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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,

SEPTEMBER 2, 1938.

THE "QUEEN MARY" Foremost Forger

HITS A JETTY

Towed Off Safely

HOLIDAY-MAKERS at

Southampton docks re- cently saw the liner Queen Mary, while being moved from King George V. grav- ing dock to the Ocean dock by ten tuge, crash into a wooden jetty, cut it nearly in 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 Rev. 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 was undamaged.

The Queen Mary with her escort of tugs had arrived off the entrance to the Ocean dock when it was seen that her bows were bearing down or

side of the dock.

a wooden jelly extending to the east

CRASH

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

Still straining at the hawsers, the lugs succeeded in stopping, the ship and after some minutes were able to pull her nose out and manoeuvre her into dock.

The 51,000-tons German Lloyd liner Bremen went aground on Net- ley Bank, bugbear of Southampton water pilots, recently.

She was travelling sa slowly that the impact was almost Im- perceptible and passengers were unaware that unything

wrong.

Was

Five tugs waiting at the dockhead to guide the ship to her berth went to her assistance, but it was declled to wait for the tide to rise,

After being stationary for 20 minutes the Bremen was moved by the tugs to her berth. No damage was done, and after embarking 203 passengers the liner left for New York.

WHAT

- WOULD HONGKONG GIRLS SAY?

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

Chief clauses in the draft constitu- tion are:-

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

Any female member sball. in accordance with the dictates of per- fect equality, be justified in asking any male she would so desire to ne- company her to any form of enter- tainment.

All members, male and female, shall wear a distinguishing plece of green ribbon in a conspicuous place.

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

"The vicar has sent us some terrible

"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 solicitor to write to the ringleaders requesting them to return the money forthwith."

The Ove touchers 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 vlear for the E4 which was saved for the outing, be repiled:

Asked if it was true that the teachers had resigned or had been dis- missed, Mr. Ewort sald: "I have received no letter or resignation, or has 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 ns vicar and cannot be tolerated.

"All the money received on church premises was for a special Sunday- school holiday and should have been handed to the treasurer. You have and no authority to hold any money I demand that you send the money held by you to the treasurer at once. If you fail to do this you will com peline to take proceedings to re- cover it.

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

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

Mrs. H. Goode received the follow-

ing:

more

Dear Mrs. Goode,-) was than surprised when I received the disloyal letter with your signature this morning. I could not believe it and was very hurt about it. The spirit of the letter is absolute Bol- shevism.

"You will see the strong feifer I have sent to Mrs. Coleman. She illegally holds money for a special Sunday school holiday, and unless she hands it over to the treasurer of the Sunday school I have no alter- native but to take proceedings.

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Death Takes A Holiday

David Watkins, 23-years-old Treorely miner, planned to lake his wife and baby for a holiday. I was to be their first together and he was to have drawn hollday pay, for the first time, from Fernhill Coltlery.

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

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

Dragged batiered from under the tram, Dal murmured: "This is bad luck for the wife."

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

INQUEST ON

Trapped at Last

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 sold to have swindled nearly 500 banks out of approximately $250,000. He has served prison terms in Tennessee, Kansas 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.

The only people who watched the

ceremony, which was carried out ac- cording to Buddhist rites, were

beautiful young

ก

Mexican girl, a protegee of the old Englishman, and the Czechoslovak Consul- General in the Netherlands Indies,

of n

EMPIRE NEWS

CRISIS IN INDIAN STATE

Calcutta.

Constitutional problems are likely

small Stale ol

to arise in the Nilgiri, in the Orisan area, after s month's unrest, which is now reaching climax. The area of Nilgiri is 201 square miles.

The trouble began with a pensant agitation against the holding of [1 durbar by the Raja, the discontent against his rule being widespread. A hundred persons were arrested and fined, but they refused to the fines.

pay

The Raja thereupon asked the Orissti

authorities to send police to his assistance, but they hesitate to du this as

as they

do not wish to interfere

in Stale affairs.

The Orissa Government is asking for guidance from Simli.

Vizagapatam's Plight. The port of Vizagapatam, Madras. which 1108 been in danger of closing since 115

opening In 1933, has been tem-

reprieved. It is the chief

- centre of a vast area pro-

wns.

capital

manganesc. cotton and oll- seeds, but has shown a loss each year until last year, when there amall profit. No Interest has, how- ever, been pald the

on charge of £3,000,000.

FRONTIER RAIDERS

Simla.

The gang which raided the town of Bonnu, North-West Frontier, recently included, in addition to Waziri trl- besmen, EL large number 05 io- 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 and the damage by fee is estimated about £25,000.

CANADA

AID FOR BRITISH AIR MISSION.

Ottawa.

nt

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

construction of large bomber

aircraft.

conference decided to make co- The con operation rather than competition the keynote of the arrangements.

While the setting-up of u central organisation to handle the award of contracts was discussed, it was de- cided

to hold this plan in abeyance pending the arrival of the mission. A central organisation is deemed neces sary to handle contracts in the event of their reaching a total of £30,000- 000.

In many quarters this is regarded Sir Walter's coffin was placed on tap

value of the con- pile of petrol-drenched as the probable wood in a pit in the sand. The fire tracts lodged over a period of years. Mr. T. H. Manning Married.-Mr. burned from the evening until after

T. H. Manning, down.

the 24-year-old leader of the British-Canadian Arctic FIRST EUROPEAN

expedition

of 1936-39, has been Never before had u European been

married !!

Dorset, Norh-West Cape cremated in the Netherlands indies. Territory to

Miss Ella Wallace Until Sir Walter'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 1900, he took place on board the Arctic patrol lived for only four days in the an- ship, Nascopic, 2,521 tons. cestral mansion. Boynton Hall, near

KENYA

LONDONER Bridlington Yorkshire. It subse-

AGED 250,000

Cambridge, Aug. 20. AN inquest was held here

to-day on the oldest Londoner 250,000 years old.

quently became a convent,

In 1910 he disappeared and his

solicitors und friends searched the country for him until it was found many years later that for decade Sir Walter had been wandering through Spain like beggar.

He next came into the news in 1623 when he adopted Czech na- tionally. From that time he drew the full revenue of his estates, but used it largely to finance Socialist propaganda bodies.

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

SEVEN YEARS IN JAVA

SEIZED CATTLE

JUDGMENT

Nairobi.

case

#

The Supreme Court of Kenya has given judgment in the Lest arising from the recen seizure by police of 2,500 head of cattle on farm in the Ukamba reserve. The owner had refused to co-operate in the Government de-stocking scheme, aimed at restoring soil fertility.

seizure was legal, the judgment stat-

The Court has decided that the

ing that the only defence raised was deflance.

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

cluding Sir Arthur Keith, the "You know there

always

Murder Charge.Mr. C. E. Ansell, people who trude on these differences

noted anthropologist, confirmed)

Since 1931, Sir. Walter had been Kenya farmer, has been charged to smash God's word. I beg of you the fact that this in the oldest living in Java, spending all his time with the murder of Mr. W. J. Han- to withdraw from this proposal to Thinking Man discovered in at a hotel in Bullensorg, near Bals-lon, the step-father of his wife, defy me and please do trust me to Europe. *know after 25 years' experience what

is best for the children.

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

"I don't want

to lose you from the school. If your sainted mother was alive I know what she would do.

ROEBUCK IN A

SUBMARINE.

Rescue From Bay: Revived With Milk

It was discovered on the doorstep of London-at Swansaombe, 10 miles away-by a London dentist, who to-day nervously produced the two scraps of science-shaking skull be- fore this critical Jury,

Sir Arthur Keith declared that this discovery was the most impor- lant in his long life-Ume.

BRAIN CAPACITY Here was a skull with

a bruin 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

PUBLIC WORKS

via. Keenly interested in zoology NEW ZEALAND and balany, he had with him a fine ibrary and experimental appartus

According to Burke's Peerage, Sir INCREASING COST OF Walter was married in 1808 to Miss Eliza Vokes. He gradunted Bache- lor of Arts at Trinity College, Com- bridge.

An ancestor, William Strykeland, Balled to America with Sebastian

Cabot.

Spire Workers.Grow Beards

Melbourne, Australia.

Auckland. There have been significant In- creases in the cost of public works in New Zealand. Raliway develop- ment, which figures in the original

£8,250,000, programme at

has al- ready absorbed £6,000,000.

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

It

programme is complete.

Reserve

Bank Profit The Re- serve Bank of New Zealand earned a Workers on the lofty spire of St.net profit of £195,011 during the.

cathedral here had all year ended March 31. This is an in- grown boards as a protection against creast of £48,000 on the previous sunburn and winds.

year.

Patrick's that which was developing in Europe and elsewhere.

While a submarine w.s entering .Kiel Buy the look-out man saw a

roebuck swimming out to sea.

"He belongs to Western race, dis- The commander sent launchi Unct from all the rest of the world." Mr. Alvan T. Marston, the dentist-

after the animal, but for some time geologist who has made this scien:l- the buck successfully resisted cap ture. When he was at length brought le sensation, was digging at Swans- on board the submarine he was rub-combe in 1933 when he came upon bed down with warm blankets and the scrap of the skull,

revived with mille.

No one. believed 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. Luebeck, the roebuck made frantic struggies to escape, and caused some

-FITTED EXACTLY

unearthed another

No Foreign Wives For French Envoys

Paria.

A decree just promulgated forbids all French diplomats, consular agents

marry a foreigner must be "justified by exceptional circumstances."

The commission will have the right embarrassment In the confined Nine months later, after sifting and civil servants attached to the

to question the person who makes the красе.. He was landed safely at and alfling 1,700 cuble teet of gravel. Foralen Ministry to marry foreigners request and all others whom it judges Neustadt and net at liberty in the he

plece. The without obtaining special permission nt. It will report on its findings to nearest wood.

from the Quai d'Oriny.

the Foreign Minister, with whom wit A special commission of high rest "the decision to grant or refusé officiali 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

The submarines's log duly notes

|two fitted exactly,

Hole still digging, dotermined 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.

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