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PMINT TRANSAKTUARZOWEENEY, ATSI

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 16, 1939.

Jessie Matthews' Father Dying, ALHAMBRA

Says Carry On With The Show

(Trans-

NEW SINGAPORE MILITARY TALKS JESSIE MATTHEWS played the lead in "I Can Takej It," at the King's Theatre, Southsea, Hants, recently Ocean) New Anglo-French military

SINGAPORE, Aug. 15 because it was the wish of her father-once a coster-that discussions have been fixed for next she should keep up the tradition of the stage: "The show must go on."

week.

For sixty-three-year-old George Matthews has died-not in the backyard rooms off Great Pulteney-street, Soho, where he conclusion of talks he will return by helped her to fame, but in a comfortable house in Ruislip, Middle-the sex, provided for him by his daughter.

In Berwick-market, Soho, customers were buying fruit at the stall, now run by Jessie's brother George, which their father opened more than forty years ago.

:

Jessie was with him all afternoon, comforting him; but, though she knew he was sinking she had to leave to catch her train for Portsmouth and the show.

SETTLED IN COMFORT

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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" JERUSALEM, Aug, 16 (Reuter).- Major-General M. G. Barker, G.0.C. She was on the stage when he died.

Palestine, has arounced that the For several weeks she had been making the journey every practice of releasing persons detain- morning to London from Birmingham, Manchester, Brighton-ed under the emergency regulations

will be suspended until further TOMORROW wherever the show has been-to visit her father.

notier owing to the recent recrude- She bas never forgotten the days when she used to play on aj When Jessie became famous she scence of sniping and bombs outrages New Universal -

and the Intimidation of Government string swing hung from the lamp-settled him in comfort at Ruislip. post near her father's fruit stall in But the atmosphere of the market officials.

George Releases have been permitted in] the market and long for footlight was too much for old

Matthews. He used to come up on recent weeks only in view of a mea- Saturdays and mingle with his old sure of returning tranquillity, which)

has now been marred. Though "Dad" was sceptical friends. antagonistic at first-he put by all Jessle said: "When he saw I was the pennies he could spare from his determined to go on the stage there! takings to pay for the training of his was nothing he begrudged ine. He dance-loving "daughter.

was a dear all through."

fame.

Save Life For 19 Years LATE NEWS

Fined For Parking

FOR nineteen years Captain Leonard Baynes, of Hampstead, has devoted his time to picking up sick and injured people in his car and driving them, free of charge, to hospital for specialised treatment.

own

He converted his motor-car into an ambulance at his expense and he has covered more than 43,000 miles in the service of the suffering.

Recenty Captain Baynes was fined protest to the Home Secretary and 5s. by the Bow-street magistrate for the Commissioner of Police. causing an obstruction by leaving

The boy Captain Baynes had taken

his car-ambulance outside Charing to Charing Cross Hospital had a mal- Cross Hospital.

formation of the legs. The captain said he had to leave home at seven

A policeman suld It was there for three hours. Captain Baynes told o'clock in the morning to get the him he had brought an end I case to the hospital, and said: "I

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In the witness-box Captain Baynes said he had driven a boy from surgical home in Banstead, Surrey, and had had to wait for a medical examination. He had driven cases to practically every hospital in London, by day and night, and had never

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examination, and as he had to take child to the hospital by 10.30 for him back again he left his car out- side because there was.ne room in

yard,

Captain Baynes said he would still carry on his ambulence work, but did not intend to do any more examination cases because of the risk of another prosecution.

car is floodlit at night," he sald, "and I can travel in an emer- Kency at sixty miles an hour. "IT'S A SCANDAL"

don't want to boast about my work, His car was recognised by the police but I have saved life on more than as a voluntary ambulance, and he one occasion by responding promptly claimed he was entitled to parking to calls which come to me at any facilities.

hour of the day or night."

He was flushed with indignation Captain Baynes is sixty-one, partly when he spoke outside the court. He paralysed from war service, and called his prosecution "a scandal," and never out of pain. He has the use; said he intended to write letters of of only one of his arms,

Countess Lives In Cottage On 10/- A Week

MRS.

ETHEL

AMY, great-grandmother Lady Mary Hyde, MARTIN, plumpish, kindly daughter of the Earl of Clarendon. was slater to Ludy Ann Hyde, eldest faced, claims royal blood and who married James 11. lives on ten shillings a week in one of the smallest cottages in the Suffolk village of Haughley.

In a soft, hesitant voice she said: "I'll tell you what you should writo about me- although I do not like talking about myself.

"Now this story should be called something like 'How Are the Mighty Fallen, because I have suffered great adversity,

"I went to America

with my husband and soon was left alone with two chlidren to look after.

"Not many people of high degree have had to go on working with a broken arm. But I did, and people seid I was very brave. Blood will tell, you know.

"Now.I live alone in my collage, "Of course, I'm a highly cultured woman and connected with half the have little money and look after my-

I do not complain," nobility of England. Then you might self. mention that I'm

France.

peeress of

"I don't use my title very often, but I'm Madame lu Comtesse du Luce. That was my mother's name. In France, you know, titles of the old nobility descend from mother to daughter. We belong to the family of the Duke of 'Orleans,

"A very beautiful woman, my mother, it was her cousin Major Pomfret who sounded the Charge at Balaclava. Or was it Major Joy? He was there too, another cousin.”

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Madame In Comtesse gave kindly smile and supposed that her

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said: "Without doubt I am the most beautiful grandmother in the country. Every one tells me that.

"My lovely colouring comes from the royal Stuarts, They were always famed for their looks.

"Now

• pedigren „Walt while I show you my j

From an old book-long out of print and very valuable. there Isn't another copy in England except in the British Museum"-sho traced the family tree of the Blackmans, produced birth certificates and old letters to show that her great-great-

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