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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 9, 1938.
SNOBBERY
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there are Complaints of it in the
JEWISH REFUGEES
'Girls' Army'-and on a suburban bowling green
1.
WOMAN TERRIERS'
ARRIVE IN FURS
£20 For Uniforms
Scores of women eager to enrol in the school of in- struction for Auxiliary Territorial Service officers at the Duke of York's headquarters, Chelsea, S.W., have been told they are not needed.
TO-DAY'S LONELIEST MAN
Those who are enrolled, find they must pay the doc- Paderewski Wants tor's fee for their medical examination, and a further £20 for uniforms. Shoes cost £2 12s. 6d., the gloves 9s. 6d., the overcoats £7 7s.
To most of the recruits those prices mean no sacrifice. Half of the 130 in one week's class arrived in their own big cars, which were parked in the drill square.
To Forget
One of the most famous, and tone- Best, men in London spent ls 70th birthday recently-alone.
When they settled down for a lecture, they draped the drill death four years ago," the pianist's
ball heating pipes with their furs.
Many of the women are daughters
of Army and county families. They atay, in West-End holels during their! week's training.
Many of the county directed of 2. Bowling
the Women's Legion are being trans- ferred to the ATS. There are four duchesses, twenty-three women of title, two plain "Mrs." among the county directors.
Miss Ellen Wilichson, M.P.. thinks something should be done about it. She is going to take up the subject in the House of Cum-
mona
I fought against Stella Lady lead- Ing'o organization of the Women's Voluntary Services," she said. "Lady Reading was appointed and she chose her commliter herself. I think high- ly of her ability. She has been ai wage-enrner herself,
"But I object to the collection of Utled women she got around her. I object to the administration of the service by Mayfair society women.
THE DIRTY WORK'
"I have had many letters from responsible middle-class women who have tried to enrol. They indicate that this is Just being run as a snob show.
Green Snobs Are "Awful'
-Says Socialist
Police were cunanlied recently by rival candidates in Waddon (Surrey) municipal election after two imen had climbed into Wandle Park by night and dug up the bowling green to four places.
"Monsieur Paderewski has never kept his birthday since his wife's |
secretary said. "He just wants to forget it now."
So much did 1. Paderewski adore this second wife of lils that be nevere rose in the morning un- tl Madame Helens had brushed and combed his hair for him. In the evening it was the same be- fore retiring.
She also trimmed and washed for him always. Nobody else was permited to touch it.
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Now, seeing nobody but his scere- tary and a few intimate friends, M. Paderewski tries not to remember
SICK
Although he is to give recitals in various parts of the country, Pad- crewski is a sick man.
He is suffering from severe lumba- go, and English friends are upset to see how it has aged him.
Despite his pain, however, the frail-looking Polish ex-Prime Minis- tor is giving recitals that last from one to two hours.
He refuses to spare himself. and his wonderful fingers are as agile as ever.
Among 150 Jewish familles ousted from Sudetenland by Nazis and refused admittance by Czechoslovakia are this mother and daughter, who huddle outside their only home, a rude tar- paulin set up as a tent. Refugees, deprived of everything, awalt a decision regarding their future. Charity services are their only source of uid.
SURGEON STABBED
WITH STILETTO
IN BOND STREET
A stiletto is believed to have been used by a muttering, swarthy man-maybe a foreigner-who stabbed Mr.
But when the recitals are over a Sydney G. Macdonald, a Welbeck Street surgeon, in the tired while-haired old man shuffles to back while he was walking in Bond Street on his way home any his dressing-room to rest on his
recently
Both candidates are certain that nene of their supporters had uny
had none of thei riporters part in the outrage.
But voters
suggested "Naturally, we don't want polilles) mixed up in national service. But that the mystery has become an issue middle and working-class women are in the election campaign. dading that they are expected to do Any one can play on the Wandle all the dirty work. The upper middle-Park green for Bd, an hour. class and the aristocrney go in and get bers of the Waddon Residents' Club commissions as a matter of course, can buy season tickets for 30s. a
"If there are going to be men'n defence organisations, they ought to be run democratleally, not as a cocktail party,"
WD-
Except for the V.A.D.s all women's auxiliaries for the Army and Air Force will in future be drawn from the A.T.S. Lady Violet Astor Is Chlef Controller of the A.T.S. for the Coun- ty of London area and Lady, Tren- chard is Chief Commandant in the City of London,
SERVICE FAMILIES' Fifty-nine-year-old Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan has her own desk at the Duke of York's headquarters, dreets the new school for ATS. olcers
Many of our recrutis come from flies which have Bourished on the tradition of the services,"
sho
sal. "There are certainly women of tit la the organisallon. But a title is hot regarded as a privilege, in theA.TS. they will be called by the arry titles.
There is a mistaken idea that are all ladies of title and amu-
year.
Mem-
'COLD SHOULDERED' Mr. J. T. Twichett, Socialist con- date and thirty-eight-year-old rail- way clerk, sad: "The snobbery on that bowling green is nwful.
"Members of the Residents' Club play there so often u
poor mun with his Od, can hardly get a game. If he does get on the green he is cold-shouldered. No one will play with him.
couch and to summon fresh cour-after dining. ge for the neat long concert.
SIR IGNACE
At Brighton recently heave Programine which few planists hall his age would have attempted.
After the concert he returned to London and went to bed.
Although he never uses it, Paderew- ald is the only foreign musician to knighthood conferred have had upon him. His correct title is Sir
inace Pederewski, G.B.E.
British Bricks For Iran
London. Three and a half million English
"Members of the club can drive through the park in their cors to the green. A poor man is forbidden to rite his bicycle through the park. bricks, the biggest shipment ever The action of the people who ruined sent to Iran from Britain, are to be
for building a
great new he green bas, I am sure, no political used
housing estate for native workers on significance."
the oilfields.
Kendell, vice-president of the bowl- Said his opponent, Councillor Lock ing Club: "I play regularly at the bowling green, I am not a snob, and
I shall play bowls with any one I meet there. I have asked the groundsman to join me in a game before to-day."
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The blade went through five thicknesses of clothing and narrowly missed the victim's right lung.
Every C.1.D. officer in the West End is now trying to find the assailant of Mr. Macdonald, who from his house at Ticehurst, Sussex, told how he was attacked.
"I became subconsciously aware of man walking across the street to- wards me," he said.
"I took no particular notice, but the stranger sidled up towards me, muttering My back was towards words i could not distinguish. him when I felt a terrific thud in the back and stumbled. Al
first 1 thought I had merely been punched. "I turned round to see the man dis- appear down a side street,
NO ENEMIES \
"As the initial numbness wore off
I
Priestley
Takes Lead
In Own Play
Mr. J. B. Priestley recently appear- Pd in the leading role of Henry Ormonroyd, the
Yorkshire
Press I photographer, in his own successful play. "When We Are Married," nt St. Martin's Theatre.
He was making his first stage ap- pearance at 24 hours' notice,
Mr. Frank Pettingell, who had been Playing Ormonroyd, was injured when his car overturned on the London- Canterbury read. He was taken to Canterbury Hospital.
realised that 1 had been stabbed. It was then too late to give chase,
"I got the impression that the man was swarthy and might have been a
have no iden foreigner. I
what prompted the attack. It seems I was THIEVES LOSE £850
the victim of mistaken identity.
the London. have no enemies in the
Mr. Macdonald, who Thieves whe broke into the offices
is a specialist Southern Sporting Promotions at the West London Hospital. Royal at Banister Court Studium, Masonic Hospital and the Chelica Southampton, recently succeeded in Hospital for Women, is still unable to écr. We need women who car Crickets Menace Melons opening one safe with gelignite and use his right arm as a result of his
Injury.
His wife, who was with him in the stealing £34, but were unable open the other safe containing £850,
the result of some foreign political As soon as news of the accident vendetta, and the Special Branch is was received Mr. Basil Dean, the helping in the search for the assail-producer, rang up Mr. Priestley and ant. Foreign clubs, cafes and lodg-persuaded him to step into the breach. Ing houses in Soho, Bloomsbury and fle will play the part until Mr. Tuttenham Court Road are being Pettingell returns or another star enn watched.
be obtained and rehearsed.
#te their time to the organisation. laturally we have had to seek sor of our officers in county and welto-do families because women whore working all day could not span the Ume for training."
Delano, Cal.
One
Crickets, of the non-Mormon varie- owing to the door becoming Jammed. b theory is that the crime may car, escaped Injury.
ty, for the first time are proving Police called in to investigate, had serious menace the cantaloupes use crowbars to completely open
| it.
crop.
PATRICIA, FIVE,
Supreme Court,
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FOR HERSELF
Joseph Roche was sent to prison for three months at Lambeth, S.E., recently for wilfully neglecting his only daughter, Patricia Jean, aged five years and two months.
N.S.P.C.C. Inspector Rivers went with a doctor to Roche's home in Etty-street Flats, Waterloo, S.E., said Mr. Stallon, prosecuting. There they found Patricia and her mother alone.
The mother was ill in bed, suffering from anaemia and ex- treme depression. Patricia was very pale and anaemle, her hair matted, her clothes ragged. She had suffered from rickets.
The fat had only one bed, dirty and with little covering. There was a foul smell throughout the place-duc, said Mr. Stal- lon, to dirt.
They were arranging to take Patricia and her mother away when
Roche came in. He blamed his wife, Jackrabbit Lost in City
"She won't let me clean it up," ho sald.
On a previous visit, however, the wife had told Inspector Rivers that
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she would inko polson it only the the western platus to Ohio is a mys- could get it.
Tery to Martin Ahern, of the Animal Roche, a fish parler, denied that he Protective League. Ahern captured
had neglected Patricia. Magistrate the extremely, gaunt rabbit In Watson observed that the evidence
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