THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1987.
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 Raff- 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.
Doctor Tennis Star
Wins Claim For Fees
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.
tion schemes.
Anna Neagle, the famous British flimi star is said to be one of the most popular women of the Empire
thanks to her clever portrayal of the life of the great British Queen.
Queen Victoria in the film depicting
Over 2,000,000 people are living in areas which have no protes- Tame Men Of
The Woods
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 Chibinet and chiefs of
the military forces.
Mr. Herbert Morrison, Leader of the 1.C.C.. is now urging the Government to take immediate action by offering to pay the whole of civilian defence out of cost national funds,
Although it has been suggested that Labour Councils liave made a political issue out of the problem and withheld rupport on that ground, the fact is that all the councils in the country, irrespective of party, strongly object Government's attitude on to the finance
Special concern is felt because many of the boroughs in which no prepara-
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 inegal operation?" her senior who could not be found tons have been made contain a large when lite payments were due. Dr.proportion of old and poor property suld the man, Spence proposed an operation, ask-difficult to protect from pulsan gas. Mr. Edward Westropp Morgan, ofing £65 for it. The father of the Many of those areas which have East Twickenham.
eliild eventually offered £40.
produced paper schemes have
practical
progress. Miss Morgan
asked Judge Drucquer.
presumed
sa."
"I deny it," said the doctor, jump- ing up. "He suggested it, but I would have nothing to do with such was being sued by the doctor for £1 2s, for attendance
a thing."
Mr. Morgan
the cost of precautions, according to the means of areas, and 75 per cent. of all costs beyond a penny rate. The Government view is that the burden
is not likely to exceed on the average the product of a penny rate,
This offer, described us the last to be made, has not been accepted by the councils,
Bearded Men of Luxton, colonists who have gone "back to Nature," broke a hitherto rigid silence the other day to talk to Daily Herald correspondents over a great log fire.
as
The L.C.C. and London Borough Labour Parties are not opposed to air They were some of the Arst raid precautions, but in common with strangers ever to be admitted to their the other councils bulieve they should two-year-old coluny in the backwoods form part of the national, defence on a hill six milles from Corby, Derby- scheme and that expenses should be shire-twenly people who live paid by the country as a whole. Many people lived hundreds of years ago.. councils controlled by Turles have taken o strongter line than
They are cultured, educated people, Labour councils.
five familles in all, who have gone back to the land, they say, to escape Thousands of voluntary wardens the strain of living in modern towns are required.
and cities.
some
Large sums will also be required for decontaminating
Their numbers include a University centres, shelters, not and materials for making buildings a chemist and a schoolmaster.
graduate, a stockbroker, a journalist, gas and bomb-splinter proof,
wardens and other Three bubles have been born re- cantly in the colony, whose people
an attractive dirt made muchon has made the position | training
of
The
said to the judge: The doctor told of all the councils clear in conferences workers and provision of their equipe an untruth when he said he did not with the Home Secretary. Sir Samuelment will also absorb large sums. suggest an operation. Mummy and floare has been told plainly that re- daddy thought it would be danger-sponsibility for delay rests with the
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on his daughter. He was also sued by Miss Hilda Larkasan, a nursing Dr. Spence's solicitor said this was home proprietress, of East. Sheen, a deliberate falsehood, for £30 Gs, id. fees.
Mr. Morgan said his daughter was betrayed by a man eighteen years
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FURTHER MOVES
unprotected boroughs
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till the land and tend their stock from dawn to sunset.
They scarcely ever visit a town. They never visit a theatre or cinema, hear neither radio nor gramophone, In their half dozen wooden shacks. spotlessly clean Inside, the wlyes prepare home-grown food over open Bres.
They were asked why the men folk grow long beards.
The boroughs which have prepared not think it is worth shaving." satisfactory schemes are Hammer-
A chorus replied, "Because we do
smith, Westminster, Chelsen, Maryle- "We believe in just living our own bone, Paddington, Holborn, Wonds-natural lives with our wives and worth, Hampstead, Kensington, St. families," sald one of the leaders. Paneras, Stoke Newington, City of London, Battersea, Islington.
Hackney and
We are outside the money systern us far as possible, That is to say we produce as much as we possibis.can There will be further negotiations by farming our own land, keeping with the Home Secretary during the cattle and using horses and donkeys next few weeks. It is believed that for transport. he is now anxious to rectify the posi tion as soon as possible and the councils hope for an early settlement.
Predicted Murder In The Press
"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 fe is no sinecure. But re- member this, we lead a virile life in the open and every one of us is happy.
"There is no real organisation, cach man working with his family for him- selt. 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 suminer Patrick Corcoran, an American la- they have been known to work bour leader, hus been murdered near in their bare feet on the land. his Minneapolis home, say the Dally
Herald.
He had been shot behind the right car, apparently while trying to flee to safely.
Ten days before Cedric Adams, columnist of the Minneapolis Star, wrote:
Women Farmers
Increase
Davis, Cal.
A sharp increase of farming in-
"I met a very close friend last terest among women was announced night who has given me scores of by 4-10 Club directors In the items in the past, some of which Agricultural Extension Service of the were scoops. He has never been University of California. wrong, and here's one you can take
Girls out-
for avhat it is worth: A prominentnumbered boys attending an annual labour leader in Minneapolis will encampment of young farmers here. bo'laken for a ride in two weeks,"
British Docontralization
Urged
London.
Mr. Adams, who said that his in- formation come from another La- 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 n group of unions in the district which were afliated to the American Federation "Decentralization" of Great Britain of Labour. A struggle for supre and the bullding of new towns of macy has been going on in Minne- | 60,400 Inhabitants is advocated by Dr. apolls and the twin city of St. Paul Montgomery Hyde and G. B. Fal- between the Federation and Com-kiner Nuttall in their book, "Air milltee for Industrial Organisation. Defence and the Civil Population."
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