HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
FOOT ITCH
FALSE AIR RAID WARNING
Phone Operator On Mischief Charge
Alleged to have sent put false warning of the approach of enemy aircraft during the recent crisis,
COURT DEFIED BY FORMER VICAR
President's Severe Criticism
At the resumed hearing of the
William Henry Wood, 28, cf Leo- St. Hilary appeal recently, Mr. W. pold-road. Leeds, a part-time tele- N. Stable, K.C., President of the phonist at Leeds O.P.O.. was charg-Court of Arches, made severe com- ed at Leeds recently with "causing ments on the condition of affairs a public mischlet." He was com- during the incumbency of the mitted for trial, and was allowed former vicar. ball.
According to Mr. D. W. Bradley, prosecuting. Wood was supplied with secret instructions formulated by the Home Office with regard to air raid precautions, and with do-
ATHLETE'S FOOT tailed instructions regarding warn- According to the Government Health Bulletings of the approach of enemy No. E-28, at least 50% of the adult population of planes. the United States are being attacked by the d eise known as Athlete's Foot
Usually the disease starts beiween the toe Little watery blater form and the skin cracki and peels. After while the itching becomes tense and you feel as though you would like in scratch of all the skin.
Beware of It Spreading
Often the disease travels all over the bottom of the feet. The soles of your feet become red and swollen. The skin also cracks and peels, and the itching becomes worse and worse,
Get rid of this disease as quickly as possible, be! youre it is very contagious und It may go li
to your hands or even to the under arm or croich of the Jeg
imst people who have Athlete's Fact have tried kinds of remedies in cure it without success. Ordinary remicades antics, anive or oint. ments. Keldom do any good.
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Here's How to Treat It
It had been arranged, said Mr. Bradley, that all such messages, when received, should be redistri- buted to other centres throughout the West Riding.
Wood was also instructed in a sceret code and provided with a key to that code.
On Sept. 23 Wood was on duty at the main switchboard of Leeds G.PO. for four hours from 7 p..
He went off duty at 11. and at 11.18 a call. was received by the operator who had relieved him. was in the secret
The germ that causes the disease is known as Tinea Trichinghytun. It buries tuselt deep in the The message tisaurs of the skin and is very hard to kill. A test made shows it takes 15 minutes of bolling to kill code. the germ. # you can see why the ordinary reme Gary are unsuccessful
11wn deveingest solely for the purpose of treating Athlete's Font. It is a liquid that pene trates and dries quirkly You just pains the at- reeted parts. 11 peek of the Liasue of the kin where the germ treeus,
Itching Stops Immediately
A man 23 you apply H. F. you will and that the itching is immediately relieved.
You should Paint the inferted parts with R. Fight and mening until your feet are well Usually th
tes from three to ten days. #hough in severe
sy it may take longer or in mild esses less time.
will leave the skin soft and smooth. You marvel at the quick way it brings you relief; pertally if you are one of those who have tried tir scars to get rid of thete's Foot without suc
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FLAT "FULL OF
UNIFORMS"
Ex-Guards Officer's Collection
When police visited a flat at White House, Albany-street, N.W., they found a large collection of soldiers' uniforms and equipment, including bearskins, cufrasses. spurs, and other articles worn by The Household troops..
This was stated at Marylebone when Cyril Ridley Shield, 56, form- erly an officer in the Guards and now employed by a firm of interior decorators, pleaded guilty to three summonses, under the Army Act, for buying and receiving military equipment and clothing from Guardsmen
trate. Mr. Bradley said that the Handing a copy to the magis
the first general warning of the approach of enemy aircraft.
message Was
..
POLICE CHIEFS SUMMONED The message was immediately distributed over a great part of the West Riding. It was sent to the Leeds police headquarters, and the Chief Constable, the Assistant Chief Constable and the head, of the CID. were, brought down to headquarters.
All the machinery for dealing with an air rald was put into mo- tion. The fire brigade was told to stand by for further instructions, and similar steps were taken at 69 posts throughout the West Riding. Albert Oswald Garnett. night
supervisor at Leeds" G. P. G.. said that after the message, had been distributed efforts were made to trace the origin of the call and when it was found that it came from a public call box the police were notified, and steps were taken to cancel the message.
Mr. F. H. Lawton, defending: You learned a good deal as the result of this hoax, did you not? Well we were fairly well versed in nur duties before, although we had
not had a test.
CODE EXPLAINED TO HIM Mr. Lawten suggested that a man in Wood's position in the Post Office would have no idea of the extent of the trouble his code message was likely to cause...
Mr. Garnett: I should say that he would know very well. The meaning of the code words had been carefully explained,
The case was that in which the Rev. C. G. Roffe-Silvester, Vicar of St. Hilary Parish Church. Cornwall, appealed against a Truro Diocesan Order for the removal of certain objects, including several stone al-
tars
and witch-watching balls, from his church. The petition was made by Miss Ann Maria King, of St. Hilary
The ornaments were installed in the church by the former vicar, the Rev. Bernard Walke, who, re-
incumbency the dispute began. tired in 1936, and during whose
GENERAL
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M. Coulondre, the new French Ambassador in Berlin.
MORE STATE AID FOR SCHOOLS
Plan To Speed Up Reorganisation
H.K. POLICE
RESERVE
Lory
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1938. -PAGE
(Orders by the Hon. Mr. T. H King, Commissioner of Police). CHINESE COMPANY. Training Course-Part II. The undermentioned members of the Chinese Company Will attend Chinese Company Headquarters for Part II of Training Course on Tuesday, November 29 at 17.39;
hours:-
Constables R9 Wang May On R16 S. C. Henning Liang, R10 Leung Kim Sang, and R66 Lau Kwan Po.
Patrol Duty. Nightly between 18.00 hours and midnight by numbers 1.5 detalled by the Officer Charge of Company. INDIAN COMPANY Patrol Duty. Nightly between 13.00 hours. and midnight by members
detailed by the Officer In Charge of Company. FLYING SQUAD Patrol Daty. Nightly betweerr 18.00 hours and midnight by members R$ detailed by. the Officer in Charge of Company, CHARGE OF ANIMOŞITY
EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE Mr. H. B. Valsey, K.C., who ap- peared for Mr. Roffe-Silvester, said
A R. P. Courses, The under- mentioned members of the Police that he hoped they might And Further State ald to local educa- Reserve have been detailed to some common way in which they tion authorities to speed-up rear-attend the A. R. P. Courses at the could come to some sort of agree sanisation and deveopment of ele-KUR. Club on Tuesday, November certain matters. The mentary education was announced 29 and Friday. December 2 at 17.30 stone altars, which were not at the recently by Earl Stanhope.
hours under 8.L. (R) R. P. Dunlop. cast end of the church, might re-
He stated that the period of the Mr. B. C. Randall. A.S.P. (R), Mr. luctantly be abandoned, and an special 50 per cent longer to use the confessional box. undertaking might be given no capital expenditure, fixed to expire Lole, S.I. (R) Chau Ching Chiu, grant for Feroz Ali, ASP. (R), Inspt, (R) D.
on December 31, 1940, would be ex-SL (R) Hardit Singh, PS. R17, W. for the material of the altars to be
He was, however, obliged to press tended to December 31, 1943... K. S. Mok, P.S. R29 Chan Chung Lord Stanhope, who was open- Tung, P.S. R30 Thong Fo Hing, retained.
ing the new Glyndwr Central L.S. R20 Leung On Tal, LS. R214 Discussing the question of mo-School at Rhyl, said he was full Channan Singh, LS, R269 Imam tive. Mr. Vaisey, suggested that of admiration for the way teachers Din, P.C. R303 D. Young, P.C. R313 Miss King's object was "implacin "all-age" schools tackled a task D. M. Xavier, P.C. R359 Lee Chan able animosity to the man who which would cause many people to Kee, and PC. R238 M. S. Dillon. has been placed in the care of despair. It was obvious, however, souls in this parish."
Nightly between they could not achieve the results 18.00 hours and midnight by possible
detailed by the modern senior members. as
the schools,
Officer in Charge of Company.
C. CHAMPKIN,
D. S. P. (R) Hongkong, Monday, Nov. 28.
ment on
When Mr. Valsey referred to a crucifix on an altar, which was one of the matters in dis- pute, the President said that he fully appreciated that the incumbent to-day was not re- sponsible for the position In which he found himself. "It is perfectly plain from the evidence," he added, "that during the incumbency of Mr. Walke there was a complete disregard of the law. This crucifix was crdered to
SLOW REORGANISATION He had hoped that when the school age, was raised to 15 on September 1 next year. most of the work would have been done. In urban areas 77 per cent of the children were in reorganised schools, but in rural areas, a more difficult problem, only 38 per cent.
This slow rate of progress was due to several causes, particularly
be removed by the Chancellor and the great pressure on the building
it was removed, but after it had and constructional trades and the been removed, without the pre-consequent rise in prices.
Patrol Duty.
COOLER WEATHER
EXPECTED
Cooler weather is expected to continue, according to a forecast issued by the Royal Observatory yesterday evening.
terday was 70 degrees, and the The maximum temperature yes-
minimum 65. No rain is expected
ence of going to the court for a It was because of this that he, for the next 24 hours, and with the faculty and in complete deflance had decided that help must be alling-up of the typhoon, fine and of the court, it was replaced. given by an extension of the cool weather may be anticipated.
"Apart from all other considera-gar tions, as at present advised, I think This extension would it would be the worst possible ex- where an authority could show from its London office that the an- The Canadian Pacific announces ample to permit that crucifix to that it had made reasonable pro-nual world cruise by the Empress gress with the task of reorganisa-
remain for that reason."
apply
DRIVEN TO ILLEGAL METHODS December 31, 1940, and where it Einally intended, saling from New tion before the original date of of Britain will be operated as orl- Mr. J. P. Ashworth, for Miss could show good reasons for an King, said that it would be wrong, extension. if he were to allow anyone to ima-
York on Jan. 7 and from Monaco
gine for a moment that his client
on Jad, 21. REDUCING "BLACK ·LIST" contained in Mr. Valsey's com-the "black list" of old and defec- accepted any of the Implications Lord Stanhope then turned to
tive scools. Of the original 2,827 The President said. "I cannot on the list, 1,950 had been dealt of people who habitually attend which required replacement, al- pretend that I approve the conduct with, but there were still 877 religious services simply and solely teration or addition. The work for the purpose of sitting through neessary at these schools must be those services as a form of protest. taken in hand.
-ments.
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ask authorities.
Police Sergt. Kirkbride, stationed at Wakefield, said that when he Mr. Edwin Clayton, prosecuting. received the message from Leeds sold that Shield had the habit of he distributed it at once to 10 dif- getting to know soldiers, chieflyferent divisional headquarters in Guardsmen, and buying or recely- the West Riding, and they in turn Mr. Walke. Miss King, and other therefore, to tackle this urgent pro-
"But during the incumbency of "I intend to Ing from them parts of their redistributed it to 09 other points. parishioners seem to have had no blem without further.delay," he
Sunt. James Craig, head of the Det. Insp, Thorne and Det. Nor-Tees CID sold that following egard whatever paid to their legal added. bury, who entered Shield's fattoiries he went to Wood's house. Illegality prevailed for nearly a greatly disturbed at the lack of rights. Since that state of Lord Stanhope said he Was with a search warrant, found it Wood subsequently made a state-quarter of a century, it does not technical education in the coun practically full of these things.ment in which he said: Shield said he had obtained some "It is no use going a long way seem to me to ile on anybody to try. In these days of mass pro- of them from soldier friends who round about it. I know what you charge Miss King with too ready a visited him.
clothing and equipment,
Mr. Clayton said there were 17 other cases involving military pio- perty, which Shield wished to be -taken into consideration. The total value of the articles was about £57.
"FOR INTERIOR DECORATION"
Insp. Thorpe, who gave evidence.. ...was asked by the magistrate. Mr. Ivan Enell: "Were these things for Interior decoration?"
"Possibly." replied the officer, "He gave no explanation There is
are here for"
recourse to illegality. The rarer said Wood then re-
"After all. if people cannot get rested the code message, and add-their legal rights in a legal way, ed. "I sent it from Spencer-place they are driven to illegal methods" feall box. I lust thought I would
The hearing was adjourned until send it. and.. that's all."
Saturday.
When Wood was committed for trial. Mr. Lawton intimated that his defence would be reserved.
CAT TIED UP FOR SEVEN YEARS
COURT GUNMAN SENTENCED
·DOCTOR CONSIDERS HIM INSANETM Sentence of four years' penal n evidence of anything mentally William Hearn, a railway carri,
age examiner, and his wife Conservitude was passed at the Old stance, of Plough-lane; Wimbledon, Balley recently on Richard Harri- were each fined £2 with: £22son Henriques, 24, the coloured costs at Wimbledon Police Court, engineering student, who fired for causing unnecessary suffering
three shots in Clerkenwell' police to a cat
court
wrong with hivi.”
Mr. Fearnley Whittingstall, de- lending, said he could only suggest crankiness or mania, possibly brought on by the loneliness of a bachelor in London
a
The magistrate said there was no suggestion of the collection having. been made for an Improper par pose, and dismissed the summonses on payment of £10 10s costs.
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duction it was impossible to train the "apprentice and the learner in the way our fathers did. In Ger- many, France and Scandinavia to
very large extent the employer had to release young employees so many afternoons a week so that they could attend a proper, tech- nical college.
WOMAN'S £4,000. FOR
·HOSPITAL
Miss Eleanor: Bleson, of Leeds- road, Harrogate, left 19.770 (np. £16.884). She gave:
£4,000 to the Cameron Hospital, West Hartlepool, to endow four beds.
After other legacies, the residue as left to the Church Pastoral Aid Society.
Mr. Albert Coote, of Walm-larie. Mr. Gordon Jones, for the
Henriques was found not guilty St. John's Wood, NW. better RSPCA sald he did not suggest of attempted murder, but gulity, known as Bert Coote, the comedian, that Mr. or Mrs. Hearn were bra of wounding Oaladio Moore, with producer of The Windmill Man" tally disposed persons, but he intent to do grievous bodily harm. and author of "A Lamb on Wall thought that By their, neglect they He was also found guilty of shoot Street," Jert £250. had caused suffering to the ingat two other men with animal
Mr. Denis. Ripley Broadbent. similar intent, and of possessing AMIEE, of Onslow Court Hotel, He understood that for seven a pistol with intent to endanger Queen's Gate, B.W., and of the The Royal Air Force has sent years it had been kept continually fe the Royal National Lifeboat Intled up to a mangle by means of, After the verdict had been riven street. S.W.. left £32001 (np. Royal Societies Club, St.. James's- stitution a gift of 228 135 8d a lead and collar.
Div. Det.-Insp, Hatton said that £31,889) from its church collections, fund.
A deep Indentation was found when Henriques was 11 months round its neck where the collar old, he lost the sight of one eye Frederick Bell, 37, a London had worn through the fur.
in an accident. Since then he Brixton Prison, said that he con- 'bus driver, who had returned Mrs. Bearn told the Bench that had been subject to uncontrolsidered Henriques insane. from his holiday, was found dead she often took the cat on the lead lable fits of temper. In 1936 he Mr. Justice Hawke: I must treat in a gas-filled room at his home down the garden and also took it dow, a revolver to shoot a man him as sane. If what you have in Whittington-road, Bowes. Park, on the lead at night because of at Kingston, Jamaica
the mice in the house.
sald is true he will be certified in
Dr. Grierson, Medical Officer of prison.
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