THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3,
BABY-FARMING SCANDAL
Plans To End Traffic
In Children
COMMITTEE URGES
STRICT CONTROL
TRAFFICKING in
children and
"baby-
farming" still continue in Britain, although the evil is not widespread.
This is brought out clearly in a report, published re- cently, of a Home Office committee appointed to investi- gate the methods of adoption societies and agencies.
The little Crown Prince Baudouin of the Belgians who is learning to rkle horre photographed in the
his father.
Disquieting evidence at the inquiry has convinced all Royal Patsee grounds watched by but one member of the committee that in future adoption organisations
Should be licensed by local borough or county councils; Should be forbidden to arrange adoptions abroad by any foreigner, to let a British subject take a child abroad until a magistrate has granted, in open court, a licence permitting it;. and
Should insist that all ndapters apply to court for legislation ufter a probationary period.
CHILD SOLD FOR £50
Adoptions arranged by midwives and "cases which can only be described as trafficking in children" are quoted.
One instance is that of Mrs. A. who advertised:
"I'a lovely baby boy. I'm lonely and sad without mumny and daddy to make me glad; will anyone adopt me? Write Box--"
She was shown to have received; between £40 and £50 from a mo- ther for one adoption, stul to have been paid £54 by another mother to whom she sent threatening letters.
In this case Mrs. A later said the child was dead.
Miss C. another private agent, used several aliases and incorrectly regis- tered as her own three of five child- ren she was known to have adopted. Three of the children died.
Children have been taken abroad. by adopters about whom only per- functory inquiries were made.
Anuther authenticated story in the report is of a child (her mother was "in respectable circumstances" and was anxious to avoid publicity"),
ARAB
"BLUE MEN" STARVE
Paris, July 12.
of thous- TUNDREDS
H
removed by a midwife, who adver ands of starving Toun- American variety performer, and his regs, known as "Blue Men." from the blue dye with
tised and received a reply from an!
wife.
to the registry of births, they
To them the midwife handed over which they paint themselves the 11-day-old baby. She took up as a disinfectant, are mak- registered the child as their own, anding a great northward trek Inter took it to the United States. in search of food and water Since then the couple have been from the south of French divorced, the child was placed in a home, the father (who was given Morocco. the custody) refused to support I. TRIBUTE PAID
TO THE L.C.C.
whose the bodies To certain of representatives appeared before them
They are leaving behind them deserted villages, parched dead landa, and men, women and child- ren whose exhausted bodies are too weak to keep up with the tribal caravans.
the Committee pays a compliment. The hooded Touaregs" are Berce The L.C.C., which has arranged 102 Arabs who have fought many battles adoptions since 1932, is singled out with the French Foreign Legion in for praise.
the past.
Now, every day into every city of But slackness, fallure to make pro- ክር inquiries about the adopters, Morocco are pouring by the thousands neglect of medical examinations, the families Beeting from their homeland. employment of unqualified people which has been ruined by two years and omission to legalise adoptions are of drought. alleged against some sociéties andį
As they come shambling, rugged, agencles.
they are met by doctors, who are "With few exceptions the staffs at fighting the dangers of typhoid, which adoption has already broker out once near present employed by societies do not appear to to Marrakesh,
the
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possess the necessary qualifications," says the report.
So for the French Government, through the Morocco Protectorate,
The Committee found A "one- have contributed £130,000 to the re- man show" which had no annual llef of the starving natives.
meeling in two successive years and no audit of accounis for years,
Ave
THREAT TO PEACE
In the past two months £10,000 in private subscriptions has been It recommends that private "arran-
All these funds are being gers" of adoptions, parents and the raised. adopters themselves shall not be rapidly used up to feed the north- allowed to receive payment without bound emigrants.
Court permission and that all ndver- M. Steeg, former French Resident- tising by unlicensed agents must stop. General of Morocco, has just returned Misa Florence Horsbrugh, M.P to Paris after an emergency tour of was chaliman of the committee.
the drought areas. Other members were: Mr. B. E. Astbury,
J. J. Harris, Mr. J. J. His report is expected to result in Mallon, Mr. Brian Manning. Mr. G. a further heavy grant to keep the W. Russell and Mrs. Montagu Nor- remaining natives alive until
first harvests for two years have been
man.
Air.
the
conservation
Mr. Russell, who makes a reserva-grown in the south. This will be tion to the report, is not in favour brought about by a further grant for of the plan to license adoption socie-great Irrigation and
les. lle is "not persuaded that there work. is a mischief which requires that re- medy."
Awoke In
Adder's Coils
TURING of picking whinberries on
The French Government's chle! fear is that the drought and star- vation may force more than a mil- Hon more Touaregs to try to cross the Atlas Mountains, where the na- lives, prosperous and contented with their own comparatively fer- ille fands, would resent an in- trusion and Night.
The result would be the undoing of the peace In Morocco, achloved in 1932 alter years of fighting.
Cwmftwch Fill, near Ogmora friend, Ronnie Rees, who accom- Vale, Glam, Colin Durke, aged eight, panied him on the ramble. They of Ormore Vale, took a nap. ife was killed the snake. awakened to find an adder, 19In. Jong, coiled round his ankle.
"I felt something tickling my leg." Colin said. "You can Imagine how
Terrified, Colin shouted for help. 19, frightened I was when I saw that it his brother, Parry, and a school was a poisonous odder."
Ex-Princess. To Wed Her
·Secretary
Copenhagen, July 12.
FORTY-YEAR-OLD
ex-Princess
Erlk of Denmark is to marry her private secretary. Thorkild Juelsberg, thirty-four-year-old crack tennis
player.
The princess met Jualsberg in 1934 on a Copenhagen tennis court.
She is a Canadian, daughter of a jumbor "king." Jahn Frederiek Boothe. She married Prince Erik In Ottawa In 1924. The marriage was annulled by King Christian, "cousin of Prince Erik, last February, and the princess lost her titles.
1937.
It can be a difficult matter to trans- port a baby on a cycle. The picture show how two English mothers have Juelsberg is the son of a Copen-solved the problem by carrying their hugen postmaster. Besides being babies in a basket pillion.
brilliant at tennis, he is a good swim- iner and planist,
When he met the princess he was without a Job, and was about to go to America.
The wedding will ke place in Paris shortly.
Backed His Horse To Win £100,000-But Wife's Outsider Romped Home
Capetown, July 12.
A horse owned by Mr. A. E. Jenkes, and which he had backed" to win £100,000, was beaten in the Durban July Handienp this after- noon by a rank outsider owned by Mrs. Henkes.
The July Handicap is the biggest race in South Africa,
Mr. Henkes horse Denals Blink was third, and his wife's 10-1 outsider Ballyjamesduff romped home.
Mrs. Henkes said she was backing her own horse desple her husband's big gamble on Deanls Blink.
When the horse passed the post, Henkes smilingly congratulated his wife. He had also lacked her horse, and won £35,000.
Mrs. Henkes has given the whole of the £6,000 prize money to the doskey and stable boys,
Three years ago Henkes was a traveller earning 25 a week. He drelled to gamble on the Rand Stock Exchange with his entire capital- £200. He was immediately successful, and is now a leading stockbroker worth a quarter of a miilon.
Fortune Given Up
For Love
Fears of Great Moths
Plague
Beccles (Suffolk), July 12. FEARS of a plague of moths, following the invasion of caterpillars which ravaged 50,000 trees in Norfolk and Suffolk, have inspired desperate efforts to cleanse the countryside of the pests.
The caterpillars have How turned into chrysalides, and thousands of great yellow mag- gots with black heads are swarming at the trunks of leafless trees.
MILLIONS OF EGGS
These chrysalietes are being spray- ed with a lead arsenate preparation to destroy them before they change inte moths,
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"If we allow the moths hatch out, they will lay millious af eggs on Be tree trunks." Mr. E. T. Goldsmith, well-known entomologist and member of Beccles Council, told a reporter.
"The egits, only visible under il microscope, will remain on the trees. throughout the winter.
"Then they hatch into caterpillars, and we are likely to have fur next year if these chrysalides are, not immediately killed."
A YOUNG widow, niece of a peer, will sacrifice many worse plague
thousands of pounds to marry again.
She is Mrs. Jacqueline Esther Sebag Montefiore, aged 26, widow of Mr. Arthur Sebag Montefiore, who was killed in a plane crash in April, 1935.
Notice of her marriage to Mr. Geoffrey Cheadle Myddleton, 22 a physiologist, of Ealing, has been given at a London register office,
Mr. Sebag Montefiore, who
was
A
nephew of Viscount
Bearsted, left a fortune of CROONING
£380,000,
He appointed half of the in- come of certain settled funds?
ULTIMATUM
to his wife during widowhood. TO B.B.C.
He also left her £20,000, his VOCAL BAN MUST GO, furniture and securities produc-
OR NO SONGS ing £5,000 a year upon trust for her during widowhood, with re- mainder
trust
for his eldest son,
upon
He gave the residue upon trust for Mrs. Sebag Monte- flore during widowhood or an annuity of £3,000 in the event of her remarriage.
AT ALL
strongly
da
Murder Trial Juror Pleads "No More'
A man stood in the jury box at the Old Bailey recently and said to the Common Serjeant (Mr. Cecil Whiteley, K.C.) as soon as he had taken his seat:-- "I was on the Jury in the Ruby Keen
case and it has upset me very much. I do not think I could go through with another...."
He asked to be excused from a Jury which was being empanelled.
Afr. Whiteley: Suppose every one who served on a murder tris Jury said the same thing, where should we be? Without disrespect. I have done my blt here. I was here last Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, I am business inan. I have a business up in Nottingham also and I have to go backwards and forwards.
So
music publishers feel againsi the B.B.C.'s "one-in-three" vocal ban that they have decided to issue what amounts to an ultimatum, They will tell the B.B.C. that: "Unless the one-in-three rule is annulled, publishers will refuse to allow their works to be broadcast,"
The .n.C. ls said to be quite in- different. Representatives of the two parties
The juror meated that he was will meet to discuss the question.
ving ■ verdict of upset, sald six months after her husband's SURVIVAL of THE FITTEST 7
murder again. anybody-it is a to n death she gave birth
The B.B.C. now stipulates that terrible thing....I cannot express, daughter, and there is one other crooners shall sing only every third myself."
number that the band plays. child, a son.
Mrs. Sebag Montefiore lives at Green-street, Mayfair. About
This rule is strongly objected to by the music publishers and dance band leaders on the grounds that it is only by the actual singing of the words that a new number becomes
THE KING
KING well known to the listening public. PLANS NEW
THE
HONOUR
ME King has under consideration Le founding of a new order, the Royal Order of King George the Fifth, to commemorate the reign of his falber.
It is intended to make the decora- tion a lesser order of merit of one class only, for subjects without 'title.
The B.B.C. argues, on the other hand, that the rule gets rid of many Inefficient crooners and thereby Im- proves the entertainment
value of the jazz programmes..
PILOTS
TOLD
'FIT OXYGEN’
Air Ministry notice to airmen is-
Mr. Whiteley: From what you have Bald you are not a person, who would muke a good juryman. You can releaso aland down, but I cannot you.
***At the Old Bailey Leslie George Stone was sentenced to death for the murder of Ruby Kecn.
Baby Dies In Fish Tank
On occasions eighteen-month-old-
two-feet-deep tank.
sued recently warns British pilots that Dennis William Allen was taken by regulations are coming to make it 11ls mother to the bottom of the gar- compulsory for them to carry oxygen den to feed the goldfish in a lorge supplies they fly passengers at 15,- 1000 feet or over.
He found some bread one day, and The rule will not affect present-day went alone to feed the fish. A few insigrila would be distributed to British air lines, but our 250 m.p.h. | minutes later his mother, the wito men and women in this country, the Atlantic planes now bullding will of a cowman at New Farm, Abridge, Dominions and colonies, for services probably cruise round the 15,000-feet Romford, found him drowned in the to the Empire...
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