1939-05-29 — Page 3

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 29, 1939.

Contry, Condesa Coxxl

King Faruk and Queen Farida of Egypt were married on January 20, 1938, being then nged eighteen and seventeen re- spectively. Their little daughter was born in the hiontaza Palace ai Alexandria in the following November, and received the name of Ferial, which in the Turkish languago means "Light" were great celebrations in Alexandria and Calro in honour of the event.

There

ADMIRALTY SPY

Search For Man Who Wasn't There

THE late Sir Basil Thomson, who once served us Assis- tant Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, was one of Britain's chief spy hunters in the Great War, head of an intelligence service with a web over England in which many spies were caught.

He died last March, and recently the story of his life," with his war diary, was published.

He not only tells us how some of the spies were caught but how the Admiralty and the War Office were some- times disturbed by spy scares.

One morning during the war the Admiralty was thrown into a commotion, A young woman motor driver declared she had scen a German naval officer whom she knew walking about in the uniform of a British offi-

cer.

"For two days a detective was sent about with her without result, but to-day (May 10, 1918) he was no sooner withdrawn than she reported having just seen her German enter the Admirally.

DOORS LOCKED

"The doors were locked and she was sent from room to room to look for her man. Then they put her in a messenger's box and ordered her to remain until she saw him again,"

DUKE'S VICAR COMPLAINS

PERSECUTION FOLLOWS ME'

NEW YORK.

THE REV, R. ANDERSON JARDINE, Church of England vicar who defied the Church of England by officiating at the marriage ceremony of the Duke of Windsor, says that because of persecution he is "living from hand to mouth” in America.

The sixty-one-year-old vlear and | said: his wife have been in Hollywood for the last four months. When visited at their tiny furnished apartment off Hollywood Boulevard Mr. Jardine .said:

persecution have followest and

us across sea and land 6,000 miles, and after two years this per- secution seems to be getting keener.

"My wife and I don't know where to turn, but we are fighting on.

After months during which he tried in vain to obtain a pulpit, he rented Las Palmas, a little theatre in Hollywood, for Sunday morning services vincunt fire

deepening of spiritunt life." He pays C10 a month rent. Last Sunday one hundred people at- tended,

Holding his wife's hand, Mr. Jardine

"We have made many friends since we came here, but nevertheless the Sunday collections barely cover the theatre rental. I had to advertise the services and distribute bills, paid for Girough friend's kindness.

"But bigotry has gone so far that there have been

protests to the theatre owners against my holding services.

"There are wicked unreasonable rumours which I feel I must squash,

For instance, bad people have whis pered that I have £40,000, so why should I need any help? It is so utterly preposterous-moreover, It Is cruel. We have nothing.

'Afraid To Talk'

"I am sixty-one now, and have forty years' church work behind me. "Why do people shun me? They

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seem afraid to be seen talking to In four months only one church was opened to me, the Baptist Tabernacle at Fowler, near Fresno, where I was invited to speak one Sunday. "But

even though little Chris- tianity has been shown to me, I shall continue my life's work."

When vicar of St. Paul's Darling- ton, Mr. Jurdine performed the wedding ceremony for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at the Chateau de Cunde, near Monts, France, in June 1937. It was announced that ho did co without consent from his

Ռ superiora in the Church. Mr. Jar- dine resigned in September 1937 because, he said, his parish needed a younger man.

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The Trutnas have something to talk about. School district 87 near here is made up entirely of the Truina family and relatives. The teacher, three pupils and three board mem- bers are all Trutnas.

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But it was only a scare.

"This is the second case of wilful

hallucination on the part of a young womm Government servant since the beginning of the war." wrote Sir Basll. "The molive seems to be to provoke Interest."

how a trap was laid for a spy at the The author tells another story of

Foreign Office and how a hole was bored in the door; through which he was watched by a delective.

FAKE SWEETHEART

violinist, who will give a recital ai the Peninsula Hotel on Wednesday.

Mr. Blison Ms, well-known Chinese

Suggestion For St. Paul's Services

The spy said he was, a Norwegian journalist, but made a half-hearted TWO OR THREE HUNDRED nort of admission when shown some people gathered beneath the Donie writing developed from a bottle of of St. Paul's recently for the lunch- secret ink which he kept on his hour service of intercession. dressing-table.

Almost half as many were seated In his confession, written in the outside, on the West front steps, pelice cells, the spy said he was ap-reading, writing, enjoying the sun- proached by a stranger in Christiana, shine, feeding the pigeons; possibly who at first only wanted him to send uninterested in what was happening him uncensored newspaper articles. within, more probably quite unaware

of it.

But he was drawn into a promise to send other things written in secret Ink between the lines of love-letters; addressed to a fictitious young woman. The matters on which information was sought concerned ports of depar- ture and the sailing dates of hospital ships. NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT Sir Basit recalled h. war-time dinner at Buckingham Palace, when "King George talked of the wire cage built on the roof of the Palace as textlon against Zeppelins."

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King George said he did not think it would be very effective, and add cd, "The Queen says we shall have to go down into the cellars."

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Lord Rosebery, his guest, from his Majesty's teetotalism; as they all seemed to do, asked, "Could we not go down there now, Sir?***

Sir Basil's father became the Arch-

bishop of York in 1803 and he him

Canon Mozley has one of the best voices of all the cathedral clergy.

It only he had come oul to the Queen Anne statue, which Dick Sheppard once made his pulpit, he could have had a fine audience.

As it was, the ten-minute service, held dully at 1.5 p.m., was largely inaudible in the echoing interior. And to many this was a great dis- appointment.

If the open-air is ruled out, would not the crypt be a better meeting pince?

self often told the story of how he became Prime Minister of Tongo, in

the South Seas.

The book, "The Scene Changes,” is published by Calling, 18s. net.

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Wills and Bequests'

£380,000 Tobacco Fortune

Estate valued at £380,110 (n.p. £368,480) was left by Mr. ALFRED Ñ. FAULKNER, Fairlawn, Wimbledon Com- mon, director of Imperial Tobacco Co. Duty amounted to £110,113. Mr. Faulkner gave £5

£500 to his son Roy, uf Cupenters Close, Kinnerton-street, S.W stockbroker, and £500 to George G. Shlel, New-square, Lin- coln's Inn, as executors, £5,000, his effects and * life policy for £1,000 to wife, and £1,000 cach to his children, Roy and Graeme W. Faulk- ❘ner and Thelma E. Hartman. Except for gifts to servants the residue was left ip his wife during widowhood, or the income from one-fifth. If she should remarry, and subject thereto upon trust for his three children during their lives, with remainder: to their children.

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Lord Nonri, Kiriling Tower, New- market, who died on Dec. 10 last, age 78, left settled property valued at

£30.477. He bequeathed:

£1,000 to his nurse, Miss Nancy Colbourn, "In recognition of her un- attention and care to me at all-

falling after times.

The residue was left to his wife. A further grant of probate, in respect of cetiled property valued at £ 347,202, has been issued in the estate ot Major FREDERICK B. STAPLETON-BAETHERTON, Attington House, Tetsworth, director of Bath Racecourse Co. and Newbury Racecourse Co., and a breeder and Judge of racehorses, who left estate already valued at. £40,803, making a total of £200,005.-.-

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