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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 22, 1939.
HER HUSBAND WAS A LUSITANIA HERO
Shanghai-Nanking Founded A Church
Railway
London.
The position of the British bond- holdera in the Shanghai-Nanking Rallway, was again referred to in # Parliamentary question,
To His Memory.......
ON May 7, 1915, while the world shuddered, the Lusitania, homeward bound from America, wha torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland. Of her passengers and crew,
Mr. Moreing asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the Shanghal-Nanking Railway, at present controlled by the Japanese,1,198 were lost is now in complete working order and carrying full load of pussen- gers daily; and what steps he has taken to secure the payment of interest to British bondholders.
Mr. Butler: As far as my Noble Friend is aware. the situating re- mning as stated in my reply of 6th April to my hon, and gallant Friend the Member for Chertsey (Comman- der MurЯden).
On an upper
ek a young man led 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, nowh woman in her sixties, held a service at her own church, do- dicated to his memory,
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-road, Bayswater,
This is a British Tommie wearing burlap and twigs over his steel helmet to impersonate a bush, during mimic 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 novellst Edgar Wallace when they were in their 'teens, has received a notice to quit his shop in seven days.
This is the final stage of a five-years fight.
W.
When you knock on the door you are shown straight through to the front parlour, which is lined with dark blue curtains and dark blue carpets.
Directly below the window, which is usually covered over, in the equivalent of an alter, with a picture of Christ over it. There are flowers below the picture, and a sanctuary light burns.
On the left wall, also decoruled with flowers, is a drawing of Hamish Mackay; the ringer who died in the Lusitania.
Mrs. Muckay, head of the Church of the Quiet Healers, has the power- tul voice of a woman who was once a singer.
QUEER THINGS HAPPEN
She herself a spiritualist, but she denies that she is a spectacular medium, although strange things, she says,
have
happened in
in her house. There
ere is a clock that makes knock-
polses
a mysterious smell
·
table
of incense which suddenly becomes noticeable when there Is no
no incense anywhere in the house rapping which becomes urgent and Insistent when the least expects it.
Her services, she will tell you, are "spiritualist, with something of the Quaker in them." When in a trance she is guided by her spirit control "Awakener," through whom she has written a number of hymns.
"Awakener's" hymns ore posted up in a hymn-frame before the service, just as they are in churches through- out the country every Sunday,
MINISTER HELPS
Mrs. Mackay is supported in her church by a Scols 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 subscribed nearly £19,000 to help Mr. Growns's shop stands now in a "desert" of rubble: the dependents of people who lost hundreds of houses have been their lives when the ship went down. All the direct beneficiorles under pulled down in a slim-clearance the Lusitania Fund are women.
One of them, Miss M. E. Worrall, not.go.
who lives in Timperley, Cheshire, is He said: "When I came home over 30. She is the sister of a man from the war, twice wounded who lost his life in the disaster.
Ą GODSEND DRASTIC PRECAUTIONS and a permanent invalid, we put
ARE BEING TAKEN AT all our savings into this shop! Mrs. Mary Ann Palmer, a widow NIAGARA FALLS TO SAFE- and two houses adjoining. All living in Smethwick, near Birming- GUARD VITAL INDUS-
ham, lost her son, her daughter-in- we were offered by the corpora- law and their three children in the and 18 months' takings."
Dynamite Threat scheme. But Mr. Growns will
To Niagara
"TRIES AND HYDRO-ELEC-, |tion for compensation was £75 Lusitania fund has been a god-
TRIC PLANTS FOLLOWING"
OF A THE DISCOVERY BOX CONTAINING 50lb, OF DYNAMITE AT SAULTE SAINTE MARIE,
disaster. The re
rellet
"Now I am send to me," she said. getting on in years I manage per- fectly well with the fund and the old-age, pension.
WIFE STANDS BY HIM Homely Mrs. Crowns sald: "If they turn us out into the street we wilt pile up our goods in the road and
"Once a month I go down to the bank and draw the money-and am It was stated by the police curry on our business there."
Mr. Growns bus many memories grateful." recently that the dynamite had of Edgar Wallace, then a builder's beon placed there in connection inbourer, who lodged at his mother's with a plot to destroy the im-house in Clacton. portant canal joining Lake
"He was a fine chap and used to
Attack On
Huron and Lake Superior. cail me his Little pal, said Mr. Shanghai Hospital
Growns,
day I told him about a
schoolmate who used to billy.
London.
A question was asked in the House "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 time I gave General Hospital, Shanghai,
The municipal authorities ave "One urged all citizens to be on the alert and to report suspicious characters.
A committee of ex-Service men is watching the
arca and, guarding places wiilch might be. attacked.
Leading ofçlals of thic power plants said that precautions were taken because of general disturbances abroad.
MOSQUITO FLEET BUILT
the bully a thrashing. "Edgar was Mr. Bellenger asked the Prime often nearly alarying 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 him.
entry by Japanese bluejackets into ALWAYS-WRITING
the Kongkow
General Hospital. Shanghai, and the reported assault "Although he was dead tired when on the British Assistant-Commis- he came home at night he would al-sioner of police; and whether any ways sit up writing."
taken Betion has been
by His Mr. Growns's most treasured pos- Majesty's Government? sessions are Edgar Wallace's pen, hla Mr. Buller: Dr. Bertram Lillie, fest diary, and the letter he wrote on Sydney, Australio.
it was killed. Motor torpedo boats, regarded as November 10, 1803, before he walks principal of the Lester School and
Lilite 0 p.m. on the Aprli na the perhaps the most effective instrumented out of his job at Clacton to seek about
result of a collision between a car of national defence for Australia, are fame and fortune in London.
lotter,
addressed to "Mother, that he was driving and a
a Japanese playing a leading part in the pro-
Men sent ship building programme. Father, Clara, and Ilarry and to motor-bus,
Lilia sustained Twelve are being constructed at the whom it may concern." Edgar Wal-superficial injuries and severe shock Cockatoo
Island shipyard. Two lace forgot to post, and left behind and a British Municipal Police ser- destroyers also will be built there.
The
bim
Lulworth Protest Fails
Protests by residents of West Lulworth, Dorset, against the proposed establishment of a miniature golf-course with pavilion cliff landfclose to the famous Lulworth Cove have failed. But Mr. H. G. Haytor, 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.
geant riding in the car at the same time was badly injured. A Japanese. marine standing on the running- board was injured and subsequently died. After the admittance to the general hospital of Mrs. Lilile and the police sergeant, Japanese marines forced their -WAY into the with the
object of making inqu The facts of the case are obscure by His Majesty's Government is and the question whether any action appropriate must awaits full las vestigation and statements from Mrs. Lille and the police sergeant, whe are understood to be recovering,
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