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BELL-CALKIN-On 4th April, 1935, Hongkong, William Henry Bell, eldest son of the late James Bell and the late Mary Bell of Liverpool, General Manager of The Asiatic Petroleum Company in South China and the Calin, Islands. to Helen Joyce third daughter of Walter Lewis talkin, "lightrees", Ashley Rand, Walton-on-Thanies,

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WOMEN IN WAR

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APRIL 5, 1935.

PITIFUL PLIGHT OF DOMESTIC SERVANT

By LEONORA GREGORY

the domestic servants of career for good. The result was England could raiso an sho stayed four months, and con- articulate voice such a story would, tracted fields.

Too many people running service

room.

Take frst of all the matter of end. wages. Recently there was a case |

The commonest complaint!

The Very Idea!

OUR ILL-FATED EXPEDITION

By Horatio Bogg, Explorer TITH this rush by oun rivals for undiscovered

WIT

tory.

in the paper of a little girl work- We now come to the worst fea-a Boy Scout.

woman

her by a man of the household

Oh, the utter loneliness of those.

Oh, the atter desolation of those Antarctic nights, when everything was so deadly quiet and still as

to drive one to melancholia! We

car at low cost. we offer for to register any treaties they make bo told as would shake this land Immediate possession the follow-with other States, it being de- from end to end." When that ro- clared "No auch treaty or Inter- ing:

national engagement shall be bind-mark was made to me recently 11 jok until Ho registered. All opened my eyes and stared. I flats and hotels seem to think it lands, it is becoming harder 1932 AUSTIN ROADSTER with treatles registered in this way have visited employment agencies: 1 is all right to put four girls to and harder for us to keep up Dicky Seat, 13.9 h.p.-6 Cylin- to be published by the League as discussed the problem with women sleep together in a dark basement our reputation as an ever- der Engine. In excellent soon As possible. The treatles who had been in touch with domes-

$1,150.00. which Russia has just registered are the service for years. The truth garding living conditions is green explorer.

nine in number, and extend over that I discovered drives one to about food. Most agencies have?

A Norwegian the other Scat, though all the States with whom the conclusion that there are still on their books one or tivo homes 27 h.p.6 Cylinder Engine: the treaties were concluded were, many mistresses who are not at where girla noticeably put on con- day beat us to the South $,1650,00, with two exceptions, members of to have charge over human beings,dition as soon as they go there. Pole and by the process of the League at the time they were The fact that there are also thou. This alone is a significant complanting a flag has laid claim to concluded. It is significant that none of the treaties had been previously sands of humane and even gener-ment on the feeding they receive an incalculable extent of terri-

elsewhere. registered by the other party con-ous mistresses has been blinding gerned. The States with whom the us to the existence of these others, Mistresses who do no work at That this territory will prob- treaties have been concluded are. A maid has no means of knowing all expect maids doing physical respectively, Turkey, Afghanistan. to what kind of home she is being work from as early as six in the ably never be settled upon, Germany, Finland, France and sent. A preliminary Interview morning to do without anything makes not a farthing of differ Poland. The earliest of the trea- tells the average girl exactly noth-further after their midday, meal. ence, beside the point that there ties in that with Turkey which was ing. The ocensional suggestion There are well-to-do homes in the had still remained something for signed in 1926, In view of the that mistresses as well as maids West End of London where girls present negotiations regarding the should produce references of good who work 14 hours a day are given an explorer to discover. proposed regional pacts, special character has been met by hoots of a light midday meal, sometimes

We had thought we had reached interest attaches to the treaties derision. I do not think the pro-jas little as a herring without vege- with Germany, France and Poland. posal will sound quite so fantastic tables, and then nothing till the the limit when we paid our Inst. Two trenties with Germany have when you read some of the things following morning except chemse visit to the South Pole. An ex- been registered. One of these is that still huppen to maids.

and cocoa, A girl left a job: re- pedition fraught with the dirent Stubbs Road, the prolongation of an earlier trenty

icently because she was given one perlis it was, and that we have concluded in 1926. The other re-

kipper, to see her over the week lived to tell the story was Iates to Procedure for Conciliation.

dute Both were signed in Moscow In

purely to our volunble training as 1929. The French treatles are the Pet of Non-Aggression, and the ing for

ture of sil. What are the statis- Convention relating to the Pro-This has aroused a certain amount children to domestic servants un

years without wages.

Lics of the births of illegitimate] cédure for Conciliation. both of of public indignation, but actually which were signed in Paris in that kind of thing goes on all the compared with the rest of the com: Antaretic days, when everything 1932. The

Polish trenty signed less than a year ago in assist with sewing at

was time. A

who went to munity? It is commonly agreed Moscow. It takes the form of 4 house found a little maid doing cannot be swept aside as a reflec-rubbed noses with a Pantagonian a certain that the percentage amongst maida was cold to the touch! Even the is far higher. The figures simply ice was cold to the touch. We Protocol renewing until December, all the work in a household that) 1945, the Past of Non-Aggression contained three adults and three tion on the girls themselves. A wench to keep ourself warm. in between Poland and the U.S.S.R. of children. She was receiving food girl who has advances made to that part, but our beard, which we July, 1932.

(in the witness's words) "sufficient is in a particularly awkward pre- had grown for additional chest only for a mouse" and an inclu- dicament. She fears to complain protection, had frosted Into Icicles, sive wage of eight shillings

to her mistress in case she finds and after a time she objected. week. After wages come living herself dismissed without a re conditions. Like wages, these ference. She knows what will Women are supposed, at least by have in many homes improved en happen if she stays. She is caught the admirers of the Soviet system, ormously; but there is also an between two fres. Man applying to have attained a larger measure other side. Not long ago a little | of equality in Russia than in any girl came into a certain agency for housekeepera often make no other country. But liberty, brings obviously in pain and not able to secret of the nature of their re- feminine section of the Russian sent back to her room to bed seri- keeper's duties were set out with camp fire songs, but these did not responsibility, and apparently the speak above a whisper, She was quirements. I was shown a letter consulted a coupla Boy Scouts who recently in which the house were with us. They suggested populace is expected to play a part ously with pleurisy. This is; engaging frankness. At the end strike us as being potent enough THE POWERS AND THE in the country's defensive system the girl's story:"

her prospective employer added for one in our desperate condition. proportionate to its recently won FAR EAST

freedom. Nor have the Russian She obtained employment in`a that he hoped she would also join. women beon slow to respond:

home only to find that her mis- him in his favourite hobby, which It was then we thought of our Britain's keen interest in the Some two or three million of them tress drank heavily, She remain was playing and singing hymns1 radio set and of ZB.W. We tuned Far East and her anxiety to con- havo associated themselves with ed six months and then could not, These are not fantastic stories, in and that started pandemonium. tribute to a peaceful adjustment aids. Hundreds have become ex-of her Insistence on leaving they man confessed to me that she was The bears barked, or whatever it the work of defence against air stand it any longer. As a result They happen every day. One wo- of an unsettled situation were pert pilots and parachute jumpers, refused to give hor a good refer- haunted by the thought of tho is they do to show their morti- clearly attested in the course of Nearly half a million have acquired ence (a common enough form of decently reared girls whom she fieation. The seals dived back into the full-dress debate in the some skill in the handling of the vindictiveness, which can ruin a had sent unwittingly into homes the dark recesses of the deep, and House of Lords on Oriental rifle, 200,000 Df these being maid's future). Consequently she' where they came in contact with affairs. There was, however, a described as sharpshooters. But was handicapped in Anding an- foul language, violence, perver- the penguins went crazy. sharp division of opinion as to the Soviet chiefs are not satisfied. other place. Finally she was sion, drunkenness and open im- how this end could best be Though they have such large re- forced to take work with a woman morality.

How much longer we might have served, although the goodwill of serves of man-power at their com- whom she afterwards discovered

continued to hibernate on thong" mand, they want women to take a was living na the mistress of a Chater Road. all the speakers was apparent. still larger share in the protection business man. This woman was which illustrates all too plainly frozen wastes it would be hard to

Let me finish with one atory The idea of Britain intervening of the country. The object of in the habit of entertaining other the riced for some right of inquiry say, hal something not happened as mediator between China and their polley seems to be to make men friends on her free evenings. into the kind of home a girl is to cut it short. Through Z.D.W. ESGESEGUER Japan did not find a great deal the land and air forces of Soviet When the business man discovered! going to enter. A well-dressed, we were informed that, attendant".

of support; it would have been Russia to a larger extent a two-sex this he arrived in a drunken rage well-spoken woman walked into a surprising if it had. Unsatis-affair than has been attented in and wrecked the lat. The maid West End agency and said that. on rumours that we had made an. factory although the present any other country in modern times with real difficulty in getting a maid. The girl she finally co-been recommended for us.

fled in panic. She was now faced she was looking for general important discovery, an O.BE. had situation is, there would appear to be no call for specific inter- ABLE TO ROUGH IT

decent position. In fact she did gaged was sensitive, intelligent, not get one. vention by any one Power. If

She had to go and fresh from a good home. She the circumstances call for out-

work in a place where her base was told to present herself at four next day, without having yet done side attention, the only satisfac-

ment sleeping quarters were so the following afternoon. She did anything to justify those rumours, The capacity of Russian women damp that she described the walls so. tory method of procedure is a for "roughing it" is well known, as running with water." She in the street by a policeman. She to Hongkong.

At midnight she was found we struck camp and beat it back joint conference between all the capable of becoming really efficient but she dared not leave this place hysterfenlly. She had been frigh and doubtless many of them are know her health was being affected was half-dressed ·and. crying Interested Powers. It is perfect- Amazons. The decision of the until she had earned a good re-tened half out of her wits by that this Norwegian explorer had ly truc, ns Lord Peel declared, Soviet leaders to "rope them in" is that a new situation has arisen therefore a movement that the ference. Another precipitate de-advances made by drunken guests made his discovery.

parture might have finished her at the home of her mistress. in the Far East-a situation other nations of Europe will regard which has been created by

seriously. If Itussia mobilises her Japan's unilateral action

her neighbours will in woman-power, Manchuria and by her known that in course of time the wave of have to do the same. It may be ambitions in this part of the militarism that is now spreading world. Those speakers who across the world will spare neither were disposed to acquit Japan of young nor old of either not. Al- aggressive designs on China ready there seems to be a distinct must be singularly misinformed recognition of this in Italy, where regarding the realities of the receive warlike

even the youngest school-children situation: repeated declarations ether it is not a cheering outlook, training. Alto- by Japanese statesmen leave no with many neute observers besides shadow of doubt on this point. Mr. H. G. Wells convinced that at Incidentally, it is not without an very distant date another great interest to note that the main conflict of arms will sweep the argument of those who see noth-world, and find all

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ing improper in Japan's policies was that she could not afford,

for financial reasons, to embark based on good grounds or not, on expansion at China's expense. the general Far Eastern situa The point appears to be over-tion, including this point, calle looked that it is, mainly with a for united consideration by all view to improving her economic the Powers concerned. This position that Japan continues to circumstance clearly establishes envisage eventual control of the necessity of consultation be Asia. There was an inclination tween the signatorics of the on the part of certain, of, the Nine-Power Treaty, which makes speakers to admit Japan's need specific provision for such con- of expansion. That is a point sultation in the event of matters which is very vital to an under-arising of general concern to the standing of Japanese ambitions, Powers. The situation requires, admittedly; and it is not one in the words of Lord Lothian, a which is easily disposed of. frank, open discussion of all the Lord Murley interjected a cogent issues involved. This is the only remark under this heading when satisfactory way in which to face he suggested that none of the up to the realities, China, we Powers appeared disposed to imagine, would welcome such a make any sacrifice to satisfy themove; it is difficult to sec Japanese need. But, when all that Japan can have any, con- is

Bald and done, whether vincing reason for opposing the Japan's case for expansion is holding of such a conference.

"Lot'a protond wo'ro the only living souls in the whole wide world."

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That was bad news indeed. The

The next thing we heard of was

Stritebatt makes a Start

maiden'

"Mr. Stritebatt, in a speech, gave a general endorsement to the Government's policy.”

That's what the papers said. But those of us who are following Stritebatt's career will treasure his lipsissima verba.

Mr. Speaker, Sir. Rising, as I do, for the first-perhaps the last -time-anyway, Sir, for the first time and as one who in the past— though no longer in the future. has taken first knock for his country (cheers)-and who knows, Sir, what it is to stand up to fast bowl- ing-I have pleasure in moving this vote of thanks-(laughter)-I beg pardon, Ladies and gentlemen- ("order, order and laughter)-Sir Speaker, I mean in rising for the first time. (Hear, hear).

"I will not long detain you, Sir, after these few remarks (a volest "Go on") only to say that I think...... my constituency thinks-that hang- Ing together team work-must, How as ever, bo our watchword, if this great Empire-this glorious family of nations-is to carry on, in the future, Sir, as in the past. Give us a show, Mr. Speaker.. Don't barrack a batsman on a wicky sticket. (4 voice; "You stick, it and laughter. Give us enough- rope, Sir, and we shall hang - to- gether all right."

I'm told that Goo-goo Mauloverer: so Boon, to be Mrs. Stritebatt, wis listening in the gallery. Tears of happy pride shone in her eyes.