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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 10, 1939.

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THOUGHT 60 GLORIOUS YEARS HAD

NOT ENDED

Boys' 'Abysmal Ignorance'

Have You Hoard of

The boy who thought Queen Victoria was still on the

Throne;

The boys who cannot tell the time, name more than two or three months in the year, or even give the year of grace in which they live?

THE Governor of Feltham Borstal Institution knows all about them, and in the report the Commissioners of Prisons issued recently says:

"The abysmal depth of ignorance from which seven or eight years of State education has failed to rescue many of the Inds received here-or to which they have reverted after two or three years of complete mental vacuity-would be incon- ecivable and probably incredible to anyone not in touch with this

problem."

"The experienced house of- ficer," he says, "knows that his duties at Feltham may include the instruction of luds of 17 or 18 in the use of a knife, fork and spoon, the place of soap and comb in personal comfort and hygiene, the convention of re- moving most of the outer cloth- ing before going to bed.

AND SO TO BED-

BOOTS AND ALL

"I a housemaster does not res Kularly supervise his dormitories and rooma in this respect a sudden raid will always produce one or two luds in bed, fully dressed to their bouts, several in shirts and trousers, and a majority in vest and stockings."

The Governor of Aylesbury Borstal Institution states that nearly all the irls have been absconders from their schools, and talk of absconding has greatly increased with the bigger number now at the institution.

An the arrangement is usually an open secret, the officers, on the morn- ing of the advertised altempt. bid solemn good-bye to the would-be absconder.

The effect, soys the report, is to cause an indefinite postponement in most cases,

10,638 PRISON

POPULATION

It is stated that dùring the year ended March 31 last the daily aver» age population of all prison estab- Ishments was 10,600, un increase of 202 compared with the previous your.

Britain's education bill is about £50,000,000 a year, The foll estinate (nol educational) for all prison establishment is about

£1,330,000,

Workman Wins In House

Of Lords

BY a majority of four to one, the House of Lords recently allowed the appeal of a workman who, by a Court of Appeal decision, had been denled compensation for the loss of a hand.

Girl And Rescuer

15 Minutes Under Bus

CRAWLING beneath a bus under

which a girl was trapped for 15 ininutes recently Harry Horton, of Wincott Street, Kennington, held her head away from the red-hot exhaust pipe,

His hands were badly burned. The girl, Helen Pitcher, aged 17, of Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, was taken to hospital with severe b Juries.

the

bus

She was thrown under when her eyele skidded in Mare Street, Backney, and WIN trapped near the back axle.

Mr. Horton, a conch driver employ- edut nearby station, rushed to lucr aid. The exitust pipe was burningt her clothing. Be supported her beat for a quarter of an hour white the bus was jacked up,

"It was curtainly a hot job, but someone had lo do it," he said.

was

"The only way to protect her head from the exhaust pipe, which burning het, was to put my hands round her head,

" could fed my knuckles begin- ning to scorch, but managed to hold on until they got the Jacts under- neath. The worst trouble. was the fumes from the engine.

"Any of my mates would have done the same thing." he added,

The Mania Of Small Things

WHEN the members of the

Sarawak expedition or- ganised by Mr. Tom Harrisson, under the auspices of the Oxford Exploration Club, returned to England they published 29 scien- tific papers dealing with their work.

In "Borneo Jungle" (Lindsay Drummond. Ltd., 15.), they tell us something of the more personal side of their expedition, and witty and entertaining reading it in

extreme

HATE THAT CROWS

Mr. W. Ward, specially attired for the occasion, shows the children how to slide down the chute at the Poller

Recreation Club-Pictorial News.

A happy party in fancy dress who were present at the Peak Club on New Year's Eve-Ming Yurn.

Viola Tree's 'No Mourning' Service

Appealing as a poor person, David John Harris,

of Eynsford-road, Greenhithe, Kent, anked the House to reverse n Court of Appeal Judgment afirming the decision of Judge Konstam, at Doriford County

is, for instance, something There Court, in favour of his employers, very human about Mr. Harrison's Associated Portland Cement Manu- remarks on expeditions in general:

Many people famous on the stage facturers Ltd.

"If you don't want a lot of and in society went to St. John's go on a lot of expedi- Parish Church, Hampstead, recently, enemies, don't While work Harris had to stand

tions. The way a fellow cleans his to make their last farewell at the in water, and wore leggings made of

teeth or rubs his car or handles your funeral service of Miss Violn Trec sacking. He and the other men were

only and rain-worn copy of Wuther-who died at University College allowed to dry their leggings at an

ing Heights-Uiese Things electric fun. Iturris put his leggings nothing in England, but after a few

mean Hospital,

They Included Lady Oxfort and so near the fan that they and his hand were drawn in. His hand had months of mosquitoes, odd food, Asquith and her granddaughter,

cold or heat, they surely Vanbrugh. Lady

agnify Princess Priscilla Bibescu, Miss Violet to be amputated.

to mania size, so that you will

Alexander, Mrs. Judge Konstain had hold

on at least two of your com- Fred Terry, Mr. Eane Percy, the that pick on Harris acted with extreme rashness, panions and hate them and hate Marchioness of Anglesey, Mr. Max and that there was nothing in hla

them and hate them-not so much Beerbohmn-Miss Tree's uncle-and contract of employment which obliged

for them as for small surface bits members of her family, him to put his hand near the fan. of them.

Most trugle Agure in the church; "Don't be drerived by these tales] was her daughter, Miss Virginla Giving judgment, Lord Atkin maid

of expeditions getting on wonder-Parsons, who was to have been a workman's negligence in doing his fully, Some of them pretend that, married to the Hon. David Tennant. Job was one of the most fruitful

She sat close to her flance, head "It's propaganda and meant to be frightfully British. Really, it's Bri- turned away in grief from the coffin. tsh to feel all het up like that in the wilds, but to sneer and brar 18, IT IS VALUABLE! "Sonic bitter hatred is essential and valuable in every unit of young people working very hard, in dif- cult places, on one common plan.

cuties of injury. If it would in any degree preclude compensation the benefits of the Act would be seriously impaired.

Lord Thankerton, Lord Macmillan and Lord Wright delivered judgments agreeing with Lord Atkin.

"It forms a nucleus of fire, con-

It was Miss Tree's wish that everything should be as bright as possible. Even the covering of the coffin LVRA flame-colourcil. Miles Parsons wore a brown fur coat and bilan hat

Actresses, stage dressers, and nd- centrales the worst in each one on mirers of Miss Treen work came to to something understandable and pay homage. immediately at hond for loathing. Many wept as the collin was carried It does not become an over-life-sized out. mething, and does not Interfere unduly

with their

Lord Russell of Killowen, In a dis- senting Judgment, agreed with the view of the Court of Appeal that the judgment should not be disturbed.

The

remitted to was County Court judge to award com- pensation to Harris,

casc

CONTINENTAL

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CARLOWITZ N

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work.

"In Borneo we somehow escaped most of that don't be deceived by these tales)-though, of course, it wax there (that's more ilke (1)."

DRINKING OF BORAK

Mr. John Ford tells us something

and

After the service the body was taken to Golders Green for cre- mation. Later the ashes were buried at Hampslead in the same grave as those of her hus- band, Mr. Alan Parsons and be- side the tomb of her parents, 8lr Herbert and Lady Tree.

Laura La Plante On The Carpet And Curtains

Laura La Flante, the

film actress (Mrs. Irving Asher).

evidence gave

ut Windsor County Court recently in a case over the value of some curtains and a carpet at her home.

Mr. Irving Asher, film direc tor, of London Film Studios, Denham, had bought Datchet House, Datelief, Buckingham- shire, and its contents, from Mr. Wiliam

Evans, of Hyde Park-gate, S.W.

A red carpet and two green curtalus were among the goods. Mr. Evans asked, £55 for these articles, and Mr. Asher con- sidered the price far too high. Mrs. Asher told the court that no price was ever agreed for the carpet and curtalos,

Judge Cates-Preedy said that the less he said about the tran--

zaetion the briter. Ho Judgment for Mr. Evans

£35 and costs,

rave for

EMPIRE NEWS

Sydney.

The Cabinet of Mr. J. A. Lyons has decided to review sympathetic- ally the whole question of Jewish immigration in view of the sharp rise in the number of applications from Austria and Germany.

Ministers gree

that Austraila must do her utmost to help within her absorptive capacity. There is a determination to prevent foreigners

of any nationality from forming minority pockets or the concentra- tion of Jews in large eilles. Pre- Ierence will therefore be given to

to engage migrants desiring agriculture,

of

irl

Last year more than 8,000 aliens absorbed. ali nationalities were An Increasing stream

European of Jews has landed during the past few months. The great majority have found employment without difficulty, especially in willing to undertake domestic work. The Cabinet is likely to consider a quota system, giving preference to Jews to the extent of half the total

lien immigration.

in the case of

women

Trans-Tasman Air Mall, The Minister for Civil Aviation and De- fence Works, Mr. Thorby, announces hat agreement has been reached bo- tween the Governments of Australia. Britain and New Zealand on all major points for the inauguration of the Trans-Tasman air service, which will extend the present flying boat service from Britain to New Zealand

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India

INCREASED COAL OUTPUT

Calcutta, A considerable increase in the utput of coal, the number of miners, vages pak to miners and the price of coal are mentioned in the official eport for the past year by the Chilet Inspector of Mines in India.

The output last year was 22,500,- 200 tons valued nt £5,200,000, an increase of 8.51 per cent,, and 24,82

er cent respectively.

A Wife's View CONGRESS INVITES

"Why should I leave the bulk of my income to my husband so that he enn lavish it on a second wife?"

NAHAS

New Dellil.

Minister

Nahas Pasha, ex-Prime of Egypt, understood to have ac- cepted "an invitation by the Indian Congress leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, o allend the annual sesalon of the National Congress in February the village of Tripuri, Central Pro-

This, said Mr. J.P. Eddy (Counsel for the N.S.P.C.C, and the Alf India S.P.C.A) was the view adopted by Mrs. Maria Whitehead when the vinces. Members of the family prescht it wrote a second will leaving most of

of the social life of the pet the the service Included her fan Devld her money to charity instead of her

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drinking of borak, "without which, and Denys, her sisters, Mrs. Geoffrey husband, Mr. John Whitehead, town

Bornean party In complete."

Cory-Wright Ankl tho Countess clerk of Tunbridge Wells. "All that a nerded," he writes, Ledebur, and Mrs. Parsons, her

engaged in this form of snort, mother-in-law.

"when

is forgetfulness of the gentle couriesy

Recently her husband

contrated

Spelling Bee

at

the eccond will in the Probate Court, HOW many of these words are cor.

the ease was adjourned.

rect and what is wrong with the

others?

fritillery anonimous fortisimo

due to women and a strong welst. and before you know where you are

"A diminutive erenture sidles to- she is pressing the cup with Hercu- It was staled that Mr. and Mrs. wards you with a coy amile, offering| Iean strength against your mouth| Whilchend „made wills in favour, of

greengunge, you n cup.

and ulting it invariably at the wrong each other. In 1938 Mrs. Whitehead

metamorphosis You take the cup and drink « angtę, and holding it till it has empe made another, leaving her husband

toocan mouthful, perhons not noticing the tied itself, some into your spluttering orily £300 a year after deduction of English Oxford Dictionary spell- firmness with which your new friend mouth, some down your shirt, and, income tax, as he was provided for. Ings of these words will be found on. [has put her arm around your neck, often, some up your nose,

Sho died last year leaving £43,041."

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