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Schoolboy Asked For Poison To Use As Experiment
Liked To Feel "Dangerous"
CEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD
Patrick
Michael Robbins, of Dauntsey's School, West Lavington (Willa), led after experimenting with palson given to him from the school bolson cupboard by a sixth-form boy.
This was the theary advanced af the inquest recently on Robbins, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Robbins, of Tregunter-street, West Brompton, London.
Cornwall L. Roes, a pull at the school, said that Robbins asked him questions about poinssium cyanide and potassium terro-cyanide. Ne warned Hobbins against using either substance.
IN LOCKED CUPBOARD
Another boy, Amyan Macfadyen, said that Robbins asked him to get some prussie acid, but he could not do no. He gave Robins some cyanide two days before his death. Robbins
Uked feeling he was a "dangerous percon" with poisons about him.
Dr. Roche Lynch, House Oflee. Analyst,
death Was due
cyanide poisoning.
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Edward Robert Reynolds, muster at the school, said dangerous poisons were kept in a locked cup- board. He would give the key to a sixth form boy it he was satisfied the substance required was the right sort for the experiment the boy was doing. Macfadyen asked him for the key to gel out some phosphorous tri- chloride.
Thomas Robbins, the boy's father, zaki it was a ghastly accident. He had no complaint against the stool or Macfadyen.
The coroner, recording a verdict of "Accidental death," said that Rob- bins might have tried an experiment on bhuself.
Expenses Of N.I. Navy
Batavia.
GREAT indignation is expressed in Netherlands Indies newspaper about a new Bill brought forward in Holland to determine the division of expenses of the Netherlands Indies
Navy
Although the Netherlands Indies is contributing about 30 per cent. of the naval expenditure in the Indies, it has no share in the control of naval matters,
Holland contributes nothing to Army expenditure in the Indies. This also is criticised,
CHAMBER STATEMENT
To the Second Chumber in Holland the Minister of War declared during discussion, of the Bill that he did not think there was anything unreason- able in the basis of novil contribu- tions.
"Although control of polles rested
with Holland, close contact with the
Netherland Indies Government
would be maintained.
He could see no logic in a suggest tion that Holland should help defray expenses of the Netherlands Indies Army, now that it has to be better equipped for defence of the Indies against foreign attack.
The Minister said that bastently this had not changed the
character of the N.I. Army,
POLITICAL CONFLICT
former
Two Batavia newṛpapers are sug Resting there will be political
con-
FATH POST OFFICE
Village's First
Wedding
WHEN Miss Mary Short and Mr. George Frederick Nash arrived as
bride and bridegroom at Union Chapel, Hyde Heath, near Amersham, Bucks, they were the first couple ever to be married in the village. Until the chapel was built all weddings had to take place in neighbouring villages. The bride and bridegroom are shown above as they walked to the reception. The bride is the daughter of Mr. Alfred Short, the Labour M.P., whose death in August caused the recent by-election at Doncaster.
Masaryk Refuses Big Money
Dict on the question of aval expen- OFFERS of big-money commercial
diture.
The newspapers urge the People's Council to reject the new regulation regarding division of expenditure.
The Indies is asking for a total of six cruisers as a minimum but does not expect to get them.
KEPT MONKEYS
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-TO QUIT FLAT Judge Hargreaves, at West London County Court, recently made order for possession in a week's time of a tat in Gwendwe-road, West Kenslagton, occupied by Lady (Dorolly) Gunter.
He suspended the order provided ihat half the £26 25. Gd, arrears of rent, was paid within a week, and the balance within the following
week.
have come to Jun Masaryk, son of the founder of Czechoslovakia, since he resigned from his post as Czechoslovak Minister He has turned them all down,
in London.
On the last day of 1938 he left. the mansion next door to the Czecho-! stovak Legation, and, after a holiday | in America will settle down in a little flat in Westminster.
He sak: "1 refused everything. I wookt rather live on £300 a year.
"I'm taking the veil, so to speak, becoming a missionary against the danger to the soul of Europe.
"I don't want to say anything: against Germany or anybody else, but 1 feel I want to be on the side; of those who believe that the inde-f pendence of the individual, of the intellect, is a sacred thing.
Mr. H. Schultess-Young, for the "I am going to offer my services owner, alleged that Lady Gunter had to the refugee people, to do coloni-
Neighbours 50 Years Find
They're Cousins
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RS. Mary Jane Bourne and Ers. Emily Wilkinson, of Hall-avenue, Wombwell, Yorks. lived as neighbours for fifty years before they discovered they were cousins,
They had never spoken to each other beyond an occasion- al "Good morning" in the street. When Mrs. Bourne's husband died Mrs, Wilkinson called al her neighbour's house to sympathise.
They then found cut that both came from Burslem, and were daughters of two brothers named Holland.
Married To
broken "neurly all the important sailon wark or something of that? The Army's
terms" of her tenancy agreement. kind. I don't want a paid job.
"She keeps two dogs and a monkey in the house," he added. "She has
not paid more than one week's rent since she has been there, and has enused two tenants to leave."
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But 23-year-old Miss Dora Skin- ner, of Glasgow, who was married recently at Tottenham Register Ol-
How many of these words are cor-fice to Private Thomas Garraway, of reet and what is wrong with the the Royal Funillers, faced. a bigger
others?
lollypop despondant
flotila
schrimshank
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nerve-wracking test than most.
Her husband Is champion cook of the British Army,
Every day at the Fusiliers' depot at Hounslow, Middlesex, he prepares Iments for 250 recrulls.
January 12, 1939.
EMPIRE NEWS
CANBERRA.
Further expansion of the Austra- Jian Three-Year Defence programme was announced by Lt. Col. Street, Minister for Defence, in the House of Representatives recently.
Expenditure is fixed at £63,000,-) 000, an increase of £19,000,000 on present plans.
The principal items are:
Navy
Army
Air Force
·
Increase
£20,548,000 £4,015,000
£19,704,000 £8,092,000
PYJAMAS
£10,444,000 £3,032,000 We have pyjamas in
| Munitions £4,855,000 1,700,000
Mr. Casey, Treasurer, announced plain colours, contras- the introduction of a £10,000,000
Defence Laan Bill, an unspecifted ting colours and in
portion of which will be borrowed
in London to assist in thancing the every kind of pattern,
expansion.
Features of the programme are discreet or cheerful, two destroyers of the "Tribal" class, |
12 motor torpedo-boats similar to
the British, to be built in Sydney, The prices from $10.50
There
will be
no purchase of a
capital ship, In view of the assurance for lustre poplin up to given by Britain that an fleet will be stationed at
adequate
at Singapore. The British Admiralty is to be
$17.50 for light flan-
consulted about the provision of anel. All prices less 10% dock at Sydney capable of accom
modatingg Battleships
lishment o!
and the estab-] cash discount.
mobile Naval Air
Force buse at Port Moresby.
Oil Foun-Mr. McEwin, Minister:
of the Interior, announced recently
that boring had proved a bed of oil Mackintosh's Ltd.
Einds at the Lokes entrance area of
Gippsland, Victoria, eight miles in
extent.
Jamaica
£50,000 FOR RELIEF WORKS
Thousands
KINGSTON.
of labourers camped all night recently on the racecourse so as to be able to march to the air
base, six miles from the city, this morning to bid farewell to Sir Wal- ter Citrine, General Secretary of the Dritish T.U.C., who left by 'plane for Cuba,
Sir Walter interviewed members of the Government to urge the neces sity for starting relief work. Thit Government, as result, intends to put in hand immediately work cost- Ing more than £50,000,
India
A RESTRICTION OF JUTE GROWING
CALCUTTA,
Ministers of the three provlaces of Bengal, Assam and Bihar will meet in conference shortly to consider thei question of the compulsory restric- ion of jute growing.
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Toronto, ton-and-a-half model of British supertiner, Queen Mary, bas been bulli here by Oscar Fletcher at a cost of about: $3,000. The model is 22 feet long, powered with a gasoline engine and holds two passengers besides its Į skipper.
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CENA LIPKOWSKA, once a cart in n village near Warsaw," Mr.
Polish ballet dancer who Bernard
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Hng, and a third, which I found on ghileff, made her debut in Eng a farm near Ipswich, never had a QUEEN MARY - Gold tipped land as a circus star at Bertram halter on before August,”
FIRST KING Gold tipped Mills' Circus, which opened at Next came Joe Barry, 20-year-old the Olympia, W., recently. "high-school" rider, who has been ROYAL DRAGON-Gold tipped 10s.
with the circus for nine years. Mr. CONDOR (tube) Russian Type Bertram Mills sent him to Paris to
AMBRE train.
When Dinghileft died nine years ago and the ballet company was dis- banded she hung up her dancing shoes and took up horse training,
Then the married fair-haired Czelaw Mroczkowski, who also has an equestrian act in the circus, in Warsaw and game with him to Eng- Pand.
"High-school riding," explained not. Ringmaster Frank Foster, s
fancy stuff. It was once of great military Importance.
"A horse that could do a cat jump leap, a 4ft, wall from a station- "I love circus work," she said, ary position... was the only thing "but it was a struggle to give up you could night an elephant on. The dancing. When the ballet company Romans found this when Hannibal | broke up, I thought of going on with came over the Alps." my dancing.
"But I met my husband who was with a small circus in Warsaw and gradually I grew fond of horses. Now I combine both."
The circus was the first at Olympia without Mr. Bertram Mills behind it. He died in April and his sous Cyril
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Oakland, Cal
and Bernard Ulls have carried on. California will double its popula- First in the ring during the re-tion with the next 30 years, bringing hearsal was Czcław Mroczkowski it up to 13,000,000 to 14,000,000, ne- with his 10 horses, who in June and cording to statistics prepared by John never done any circus work.
H. Kimball, secretary of the East; "One was found pulling a milk Bay Municipal Utility district,
HITLER-
Guided By A Voice
HITLER- medielne man guided by a Volce, an automiston, That is how Dr. Carl G. Jung, famed psychologist, diagnoses tho German Dictator.
"III Volce," says Dr. Jung, "is nothing other than his own un- conscious ... the unconscious of 78 mlition Germana, That is whal makes him powerful."
Are con-
In other people the 'dleiates of the unconscious mind trolled to some extent by reason-as is doubtless the case with Mr. Chamberlalu. But Hitler does not need reason, he "ilstens to his Volco" and obeys.
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