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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1960.

Reintroduction of corporal Dowager

punishment under

consideration in Britain

Bournemouth, May 25.

Mr R. A. Butler, Home Secretary, told police officers here today the possible reintroduction of some form of corporal punishment for certain crimes was now being considered.

SABBATH

ATTITUDE CRITICISED

Edinburgh, May 25. · The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland de- cided today to criticise the Royal Family's atti- tude to the Sabbath in its Laya! Address to the Queen.

The Queen is head of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the same way as she is head of the Church of England.

The assembly the church's annual conference-voted on the issue today and the decision to express dissatisfaction at the Royal Family's attitude to Sun- day was carried by 44 votes @gainst 40.

}

Various religious bodies in the past have expressed concern at such Sabbath activities as the Duke of Estaburgh playing polo and other sports.

At

The minister--who is re sponsible for the police and the control of crime-said his depart- mental advisory council on the treatment of offenders had al- ready begun an inquiry into the subject

He had ordered the inquiry in view of many demands backed by the increase in crimes of violence particularly for young offenders,

But, as he had said on many occasions both in Parliament and elsewhere, ho personally was not convinced that, this would have the effect which its advocates hoped.

Will wait

He would wait for the coun- cil's report later this year be- fore unnouncing any decision.

Corporal punishment largely flogging-was abolished in Bri- tain in 1948 except for offences committed in prisons.

Mr Butler sold the police officers at their annual con- increase in ference that the

crime was continuing but that the picture among young people was beginning to be "a little more, hopeful.

After a "disturbingly high" increase of 26 per cent in the mumber of offenders aged 17 to 21 in 1958 the increase dropped last year to four per cent.

Less delinquent

In the 14 to 17 age group, Loday's meeting the the Increase Jast y Car was question was raised by the Rev. severt par cent compared with Kenneth Macrae from Storno-19 per cent in 1938. ! way in the Hebrides.

The number of child offenders under the age of 14 hɛ actually dropped "and there is reason to believe that the number of

teens are ch'idren now coming into their less delinquent than their predecessors."-China Mall Special

After the proposed Loyal Address had first been read to the assembly, he said:

"I would like inserted a ca- tence expressing dissatisfaction at the attitude of the Royal Family to the Lord's Day,

"We have

a loyalty higher

than the loyalty subjects," he Mail Special.

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PINT FOR PONY

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London, May 25. Joe, & four - year - old Welsh pony, drank a pint of mild ale in a publia house at Wickham Hanip- shire, and no one batted an eyelid,

For the "pint for a pony”' has been quaffed annually for 100 years.

It is the traditional open- Ing of Wickham's one-day Charter fair and without it the fair cannot go on.

The Charter (Royal për- mit) was granted by King Henry II in 1269, and the fair has been held on the eve of the feast of St Nicholas every year since.

After the landlord of the Star Inn, Mr Bll Dennis, had poured the beer into Joe's mouth, Joe and other pontes were put up for sale. -China Mail Special.

selling Nelson

heirlooms

London, May 25.

The Dowager Countess Nel- son said today she must sall some of the heirlooms Left by England's greatest sailor, Horatio Nelson, to make ends meet. She also plans to take in bourders. "All I get now is an allow- ance of £400 a year from my brother-in-law, the present earl," the explained in interview. And it so difficult to live on that"

an

The Nelsons' ancestor, Ad- miral Lord Nelson, was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar. In recognition of his victory, the British Government made his brother an earl and provided an annual annuity of £3,000 for holders of the title and their widows,

A Labour govemment in 1947 abolished the grant and made the family trust fund liable to death duties. Subsequent con- servative governments did nel restore the annuity.

MODEST HOUSE

The Dowager Countess now lives in a modest houre in Ilford, near London.

"I feel paying guests are the only answer row? she said, adding she feels she must keep on a part-time gardener and a cleaning woman.

"So I'm afraid I shall have to sell come of the heirlooms lett to me by my late husband. The may just no longer stretcxcs."

Sold out relee."

London, May 25.

Ernma, Lady Hamilton, Admiral Lord Nelson's mis- tress and the mother of his money For the first time in the daughter, also had

his death. She history of the Royal Opera troubles after

Covent Garden, an frittered away her annuity of entire performance has been £500 a year in gambling and sold out to ope private extravagance, spent a year in organisation it was announced debtor's prison, and died in today.

poverty in 1915.-AP.

House,

All 2,200 seats for The Barber' of Sevlile" on June 2 have been Association for the Protection sold to the International

of Industrial Property which will be holding its congress in London,

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Mall Public-China Special.

Beecham tired after tour

London, May 25, Sir Thomas Beecham the 81- year-old British conductor who has cancelled hig visit to

from a two-day private visit to Carrier conversion Scandinavia on medical advice

relatives in Germany.

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London, May 25. The aircraft carrier Albion, now in the Far East, will return le the United Kingdom at the end of the year to be converted into Britain's second commando carrier.

is "very tired" after his Ameri- can tour it was stated here,"

A spokesman for the Beecham Concert Soclety said: "He is not terribly ill but he has got to be Icoked after carefully at the moment,

"There is no cause for anxiety The first such carrier was about his condition.”. HMS Hermes.

Sir Thomas is still expected to conduct at the yndebourne opera season in July and August, If he is fit he may go to next Scandinavia

year, the

The announcement of the conversion was made in the House of Lords today by First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Currington, during a debate on spokesman added-China Mail.

navy colimates.AFP.

Special. J

Interference in domestic policies possible

Salisbury, May 25. but perhaps we attach too much Sir Robert Tredgold, Chief importance to it."

He was concerned at the inter- Justice of the Rhodesianference of one country in the "Federation, sald here last affairs of another. "It's a very night there might be occa-delicate matter, but there comes sions when it was neces-ame when interference in the affairs of one country becomes sary to interfere with the common interest to us all," he domestic policies of one said. Commonwealth

"Unless we decide that we country

must stand together in that where the interest of

zegard I can see for myself no others is at stake.

future for the Commonwealth. Speaking at the annual ban-Undess we take that stand on quet of the Salisbury Branch principles in which we believe, of the Royal Commonwealth I don't know where it will end"- Society, Sir Robert declared: "China Mail Special. suggest that liberty is important

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