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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 21, 1939.

HANDCUFFS STORY IN LAW SUIT Stomach Sufferers

Claim Against Police After

Show Tent Arrest

HANDCUFFING was mentioned at Buckingham- shire Assizes at Alyesbury recently when four police offi- cers were sued for alleged wrongful imprisonment.

The action followed the loss of £40 from the secre- tary's tent at Princes Risborough Agricultural Show last September.

A re-

Two Nuneaton men, George Raymond Merriman, presentative of the "Farmers Weekly," and Charles William Ileady, salesman for the journal, claimed damages from Superin. tendent Frederick Gee, Inspector Edward Sturt, Sergeant Albert Howlett, and Constable Reginald Harris,

The officers denied the imprison-1

sale that ment and alternatively there was reasonable and probable

CARE.

for

Mr. Maurice Healy, K.C.. Merriman and Hendy, and they went!

to the Princes Risborough show for the "Farmers Weekly."

Just as they were leaving, Sergeant Howlett suggested that they should go to the secretary's tent.

Oxford Wants

Windsors Back!

XFORD wants the Windsors home,| That is the burden of a leading. Mr. article recently

in the "Isis," the Merriman agreed, saying the secretary | Oxford undergraduates' journal. would know him.

On the way in the tent Sergeant "As King George and Queen Eliza- Howlett said that an attache casebeth have the whole of the country containing about £40, mostly inhind them to a man, there is no silver, had been stolen.

not speak i reason why we should openly upon the subject of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and their| return to England," states the writer,

When they reached the lent the men were searched in the presence of witnesses and their ear was also searched, but nothing to incriminate them was found,

"HUMILIATING" Superintendent Gee then instructed another offer to pat handcuffs on the tam

"I suppose," said Mr. Healy, "there is not a more humiliating ceremony that we know of than that of publicly pulling handcuffs upon one."

The handcuffs were put on one hand of Mr. Merriman and, just as they were fixing the other on Me. Heady, the ruperintendent thought better of it and the handcuff war nover fastened on him.

The men were arrested at 5 pazi. and taken to Princes Risborotinh polire effem, Inquiries when put through to Nuneaton and their stories Were vertel,

"At 7.50 p.m." Mr. Healy said, "iy were escorted to the police station dony and told: "You know where to N Get out. They had to walk back to the showground.

"As a result, Healy was unable to

"When the Duke left England he did not cast away our love and loyalty with his crown.

THI.R.H. the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess loyalty and affection.

We

firm our

"We believe that if their present condition is of luterest to anyone, It is more so to us, than to Ameri- can sperrt societies, reeking of sensationalism and sentiment.

Wife Led Search For Shot General

Abingdon, Berkshire.

IN the dining-room of her home here recently, Lady Corkran told how, by the light of a torch, she found her husband, Major-General Sir Charles Corkran, lying dead by a stream in the grounds.

Sir Charles, who was 66, had been ghot dead accidentally by a sporting gun. Crossing a rivulet in the 46-acres grounds while pigeon-shooting, he slipped off a wet plank nine inches wide and his gun went off.

Mr. Bromley Challenor, the coro- na. sat at the head of the polished "We want no English Pretender. dining-room table. Mr. Charles Corit- But it is indeed their wish to ron. the son, who in 1932 was kill- return to England we will clve napped by Chinese bandits with Mrs. home on them such a welcome as they have Muriel Pawley, and is

leave from Shanghai, sat on the arm never seen before. "To the Duchess in particular, of a chair. whether as her Royal Highness' on! "DELIGHTED TO BE HOME"

st as the chosen wife of the man

Lady Corkran said that when her wito for so many years served s

into ation as few have served it, we will husband did not come how that courtesy

is not

Fitz-

daughter. Marjorie, and about 7.15 pm. we found him in the stream," she said.

When Mr. Challenor asked her if

he had been in his usual cheerful spirits, the safe that he had been de- lighted to be house for a while, to rest from his cleial duties, one of which was that of Serjeant-at-Armu in the House of Lords,

urs

Testimony that A major war definitely threatens Europe this spring, to be set off by Musso- lini' ambitions to imitate 1iler in territorial gains, was given by Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Great Britain, and Willlom C. Buliitt, Ambassador to France, at a secret joint meeting of the House

Miillary Senate and Affairs Committee. The envoys are shown above with the com- mittee chairmen. Left to right: Representative Andrew J. May of Kentucky, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, Mr. Bullitt and Mr. Kennedy.

Girls Flee From Fire

in

All the pupils and models, number- more than 60, vienped unhurt through the dense smoke that filled

stairmoses and rooms.

anl Damage was done to gowns other property in the gown shop, the premises of Mr. Ivor Hartnell.

Mr. Alfred Mouris, principal of the

Mr. Challenor did not sum up. ile wholly harry's Manor from his stating ex-ended the inquest will the words dead among the middle and lower petiton by 5.30 pan she went out The verdict is that Sir Charles died school, said that when smoke began got home to do his normal work, lost cases of the British people, and/lee and searched the woodland, but! From gunshot wounds acidentally re- to come up from the shop below there

Jis job, and has been unemployed

that our loyalty to her husband was

Leonid not find him,

since,"

The hearing was adjourned,

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Sir Charles had a distinguished career. He Brst saw service wil the Nile Expedition in 1898

In 1919 he was commanding Grenadier Guards.

Sneeze Is Death Signal

Manila, P. 1.

the

were 50 pupils in the school, and 15 model: baving their hair dressed.

NO TIME TO CHANGE

on their "Sumse had henna dye hair, ofher shouyou, and one ha henna paste," he said,

"When three policemen rushed in and ordered everyone to leave, the girls did not wait to change, but they all left valinly. There was no con- furion and no one lost her head, Fermin Advincula, 56-year-old district, resident of Manila's Tunda

"The sight of the girls in the street We have stlezed while riding

horse-was rather laughable. drawn "busy" fell unconscious, and fuller premises a few yards away, and were able to take them all there."

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THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The Society asks for

$40,000

In 1939 to meet the increasing needs of sick and destitute children in Hong Kong. Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co,

P. & O. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

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