ESCAPES FROM INTERNMENT CAMP: MEN IN COURT
Through Nullah And Under Barbed Wire
CHURCH RUN AS 'BUSINESS'---CHOIR GET THE SACK
A month's notice for the whole choir of sixteen-so that it could be reorganised;
A brighter parish magazine, and The Parish Hall turned into an arm-chaired lounge.
These are some of the changes made by the Rev. Bryan S. W. Green, one of London's most energetic vi-
cars, in his efforts to reorganise Brompton Parish Church on “more| businesslike lines.”
And he is succeeding . for in three months his Sunday morning congregation has swelled from 200 to 1,000.
When I called at the Vicarage Mr. Green showed me a pile of mew agreements that he was about to de- liver to certain members of the old choir and to some new men.
"There is no question of victi- misation," he said. "It is just that I have decided to reorganise the church on more business-like lines." Other reforms that he is intro- ducing include the substitution of a full-time verger for the two at present employed; the introduction of another organist next May, and extensive alterations to the style of the parish magazine.
In the leaflet enclosed with this month's issue it is stated that from January there will be a new parish magazine. The cover will not be ecclesiastical.
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Over A Hundred Men Still
At Large
BAD COOKS RUINING FARMERS
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If you ask Lady Robinson, Kirklington, why the farmer can't make a living out of the ROLL-CALL TAKEN AT, Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon land, she is not satisfied to blame THE CHINESE SOLDIERS' IN- Magistracy this morning, when the it all on the Government. TERNMENT CAMP AT MATAU- Court was asked to take a very CHUNG HAS REVEALED THAT serious view of the case.
This prim, white-haired OVER A HUNDRED MEN HAVE It was revealed that altogether lady who, late in life, decided to ESCAPED FROM THE CAMP IN 109 men escaped, and that 103 are start rearing pedigree cattle, and THE LAST FEW DAYS.
still at large.
has beaten the world in a few Revelation of this wholesale The six men in Court all got years, blames others as well, in- flight was provided in
earlyaway approximately at 7.30 p.m. on cluding the modern girl. hours of Saturday morning when a Friday, by crawling through the police patrol in Boundary Street manhole and along a nullah to the challenged a group of men standing
seashore. together, and arrested six after they had taken to flight.
Subsequent enquiries revealed the astonishing extent of the leakage' in the last few days.
the
Some had got away by a journey down a nullah running underneath the camp, access to which was gain- ed by lifting a manhole cover.
Others had, evidently, escaped by means of an exit obtained by bur- rowing underneath the barbed-wire fencings,
In asking for a heavy penalty, the prosecuting officer pointed out that interned soldiers trying to escape were liable to be fired upon. The camp had been made as com- fortable as was possible in the circumstances. Recreation of dif- ferent kinds was provided and tobacco was supplied to them by the Chinese Y.M.C.A.
HOMESICK
Three of the accused said they
"I am sorry to say it, but half the trouble is because the mod- ern girl is a bad housewife," she said.
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"Mind, I will admit that So many women have to work a mir- acle and bring up a family on so little money that they really have to buy the cheapest.
Sheep's Head Meals
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"But even then some of them escaped because they were home- don't know how to make a good sick and wanted to go back to nourishing meal out of, say,
sheep's head. And they can buy their villages and farms. of
Passing sentence of two months' an English sheep's head for a hard labour, Mr. Himsworth said few pence. that although the Court might "Among better-off young mar- As a sequel to the incident, the sympathise with them, they could fried women their ideas are even
not be allowed for the present to before
It is presumed that all the escapes were made during the hours darkness and had been spread over a period of four or five days.
COURT SEQUEL
six men
caught appeared
into a lounge, with armchairs and settees, has been a great success.
In future, students and others Mr. Green explains that these who have nowhere to go on Sunday changes are intended to induce peo-evenings will be able to attend ser- ple to read it, because the magazine|vice and then spend two hours in the will not only give parish news, but hall, where a buffet supper may be news which concerns everyone. had for 6d. and where smoking is
The conversion of the Paris Hall allowed.
STOPPED TRAIN TO DASH TO WEDDING
leave the camp.
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THIS CHURCH KEEPS MOVING
worse.
"They will only buy steak and the cuts of meat that can be cooked easily and quickly if
they are prepared to buy fresh
meat at all.
"And I firmly believe that their
husbands in the end are under-
nourished. They earn good wages but they never know what food The south side of St. Phillip's well cooked from English pro- Church, Worcester Park, Surrey, duce is really like."
is shipping away form the main por- tion of the building owing to the contraction and expansion of the clay soil on which the church is built, due to weather conditions.
She is a Farmer
Lady Robinson has a reason for complaining. All around her own The vicar, the Rev. S. G. Bro-estate here she sees farmers slid- ckington, said, "The church "Who pulled the communication | sure, aud I was assured it did.
hasing into bankruptcy, and she been moving to a certain extent for knows what the farming fight is cord?" said passengers on an "The train was going_at such à
a number of years. It has been re-herself. L.N.E.R. train, from Theydon Bois speed as it entered Leytonstone to Liverpool-street, as it came to a Station that I knew it was not stop-cel arch on the south side was un- paired, and ten years ago the chan- sudden halt just outside Leyton- ping there. stone.
Scores of heads popped out. of windows, and passengers saw, a well-dressed man and a nine-year- old boy step down on to the per- manent way.
The mystery was not solved un- til some time later, when Mr. Fre- derick Broadbent, of Blackare-road, Theydon Bois, Superintendent Re- gistrar of Marriages for South-West Essex, confessed that he had done
it.
"I could not help it. I had to. It was a case of real urgency," he said.
SPECIAL LICENCE
Left with money and a farm, Lady Robinson decided to tackle
"So I jumped up at once and derpinned. pulled the communication cord. "The church is under periodical the breeding of first-rate cattle
"My champion herd of Aber- deen Angus cattle might just
the
I was surprised how quickly the observation by architects. A stained-for beef. train stopped, I got down on to the glass window had to be removed as track with my son, and after giv-a gap was appearing beside it, and a ing the guard my name and ad- plain glass window was substituted. about come out level with dress and an explanation, I hur- The porch has geen showing signs prize money this year," she told ried to my office in Lea Bridge-of movement; and a tie-rod was in-me, "but as a business proposi-
tion under present serted to clamp the walls," the vicar
conditions continued.
farming is very nearly hopele s.
"If I had a son, I should er- tainly not advise him to take up farming as things are
road, 20 minutes' walk.
DESIRE GRATIFIED
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"I must confess I was most de- lighted to pull the cord, because, after all, who among us has not, at some time or another, had an almost irresistable desire to pull it and see what happens? I know I have, "I had to marry a young couple "Of course, I told my boy after- by special licence at 9 a.m., and if I wards it would cost $5 if he ever had not been there it would have ventured to imitate my perform-: spoiled all their plans. They had to ance, and he was then very concern- be married then in order to geted lest I would have to pay it. away on a three weeks, honeymoon, "I have sent the railway a writ- and I had solemnly promised not to ten statement explaining the whole let them down.
situation. You see, I should not only "I left home-in good time with my have spoiled the plans of the one nine-year-old son and caught a train couple, but have been late for three at Theydon Bois, which, when I had other marriages, and that would been by it once or twice in the have made others late all through summer, stopped at Leytonstone. I the morning. I could not have got asked if it stopped just to make there before about 10.15.”
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"A considerable amount has been apent on repairs to the
church, which is regarded by many as architectural gem. Attendance has not been affected.
The congrega- tion is very true to it."
MANCHUKUO TO JOIN THE AXIS
Tokyo, To-day.
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FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH
Moscow," To-day. The military supren court has sentenced to death five former Manchukuo will join the anti-officials of the interior commissariat Comintern Pact as the fifth state, for extorting "confessions": from according to a reliable source. prisoners and making illegal ar-
An official announcement is ex-rests. pected at the end of next week. Trans-Ocean.
The five men have since been exécuted. Trans-Ocean.
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