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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 22, 1939.

HER HUSBAND WAS A LUSITANIA HERO

Railway

Shanghai-Nanking Founded A Church

To His Memory

London.

The position of the British bond- holders in the Shanghal-Nanking Railway was again referred, to in

Parliamentary question. Prine ON May 7, 1915, while the world shuddered, the Lusitania,

Mr. Moreing asked Use

Minister whether he is aware that the Shanghal-Nanking Raliway, at present controlled by the Japanese. is now in complete working order and carrying a full load of passen- gera dally; and what steps he has taken to secure the payment of: interest to British bondholders.

Mr. Butler: As for as my Noble Friend is aware, the situation rc- inaina as stated in my reply of 8th April to my hon, and gallant Friend the Member for Chertsey (Comman- der Marados).

homeward bound from America, was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland. Of her passengers and crew, 1,198 were lost

On an upper deck a young man fed a theatrical choir, returning from an American tour, in the singing of "Nearer My God to Thee," while the crew fought to free the lifeboats. A few minutes later the ship foundered. He was drowned.

On May 7. his widow, Mrs. Morlich Mackay, now woman in her sixtles, held a service at her own, church, de- dicated to his memory,

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It is a strange church. She calls it, the Church of the Quiet Healers, and holds its services in the front and back, parlours—. Westmoreland-rond, Bayswater,

This is British Tommie wearing burlap and twigs over his steel helmet to impersonate a bush, during mitmle warfare at

Aldershot.

Edgar Wallace's 'Little Pal

FIGHTS ON FOR HIS HOME

MR. AMOS GROWNS, 52-years-old grocer, of Regent- street, Ipswich, "Little pal" of novelist Edgar Wallace when they were in their teens, has received a notice_to_quit__ his shop in seven days.

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This is the final stuge of a five-years fight.

in a "desert" of rubble Mr. Growns's shop stands now

hundreds of houses have been pulled down in a slum-clearance scheme. But Mr. Growns will not go..

W.

When you knock on the door you are shown straight through to the front parlour, which is fried with dark blue curtains and dark blue carpets,

Directly below the window, which is usually covered over, is the equivalent of an altar, with a pleture of Christ over it. There are flowers below the picture, and a sanctuary light burns!

On the left wall, also decorated with flowers, is a drawing of Hamish Auckay, the singer who died in the Lusitania.

Mrs. Mackay, head of the Church of the Quiet Healers, has the power- ful voice of a woman wlio ivas once a singer.

QUEER THINGS HAPPEN

She is herself a spiritualist, but she denies that she a spectacular medium, although strange things, she says, have happened in her house.. There is a clock that makes knock- a rhysterious smell

ing noiser

of Incense which suddenly becomes noticeable when there is no Incense anywhere in the house.

table ropping which becomes urgent and insistent when she least expects It.

Her services, she will tell you, are #spiritualist, with something of the Quaker in them."

n." When in a trance she is guided by, her spirit control "Awakteners

through whom she has

1911 written a number of hymns,

"Awakener's" hymns, are posted up in a hymn-frame before the service, just as they are in churches through- out the country every Sunday.

: MINISTER HELPS

Mes. Mackay is supported in her church by a Scuts minister, who was so impressed by her spiritual and healing abilities that he came down to London to lead her services.

She makes nothing from the Quiet Healers. Her own income has been sunk In furnishing and running the church.

Mrs. Mackay is one of eight people who are still benefiting under the Lusitania Disaster Fund, which was started in May 1915. The public Bubscribed the dependents of people who lost nearly £19,000 to help

their lives when the ship went down. All the direct beneficiarles under the Lusitania Fund are women.

One of them, Miss M. E. Worrall, who lives in Timperley, Cheshire, is He said: "When I came home over 80. She is the sister of man from the war, twice wounded who lost his life in the disaster.

and a permanent invalid, we put

- A GODSEND

Dynamite Threat To Niagara DRASTIC PRECAUTIONS

all our savings into this shop Mrs. Mary Ann Palmer, a widow BEING TAKEN AT NIAGARA FALLS TO SAFE and, two houses adjoining. All living in Smethwick, near Birming- we were offered by the corpora GUARD VITAL INDUS. TRIES AND HYDRO-ELEC-tion for compensation was £75 TRIC PLANTS FOLLOWING and 18 months' takings." THE DISCOVERY OF A BOX CONTAINING 5011. OF SAULTE DYNAMITE AT SAINTE MARIE.

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WIFE STANDS BY HIM

law and their three children in the ham, lost her son, her daughter-in- Lusitania disaster.

The relief fund has been a god- send to me," she said "Now I am getting on in years I manage per- fectly well with the fund and the old-age pension.

Homely Mrs. Crowns said: "If they turn us out into the street we will pile up our goods in the road and

"Once a month. I go down to the bank and draw the money-und um It was stated by the police carry on our business there,"

Mr. Growns has many memories; Erateful," recently that the dynamite had of Edgar Wallace, then a builder's been placed there in connection labourer, who lodged at his mother's with a plot to destroy the im-house in Clacton. portant canal joining Luke Huron and Lake Superior.

The municipal authorities have: urged all citizens to be on the alert and to report suspicious characters.

A committee of ex-Service men is watching the area and guarding places which might be attacked,

Leading oficials of the power plants said that precautions were taken because of general disturbances abroad.

MOSQUITO FLEET

BUILT

Sydney, Australia.

"He was a fine chap and used to

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Attack On

the his 'Little pal," said Mr. Shanghai Hospital

ALWAYS WRITING

the

Loudon,

BIF. Bellenger asked the Prime

ng

call

Growns.

"One day

I told him about a

A question was asked in the House schoolmate who used to bully.

You go for him next time, pal," of Commons' recently regarding the Edgar told me: and then taught me Japanese attack on the Hongkew how to box. The next Ume I gave General Hospital, Shanghai. the bully a thrashing. "Edgar, was often nearly starving then, and my Minister what were the circum- mother used to give him something stances connected with the forcible because she was so sorry for hlm. entry by Japanese bluejackels into

General Hongkew

Hospital, Shanghal, and the reported assault "Although he was dead tired when on the British Assistant-Commia- he came home at night he would al- stoner of polleg; and whether any ways sit up writing."

action has

been

taken by His Mr. Growns's most treasured pos-Majesty's Government? sessions are Edgar Walince's pen, his Mr. Butler: Dr. Beriram Lille, first diary, and the letter he wrote on principal of the Lester School and Motor torpedo bonts, regarded as November 10, 1893, before he walk-Henry Lillie Institution, was killed the perhaps the most effective instrumented out of his job at Clacton to seek about D'pm. on the 24th April

result of a collision between a dar of national defence for Australlo, are fame and fortune in London.

The letter, addressed to "Mother, that he was driving and a Japanese playing a leading part in the pre-

programme. Father, Clara, and Harry and to motor-bus. Mrs. Lillie sustained sent ship Twelve are being constructed at the whom it may concern." Edgar Wal-superficial injuries and severe shock Two lace forgot to post, and left behind and a British Municipal Police ser- Cockatoo Island shipyard.

him. destroyers also will be built there.

geant riding in the cat at the same ume was badly-injured. A Japanese maring standing on the running- board was injured and subsequently died. After the admittance in the general hospital of Mrs. Lilile and Uie police sergeant, Japanese marines forced their way into the hospital with the object of making inquiries. The facts of the cuse are obscure and the question whether any action by His Majesty's Government is appropriate must await, full in- ventigation and statements from Mrs. Lille and the police sergeant, who are understood to be recovering.

building

Lulworth Protest Fails

Protests by residents of West Lulworth, Dorset, against the proposed establishment of a miniature golf-course, with pavilion on cliff land close to the famous Lulworth Cove have failed. But Mr. H. C. Hayter, of Swanage, is to build the pavilion at the foot of Cliff Hill, near the coastguards' cottages, instead of at the top of the hill.

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