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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WOMAN DECOY FACED DEATH

Apologised, Told Natives "Some Other Time"

"I was sorry to disappoint them this time,

I said, but would come again when I had more leisure."

ANYBODY from a potential bazaar-opener to a man

who had escaped a prison sentenee might have said it. But in this case the speaker was Miss Freya Stark, explorer, describing her reply to a native chief's intima- tion that with great difficulty his men had been persuaded not to shant her.

Bravado was not the explanation of Miss Stark's cool at- titude. She told the Royal Geographical Society recently:

"I was rather slupid with fatigue and thought they meant

a friendly reception with rifles lei off as 'feux de joie,

Then she realised from the looks of those around her that

Tear Gas Thrown there had been a "misunder-

standing."

and the reception committee went off

At A Dinner But she did not give herself away, TEAR-GAS bombs were thrown with a high opinion of the equani

on the floor during the anuuality of the formale European.

22nd Battalion

"I WAS A DECOY" dinner of the

(Westminster Dragoons), Royal This happened in Southern Arabla)

when she was travelling with a Tank Corps Territorials, held recently in Elverton-street, S.W.comet caravan and bodyguard of 12

native soldiers. Some of the 250 diners jumped up with streaming eyes and made for the door. Waiters were forced back and had to retreat to the kitchen.

Twenty waitresses and enoks about to begin their meal behind a screen had to abandon it. A few of them screamed, all rushed to the door, where one fainted.

They persuaded her to go to a little town called Bir Ali to obtain a boat.

"What they did not inention," she sold, "was that they had a long- standing war with Bir All. They hoped that may trouble I might get Vengeance into would bring down from the R.A.F. on their enemy.

Among the speakers at the dinner were Lieut.-Colonel A. C. Barnard, Major R. W. Hellis, and Major part of her journey when she was Norman Barding.

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"Quite innocently I was being led as a decoy into hostile territo.y..."

Miss Stark said that during another lone she slept one afternoon under n tree, and woke to find a tribesman Altling beside her, watching quietly.

MERELY A ROMP AT HANLEY

her

CITOKE-ON-TRENT'S Watch Com- mittee were told recently that at

in public dance at Hanley the follow-

ing requests were made!

Ladies wearing earrings are quested to leave the floor.

rc-

Ladies nut wearing corsets are re-

quested to leave the floor,

Gentlemen are requested to trousers above the knee.

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Ladies are requested to take sus-

pend pender from gentleman partner's

Ladica

take

arc requested to gentleman partner's coat and wear it.

ROW

Ladies are requested to loosen front braces of gentleman part- ner's trousers, and dance holding the trousers from the back. Gentlemen

race on hands, while fert are held by ladies. There was a disturbance at the danes, and a man was hit in the face while attempting to protect another dancer.

The Chief Constable, Mr. F. L. Bunn, said that a coristable on duly at the danes had submitted a report about the disturbance, but made no reference to other matters.

He would see the promoter of the dance and express the feelings of the Watch Committee.

James Runsevelt, eldest son of the President, is shown at his new job in Hollywood, receiving Instructions from Samuel Goldwyn. Jimmy recently became vice president of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. When asked if his salary was $50,000, Jim said that was a high Agure. He for.nerly received $10,000 as his father's secretary.

Man Fell In Cruise

Liner, Awarded £6,000

A 6ft. 7in, tall man who slipped and broke a leg on a cruise in the Arundora Star in May 1937, was wheeled into the King's Bench Division recently and heard the jury award him £6.000 damages against the Blue Star Line.

88-Year-Old Duke In A Film

It was sald that two hours after the cruise began Mr. Reginald Alexander Beaumont Thomas, ut Bushey Heath, lierta, fell in a curridor which was being washed by a steward.

His right leg was broken and he' was crippled for life.

Mr. Thomas cluined that the wasn-

The eighty-eight-year-old Duke Jing of the corridor floor with what

of Connaught la to take part in ajuppeared to be soapy water was a film, with boys of the Royal Albert Orphanage Camberley, Surrey.

The film, which will show the work of the orphanage, to being made by members of the Windica- ham Camera Club, of which the Duke is patron.

The Duke has been president of the orphanage for more than thirty years.

Prince Ascanio Colonna del Principi, new Italian Ambassador to the United States. His family was one of the two most power- ful families in the Middle Ages and has held noble rank for 1,000 years. He succeeds Fulvio Suvich in Washington.

||"irap," of which warning should have!

been given.

He alleged negligence, which th company denied.

January 21, 1939.

Being Called Jews

COMPLAINING that they had been

described as Jewn in a letter to Germany, an agent and his son brought a libel action in the King's Bench Division recently.

Mr. Valentine Holmes, for the plaintiffs, suld they were Mr. Samuel Helleri, principal in the firm of average agents carrying on business in the name of Wendi and Company, and his son, who was employed by the firm.

Wendi and Company represented all the most important German Insur- jance and ship-owning companies.

The plaintiffs complained of a let- ter which the defendant, Mr. Clyde, wrote to a high offelal of a German fshipping company, in which he stated

that they were Jewe

EVEN SUSPICION

The present position in Germany 1 there was was such that, even suspicion that a man was a Jew, he would lose the whole of his business If it were of the kind in which the plaintiffs were engaged.

Mr. Helfert and his on were not Jews and hnd no Jewish blood. It fra their wus Important to them business that that should be made clear.

Mr. Clyde, having ascertained that he was completely in error in making the statement, had taken the very proper course of writing n letter of upology to each of the plaintiffs, and to the official to whom he had sent the offending letter.

He had also agreed to pay a sub- damages to the stantial sum plaintiffs and to indemnity them in respect of the casts they had in- curred.

SINCERE REGRET

Mr. A. J. Hodgson, for Mr. Clyde, said he unreservedly withdrew the statement, which he unfortunately made under a complete misapprehien-

clon. fic desired to express his sin- eere regret to the plaintifs.

Mr. Justice Asquith allowed the record in the case to be withdrawn on the terms agreed.

"WE CAN'T TREAT

JEWS HERE”

Mother Flew

To London For Baby

Jewish wife in Vienna, expect.

They pleaded that they were pro-Ate a baby, went in vain from

teeted by u condition attached to the

"We can't

Issue of the ticket that they would hospital to hospital. not be liable for any negligence injtreat Jews here," she was told.

The Jewish Hosoital in Vienna war the management of the ship.

full, and hardly any Jewish doctors Mr. H. I. P. Hallett, KC, who were left there. called no evidence for the defence, asked: What more warning could person want than the sight of a man on his knees with a pail before him in the act of washing the floor?

A special appeal was made to the Home Office in London, and by their permission, the expectan' mother-Mrs. Francisca Neumann wife of a Jewish cattle former nem The jury's award of £5,000 in-1 Vienna-was flown to Croydon, eluded £1,000 agreed special

taken to the Jewish damages, but Lord Hewart sald that She was before entering judgment he would Maternity Home, Underwood-stree hear legal arguments on the ques: London, E., where her baby, a boy, flon whether the Blue Star Line were was born.

protected by the conditions attached The secretary of the home, Mrr to the tickel Issued for the cruise. L. Model, said "Mrs. Neumann was it Those arguments would be heard on, terrible distress. Our

n day to be fixed.

́JEWS MUSSOLINI

WANTS TO FORGET

Jewish re

fugee committee made a special_ap- plication to the Home Once, and w were only just in time to save her. "German doctors would not trea her.

Wherever her husband went for help his way was barred. "Now they are living in

While Mussolini decrees measures somewhere in London." against Jews in Italy. Jews are being used, ironically, to bolster up Haly's į territorini claims in Tunis.

Mussolini says that Italy should have Tunis, largely because when France took over in 1881 there was "a vast majority of Italian residents" -11,200 Italian subjects and only 700 Frenchmen,

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City officials have revived the cur- few law here again. A bell at 9 pm each night warns children under 10

But more than 10.000 of the to get off the streets unless they are Italians were of the Jewish race.

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