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Ex-Countess Threatened Breach of Promise Suit OFFICER FOUGHT AT PARTY

Now They're Reconciled-"She's Withholding The Action"

MRS

RS W. H. PATTERSON-formerly the Countess Anna Monici-instructed her solicitors to sue Capt. Henry Dobinson, friend of her late husband, for breach of promise.

Later he was involved in a fight at her studio-flat in Blooms- bury after a Christmas party-and recently they were reconciled -the Countess has agreed to withhold the action for the time “being,” he said.

Mrs. Patterson ig #111 artist-stil signs her paintings) "Monici" opera singer, and formerly lived in Venice.

STAYED IN VENICE Capt. Dobinson, a member of the Comitice for Non-Intervention in Spain, has been her friend for many years, and was entertained at Venfee by her and the Count.

He served in the war with her second husband, who died a year ago. He stated recently that he still hoped the ex-counters woukl marry him,

Pointing to a deep cut on his fore- hend, Capt. Dobinson said: "Let me

trection,

Pupils of the George Goncharo have already been ff School of Dance as they appeared working in collaboration with her to write her memoirs,"

Mrs. Patterson nodded her agree- very kind to me," she said, "and I ment-"Captain Dobinson has been

hope we can settle the whole busi- ness amicably. He knows so much about my Italy and speaks fluently the Venetian dialect which I love to hear."

"ALL I HAVE"

She told of the parties she once gave at her house in St. John's Wood,

first assure you that this has nothing and that she was now trying to re- to do with the fight that followed the gain wealth and fame through her Countess's party, and has nothing to paintings.

do with the proceedings that have

"They are all 1 have left." she

in the recent ballet presentation at the King's Theatre......

'Unknown' Woman Buys Canute Relic

MR. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST'S collection

of silver from St. Donat's, his castle in Wales, was sold in four hours for £11,882 at Christie's, Lon. don, recently.

The most exciting mo-

been started against me for brencheled, sweeping her arms round the ment of the four hours was

of promise.

"The fight occurred outside fiat, and Bruce because, I objected

studio, which was full of her con-when an ox's horn, sparsely the Vases "I cannot get anybody to buy

them to-day and I am practically liv-decorated with tarnished silver, ing in poverty with my dog and cats. was held up. At once there was

"Beatrice Lille, Alice Delysla,

a buzz of talk among the 300 scores of

men present.

to remarks made by certain people at the party.

"I

was

NOT HURT

Richard Tauber, and

other famous people ings by me. Now have paint-

She met Capt. Patterson in Milan They fell in love. As an allen she was forbidden

to enler

uninjured in the fight. The wound you see now happened same time later, I do not propone in 1821, to discuss how it was received."

Referring to the breach threat, he England, but she followed him in a stid. Some misunderstanding arose French Bhiry: smack dressed as a over a slight critlelsm I made of her sailor. paintings.

"While I think highly of her 'art, escorted to a host to leave the coun- She was sent to prison and then I told her that she should have a try, Capt. Patterson followed and business mun to sell her paintings took her to Paris, where they were and I agreed to help her in this married.

Looked Through Window, Saw Mail Being Rifled

POLICE looked through the window of a house in Gough-rond, Edgbaston, recently and, later at Birmingham said they saw a stolen mall bag being rifled.

thait

van

Killed Warming Her Hands

Danish ruler in England in 1017. HOW a "wonderful mother,"

ambush

the king, and

was kept m the Pusey

The relic is the Pusey Horn, given to William Pewse by King Canute,

disguised himself as a shepherd and took, lost her child in a bedroom Pewse, an officer of Conute's army, despite the precautions she spied on the Saxons. He discovered fire was told at an inquest at a plan saved his life.

Barnet, Hertfordshire, recently, The horn family until 1935, when it was sold Gilson, aged, 7, of Lime-cottages. Joan Mary The child was

to Mr. Hearst for £1,000.

The recent bidding opened

Green-street, Shenley. £800, rust in £20 jumps to £1,000, and then by £50 bids to £1.000. This Agure 41 reached in two minutes

at

At this price the horn was knocked down to Mr. J. Francis Mallet, who; said he was acting for a woman who Is keeping her name secret. She is giving the relie to the Victoria and Albert Museum).

Instinct Told Her

Evidence was given that her night- dress blazed up while she was warm- in her hands by the bedroom fire,

Irs. May Gilson, her mother, suid the grate was fitted with a big heavy Breguard which she thought was per- fectly safe.

Police Constable Pearce, the coroner's officer, said the fireguard was of the type used in schools and he considered it most effective. Mrs. Gilson, who had ten children, was

desertbed by all her acquaintances as

mother.

February 3, 1939.

EMPIRE NEWS

AIR DEVELOPMENT IN NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand,

Mr. F. Jones, Minister of Posts and Telegraphe, announces that the Cabinet has approved the provision of additional base facilities for the Trans-Tasman air service at Hobson-

ville.

The work will be begun im- mediately. It will include a repairs shop and administrative and meteoro- logical buildings.

The Harbour Board is providing u landing-stage and pontoon.

AUSTRALIA

WIRELESS DISPUTE

SETTLED

Sydney,

The dispute between the · Post- master-General, Mr. Cameron, and the Socklist-owned commercial | broadcasting station 2KY in Sydney. has been settled,

The controllers of the station have undertaken to publish in the Socialist newspaper an apology for suggestions that one member of the Federal Ministry was controlled by a foreign organization and that Mr. Cameron censored telegrams going to Port Kembla, where the wharf labourers have for some weeks refused to load iron ore for Japan.

Air Merger Plan-Federal Minis- ters are unofficially discussing a plan for closer merging of the interests of Australian internal air lines under a single controlling company like Im- perial Airways. The object is closer co-operation with overseas air lines.

wasteful and elimination of

com- petition by more economicnt use of aircraft,

A Premier's Daughter Engaged.–– The engagement is announced at Melbourne of Miss Elwyn Morgaret Dunstan, daughter of Mr. A. A. Dunstan, Premier of Victoria, and Mr. J. H. Chinner, Rhodes scholar from Victoria for 1939.-Reuter. SOUTH AFRICA

NATIVE WELFARE

REFORMS

of

Cape Town, Far-reaching plans are under con- sideralien for widening the sphere of

of activities centralise the native welfare activi- Native Affairs. It is proposed to

the Department

ties at present distributed among various Government departments under the one department,

Mr. D. L. Smil, Secretary

for

Native Affairs, told the Native Re- presentative Counell that the Govern- ment intended to introduce legisla Hon abolishing the issuing by tenders of credit tokens to native mine workers,

He described as "a public scandal" the practice whereby traders were allowed to let natives mortgage their entire wages.

Three men and two women were who had been employed as tem-E were supposed to be married the tragedy might have been caused

a wond

wonderful charged with stealing and receiving porury a mail bog.

The coroner. Mr. T. Ottowny, sold¦ INDIA drivers during "WE Christmas, were remanded charged John Thomas Dale, of Gough-road, with stealing the bag and its con-sort of presentiment," said Miss He felt very sorry for Mrs. Gilson, on October 5, but I had by a spark coming through the guard, Edgbaston, and Marta hemy Buy- tenta.

Florence Flint recently at Marylebone who was obviously a mother who had lies, of Wiseman-terrace, Edgbaston,!

Police Court when she alleged that taken great care of her chlidren. thirty-nine-year-old Walter Evans

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Frederick John Collinson, Edna Weldon, ated twenty-two,

took her savings of more than £240

Florenes Richards, aged ainetzen, all and disappeared on the eve of their

of Gough-rond, were remanded on a charge of receiving.

wedding in order to marry somebody else.

Inspector Outes said he saw Col- Evans, it was said, took a room at Jinson cutting the string of a Bum- Miss Flint's house in Pimlico-road, ber of parcels. Wekien was burn.ng S.W., and after a few days proposed the wrappings and Richards was to her and was accepted. holding a blue dress which had apparently been in one of the parcels.

Women Of India Regain Position

Although history told us that wonien in Indis occupied a very high position In the ancient days, they had only started regalving that position within the Inst two or three decades after a long Heriod of deterioration, sald Mias Flera Knight, the new Activities Secretary of the Y3.C.A., Sing- apore, in a talk on “Women at the Singapore Y.W.C.A.

The meeting, organised by the Lotus Club, wos presided over by Mrs. S. A. II. Shirazce, president of the Club.

Miss Knight said that Mahatın Gandhi in his message to the recent conference of women in India had stated that on the women of Indu depended the freedom of the country, She also referred to 4 recent utlerance of Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, the Indian poetess where she sold that women should be dynamic and creative, and not mercy imitative,

Miss Knight added that Indian women should adopt the best from the West and East for their progress. The Parsees of Bombay were Dio Arst to encourage education among women in recent times and other | communities had followed that Miss lead satisfactorily, continued Knight.

The home should be the main centre of women's activity be- cause from that developed con munities and nations.

She laid particular emphasis on the fact that women in India {devoted great attention to tocint [work, particularly among poor vill- agers. She impressed on the Indian women in Malaya the outstanding need for such work among the labourers in Malaya.

Guitrys Still Play Love Scene

PARIS.

TIGER KILLS MORE THAN 40 PEOPLE

Calcutta.

A man-eating tiger which has been terrorising the Nowgong district for two years

was the subject of a question in the Assam Legislative Blenner- Assembly by Mr. P. W. hassett, of the European Group. He asked the Government if it was aware

40 persons.

ALTHOUGH Jacqueline Delubac, that the animal had killed more than He suggested that they should take 41 twenty-eight-year-old actress, has small restaurant together. She filed papers for divorce from her He udded that a man and a girl withdrew her savings of more tlun fifty-three-year-old actor husband had recently been fatally mauled on £300 and handed the money 10 Sacha Guitry, she still performs a tea garden within two minutes Evans to put into a joint account. love scene with him on the stage of walk of the Forest Ranger's office.

Out of the money Evans bought a Parls theatre every night.

The latter had no1 attempted 10

bad her a wedding ring and himself a

the follow up the beast, nor watch. On October 4 he d'a-

Government dure more then offer appeared.

£2 reward for his destruction.

Evans pleaded guilty, and sent for trial at the Old Bailey.

NEW

The play, written by Sacha Guitry, is enlied "A Crazy World."

Sacha Guttry sald: "Jacqueline and was I are comedians. So what difference

Mr. Bardolol, the Premier, said he

I does it make if we play a love scene?" | would have inquiries made.

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