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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 aum which had ever been paid out at one time by the trust.

"Last ulum Middlesex County

Council received a commercial pro- position which was so good that they

sent out a kind of S O S head Lady Has Revolver

a sum

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

"IN PUBLIC INTEREST" "Middlesex County Council felt) that unless the extra money needed was forthcoming they, as a public authority, could not refuse a quod offer.

The trust took the decision be cause we thought it desirable in the There waN T 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 400,- 900,"

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There was a duuger that the sile of Westminster House might be used for the erection of office 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- рот.

If Thief Returns

THIEVES entered the house of Mrs. Philys Todd, of· Stubble Grove, Tile flouse-lane, Den- ham, Buckinghamshire, recently and stole Jewellery and. fors valued at £2,000.

Mrs. Todd salli

"The thief must have reached the bedroom hy means of the kammock in the garden, which is rather high.

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

"He then broke a pane of glass and forced the window.

this! "How he managed to do without any one hearing I can't Imagine, as I was in the house) and a family party was a pre- стеля, We were all in the dining- room. The servants were also o21

luty.

The thief

thieves stole Jewellery from my jewel case, which The Pilgrim Trust was founded in was forced open, and went to the 1930 for the endowment of edued-wardrobe and stole a blue fox cont

among other A Ilonal and social work in this coun- and two mink cools ley by Mr. Edward Stephen Hark-things. ness, railway magnate, of New York, with a grant of £2,000,0UD.

Crisis Bill Low

For Town

London.

RANSACKED

"When the maid went to the bed-A

roon earlier in the evening every-: thing was in order,

An hour and a half later the maid found the room had been ransacked. The thief had been through every- thing.

More than 20.000.000 newspaper readers of the United Sintes and Canada have given their edict on the most popular movie stars and have elected Tyrone Power and Jeanette MacDonald king and queen of the movie world. The two are shown above Inspecting their crowns, inscribed with the names of 82 newspapers that con- ducted the poll.

Swan Legend Inspires New Work by Harty

CELTIC legend told to him by the fiddlers and fishermen of Antrim when he was a child has inspired Sie Hamilton Harty's new work, "The Children of Lir," which he conducted at

B.B.C. concert at Queen's Hall recently.

MAN WHO KNEW WHEN HE WOULD. DIE

PENJAMIN

GONSALES, seventy-four-year-old car- penter, of Santo Andre, Portu- gal, announced one ‹ morning that "voice" had told him he would die that day.

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

He went to the barber's for a shave, and told the barber lo wouldn't be calling again.

Ile visited alt his friends and said good-bye, then dined at the-home-of his son, announc ing that it was the last meal they would have together.

Then he went home and died in his sleep.

EMPIRE NEWS

ARRESTS IN BURMESE

PAGODA

BANGOON.

A detachment of the 1st Bn. the

Regiment, Gloucester

accompanied by police and a magistrate, valded the Great Shwe Dagon Pagoda recently and searched the Mouhnein. Shrine For revolutionaries,

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

There was no violence, but con- siderable exultement has been caused. EAST AFRICA

TANGANYIKA LEAGUE

ACTIVITY

MOMBASA.

At the conference of the Tanganyika |League at Nairobi it was decided to link up with the Rhodesias,

It was also decided to hold an March at "But as they were baptired by the Salisbury,

nil-Africa' conference in folk, they died."

to form settlers in It is be-

"The legend is the least known and church bell off the Antrim shore, and Nyasaland and South-West Africa. perhaps most beautiful of the Three became children again. Sorrowful Stortes Erin," Sir Haman said,

"King 'Lir's lovely daughter, Fhiola "Dut he took only the most valu-) and his three sons were changed by

his evil second wife Into

swans, Despite the fact that Leiston, aable Jewels.

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

Mrs. Todd added that she cautions bill was only $8.50. At that i time the local authorities were be-rather afraid of another attempt by sleged with applications for A.R.P.hieves on the house, and was sicep-

Ling with a revolver by her bedside. posts

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"Steps have been taken On holiday in Antrim inst sun commandoes of British mer, Sir Hamilton came upon a Kenya and Tanganyika. village schoolhouse with reliefs lieved that these are already carved on the walls setting forth the existence. story. They were the work of Miss SOUTH AFRICA Praeger, the Belfart sculptress.

He decided to finish his

rough anotes on the subject, and wrote the

work on his return to London. A feature of the music is a cented soprano (Miss Isobel Baillie) whose voice represents Finolu's com- i from the sea.

COR-

ORGANISATION OF NATIVE WORKERS

in

CAPE TOWN. Mr. 1. G. Lawrence, Minister of Labour, speaking at a meeting of the South Mrican Institute of Race Relations In Cape Town, said that the question of affording some fornt of non-statutory recognition of native under consideration. There were at present 16 native workers' organisations on the Rand and 30 in the Union.

All Sir Hamilton's composing dons at the table "in his head."

"Serious composers do not lose themselves in the key jungle," he ex-workers' organizations was plained.

DENTALLY INSPIRED

"PICTURE"conceived-in-the-

A dentist's chair hangs at an art exhillon which opened in London recently at the Lefevre Galleries, W.

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

Export of Maize-The Malze Con- trol Board has not been able to de- cirle about a proposal to sell malze through one channel. The Moule

The painter is an exlied Germ, Martin Bloch, a fively, bright-eyed Board has decided, however, to mu, who sees in the streets authorise the export of 900,000 bags London a vividness which

evades of maize. It is proposed to reduce the bounty from 3s. to 28. fid. per

many English artists.

As a Kensington dentist stood over jag. in with drill and probe, Herri

Block made a picture in his mind of NEW ZEALAND

the garishly, it courtyard which he

gw from the window, and when

he got home to his Earl's Court

sludio he transferred it to canvas.

His paintings of a public house at Barnes; a wet road in Earl's Court;: Langhum-place;

and

Millbank

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NEW REX RECORDS

B464-Colorado Sunset. (FDm.) Waliz.

Garden In, Ceanada. F.T.

0472--My Own. ("That Certala Age".) F.T.

You're As Pretty As A Picture. FT.

9405-Umbrella Ma. ("These Foolish Things".) Waltz. Where The Shannon Flows Down To The Sea.

Waltx.

BILLY COTTON & HIS ORCHI 0403-Two Blorgy Feopic. ("Thanks For The Memory".) F.T.

Sha-Sha Q.5,

9470-Ain't She Sweef. FT.

Somebody Stole My Gal. F.T...BRIAN LAWRENCE & HIS ORCH. 9430-Tu-Ll-Tulip Time. Waltz..

Is That The Way To Treat A Sweetheart. F.T.

ROY SMECK & HIS HAWAIIAŊ SERENADERS, 9475---Heart and Boul. ("Song Is Born".) F.T.

Riae Skles Are Round The Corner." F.T. 0471-Is That The Way To Trest A Sweetheart. F.T.

Why Doesn't Somebody Tell Me These Things. FT.

JAY WILBUR & HIS ORCH

9473-Day Dreaming. (“Gay Impostors”.) · F.T.

I Wanna Go Back To Ball. ("Gay Impostor") FT. 0474-Chestnut Tree,

I Got Love. QS.........OSCAR RABIN & HIS ROMANY BAND.

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