Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 31, 1939.
1 JUN 2
Austin '7' Dies -An '8' Is Born
The 'seven' is dead, long live the 'oight," erled excited motor traders when they were slown for the first ume a new Austin car at the works of the company In Birmingham recently.
An event of International Im- portance in the replacement of the Austin "Seven," first and most famous of the "baby" cars, by an entirely new "eight."
Overshadowing the much-boosted "German People's cur," the new Austin was wheeled into the German Motor Show in Berlin recently.
This new Austin, the best-looking small car yet seen, is to be sold at The two-dour a competitive price.
four scaler salcòn is £120, and there are open tourer and four-door salvon models.
The new car has a four-cylinder side-valve engine rated at 7.99 h.p.-- The chassis is of a annual x £0. new type with orthodox spring- ing, four-speed gear-box with synchromesh on second, third and top. Girling brakes and [ all- steel body.
New and
Frontal appearance is distinctive, the radiator murcut of serving the unusua purpose forming the single bonnel ratch. The steering wheel is spring-spoked. The rear opening luggage compart- ment is really roomy.
The car holds the roud and steers as well as any small car ever driver, and comfort, even for back-sent Even the passengers, is excellent. lights are better than average,
Maximum speed is 60 m.ph, with really good top-gear pulling on bills. When cruising at 40 m.p.h, close on 50 miles to the gallon of petrol has been obtained. The braken marvellous.
Non-Stop Operation On Baby
Special apparatus Atted to a cot in the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond-street, W.C., Is performing a cantinuous operation on a three-
week-old baby,
All the time, while the baby is sleeping, or being fed, an injection in being made in a leg vein.
The child, agiri, weighed only
three pounds at birth and measured
ly 12 inches.
Doctors say it is a wonder that the
Is still alive. This is her daily treat- ment:-
6am-Fed with half-strength human milk,
worm
B a.m.-Gently washed with olive oil. Given second feed. Then fed regularly every two hours.
4
p.m-Gently washed with
warin olive oil.
Her cot is continuously heated.
Rosemary Lane,
star of Warner Bros.
Pictures, appearing
In "Four Daughters"
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"NO BAN ON THE
LOWER CLASSES"
But-Well, What Would
High Society Say?
YOUTHS of about nineteen who hope one day to be British ambassadors in foreign capitals are now sending in their names to a board of selection, which will meet at the Civil Service Commission's offices in Burlington- gardens, W., on the first Tuesday in May,
Judging from previous years, about fifty names will be received. Almost without exception they will be the names of public schoolboys who have gone on to Oxford or Cambridge.
No counell schoolboys, no matter how brillant, need apply.
11 is true that emungil sébvolkata ere beating the old school lie in the gaminations for nearly every other branch of the Civil Service, but they are not allowed even to reach the examination room where the ambas- saders-to-be are going to sit.
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All that an, official of the Cly Service Commission would say to the Sunday Express was, "The board has to discover whether the candidate is of the right person- ality and upbringing. They may possibly ask what his father does and what games the boy plays.
WASTE OF TIME
It must be remembered that
conquering
SOS for Lifeboat
Rosslare, Co. Wexford. Two alrmen, Lt. Higgins and Lt. Quinlan, had narrow escapes when an Irish Air Force seaplane in which they were flying from Southampton to Baldonne! aerodrome, Dublin, came down In the sea near here recently. Two planes were flying in mation, and whch of Carnepore Point one of them developed engine trouble.
for-
There was a strong south-east rough sea, but LA. wind and Higgins brought the craft saicly down,
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The other machine cireled around, but the sea was too rough for her to attempt rescue. She sent out a wireless 8.0.S. for assistance and flew on.
Const watchers telephoned Rosslare Harbour, and the Rosslare 'lifebust
put out.
IDEALLY FITTED FOR POST In the meantime the plane was swept towards the shore at Baily- trent.
the Crowds on the beach saw plane turn broadside in the surf. Waves damaged its starboard wing,
The two officers donned lifebelts, got ready to jump, but succeeded in sending a line ashore with which men on the beach pulled the plune clear of the surf.
the When the Hfeboat reached il
scene the officers sent a forse mess- age stating that they were
IL.
Troops were summoned Baldonnel to disminile it.
from
The board of selection stops them. No one in Whitehall has ever quite diplomat has to mix on equal terms It would stated it in black and white, but the with the highest society.
out of examination results going back but waste of time for eund.datej tanger,
They did all they could to safe- the to be allowed to prepar, himself for; scores of years
thot prove Foreign Oflice and Diplomatie Ser-the written examination if he were guard the plane before abandoning vice are still the exclusive preserve obviously of an unsuitable type. of the sons of the upper classes.
Incre is no ban on the lower! Records available_for_the past nine.
Rather I would suggest! years show that not a single council) that the reason why public school" | "public" "scliools, "again" took-all "the schoolboy lind a place among the boys at Oxford and Cambriuge are Foreign Office vacancies, successful candidates, although" Afty-
Juust
Luccessful 15 that these
MONEY RULE Uree vacancies were alled.
schools and universities specialise
MYSTERY BODY
classes.
in preparing for the Diplomatic Service examinations."
In 1939 i was once more
Win-
chester, Eton, Rugby and company; Yet in that ycur boys of working and Last year seven candidates passed middle-class parents swept the bourd into the Foreign Office and
Diplo in the examination for the admlots- matic Service. Their schools were trative class. Forly appointments
Charterhouse, were made,
itere is the procedure which safe- quords the rigidity of the Foreign Office caste system:
Unlike every other branch of the Wellington,
Stove,
Civil Service where candidates must Elun, Winchester, Rugby and Kelvin- Only one went to a public school Arst pass a competitive examination Side Academy. and then appear before a selection bourd, candidates for the Foreign Oflice, must Ballsfy the selection board before they may alt for examination..
The board
of selection is a my's" ierlous body.
the
It consists of about six members. One or two may be Civil Service Commissioners. The rest are "high allefais" the Foreign Office.
Yet In the Home Civil Service Administrative Class examination, a Barry County schoolboy then at Cambridge received top marks, Na publlo schoolboy was In the first
rec,
In the Indian Civil Service test a Nuttingham
school boy, high then at Cambridge, was top; a Southend-on-Sea high school boy
was second.
All are bent on making certain In the Consular Service examina- that the breeding of
no consul can normally Britain' tion--no
rise diplomats shall follow the allowed to an ambassadorship — another] traditions and not be changed by secondary school scholar bent scores! the introduction of less expensive- of pubile schoolboys. ly educated pedigrees.
That ԱՎ last year. In 1937 The questions they ask candidates Rugby, Harrow. Elon and Winches-
ter, with the help of two other are never revealed.
Charity
big
boy. For the first time on record Elon, Harrow, Rugby and Winches- ter all failed to win a single place. Charterhouse was alone represented. Only une important concession to democracy has been made by the Foreign Office this century.
In 1014 the rule requiring every member of the Diplomatie Service to guarantee a private income of £400 a year was abolished.
Another change is Interesting- Eton is falling behind as the fore- most nursery for diplomals. Of the eighteen ambassadors serving two years ago, thirleen were Old Etonians,
But in recent years Rugby. Wineliester and Charter- house have become well represent- ed in diplomacy.
Ball
Hongkong Society Belles as Dancing Hostesses
under the auspices of
Hong Kong Chinese Women's Soldiers Relief Association
in aid of
The Relief Work
Place: Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden
Time:-March 31st 1939 ----
・8 p.m.
1a.m. 1a.m.
Supper will be served at io
p.m.
April 1st 1939 — 8 p.m.
Entrance tickets can be obtained at:—
The Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden
Hong Kong Chinese Women's Soldiers Relief Association
Tablos can be reserved at the Hong Kong Hotel
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