1939-01-12 — Page 19

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 12, 1939.

Schoolboy Asked For Poison EMPIRE

To Use As Experiment

Liked To Feel

"Dangerous"

NEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Patrick Michael Robbins, of Dauntsey's School, West Lavington (Wilts), died after experimenting with poison given to him from the school poison cupboard by a sixth-form buy,"

This was the theory advanced at the Inquest recently on Robbins, elter son of Mr. and Mrs, T. Robbins, of Tregunter-street. West Brompton, London.

Cornwall 1. Roes, a pupit at the school, said that Itolibing asked him questions about potassium cyanide and potaulum ferro-cyanide. IIc warned Robbins against using either substance,

IN LOCKED CUPBOARD

Aubther boy, Amyan Macfadyen. said that Robbins asked him to get some prussle acid, but he could not do so. He gave Robins some cyanide two days before his death. Roblins ked feeling he was a "dangerous person" with poliams, abouă him. p

Dr. Roche Lynch, Home Ofice Anaty, said death WRN due cyanide poisoning.

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Edward Robert Reynolds, Acience master at the school, said dangerous pokops were kept in a locked cup- board. Ite would give the key to a

I form boy if he was mitisfied the substance required was the right sort for the experiment the boy was doing. Macfadyen asked him for the key to get out some phosphorous tri- chloride.

Thomas Robbins, the boy's father, said it was a ghastly accident. He led no complaint against the school or Macfadyen.

The extuner, recording a verdict of "Accidental death," said that Rob- bing might have tried an experiment

on himself.

Expenses Of

N.I. Navy

Batavia,

CHEAT iniigmation is expressed in Netherlands Incles newspaper about a new Bill brought forward in Holland to determine the division of expenses of the Netherlands Indien Navy,

Although the Netherlands Indies is contributing about 30 per cent, of the naval expenditure in the Indies, it has no share in the control of naval matters.

Holland

contributes nothing to Army expenditure in the Indies. This also is criticised,

CHAMBER STATEMENT

In the Second Chamber in Holland the Minister of War declared during discussion of the Bill that he did not- think there was anything unreason- able in the basis of naval contribu- lions.

Although control of policy rested

with Helland, close contact with the

Netherland Indies Government

would be maintained.

He could see no logic in a sugges tion that Holland should help defray expenses of the Netherlands Indies Army, now that it has to be better equipped for defence of the Indies against foreign attack,

The Minister said that basically this had not changed the former charneter of the N.J. Army.

POLITICAL CONFLICT

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Two Batavia newspapers are sug- gesting there will be political niet on the question of naval expen- diture,

The newspapers urge the People's Council to reject the new regulation regarding division of expenditure.

The Indies is asking for a total of slx cruisers as a minimum but does not expect in get them.

KEPT MONKEYS -TO QUIT FLAT

Judge Hargreaves, at West London

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• County Court, recently made order for possession in a week's time of a flat in Gwendwr-rond, West Kensington, occupied (Dorothy) Gunter.

by Lady

Village's First Wedding

WHEN Miss Mary Short and Mr. George Frederick Nash arrived as |

bride and bridegroom at Union Chapel, Hyde Heath, near Amersham, Bucks, they were the first couple ever to be married In the village. Until the chapel was built all weddings had to take place in neighbouring villages. The bride and bridegroom are shown above as they walked to the reception. The bride is the daughter of Mr. Alfred Short, the Labour M.P., whose death in August caused the recent by-election at Doncaster.

Masaryk Refuses Big Money

FFERS of big-money commercial. Jobs have come to Jon Masaryk, son of the founder of Czechoslovakin, since he resigned from his post as Czechoslovak Minister in London.) He has turned them all down.

On the last day of 1038 he left the mansion next door to the Czecho- slovak Legation, and, after a holiday) in America will settle down in a little fat in Westminster.

He said: "I refused everything. I would rather live on £300 a year.

"I'm taking the veil, so to speak, becoming a missionary against the danger to the soul of Europe.

"I don't want to say anything He suspended the order provided but I feel I want to be on the side against Germany or anybody else, that half the £20 25. &., arrears of of those who believe that the Inde- rent, was paki within a week, and

week.

pendence of the individual, of the the bulance within the following intellect, is a saered thing.

.Mr. H. Schultess-Young, for the "I am going to offer my services owner, alleged that Lady Gunter had to the refugee people, to do coloni-

broken "nearly all the importantsation work: or something of that terma" of her tenancy agreement. line.

"She keeps two dogs and a monkey

I don't want à pal job.

in the house," he added. "She has "I am going to say: 'Here I am, a good bit over fifty. I speak hull

not paid more than one week's rent

since she has been there, and has a dozen languages and have friends! caused two tenants to leave."

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Neighbours 50 Years Find They're Cousins

MRS. Mary Jane Bourne and Mrs. Emily Wilkinson, of Hall-avenue, Wombwell. Yorks. lived as neighbours for Nifty years before they alscovered iliny were cousins.

They had never spoken to each other beyond an occasion-

at "Good morning" in the street. When Mrs. Bourne's husband died Mrs. Wilkinson called her neighbour's honse sympathise.

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They then found out that both came from Burslem, and were daughters of two brothers named lolland.

Married To The Army's Best Cook

all over the world, so I should be BRIDES usually fear the re-

[of some use."

"As to Europe, I'm no prophet. I

ception their husbands will

am not us optimistic as some people, give to the first meal they pre-l nor as pessimistle as others."

Spelling Bee

| paro.

But 23-year-old Miss Dom. Skiņ- ner, at Glasgow, who was married! recently at Tottenham Register Ol-

HOW many of these words are cor-fice to Private Thomas Garraway, of rect and what is wrong with the the toyal Fusiliers, faced a bigger others?

lollypop

despondant notila

schrimsbank

schipperke

Michaelmas

English Oxford Dictionary spell-

{nerve-wracking test than most..

Her husband is champion cook of the British Army.

Every day at the Fusiliers' depot ings of these words will be founit on jai Hounslow, Middlesex, he prepares page 9,

iments for 250 recruits,

NEWS

CANDERRA. Further expansion of the Austra- an Three-Year Defence programme was announced by Lt.-Col. Street. Minlater for Defence, in the House of Representatives recently.

Expenditure in Axed at £83,000,-) 000, an increase of £19,000,000 on) present plans.

The principal items are:

Navy

Army

Air Force.

Munitions..

Increase

£20,048,000 £4,015,000

£10,704,000 £3,002,000

PYJAMAS

£10,444,000 £3,932,000 We have pyjamas in

£4,035,000 £1,790,000

Mr. Casey, Treasurer, announced plain colours, contras the Introduction of £10,000,000

Defence Loan Bill, an unspecified ting colours and in portion of which will be borrowed

in London to assist in financing the every kind of pattern. expansion.

Features of the programme ore discreet or cheerful,-

two destroyers of the "Tribal" class,

12 motor torpedo-boats similar to the Braish, to be built in Sydney,

There

capitat

of a

The prices from $10.50

will be no purchase ship, In view of the assurance for lustra poplin up to given by Britain that an

adequate

$17.50 for light flan-

leet wil be stationed at Singapore.

The British Admiralty is to be

consulted about the provision of anel. All prices less 10%

dock

at Sydney capable of accem-

molating Lattleships, and the catab-cash discount.

Jichment

of a mobile Naval Airl

Force base at Port Moresby,

Oil Found Mr. McEwin, Minister

or the Interior, announced recently

that boring had proved a bed of all Mackintosh's Ltd.

sands at the Lakes entrance area of Gippsland, Victoria, eight milles in extent.

Jamaica

£50,000 FOR RELIEF WORKS

KINGSTON. Thousands of labourers camped all night recently on the racecourse

so as to be able to march to the air morning to bid farewell to Sir Wal- ter Citrine, General Secretary of the British T.U.C., who left by 'plane, for Cuba.

buse, six miles from the city, this

Sir Walter interviewed membera of the Government to urge the acces sity for starting relief work. The Government, as a result, intends to put in hand Immediately work cast- ing more than £50,000. India

A RESTRICTION OF

JUTE

GROWING

CALCUTTA. Ministers of the three provinces of Bengal, Assam and Bihar will meet in conference shortly to consider the question of the compulsory restric- tion of jute growing.

A

Tiny Liner Like Queen Mary

Toronto. ton-and-a-half model of

the British superliner, Queen Aury, has been built here by Oscar Fletcher at a cost of about $6,000. The model is 22 feet long powered with a gasoline engine and holds two passengers besides Its jskipper.

Ballet Dancer Became

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When Diaghileft died nine years age and the ballet compony was diss

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married fair-haired Ringmaster Frank Foster, "is not Czeław Mroczkowski, who also has fancy stuff. It was once of great an equestrian act in the circus, in military Importance. Warsaw and come with him to Eng- land.

"I love circus work," she said, "but it was a struggle to give up dancing. When the ballet company broke up, I thought of going on with my_dancing.

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He died in April and his sons Cyril

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and Bernard Mills have carried on. "California will double its popula- First in the ring during the re- tion with the next 30 years, bringing bearsal was Czelow Mroczkowsk! it up to 13,000,000 to 14,000,000, ne- with his 16 horses, who in June had cordinit to statisties prepared by John never done any circus work.

Er. Kimball, secretary of the East "One was found pulling a milk Bay Municipal Utility district.

HITLER Guided By A Voice

HITLER— medielne man zulded by a Volce, an automaton. That is how Dr. Carl G. Jung, famed psychologist, diagnoses the German Dictator.

"III Vofce," says Dr. Jung. "Is nothing other than his own on- conselous

the unconscious of 78 allon Germans. That is what makes him powerful.”

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In other people he diclates of the unconscious mind are trolled to some extent by reasonas is doubtless the case with Mr. Chamberlain, But liter does not need reason, ho "listens to lile Voice' and obore

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