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EXPELLED FROM

EARL HAIG STATUE.

SCULPTOR BOWS TO "TRUE- TO-LIFE" SCHOOL.

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931.

AMERICA'S NEW

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Removal of Cause of

Friction.

SCHOOL.

Boy Who Nursed a Cat.

FATHER WINS ACTION.

A new model of the equestrian statue of the late Field-Marshal Haig, which it is proposed shall be erected in Whitehall, has been completed by Mr. A. J. Hardiman, the sculptor.

It has been on view in the

MILITARY SERVICE.

Washington, Jan. 9.

A boy'a expulsion from a school in Switzerland was the subject of Royal Gallery of the House of The United States has signed un action at Wandsworth County Lords beside the original model a treaty with 22 other nations to Court on January 12, when Mr.which failed to secure the ap-prevent naturalised Americans Walter J. A. Skinner, of Chart-proval of Lady Haig, and which and their children from being im- field Avenue, Putney Hill, was was criticised by military col-pressed into the armies of their awarded 50 guineas and costs for leagues of the field-marshal, and ancestral homelands, Secretary of breach of contract against Mr. W. by members of the public.

State Stimson has announced. [Channing Pearce, proprietor and The first model received great America's signature to the head master of Alpine College, praise in artistic circles. but in document, drafted last Summer at Aryeges-sur-Bex

his new effort Mr. Hardiman has the Hague Conference for the Mr. Skinner complained that capitulated to the "true-to-life" (codification of international law, was written by the American his son was expelled summarily school..

Minister in Berne, Switzerland, without justifiable 'cause,

The agreement will come into full effect when ratified by the party

Col. Stimson predicted) nations. it. would be presented to the U.S. Senate soon.

pectus:-

The original charger" was a Mr. C. Gallop (for Mr. massive creature with the girth, Skinner) said that Mr. Pearce legs, and neck of a carthorse, and had endeavoured to justify his the head of a pony, according to nction by relying upon the fol-the "true-to-life" school. flowing rule printed in his pros- There is radical alteration in

The treaty is expected to the new horse, which is an Eng- "The head master reserves to fish hunter of the type that Earl climinate what has been a fre- himself the right to demand the Haig really rode. It is a delicate quent cause of international fric- equipped with tion in the past. In a number of removal of any boy whose in-limbed animal fluence he may consider detri-cavalry saddlery, complete with instances naturalised Americans mental to the school and no fees martingale and holsters. paid on behalf of such boy are

The features of Haig are returnable."

Before going to Switzerland, said Mr. Gallop, Ronald Skinner,

as a result of two serious motor-

most unaltered.

or their children, visiting abroad, al-have been drafted into the armies

HOW TO LIVE LONG.

eyeling accidents, had suffered DOCTOR ON OCCUPATIONS TO from concussion which had madel him rather nervy. Mr. Pearce was aware of these facts and that

the boy required strict and care

ful handling.

FOLLOW.

"There are some occupations

of their former nations, under whose laws they still were citi- zens, This practice sometimes has led to the exchange of sharp

notes between those countries

and the State Department.

Leading Nations Sign. Although the Hague Protocol· was not adhered to universally, it

which obviously tend to shorten was signed by many of the lead- lives," said Dr. Bernard Hollandering nations of Europe, particular- ly those which have sent large in a lecture in London. on "The

United States. The signatories include France, Germany and Great Britain. A unilateral agreement regarding dual tionality was entered into be. tween the United States and Italy some time ago.

na-

At the end of five weeks,, he said, Mr. Pearce called Ronald into his study and said that his Prolongation of Life and Youth numbers of emigrants to the general conduct had not been fulness." satisfactory, and that he must The medical man's average leave for England that night. duration of life is decidedly low," Eventually Mr. Pearce sent him he added. "Only successful law to a school at Lausanne and wrote vera appear to attain a great age to the boy's father stating what as may be seen in the case of he had done,

many of our Judges,

"Humorists, philosophers, his Ronald Skinner, giving evid. torians, and highly intellectual "1. A person possessing two ence, said that on one occasion people, in general, appear to live or more nationalitics who habit- was turned out of a class-long. The group which presents ually resides in one of the coun- room because he had nursed a cat the weakest side of longevity is tries whose nationality he pos- on his knee. Complaint had also that of the novelists, dramatists, sesses, and who is in fact most been made that he had used bad and poets, probably because they closely connected with that language, but he had never done lead, used to lead, more irregular country, shall be exempt from all នច in the presence of younger lives."

military obligations in the other country or countries.

he

boys..

Boy's Evidence.

Mr. Pearce, who is a B.A. and

A salient article of the treaty stated

"This exemption may involve

a former Exhibitioner of Worces-not justified in expelling the boy the loss of the nationality of the ter College, Oxford, said that from school without the know-other country or countries. Skinner was slack and very back-ledge of the parents; without The protocol was signed by Ger- ward. He had used bad language, having made a demand that the many, Austria, Belgium, Great borrowed money from other boys, boy should be removed, and with- Britain and Northern Ireland, and his influence was detrimental out having complained to the Irish Free State, India, Chile, to the school. A meeting of the parents of the boy's conduct. Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, masters and prefects came to the

France, The boy's conduct, he said, was Spain,

Luxemburg, unanimous opinion that Skinner certainly not such as to justify Grecce, Mexico, The Netherlands, must go at once.

instant dismissal because many Peru, Portugal, Salvador, of the things complained of were Uruguay and the United States.

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Judge Harington, giving judg-

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