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A Technical Assault

Joseph

In the Brisbane Police Couri Gregson James Howarth, wharf labourer, married,

- recently

and the father of three children, was charged with unlawfully assaulting

an 11-year-old Hongkong girl at

GET

FULL-TIME

EDUCATION

THE Education Minister has stated officially that 33,000 children in London were receiv- Hamliton on the afternoon of Friday, ing no schooling of any kind. Many of the 33,000 children in the London area mentioned will, it

Mr. P. G. Knyvett, is hoped, be back at school by September.

September 13.

The

that

Dssault"

Д "technical had been committed. 'He con- victed, but did not fine, Howarth.

On the carly afternoon of that Friday, the girl left the Breakfast Creek State School to lunch with her mother at their home in Day'a Road, Hamilton. On her way beck she walked along Cooksley Street and turned into Hamilton Road, when she saw Howarth coming from opposite direction.

the

"He came towards me, and then

he walked

Attendance officers are taking a "census," and more shelters are being built, so that some of the closed schools may shortly be reopened.

The number of schools open in peace-time in the L.C.C. area is 950; at present 302 are open for half-time, and 286 full-time; of those closed, some are in danger areas, others are of the "bungalow" type, considered un- suitable for reopening.

There are still some 200,000| girl from Hongkong in London children in the recep.

explained the n distance past me,"

a quiet, cultured voice. Then he tion areas. turned around, walked smartly after

"It is difficult to get all the

me and pulled my sweater in the remaining children back into the schools which are open," an official of the L.C.C. said, "par- ticularly as this is normally the holiday month.”

middle of

the

back. He caught me with his hand and he said, 'Do you know where Rosetta lives?

The girl told him she did not know, and when he asked, "Where is the Guest House?" she pointed out that It was right beside them.

Nice Voice

..

"You have a very nice voice, Howarth is alleged to have remarked,

Italian?" "Are you Irish or

The girl from Hongkong replied

the

up there?

But

School holidays, however, have been suspended, and teachers get two weeks off

in rotation, "holiday school" is not too strenuous,

except for those children who have inlssed much school time because of

war conditions.

SOUTH-WEST

in

Airmen From Rhodesia

Arrived in Britain of First Contingent

Gibraltar Evacuees Settle Down

London Now Has Its Own Little Spain'

A

Can't Speak English

LONDON'S Little Italy and China-town have a new The first contingent of air-rival. It is Little Spain. men from Southern Rhodesia. Somewhere in the Metropolis | For many of the refugees this was the latest Empire contribution to are hundreds of refugees who their second evacuation. Some time Britain's air effort, has arrived can hardly speak a word of Eng ago they were sent to Morocco. at a Scottish port,

and a fourth a

out of

am to

Loft Husbands

We

The men are to become part of the liah. They are the evacuees

from Gibraltar.

"We have left our husbands and technical and anaintenance per-

A whole hotel has been handed sons behind," one of the woman re- sonnel of all Rhodesian bomber and that she was neither, and in her. Most of the children in the Westghter squadrons which are to be over to them. They have been pour-fugees said.

ing into London.

We know it is only for a short ory to the court claimed that of England are said to be receiving formed in Britain. Howarth at that stage said: "How full-time education.

One night Hardly any of them are

recently they were as time. England will win." walk with

Another spoke of the air raids on about coming for

There are 120,000 evacuees

Gibraltar. It is very nice quiet

und

"When we lett just over a week "You stay here and Gloucestershire Somerset, Devon, their twenties. The "baby" of the happy as a bunch of plenickers on They were escorted to their hotel Cornwall, Wills and Dorset, and party is a youth of 17. They have a Bank Hoilday outing to Margute. sold. the girl cialms sho

woman had been guard with ago only one she ran Itome and told her mod education is being provided for all left all sorts of jobs. One was in the

mother of them.

City Treasury at Buluwayo. Another under a heavy police With her pare

Want To Help. buses that carried sho went to the parent

In some places, however, where was a banker, a third a cattle in policemen evon standing on the run- killed, school, spoke

Customs-board the headmaster, and to

them from

from a London station. they are sharing schools,

Others doubles..

were tobacco the police were communicated with glits are being worked, with loval

"The raids didn't worry us. Several boulloads of these eva- Plainclothes Constables Brace and

upholsterers, clectricians, children and evacuees in the after-growers,

cuees are now safe in this country. Just settled down in the shellers es Devantier investigated the complaint,

Tuners, railwaymen, torekeepers There are old men and old women though we were in our own homes. and when the girl repeated her story noon

Elsewhere evacuees are

"We had no fear, so great is our who have spent their lives Ashing receiving Howarth's presence, he said: "No, full education with the local children, They form, as any force from in the blue waters of the Mediter-faith in the protection of the British girlic, you are telling lies.

in Bristol full-time education is Britain and the Empire does, a com-ranean. There are new-born bables, forces and Navy.

"It is just like a great party," ene "Many of us have taken training The girl told Mr. J. R. Gilbert (for being provided for all the city's plete cross-section of the life of the Howarth) that her mother had told 50,000 elementary school children community from which they are of the women who are caring for in first-aid and A.R.P. work. Now

them said. "They her to be very careful of men. When

are completely we are in England we want to join- und 7,000. -secondary_pupils, Now drawn. "this happened” she went home" und

the-British-units. that air rald shelters

A number were born in Britain: happy:“- been built told her mother immediately,

Mr. Gilbert: Don't you think heat the schools, attendance is compul- One man could see his native town only pulled your coat to attract your soty. All the Bristol schools are re-as the ship steamed into home water, and many others have relatives and maining open during August.

friends in this country.

Srs

attention? Yes,

Exeter's school population has been Increased to 15,102 by evacuees, but every child is receiving full-time education.

NORTH-EAST

Mother's Statement The girl's mother, explaining that she was a recent arrival from Hong- kong, explained her daughter's arrival home, and how the matter was re-authorities have built up a system ported to the teacher.

to guarantee part-time schooling, at Mr. Gilbert: You were in China for all children under their

quite

Most of the Northern education

a long time, weren't you?-Yes, control.

Five months ago Manchester had

and sol

salesmen.

Welcome to Newcomers Mr. Lanigan O'Keefe, High Com- missioner for Southern Rhodesia, was at the quay to welcome the con tingent as the liner steamed into port. thing from khaki and Air Force bluc The Rhodesians were wearing every-

to running shorts and blazers, flannels

Mr.

Frenchmen Who Wouldn't Join Vichy

Boy Took 'Matric' On The Run From Enemy

and tweed jackets with 1. badges of HERE ARE three stories, typical of the courage and rank pete welcomed the new daring of Frenchmen who refused to submit to the Nazi

MO'Keefe is it a frequent or 130 of its 208 schools open for full-addition to the ranks of those who, yoke and have come to England to continue the struggle women in the street?-In China theme working; the number was near-have come here to help is under General de Gaulle, leader of All Free Frenchmen.

I was in Hongkong.

In Hongkong, Infrequent thing for men to accost

Men never think

ly doubled a month later, and since,

he said,

school.

1. This concerns a 17-year-

practice of men pecosting women is then the position has improved, so after due consideration and count- put Hitler and his Nazis where, unknown,

of thint ail children pre attending speaking to women in the streets at

ing the cost, we have as an Empire old boy who was about to sit for There is a different story to tell decided he and they should be put." his matriculation examination Why, is it a crime?-It is considered in the defence areas on the East

He pointed out that comparative when the Germans entered the a very serious offence, and the Coast, however. punishment is by dogging,

Here there are large number of Rhodesians were city.

who already on active service in the many thousands of children

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A total of $1,369,980,26 was reached on Saturday by the War Fund Inaugurated by the S. C. M. Post, Lid, with the following donations: Of the

The boy cycled to Bordeaux, but Mr. D. Drummond

$1,000 the there was no boat to bring him to Jardine's Shipping and

le England. So he cycled farther south

30 Friends (17th. donation)

But I suppose it all depends on the have had little schooling since the Navy, Army and Air Force. way a man approaches a woman in

Southern Rhodesian pilots in outbreak of war, Hongkong? Oh, yes,

Sunderland's school population RA.F. ve had already won

Have you told her to look upon thing with horror?-Yes, I

such

have..ew of my education in that

in

custom,"

," added the mother. "I would leave no stone unturned to seo that such a man got his just deserts."

is nearly 30,000, and last week the D.F.C. average attendance at the schools remaining open was just over 5,200. Allowing for the 3,000 children evacuated, no provision is made for the education of about 20,000. The Education Committee has been

'Spitfire, £5,000 O.K., I'll Pay'

Lord Cornwallis, president of Kent

#sifying in his own defence pressing the Ministry to allow all Spitfire Fund, was awakened at two

Gordon

who lives In Street, Newstead, declared that on

the schools with air raid

to St. Jean de Luz, whence a boat P. 8. S. Chicken Feed was leaving in two days time.

He found that he could sit for his examination during those two days and did so.

*, "Someone must carry on," was his only comment.

September 13 he was going to inter- to reopen but, after severatection o'clock the other morning by a tele- | ~The hero of this adventure is

renting of a house. · He did not

weeks, Deen given.

D

"How

young French liaison officer much does a Spitare cost?" he was with the RA.F. At Newcastle all the schools have asked.

He was left behind when the been closed, leaving 23,000 children know where Rosetta lived, and, without any education. Efforts are Lord Cornwallis. The stronger said, was ordered, to leave France,

"OH, I think about £5,000," said squadron to which he was attacked ing the girl, asked her. She replied being made to reopen schools with "OK, you'll have it to-morrow." that she did not know.

When the Germans arrived he hid Howarth emphatically denied that air rate she schools be expected. A cheque for £5,000 was sent to in a peasant's house Nearby was a he touched the girl, or that he had that certain schools will be available Lord Cornwallls from an anonymous damaged British bomber. asked her to go for a walk with him. soon for part-time education.

"I deny on oath that I even touched her," he said.

The magistrate, however, decided that the matter constituted a "tech- nical assault," and Howarth was convicted but not punished.

Baby Born In Air Raid Shelter

***Idonor.-***

Curfew For Children

Planned By Two Cities

MANCHESTER and Liverpool. may soon impose a curfew on children.

Although he had never piloted a

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He succeeded, obtained petrol from n store that lind been seized by the Germans, and one night flew to Eng- land. He crashed on landing, but was not injured.

9-A high naval officer provided

the epis for this story: He was writing a report in a quayalde office at Brest.

There come a knock at the door.

If the Home Secretary agrees, under 14, sold the curfew would at the word "Entrez" n. German Mrs. Anne Plume, 384, claims to be all boys and girls under 14 will ensure greater safety during air afleer stepped in

raids.

The German told him that the the first woman to give birth to have to be indoors by 8 p.m.

bifces were to be vacated, and ho baby in on Anderson air raid shelter. during the summor, and 7 p.m. It would also enable the police to was given dive minutes in which to

She decided to name her seven- during the winter.

concentrate to a greater extent on finish his report. pound boy, born in a recent Ger- The curfew would not apply to war duties.

PAR man rald, after Sir John Anderson, children accompanied by an adult.

the door closed behind the Liverpool City Council tools a German ho destroyed his report and Minister of Home Security, who Manchester City Council agreed similar decision at the request of Its other documents, stripped off his organized the shelter set-up.,

without discussion, to scok Sir John Education Committee

clothes and dived through a window The baby arrived as bombs were Anderson's sanction for the measure. It has already been stated that into the harbour.ne

Moving the resolution, Councillor the Government is considering the A fabing boat picked him up and "It certainly took my mind of the A. B. Edwards, who is the father imposition of a nation-wide curfew took him to a ship which landed Fald,” said Mrs. ¿Plumo.

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