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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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January 29, 1940.

By Walt Disney

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£70,000-A-YEAR BRIDE FINDS WORK JUDGE ASKED FOR SCRUBBING WAR HOSPITAL FLOORS "Take Off That Lipstick" Said Matron

And Nurse Ashley Never Put It On Again

NURSE ASHLEY went off duty at Addenbrookes. Hospital, Cambridge, to become for twenty-four hours the Hon. Mrs. R. M. C. Ashley, at her home, The Hall, Six- Mile Bottom, near New-market, which stands in 8,000. acres of shooting ground.

For the woman who, at her wedding in 1927 was į: known as "the £70,000-a-year bride," is rapidly forgetting her society life in the joy which stern hospital discipline) and hard work have brought to her.

Yesterday, for instance, she did not She didn't tell me that at n throw a cocktail party to celebrate her soldlers' camp a mile away they get leave.

dozens of cakes and ples sent up every week from her kitchens.

Instead she threw open The Hall to the villagers and ran a whist drive to raise money for comforts for the troops.

Qualified

arc

Her hands roughened with work. There is no polish on her nails; no make-up on her face.

"But I like it, she sld. "I really happy in my job,

am

"I detest the idea of playlue at nursing as some society women do. I scrub floors, make beds, and hold sick, heads. And I have been

in attendance at fourteen operations. "I have qualified as a junior pro bationer nurse. In the hospital most

Doing Hor 'Bit

She didn't tell me elther about the two shveling brakes she had given to be ninge into ambulances, nor mention that after hard days at the hospital she rung weekly socinis andi dances to provide comforis for the troops. She has given up one room of her house to the village women, where they meet and knit socks and woollens for the soldiers. If she is there she joins them."

|| CANADIANS IN ENGLAND

CANADIAN TROOPS landing "Somewhere in England" for the first time in 23 years. They were the first overseas forces to arrivo.

1898 KILLER LEFT FORTUNE

SAN FRANCISCO (UP).—If Barney the cook is still alive, a fortune awaits him, and he need have no fear that he will be tried for a killing 42 years ago.

Down at The Green Man in the

Barney the cook, whose name was village the publican, Mr. Gardner, either Owen Kenney or Eugene ten-, her name. smites with pride at the mention of

ney, has not been seen since he ran "She's a lovely lady," he said. from a San Francisco court room 33

of them only know me a Nursend certainly doing her share to years ago just before he was freed Ashley. That is as it should be. One day when I appeared with a little in the war, I've known her since on a writ of habeas corpus because ipstick on matron told the to go and she was so high."

wash my face. She was quite right.

I never did it again.

"None of us knows how we shall live when this war is over.. I feel I must have a profession at my Auger tips. It is my duty in become a use- ful citizen.

Like Waterloo "Since war started my house has. been like Waterloo Stailon, People are coming and stoing all the time,¦

I gave up half the house to twenty- four evacuees, ten mothers and four-

records connecting him with

the

And Mrs. Gardiner added "She is staging of Patrick Dolan had been

a grand woman. Although she is destroyed in the earthquake and fires often worn out after a day's nursing, she always has a happy smile for us,

H. H. McPike, former United States

pad she can't do, lo much for us or Attorney, revealed that Barney's bro- for the soldiers."

Hard Work

Society friends are

<

amazed at

ther had died and left blocks of real

estate in New York and Brooklyn.

Melike recalled that in 1897 Bar- the whole-hearted way in which' ney killed Dolan. He charged Dolan, she has gone into this job of hard a bartender, had robbed him of work of the type she has never $2,000. dane before.

Borney was sent to the State Hos- They remember her as daughter of pital for the Insane and in 1906 hu

teen children. Although the children the first Buron Mount Temple, sister was pronounced cured and returned had fifteen hundred acres of garden and park land to play in, they used of Lady Louis Mountbatten; a wife to San Francisco for trial on the

to go down and play on the rond. (until the marriage was dissolved murder charge.

this year) of Captain A. S. Conning-

"Foor thingst They were home- sick for the trume, so back they alm-Reid, M.P. for St. Marylebone,

who taught the Klug and the Duke went, saying "Thank you for a nice

of Windsor to fly. boilday?

But the didn't tell me

that the But Nurse Ashley, unlike her] whole village loved her, that they friends, is not roulniscing. She is feel she is doing her job well, munking looking forward to the day when the villagers and their comfort and she will have won for herself some- problems her first consideration. where the position of matron.

FILM STRIKE OFF

Hollywood filmi studio workers have been granted wage increases and the strike will not take place. This was announced by the workers' representatives.

Armed Robberies

Two armed robberies In villages on the outdcirts of Kowloon were 1- parted to the Police yesterday.

Six or seven men armed with re- volvers entered a shop at 40 Ngu

Tau Kok village on Saturday night, They held up the innatet, Man Mun,

QUICK MERCY

FORTY-EIGHT hours after Winifred Mary Watts, unmarried mother, had been sentenced to death, she was reprieved,

Winifred Watts lived in the village of Ashill, near Ilminster, in Somerset. She loved a man and hoped that hefore long they would be married. She was nineteen.

After her baby son was born, Winifred Watts went on loving and hoping for five more months. :

Then she learned that her hopes were vain. married already. So she killed her baby.

The man was

When her story was told at Taunton Assizes the jury found

41, and ransacked, the premises, tak-Winifred Watts guilty of murder. They strongly recommended Ing $32 and a quantity of elgarettes her to mercy.

Violence was used by a gang of three men who entered a house

Mr. Justice Croom-Johnson said quietly: "There is only one

Then he said :----

occupied by The Shum, 36, vegetable sentence." He hid his face as he pronounced the words of death. Jigutener, in Kong Pau Tin village about 1 am, yesterday.. One of the robbers produced a revolver and kept Tix covered while the other two at Tempted to tie him up.

Tse struggled, and was hit on the face and head with poles. The arm- el mar opened fire, but did not hit anyone. With Tse lying disabled on the ground, the robbers ransacked

I sincerely hope that those whose duty it is to exercise mercy will feel able to do so very speedily in your ense."

Defendant Weds Plaintiff

YUBA CITY, Cal. (UP).—Less than 10 minites after Judge H. D. the house and decamped. Tse was Moncur gave Mrs. Clema Ayers, 26, n six-months suspended sentence taken to the Kowloon Hospital by for disturbing the peace, he married her to Fred Conklin, 47-the nelybours.

complaining witness.

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