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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER

1936.

500 BLIND MEN IN MARCH ON LONDON

Campaign to Get

to Get Pensions: "We Don't Want

20 MILES-A-DAY

TREK

M.P.S BACK PETITION TO

GOVERNMENT

FIVE HUNDRED blind men are to march on London as part of a campaign to make tho Government take fuller responsibility for the blind in the British Isles.

They will march in contingents of 80, each man holding his neighbour's arm, leaders of sections guided by white sticks, and at the head and tail of this tragic procession 'will march the few who can see.

"We set out on October 12." said Councillor J. A. Clydesdale, of Newcastle, organiser of the march, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, and Cardiff have been chosen as our starting points.

"We have hul hundreds of blind volunteers from all parts off We insist that all marchers shall be able-bodied men.i No women or children are to be allowed.

the country.

The men will march 15-20 miles

a day. For food we will rely on

the kindness and hospitality of UNTRUE ESTIMATE OF

Iriends to the blind in the Towns

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"We feel that this march is the only method by which we can draw the Guvernment's attention to the real need of something being done for the blind in this country."

Reform Proposal

DRUG ADDICTS

REPORT WITHDRAWN

It is announced that the report of

the Optum Section of the League of

Parliamentary

Went Back To The Girl He Loved-

AND SHE GAOLED HIM FOR THE REWARD

Charity"

Moscow Radios War Orders To Spain

URTHER sensational evidence of the extent to which Soviet Russia is directing the mobs of Communists, JOHN CULLEN, a Grimsby

fisherman, joined the French armed by the Madrid Government, in the battle against Foreign Legion and fell in love the anti-Reds is forthcoming. with a waitress in a Marseilles Daily broadcasts are being addressed from Soviet radio stations to the Spanish Reds laying down military tactics, and When he was drafted to urging fighting "without mercy." It is significant that the Morocco he deserted the Legion Madrid Government was recently able to announce the opening and tried to get back to Murseilles of a special £1,110,000 anti-revolt credit. to marry his waitress lover, Pipl. But he was forced to leo to Eng

cafe.

and to elude his French pursuers, That was six years ago, For four years he worked in Grimsby sbing trawlers. But his heart was in Marsellies.

One day a Spanish tramp steamer called at the docks. She was bound for Marseilles, John

passage as cook.

worked his

AL Marseilles he found her at the cafe chatting with two other cus

Itomers.

KISSES-AND BETRAYAL

She sat on his knee, petted him.

with two gendarmes,

Then the two customers retur

"This man," said Pipi, "esc

ed from the Legion six Jears ago." A reward 14 affered in France to Chase Wh deserters.

report

Nations Secretariat giving an esti- Working day and night in a dark mate of the number of drug addicts London office is the secretary of the in the United Kingdom has been National League for the Blind withd wn from circulation. year-old Mr. A. Henderson. His te

Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, work has been devoted to the cause Secretary to the Home Office, said in of his fellow Rufferers.

to Parliamentary written John, dumbfounded.' disillusioned "The march has an abject in view reply --a definite object," he said. "We question that the report included a was marched off and locked in the want the Government to take some statement showing how many drug dingy cell of a nearby prison, thing like 75 per cent of the financial addicts there would be in ench of 59 countries on the assumption that the responsibility.

“We have a definite reform which proportion of addiets to population we are putting forward. All grants was the same as it was estimated to to the blind, we believe, should be be in Germany, the United States paid through the voucher aystem; and Egypt.

On the pensions-- supplied like old-nge

wholly unfounded" assump- through the Post Office.

4.000, 40,000 or 22,000, according

tion it was calculated that the figure "At present the unfortunate blind for the United Kingdom would are thrown from the local authorities to the charities and back again. Wel Want State control for the blind--we

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whether Germany, the United

Staten or Egypt was taken as the basis of computation.

Recently Johu Cullen walked into

newspaperi the oflices of a London

take thinken into the yard ** Co«• ક

exercise. I waited all the inder

for

bark was turned," he said.

"Then I climbed the wall and dropped 25ft, on the other side. I managed to smuggle my way across France.”

to

Today he is a his way back Grimsby, where he hopes to find an Fother jobs on a trawler.

Film Star's Baby

May Decide Case

́JUDGE ASKS IF SHE PREFERS

FATHER OR MOTHER

So close is the co-operation between the Madrid Government and Soviet organisations in Spain that since the outbreak of the civil war Russian Bolsheviks have been employed among radio announcers in Madrid and elsewhere.

The Madrid Government is a big consumer of Soviet oll; and it is understood that 25 per cent. of the sales proceeds la retained by Soviet agencies in Spain for the specific purpose of subsidising Soviet propaganda there and providing strike funds:

Meanwhile, in Russia the powerful Moscow Comintern station, working on a wave-length of about 1,700 metres, broad- casts in Spanish every night.

The man in charge of these special broadcasts ie Jose Perez,

MAN WHO MOVED chief of the Spanish section of the

13 MILLION MEN recently returned from Madrid,

TO FRANCE

S.R. TRAFFIC CHIEF'S

Third International. He is assisted by Nitikin, a Russian who has only where he organised the Communist Defence Corps.

LENIN'S PROPHECY Broadcasts have been opened by extracts from Lenin's speech at the WAR SERVICES

1920 Congress of the Third Inter- national. Lenin foretold that the Eighteen months before the out-second successful proletarian re- ureate of the Great War a mobilisation volution" would take place in Spain; programme for the railways gerving that the Spanish army would be on the Continent had been organised. It the other side; and that the "armed cune into full operation immediately proletariat would have to fight

against mercenaries on the declaration of hostilities.

and

native.

Mr. E. C. Cux, Truffle Manager of African forces." the Southern Ralfway, who retires in

Throughout the night the Moscow October after 53 years service, re

also gives Instructions on when he described station veuled this.

in bis ex-street fighting, on barricade fighting. changes and incidents

on the organisation of the workers, London newspaper perience to a

on revolutionary strategy, and simi- representative.

The Proletarint of the U.S.S.R.

The pre-arranged scheme cuvered lar subjects: the transport of the Expeditionary Force, but with six months the 50! speelal troop trams a day had be- coine 14, with 24 daily Channel? crossingse

is standing by the glorious fightera of the Spanish Popular Front against the military Fascist putsch. On the outcome of your struggle depends the future of the world proletarian revolution and of the workers of the world.

Mr. Cox's experience of war-time transport is probably unique. He joined the South-Eastern Railway th 1883 as a clerk, at the age of 13, and

Collections of funds for the during the South African War br- Sish struggle have been started, came Special Trattie Clerk, respon- ible for all military movements head huge sums are said to be coming

h from all parts of Soviet Russla, tween London orl the ports. In the Great War he held a similar post,

Los Angeles, Aug. 20. trouble between her mother and Dr.fund the South-Eastern and Chatham ITTE Marylyn, four-years-¦

Franklyn Thorpe.

the Channel without a

GRAVES

Railway carried 13,000,000 troops! GALLIPOLI WAR Lold daughter of Mary Astor, The judge is disors flies marcity casualty.

anxious to learn if she across the film star, may be an un- for the suit he is now hearing is WAR STORES IN TUNNELS conscious arbiter in the bitter brought by Miss Astur, who seeks to Emergencies and alarms during the TURKISH ASSURANCES

He recalled! quarrel now raging in the courts set aside a signed agreement made four years were many.

the time of her divorce giving Dr.as the most memorable the land- here between her parents..

Thorpe custody of the child. Judge Knight, who has a daughter

The new Straits Convention will the upkeep and slip which carried part of the in no way affect So for the judge hus refuse to Daver-Folkestone line 140 feet out to supervision of war graves in Gallipoli, With the text of the Convention, accept evidence in court relating to

sea, in January, 1915, when it was events which took place in the lives vitally important, and necessitated a signed at Montreux on July of Mary Astor and Dr. Thorpe be-50 miles' diversion to span a broken which was published as

Paper recently, appens

the same age to Marylyn, visited the child fo-tay at her mother's beautiful home at Toluen Lake.

Marylyn knows nothing of the fore their divorce last year.

PROBLEMS OF MAHARAJA'S COOKS

DIARY STORIES

20.

a White link of about six miles.

The line was cut of use until after pondence between Dr. T. R. Aras, the Turkish Foreign Minister, und Lord the War, but there was some com-

It is understood that if Marylyn's pensation in that two tunnels became Stanley on the subject of the ceme- answers leave the judge in doubt as available as huge mine stores.

to whom she should live with,

ber

he

teries.

Dr. Aras wrote on July 18: "You

Mr. Cox hus organised transport for the Htural Family in four reigns tend to be the other lay that le la a Comnender of the British public opinion in your country felt some uneasiness regarding the effect

will perm counsel to introduce into ent all the sensational statements,

far contained only in affidavits, Empire and a Member of the Royal af the conclusion of the Straits Con- Such a decision would, allow Dr. Victorian Order, and he has received ventins upon the position of the Thorpe's

counsel to question the flat decorations from the French, Belgian military cemeteries on the Gallipoll

He Peninsula." stan: about

alleges she holds the Teritorial Decoration and Dr. Aras then repeals a "spontane-

which he made i the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

declaration? fou5

Turkey, Mr. Joseph Anderson, Dr. Thorpe's! With the grouping of the railways during a private session.

ધર્મ- We lawyer, said to-day:

expect to in 1923, Mr. Cax became Chief he says, will fully honour her go very, very thoroughly into the Operating Superintendent, and inations under the Treaty of Lausan- notwithstanding any changes anliness of Miss Astor having cutody 1030 became Traile Manager. For 12 ng,

{diory” which the dous "misstep and Rumanian Governments.

kept before her divorce,

SHADOWS MIGHT "DEFILE" FOOD

MEALS PREPARED TWO MILES AWAY Two cooks who have travelled from of the child. We will also go into years he has been responsible for which may be brought about in the India to London with the Mahuran the charges in her affidavit that she fevery movement on of Mysore work in a specially guard was coerced by threats into permit- lines. ed room two miles from their masling Dr. Thorpe, to obtain an un- ter's hotel, preparing food for him. contested divorce with full custody

The Maharaja is staying in 4 of their daughter. keven-room suite in the Dorchester| Hotel, Park-Inne, during his visit to London.

For the first 24 hours after his arrival there, his two personal cooks: from India used a special kitchen set. Inside for their use in the hotel.

by her 033'21

We can prove handwriting that this is not the situation at all, but that she wil- fully abandoned the child for a married man-George Kaufman.' The

Inwyer did not state who "George Kaufman" was..

AUTHOR'S DENIAL

Mr. George Kaufman, the famous

the company's regime of the Straits by the Conven

ition.

New Island Annexed For King Edward VIII.

It was decided, however, that the

Sydney (N.S.W.), Aug. 30. forecast its use as a sen-plane base position wa dangerous for their monarch's food, as at any moment

In the opinion of Mr. Whitely and the shadow of one of the white cooks

THE first new territory to be added on a Sydney-Fill-America route.

to the British Empire under King Edward, a tiny island in the South the other discoverers, it appears to working in the big kitchen might American playwright, sald to-day: fall across what they were cooking. "I was just a friend of Mary Astor, Pacific, has been formally annexed be the centre of one of the best Hame fishing grounds in the western This would, according to the Saha-Bike many others in Hollywood. by four Sydney men. raja's bellofs, defile the food,

"I have attended several of her The island lles in the four-mile-Pacific,

The finding and possession are Now the two Indian cooks have parties as a guest and friend. I am wide Elizabeth Reef, 500 miles north- Juined the rest of the Maharaja's most certainly not involved in her east of Sydney, and had never before described in the ship's log by Mr. staff at a hotel in Kensington, near difficulties with Dr. Thorpe."

Palace Gate, where, in a specially guarded room, they prapare bis meals. with food which they themselves buy.

BLESSING the water

The

Maharaja's food

consists

largely of curry and garlic, but

Jant part of his diet,

SOCIALISTS ́AND CORONATION

been charted..

Its discoverers are Messrs. John SYMBOL OF POSSESSION

I holsted the colours, and an W. Forsyth, Henry Newton-Scott, Norman, K. Wullis and Gilbert nounced that possession of the reet Whitely.

and all within it had been taken on Collecting specimens for an Austra-behalf of His Gracious Majesty King lan museum, and recharting the Edward VIII. jareas under commission, they were "Three cheers were given for tha schooner, Wanderer, to the Middleton was broken off and taken ne a

butter and tuilk. also form an import" "ABSTAIN” SUGGESTION cruising in Mr. Wallis's 25 ton King, and' a portion of tite blus cornl

He only drinks water which has

been blessed by his priests, who Resolutions urging the Socialist and Elizabeth Reefs, D0 to 120 miles symbol of possession. I expressed, in a short speech, the hope that the dally perform their rites in the room party to abstain from any part in the north of Lord Home Island. in his hotel which has been con-Coronation celebrations next May

new possession might prova u useful, the GROWING RAPIDLY

though minor, addition to verted into a temple for the golden will be submitted at the Sociallat goddess who accompanies him on all Party Conferenco at Edinburgh on When Elizabeth Reef was visited Empire.**

Oct. 9. his travels.

a great day," said 'Mr. last, after a wreek in 1909, it was The Upton division will move only a coral reef which was com- Walls, the skipper and builder of "That Labour party representa-pletely submerged. at high flde, the Wanderer, describing the cerem- tives abstain from

"I suppose that we were the arranging or Such was its description on the tony. attending, functions at which Naval Admiralty chart.

first to add now territory, humble, us

It would have been too complicated, It was decided, to keep him supplied| with the water from the Ganger which he is normally supposed, "by. his religion, to drink.

The Maharaja rises at six each morning and goes out from, seven to mine. The rest of the day he

sponds in his room, receiving as many as 30 callers,

"It was

or Military forces are in attendance. The island, which has formed it may be to the Empire of Edward and that the Conservative Anthem since, and which is growing rapidly VIII

The island is far from all steamer (no called National Anthem) be not is more than 60 yards in diameter. included in proceedings or arrange- The Laland has been named routes, and according to Lord Howe monta muda for its inclusion at Forsyth-land, after Mr. Forsyth, who, island residents, the reef has never any Conetton

Fina; speech when it was annexed, attracted fishermen.-Reutor.

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