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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 3, 1939,

SECRET" WORDS

APPEAR EMPIRE

NEWS

ON 193-YEARS-OLD PAPER

Written By Bonnie Prince Charlie

A SECRET MESSAGE IS SLOWLY APPEARING ON THE BACK OF A ROYAL PROCLAMATION, ISSUED 193 YEARS AGO, OFFERING £30,000 REWARD FOR THE HEAD OF BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE...

The document is in the Elgin Museum, Scotland, and the curator, Mr. James Bufe, belloves that eventually the whole mes sage will be readable.

Already the date, 1745, and several short words together with the initials T. U. W, are legible.

The mesange may have been, shall land or attempt to land in any written by Prince Charlie himself on of his Majesty's dominions."

a notice torn down from a tree or by an escoping clansman.

This in followed by the signatures of 13 nobles.

The message ends with an offer of a reward and pardon to any follower of the

Prince prepared to betray his

The document was presented to the muscum In 1801 by Captain James Stewart, of Cabrach, Banffshire. leader to the King's forces, is about 20 Inches long by a foot

į wide.

BETRAYAL OFFER

The antiquity of the proclamation 18 established by the words: "Given at Whitehall on the in the 19th year of his Majesty's Whitehall on the First day of August, reign, MDCCXLV. (1745), London," It was printed by Thomas Baskett, "printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty and by the nasigns of Robert

Surmounted by the Royal Coat of Arms, it bears the words: "By the Lords Justices, a proclamation offer- ing the reward of £30,000 to any person who shall seize or secure the eldest son of the Pretender in case he Baskett."

Jew Trudged Across Europe to Rejoin Wife

LONDON.

IN Vienna, before the Nazis came there, Police-Sergeant Leon Filip Drexlern and his wife Anny lived happily. Then because Drexlern is a Jew he was deprived of his post and became a road sweeper; his wife came to England to enter domestic service.

Drexlern was leaving Vienna station after seeing her off when he was seized by the German secret police and put in a concentration camp.

DAMIR

Colonel Vladimir S. Hurban, Czecho-Slovak Minister, left, gives a hearty handshake in Washington to Fernando de los Ros, whose status as Spain's envoy is uneasy, because of possible re- cognition of Franco's regime. Hurban refused to yield his lego- ilon to Germany.

Rich Man Of 74 Says-

Secretary Bride Packed & Left

FIVE weeks after marrying his secretary, Mr. Arthur Peel Nash, wealthy 74-year-old retired London solicitor, is living apart from her.

at soon, and is going to live with a world cruise.

He is leaving his West End luxury hopes that his daughter will go on his lovely 25-year-old adopted "For four months we are going to (daughter, also an ex-secretary," at cruise round the world. My wife

Ramsgate.

was coming with me but now Joan and will go on our own," he said. "The trip is costing me about £1,500,"

Marylebone police court recently.

He told of his plans as he left

EXCHANGE CONTROL IN NEW ZEALAND

AUCKLAND,

Mr. W. Nash, the New Zealand Minister of Finance, recently denied reports from a London source that the mensures of exchange control Imposed last year might shortly be abolished.

He said that it was unlikely that there would be any change in the scheme until there was the certainty of sterling always being available.

New Zealand manufacturers must. have security, he, added, if industrial expansion was to be achieved. Their position must always be safeguorded, CANADA

KING AND QUEEN TO SEE HORSE RACE OTTAWA.

The Ontario Jockey Club have announced that the King and Queen have accepted an invitation to watch the running of the King's Plate, Canada's major Turt event, which opens the horse-racing senson, at Woodbine Pork, Toronto, on May 22, The King's Plate, which was first run la 1800, is over a mile and a fur- long-Reuter,

"

trade

U.S. Trade Agreement.-The Cann- dian House of Commons recently adopted a motion of the Prime Minis- ter, Mr. Mackenzie-King, approving the United States-Canadian agreement without a recorded vote. The vote was not conclusive, as the House's Ways and Means Committee must yet approve all the tarif changes item by item. INDIA

FRONTIER R.A.F. BASE DEMANDED

CALCUTTA,

The widening of Congress interest exempilfied by questions by Mr. Asaf in the problem of India's defence was All in the Central Assembly.

He asked whether, in view of the fact that Japanese penetration Into China had brought squadrons of Japanese aircraft within 500 inlles of the north-eastern frontier, a Royal

His summons alleging threats by

In the police court Mr, Nash heard | Air Force base could be established After six weeks he was re- March 12. communicated with the pour in the flats, in which he lives to other residents" by Mr. Harry Mr. Subhas Chandra Bose, the Lefilst

Mr. Alfred Alan Selbourne, a neigh-himself described "as a perfect pest there. No reply was given. leased on signing an agreement police.

Ultimatum to Britain Proposed.--- to leave the country in two

lu Portman-square, had been dis-Myers,

solicitor defending Mr.

President of the Indian National Con- missed. weeks.

Selbourne.

He admitted that he had moved Kress, proposed, at the opening of the about the finis in his pyjamas but his 2nd annual session at Tripuri re- denied that he was improperly cently, that an ultimatum should be dressed of that he had been a pest.

presented to the British Government His present secretary, an attractive to concede without delay all India's brunette in the early twenties, at in "national demands," "The time has come for a major assault on British court during the hearing.

Mr. Nash's summons alleged that Imperialism," he declared, adding jat

on December 17 M favoured such a move. 8.30 a.m.

tint the international situation Selbourne banged on Mr. Nash's fat door, put his foot in the door and threatened to smash Mr. Nash and

is pianola..

Knowing that after signing he would be unlikely to come out alive if he ever went back to the camp, he began to walk. He had one idea-to get to England to see his wife,

THROUGH SNOW

Through Germany. he trudged, sometimes taking to fields 31. deep in suow, occasionally getting lifts or having short rides in trains.

GOING TO UNITED STATES With the minister acting as inter- preter at Hove, police court recently, More than 100 guests were received Drexlern admitted being found in when Mr. Nash married 30-year-old this country without leave,

Joan Lister, at All Souls', Langham- The Chief Constable, Mr. William place. Champagne alone cost £50, filler, said: "I have no reason to doubt his story is true. I shall, as o

"Now she has gone away," said matter of duty, have to ask you to Nosh. make an order recommending depor-| lation.

"The trouble started when I in- aisted on taking my daughter-whom He added it would be for the Home I adopted more than a year ago Office to decide what action should with us to live at Ramsgate. be taken.

Mr. Max Adler, defending, saki and left.

"My wife Just packed her things He reached Antwerp, where. In arrangements were being made for "

I don't know where she cafe near the docks, he told a man Drexler and his wife to go to re- of his desire to reach his wife. Helatives in the United States. He ap- ported with 1,000 francs, all he had, peated for an adjournment while the und wus laken on board a steamer.

papers were being completed. When the vessel reached England. Drexlem was rowed asitore by man in small boat, taken to a rail- way station, and given £l und ticket to Brighton.

ing.

"SUCH-HAPPINESS”-

Mr. Nash admitted that in a High Court action he had agreed to play Mr. Nash's adopted daughter Isla pianola only during certain

Joan McGlynn-Nash,

who hours, changed her name from McGlynn by deed poll

Miss

She has a flat near Portman-square, "I have known her for years," said Mr. Nash.

The Future-Of- Guam

The proposal of the United States Navy Hoard to fortify the Paclic island of Guam is now almost certain

Planter Murdered.-Mr. A. C. Cot- ton, manager of the Sholayar, Madras, plantations, was shot dead while sleeping in a summer house recently, His keys were taken from beneath his pillow, an iron safe opened, and 7,000 rupees taken. SOUTH AFRICA

The hearing was adjourned and

HERTZOG FORECASTS Drexlem was granted buil in £200.

PEACE IN EUROPE A condition.was that he should re- "She has been seriously in for After two hours in the train Drex-main in Hove and report daily to the some time and it has cost me thou-

CAPE TOWN. tern reached Brighton and found his police.

sands to get her well again.

The belief that peace in Europe way to the address in Landsdowne Outside the town hall Drexlera and Place, Hove, where his wife Is work his wife were reunited. They walk-ker only 101. a week pocket money in fact, already been rejected by the Gen. Hertzog, recently. He was ad- "Once I sent her away and allowed to be rejected by Congress. It has, was expressed by the Prime Minister, would be maintained for a long time

She took Drexlern to the Rev. K.

ed happly away ann in an.

10, a week after she had been used Fausner in Brunswick Place, Hove,is," said Drexlern in German. "I!

"What a happy country England to having everything she wanted.

House of Representatives and the dressing conference of command- who, on hearing that Drextern had never thought I would have such

"Now she has come back."

Senate Naval Committee. The pro-ants of the union's burgher, com- sinuggled himself into the country on hoppiness again."

Once, they have taken over their posal was not entirely a happy one. niando in Cape Town. lown house at Ramsgate, Mr. Nash authorise the expenditure of about the rural members of defence rifle

Congress was

asked

merely

The burgher commando consists of £1,000,000 on making Guam a naval associations. They train under the fying base, a modest, measure which direction of commandants,

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But it was well known that this was APPEAL OF WELFARE only the Arst instalment of a plan, SOCIETY PRESIDENT dear to the hearts of American naval

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PORT LOUIS, Mauritius.

The appeal of Dr. Cure, President;

be a very different matter. Not only of the "Societe de Bienfaisance des would it be enormously expensive, Travailleurs de l'Ile Maurice," against

It would have Important effects

but

on the country's foreign policy. The two orders of the Governor, Sir Cill- fortification of Guam, which is 3,31 to be erased from the register, be

3.318 ford Bede, ordering the society's name " miles west of Honolulu and over cause of alleged ill-use of funds, will 5,000 miles from any naval base on be heard by the Supreme Court here the American continent, could hardly on March 20, be justified as a purely defensive measure. Indeed, it could hardly be party of Mauritius, which is connect- Dr. Cure is President of the Labour Justified at all unless the Uniteded with the "Soclete de Bienfaisance," States were determined to keep and defend the Philippines, which they

are at present pledged to abandon. In any case I would be a direct

challenge to Japan, since Guam lles in the Japanese sphere of influence in the Western Pacific surrounded by Japanese mandated Islands. It was, no doubt, this implied threat to Japan which won President Roose- velt's approval of the proposal. It might indeed have been a useful bargaining counter If Congress had passed the Bill, though in its present form it would have been more likely to annoy Japan than to frighten her. On the whole Congress is probably wise to reject a policy of pin-pricks without a clear conception of future American policy in the Pacific.

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