THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17; 1937.
London Is Britain's Weakest Air Defence City
Captain Ernest A. Simpson. 40, former husband of the Duchess of Windsor, with his bride, the, former Mary Kirk Naft- ray, 41, after their wedding in the ballroom of the Brooklawn Country Club at Fairfield, Conn., performed by a Justice of the Peace. Both listed their residence as London.
Tennis Star
Doctor Tennis
Wins Claim For Fees
A man alleged at Brentford recently that when his twenty-four- year-old daughter was going to have a baby, Dr. Patrick Spence, the Davis Cup tennis player, suggested an operation.
"Do you mean an megas operation?"
asked Judge Drucquer.
"I presumed so," said the man, Mr. Edward Westropp Morgan, of East Twickenham.
***I deny it,” said the doctor, jump- "lie suggested it. but I ing up. would have nothing to do with such 4thing."
Mr. Morgan
was being sued by The doctor for LU 25. for attendance on his daughter. He was also sur:i
2,000,000 PEOPLE HAVE NO PROTECTION
LONDON, which would be the most vulnerable city
in the country during wartime and the first objective of an enemy air force, is far behind any other centre in preparations for the defence of civilians.
Long delay by the Government in deciding to pay the cost of civilian protection out of national defence funds has faced the Air Raid Precautions Department of the Home Office with a serious problem.
Over 2,000,000 people are living in areas which have no protec tion schemes.
A plan to hold defence exercises for the civilian population of London similar to that carried out in Berlin recently has been postponed because half the London boroughs have no plan.
ALL PARTIES OBJECT A serious view of the situation is
taken by the Cabinet and chiefs of
the milliary forces.
Mr. Herbert Morrison, Leader of the L.C.C.. IR
now urging the Government to take Inutiedlate action by offering to pay the whole cost of clyllian defence out of national funds,
on
the cost of precautions, according to the means of areas, and 75 per cent. of all custs beyond a penny rule. The
Government view is that the burden is not likely to exceed on the average the product of a penny rate.
This offer, described as the last
Anu Nengle, the famous British im star is sald to be one of the Imost popular women of the Empire
thanks to her clever portrayal of Queen Victoria in the fim depicting the life of the great British Queen.
Tame Men
Of The Woods
Bearded Men of Luxton, colonists who have gane “back to Nature," broke a hitherto rigid silence the other day to talk to
to be made, has not been accepted Daily Herald correspondents over by the counells,
a great log fire.
The L.C.C. and London Borough
They were Labour Parties are not opposed to air
--some of the first ad precautions, but in common with strangers ever to be admitted to their the other councils beileve they should two-year-old colony in the backwoods form part of the national defence on a hill six mites from Corby, Derby- scheme and that expenses should be shire-twenty people who live Paid by the country as a whole. Many people ved hundreds of years ago. councils controlled by Tories hove taken a stronger Ins than
They are cultured, educated people, someve families in all, who have gone Labour councils.
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back to the land, they say, lo escape Thousands of voluntary wardens the strain of living in modern towns are required.
and cities.
Although it has been suggested that Labour Councils have made a politlen! issue out of the problem and withheld support on that ground, the fact is that all the councils in the country, irrespective of party, strongly object to the Government's attitude face.
Special concern is felt because many hf the boroughs in which no prepara- her senior who could not be found tious have been made contain a large when the payments were due. Dr.proportion of old and poor property Spence proposed an operation, ask-difficult to protect from polson gus. Large sums will also be required for Their numbers include a University rig 20s for it. The father of the Many of those areas which have decontaminating centres, shelters, graduate, a stockbroker, a journalist, child eventually offered £40. produced paper schemes have not and materials for making buildings chemist and a schoolmaster.
made much practical progress, gas and bomb-splinter proof. The Miss Morgan an attractive girl,
Mr. Morrison has made the position | training of wardens and other Three babies have been born re- said to the judge: "The doctor told
untruth when he said he did not with the Home Secretary. Sir Samuel ment will also absorb large sums.
of all the councils clear in conferences workers and provision of their equip-cently in the colony, whose people Mummy and suggest an operation. daddy thought it would be danger-Hoare has been told plainly that re- sponsibility for delay rests with the Government.
cus.'
by Miss Hilda Larkman, a nursing Dr. Spence's solicitor said this was home proprietress, of East Sheen, in deliberate falsehood. for 130 68, 1d. fees.
THEIR LAST OFFER
Judge Drucquer awarded the The Government has now offered
Mr. Morgan sak! his daughter was doctor £6 5s, wit costs, and £30 to pay for all extra fire brigade equip- betrayed by mon eighteen years 6s. Id. to Miss Larkman, with costs. I ment and from 00 to 75 per cent of
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FURTHER MOVES The unprotected boroughs London are:
Ponlar, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Greenwich, Bermondsey, Southwark. Camberwell, Deptford. Fulham. Stepney,
Woolwich, Lambeth.
Lewisham, Finsbury.
Ull the land and tend their stock from dawn to sunset.
They scarcely ever visit a town. of They never visit a theatre or cinema, hear neither radio nor gramophone. in their half dozen wooden shacks, spotlessly clean inside, the wives prepare home-grown food over open fires.
They were asked why the men folk grow long beards.
A chorus replied, "Because we do
The boroughs which have prepared not think it is worth shaving." satisfactory scheines are Hommer-
smith, Westminster, Chelsea, Maryle- "We believe in just living our own bong. Paddington, Helborn, Wands-natural lives with our wives and worth, Hampstead, Kensington, St. families," said one of the leaders. Pancras, Stoke Newington, City of London, Battersea, Hackney and Islington.
There will be further negotiations with the Home Secretary during the next few weeks. It is believed that he is now anxious to rectify the post- tion as soon possible and the councils hope for an early settlement.
Predicted Murder In
The Press
We are outside the money system as for as possible. That is to say we produce-as-much as we possibly can by farming our own land, keeping cattle and using horses and donkeys for transport.
"We are working on a sort of five- year plan in the hope that eventually we shall be absolutely self-support- ing. We have a weaving apparatus with which we are starting to make. our own clothes.
"Our life is no sinecure. But re- member this, we lead a virife life in the open and every one of us is happy. "There is no real organisation, cach man working with his family for him- self. But we are not cranks-we are level-headed people."
The Bearded Men now wear cordu-
Exactly as predicted by a writer in roy breeches, and leather or tweed the Minneapolis Star recently, coats, and gum-boots. In the summer Patrick Corcoran, an American la- they have been known to work |bour leader, has been murdered near fin their bare feet on the land.
his Minneapolis home, say the Dally
Herald.
He had been shot behind the right ear, apparently while trying to flee to safety.
Ten days before Cedric Adams, columnist of the Minneapolis Star, wrole:
Women Farmers
Increase
Davis, Cal.
A sharp Increase of farming in-
"I met a very close friend fast Įterest among women was announced night who has given me scores of by 4-H Club directors In the items In the past, some of which Agricultural Extension Service of the
wern scoopa. He has never been
wrong, and hero's one you can take University of California. Girls out- for what it is worth: A prominent numbered boys attending an annual labour leader in Minneapolis will encampment of young farmers' here. be taken for a ride' in two weeks.”
Mr Adama, who said that his in-
formation came from another La-British Decentralization
bour leader whom he declined to
name, went to the police as soon as
he heard of Corcoran's murder.
Corcoran was the chief of
group
of unions in the district which were afallated to the American Federation
Urged
.London.
"Decentralization" of Great Britain
of Labour. struggle for supre- and the building of new towns of macy has been going on in Minne-50,400 inhabitants is advocated by Dr. apolls and the twin city of St. Paul Montgomery Hyde and G. D. Fal- between the Federation and Com- İkiner Nuttall their book, "Air mittee for Industrial Organisation. Defence and the Civil Population."
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