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LORD TENNYSON'S VOICE HEARD

"ONE

NE of the most moving experiences I have ever hud," said Mr. Alfred Noyes, the poet, describing how he listened to records of Lord Tennyson reciting some, of his own poems.

The records, which have never been heard in public before, were made in 1889 by two men sent over from America by Thomas Edison.

They were played by the poet's Krandson Mr. Charles Tennyson one Saturday at Aldworth, the poet's list home, to an audience of about 250 members of the Poetry Society In- vited to Aldworth by the Maliaraja of Baroda.

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PERFECT CADENCES "The “forceful characteristics of Lord Tennyson's volee clear," said Mr. Noyes, "that the whole thing made a tremendous Im- pression upon me.

The intonations and cadences of Tennyson's Ane voice were perfect where the records were not defec- live, and some passages were so clear and so well rendered that one almost thought he was in the room.

"I think that what impresseil me mos! was how Tennyson's voice brought out the passion in the lings he recited from "Maud," especially these:

My dust would hear her and heat, Had I lain for a century dead, That seemed to me most appro- priate to the occasion as Tennyson's

silent for half voice has been

century.

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stood

"It moved me and everyone there very deeply. The audience partly in the poet's study and partly In the room where he died.

POET'S MAGIC

"The very clarity, precision and truth to Nature of Tennyson's poetry were means by which he achieved hla magic," added Mr. Noyes..

"There is mistaken idea, to-day

Plan To Keep

300 Lions

SUNBURY (MIDDLESEX) › COUNCIL informed Mr. Stanley Turpin, of Sandhills Mendowa, Shepperton, that they cannot approve of his project to open a lion-farm on his catate near the river.

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Mr. Turpin, who was. member of the council before he went to Africa in 1935; de- clares that the council have no power to stop him.

"I only notified them as an act of courtesy." he said. "1 am not going to take any no. tica of the decision. It will be the first farm of its kind in the country."

Mr. Turpin plans to open hia lion form in the spring and hapes eventually to have 300 lions there.

He caught The Wrong Plane

Mr. Nicholas, of Small Heath,'

Wednesday,

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that the magic of poetry is achieved Birmingham apart, watched the his home was recently found. He joined a cargo boat

by obscurity.

"Tennyson is a lasting example of the opposite of this.

"The source of his magle was in

in truth of Nature, because, In get-| ting nearer to the truth of Nature,

planes. and then decided to go for

August 9, 1939.

SHOTS IN STREET

Detective Tells Story Of Chase After Robbers

A chase after five armed robbers in a commandeered motor truck, followed by an exchange of revolver aliols, one of which hit him in the arm, was described by a Chinese de- tective at Kowloon Magistracy yes- terday, when committal proceedings against three of the alleged robbers were continued.

Defendants are Tsang Sang,' 32, Lal You, 31, and Yau Sung, 32, and They are charged with robbing a Jewellery shop at 449 Shanghai Street, of Jewellery to the value of $2,000, and the murder of a woman, Au Yeung Yin-wan

The case was heard before Mr. Q. A. A. Mactattyen, Mr. J. B. Prentis; Assistant Crown Solleitor, prosecuted, with the assistance of Detective In- spector AE. Carey.

Thang Sang was further charged with intent to murder L/Sergeant Clifford Pope, and niternatively with shooting with intent to malm, dis- Agure or disable Sergeant Pope, or He In order to resist lawful urrest. was also charged with the possession of arms and ammunition, a mauser pistol and 02 rounds of ammunition. Lai Yau was additionally charged with possession of rounds of ammun!- tion and an automatic pistol, an automaile plato), 45 rounds of am- munition and an ammunition clip; shooting with intent to murder police constable C.C. 354, Ho Fook, and alternatively shooting with intent to maim, disfigure or disable C.C. 354, or in order to resist lawful arrest.

Tsang and Yau were taken to the Court from Stanley Prison where they were already serving terms of imprisonment for breach of the De portation Ordinance. They were sen- tenced at the Inst Criminal Sessions.

Heard Glans Break

EVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Christopher J. O. Clarke, the Harrow schoolboy who had been missing from

hillside near the due to go to Canada, but the captain's orders were queur for tickets and clambered into changed at the last moment and the boy's adventure ended

-in Wales.

a 5. joy-ride. He stood in

an air-ilner with other people.

Mr. Nicholna thought he was hav-

he was getting nearer to the ultiming a very good 5s, worth and asked ate and mysterious reality in which why they were up so long. Nature is rooted."

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"We are on our way to Weston- super-Maret" was the reply.

47. FLIGHT

He had entered the wrong plone one which was carrying a party of rouncillors and olher prominent EL PASO, Tex. (UP)-A 10-people of the district to Weston. pound shotgun, brought to Mexico

It was not possible for the pilot to by Hernan Cortez in 1593, hus been return with him; so he was taken on at an hotel exhibit at Centennial to Weston and stayed pinced on Museum at the Texas College of there for that night. The air corn- Mines. It is a muzzle-loader with a pany flew him back to Birmingham. bore of 35 millimeters, and It saw For his 5s. he had had 47s. worth of service in the Mexican War of In air travel as well as dependence in 1810-1812.

modation for the night.

He was found at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and is now at home.

Leong Wing. shop foki at the goldsmith shop, described how he heard the breaking of glass in the shop, and how he followed the rob- bera during the long chase through until he lost A number of streets sight of the robbers who went up the He Waterloo Road. later returned to the shop, and went back to the hillside with Inspector Carey, where he saw three men in custody whom he recognised as the men he had been chasing.

Tsang denied having taken part in His father, Colonel M. O. Clarke, of White Lodge, Marlow, the robbery, and said he was waiting on the hillside. He did not go to the A.R.P. officer for Buckinghamshire, stated:

shop.

"Christopher boarded the

"He is quite well. He tells me cargo! ship

all that he wants to do hard manual a: Liverpool. 11 called Swansea, and there the captain was labour, But it seems to me that Instructed to go to Italy.

there is plenty of that lying about here.

"HAPPILY ENDED" "My boy did not want to go to Italy, so he left the ship and went on to Llanidloes,

"Afterwards the police there teje-' phoned me to say that the owner of an hotel in Llanidloes hind reported hotel accori- that Christopher. was slaying with

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"I want to thank the police and the Press for the great help that they have given us in the search.

"Now the matter is

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Detective Tang Ka snid he was walking along the junction of Shang- hat Street und Sniyeungchol Street when he heard police whistles. He saw five men running Into Salyeung- choi Street from Sliantung Street.

A few hours before Christopher | continued running, left Llanidloes with his father he had attended Communion at the parish church.

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After hearing shouts of "Robbers!" BRAHMS. three of the men, who had just run, CHOPIN. happypast him, pointed their guns at him. DVORAK.

He told them he was not a policeman | GRIEG. so the man put the guns away and | GONDOLIERS.

BOHEME LA. After the robbers had gone some TRAVIATA, LA. distance, and could not see him, he TOSCA, LA. drew his revolver and went after the PAGLIACCI. Graham Saunders, aged 15, who men. He boarded a lorry at the MIKADO. had been nilsaing from his home in mouth of Salycungchoi Street and Church Vale, East Finchley, was Nelson Street, and after telling the YEOMEN OF THE GUARD. found recently by his father in Cold-driver he was a policeman, told the fall Woods, Muswell 2000). The boy man to go after the robbers. stated that he had been sleeping In the woods.

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and walking with the driver to No. 60 Argyle Street, opened fire on the robbers. Three returned the fire and after he had fired three shots, he was wounded in the left arn.

The driver was told to reload the revolver.with three more shots, and he continued after the robbers. Three' further shots were fred

him at When Fishermen William Christle the robbers under the railway bridge and George Salmond reported sight before the men spilt up into

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brown monster off West groups near Victory Avenue. He Wemyss their story was doubted, es- continued after three of the men pecially the bit about it having a unil they disappeared up the hill on head like a horse's and bulging eyes. the opposite side of the road neur But they saw t again, swimming the Diocesan Bay's School, and after near a sandbankt. No log of wood meeting another lot of policemen, could have moved so quickly, they returned to the Police Station, and argued.

later to the Kowloon Hospital where This wound was dressed,

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You was identified by him at an Later the same day Mr. Alexander Identification parade at the Yaumati Christic was told by his daughter Police Station on June 17, when he that there was something moving recognised him no like one of the men about in the water not more than 400 | who carried a gun. yards from the beach.

Hearing was adjourned unul this afternoon,

He went and saw for himself. It remained on view for an hour and n half.

Since then it has been seen by many factory girls,

Now the chief point of debale is, not so much the beast's existence, but whether its head is like à horse's or a cow's.

Doctor Writes Own Epitaph

DR. ARTHUR CROOK, 78, for nearly 50 years a membert

of tho Norfolk and Norwich Chess Club, has left his home in Norwich and gone to London;

Reason? In order to live near the new National Chess headquarters in Cavendish- square, which open in Septem- bor.

Ha new home is but a few minutes'] walk away.

And Dr. Crook has epitaph.

"He nover

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chess" is what he intends to have Inscribed an his gravestone if the Church will allow it.

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