1939-01-10 — Page 3

Tuesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January

10, 1939.

EMPIRE Crippled Sports Girl NEWS Lost Joy of Living,'

KAMPALA

The formation of an Imperial force for Airlea was advocated by Mr. I. W. Fraser, speaking at the annual dinner of the Caledoniu So-|

ciety of Uganda, at Kampala,

Mr. Fraser uned the creation of

a force onleerca by men who were!

Gets £2,500

MANCHESTER.

prepared to spend their active le The Queerest PRETTY 24-years - old

At prezent, he said, the King'a Afeleon Rilles, the West African Frontler Force and other regular forecs in the African dependencies

British Army Officers

to

spent

Theft-

thieves who took gloves valued

the

Mabel Pennington, of |Ogden-road, Bramhall, Che- shire, formerly a nurse at Manchester Royal Infirmary, now crippled, is facing life

new with £2,500,

were officered by secondment from POLICE were recently searching for only a few short years in the coun- at £1,000 from a factory at West- bury Leigh, Wiltshire, during the own re-week-end, This Is They returned to their

second in aix weeks from giments just as they were beginning

a factory

Her right foot was injured in to learn the language, to know thej

by the same

same firm. and

understand the The country

polter

both bus necident. To-day at Man- belleve that African. What was necided was an robberies are the work of one gang, jehester Assizes she was award-

force, on the lines of the in each ease windows Imperial Indian Army, which would offer sarked hoses in the warehouse on the against the North-Western Road One theory is that the thieves ran-jed £2,500 damages and costs

Chairn for Cathedral--Two hand ground floor, put the gloves in sacks Car Co. sone clairg have been presented to and took them to waiting cars bitten Namirembe Cathedral, Uganda, [by] in a nearby cul-de-rae. Lady Jackson, in memory of her

whole-time career

were

were forced.

husband. Sir Frederick Jackor nors the control of the Braids, which wil, one! whent through one channel unter of the pioneers and former Govers also x buying and selfinast pr.per of the Protectorate, These

sent

by orgialty

the Por- tuguese to Kilwa, Tanganyika, in church 1630, for the

busit in that 100 further entre of the slave trade. They were seized by Arab. When the town was sacked and taken to the

tuland of Patta, where they were used as thrones by the Sultan.

Kenya

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CHIEF SCOUT AT AFRICAN HOME

NAIROBI,

Several thousand small trades are likely to be affected by these decisions, Appeals are bei mate to the Government modify the schemes.

"She lived for her work," her

said to the jury, but it is the counsel, Mr, G. J. Lynskey, K.C..

joy of life, the pleasure of re- creation, that one enjoys most.

"Looking at her; a girl fond of poet, keen un swimming, good at tems. Now he is restricted to Photographer's Death-The death those pleasures which a girl with a has occurred nf Mr. Arthur Elliott, crippled leg can do." the South African photographer of historical subjects. During 30 years Limping out of the court, Ming he accumulated 6,000 photo-Peum.ngton said:

pictorial bi-

some

graphs, comprising

tory of South Africa,

"I shall have to start all over again, and train as a secretary, or Voortrekker Scholarship.-S.r. Abe| for a post which will not nuan much Bailey announeed recently that he is walking. to found a scholarship of £300

Lord Baden-Powell, 10 Chlef year for the commemoration of

of the

"This money will help. but there Scout, has returned to his African Voortrekker Centenary. The disposal are things for which money is no home, Paxtu, un the slopes of Mount of the money is left in the hands of i compen: ation." Kenya. His many frunds in the Dr. Malan, Nationalst Leader; Dr. colony were delighted to see him Van der Merwe, Leader of the Frie

once more full of file at the age of State Nationalist party: Gen. Hertzug, Nazis Annex Map

81 and glad to be back in Atr.ca. Prime Minister; Gen. Smuts, Minister He already making plans for the of duslice, and Mr. E. G. Janan, the| development of his small estate at chairman of the Central Voortrekker Nyeri.

Monument Commillee. New Zealand

His return was entirely informal. None of the Kenya Scouts or Guides was present when he arrived. South Africa

POOLING SCHEMES FOR GRAIN

CLOUDBURSTS FLOOD

DUNEDIN

German geographers have already incorporated Germany's colonies in the Reich,

former

Atlas recently published in Leipzig and sent to a cartographers' Arm in Chicago shows South-West Africa.

This youngster was obviously enjoying himself in the Sack Race at the K.C.C. Children's Sports-Kalı.

GIRL AGED

15 CLINGS

TO LOVER

the Cameroons, Tanganyika, and IN DOCK

Togoland as German territory. The Caroline Islands, vested in Japan after the War, are German.

P. C. Tells Of Colleague's Car Death

A Pollee-Constable described at

Hampstead recently how n collea gue who had jumped on the run-

also coloured SHRIEKING "Oh, don't take ning board of a car was killed,

AUCKLAND. Cloudbursts have caused consider able damage in the South Island. JOHANNESBURG. Parts of Dunedin

flooded, andi arc

Named "Velhagen and Katsina's Pooling schemer which will people have had to be rescued by eliminate the great majority ot water from their homes,

New Commercial Atlas: edited by middlemen in the maize and wheat Dunedin is particularly table to Dr. Alfred Thocan," the atlas in- industries of the Union have been flooding near the harbour

In the cludes Austria in the Reich, but, and Maize event of a sudden deluge, owing to significantly for the diplomats who adopted by the Wheat Control Boards. The schemes pro- the steep hillsides which surrounded swallowed the Fuehrer's recent bluff, vide for the sale of all maize and] the town.

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him away from me. shall

When

I see him again?" fifteen-year-old girl flung her arms round the neck of her sweetheart as they stood in the dock at Ipswich Police Court recently. Policemen tore them apart, and in the struggle the dock was nearly overturned.

The youth, nineteen-year-old Herbert Allbrook, of Burrell road, Ipswich, was marched off | by police officers to a cell, while the girl, a pretty brunette, was led away crying on the arm of a policewoman.

IT IS MY FAULT' They "were accused of stealing a portable typewriter And

drawing Instruments worth £4 105.

A charge against three boys of murdering Police-Constible

George Thomas Shepherd was reduced to manslaughter, and they were

com- mitted for trial, ball being refused.

The boys were Francis Hooper (15), of Ashdown Street, Kentish Tawn,

James Spendlow (17), butcher's assistant, Evangelist Road, Kentish Town, and Waiter Shave Sharp (15), errand boy, Adelaide Road, Hampstead.

Mr. E. Clayton, prosecuting, sald the boys went for a joy-ride round Hampstead in a stolen car on the evening of November 9.

FELL IN THE ROAD

PC. Savin, who said he saw the car His statement was amplified by

being driven up and down Fond Street at a fast speed.

He tried to jump on to the running board, but fell into the roadway. Then the car swerved towards Shep- herd.

about 40 miles offside running-

"It stopped there and ran towards A detective said that when he charged the man and then spoke to, but it started off towards me at an hout. I saw the girl, she said: "I am responsible. He would not have stolen if it wasn't for me. It is my fault"

The

young people will not meet again until they stand in court later. Allbrook was remanded to Norwich Prison and the girl is being taken care of at Ipswich girls' shelter.

Roads Were Safer In 1938

BRITAIN'S roads during the

first ten months of this year have proved sufer than in the corresponding period last year.

Deaths from roat accidents so far this year have tololled 5,200, a de- ereuse of 140. The number of in- jured has declined by 2,235 10 100,- 032.

Shepherd on the board."

"I saw the car mount the nove- ment, swerve across the roar, and collide with a bus. I saw Shepherd fall to the ground and the motion-

less,"

Dozen Police Rushed His Rescue

to

Paris.

Night-duty policemen at the Mont- parnasse police stallon sprung tv it about 4 alm. when a signal came from a post on the Boulevard Ras- pal).

Nobody answered the pollee "IIello," o 12 of them jumped into a police lorry, and two minutes inter Altogether 2,033 pedestrians (60 they were on the scene.

killed; 1,841 of wer) have been

In 1937.

*

these cases occurred on roads sub- The boulevard was deserted. ject to a speed limit, against 1,005 Everything quiet. But against the ularin post stood # well-dressed young man. swaying slightly but still articulate.

Cyclists account for 1,126 of the deaths réduction of 43. There hus been a string reduction of 2,464 in the number of cyclists in Jured.

OCTOBER FIGURES Compared with the same month a year ago, road deaths in October rose by 23 to 041, and the number of in- jured by 128 to 19,090.

October's total of death is still

more unfavourable when, compared with September, there being a jump of 87. The number of injured, how- ever, fell slightly by 109.

There were 03 deaths in the City. of London and Metropolitan police areas in October, against 90 in the same month a year ago. The num- ber injured in these areas fell by 35 to 5,002.

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Simla, India.

"Sorry to disturb you," he sold to the police Inspector. I'm Armand Disson and I lye a hundred yards from here.

"Will you see me home and save me from the wife's anger?

"I know she's waiting for me with a stick. I daren't go home alone."

The police took him to the station and he spent the rest of the night there.

The next day he was fined for dis- turbing the police. without serious reason.

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