1950-05-02 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1950.

PEEK-A-BOO When Titles Get Into Lost Property Office

By Sidney Rodin

A proof page went to the printers recently restoring the name of 78-year-old Dowager Lady Auckland to the next issue of Debrett's Peerage. For four years she had been excluded because she was mistakenly reported dead.

Although it is almost im- ment tessons before coming to consented to run Thomond until

Britain next month.

he is able to met up his own possible nowadays for 11

Customs, post office, police, und bogus title to spoof the Clerk of the Crown (who

SIXTH BARONET

For a long time there was no

army.

looks after peers), the Re-news of Sir Arthur Henry Lee, Herald of Ireland, is investiga- Mr MacLysaght, the Chief gistrar of Baronetcles, or fifth baronet.

Debrett's during the war to say:

His nephew Charles called at

ting.

the Garter King of Arms (the final opinion on all think my uncle the baronet officially listed as unclaimed, the Although 33 baronetcles are honours), none of these off must be dead. I also believe reason is not always that the einls is obliged to compile a that my father, who would have heirs cannot be located. complete record of what succeeded him, is dead. Don't

you think I am happens to titles once they faronet?" are granted.

The editors of reference books are the only men who endeavour to keep in touch with Bellain's titled people and their kin- 50,000 all told.

the

+

new An undertaker named Roberi William Surling, of Indianapolis, U.S.A., is anxious to enrol him- It WAS discovered

few self n the 10th baronet follow- months ago that Sir Arthur hading the death last year of Sir died in March 1919 at the age George Surling of Glorat, Stir- of 80.

Later the nephew's father was found residing at Camberley, A few

come a Survey, unknown to most of the protest to one of these editors; family. "You book is ridiculous. You

years ago

still list the Ilon, Katherine Plunkel, daughter of Lord Plunket, yet acrording to the for her birth the would now be 110 years old.”

date Elven the San

PAULINE Baca, 21, peers into the periscope of a submarine at Francisco Naval Shipyard. She'll reign ng Miss Mari- time Day at the yard on May 21. (Acme).

G.MEN PROBE GAS SECRETS IN BRITAIN

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

American detectives sent to investigate Britain's security arrangements fol- lowing the Fuchs spy case are making intensive in- quiries at the Government's poison-gas research stations.

These stations are located at Sutton Onk, near St Helens, Lancs, and close to the hamile of Porton, on Salisbury Plain.

Government oficials discount the suggestion that a leakage of information is being trackell.

But the inquiry, which is being carried out with M.1.5, seems to be more through than the routine checks already made in other defence establishments.

RATED SECOND

The security organisation al the Government's germ-warfare station, which IK also near Porton, was completed last

month.

The British and U.S. Govern- ments have continued to ex- change information on poison- Eas defence since the end of the

war.

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A new agreement extending the Interchange for several years was signed in Washington week before Fuchs confessed; that he was a Russian spy.

U.S. Staft chiefs are sensitive on information relating to poi son-gas research.

They rate the new nerve gases dis- -extra-potent chemicals

covered by the Germans but only tar nover used-second ntanie wespons as delerrents to attack.

BIG RESEARCH

The U.S. Government is finan- oing extensive gas-warfare re- search at Edgewood Arsenal and Camp Detrick, in Maryland.

One of their discoveries, known ns super-zarin, is sald to 1,000 times more effective be than mustard gas.

Th clitor wlied Bally- mascanau House, County Louth Elre. The Hon. Katherine Plunket was still alive there She tied the following year, aged 111.

ADDRESS NOT KNOWN

All frare was lost for many years of Sir Thomas Alexander Johnsion, the eleventh baronet. After exhaustive inquiries he was about to be deleted from Hebrett as dend.

Debrett as the sixth baronet-Sir He will appear in the next Jenn Marie Iver Lees, aged 75,

Somewhere there may be u man who is The Earl al Berkeley.

angshire.

Tut he will probably have to wait until 1952. This is because Sir George's son Charles was lost at sen In 1038, but under 14 years musi clapse before death by drowning Scottish law can be presumed.

'A BARONETESS'

Seventeen-year-old Thomaa

have regarded the carldom as

Up till now reference books Dalyell, of The Binns, Linuth- KOW, should really be Sir Thomas Dalyell, the 101 extinet since the death of the last known carl in 1942.

| baronet-but for his mother.

She is the daughter of the and Lord Lyon

But doubt has arisen follow- ing the arrival In this country last baronet,

of a large number of Berkeley King of Arms In Scotland holds from Ina, where they and the view that under Scottish their ancestors had lived for 200w she should be a baronetess -the only baronetess ever known.

years,

CLAIMED TO BE EARL

But the Home Office does not

Just before the war New admit that women enn succeed Yorker ret the authorities into baronetcles. producing docu-

i

Mr Greville Lambert, aged 45,

Then grandson wrote to say confusion by Sir Thomas is a retired harbourments purporting to prove that pilot living at Mabile, Alabaina, he was the Fart of Themond, of King's Norlun, Birmingham; He will be 93 this year.

of County Clare, Eire, a title Mr Francis Blackwood, aged 49, which had been considered ex-a bank manager of Sacramento. Patrick Coold, California; Mr tinel since 1855.

pred 71, retired foreman smel- ter, of Glenelg, Australia; and Mr Bruce Colin Campbell, aged 43, formerly of West Kensing- ton, London, could all have been buronels for many years it they had cared to make their claim.

SCATTERED ALL OVER

In charge of Britain's Sutton Oak station-a pilot-plant fnc- tory where mustard gas and antidotes were made during the war-la Dr J. W. C. Philups.

Dr H.M. Barrett heads the Porton plant, which is an experi. mental establishment.

For 20 years Sir William Hay appeared on the official roll at the Home Ofice as the eighth barenet, with no known address.

Then two years ago, when he bren 80. It was would have found he had died in' Australia in 1927 house-painter.

He was told the claim would have to go before the House of Lords' Committee of Privileges, but the war intervened.

Now the New

Yorker has Jlown higher. He proclaims himself the Prince of Thomond, Now, Sir William's nephew announces that the Yugoslav, Frederick has been offelally Nurweglan, and Danish consul recognised as the successor to in Dublin have been accredited this 250-year-old honour. Ile to his principality, and that the and his wife are taking deport-Eire Government has graciously

No scientists have been purged from defence-research establish- ments since the Fuchs trial.

-(London Express Service)

K.

CHILE'S PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT Gabriel Gonzalez of Chile and Mrs Gonzalez walk in the sunshine at a week-end retreat

at Vina Del Mar, in Santiago. The couple will soon

be visitors to the U.S., where they will be the guests

of President Truman.

CANNON

SO NOW YOU'RE CHIẾP INSPECTOR VIDOTA,CH? MUST BE FINDING THINGS A BIT QUIBT HERS. „AREN'T YOU?

ברי

NO SO QUIET AS WE LOOK,

M'SIRU CANNON. HEAR

THERE ARS BRIGHT

LIGHTS :: BUT DARK OFEOS!

(Acme),

FUN FOR NETHERLANDS ROYAL

FAMILY

QUEEN Juliana of The Netherlands, and her hus- band, Prince Bernhard, ride a tractor on their way to the ski elevator near the southern French town of Val D'Isere. With them are their daughters Beatrix and Irene. The Dutch royal family en- joys nothing more than going out together on n ski spree. (Acme).

TYNESIDE

WHALING

HE'S HAPPY IF HE CAN CONTINUE TO DIG

DIG HOLES

By James Cooper

TORONTO.

Something happened in Toronto the other day that I have never seen before. People at a press conference.crowded round to shake the hand of Britain's most popular salesman in Canada, 57-year-old Philip Priestman.

Bespectacled and slim, was 40, and I never had much with a resemblance to Sir time.

"Now the children are paying THAKIN NU Stafford Cripps, he sells for the trip just to humour me."

shovel excavators, power and wants to "dig all the holes going in Canada."

All she has are the dischargo papers of her father, Charles Spicer, born In Walworth in 1937, invalided out of the Hamp- Ito says his Yorkshire workers shire Artillery Militia, 5ft 8ins. in Hull worked so hard last year tall, hazel суса, and Food that he has 20 extra shovels to character. For Louisa was only sell for dollars. And at £4,000 |ave when each they are £630 cheaper than home in Portsmouth.

GUEST OF

BRITAIN

- Mr HONOURS

London, May 1. she left the family

Ernest

Under- Davies, Mr Cyril Honkinson, editor of

Secretary for Foreign Tyneside crews manning U. S. shovels.

LUCKY BREAK? Debrett, told me: "Some of these

Priestman told Canadians:

Affairs, told Parliament to- people may be dend, but we the ships shure in this sen- would rather show a dead man son's

BECAUSE the diamond bit of day that the Government, whaling expedition"'s no use Britons whimpering a live as alive than

man honours in

the Antarctic about your orders going else

where. They must come here prospector Peter Allard broke when informed that the dead."

when he was drilling near Burmese where, for the second suc and get the trade.

Prime Minister, Vassan, Quebec, miners cessive season, British fac.

only diamond Thakin Nu, was coming to "In Britain, we've got fat-gambling that

an informal tory ships have obtained physically and mentally-through could cut diamond and have England on the best production records lack of competition. When I get staked 4,000 acres nearby. visit, was glad of the oppor- tunity to invite him to be their guest.

even more

The task of checking is made dimcult because titled people are scattered all

over the world,

-(London. Express Service)

SAXONS

ALSO

LIKED

in competition with Nor-back to my works I'm going to wegian, Dutch, Russian and do some muck-shifting and let Japanese whaling fleets.

In some fresh air.

In Canada."

are

Installation Of Buddha

for a statement on the

ROAST BEEF Southern Venturer, with 148,- shovels are going to shift a lot. II. K. Mahtab, who was speak-11 in me

ing

Mr Davies had been asked by Mr Frederick Erroll, Conserva- "And I'm going to tell Indus- The Bolnena is again placed trialists that it must be man-

tive, first with a production of 203,-aging directors who come here. Calcutta, May The Image forthcoming visit of Thakin Nu. 500 burels of oil, and when she flad I sent my No. 2 I would not of Buddha was installed here Tic. Burmese Prime Minister at an Impressive and was expected on May D and lands in Liverpool flags will dip have believed his report of the today

ceremony at Dharwould stay 10 days in England, lo salute the victor of the tremendous room for expansion colemn

makurn Biharo, Calcutta's Mr Davies added. Thakin Nu Antarctic whaling.

oldest-Buddhist temple is coming to attend a service- Again second is the Tynesider,

Priestman and his Orissa's Chief Minister, Mr in Westminster Abbey on May

In memory of Common 150 barrels. Southern Harves- of dollars to Yorkshire.

at the ceremony, sald that wealth servicemen who died in Archaeologists digging at ter, placed third last year, has

India would regain her natural the Burma camp

campaigns.. MISSING LINKS

position by following Buddhist

briefly a blitzed site at Kingsland, dropped to seventh position, with

Mr Davies replied the Norwegian

principles and show the right 117,045 barrels, Southampton, arc recon-d

SEVENTY-TWO YEARS after path to Asia as well as the "None" to a later question by refinery Kosmos III, with 143,-

Mr Erroll, nsking how much of structing the life of Saxon 300 barrels, slipping into third leaving Britain, Mrs Louisa world. times. One thing

Mr Mahtab added that on on the £500,000 British rice loan they place. The remaining British Sollit, of Toronto, is going home

Burma had now been taken have found is that the Eng-factory ship, Empire Victory, is to trace her ancestors and rela- occasion like this "we have an

opportunity to revive our cul- into use and what modificatlon terms of the lish tradition of roast beer again in fourth place with 142,- tives.

tural relationship with Eastern in the market

Burmese "It's just countries,"

State Agricultural existed even in those days.

Says Mrs Sollitt:

Beard had

been The curiosity. I have always wanted

Image was presented Markeling to trace my ancestry. But I was by the Buddhist Association of secured as

credit.-Reuter, left with eight children when Thailand-Reuter.

000 barrels.

.

SAILING HOME The archaeologists arc in- vestigating the Saxon town of The expeditions are now sail- Hamwl, the site of which was

ing home with whale oll, used uncovered when slum property in margarine production, large was blasted during the raids on quantiles of meat meal, liver Southampton. Underneath was meal, meat extract, as well as found another slum-this time a whale meat.

The British ships thousand years old.

the are expected to return to Tyneslile yards for redt during the summer.

"The general Impression from the ruins we have found

caya Mr Norman Cook, cuzator factory ship, Balaena, this sen-

is one of extreme squalor,

of Southampton's

Muscum and chairman of the excavation committee.

Two whale catchers with the Tudor son used experimental apparatus ot for the electrical killing whales, and they have wirelessed this. Bones from the kitchen re-encouraging reports

The line carcles д

clcc- strong ele

tuse of the Saxon town show trical current which paralyses

meat

that the diet of those times was mainly

onc. Beef, the whale un impact with the mutton, goat. and even horse harpoon, killing It almost in- bones have been found, but stantly and without pain, and only one fishbone. Nevertheless, enabling the hunters to make the. Saxons were fond of shellfish. Anat capture with less trouble

and Masses of oyster

mussol and in much shorter time, shells have been found.

The Saxons carried on con- Biderable export and Import

trade with the Rhine. Proof of Miners Dig For

this is given in the remains of Rhenish glassware and pottery which have been found. Even a thousand years ago this fore- runner of modern Southampton was busy as a port.

A NEW ADVENTURE-WITH WHISPER

Boss of Rouge is shot

Pavillon

*MONEY WORRIES' BROVE ZUCCI SEICISE

was found

morning shot

Mick

Arspecial type

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History

Miners from Snowdown col- their are taking liery, Kent, picks and shovels to the eight Bells inn at Wingham Well, near Canterbury, to help the land- lord,

Itilstan, Mr William excavato "his hole".

Nilston's "hole" may be one of the most interesting under- ground historical sites found recently. It was found during a λ rat-hunt in an old piggery, small cavity collapsed to reveal a 30 ft. sloping funnel, leading down to a network of tunnels and caves.

It is possible that the tunnels and caves are remains of what was an underground chapel or elaborate hiding caves,

The miners bave already found some animal skeletons and complicated - mason's work in the chalk walls. ·

LIFELONG PALS

a result ot this

THESE two US. Marine veterans, frolicking in. Waco, Texas, are lifelong pals who saw setion. together in the Pacific. Oki, the Belgian shepherd dog, saved his leatherneck master, Bob Harr, from sure death on Baipan when he chewed, up a Jap who ambushed Harr. Oki holds the Bronze Star Marine medal, and “ Presidential Unit Citation. (Aeme).