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Miners

Dr. Froncis E. Townsend, the champion for the aged of Angelea, le

with Norm Thomas, Soeidot pronidentļu) valiente, at # meeting where they discussant ther tquestion of Deriskosin,

HOW LONG

IS A BABY NEW- BORN?

THE law of England may be changed by the recent Old Bailey trial of Mrs. Brenda Hale, aged twenty-four, of Tewin-hill,· Welwyn, Herts, accused of killing her baby son and ordered to be detained dur- ing his Majesty's pleasure.

It had these unusual features:

1. THE VERDICT

*Not Kulliy ไม่ murder trul guilty of the art charged, fur which she was 'not responsilife In law."

2. JUDGE'S RULING

Mr. Justler Humphreys said to the jury

"If you return the verdict which I think you will return that this woman was not responsible for her action that relieves me front the necventy of huving to sentence u

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1936.

Want To Go Down "Death

STRIKE THREAT:

AFTER "MOCK HEROICS" CHARGE

INERS working in the Gresford Colliery may launch

M"

a protest strike if the ill-fated Gresford pit in which 266 men lost their lives in September, 1934, is not soon opened to inspection by miners' representatives.

This dramatic development was foreshadowed in London recently when Mr. Joseph Hall, of the Miners' Federation, replied, at the inquiry into the disaster, to an accusation of mock heroics" by saying: "I will prove this week-end whether it is mock heroics or not."

"We are going to take steps to prevent coat being wound at Gresford until the district is opened," Mr. Hall told the Newe Uhronicle, "About half the Gresford Colliery is still being worked, "We have secured a promise that a day will be set aside at the inquiry to discuss the whole - question of opening the pit.

We shall challenge the owners 10) show the evidence of the pit to be made known. We shall demand that! it be puravd."

I MINERS DISAGREE

WITH CHAIRMAN

Ar the Inguly Mr. Hall said he and his colleagues hul heen candowned as Federation representa-į

"BURGULAR PROOF" VAULT TO RECEIVE HEAVILY

GUARDED SHIPMENT OF 'U. S. GOLD BULLION

Washington, Aug. 20. The Treasury has prepared for

"I have waited to get the colliery i company to decide drÜnitely whenį it will opportune for us in enter secret assembly the mightiest that mine," he continued.

There are more ways than one armed guard in the nation's his- tory to safeguard a $6,000,000,000

of forcing it.

Sir Henry Walker, Chief Inspector ahipment of gold bullion into

Pit"

Mines, the Commissed the new "burgular proof" gold lucky with her catch, She is seen with two huge Morlin she recently R" h the company was advised

it was safe to do so it was prepared vault at Fore Knox, Kentucky.

to into the Dennis area, and with The shipments will gut under tint assuranen he, personally, was way this month, as the Govern

Mr. Herbert Smith (a Pederationment takes the second big step to protect its more than 10,-

content.

official): And I am not.

his

Mr. Hartley Shawcross, K... on be- 500,000,000 in gold stocks from. half of the owners, continued

possible attack on exammation of the evidence.

both Bev boards and to safeguard them against the elements.

The inquiry was adjourned.

INSECTS' SAVAGE WAR ON MOSQUITOES

INTERNECINE

SAVAGERY

Ferocious insects In the coastal swamps of British Guiant which, by their incessant attacks, succeed in keeping down the numbers of mas quitoes in the district, are described in the current number of "Nature.".

gold, largest undertaking of its size

The shipment of the 6,800 tons of

in the world's history, will be heavily i protected.

Although final plans

laye not been made, it was said secvet service agents, postal inspectors, local vollee and possibly Federal troops would be called to guard the ablpient.

Plans on moving and the schedulen of

trains were Workmen were expected to put the Guarded closely. sinishing touches on the impenetrable gold fortress in the heart of the. Fort Knox military reservation early Mosquitoes enemies are dragonily in August. Gold shipments wil lar var, which are most successful follow shortly. hunters owing to their "great

agility. Oficials sald no less than 15 curious habit of camouflaging them- selves when at rest, and perhaps, move the gold stock.

armoured trains will be required to Most of the gold will come from

silver

their repulsive ces cren- Eastern hideaways particularly the

water beetle larvae,

tures equipped with a pair of huge juws," and many other insects.

The writer of the article, Mr. F. A.

person who, “you may think, ougli! Squire, of the Department of Agri. 145 regarac is said they planned |

not to be sentenced for any olfenée."

3. A DEFINITION

"Hme long-is-a baby-new-born:* Lord Dawson of Penn, . giving evidence for the defence, said the term had never been defined, added:

"I should regard it as" envisag- ing the first four werks succeed- ing birth. When we study the mortality of the early period after birth wr arr' acruxtomed to fix a month."

The judge, summing up, said, “I veutore to express a hope that Par- liament may in the near future be, disposed to put a short section into the Art of Parliament saying what

The definition of JA

new-born child."

#

New York Assay Office and the Philadelphia Mint. The Denver Mini

as safe. Treasury culture, British Gulan, states that

to ins

Inspect "every mile of track" over life in the swamps during the short which the gold ter

train will pass consist of a period of the rains

The

underground vault in the Fort heree-internecine- war.”

Brov

reservation has been built at The silver water beetle larvae. a cost of nealy $600,000. Re site was

ja beside their liking for mosquitoes selected because it is inland, Fort also have a partiality for. tadpoles, Knox is one of the Army's recently which, he writes, are secured in an motorized cavalry posts, and is interesting manner.

distant from big cities, antural targets The tadpole,

the ad- of invaders. pole, having all vantage of speed and clusiveness, is

The gold storehouse at Fort Knox first of all rendered hors de combot is a two-storey, granite faced fortress by being deprived of its tail. In af concrete and steel. Beneath it are many cases this is accomplished by a subterranean vaults and a maze

of the great jaws; but derground passages that single sweep where

victim is more robust, the flooded from two surrounding cats amputation is not quite so artistic."

There is

Bittle doubt." he cludes, "that the comparative paucity of mosquitoes during the thick of the rains is due to their aquatic as- sociates."

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Mrs. Michael Lerner of Munu seems to have been extraordinarily

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Dancing Was His Life: Now

Now It

May Kill

Him

NIJINSKY, greatest dancer the world has ever known,

to-day must not even talk about dancing.

· In a Swiss private nursing-home this genius of the dance con- times his light against the mental illness that has kept him from his art for 18 long years.

He cannot even bear to hear dancing discussed. If anyone mentions the ballet his nerves give way.

Recently his wife, Mme. 'Nijinsky, who is on a visit to London, sald that when she visits her husband she has to talk about anything and every- thing-except the subject to which Nijinsky devoted himself, body, and soul. to interest her husband in duncing.

Mme. Nijinsky's eyes were sad when she told how specialists had tried

"But it was no use. It only dis- furbed him, made him angry. Now we have given it up.

chief

"I go everywhere seeking advice for him. I have visited the universities in Britain, on the Canti-

CLAIM ON A CHARLES

sentand-in-America, and have DICKENS-STORY-

talked to specialists, Though they tell me that progress has been made in the treatment of mental diseases. nothing so far has been done for my husband.

Sydney, Aug. 20.

A claim for the recovery of £3,000 from the estate of Charles Dickens, is to be filed in Sydney.

"If he could be cured i don't think he would return to the ballet. But The £1,000 is a shure of the pro- he might give advice on production." | couls from the sale of the right!gef Mme. Nijinsky has just finished "The Life of Our Lord," which Die- editing the diary Nijinsky kept dur-kens wrote for his children but never, published in the early autumn and 10,000. being the years 1918-1919, It will be published, to a London newspaper for

is believed to contain some astonish-! ment material.

of

old," a Treasury offlelal said. "It will We are getting ready to move this be most unhealthy for mybody to try to stop it,

wish to call atten- tion to the fact that Treasury agents have been taking a course in small! arms practice and there are sharpshooters in the crowd."

Som

Post oflice inspectors delivered a $2,000,000,000 old shipment from San Francisco mint to Denver in 1935 without a hitch.

The

moved the gold from the reint

at night to avoit crowded streets. It was indicated the Dame procedure would be followed for Fort Knox.--- United Press.

Doctors

a

FIXING VALUE OF BABY

Berlin. Aug. 20

The share represents the portion Jof Dickens' youngest son, Edward

Inte Buimer Lytton Dickens,.

of Morre N.S.W., grazier, who came as

boy and died there in 1002.

He left his estate This widow.

The minimum value of a baby in Constance Emily Rosa Dickens. 180 for twins, Germany is not less than £80, ar

This has been decided by the Dresden enunt.

In German lawsuits the value of the ubjert in dispute must always be

Mrs. Dickena left a share of any thing that may come to me through my late husband's estate," to Eninia Blanche Broughnų,

It is the executors of Mrs. Broughm's

fixed. The question of the value of will who are now applying for the the baby arose in a case where the letters of administration which would legitimacy of the chikt WAN In give them the right to make question.--Exchange,

quiries into the disposal of the novelist's fortune-Reuter,

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