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GIRL DID NOT KNOW OF HER £50,000 GIFT

IF Nurse Ada Ryan, aged 28, had not suffered, at 15, a disappointment which caused her to abandon hopes of a scholastic carcer, she would have missed the £50,000 legacy which was recently left her.

Miss Ryan, a charming brunette, had been out shop- ping all day. Not until she was shown a newspaper when she got home at night did she know of her luck.

"It is certainly exciting to return) She did, faithfully and well, until from shopping to find you have been his death last December. left a fortune," she said.

As a girl at Ebbw Vale (Mon- mouthshire) Miss Ryan gained every distinition an elcinentary school could offer her.

He left £60,824, giving Nursċ Ryan £60,000 in grateful recognition of her services to my late wife and me."

"I had been cut most of the day, Passing the secondary school en-and when I got back, the maid asked trance examination with ease, the ine if I had heard of my luck," she went to build up a brililant record said. "She showed me a newspaper, and planned to take up a scholnatie and for the first time I learned I had

carcer.

Eduentionists prophesied a distin-

guished future for her.

Then the blow fell. Her was taken

SACRIFICE

mother

The slender income of her father, Mr. Jack Ryan, a garage foreman, i would not permit the engagement of outside help.

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£50,000.

me.

Mr.

"it came as an awful shock You see just before he died Gundry told me I should be provided for, but I had not the slightest iden

I should be left as much as that.

"HOME OF MY OWN"

"I haven't had time to make any plans. I haven't even thought about what I shall do with the money."

There was no alternative but for

"Isn't there perhaps something that i 15-year-old Ada to leave the secon- dary school and sacrifice her future. you have always secreily wished to

For 4 years she was a devoted be able to do?" she was asked.

a capable

Isn't"

Miss "No, honestly, there to her mother: house-keeper for her father and Ryan replied. "I have always want- ed a home of my own, and now I live one, for the house and every- thing is, mine. I shall stay here, at any rate for the present."

Hurse

brother.

When her mother died it was too late to think of a scholastle career.

But her experiences at home had bred in her à fondness for nursing. She started that profession by entering the Royal Infirmary al Hud- dersfield.

Asked if she was engaged, Miss Ryan said: "Oh. dear, no.

"But," she added more seriously, "I'm afraid-1 may have a lot of that sort of thing, and they would scarce- For three years she studied: then ly be the right kind."

qualified! took her certificate

purse.

DEVOTION

She joined the stuff of a private nursing-here at Malvern,

Mr.

gas

From there, four and a half years ago, she recured a post with Harold Gundry, a director of companies, at his home at Lindfield Gardens, Hampstead, N.W.

Two years ago she promised Mrs, look Gundry on her death-bed to after 77-year-old Mr. Gundry.

"I suppose some people would im- mediately dash off on a tour round the world, or something like that, if they suddenly found themselves with all this money.

But not me; ah no, thank you. I have a horror of the sen. I dare not I have even go to Ireland, which always wanted to see, because I dread the crossing.

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April. 11, 1939.

Prominent first nighters at the York, were Mrs. Franiciln D. Roosevelt, H. La Guardia, in happy mood above.

Federal Theatre's premiere of "The Swing Mikado," in New Secretary, of Commerce Harry Hopkins und Mayor Florello Unique show is a WPA project.

Author Beaten By

Gangsters

EMPIRE NEWS

SUBSCRIBED

John Worby, ex-tramp and author of the successful best 13 P.C. OF LOAN NOT seller "The Other Half," was beaten up by gangsters in London recently. He went to the Lambeth Hospital.

Worby has just completed his new book, "Spiv's Progress,"

Recently Worby was in a cafe in the West End with friends, one a member of the firm of J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., the publishers of the book, when he was suddenly attacked by a gang.

CANBERRA. Only £4,000,000 of the recent £8,- Commonwealth 37i per

in which he fearlessly exposes the gangsters of Britain, their 500,000 terrorism, and the trickeries and rackets which are worked. cent. 1955 Loan was subscribed by

This book was awaited with great interest, and.in some quar- the public, according to an announce

ment ters with uneasiness,

by Mr. R. G. Casey,

Treasurer. two Commonwealth

Under- to take up £3,700,000, or 43 per cent. writers were consequently called on

Mr. Casey said that the success of the loan had to some extent been affected by the fact that an amount of £10,400,000 had been subscribed in cash to the £71,700,000 37% per cent 1082-4 Conversion Loan of last December. Moreover, he add- ed, the latation took place ut an un- usual time.-Reuter,

With badly discoloured eyes (a stitch had to be put in the corner of the left one), a swollen jaw, cut lips, bruises on the back "I am not a pleasure-seeking girt, of his head and on his body, Worby said:

"I was sitting in the cafe when the gang about a dozen strong, anyway."

came in, caught hold of me and dragged me outside.

"When my friends attempted to interfere they were pushed roughly aside and told 'It's this-we want.'

"Bombs" On A London Station To Test A.R.P.

The Paddington area was blacked out for three hours after midnight recently to test the arrangements made in Paddington Station to deal with air raids.

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Because goods and other traffe special fire engines, part of the station had to be despatched, one plat- A.R.P. equipment, arrived. form had to be kept fully illuminated while the rest of the station was in darkness except for tiny blue lights.

Twenty minutes after the alarm had been scunded there was a loud report outside the station.

An Imitation Incendiary

flared away.

Hases were ran out. Two escape) Andders were run up to a roof, The brought down dummies, Bremen where were placed on ambulance handcarts and rushed away.

Forty-five minutes after the warn ing syren the fully-illuminated plat- departing "bomb" form was vucated by a

train, and Immediately the lights were extinguished and small blue

Auxiliary dreinen ran up with a lights took their place, hose and sprayed the stationTMTM wall near which the "bomb" had dropped,

AL 4 a.in. huge white fore

to prevent the fire spreading. The Bluminated the whole of one end of

"bomb" itself was dealt with,

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Then a red smoke thare broke into again came into action. And so fire half-way up the building. Two went on for three hours.

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"The gang got me on the ground and kicked me savagely: Only one used his fists. It's a wonder I'm alive."

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1,383lbs Shark.A tiger shark, weighing 1,383lbs, and believed to be a world's record, was caught off Sydney,

Worby was taken to Charing Cross Hospital and he left after NEW ZEALAND receiving attention. Later he became delirious and was taken to Lambeth Hospital where he was found to be suffering from slight} LEISURELY DOCKERS concussion.

His book, "Spiv's Progress," will be published shortly.

Gamecock Rodeo Seen

By Two Hundred

Mr.

CRITICISED

AUCKLAND. Webb, Minister of Mines, announced recently that a national conference of shipowners and workers would be held to consider plans for Increasing the efficiency of work on the waterfront, with a view to re- ducing exc

excessive costs.

He criticised the "inconvenient

"Jelsureliness" of New Zealand

and

Im-

The twenty-one English men and women, their retinue of methods" of British packing, and the North Country bird handlers, and the survivors of the 148 game-workers. cocks that fought to give them pleasure recently left Calais. If the conference were unsuccessful, he said, the Government intended to But after the last English bird) The winner was acclaimed by ensure the provision of men had left the garage behind the those who had won money. Ilis Hotel Meurice where he has owner picked him up by cne wing plant capable of effecting an

|provement. fought, cockfighting went on. In and tossed him into a sack to die of the Galladronie, a covered court-his wounds.

INDIA yard behind a cafe not far from the hotel, there were Eighteen more victims.

There were children around the EFFECT OF CONGRESS. ng. A chubby, fair-haired girl, (aged eight, sucked a finger and stur- Visitors paid ten franes (1s. 2d.) to jed at the birds. watch the afternoon's sport,

SPLIT.

CALCUTTA

On her face disgust and interest The resignation of Pandit Nehru, It was different from the secreti enckfights in the range. The Eng-were mixed. A father lifted up his the former President, from Congress Ish drank champagne: at the Gal-daughter so that she could see better. has been received in Bengal with it is sald

a gluss.

the last thing that Mr. Subhas Chan- that his loyalty to Mr. Gandhi was dra Bose, the "Left Wing" President, hud expected.

ladrome the only drink available was The crowd were good-natured, considerable surprise, as beer eosting just over a half-penny Mast of them lost money when Shin

ing Sword of Calais, a magnificent The English wagered up to £100 white speckled bird, lay dend, beaten on a ght. Half a crown was a big] by a red unknown from S1. Malo.

The task now left to Mr. Bose is bet in the Galladrome.

"Just bad luck, The Sword was unenviable. He is left to lead ü the better bird," they sald.

Congress which is ittle more than a

ROMANTIC NAMES

If the fighting got slow you could go into the cafe. They stumped a cock on your hand in ink so that you could get back without paying.

The birds were curried into the arena in nen bags. They were big barnyard roosters, much larger than the English fighting cock. Their spurs had been cut off and steel spikes, two

two-and-a-half inches long, clipped to their legs. They had remantle names, Ikke Roi d'Enter (King of Hell) and Napoleon le Brave. When their owners lifted them from the sacks and took the corks off their spikes the birds seemed gentle, but when one was held out to look at another:

£2,000 Job

Is Born

name.

It is generally expected that the resignation of Ministries in some States will follow, and thus Mr. Gandhi will take the wind from the Falls of the President of Congress. KENYA

OPENING OF TOURIST SEASON

MOMBASA.

London County Council created a new £2,000-a-year job recently.

They agreed with members, of the establishment committee that the council's architect needs an assistant. with the arrival of the Cunard-White:

The tourist season has opened høre The post is to be advertised, and Star liner Franconia, 20,175 tons. will have a salary starting at with 200 passengers. Her linerary £1,800 a year, rising to £2,000 in is from New York to the Cupe, and two yours.

along the East coast to Australlu. The assistant architect will deal On March 11 the German liner

he pecked viciously, like a snake with town planning and the designing

striking.

ings.

The birds were put into the steel-of new London County Council build- notted ring. The colour of the mal on which they fought Wis red. Some of the cocks, rushed instantly: at each other. Others moved around looking for an opening.

But there always came a fierce rush, a flutier of wings ne the birds reared up to strike with their spurs. They struck so fast that until they tired you could not see their lega

move.

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Colombus, 32,665 tons, which is to make a round-Africa trip, arrived here from New York.

Alien Mosquitoes

Invade Chelsea

After a few flerce struggles both Polsoned arms and legs, inflamed, Mr. A. Ankers, a dalrymun in Lots- birds would stop, exhausted, even eyes, sleepless nights have been road, salu”***

If one or both were not fatally worrying hundreds of people in Chel-

wounded.

SHOUTED INSULTS.

sea.

"I killed four mosquitoes in my dairy the other day, I have travel- They are caused by a plague of led widely and I know that they are The longest of fifteen fights took}large`mosquitoes.

not the usual English mosquitoes. thirteen minutes, the shortest üfleen One hundred and fifty residents in They are even larger than the tiger seconds. At the end of the thirteen- Lots-road, Tetcott-road, Upcerne- mosquitoes which you get in the Gulf minuto fight both birds, torn, bleed- road, and Meek-street, have peti- of Mexico:

ing, barely breathing, wero ap-| tloned Chelsea Borough Council to

take action to rid them of the mosuse. The creek needs dredging."

"I don't think spraying will be any Durently dying

The crowd aliouited insults, then quitoes, roared applaure as one slowly The Port of London Authority has Mrs. G. E. Gilbert, of Tetcott-road, lifted himself, pecked at his oppo- refused to allow the creek at the rear said that, she had to stay awake on nent's eye, then leaped in the air of Lots-road to be sprayed with several nights applying fomentations and struck one sieci spur clean paraffin, so the Chelsea Council is to relieve the swelling of mosquito through the other bird's head, searching for another preparation, bites.

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