Many Japanese women have their backs tattooed in order to be attrac- tive. The procedure is said to take about three years and costs G$200.
Jack Tar Goes All Savile Row
When I first put this uniform ou, I said, as I looked in the plass,
"It's one to a million
That any civilian
THE HONGKONG
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SIGNAL ERROR
TRIPLE ALLIANCE
Charles H. Kerr and Mrs, Anna Graham are husband and wife to-day for the third time, the ceremony taking place at Nokomis, Illinois.
Kerr, between his marriages to Mrs. Graham, became the husband of two other women, and Mrs. Graham, after her first divorce from Kerr, remarried a former husband.
LORD CECIL: "WAR
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1937.
COST 10 LIVES WHITEAWAY'S
Rail Inspector On Steel or Wood For Coaches
London, June 29.
The official report, issued on the Battersea rail crash on April 2, in which ten lives were lost, states that it is obvious the onus must lie with a relief signalman who had incorrectly unsealed and manipulated semi-automatic
IS DRAWING NEAR" signalling equipment.
Peace-at-Any-Price Speeches Deplored
London, July 1.
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, speaking in the House of Lords in a debate on the League of Nations, deplored the frequent assertions by Ministers and others that the only thing this country cared about was to keep out of war,
"I feel that is a most dangerous thing to do," he said. "It is a direct encouragement to disorderly Powers to
'}
The report also deals with the controversy over steel or wooden construction of coaches, but no direct recom- mendations on this point are made.
The inspecting officer, Lieut.-Col. A. H. L., Mount, Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, recalls that the 7.31 a.m. electric passenger train, Coulsdon North to Victorla, running on the up local line, overtook and came into violent collision with the rear of the 7.80 a.m. electric passenger train, London Bridge to Victoria, which was about to restart after being detained at
Battersea Park up local home signal.
He states that the Investigation was; rendered difficult by the negative tude of Relief Signalman F. G. Childs as to what transpired during| the crucial perfod from 7.57 a.m. to 8.1 a.m.
OVER.CONFIDENCE
Colonel Mount describes Childs us a man with a elen record, welli
seemed imperturbable. He adds:
My pure and form will surpass." (become more and more aggressive and to treat our re- \ spoken of, and who by temperament
monstrances with very scant respect.
No longer need Jack Tar reflect thus gloomily with Gilbert, for In future his uniform and over- coat are to be made to measure.
An expert tallor will go over him with the tape-meastire, and not unt Jack is perfectly satisfied with the
tting need he accept the uniform.
What is more, all garments, accord- ing to Admiralty Flect Orders issued recently, "shall be well pressed and shall be folded and delivered in such manner as to ensure a minimum of creasing."
"Serge clothing shall be tried on. both basted and finished, it required by the men," and "any alterations re- quired to make garments ft properly to the satisfaction of the proper officers shall be made promptly by the contractor."
There is no mention, however, that the Fleet Beau Brummells shall have
on issue of trouser presses.
A
*
And on more serious note:.
A scheme has been prepared by the Admiralty 10 enable Naval Talings and Royal Marines to effect insurances for the benefit of their dependents covering all risks of
peace and war. The scheme also provides for the taking out of cndow- ment polleles.
Ask for
"I am perfectly certain that there is a tremendous opinion against war. I am perfectly certain also that this country will be found exerting ita true strength in the defence of our interests and the principles of justice.
"It is a dangerous thing to eneou- that during the years which followed vage countries of an aggressive type the war It failed to remedy those ele to doubt that. That is precisely the ments In the Treaty of way wars have come in the past." which hardly anybody now regarded
as either Justified or Just.
"But conclude that, in lacking que sense of responsibility and by over-confidence, he deceived himself
the
fundumental
THE SERVANT
PROBLEM
New Zealand's Novel Plan
bc
Christchurch, New Zealand. revolutionary scheme to solve and others as to his intimate know-the acute shortage of domestic ser- ledge of the equipment.
vanta in New Zealand has been After
three
Women's possible suggealed by the leading outlining
might have brought organisations in Christchurch. causes which
colilston, Colonel Mount| Versailles nbout the
It is proposed to train a national concludes that
corps of domestic workers, to nctions which led to the accident paid and hired out by the govern- Lord Rennell had introduced thej
were, first, the "cancellation" of the
ment. Employers would reimburse If the League had dealt with the London Bridge train and secondly the debate by asking the Government It,} when the question of reform of the legitimate demands of Germany in "plunge" to accept the
Coulsdon the government according to League of Nations was brought for- the earlier years after the war there train and to
release the Pouparts means, ward at Geneva, discussions would. would have been no difficulty in pre- Junction starter No. 19. Both must
special committee on the first occasion, be restricted to venting the unjustified attack by Italy have emanated from Childs, and formed to look into the whole ques- the issue of whether revision was on Abyssinia or settling the aggres-serious responsibility therefore restedtion. necessary or desirable, or whether it sion of Signor Mussolini. was contemplated that definite pro- posals should be submitted at that
meeting.
WHY THE League FAILED
upon hin.
A
their
has
been
It is called the Household Ser- vice Campaign Committee, and is
Viscount Crell said: "We are faced No blame attached either to Motor-representative of all the leading wo- tnan A. Anthony, who, though men's organises widely held amongst
with a grave danger. There is no doubt that war is drawing neur,
"Every means of conciliation should
be tried.
The point is, "What are The Marquis of Lollilan said the you going to do when conciliation League seemed inadequate for
That is the issue." the falls?" accomplishment of the vast end It was of no use, to appeal. to the which it had in view. If the world sweel reasonableness of an aggressor was to-day--as they hoped in 1918 it State and say at the one time that would be a world in
which all force would not be used. That course nations in effect were democracies was really inviting disaster. and members
the League, be thought the League would work.
of
He hoped it would be a long time) One of the greatest causes of the before the Government embarked on | fallure of the League of Nations was extensive changes in the League.
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seriously shaken, had a remarkable
The opinion
of
escape, or to Guard R. W. Adamson, New Zealand women that the status workers must be raised of domestle work COACH TELESCOPED.
considerably if good supply efficient workers is to be maintained. Dealing with rolling stock con-
for They blame many employers that this struction, the report says accident-like those at Bow on April gitis and women
adopting a wrong attitude towards werking in the and Crewe on April 14-6 home, and an important par
part of the behaviour of rolling-stock in
will be educating em- col-campalga
ployers in the art of employment.
An attempt will be made to aller the public attitude towards domestic workers.
lision.
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of
Colonel Mount, who points out that the rear motor conch of the London Bridge train, in which nine of the The committee proposes that the fatalities occurred, was telescoped Government should "recruit" o when the leading coach of the Couls-tional domestic service
corps don train over-rode it, adds:
young women agreeable to entering the domestic service profession. "Had the bodies of these two Under the scheme recruits would coaches been materially stronger the be asked to undergo whatever train- results might have been different, but ing is considered desirable at a it is impossible to say whether they technical school, und when
when they would have been more or less serious "graduated"
ки guaranteed would be so far us casualties were concerned. continuity of employment as long as
Resistance to collision was not the their services were satisfactory. primary consideration in the design The Government's Domestic of rolling-stock. nor could dynamics vice Department would ensure that be eliminated by the use of "all steel" living and working conditions were construction.
up to standard,
WOOD SUITABLE
Ser-
The service would be available to all women, but first consideration "But if wood is kept away from would be given to expectant mothers, mothers convalescent after child- icetrical equipment and coupling and buffer gear arc adequate, the birth, and mothers who have young
families. passenger carrying portion of the bodies even of motor coaches on sur-
The service would be either tree
face railways need not necessarily be charged for according to the cir- composed entirely of steel it the cumstances of each case-Reuter various other considerations con- cerned do not justify such construc-
tion," says Colonel Mount.
"It is clear that the right polley Too Comfortable
Is to continue to direct avaliable
resources towards the prevention
of accidents rather than towards
minimising their effects,"
To this end the report makes £1
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No Swearing Allowed In Italian Army
Home
The biblical commandment against
Headmaster's View
Boys can be made too comfortable In Public Schools Mr. Norman
of Whatley, headmaster
Clifton College, told the conference of the National Association for the Preven- tion of Tuberculosis, at Bristol re- cently.
"The conditions under which a boy lives are, on the fact of it, much healthier than they were. They are also, from the point of view of the boy, much more comfortable" ho added.
"There is, perhaps, just a danger | blasphemy is being enforced ener of their becoming too comfortable, getically throughout the ranks of the and of the schools combating with Italian army.
one
another in the luxury and at- tractions they hold out to parents. General Alberto Pariani, Under-
"Some
schools seem to me to have secretary of War, in a strong circular gone almost too far in making life on "spiritual discipline of the so easy that the most delicate of boys will not find it n strain. feel troops" states:
that it is our duty, as well, to give "To command and obey is the duty a full life, and a fairly strenuous of every soldier. He who swears life, to boys who are at for it." lacks control over his nerves, and] Sleep was very important to boys. is not a good soldier... Blasphemy It was shown by the number who shows lack of discipline."
[put on weight in term time but lost Posters have been pasted on walls wondering whether, in the national it in the holidays. He could not help of all military barracks. They read campaign for physical fitness, much a "Blasphemy dishonours soldiers. Swearing is forbidden by article 274 more emphasis ought not to be put of the Penal Code and by article 51
"The ordinary English boy will of the army regulations."
always enjoy games more than he Parlaul's circular, winds up with enjoys physical training, and we orders for all military chaplains to shall have to be very careful if the hold monthly conferences against present enthusiasm for such training blasphemy-United Press.
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