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C.V.R. Thompson 42 LEAD THE WAY

NEW YORK.

ME American

THE

working

man is beginning to

make it plain that he will not tomach Communists.

There

strike at n

mall Bruelly spring-factory. The 42 men did not walk out becau:

want.d they

111011.

more

Their only marret

with the Jews is that he is scar d

tu fire a Communst,

ht

Communist,

Anthony

OF!

Cattar, vice-president

their union,

nd the unken e

un by follow traveller.

So this Brouidyn strike in car

which the union, instead of the bor is trying to breakt

IS ASKING that

endoyee who

approaches ta

bos for Caltonar to be du charged should be dhcharged Isin..

Cattonar faces deportation to his homeland of Italy as an alien working for the

overthrow 12

the US. Government.

Typical

replies from:

Lite:

striker 1 tefe to work with

Cortatonist." "This is one way tive 293 help the

WI

can

Kurea." "I don't feel like work Ing alongside a guy like that"

NOTHING can beat the Americans, said America's elder Materman Bernard

Baruch, as

they teabe what they He fuld bis up against. friend Winton Churchill the

BTC

same nine years alive.

Tran H0th birthday interview, Baruch added that the Ameri- Said eans have one blita' spot,

+f

he: "It is the doctrine, when we are in the face of danger.

Tant ነ፡ th *Whit and see," demagoguery of the light."

OFF TO

LONDON has gone Joseph Byrne, vice-chairman of the Port of New York Authority. find out from Jin ilon-to Port of London offteials how to keep a big port od uncler enerny bombing.

ANNOUNCEMENT from the horticultural department of the University of New Hampshire n new mulberry bush developed from a cross between Kading American and Russian varietice has produced the best species in existence.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1950.

*If you must pace up and down outside Clarence House smoking all your cigarettes like an expectant father, you can't expect to come home and smoke ours,"

TN

London Express Berylog

In the chateau where

1,000 birds sing

one of Lake Geneva's beauty Promenthuix," of 1,000 birds.

Here. in an aviary half mile lumit. the: birds sing free from fear and danger.

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The mystery man who trafficked in honours

S

By PERCY HOSKINS

"the

very

woman's

1. Why did Mrs Rosse leave her money to Gregory in a will written in his handwriting?

2.

with what I But the magistrate rald that in accordance the maximum the of £50 would should desire."

he The Yard and the "Gregory, be inadequate. sold, "will go to prison for two relativea began to ark:- PARIS. , well known in the capitals of months, and pay a fine of £50 and the costs of the prosecu- 132." COTLAND YARD to- Europt.

He commended night marked I was in February 1933 that "Closed" on the dus London was surpriced by the proper attitude faken up by

The sier of one of the most in-mancement that the Director Licut-Commander Lenke."

case which everybody Prosecutions had of Public triguing and colourful

inken sta suomens accusing thought would are a thousand of an offence secret, ended. Although it was characters over to be named Mauty Gregory

sald in the House of Commons that there were other complaints to further acting was taken.

on the files of the Criminal under the Honours (Prevention Record Office. An inquiry of Aures) Act of 1925.

made after a routine check-

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This Act was passed to stamp al tratie in honours.

There was map of agently filies Having been Beaglet い

of hundreds pande

first offerlers of years ago disclosed that. J. Mauly Gregory, friend of bestowed

worl kumen

who himself -laimed de reent from kings, in dead,

Paris police that he died i

German

lole

JAZI

Yard inquiry

3

Why was she buried in a lead coffin in a Thames river- bank churchyard which was in o continual state of flood?

death.

Hnd she died an unnatural

In other words bad murder bern done?

The Home Oller grunted an order

the and exhumation con-at the time still full of ita Frutly 1941 water-win

in cool gave at Bitham, Berkshire, on

April 28.

The Home Dr Huche Lynch Once analyst, and the Info Sir Terted Spilsbury, the patholo ist began their examination.

The inquest was held in July, but Gregory

rol there, although he had been nub. poenaed to attend. He had left the country.

wife of

-Linked. with 8 kings

Whil Crepy was involving Scotland Yard began inve; tigst- of the thousands of ing the circumdances

death of a 5-year-old former Our such story concerned a artress.

TIN

woman Mrs Edith consmercial magnute the Yard caulon.

been Marlon Race, former it was a.d, had malitery who, hru-pital in Paris in 1911, tuning offered a prerane by Maundy

£10,000. the

occupation--the Gregory for

"Give me 24 hours to think it Maudy

who Gregory roled in London for tramck over" raid the magnate. it in honours and who, laler, was the central Agure in a still

explaited death riddle. Scotland Yard is now trying, with the help of the Intern the title tional Police Communion, to fit adapt. but detail. of Gregory's last peerage

lays in Paris,

BL Jean Nejet, the intant

worked

director,

alt

The next day he was sad to Gregory! **I have have told creided to nerept your offer and here is my cheque, signed-

decided to I get the

cash

Cheque."

I

'I'

dby

you

can

He got the peerage.

The

day Gregory's appearance at Baw

Cat che Street arese

of a repor me to the Trentury by Leut- Edward Whaley D.S.O., R.N. Square,

searching for someone could tell 21 how Gregory, who was 64, came to die in the Commander Kierman-controlled hospital, and what was the cause of death.

Once an actor

In a cemetery at Ivry, I slood by the grave of a man who in his day was a guardian of State who chimed Secrets ancestry back to Edward 111. in the 14th century.

Princes and prelates,

peers

and distingulsbed

comioners,

tutemen,

leaders of the arts

Billyard Leake, [rellred), of Lownder

S.W.

tried from

of avian

He was accu ed unlawfully 10.000 Commander ducement for endeavouring to cure the grant of a dignity or title of honour."

to obtain

Licul.-

Leake as an in-

'Closed doors!

Lieut. Commander Leake told

and of the sciences--he was on the court that he was introduced closest terms with them all.

He

14

who Gregory,

explained thi highest authorities 1 that had palatial offices Parliament Street,

between whed him to accept an honour would be "sinews Yuri and Downing but that Scotland

ecessary to open certain closed It could be done for £10,000 £12,000 would make

Streliest known of Gregory's donrn."

it

To

anyone who question- ed Manly Gregory's ancestry, he would produce a pedigree 41. long. com- piled

by the College Herald,

of

From the ilme af Edward XI. Et passed through English history and disclosed Gregory's kinship with some of the most fame cures of the past.

The last entry was:- Arthur

Maundy Jolin Gregory, of Abbey Lodge, Abbey road, St John's Wood.

Co. Lamdan. Barn July 1, 1877 at Southamp. ion aforesaid,"

This

Gregory,

that suggested

through 1148 mother, had the blood of eight kings of England in his veins; that John Gaunt,

"ime honoured Lancaster," Barry Hotspur,

amont that

[c

was

To reporters who tracked him Paris. Gregory sald It was no vulgar intrigue this "wender ful Tiendship" of has with Mrs Home The world had known them brother

hand

that, indeed,

relationship.

and sister.

been ther

Gregory told the reporters of Men Hose's last illucis.

with the Be, was unching King of Greece at a West End

restaurant when a telegram rame calling him home.

He went home and rtood by her bedside. "Quick," she cried. "Pen and paper." He fumbled in his pocket, and drew out fr luncheon menu card. And on that the will was written, with the doctor standing by.

Then a few days later, after they had dinner together, Mrs Hosse hind another seizure.

Search for grave

They could not save her. On the day she died, Gregory had appointment another luncheon with the King of Greece. and

and the Black Prince were

l forebears; 11m Инеадс traceable to WillJam Conqueror

was

the

He kept it. ("I felt no good he served by purpore would

And then he

went in search of a grave for his

postponing .")

"dear, sweet

friend" by the

riverside, where many of their

Tolay he be 71. 1 of allowed to fly out if they want stands his eary: "The idea is to help to. spots

Many do, but after one or the strang the weak against

in again." activities was his working as an the chateau Binds bred and born in cares two days fly back

producer bat

Mr Frederick Rosse, a com- bird is known actor and becoming a Almost every would die

2nd f

That easier. by name. The court's assistant in London's West End. a allowed in the open.

for a revival of Mr Norman (now Mr Justice) po:er died by Gregory's house happiest hours had been spent.

He told of difculiles; how he chiled to some and they rettled was in 1908

Dorothy."

Birkett K. C., defending, said in Hyde Park-terrace the pre-

Iler death had offered 100 guineas to the on her houlder.

Then he ran an agency as a that there would be a plea of vlous September.

it was the first had been called to be due to parish funds if permission could where sort of hotel detective. When milty; that

che withed. ዳንድ Gregory was con- Bright's disease.

A will de ment apparently considered that so far

shortly before A churchwarden's consent was of the 1914 war began the Govern- prosecution of its kind; and that rerebral hemorrhage and chronic be given him to bury

the object

He found one; he his knowledge so gained would cerned,

necessary. fully her death, read: "Everything I been had and he was in prosecution

amounted to was a butter, and he was at a have (and this be of value,

established.

drive.

1 Cregory troduced to Whitehall.

claimed

"I submit that the proper end about £13,000 to be left to Mr whist

J. Maundy Gregory to be dis- should impose a

(Continued on Page 15) on counter-espionage, is that you

posed of as he thinks best and and after the war he becaine monetary penally," he said.

The ovincy has its own pond and trout river, and the birds fly around and into th. 20- UNDER THE HEADING

de "Just Horn," New York's largestomed chateau as well.

Count The owner store offered il: customers "the

Bendern, ance known in Britain royal infant doll."

as Baron de Forest.

BANNED on all TV shows from now ent: Iwo-piece bathing: suits.

here, safely, sick and tereh

"We take in all sorts of birds, and the police bring us

Kitchen of the chateau have mang. Small boys brint lords with bruken legs or wings, and been turned into grain deres for

we treat the the birds,

to talk THE count refuses the young 10

finance. But the chateau must heve cust about £10,000 to build, and the staff of 10 would probably take up mother £600

anoatl.

y.

i

Thirty years ago he was radical 1beral MP for West 11am North.

We "We never

buy birds.

the bird refwe to encourage trade. Beds in the aviary we

Later.

engaged

he

to

be

the

NOTHING OVER

AT

HALF

MACKINTOSH'S

SUMMER

SALE

BATH GOWNS. SWIM TRUNKS.

SPORTS SHIRTS. WASHABLE TIES.

ART. SILK TIES.

MONDAY

AND

TUESDAY

13,

PRICE

CHATER ROAD.

DAY SHIRTS.

SPORTS COATS.

SUMMER SUITS.

RAINCOATS (small). VESTS: DRAWERS,

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