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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER

5,

1938.

V

Two parties who are not reck- Ing rest and quiet during the holidays left London recently. These pre strenuous days for the girls of Mitcham Athletic Club their (above). They were

way to Amsterdam to compete in a match with Dutch women athletes. The schoolboys (right)

the of

Public are members Schools Exploration Society who are making an expedition to Newfoundland.

Marked For 1,000 Years

STONEHENGE

With Paint Daubed

Officers By Army TOUR Army officers, all aged were fined at Salisbury recently for damaging stones at Stonehenge

HUSTLING

JUDGE

DIES SUDDENLY AT 80

Some Things He

Said About Women

SIR

IR THOMAS GARDNER HORRIDGE, the oldest judge of the King's Bench Division when he retired in May of last year after 27 years on the Bench, died suddenly at Hove recently, aged 80.

Mr. Justice Horridge, a native of Bolton, was called to the Bar 54 years ago, became a K.C. in 1901, a Judge in 1910 (one day after the late Mr. Justice Avory) and retired on a £3,500 a year pension in May last year.

In the Divorce Court his speed earned him the name of "Hustling Horridge," but he was very painstaking, and because 2nd Lt. John Edward Passingham of the full and careful notes he took of his cases was dubbed "the

Anti-Aircraft Peirce, of the 22nd Battery, Royal Artillery Experimen-writing judge."

аге

on June 10. They

tal Camp, Watchet, Somerset, 2nd

Sherrard and

of the Defence,

Lts. William Law

Lawrence William School of Anti-Aircraft Biggin Hill, Kent; and 2nd Lt. John Shearme, of the Constal Artillery School, Shoeburyness, Essex.

Howard Skinner, the Scotsman "Forgot"

. They were fined £1 each on each of two charges relating to Stone- henge stones, and 5s. for damaging a road sign. They were ordered to pay £10, the estimated cost of re- pairs.

£5 5s. towards the prosecu- tion's expenses and £4 costs.

Mr. G. J. Ball, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, read a state- ment made by the defendants, In which they said:

"On

END OF COURSE the evening

of Thursday, June 18, we had our guest night at the School of Artillery. It was the end of the course and we were due to leave the school on the follow- ing day.

"We collected some paint and a brush and went over to Stonehenge. Mr. Peirce and Mr. Sherrard ench brought a plece of china.

four stones in the "We painted group with green paint, climbed the stones and pinced the two pieces of china on the top

"On one side of the Hele stone we pointed 'Is this a Friar?" painted over the 'Waiting Prohibited sign. painted out the 'An' of 'Another and added a letter to 'Exeter."

Joi

His Wallet

TOUN W. BONNAR, a Glasgow baker, had to go south on business. His wife saw him into the night expresa and told him

to hide his wallet in his plus- jours. Bonnar toent to sleep.

Some time later he woke

a start and felt in his breast

with

ket for his wallet. It was gone. Bounar pulled the communi- cation cord and told the guard he had been robbed, Then he remembered his wife's instruc- tions and found the wallet. At Crewe he was fird 20a. for stopping the train.

Illegal to Speak Welsh

In Court

Cardiff. Henry VIII, a Welshman, passed a law making it ille- "We had a very rowdy guest night, gal to use Welsh in courts of being the last one, and we failed to law. realise the diMculiles our net would entall,"

Mr. Ball said that it might take another 1,000 years for the stones to regain their weathered appear

ance.

DONE THOUGHTLESSLY

CONFESSION OF MURDER MADE TO A PRIEST ENGLISHMAN TAKEN TO POLICE GIRL SHOT IN NEW YORK FLAT

John

mwened a

repeated his story.

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Jack Hulbert; Marie Selection (Friml); Catholic priest at 1.30 this morning Rose" and confessed that he had just Intro:-Mounties; Only a kissi murdered young woman after a 40 quarret. The priest took him to the Love Call; Hard-boiled

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2nd und NOTABLE TRIALS

who had been shot in the head.

Selection (Haminerstein One of the most sensational of his

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ev'ry I've hearing of the Sheringham "poisoning off their friendship. "I prefer to When the Spring is in the air: The pen" case, in which Miss Dorothy die," he declared. "I hope they put song is you; I'm so eager; In Egern belong to Myrtle Thurburn was accused me in the clectric chair. I wanted on the Tegern See; We

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New publishing defamatory fibels by letto marry her, but she would not have gether: One more

Our Greatest ter upon residents at Sheringhan, | me."

Mayfair Orchestra; Tried three times, the jury disagree-

something Success; Intro: There's ing twice, she was eventually ac- During their last evening together about a soldier, My hat's on the side quitted.

he curried a sawed-off shot gun of my head: 'We'll all go riding on u When he tried Mrs. Pace at hidden in an attache case. "She rainbow; The flies crawled up-the Gloucester on a charge of poisoning never knew what I intended to do," window; Sweep; All for a shilling a her husband, he directed the jury at he said. "I never even threatened day; But not to-day; Gentlemen, the

Cleely the end of the case for the prosecuter. She never knew she was going Kingt. tion return

verdlet of "not to die. Her back was turned to meJack Hulbert.

1.0 Local when I took the gum from the case

Weather Report. man to be re- and sho; her."

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SAWED-OFF SHOT GUN

in twenty-four hours of his being followed by a dinner preeded the Major. sentenced to

three months'

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Courtneidge and

Time Signat and

hurd murrer. The two quarrelled most Played by the London Philhar- labour, an action which led to a of the evening. Marie kept on tell-monic Orchestra conducted by Wal- question being asked in the Com-ing Bellinger she wanted to end their ter Cochr mons.

relationship. He finally took

her 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Announce- He was one of the three judges home shortly after midnight and Weather Forecast and who tried Sir Roger Casement shot her in her own room. (banged at Pentonville in 1016 for

BEAT MR. BALFOUR

at on

A

taken away.

she girl friend with whom high treason), and he once rebuked shared that flat did not hear the shot, Horatio Bottomley for "making She fainted when the police awoke speeches in the box,"

her to tell her that Marie was dead. 35 Bellinger was being taken back His wit and good looks were said to the police station he snatched at to have been largely responsible for a razor blade hidden in his shoe, but his defeat of Mr. Balfuur

the pollce, were too quick for him. election in 1900 and he gat as Liberal Ir was locked up in a lighted cell M.P. for East Manchester from 1908 and his the, shoelaces and belt were

1910, when he became a judge.

Bollinger was a clerk in a New it is recorded that after his return

Mr. York office. He was born in Sussex later for the City of London Balfour was greeted with a smile in and came to New York via Canada the lobby of the House of Commons in 1927. byho is

someone he did not recognise.

"A char- on another occasion. that

gentleman who sold on be on such good terms with woman is no langer a charwoman, seems

but il 'charlady. There are indy himself?" he asked another M.F "That is the man who defeated you typists, lady hairdressers, Indy shop at East Manchester," was the reply. assistants and lady everything else."

Sir Thomas was called to the Bar at the Middie Temple in 1884 and took silk in 1901. He was treasurer of the Middle Temple in 1920.

THE WORD "WOMAN" Its object is to compet the Govern- ment to grant every Welsh person court he expressed his views on

Sir Thomas was created a knight the subject of women freely. "If the right to give evidence or con-

get their lunch in in 1910. He was married twice, Brat duct a defence in the Welsh language, women

Behind the carepaign arc the three-quarters of an hour they are in 1901

National not fit to be jurors," was one of his Lenarth, of Federation

Welsh Societies. the Welsh Nationalist remarks. Party, and the Welsh League of Youth.

That law has not been repeal- ed, and a Welshman to-day has no right to give evidence, or defend himself in the Welsh language even in a Welsh court. One of the most fierce campaigns Mr. W. H. Lemon, for the defen-ever carried out In Wales has been dants urging the magistrates to bind sturted. them over, said that they had done that thing thoughtlessly and with no had preconceived impulse. They come forward voluntarily and owned

up.

for Major Trappes-Lomax.

the military authorities, said that an individual apology was sent from ench officer to the Office of Warks. They had been brought before the

In

cannot

And when it was stated that a wife had always worked: "Why shouldn't she work? It seems to be an idea nowadays thut wife is no longer a

who but someone partner

must necessarily be kept."

Miss Evelyne Sandys, of Cornwall. She died in 1920, and in 1021 he married Mrs. The word woman" is disappear- May Ethel Markham, of Wroughton, ing from the English language," he wilts.

HAIR STYLES TO MATCH FROCKS

G.O.C., frd Division, and ha, in view of the fact that they were starting on their careers, had decided to ad- monish them.

Mr. J. M. Swayne, chairman of the magistrates, said that the de- fendasis action was very wanton, "klowed an extraordinary men-

Nothing To Do, They Fight

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D. R. Bain, 40, oll worker, and his clasest friend, Paul Finney, 35, wore Garrested here for fighting. Oh, we simply had nothing else to do," they ACÍ SYNA AFIxplained to: the court.

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They live free of the fear that their husbands may fall out of work; their children havo hopeful futures. "Freedom for women is something real in New Zealand," burly Arthur Cook, general secretary of the New Zea land Workers' Union, told me during a trip to this country,

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