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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 17, 1939.

Monday,

Earl of Warwick "Sells Britain"

"It's High Time They Really Knew Us"

MAIDSTONE, KENT,

THE EARL OF WARWICK, FILM-ACTOR PEER, IS GOING 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 can In H.M.S. President better understand our ways and A CHASE of a suspect after an

problems.

Recently the Earl of Warwick, encounter in the President,

who is staying at Leeds Castle, the R.N.V.R., vessel nuchored off the Embankment, was des- near here, talked about his new cribed at the Mansion House plans. He arrived in England recently when a man was re- on a short visit to see his son manded for a medical report and Guy, aged three. for further inquiries.

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

Newsom sold he was awakened atj 0.20 am, to-day by someone walking about overhead aboard the President. He went up and saw Smiths.

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

"Some Amerlenn newspapers havej created a bad atmosphere by dis

"usked film what he was doing pboard my ship," anld Newsom, "and torting the

British outlook and

he replied, I was told by a man on motives," he said. the Embankment that I could come!

uboard the ship.'"

The gangway was closed, and lie

⚫ FRIENDSHIP TOUR

think it is high time that!

asked Smith how he got aboard. He Americans-particularly the younger repiled. "Over the top."

Newsom said that Smith jumped on bim on the gangway and hit him on

ol

something generation-Journed the British Empire, British ways and After a struggle Snith ran British traditions. the nose. up the gangway and on to the Em- bankment.

He (Newscrn) chased him pasi the Temple Tube Station, blowing, his police whistle.

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

"Invaded" Island: Jersey Protest

St. Helier (Jersey),

Jerrsey la considering the sending!

of a report to the Foreign Office pro- testing against the "invasion" by at

party of 50 Bicton fishermen of the

of in ihe

to 'Bell

"I am going to ry Britain' IN the Americans themselves would say, America I already friendly towards us, but there is silli a lot more, to be done, 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! agent in Amerlen.

to U.S.

UFS

Two, motorized unlis of British troops in readiness in Jerusalem for possible rioting. They which wonil make- watched 2,840 Jewish wamen march in protest against the Brkish policy Palestine an Arab state, or would permit federation of Palestine and Byrls.

'UNCLE SAM'

IS DEAD

the last of Brighton's donkey men, known to thousands of children, dropped dead in a Brighton_sirect recently.

"UNGLE BAM,"

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

I name was Samuel Martin, and he was 69. For 40 years he

had a dozen donkeys on Brighton

front

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

He complained to fils friends that his new plich was too far from the town centre, and he miss-

ed the crowds of holiday kiddies

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

Doctors Can't Make

Me A Cannibal

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 Women" has already earned £250,000, has an all-female cast of forty, and it gives calty, grasping and

SHE'S NOT WORRIED "I'm a woman who has never had a

TIGHT-YEARS-OLD Colin unfaithful wives a complete showing

Frederick George, lying in up. bed in the Park Hospital, Dayy- Manchester; hulme,

said: "They're going to put something on my head to make the hair grow again. I fell and hurt my head."

telephone row with another woman, Boothe sald as she sat on the arm of

you know what that is," Miss a luxurious chair in her bedroom at Claridge's Holel, Brook-street, W., swinging an expensively shod fool on like a happy schoolgirl,

The "smething" they put Colin's head later, after a delicate two-hours operallon, was a section lost the friendship of lots of women She isn't worrying although she of bone from his father's skull.

Had the toy been an adult the skull with whom she used to take tea, be-

jenuse she wrote this play. might have been mended by a silver "The women who fell out with me surglen plate. But such a device would not grow with a child's head. British Island D. 14 miles south of 66WHEN I am dead my funeral will be followed by so his father, Mr. Sidney George, 37

years-old frullerer, of Worsley-read, herds of oxen, sheep, swine, flocks of poultry, Swinton, Manchester, inade the sacri- and a small travelling menagerie of live fish, all wearing fice.

The operation was successful. white scarves in honour of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures."

Jersey.

Led by M. Durand Couppel de

famous as Saint Front, Marie." the senscape

"Marlu ihe palater, Frenchmen landed recently and built

a small hut near the ofetal flag

staff.

They placed Inside a notice stating) a refuge for that this was to be

Not that George Bernard Shaw is expecting to die French mariners, and also deposited just yet, but this was his forcible way of expressing his

a charl of the territorial waters' of

the French and Jarcey.consts showing Maitresse as neutral territory. They quoted as their authority a fishing expedition of 1839.

staunch adherence to his pet creed.

Bluebirds Respect Mails

because I wrote 'The Women,' are the kirg I can do without. They don't 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 Iwe know where we stand.

NATURALLY CATTY

"I don't say the women in the play represent English woman-I don't know English women at all-but I do say there are plenty of women like that.

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COMPETITION

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"All the same, I'd hate to think that TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250

All woinen are

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I'm..unwomanly-enough.never_to_be aro entered in the books"af" the

and catty. The post-office department It is 60 years since ther

bit catty Recording Angel as aggravated

Charles Bessette HTC entertaining it's natural to them. It's fun talk- world's most famous vegetarian]

and outrageous falsehoods,

their annual tourist visiters here. ing between ourselves about Mrs. So renounced for ever all forms of

"During inesses, doctors and flesh-foods. Now, at the age of family have tried in vain to make The guests are a family of bluebirds and So. I admit it."

who for the past 10 years have built it gets rather worrying to think extracts.

Death 15 their nest in de rural post-office box that this beautiful bide-eyed, golden- 82, he has revealed what it was me drink meat

at Bessette's form. The birds occupy (huired woman with nil hé cheek of a that made him a non-ment-enter. better lipn cannibalism.

ANIMAL LAW

jonly one side of the box and leave small boy is running around London "People defending the rating of

Isaid. ather and that Nature's law is not mall.

hunane law,

CHALLENGE IGNORED They ward discovered by Deputy Le Masurier, of the Jersey States Parliament, who has cottage on Maitresse. and his son. when they sailed to the island for the week-end, "I became a vegetarian when

M. Le Masurier protested that the first discovered the writings of Shmeut, say that animals prey on each leical room on the other side for listening to the things that are bon Frenchmen had no authority to land ley, whose works I read from end to

JUST NONSENSE

on British territory, but they can-end 09 years, ago." he said.

tinued to erect their refuge hut.

M. Le Masurier returned to Jersey and informed the Balliff. Yesterday the States vessel Duke of Normandy left for Maitresse with an official parly.

"Shelley wrote:

brast

Never again may blood of bird

"Animals do not all prey on one another-the elephant, the bull the ergorilla, &c., are vegetarians. In any ense, we cannot plead the example Stain with its venomous stream of the animals for our conduct. The

Auman feast.

tiger eats its cubs unless the thress with

frightens in off agree

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Shelley. Many It is people are convinced that they could The Frenchmen bad gone. believed they returned to Chaurey, not possibly keep well without meat

house.

"All edible animals owe their existence to their edibility.

"But their existence involves an!

Seeks Twice-Lent Violin

ADY JOICEY, of Ford Castle, jatudent at R.CAT. please communicate

Berwick-on-Tweed, had

with Lady Joicey, Ford Castle, Ber- wick-on-Tweed?`

valuable violin,

"I do not know the name of the

woman who has the violin now, nor a French island midway between That is just nonsense. The Tipper-

She lent to a friend who lent where she lives, except that it is Minitresse and the French coast, ary peasant with his potatoes and mense slavery of men and women it to a friend who practised on it at somewhere near London." Lady where "Marin Marie's" father has a buttermilk, Caesar's soldiers with to animals. Nobody ever seems to the Royal College of Music.

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

his bluck bread and better employed.

Now Lady Joicey wents the violin A high official of the Jersey Gov-moujik 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 mely serious view of this invasion. ples of excellent health on meatlesslessly. To some extent they are her friend's friend cannot be found The island have belonged to the diets out of dozens I could give you. where the gun called the humane) { killer is used. British Crown since the Conqueror and are part of the King's posses-

"But to say that they all are is be- sions as Duke of Normandy."

yond human mendacity."

"I have flyved and worked without flesh, flah, or fowl, and

all statements to the contrary

"It is two or three years since I saw the violin. I had two. The other one, which was better than the That is the story behind a personal Goteller, I played myself. advertisement published yesterday: "I wanted the Gofriller to be play- GOFRILLER VIOLIN-Would the ed so that it should not deteriorate lady who was tent this violin when a and that is why I lent it.

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"And now I want it back, although I am sure the woman who has it does not realise It. She has left the college and the authorities there can- not trace her. I had a letter which would have helped me, but unfor- tunately I destroyed it.

"But she knows my name, and as koon as she realises. I want the in- strument back she will communicate with me."

Wedding Was

His Gift

WHAT would you like for your silver wedding anni- versary?" Mr. Jack Harman, of Crane-road, Twickenham, Middlesex, asked his wife.

"To be married in church," he replied.

So, Mr. and Mrs. Harman went to Holy Trinity Church, Twickenham Green, and were married agnin,

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

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

(Donated by ILFORD, Ltd.,~London)

SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW

29th SEPT. AT 5 P.M. CLOSING DATE & TIME:

THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.

Frizes will be allotted as follows: SECTION ONE:

For Story-Telling Pictures. 1st. 530. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION TWO: General Pictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc. 11. $30. 2nd. $15.

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SECTION THREE: Portraits, Informal Close-ups, Human- Studies.

1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION FOUR:

Still Life and Table-Top Studies. 1st $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION FIVE: Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years. 1st, $15: 2nd. $10. ard. $5.

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