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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 17, 1940.

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Mrs. Precious Worried When George Was Late For Dinner

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THE THREE Soong sisters-Madame H. H. Kung, Madamo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Sun Yat-sen-inspecting a public dugout in Chungking.—Newsreel Wong Photo.

SHE WAS married SIX TIMES

WIDOW TALKS OF "SCANDAL”

A 72-YEAR-OLD woman who has been married six times referred to a "terrible scandal" when examined at Great Yarmouth Bankruptcy Court.

She is Mrs. Alice Amelia Med- hurst, of Ormesby-rond, Caister.

The body of her sixth husbandi was exhumed In May last. An open)

Nazi

Warning

verdiet was recorded at the Inquest From Home

Mrs. Medhurst

showed STOSS

ONE of Germany's most popular stage and film actors denounced the Nazi Government in a speech to the German people recently. He is Herr Karl Stepanek, and he was speaking from London in the B.B.C.'s German broadcast at 10.30 p.mu,

"After an adventurous flight I have said Herr England," reached

Stepanel.

"From what I had been laid and what I read in German newspapers

I did not think I could reach Britain safely because of German sea war- fare.

HE WAS HOLDING

UP A BANK

TORONTO.

LIFE was good, thought Mrs. George Precious, as in her smart little Toronto home she prepared [dinner for her twenty-seven-

year-old salesman-husband,

With a comfortable house, a car, their two children, hosts of friends in their golf and tennis clubs, it could hardly be botter.

But George was late for dinner. In their few years of married life

he had never kept her waiting.

Mrs. Precious decided to seek police old. Something must have happened

to alin.

At police headquarters she was told yes, George was there, he had some severe head wounds.

During the afternoon, a detec- tive told her, police called to a banic in onc

of Toronto's main

sirecis found. her husband uncon- sclous surrounded by members of the bank staff who had prevented his attempt to hold up the cashier. Wearing a black wig, with grease- paint on his face and a revolver in his hand, George walked in and threatened the caahler, said, the officer.

He was tackled by members of the| stak,

Heavy Blows

heavy platol,; A teller, seizing a stunned him with several henvý blows,

Police say that Precious, besides the revolver in his hand, had an- other in the brief case which he was carrying as

he entered the bank. In: the case loo were 25tt. of rope and a pair of chamois gloves.

Mrs. Precious, shocked by the story, told the police how she had noticed that her husband seened to have more money lately. He had sold her

It was because business had improved.

Correspondence found

Pre- 17 clous's office Indicated thint the attempted hold-up was to be his "final venture." He was hoping to net nearly £6,000.

IN 1938 More Were Drunk

"But when crossing the Channel I did not notice anything of the Nazi supremacy of the seas of which we

MORE people got drunk in have been told so much in Germany.

"Our boat went smoothly along, England and Wales in 1938 than there were hardly any warships for several years. visible, and trame in the Channel was not different from what it was on other occasions when I crossed to:

Britain-in -peace-time."

There were 52,081 of them, com- pared with 62,425 in 1937,

This was announced recently In the Criminal-Statistics- Report for 1030.

Since 1932, the report says, there has been a steady increase of convic- tions for drunkenness.

Before that, for twelve years,

Fooled Gestapo German listeners must have re- ceived a shock to hear of Herr Stepanck's escape from war-time Berlin to Britain.

Only six weeks ago he was work- there had been a continuous decline. ing in German Alm studios. Not) But though the country was less much cariler Goebbels had congra- sober. In 1938, upparently tempers tulated him on his film work.

were a bit easier the number of But all the me Herr Stepanek assaults (10,099) was the lowest for planned his escape. The fact that several year he was a Czech subject by helped him in his scheme.

The birth

It was only after he arrived in Italy that the Gestapo learned he

Intended to come here.

Nazi agents did their utmost to prevent him from leaving Italy,

dramatic speech came to climax when he told German

listeners:-

"Only a few weeks ago I was in Germany listening, as you are Ilsten- ing now, to the German broadcasts from London.

"I know what it means to listen! under the constant danger of delce-

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METROPOLE HOTEL

CENTRAL CLEAN "COMFORTABLE -FIREPROOF

was expected to rank for dividend. "Surplus" Of £339

houses.

husbands left her no property.

COPENHAGEN.

saved

"If You Could Sec-"

minent Gele

"If you were in my place here in London you

how would realise The German economic authorities, tyrannised and burdened your un- Net assets were shown at £751, it is understood here, have made re- happy country in giving a surplus of £330, but Mrs. presentations to the light Command

the ""Here in London, on

other Medhurst told the Omeint Receiver that Germany cannot risk a second hand, life is quite no

normal. that this depended on the amount] war win

winter unless come form of

"If you

could on

only see the rows of that could be realised on some military action is provided.

buses

ses and motor-cars in the streets That is stated to be necessary to while the unhappy Germons must distract attention from the deflclen-{ Mes. Medhurst cald her first four eles and miseries of the home or put their cars, for which they have

the

Instalments for years, Neutral observers from Berlin bave into the garage!". When Mr. Thain, her atuh hus-) confirmed that the present winter "Herr

Step

was the first pro- band, died in 1932 she was adjudged hus strained German resources to

popular with the bankrupt. She had not obtained her the uti

utrnost. Next winter the sun-German

to broadcast from discharge.

tion will be worse,

London under his own name. The effects of the blockade are "I spoke the language which the Her sixth husband, Mr. 11. J. Med already plainly visible, particularly German people understand." he said. hurst, of Hargwyne-street, Stockwell, in Berlin, which appears to be less "Since I S.W., whom she married in

came to Britain I have! 1937, well served in many respects than been eager to discredit the lies which died in February Inst year.

provincial towns.

Nazi propaganda in spreading, and I Foreign diplomatic circles in Bere am grateful for the opportunity of lin feel that these considerations doing it." She incurred a bank overdraft of make some kind of German milltary

Herr

Stepanek is staying In £700 after his death. She did not offensive in the spring or early sum- the Regent's Park home of his tell the bank she was an undis- mer imperative. To delay it until wife, Wanda Roth, the Viennese charged bankrupt beenuse the did the spring of 1941, would mean that actress who scored a success when not really think she was.

an offensive would be made when the she appeared on a West End stage nation was weakened and dishear- last year.

"I am so glad Karl succeeded. In German hopes placed on help from getting here," she said. Russia and the Balkans, it is be- loved, have been greatly in excess of maximum possibilities.

German strategists have delayed Lanco-Naik

Mathura

£700 Overdraft

Asked what happened to the £700 tened. Mrs. Medhurst replied: "It went in) various ways. But for that terrible scandal I should never have had to draw it.

"I had to keep my son and his any movement, hoping that the wife. They could not stay where Allies might be forced to take the they were with all that scandal any Initiative and weaken themselves by more than I could,"

an offensive against heavily fortified Mrs. Medhurst, sald she had re-positions. Now, however, it is felt celved 250 for newspaper articles. that Germany herself must meko

The hearing was adjourned.

some move,

ex-

worst age group of boys guilty of indictable offences was 14 to 10, of girls, 15 to 19.

Of a total of 787,482 people found guilty of various offences, 475,124 had erred against traffic laws.

Rebel Is R. A.

Again

MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN has been re-elected a member of the Royal Academy.

He resigned from the Academy in April, 1938, as a protest against its rejection of Mr. Wyndham Lewis' portrait of T. S. Ellot, the postes

the Describing

Academy's action as "inept," he said: "I prefer to be Augustus Johne Augustus John to being the Royal Academy's Augustus John,"

Mr. John was first elected ILA, In 1920. It was announced in December that he had started on a portrait of the Queen,

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