1939-03-09 — Page 15

Thursday.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 9, 1939.

PARLIAMENT SQUARE IS SAVED

RECORD GIFT FROM PILGRIM TRUST

THE enlargement and protection of Parliament Square-flanked by the Houses of Parliament and the Abbey-is now assured.

The scheme to free the square from the danger of commercial building is certain of success-a grant of £50,000 having been made by the Pilgrim Trust:

Lord Macmillan, chairman of the trust, said. recently that it was the largest sum which had ever been paid out at one time by the trust.

County

"Last autonin Middlesex Council received a commercial pro position which was so good that they sent out a kind of S OS," he added.

"They had already voted themselves and the Covrenment had Intimated that they were willing to give up to a total of £100,000.

⇓ sum

"IN PUBLIC INTEREST" "Micklesex County Council fell that unters the extra money needed was forthcoming they, as a public authority, could not refuse a good offer.

"The trust look the decision be cunse we thought I desirable in the There was a final public Interest. sum required-I don't know the exact amount but we imagine that with the £50,000 the rest can be found. The total needed was about E400 000,"

There was a danger that the site of Westminster House might be used for the erection of offee buildings instead of for enlarging the square | and conditional offers of help came from the L.C.C., Westminster City Council and the Ministry of Trans- port

Lady Has Revolver If Thief Returns

THIEVES entered the house of Mr. Piya Todd, of Stubble Grove, Tile House-lane. Den- ham. Buckinghamshire, tecently and stolc Jewellers and furs valued at £2,000.

Mrs. Todd k-

The thief must have reached the bedroom by means of the hammock in the gurdon, which is rather high.

"He probably swung himself on this until he reached the kw sloping roof over the dining-room, which is below one of the bedrooms.

"He then broke a pane and forced the window.

of glasu

do "How he managed to

flks without any one hearing 1 can't image, as I was in the house and a family party was in pra- gress. We were all in the dining-| The servants were also ou!

room. duty.

"Thu ther пу thleves stole jewellery from my Jewel case, which;

The Pilgrim Trust was founded in was forced open, and went to the 1030 for the endowment of educa-wardrobe and stole a blue fox conti tional and social work in this coun- and two mink coats

try by Mr. Edward Stephen Hark-things. ness, railway magnate, of New York. with a grant of £2,000,000.

Crisis. Bill Low-

For Town

RANSACKED

other

"When the maid went to the bed

room earlier in the evening every- thing was in order.

"An hour and a half later the maid

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More than 20.000,000 newspaper readers of the United States and Canada bave given their ediet on the most popular movie stars and have elected Tyrone Power and Jeanclie MacDonald King and queen of the movie world. The two are shown above inspecting their crowns, Inscribed with the names of 62 newspapers that con- ducted the pull,

Swan

Legend Inspires

New Work by Harty

Sorrowful Stories of Erin," Ste Hamilton said.

MAN WHO KNEW WHEN HE

BEN

WOULD DIE

DENJAMIN GONSALES, seventy-four-year-old car- penter, of Santo Andre, l'ortu- morning gal, announced one

that "a voice" had told him he would do that day.

Then he went to church, made his confessign, and re- ceived Holy Communion.

He went to the barber's for

a shave, and told the barber he wouldn't be calling again.

He vislied all his friends and said good-bye, then dined at the home of a sou, announc- ing that it was the last meal they would have together.

Then he went home and led In his sleep.

EMPIRE NEWS

ARRESTS IN BURMESE PAGODA

BANGOON.

A detachment of the 1st Bn. the Gloucester Regiment, accompanied

by police and a magistrate, raided the Great Shwe Dagon Pagoda recently Shrine searched the Moulmein

and

for revolutionaries.

Ten members of the Burma for the Burmans party were found 411 arrested. Documents and typewriters were seized..

There was no violence, but con- siderable excltement has been enused. EAST AFRICA

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ACTIVITY

CELTIC legend told to him by the fiddlers and fishermen of Antrim when he was a child has inspired Sir Hamilton

MOMBASA. Harty's new work, "The Children of Lir," which he conducted at At the conference of the Tanganyika a B.B.C. concert at Queen's Hal! recently.

League at Nairobi it was decided to

with up

thic Rhodeslas, "The legend Is the least known and church bell of the Antrim dore, and Nyasaland and South-West Africa, Perhaps most benut.ful of the Three became children again.

It was ales decided to

hold an "But as they were baptistid by the Salisbury.

all-Africa conference in March nt folk, they died."

Steps have been taken On holiday in Antrim last sum-commandues of British her, Sir Hamilton came upon a Kenya and Tanganyika. village schoolhouse with rellefs Heved that these are already IT carved on the walls setting forth the existence. story. They were the work of MissSOUTH AFRICA Praeger, the Belfast sculptress.

found the room had been ransacked. The thief had been through every-| tling.

"King 'Lir's lovely daughter Finola "But he took only the most-valu-, and his three sons were changed by London.

his evil second wife into swans, Despite the fact that Leiston, alable jewels.

"There is still snow in the garden, doomed to haunt the lakes and sus town of 4,200 in Suffolk, was as well prepared any place during the land when the detectives arrived of Ireland until they heard the sound September crisis, its Air Raid Pre-they found footprints in the snow." of a Christian bell,

· Mrs. Tedd added that she was cautions bill was only $0.50. At that

UNHAPPY ENDING time the local authorities were be- rather afraid of another attempt by

"They wandered through storm sieged with applications for A.R.P. thieves on the house, and was sleep.

ling with a revolver by her bedside. and sunshine until they heard posts.

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ORGANISATION OF NATIVE WORKERS

CAPE TOWN.

A feature of the music is a con- cealed soprano (Miss Isobel Baillie) Mr. H. G. Lawrence, Minister of whose voice represents Fluola's comLabour, speaking at a meeting of the ing from the sea,

DENTALLY

INSPIRED

South African Institute of Race

All Sir Hamilton's composing is Relations, in Cape Town, said that dons at the table in his head." the question of affording some form "Strious composers do not lose of non-statutory recognition of native workers' organisations Was under themselves in the key jungle," he ux-, Wo plained.

consideration. There were at present 78 native workers' organisations ou the Rand ant 30 in the Union.

Mr. Lawrence said that for some time past it had been-apparent that. native workers in industry were groping towards a system of vrganisa tion akin to trade unionism.

Expert of Malze. The Maize Con- trol Board has not been able to de- The painter is an exiled German,cide about a proposal to sell naize

PICTURE conceived in the dentist's chair hangs at an art exhibition whileh opened in London recently at the Lefevre Galleries, W.

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Martin Bloch, a lively, bright-eyed through one channel.

Board has decided. however, man. who sees frz the streets authorise the export of 900,000 bags London a vividness which evades of maize. It is proposed to reduce many English artists.

1s, to 2s. Gil. per

the bounty from

As a Kensington dentist stood over bar. him with drill and probe, Herr Block made a pleture in his mind of NEW ZEALAND

the garishly lit courtyard which he

saw from the window, and when GERMAN TRAINING

he got home to

Earl's his

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studio he transferred it to canvas.

Hig

paintings of a publle house at Barnes; a wet road in Eni's Court:

SHIP'S VISIT

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Referring to the visit of the North Langham-place: and T beforged German Lloyd four-master barque,

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"New Zealand Herald" remarks that write!

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NEW REX RECORDS

9464-Colorado Sunset. (Film) Waltz.

Garden In Cranada. F.T. 0472-My Own. ("That Certain Ago".) F.T.

You're As Preity As A Picture, F.T. 9485-Umbrella Man. (These Foollal Things".)

Where The 'Shannon Flows Down To The Sea,

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BILLY COTTON & HIS ORCH.

0463-Two Sleepy People, ("Thanks For The Memory".) F.T.

Sha-Sha Q.8.

0470-Ain't She Sweet F.T.

Somebody Stole My Gal. FT...BRIAN LAWRENCE & HIS ORCH. 9430-Tu-L-Tulip Time, Waltz

Is That The Way To Trest A Sweetheart. FT.

ROY SMECK & HIS HAWAIIAN SERENADERS, 0475-Heart and Soul ("Song is Bom".) F.T.

Blue Skies Are Bound The Corner, F.T. 9471-Is That The Way To Treat A Sweetheart. F.T.

Why Don't Somebody Tell Me These Things. F.T.

JAY WILBUR & HIS ORCH

0472-Day Dreaming. ("Gay Impostors".) F.T.

I Wanna Go Back To Bali. . ("Gay Impostors",) F.T. 9474--Chestnut Tree,

I Got Love. Q.8. ..........OSCAR RABIN & HIS ROMANY BAND.

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