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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 29, 1940
. Raised Blinds, QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRO
Refused Cover Warned By Ministry
CURIOSITY Idlled the cat; it may also kill people, if actions such as those which occurred on a Saturday night during the aerial activity off the South-East Coast are repeated.
Though shrapnel was falling and there were some narrow escapes, police received abuse when advising some watchers to take cover.
lights.
Other people pulled up blinds to see what was going on—and did not bother to put out the
This was disclosed by thej Ministry of Home Security in an urgent warning against the danger of showing lights, and of failing to take cover when gun- fire is heard or when aerial com-i bat is taking place.
Casualties Caused
Of the raising of blinds. the Minis- try statement sald:
Youth With Split Personality
Gave £300 Savoy
is a Party,
"Such action, which is in direct contravention of the lighting restric- tions, is attended with grent danger from the point of view of national security, and is also punishable by heavy penalties.
"Fragments from anti-aircraft
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A FORMER public schoolboy with a "split person- shells or machine-gun bullets from ality" who gave a £300 party at the Savoy, Hotel, London,
aeroplanes," it was added, "may come
to
earth at considerable distances or one occasion and on others slept at Salvation Army shelters and in watchmen's huts, was sent to Borstal for
from the point at which they were) fired.
"Casualties have already been caused through people ignoring past warnings.
"Anti-aircraft guns may come into action in any locality, and occasional bombs may be dropped without the warning sirens have been sounded."
The Mayor Was Not Amused
ALDERMAN W. S. Burgess, Lord Mayor of Bristol, has watched young people dancing and he was not amused.
He has also seen them hiking.. but that is a different story.
"I am afraid I have sometimes been critical of modern youth, and
I have felt there has been ground for it," he told the Youth Hostels
i
a period not exceeding three years at Bath Quarter Ses- sions recently.
He was charged in the name} of. Roland Jones, a soldier, and he admitted obtaining food and wine worth £10 from a Bath hotel, posing as an officer, and forging and uttering two ban- kers' borders.
As he was sentenced a woman in the public gallery shouted: "May I be allowed to speak? I am the boy's mother.". "She was told she could see her son before he was taken away.
and Thomas Victor Viggars (27),
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Officer Had Military Wedding
Two other soldiers accused with WHEN Joseph Knowles Jones on the false pretence charge. (34), of Wrotham Road, Douglas George William Cooper (21) Northfleet, was married on were discharged, no evidence being March 16, he wore the uni- form of a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers.
offered.
Secret Service Story
Jones had posed as an officer, entered Mr. C. F. Ingle. (prosecuting) sald
Association at-ils annual meeting officers' messes, had been received as
was at the ceremony dressed as His brother John, aged 83,
I have gone to some of our mo- an officer, and had amazing audacity, an R.A.M.C. captain.
dern dances and have heard what have been called first-class dance son of birth and breeding.
He had a kink that he was a per-
bands-but to me it sounded like a cacophony of misery.
"Paralytic Shuffle"
"The dancing was a paralytic shuffle which had no form or beauty, and the dancers had a look of com plete boredom on their faces,
If this representa the youth of England," he
he commented, "then God help England,"
Photographs of the wedding group were shown in court at Gravesend when the brothers, who are builders, He told the other two men that he were sent to prison for six months was in the Secret Service and for masquerading as Army oMeers vited them to become Secret Service and obtaining credit by fraud. officers. They went to London to-
Weeping Bride gether and Jones gave a dinner party at the Savoy Hotel, attended by a large number of guests.
Joseph's bride of a month wept bitterly when the brothers were led
It was a most lavish affair and from the dock, Jones left without paying the bill.Detective-Sergeant Wagstaff show- Detective-Inspector Coles salded the Court a uniform from which Patrick dangled a monocle, also a stetho. But his faith in young people was Jones's correct name was rostered after he had seen hikers George Michael Cecil Johnson. He scope, sword and revolver, which he "trekking up and down the country, attended Bedford School and Cran- said he found in the brother's pos full of cheer and vitality-snugh leigh.
Gession. they wear clothes that would have shocked their grandmothers.
are cunning, evasive and In 1838 he posed as the son of Lord Manchester. He had also posed ng plausible," said the officer. "After seeing those young people, owner of a yacht and heir to a for- described himself as a civil engineer, Joseph Knowles had previously who take almost a pagan delight in tune. the beauty and freshness of Mother Earth," he said, “I feel there is some last September for obtaining credit by debts off paying them.
When he appeared at Bow Street and had used degrees to which be was not entitled. He had incurred of £600, and apparently had hope for yuoth and for the old world a trick, u Harley Street doctor said after a
no intention he was a person of split personality.
John Knowles had pased as A doctor, using letters after his name, and he had in his possession forged references stating that he had held important posts in Australia.
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FILM STAR PASSES
HOLLYWOOD, May 28 (UP) — The death is announced of Walter Connolly, the well-known alm actor Walter Connolly Was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 52 years ago. He |attended "St. Xavier College there and completed his education, at the University of Dublin.
His first professional work was ne a jockey but when he became too heavy for this, he turned to the stage. Ho made his debut in Norfolk, Va. In 1909 and a year later went on to Broadway. He remained there until 1032 having refused offers from Hollywood producers for 15 years.
However, he finally accepted n Columbia contract in 1932 and his first film role was in "The Bitter Tea of General Yen."
Later he appeared in "Lady for 'a Day" with Mary Robson, "A Man's Castic" with Spencer Tracy, "Paddy, the Next Best Thing" with Janol Gaynor, and many other films,
One of his last pictures to be seen in Hongkong was "Fifth Avenue Girl" in which he co-starred Ginger Rogors.
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