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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 22, 1940.

Author Gave Up Writing

to Bring Up a Girl Dove On Pope's

MR. THEODORE F. POWYS, the brilliant author, and short-story writer-honoured in the Civil List just published

told his wife seven years ago: "This is the end of my writ ing. I have a more important job to do now.”.

He said those words on the day that his two-months-old adopted daughter Susan was carried into his red-brick cot- tage in the village of East Chaldon, near Dorchester, "I shail devote all my time to her." he added. "Sho shall have all that I can give her."

Mr. Powys kept his word.

Publishers besieged "the natural delicate child and li dki not suit her. successor to Hardy," as he was. Now she is back at home with us. She is being toughi by Miss Muntz, called.

But the author of "Mr. Weston's sculptress in the village, and she Good Wine, one of the best-sellerss very happy. She reads 'to my of 1928, wrote but rarely, "I'm too htsband for attle line every day busy with Susan," he always said it cheers him up a lot,

Then, two years ago, he had n stroke, and has been bed-ridden ever

since.

Now It Is Suzan fair-haired, blue-eyed, laughing -child-who de votes her time to him. She reads to him every day.

He

Recently she rushed upstairs to congratulate him on his honour. receives a supplementary pension of £40 your in recognition of his

work

Mrs. Powys said: "My husband loved Susan from the first moment that he saw her. Writing no longer seemed to nutter to him: He alwoyn said that she was far more import- anl,"

He Was Her Teschor

She told how he taught Susan to read and write, how he would take her for walks and play with her for hours.

"When he had the stroke," she said, "Susan said that she would read to him every day and tell him all that was happening outside.

**We sent her to # boarding school, but she is a rather nervous,

"She has started writing stories and she shows them to him. I do not know what we should do with- out Susan

YREAD

LANASTASE.

U.S. RUSHING Girls Keep

NEW FLEET

WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuter). -All United States Navy establish- ments have been ordered to speed up defence preparations by working additional shifts and by increasing the civilian ship-building forces by

at least 15,000 within three months.

Military

Tradition

Throne Greets Honeymooners

A

A walio dove, dying through the open window, settled on the red velvet: hangings of tho Pope's Throne while his Holiness was addressing 800 newly-mar- ried couples,

The Pope had just taken him place, says Renter, when the dave, one of many which often enter the Hall of Benedlotion in tile Vatican, finttered through one of the great windows open- Ing on Bt. Peter's square.

It stayed above the Papal Throne throughout the Pope's address and only flew off after the Benediction had been given.

The honeymoon couples were delighted at such an augury and many recalled, that a white dove figures in the coat of arms of Pope Pius XII.

Following the change of Government, France's chief Censor, whose ruthless- ness has been the subject of much.comment, has resigned. This is what the French Press thinks of censorships. "Col- lecting old iron: Why not start with

Censor's the scissors?" "La Lumière."

Sixty-six warships, including eight WHEN the war came Mr. and LATE NEWS battleships, are at, present under Mrs. William Fargher, of Clin-

construction or

are projected.

KING RECEIVES

PREMIER

ton-place, West Derby, Liver-

pool, had a problem. How to

continue the Fargher tradition for military service with sons?

no

Mr. Fargher served nineteen and a LONDON, May 31 (Reuter)-The Prime Minister was received in ou half years in the West Lancashire. dience by the King at Buckingham Regiment and his father had been with the West Lancs Volunteers for Palace to-night.

His Majesty also received General twenty-nine years, but this time it Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of Im-looked us if the West Lones would perial General Staff, in audience at have to do without-n-Fargher Buckingham Palace,

Maintenance Charge

Carlos Passos Rissola Rocha, of 29, Ashley Road, second floor, was sun- moned before Mr. E. Himsworth at

Mr.

and Mrs. Farther, however,

had not counted on their three daughters, Mona, twenty-five. librarian; Nora, twenty, a florist and Antia, nineteen, an art-shop assistant. All three joined the West Lancs section of the ATS-and the Fargher-tradition-was-яayed.——

In One Camp

Mona, smallest of the trio, threw up

the Kowloon Magistracy this morning her job when Nora and Anita were The summons was issued by hi in khaki, saying she was joining up wife, Linbanira Rocha, of 83, Sai Yeolo looks after her two sisters.

Street, 3rd floor.

She charges her husband with desertion from March 1934 and fall-

All three are now stationed at a Southern Command camp and are

of the camp concert party.

ing to provide reasonable mainter.me good turn the war has done

ance from March 1, 1940.

the sisters is to bring them in touch

Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared for with a cousin whom they had not the complainant and asked for a week's remand.

Duke of Gloucester

On "Urgent Duty"

LONDON, May 21 (Reuter).- Major-General the Duke of Glouces ter arrived in London on Tuesday. night from France on urgent duty,

He visited the War Office early this morning.

Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands also arrived from France on Tuck- day evening.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary Issued yesterday says:

Enquiries on a moderately exten- sive scale came into the market dur- were ing the day. Some bargains acquired but at the close scrip was not quite so plentiful."

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$104 China Lighia (Old) Sabð ^/ LONDON, May 21 (Reuter) —ür Wilfred Greene, Master of the Roll), has left for Rome In order to renew his contacts with, the Italian Clovom- ment. Heli Chairman of the Bil tish datoration to the Joint Augio Kalparvathilding, committen wybịch

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