THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,
*
NOVEMBER 19,
1938.
Library, Supreme Court
Town Turned Into A Nursery In Two Hours
East Grinstead.
As the clock struck two one afternoon recently 279 L.C.C. nursery schoolchildren (between the ages of two and five) were decanted from motor coaches in the streets of this Sussex town, 23 miles from London.
Before the clock struck three all 279 were tucked up nsleep In the parish hall for their afternoon rest. They were a contin gent of 1,000 toddlers evacuated from London during the recent Crisis.
The British genlus for-improvisa-; chlidren may return home to-mor tlon had risen superbly to the occa- row.
TOYS TO MASKS AGAIN slon.
But the people of East Grinstead
The parish hull, in which 9,000 people had been fitted with gas masks inside. five hours, was emp-refused to allow the children to stay In the parish hali even for one night.
tied.
Tables filled with respirators be came plied with food nad toys.
40 CARS IN 15 MINUTES Twelve cora swept down the main vircels of the town summoning volunteer helpecs. Within a quar- ter of an hour 00 cars bearing 100 volunteers had returned.
car.
As each coach drew up men rled the luggage, women carried the children to the parish hall.
The children were "packed" tables, choirs, even on the floor.
oni
Before nix o'clock in the evening
to the hall Rich and poor came
I've saying: "I can take one. room for three. I've got five of my own, but I think we can squeeze
couple." in
A 10 o'clock the next morning they were back at the parish hall, where the gas masks were again fitted after the last child and Its toys had been fetched, and they were official billets-by 11 rent to their o'clock.
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The local sanitary inspector, Mr. in charge of the Offeer, was put the bulk of them were in private whole organisation.
He was given just two hours' notice houses-not in their official billets, for as the crisis bida fair to clear thel to prepare for the children's arrival.
CHILDREN RIDE IN COUNTESS' VICTORIA
Joy-rides for Finsbury children in a countess' victoria, driven by a boy "coachman" in full livery, were described at Marylebone Police Court recently.
The driver was alleged to have been Harold Leslie Searle (17), messenger, who was charged with stealing the victoria, a roan mare, set of livery and harness, worth £87, from an address in George Street, Marylebone.
The victoria belongs to the Dowager Countess Dunmore and the mare, named Delucia, to Messrs. Thomas Tilling.
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Piggott Detective-Sergeant cribed how one Sunday evening hel aw Searle, dressed in conchman's, livery, driving a horse attached to a victoria in Crescent Row, Finsbury. He asked him if he had permission to have the carriage.
At first he said "Yes," but later he said, "No, I pinched it. I went to the stable, harnessed the horse, to the carriage, went to the harness room and took the clothes,"
Smith said Searle had Detective taken the carriage to Finsbury and was there driving children up and down the street. He withered that the lad was not quite normal.
At the request of the police Searly was remanded for a medical report.
Fire Engines Climb Peaks
Pasadena, Cal. Los Angeles county has received the first of a Beet of six re engines
Coat-of-Arms From Duke
The Duke of Norfolk has dis- covered that his Sussex home town, Arundel, has no coat-of- Arr
To show his gratitude lo Arundel people for their felend- ship to the Duchess and himself since their marriage, the Duke, who is head of the College of Arms, las offered to present the borough with one.
An Arundel borough official said that Arundel has not had a coat-of-arms several hun-
dred years.
The American version of the Lambeth Walk as introduced to London by Mias Thylla Haylor, a former world cham- plon ballroom dancer, and Mr. Charles Scrimshaw, at tha Empress Rooms, Kensington. Called the Cherry Hop, It Is a sequence dance in which the partners stand side by alde with their hands clasped behind their backs hold similar to that in skating.
Canon Left For
Test Match, Died In Paris
Nuneaton.
Disclosures here recently only served to deepen the mystery of Canon Howard Cecil James, vicar of St. Mary's (Abbey) Church, Nuneaton, who was found shot in a Paris hotel.
Canon James was to have officiated at Esher at the wedding of the Rev. F. E. Stalley-vicar
of Ryton-on-Dunsmore, and his former curate at St. Thomas's, Coventry-to Miss Margaret Smith, of Claygate, Surrey.
But Mr. Stalley received a message that Canon James could not attend owing to ill- At that time the canon, who had left home saying he was going to London for the Test match, was in France
ness.
PLAY STOPPED
Mrs. James-to whom the canon left a note in the hotel bedroom containing the phrase: "It is not forbidden to commit her hus- suicide" learned of band's death in a telegram from the Consulate in Paris.
She immediately went to the parish hall near the vicarage, where parishioners were rehear
How About It, Referee? ing an amateur production of Sydney. "Mystery at Green Fingers," by In the middle of feld hockey J. B. Priestley. The vicar's capable of climbing movotalns where gome, P. Douglos, wing player warden, Mr. H. C. Betts, a local
do o suddenly disappeared. roads and water suppiles exist. They are mounted on cater- tion developed the fact that the schoolmaster, was called out and pillar tractors and carry 800 gallons ground had given way and dropped the rehearsal was abandoned. of water. The ax will be distributed him into a 6-foot hole. to mountainous danger points of the filled the cavity county.
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Investiga
The players
with stone and
finished the game.
STILL
Mrs.
was
under James Later
two younger medical
care. Her chlidren-a girl aged 13, and a boy
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aged 8-are going to stay with her brother-in-law, Prof. Wishart, Glasgow University. Another son, aged 13, is away. The vicarage, which adjoins the Abbey church, is locked up.
"Canon Jumes's Mr. Betts sald: decision to go away seemed rather sudden, but it was not regarded as unusual. WENT TO SEE TEST
that fer Mrs.
stated James husband read the Test match score and Hutton's innings and said, 'I would like to see something of that mutch,'
"He got a train about 9 a.m. from the station here. After that the Test match fizzled out, and the next we heard from him was when we received a letter from him from France.
A reporter asked Mrs. James it it
ENOUGH
was usual for her husband to go on the Continent, and the replied: 'Oh, yes, we have often been together and he has also been on his own. He is very fond of travelling about.'
"We did not think that unusual, and Mrs. James sald, 'I would not be at all surprised if he has gone to see Fontevrauit Abbey, in Nor- after all Fontevrault Abbey. mandy. was the mother-church of ours, and
It
Deurred, to me as a likely ex-
The Rev. Stephen, Bedale, brother- in-law of Canon Jaines, who is prior of the House of the Sacred Mission, Kelham, Nottinghamshire, travelled to Paris with a sister, He had been Lelegraphed immediately on receipt of the telegram from the British Consulate, and left Nuneaton by an early train to catch the noon 'plare ut Croydon.
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