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Tuesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March........7

939

TINTORETTO WAS 'LOST' IN R.A.'s HOME

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PAINTING claimed to be a Tintoretto, worth thou- sands of pounds, has been disclosed neglected in a store-room at the Compton, Surrey, home of Mary Seaton Watts, widow of G. F. Watts, R.A., the famous Victorian painter.

It had lain there for years, dusty, unnoticed, because "Mrs. Watts set little valus on paintings which were not by her hus- band."..

The Tintoretto is now in the bands)

of a West End firm of pleture re-

U.S. Hopes Of

storers, mal is to be offered for "Society Of Nations"|

chase to the National Gallery. The present owner of the picture wishes to be anonymatis.

Paintings by Tintoretto have been quoted In recent years at prices ranging fron £4,000 to £14,000. This one is described as "a very fine example of Tintoretto's later work."

AMERICAN people are keenly

interested in establishing a "Society of Nations," as distinct from the League of Nations.

This view was expressed by M. Loul. Delivet, secretary of the inter- national Pesec Campaign, at the con- Mary Seaton Watts died at Comp-ference of the Campaign's General when ton last September ged eighty Council in London recently, eight, She left £50.007.

about 60 delegates were present from Her marriage to G. F. Watts when 17 countries. he was sixty-nine was one of the great love stories of Victorian times,

M. Dolivet has just returned from America, and said that international An artist herself, she abandoned her affoles had produced there an explo- painting to devote herself to hero of feeling against the totalitarion husband, austained him in his tail- States.

The American people were willing

ing health, and encouraged him with to support any action on the part of hin life's work.

the Ailministration directed against

Mr. Hans A. Schubart, the art dealer who now has the Tintorettal In his vaults, satd:--

the policies of the totalitarian States to the extent of providing food and war supplies to the democratic States should they become involved in war.

"Mrs. Walls had a ne collection

Lord Cecil, who presided it the of pictures when her husband died. morning session, sald that day's She was tremendously attached to fundamental Issue was between the him and his work, and putic rule of law and that of the Jungle in value on pictures which were not by international affairs.

There must be outside ench coun- hho.

"Iis paintings were put all round try, he said, some tribunal to which was appeal could be made to say whether the walls, but the Tintoretto never hung. If it had, it would have particular action was in accordance international law and the been detected, it went into the with storeroom with other pictures of principles of justice or not. quite good value.

"When the painting was found, it was dirty and covered with a yellow

varnish."

WORLD 'SUPPORT "The fundamental thing is that we fight nol for our interests or gain or prosperity, but for the establishment of the rule of law In International affairs. If we can really set that for

Mrs. V. V. Needa (facing camera) with friends at the Ladies' Day Race Meeting Just week.-Staff Photo-

grapher.

Arabs Called Him Spy, Now He

Pleads Their Cause

IN A QUIET WEST END HOTEL IS AN ELDERLY MISSIONARY – THE MYSTERY MAN WHOSE HELP AND ADVICE MAY BRING PEACE TO PALESTINE.

His thick Highland accent-which 50 years away from his native land has not dulled--was a strange contrast to the gold-embroidered brown "abayeh" which covered his lounge suit, to the Arab headdress which shrouded his face.

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frequently consult his He must the friend of more Arab leaders than even Lawrence of Arabia.

manding the R.A.F. Base at Instruments and cheelt the minchine's He has broken bread and taken salt in Arab encampments in the desert wastes, and has Smith, former Air Officer Com-planned.

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Countess Of Old

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"The Countess of the Old Kent

aged

G. F. Watts died in 1904, aged ward is the great policy of our re-Road"--as Mrs. Charlotte Bracey eighty-seven. 1te had been married before--ia Ellen Terry, the actress,pective countries we shall receive Wright, Countess de Lormet, when he was sixteen years old. The support from all over the world."

A resolution was passed declaring 17, was known-ls dead. that while desiring the end of the cruelties ravaging Spain il profested against any pressure on the legitimate Government of Spain to induce it to surrender unconditionally.

marriage lasted a year, and was then annullect.

Among the most famous of his and "Hope," "Love pictures BIT Life," and "Love Triumphant.”

Rare Chess Set Owned

BUFFALO, N. Y. Christion Van Ankum believes he has one of the oldest carved cheys sets in the world. According to the family records, the chess set pieces were carved in Holland in the 17th eentury. They are made of solid

Ivory, and are yellowed with age.

A descendant of Baron de Lormet one of Napoleon's officers), the was presented, ni Countess at 17 Court and at 19 murried Mr. William On China, a resolution demanded | Bracey-Wright, an engineer.

material for Japan and an agreement

an embarge on arms nadi war When she and her husband first by the Powers to refuse all imports went to live in Camberwell in 1869 the Countess interested herself in social work and represented North: Peckham or Camberwell Counell

from dapat.

Lent To University until her retirement in 1834.

dined in the mountain palaces

of sheikhs. And he has been

sentenced to death as a "British Stonework Drilled

spy," to be reprieved by the in-i tervention of a judge who was a former pupil.

in three words," he said.

"The Arabs sum up every problem

"In this conference not only but all the Arab delegates make those three words 'Chamberlain, Chamber- Inin, Chamberlain,'

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ing No. 26 Training Group, BOMBS OR PHOTOGRAPHS

"The observer's job is to map 'out. recently. discussed modern Ser-

vice training methods.

a route which will bring it back on He is directly responsible to the to its proper course, asslated by a Air Ministry for the elementary certain amount of co-operation from "The observer has several other HE use of wall drills or chisels for training of pilots and observers at the plot.

making holes in stonework or 34 centres throughout the country,

"During the war," said Air Com-datles aboard a R.A.F. bomber. In masonry to take plugs or some other modore Smith, "the observers of a addition to navigation he must be means of fastening hos httherto been two-seater had a comparatively easy an expert in bomb-alming, aerial general reconnaissance, anything but pleasant for the work-job duties were to report and and the art

photography,

gunnery. "In actual warfare the bomber would carry two pilots, while the remainder of the crew, although of- ficially designated as observers, would undertake the duties of navi gator, bomber, and gunner respec- ilvely."

man, and so a firm in Central Ger-

observe during flight, to take occa- many are showing an apparatus the Leipzig Spring Fair this week, sional photographs, do a spot of ar- which makes this kind of work very tillery observation, and, if attacked, much easier.

use the Dewis gun.

of

1,500 WANTED.

"You people at home may think it strange," he said as he fet his 'mis babata string of amber beads-slip

It is in the form of a

VARIED DUTIES through his ingers, "but never has

"Since 1935, when Britain began the prestige of British officialdom un, and is operated by turning a been higher than it is in Palestine small crank, as shown in the illustra

tlon. Instead of the barrel of the to re-arm, we have been given air- to-day."

So Important is the work of the From

Hayning, General

the gun, there is a dr which is given craft of longer range and speeds in some cases showing an increase of

observer that in December the Air G.O.C. In Jerusalem, to the newestrix blows at each revolution of the 183 per cent.

A One of her sons, the Rev. Louis recruit of the Palestine police force, crank and also rotates as well.

Nowadays the duties of a bomber Ministry appealed for a further Bracey-Wright, R.N.. unid.

they are respected by the Arabs as hole can be bored in any kind of are so varied that a crew of five per 1,500 recruits, and Inquiries are bo

Ing received at the rate of 1.000 » free from corruption and fair and stonework with the simple device sons is required, instead of two.

without any great exertion, and a just in administration.

"The pilot cannot leave his seat or week. Candidates must be between "The courts hand out justice and

clean and circular hole for a plug navigate his machine the multifari- 17% and 25.

months preliminary After five ॥ surprisingly ous controls of a modern bomber

training they are posted to Service nothing but justice.

"It is not the British oleials nor can be produced in

complete training "This means a great deal of ex-squadrons for British administration in Palestine short time. Fitters, plumbers and keep him fully occupied, which have caused the trouble," he torpenters, as well as other trades-

men, will welcome this simple fra work for the observer. Through-with-rank-of-sergeant, pay_at_the_ said. "It is polley."

appliance which saves much time and out the flight he sits with a map in rate of 120d, a day and an oppor labour.

front of him, comparing the plane's tunity to talify for commissions.

Berkeley, Cal. Live bables instead of ease records will be used hereafter by the house-

"My mother had a deep affection hoid economics class of the Univer sity of California. Parents were so for the people of the district whem anxious to co-operate in the course she spent so much of her life, and she and girls once declared, I have found peace in that after 50 little boys had been selected, 70-other applien- the Old-Kent-Road and shall spend

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ARABS' 'KICK'

"The Palestine problem is not a quarrel nor a struggle between Arab and Jew. It is the kick of the Arab different ugainst Zionismo very matter.

"One man and one man only, I am convinced, can make this conference success and by that can bring peace to Palestine.

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"He is Mr. Chamberlain,

the conference benove succeed if the man who tackled a far greater problem--in going to Berch- tesgaden, Godesburg and Munich- and who is, in my opinion, the great- est peacemaker the world has ever! known, will throw all bis weight into arriving at an enduring peace for a troubled country.

"I"-here Mr. Oliver gave a modest shrug beneath the folds of his "abayeh"-"came to Loudon to help ali I can."

Girl Swept Underground

FALLING into a swiftly-run- ning, mill stream at. Aber- gavenny (Mon) recently, six- Dodd was year-old Pamela

swopt 100 yards through a tunnel which runs beneath warehouse.

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Halfway through the tunnel is # 14ft. waterfall, and over this Pamelu was plunged.

Her playmates' erles were heard by Mr. A. Vaughan, a shop manager, but they were too frightened to ex- plain.

CRYING FOR MOTHER

Mr. Vaughan, however, quessed what had happened and went with his assistants to a point where the stream

custle ปาด einerges into mendows.

There they found Pamein, clinging to the bunit and crying for her mother. She hack escaped with bruises on the forehead and shock..

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