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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1929.

GUY FAWKES “RAG.

2,000 STUDENTS "STUDY" EPSTEIN STATUES.

London, Nov. 4. Yesterday, was Guy Fawkes Day, and the anniversary wag.celebrated in Loudon and minay places on a much larger scale than usual.

Students of the City and Guilds College, South Kensington, organis o a spectacular rag" Inst night which involved the West End in one of the worst trafia hold-ups it has known for years

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CIVIL SERVANTS' PENSIONS.

SUPERANNUATION RIGHTS.

Commissioners

DOWNTRODDEN MAN.

LEAGUE TO FIGHT "ULTRA- FEMINISM."

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A United Kingdom section of A Treasury Minute affecting the superannuation of Civil Servants the "World's League for the was challenged by the Superan Rights of Men" has been form- nuation Rights Association in a test action which was brought beed, and letters have been sent to fore Mr. Justice Clauson in the the three party leaders drawing Chancery Division last month.

attention to various "injustices" Four members of the Associa tion-Messrs. John Nixon, John, which the League consideramon Scoll, Benjamin Louis Samuel, and are subject to.

Clark-were. selected Willlam

Among the aims of the League, plaintiffs, and they asked for a Dressed in a motloy collection of declaration that the Minute of the branches of which are established of his in Vienna, Berlin," Munich, and clothes the students, numbering Lords. about 150, set out from opposite the Majesty's Treasury, dated March other Continental centres, in the 20, 1922, was contrary to the su- reform of the law relating to Albert Hall. The procession Was

divorce. It is urged, for instance, headed by the College mascot, perannuation Statutes.

Mr. Dickey, for the plaintiffs, that the circumstances of Boanerges, 1909 sports car.

explained that the Treasury Min-divorced woman should be taken which was mounted a guy. It waste provided that when estimating into consideration when alimony "necompanied" by some half-a-the superannuation of a Civil Ser is granted, and that a divorced dozen "high priests" in white robes. vant with 40 years service he woman should revert to her own The car was followed by a 10-ton would be entitled to forty-eigh-nationality and abandon the nama lorry crowded with students and tieths of his basic salary and forty and title of the husband from numerous other cars, while 40 or 50 eightieths of his bonus, which was whom she is divorced. students ran alongside cheering:

to vary each quarter according to When Boanerges renched Knight the cost of living. If the cost of bridge the weight of its years and living were higher than when the the burden it was carrying caused man came out of the Service lie it to break down, and thereafter i was to get the bonus which he was had to be towed. With a string of receiving at the time he left, but omnibuses and taxicaba, numbering if the cost of living went down severa】 hundreds, trailing behind the bonus was to be reduced no The procession reached Piccadilly cordingly. That was what was rireus. where traffic was held up called the over-riding maximum. for some time during further breakdown.

From Piccadilly circus the proves nion returned 16 South, Kensington, ngain followed by a long string of Leurs and buses,

· Park-Lane "Urchins,”

Jurisdiction Questioned. The Treasury said that they were entitled to judge whether a man was entitled to a pension or not and to determine what the amount of the allowance should be. They also claimed that they couki say whether any portion of the salary or emoluments was pension- At one time there was 13 Off able or not, and that they could Limnoas string of

motor-tars.decide that before a man came out taxicabs, mud omnibuses"etrolching of the Service.. from Hyde Park Corneť to Piccadil- ly Circus, a distance of wver half a mile. The vehiclen were compel Jed to move forward at little more an a walking paen. The effect of the delay at the height of then theatre h was, considerable.

Mr. Justice Clauson-You say that you have a right under the Statutes to your pension?

inter-

Mr. Dickey agreed and added: The respondents say that we have

right of action at all.. The Attorney-General About 2000 students unthered posed to say that he did not desire ngar Epstein's statues "Night" and to discuss the amount of the! "Day in Broadway, Westminster, superannuation allowance. Assum- A strong force of police was on dutying that the Treasury were wrong, there and the students were order all he was concerned with was eil to move on. Before dispersing the students raised three cheers for Lord Byng and the inspector in charge of the police squad.

Park-line had its own "guy." was drapped by "urchina," into the ballroom Grosvenor Hotine.

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the Court had whether jurisdiction to inquire into. the matter at all. His broad sub- mission was that it was not u matter into which his Lordship ofcould inquire.

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In matters of education the League asks that boys in State schools over seven years of age shall be taught only by tenchers; that children should be taught sufficient of the subject of anatomy to safe-guard their own health; that instruction "BCX nialters and their per- plexities" should be given in schools by qualified and petent instructors; and that there should also be instruction in the. gaple laws of the country.

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"We are not an 'anti-feminist' League," the General Organising Secretary, Mr. Geoffrey Kimber, told a Press representative. "We are simply 'anti-ultra-feminiat.* We are against the masculine woman who thinks she can take any man's job, no matter what it is, and do it better than he can."

A BROKEN DOWN.SYSTEM, This is a condition for dinense) to which doctore gles sakay name, but which few of them really understand. Itimulimply wonkners-alreakdown, as it worn, of the vital forces that attainin chenyi t. No matter what may be its causas (lunyare slmaz paberlena), 118 symptoms was much cha same the mors promirent being sleeplessĮTAKTĮ sens of peperrallon or weariness, depression si spirite and want of mergy for all the ordinary

almolila. Now, wimialone is absolutely asseri fallo all sue cassa is increased vitality="vigour, vital strength and energy, is throw off the morbild feelings, andas pighi suoceeds the day bla may be mines pertainly scented by a course of THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY,

of Mr. Dickey was addressing the THERAPION No.3

Court when the hearing was nd- Journes.

The “urchins", were girls "disguis. ml" in rags, and their effort, was on behalf of the Institute of Melial Psychology, the proposed extension

hands, started fireworks during the afternoon. A good many erachera

of the work of the Tavistock were heard for two or three hours, squire Claie, in whose aid the hall and at the clise of the day great. by the was caused we arranged by a committee pre-atuusement" sided over by Viscountess Erleigh. "gging" of a popular member, Stock Exchange markets, finding who, aerording to "report" was, the time Tiang heavily their finally carried off and "burnt."

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