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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 2, 1998.
CHINESE
PLAY
PRODUCED
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 form 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 Palace, she told me of her suc-: cess. Two things strike you about that room-- the desk and the flowers.
Misa du Barry's desk is big and business- like with two tolephones and sheaves of papers.
Merabers of the cast of the famous Chinese play, "Romance of the Western Chamber" There are enough flowers 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 week.
Miss du Barry said: "I began this business when an old nurse of mine got me interested in Michael Murphy. He 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 whe was terribly upset about it.
"When he was transferred to Wandsworth I wont and got his clothes and kept them for him, and when he came out I paid his į passage back to Ireland. Hel still writes mo occasionally, calls; me his colleen.'
own
Since then Miss du Barry has employed nine ex-convicta at different times in her household, Tenterden Manor, to give them their frst jobs-and i good references.
She is small and fragile-looking
had no difficulties
but she has
managing her working guests.
"One tried to murder the kitchen mold because she refused to walk
NAVY ANSWERED- WITH A THIRST
A FINE DAY AT HALT
"I hought the word 'Hall* was the name of the village: That is why I did not klop."
This explanation was said to have been given by one of 116 motorisis nummoned at War- minster recently for failing to conform with "aint Major Road Ahead" algna,
Fines totaling nearly £100 were imposed on the motorials.
out' with him," the mid. Shed Women Thrown
the gamekeeper better.
THROWN OUT”
"Then there was Evan, i found one day that he had packed my rld- Ing clothes and all my silk shirts and was about to depart with them.
I got one of my
boys into the Army, und another a job as a sen- man. Two of then I sent back to Lancashire, and two to Wales.
To Alligators
New York.
Police
secrets of a have unearthed the modern Bluebeard, who, during the past six years, has murdered at least live women and fed some of them to his pei alligators.
in San Antonio, Texas,
"Mass Production
Made
Reservists A.B.s Again
aware that
The British Fleet remains; for they are offcially mobilised, although almost all more beer was drunk at Devonport in the three days following mobiliso-
Armistice in 1018.
of the 29.000 reservists re-tion than in the three days after the cently called up have now re- turned to their homes with a month's pay, and, in most cases, a £5 bonus for their: national service.
ONLY HALF CALLED
Naval mobilisation is carried out In two operations: that calling on
The response to the call of service ratings, and that concerning duty and the efficiency with reservists.
courses.
Active service mobilisation consists which the men were passed
of the suspension of technical train- through their depots was evening (gunnery and torpedo greater than the Admiralty ex- etc.) and the high-speed transfer of men in depots to their service posts pected, it was stated recently.
The last general mobilisation of at home and abroad,
Reserve mobilisation is put into the Fleet was in 1914, and although
a partial mobilisation action by royal proclamation. Re- there was exercise in 1922 it was thought that serves consist of: naval pensioners the machinery for dealing with the men who have served 22 years in men, evolved only "on the Royal Navy and are liable to be rush of
emergency even paper," might show defects in work-valled up in any
without mobilisation). These The three Home poris, Devonport, cumprise the majority of the higher One Portsmouth, and Chatham, had been ratings for a Navy more than half of
dentided of three-quarters of their whose personnel have to normal complement-posted to their specialised knowledge of complicated ships. Yet the average time for each machinery and armament. mun to pass through all the formall-
Next are the men of the Royal
who have Clifford ties of medical and dental examina-i
served tion, kit equipment, payment of Fleet Reserve, not keep wheeler, told the police that he had allowances and advance pay, fitting) seven or 12 years with the Navy;
and testing of gas mask, was only then three hours.
employce, Gegro
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Ing.
"Another two I'm Interested in are
These discoveries were made dur- still in prison and to-day there is Ing inquiries into the suicide of Joe Mrs. Wills. Tiec husband has gone Ball, who kept road-house 15 miles 5 to jail for eighteen months, and she from San Antonio, came to-day to tell me she and their Ball was married three times. five children were thrown out of of his wives and four women who at their house because she couldn't pay different times were employed by the rent. I've written to the land-him as dance hostesses disappeared in ford for their clothes, and given her mysterious circumstances. rent money for a new house." Miss du Barry does books.
en the cost of her good seen Ball it Hazel Brown with works. But she estimates they cost hatchet and disacci her borly, which her between three and four hun-Wheeler helped him to bury, Police dred pounds a year. The new farm have found her remains and are now will cost more than that,
searching for the body of another of "We breed turkeys, chickens; and Ball's hostesses when Wheeler sald pheasants there now," she said, "and was murdered in 1938. i am planning to make room for
Another witness sald that he saw ifteen or twenty more men. We enn Ball throw the bodies of women into probably use some of them growing a concrete plt where he kept five pet crops, but I haven't worked out that
alligators. plan yet. I need the advice of
Police have found a farming experts."
letters ardent love
THEY WILL REFORM'
If the farm pays for itself, with out profila, Miss du Barry will be yotiklied.
number of addressed to Bail One read: "I know I may be killed, but who cares? I love
ove you."
BEFORE THE CALL
The entire mobilisation was com- | pleted in three days. Hundreds of men reported to their depots before the mobilisation proclamation signed by the King on the morning
of September 28,
WA5
Was CX-
men
possess
Reserves, the Royal Naval Royal Naval Volunteer Reserves- the Territorials of the Navy-and the Auxiliary Wireless and Sick Berth Reserves.
went
Unsung Heroes Of China War
FEARLESS TRUCK DRIVERS
or
Among the unsung heroes in the Before they are commissioned, these China war Bro ker army truck drivers were all given u solid course drivers, who run as much risk of in mechanics. Repair shops getting killed or wounded CLI the gasoline stations are few on China's soldiers in the trenches, Adya the roads. Thus, if anything goes wranit, "Straits Times." They are the ones the driver should be able Immediately who speed on the highways at all to locate the trouble and to make the hours of the day and night rushing necessary repairs within the shortest reinforcements, munitions and food time possible. supplies to where they are needed How many heavy trucks are now. mast. Whether they arrive at their destinations on time aften determines the fortune of a battlo.
running the highways still under Chinese control is not known. The figure must run up to many thou- Young and confident, these drivers sands. Then in addition the South-
Transportation Bureau fall within a category by themselves.
and the North-west Transportailon Although in uniform, they, as a rule. Bureau have in service about 3,000 are not armed. They take order from each. These trucks run on three of the Motorised Regiment, of which China's most important nighways. there is one in every Chinese division. All starting from Hankow, they lead They have to work under extremely to Lanchow In the North-West, to strenuous conditions. It is a matter Kunming in the South-West and to of routine for them to be on the road Hongkong in
in the
south.
carry 23
for ten or Bfteen bourn without a Travelling to these border towns, single moment's rest in between. these vehicles
Chima's native Their motto is: "Defy hardships."
products
such
allk,
wood oll, ten, tungsten and other high-priced com- modities for exports in order to build up China's foreign specie reserve abrond On their return Journey, they bring all descriptions of wor
MANY CASUALTIES
These drivers all have had special training. With the Japanese planes netive In the daytime, they often have to run the gauntlet of machine-gun materials ranging from machine-guna fre or bombs from the sky. Many to plane parts. have been killed that way.
Thus. besides keeping a sharp look on the wheel and the road ahead of them, they have to cock their ear constantly
the droning of any enemy air craft.
to
NEW "LIFE-LINES" Sinilang und Soviet Russia, while
The road to Lanchow goes the highway to Kumming extends to Burma. From both of these routes, |
it is as open secret that the Chinese Driving at top speed is a difficult army has been receiving A large fent in a country where roads are portion of its munitions.
unit at night and often intolerably number of the truck drivers in
THAT'S Harry's wife
"SHE" enters. All eyes are uden her. On avery lip the question "who I SHE?"
Immaculate from head to fool- styled to the minute-booking as if she had just come from the balr- dresser.
And then the secret is out. SHE only goes occasionally to the hair- dresser to have her waya sel—ber coilure modernizedt A friend Reits how particular she is to shampoo- regularly at home.
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rough. are nothing short of "graveyards" to from the South Seas. Like their any TE
reckless souls at wheels. So far, native-born fellow craftsmen, they however, comparatively
few
dents are men of great fortitude. Just
Ditches following air raids the Chinese urms are volunteers NEW TRANSPARENT
accident of this nature lave happened. The one Instance is suflelent to prove I. renson is not far to seck. In the first Malaria
in Central ran rampant place, they are all experienced. Then China in the suminer and autumn each of them is held responsible months. Many of these dare-devil individually for his truck. If any drivers fell victims, but they thing happens to it, he will be dulymained at their wheels, fever or no punished.
tever.
Secrets of
of Man Whom Nazis Cannot Break
Outspoken answers by Pastor Nicmoller- ex-German U-boat Commander-to his Nazis persecutors are quoted in a book called "Martin Niemoller and His Confession," published in Switzerland and rigorously banned in Germany. Niemoller was arrested
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HOLD-UP IN YM.C.A.
found Sewing Amah Attacked By
The detailed story of Niemoller's
ATTACKED STRANGERS deflonce is told for the first time.
Niemoller refused to keep secret
Wha "A deep indentation some confidential reports on new around its neck where the collar had legal measures against
It attempted the church. worn through the fur.
tion at once.
near it.
that catne
Two Men
The total of all these divisions
Only Is 57,000 men.
half were called up, and those who sill re- main on duty are skilled men of special Importance and experience. Morning newspapers of that day
"Mass production" methods were announced the impending mobilisa- tion, and the first reservist reported used to speed up the handling of re- at & a.m. By 0 am. 200 men had servists. Each man started with a eard at one end of an "assembly reported at one depot. During the line and passed through a series of day the men reporting at one depul "pens" connected by corridors. Through the open window came totalled 4,900. the sound of a Viennese waltz.
Behaviour of the men
As he passed along he cellent. Miss du Barry found her purse and
He spread the news of Nazi persecu- to attack any strangers At one port, on the second through his medical and other tests,
A bold robbery was committed at hunted for small silver pieces, night after mobilisation, 6,000 reser- checked for pay and arranged for "Every day I get four musleions," vists were given, leave, and in the sums to be paid to his family, col-
"It seems to have been a refine- the European Y.M.C.A. yesterday, she said. "First in the morning is morning not one was absent from lecled his gas musk and kit and came
"If it is vital." he said, "I must ment of selfishness to keep a domes when a sewing amah was attacked proclaim if openly from the pulpit."]
by two men and robbed of two the street piano. Then there's the roll call. One, it is true, had come out at the other end ready to travel
When his bluntness brought him tie cat in this way." bald-headed man who sings. Then back drunk-on all fours-but full wherever he had been posted.
into conflict with the Nazis he did George Edwards, an R.S.P.C.A. in-rings and a watch. this violinist. I can't turn them of good will and eagerness for duty,
specter, said the cat was taken into not flinch. Railway companies-especially the Their Lordships of the Admiralty Southern
On July 1, 1037, he the garden, but it could not walk She sent a servant down-
Railway co-operated stairs with the money.
have a whimsical taste in statistics, closely with the Admiralty in provid-
was ordered to appear at the offices normally. It could scarcely waddle, the servants were busy. The amah of the German Secret Police for
in the sewing room on the Mr. Charles Bray, a veterinary cross-examination. ing transport at the shortest" notice,
when two men entered. Arst floor SEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSEJEREN but motor transport and
surgeon, said that owing to lack of ordinary He left his home and attended "foot-alogging" took thousands of the Gestapo ofees. He has never food.
exercise the cat could not assimilate One seized her by the neck and the
nther removed the Jewellery. men to their posts.
been home since..
Mrs. Hearn told the Bench, "] Although she was struck several was very fond of the cat, and I cried times the amah followed her attack- when the vet. told me it was 11, I ers when they left and one man was could not realise it was suffering."
"This work in interesting," she said. "Most of the men I've dealt with will reform, I find, if I can show them it is worth it to them. Mty system is simply offering them a reward a pound or two-for good
behaviour.
"I don't expect any reward my Relf. It's a satisfaction to me when down," I can really help them."
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Normal recruiting for the Navy was suspended at the moment of mobiilsation 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 efficiently.
THREE WEDDINGS IN ARCTIC SHIP
Halifax, Nova Scotia. After completing on 11,000-miles voyage in the Arcile Archipelago, the Hudson's Bay Company steamship Nascople has arrived hero with party of Government scientists and several passengers, including Moun- ties and radio operators on leave,
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An interesting feature of the trip {was the transfer of Eskimo tomilles from Greenland to Graigharbour, the (northernmost post office in the Em- [pire.
Three marriages were solemnised I In the Nascopie during her virit to the Arctic.
When he arrived in prison the prison chaplain asked him:
"My brother, why are you in prison?"
Niemoller,
burning with
kis
faith in the 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- Becution with calm strengiti,
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 o U-boat with his new career as a pan- tor, he said Armly:
"I did my war work because I saw
that it was my duty. God wants all
of us to do our duty,
"I have never sunk a non- combatant ship, and X lave never yunk a ship without saving the crew."
Last week 700 brave German wo- men openly signed a petillon for his release. But no official comment has been made on the petition.
Niemoller is still in his cell un- defented.
The affair occurred at tifin whe
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