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TRAVELLING MANNERS.

TRAIN JOURNEYS ON THE

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An Englishman recently remarked that his chief cause of complaint against his countrymen was their travelling manners. Speak to a man in an English train and he regards you with auspicion; how different it is in other countries The Frenchman is only too glad to get someone to listen; I remember two Italians cofing from Rome to Paris who by the end of the first day were drinking out of the same Chianti-flask, and at every, stop de clared in concret (though there were four empty places) that the car- riage was quite full, all taken, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

eight; and on a railway journey from Alexandria to Cairo I have, after half an hour, been offered a leg of chicken by d gentleman in a remarkably dirty fez.

Some of the most amusing Euro- pean travelling may be had in recce, a country where the rail- way is still something of a novelty; and where there are apparently no rules about limiting livestock to the

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PEER AND M.P. SUED."

ALLEGED FRAUD BY COMPANY DIRECTORS.

LAND IN BOLIVIA.

Allegations that, Lord Askwith, Sir Martin Conway. M.P., and others had made statements about

in "golden prospects

Dolivin "nothing but sham which were and fraud" were made in the King's Bench Division last month.

The case came before Mr. Justice McCafdie and a special jury, Mr. Robert Sohr, an Austrian, claiming damages for alleged deceit, con- piracy, negligence and wrongful dismissal.

The defendants were:-

Bolivia Concessions, Ltd., and the directors:

Mr. Henry Tufnell Campbell, Pont Street, S.W..

Mr. John Fraser Rutherford, of Westcliff-on-Sca..

Lord Askwith, Cadogan Gardens, S.W..

Mr. Lindsay Stuart Campbell Gray (the Master of Gray, Pont Street. S. W.,

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Mr. Jacob Hessler, West Hartle pool, and

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THE HONG KONG

SCHOOL THAT SAVES SLUM BABIES.

WOMAN'S GREAT WORK. IN DEPTFORD.

Little children at on doorsteps of the slum houses in Deptford too sickly to play.

DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1930:

Those who were well enough to dream about play wondered why it was that they could romp about in the lovely garden in Church- street, where so many lucky_Dept- for children attend the Rachel McMillan open-air nursery school.

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The tragedy for these little chil dren, who do not know the colour

the blossom от of grass tress in spring, is that there

long waiting list. children, and until the public is enthusiastic about nursery achools As Miss Margaret McMil lan there is likely always to be a waiting list.

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Bricks. Thrown at Them. Yet Miss Margaret McMillan, who, with her sister Rachel, found ed Deptford's open air school in 1908. struggles on, always trying, by her undimmed enthusiasm, to arouse men and women from their apathy.

After one year in this garden in the slums children are cured of

rickets.

No one can see the fragile, crook- Mr. Christian Lillce Fangen, Easted little bodies in the streets cut Croydon

side, and the straight limbs and pink cheeks of the children inside the school without wondering why Alling-every school in the slums anywhere

is not in the open air.

"When we first came here bricks were thrown at us," said Miss Me Millan,

For

"To-day the people

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the peasant from putting n eus in Mr. L. R. Miller; for the defen-friends. We have a mothers' club;

the rack.

and the mothers eagerly co-operate with us in our work. The children get their berakfast, dinner and tea here."

A kid is perhaps the largest Sir Martin Conway. M.P., animal that may conveniently baton Castle, Maidstone,

Counsel in the case were: taken into a railway carriage, but Mr. Sohr, Mr. "du Parcq, K.C., Mr. only considerations of size prevent C. Gallop, Mr. Patrick Spicer and dants, Sir Patrick Hastings. KC.. Sir Albion Richardson, K.C., and Greeks are charming travelling Mr. T. Springer,

Mr. du Pareq. for Mr. Sohr, said cumpanions. You meet, of course, every variety, from the townsman that Bolivia Concessions was form

A Career for Others. to the peasant in frilly smock unded in 1926 to exploit concessions in Jang white stockings. At a remote

There are brilliant colours in all station I once SW the station For every family of settiers that the open-air shelters of the school. master and his family all in bed the company could induce so go to And there are all kinds of jolly in the platform. It was "on the Bolivia they were entitled to buy a

games, musical dances, craftwork, same journey that a peasant woman certain amount of land, and Mr.paintng, and gardening. with a cherry faer held my hand Sohr was secured emigracion as we went through the tunnels, officer. while her companions picked up the grasshoppers which blundered through the window (there was a plague of grasshoppers in the Pelo- ponges that year) and threw them out in handfuls.

The traveller in Greece my on

Bolivia.

Currendered to Admiral. Some of the defendants," con tinued counsel, hold positions and bear. names, which make one regret that it is necessary to put such case against them..

To be able to plant a little primrose root and nurse it tender- i. is one of the greatest joys a Deptford child knows. And there are rabbits and guinea-pigs and a bird bath which attracts what-ever birds ever come to Deptford,

When the new training-school is The enac is this: That quite completed there will be accommo- deliberately, over a long time, theydation for about 70 students, who misled air, Sohr, they kept from will find in nursery school work a him information which showed that fascinating new career.

ons of his early railway journey he started, when the train is going full speed ahend, by the apparition of a face at the window. He need not be alarmed; it is only the ticket the golden prospects they were enllector clambering along, the footholding out to settlers in Bolivia board in the exercise of his dutice were nothing but sham and fraud, It is not unusual for a fellow and, in fact, they were going out to traveller to produce a musical in a place where the prospects were

nothing, or worse than nothing, strument and play it like one possessed and certainly you will far as making a living in decent not make any journey without in human coeditions were concerned forming some friendly peasant as to your age, nationality, occupa- tion, and the number of your chi

unprepared, not ready in the least, to receive settlers.

"When bad and. damaging re- poris came these directors either üren.

did not tell Mr. Sohr about them Possibly you may not welcome at all, and let him go on believing the intrusion of third-class ticket-that the prospects were bright, or holders into your first-class carriage succeeded in poisoning his mind (if you are travelling in style); but against the people who had made it has its compensations Going the reports." once from Athens to Laurion we saw

It may well be," continued Mr. from the train a wedding proces du Pareq. that Sir Martin Con- sion, fiddles, mandolines. bride and way's part in the matter was leas bridegroom and all. Coming back than that of some of the others." that evening the greater part of Mr. Sohr was born in Hungary the wedding guests, swarmed into about 60 years ago. He was at one the train, regardless of first-class time Austrian Consul at Dar-es- and a protesting guard. The wo: Salaam, in German East Africa. men, wearing their festival costume, and surrendered it in 1916 to a heavy embroidered coats. scarves, British admiral. After the Armis- and swinging plaits of hair, had for tice he was of considerable assist- once cast off their look of resignance to Britain in its Intelligence tion. and the men were full of good Department. humour, and wine. When they went, they seemed to take with them all the gaiety of sun and soil and the simple foolish pleasures of earth.

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY FOR FLYING CLUBS.

4,000 LEARN TO FLY IN -BRITAIN:

[UNITED PRESS.]

There are now 24 light aeroplane elubs in Great Britain with a mem bership of over 4,000, the great. majority of who have already learned or are at present learning. to fly.

The newest of these clubs is the Stock Exchange Club, open to mem- bers of the Stock Exchange and, their friends. For the present it ill have its headquarters at Heston Airpark, near Hounslow and rent machines from the organizers of the airpark. However it is planned later to acquire its own fleet of training aircraft and its own staff. of instructors,

"At the present time only 13 of the

24 clubs are operating under, a

Government subsidy, but an exten- sion of the subsidy as provided for

The hearing was adjourned.

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