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SNOBBERY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1938.

there are Complaints of it in the

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CHRISTMAS Gifts

'Girls' Army'-and on a suburban bowling green

1.

WOMAN TERRIERS'

ARRIVE IN FURS

£20 For Uniforms

Scores of women eager to enrol in the school of in- LONELIEST

struction for Auxiliary Territorial Service officers at the Duke of York's headquarters, Chelsea, S.W., have been told they are not needed.'

Those who are enrolled, find they must pay the doc tor's fee for their medical examination, and a further £20 for uniforms. Shoes cost £2 12s. 6d., the gloves 9s. 6d., the overcoats £7 7s.

To most of the recruits those prices mean no sacrifice. Half of the 130 in one week's class arrived in their own big cars, which were parked in the drill square,

MAN

Paderewski Wants

To Forget

One of the most famous, and lone-

Best, men in London spent his 70th birthday recently-alone.

When they settled down for a lecture, they draped the drill death four years ago," the pianist's

hall heating pipes with their furs.

Many of the women are daughters;

of Army and county familles, They stay in West-End hotels during their week's training.

Many of the county directors of the Women's Legion are being trans- ferred to the A.T.S. There are four duchrases, twenty-three women of title, two plain "Mrs" among the county directors.

Wilkinson,

M...

Miss Ellen thinks something should be done about it. She is going to take up the subject in the House of Com-

mons.

"I fought against Stella Lady Rend- Ing organisation of the Women's Voluntary Services," she said, "Lady! Reading was appointed and she chose t think high-i her committee herself.

ly of her ability. She has been a wage-earner herself.

"But I object to the collection of titled women she go around her. I object to the administration of the service by Mayfair society women.

THE DIRTY WORK'

"I have had many letters from responsible middle-class women who have tried to enrol. They indicate that this is just being run as a hob Ahow.

2. Bowling

Green Snobs Are "Awful'

-Says Socialist

Police were consulted recently by rival candidates in Waddon (Surrey) municipal election after two men had climbed into Wandle Park by night and dog up the bowling green in four places.

"Monsieur Paderewski has never kept his birthday since his wife's

secretary atd. "He just wants to forget it now."

So much did M. Paderewski adore this second wife of his that he nevere rose in the morning un- til Madame Helena had brushed and combed his hair for him. In the evening it was the same be- fore retiring.

She also trimmed and washed it for him always. Nobody else was permitted to touch it.

Now, seeing nobody but his secre- iary and a few intimate friends, M. Paderewski tries not to remember. SICK

Although he is lo give recitals in various parts of the country, Pad- erewski is a sick man.

He is suffering from severe lumba- go, and English friends are upset to see how it has aged him.

Despite his pain, however, the frail-looking Polish ex-Prime Minis- ter is giving recitals that last from one to two hours.

Ile refuses to spare himself. and his wonderful dagers are as agile as ever.

*

UFS

Among 166 Jewish familles ousted from Sudetenland by Nazis and refused admittance by Czechoslovakia are this mother and daughter, who huddle outside their only home, a rude tar paulin set up as a tent, Refugees, deprived of everything, awalt decision regarding their future. Charity services are their only source of ald.

SURGEON STABBED WITH STILETTO

IN BOND STREET

A stiletto is believed to have been used by a muttering, swarthy man-maybe a foreigner-who stabbed Mr.

But when the recitals are over a Sydney G. Macdonald, a Welbeck Street surgeon, in the any tired white-haired old man shuffles to back while he was walking in Bond Street on his way home any his dressing-room to rest on his

recently

Both candidates org certain that i none of their supporters had had none of the supporters part in the outrage.

couch and to summon fresh cour-after dining. But "Naturally, we don't want politics

voters suggested mixed up in national service. But that the mystery has become an issue age for the next long concert, middle and working-class women are in the election campaign. finding that they are expected to do Any one can play on the Wandle all the dirty work. The upper middle-Park green for 8d. un hour. class and the aristocracy go in and get bers of the Waddon Residents' Club commissions as a matter of course. can buy season tickets for 30s.

"If there aro

going

to be wo-year. men's defence organisations, they ought to be run democratiently, not as a cocktail party."

Except for the V.A.D. all women's auxillaries for the Army and Air Force will in future be drawn from the A.TS. Lady Violet Astor is Chief Controller of the A.T.S. for the Coug- ty of London area and Ludy Tren- chard is Chief Commandant In the City of London.

'SERVICE FAMILIES' Fifty-nine-year-old Damne Helen Gwynne-Vaughan has her own desk at the Duke of York's headquarters. directs the new school for A.TS. officers.

any of our recruits come from

which have flourished on the tradition of the services,' she sald. "There are certainly women of title in the organisation. Bui a title is not regarded as a privilege. In the A.T.S. they will be called by the army titles.

"There is a mistaken idea that we are all ladies of title and afflu- ence. We need women who can

give their time to the organisation. "Naturally we have had to seek some of our officers in county and well-to-do familles because women who are working all day could not spare the time for training.

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'COLD SHOULDERED' Mr. J. T. Twichett, Socialist candi- date and thirty-eight-year-old rail- way clerk, said: "The snobbery on that bowling green is awful.

"Members of the Residents' Club phy there so often a poor man with his 6d, can hardly get a game. If he does get on the green he is cold-shouldered. No one will play with him.

SIR IGNACE

Al Brighton recently he gave u programme which few planists half

his age would have attempted.

After the concert he returned to London and went to bed.

Although he never uses it, Paderew- aki is the only foreign musician to have had a knighthood conferred upon him. His correct title is Sir Ignace Pederewski, G.B.E.

British Bricks For Iran

London. Three and a half million English

"Members of the club can drive through the part in their cars to the green. A poor man is forbidden to ride his bicycle through the park. bricks, the biggest shipment ever The action of the people who ruined here has, I am sure, no political signifiennce."

Said his opponent, Councillor Lock Kendell, vice-president of the bowl- ing Club: "I play regularly at the bowling green. I am not a snob, and I shall play bowls with any one I incet

the there. I have asked groundsman to join me in a game before to-day."

sent to iran from Britain, are to be grent new used for building housing estate for native workers an the oilfelds.

THIEVES LOSE £850

London.

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The blade went through five thicknesses of clothing and narrowly missed the victim's right lung.

Every C.I.D. officer in the West End is now trying to find the assailant of Mr. Macdonald, who from his house at Ticehurst, Sussex, told how he was attacked.

"I became subconsciously aware of man walking across the street to- wards me," he said.

"I took no particular noties, but the stronger sidled up towards me, muttering some words I could not distinguish. My back as towards him when I felt a terrifle that in the back and stumbled. At Arst I thought I had merely been punched. turned round to see the man dis- appear down a side street.

NO ENEMIES

"As the initial numbness wore off

I

Priestley

Takes Lead

In Own Play

Mr. J. B. Priestley recently uppear-

He was making his first singe op- pearance at 24 hours' notice.

Mr. Frank Pettingall, who had been

playing Ormonroyd, was injured when Canterbury rond. He was taken to Canterbury Hospital.

his ear overturned on the London-

realised that 1. had been stabbed,ed in the leading role of Henry Ormenroyd, the Yorkshire Press It was then too late to give chase.

photographer, in his own successful "I got the impression that the man lay. "When We Are Married," at was swarthy and might have been a

St. Martin's Theatre. foreigner. I

no Iden have

what It seems I was prompted the attack, the victim of mistaken Identity. have no enemies in the world."

Mr. Macdonald, who is Thieves who broke into the offices

2 specialist of Southern Sporting Promotions at the West Londen Hospital, Royal Ltd. at Banister Court Stadium, Masonic Hospital and the Chelsea Southampton, recently succeeded in Hospital for Women, is still unable to Crickets Menace Melons opening one safe with gelignite and use his right arm as a result of his

stealing £34, but were unable to injury. Delano, Cal.

open the other safe containing £850, One theory is that the crime may

As soon as news of the nccident Crickets, of the non-Mormon varie- owing to the door becoming jummed, be the result of some foreign political ty, for the first time are proving a Police called in to investigate had vendetta, and the Special Branch is was received Mr. Basil Dean, the serious menace to the cantaloupe to use crowbars to completely open helping in the search for the assall-producer, rang up Mr. Priestley and ant. Foreign clubs, enfes and lodg-persuaded him to step into the breach. ing houses in Soho, Bloomsbury and He will play the part until Mr. Teltenham Court Road pro being Pettingell returns or another star can watched.

be obtained and rehearsed.

crop.

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His wife, who was with him in the car, escaped injury.

PATRICIA, FIVE,

HAD TO FEND

FOR HERSELF

Joseph Roche was sent to prison for three months at Lambeth, S.E., recently for wilfully neglecting his only daughter, Patricia Jean, aged five years and two months.

N.S.P.C.C. Inspector Rivers went with a doctor to Roche's home in Etty-street Flats, Waterloo, S.E., said Mr. Stallon, prosecuting. There they found Patricia and her mother alone.

The mother was Ill in bed, suffering from anaemia and ex- treme depression. Patricia was very pale and anaemic, her hair matted, her clothes ragged. She had suffered from rickets.

The flat had only one bed, dirty and with little covering. There was a foul smell throughout the place-due, said Mr. Stal. lon, to dirt.

They were arranging to take Patricia and her mother away when

Roche came in. He blamed his wife. Jackrabbit Lost in City

"She won't let me clean it up," he

said,

On a previous visit, however, the wife had told Inspector Rivers that

Cleveland,

How a Jack-rabbit wandered from

she would take polton if only she the western plains to Ohio in a mys- could get it.

lery to Martin Ahern, of the Animal Roche, a fish porter, denied that he Protective League. Ähern captured had neglected Patricia. Magistrate the extremely gaunt rabbit in a Watson observed that the evidence left no doubt at all that she had been

neighbourhood whore residents seriously neglected, despite repeated thought the animal was a young warnings.

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