THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1936.
500 BLIND MEN IN MARCH ON LONDON Campaign to Get Pensions: "We Don't Want Charity"
20 MILES-A-DAY
TREK
M.P.S BACK PETITION TO
GOVERNMENT
FIVE HUNDRED blind men are to march on London as part of a campaign to make the Government take fuller responsibility for the blind in the British Isles.
They will march in contingents of 80, each man holding his neighbour's 'arm, leaders of sections guided by white sticks, and at the head and tail of this tragic procession will march the few who can see.
"We set out on October 12," said Councillor J. A. Clydesdale, of Newcastle, organiser of the murch, "Aberdeen, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, and Cardiff have been chosen as our starting points.
"We have had hundreds of blind volunteers from all parts of the country. We insist that all marchers shall be able-bodied men. No women or children are to be allowed.
The men wil march 15-20 milles :-
day. For food we will rely on
the kindness and hospitality of UNTRUE ESTIMATE OF
friends to the blind in the townai
we pass.
"We feel that this march is the only method by which we can 'draw
DRUG ADDICTS
the Government's attention to the real; REPORT WITHDRAWN
need of something being done for the blind in this country."
Reform Proposal
It is announced that the report of
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Went Back
To The Girl He Loved-
AND SHE GAOLED HIM FOR THE REWARD
cafe.
Moscow Radios War Orders To Spain
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FURTHER sensational evidence of the extent to which JOHN CULLEN, a Grimsby `Soviet Russia is directing the mobs of Communists, fisherman, joined the French armed by the Madrid Government, in the battle against Foreign Legion and fell in love the anti-Reds is forthcoming. with a waitress in a Marseilles Daily broadcasts are being addressed from Soviet radio stations to the Spanish Reda laying down military tactics, and When he Was drafted to urging fighting without mercy." It is significant that the Morocco he deserted the Legion Madrid Government was recently able to announce the opening to marry his waitress lover, Pipi. and tried to get back to Marseilles of a special £1.110,000 anti-revolt credit.
But he was forced to fee to Eng- land to elude his French pursuers.
That was six years ago. For four years he worked in Grimsby fishing trawlers. But his heart was in Mararilles.
One day a Spanish tranp atenter talled at the docks. She was bound worked his for Marselles. John
passage as cook.
At Marseilles he found her at the
other cafe chatting with two tomern."
KISSES-AND BETRAYAL
cas-
She sat on his knee, petted him, i
So close is the co-operation between the Madrid Government and Soviet organisations in Spain that since the outbreak of the civil war Russian Bolsheviks have been employed among radio announcers in Madrid and elsewhere.
The Madrid Government. Is a big consumer of Soviet oil; and it is understood that 25 per cent. of the sales proceeds is retained by Soviet agencies in Spain for the specific purpose of subsidising. Soviet propaganda there and providing strike funds,
Meanwhile, in Russia the powerful Moscow Comintern station, working on a wave-length of about 1,700 metres, broad- casts' in Spanish every night.
The man in charge of these special broadcasts is Jose Perez,
Oplem Section of the League of Then the two customers returned MAN WHO MOVED chief of the Spanish nection of the
with two gendarmes,
"This man." sald Pipi. "escap- ed from the Legion six years offered in A reward is ako."
who
report
Nations Secretariat giving on esti- Working day and night in a dark mate of the number of drug oddlets London office is the secretary of the
United Kingdom has been National League for the Blind-the
is life withdrawn from vireutation. year-old Mr. A. Henderson.
France to those Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, Parilamentary Secretary to the Home Offler, sald in
Parliamentary written John, dumbfounded, disillusioned reply to a question that the report included awas marched off and locked in the statement showing how many drug dingy cell of a nearby prison, addicts there would be in each of 59
work has been devoted to the enusy of his fellow sufferers.
"The march has an object in view - definite abject." he said. "We want the Government to take some thing like 75 per cent, of the financial responsibility.
deserters.
countries on the assumption that the Recently John Cullen walked into proportion of additets
to population the offices of a
Lorton, newspaper |
13 MILLION
TO FRANCE
MEN by Nike, a Russian who has only
Third International. He is assisted
from Madrid, recently returned where he organised the Communist Defence Corps.
LENIN'S PROPHECY Broadcasts have been opened by S.R. TRAFFIC CHIEF'S
extracts from Lenin's speech at the WAR SERVICES-
1020 Congress of the Third Inter- national. Lenin foretold that the "We have a definite reform which
Eighteen months before the aul-{"second"
successful proletarian re- break of the Great War a mobilisationvolution" would take place in Spain; we are putting forward. All grants was the same as it was estimated to and told this story. to the blind, we believe, should be be in Germany, the United States for exercise. I waited till the tailer's
"I asked to be taken into the yard programme for the railways serving that the Spanish army would be on paid through the voucher system; and Egypt.
perious On the wholly unfounded assump-
back was turned." said. supplied ilke old-age through the Post Office.
on 11 was calculated that the figure; "At present the unfortunate blind for the United Kingdom would be are thrown from the local authorities 1,600, 40,000 or 92,000, according as to the charities and back again. We to whether Germany. the United want State control for the blind-wel States or Egypt was taken as the don't want charity."
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"Then I climbed the wall and dropped 25ft, on the other side. managed to smuggle my way Across France."
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Today he is on his way back firimsby, where he hopes to find an- fother job on a trawler.
Film Star's Baby
May Decide Case
JUDGE ASKS IF SHE PREFERS FATHER OR MOTHER
home at Toluca Lake.
Marylyn knows nothing of the
So for the judge has refused to
DIARY STORIES
the Continent had been organised. It the other side; and that the "armed came into full operation Immediately proletariat would have to Oght on the declaration of hostilities.
against mercenaries and native Mr. E. C. Cox. Tralle Manager of African forces.” the Southern Railway, who retires in October after 53 years' service, re- changes and incident in his vented this,
ht this, when
described
perience to a London newspaper representative.
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The pre-arranged selieme covered, the transport of the Expeditionary Force, but within six months the 50 sperini Troop trains a day bad be- come 140.
140. with 24 daily Channel. Jeronsings.
Throughout the night the Moscow instructions on station also gives street fighting, on barricade fighting, on the organisation of the workers, on revolutionary strategy, and slmi- lar subjects:
The Proletariat of the U.S.S.R. I standing by the glorious fighters of the Spanish Popular Front against the military Fascist putsch. On the outcome of your struggle depends the future of the world proletarian revolution and of the workers of the world.
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Mr. Cox's experience of war-tine, transport is probably unique. Hej joined the South-Eastern Railway in 1833 us a clerk, at the age of 15, and
Collections of funds for the during the South African War be-.
Spanish struggle have been started, came Special Traffic Clerk, respon- and huge sums are said to be coming sible for all military movements be-in from all parts of Soviet Russia. tween London ard
and the ports. In the
Great War he held a similar post, and the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway carried 13,000,000 troops
the Chunnel without across
~WAR" STORES IN TUNNELS---:
part
GALLIPOLI WAR GRAVES
Los Angeles, Aug. 20. trouble between her mother and Dy, LITTLE Marylyn, four-years- Franklyn Thorpe.
The judge is anxious to learn if she old daughter of Mary Astor, is happy with either of her parents, casualty. the film star, maybe an unforthe suit-he-is-now-hearing-is- conscious arbiter in the bitter brought by Miss Astor, who seeks to Emergencies and alarms during the TURKISH ASSURANCES quarrel now raging in the courts set aside a signed agreement made at four years were many. He recalled
the time of her divorce giving Dr. us the most memorable the here between her parents,
lond- The new Straits Convention will Judge Knight, who has a daughter Therpe custody of the child.
alip which carried
of the in no way affect the upkeep and the same age as Marylyn, visited the accept evidence in court relating to Dover-Folkestone line 140 feet out to supervision of war graves in Gallipoli. child to-day at her mother's beautiful events which took place in the lives vitally important, and necessitated a signed at Morshed
With the text of the Convention, sea, in January, 1015, when it was
on July 20, of Mary Astor and Dr. Thorpe be-150 miles diversion to span a broken which was published as
1 White fore their divorce lost year,
Paper link of about six miles,
recently, appeurs corres- The line was out of use until after pondence between Dr. T. Rt. Aras, the the Wur, but there was some com- Turkish Foreign Minister, and Lord answers leave the judge in doubt as available as huge mine stores,
11 is understood that if Marylyn'spensation in that two tunnels became Stanley on the subject of the ceme
teries. to whom she should live with, be Mr. Cox has organised transport mentioned to me the other day that Dr. Aras wrote on July 18: "You will permit counsel to introduce into for the Royal Family in four reigns, public opinion in your country felt court all the sensational statements, He is a Commander of the British
o far contained only in affidavits.
some unensiness regarding the effect Such a
would allow Dr. Victorians Order, and he has received vention upon the position of the Empire and a Member of the Royal of the conclusion of the Straits Con- Thorpe's cute
counsel to question the film decorations from the French, Belgion, military, cemeteries on the Gallipoli about her famous "misulep and Rumanian Governments. He Peninsula." dinry" which. the
alleges she
hold the Teritorial Decoration and Dr. Aras then repeats a "spontane- kept before her
the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
declaration" which he made: Mr. Joseph
With the grouping of the railways during a private session. aver expect tisser
1923, Mr. Cox became Chief he says, will fully honour her thoroughly into the Operating Superintendent, and in ligations under the Trenty of Lausan Two cooks who have travelled from of the child. We will also go into years he
untitness of Miss Astor having culody 1030 became Traffic Manager, For 12 ne, notwithstanding any changes India to London with the Maharaja the charges in her affidavit that she every movement on
has been responsible for which may be brought about in the of Mysore work in a sporinily guard was coerced by threats Into permit lines.
the company's regime of the Straits by the Conven-
tion.
PROBLEMS OF MAHARAJA'S COOKS
SHADOWS MIGHT "DEFILE" FOOD
MEALS PREPARED TWO MILES AWAY
star
a decision
lawyer, said Dr. Thurpe's į
Eu very, very
ed room two miles from their wasting Dr. Thorpe, to obtain an in- ter's hotel, preparing food for him.
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The Maharaja is staying In seven-room muito in the Dorchester Hotel, Park-lane, during his, visit to l London.
For the first 24 hours after his arrival there, his two personal cooks from Indin used a special kitchen set aside for their use in the hotel.
contested divorce with full custody | of their daughter.
"We can prove by her oWI handwriting that this is not the situation at all, but that ale wil- fully abandoned the child for a married man-George Kaufman," The lawyer did not state whe "George Kaufman" was.
AUTHOR'S DENIAL
0113
"Turkey
New Island Annexed For King Edward VIII.
It was decided, however, that the position was dangerous for their
Sydney (N.S.W.), Aug. 30. forecast Its use as a sea-plane base monarch's food, as at any moment
HIE frst new territory to be added on a Sydney-Fll-America route. the shadow of one of the white cooks Mr. George Kaufman, the famous to the British Empire under King In the opinion of Mr. Whitely and working in the big kitchen might American playwright, said to-day:
Edward, a tiny island in the South the other discoverers, it appears to fall across what they were cooking. "I was just a friend of Mary Aster, Pacific, has been formally annexed be the centre of one of the best This would, according to the Mahalke many others in Hollywood. by tour Sydney men.
game fishing grounds in the western raja's beliefs, defile the food.
"I have attended several of her The island lies in the four-mile-Pacife. Now the two Indian cooks have partles as a guest and friend. I am wide Elizabeth Reci, 500 miles north-
The finding and possession are joined the rest of the Maharaja's most certainly not involved in her east of Sydney, and had never before described in the ship's log by Mr.
tatt at a hotel in Kensington, near difficulties with Dr. Thorpe."
Forsyth. Palace Gate, where, โท a specially guarded room, they prepare his menta with food which they themselves buy. BLESSING THE WATER
The Maharaja's food consists largely of curry and garlic, but
ant part of his diet.
SOCIALISTS AND. CORONATION
been charted."
Its discoverers are Messrs. John
SYMBOL OF POSSESSION W. Forsyth, Henry Newton-Scott, "I holsted the colours, and an- Norman K. Wallis and Gilbertnounced that possession of the reef Whitely.
and all within it had been taken on Collecting specimens for an Austra-behalf of 11ls Gracious. Majesty King. Ila museum, and recharting the Edward VIII.
butter and milk also formt an import "ABSTAIN" SUGGESTION cruising in Mr. Wallis's 25-ton King, and a portion of the blue coral
He only drinks water which bas
been blessed by his priests, who
will
GROWING RAPIDLY
areas under commission, they were Three cheors were given for the schooner, Wanderer, to the Middleton was broken oft and taken usa Resolutions urging the Socialist and Elizabeth Reefs, 10 to 120 miles symbol of possession. I expressed, daily perform their rites in the room party to abstain from any part in the morth of Lord Home Island. in his hotel which has been
In a short speech, the hope that the con-Coronation celebrations next May verted into a temple for the golden will be submitted at the Socialist
new possession might prove a useful,
addition to though minor.
the goddess who accompanies him on all Party Conference at Edinburgh on his travels.
When Elizabeth Reef was visited Empire." Oct. B
Inst, after a wreck in 1000, it was "It was a great day," said Mr. That Labour party represents only coral reef which was com- Wall the es describing the cerem
a com-Walls, builder of tives abstain from arranging, or Such whs its description on the (ony, "I suppose that we were the altending functions at which Naval Admiralty chart: :
first to add new territory, humble as or Military forces are in attendance,
The land, which has formed it may be to the Empire of Edward and that the Conservativa: Anthom since, and which is growing rapidly (VIII" (80 called National Anthem) be not in more than 60 yards in diameter. The island is far from all steamer included in proceedings or strenzo- The island has been named routes, and according to Lord Howe ments made for its duelusionist Forsyth land, after Mr. Forsyth, who, Island residents, the reef has never any function that speech win it was annexed, attracted fishermen.-Reuter.
It would have been too coinplicated, it was decided, to keep him supplied with the water from the Ganges which he is normally supposed, by his religion, to drink..
six each
The Maharaja rises at morning and goes out from seven to nine. The rest of the day-he spends in hla room, receiving many aa 30 enliers,
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