Tuesday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 10, 1939.
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THOUGHT 60 GLORIOUS YEARS HAD
NOT ENDED
Boys' 'Abysmal Ignorance'
Have You Heard of--
The boy who thought Queen Victoria was still on the
Throne:
The boys who cannot tell the time, name more than two or three months in the year, or even give the year of grace in which they live?
THE Governor of Feltham Borstal Institution knows all about them, and in the report the Commissioners of Prisons issued recently says:
"The abysmal depth of ignorance from which seven or eight years of State education has failed to rescue many of the lads received here-or to which they have reverted after two or three years of complete mental vacuity-would be incon- ceivable and probably incredible to anyone not in touch with this
problem."
"The experienced house of- ficer," he says, "knows that his duties at Feltham may Include the instruction of lads of 17 or 18 in the use of a knife, fork and spoon, the place of soap and comb in personal comfort and hygiene, the convention of re- moving most of the outer cloth- ing before going to bed.
AND SO TO BED-
BOOTS And all
"If a housemaster does not - gularly supervise his dormitories and rooms in this respect a sudden raid
will always produce one or two latis in bed, fully dressed to their boots, several in shirts and trousers, and a majority in vest and stockings."
The Governor of Aylesbury Burstal Insitution states that nearly all the girls have been absconders from their schools, and talk of absconding has greatly increased with the bigger
number now at the institution.
As the arrangement is usually an open secret, the officers, on the morn ing of the advertised attempt. bid a solemn good-bye to the would-be absconder.
The effect, says the report, is to pause an indefinite postponement hi most cases.
10,698 PRISON
POPULATION
It is stated that during the year daded March 31. Just the daily aver- te population of all prison estab- phimerits was 10,098. an increase of 22 compared with the previous your.
Britain's education b is about £50,000,000 a year. The total catimute (not educational) for all prison establishment is about
£1,330,000.
Workman Wins In House
Of Lords
RY a majority of four to one, the B'House of Lords recently allowed
Girl And
Rescuer
15 Minutes Under Bus
CRAWLING beneath a bus under which a grt was trapped for 15 minutes recently Harry Horton, of Wincott Street, Kennington, held her head away from the red-hot exhaust pipe,
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a hands were badly burned. The girl. Helen Pitcher, aged of Great Eastern Street,, Shoreditch, was taken to hospital with severe ins
was thrown under the bus when her cycle skidded in Mare Street, Hackney, and was trapped near the back axle.
Mr. Horton, a coach driver employ- cd ni a nearby station, rushed to her ald. The exhaust pipe was burning her clothing. He supported her head for a quarter of an hour while the bus was jacked up,
"It was certainly a hot job, but someone had to do it," he said,
"The only way to protect her hend from the exhaust pipe, which
Was burning hot, was to put my hands round her head.
"I could feel my knuckles begin- ning to scorch, but managed to hold on until they got the jacks under- neath, The worst trouble was the fumes from the engine.
"Any of my mates would have done the same thing." he added.
The Mania Of Small Things
W
WHEN the members of the Sarawak expedition or- ganised by Mr. Tom Harrisson, under the auspices of the Oxford Exploration Club, returnext
England they published 29 scien- tific papers dealing with their
the appeal of a workman who, by n Court of Appeal decision, had been denied compensation for the loss of a work.
hand.
In "Borneo Jungle" Drummond, Ltd., 15s.), they tell us something of the more personal side of their expedition, and witty and entertaining reading it is.
Mr. W. Ward, speelally attired for the occasion, shows she children how to slide down the chute at the Police
Recreation Club-Pictorial Newa.
A happy party in fancy dress who were present at the Peak Club on New Year's Eve.-Mig Yuen.
Lindsay Viola Tree's
'No Mourning' Service
Appealing as a poor person, David Jolin Harris, DI Eynsford-road, Greenhithe, Kent; asked the House 10 reverse Court of Appeal Judgment affirming the decision of
HATE THAT GROWS Judge Konstam, at Dartford County There is, for instance, something Court, in favour of his employers, very human about Mr. Harrisson's Associated Portland Cement Manuremarks on expeditions in general: facturers Ltd.
Many people famous on the stage "If you don't want a lot of and in society went to St. John'
in water, and wore leggings made of toes, don't go on a lot of expedi- Parish Church, Hampstead, recently,
While at work Harris had to stand
sacking. He and the other men were allowed to dry their leggings at an electric fan. Harris put his leggings
hand were drawn lo. to be amputated.
to near the fan that they and his nothing odd fond
His hand had
Judge Konstar had held that Harris acted with extreme rashness, and that there was nothing in his contract of employment which obliged him to put his hand near the fan,
Giving judgment, Lord Atkin said n workman's negilgence in doing his job was one of the most fruitful
couses of injury. If it would in any degree preclude compensation the benefits of the Act would be seriously impaired.
Lord Thankerton. Lord Macmillan and Lord Wright delivered judgments agreeing with Lord Alkin.
Lord Russell of Killowen, in a dis- senting judgment, agreed with the view of the Court of Appeal that the Judgment should not be disturbed.
The case
months of
The way a fellow cleans his to make their last forewell at the teeth or rubs his ear or handles your funeral service of Miss Viola Tree, only and rain-worn copy of Wuther-who died ht University
College img Helghtsthene things mean Hospital.,
but after a few They included Lady Oxford and extreme cold or heat, they magnify Princess Priscilia Bibesco, Miss Violet food, Asquith and her granddaughter, to mania size, so that you will surely Vanbrugh. Lady Alexander, Mrs. pick on at least two of your com- Fred Terry. Mr. Esme Percy, the panlons and hate them and hate Marchioness of Anglesey, Mr. Max them and hate them-not so much Beerbohm-Miss Tree's uncle-and for them as for small surface bits members of her family
Most traple Agure in the church "Don't be deceived by these tales was her daughter, Misa
Virginia of expeditions getting on wonder-Parsons, who was to have bren fully. Some of tliem pretend that, 'married to the Hon. David Tennant. "It's propaganda and meant to be She rat close to her fance, head frightfully British. Really. It's Bri- turned away in grief from the cullin. fish to feel all het up like that in the wilds, but to sarer and brar it.
of them.
IT IS VALUABLE! "Some hitler hatred is essential and valuable in every unit of young people working very hard, in dim- cull places, on one common plan.
"It forms a nucleus of fire, con- centrates the worst in each one on
It was Miss Tree's wish that everything should be as bright as - possible. Even the covering of
the coffin
flame-coloured.
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Miss Parsons wore a brown fur roat and blus bat.
Actresses, stage dressers, and ad- mirers of Miss Tree's work come le
to something understandable and pay homage. Immediately at hand for loathing. Many wept us the coffin was carried It does not beccine an over-life-sized | aut.
was remitted to the thing, and does not interfere unduly County Court judge to award com-with their work. pensation to Harris,
"In Borneo we somehow escaped, most of that don't be deceived by) these tales)-though, of course, it was there (that's more like H)."
DRINKING OF BORAK
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Mr. John Ford tells us something. of the social life of the people and
After the service the body was Laken to Golders Green for cre- mation. Later the ashes were burted at Hampstead in the same grave as those of her hus- band. Mr. Alan Parsons and be- side the tomb of her parents, Sir Herbert and Lady Tree.
Laura La Plante On The Carpet And Curtains
Laura La Plante, the Alm actress (Mrs. Irving Asher), Favo evidence at Windsor County Court recently In a case over the value of some curtains and a carpet at her home.
Mr. Irving Asher, film diree- for
of London Film Studios, Denham, had
bought. Datchet House, Datchet, Buckingham- shire, and its contente, from Mr. William Evans, of Hyde Park-gate, S.W.
con-
A red carpet and two green curtains were among the goods, Air. Evans asked £55 for these articles, and Mr. Asher rid-red the price far too high. Mira. Asher fold the coart that no price was ever agreed for the carpet and curtains.
Judge Cotes-Preedy said that the less he said about the tran- raction the better. ΣΤΟ XAVO Judgment for Mr. Evans
£35 and costs.
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EMPIRE NEWS
Sydney,
The Cabinet of Mr. J. A. Lyons bas decided to review sympathetic- ally the whole question of Jewish immigration in view of the sharp rise in the number of applications from Austria und Germany.
Ministers
that Australla agree must do her utmost to help within her absorptive capacity. There is a determination to prevent foreigners
of any antionality from forming minority pockets or the concentra- tion of Jews in large cities. PIC- ference will therefore be given to
desiring to migrants
in engage agriculture,
Last
year more than 8,000 aliens of all nationalitles were absorbed. An increasing stream of European Jews has landed during the past few months. The Kreat majority have found
employment without dificulty, especially in the ease of willing to undertake domestic work. The Cabinet is likely to consider a
quota
alien
котел
system, giving preference to of half, the total
to the
Im exten
Trans-Tasman Air Mall, The Minister for Civil Aviation and De- fence Works, Mr. Thorby, announces that agreement has been reached be- tween the Governments of Australia, Britain und New Zealand en major points for the inauguration the Trans-Tasman air service, which will extend the present flying boat service from Britáln to New Zealand
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INCREASED COAL OUTPUT
Calcutta.
the A considerable increase in output of coal, the number of miners, vapes pold to miners and the price of coal are mentioned in the official report for the past year by the Chief Inspector of Mines in India,
The output last year was 22,500,- 100 tons valued at £6,250,000, an ncrease of 8.51 per cent. and 24.02
er cent, respectively.
A Wife's View CONGRESS INVITES
"Why should I leave the bulk of may income to my husband so that he ean Javish it on a second wife?"
This, said Mr. J.P. Eddy (counsel
for the N.S.P.C.C. and the All India S.P.C.A.) was the view adopted by Mrs. Marla Whitehead when she Members of the family present at wrote a second will leaving most of lets us into some secrets about the' the servies included her sons David her money to charity instead of her drinking of borak, "without which and Denys, her sisters, Mrs. Geoffrey husband, Mr. John Whitehead, town no Borneun party is complete."
Cory-Wright and the Counless "All that is needed," he writes, Ledrbur, and Mrs. Parsons, her clerk of Tunbridge Wella, "when engaged in this form of tort, mother-in-law,
a forgetfulness of the gentle courtesy
Recently her husband contested
NAHAS
New Delhii. Nahas Pasha, ex-Prime Minister
of Egypt, is understood to have nc- cepted on Invitation by the Indian. Congress leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, a attend the annual session of the National Congress In February the village of Tripuri, Central Pro- vinces.
Spelling Bee
at
rect and what is wrong with the
others?
the second will in the Probate Court, How many of these words are cor- due to women and a strong wrist, and before you know where you are and the case was adjourned.
"A diminutive crenture sidles to she is pressing the cup with Hereu- It was stated that Mr. and Mrs. wards you with a roy smile, offering lean strength against your mouth Whitch ad made wills in favour of you a cun.
and tilting it invariably at the wrong each other. In 1030, Mrs. Whilchend "You take the cup and drink angle, and holding it til 1 has emp-made another, Icaving her husband mouthful,, perlians not noticing the tied itself, some into your spluttering only £300 a year after deduction of drmness with which your new friend mouth, some down your shirt, and, income tax, as he was provided for has put her arm around your neck, often, some up your nose.
She died last year leaving £43,641.
fritillory. anonimous fortişimo
greenguage meinmorphoals toocan :
ings of these words will be found on
English Oxford Dictionary spell
page 9.
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