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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 16, 1939.

‘PRINCES' OWE £50,000,

WON'T PAY

AN

N Indian admitted at London Bankruptcy Court re- cently that he had incurred bad debts amounting to thousands of pounds with Indian princes since April, 1936.

Undertaker Dissents

On Trade

New Orleans.

A plan to stimulate business was adopted by the Exchange club. The plan was to select one member each week and for the other members to

The man, Gopal Singh Javher Mulkani, a metal merchant, of Lime Street, E.C., in his public examination before Mr. Regis-buy as much merchandise as posAÍ- trar Parton told Mr. H. HI. Gaine, Official Receiver, that he owed £51,230 and had no available assets.

During 1936, he said, he was engaged in purchasing, on be- half of Indian princes, large amounts of jewellery and other commodities,

The transactions were financed by a frm with whom he was associated Debts person. and by another

gregating £10,200 were now due to hire.

HAS NO PROOF

Mujkant declared that in 1937 he peculated in metuf differences on behalf of another Indian prince who anw owed him £31,305.

The debts which were due fram difficult to re- Indian rulers were cover. Two of the princes had since

Hed.

was not

ble from that firm during the week. He was the undertaker. only one member opposed the plan.

War-Time Posts

Retired Naval

For

Officers Played For

(By Hector Bywater}

The Queen

As a result of a careful review of the problem of mobilising retired naval officers for the second-line Fleet and for shore billets the Ad-THE Queen, who loves music, recently heard Eunice Gar- miralty has evolved an entirely new plan to avoid the anomalies which

tralian pianist, playing at a September. were revealed during the crisis in diner, the twenty-year-old Aus- young Empire In an emergency the number of

Seaford House, sen appointments available for re-reception for enormous tired ofteers would be comparatively studenis at

tir declared that he allowed to mention the names of the rinces, "I will write them down,

The added.

Mr. Gaine: You have no evidence

these full of any of these illustrious ransactions with gentlemen?--No.

The Mostrious gentlemen treated

you very badly?—Yes.

Mr. Gaine: This le rather a fan- instie story?-1 don't think so.

small, but hundreds of shore billets Belgrave-square, W. of vital importance to the emetent

When Eunice had finished have to be filled. working of the naval machine would

Officers under the age of no will playing the Queen told her,

that age may be Mutkani sate the princes owed be selected first, but the services of "You chose delicious pieces."

any offeer over

That day Eunice had her im, altogether, £50,505,

utilised. Claims for exemption fen limited period will only be given in hands massaged for the great exceptional circumstances, and must occasion. She complains. "The be made as early as possible. No piano is hard on one's hands.

considered after

Practice makes them stiff and claim will be mobilisation becomes imminent.

The many officers who have writ- cracked." ten to ask for information concerning the uniforms they would require on rejoining may be reminded that particulars on this point are given In the re-employment regulations shown in the appendix to the Navy 1st, published half-yearly.

The examination for six months.

was adjourned

First Park For England

State

NEARLY 20,000 acres of some of

in

REFRESHER COURSES

in time of

Until the Queen arrived she kept them warm and supple with a little silver hand warmer which she carried round with her.

Eunice, who won the Royal The question of notifying in ad-Academy Scholarship when she vance appointments which would be was only fifteen, says, "I've | allocated in war-time and of arrangplayed since I was three and ing refresher courses pence is, I learn, under considera- shall not even marry if it will

interfere with my career." tion.

The Queen also heard Denis Dowling, the young baritone from

The naval authorities are fully

New Zealand, singing Until

songs.

JOHN MCCORMACK, the Irish tenor,{ retired from the concert platform se. more thrilling o cently after oner crowded Albert Hall with his songs. flere he is in a characteristic attitude

during his last recital.

COURTESY POLICE

EFFECTIVE

LONDON. Courtery caps" bave reduced the they patrol by 20 per cent, so their number of accidents on the roads corps is to be increased,

AND HIS

SOLICITOR AND WIFE SHOT

Radio Had Been Going

For 12 Hours

LITTLE EASTON (near Dunmow). WOMAN'arriving for work at a house in this re- mote Essex village recently found a note pinned to the door: "Mrs. Rolph, don't go inside. Phone the

the grandest woodland country alive to the value of the retired list England, including the whole as a war potential, and the seeming Forest of Dean, the famous view-neglect of this factor in the past was points at Symonds Yat Rock and the ac to circumstances over which Hebridean folk

no control. There will, three years ago he worked on a nuckstone, and nine miles of the they had Wye Valley will be constituted short- however, be no grounds for com- sheep station a hundred miles 'y into England's first National Forest plaint on this score in the future.

I had drawn attention to the from Dunedin, the nearest city. nolice." Park.

After

flaw in mobilisation plans in the

Like its forerunners at Ardgarten Daily Telegraph and Morning Post

the Snowdonlaa Argyllshire, and Park, it will operole under the Dec. 9 I received a great many letters from relred naval offers. Forestry Commission's control.

They stated that they had been call- Subject to restrictions to protect' ed up, or reported voluntarily for Aoung plantations and prevent dam- duly, only to find themselves as- ge by fire ur straying cattle, the simed to mosts for which they were ublic will be able to go almost nulte unftiez. where they please,

HOLIDAY CENTRE

Several who have had pro'on rd

sea experience since their retirement were neglerned to rhore billets where

The Inquiry Committee, whose re-thir knowledge and experience would port containing the recommendations have been wasted.

ar the creation of the park was pub-

shed rectally, d-seribe it as a place

charming giades and forest clear- development as a

ngs, Ideal for

holiday ground.

Its mines, they point aul, are small

nd inconspicuous and not in any way harmful to the woodland ameni

Jen,

Combine Strips Farmer

-

Regina, Sask. Jack Bannister, Woodrow farmer. ret a rough and hurried undressing

Egyptian Students At Technical

College

London. The Bollon Education Committee have decided the twelve Egypt.an students should be trained as weav- ing foreinen and overtookers at the Bolton Technical College. The Bri- Company, Loom Northrop Lsh Ltd., of Blackburn, which received an order from Egypt on condition at Egyptian students would ic trained in Lancashire is to pay for The training. Alderman J. . Tay-1 for, chairman of the committee raid

The report envisages log cabins, while examining is combine in other education author.tics like Pies- with thelr, feld. The cuff of his trouser legon, Oldham, Salford, and Blackburn designed to harmonise ites, and put up by private enter- rought in the machinery and in

amazed farmer. prise for retreshments, nuest houses few seconds and hotels in greater numbers, and, slightly bruised, was left standing in

only his hat and boots. 19 camping grounds.

the

had been approached by the company and he understood they all, except Blackburn, had agreed to take some of the students

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Going round the house she saw the body of her em- ployer, Mrs. Edward T. Davies, lying on the path by the back door, a shotgun at her side.

Mrs. Kolph, of Duton Hill who made the discovery, immedi- ately telephoned to the police. In the sitting room they found Air. Davies, a well-known Dunmow solicitor, shot through the head.

He was in an armchair near the fire, with one foot on the table and his hands folded. Beside him were a glass and a book. The radio was playing.

Medical examination showed that the couple had been dead

12 hours. One neighbour told the police he remembered hearing

a shot about 9 o'clock the night before.

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Friends advised Clarence Sweeney Harrisburg, Pa. that if he had kept plenty of clear Historians are moving to preserve water in the cage with his raccoon the "old covered bridge," Leading he would not have had to dispose the movement is the Pennsylvania of the animal "because it wouldn't Historical Commission, with the co- cht." A 'coon, they said, will not operation.of the State Department of eat until it has washed its food-and. Queen's Road C. (3rd Floor); opposite Dairy Farm's Fountain, Q's Rd. C

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