1939-07-17 — Page 2

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 17, 1939.

Earl of Warwick "Sells Britain" to U.S.

"It's High Time They Really Knew Us"

MAIDSTONE, KENT.

THE EARL OF WARWICK, FILM-ACTOR PEER, IS COING TO "SELL" THE BRITISH EMPIRE TO AMERICA.

He is shortly embarking on an ambitious enterprise | -a lecture tour throughout America, planned with the object of bringing nearer together Britain and the United States.

He will endeavour to remove misapprehensions about the

Man Tells Of Fight British so that Americans cun In H.M.S. President better understand our ways and A CHASE of a suspect after an

encounter in the President, the R.N.V.R. vessel anchored off the Embankment, was des- cribed at the Mansion House recently when a man was ro manded for a medical report and for further inquiries.

Sidney Smith, aged 31, of the Seamen's Homie, Well-street, E., was charged with assaulting Watter James Newsom, a ship's keeper. He plead- ed not guilty.

Newsom said he was awakened al 5.20 a.m, to-day by someone walking about overhead aboard the President. He went up and saw Smith.

"I asked him what he was doing abourd my ship," said Newsom, "and he replied, I was told by a man on the Embankment that I could come aboard the shlp.*"

problems.

Recently the Earl of Warwick, who is staying at Leeds Castle, near here, talked about his new plans. He arrived in England] on a short visit to see his son Guy, aged three.

HE SAID THAT, WHEN HE WAS IN HOLLYWOOD. HE FOUND THAT MANY AMERI- CANS HAD EXTRAORDINARY IDEAS ABOUT ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH.

"Some American newspapers have; created a bad atmosphere by dis- torting

British

outlook and motives," he ask.

the

FRIENDSHIP TOUR

**I think is high time that

Two melarized units of-British troops in-readiness in Jerusalem the possible rioting, They watched 2060 Jewish women march in protest against the British policy Palestine an Arab state, or would permit federation of Palestine and Syria.

'UNCLE SAM'

IS DEAD

men.

"NCLE SAM." the last of Brighton's donkey known to thousands of children, dropped dead in a Brighton street recently.

They say he died from sun- stroke, but his friends think be died of a broken heart.

His name was Samuel Martin, and he was 60. For 40 years lie had a dozen donkeys on Brighton of front,

The gangway was closed, and he naked Smiths how he got aboard. He Americans-particularly the younger replied. "Over the top."

Newsom said that Stolth: jumped on

something Keneration-learned

lim on the gangway and hit him on the British Empire, Dritish ways and the nose. After a struggle Smith ran British traditions.

up the gangway and on to the Em- bankment.

lte (Newson) chased him past the Temple Tube Slation, blowing his; police whistic.

Smith was caught, and after another struggle was detained, with the help of another man, until the police arrived.

"Invaded" Island: Jersey Protest

St. Heller (Jersey). Jersey is considering the sending of a report to the Foreign Office pro- tesling against the "invasion" by a party of 50 Breton Ashermen of the Bruder Group. 12 miles south of British Island of Maltresse in the

as

Jersey.

Led by M. Durand Couppet de Saint

Front. famous Marin the painter, Marte." the seascape Frenchmen landed recently and built a small hut near the official Bag

staff.

"I am going to try to 'Sell

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Americans themselves would say. America is already friendly towards un but there is stilt a lot more to be donr, and the best way to do it is by personal contact,"

Details of the lecture tour are in! the hands of the Earl of Warwick's

gent in America.

A few weeks ago, owing to im- provements to the lower esplanade, he lost his pitch and had to take a new position three miles away, near Black Rock.

his

friends

Ile complained to that his new pitch was loo far

wlifels would make-

Clare Defends "The Women"

MISS CLARE BOOTHE is not only beautiful: she looks gentle and kind,

But she is the woman thousands of American women hate, because she wrote the play called "The Women."

The play is now running in London, and Miss Boothe re-

Gives Bone Tocently arrived there from New

Save Son

York just to see it performed be- fore an English audience.

"The Wainen" has already earned £250.000, has an all-female cast of unfaithful wives a complete showing-

from the town centre, and he miss-EIGHT-YEARS-OLD Colin torty, and it gives catty, grasping and ed the crowds of holiday kiddies Frederick George, lying in up.

who were always around him. With tears in his eyes, Bam sald the night before he died that behulme, "felt right out of things.".

Doctors Can't Make

Me A Cannibal

WHEN I am dead my funeral will be followed by herds of oxen, sheep, swine, flocks of poultry, and a small travelling menagerie of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honour of the man who perished rather than ent his fellow creatures."

They placed inside a notice stating Not that George Bernard Shaw is expecting to die

that this was to be a refuge for

a chart of the territorial waters of

French mariners, and also deposited just yet, but this was his forcible way of expressing his the French and Jersey coasts showing staunch adherence to his pet creed,

Maitresse as neutral territory. They quoted as their authority a fishing expedition of 1830.

CHALLENGE IGNORED

They were discovered by Deputy Le Masurier, of the Jersey Slates coltage on Parliament, who has a Maitresse and his son, when they salled to the island for the week-end.

It is 60 years since thui pro entered-in-tlin-books-of.the. world's most famous vegetarian

JUST NONSENSE

Recording Angel as aggravated and outrageous falsehoods.

bed in the Park Hospital, Davy- Manchester, said: "They're going to put something on my head to make the hair grow again. I fell and hurt my head."

SHE'S NOT WORRIED "I'm a woman who has never had a telephone row with another woman, ts," Міка you know what that Boothe said as she sat on the arm of a luxurious chair in her bedroom at Claridge's Hotel, Brook-street, W., swinging an expensively shod fool like a happy schoolgirl.

She Isn't worrying although she lost the friendship of lots of women with whom she used to take tea, be- cause she wrote this play.

The "something" they put on Colin's head later, after" a "dellcate) two-hours operation, was a section of bone from his father's skull

Had the boy been an adult the skull might have been mended by a silver

"The women who fell out with me surgical plate. But such a device because I wrote "The Women, are the would not grow with a child's head. lnd I can do without. They don't so his father, Mr. Sidney George, 37- years-old fruiterer, of Worsley-road, Swinton. Manchester, made the sperl- fice.

The operation was successful.

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amount to a row of beans anyway,

she went on.

"It cleared the air between me and A lot of their women, also, and now we know where we stand,

NATURALLY CATTY

"I don't say the women in the play

represent English woman-1 don't

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I'm unwomanly enough never to be The post-office-department-- and entty---All-women-are-a-bit-cally— Charles Hessette are entertaining {it's natural to them. It's fun talk- their annual tourist visitors here, ing between ourselves about Mrs. So

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their nest in the rural post-office box that this beautiful blue-eyed, golden- at Besseile's farm. The birds pesupy haired woman with all he check of a that made him a non-meat-eater, better than cannibalism.

ANIMAL LAW

anty one side, of the box and leavejemali boy is running around London "People defending the eating of sunlcient room on the other side for listening to the things that are being meal, say that animals prey on each mail. M. Le Masurler protented that the first discovered the writings of Shel-other and that Nature's law is not Frenchmen hud no authority to land ley, whose works I read from end to a humane law. on British territory, but they con-end 80 years ago," he said. tinued to erect their refuge hut.

M. Le Masurter returned to Jersey and Informed the Balliff. Yesterday the States vessel Duke of Normandy oficial lell for Maitresse with

party.

an

"I became vegetarian when I

human feast. "I stree

Seeks Twice-Lent Violin

"Animals do not all prey on one "Shelley wrote:

another-the elephant, the bull the Never again may blood of bird er gorilla, &c., are vegetarians, In any

beast

Jense, we cannot plead the example Stain toith its venomous stream of the animals for our course LADY JOICEY, of Ford Castle, studentice rose Conte, Ber

with Lady Joicey, Fort Castle, Uger eats its cubs unless the tigress with Shelley, Many [frightens him off! ''

Berwick on - Tweed, had a

wick-on-Tweed? 1 Is people are convinced that they could

"All edible animats OWC their valuable violin.

"I do not know the name of the The Frenchmen had gone. believed they returned to Chousey, not possibly keep well without ment. existence to their edibility.

woman who has the violin now, nor She lent it to a friend who lent whero she lives, except that it is "But their existence involves an French Island midway between That Is just nonsense. The Tipper-

coast, ary peasant with bls potatoes and immense slavery of men and women|it to a friend who practised on it at somewhere

Lady Maitresse and the French

near London," Caesar's soldiers with to animals. Nobody ever seems to the Royal College of Music. where "Marin Marie's" father has a butterrak,

Jolcey said: their rations of grain, the Russian consider whether they might not be house.

Now Lady Joicey wants the violin "It is two or three years since I his black bread and better employed. A high offelal of the Jersey Gov-moille with ernment said: "We take an extre- cabbage soup are only three exam- "Animals can be slaughtered pain-back. But her friend is dead, and saw the violin. I had two. The mely serious view of this invasion.pies of excellent healile on meatlesslessly. To some extent they are her friend's friend cannot be found.other one, which was better than the

called the humine The island have belonged to the diets out of dozens I could give you. where the gun British Crown since the Conqueror

killer is used. and are part of the King's posses-i without flesh, Ash, or fowl, and "But to say that they all are is be- slons as Duke of Normandy."

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worked I have lived and

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"But she knows my name, and as soon as she realises I want the in- istrument back she wil communicate

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Wedding Was

His Gift?

"WHAT would you like for

your silver wedding ami- versary?" Mr. Jack Harman, of Crane-road, Twickenham, Middlesex, asked his wife..

To be married in church," she replied.

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Their first wedding took place dur- Ing the war, at a register office.

Mr. Harman a Catholle, had hitherto refused to have the ceremony solemnised by the Church of Eng- land.

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