“Audax” Unmasked
GAVE 100,000 GUINEAS TO HOSPITALS WIMBLEDON BUSINESSMAN British Official IVire less Reed. 10.50 a.m. RUGBY, Monday. The “Evening Standard” this evening discloses the identity of the person who anonymously gave 100.000 guineas to the King Edward Hospital Fund as a thanks-offering for King George’s recovery. His identity had been veiled under the pseudonym of “Audax.” A lewevenings ago he broadcast an appeal to the public to help the hospital fund, still retaining his pseudonym. The “Evening Standard” states, however, that within the last few days so many people have succeeded in discovering his identity that the mystery is a mystery no longer. “Audax” is Mr. George Roberts, of Wimbledon, a director of several companies. The journal adds Lhat no more effective advertisement could have been devised for the hospital fund than th* obscurity which “Audax” so deteir minedly courted.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 662, 14 May 1929, Page 9
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