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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

January 16, 1939.

'PRINCES' OWE £50,000,

WON'T PAY

AN

Undertaker Dissents

On Trade

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,dopted by the Exchange club. The

1936.

New Orleans. plan to stimulate business was plan was to select one member each

The man, Gopal Singh Javher Mulkani, a metal merchant, week and for the other members to buy as much merchandise on possi- of Lime Street, E.C., in his public examination before Mr. Regis-bie from that firm during the week. trar Parton told Mr. H. H. Galne, Official Receiver, that he owed Only one member opposed the plan.

He was the undertaker.

ant £51,230 and had no available assets.

During 1935, he said, he was engaged in purchasing, on be- half of Indian princes, large) amounts of jewellery and other commoditics,

The transactions were financed by a fren with whom he was associated Debts another person. and by ngregating. L19,200 were now due to lin

HAS NO PROOF

Mulkani declared that in 1937 he :peculated in metal differences on bellf of another Indian prince who now owed him £31,365.

The debts which were due from fleult to re- Indian rulers were rover. Two of the princes had since

that he was not He declared allowed to mention the mes of the winces. "I will write them down,

The nodded.

War-Time Posts For Retired Naval

Officers

(By Hector Bywater)

As a result of a careful review of the problem of mobilsing retired naval olcers for the second-line

Played For

The Queen

Fleet and for share billets the Ad- THE Queen, who loves music, miralty has evolved an entirely new

recently heard Eunice Gar- plan to avoid the anomalies which were revealed during the crisis in diner, the twenty-year-old Aus tralian planlst, playing at a September.

young Empire In an emergency the number of Mr. Gaine: You have no evidence sea appointments available for re- reception for

these enormous Lired officers would be comparatively students at all of any of

these illustrious small, but hundreds of shore billets ratianetions with

of vital importance to the cffelent Belgrave-square. W. Rentlemen?--No.

have to be Blied. working of the naval machine would

The lilustrious gentlemen treated you very badly?—Yes.

Mullani sad the princes owed him, altogether, £50,583,

Mr. Gaine: This is rather a fan- faste story?t don't think so.

The examination for six months.

was adjourned

First State Park For England

NEARLY 20,000 acres of some of

at Seaford House,

When Eunice had

JOHN MCCORMACK, the Irish tenor, finished retired from the concert platform re- more thrilling a playing the Queen told her, cemly after once

crowded Albert Hall with his songs. "You chose delicious pieces."

COURTESY POLICE

EFFECTIVE

LONDON. "Courtery ears" have reduced the number of accidents on the roads

corps is to be increased,

That day Eunice had her flere he is in a characteristic attitude they patrol by 20 per cent, so their

Officers under the age of 60 w be selected first, but the services of any ofleer over that age may be utilised. Claims for exemption for a 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. Nu piano is hard on one's hands.

be

after considered claim will

Practice makes them stiff and imminent, bercmca mobilisation

The many officers who have writ-cracked." ten to ask for information concerning

Until the Queen arrived she the uniforms they would require on

be reminded that kept them warm and supple rejoining may particulars on this point are given in with a little silver hand warmer the re-employment regulations shown which she carried round with in the appendix to the Navy 1st,

her.

published, half-yearly,

tion.

REFRESHER COURSES

Eunice, who won the Royal

The question of notifying in ad-Academy Scholarship when she Vence appointments which would be was only fifteen, says, "I've allocated in war-time and of artang- ing refresher courses in time of played since I was three and I peace is, I learn, under considera-shall not even marry if it will

interfere with my career." urc fully The naval authoritica

The Queen also heard Denis the grandest woodland country alive to the value of the retired list Dowling, the young baritone In England, including the whole as a war potential, and the seeming

New Zealand, singing view-negicet of this factor in the past was from

Until Forest of Dean, the famous

songs. points at Symonds Yat Rock and the due to circumstances over which Hebridean folk Buckstone, and nine miles of the they had no control. There will, three years ago he worked on a Wye Valley will be constituted short-however, be no grounds for com- sheep station a hundred miles ly into England's first National Forest plaint on this score in the future.

After I had drawn attention to the from Dunedin, the nearest city. flaw in mobilisation plans in the

Park.

Park, It will

and the

Forestry Commission's control.

Like its forerunners at Ardgarten Daily Telegraph and Morning Post Argyllshire,

Snowdonia operate under the of Dee. I received a great many letters from retired naval officers. They stated that they had been call- Subject to restrictions to protect, ed up, or reported voluntarily for young plantations and prevent dam- duty, only to find themselves us age by fire or straying cattle, the shined to posts for which they were public will be able to go almoslį quite unfilled,

where they plense,

HOLIDAY CENTRE

Several who have had prolonged seu experience since the retirement. were assigned to chore billets where

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

or the creation of the park was publ

ished ree:ntly, describe as a place

A charming glades and forest clear- -sta,

ideal for development as a

holiday ground.

Ils mines, they point out, are small

and inconspicuous and not in any

Combine Strips Farmer

Renina, Sask.

way harmful to the woodland ameni Jack Bannister, Woodrow farmer,

jca.

Egyptian Students At Technical College

London. The Bolton Education Committee have decided the twelve Egyptin students should be trained as weay- ing foremen and overlookers at the Bolton Technical College. The Bri- Esh Northrop Loom Company, Ltd., of Blackburn, which received an order frem Egypt on condition That Egyptian students would be trained in Lanenshire is to pay for

during his last recital.

SOLICITOR AND HIS

WIFE SHOT

Radio Had Been Going

For 12 Hours

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

the

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

He was in an armchair near the fire, with one foot un 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

shot about 9 o'clock the night before. Mr. Davies was principal of

the training. Alderman J. P. Tay- the firm of Ward and Davies,

rot a rough and hurried undressing tur, chittirman of the committer said solicitors, of Great Dunmow. He Gas Mask Made

The report envisages log cabins, while examining bia combine in other education authorities like Pres was a captain in a Welsh regi- with their feld. The cuff of his trouser les ton, Oldham, Salford, and Blackburnment during the war and was designed to harmonise ites, and put by private enter-emight in the machinery and in a had been approached by the company wounded in the head. His wife

farmer, and he understood they all, except price for refreshments, guest houses few seconds the amazed

was a well-known social worker. and hotels in greater numbers, and, slightly bruised, was left standing in Blackburn, had agreed to take some 10 camping grounds.

only his hat and hools,

of the students

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The first effective gas mask "It seems impossible," a friend of Mr. and Mrs. Davies said. The day according to the bulletin of the before he was at the office and in Imperial Institute, South Ken- the evening Mrs. Davies drove downsington, was devised in 1854 by in the car to take blm home.

"For many years Mr. Davies was

W: Idea was initiated when he counsel for the Dunmow Flitch. Be- sides being Clerk to the Magistrates learned that freshly prepared char- coal has the power of absorbing the for many years he had prosperous

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"Mrs. Davies was a charming wo- simple mouth and nose mask con- man. About two years ago she had talning a charcoal filler, the manu- in operation which affected her facture of which was health, but lately she had been look-the instrument makers to St. Bartho-

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Mr. and Mrs. Davies were both aged about 49 and had been married over 20 years.

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A young wife on Boxing Day save as possible," and admit air only her life while saving a boy from through charcoal filters.

"It is a pity," the bulletin com- drowning. She was Mrs. Bertha Thompson, 21 years old wife of Air-ments, "that so much valuable work

which cratiman R. J. Thompson, of Usworth should have been overlooked in the

period of emergency was Aerodrome, Co. Durham, holding her baby when someone said some 60 odd years later"--the early the boy was crying for help in the part of the Great War.

The charcoal originally employed quarry. She left somebody to hold her baby and ran over the ice to was prepared from bones, but wood lm. It gave way and in spite of charcoal was found to be more effce- tive. Now carbon for masks is drowned. The boy was eventually prepared from conl. rescued by her father,

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