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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,

OCTOBER 17:

1938.

"STAR" PRISONERS TO EMPIRE

HAVE CAMP IN SOUTH

EXPERIMENT

SUCCEEDS

WORK IN OPEN ALL DAY: SLEEP IN HUTS 400 ACRES WANTED NEAR WINCHESTER, LEWES OR OXFORD

The Prison Commissioners arc planning to start a prison camp in the South

follow- of England, ing the success of an experimental prison camp at Wakefield, Yorks.

The Wakefeld camp was started some time ago to cater for various prisons in the North of England and the Midlands,

Only men of the "atar class,** that to say, men who are serv- ing a frat term of imprisonment, and who are capable of being helped to re-enter civit life, are admitted to the camp.

SLEEP IN HUTS

There they work in the open all day and most of them sleep in huts Other prl- at night at the camp. soners are brought each day from the prisons to assist in the work, which consists of cutting down trees and clearing the land for shrubs and cultivation.

The camp has been such a success that it is now regarded as a perma- nent part of the prison administra-

tion.

To enable them to start a similar for Southern England and camp London prisoners, the Prison Com- missioners have announced, in an advertirement their desire to pur- chose, or lease, for 21 years (option to break at seven or 14 years) about 400 acres of rough land capable of being reclaimed for agriculture.

STIPULATIONS

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United in happy wedlock, Mr. Octavio Carvalhe, formerly on the Stuff of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, and his bride, formerly Miss Palmers Marques leaving thủ Church of St. Lawrence, Macao on Sunday Tast.

BUNKUM! SAY THE

NEWS

AUCKLAND,

The Bight of capital from Now Zealand, particularly to Australia, has been accelerated by the amend- ment to the Social Security Bill placing a tax of is in the pound on company profits.

The Auckland Herald states that many people are planning also to leave the country and settle in Australia.

The Social Security Bill, by which the Socialists hope to win the Novem- ber cinctions, promises an

aven distribution of the national income without loss to the community. The scheme provides that the State will care for all those who are in "need, sickness or

or any other adversity," Those on 4. low. scale of Income will pay a small thare of the cost of the benefits they obtain, and the balance will be borne by people with an average Income, who will fet proportionately less in return.

BUDGET BALANCED Mr. W. Nash, the Finance Minister, considers that the scheme will be a Its cost will be good investinent.

RADIO BROADCAST

"Victorian Melodies": A

B.B.C. Recording

REV. C. BR. SARGENT

Radio Programms Broadcast by Z..B. W. on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and G-11 pam on 0.32 m.e's per seconil.

6.00 A Programme of Variety and Dance Muslo.

Fox-Trots Dixieland Shume; Muskrat Ramble....Dob Crosby and

REAL

at

the

On

ls Orchestra; Organ-Medley Of Serenades; Intro: Serenado Fras quite (Lehar); Serenade (Heykens);, Serenade (Schubert) Serenade (Toselli); Second Serenade Kens) Serenade (Student Prince Romberg).

Bollington Organ of the Paramount Theatre,

Fox-Trots Blossoms

the film); Sailing (from

"and Home....Jack

Harris

'Ila Or- Vocal- vocal refrain: chestra with Dis-Mol Josephine? (Lelievre, Varna, Cab and Bela); Voulex-Vous De La Canne A

Varna and (Lelivre, Canne

and Adrien Lamy with Melodie Jazz Du Casino De Paris cond. by Edmond Mahleux; Fox-Trots-Trumbolory: Goose Pimples....Bix Beiderbecke and His Orchestra: Vocal-I Want To Be A Nudist (Pola, Nesbitt and The Wedding Of A Gigolo Walker); The

.Eddic Pola. Nesbitt and Walker).

Fox-Trot-I'm Pola with Orchestra;

about £20,000,000 in its initial stages | Padda Sucrine Baker

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and critics state that Mr. Nash will bc £7,000,000 short annually, and That more taxes will have to ba that mord Imposed.

Owing Overseas prosperity and high returns from taxation, the Socialist Government has far castly found the money to play for ils schemes and the Budget has been well balanced. In three

Mr. R. Semple, years Minister of Public Works, has been given £48,500,000 Agure astronomical proportions to New Zeal landers for his

and undertakings. Mr. J. A. Lee, Under-Secretary in British Association don't know our charge of Housing, has received chaps.**

£5,000,000 for State housing scheme.

VILLAGE CHAPS

AND GO A-COURTING

(By A Sprelal,Correspondent)

Northampton.

If you show a Northamptonshire chap a pretty girl, and he thinks he It is stipulated that the site must stands a chance of courting her he be within ten miles of either Win-will do it and won't care what village chester, Dorchester, Lewes, or Ox-she comes from.

ford, off the main road, with easy access and no public rights of way. There must be facilities on the

for the erection site

of a prison

comp with water, drainage electric light,

Investigating the Loch Ness monater while on his holiday, Angus Cameron, of the Glas- gow trame police; reports its underwater speed in 1 20- minutes run as 15 m.p... sur- face speed a "great deal foster,"

Naval ratings of certalu cate- garies may now wear glasses and have false teeth, Glasses will be supplied free to recruits (or all classes in which they are permitted,

the

Boots were hoisted to masthead of the Red-Funnel steamer Gracie Fields on a trip from Southampton to the Isle of Wight recently to show a honey- moon couple were on board.

anxious 10

Reginald Foort,

And

avoid interviewers when he sailed for New York recently, booked tourist class and kept: his name out of the fle France's passenger ist.

de

In four months Warrant Ofcer Cuthbert ("Buster") Quantrell, of the Metropolitan Police, has slimmed from 19 stones to 13%, and now has a new uniform,

Evidence of a Fern-shaped mark tattooed on his chest was given recently art a Tugby (Leicestershire) Inquest Jasper Freeman, aged 31, who was killed by lightning when sheltering under a tree.

on

For Arst time since her mar- riage last September, Dorothy Round (Mrs. D. Little) played In a tennis tournament recently -at Pwllheli, where she won her

tenis first

prize.

She gave birth to a son on July 14.

That was what I was emphatically told in the village smithy at Far- thingstone recently,

PIFFLE, SAYS VICAR

The vicar of Farthingstone cald: "We have had 12 marriages between neighbouring places in the last 20

months, and I know of no such state

of affairs as Mr. Peel described."

"Piffle!" said the vicar of Everdon, the Rev. J. J. A. Stockton, "I have lived in the county for many years and never heard of any such boycott nor of any offensive rhymes."

It was the village's reply to Mr. R. F. Peel's statement to the British Association that the young men of the Northamptonshire villages of Across the county to Lampori, toj Farthingstone, Everdon, Maldwell interview the vicar, the Rev. Mr. and Lamport will not marry girls Pilchford: "I have lived here for 36 from certain other villages within a years," he said, "and have no know- radius of five miles of their homes. ledge of any boyoolt. It is all bun-

kurn." 200-YEAR BAN?

Mr. Peel, who did not give the names of the villages on which the lave-blight is nileged to have fallen, is reported to have said that the | children of the villages he named re-

peat uncomplimentary rhymes about: the anonymous places and that this ban upon the unfortunate villages has existed for 200 years,

Well, I have visited Farthingstone,

I noticed a fair number of spruce young men pedalling bicycles along the Northants lanes and I am willing to gamble that it would take more than a 200-year-old tradition them back from their errands.

hold

Father Divine

Everdon, Moidwell and Lamport to Enters New

day, as well as other villages near.

To say that I have not found a tittle!

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of evidence to support Mr. Peel's al-66

legation is an understatement.

Let us look into it. Back to the Farthingstone smithy The smith and his striker were hammering an Iron gate hnap on the anvil. wiped their brows and read Mr.

amith.

They

"Heaven" And Politics

his

от this

The Government is now planning a £5,000,000 State aleel works. A con- tinued increase in production and revenue is expected, and factor is based the success of tho long-term Social Security scheme. MAURITIUS

STRIKERS IN COURT

PORT LOUIS,

The sugar Industry of Mauritius is now beginning to feel the full Neither effect of the dockers' strike. employers nor employees show any signs of giving way.

A Little Prairie Flower: The Best Of and His Band with Friends. Billy Cotton

vocal chorus; Plano- Kunz Revivals No. 3; Intro: Poor Butterfly: After you've gone; Whis pering Alice Blue Gown; Just a

little love a little kiss: The Chocolate Soldier

Waltz. ......Charlie

"Kunz; Pasodoble-Bella Espanola; Tango- La Carcajeda.....Orquesta Tiplen Roberto Firpo:

Fox-Trols-Nice Work It You Can Get It (film 'Dam- sel in Distress)....Jack Harris and His Orchestra with vocal refrain.

7.00 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.

7.02 B. B. C. Recording-Victorian Melodies'.

A Musical Sequence. Produced und Conducted by Stanford Robinson.

8.00 Local Time Signal. Weather Report and Announcements.

for 8.02 London Relay-Food Thought'.

on matters of Three short talks The railways ure unable to bring sugar to the docks because of the topical interest.

8.20 Berlin State Opera Orches- congestion due to the non-loading of

ira. ships.

Twelve dockers were brought to German Dances, posthumous werk court, charged with striking illegally.October 1824 (Schubert):"A Mid They promised to go back to work,

summer Night's Dream" Overture March The strikes on two augar estates (Mendelssohn) Wedding have ended, but another one has (Mendelssohn): Torch Dance No. 1

In B Flat Major (Meyerbeer). broken out on a third estate. Here

8.45 Studio Rev. C. D. RL. Sar- л serious case of incendiarism occur-

rent-44th Series of Opera: Verdi's red, about 40 acres of virgin canes

"Othello" Act IV. of next year's crop being destroyed by a fire started by the inbourers, AUSTRALIA

PROPOSED REFORM OF LOAN COUNCIL

SYDNEY,

Mr. W. Forgan Smith, the Prime

0.30 London Relay-The-News. 0.50 Natan Milstein (Violin) and Denno Moiselvitch (Plano).

Polonalse

No. 2 (Chopin).

alse In B Flat Major, Op. 71, Benno Molselvitch Nocturne In C

In C Sharp Minor (Rondo

from Concerto

| Minister of Queensland, who has foranin!).

mists, and thus enable the Council to

"In a MIO-

Natan Milstein with Leopold Mittmann at the

a long time been a critic of the Piano: Rhapsody In E Flat (Brahms); methods of the Australian Loan Jeux D'Eau (Ravel). Benno Mot- Peel's remarks. So did the assistant Scores of ecstatic Negroes crying Council, suggested that a permanent selvlich (Piano); Mouvements Per-

"Peace. It's wonderful,"

banished

(Poulenc) bepetuels

Etude

(Stra- the any peace there might have been secretariat of the Council should be

established. This .would have vinsky)....E

..Benno Molseiwitsch. along the Hudson River at Krum periodical conferences with econo- 10.15 London Relay--The Band Elbow recently as Father Divine led

of the

the Royal Tank Corps Con- newly acquired consider fully long-range financial ducted by Mr. E. Lemaine, rural "heaven" opposite President poller.

(By kind permission of Brigadler Roosevelt's country "esite.

Mr. Forgan Smith asserts that W. M. Sutton, D.8.0., M.C.; From Exhibition (Scotland) under the present system meetings the Empire are called in a hurry and Ministerial Glasgow. decisions depend entirely on the and the Commonwealth Treasurer Commonwealth Bank Board.

"Never heard anything of sort," said the smith, "and I am 55, born and bred in Farthingstone. Never heard rude rhymes, either." his followers Into

His assistant had heard nothing of any fcud between the villages: "When I were a-courtington

he said, came

"Ave of us chaps from here for Farthingstone girls.

"Other chaps used to go to other villages. Show any chap round

here

2 girl in a pretty frock and I he won't bother where she comes from. It is only natural.”

bet

The blacksmith's striker put in: am a stranger here," he said, "I come from Norton, five miles away, but the chaps here have fetched girls from our village."

"Ah!" said the assistant smith,. "and the chaps have fetched girla from Badby, Weedon, Maldford and Everdon. The chaps will fetch a girl they like from any village. The

SOCIETY GIRL TAKES

POISON

+

Two thousand Ave hundred Har- lem devotees, who believe the storky Divine is Gol, accompanied

little

Girls' Hostel

Matron Fires At Student Raiders

Four

Pretoria University students forced their way at 2 m. into a women's hostel

to gain possession of certain mascots.

They awakened s girl stud- ent. Sho roused the matron. The matron took a gun and fired three shots, the students fled through a window.

An inquiry is now being held.

The Australian Loans Council was created during 1023-24 to prevent competition between the States In the Joan market.

11.00 Close Down.

Y.M.C.A. PROGRAMME Y.M.CA. activities for next week- are notified as follow:

Sunday, October 9.-Discussion Group in West Lounge at 9 pm.

Monday, October 10. Service Men's Whist Drive in West Lounge Sydney at 0 p.m.

. Link With Monk-Soil from the graves of British soldiers who fell at Mons has been placed around the Mons Oak, which stands in Sydney's large central park, the Domain.

Tuesday, October 11-Ladies' Jewish Immigration-The Assis-Sewing Bee at 10 am. A. D. C. tant-Minister for the Interior, Mr. Rehearsal at } p.m. and Mixed Thompson, states that if applications Swimming, by German and Austrian Jews for admission to Australla continue at the present rate, about 50,000 a year would be received, and about 5,000 of these would be granted. KENYA

NAIROBI MURDER TRIAL RESULT

NAIROBI,

Wednesday, October 12.-Badmin- ton all day, ladies morning and after- noon. Fencing class 8 p.m.

Thursday, October 13-Ladies' Gomes morning 10 am. Badminton from 8.30 p.m.

Friday, October 14.-A. D. C. Rehearsal at 9 p.m. Mixed Swim- ming.

ILLNESS

him in two steamboats down river C. E. Ansell, the Kenya former who | QUICK NEW STRENGTH AFTER on 19 two-day excursion, during was charged with having murdered which he "dedicated Krum Elbow" his wife's step-father, Mr. W. J. report.

After a severe illness you feel so of manslaughter here. Ho was weak, - you often despair of ever. sentenced to five years' hard labour. getting your strength back. Especial- The jury, in returning its verdict. |Ïy, after operations, or wasting and odded a rider that the crime was other diseases, that affect your committed under strong provocation. digestion, the thought of food is dis INDIA

tasteful. Yet you must rebuild your body--you must have highly nourish- 10,000 STUDENTS. ON ing food.

STRIKE.

CALCUTTA,

Alan MacCombe, fiance of twenty-six-year-old Eliza beth Haslett, sportswoman and leader of Londonderry's younger set, wept as an inquest jury decided that she poisoned herself with strychnine the day she received his with his presence, says a New York Hanion, on July 24, was found guilty letter breaking their engagement.

Divine's "angels" had prepared a With eyes and valce lowered, he, went into a butcher's shop and two terrine repast of fried chicken, apple chemists, but I could not see any-ple, Ice cream and water melon and gave this evidence;

"I had been keeping company with thing she might have bought.

there were souls of joy as the pil- Miss Haslett for about two years and "Fifteen minutes after we came grims surged from the boats on to we were engaged to be married. We home she held out her hand, showed what until now has been

* quiet were preparing a house and had me a small while package, and sald, country estate. bought some furniture,

'I am going to do it. This is strych-

(Recently the estate of Krum "We got on happily together till nine.

Elbow was sold for a song to Father Thursday night, Before going to see

'DON'T BE SILLY'

Divine by Mr. Rowland Spencer, a her I had a couple of drinks with

distant relation by marriage of Pré- Students in Indian colleges and como triends. When. I was going: "I did not believe her, and said, den Rosevelt. Mr. Spencer dis- schools throughout Calcutta, to the home she made some reference to 'Don't be silly,' the smell of drink on ine. We had "She went upstairs, and later, she approves of the President's polley. number of 10,000, went on strike protest against the a quarrel.

called me and rang the bell in her "I want to help Father Divine's recently as

action of the Jesuit fathers at SL. "I had promised to see

her on bedroom. I ran upstairs and found followers to prove that their econo-

Xavier's College here. Saturday night. The next day, Fri- her bedroom door locked. She said, mic ideals are superior," he said.)

They refused to allow the delivery day, I wrote a letter saying 1 would Come inside. The door is locked.

student of an uncensored address

In these difficult times of anxiety not see her on Saturday and that I I have taken the stuff.

on prize-giving day, holding that it was convinced she would be better

contained reflections on Great Britain, and worry, the task of carrying on without me."

Trade Pact Taika-The non-official and doing work which must be done advisers in the Indo-Britali trade is a doubly difficult one which must negotiations for the replacement of tend to exhaust one's nervous energy... the Ottawa Pact have falled to Horlicks builds up strength, vitality Ata and prevents that listlessness and meeting in New Delhi it was decided tiredness catised by constant nervous frame a unanimous report. to submit a majority and minority- strain. II. M. Hodges, 406-408, Asia report to the Government of India. Life Building.

WHITE PACKAGE Mina Haslett's brother, Alex, zaid that when his sister received Mac- Combe's letter she seemed heart- broken and worried. He addol

"I burst the 'door open and saw huc lying drossed on the bad, writh- int with pain."

Onions. May, Gain- Strength

Dr. R. W. Cunningham said that Mian Haslett told him she had taken Davis, Cal-Scientists at the Agri- cultural Bchool of the University of the strychnine with minced meat.

Later the day Aloe McCoal of onlons to make them stronger

in Alan California are breeding new strains not, however, in taste, halitosis, but In resistance to disease.

"I went with her into town) NOV and she said, she would commit Derry Cemetery. He sent a wreath suicide. I kept with her and she of red carnations.

by

Doctors everywhere recommend Horlicks as the food that not only can be easily digested, but that stimulates your faded, appetite and pours quick new strength into your exhausted body.

Convalescence is shortened and in an amazingly short time you feel full of vigour and strength. Always keep Horlicks ready at hand.

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