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THE · HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1937.

BABY-FARMING SCANDAL

Plans To End Traffic

In Children

COMMITTEE

URGES

STRICT CONTROL

TRAFFICKING

in children and

"baby-

farming" still continue in Britain, although the evil is not widespread.

This is brought out clearly in a report, published re- cently, of a Home Office committee appointed to investi- gate the methods of adoption societies and agencies.

Disquieting evidence at the inquiry has convinced all but one member of the committee that in future adoption organisations

Should be licensed by local borough or county counells; Should be forbidden to arrange adoptions abroad by any foreigner, to let a British subject take a child abroad until a magistrate has grunted, in open court, a licence permitting it; and

Should insist that all adapters apply to court for legislation after a probationary period.

CHILD SOLD FOR £50

Adoptions arranged by midwives and "cases which can only be described as trafficking in children" are quoted.

Ono Instance is that of Mrs. A. who advertised:

"I's lovely baby boy. I'm lonely and sad without mummy and daddy to make me glad; will anyone adopt me? Write Box--"

She was shown to have received: between 240 and £50 from a mo- ther for one adoption, and to have been paid £54 by another mother

whom pho sent

to

letters.

threatening

In this case Mrs. A later said the child was drad.

Miss C. another private agent, used several altoses and incorrectly regis- tered as her own three of five chilet- ren she was known to have adopted. į Three of the children died.

Children have been taken abroad i by adapters about whom only per- functory Inquiries were made.

Another authenticated story in the report is of a child (her mother was in respectable circumstances" and

ARAB

"BLUE MEN"

STARVE

Paris, July 12. JUNDREDS of thous

ands of starving Toua- American variety performer, and his regs, known as "Blue Men,"

was "anxious to avoid publicity"). HUD

removed by a midwife, who adver- tised and received a reply from an!

wife.

from the blue dye with

To them the midwife handed over which they paint themselves

the 11-day-old baby. She took them as a disinfectant, are mak-

to the focal registry of births, they

The little Crown Prince Baudouin of the Belgians who is learning to

Ex-Princess

To. Wed Her Secretary

Copenhagen, July 12.

FORTY-YEAR-OLD

ex Princess

Eelk of Denmark is to marry her private secretary, Thorkild Juelaberg, thirty-four-year-old

tennia

player.

crack

The princess met Juelsberg in 1934 on a Copenhagen tennis court,

She is a Canadian, daughter of a lumber "king." John Frederick Boothe. She married Prince Erik In Ottawa In 1924. The marriage was annulled by King Christian, cousin of Prince Erik, last February, and the princess lost her titles.

Juelsberg is the son of a Cepen- hngen postmaster. Besides being brilliant at tennis, he is a good swim- mer and pianist,

When he met the princess he was without a job, and was about to go

The wedding will

take place in Paris shortly.

ride a horse photographed in the to America.

father,

Royal Palace grounds watched by

Backed His Horse To Win

£100,000-But Wife's

Outsider Romped Home

Capetown, July 12.

A horse owned by Mr. A. E. Henkes, and whleh he had backed to win £100,000, was beaten In the Durban July Handicap füls after- noon by a rank outsider owned by Mrs. Henker.

The July Handicap is the biggest race in South Africa,

Mc. Henkes' horse Dennis Bllok was third, and his wife's 10-1 outsider Hallyjamesdaff romped home.

Mrs. Henkes sald she was backing her own horse despite her husband's big gamble on Dennis Blink.

When the horse passed the past. Henkes amilingly congratulated his wife, He had also backed her horse, and won £35.000.

Mrs. Henkes has given the whole of the £6.000 prize money to the Jockey and stable bays,

Three years ago Henkes was a traveller earning £5 a week. He decided to gamble on the Rand Stock Exchange with his entire capital-£200. He was immediately successful, and is now a leadlig slockbroker worth a quarter of a millon.

Fortune Given Up

For Love

registered the child as their own, and ing a great northward trek A YOUNG widow, niece of a peer, will sacrifice many

inter took it to the United States. in search of food and water Since then the couple have been from the south of French divorced, the child was placed in a

home, the father (who was given Morocco.

the custody) refused to support it.

TRIBUTE PAID

TO THE L.C.C.

To certain of the bodies whose. representatives appeared before them,

They are leaving behind them deserted villages,

parched dend lands, and men, women and child- ren whose exhausted bodles are too weak to keep up with the tribal caravans,

the Committee pays a compliment. The "hooded Touaregs" are ferce The L.C.C., which has arranged 102 Arabs who have fought many battles adoptions since 1932, is singled out with the French Foreign Legion in

the past. for praise.

But slackness, failure to make pro- Now, every day into every city of per inquiries about the adopters, Morocco are pouring by the thousands neglect of medical examinations, the families fecting from their homeland, employment of unqualined people which has been ruined by two years and omission to legalise adoptions are of drought. alleged against some societies and) agencies.

As they come shambling, rogged, they are met by doctors," who are "With few exceptions the staffs at Bahting the dangers of typhoid, which present employed by udoption has already broken out once societies do not appear to us 10 Marrakesh.

the

possess the necessary qualifications," says the report.

ncar

So far the French Government, through the Morocco Protectorate,

The Committee found a "one-have contributed £430,000 to the re- man show" which had no annual lief of the starving natives.

meeting in two successive years

and no audit of accounts for five

THREAT TO PEACE

In the past two months £10,000

It recommends that private "arran-in private subscriptions has been All these funds are being gers of adoptions, parents and the raised. adopters themselves shall not be rapidly used up to feed the north-

bound emigrants. allowed to receive payment without Court permission and that all adver M. Steeg, former French Resident- tising by unlicensed agents must stop. General of Morocco, has just returned Miss Florence Horsbrugh, M.Pto Paris after an emergency tour of svas chairman of the committee.

the drought areas. Other members were: Mr.

B. E Astbury, Mr. J. J. Hortis, Mr. J. J. His report is expected to result in Mallon, Mr. Brian Manning, Mr. G. a further heavy grant to keep the W. Russell and Mrs. Montagu Nor-remaining natives alive until the first harvests for two years have been

man.

Mr. Russell, who makes a reserva-grown in the south. This will be tion to the report, is not In favour brought about by a further grant for of the plan to license adoption socle- great ties. He is "not persuaded that there work.

is a mischief which requires that re- medy."

Awoke In

Adder's Coils

TURING of picking whinberries on

Ownfiwch XIUI, · DOSE

Irrigation and

Conservation

The French Government's chief fear is that the drought and far- vation may force more than a mil- lon more Touarers to try to cross the Alisa Mountains, where the na tives, prosperous' and contented with their own comparatively fer- tile lands, would resent an in- trusion and fight.

The result would be the undoing of the peace in Morocco, achieved in 1932 after years of fighting.

accom-

who Ormore friend, Ronnie Rees, 'Vale, Glam.." Colin Burke, sgod oight, panied him on the ramble. They of Ogmore Valo, took a nap. · He was Bellled the anake. Awakened to find an mäder, 19ln. Zong, called round' hila 'ankis.

"I felt something tickling my leg." Colin said. "You can imagine how Terrified, Colin shouted for help to frightened 1 was when I saw, that It his brother.......... Parry, and 14. school was a polsonous adder."

thousands of pounds to marry again.

She is Mrs. Jacqueline Esther Sebag Montefiore, aged 26, widow of Mr. Arthur Sebag Montefiore, who was killed in a plane crush in April, 1936.

Notice of her marriage to Mr. Geoffrey Cheadle Myddleton, 22 a physiologist, of Ealing, has been given`at a London register oflice.

Mr. Sebug Montefiore, who Was n nephew of Bearsted. loft

£380,000.

11

Viscount

fortune of CROONING

He appointed half of the in- come of certain settled funds

ULTIMATUM

to his wife during widowhood. TO B.B.C.

AT ALL

He also left her £20,000, his VOCAL BAN MUST GO, furniture and securities produc- OR NO SONGS ing £5,000 a year upon trust for her during widowhood, with re- mainder upon trust for his eldest son.

He gave the residue upon trust for Mrs. Sebag Monte- flore during widowhood or an annuity of £3,000 In the event of her remarriage, Mrs. Sebag Montefiore lives at Green-street, Mayfair. About six months after her husband's death she gave birth to a daughter, and there is one other child, a son.

NEW

THE KING

PLANS

HONOUR

THE

HE King has under consideration:

the founding of a new order, the Royal Order of King George the Fifth, to commemorate the reign of his father.

So strongly do music publishers feel against the B.B.C.'s "one-in-three" vocal ban that they have decided to issue what amounts to an ultimatum. They will tell the B.B.C. that: "Unless the one-in-three rule is annulled, publishers will refuse to allow their works to be broadcast,"

The B.B.C. is said to be quite ino- 'different.

Representatives of the two parties will meet to discuss the question.

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST?

The B.B.C. now stipulates that crooners shall sing only every third }number that the band plays.

This rule is strongly objected to by the music publishers and dance band leaders on the grounds that it is only by the actual singing of the words that new number becomes jwell known to the listening public.

The B.B.C.

argues, on the other hand, that the rule gets rid of many inemcient crooners and thereby im- proves the entertainment value of the jazz programmes.

PILOTS TOLD

'FIT OXYGEN’

Air Ministry notice to airmen is- sued recently warns British plots that regulations are coming to make it compulsory for them to carry oxygen

It can be a difficult matter to trans-

port a baby on a cycle. The picture show how two English mothers have solved the problem by carrying their bubles in a basket piflion.

Fears of Great Moths

Plague

Beccles (Suffolk), July 12. FEARS of a plague of

moths, invasion of caterpillars which ravaged 50,000 trees in Norfolk and Suffolk; have inspired desperate efforts to cleanse the countryside of the pests.

following the

The caterpillars have now turned into chrysalides, and thousands of great yellow mag- gots with black heads are swarming ut the trunks of lentless trees.

MILLIONS OF EGGS

These chrysalides are being spray- ed with a lead arsenale preparation to destroy them before they change Inte moths.

"IT we allow the maths to hatch out, they will lay millions of eggs on the tree trunks," Mr. E. T. Goldsm8h, well-known cntomologist and member of Beccles Counell, told a reporter. "The eggs, only visible under 1 microscope, will remain on the trees throughout the winter.

Then they hatch into caterpillars, and we are likely to have a far worse plague next year if these chrysalides arc not immediately killed."

Murder Trial Juror Pleads 'No More'

A man stood in the jury box at the Old Bailey recently and said to the Common Serjeant - soon as he had taken his sent:- (Mr. Cecil Whiteley, K.C.) as

"I was on the Jury In the Ruby Keen case and it has upset me very much. I do not think I could go through with another...."

He asked to be excused from a Jury which was being empanelled. Mr. Whiteley: Suppose every

опе

who served on a murder trial Jury

sald the same thing, where should we be?-Without disrespect. I have done my bit here. I was here lust Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. I am a business man. I have business up In Nottingham also and I have to go backwards and forwards.

The furor repealed that he was upset, Bold "Giving a verdict of murder against anybody-it is a. terrible thing....I cannot express myself."

Mr. Whiteley: From what you have said you are not a person who would a good juryman, You can muke

release stand down, but I cannot you.

***At the Old Bailey Leslie George Stone was sentenced to death for the murder of Ruby Keen.

Baby Dies In

Fish Tank

On occasions eighteen-month-old Dennis William Allon was taken by his mother to the bottom of the gar den to feed the goldfish in n large

It is intended to make the decora- tion a lesser order of merit of one class only, for subjects without applies if they fly passengers at 15,-two-fact-deep tank,

'title.

000 feet or over.

He found some bread one day, and The rule will not affect prevent-day went alone to feed the fah. A few Insignia would be distributed to British air lines, but our 250 m.ph minutes later his mother, the wife men and women in this country, the Atlantic planes now building will of a cowman at New Farm, Abridge, Dominions and colonies, for services probably cruise round the 10,000-feet Romford, found him drowned in the to the Empire,

Havet::

tank,

SATE

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