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THE

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY

1936.

Chief Constable And

Inspector To Pay

Ex-Detective £300

AN

N ex-detective sergeant in the Southend police force, who was dismissed in 1925, was awarded £300 damages in King's Bench Division last month against the Chief Constable of Southend and an inspector in the force."

He was Mr. James Ernest was also sued by Mr. Stent, waS Stent, of Dryden-avenue, South-given a verdict by the jury, and Mr. Justice Talbot entered judgment for end, and he sued Mr. George him, with costs. Robert Crockford, the Chief Con- Mr. Stent alleged that, owing to stable of Southend, and Inspector the defendante failure to Jonn Groom, for false imprison- proper and reliable sureties, he was Imprisoned from September 1 to ment and conspiracy to defeat September 6, 1930. the ends of justice.

Mr. Henry Maurice Keralake, for mer chief constablo of Southend, who

CHAOS REIGNS AT

LAUREL MASSAWA

Oliver HARDY

Bohemian Girl

When steamer

accept

He was dismissed from the force In 1925, and on September 1, 1033, was convicted by the Southend nungis trates of disturbing the peace by addressing meetings on Southend Bes front, where he made various allega- tions against Mr. Keralake at other members of the force.

'OBSTACLES'

He was bound over in the sum of £100 and two sureties of £50 each, with the alternative of four months' imprisonment.

he

Mr. Stent complained that Mr. Crockford, who was then deputy chief constable, and Inspector Groom placed obstacles in the way of his obtaining sureties and de clined to allow him to go before the Bench.

reanrded her as an unsuitable person to stand as surety, but re- ported her attendance to Mr. Crock- ford.

prizon, and asked

Captain of British Cargó Steamer Describes. Scene In Eritrean Port

Inspector Groom told the court that Sydney, Apr. 30.

formed the opinion that a Mrs. the British cargo Greig, who presented herself as a

Appledore reached surety, had been drinking. Massawa, Eritrea, with 9,300 tons of bulk barley and onts, the conditions were so chaotic and primitive that the steamer had to He abo said that he went to Mr. remain in the harbour 105 days, Stent's cell, prior to his removal to him to give the) during which natives shovelled address of his brother, so that he the grain into bags with their could be asked to enter into a recog

nisauce, but Mr. Stent refused to hands and lightered it ashore.

give it. Captain J. S. Swindell, master of the Appledore, which has just arrived in Sydney, revealed there was an average of 102 vessels a day at Massawa and at an anchorage ten miles away. All except six were Italian. The -NEXT CHANGE At the Alhambra-port was extremely congested and the quays piled high with a jumble of foodstuffs and munitions.

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'SOON AS POSSIBLE'

Favourite for. Love Stakes

ENTERPRISING commis-

sion agents are making a now book on the chances of marriage of various Holly- wood film stars. Glenda Farrell, ex-Shanghailander, is present favourite. Back- ers are laying 5-1 (on) her marrying before the end of the year.

QUARTER PEOPLE

RELIEF

OF ON

Mr. Crackford said that he told Mr.

of New- Stent that every assistance would be ONE QUARTER

foundland's population kiven him to obtain sureties, and a Mr. Hovell, who was acceptable, was│(73,290 out of 280,000) were immediately. taken to the niagis on relief at the end of February, trates' clerk."

according to figures published When Mr. Stent's brother present- edmself, he made arrangements by the Department of Public Tor kim and Mr. Hovell to enter Into Health and Welfare. their recognisances as soon as it was Degrees of unemployment varied possible, and Mr. Stent was released. widely in different parts of

Mr. Kerslake said that he had had jalund.

+

the

nothing to do with Me, Stent's de- In Buria district, on the south NO APPARENT SYSTEM

tention, or with his auretics. These

ese cons!, the percentage on relief was "The spectacle would have made a matters were left to his subordinates. 50. In adjacent districts the per-

Bit. Justice Talbot entered judrcentage was 33. British Army Service Corps man explode," und one offlcer. "There ment again Mr. Crockfort and Expenditure for relief was 136,000

"ile dolors costs. about the Inspector Groom, with seemed to be no system

(527,000) :1 month (sayS Barbed wire, artil-granted a stay of execution for four-Renter), and it is expected that the quayside dump. lery shells, small arms ammunition, teen days, with a view to an appeal, total required for public relief for blocks of lee, four, beer and wine provided that the money was pald | 1935-36 will be about 1,5000,000-

In apparently into court. bottles were heaped Finextricabile confusion.

"All day and night lines of lorries bil into the assorted piles and lum- bered away inland. Great Caproni bombs were loaded and dragged to

by the aerodrome canele."

In contrast, the officers were im- of the ncatness pressed with the troupe and the manner in which they were disembarked. After disembark- ing, they had a short rest for coffee and bread, and then began a ninety- mile march to Asmara.

YOUTHFUL TROOPS

dotides (300,0001.

BRITAIN'S "DISCARDED"

WOMEN BAND

THEMSELVES TOGETHER: WAR OF THE AGE

Towards the end of their stay, the Women Organize Over Thirty Club officers of the

the Appledore aliserved

of youths

an increasing proportion and boys among the continuous stream of reinforcements. All seem- ed well-fed and enthusiastic, and most of them carried portraits of Mussolini and Fascist banners, Water, always scarce, was at a premium.

with

To Compete For Jobs With Girls

London, Apr. 25.

Several hundred "discarded" women who find themselves too old at 30 to compete for a livelihood with young girls of more alluring looks and figures have banded together in the Over Thirty The offeurs said that their lettera Assocation.

"I have watched too often the were censored and all comment on The organization, which will wage | the war or Mussolini deleted. The crusace to educate employers on the smart woman go gradually downhill, hat the physically and mentally," she said. flooded by search-advantages of experience, Appledore was lights every night, tifus presenting in the London Council for Worry, and anxiety aller her facial Voluntary Occupation During Un-expression and her chances of com- any

peting with younger women, in spite without knowledge of the Italians, employment,

qualifications and Animosity towards Britain WAS

their plight as "urgent and wider experience, aro made dire," are the victims of the post-war difficult."

In London's fashionable West End, period when Britain's sacrifice of a million on

the battlefield left thou she explained, there exists an un- sands of attractive women with scant satisfied demand for young women hopes of ma

marriage.

workers in a wide variety of occupa Now, they admit, they are older tions, and a surplus of women of Ja and romance has passed them by.

played in the local press, and describe these jobless women, who of her better

popular form of insult in the press was to refer to a person as a "friend of Mr. Elen."

American Woman

Reaches Australia

On World

and over.

moro

The modern business world puts Miss Margaret Bondfieki, another accent on youth to such an extent, lender of the movement, said that, in Hikers of the Over Thirty Associn addition to the economic sufferings of tion explained, that many women these older women, they face a dos find themselves too old even at 25. perate loneliness,

organized Sydney, Apr. 28.

"There must be some They read advertisements for sales Mrs. Jessie B. Doulhirt of people, models, chorus girls, clerks form of fellowship for them, an ex- beauty operators stipulating tension of club life which will not in Georgia in the United States, and

"under

any way be institutional."-United who reached Sydney recently

"It's a

bit grim," said Miss Cecile Press. from, New York, is biking round Matheson of the International Coun-

the world alone. "As soon as cil of Women, "when you remember Twenty Armed

the weather in Georgia gets nip- that great artists and writers have

py I set out on a world trek," attained untilan's real beauty isn't

she reaches Police

she said. "Four times I have Miss G. A., Rees, manager of an

been to Australia, But Africa old for the majority of

employment exchange, sald growing

has a fascination for me.

wonten

I can workers is a frightening thing. For "Lucky"

not keep away from it. I am

bound for there now for the ONE MAN HOLDS elventh time."

Hiking has been Mrs. Dou- thirt's hobby for years, and she

FIFTY-ONE JOBS,

Luciand

Now York, Apr. 23. London, Apr. 30.ARMED with machine guns, claims to have travelled afoot in. Since 1920, Arthur W. Nava, of rifles and pistola, 20 police

Mildenhall, has collected fifty- men went to Hot Springs Jail "I have hiked all over Africa, one jobs. And he still holds them (Arkansas, to-day, with the in- West Africn,' Portuguese Congo, ntl.

tention of taking away Racke Fronch Equatorial Africo, Abyssinia,

Is Chan doomed at last every continent.

CHARLIE

CHANS SEGRET

A FOX pleswig with

WARNER OLANDE

with

Tuesday:—-**Murder On A Honeymoon" Edna Mny Oliver

•

·

and it has always been alone," she "I can't help it," he says. "Jobs teor "Lucky" Luciand. said. "In Africa I take with me only seem to come my way, whether 1 What's this, the National Guard? a native boy to cook my meals, In want them or not."

Do you need all these men.to tako what was formerly German West Neve is an accountant, but he ismo away Africa, I asked a British official for also a Journalist, Income

So the escort was taunted by tax col- pass to go north. He asked, lector, newspaper manager, specia! Luciand, called "Lucky," because ho Where to? I said, 'Up to the Por constable, captain and secretary of lives to tell how gangsters opco took tuguese Congo. He started to make the local cricket club, clerk to the him for a ride. out the pass, then paused. For how parish couneli, clerk to charities, and Head Of Gang many?' he asked. Da I look like a well, he can't quite remember dozen?' I replied. He was amazed, what the others are

Ile is said to head a gang which and wanted to know why my people They include dozens of chairman- makes £2,500,000 a year, and in des- let me roam the world. But I got shins and secretaryships. So many cribed as New York's most dangerous my pass.".

of them are honerary that he works and most important racketeer. Mrs. Douthirt_considers the island three days a week for the public. New York authorities want him on of St. Thouns, of the coast of French Work day and night and organize a number of charges; but he is ready Equatorial Africa, the most pictures your brain into pigeon holes," is his to spend inrge sums que place she has visited.

recipo.

frustrate extradition.

of money to

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UNDER THE PERSONAL SUPERVISION OF ERNST LUBTECH seen John Halliday+W!\ianFrawley>Kemon} Cooops!«dkim Tamiroč Alan Mowbray • Dirboled by Frank Boringu • From a comedy by Mane Donkely and R. A. Stemmle (♬ Fetamdual Prelure

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