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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1930.

WAS AMY JOHNSON

.

INSULTED?

SHE LOOKED LIKE A

CITY TYPIST."

JOURNALIST ACCUSED OF

VENOM."

The Daily Express has received a letter which not only reflected very strongly the opinions of its writer, but opened up the important ques tion whether Miss Amy Johnson www.insulted in the colurans of the Daily Express when Mr. Gordon Beckles wrote of her looking like

shop." The

Garden letter and Afr. Beckles' reply to it are below:-

To the Editor of the Daily Express."

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CHARTING

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Sir,-You don't tell me the arti- dle published about the reception giver Miss Johnson was written by Gordon Beckles-I'd bet my bottom dollar that some viperish female (over thirty-five, who was not ask ed to the party) undertook the job for him from "potes made on the spot.

It is all too paltry and spiteful fer any man to have indited, and I think will do your newspaper a great deal of harm in the eyes of the public, who will merely put the Miss paltry references, such 33 Johnson looking like "a City typist at tea. down to journalistic jealousy.

I like my "Express" always, and am deeply sorry you have seen fit to publish auch an ebullition of obvious venom-Yours faithfully, B. "B. SMITE. The Hydro, Buxton, Derby

THE REPLY."

By GORDON BECKLES. The Editor of the Daily Repress has shown me the letter of B. R. Smith.

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Enthusiastic welcome, were given everywhere in the Rhineland last month to the party of nearly 400 British workers who made a boli. day tour of Germany and Holland under the auspices of the Workers' Travel Association. The reception of the members at Karlsruhe on their arrival by train from Stras- bourg was a remarkable one. They were met at the station with bands and banners by the members of the City Council, representatives of local workers' organisations, and of the German Youth Movement, to the number of many hundreds. Luncheon wag taken at the Restaur

the

Management Committee, spoke of Bowen, M.P., chairman of

the objects of the Association.

I am sorry that I cannot designant Friedrichshoff, at which Mr. ate her if I be right in my jude ment of her sex-as," Mrs." or Miss." It is in no sense of dis- respect that I must, therefore, drop

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Not at all The moment I saw her I knew that I had seen her a thousand times before-and I wrote, "She looked like a City typist sit- ting in a teashop.

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DIVORCE ACTION 18 YEARS AFTER.

I do not understand why Miss Amy Although desertion was alleged to Johnson would be the first to admit have taken place eighteen years ago, that there are thousands of City an action for divorce on these typists as beautiful as she is, thou-grounds has been dismissed by Lord sands as clever, and yet more thou. Mackay, in the Court of Session, sands again justas quietly heroic Edinburgh, t in their own spheres, but whose heroism must for ever remain un- sung and unrewarded...

William The pursuer,

Ross, Sutherland, Annette Street, Govan- hill, Glasgow, is 63 years of age, and his wife, Jane McLachlan, or Ross, whose present address is un- known, is 62.

marriage took

For if I were endowed with some god-like power to see into the pri- vate lives of those efficient young women who go so smilingly about

Giving judgment, Lord Mackay their work from nine o'clock to fire, said that the parties had not re- heaven alone knows how many sided together or troubled one au- would be the tales of true heroism other since 1912, when the wife went with which I would be confronted: herself by nursing and other em to Canada, where she maintained the kind of beroism in which perve, endurance, and skill maj

ployment The weat little but patience, braveness of place as far back as 1891, and was spirit, and self-sacrifice mean'alt

perfectly happy until, at a time when, the eldest of the three daugh- ters was 12, the defender took it into her head to take up maternity How long would it take a wireless nursing. Manners changed and message from the earth to reach the

it was possible, that this attitude stars, and for a reply (if obtain- of the wife was a little ahead of. able) to be Bushed back ? This the times, but it would be difficult hypothetical question is answered to any that the desire of the wife in the Schoolmaster and Woman to do something for herself was

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star Proxima A-reply could not lish that his wife then or now-was be received before the suminer of in, malicious desertion of him 1938. The remoteness of the There was, at their ages no com- planet Neptune is negligible by palling reason why he should ter comparison. An answer to a radiominate a matimonial relationship: signal sent to Neptune at Boon or brand with the stigma of divorce could be received by eight o'clock the 62-year-old mother of three the same night.

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