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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 2, 1939.

.AK CHURCH

WEDDING

STORY UNTRUE

TORTURE

"There Is Something Behind All This"

THE magistrate at Bow Street, Mr. Dummett, re- cently characterised as a tissue of lies the story previously told by a German of torture and persecution.

He had before him Siegfried Simon Gembicki (39), a German financial agent, of Forsel Court, Edgware Road, charged with Elizabeth Lensing (39), a German student, of the same address, with making a false state- ment to an aliens officer.

Lensing, wearing a black hat with eye-veil and a squirrel fur coat, and whose case was taken first, pleaded not guilty.

Det.-Sergeant Gridin

sal that

Lensing had been living with Gem- blekt since December 31. It was dieult to say how she obtained her

muney,

Mr. Dummet: There is something| behind all this?-Yes, there definitely

is.

Then perhaps I had better not Inquire," commented the magistrate. Lensing, giving evidence, said in reply to Mr. Dummett that Gembleki bad asked her to stay at the Bat ns Els visitor.

Mr. Dummett: Bul you are ving there with him?-No, I am not living I was only a vislior there. with him.

"AFRAID"

Have you heard of The sulleitor: cases in which people from Germany in Mr. Gembicki's position have been followed, or have had inquiries made about them by agents of the Secret Police?-1 am certain that they have, Did you think Mr. Gembicki bad reason to fear that? Yes,

Were you afraid? Yes,

Lensing said that she had private means. She got money every month Switzerland and sometimes from her relatives in Holland.

from

Mr. Burnett: From whom do you get your money?-From a friend of mine.

What is his or her name?—I cannot may; I do not want him to get into trouble.

Lensing left the court while Mr. Dummet heard the case against Gembirki.

FLOGGING STORY

docs

Mr. Dunmett read a medical re- past, and commented: "This means! that the pollee medical officer not belleve Gembicki's story about his having been flogged."

'Stick Pin In Me! Not Yet'

TAHRA BEX is

an Egypilan fukir possessing Birange

ຕ powers

recently mind

Ic over matter. visited LONDON at the invitation of medical men who want his advice.

In 1927, one hundred people fainted at his gruesome demonstration in the Scala Theatre and the Lord Chara- berlan torbade repetition.

He said that King Victor Emmanuel | of Italy. King Carel of Humania, ex- Queen Victorin

Eugenie of Spain, Mussolini, Poincare, Hindenburg and the Duke of Windsor have received him and been impressed with his extra-natural powers. He dislikes the word

supernatural.

worse,

Bridal group photographed after the recent marriage of Mr. R. A. MeKenny and Miss Nins Peart.-

King's Studio.

RECTOR KEPT OUT OF

PULPIT Royal Courts

Village Hides Church Keys

FTER the morning service in the A parish church of Mellis, Sulfolk, recently,

officials locked. the two doors, took the two keys away and hid them.

They had already hidden the keys of the rectory.

These precautions were taken to

This Year

English Version Of

The Bible

OXFORD,

The King and Queen are to hold days---on three Courts within eight March 9, 15, and 16-and Court dress- makers are preparing for their big-

Mc MONSIGNOR RONALD KNOX, est rush for 20 years.

Although it is customary for the Chaplain to the Homan Catholic first two Courts of the season to be members of Oxford University, is to held on meressive evenings it

June to devote rarely that three are held within so resign his post in

himself to a new English translation hort a time as eight days.

Two more Courts will be held on of the Latin Bible. July 12 and 13, bringing the total for the season to five instead of the usual

When invited to demonstrate by do- ing anything that others could not do, he gracefully declined. He said that uch feats require preparation, other- wise they might be only partly suc-keep the Rev. Benjamin Appleyard, might do him Rector of Burgale, Diss, out of the cessful or

Mr. Appleyard has been put in harm.

For a man who has allowed doc- tors to stick knives into his chest charge of the parish by the Bishop

that dis of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, applications for presentation of de- think without hurt some

who does not intend to appoint a new appointing.

Rector of Bichts.

few

FEELS NO PAIN They warded only to stick a one in him, for he asserts that he

seconds, during can go into a cataleptic state in a few

13.

which he feels

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pulpit.

In answer to protesis by the vil- lagers the Bishop has postponed his plan for a month, but officials of the

church feared

and red trouble. their own arrangements.

HOUR EARLIER To avoid scenes they hold morning service on hour earlier than usual, and got the Rev. F. Cory Elvin, rector of the neighbouring parish of Brome, to conduct it.

four.

He has just been authorised by the cathote Hierarchy in Britain to re- ranslate the Vulgate, the fourth een- fury Latin version of the Bible matle of by St. Jerome.

The reason for the extra Court 15 the exceptionally heavy number

butantes,

married

daughters-in-law.

and daughters,

EVENING PARTY

Attendance at each Court will num- ber between 1890 and 2.000.

In addition, the King and Queen

a

nothing

Revised

To carry out this tak Monsignor Knox will go to some play. in the country where he can work, in quiet. "Our present Bible was translated The March Courts have been ar-into English about the same time as made ranged a that the King and Queen the Authorised Version for the An-

may offeinte at them personally,gilean Church," he said. Chief Inspector Salisbury said that

months in During May and June,

"It was revised a little about the Gembicki's story of having been

thewaleb Courts are usually held, their brought here by boat on January 2

A demonstrat.on if it can be ar-

W2 have hand long time was untrue. He arrived on Decem-!

during the

Majesties will be in Canada and the end of the 18th century, but for will be held range!"

United States.

equivalent to the Anglican at Newhaven from Dieppe fakir's stay in London. Lor

Version. with a fake passport,

Tahra Bey has been brought up in

The task will be a full time one, Mr. Dunnett: Apparently he was

"We shall have only one service

CON able to go freely between here and the Yogi teachings since he was four

Sunday until we get a new will hold an evening presentation and I shall have to sover my Germany and this story of torture months old. He is now thirty-eight. He is short and plumph, black

one of the oficials | rector,"

suld party in November for ladies who neetion with the University, I am and persecution. is untrue?--Yeu, sir.!

afterwards.

have applied to make the presenta-starting with the New Testament. Gembicki then gave evidence after bearded and olive skinned. His form- total is high, with a mop of black

Another official said, "We do not tion of a married lady who is neither That alone will take a year or two." taking the path in the Jewish fashion.

He has those "look through Mr. M. Abrahaus, (defending) was hair,

intend that Mr. Appleyard or his lay their daughter nor daughter-in-law. questioning him about a number ofre does not claim to be different

reader shall conduct the services in ryer nually called magnetic." Mr. He letters and documents when

from other men, merely that is Dummett intervened.

Wat has been proved about your training enables him to "develop the chent," he said, is that he came powers natural to every man."

Taluru Bey us ardent admirers. over here and told a whole tissue of

He us doubters.

his lies which makes his statement ex- Also traordinarily difficult to accept. philosophy in these four rules:-

1. To believe in verything is an error.

"TISSUE OF LIES"

"So far from having escaped, so far from having got a kindly slip master to bring him over, and far from being able to establish that be had ever been flogged, the whole of the evidence which we have been able to find out asiat him shows that at is a tissue of lies."

Gembicki said that he was charged! with exporting: 400,000 marks, and the penalty was 2,200,000 chillings. He was in different concentration

camps.

Mr. Abrahams: Were you ill-treat-

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2. Not to believe is another.

3.

We should admit nothing! without proving.

We must acknowledge loyally

4.

what is proved.

I am in the third stage.

Coaches Get Together

Bellaire, 0.

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church. The keys of the church and ment from many parts of the country. rectory will be kept in hiding until Feeling in the parish has been fur-

ther this dispute is settled."

intimation aggravated by an SCHOOL THREAT

that the local church school will be The parishioners have received closed, and the scholars sent to a messages of sympathy and encourage-junior school outside the parish.

Strange Bird Which No Expert Can Name

Joey Knew His Piece

For three hours Cage Bird Show judges in a private room at the Ro- yal Horticultural Hall recently tried in vain to persuade talking birds to display their vocal powers.

But parrots, cockatoos, budgerigars and thrushes like refused to open their beaks.

Not a murmur was there, desplie floodlights, darkness and all other tricks the judges knew of,

They had just decided to postpone the judging when a budgerigar own-

A BIRD which has baffled the ornithologists at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, is on viewed by Mr. S. J. Howard, of Maldon,

at the National Show of Caged Birds at New Horticul-

ed in the concentration camps?—Yes, Twenty-Ove Ohio valley footballtural Hall, Westminster. and if a thousand doctors say to the coaches enough

contrary, they are wrong.

to comprise two gol football teams-attended a stag

Eight experts examined the bird, but none was able Mr. Abrahams: Were you charged dinner given in their honour by a to define its species or country of origin. with forgery in Berlin? Gembicki local country club, Francis Valince said that he bought some shares Was master of ceremonies.

which were afterwards discovered to

be forgeries. The charge against him was cancelled,

for deportation, remarking: "Maybe Mr. Dommett said that nothing he the Home Office will be able to find had heard about Gembleki reclounded out more about you than I have."

to prison Lensing was sent in any way to his credit,

He sentenced him to six months' seven days, with a reconumendation hard Inbour, with a recommendation for deportation.

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One of them remarked "It doesn't exist!"

Its owner. Mr. Allen Silver, of Newport, Monmouthshire, who has had in his hand practically every rare bird that has reached Britain in the past 40 years, said that he had never seen any. thing like it,

SAILOR BROUGHT IT

The bird is the size of n' conary, but hing extraordinary jet-black markings on its sulphur-yellow body, and Jet-black fight feathers, With its golden trown und sleek lines is most attractive.

un

and A

Airman Drowned At Seletar

DROWNING accident

It was brought by a sallor return- Ing from Africa to England 18 months ago, Mr. Silver, who nequired it in October, went through all the books

occurred the birds in

Museum,

at the Royal Air Force Station, examined the thousands of bird skin

a canoe in specimens in its collections, without Seletar, recently when

the which there were two airmen capsized anding anything to resemble

In a "sumatra" in Johore Strait, stranger.

"It may be a Citr Finch, and few hundred yards from shore. possibly comes from the Abyssinian Mountains," he said.

Frederick

Aircraftman

Willinm Evans, of Bournemouth, Hampshire,

Essex, solemnly announced "Joey's

won first prize."

And Joey was right. He got the

talking bird in the show.

trophy and silver medal for the best

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