Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 19,
1939.
Helps To
To Send Bigamist
Monks Will Blue-Book Helps
Build Abbey
GLOUCESTER.
WHEN Cardinal Hinsley bless-
ed a huge block of Cotswold stone weighing 30 cwt. in the lilly grounds of Prinknash Park. six miles from Gloucester, re- cently, the work of building the new £100,000 Benedictine abbey and church was begun, *
The white-habited monks of St. Benedict, whose temporary home is in a fifteenth-century manor house in the grounds, quarried the foundation-stone themselves out of the rock on the alte. When hewn it weighed six tons.
The munks are the only Bone- dictines in this country to wear the while habit-all others wehr black. The monks will build the abbey themselves entirely of stone hewn out of the quarries on their lund.
The architecture will be modern, and the abbey will accommodate one hundred monks.
At present there are Afty monks Prinash. at Prinknash--pronounced The oldest is Father Ambrose, genial, ruddy-faced, now his seventieth year. He is an expert linguist, and
gifted literaleur, but helps regu -larly in the kitchen with the hun-
blest of the iny brothers.
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'I'M TOO OLD'
The youngest member-of the com- munity is Geoffrey, sixteen-year-old Westminster Cathedral choir- the Order six boy, who joined months ago when his voice broke.. Geoffrey may see the abbey com- pleted, but seventy-year-old Father head his white Ambruse shook smilingly. "I'm a bit too old in the tooth for thint, I'm afraid," he said. How long the abbey will take in the building is a question monks could answer. The head of the
Wilfred community, Abbot Upson, who is Afty-nine, sald cheer- fully he hoped to see it Anished. In his lifetime. Others think the tusk will take fifty years,
Bone
of
When asked where he thought he would get the £100,000 needed, the abbot answered: "God is good,"
The monks rise at four o'clock in
the morning summer and winter. After hearing Muss in their tempor-
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They Will Manage Empire Creches
IMPERIAL Airways are appointing 14 matrons to the night stopping places on their Empire services
to South Africa and Australia.
They will be Englishwomen living in the locality, ary chapel in the old manor house, with expert knowledge of the conditions, and their task they go to their daily tasks--some to will be to take the younger passengers off their parents' blast the stone for the new abbey, others to work in the field growing hands for the night.
vegetables for
their table, while
others tend the pigs. The monks do
They will be in charge of
all sorts of other work, such as mak-special creche facilities at these and, stopping pluces-special in the ing rosaries, moulding statues tending the bees in their lives. sense that they will cater for
CUT A ROAD
children from a few weeks old
They have already cut a half-mile to 12 or 13 years of age.
the main An Imperial Airways official long road through from
decided Stroud Cheltenham road. link the outside world with Prink-Said: "We have nash Abbey, set in the heart of the start this pioneer organisation
Cotswold Hills.
I
to
because of the enormous increase in the number of children travelling on Empire services. We anticipate a further increase this summer
ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE
Two-thousand people watched the cardinal lay the foundation stone of the new abbey. Overhead, pilots!
"I will be the duty of the matron were testing new bombers from at near-by aircraft factory. The drone to take over the entire responsibility of their powerful engines mingled of the chlidren if the parents,so de- with the gonile voice of the cardinal sire.
as he prayed for a blessing on the! "She will not necessarily be a
monks' enterprise.
Recently, as they knelt
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Car's Race In Front Of Train
A MAN'S race in a car along
the railway line to avoid an oncoming train was described at Leeds Assizes. William Turner, 50, an electrician at Catterick Camp, pleaded guilty to trespassing on the railway and causing an engine to be obstructed by a motor-car.
It was explained that Turner
It is more important went fishing near the camp and
Into
Prison
FREDERICK BOOTH, thirty-nine-year-old self- styled "Practical Christian," ex-waiter and Piccadilly match-seller, was brought to the Old Bai- ley prisoner's dock recently by the publication of a Government Blue-book.
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He was pleading guilty to a 2530. charge of committing bigamy.
Sir Gerald Dodson, the Recorder of London, sentenced Booth to three months imprisonment, and said:
"I am not concerned that you may be a man of profligate morals, except in so far as it shows the kind of man you are."
The recorder End Just Beard "evi- dence given by Detective Sergeant Bray, the police officer who had fer- reted out Booth's past.
"Booth's bigamous wife estimates that he had eighteen legitimate
be reconstructed, the change provid-children," announced the detective
ing for the appointment of persons sergeant. "I know of eleven." not holding public office. These will
The Government Blue-book which
the
be styled "unofficial members of the mentioned Booth was an officiul re-
port of evidence taken before Executive Council."
Joint Committee of Lords and Com- on the Collecting Charities mons (Regulation) Bili.
The Guvernor, Slr Mark Young, in making this announcement, says it is thus intended to implement his re- marks to the Legislative Council lust
GAVE HER £500 November regarding the desirability
Scotland-yard then investigated of associating unofficial persons more
They discovered closely with the Governments de Booth's activities.
that he had contracted " liberations and decisions.
bigumous Food Dropped by Parachute-marriage ten years ago. His arrest The power station at Pangani River on a bigamy charge followed imme- Falls, Tanga district, was recently cut diately. off for few days by great floods. A Miss Elsie May Humphrey, the Government aeroplane flew over the bigamous wife, who had separated stution and dropped food by parachute from Booth three years ago, was at to a group of British engineers and the Old Bulley waiting to give evi- native guards who are marooned. dence if called upon. Natives had previously attempted to swim the floods with small live stock. KENYA
GOVERNMENT PLANS
FOR A.R.P.
NAIROBI.
The Government, in response to public demand for Information and advice on the subject of air raid pre- cautions, has prepared a conyirchen- sive plan for Nairobi,
It provides, in ease of emergency, for an auxillary fire-fighting service, The closing of schools, the appoint- ment of wardens, the organisation of
and an air raid warning system.
The detective sergeant said of her: "When Booth parted
Miss from Humphrey gave
ve her £500 for her
Interest in a charity."
In 1923, said the officer, Booth met
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a seventeen-year-old girl at Brom-Please apply to the JAPAN TOURIST ley, Kent, took her to a register offee, put a ring on her finger, and told her they were married. She had two chlidren.
Works Schemes For Ex-Servicemen
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. gangs to demolish wrecked buildings, M.P., presided at a meeting of the The public are advised in rend King's Roll National Council at the In areas where were not ex-Servicemen disabled country forms.
The plan is explained in a hand-employed as cor park attendants, local King's Roll commlitees had in book printed in four languages,
Sin Of Rain In 30 Hours.After the past six months been encouraging an almost record droht, extending such schemes. aver many months Mombasa recently experienced a rainfall which, in is turn, was also nearly a record. No fewer than 5.70 Inches of rain fell In 30 hours. Houses collapsed in a portion of a native village which was inundated.
members of their families whose pre-House of Commons recently, when it sence in Nairobi is not essential to was reported that
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Special efforts were also being made to persuade employers in Lon don and elsewhere to find employ- ment in such posts as liftmen.
At the beginning of April 20,000 disabled ex-Servicemen were regis- tered at employment exchanges as unemployed, rompared with 31.333 year ago.
Appreciation was expressed at the efforts of the King's Rol committees in bringing about an increase in the number of employers enroyed on the King's National Roll from 24,065 t April, 1938, to 25,293 at April this As the result of a mass meeting
Servicemen employed by members-ot held recently, the employees at the Year. The number of disabled ex- Roan Antelope Mine, Luanshya, in the Roll had risen from 310,776 at the Copper Belt, may 10 on strike.
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Judges In Colonies
in their that she should be an experienced parked his car in a field. Later, smail chapel, the fifty monks of woman, used to the care of children, owing to heavy rain having NEW LOAN LIKELY TO Prinknash murmured another prayer who can make herself popular at once fallen, he could not drive the car
that the £100,000 they need to with the young travellers, read them complete their self-imposed tusk will bedtime stories, and put them at case away.
after the excitement and fatigue of
ile was trying to get the car to the
Brokers anticipate that the Govern-THE SECRETARY OF STATE for the Colonies, Mr. Malcolm Mat- be, provided.
Jong journeys.
Donald, has decided to suggest to the "Thus, in Cairo she will be one of other side of the taltway when a trainment's £4,500,000 loart will be sub- the English community living there, was signalled. Turner drove down
It reverses the Government's policy Governments of all colonies where statutory qualifications do not already She will come to the hotel when the the line, racing the train to the near scribed within a week of issue.
of issuing no fresh loans. passengers arrive for the night. At est crossing.
The train caught up with him a few The principle of alternative repay-exist that legislation be introduced to provide that those appointed to be Mosambique she will await them on the houseboat where passengers spend yards from the crossing. He just ment dates, incorrectly described in
inunaged to jump clear, and the London as an Innovation, was adopted judges of the High or Supreme Court OBERLIN, O.
the night.
five years' standing. "At a remote post such as Sharjah, engine struck his car, reducing it to In the 1033 Conversions and before must be barristers of not less than There's nothing to that old theory
This was noted with satisfaction at It will doubtless mark the end of that an athlete can be only an athlete in Persia, she will be one of the small matchwood,
Mr. Justice Cassels said to Turner:
cent. local a recent meeting of the committee of and nothing else, according to a sur-English colony living some miles away thinks you were the victim of a the pegged 31 per vey here. It showed that more than and will be on call, if needed.
"There will be 10 on the stopping chapter of accidents. Just to mark authorities' loans, as the 4 per cent. the Straits Settlements (Singapore) information from the Straits 80 per cent of the latter men of the past three years are taking an active places for the route to Indin and Aus- one's sense of your error, I think the now offered is likely to attract much Association, when a letter containing
the African Justice of the case will be met by money awaiting investment. Interest the
rates have hitherto proved unattrac-Settlements (Penang) Association was
read. part in affairs of campus organiza-trails and four along
your paying a fine of £2."
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WATFORD (Herts). [RS. WINIFRED STEVENS, twenty-three-year-old bride, was dying as she stood before the altar at her wedding, it was revealed recently.
She had been dying since 1934,"
when her father's foot slipped Fascist Fined
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tor of their car near Tunbridge TOHN FRANCIS SUTHERLAND, of Wells, Kent, and they crashed into a tree. That was two years before her marriage:
Shoreditch, E., Newton-grove, stated to be a district lender of the British Union of Fascists, was at Old
10 street recently fined £10, with
A Harley-street specialist, it was guineas costs. for organising a pro- stated, said that the injuries to her cession in contravention of a police head "were not likely to give her n order.
lot of trouble in the future."
Mr. Herbert Metcalfe, the magla- The coroner at a Watford inquest traie, said the incident happened in suppressed
the name of the specialist the East End, where feeling some- "unless he were called as a witness times ran high. That sort of thing.
The specialist was not called and inust ́stöp,
The Fascist movement would have. the jury retuned a verdict of "Acci- dental death," """
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