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LAST FORTRESS IN HOW HILDA SHARP SWAM LODGERS AND LANDLADY.
ENGLAND.
GREEN VALLEYS THAT DEFY MODERNITY.
ISOLATED WOMEN OF A BYGONE AGE.
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Each day that brings winter nearer increases the isolation of the little moorland farms which
are scattered in the rare fertile valleys of Exmoor. They are cut
THE CHANNEL
18 YEAR OLD NURSEMAID.
HOPE OF RECORD SPOILT BY TIDE
COMPLAINT THAT THEY WERE LOOKED OUT.
MISSED A TRIP TO AUSTRALIA.
Doven, August 4th.
At the Summary Court yesterday Miss Hilda Laddie ") Sharp, the 16-years-old London nursemaid, before Mr. Justice Jacks. Mr. and swam the Channel to-day, landing Mrs. A. Howarth, of the Palace three miles west of Dover. She Hotel, Kowloon, sued Mrs. L. H. accomplished the leat in 14 hours Castellian, of No. 4, Queen's Rondl se minutes only 20 minutes longer Central, for damages, than the record set up by Pies
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Mr. H. C. Macnamara was for
off from the outer world. They can Edonle, the American girl, in/Mr. and Mrs. Howarth, and Mr. |
be approached only by long stretches of rough tracks, often little better than bridle paths, which may be turned into the beds of mountain torrents by a few bours of rain.
August 1926. She is the youngest person to have accomplished the feat, and it was her first attempt
iss Sharp. who is a very sturdily built, pretty blonde, with close cropped hair, set our from Cape Grisner at 12.30 this morning at 1. landed at 3.48.
Leo D'Almada, jux, instructed by Mr Leo D'Almada, senr, for de- fendant.
Before the case was opened, the Judge gave leave for the writ to be amended so that defendant's name would read Mrs G. R. Young as she had married shortly after the writ was issued.
It is an area in which petrol is powerless. The most adventurous The last stages of her awim were of, erom-wuntry motor-ears turns watched by between, 200 and 300 motor-boats, bugs, and pleasure
Mr. Macnamara said that the up its radiator in despair. long steamers, and by acorca, of people before it reaches. one of those re-lining the cliffs. For nearly an facts and the law concerning the case were simple. He was surpris- mote homesteads. A tank might do hour they cheered and urged her on
encouragingly. Д something or it might find
When she left the water she seemed by the formidable library of patch of unfathomable swamp and ed somewhat exhausted and fell into legal works which his friend-bad he engulfed, as Carver was in the arms of her trainer, Mr. Jabes brought with him.
Wolfe, and, after walking a few steps on the shingled beach, she collapsed and sat down.
Lorna Doone."
Exmoor has not changed since the days of which Blackmore told A moment later her brother, in his immortal sale, in spite of Leading Seaman Sydney J. Sharp the modern traffic which hustles of F. MS. Dundalk, who is station- along the road from Forlock toed at Chatham, kissed her and the Lynton. It watches the passing of seemed to regain strength. "Brave, the traffic with amused, unconcern Kid!" he said, you have done ed eyes, and turns again to cop well," template the sweep of the purple land which rises to Dunkery, or falls to the green valley of Oaze, and knows that it is not changed, that it cannot be changed:
The Old Ways. Exmoor is the fortress, possibly the last fortress in England, of the ald things and the old ways, simply because it is calmly impenetrable to modern transport, utterly un touched by the bulk of those modern developments which, we of the outer world have come to re- gard as the necessities of life. And the women of Exmoor are wise with the wisdom of their great- great-grandmothers, skilled also as Jan Ridd's mother was skilled, and as the long generations before her had been skilled
You may stand on any of the high points of Exmoor and sea in every direction. the smooth sweep of that purple land: You may think that to walk to the horizon will be a simple stroll.
A quarter
of a mile's following of the track between the heather and the whortleberry scrub brings you to the verge of a deep, sudden valley, its sides a tangle of dwarf oak, with a swift stream. laughing its way between the boulders below. You realise in that moment that there are probably a dozen such; hidden valleys between you and the horizon which seemed so seccssible a quarter of an hour ago.
Hidden Farm,
After about 3 minutes on the beach Mise Sharp went in the bug to Dover. She seemed somewhat red and kept repeating: "I am disappointed: not to have beaten the record. It was not swimming the Channel I wanted, but I wanted to make a new record However, with luck I hope I shall be able to try it again."
A Bed Patch Mr. Jabez. Wolfie said:
Mr. and Mrs. Howarth, took
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DISCUSSED AT U.S.A CONFERENCE.
THE TURKEY'S GHOST..
MYSTERIOUS VISITOR TO LITHUANIAN CONSULATE.
TERRIFIED COOK,
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.
KAUNAS, Lithuania. international aspects of Do turkeys have ghosia? This Japan's surplus population were engaging question has excited the discussed at a general cpaference entire city of Kaunas, especially at the Institute of Politics here. the diplomatic colony, who deny Japan mast maintain her present such a possibility.
Against them are arrayed their
On August 14th. Mr. Howarth status in Manchuria even though
she has no wish to annex it, several servants and the Lithuanian popu said he was going to Australia atspeakers declared, although they lation, who are excitedly discuss the end of the month. Mrs. Young insisted that emigration offers no ing the drama which occurred in of Japan's the garden of the British Consulate then asked Mrs. Howarth if she
here. were going to pay any compensa, tion in lieu of notice. Mr. Young asked for $32.50 but Mrs. Howarth refused to pay as she had taken the room for the fixed period of one
month.
Miss Sharp started off at 28
On August 27th Mrs. Young said strokes to the minute, and kept up the same steady pace for that she intended, to take proceed hours, and it looked as if she
and carried us out towards Folke they found they had been locked out She finished up at 22 and forcibly prevented from getting atong. strokes to the minute, which she their baggage. They went to the maintained steadily for the lastPolice, then to the bailiff at the four hours
swimmer.
Thirty-five Witnesses. The swim took place under the auspices of the French Swimming Association and under the direction. of Mr. "Joe, Costa..
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permanent solution problems of overpopulation.
Prof. Roderick D. McKenzie, Mr. Leonard Parrish, the British leader of the conference, aid Coral, ix's chicken fancier and Japanese experts are unanimous in keeps a small flock of White Leg- asserting that emigration will not horns. The Consul thinks there is solve Japnatec unemployment. something entrancing in a flock of Japan's yearly increase of popula-white chickens moving over tion is almost 700,000, while the bright green lawn.
Many others in the diplomatic
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watch the chickens
would have two or three hours to ings, Mr. and Mrs. Howarth were number of all nationals living) spare on Ming Ederle's time Byway that night and next morning road as the result of 75 years colony are of the same opinion, for noon we were within 4 miles of when they returned to Mr. Young's of emigration does not equal that a walk through the paths of the Dever, and then the tida turned
Even so, he added, the general garden to outlook for Japan is better than proves a pleasant recreation after an odoriferous day in Kaunes for England.
where, quoting the lines of a Chinese Crowd Into Manchuria. About Hours before the finish Supreme Court, then to Messrs.
Japan has given up the hope Lithuanian poet, "The pigs mean sha had a bad patch, and begged Wilkinson & Grist (who informed that, Manchuria will be a region der down the street, safe because of me to let her come out, but I them they were acting for Mrs. for surplus population, George H. they're Kosher meat."
Clark said. "Come on, Laddie, you can
Young) and then to Messrs. Blakeslee, professor at do it." She replied, "All right"
University, Worcester, Mass., said. But Mr. Parrish also had a tur and did not speak until we touch Deacons who advised them to pay After 23 years of control there, key, and when his son arrived ed the shore. She is a wonderful the 832.50 under protest
only about 150,000 Japanese are in from England for a visit the After a lot of trouble," their the territory, and the Chinese se turkey suffered, the fate of the
now coming in at a rate of be tween. 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 a Estted' calf. property was returned to them on
year. Japan, in the opinion; of the
Shricks From The Kitchen, August 29th.
The 839.30 was subsequently re-speaker, does not wish to annex
From the kitchen, where the cook Manchuria. The Chinese, however, turned by Messrs. Wilkinson &
was preparing the turkey for tite There were also 33 witnesses on
cre: auspicions. board, including Mr. T. W. Bur-Grist.
"Manchuris promises for years oxen, came a series of shrinks Anyone of those valleys may congess, the Channel, swimmer; and No distress warrant had been to come," he said, "to be the which startled the neighbourhood."" tain a little hidden farm. Your Console.
The family rushed to the rescue. - taken out by Mrs. Young, Hers great danger spot in the Far East." | come upon them without any kind Mr Console said: 'Laddie" was
"The United States feels an of warning. At one moment there the most lightest-hearted swimmer was a lodging-house and there was interest in the. Far East which it The agitated Lithuanian cook con- is before you nothing but the roll-who had ever made the attempt no lien on the goods of a lodger. does not feel in Europe," he continued to shriek and pointed ing expanse of the moor; a few Once when the cliffs began to slip The sum of $32.50 had been claim- tinued, "and it will co-operate through the window. There on the steps and you are looking down away Laddie asked: "Is not there on a secure and sheltered home any beach in England?" but Mr.et by Mrs. Young as damages for Powers, as at the Washington. Con-lawn was strutting about a white
Wolffe always replied: "Come breach of an alleged contract by ference, when it did not co-operate turkey,"
be long, Laddie, you'll soon there," and she just got down to it. and Mrs. Howarth to take the with the same Powers in selling
room on a monthly tenancy. Mrs. similar issues in Europe." After a bath at Dover Miss Sharp Young, was not justified in shutting appeared to have completely re-them out and detaining their goods. covered. She said:
Further, her conduct very seriously aggravated the case against her.
Advised To Break In The Door. Mrs. M. Howarth giving evidence said that when she refused to pay the camera and screen technique with the turkey, which is getting
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You come,
one imagines, from the world of gas or electric, or at the very least. coal-heated ovens. You come from a home in which a hot bath, is available day or night; you come from a place whose immediate needs can be sup- plied by a tradesman round the corner who will heed a telephone call. ... You come to a world. which knows nothing of auch" mat- ter of fact comforts as these.
The moorland farmer has kill which is only surpassed by the skill of his wife. He will breed his : sheep and cattle and grow his corn -and he is also his own admirably competent butcher and miller, just
as he is an expert at the making of cider, and an adept in all the arts of the gardener.
His Wife.
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▲ Mortiful Hate.
It was a lovely night when I started, and the sea was very calm. I did not notice any dif- culty from the darkness, but simply kept on swimming without noticing the passing time.
the 832.50, Mrs. Young. threatened
with other Pacific and Far Eastern
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Some remarkable new tricks of can be seen in "The Third Degree,"
Mr. Parrish, to calm the cook, went into the garden and tied a cord around, the foot of the albino" turkey and fastened it to a tree. Inquiries among the neighbours, and even advertisements in the papers, failed to find the owner. The cook will have nothing to do
It was very tantalising when ar to take out a warrant. When they at the Star to-day till Saturday.appetisingly plump through the mysterious murder involves administrations of Mr. 'Parrish's 10.30 this morning we were only were locked out on the morning Gree and a half miles from of August 28th, they were unable Jason Robards, the hero in the family. The cook claims that the Dover, but fortunately a merciful to change their clothes until mid- picture in a third degree turkey is the ghost of the one she haze. hid: the fiffs from me, and day on the following day.
quisition, and although entirely
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prieve. Dolores Costello, who made
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memorable debut with John
Barrymore in The Bea Beast, FATAL FIRE CAUSED BY A is the leading feminine player.
MOUSE.
I did not know that was being husband asked Mrs. Young for innocent of the crime, he is forced killed. The population supports. carried down Channel. I just their luggage, but she replied that to confess, the condemned man's her claim. kept on swimming without know they could not have it until the life is saved by a last minute re- ing where I was going, It was money had been paid. She also rather amusing to bear the people said that she had a distress war in the tug plasing the banjo and rant against them.
They had to cancel their journey ukulele and singing sangs. Once my right knee gave me so much to Australia because they could not trouble that I thought I should get their luggage and because they bave to give up, but my trainer were delayed in concluding certain told me that must go on, and business. They went to live at the Palace Hotel on August 20th and I obeyed.
were staying there until the 28th of this month, having paid $200 in advance.
Ianzeturning to Cape Grisnez to-night, and it, the conditions are favourable I may make an other attempt. All I want to do is to break the record
But for sheer achievement he must give place to bis wife. The making of butter and cheese, the smoking or salting of the home bred, home-killed meat, the cooking of meals-including luscious cakes -in a cauldron over a pest fire (since the great bread oven is not heated more than once a week) and the handling of the thousand domestic problems without one of the ordinary resources of the modern world-all these she se complishes in her quiet, leisured fashion, as though it was the most ordinary performance in the world: ---I didn't know much about it at led the swim. first," one of them said to me." I 3. Costa has been on 49 attempts had lived in Taunton until I and five successful swims. married, and I did not understand. farm life. I did not even know.
Miss Sharp, loft in, the tug after
In answer to Mr. d'Alinada, plaintiff said that when the ur- rangements were made, her lus band was present, but Mrs Young
MAN'S PROMPT ACTION "PRAISED AT INQUEST.
Mr. d'Almado:Actually Mrs. Young did buy this chest of drawers for you and that was be-
How & mouse was indirectly re- cause you had agreed to a tenancy from month to month No.
sponsible for fatal Pimlica fire Their luggage consisted of four we revealed at an inquest held at trunks and six suit cases. They Westminster on Catherine Coul- packed on August 17th, but did not thard, aged seventy-one, widow, intend to leave, on that day. of Rutland Street, S.W.
6 o'clock for Cape Grisner, and on was in the dining room. The ar Mr. d'Almada:-It would have It was stated that Mrs Coulibard
having come in contact with the George Helling, living.
curtains.
the journey affidavits were made in the boat, by people who had witness-angements were not discussed in been quite possible to have got was in bed, and hearing a mouse
the dining room.
your luggage on board between in the room, became alarmed. She The bathroom was supposed to August 20th and 31st-It may lit a candle sad left the door open be private, but in fact it was bave been, but it was not convenis in order that the cat might come general bathroom.. If she had ent.
jn. She fell asleep, and was known that the bathroom was not. Could you tell us why the Palace, awakened by fire, the candle private, she would certainly not Hotel made you pay in advance How to make butter, and I could telephone, a doctor who is not have taken the rooms. She did not Because it suited ne. not think how to bake or roast obliged to cover the last two miles make any complaint, because she
in the same house, said he was ▲ Gancelled Passage. without an over. But I found of his journey to her home on foot, was soon leaving [out.”...”.
and a grocer who is compelled to Plaintiff denied that Mrs. Young Mr. Howarth was then called. awakened by screams, and saw the Uncompläining.
send, his goods to her house on mentioned that she would require He said that when he went to the reflection of flamee. He rushed to She was turning the pages of a horseback. She shook her head. a month's notice or rent in lieu of police about being locked out, he Mrs. Coulthard's assistano, put out women's magazine, pages full of "I'm used to it all now," she notice. Witness agreed that Mrs. was advised to get a big hammer the fire, and wrapped her in a Death was attributed to heart intriguing accounts of
"And it is quiet here. I Young had given up her own pri- and smash the door in. He esti- blanket, eleaners, and all manner of gas and don't think I could ever bear to vate bedroom and bathroom, for her mated that he was out of pocket to electric gadgets, to ease the lot of live in a town again."
(plaintiff). Mr. Young also offer the extent of at least $550 as the failure, accelerated by burne, and the, housewife. I asked her if she I left her, standing in, her doored to buy a chest of drawers, but result of the trouble. He found Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the coroner, death," commended Helling for his would not like to be within reach way, looking out over the still witness told her not to buy any that no distrces warrant had been recording a verdict of Accidental
issued: speak of the witudes-of-the-moor in the thing
t-prompt notion of all these, not to s
"(Continued-at-foot-of-next-column) Judgment was reserved. (Continued at foot of next column) Daily Expre
vacuum,said.