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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,

SEPTEMBER 2, 1938.

Trapped at Last

THE "QUEEN MARY" Foremost Forger

HITS A JETTY

Towed

Off Safely

HOLIDAY MAKERS at

Southampton docks re- contly saw the liner Queen Mary, while being moved from King George V. grav- ing dock to the Ocean dock by ten tugs, crash Into a wooden jetty, cut it nearly^

im-two.

Vicar's Lively

Letters in

Parish

Quarrel

BECAUSE of their attitude over a Sunday school out- ing, which he describes as “absolute Bolshevism,” five women teachers of Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, Sunday school have been sharply rebuked by the vicar, the Rey. L. A. Ewart.

The teachers want to take the children (aged 4 to 12) A strong wind and a flowing to Whipsnade Zoo on August 27, but the vicar wants to

tide are believed to have caused the accident.

Nobody was hurt and the liner waa undamaged,

The Queen Mary with her escort of tuga had arrived off the entrance to the Ocean dock when it was seen that her bows were bearing down on a wooden jelly extending to the cast

side of the dock,

CRASH

The slip crashed into the centre of the jetty, her great bow demolishing the thick timbers and piles.

Su straining at the hawsera, the tugs succeeded in stopping the ship

and after some minutes were uble to pull her nose out and manoeuvre her into dock.

The $1,000-tons German Lloyd liner Bremen went aground on Net-; ley Bank, bugbear of Southampton water pilots, recently.

She was travelling so slowly that the impact was almost im- perceptible and passengers were unaware that anything tay wrong.

Five tugs wailing at the dockhrad) to guide the ship to her berth went, to her assistance, but it was decigled to wait for the tide to rise.

go to Wicksteed Park, Kettering. Of £11 raised for the outing, £7 is held by the teachers and £4 by the Sunday school treasurer, the vicar's wife.

"The vicur supported our suggested outing when the first meeting was held to discuss it," one of the teachers, Mrs. Elsic Coleman, said recently, "The vicar has sent us some terrible letters which have shocked and hurt us very much."

*RIDICULOUS,” SAYS VICAR

"The vicar sald; It is ridiculous to think of taking the children to Whipsnade. Many of them are toddlers, and it would not be safe. I have instructed a Wellingborough solleilor to write to the ringlevders requesting them to return the money forthwith.",

The Ave teachers intended to carry on; buses for Whipsnade were booked. "No matter what the vicar says or does, we are going to stick to our guns," said Mrs. Coleman.

When the teachers wrote asking the vicar for the 4 which was saved for the outing, he replied:

Aaked II 11 'was true that the teachers had resigned or had been dis-

missed, Mr. Ewart said: "I have received no letter or resignation, or bus any of the five expressed to me an intention to resign, nor have I asked them to resign.

"There is no question of dismissal, and I shall be quite willing, if they wish, for them to continue teaching in the Sunday school."

The disloyal letter sent by you and the four other teachers received.

"The revolutionary spirit of the letter is in deliberate opposition to my authority as vicar and cannot be

tolerated.

After being stationary for 20 "All the money received on church minutes the Bremen was noved by premises was for a special Sunday- the tugs to her berth. No damage school holiday and should have been was done, and after embarking 283 handed to the treasurer. You have New no authority to hold any money and left for Passengers the liner

I demand that you send the money held by you to the treasurer at once. If you fail to do this you will com- pel me to take proceedings to re- Cover it.

York.

.

WHAT

WOULD HONGKONG

GIRLS SAY?

Melbourne.

Melbourne University's "Pay for Yourself" Club will be put on a sound constitutional basis,

Chief clausen in the draft constitu- tion are:-

"There will be no Sunday-school outing without the vicar and super- intendent being present, and we wil decide where the children are to но

"Your defiance of my authority as vicar and of Mr. Knight, the superin- tendent, is disloyal. Obviously I lils cannot permit teachers with spirit so contrary to the teaching of and our Lord to con- the Church tinue their work for the school. will give you a week to apologise for your action."

Mrs. H. Goode received the follow- ing:

morc

1

Dear Mrs. Goode, I was then surprised when I received the disloyal letter with your signature

No members of this club shall pay for the amusement, food, eigarettes, liquor, taxi, or tram fare of any per- sons of the opposite sex.

Any female member shall, in this morning. I could not believe it and was very hurt about it. The

accordance with the dictates of per- spielt of the letter is absolute Rol- fect equality, be justified in asking shevism. any male she would so desire to ae- company her to any form of enter- tainment.

"You will see the strong letter I have sent to Mrs. Coleman. She

All members, male and female, illegally holds money for a special shall wear a distinguishing piece of Sunday school holiday, and unless Freen ribbon in a conspicuous place.

Glostora

Boing well-groomed is as sential to succass, Olhors judgo you by your appear.

anco.

Thore is no excuse for, un- tidy hair! The daily use of just a few drops of Glostera assures you of boing always well-groomed.

Glostora

JENIH

she hands it over to the treasurer of the Sunday school I have no alter- native but to take proceedinga.

"The revolutionary spirit will have a very bad effect on God's work in this parish and in our church, and those who cause it will have to an swer to God for their actions.

"You know there are always people who trade on these differences to smash God's word. I beg of you to withdraw from this proposal to defy me and please do trust me to know after 25 years' experience what is best for the children.

"Kneel down and ask God to gulde you and I know what the answer will be.

**I don't want to lose you from the school. It your salated mother was, alive I know what she would

do"

ROEBUCK IN A SUBMARINE

Rescue From Bay: Revived With Milk

Death Takes A Holiday

David Watkins. 23-years-ok Treorchy miner, planned to take his wile and baby for a holiday. It was to be thele first together and he was to have drawn holiday pay. for the first time. from Fernhill Colliery.

While his wife was packing their trunk at home Dal was coming to the end of his shift in the pit....

A tram broke loose, crashed off the rails, crushed Watkins against the coal-face.

Dragged battered from under the tram, Dal murmured; "This is bad luck Tor the wife,"

He died in hospitál a few hours later, clasping her hand-and the young widow was led away, to un- back her holiday trunk.

INQUEST ON

LONDONER

+

AGED 250,000

Cambridge, Aug. 20. AN inquest was held here

lo-day

on the oldest Londoner - 250,000 years old.

Capture in Los Angeles of Clar- ence E. Mahaffey, above, ended a 10-year hunt for the man de~ scribed by federal agents as the nation's No. 1 forger. Mahaffey, together with a confederate, is said to have swindled nearly 500 banks out of approximately $250,000, 1e has served prison terms in Tennessee, Kanans and New Hampshire.

ENGLISH

BARONET BUDDHIST

CREMATED

AN 87-year-old English

baronet, Sir Walter William Strickland, who be- came a Buddhist, was cre- mated a few days ago on a beach near Batavia.

were

£

The only people who watched the ceremony, which was carried out ac- cording to Buddhist rites, beautiful young Mexican girl, a protegee of the old Englishman, and the Czechoslovak Consul- General in the Netherlands Indies,

Sir Walter's coffin was placed on

top of a pile of petrol-drenched wood in a pit in the sand. The fire burned from the evening until after

duwn.

FIRST EUROPEAN

EMPIRË NEWS

CRISIS IN INDIAN STATE

Colentin

Constitutional problems are likely to arise in the small State Nilgiri, in the Orissa area, after a month's unrest, which is now reaching a climax. The area of Nilgiri is 264 square miles.

The trouble began with a peasant @gitation against the holding” of “a durbar by the Raja, the discontent

against his rule being widespread. hundred persons were arrested and fined, but they refused to

the Anes.

pay

The Raja thereupon asked the Orissa authorities to send police to his assistance, but they hesitate to do this s

as they do not wish to interfere In State affairs.

for

The Orissa Government is asking

from Simla,

's Plight-The port of Madras, which has Vizagapatam been in danger of closing since its opening in 1033, has been tem- porarily reprieved.

is the chief exporting centre of a vast area pro- ducing manganese, cotton and oil- seeds, but has shown a loss each year until last year, when there was +3 small pront. No interest has, how- ever, heen paid OD the capital charge of £3,000,000,

FRONTIER RAIDERS

Simin.

The gang which raided the town of Bannu, North-West Frontier, recently Art- included, In addition to Waziri besmen, a large number of In-. habitants

of the district. The majority of those taken prisoner had no rifles, but were armed with axes and daggers.

Six shops were burnt down the damage by fire is estimated about £25,000.

CANADA

AID FOR BRITISH AIR MISSION

Ottawa.

and

at

Members of the Industrial Division of the Commercial Air Transport Association have held a long con- ference to determine the best way to facilitate the work of the British Air Mission, which is to negotiate with Canadian manufacturers regarding The con

construction of large bomber

aircraft..

The con

conference decided to make co- operation rather than competition

the key

keynote of the arrangements. While the setting-up of a central organisation to handle the award of contracts was discussed, it was de- cided to hold this plan in abeyance of the mission. A pending the arrival of central

Is deemed neces- organisation sary to handle contracts in the event of their reaching a total of £50,000- 000,

In many quarters this is regarded as the probable value of the con- tracts lodged over a period of years.

H. Manning, the 24-year-oki Mr. T. H. Manning Married.--Mr, leader of the British-Canadian Arelic expedition of 1936-39, has been Never before hind a European been married at Cape Dorset, North-West cremated in the Netherlands Indies. Territory to Miss Ella Wallace Until Sir Waller's relatives read in Jackson of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The the English papers of his death, few Hon. John Buchan, a son of Lord had any idea that he had been living Tweedsmuir, the Governor-General, in the East.

was best man at the ceremony, which

Inheriting his title In 1909, 110 took place on board the Arctic patrol lived for only four days in the an-ship, Noscopic, 2,521 tons. cestral mansion, Boynton Hali, neur

Bridlington, Yorkshire. It subse- KENYA quently became a convent.

SEIZED CATTLE

JUDGMENT

Nairobi.

In 1010 he disappeared and his solicitors and friends searched the country for him until I was found many years later that for a decade Sir Walter had been wandering

The Supreme Court of Kenya has through Spain like a beggar.

He

the into the news in given judgment in

fest next came

the recent seizure 1923 when he adopted Czech ne- arising from

From that time he drew police of 2,500 head of catule tionality. the full revenue of his estates, but

farm in the Ukamba reserve. The used it largely to finance Socialist owner had refused to co-operate in the Government de-stocking scheme, propaganda bodies.

aimed at restoring soil fertility,

at the

Burke's Peerage gives his address as Czechoslovakia, while the only address in Who's Who is that of a firm of lawyers in York.

The Court has decided

case by

ол

#t

seizure was legal, the judgment stat- ing that the only defence raised was deflance.

The verdict will cause a world sensation, for the experts, in- cluding Sir Arthur Keith, the SEVEN YEARS IN JAVA

Murder Charge.-Mr. C. E, Ansell, noted anthropologist, confirmed Since 1931. Sir Walter had been a Kenya farmer, has been charged the fact that this is the oldest lying in Java, spending all his time with the murder of Mr. W. J. Han- Thinking Man discovered in at a hotel in Bultenzorg, near Bata-lon, the step-father of his wife, Europe.

via. Keenty Interested in zoology NEW ZEALAND

Keitli declared that

and botany, he had with him a fine

It was discovered on the doorstep library and experimental appartus. of London--at Swanscombe, 10 miles According to, Burke's Peerage, Sir INCREASING COST OF away-by a London dentist, who Walter was married in 1888 to Miss

PUBLIC WORKS to-day nervously produced the two Eliza Vokes. He graduated Bache- scraps of science-shaking skull be-lor of Arts at Trinity College, Cam-

Auckland. fore this critical jury.

bridge.

There have been significant in- An ancestor, William Strykeland, creases in the cost of public works

to America with Sebastian in New Zealand. Railway develop

ment, which figures in the original programme at £8,250,000, has al- rendy absorbed £6,000,000.

It is estimated that a further £4,000,000 will be spent before the programme is

is complete.

-Sir Arthur this discovery was the most impor- salled tant, in his long life-time.

Cabot,

BRAIN CAPACITY, Ifere was a skull with 'a brain) capacity "such as We might find in} this room."

"This is proof," said Sir Arthur, "that we have evolved a totally dif- ferent kind of humanity here from that which was developing in Europe and elsewhere.

"He belongs to Western rece, dis tinet from all the rest of the world."

Mr. Alvan T. Marston, the dentist--

While a submarine was entering Kiel Bay the look-out man saw a roebuck swimming out to sca.

The commander

faunch sen! a after the animal, but for some time! the buck successfully resisted cap-geologist who has made this scienti- ture. When he was at length brought le sensation, was digging at Swans- on board the submarine he was rub-combe in 1935 when he came upon bed down with warm blankets and he scrap of the skull. revived with milk.

No ene belleved in it. He was When the submarine dived on her faced with rather cruel scepticism return Voyage to Neustadt, near of many of the leading experts. Lucbeck, the roebuck made frantic

FITTED EXACTLY struggles to escape, and caused some einbarrassment In the confined Nine months later, after sifting He was landed safely at and sifting 1,700 cubic feet of gravel, Neustadt, and act at liberty in the le unearthed another piece. The nearest wood.

two fitted exactly. The submarines's log duly notes Ho la still digging, determined to the rescue of "Oskar," as the buck; find the rest of the fragments. was named by the crew, and his The skull has peculiarities never position when first sighted.

before seen in ape or man.

красе.

Spire Workers Grow Beards

Melbourne, Australla.

Reserve Bank

Profi-The Re- serve Bank of New Zealand earned a Workers on the lofty spire of Si.net, proht of 195,811 during the Patrick's cathedral here bnd all year ended March 31, This is an in- grown beards as a protection against creast of £48,688 on the previous

Gunburn and winds.

year.

No Foreign Wives For

French Envoys

Paris.

The commission will have the right

marry a foreigner must be "hustified A deeree just promulgated forbids by exceptional circumstances." all French diplomats, consular agents and civil servants attached to the Foreign Ministry to marry foreigners to question the person who makes tho without obtaining special permission request and all others whom it judges fit. It will report on its andings to from the Qual d'Orsay,

the Foreign Minister, with whom will A special commission of high rest the decision to grant or refuse officials of the Foreign Ministry is to permission to marry. All persons be set up to consider each case. The contravening the decree will be decree states that the request to brought before a disciplinary court.

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