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FRIDAY, JULY 10, - 1931.

TRAINING FOR THE TANKS

Recruits Graded on Results.

PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS.

THE CHINA MAIL

THE SHUTTERS OF 113,

HIGH-HOLBORN.

Tragedy of a Blind Antiques Expert.

SECRET REVEALED.

BRITAIN'S OLDEST

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INDUSTRY.

QIZ- A

From Days of Julius Caesar.

TIN MINING.

DISARMAMENT AND

WAR DEBTS

Views of Belgian Ex-Premier.

POLITICAL QUESTION.

Mental and psychological tests to le capable of absorbing it. This measure -mechanical and other applies alike to military and civil ability have been introduced at the training. On the military side, the Royal Tank Corps Central Schools | introduction of technical units and at Bovington Camp, and have proved of a more specialised training gen The dust-coated shutters of Heavy world production of tin George Theunis, retiring pre- Invaluable for classifying and erally demands from the soldier a Number 113, High Holborn, Lon has thrown thousands of miners sident of the International Cham- grouping recruits necording. to higher standard of education than don, which for seven years have out of work in Cornwall. At St. ber of Commerce, and for many educational erit, The result pro- heretofore. Hence the care

now hidden the tragic secret of old Just-in-Penwith, 400 men were years after the war Prime Minis vides interesting data,

exercised in selection, "Discharged Maurice Lyon, silversmith and recently added to the unemploy- tex of Belgium, does not see how as not likely to make an efficient antique dealer, are not to be raised of the town when the Geevor military disarmament can be soldier" is a formula less frequently ed even now he is dead.

and the great Levant mines were tied up with war debts and re- used on that account.

For the shop which he loved so closed.

parations. He expresses sur- much that he would not leave it St. Just-in-Penwith, centre of prise that any one in a rosponsi- for a day after blindness had Cornwall's tin mining industry, ble position should attempt to tie made it impossible for him to is more picturesque in name them together. A work, is to be the home for than otherwise. A drab little

For some of the men it assurca accelerated promotion. Others are relegated to a "lower form,” I do not know what place was given to the young Irishman who, in reply to the question: "What is tartica enid: "Tactics is whin ye don't let yer inimy discover that ye're out of ammunition, but just kape on

Arin"."

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The object of the education officer is to find out what each man thinks and knows, and to make allowance for the varying capacities in order that the more advanced shall not be retarded by those not so well equip

The

the present, at least of the two town; set in a stern background an economic question," he said "That's a political, rather than women who were Mr. Lyon's de- of slaty hills and rocky head-in reply, to a question. "For at ped mentally.

voted servants The Tank Corps Centre has ob- years.

for nearly 50 lands, it has had a Under the old system we in-

checkered the bottom of it all is the ques That was his deathbed career, as full of ups and downs tion of security. Why is Bel variably had the "awkward squad," tained excellent results in Its wish.

as the famous mine shafts which gium spending several million embracing, various types of mental; mechanical training largely through

The two women were with their puncture the countrysides all dollars for fortifications now? aptitude. Consequently, training the new system which obtains there, master when he died in the house around it, writes a Ceylon Obser- It's because the people of Bel- was impeded. Now the psycholog- and from which it has obtained its which was his home nearly all ver correspondent. ists are able fairly accurately to supply of highly efficient instruc-the 86 years of his life.

gium, insist on security. More British fortunes have same holds true of every country select the man of superior intelli- tors. In the programme of Instruc

Affection for Holborn.

been won and lost in Cornish in Europe that is spending more gence and place him in a grade some tion care is taken to avoid a dull

Maurice Lyon and his brother mines, it is said, than in any money for military purposes than steps above the semi-illiterate, or presentation of mechanical detalls. Samuel were born

dall and needs The instructor is also careful to as house in Holborn which has now..

in a little other industry. the man who is

it did before the Great War." certain that no member of his class disappeared.

From Bronze Age.

When it was pointed out to Mr. special attention.

Their parents had The little mining town has a Theunis that the total annual. Menta! tests are applied by is left puzzling over something that spent most of their lives in Hol- church dating from the 15th cen-payments of war debts to the learning the standard of education he does not understand.

born, and both boys inherited a tury, but St. Just-in-Penwith is United States are about 5 per sequired by the candidates. The Practical Instruction,

deep affection for the street of no great antiquity compared cent, of the total being spent in "A" men are those who may be ex- Each lecture room is devoted to where their boyhood days were with the tin mines of the dis- Europe annually for war prepar pected to take a First Class Certi- one of the principal components of passed. They started business trict. The tin of Cornwall has ation, the Belgian leader still in-. ficate which represents a moderate the internal combustion engine, and together as silversmiths and been known and worked from sisted that the problem was ly good education. Thuse graded when the time for "passing out" antique dealers. It was a modest the Bronze Age. "p" have reached a standard of draws near the student is given start, but the brothers worked therefore, is Britain's oldest in and as such the two could not Tin mining, political and not an economic one, education which will enable them parts to assemble. No man is allow long hours to build up a business dustry. early to qualify.

It might be claimed and should not be related or tied for the Second ed to drive a tank until he joins his which became famous."

that the world's first tin came together. Bible corresponds to the Hebrew contribution which the inter- "bedhil," which is really a cop national chamber of commerce. per alloy known as early as 1600 gathering has made this year?". B.C. in Egypt;:

Mr. Theunis was asked.

A

Clags. Certificate, while the. men field unit, but on a Tank "Rypa" (a A quarter-of-a-century-and-from-here,-for-the "tin-of-the-What is the st important graded "C" are placed in a lower driving machine) he is able to ac-more ago connoisseurs from many custom himself to the feel of the parts of the world came to Num- gears, etc.

ber 113 to buy the art treasures

category.

A few cannot escape a "D" classi-¦ Alcation, and only the best of them are retained. They are the "hewers of wood and drawers of water." The Tank Corps has little use for These...

New Outlook.

The old Army tradition that, the less the soldier knew outside his military work the better no longer obtaina. Of the few good things that came out of the late, war one was the new putlook on the training of the soldier.

His Interest is not know exclu- sively military. He is given unique opportunities from the first day of joining his unit to prepare for his return to civilian life, and is en- couraged to take advantage of them. The old soldier was an automaton. The end of his contract with the State left him in a blind alley. To- day the soldier, If he so elects, re- turns to civil life with a greatly improved education and capable of skiled employment.

Education, to be of practical value must be expended on material that

CLUTCHING HAND. European Lady in Kowloon Incident.

A SMART CAPTURE.

A case of bag snatching from. a European lady occurred at about 8.30 p.m. yesterday at the junction

of Nathan Road and Austin Road. As a sequel a Chinese youth, Cheung Lam was charged with the offence at the Kowloon Police Court this morning.

pean and handed over to the Police...

The Driving and Maintenance School is staffed with instructora who have specially distinguished themselves. This School trains in- structors, both officers and non- .commissioned officers, who come from the field units and are them- selves to return to these units as instructors. As far as possible, ali teaching is done through the 'aye by means of sectionised parts of machines and models and the use of the cinematograph.

Of 755 men who passed through the elementary wing in mechanical proficiency, the final grading was 48 "A" (a high standard), 572 "B" (capable of driving and mainten ance), while 135 were graded "C." Five were fallures. After leaving the Depot and the Driving and maintenance School, the Tank men go to Lulworth for gunnery. Re- turning to the Depot for a final "refresher," the trained man joins the crew of field unit, where he is given greater responsibility.- London Morning Post.

KIDSTON'S CRASH.

Too Heavy Luggage Alleged at Inquiry.

CONFLICTING STORIES..

ADVERTISING NEEDED.

Lord Ednam On Maintaining

British Prestige.

Viscount Ednam, who recent- ly returned from South Ameri- cn with the Prince of Wales, emphasised the importance of advertising, in a speech in opening a trade and industries exhibition at Dudley

"This is an age of advertis ing," he said, "and if we want to maintain our prestige we have to advertise, our goods

extensively." more

Britain

was behind her competitors Iri that respect, and that was, one of the reasons why her prestige. had declined in foreign mar- kets.

He thought, however, that British business men were at last beginning to realise the -value-and-necessity of adver- |tising, and were becoming more what he described as "exhibi- tion minded," It was no use, however, tackling the problem In a sporadic manner, and they must let loose a concentrated barrage of publicity,

Was Lieutenant-Commander Glen which the brothers collected in Kidston's Puse Moth, in which he the old-fashioned shop with the and Captain Gladstone met their long oak counter. Then Samuel

Lyon died.

Never Recovered.

deaths, overloaded?

"Come and see the luggage he has got and sea chest with Maurice carried on the busi- him," said Captain Gladstone to a ness, but he never really recover- ground engineer at Johannesburg ed from the shock of Samuel's death. Seven years ago Maurice

The Phoenicians, who were the merchant adventurers of their

Significance of Facts. To me the encouraging thing times, sent galleys from the about it all," he replied, "is the Mediterranean to buy the meal growing insisterice upon securing from the natives of Cornwall in facts on which conclusions can' exchange for salt, crockery and be built. The significance of brazen ware. The Phoenicians facts, often appears. months and then set up a trade in tin with years after the basic data has Greeks who, Incidentally, been secured. What is needed is were the first to find a name for not a lot of half-digested opiniona it. Later, Julius Caesar was led based on limited facts; but well to invade Britain by reports of thought out conclusions based valuable mineral deposits there, non facts which are indisput particularly the tin of Cornwall, able. Traces of Roman engineering "I think the International have been found in some old Chamber of Commerce Confer workings near St. Just-in-Fen-ence has compiled more import. with.

ant data on the vital issues fac- 200 Feet Below,

ing the world-such as tariff The tin mines of the St. Just walls, agricultre, gold and silver, district are unique among man's credit, war debts and repara- activities. St. tions, etc., than ever before. subterranean Just itself is a mile from the sea, We cannot expect that the repre but many of the mine heads of sentative of every country will the vicinity are close to the rocky agree on what ought to be done shores and their shafts extend with these facts, but in time the out under the ocean bed for con- very force of circumstances will siderable distances. The Levant compel the right action.". Data mine, for instance, has a gallery "Do you look for an early re more than 2,000 feet below sea covery in world trade?' He was level which bores under the At- asked. lantic Ocean to a point a half a

"The severity of the crisis mile from the shore. Working which has devastated the world at a higher level in this great for the past eighteen months pre burrow which produced both! copper and tin, go out double that cludes the possibility of an early recovery. Yet, I think we are

distance.

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Not far from St. Just, too, is getting along because we are all willing now to face the essentials the ill-fated Wheal Owles Mine and to co-operate in such a con- where water broke through the ference as this in an effort to upper galleries a few years ago, bring around as speedily as pos drowning twenty miners whosible a better situation. I think were trapped in a lower level.

The water has never been there was more serious attention on the part of the delegates to pumped out

this year's conference than ever It appears that Mrs. Ramsgill, of aerodrome before the flight. -

Quaint Names

before. Each men was seriourly 3, Gun Club Hill, was waiting for The latter told Captain Gladstone Lyon' found that he was going Many of the Cornwall. mines the bus at the corner of Jordan that it was too heavy, but Lieuten blind. He fought against it and have quaint names, among them interested in finding out what is

fundamentally wrong. Road when the accused approach-ant-Commander Kidston declared, still carried on, though he could the "Wheal Cupboard, the

No Serious Challenge ed from the rear and made an at- he was tired of touring with only a scarcely see the treasures which "Ding Dong" (said to have been "For example, when the con tempt to snatch her hand bag, small suitcase, and in any event the filled his showcases. One day he worked long before the Christian vention heard me in my opening which contained $5 in money and chest weighed less than a man. could not see them and that era), the "Consols" and the speech say that the fundamen- aundry, articles. Fortunately the I could not argue with him," day he groped his way to the "Alo and Cakes mines, et inl cause of the unequal distribu- Indy held on to the bag, and the added the engineer before the court front of the shop and pulled down In the town of St. Just is a ton of gold lies, in the uncer- youth bolted along Austin Road, of inquiry at Harrismith. The the bright green shutters circular Enclosure, called the where he was caught by a Euro- chest was accordingly loaded. He sold the treasures some "Planean Gwerry, which was in political situation and in Eya witnesses of the disaster of them centuries old and said the scene of an ancient Cornish the protectionist policies which told conflicting stories of tire height to his two servants: This is my miracle play, wrestling and Prevent goods from taking the place of guld, no one seriously. of the machine, but all agreed that home, and I will never leave it. other sports. It is similar to challenged that position. the wing parted in mid-air. Local When I die the business dies with the grassy pit at Redruth, anNow the implications of this, farmers described the conflicting me."

nother tin mining town where if my conclusion is correct, are winds of the district, sometimes. From that day Maurice Lyon John Wesley once preached to

very far reaching Countries like blowing north, south, east, and west met few people. Callers were the miners Methodists still France and the United States, in one day,

be sent away and business men an- hold open gir meetings in the having within their possession The owner of the machine admit-xious to pay great sums for the Redruth, Amphitheatre, with more than two-thirds of all the ted that it had an accident at shop so desolate in such a valu0,000 or more people gathering monetary gold of the world, must Salisbury at Chriations when it able site were told that it at one time.

seriously study the effect of their struck a telegraph wire. There was not for sale. Legends St. Just is easily located on the tarif policles in order that this pairing engineer admitted that he were woven as the dust map. It is but a mile inland from problem, and it is one of the had not opened the wing and ex-grew thicker on the shutters and Cape Cornwall, a bold headland most serious confronting the amined the Inside as uo external the letters M. and S. Lyon' which arises 200 feet above the world may be satisfactorily damage was apparentes, above them. It was said that sea

adjusted." Singapore. Free Recently the Civil Air Board Mr. Lyon had become a hermit U.S. Consumption. Pressi ordered all Pass Moths to be modi- because his wife had died, that For many years the mines of wes fled before mid-July, and all in Cha he was guarding priceless trea Cornwall chjoyed a virtual moho What Is belleved to-be, a

tradel butter-fat test for a cow of a country were done. except the eures in the darkness behind the boly of the world th one Lieutenant-Commander Kidston shutters.

Saxony and Bohemia being the on bread is claimed by His Secret chief rivals. Then tin was found Clarke of Didsbury, Alberta,, for

ay States three-year-old Jersey cow Waikiki He never denied them because in the Federated waited his blindness to be a Bolivia, the Dut

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which, in offfelal selt Fecret known:

Nigeria the two servants,

Mr. Hamilton remanded the youth until to-morrow morning, when he will be sentenced..

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