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Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 12, 1939,

HIS WILL FORGIVES

FORGIVES DEBTS OF EMPIRE

ACTRESSES, SINGERS

Music Lover's Gifts: Wine, Cigars, Piano

WHEN 82-year-old William Armine Bevan died in February young actors, actresses, musicians and singers lost one of their best friends.

In his will, made in 1932 and published recently he has not forgotten them. One of the first clauses is: "I bequeath and release to artists, actors and actresses, all sums, whether for principal or interest, which at my death may be owing by them to me.”

A famous silver vase-one of the cherished possessions at his house in Bina Gardens, Kensington-he left to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsen, with enough money to endow n col.

Open Door-- For Exit

This gase, decorated with views of Etou, was prevented to Charles Kean by fellow-Elonians in 1002 us tribute to the actor.

Be left all his orchestral music and band parts to George Miller, bandmaster of the Grenadier Guards, und a concert grand piano to Ronald Timperley, organist at the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street.

The independence of China as a vital factor in world peace was

To his friend Ben Davies, "the the theme of the eleventh annual world famous tenor," he gave "all Richard Cobden Lecture de-y cigars and also the contents of

livered to the Dunford House will appreciate there precious gills!

my cellar of wine, in the belief be Colden Memorial Association at or God Burlington House, Piccadilly, re-French candlesticks supported by And to Mrs. Davies, four white cently by Dr. Wellington Koo,gures of mastelis" in memory of Chinese Ambassador in Paris. many happy hours spent together and and China's representative to of Ler beautiful voice when as Miss the League of Nations. The Clare Perry she gave such pleasure subject of his address was "The brance of the part she took in the in thousands, and in further re.mem- Open Door Policy and World Orst performance in England in 1883 Peace," Lord Lytton presided. fof Massenet's opera Minon,"

HOUSE FOR MAID

Dr. Koo said that not only had China's sovereignty been encroached | To Eugene Goossens, Inte conductor upan by Japan but inevitably with of the Curl Rosa Opera, and to Miss this encroachment flagrant hels of Ivy St. Helier, the netress, he gave contravention of the Open Door prin- | £jo each

ciple and taken place. It seemed to Jis house and effects are left on be one of the objeels of Japan's trust with legacies for his maid, palicy in China, a country of 400.-Ellen Gamble. After other legacies: 000,000 people, to undermine and the residue of his £24,000 property destroy. the principle of qual opgiven to "Edith Ganibler for life; pertunity which had proved for with remainder to the annuitants nearly half a century a stabilising mentioned in his will," and, on the! inluence in the relations between death of the fast of these: China and the Powers. The object sought was evidently the total ellmu- nation from China of the rights and interests which other Powers had

acquired under treaties and built up, by a century of careful investment, courogous enterprise, and sustained

badi

Current short skirt styles sult those famous legs of Marlene Dietrich. She was attending the rnces at Hollywood Park track. when this photograph was taken.

Atlantic Airman On Feat Of The Clipper

"half to the Bishop of London for

Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, such purposes as he may deter~ !

nine; and half to the Bishop or who 20 years ago, as Lt. Whit Swansea and Brecon (or alleviat- ten Brown, navigated the first ing distress among the necessitous plane across the Atlantie, said clergy of the diocèse,

recently, of the Yankee Clipper's Mr. Eugene Goossens described Mr.}

regular. Atlantic

"MAD ABOUT MUSIC"

He has already, been in touch with the Royal Aero' Club and the Royal terested in the project. Aeronautical Society, and others in-

NEWS

CANADA EXPECTS BUMPER CROP

MONTREAL.

A bumper wheat crop- expected this year, according to reports to the Dominion Statistles Bureau from the three Prairie Provinces.

The winter wheat prospect is the best for many years, and the outlook for the spring wheat crops la exceed- ingly good throughout Canada.

Weather candlitona have been the best for years. There has been plenty of moisture and continuing coolness, but grasshoppers, the wheul growers seventh plague, are still a danger if a sudden heat wave should come.

Yukon Survey—Over 40 geologies? agd mapping parties, conslaing of 250 mining and other experts of the Canadian Mines Department, set out: recently to survey the minerals and forn of the Yukon and North-West Territories and other unmapped Canadian regions. KENYA

COFFEE PROBLEM

NAIROBI, The large district of Songhor, in the Kenya Highlands, which has beers one of the coffee-growing areas for many years, is likely to abandon that crop, except in the most favour- able areas.

The failure of coffee as a paying crop is due to continued low prices, the cost of combating disease, and Jabour shoringe difficulties. These Fare partially caused by the Govern

ment's policy of developing cash crops in the nearest native reserve.

Two elected members of the Legislative Council and three Gov- ernment agricultural specialists have discussed with settlers the best menns of developing Songhor fresh on a cattle and mixed farming basis. SOUTH AFRICA

RAYON DRESSES TO COST MORE

JOHANNESBURG. Importers calculate that the South African women's dress bill will be Increased by £500,000 as a result of the higher duty on artificial silk dresses.

The new tariff alters the 15 per! cent, ad valorem rate to a minimum of 2s, each on cheaper frocks, except where the old tariff, yields a lurger.

sum

Importers may petition the Finonee Minister for anlendment. AUSTRALIA

LABOUR OPPOSES

REGISTRATION

"It seems strange," unid Mr. Lyall, "that there should be a effort. The situation of European Bevan as "the best, most charming achievement in making the first who first flew the Channel and Bill is perturbing both the stinis-

Jurge memorial at Dover to the Frenchman

SYDNEY. The compulsory National Register and American commercial interests and most generous of men." became more precariots every day.

passenger nothing to mark the spot where two terial and Whatever

light: "At long last we can wel- Englishmen landed after the first Socialists are afraid of the political assurances

Socialist parties. The Jupan given, the door was kept open nati "He must have been the greatest come the fulfilment of our initial Mionde Hight.

reperetiscion on trade unionists, for the entry of foreign interests but help young actors and musicians ever flight,”

do not think there are more

There is continued advocney of dis- enly for their exit.

had: often he paid for the tuition of

Sir Arthur made the Arst Atlantean half a dozen people who could obedience to the measure, even to the The Open Door policy could be those who could not afford it.

point out the exact effectively maintained only as long "I saw him only a few days before light in June, 1910, with Sir John Alcack and Brown touched down.

place where length of planning mass bonfires, China remained independent and

its death. He had an idea, during Alcock, then Capt. Alcock, who was

"Since the wireless station went, at Melbourne to-day recommended Reprezentatives of 10 Federn unions Sovereign on her territory. If dagan his last illness, of founding a school killed soon after. Both were knight the place has lost is identity and that if any of their need should ever ny her hand on the of music for Belgians with me at Itsed for the fent,

here is nothing to show where they imprisoned through refusing to regis- whole of China and obtain control head. He was thinking, I suppose,! We had the creation of a com- Inded. I took my bearings from ter, industrial action should be taken of her inunense

mun-power, her of the war and of my Belitian origin.mercial flight in mind when we made the mountain and other landmarks, to defeat the Act. ~treal-po-zibilities an market and There was-always-a-vast-coller-our-crossing."-Sir Arthur-said.

and coulit-poltto"The very spot her vast mineral and agriculturalition of music in his mouse. What- "It has taken longer than we where the wheels touched." wealth, she would convert those ever song was called for, he had a thought-we predicted at the time almost limitless and invaluable mesets cups of it. He was mad about that a regulor passenger service into formidable means and instru-music." ments of domination and conquest. and it would then be impossible to contemplate the prospect of manent peace in Asia or the world.

per-

Police Reward Citizens

THE UNSATISFIED NATIONS In a world where wide industriall-

WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. sation made the demand for, and Patice Chief Andrew McDonnell access to, raw materiala very great says 60 per cent. of the arrests made and where certain countries had an by his deportment in this community extensive control of large territories, of 20,000 result from residents' tips. the need for the system of the Open He encourages the practice, he ex- Door was obvious, and its extension, plains, and gives $10 to $25 rewards given certain conditions. would. he for usable information. belleved, have a reassuring effect on contemporary International relations.

Al present the clamour for colonies Where force was worshipped as n

would follow our flight in about five years but the arrival of the Yankee Clipper is welcome for all that,"

Mr. Frank Lyall, the first man to sight Capt. Alcock and Lt. Whitten Brown when they reached the West Coast of Ireland, recalled the scene. and showed me faded photographs he - took of the Vickers-Vimy ranchine with her

nosc buried in bogey ground at Clifden, co. Galway.

LANDING IN MARSH This is Mr. Lyall's description of the landing at Clifden which helped to make possible the scheduled night,

and living space was reverberating supreme and sole arbiter in inter- "I was working at the Marconi with an ever-increasing persistence, national relations, as in the case of station which Alcock and Brown had The lowering of tariffs and the the Japonese

against made their objective. When, I went adoption of the

Door policy China, no true basis of co-operation off duty at mkinight 1 heard they Open inight pave the way for the removal could be found,

were on their way and decided to

of the present feeling of bitterness

agression

A yote of thanks was moved by ↑ look out for them in the morning.

"I went out early and i was coming

nad discontent on the part of, un- Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Principal satisfied nations. In advocating this of Columbia University, and seconded down the mountain side for breakfast

he relied upon the rule of reason by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick | when I saw a speck over the seo. I and the prevalence of good faith.Fickl

German Larders Are Barer

MARRIAGE-

A CASUALTY

Orders posted in the R.E. Territorial orderly room at Guildford include the fol- lowing:

Marriages and Births Notification of either of the above should be given to company officer imme diately after the casualty has occurred.

"That's the word the War Office prefers," an officer explained.

New Radio At Scotland Yard

New Admiral Of The Fleet

The Admiralty announces that Ad- miral Sir Roger Backhouse, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.M.G., has been placed on the retired list, is from June 28, for reasons of -health; and that the King has approved the grant, as ar exceptional measure, of the rank of Admiral of the Ficet on the retired list to Adintral Sir Roger Backhouse, us from June 20, 1939,

The special promotion of· Admiral; Sir Roger Backhouse, uffer retire- ment, to Admiral of the Fleet on thei retired list recalls the only occasion on which this lins been derie In the past-when Admiral the Marquess of Milford Haven, better known to the Navy as Prince Louls of Batten- berg, was similarly promoted just i alter the War. The cases

are in some ways parallel. Both officers had been First Sea Lord und would, in ordinary circumstances, have been promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in the next vacancy. Both were uni- A new transmitter, fool-proof from versally revered and looked up to in " was then on fairly firm ground outside interference by gansters, has the Navy; and both were obliged to ut the foot of the mountain, which been installed in Scotland Yard's relinquish their high offices in cir- would have provided a good run in. Wickham radio station. The change cumstances which evoked, nothing

"I signalled to them to land near

was made after police broadcasts had but regret and sympathy in the Ser- me, but they picked up height and been jammed on several Occasions vice. The Navy will greatly appre- went off in

being the direction of the when robberies were

com-cinto his Majesty's action in granting station. Here they landed on marshy millled.

this promotion. ground and dug their 1411, propellers Into the bog.

watched it grow steadily until the 'plane flew overhead and I could see: the occupants in the open cockpit.

"Alcock told me laler that he de-

GERMANY'S food situation becomes increasingly decided to land nearec, the station like perate, according to reports from ordinary German that from the air the bog looked like, citizens.

a perfect landing place,

"THAT'S THE START"

by

came out of the mist to find them-

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Recently the International The white bread promised Federation of Commercial, Goering is there but only because! "After having a drink in the mess. Clerical and Technical Employees a process which used to be subject men went to bed but in less than RECORDS of the days when a girl spolled her chances of mar-

the dark faur has been gas-bleached of the wireless sintion, the two bir- published information received to heavy penalties for fox adultera an hour Alcock enme down again, riage by learning mathematics and science are being compiled from non-manual workers in the ton...

complaining that he could not sleep at Queen's College, Harley Street, the first public school for girls. Reich,

Eggs are scarce. When they are: "They told me that they had had a available. housewives According to this, the butter nilow them. On an average the issue is was very misty, and at times they very risky for a girl to attend

queue for shocking time. Most of the way it

"Apparently it was considered, their lives in the pursuit of learning. ance in the big towns is now about two eggs a month for each person.

IN CRINOLINES lb, a week for each person. There

Girls crowded in their crinolines The colce allowance is about two relves very near the surface of the the school in the fifties and into classroom to hear famous, and is "no margarine to speak of." ounces a bend a week. It is acorn water.

Whint is called butter is adulterated. or barley coffeet to make this pala-

'sixties," Miss L. M. Dean, secre- orten good-looking, professors from All central dairies have been told to table, the Germans are told that the told me that the strain had been records, wald,

They were both very tired, and tary-tutor, who has charge of King's College lecture on mysterious, uso a proportion of whale fat.

subjects itke evolution.. ancient Germans dranic nothing else., terrific. They showed very litle of the "This," the people are told, "is

Professors were almost the only TOBACCO WORSE healthy, nourishing and saves foreign

effect of their fight, however, Alcock "Men were supposed not to like men they w. except fathers and Vegetables are scarce and costly, exchange."

was dressed in an ordinary blue clever girls as Wives. Mathematics ocensionally a brother or two, but The quality of tobacco is steadily lounge sult with a grey cap. and were. Bought unsuitable for a wo-there were many romances, “und at getting worse, while prices remain Brown in the old, R.A.F. uniform, man's developed brain, and science! least one marriage between teacher The rame. Smolcable cigara made of It sometimes happens that

"Brown's first remark to me was was not quite respectable," the foreign tobacco are a rarity.

and pupil. "Grat grade toa butter" shimmers in

Well that's the start. I suppose The school started in March, 1848. Ampig famous told girls' may be rainbow hues. The housewife who standard of quality 18 supplied only

Pure chocolate of a present-day they'll soon come over in dozena," with four pupils and by the end of mentioned Octavia Hill, Lady Tres, mells the stuff to use for copicing in strictly mited quantities.

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