Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
NORAH GOES HOME-
WITH £75 DAMAGES
Typist "She was tricked
Wins
Lord
Lawsuit into car"-Judge Hee-Haw
Against Brothers As
S the 4.50 northbound express waited
at Euston Station recently, Norah Bradley, a typist, homeward bound for Wigan, walked up the platform with her mother.
She had just been awarded £75 damages after a four-day lawsuit against two brothers for whom she once worked.
She sued Norman Webster send
his brother Maurice Webster, part- ners in a Wigan motor-conch hunt- nera, alleging that the twn men~! me the father of her former Babe, Kenneth Webster, twenty-on-year-, old aircraftman--had carried her off, against her will, in a car,
Mr. Justice Tucker, awarded her £75 damages and cost-£50 fur false imprisonment in the cur, and
£25 for asuh.
The girl's case was that she and Kenneth Webster became friends, and when the young man joined the RAF, they correspondest.
Shared A Flat
Frederick Webster, brother of the two defendants, and muther partner
In the musumers, who was separated! from his wife, became friendly with
MOTHER
BEFORE
COUNTRY
Son Is Excused Army Service
AT fourteen, Dennis Stafford
hey, and shed a tint with her at Pitt, of High-street, Maldon, Blackpool.
Essex, took a job and became
Her baby was born in May last; the mainstay of his invalid and Frederick Webster entered into mother.
an, terangement
mainteuince.
fur fite
child's
Now. 21 years old, he is a conselen-
Later she went to stay at Milden- tious objectar because he holds that hall, where Kenneth was stationed his duty is to stay and polt after her. and said they were expertjup to get!
married when the two brothers) "There is no power on earth that called at her apartments, induced her can force me to go, placed as I am." to enter a car and drove her away be told the Eastern Tribunal, at Cam- against her will.,
The defendant denied the allega- tions, and contended that she entered: the car voluntarily.
bridge.
"Needs Me More"
For seven years, he said, he had
Mr. Justice Tucker and he was kept his mother.
satisfied that Norman Webster and
"She needs me more than ever sae
his brother Maurice were determined, did,” he declared. "How long do you į
to bring the girl back from Milden- think she would last if it were to jot half whether she wanted to go back
to Wigin or nut
"They tricked her into
Chr"
said the judge, and when she dis-
The doctor says she would have to
[go into the infirmary at once.
"I cannot, and I will not. have this!
covered this she resisted-and gave while she has a home and a son to vent to one of her qutbursts of look after her."
temper to which witnesses have
spoken.
"
The judge said he was satisfied the
Seven Years Ago Pitt's mother walked into the room.
girl was taken against her will injusing a crutch. the car, and force was used to re- straio tier.
'I Was Wronged
my son.'
She sat to the tribunal: "I have no money, and nobody in the world but Pil said that seven years ago his The judge added that he was satis-father was takers to a mental hos fled the defendants were doing what
pital.
the four days' lawsuit.
Nurah
said: "I am quite satisfied
Igoing.
But there's a good deal more horse sense about this animal than the Oxford- cum-Zeeson broadcaster.
Clergyman let a
train run
over
him
THE Rev. William James Gray, Honorary Canon of Rochester Cathedral, who once held a wounded man in safety while a train passed over them, has been appointed Archdeacon of Tonbridge.
When Canon Gray got out of a
Neutral Zones For Europe's Civilians
PARIS. (UP).-The French government has proposed. through the International Red Cross, the designation of neutral zones to serve as evacuation points for women, children and aged persons in case of aerial warfare. The plan calls for sparing these zones from attack if they have been verified by experts as being not military objectives.
tu
Turned Down By Nazis Usually reliable informants said the proposal was went to Germany by the Red Cross, but apparently turned down because "This war will be total war, in which we are unable take any engagements in advance." The proposal was first made year ago in a League of Nations meet- in by a delegate for child welfare from the French governinent. It was renewed at the outbreak of this war. The negotiations were strictly cons
dential.
It was understood the appeal may be renewed with the backing of Red Cross organizations in several neutral countries.
France has about 200,000 children from Alsace-Lorraine and Paris con- centrated in designated refugee areas under government support. An estimated 800,000 additional persons have evacuated such centers and are living with families or relatives in countryside districts.
Mass Evacuation
Plans have been made for massive evacuation of all big towns and frontier regions. should large-senle aerial warfare or invasion threaten, The transport problem would be entirely controlled and paid for. by the government, under military direc tion, and refugee areas have been planned on direct railroad connee- tions with the evacuation districts.
The first week of this war saw the fra application of the system, and it hitch or accident. worked without The mobilized troops rushed to the front and the same trains returned loaded with refugees.
Control and support of refugees is
the direction under
of Camille Chautemps and his new national com- mittee for evacuees. Chautemps WAR chosen because he was formerly the Kovernment commissioner for hardest hit by the evacuation, redeemed provinces which would be
Changing The Provinces Chaulemps has organized specialists from the ministries
public health, education, agriculture, Inbour, sup- plies and transportation, who will work under his direction.
they thought was probably against When the authorities tried to get train at Canterbury, he was told a the law, but they were acting on quite his mother to go to an infirmary and man had fallen in front of an un-
One of the greatest benefits of Iaudable motives.
himself to go into a home, he got a lcoming train.
evacuation may be the rapid breaking Norah's mother sat in court during job au that he could keep the home Stripping off his coat, Mr. Gray down of traditional French provincial crawled between the rails, where he aloofness, Another is the Increased with the result, I did not bring this The tribunal registered Pitt uncon- found the man with one leg com- health of children moved from the action to make money am not aditionally as a conscientious objector.provised tourniquet with a length of other is the urgency with which much ¡pletely severed. He applied an im-large cities to the country. Still one gold-digger. I was wronged, and 1
string he had in his pocket.
social legislation pending for years wanted the wrong righted. Now I'm
Throwing himself over the injured has been carried through in perm- just going to live for my baby!!
form wall while the train was slowly health centres and extension of drawn over them. The wheels were school facilities—since the war began, within two Inches of Mr. Gray'a body.
Islanders may be conscripted
GUERNSEY STATES — the island Parliament-is to consider
plan of conscription for men between eighteen and forty-one, according to a Blue-book Issued, A tribunal would be set up to consider claims for exemption.
It is likely that the Royal Guernsey Mith, at present cm- bodled, will be disbanded next month, and a defence force of men over forty-one formed.
GUERNSEY: Second in size of the Channel Islands; nine miles long, five miles at its greatest breadth. Population
about 10,000,
Britons And Germans Work Together
DUBLIN.
CO. NOW WANTS man, he pinned him against the plate anent laws--such as establishment of
TO FIGHT
A conscientious abjector who changed his mind came before the South-Eastern Tribunal.
John Berbert Tuberner, aged 21, of St. Catherines-avenue, Luton, said that since sending in his statement he had thought there were still things worth fighting for.
He was now willing to do military service.
The man died after several days.
A Cup Of Tea Saves A Life
A cup of tea saved the life of Ernest Riley, who cycled into, Gorles- ton harbour during the black-out.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Weoldy) Report issued yesterday says:
Transactions during the week do not amount to vast proportions, though those reported to-day are on
At the same time Erriest Rose, a 2 better scale. fl.K. Banka and
in his statement Taberner had said riverside store proprietor, went out Douglases have registered a twenty
he did not wish to carry on where to emply the tempot, heard Riley's point rise in each case, the former to This father finished." He had seen cries, and pulled him out of the water, $1,380 and the latter to $100, busine
him suffer from the loss of a leg. with a rope.
NURMI
FROM
200
SAVES
HELSINKI
HELSINKI.
AFTER Helsinkt had been bombed by the Russians the Finns
as
of
done. These are the exceptions the balance of the list displays no
The advent material change. Chinese New Year will probably lead to the market becoming quieter for the next week, but there are no signs that year end liquidation is necessary. Baxiness Done During the Week
II. Iank $1,400, $1,360, $1,365, $1,300. $1,383, $1,300
Canton Ins, 1220
Unian Ins, $465
Douglases $100
Docks $214. $21.15, $21, $20, $20.05.
told this story of one of their heroes-Paavo Nurmi, famous | $20.90, $11 long-distance runner:— ·
over
"Paavo, when he saw the Russian the shop six years ago from the Helsinki, ran cross-money he won as a runner, The country to the eastern front, bor-takings from this shop he invested rowed a machine gun from a general, In real estate and developed a big fand dashed back to Helsinki by the business,
time the bombers had gone ten yards. Gle owns two large blocks of flats
"He set up the
the machine gun, an the outskirts of Helsinki and was THREE Britons and two Ger-red one burst, saw a bomber come supervising the building of a third
down in flames, chased the falling block when war broke out. mans have to try to forget their plane ten mlica and, waiting for the
One-Man Show countries are at war while they plane to fall, pounced angrily on the The same energy which made work almost side by side, with Russian pilots the moment it did so."
When I told Paayo, in his little Nurmi an Olympia king has made eight Belgian experts, in the clothing shop in Helsinki, about this, him a business king. All his bual- Haulbowline Steel Mills, Queens-he solemnly denied it.
jness is a one-man affair, I asked town.
It was hard to imagine that this what would happen to his business The local council recently passed little man, leaning on the glass when he was called up. He answered
ago the solemnly: "I don't know. a resolution protesting against the counter, was ten years
athlete, He looked have to look after itself." employment of foreigners, decided to work's super
ask Eire's Premier to investigate. prematurely middle-aged, with lines
Mr. Seamus Fitzgerald, chairman under his eyes. of the council, and a director of the
Car Race
It will
Paavo sparked up when I asked if he thought Sweden should nid Fin- land. Ife said: "I think everybody
and
moral
mills, said that no foreigner could He blinked slowly as he told me in should help us. We are very glad of get a job in them without close in-short-clloped sentences that he was everybody's sympathy vestigation by the Govemment. jout on his estate- few miles from help, but we can't bomb the Rus- Helsinki when the bombing started. sfans with moral help'-and Paave He raced by car to the city, took his hands off the counter and shop was moved a box of shirts. along it to After seeing that his safe and his six girl assistants allow a customer room.
evacuated women, babies and old men in his car.
Short-Leave Weddings
SERVICE men can now get mar- rled on short leave..
Formerly short leave did not allow sufficient time between the notice of marrings and the ceremony.
ha
children,
I left Ponvo in his shop. He shook my hond with a strong grip that be- For two days and nights, almost lled his tired appearance, As I without a break, he made trip pulled open the door I noticed A after trip through the blinding poster. On it was the picture of a mow. He took more than 200 to mon of perfect physique running
with the world as a background. Before the war, Paavo divided his "The man was Poovo Nurmi,, and They have to give the man's normal time between his clothing shop and at the foot of the poster was written
his real estate business. #le opened "Olympic Games-dielsinki 1940,"
But brides-to-be expecting their fances home can now enter the notice..
home address.
Anfety.
Providents $4.40
Hotels 3.40, $5.15
Land: 133
Tramway 17%. $17.70 Star Fettles 900, 800 Yaumati Ferries $25
Chin Lights (Old) $7.70 Electrica $35
Macas Electrics $20, $20% Telephones (Old) $1, $2435
Cements 18.00, $10, $15%, 30%, Dairy Farms (Old) (22 Watsons 19
Closing poolations 4 p.m. Duyers
1LK. Bank $1,350 Canton Ins $213
Fire Ins, $100 Douglasen (100 Docks $21.59 Providents $4% Itotals #5.10 Landa. 134 Healties $45 Tramway 17,00 YaumaLights (Old)
Ferrien #2414
China Lights (New) $4,69 Electrics 1554
Telephones (Old) $24
Cements #10%
Dairy Farms" (Old) 1
Dairy Farms (New) #20%
Walcons 39
Halters
Contents pla.s Itope # Dairy Farms (Old) $22
Baler
1.K. Bank 1,300
HK. Steambonts $10%
Docks $21.00/50. Providents
Hotels $3294
Humphreys 3834 Realfies 4.55
Tramways 917.70 Macap Electrics $201, Telephones (016) 99% Cements is
Dairy Farme (015) #313). ILK Govt. 46 Loan
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