got on the the pictures, and.

|bridge," she said, “I just happen to boy's mind while sleeping and ne-like the horses. My husband never counted for what happened.

questioned how I spent my money.

A doctor said that the boy and his and I felt I was entitled to privacy. brother were both sleepwalkers.

The boy was put on probation for it, or 'You are spending to much.'

a year.

31 YEARS OF GASTRIC ULCERS

Stomach Now Quite Healed.

Who coull blame a stomach sufferer for giving up every hope of a cure after

long years of suffering?

But relief does surely come when the remedy that never fails is put to the test. Mrs. M. II. Y. discovered that to her ever lasting joy. She writes: "I have bein terriblo nufferer from ulcers in thro

I have tried stomach for 31 years.

"He never said. 'You are going

"Now, I suppose, every husband in the country can ask his wife's bank manager. how she is spending the money he gives her."

Adolescent Crime

"There is a wave of adolescent crime passing through the country, and judging by the fact that in this calendar thirty uf Die 48 accused People are under the age of 25 matters have reached a pretty serious in Manchester," said the Re- curder, Mr. Noci U. Goldie, K.C. curder M... ut Manchester City

Quarter [Sess

bad previously asked for an explanation (of the conduct of two break

hud admitted a series of ing

housebreaking, shop-breaking. and larceny offen

offences, one of the youths asking for 22 cases and the other 17 enses to be dealt with.

cad of remedies, all of which faite. I Pierre Laval hates sports, and hus have suffered no end of pain, but was never played

After the first dose I began to at any game in his advised to tako Maclean Ifrand Steinach Sessions recently. The Recorder life. He still smokes upwards of Powder.

day and works improve, and now my stomach is quite sixty cigarettes a

D day, His white bealed. sixteen hours

"I shall be glad to recommend it to washable tle, which he winds around

any stomach sulfarer. My son was cured, wire frame and pushes into his

after hospital treatment had failed, by starched collar, is a family tradition. Maclean and Stomach Powler." He has worn it ever since he was a student.

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to Sakellaris and, while he presumably told the court the reason therefor, no one else about the court has been able to figure it out.

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Counsel said the offences appeared to be senseless, ank no proat had been made out of what were "extra- ordinary

escopodos. The Recorder remarked, "What is

is that the

crime happening now which was committed in the old days by hardened criminals is now being committed by young persons

"În of 17 to 25 years of age."

a later ense in which two other young meni were in the dock, the Recorder re- ferred to "systematie crime being committed not by middle-aged criminals but by gangs of youths to whom chances of going straight are being given."

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