1938-03-12 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 12, 1938.

MURDER CHARGE-JAPAN WANTS

AGAINST STUDENT

AT OXFORD

Two-Minute Court Appearance

on

John Stanley Phillips, 21, a theological student, was at Oxford: remanded for eight days charge of murdering Harold Mat thews, 16, a pantry boy at Wycliffe Hall. Oxford.

Matthews was missed and after an all-night search his body was found on a roof at Wycliffe Hall.

GENERALISSIMO'S HEAD!

Tokyo, March 5. General Chiang Kai-shek will be decapitated by the Japanese Army if captured, Mr. Koki Hirota, Japanese Foreign Minis- ter, told the Diet here to-day. He said the Chinese leader would lose his head if his whereabouts be and they were able to capture came known to Japanese forces

him

Mr. Hirota told the Diet that he was not able to predict the probable duration of hostilities in China. He said he could not imagine any foreign power inter- vening on behalf of General Chiang Kai-shek's Government.

The hearing lasted only two minutes, and the request for a re- mand, made by the Chief Constabie of Oxford, Mr. C. R. Fox, was grant ture abounds with suitable ed by the Mayor, Councillor H Sterial. Miss Phillips considers Rogers.

that the supply will no doubt follow the demand

Phillips, who had spent the night at Oxford police station, was then

ma-

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Children Litter Road With Pound Notes Found In Gutter

A Street littered with money school-children stuffing their poc- kets with pound notes drains lined with them, and passers-by bidding a penny a-piece for the notes.

That was the Bedlam in Vincent street, S. W., one afternoon recently after nine-year-old Billy Rofe, of Vauxhall Bridge-road, S. W., dis- covered £50 worth of torn pound notes in a drain outside St. Mary's School when he came out for lunch.

Billy called his pals. They scrambled for the notes, threw them all over the road and

Travel and natural history pic pockets.

"It is thought that the money was stolen from a car last Wednes- day.

The notes are genuine. The mystery is why anyone should have torn them up before hiding them in the drain.

They were torn when the chit- dren discovered them”

We Played Banks” Billy said proudly: "I saw some money lying in the gutter and called the boys.

"They got excited and started playing with them and throwing them about

{ pavement, crammed them into their "I wanted to call the policem

and when he came he was kind to me and I helped him to collect the money.

tures are cited as favourites among Then men, attracted by the taken to Oxford prison in a police educational films. The report clamour, came up and tried to buy car. He is the son of a Woking adds: "The interest, alertness them from the youngsters until a clergyman, and was formerly an and intelligence shown by the chil-party of workmen nearby, also at- undergraduate at Selwyn College, dren when watching an educational tracted by the row, saw the money Cambridge, taking his B. A. degree film are proof of the medium's and sent for the police. last summer. Later in the year he value” came to Oxford to study for the church.

INQUEST ADJOURNED

The inquest on Matthews' was opened at Oxford, and Phillips was brought from prison. He was 20- companied by a detective, who sat between him and his father-

Before evidence was called the Chief Constable said: "There is a man in custody, charged with the murder of Matthews, It will be necessary for me to communicate with the Director of Public Pro- secutions, who will then take charge of the case.”

The coroner, Mr. H. E. Galpin, then took formal evidence.

The father, Ernest Matthews, a milk roundsman, said that at 1.30 p.m. he was told that his boy was dead. At five p.m. he went to the mortuary and identified the body.

The coroner told Mr. F. S. Vaug- han, representing Phillips, that if he wanted a pathological examina- tion he must let him know as early as possible. Every facility would be given.

lasted

The inquest, which had just over two minutes, was then adjourned sine die.

"HORRIFIC” MICKEY

What Children Like

Mr. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoons sometimes come in the "horrific" film class, according to the seventh annual report, of Miss Jessie Phillips, secretary of the Bath Children's Cinema Council..

Publication follows the decision by the British Board of Film Cen- sors to grant only an “A” certifi cate to Disney's first full-length cartoon,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” It was felt that children might be frightened - at certain scenes,

Miss - Phillip's report states- "Mickey Mouse cartoons are rather difficult of selection. Many are quite unsuitable, I think, for the younger children as they are often very

good

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grets the absence of tainment for chil

story film

rarely found, it is stated, de ite the fact that English

It was said:

"We thought they were 'duds." The kids were going to play banks" with them.

- His blue eyes twinkled. "Gee, we had a lot of fun while it lasted."

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