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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 30 1939.

English Girl of 16 Elopes With German

Wealthy Couple Hunt France For

For Red-Headed Daughter

NICE.

POLICE throughout France were recently looking for Joan Valentine Thomas, red-haired, freckled, sixteen- year-old daughter of wealthy English parents, who has eloped with Fritz Arronge, twenty-six-year-old German.' Fritz, well-mannered, handsome Int "At about 7pm. she asked me London-tailored clothes, met Joan for some money to buy some chew- some months ago.

ing gun. She was only goingt to Joan was dining in a Nice res- one of the shops near. When she taurant with her father and mother did not return I became worried, und twenty-two-year-old sister und ny husband suggested that wo Doreen. It was love at first sight. should go out and look for her.

Mother dInapproved of the

Then occurred

me that romance. Only recently he warned she had run away with Fritz. Fritz that she would go to the police. "I would not mind so much if it In the evening Joan borrowed a were an English boy earning only shilling from her mother "to buy | £1 a week, but if she marries Fritz some chewing-gum,' She was not she will become a German. It i seen afterwards. Neither was Frliz.were Doreen, who is older, it would Mrs. Thomas, who is the wife of be different, but Joan is to young. Mr. Harry Thomas, retired merchant,

of Durban, South Africa, told the story.

TOO INTERESTED

'CANNOT GET FAR'

"Joan has only the clothes she wore

She left without even ter coat."

Nico pollve have discovered that Fritz had transferred about £1,100

She said: "Soon after they met noticed that Fritz was a little too in- terested in Joan, but he seemed a nice young man and I thought no-to a Paris banking firm. Detectives 1 thing of it at the time, After all Jonn is only a baby,

"Fritz told us about all his troubles. He left Germany because, though he "claims he is not Jewish, he is strong-

ly anti-Hitler,

"When he wrote and asked to marry Joan I decided it was time to put a stop to it.

will wult there for him to call for the money..

Mr. Thomas takes a different view of the romance. He said:

"Fritz seems an upright young man. He told me he wanted settle in South Afrlen and become a British citizen. I helped him to All up the necessary papers. Of course,

I did not know that he intended to wentelope with my daughter.

Yesterday morning shopping with Joan and Doreen und wo mel Fritz. I told him that if he did not leave Joan alone 1 would go to the police. He said he loved Jean, wanted to marry her, and asked me not to make a furs about it.

"Joan refused to come home with me, and I believe she met Fritz on the Promenade des Anglais.

The police and the British Con- sal assure me that he cannot get for, but, on the other hand, what Is the good of bringing Joan back

If she is madly in love with him? She would only go off again.

"I have nothing against the young men personally, but I do think he should come back and do things right."

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Tragic Wife Pins Hope to' Letter

Holton, Lancashire, MRS. WALLWORK, pretty young mother of two children, whose hus-

band, is reported to have been shot on his way to take up a new post

in the Philippine Islands, is pinning

treatment his condition improved and he was able to neept a new job.

He bude a cheery good-bye to his wife and children, Margaret, aged 13, and Barbara, aged pine, and they

UFS

Many uniformed Field Marshal Herman Goering of Germany wears a white one, as he inspects the guard of honour on arrival at Tripoll, Libya, At right is Italo Balbo, Italian governor,

Fourteen Sites For School Camps

EMPIRE NEWS

SCHOOLBOYS FOUND AFTER 13 DAYS

!!

KINGSTON. The Ave Jamalen High School boys who climbed into the Blue Mountains In an effort to blaze a trail across an almost Inaccessible part have been found safe, after being missing for 13 days,

Several partics of searchers num- bering over 100 have been looking for the boys.

Higher Taxation II. The Colonial Secretary Informed the Legislative Council that there was o prospect of increased taxation later to provide for unemployment rellet and the campaign against leaf spot disease in bananas.

BRITISH GUIANA

CONTROL OF RADIO PROGRAMMES

GEORGETOWN. The Broadcasting Committee has outlined a scheme for Government control of programme policy, and also closer co-ordination with the B.B.C.

Announcers and technicians from

British Gulans would go to London periodically for training at the B.B.C.

staff college.

EAST AFRICA

£50,000 FOR NATIVE EDUCATION

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** Philip -- I wish I had your flair for understatement. I feel as though I had lived on an exclusive diet of iron filings and broken glass for the last five years. What amazes me it that you seem to be

10 disgustingly chwerful and bright this morning."

"I know. It must be very exasperat ing. A medicine man warned me to stick to 'Glmists

at parties, So I always take the precaution of bring- ing my own bottle of Rose's Lime Juice. You may cock a sceptical eye- brow, Edwin - but it works." "How 7"

'Rose's Lime Juice is the latest thing in therapeutic agents. It restores the metabolle balance. In simple non- scientific parlance -- suitable for a mind such as yours, Edwin - it prevents hangover."

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NAIROBI. R2620. In advance of Kenya's next loan

FOURTEEN sites have been approved in the Home Counties for camps to take children evacuated from London in case of war and for use as school

endowment. camps in peace-time.

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the Secretary of State has authorised F1389. the Colony to contribute £50,000 as its share of the Makerere College F1387.

The Legislature has accordingly F1398. voted the grant, though the European F1300.

fon that there were many other more F1385. urgent Colonial needs. AUSTRALIA

Nine sites have been provisionally approved in elected members expressed the opin were to have followed him out in Scotland. Several have been inspected in Wales, but so She expects to receive this letter, Mrs Betsy Halldeurn, an aunt of far no decision has been reached. from her husband. by air mall.

all her hopes to a letter.

a few months,

Mr. Wallwork's, sald that shortly

Mr. Archibald Wallwork, aged 39, before she heard of Mr. Wallwork's! This progress was reported in the House of Commons by of Calvert-road, Bolton, is said to death his photograph fell to the floor Mr. Elliot (Minister of Health) recently, when the Camps Bill, have been found dead in his cabin twice from her sideboard.

In the German liner Gneisenau when

the ship reached Singapore. An

automatic pistol was clasped in his Defendant Upsets

hand.

Judge

threat to the amenities

authorising construction of the camps, was further considered.

Members were anxious about any But Mr. Elliot insisted that the

of the highest architectural and country-side that might result from authorities would be available to the planning the presence of the camps unless Ministry, and that nothing would be great care was taken in their design done without their advice.

and construction,

EXPERT ADVICE

18 MONTHS' BAD LUCK But Mrs. Wallwork, who is staying with her parents

SANTA CRUZ, Cal In Bolton. sal: "It can't be true, I have heard

Police Judge W. A. Deans Wig nothing ofcially, and I am hoping somewhat disconcerted when, after there has been some mistake.

detailing

with care the bill of rights Efforts were made from all parts This awful news comes when, to Victor Johnson, 57, charged with of the House to persuade the Minis- after 18 months of bad luck, we having entered a hotel and spending ter to include on the board of the thought our troubles were at an end," the night on a lounge, the prisoner companies that will put up the camps Less than 18 months ago the family glanced around the court room and a representative of the National had to return. from Chile. because of remarked: Six men and one-wo-Trust or Council for the Preservation

Wallwork's ili-health. Afterman." it developed he was deaf, of Rural England,

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He refused to go further to members, and in the end his attitude was endorsed by 224 votes to 110,

An amendment by Mr. Mander designed to preserve amenities, had Wolverhampton, E.) also rather more success.

(Lib.,

NAVAL MANOEUVRES

The

SYDNEY.

Royal Australian navai flagship Leander, began recently the squadron, with the New Zealand biggest defence manoeuvres since the

war.

They are taking place somewhere off the south-east Austrailan coast, | in conjunction with eight squadrons of the Australian Air Force,

CONSISTS

The "Blueland", attacking force consists of the cruisers Leander and nierchantmen..... Adelaide and a number of armed

two

The "Redland" defenders are the He proposel that the companies Hobart, three destroyers and

-cruisers Canberra, Sydney and should have power compulsorily to escort vessels. buy land surrounding the camps and

It was officially announced that the the raiders after

so be able to prevent any undesirable defenders development near the site.

"MISERABLE 'SHACKS"

He was supported by Mr. Chuter Ede (Lab., South Shields), who re- ferred to Deep Cut. Camp, in Surrey,

16 hours' "They theoretic-|

ally destroyed one cruiser and dis- abled another after the loss of six. armed merchantmen.

Dame End Lyons' Annully-Slr

Earle Page, the Acting Prime Minis- where the War Office, he said, took nuity of £500 is to be granted to fer, announced recently that on an- some trouble in laying out the camp. Dame Enid Lyons, the widow of the "On the opposite side of the road late Prime Minister. A similar an- now," he added, "there are miserable nuity for the children is to be granted shacks in which refreshments of a until the youngest, now aged six, 15 | very dubious character are sold, and 21.

I understand that late at night MALAYA

private entertainments of a reprchen-

sible character are carried on."

He thought there might be similar developments round the evacuation camps unless there was power to ae- quire the land,

£1,000,000 DEFENCE

GIFT APPROVED

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SINGAPORE. The extra gift of £1,000,000 After further pressure the Minister the Straits Settlements towards the agreed to consider the matter. On cost of Imperial defence was np- this understanding Mr. Mander with proved by the Legislative Council at drew his ainendiment.

a meeting here recently.

Sheepdogs "Trained"

On Three Legs

A FINE which the defence declared would affect the whole of the sheep-

The Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, expressed the British Government's appreciation. The gift is additional to the contribution of £750,000 n year which the Straits Settlements) already make for Imperial defence. INDIA

EUROPEAN FAMILIES

EVACUATED

rearing industry in the North of Englund was imposed on a farmer a Saddleworth, Yorkshire, recently.

CALCUTTA James Gariside, of Playfair Col- to Dibrugarh or Shillong from Digbol, European familles have been sent tage. Densliaw, near Oldham, was in North-East fined £1 for causing unnecessary situation has arisen there owing to Assam. A critical suffering to a dog by putting one of the strike of labourers in the Assam Is forepuws through its collar.

Oil Company. Evidence

was given

ភាព that R.S.P.C.A. Inspector and police constable kept observation. from ́n window and saw a dog running on the moors with hopping motion.

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They followed and met the dog and its master on the main road. The dog's foot was all through its collar Land, the shimal was exhausted.

Gartsido told the court that sheep- dogs were trained to obedience In that way throughout the length of the Pennines....

Several other farmers gave evi- dence in support of this contention.

"

The presiding magistrate, Captain

W. G. Bagnall," said neither length of:

The Europeans are undergoing a state of slego. There servants have gone on strike, and exorbitant prices are being demanded of all Europeans in the bazaars.

One

European disgulsed 15 Kabuli was found out by a shopkeeper. and was forced to pay is. d. for a loaf of bread and ed. for an egg. Tho, strikce has been exceptionally well organized.

City Collects Oil Royalties

PASADENA, Cal.

Pasadena is one of the few clues

time not usage could condono such a successfully engaged in oil pro-

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Winnipeg Grain Exchange

Commodity Exchange, Inc., New York

Canadian Commodity Exchange, Inc., Montreal. New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange

Manila Stock Exchango

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Cable Address: Swanstock

REPULSE BAY Hotel

Geo. Pio-Ulski's String Quintette

every SUNDAY for Tiffim 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. Fred Carpio's Dance Orchestra

overy WEDNESDAY for Dinner 9 p.m. to 1a.m.

A la Carte & Table d'Hote::

practice. The penalty would be light duction from tu ol and gas pro- THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

only because it was the first such party, it recently leaped It is ÷ now. caso to be broughtë

getting $10 a day in royalties