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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 4, 1939.

QUARREL SHIP'S SOS FROM

"CURSED ISLAND" Children On Board

Paris.

FIVE married couples, two babies and thirty-six crew

were on board the tiny freighter, Ile de Bourbon,

Abbot Dies

In His Sleep

reported recently to be drifting without fuel near the THE Rt. Rev. Dom Anseur Vonier, "Cursed island" of St. Paul, in the Indian Océan,

Nothing was heard of the ship for three months until an SOS was picked up by the American Government's radio at Washington and relayed to the French Government. The mes sage said that the Ile de Bourbon's conl was exhausted and that she had vainly been calling Madagascar for help. The weather was very bad. Colonies Minister Mandel radioed the governor at Madagascar to send help at once.

Disaster threatenert the ship's company, who have been troubled by Jealous quarrels since they set out the He de Bourbon Inst May from St. Malo, France, led by Cop- tain Halin de Buers.

The party planned to start A lobster canning industry on St. Paul, French-owned storm-swept volcanle ernier three miles out by two broad, which is one of the fast outposts on the rout: to the South Pole.

Grow None Of These Flowers

Garden owners in the eastern part of Belfast were recently banned from growing chrysanthemums, because of the prevalence of a disease caused by the chrysanthemum midge.

Recently the midge, a serious pest of greenhouse chrysanthemums In North America, was reported to have been found in eight nurseries in Eng- land.

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Lord Abbot of Buckfast Abbey (Devon) since 1906, died recently at the Abbey. He was 63.

Dom Vonier had suffered from a bad cold for several days, but he appeared to be in fairly good health at. 6.30 am, the day he died.

hour

Jater he was found dead in bed, having apparently had a heart attack in his sleep.

An

Dom Anseur Vonier was a German. lle was born at Wurtemberg in 1875 urid professed at Buckfast in 18NA, being ordained six years later,

He was a brilliant scholar.

He was travelling in 1906 with Dom Boniface Natter, the then Abbot, In the Hallan emigrant ship Sirio when the vessel struck the rocks off Cape Palos, on the Spanish consi,

More than 300 of those on board were Natter.

drowned including Abbot

Dom Vonier was among R few rescued by two fishing bouts,

Returning to Buckfast Abbey, he was elected Abbot on September 14, 1906.

A previous attempt at settlement there falled when the plonters were ravaged by a mysterious thiers. | MARRIED BEFORE SHIP SAILED On board the lle de Bourbon were Mme. de Boers the captain's wife;

The Ministry of Agriculture asked slim and beautiful blonde Collette growers of chrysanthemums to watch Mouradian, niece Of

cessor, the French their plants carefully and to send to the Ministry specimens of plants at- painter, Paul Chabas, and wife

tacked by any insect with which they

of

the sp's Turkish engineer; Jenn were not familiar. Rion, the radio operator, his

wife

and daughter, Jean; Raymond Tell

Within two months he announced his intention of rebuilding the abbey church as a memorial to his prede-

This he accomplished

after

16 years, the work being curried out entirely by the monks.

ship reached St. Paul and rudiced bey until the funeral. Parls hairdresser, and his wile; "all well." and another couple named Masue,

who were married before the shipsos which ran: "St. Paul

First news since ihen

sailed.

They set out to start life arew by founding French colony

on the "Cursed Island," but when the ship reached Purt Said there were dis putes on board.

So bad was the situation that the five couples were unable to live in

was

To-

the Island, would be grateful if you could between Africa and Australia. We transmit to Madagascar, even through oficial channels, that has exhausted our coal. We cannot cold coal on the island. Attempts to communicate with Madagascar have failed.

And

The body lay in state in the Ab-

The monks destre the burial to be the Abbey church, and have fed for permission from the Home

fee.

bad weather BRITISH RELIEF FUND

London.

The British Fund for the Rellef of Distress in China now amounts to

the same cabin and were given "We have heard the broadcast £103,000. Dr. H. Gordon Thompson, sepurate quarters.

from Tananarivo (Madagascar) at secretary and treasurer of the fund, Trouble started among the women. 3 p.m. Greenwich mean dime. Will states that donations continue to In a letter posted at Sutz. Captain de Tranarivo endi us? We are listen- flow in steadily to the headquarters Boers sald that if he could not ing. We hope Madagascar will come at 121 Westbourne Terrace, London, restore peace on board he would try

to our rescue,"

but that the need for the fund grows to land the women.

The message added that there was greater: According to Dr C. A. Tay- MINOR MUTINY AMONG CREW sickness, especially scurvy. among lor, of the China Inland Mission, At Djibout there WAS minor the colonists, and that they had re- there are now in China probably mutiny among the crew. Then fol- boarded their ship, which was sume- 60,000,000 people who are destitute lowed wecks of silence untit the where of the islund,

and starving.

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"How I Shot The Leopard"

MAJOR

SIMON YORKE, Ex- A North-West "giountie," said re- cently that when he shot Palenton's escaped leopard he was lying in thick scrub only three feet away from it. Ben, 2003, fully grown leopard, escaped from Primley Zoo, near Paignton, aller mauling a keeper.

Armed police and soldiers hunted for him night and day. A trop was set-but Ben ignored it.

Then Major Yorke, who commanda the 152nd (Devon) Light Anti-Air- craft Battery T.A., saw him; lay flat In a bush for five minules watching him.

Sald Major Yorke: "I was 50 near I could have touched him with the barrel of my run. Bis colour made him so indistinct in the shade the bushes that I could not be sure it was the leopard until I saw him lick his lips and swish his tail."

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Police officers, let by Inspector W. J. Hutchings, closed in оп the leopard. Territorial officers climbed trees and waited with guns cucked In case Ben broke cover.

Major Yorke went on: "When we were about six feet away the leopard moved a bit and we lost sight of him, We crawled in closer-then, straight in front of me, 1 saw his head.

"Lester, one of the reptile keepers at the zoo, and I were lying down side by side. We agreed to fire to- gether. Actually he held his fre while I took a pot.

"My first shot killed the leopard Instantly, but I gave it another to make sure. Then we crawled, in and pulled him out right away."

ONE MAN CAUSED BLACK-OUT

When the public inquiry into the recent black-out in the Thumes Valley, following a fire at Kingston power station, was opened at King- stoy, It was stated that the Home Office were especially interested.

Mr. A. W. Fordike, Town Clerk of Kingston, maid: "I am instructed that the breakdown was caused by a man In the employ of the General Electric Company, who, in the course of his work, earthed 1 plece of live apparatus.

statement is cuthorised by u representative of the General Electric Company.

"No one murt assume that the man was doing anything other than work- ing in the ordinary course of his work."

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