1947-06-28 — Page 4

Mayfair girls recall the jungle war

By JOHN DEANE POTTER

DIFFICULT story to There was the sergeant I last saw writo, this; every time I in the monsoon in Melktila. He wan sitting in a silt trench with a foot tried to scribble a note some of water in it. body interrupted me in Hindus- tani. These were the people I last saw on the road to Manda- iny. Recently they were in London'a Albert Hall; it was 14th Army night.

They came from all over Bri- Hain-7,000 of them-for the first reunion of Britain's Burma Army since the defeat of Japan. And it was Burma weather for it. They aat in shirt-sleeves in the auditorium, while generals and admirals-their old com- manders-filed on to the plat- form.

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As burly, balding General Slim appeared he got the big gost cheer of all, thousands of men shouting: "We want Bill." There was a recorded speech from Viscount Mountbatten, in their old commander, now India. They cheered it, but that did not make the show,

It was the men who stopped and gazed at each other sudden- ly in corridors, paused a while recognise and said: "I didn't you without your beard. You do look funny with a tie on.”

Then they went away. talk. ing rapidly of far-off days and battles long ago.

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Nostalgia

We used to call that Metro- was better than anything Dorothy Goldwyn-Mayer rain," because it

Lamour dreamed about.

arin

He gave me the same wry Inat night as he did that day in the slit trench when he said: "I belleve the Navy gels hard lying for sleeping better than this."

At the Albert Hall his face

was

paler; he looked strange with a col-

lar on.

Someone said to me, "Jaldi chalo" (get a move on) because I got some zu (a native rice wine).

Women's Part

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1947.

THE PARKERS

HELP! FETCH

SCOTTIE QUICKLY!

7

by HODGES

Queer tales of the 19

missing

LTHOUGH the number of lives of Dantry. Co. Cork, and whose

impostors assuming titics grandfather was a younger brother of Archibald James, cannot be grant- to which they have no ed the tic. claim is on the increase, para- doxically there is a considerable That was the atmosphere of the number of tiles-particularly man who is the seventh baronet,

grand evening baronetcies-to which no claim- evening. It was a Alled with grand people who, some-ants have come forward. now, seemed to have disappeared in the anonymity of civil Hfe.

an

In the official "Rol! of But for one evening we recaptured Baronets" the total of unclaimed the spirit again-the spirit of army to which I am proud to have baronetcies is given as 19. belonged, an army of Britons who conquered the unknown Burman Jungle as the

the Eighth man of Army defeated the desert.

But stay, they were not all Eng- lishmen-there were hundreds of In- dians there, symbols of the gallant divisions who fought alongside us.

And there was a sprinkling of too. They made you re- women, member the little-known part that women played in the Burma war,

There were Mayfair glamour giris, who talked with kn

knowledge about

the time

were-but

Some

of these baronetcies will never be assumed, as their rightful holders have no desire to be "Sir, BL"

Others are unclaimed because the heirs cannot be traced or because the claimants cannot prove that all senior branches of their families have died out.

Here is a case in point.. A claimant to the baronetey of Power of Kilfane, Kilkenny, which has been in abeyance since the death of the seventh baronet in 1928, is Major Anthony Power, of the Leicestershire Regiment,

Lost touch

Perhaps in some part of Eire there

but does not know it.

From time to time baronets neck my advice in tracing their heirs.

Only last year Sir Charles Har- dinge, fifth baronet, of Lurran, Fer- managh, called ujion

to Fay that he did not know who was his heit.

me

nearest male relative, Mr

Charles II. Hardinge, had emigrated in

the middle of last century to Canada, where it is belleved he was employed with the Canadian Pacific Railway.

baronets

There was

One day Bruce walked out of his lodgings stating that he intended to

disappear.

From that day nothing has been heard of him, although he bad many

the man who distinguished relatives, including the walked out of his house saying "I am

lote Sir Edward Campbell, M.P., and Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., and his family made every effort to find him.

disappearing

by CYRIL F. J. HANKINSON

Editor of 'Debrett'

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Sir Charles remembered when little Sir James Dunbir, tenth baronet, more than a schoolboy hearing of of Mochrum, Wigtownshire, who is his death, and knows that he left a 84, does not know where the heir son and daughter, but has never been able to trace their whereabouts.

to his title, who is shown in "Debrett" and other works of reference as Unless

these Canadian relatives Richard Sutherland Dunbar, in to be can be found

the title is likely to

found. lapse on the death of Sir Charles.

Another baronet, whose only son killed in action in 1941, set about searching his family records for an heir.

Richard Dunbar was born in 1873 and has not been heard of for many years,

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10.33 Jean Metcalfe thanks you for veur

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Carroll Levie Show. 7,00 Talking Point, 7.15 Forces' Favouriten.

Not long after Bruce disappeared his father, Lieut.-Colonel Sr John Campbe, D.S.O., B., cf Ardnamur- chan, Argyllshire, died in Sumatra while a prisoner of war in Japanese Cricket: a commentary from the Oval, hands.

Bruce has, therefore, become the baronet if he is still ving.

If, however, he is dead and did not marry and have a

son, the baronetcy is extinct, but the fate of this tile mey quite likely remain one of the great unsolved mysteries.

Claim riddle

is not always the heirs to baronetcles who disappear, but sometime the baronets themselves.

For many years news was sought of Sir Thomas Alexander Johnston, whose name had been duly placed on the roll of the baronets on the death of his predecessor in 1021, but no one Smed to know how it was that his clam had been admitted, since the Home Office had no record

they were surrounded by the Japanese in Imphal. They had been Wasbis (Women's Auxiliary It was a joyful, nostalgic Service Burma), who went right up

few of us evening. So

who forward with the men, running can- were there thought we would teens and social services.

There were nurses

in linen cos- sweated ever, see it when we

breit tumes who lind nursed men and struggled along the dusty to health after Jap snipers had dealt Jungle tracks, sniped and shell-

with them in the Arakan,

There od by the Japanese.

go on? MAJOR Power ls the senior known was why They were all there. The men and living descendant of the Arst the women who will be able to say baronet, but he cannot assume the proudly to their grandchildren, "I title, because in the middle of the was in the 14th Army"...and know last century Gervase Parker Power, back as 1668, he had a falely wide chuid, a daughter, so that whether that they are sure of their place in cousin of Sir George, the last baronck, held to cover, and eventually Colonel Richard Dunbar survives the baronet emigrated to America and lost touch Sir George Stirling, who is now in or not the ultimate heir would be with his family,

his 70th year, traced a descendant of Adrian Ivor Dunbar, who lives at in a letter being received from his Henderson, U. S. A., and whose son served as a sergeant in the Mountain Engineers, United States Army, during the war.

That tall major in a blue suit who haited mo; he was difficult to recog- nise at first. He used to be a wizard with the bamboo. Last time I saw him was near Pegu, and he was car wing a pipe out of it.

SIDE GLANCES

history.

Even the country in which Ger-

Since the title was created as far

vase Parker Power settled is not living in America, and as far as he By Galbraith known, although it is thought that it knows he is his hatr may have been the Argentine.

* COPA, 1947.BY NAA SERVICE, 140. T. M. REŽA U. H. KAT, CUT.

"I'm losing faith in the radio-I've been using all those soaps and shampoos and still haven't mot an oligibla

millionairo!"?

Inquiries made through the South American Press and a story put out over the Belgrano radio have falled to trace anything concerning him, al-

This Mr Robert Wilson, of India- napolis, haa n non, John Charles. who served as a corporal In the United States Army during the war.

though I received many letters, Succession doubt

mostly in Spanish, from people claim- ing to be descended from My Power.

*

AM

MERICA seems to be the ultimate On Investigation, however, they destination of another baronetcy All falled to substantiate their the succersion to which is in some clalms.

It would seem likely, therefore, that this baronetcy, which has al- ready been unused for nearly 20 years, will remain so Indefinitely.

Another baronetcy in a similar position to that of Somerville, of

Dublin.

This was held until 1929 by the second Baron Athlumney, on whose death the peerage becarne extinct.

The Earonetey, however, could still

be claimed as there are at least five male descendants of the first baronet a living and whose whereabouts are known.

Four missing sons

BUT

PUT there may be others with a prior right, as Archibald James Somerville, who died in 1871 and was a great grandson of the second son of the first baronet, left four sons, all trace of whom has been lost.

Their nomes were Archibald James, William, Jason, and Belling ham Brookes Somerville.

doubt.

WH

one

As far as is known, he had one

Adrian, however, may have some trouble in substantiating his claim. on he would have to prove his cousin Richard's death before ho could nssume the title.

A remarkable instance of an heir to a baronetcy disappearing is that of Bruce Colin Patrick Campbell, who until the middle of the war was living in a boarding house at West Kensington.

of his whereabouts.

Publicity In the American. Press some three or four years ago resulted

ston,

an attorney-at-Law, and member of the House of Representa

tives, Alabama,

He stated that his grandfather was then living, was 86 years of age, and a retired harbour pilot, of Mobile, Alabama,

Since only recently a well-known genealogist informed me that a large number of people cannot even name their grandparents it is perhaps not surprising that the heirs to old titled families sometimes cannot be found.

CLAUD MULLINS

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XHEN in 1931

I was pointed 4 Metropolitan magistrate, I did not expect that I would ever be known as who wanted to reform criminal law or procedure.

Six months before my appointment book of mine had been published. In Quest of Justice, con- taining .428 pages of construc- tive criticism of our civil law.

a

the

distinguished lawyer, for 16 years a Metropolitan magistrate, asks:

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TUESDAY, JULY 1

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After long discussion a scheme was propounded by commitice

1 Judges, but it was rejected by Judges to the extent of 52 adverse voles out of 02. Now another plan is on the anvil: there is to be "Board of Corrections," composed of

experts, which examine those who have committed the more acrlous crimes, and then recommend to the judges the sentence that its members would like to see passed; the judges then knowledge.

Who should

In this book I had written that our criminal law and pro- cedure were "branches of our judicial administration in which

As their parents were married in 1836 it is almost impossible that any there is not very much that

of them could be living, but since needs improvement and which they may have left sons, Lieut. we are fully justifled in claim- Colonel

Tenisoning to be the best in the whole Bellingham Somerville, D.S.O., who

world."

William Arthur

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THURSDAY, JULY 3

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9.00 From Today's Papers. 9.10 Open Golf Championship. a

el Hoylake,

I do not like the details of this scheme, but it is interesting and sign that passing sentence

quickly after verdict, as we mostly do in Britain, is becoming out-of-date. But my main reason for mentioning this scheme is the strange fear that many on the Bench have of any acheme to provide help in assessing the sentence.

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Those words show how com- quired

Having In the last 15 years some knowledge of

The most recent example of this pletely I had absorbed the self- selence (and written two books about phreys's book, Criminal Days. He this fear comes from Mr Justice Hum- contentment that provails in 17, the thought that is uppermost in thinks that the "Home Office has for legal circles, they also show my mind in regard to our criminal a long time been moving" in that I knew very little about the for passing sentences enough in- ciary all responsibility for the fate courts is this: have those responsible direction of taking "from the judi criminal courts.

formation about the defendants be-

the

One of my first impressions as

a fore deciding what to do with them? of those convicted" in the courts. magistrate was that was Ignorant

I have never heard of any such A lot of clover people are asking plan. But that some reforms about. about the sentences that I should this question today, and to pass on many of the strange charat that this question is not one that is

prove passing sentences are urgent is Illus- ters whom I had to and guilty.

book.

As I later wrote in the preface to asked only by faddists I would tell trated by a case quoted in this same my book, Why Crime! I neither in a few words as possible how the knew why they had committed their Federal Judges in the United States crimes, nor what action by me would are worrying themselves about the best deter them from repeating their problem. offence.

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'Deranged'

SINGLE woman of 47 wrote

long period letters

to

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SATURDAY, JULY 5

These judges have for several years been aware that they havu to 42 over a sentence many gully defondants various people that were "of the without knowing enough about them. Althiest description. When

finally prosecuted and convicted, sho

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Alan Cameron: sent to prison by Mr Justice Avory

Conducted by Ball Loveday (New Zealand violinist): Vistin for 12 months, although Mr Justice Concerto in E minor. (Mendelssohn). Humphreys

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of the first-e A ball-by-ball description There is a judicial conference that before ho sentenced this strange by law were not only in meets regularly, committees are ap- woman he had had the homet 1.06 THE NEWS. adequate but possibly dangerous in

IN particular the cases worried me

that had a sexual element. knew that such cases existed, for I haul years previously been a Poor Man's Lawyer in a University Settle ment. But I had no iden that such cases were so numerous, and I quick ly realised that the punishments vided

N America the judges of

Federal (as distinct from

day play at Old Trafford.

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that they might well make the pointed and, when there is agree the help of a psychiatrist.

mnone

If changes are not made in the the conference drafts Bills

9.00 Proin Today's Papers. offenders

nders a greator menace to society which are sent to Cogger, All very direction of providing more help to than ever.

15 RADIO NEWEREKI, the Bench between verdiet and sen- 9.30 Badia Khythm Club. sound and useful. It was this feeling of inadequacy One of the first problems that the tence, and of allowing ample time. 10.00 TIER NEWER that drove me to psychology which, Judicial Conference tackled was this after the verdict on the facts, those

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