THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 24, 1939.
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250 HEAR VOICE OF DEAD POET AGAIN
RECORDS OF TENNYSON reciting some of his own poems were heard in public for the first time by 250 mem- bers of the Poetry Society who accepted an invitation by the Maharajah of Baroda to visit Aldworth, the poet's last home, near Haslemere, Surrey.
Mr. Charles Tennyson, grandson of the poet, played the records and explained that they were made in 1889 by two men sent from America by Thomas Edison.
Dragoons' V.C. Colonel
The King has approved the appoint- ment of Lord Gowrie, V.C. (Gover- nor-General of Australia), as colonel, 1st Dragoon Guards, with effect from January 1, 1940. Lord Gowrie will then have handed over his duties in the Dominion to the Duke of Kent.
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Punishment Is
Talk By Magistrate
Cumberland County magistrates are adopting a new way with juvenile offenders.
They are interviewing each child
Although the records were produced
A.R.P. RATIONS --ONE LOLLIPOP
When about '500 children took part in evacuation exercises at Hastings they were each given a parcel of rations, Including a tin of bully baof, a tin of milk and a packet of potato crisps.
The authorities made sure, however, that the potato crisps were dum my ones. .. so that they could be used again. The childton each given a lollipop to make up for this disappointment.
were
in the early days of the phonograph Dolls From France the voice was distinct.
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In "The Charge of the Light Bri- gade" and passages from "Maud" and For Show other poems, the records impression of the poet's method and dramatic power.
gave an
The Queen has agreed that the dolls given to the Princesses by the people Many readers will recall the old of France should be exhibited for the phonograph with its "barrel" records benefit of King George's Jubilee Trust. placed on a revolving cylinder. They This will be held in the Royal Scot- will remember, too, how the needle tish Academy at the end of Septem
had a habit of slipping and tearing ber. the melody of “Nellie Dean."
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Boston New Meets
Boston Old
When a party of Americans arrive on the pilgrimage from Boston, Mas sachusetts, to Boston Lincolnshire,
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Matrimonially
Speaking
As usual
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MILITIA BABY TEST
The young wife of a Militiaman has had to apply for public assistance be- cause she is expecting a baby soon, it was stated at the meeting of the Guardians' Committee at Maidenhead (Berks) yesterday.
Pointing out that there would prob- ably be other cases, the committee decided to ask the County Council for a ruling on the payment of relief to supplement the War Office's 20s. 6d.
grant to militiamen's wives.
A member of the committee said the question might be raised in the House of Commons.
"Obviously the 20s. 6d. grant to militiamen's wives is not sufficient to support a woman who is expecting a baby."
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Dies When 13th
Ladder Rung Snaps
Thirteen was fatal for Frank Furniss Amo sixty-two, bricklayer, of Ash- burnham-road, Northampton.
When the ladder on which he was working at Wootton Rectory snapped at the thirteenth rung Amos fell 20ft.
martrimonial troubles to the ground, caused the police court titters:
He refused to go to hospital and Woman at Tottenham: I have never died at home from severe internal in- known a man to get through money juries.
No At the inquest the coroner, Mr.. A. in sooner does he give it to me than it's J. Darnell returned a verdict of Ac-
cidental death. which Robinson, Brewster and other gone.
with his parents privately, believing they will be entertained to dinner in
for
Constable of Carlisle.
In
the
St. so quickly as my husband
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that in many cases parents are as
of the candle-lighted kitchens much to blame as the children. trying out this scheme as a substitute Mary's Guildhall, near the cells
ordinary juvenile courts,
in Man at Stratford: With regards magistrates were inspired by the Chief Pilgrim Fathers were imprisoned
1607, shortly before they set out on money my eldest boy, he takes after The magistrates are making it clear the founding of the American city to take.
the great adventure which resulted in his mother if there is anything left .R.A. Hunger to parents that they are to be consid- Boston. ered (some more, some less) respon
Wife at Wimbledon: He was not Strike sible for their children's conduct. At
away long the first time he left me, I recognised him on sight when he came back.
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the same time the magistrates are At 100 Still
taking the opportunity of the private
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talks to give warnings to each young Climbs Stairs:
offender.
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Soviet Buys
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British Livestock
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Several IR.A. prisoners at Park- hurst, Isle of Wight, undergoing pun- ishment for refusing to work recently, went on hunger strike, it was reveal- ed yesterday.
They gave up the protest after a day or two, and their health was never
Man at Bow-street: My wife would often wake me up at three o'clock in the morning and start a row, I think Mrs. Hannah Matthews, of New everyone will agree that that is not a Brawell, Wolverton, Bucks, celebrated suitable time for a quarrel. her 100th birthday by rising at 10.30, Man at Tower Bridge: When I have having a good dinner, and entertain- got any money my first thought is for seriously affected. ing her eight children to tea. She my wife I have no alternative. stairs without help. dresses herself and climbs the
Mrs. Matthews has never smoked, tasted beer been to London, or seen
The Soviet delegation at the Royal Show at Windsor, bought 800 head of British livestock.. Total admissions to the show for the five days. were the sea.
128,036, compared with 80,378 last year at Cardiff and 155,707 in 1889 at Windsor.
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Essays On Farming Wanted
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Gloucestershire children, both in town and country, are to be asked to write essays on agricultural subjects for prizes, some of which will provided by an anonymous · woman donor and the remainder by the Glou- cestershire branch of the Farmers' Union.
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His House Is In
Two Counties
has
Mr. W. Freeman, a postman, only to walk about his six-roomed house in Bournewood-road, S.E.,.to move out of London into Kent. The house is on the borders of Plumstead, S.E., and Welling, Kent. To Woolwich Council, which covers Plumstead, Mr. Freeman pays £11 a year rates, and to Bexley Council, which includes Welling, £5 a year.
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* An Alsatian spy, Charles Joseph Wintz, 35, caught last April while operating on the Maginot Line, has been sentenced by court-martial at
Nancy to 20 years' penal servitude.
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Five persons were slightly injured by an explosion in a dust cart in a Paris suburb..
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A rumour that Dr. Schuschnigg, former Austrian Chancellor, has died in prison in the secret police head- quarters in Vienna is denied by the authorities. He is said to be in what is now his normal condition of life.
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Herr Hitler attended the state. funeral of Gen. Wilhelm Knochen- hauer, former commander of the 10th Army Corps, at Hamburg.
Midwives-M.P.'s Query
The controversy over the use of analygesics by midwives to ease the sufferings of mothers in childbirth is to be carried into the House of Com- *
mons. Dr. Edith Summerskill, So- Rodin's famous statue of Balzac was cialist M.P. for Fulham West, is to unveiled in Paris by M. Zay, French ask the Minister of Health, Mr. Walter Minister of Education, 41 years after Elliot: "Whether he will reassure the its completion and 22 years after public of the complete safety of the sculptor's death.
administration of gas by midwives."
As part of the Yorkshire tennis coaching scheme, Mr. Linwood. A. Robinson, county coach, is now visiting schools in all parts of the county instructing the children in the finer, points of tho game. A great effort is being made to Improve the general standard of play in the county, Man Robinson is here seen coaching girls at Queen Ethelburga's School, at Harrogate. (Copyright, Fox),
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