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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1940,

BEARDED HEADMASTER FOUND UNFIT TO HAVE CHARGE OF CHILDREN

Eccleshall, Staffordshire, April 7.

The bearded headmaster of an expensive Stafford- shire mixed "freedom school," Robert Copp-

ARMY

ing was today found unfit to have charge of COMMANDS

childern and guilty of keeping them in torimontal environment."

a do.

Similar verdicts were passed on his partner, Edword "Joe" Reynolds... Both were found not guilty of keeping the school's 22 pupils on insanitary premises.

with the why thef

Copping was said to hove taken a girl pupil away for u wook. The matron at the school was alleged to have provided contraceptives to a girl pupil whom she supected of intimacy with a boy. The

and boy's

girls at the dissatisfied school, Horsley Rail, near here, were said to have visited each other in the bedrooms "at any hour of the clay or night", have talked constantly about auri used "the Althiest language.

The pinepal. Robert Copping, hose age was given as 45,

childreu were treated, counsel

to

Reynolds,

ani.

40

Chinose Doctor's Evidence

CHANGED

London, April 7. The War. Offlec announced tonight that in order to align the boundaries of Army Home Commands as closely as possl- ble with the boundaries of Civil

Boston

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用

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In preparing another The old stately, dignified order

DIARY

Perhaps one of the reason I

sort of toa parly,)

in in retreat from the new and i like this town so much is becaus The guest of honour la Mr.vulgar and vigorous Irish-domin- many parts of it remind mo Winston Churchill, and the only ated way of life.

England. thing likely to be dumped into the Jaton still has its oxclusive Old Dostou in old England here old harbour in Communist litera- chube, its Parttan heritago, its In the New World.

snobbery and tradition, but they The narrow mase of streobs, For days now the city which are dwindling. The shanty Irish handsome red-brick

houses with rejected the British and became are tearing down the lace rur-English bay windows, purple- the springboard of the American taln.

dreaming spirom of revolution has boon nervously At the moment. In deference te churches, fine bookshope and

ita tribute.

Mr. Churchill, there is a show of loather shops, green common and planning

The famons face stares out of unity.

public garden right in the heart shop windows on Tremont-street

of the city, stalued and clamorous and Washington-street.

wharves which smell of ten and coffee and cudfish - all this is England.

The Union Jack floats side by side with the Stars and Stripes from flagpoles and store masts,

Boston has, in fact, opened wide His gates and its heart, and invit- od Mr. Churchill to walk right Ro-in. Defence Administrative gions, certain changes came into

itect from April 1, 1940.

tes

Command:

Westmorland

The big worry is to do full jus- tlee to the occlains,

Secretary Calls

The folterwing counties were transferred between Copping started his educational) | immm that date:

I had been in the elty only system bremuise he believed nu- Cumberland and an beings had natural ten-from Western to Northern Com an hour and was unpacking iny bug in my hotel room when deney to l

not the mone!, the right

a call came from the secretary wrong, thing

of one of the numerous reception committees Could I give in an indication uf Mr. Churchill's

prelal wants and tastes.

An entire floor of the Ritz Carlton had been pui at his dio porsi, dozens of special cigars were on hand, but what about the 1843 brandy he was said to ke? favour any

* sin

Ele satel 56 to 60 per cent of bat cer- at the childrent smoked,

taily a pre cent would love the school as non-smakers. Adolescent boy and kh

were found in the same bedroom at the selmol, they would be rebuked but not punishert.

his tner, Edward denied the complaints them. The prosecuting elated the children school were "under an influence which is baleful mad destroying

Reynolds,

Suit be karen among the pupils as "Joe," was alteger to have offried to bet a boy "a pound to a penny". Uhal he would sing secure a female at the establishment.

to their white

Warwickshire from North- Western Command. Buckinghamshire from Eastern to Northump- Southern conkiwind. Jonshire frun Eastern to Northern Command. The High Peak Dis- trict of Derbyshire from Northern to Western Command.

Dil Churchill

Mr.

1

Lively Town

My trip so far has been a slic salón of surprises,

The town is much gayor, llvo- Her, and more uninhibited than

had been led to believe. Whe night fo

ifo has bounce and buoyancy-t

-theatre and

cinema crowded. Britain's "Red

Shoes" is in ita 20th week.

Burlesque booms, and the Watch Committee is not the stern kill- joy or Grumbling Grundy that it has been pictured.

Bcantily drek

dressed hostesses in encktail lounges and hight spots some places are open wat & aunt. would raise New York eyebrows and blood-pressure.

But the big surprise is in the city's reaction to the Churchill visit.

When I walked into the Copley Plaza Hotel to meet a friend on the Boston Globe I was engulfed by A multitude of chattering, gesticulating women, mmrtly

the No change has been made boundary between the Eastern and Southern, Commands in the ea of the Surrey and Hampshire bor- der, but for Civil Defence pur-particular food or dessert? Me conluet war, uniilets atter, puses only that part of Surrey I explained tha I was no ex-dressed, well-groomed, obviously the nest few weeks, during which which lies in the Southern Coni-port, but I knew that Mr. Chur-prosperous,

and is transferred to the Eastern chill was fond of Irish stew. This wasteland tline they were

aciclick. One o tver

Command.

turned out to be a happy answer, great fulls.. h

date London for Boston itself is an Irish stew I shall

tell you

that pupil's parents, a Chinese doctor. Reynolds

transferred to a big, bolling city of high sen- has been generous Sul he brought his son to Eng-District has been

and the Eastera Command.

The soning and full flavour. enough to describe this in his land from the West Indies

lalement

counsel he was salisilis? with his pr. G.OC. Condon District, will, how-

joke.

Bald

was treated

himself."

AS

"Strange Ideas”

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That Copp had stayed Toy a week with OTA of his girl pupils vecupied house, where they slept

with in adjoining bedrooms communicating door. Copping and tteynolds were said to have kept the children in Insanitary pres Their food was alleged to rises. have been kept in a mouldering. condition, the drinking water was contaminated, and there adequate heating or light

was no

BALLE

From the same

Royal

gress and health at forsley Halever, retain responsibilities in re- My Reynolets sad te eisider- gard to the Household Cavalry,

self

and of Guards at person to have Brigude

Horse

122 these Artillery, and i had change of

matters will continue to act independent

avariert yo

A statement wild to have been mude by a Dutchman engote i as teacher, Jorrit Jun Vangil, sakel that h

be approached Copping on cernarks

rks made to him by some of the girls.

Copping told him: "Thene and if it gives a child happen, pleasure, it cannot be had, be It masturbation or SOXVAI tercourse."

Dirty Sheets

In

Submitting that they were not

A mudwal &ficer who luspect- it to have the care of these or

ed Horsley Hall sal attendance my children,” the prosecuting

at meals and classes was optionul, counsel said:

gentlemen tied These

sheets were extremely kleas have strange

dirty. freedom of education for young have

crockery unwashed. children and self-expression.

any school conditions up. A "somewhat confusing" doen-anywhere

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regarding

never seen

with

seat which would be produced preaching Us," he declaresi.

evidence explaining their

fre,

In fact,

On the allegations of obscene Janguage at the school Copping

scene.

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Irish City

Women's Time

paned,

The newes part of the town has wide ayenups, streamlined tram- cars, modern cinemas, with their

perpetual rash of Neon lighting, drug stores and automals, but it has not dared to encroach upan the national shrine.

over

have driven around the

over and prawling city again, always getting lost.

Its enchantinent in Infinite. Neng Bunker lt monument --- of our "defeat"-the wint ing, cramped streets are lit by gaslamps, complete with panes mashed by small boys, mantles brokon, and flaring þlup flame.

cono

The monument itself in a shab- by granite obelisk 221ft. high. It looks neglected.

It is surrounded by houses.

Few Skyscrapers

Driving around the city you realize its sizu, it likes to spread. I recells from skyscrapers-only the Customs House tower and the Insurance now John Hancock building reach for the clouds.

Across the wide Charles river restaur-in Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology-Mo Churchill's host.

Harvard has 9,000 paying guests, blg, handsome, kroome and manicured-impressive,

The fretful title of women lap pod against the registration desk, penetrated lounges and ants, submerged porters, clerks, walters, and bellboyn. It is a wonderful mixture of ocated my friend, who seemed pronne, simon-pare Yankees of almost in danger of drowning of women, and

but under undiluted British blood, wild and ander the sea Commander

just Irish folk, Canadians, Italiana, Jewa, Polen, Swedes, Germans, Lithuanians,

Greeks, and Negroen, The Irish run the town. They form three-qu of the 2,500,-

the War Office.-Reuter.

San Francisco, April B. A Chinese Communist broad-

ciast fron Peiping yesterday quied the Nationalist Govern meul's "Gold Yuan" as worth only 50 to 1 "People's dollar". The "People's Dollar" is the unit of exchange in Communist Chin- Associated Press.

askod:

What's this

Ho sakt: "Daughters of the Amartcan Revolution-Massachu setts Divisions-let's get out."

We did, and he explained thore

quitten Boston, was a big meeting of these ro- !

000 people in and it is their city.

The

gustere and aristocratic New Englanders, the Barons of Beaconhillso very English in manner, dress, and custom-do not like this, but they are beginning to admit it.

Union Calls For New Federation

Washington, April 7.

The American Fedoration of Labour today called for a united world'federation of free trade unions. It donounced the present WFTU as a fifth column of the Soviet dictatorship.

tenets showed that there was no said: "No language is obscene un- punishment for anyone, children

the mind hearing it is ab- were allowed to do what they ked, un could please them-

Reynolds, asked if he thought, selves about the hours they went

it right that he should bet u to berl,

Doy

"a

to a penny" pound The bodies of these young seduce the housekeeper, replied; creatures

often woubl not seriously sit down) cold and they shiver. There is a

anil put that

ebild. la

The general state

rtisorder of

natter arose from the child and lutions squalor In the bedrooms, stores and other rooms, counsel by

merely

in that Federation discussed at a meet- answering

from ing here today a proposal by manner it was dismissed Raid,

the child's mind."

the British Trúdes Union Cong- An order to remove the chil-ress that 2 new federation dren from the school was ad-should be formed following journed untit next month-the. Jecision of the Reuter,

Sincera Beliof

A detective

sergeant read a statement fald to buvr hen made by Reynolds that he traced a rumour that he had seduced a 16-year-old girl back to a kit- chen worker at the sehnol,

SYRIAN LEADERS

Copping, during the hearing. denied that a girl he had taken The Syrian to London for a week was one of his pups. He said she had been

but was then A pupil doing secretarial work and he

The International Labour Re- "As this process of separution

Committee

the of

statement the proceeds,'

saya, "there is created a vacuum in the ranks of world Inbour,

The

British

K

not

Wesley. Radclifla and'

SCOTO of lesser

Tufts, Boston College and others, There are more people poring texbooks here than any- where else in the world—and that is why Boston calin itself the

ovor

is

Athens of Amorica.

volutionaries, the Old Guard and diehards of American society, and it was no place for a man.

The strenuous interkions of the Boston's politics are staggering revolutionary daughters to plan and

amelly, The mayor is James their honour to Mr. Churchill Michael Curley, 75, and, according struck no one but myself as odd. to his own announcement, expect-

Ner, wher

I pressed a big doing to be 125 and be mayor all partment nigre, Filene's, and sav that time.

all- the announcement of an

On Thursday Mr. Curley British week, with practically poses to take a bock scat,

for nothing but English goods sale was I expected to be Bur- prised.

Reputation Goes

Boston is a friendly, generous, very human fown.

When you call on local news- papermen they not only pump you full of Information but want also to pump you full of drink and food.

The reputation which Boston has of being a citadel of anti- British feeling hardly stands up, Some newspaper editorials twist "The American Federation the Lion's tall gently now

and stress tooaenta, but the twist is beginning

to look more like a careas.

of Labour cannot femly that this vacuúm be filled by the organized world. unity of free labour."

A foundation conference should then be held to set up the new international trade union organis sation, it was added.-Reuter.

Row intended to marry her. in a letter to the Syrian people that when the British Trade

Trades Union Congress, the American Congress of In-

They proposed that the Pro- dustrial Organisations and the ceed with its work

Vlelonal Committee should pro- during the RESIGN

Netherlands Federation of

coming months while represenki. Labour to leave the World tives of American labour will be Damascus, April 7.

Federation of Trade Unions be- visiting Europe. Asia and Lotr President. Shukri Bl Koually, removed from office

cause of its alleged domination America. after last week's coup d'etat, to- by Soviet representatives. day announced his resignation.

Committee issued It was offelally announced that statement in which they declared he wished the country prosperity Unton Congress, the Congress of Defence counsel sald Copping and success.

Industrial Organisations and the and Reynolls, both of whom The former Premier, Khaled Netherlands Federation of Labour

Sydney, April 7. denied the complaints,

hally broke away from sincerely El Azem, also announced his re-

tho

Eight occupants scrambled belleved in the way they ran this signation. Both were arrested Cominform controlled WFTU safely from a blazing Lancastrian educational establishment. One during the coup, which was led they gave the signal for every plane when it crashed today at astonishing feature of the case by Colonel Husni El Zahn. They other genuine free trade union Dubbo Airport, New South Wales. was that not a single parent had are to be banished from political body to sever its relations with The plane overshot the runway on been called to my that they were life in Syrie-Router.

that body.

« trolaing flight--Reuter.

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