TOC H MOVEMENT
Interesting Address At Rotary Club
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IDEALS EXPLAINED
An extremely interesting talk on the formation and growth of the Toe H movement was given by Mr. Mayne Elson, Far Eastern representative of Toc H, at the weeky tiffin meeting of the Hong Kong Rotary Club held at the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden yesterday afternoon. Mr. W. N. Thomas Tam, President, presided and among those who attended was Mr. M. A. Johnson, who was in the Queen's 'Westminister, 6th Division, and used the original Talbot House in Poperinghe.
Guests welcomed included Ro- tarian P. O'Nell Dunne of the Singapore Rotary Club, Major F. M. Bramall, R.M., Mr. H. Arns and Mr. J. C. M. Grenham.
The President welcomed Rotarian
A. Raymond, who was just back from leave, and Rotarian J. Smith, of the Kowloon Canton Railway, who was, a new member. He ex- tended 1 hearty welcome to
Rotarian O'Neil · Dunne.
Addressing the meeting. Rotarian O'Nell Dunne brought greetings also a flag from the Singapore Rotary Club which he presented to the Hong Kang Rotary Club and extended a cordial welcome to all Hong Kong Rotarians who visited Singapore when on Home leave..
The President requested MI. O'Nell Dunne to return the com. pliments of the Hong Kong Rotary -Club. He expressed thanks on be- half of the Club, particularly for the flag.
Professor C. M. Middleton-Smith cxplained that there had been a change in the speaker for the day. Professor L. Forster who was to have continued his talk on "From Europe to Hong Kong by Train" had kindly stood down in order to allow Mr. Mayne Elson, of Toc H. who was shortly leaving for the North, to address the Club,
The President introduced Mr. Elson and said that he had come cut to the East to follow up the good work for Toc H done by the Rev. F. E Ford who addressed the Rotary Club a few years ago.
IDEALS OF TOC H
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REAL SECRET
To discover the real secret of Toc H one had to climb the stairs to cockloft where there, was 1 singularly beautiful chapel. The altar was made from a carpenter's bench,
Although religion was not forced on the people who used the House the chapel was there for them to use as they wished. It was the driving force behind the house.
From 1915 until almost Ärmistice Day. 1918, Talbot House was always
open and when the war was over it was closed down. But the men decided that the spirit that prevail- ed was something that could not be left to die out.
They realised
that if that spirit were carried on into life it would completely alter the conditions under which men had to live.
ROYAL CHARTER
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1936.
EUROPEAN
VICTIMISED
Articles Stolen From Unattended Car
UNEMPLOYED "MAN
GAOLED
Charged originally with theft of a jacket, a gold' watch a prayer book and 84 in money, Lam Yau, 33, unemployed was fined $50, or six weeks' imprison- ment when he appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy on a charge of récelv- ing stolen property.
Accused
celving.
pleaded gulity to re-
The facts as outlined by the prosecution.reveal that on Sunday at 12.30 p.m. Mr. McCabe, of 520, the Peak, drove his car into the Royal Naval Sports Ground. He left the car unattended for a few minutes and when he returned to It the jacket and the various ar- ticles in the pockets were missing.
Defendant was arrested several hours later. but he said that he obtained the jacket from another person..
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He was on his way pawn it as he was hungry and had had no money to pay for a meal.
The total value of the articles stolen amounted to $94 and only, the Jacket was recovered, valued. at $15.
Was
Defendant who had no axed abode.
suspected by the Police to be one of a gang who wait for an "opportunity to steal from unattended cars 17 that district.
In 1922, Toc It was recognised by the gift of a Royal Charter. Toe E had now spread all
over the world. There were about 30 houses, and over 1,000 branches and groups in Engand- and about 400 overseas. The membership 50,000 and the whole time working W. R. K. Collings, of the Marine staff totalled 80 padres and lay-Surveyor's office, "was fined $15 by
men.
Was
In 1931, Lord Wakefield generous- ly gave them Talbot House which had belonged to the Belgians. It was now a place of pilgrimage,
Tac H, said the speaker, was not a secret society. He went on to describe the work of members and
EUROPEAN FINED
Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday when he ap peared for falling to keep to the left when rounding a corner in King's Road on October 14:
added that the establishment of a | IDENTITY A MYSTERY
Toc house for the local group
in Hong Kong would be a definite.
Mayne Elson said that he greatly asset to the Colony." When a young Strange Story Of Man
At the outset of his talk, Mr.
appreciated the privilege of being able to address the Rotary Club and apologised to Prof. Forster for cutting him out. He was glad to be present: he said, because he felt that Toc H and the Rotary Club had one thing in common and that ideal of service and he was the had been invited to tell them some- thing about the ideals of Toc H movement. Its purpose and its his- tory".
Taking his listeners back to 1915. the speaker said that it was found- ed in the town of Poperinghe, Bel- gium, in what was then known as Ypres Sallent. He described Thi- bot House and explained that Toc H derived its peculiar name from the alphabet signal for T which was Toc. It was a soldiers club but in fact it was known as every- man's club because all ranks used it and because of the spirit that prevailed in that house. It was founded by Neville Talbot, who later became Bishop of Victoria, and he named it after his brother, Gilbert Talbot, who was killed in action.
man comes out to the East for the first time he should choose his friends wisely. In Toc E he would acquire friends and an outlook which would hold, him in good stead during his stay in the East.
Toc H was not primarily an ex- servicemen's club though they had ex-servicemen's traditions. Its real basis was a Christian basis. They do not hold prayer meetings and members are not required to state their belief.
CHIEF OBJECT
The chief object of Toc H was to preserve amongst men and trans- mit for future generations the spirit of fellowship manifested dur ing the great war. Toc H was truly International and among its mem- ber were kanny non-British nationals.
Toc H stood for the promotion of social service; the sense of ré- sponsibility: the breaking down of class barriers.
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This year Toe H attained its majority and they held a great coming-of-age festival in London. TALBOT HOUSE
One of the principal features was The speaker said that in Talbot a message brought by the Duke of House one entered the door and
Kent from the King who had been expected to find just another sort
their constant supporter and of institution. Instead one found Fatron. They owed a very great the atmosphere totally different deal to the King who had always from that of a club. It was not taken a personal interest in the
a dugout but was every bit of home.
movement.
BRONZE LAMPS
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It was quite different from the ordinary place that people used to frequent in those days, One notice !
The speaker then described the stated: "To pessimists way out." symbol of the Toc H which was a Another stated: "Waste paper bas- bronze lamp, and every time the kets are purely ornamental," and
larap was lighted members stood another: "If you are in the habit round and renewed their pledge. of spitting on the carpet at home Toc H was a living war memorial, | spit here." There was a plano, he It was a challenge to fight slackers, said, that more or less played by
the lack of social conscience and itself. There, was a library and to fight selfishness which was the billard room and all sorts of rooms root of so many evils in the world and one was never certain of who to-day. one was going to meet there.. An- other room bore the unusual notice: "All rank abandon ye who enter here.".
Charged As Stowaway
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Stated to have been found wan- dering on the deck of an Australia- bound liner. smartly-dressed whose identity could not be established, appeared in the dock at Liverpool recently.
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He was stated to be John 112- gerald or John David Hughes, about 34, and he was accused of stowing away on board the liner Thermistocles, bound from Liver- .."pool to Australia.
Mr. W. Culshaw, prosecuting, stated the police were, mystified about Fitzgerald, He had been found wandering on the deck of the Thermistocles when she was one day out of Liverpool on the voyage to Australia,
He was in a dazed condition. and the ship's surgeon found he was suffering from loss of me- mory."
The clothes he was wearing were new. There was no" maker's name on them, and the tabs had been removed from his jacket and over- cost.
The ship put in at Teneriffe spe- 'cially to land Fitzgerald, and be was brought back to Liverpool on the liner Lancastria.
Fitzgerald was put in hospital on the Lancastria. He persisted that he did not know how he had come to be aboard the other ship, or how he had got to Liver- pool.
He had declared he had been in London for five months engaged in Journalistic work and a study of nociology.
When asked by the magistrates for an explanation of his condi tion. Fitzgerald replied he was & stan journalist on a Natal news- paper, and was in London on an There was no material advantage | extended vacation. to be gained from Toc H but only plenty of hard work, and energy. The reward was not material the Rev. "Tubby” Clayton once Wrote: "Kinship in a great cause is the worthiest fact of human ex- perience." (Applause).
SPEAKER THANKED
Referring to the Rey Philip (""Tubby") Clayton, a former Army chaplain, who was now Vicar of a London Church, the speaker said that he had an infinite capacity for friendship and that gift of get- ting the best out of men and so Proposing a vote of thanks to the earning their respect. Later on he speaker, Rotarian E. J. R. Mitchell displayed a wonderful gift of vision. said that the success of Toc # was Showing his capacity for leadership entirely due to that little chapel he put that vision into practice. in Talbot House in Poperinghe. I In those days, “”Tubby” was the host at Talbot House. It was he who made men forget the differ- ences that separated them.
Fitzgerald added he had come to London to study people, and bad intended at the end of his vaca- tion to fly back to South Africa.
He was remanded for a medical report.
Christianity had been forced down people and others had forgotten Christianity altogether."
Mr. Mayne Elson, ia sailing - for was entirely due to the Christian Tientsin on November: 17. He will spirit. He was not going to preach ; then travel to Japan and return to but thought, that a lot of troubles Shanghai where he will remain for to-day were due to the fact that | a while.
SIR B. SPILSBURY CORONATION DAY
EXPLAINS
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How His Tests Have Solved Crimes"
SKULLS USED IN A
LECTURE.
Relics of crimes, including two skulls, were used by Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the Home Office patho- logist, to illustrate a lecture he gave at University College Medical School recently.
The occasion was the reception held to mark the opening of the 1938-37 session of the school. Sir Bernard explained how various crimes had been solved by his ex- periments states the "Dally Tele- graph."
One of the skulls, a murdered woman's, had been fitted together after she had been battered to death. It was found to bear im- prints which matched the shape of a poker found in her room.
A series of exhibits, consisting of amal squares of white cloth over leather into which bullets had been ared from various" ranges, showed the amount of scorching and pow- der tattooing to be expected on the clothing and skin of anyone Killed in that way.
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Sir Bernard also produced the mummified remains of born baby found wrapped in a newspaper bearing the date May 20, 1870, under the floorboards of an old house.
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A WARRIOR'S HEAD-
Another exhibit was the shrivell- mummified head of Bouth American warrior. It was the custom of some tribes there, Sir Bernard said, to extract the bones from the head of a slaughtered enemy through the severed neck, and to dry the relic slowly until it shrank to little more than the size of a man's ist.
BROADCAST
The King To Speak To The Empire
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The B.B.C, announces that the King will broadcast a message to the Empire on Coronation Day, as King George V did at his Jubilee. This will be the King's first act a?- ter the Coronation ceremony over. In these circumstances the King will not broadcast a Christ- mas message this year, states "The Times."
King George V made tour Christ- mas broadcasts to the Empire. from 1932 on-wards. His broad- cast after the Jubilee was a mess- age of gratitude to his peoples. in which he said: "I dedicate my- self anew to your service for the years that may still be given to me."
A notable occasion on which a speech by King George was broad- cast all over the world was that at the opening of the World Economic Conference in June, 1933.
of 18. found shot through the head.
At first the police regarded the .case as one of suicide, but Sir Bernard found bloodstains on the, under, side of the rim of the hat corresponding to the entry and exit holes of the bullet. This ahowed that the hat must have been on when the bullet struck the boy, and Blr Bernard thought it unlikely that he would have committed suicide with his hat on. There were no singe marks on the skin round "the entry hole of the bullet, showing that the wea- poa must have been fired from a short distance, and it is usual for suicides to press the muzzle against smoked cigarette clutched in the the temple. There was a half-
left hand
"I could not think that the boy. would coolly light a cigarette be tore blowing his brains out" sald An exhibit which contrasted with Sir Bernard, "so I came to the con- the others was a bowler hat. It'clusion that it was in all pro- had helped Sir Bernard to "solve bability a сазе of 'accidental the mystery of the death of a boy death?"
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