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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

ARRIVED-AND

THE BABIES FOLLOWED

Legend Was Right

In This Case

EVERYONE knows the nursery tale that the stork brings the babies. Lord Mansfield, one of the greatest authorities on birds, tells a story suggesting that there may be some truth in the old legend.

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He has had storks of his own, and within a year of their being taken to his Dumfriesshire home, Comlongon Castle, they "justified the reputation legend gives them. After they were installed it was obvious there were to be various increases in the local population.

One of the newcomers was born to a couple who had a girl aged eight, another to a household with three children, the youngest being 15, and a third to a couple who had been married for 10 years with no children.

PANDAS' JOURNEY

FROM CHINA MAJOR FLOYD

INVOLUNTARY 100 M.P.H.

For years Lord Mansfeld hus been studying bird migration and can tell authentic stories of their mystery travels abroad and how their move- famillar ments are traced by the incans of putting rings un their legs. He tells of a flock of lapwing caught in a storm while crossing to Ireland

A gale blowing from the enst swept

SMITH, who them out across the Atlantic. The brought the first giant panda toping speed of the lapwing is about had 40 miles an hour. The speed of the England recently, said that it not been for the courage and gale was 60 miles an hour, so that The endurance of his wife the animals those which did not perish in

ocean were carried westward at 200 might never have left China.

miles an hour.

A day

later thousands DJ weary hapwings reached Newfound- were unfortunately land. Most massacred, and whether they were is exceedingly able to colonise toastful.

"LITTLE ENGLANDERS" Once Lord Mansfeld ringed a shellduck that was found in Jutland

"I was physically unable to make the 35 days journey from Chengtu to Hongkong" he said. "I would have, killed me. The only person I could trust was my wife. As soon as she realised my position she volunteered to make the journey alone.

rond That meant travelling by through bandit infested territory con- stantly exposed to attack by Chinese irregular troops."

Mrs. Floyd Smith continued story.

the

the following summer. It had lost both its less in rabbit traps but had a family and was apparently happy, "We just had to get the animals)

Many British birds migrate, but which are to llongkanit." she said. "They were there are certain birds

und placed in trucks, and I took two of determined Little Englanders our most trusted men-men who had think Continental travel not worth worked with my husband in the while. No British-bara specimen of mountains and helped him to catch the chaffinch or the hedge sparrow the pandas. After supplying them has been found abroad so far as he with arms I began the journey.

The British robin, however, "On the second day a truck rolled has been found in South-west France Lord Mansfield, and Holland, sald

A PANDA KILLED

hours

knows.

down an embankment and killed one who talked to an audience of women of the pandas. After several

at the Pioneer Club, Cavendish Place, we proceeded on our journey."

W., recently. Mrs. Floyd Smith went on to say that they travelled all day until nightfall, and then put up at small Chinese inns along the highway,"

south, which meant many more addi- tional days' hazardous.travel.

"I was not nervous until we reach- SOMETHING WORTH WHILE

ed the province of Kweichow, which i

"I cant describe how thankful f

reach is al was to

Hongkong. I was

Here Is Mrs.

Leonard

brill.

Dum-

photo-

graphed recent-

L with her

twin sons.

the left is an

action plcture of her a few years ayo, doing the high-jump.

University Students Fight Magazine Censor

January 12, 1939,

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boys, sat up in bed recently and laughed at all the “old women" who told

her

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is infested with bandits. It miles and miles of deserted land. Iment, and for about the first time

lished by the students of St. Andrew's University is expected at any moment to see ban-in my life thought I had done seme-¡demanded by the University Senate. It would ban all

its swoop down. But fortunately thing worth while."

Major Floyd Smith intends to re- political articles, and the authorities would have power to nothing like that happened..

"But just when we thought we turn to China to capture an unimal were safe we encountered somebody that has never been seen by white veto other articles. who warned us that Chinese irregu- ¡man.

is provided by miles up the road. We were at Fort still in existence. there was nothing for it but to turn use for medicinal purposes.

It

is the

chronberch,

a

"Just look at my lovely boys," she gold at a Streatham nursing home, "and tell me if they look as though they were sorry their mother is a athlete."

Before her marriage their mother

was Miss Mary Milne, British cham- inte

plon high jumper and Olympic

with a leap of 5ft. 24in.

At 15 she broke the British record

lar troops had been seen only a few species of deer. Evidence that it' Students who edit and publish the magazine twice Bayurd, a French penal colony, and the powdered antlers which natives monthly have refused to accept the conditions, with the result that the magazine has not appeared since October 24.

Twenty-one months ago Mrs. Recently the matter was brought before the House of Com. Dumbrill had her first baby. He is mons by Mr. Robert Gibson, Socialist M.P. for Greenock.

ποιν a strapping fellow, weighing 24 st. He asked thy: Secretary of State

Girls who think they should not

pressure being exerted to prevent St. dangering their health and spolling Andrew's students from dealing in their chances of motherhood are their own magazine and in their making a mistake," she said. | socleties with the urgent questions

"Most of

the girls who won inter- of the day.

motional honours in the early days have healthy children.'

Woman Claims Millions Napoleon Took From Bank

Paris.. LAIMANTS to the fabulous fortune left by Jean Thierry, an innkeeper at Brescia, Italy, who died in 1636, leaving estate estimated to-day to be worth £300,000,000, have been informed by the French Government that a settlement for £160,000 will be made if they produce a family tree proving their right to the

money,

hime. Jolyeler, of

Auteuil, near; 1796 he took this fortune from the Paris, who claims she is the genuine vaults of the Zecca Bank, helress and has genealogical tables Five judgments have been given to prove it, told how France obtained by the Seine Tribunal since 1822

- possession of the

fortune,

"Jean Thierry," she said, "was the son of a poor nobleman who took up Innkeeping in 1000, He met a rich Venetian merchant who made him helr to the fortune.

estates.

favour of the legal heirs,

First Mishap In 41 Years

in

P. C. Rescues Girl for Scotland if he was aware of the take up athletes for fear of en-

From Her Bath

DRETTY

twenty-five - year - old business girl. Elenor Nicholl, was singing in the bath in her buche- dat in Cambridge-terrare, Felix-

słowe.

Mrs. Gilbuns, in the fat down- stairs, was having a bath, too. She heard the singing of the girl in the room above. Then there was silence and a groun.

Throwing on her bath-robe Mrs. Gibbons gave the alarm.

FORCED THE DOOR Police Constable Brooke arrived when hope and been given up.

He found the bathroom door locked and bolted. He had to use his trun- cheen, a briek, a saw and a chopper before he could force the door.

He found Eleanor lying in her bath, unconscious. necident She had been gassed and

North Andover, Mass, Arthur L. Rand's record of driving

1121 for 41 years without

Pieture above shows Mrs. Dumbril

Ha question also asks when the! rules under which this action was photographed at Streatham with her taken were approved, and if the Minister will undertake to make a high jump.

no grant to the universlty until he has held an inquiry into these incidents.

"We And It impossible to accede to the demands of the senate," a student freedom of ld. "If we did so thought and speech, which we claim as our right, would be abolished.

"We know what happened in the past to an editor and two students of the university magazine when they printed some articles which did not find favour with the authorities,

"The treasure included houses near the Doges palace in Venice, a four-toot-square box filled with gold ingots, 30,000 gold coins, 20,000 silver ducats, 000,000 Vene-ended abruptly when his automobile nearly drowned. Later she was sint-They were 'sent down' for a time." tinn erus (silver coins), and two bags collided with a dump truck. of precious stones."

The 62-ed to be on the road to recovery al- year-old Fitchburg realdent said he though still seriously ill.

TE is acknowledged in France that first drove a car In 1907 while when Napoleon entered Venice in student at Townsend, Vt.

"It was all part of my job," said Police Constable Brooke.

GORDON'S

SHOE SALE

NOW ON

twins. Inset: As Mary Milne, doing

Duke of Windsor Loses 'Shadow'

The Duke of Windsor has lost his "shadow."

Superintendent David Storrier, burly Scotsman of 46, who was the Duke's police bodyguard for Wales, 18 years, as Prince of King, and ex-King, has returned to London to take up administra- tive duties at Scotland Yard. During the anxious days before the abdication Mr. Storrier remained "No outsider has any right to with the King at Fort Belvedere. Interfere with the

When the Duke of Windsor left Affairs of St.

Chief-

Sir James Irvine, Principal of St. Andrew's University, said:

Andrew's University. We are per- fectly capable of settling our own} problems without external ald."

Pupils Identified By Numbers

Norman, Oklu.

England Mr. Storrier, then Inspector, went with him.

OFFICIAL LINK He became the only official link between the Duke and his former kingdom.

He was present at the Duke's wed- jding to Mrs. Warfield, continued his duties as "guardian shadow" in Aus- trin, Italy, Czecho-Slovakia, and in France.

Here is how the Babby Davises

It was the superintendent's re- Identify themselves: "I'm Dobbysponsibility to secure privacy for the Davis No. 1," and "I'm Bobby Davis Duke and to discourage curious No. 2." The "twin-name" students sight-seers.

Inre not related.

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Mr. Storrier was. a uniformed sintlon-sergeant at Cannon-row

18 years ago when he was called

on

to replace the late Inspector Burt on his retirement as police bodyguard to the then Prince of Wales.

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