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IN THEIR

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 22, 1939.

EX-KING OF SIAM IS

ENGLISH CUT OFF BY CENSORSHIP

GARDEN

CONTENT IN A

VILLAGE HERE

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BIDDENDEN, Kent.

ECENTLY the ex-King of Siam talked about the report that his allowance had been stopped, and told of his life in the quiet English village.

In their home on the outskirts of the village, the ex-King and Queen are cut off from all direct news of the country over which they once ruled.

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Strict censorship is being exercised in Bang- over all communications to the little spectacled ex-King Prajadhipok.

"I have had no news from my agent in Slam since December," be said. "My allowance, from the

Government has, I rend

the

The ex- King

and ex-Queen of Blan .on the bridge over the or- namental pool in the grounds of their home. The 400-year- -old timbered house is in the background.

· newspapers, been withheld.

"But it was only small-with the allowance for the Queen' it was between £500 and £000 a year. It was also part of my agent's salary. I have, of course, private means.”

The couple, who, until four years ngo, ruled over 14,000,000 people, are happy in the peace of English village life.

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The villagers see the little King and Queen," as they call them, riding bi cycles along the narrow lanes of Kent.

“Complete Unity'

**

Ex-Queen Rambal usually wears a leather golf jacket and blue alncks.

said

Ice-Cream Man Killed Posthumou D.S.O. It has been told that attempts may be

Girl: Mental Blackout

LEWES (Sussex).

Joseph Dell, forty-six-year-old ice cream salesman, strangled four-year-old Patricia Owens near his allotment at Hove during a "mental blackout" while in a state of epileptic mania, a jury

decided recently.

Dell, found guilty but insane at The judge referred to a newspaper Sussex Assizes at Lewes, was ordered article which said that a "mind to be detained during the King's

wave machine" would be used in The pleasure.

Jury were seven

evidence in the trial, and minutes considering their verdict.

During the tripl

Mr. Jurywoman { that

W. Grey Waker, 2 fuinted, and the trial was continued}"metearic" young scientist, of Maldn with eleven jurors.

Mr. Justice Charles quoted Ins-Vale, W., Hospital for Nervous Dis- would give eviplence of tances of mental blackouts, and said | cases,

"

he had been on the management com- the results of applying the machine. mittee of a mental hospital for over twenty years.

In his Fumming-up he said: "From cases I have tried you may find a nice devent Innocent man Koes out for a walk and can come back murderer without knowing

Evidence was called from War Office records that Dell had been dis- charged from the Army during the

Mr. Justice Charles commented that the paper could have been seen by any of the jury, and added,) "It is a cheap puff, and nothing hut a cheap puff, for that young

ing

LONDON.

A young Stirling aleman. Fly- Omeer, R. G. Waddell, D.F.C., who was killed in action In Palestine last August has been

posthumously awarded the D.S.0.

rebels with

He attacked the gallantry and determination under heavy fire when he answered a call for air assistance from land forces at Umat Satah. He con- tinued to attack after his 'plane

had been hit by rifle gre until the enemy retreated leaving the way open for an advance by the land forces. He was 24 years of age and won the D.F.C. three years. before this incident,

Sealed Cabins

In Air Liners

man, Mr. W. Grey Walter. In my "DOES breathing become diffi-

view it is a very grave attempt to

interfere with justice in a case of tain altitude?" murder.

made to restore the

throne which ha abdicated and which is now occupied by his nephew, the

13-year-old Ananda Mahidol.

"Please," said the King, "there are

no attempts so far na I am concerned. It would be against the interests of my country and the dynasty change kings again.

"There is complete unity in the royal family and I have heard several times from the king's mother.

"Besides I'm happy in my English home. Come and look at some of my treasures."

Under the scraped and restored beams of the 400-year-old house he showed porcelain bowls from Siam, Ming vases and Italian and French paintings side by side with rare English pieces he has collected.

"Some of these," he said, pointing to old English prints, come from the Cole- donian Market. I go there once a week. I love my searches thero,"

Pottering About

In the garden, beyond the well-

trimmed lawn, is a great ornamental cult when you reach a cer-pond with crocus borders.

"My wife and I have great fun here, saliing our four model yachts and lazing our rowing boat. I am waiting about for the goldfish to come up in the warm cather and for my ducks to have ducklinga

This was once a common ques-

"I shall consider whether It will tion to balloonists and daring war because of epilepsy. Normally be more appropriate presently

aviators of the early days. The he was a quiet, well-behaved mon London to ask the editor of this paper) who loved children. Patricia, the to give his explanation of what upon answer was "Yes." dead girl, and Dell's adopted three-the face of it is a matter incapable of and-a-half-year-old boy had played justification. It has never happened together often.

to me before."

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"Flying used to be one of my hobbles, The human being is designed to but I gave up my plane after my medical live on-the-earth's surface at an air advisere warned me about my heart....... "But there is plenty to do pottering pressure of nearly 15lb. to the square inch. This pressure falls with in-about the garden, cycling slowly round creasing height, dropping to Tib. at the beautiful loneliness of your English 18,000ft. Because of the rarefied air, lanes, or walking with our dog Bam. high filers have to be fed with oxygen to keep alive.

NO BAD WEATHER

Now modern avlution is tackling the problem of passenger flying at "high levels. The 14 30-passenger 250 m.p.h. liners which the Fairey com- is building for the Air Ministry, pany to be used on European end long- distance air routes, are to have pressure-cabins to carry passengers and crew in comfort at high altitudes. In these machines the answer to that old question will be "No."

friendly, and I have opened soveral "The people of Kent have been very

village events, including a flower show." On the top of a bookcase in his study was the ex-King's favourite quotation. It starts:

"Give me a nook and a book and let the proud world spin raund."

"That," he said. "nis in with my life. We are very happy here."

Staff Of Six

Vane Court is the name of the house.

There is a staff of six-four Siamese and two English-In the household.

Recently the company released de- stone, and famous for the Biddenden

Biddenden is 13 miles south of Mald talls of the pressure-cabins designed Maids, who were known as the "Blamese for Algist at a minimum height of 15,000.

High flying gives many advantages -the upper atmosphere is free from bad weather conditions, Beroplanes can ity at high speed using about 20 per cent. less power, giving fuel economy and an increase in payload.

RAPID CLIMBING

When the doors of the Fairey mono-

Twins" 800 years ago.

**King Prajachipok abdicated in 1935 after a long quarrel with his Govern- ment. In his letter of abdication he wrote: "I am of the upluton that the Government has employed methods of administration lacompatible with the personal liberty of the subject. . .”

WOMEN MEND ROADS

Belgrade.

plona are closed, the entire fuselage, Including the freight hatches, will be scaled. The air-conditioning pumps

Women and children are mending then start work, supplying ale ot ground pressure and at any desired mudswamped roads in one of the temperature at the rate of 20 cubic ft. poorer districts of Zagreb, chlo

iown at Croatia, because the per person per minute.

Because passengers and crew will municipal council refuses to act. be unaffected by rapid ascents and

For more than three years rate- descents, the machine will be able to payers in the area have demanded climb to 15,000ft. in 15 minutes that they should be given reasonably Each square foot of the cabin walls good reads into other parts of the has been tested to carry up to 350). own. When their final offer—that the municipality should only find the neccssury materials was rejected, the inhabitants raised the funds by a house-to-house collection and under- took the work' themselves.

pressure.

APPENDECTOMY AT 3

UKIAH, Cal. Little Nancy Ward will start her social life with the great advantage

The district has neither drainage of always having a topic for con- nor water supply, but to this the versation.

Bra "Now, when I had my inhabitants

not raising appendicitis operaion at 3" will be objection as they are luxuries which the way she can always start off. Zagreh could ill afford,

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