THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1938.
MAYFAIR GIRL RUNS FARM TO AID EX-CONVICTS
"Simple! — I
Pay
Them to Behave"
By MARY WELSH
Deirdre du Barry, twenty-four-year- old Mayfair girl, is adapting her turkey farm and a 3,000-acre shoot near Tenter- den, Kent, into a training ground where ex-convicts can learn how to work on the land and regain their self-confidence.
Miss du Barry-who comes of the same family as the famous Mme. du Barry, of the eighteenth century French Court- has been helping convicts and their families for three years.
In the drawing room of her London home, near St. James's Painco, she told me of her suc- cess. Two things atrike you about that room- the desk and the floweTS,
Mias du Barry's desk is big and business- like with two telephones and sheaves of papers. There are enough flowers
CHINESE
PLAY
PRODUCED
Members of the cast of the famous Chinese play "Romance of the Western Chamber"
to fill a shop. She which opened last night at the Queen's Theatre. The play is being produced by the Hong- buys them from the street vendor on the corner,kong Chinese Women's Club-King's Studio. and thus provides his family with nearly half of their income every wook.
Mis du Barry said: "I began this business when an old nurse of mine got me interested in Michael Murphy, Ho was an Irish boy who was in Brixton Jail for stealing £2,000 worth of bonds, Michael had been a friend of my nurse, and she was terribly upset about it.
"When he was transferred to Wandsworth I went and got his clothes and kept them for him, and when he came out I paid his passago back to Ireland. still writes me occasionally, calls me his collcon."
Не
own
Since then Misa da Barry hus employed nine ex-convicts at different times in her household, Tenterden Manor, to give them their first jobs-and good references,
She is small and fragile-looking, but she has had no difculties manuging her working guests.
"One tried to murder the kitchen maid because she refused to walk out' with him," she mid. "She Uled the gamekeeper better.
THROWN OUT
NAVY ANSWERED- WITH A THIRST
A FINE DAY AT HALT
་་ thought the word 'Hall' was the name of the village: that is why I did not stop."
This explanation wan kald to have been given by one of 110 motorista summoned al War- mlaster recently for falling to conform with "Hall at Major Road Ahead" sigus.
Fines totalling nearly £100 were imposed on the motorlats.
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Mass Production Made
Reservists A.B.s Again
thot
The British Fleet remains; for they are officially aware mobilised, although almost all more beer was drunk at Devonport of the 29,000 reservists re-in the three days following mobilist- cently called up have now re- Armistice in 1918,
tion than in the three days after the turned to their homes with a month's pay, and, in most
ONLY HALF CALLED enses, a £5 bonus for their national service,
Naval mobilisation is carried out in two operations: that calling on The response to the call of service ratings, and that concerning
Women Thrown duty and the efficiency with reservists.
To Alligators
New York.
ing.
which the men were passed; Active service mobilisation conalsts "Then there was Evan, I found
through their depota was evening (gunnery and torpedo courses. of the suspension of technical train- que day that he had packed my rid-
greater than the Admiralty ex- etc.) and the high-speed transfer of ing clothes and all my silk shirts Police and was about to depart with them.
In San Antonio, Texas,pected, it was stated recently. men in depots to their service posts "I got one of my boys into the modern Bluebeard, who, during the
have unearthed the secrets of a The last general mobilisation of at home and abroad, Army, and another a job sa
the Fleet was in 1914, and although there sca past six years, has murdered at least
Reserve mobilisation is put into man. Two of them I sent back to five women and fed some of them to exercise in 1922 it was thought that serves consist of: naval pensioners
n partial mobilisation netion by royal proclamation. Was
XC- Lancashire, and two to Wales.
"Another two I'm interested in are
his pet alligators.
the machinery for dealing with the (men who have served 22 years in These discoveries were made dur-rush of men, still in prison and today there is ing inquiries into the suicide of Joe paper," might show defects in work-
evolved only "on the Royal Navy and are liable to be Mrs Wills. Her husband has gone Ball, who kept a road-house 15 miles
called up in any emergency even to jail for eighteen months, and she from San Antonio,
without mobilisation). These men came to-day to tell me she and their
The three Home ports, Devonport, comprise the majority of the higher five children were thrown out of of his wives and four women who a denuded of three-quarters of their whose personnel have to possess Dail was married three times. One Portsmouth, and Chatham, had been ratings for a Navy more than half of their house because she couldn't pay different times were employed by normal complement-posted to their specialised knowledge of complicated the rent. I've written to the land-him as dauec hostesses disappeared in ships, lord for their clothes, and given her mysterious circumstances,
Yet the average time for each machinery and armament. rent money for a new house."
man to pass through all the formall- Mirs du Barry does not keep wheeler, told the police that he hurt tion, kit equipment, payment
employer. negro
Clifford ties of medical and dental examina books on the cost of her good seen Ball kill Hazel Brown with a
of Fleet works.
allowances and advance pay, Alting But she estimates they cost hatchet and dissect her body, which and testing of gas mask, was only her between three and four hun-Wheeler helped him to bury. Police three hours, drest pounds a year. The new farm have found her remains and are now will cost more than that. "We breed turkeys, chickens, and Ball's hostesses whom Wheeler sald
searching for the
hody of another of pheasants there now,' stre said, "ond was murdered in 1938.
am planning to make room for fifteen
Another witness said that he saw or twenty more men. We can Ball throw the bodies of women into probably use some of them growing crops, but I haven't worked out that alligators.
a concrete pit where he kept live pet plan yet, I need the advice farming experts."
THEY WILL REFORM'
of
If the farm pays for itself, with- out prodis, Miss du Barry will be vallalled,
Police have found a number of artient love letters addressed lo killed, but who cares? Ball. One read: "I know I may be I love you." I love you. "This work
Through the open window came is Intercaling," she autd. "Most of the men I've dealt
the sound of a Viennese waltz. with will reform, I find, if I can
Misa du Barry found her purse and show them it is worth it to them.
hunted for small silver pleces, My system is simply offering them a she said. "First in the morning is "Every day I get four musicians," reward-a pound or two-for good the street plano. Then there's the
"I don't expect any reward my-ils violinist. I can't turn
bald-headed man who sings. Then weit. It's a satisfaction to me when down,"
them I can really help them."
She sent a servant down- stairs with the money.
behaviour.
DINNER
BEFORE THE CALL
The entire mobilisation was com pleted in three days. Hundreds of men reported to their depots before the mobilisation proclamation was signed by the King on the morning. of September 28.
Next are the men of the Royal Reserve. who have served seven or 12 years with the Navy: then the Royal Naval Reserves, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserves the Territorials of the Navy-and the Auxiliary Wireless and Sick Berth Reserves.
The total of all these divisions
is 57,000 men. Only half were called up, and those who still re-
went
main on duty are skilled men of special importance and experience. Morning newspapers of that day
"Mass production" methods. were announced the Impending mobilisa
on, and the first reservist reported used to speed up the handling of re- 2.m. By 8 a.m. 200 men had servists. Each man started with a reported at one depot. During the line" and passed through a series of card at one end of an "assembly day the men reporting at one depot "pens" connected by corridors. totalled 4,000.
Behaviour of the men cellent. At one port, on the second through his medical and other tests,
WOR ex- As he passed along he night after mobilisation, 0,000 reser- checked for pay and arranged for morning not one was absent from lected his gas mask and kit and come vists were given leave, and In the sums to be paid to his family, col- roll call. One, it is true, had come out at the other end ready to travel back drunk-on all fours-but full wherever he had been posted, of good will and cagerness for duty.
Their Lordships of the Admiralty Southern
Railway companies-especially the have a whimsical taste in statistles, closely with the Admiralty in provid
Railway co-operated ing transport at the shortest notice, SEEEEE but motor transport and ordinary "foot-slogging" took thousands of men to their posts.
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Normal recruiting for the Navy was suspended at the moment of mobilisation but was resumed yes- terday. It would not have been possible to deal with raw recruits in the general bustle.
That was how the Silent Service did its job, silently, smoothly, and emciently.
THREE WEDDINGS - IN ARCTIC SHIP
Halifax, Nova Scotia, After completing an 11,000-miles voyage in the Arctic Archipelago the Hudson's Bay Company steamship Nascople has arrived here with party of Clovemument scientists and several passengers, including Moun- lies and radio operators on leave.
An interesting feature of the trip was the transfer of Eskimo families from Greenland to Gralgharbour, the northernmost post office in the Em- pire,
:
Three marriages were solemnised In the Nascople during her visit to the Arctic.
!
Unsung Heroes Of China War
FEARLESS TRUCK DRIVERS
Among the unsung heroes In the Before they are commissioned, these Chiun tur are her army truck drivers were all given a soild course drivers, who run as much risk of in mechanics. getting killed or wounded
Repair shops cr
who
路网
the gasoline stations are few on China's soldiers in the trenches, saya "Straits Times." They are the ones the driver should be able immediately the roads. Thus, if anything goes wrong. speed on the highways at all to locate the trouble and to make tho hours of the day and night rushing necessary repairs within the shortest reinforcements, munitions and food time supplies to where they are needed
possible. most. Whether they arrive at their destinations on time aften determines the fortune of a battle.
west
and
running on the highways still under How many heavy trucks are now Chincar
control is not known. The figure must
run up to many thou- Young and confident, these drivers wand. Then in addition the South- fall within a category by themselves.
Transportation Bureau Although in uniform, they, as a rule. Bureau have in service about 3,000 the North-west Transportation are not armed. They take order from each. the Motorized Regiment, of which China's most important nighways. These trucks run on three of in every Chinese division. All starting from Henkow, they lead one in They have to work under extremely strenuous conditions. It is a matter Kunming in the South-West and to to Lanchow in the North-West, to of routine for them to be on the road Hongkong in the south. for ten or fifteen hours without single moment's rest in between Their molto in: "Defs hardships."
there is
MANY CASUALTIES
these
Travelling to these border towns, products such as silk, wood oil, ten,
vehicles
carry China's native tungsten and other high-priced com- modities for exports in order to bulld reserve On their return journey,
These drivers all have had special up China's foreign specle training. With the Japanese planes abroad. active in the daytime, they often hava they bring all descriptions of war to run the gauntlet of machine-gun materials ranging from machine-guns fire or bombs from the sky. Many to pinne parts, have been killed that way.
Thus, besides keeping a sharp look on the
NEW "LIFE-LINES" wheel and the road ahead of them, Sinklang and Soviet Russia, while The road to Lanchow goes lo they have to cock their car constantly the highway to Kunming extends to for the droning of any enemy air-Burma. From both of these routes,
Driving at top speed is a dimeuil army has been receiving
It is an open secret at the Chinese feat in a country where roads are portion of its munitions. unlit at night and often intolerably rough.
A number of the truck drivers in are nothing short of "graveyards" to from the South Seax.
craft.
large
THAT'S
Harry's wife
"SHE" enters. All eyes are wh her. On avery lip the question "who
SHE?"
Immaculate from head to foo2 mar styled to the minute-looking as If she had just come from the hale dresser.
And then the secret is out, SHE only goes occasionally to the hitr dresser to have her ware set-ber criffure modernized! A friend tells how particulas she is te shampoo== regularly at home.
And there's really no trick to it Discriminating women know that Mulad leaves the hair seft, and easy to manage=978- aurves the wave- makes it sparkle with new lile, gloss and fusire.
Womenwha knewwill tell you that the nat ural oils in Muisified nourish the scalp — prevent its drying out. Free el harsh alkali Multibed it safe even for baby's tender scalp.
Mulsified
COCOANUT OIL SHAMPOO
Ditches following air raids the Chinese army are volunteers NEW TRANSPARENT
ran
Like their
any reckless souls at wheels. however, comparatively few accidents are men of grent fortitude. So fat.
atom
native-born
rn fellow craftsmen, they of this nature have happened. The one instance is sufficient to prove it. reason is not far
Just! seck. In the first Malaria place,
they are all experienced. Then China in the summer and autumn rampant in Central ach of them is held responsible months. individually for his truck. If any drivers fell victims, but they re- Many of these dare-devil thing happens to it, he will be duly mained at their wheels, fever or no punished.
fever.
Secrets of Man Whom Nazis Cannot Break
Outspoken answers by Pastor Niemoller- ex-German U-boat Commander-to his Nazis persecutors are quoted in a book called "Martin Niemoller and His Confession," Switzerland and rigorously banned in Germany. published in Niemoller was arrested!
14 months ago after he CAT TIED UP had preached
sermons
protesting against the
Nazi attitude to FOR 7 YEARS
the
Church. He was sentenced
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A man and his wife who kept a to seven months' impri- cat tied to a mangle for seven years "sonment, and after serv- fined £2 and ordered
were, at Wimbledon recently, cach ing his term was sent to guincas costs.
to pay two a concentration camp.
The couple, Willem Hearn, a rail- way carriage examiner, and his wife Latest news from Germany Constance, both of Plough-lane, For your complete beauty treatment, suggests that he will be released Wimbledon, pleaded not guilty to use shortly, but the book just pub-fusing the cat unnecessary suffer- Mascara (Cream with brush) Tattoo Powder, Rouge lished states emphatically: "If Mr. Gordon Jones, for the RS.P.C. Auw Ptt Beng's Trading Co. Ltd.
Sole Distributor: political prisoners Pastor Nic-normal exercise which a cat should an amnesty is given to German A, said: "During the whole of the. moller will not be included."
time the cat was never allowed the
Longkang.
have. It must have been perfectly obvious that the cat
suffering discomfort.
OPEN DEFIANCE
near it.
HOLD-UP IN Y.M.C.A. found Sewing Amah Attacked By
Two Men
The detailed story of Niumolier's defiance is told for the first Ume.
ATTACKED STRANGERS Niemoller refused to keep secret some confidential reports on
"A deep indentation WILN
He spread the news of Nazi persecu- to attack any strangers
new around its neck where the collar had legal measures against the church, worn through the fur. It attempted
proclaim it openly from the pulpit."ment of selfishness to keep a domes- tion at once,
that came "If la vital," he said, "I must
"It seems to have been a refine-
A bold robbery was committed at the European Y.M.C.A. yesterday, when a sewing amah was attacked When lus bluntness brought him tic cat in this way."
by two men into conflict with the Nazis he did spector, said the cat was taken into
and robbed of two not flinch.
George Edwards, on RSPCA, in-rings und a watch. was ordered to appear at the offices the garden, but it could not walk the servants were busy. The amah
On July 1, 1937, he
The affair occurred at tmn while of the German Secret Police for
normally, It could scarcely waddle." cross-examination.
Mr. Charles Bray, 4
veterinary was exercise the cat could not assimilate
In the sewing room on the 1rst Anor when two men entered. other removed the jewellery,
He left his home and attended surgeon, said that owing to Jack of One seized her by the neck and the the Gestapo offices. Ho has never food, been home since.
When he arrived in prison the prison chaplain asked him:
"My brother, why are, you in prison?"
Niemoller, burning with faith in the
his
Church, answered him, "My brother, why are you not in prison?"
During the whole time he was in prison he suffered every kind of per-j kecution with calm strength.
WOMEN'S PETITION Nothing could shake Niemoller's spirit. When he was taunted with his war record, and asked how he could reconcile the command of a U-boat with his new career as a pas- tor, he asid firmly:
"I did my war work because I eaw: of us to do our duty. that it was my duty. God wants all
"I have never та в по- combefant ship, and I hayo never wunk a ship without saving the .crow."
Last week 700 brave German wo- men openly signed à petition for his release. But no oficial comment has been made on the petition.
Niemoller is still in his cell un- defeated...
Mrs. Hearn told the Bench, was very fond of the cal, and I cried when the vet, told me it was ill. could not realise it was suffering."
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