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METROFYI 2 THE ACE MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 1997 The llotsact A question for Terry Lane Obituarios Chronicles Birthday I '''V A faultlessly vice-regal figure 1885-1951: Ben Chlfley, Australian prime minister 1862-1919: Louis Botha, South African soldier-statesman Anniversaries Maria Rosa Hanson 1711: Rio de Janeiro is captured by the French 1738: Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British Prime Minister to occupy 10 Downing Street In London 1862: US President Abraham Lincoln declares all slaves free as of January 1 Vice-regal notes Anne, Lady Kerr interpreter and wife of former Governor-General Sir John Ken-Born: 1914 p'ied; Sydney, 16 September 1997, aged. 83. AS, THE WIFE of former Governor-General Sir John Kerr, Anne, Lady Kerr who has died in Sydney after a long battle with cancer was reputed to have familiarised herself with many details of protocol, and ceremony to support a pas sionate but perhaps somewhat old- Former Filipina WWII sex slave Born: 1928 Died: Manila, 18 August 1997, aged 69 MARIA ROSA HENSON was the first Filipino to publicly reveal the horrors she suffered as a sex slave to Japanese forces during World War II. Popularly called "Lola (Grandma) Henson went public in 1992 and said she was among many young Filipino women forced into battlefield brothels for Japanese soldiers during their more than three years' occupation of the Philippines. Her example encouraged other former "sex some now in their 70s and 80s, to also come out and relate their ordeals.

"At least, I was able to help the young generation learn what happened so that it will never be repeated," Henson was quoted as saying shortly before she died last month of a heart attack. In 1996, Henson, along with six other Filipinas, received an $18,500 compensation from a private Japanese welfare fund and a letter of apology from the Japanese Prime Minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto. Since Henson broke her 50-year silence to reveal her war-time ordeal, 180 other Filipino "comfort women" have come out in public. Six of them have since died. Forty-six, including Henson, have a pending lawsuit before a Tokyo court for legal compensation from the Japanese Government.

Henson said she was only 14 when three Japanese soldiers raped her near her Manila home in 1942. She was later taken to a garrison where soldiers, sometimes as many as 12 at a time, would take turns raping her day and night, she said. Guerrillas rescued her after nine months. Historians estimate as many as 200,000 Asian women, most of them from Korea, were forced info sexual slavery in Japanese military brothels during the war. Reuter concept of her role.

Undeniably, on official occasions Lady Kerr appeared as a faultlessly vice-regal And, as her husband was to ftsknowledge, as a loving wife she was also privy to his thoughts and anxieties as ijhe constitutional crisis of November jl 975 developed. rjr'Bu't he strongly rejected assertions Inade by some commentators at the time Lddy Kerr had dissuaded him from tthe Prime Minister, Gough tliat he was going to sack him. "She' did not, as said, advise me not to tell Mr Whitlam of my decision in advance She did not interfere in any way. A story told later that she was exerting some behind-the-scenes influence is an invention," Sir John wrote in his biography, Matters For Judgement (1978). r.

He also denied what he called "one of -the sillier myths" of the period that Lady Kerr had attempted to influence the fourse- of events "having herself a ppKIieal axe to "Nothing could be Wider, off the mark," Sir John said. OH NO. The Anti-Football League is not about to concede defeat. History is on our side. The struggle of Light against Darkness is never a short, sharp one.

Federal: On Saturday, at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, the Governor-General, Sir William Deane, accompanied by Lady Deane, opened the 139th Royal Melbourne Show. In the evening, at the National Convention Centre, Canberra, the Governor-General attended the concert The Road to the Olympics and launched the latest compact disc by the Royal Military College Band, The Best of Music at Midday, take 2. State: On Saturday, the Governor, Sir James Gobbo, attended the AFL preliminary final at the MCG. Curiosities ROY MESSER (Cockatoo) writes: "Fifty years ago, when I was in the merchant -navy, dressing up in one's best to go ashore always drew a ribald comment: 'done up to the nines', 'dressed like a Hooghly pilot' or 'looking like a pox doctor's clerk'. The Hooghly pilot, splendidly caparisoned in a uniform keeping up the image of the Raj in India, I can understand, but can your readers throw any light on the 'nines' and the 'pox doctor's clerk'?" I would like to hear explanations for all three of these sayings, especially the "Hooghly which is a new one on me.

Gary Dean Muslim prayer times Prayer.times for today, the 20th Jum. Awwal 1418 Hijri: Text for today They are to do good, to be rich in good works, generous, and ready to share, thus storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of the life that really is life. 1 Timothy (New Revised Standard Version) Ward a day Has the Antt- TtiA d. The Roman Empire lumbered on for 300 years past its use-by date because of the morally enervating effects of the Coliseum. We can't expect to overthrow the MCG in a generation.

But the frabjous day will surely come when the MCG will be a forlorn, broken-down, weed-infested, cat-pee stinking, graffiti-etched ruin just like its precursor. Terry Lane is a past recipient of the Anti-Football League's Wilkie medal for doing the least, in the best and fairest way, for football. ship and subsequently appeared as an official French-English interpreter at more than 30 international conferences over 10 years. Some of these were Colombo Plan meetings. One was a UN Human Rights seminar in New Delhi, at which she was an interpreter for Nehru.

To her friends she was simply a "warm and friendly Lady Kerr was a rather unusual figure in her generation, combining a distinguished international career with the responsibilities of home-maker and mother. Her marriage to a New South Wales judge, Mr W. H. Robson, ended in divorce in 1975. She and Sir John were married at Scots Kirk, Mosman, soon afterwards.

In the aftermath of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government, Sir John praised the "courageous support" of his wife, who refused to absent herself from what he termed "risky" official engagements. "She was always there, cool, serene, dignified," he wrote. Lady Kerr is survived by a son and daughter from her first marriage and four grandchildren. Sir John died of a brain tumor in 1991, aged 76. Lady Kerr's funeral service will be held today at St James Anglican Church, Sydney.

James Cunningham T.tnmrviewed many years later, Lady Kerr attempted to dispel what she might have termed another myth. "John and Gough Whitlam were not friends as such," she said. "Whitlam completely misjudged John. He wanted to work with people, not against Whitlam inter-pretetLthis as acquiescence." 1 'Anne Dorothy Kerr, sometimes known to her- friends as Nancy, was a brilliant hbribrs. graduate of Sydney University jand- a-Master of Arts of the Sorbonne who, 'in the post-war years, acted as an interpreter for the Department of External -Affairs for visiting French delegations.

She was also fluent in German. In 1935 she had been awarded a French Government travelling scholar- Obituaries are edited by Peter Schumpeter. Phone: (03) 9601 2595. MI Comics Crosswords For Better or Worse by Lynn Johnston Cryptic no. 15,102 1 Aero I WA SOCKHEPO, ICAN3i)MPAZiaiOM I CNTOrWIySetf Tte supe nea.

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First division prize pool: $2,481,071.43. Super 66: Winning numbers were 5, 9, 9, 6, 3 and 0 with a total prize pool of $282,919.24. Soccer Pools: Winning numbers in week 634 were 18, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 26 with the supplementary number, 16. 1 Playing golf like a hospital doctor? T-'34 6 6 7 8 9 To" TT "T5" 15" 1141 15 1161 17 18 1 19 I20 21 22" 1 23 1 24 1 23 1 aT ZI 28 (5,3,6) 9 Fairy in Finland back being dictatorial (9) 10 Lily to ring before one (5) 11 Fibre a winner with the French (5) 12 Travelling off fairway to Noosa 1 "Heads first green (9) 13 -Sport gets a back-lash (4) JlS A stunt in an upset state due to ithbse getting regular payments 4i0efy first form in move to take off -5 -Security list (10) Id Ctit around top edge making feline sound (4) 22 Left paper in minister's office (9) 24 Top class taxi reverses into old calculators (5) 26 Animal actor follows comic artist's leads (5) 27 Nothing plainer than man after i fish with a weapon handle (9) 28 Resisting bridge attack in quiet i setting of French receiver (7,7) Down The Phantom by Lee Falk Ward answer Caparisons (in which one is caparisoned) are clothing or equipment; originally a horse's trappings. A ii JLN6U WELCOME 10 OUR I itl NUMBB?" Target 22B Solution Cryptic No.

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