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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER

27. 1936.

Lady Warwick Goes Home

In Secret-No More Films "ONE ACTOR IN

FAMILY ENOUGH'

Lewis (Sussex), Nov. 15.

LADY WARWICK walked into the country house of

her mother, Lady Rosabelle Brand, here this evening, flung her hat on a table in the hall, and said, “How's my baby David?”

L

Two hours before, she had arrived at Southampton. in the Europa from America, where she went five months ago with the intention of taking up a film career.

Her mother who hasi

looked after her son, the "CHRISTIAN"

two and a - half-year-old Lord Brooke, while she has been away, did not know she was coming home. Friends in New York were unaware she had left until she had sailed. Her name

RUSSIA

DEFENDED

by Hugh Redwood

was not in the ship's printed RUSSIA was described as "the

passenger list.

Sodium vapour lights, one of the latest contributions of selence to safe

night driving, sights the San Fran- Franco's Arms Dictator

claco-Oakland Bay Bridge with the brilliancy of day. In this picture of ilie eastern, or cantilever section, one gela an idea of how the world's largest and longest bridge looks, lighting on this bridge is an example to the Hongkong nattiorilles.

ENGLISH

most Christian country, in HEROINE

the world" at a Conference held

The Earl of Warwick, her husband, recently at Denison House, Vic-HONOURED

a

Verdun Nov. 20.

SCHNEIDER · BAN

ON

POLITICS

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Le Creusot, Nov. 10.

THERE are no ancient ruins, no grandeurs of nature, to lure the tourist off the beaten track to the grim valley in which France's greatest armament town, Le

of Ixworth, Suffolk-of smoke.

"Florence

It was the Rev. Victor Moody, MISS HILDA TURNER, Creusot, lies remote and hidden under its black pall

recently went to America to begin tarin, to discuss the challenge of hin £200-n-week job as a fun actor. Russin to Christian people.

"I have given up all ideas of Lady actress. becoming a film Warwick cald to-night "I can close personal student of affairs in busband the US.S., who employed this only narco that one in the fame there there, but Dr, Hewitt Johnston, the enough. Although I was the first the Dean of Canterbury, who pre- of the family to think about this, sided, was no less outspoken. film business I am not at all Jeal- ous of my husband's niceras,

with 197

Nightin- There is only one employer at Le Creusot. Schneider's gale' of Verdun-was to 185 miles of railways thread the 98,900 acres of work- Russin," said the Dean, has been day publicly invested with shops which employ about 9,500 men and women.

hrve been doing We the Legion of Honour by Although the nominal wages here are the same as in other Government French metallurgical areas, Schneider's real wages are much

"I have been in California with doing the Christian duties which we Mr. and Mrs. Douging Fairbanks,qught From what I have seen of film mak- should welcome thin fact with both

rush, the lands and look upon the Russians the ing in Hollywood--the arguments and the clatter-Inn only too glad I haven't got to go.

Chose His House

French

war

From birth to grave the Creusot worker finds Schneider by his aide.

free, ma-strangest feelings of helpless depend-

as friends and allies in a great re- for her work during and higher. ligious memement."

since the

in the The Dean. while admitting that there was much In Russia which stricken land round here, "When my husband arrived in Christian people must deplore, in- Before a vast crowd around New York I flew to meet him. He stanced the abolition of unemploy-

memorial.. M was at the airport to greet me and ment and of glaring disparities Le-Charny - war

Then tween poverty and wealth, as things Lecourtier, Senator of we spent ten days together. we went to Hollywood, where I had, which were "profoundly Christian." Meuse, pinned the medal

chosen a nice house for him.

Born in the Schneider raily home, he is educated in the ence. Inquisitive strangers like my- Schneider free schools, primary and self who see no harm In discussing thecondary; specialists in every kind of Popular Front politics in a normal industrial disease attend him in the tone of voice In n cafe are schneider Hospital; Schneider doc-couraged. tors and chemists provide his family with their services on special terms.

DR. BARNES'S MESSAGE Miss Turner's coat, while the The Bishop of Birmingham, unable local fire brigade stood to atten- to be present, rent a letter in which tion as a guard of honour.

"There was no reason for me to stay on, so I have come home to apend the Christmas with or on while my husband earns some per- he said

I think he fectly good money. going to be a good actor. He is not IL bit camera aly. That would have been my trouble. "They say in Hollywood that there

that Christians hnd been misled by inferior propaganda and did not understand developments in Hussla during the last decade,

is no reason why they can't make an' teaders

the

A number of well-known religious attended the Conference, actor out of any one who has in which was organised by Dr. Maude telligence. My husband certainly, Royden, following the Congress of

Peace and Friendship with has that

why "I can't understand

my, U.S.S.n. friends in New York think I dita-

The discussion which followed the appeared. I always sald that I was going to mail at this time. I shall speeches was well worth while,

after was certainly pointed in places, n be returning ta

Amerien Christmas. I can't make up my when one speaker told the Dean of mind whether to take my non or noi.] Canterbury that If an attempt werd He is rather young to travel.

Rumours Unfounded

"I was so pleased to see him

. put him to bed."

Then, tired by her journey, Lady Warwick went to bed herself.

الم

the

made to change the state of noclets here the Church, us a reactionary body in the pay of capitalism, would be found on the side of the ruling class:-

THE RUSSIAN CHRIST

Her War Medals

The Mayor of Charny told the crowd how Miss Turner had won the war medals which she wore on her cant.

Miss Turner, he recalled, volun- teered as a hospital nurse in August 1914, renched France in July 1915, and worked in n hospital near Bar- le-Duc during the terrible days of the onslaught on Verdun.

After service In Malta вла Salonica she was demobilised and came to Charny in October 1919. when the people were beginning

Schneider theatrical trouper and sports pass away his spare hours, and Schneider almshouses relieve his old age.

Mix-

"Don't talk so loud," a worker said to me, looking round the cafe, when I asked him what he thought: of M. Blum's Government. "This place is full of quasipera."

In 1931, M. Dionnet, a Socialist, was among those eleeted us town council- A violent personal attack on

With a strong trade union the position of workers in such a model town would be enviable, but there lors. is practically no trade union here. him was published in the Journal de The C.G.T. (French T.U.C.) mem-Creusot, which supports the Schnei- bership is only 400, which is an der political views. entirely negligible number.

Now, granted that Schneider is the nevertheless model employer it is legitimate to point out that he holds his workers in the hollow of his hand. To a man with home and family and all his interests in a town owned to creep back to the ruins of a tock, stock and barred by his employ district where even the subsoil

of dismissal is t er, the possiblity had been fald bare and where aerious matter. nothing would grow. With several other courageous

SLOW_TO_CRITICISE

WORKERS DISMISSED

"Afar from all, the poor simpleton whom you have advised will remain in the misery where you will have thrown him,” wrote the puper. Shortly after this appeared, 174 workers were dismissed owing to

staff reorganisation,"

The Socialist Party did not hesitate to point out that since the factories -were-working at normal-pressure" there seemed no necessity for a re- duction of staff.

I liked what Mr. A. P. 1. Cotterreli Lady Rosabelle Brand said: "said concerning the anti-God move-

how understand can't rumours about Lord and Ludy Warment in Russia. Jesus Christ as He served as hotel,. shop,' dispensary, pressure that would be extremely false from beginning to ond for all I

the Russian wick started. There is no truth in had been depicted them. They are perfectly happy, people, he said, was absolutely im- My daughter is going to spend some possible. They wanted to see Him

ns He is. time here with her son and me,"

And I

agreed whole-heartedly Lord and Lady Warwick were married in July, 1933. Lord War-with Dr. Royden when she said that

Two Years' First Aid

All

Englishwomen-Miss Kenart, Miss "The situation, it must be admitted, Sempill, and Miss Chateaufort-Miss is one that opens the doors on the Turner opened

big army hut which possibility of 'abuses and subtic

This accusation may have been infirmary, and restaurant.

dimcult to prove in a 'court of inw.

know. The pont is that here one The Creusot worker will think of the world's most powerful em- twice rightly or wrongly, before do-ployers is dealing with unorganised There was even a chapel, with a

ing anything he fancies, rightly or workers, brass shell-case as bell.

wrongly, might give offence. He Day and night, medicines and food will be slow publicly to criticise the wick, the seventh earl, is 25, his wife in her opinion the beauty of what in her haversack, Miss Turner labour conditions, to participate in workers are to say the least, very

Warwick 23. Lonely

wis formerly Russin had done and the astounding tramped the battlefields, bringing Left party politics, to stand as a So-conscious of the fact.

such problems as drst aid and good cheer. For two chailst candidate for the town coun- Miss Rose Bingham, a debutanto of successes with

unemployment would by now have years she stayed amid the wooden eil. 1831.

Sie Is a granddaughter of the Fart swept the world with them had they shadka. Then she left to found a

associated with violence school for nurses in Jugo-Slavia. of Rosslyn. Her father was killed not been

She returned to Charny In 1025, in action in 1014..

and has been working there ever since with a French assistant, Mille. "Thonon-Reuter.

and cruelty.

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It is significant that Le Creusot

is the one and only Industrial een- tre where there has been no stay-In

strike,

Rightly or wrongly, the people with whom I talked here have

the

32-YEAR OLD CRIME BRINGS MAN TO

MISERY

Utica, N.Y., Nov, 15.

Tomaso Maugeri, 50-year-old modern Jean Valjean, faces de- portation to his native Italy because of a minor crime committed 32 years ago.

my talks suggest that the

I have every reason to believe that the Creusot population keenly de- sires the continuance in office of the Popular Front, but nobody likes to discuss polltles with strangers here, In this Le Creuset is unique among French towns, where the first thing to which the stranger is treated, it only he will listen, is a good dose of local politics.

It remains to be added that M. Dionnet brought a successful. libel nction gains the Journal de Creu- sot, and the Socialist Party raised a sum of £2,000 to aid the dismissed workers who with their families folalled 840 persons, to find new jobs in other places.

Zeppelin Travellers to Take No Photographs

Papers which have been sent to the Department of Labour in EXPERTS ON VALUE Washington charged that Maugeri violated the Immigration Act of 1017. In the action, his citizenship

Berlin, Nov. 10, A "Guide for Zeppelin Travellers" was revoked and deportation asked because he allegedly committed per- has been Issued by the Zeppelin

company.

OF WHITE BREAD

"EASIER TO DIGEST"

Among the "Don'ts" listed are: Don't bring tropical shorta and a

Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter's state-jury. ment, that if he had his way Maugeri, now the father of nine the sale of white bread would be children and the successful propric- made illegal, is described as "fantastor of a gasoline station, here, waseun helmet. tle" by Sir Frederick Gowland Hop- convicted of assault and battery in kins, of Cambridge University, 1001. lis altornicy contended he was member of the Advisory Committee attacked by railroad men and merely as a straw hat In a European win- on Nutrition appointed by the fought in self-defence. Ministry of Health,

Don't wear plus foura in Rio de Janeiro, where they are as unknown

ter.

Don't forget to give your matches to the steward when you come aboard--you might light a cigarette accidentally in your cabin, where smoking is forbidden.

Sir Frederick said:

After serving a year's jail sentence, Don't take tails or dinner-jacket-

Italy nad just a dark suit for evening wear. "In any reasonable dietary the Maugeri returned to vitamins which are missing in white married. When he re-entered the bread may be made up in other ways. United States in 1921 he brought his! Where bread constitutes a large pro- family with him. His papers, filed portion of a working-class budget, with immigration authorities, tld not say, 60 per cent., there may be a mention the previous conviction, deficiency, but the idea of making leading to the charge of perjury. white bread illegal is fantastic.

"Where the proportion is about 20 Like Hugo's famous character in per cent, as in the average middle- "Les Miserables," Maugeri is unable class family, the question becomes to live down his past. much less important

Another leading authority said:

Federal immigration officiats aald "It is perfectly true that vitamins had he admitted the conviction. he and mineral salis are present in probably would have been received us a citizen, since the law requires wholemeal bread which are absent in white bread, but it is equally true good moral character to be shown that white bread is more nourishing, for a period of five years previous to ensier to digest and keeps better."" the application for citizenship,

Don't throw things out of the win-

dow-they may hit one of the pro-

pellors.

Don't take photographs until the airship is at sen outside the three- mile limit.

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Otherwise, anys the booklet, life in

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