1939-05-23 — Page 14

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 23, 1939.

25,000 WEDDINGS DECLARED GOLDEN

NOT LEGAL

Girls Married Spain Soldiers At The Front

MADRID.

GENERAL FRANCO'S Government recently an nounced that. 45,000 civil marriages celebrated in the Madrid area during the Republican regime cannot be re- cognised as legal.

About 25,000 of these marriages were performed at the front, where the brides were married to their soldier- bridegrooms by the nearest available officer.

Civil marriages in the city were performed by a magistrate, before two witnesses.

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Special Inspector Aler Của ning of Scotland Yard, as he arrived in New York to make arrangements for prolection of Britain's sovereigns during their visit.

Lose $300 On · Guess

STRAY CAT IS

LEFT £500.

ASTRAY cat prowled one

night four and a half years ago into an Edinburgh nursing home-and became the world's richest cal

Mis Janet Agnes Bell, of Edinburgh, baw left £500 of her £8,242 to the cat, so that ho have comfort as long as he

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ill in the nursing home

TIT am desirous to make provision for the cat which

was here when I arrived in September 1934-this cat giving the very great pleasure, feeding

of out

my hand, sleeping at night on my bed, and being my great pleasure as friend and companion."

Miss Bell called the cal Desire because she desired Jus company,

Emu Leads Trapped

Sheep

MELBOURNE, Australia.

His Research Proved

Sir

Bible True

William Mitchell Ramsay, Bible, and the effect of his con- whose researches proved that parts elusions in this sphere stands to-day, of the Bible were eographleally although there may be differences of correct, recently died at his honte at opinion about certain detalls." Bournemouth.

Sir

William, archacologist, his torlan and author, was eighty-eight years old.

Its discoveries in Asia Minor confirmed the historical accuracy of same of the New Testament and confounded those who doubled.

Inscriptions which he found prov- ed that the geographient details of the Acts of the Apostles were right. Statements in Luke which crilles enlled "incredible" and "false" were: shown to be correct by Sir Willard's) discoveries.

WED IN SECRET

Sir William's first wife, Miss A. D. Marshall, whom he married in 1878, was a student of life in the Near East. She died In 1027..

In 1920 he married secretly Miss Phyllis Elleen Thorowgood. whom he had met on a world tour.

Odd Violin

Fashioned

EVERETT, Wosh. Joseph Lambert, who has been making violins in his spare time the last 35 years, fashioned one of the in- Sie Frederic Kenyon, for more struments out of a slab of Norway principat Hbrarian at the British pieces of broken window glass last Museum, said:"Sir William brought summer while he was working in the director and spruce with a jackknife and a few

classical mind to bear woods near Everett. The violin was the problems created by the completed in Ave months.

than twenty years

A large flock of sheep, huddled to- CLEVELAND, O. Thieves, confronted by two satesing through the Grampian mountains, gether in a bushfire that was sweep- in a grocery had time is open but was saved by an emu, a large ostrich- Their guess was had. They lite bird. The bird, rushing down opened the one which contained to from an adjacent hillside, spatted the money, neglected the other, which only break in the fire line and led the his

sheep through a hole in the fence.

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of F 1304. Popayan, Colombia, on display in New York to raise funds for the F 1305. World's Fair Temple of Religion. The Crown, made from 100-pound block of gold, emerald encrusted, is F1301. insured for U.B. $4,500,000.

Maid, 20, Dies In Embassy

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PRETTY Edits Diana Menning, twenty-year-old kitchenmaid em- ployed

the Portuguese Em- assy, Belgrave-square, S.W, was found dead from gos-poisoning in the basement of the embassy recently.

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"Miss Manning was introduced the staff here by our cook three A secretary at the embassy said:

months ago. It was her first position as a domestic servant. Previously she had been a lift giri.

"She was of bright and happy disposition, and seemed contented in her work. She finished work at nine o'clock on Thursday night, and went) to her bedroom on the fourth floor an hour later.

"A member of our staff found her this morning lying near the gas-glove in the kitchen. Her

head rested on two towels, and: she wore a nightdress and a dressing-gown.".

Her parents, who live at Wey- bridge, Surrey, visited Gerald-row Police Station. S.W.. that after- noon and gave a statement to the polloc.

Driving Fines Scale Fixed

Common standard for treatment of motoring offenders has been de- elded on for the Metropolitan Police Courts.

The scale, drawn up in collabora tion witli all the Metropolitan stipendiary magistrates, imposes nxed fines. for various speeds above? the mit; fixed charges for obstruc- tion, according to length of time: and fixed penalties for technical oftences such as dirty number-plates or unlighted back lamps.

Exact amounts finca to be im- posed varies, In three degrees ac- cording to whether a motorist has no previous convictions, one con- viction, or several convictions.

ALL HEAVIER

News of the new schedule first rame out in Clerkenwell Court, London, recently, when the magis-

rate, Mr. W. J. N. Broderlek, sald:

"We are starting a new system. We are trying to standardise fines all over the Metropolis,"

Of seven motorists summoned for causing obstruction, une was fined 40s. one 309.,, four 20s., and one 15s. all heavier than normally imposed at Clerkenwell.

It was sald

officially that

the decision to treat motorisia more fairly was rouched after direct Inter- vention by Sir Samuel Hoare, the Home Secretary. He has been in touch with Sir Rollo Graham Comp- bell, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, for some time, working out details of the plan.

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