1937-09-04 — Page 11

BASQUE CHILDREN IN FIGHT

ATTACK ENGLISH

GIRLS

Following an attack during the night by Basque girl refugees on English girls at the Home of the Sisters of Charity in Dumford street. Chorlton-on-Medlock, Mar chester, the Mother Superior tele graphed to the authorities at North Stoneham Camp, Hants, asking for the refugees to be removed.

Covetous Eyes Being AIBING Cast On South Africa HABITUAL

CRIMINALS

The dangers to which Southerals, and we are rich in minerals. Africa is exposed under modern This extraordinary mineral wealth conditions and the necessity for of Southern Africa makes us a sort unity among the people of the of Naboth's vineyard' which may, country and for the preservation of in the end, be a very dangerous our friendship with other nations thing for us.

of the British Commonwealth were stressed by the Acting Prime "The two conclusions draw a from this are that, in the first place, Minister, General Smuts, in speech at a social given in his hon-it is necessary for us to stand to- our by the Grakpan branch of the gether. Let us not go into the future United Party

Sir Samuel Hoare, the Secretary, hopes to visit a number of prisons during the Par tary recess

This is part of the plan methods of dealing with habitual criminals.

Sir Samuel Hoare is now engaged

in

Five years age a departmental tenders as separate tribes, one of Dutch committee on persistent descent and the other of English made a number of important re The hopes that followed the descent or other European descent. commendations, but the commit- Great War have not been realised," Let us go forward as a united na- tee's report had to be shelved

•Sixteen Basque girls have been said General Smuts. "On the con- tion, sure that if ever we are con- owing to the pressure of more im- sharing quarters with 30 English trary, the world to-day is far more fronted with a grave crisis we shall mediately important legislation. girls for the past five weeks. Fric-dangerous than it was before the stand as a united nation and so be Great War; and we, who are far better able to protect ourselves. tion between the groups culminat- ed in a fight in the dormitories. away from the turmoil and strife National unity is to-day a physical of the Old World, and have look-and moral necessity in South Africa The refugees, girls beween the ed upon distance as our protection, and as the years go on it will be ages of 9 and 16, resented some are finding out that distance is no come more so. remarks hat had been made to them protection at all. by two of the English girls. They waited until everybody had gone to bed and then, screaming and shout- ing, they ran to the beds occupied by English girls...

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The two girls they believed had offended them were dragged into the middle of one of the dormi-

Old Isolation Is Gone

Not Bound By Treaties

with the Prison Commissione Considering means by which the recommendations may be given effect. They will require legisla- tion, but it is still too early to say when the necessary bill can be placed before the House of Com-

commendations was the imposition One of the committee's chief re-

of "detention sentences intead of imprisonment or penal servitude.

"The other conclusion I draw is mons. vers flew from the North Pole over frienships which we have in the "A few days ago three Russian that we must not speak lightly of

Canada to the United States non-world I call our British Common stop a distance of 5,600 miles. Be-wealth of Nations a great friend fore long, airships, flying-boats, and ship. We are not bound in this aeroplanes will cover even greater group by legal ties; we are pretty Two kinds of detention were sug distances without stopping. Do not well free. Our status to-day is such gested: One for not less than two tories, and blows were rained upon imagine that our old isolation exists that we are not bound to any formal and for not more than four years, them. The Basques then pulled

any more. Moreover, you will find treaties. But there is something and the other was prolonged deten the girls hair and dragged them that South Africa is the type of more valuable something which tion of from five to 10 Fears

country the people of Europe want. [counts for much more and that is

These sentences would not be We have entered a mineral age, that we are in great friendship and when the great nations want min-that, in the hour of danger, we shall fing, discipline, treatment or con- punitive, but would impose "rrain- stand by each other. We stood by trol," designed to check the per- each other in the Great War and we sistent offender's criminal propen- may have to stand by each other

sities.

about the room

The Mother Superior said that one girl was chased out of the home down the fire escape, and only returned after the Mother Superior and the staff restored order.

If all the Basque children cannot be removed from the home it is hoped that the older girls may be transferred and their places taken by younger children.

The girls who were attacked by the Basques were Susannah Brown, of Keighley, Yorkshire, and Emily Stubbs, who has lived at the home all her life. Neither was any the worse for her experience.

MIDSHIPMAN FOUND HANGED

·ROPE TIED TO

BOMB

drtion of greater danger in the world

TEST STATION FOR ENGINES

Railway Companies'

Scheme

Britain's first testing station for locomotives is shortly to be estab- ished at Rugby, under the joint control of the LMS. and L.NER.

There are only three such stations in the world. One of these is the property of the German State Rail- ways, the second is at Vitry, near Paris, and a third at Altoona, in the United States..

A great deal of attention has been devoted to the question of testing stations by the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the LNER, Sir Her bert Nigel Gresly. His presidential Paymaster Midshipman Sitwell, address to the Institute of Locomo- 19, was found hanging recently in tive Engineers in 1934 was devoted the battleship Ramillies, 29,450 to this subject. teas, which is lying in Sheerness Harbour.

When completed, the joint station

He was found in the bomb store. "bench," on which new locomo at Rugby will contain a special test- At the other end of the rope to tives can be tested under track con- which he was fastened he had tied ditions.

a bomb. The rope was swung over

horizontal bar, the bomb appar

ently acting as a weight

An engine under test will be

ed hydraulically

The body was removed to the composed

dockyard mortuary at

was made.

postmortem

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Home Fleet and

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to the ance.

at Sheer-

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pen to visitors the character

the extent of

exhaust

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of the bringi

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of the

Reformative training"

would be

again South Africa is in a posi- and so I say 'keep your friends. Do provided for offenders between the not speak lightly of secession nor ages of 21 and 30. of cutting adrift from the group to The committee also proposed which you belong, but be very sure that the power to impose sentences that you value the friendships that of detention should lie with Assize you have and stick to them:

Conrts and Quarter Sessions.

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