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Thursday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 19, 1939.

"TOUGH GUY" OF THE VILLAGE, AGED 10%

Money

By Menaces

And Bogus Charity

[AGISTRATES in juvenile courts recently were faced

MA

with the problems of:

A 10-year-old village "tough guy";

The delivery lad of 14 who dumped goods in a ditch when he could not find the house;

...

A rebel of three, beyond parental control-he once lay down on the tramlines; and

Breakfast-in-bed demands of a 16-year-old who would

not get up until midday.

Approved homes and probation officers were the solutions in three of the cases.

THREATENED SUICIDE AT 10%

Demanding money by menaces and obtaining gonds by false pretences were the police charges against the 10%-year-old village boy who ap- peared in the Salisbury court.

A child beyond control was the The N.S.P.C.C. plaint against him. Court was told that in the Inst three mouths be ind

visions in a ditch when he could not and the house.

Wale working in Inclory bel went out to buy sweets. He offered the foreman one-ond was discharg- ed. He had had other jobs, too, It

stated. was

A puilce olcer said that the boy and cycled from Windsor, as someone bad told him that he could get a free meal at the crypt.

The father said that the boy had

Continually disappeared from home, taking money with him, and aleeping out under advertisement had an accident which might have hoardings, hedges and on rubbisis: affected him, and the case was nd-i

journed for the Windsor magistrates dumps;

boy and to be communicated with.

*}irenteral frightened him into taking money | from his money-box and giving it to him;

Had gone round the village, from house to house, collecting money for Christmas presents for the "little brown native children":

Assaulted a small boy and small) girl, and

DEFIANT 3-YEAR-OLD

A young mother in tears took her three-year-old son to the same court. The boy began to scream and shout and had to be taken outside for the rest of the hearing,

Once, Bid the mother, he lay down on the tramlines.

"We have tried every method to When his step-mother tried to check him," she added." "We look exercise control, tareatened her him to a doctor, who said there was with a fender and surt de would cothing wrong with him." commit suicide

The case was adjourned so that the

When he was sent to a home at: probation officer could make arrange- Salisbury to await court proceedings inents for him to "go away"" for a he absconded, taking with him 230.) lime. belonging to it charwoman.

The magistrates decided to send Tacx there was t༣༦ widower the child to an approved hume. mother who told the Caxton Hall The most extraordinary case ever magistrates that is 16-year-old son before the Court," was their com- demanded his beakfast in bed at 11 ment.

jam. und stayed there until midday BITTER SWEETS

He insulted her, ased bad language In Caxton Hall Juvenile Court and kept hate hours, she said. was the 14-year-old boy whom at The boy replied that his mother paliceman found in the crypt at St. had refused to give him his break- Martin-in-the-Fields. He was said fast. She had told him to "get out," to be in need of care and protection, no he left home, and now shared a and the Probation Officer told how room with his brother, paying the the lad had lost two jobs:

rent between them.

As a grocer'a buy he was regt out! The probation officer was asked to with deliveries, but dumped the pro-ree the boy and his mother.

A

BIG

SHOW

Budgerigar Billy

Mrs. Greaves, of Pinfold Lane, Darfield, Yorke, was very upsel when she lost her budgerigar Billy, But she bad faith in Billy. She had taught him to say his name and address,

Ten days after Blily vanished. Mr. Greaves heard at work that a Þird had been caught In Brampton. Iwo miles away, which recited "Ilumply Dumpty,” and said "Billy Greaves of Pinfold Lane."

There was soon a joyous reunton In which 12-month-old Blily gave recitals of "Ba, Ba, Black Sheep" and other nursery rhymes he has fearned,

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Mr. Anthony Eden, young, handsome, self-assured, as he spoke before 4,000 diners at the National Association of Manufacturers banquet in the Waldorf-Astoria, New York. The former British Foreign Minister saw this era as one of peril and called on democracy to face the challenge of dictators. He was given an ovation.

UFS

Numours that her marriage plans had been infinitely postponed were effectively quashed by Kay Franels, screen star, when she per- mitted this picture to be taken in Hollywood, showing her with her fiance, Baron Erie Raven Barnekow. Miss Francis, recently returned from South Américan vacation, said they would be married In February.

Hospital's 'Unsafe' X-Ray

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DONE IN THE DISNEY MANNER

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FEATURES

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1939 RELEASES

WALT

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ALL IN TECHNICOLOR

MOTHER GOOSE GOES

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THE FOX HUNT

THE WHALERS

THE BULL

THE BRAVE

LITTLE TAILOR

DONALD'S

GOLF GAME

MICKEY'S

PARROT

FARMYARD

DONALD'S

LUCKY DAY SYMPHONY

MERBABIES

AT ALL REGULAR PERFORMANCES

AT

TO-MORROW THE

QUEEN'S

Brighton.

"OUT of date and unsafe

X-

ray apparalus at Brighton Munteipol Hospital injured a girl probationer nurse while she was holding a child. and caused her to collapse on the floor.

This accident is revealed in a re-

GRAND SERVICES CONCERT

on

FRIDAY, 27th JANUARY, 1939, at 9.00 P.M. TO BE HELD IN THE ROSE ROOM,

PENINSULA HOTEL.

Under The Distinguished Patronage of." His Excellency. The Governor of Hong Kong.

Sir GEOFFRY A. S. NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.C. ARTISTS ARE AS FOLLOWS:-

MISS AUDREY OAKENFULL

Ballot & Acrobatic Dancer

from the Arcadia Salon and Rochester Casino

Gaston D'Aquino (Tenor).

Helen Lockhart (Soprano).

Eva Turner (Soprano). The Harmony Three, Peanut Roach (Balancing Act).

P. Cuntrip (Baritone). Mainy (Comedian).

£7,000 Fire On B.Q.M.S. Dicks (Comedian), Pier In A Gale

Bournemouth.

WITH heavy reas, lashed by a gale,

caused

breaking over them, Bremen Bourne- recently, fought a fire on mouth's famous pler which damage estimated at nearly 7,000 to the polarium and bandstand.

Thirty-feel flames roared through for the roof of the pier buildings more than an hour.

arrived they brigade When the found the 71. high gates to the pier closed. They had to climb over and run their hose through from the ap- proach 200 yards down the pier to- ,wards the sea.

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About 50 auxiliary firemen, train- ing here under the A.R.P. scheme, were called out to help the regular brigade.

ALARM. FROM HOTEL

Nearly four hours after the pier had been closed a hotel visitor saw from her room the Arsi burst of flame, and gave the alarm.

A member of the hotel staff said the fire began in the bandstand and spread to the solarlum.

-Despite the storm hundreds of townspeople and visitors assembled on the promenade to watch, many sitting in their cars, sea spray strik- ing the roofs. Dancers in the muni cipal pavilion ballroom overlooking the pler also left their floor the fire.

ser

The solarium is one of the most Popular pier attractions, visitors in search of winter sunshine spending hours there each day.

port to Brighton Health Committee by Schools' Monotony

the

medical superintendent. The committee have agreed with him that

new apparatus must be bought."

for

Its purchase has been

postponed

Diet

London.

The urgent need for more open- two years "ewing to financial air schools for anaernic and under- nourished children is stressed by Shr considerations."

Arthur MacBalty, chief medical of- The report shows that the nurse Beer to the Board of Education, in. He states that while in had taken a child to the X-ray de-hls_report.

there is much to partment, and was holding the child such cases On the examination table. It is done, the school medical service has much to its credit. In its 30 years thought that the nurse, feeling faint, of effort it has improved the health tried to save herself from falling, and and conditions of the school-child clutched the X-ray tube or the table beyond all comparison with the past. leading to the tube.

Dealing with nutrition. the report records that during the year 1,600,- "The radiographer noticed a Aash 527 children were assessed, with the pass between the girl's head and the following nutritional groupings; Ex- tube, and she fell to the floor," says cellent.. 15 per cent. Normal... the medical superintenden*.

73.8 per cent. Slightly sub-normal The girl suffered from shock, and... 10.0 per cent. Dad.

0.0 per

her hair was singed, but she was able cent. The Agures are about the to return to duly in a few days," same as those for the last two years.

POPULAR & NEW REX DANCE RECORDS

9301-Palais Glide.

Lambeth Walk.

9342-In Santa Margherita. (How to Dance).

My Lost Love.

(The Tango)

9372-A-Tisket A-Takel.

MAXWELL STEWART'S BALLROOM ORCH.

I Can't Remember Her Name.

Love Makes the World Go Round.

Waltz,

("Carefree").

9421-Cinderella.

9422-Change Partners.

Ride Tenderfool

9367-Love Walked in.

There's A New Moon Over the MU,

BILLY COTTON'S BAND.

9417-Now It Can Be Told. (Alexander's Ragtime Band).

On the Sentimental Side ......HOY SMECK'S HAWAHAN ORCH,

9355-Says My Heart.

I'm Sorry. Didn't Say I'm Sorry

9414-Says My Heart.

Now It Can Be Told.

BRIAN LAWRENCE & IS SEXTETTE.

(Alexander's Ragtime Band)

DIANA MILLER (PERSONALITY GIRL).

9429-Nex Show Wagon in Lambeth Walk.

Introducing-Gracle Fields. Sandy Powell, Billy Cotton, etc. 0427-How Can I Thank You. (Lilile Atiss Broadway),

Be Oplomistic. (Little Misa Broadway)

IRENE PRICE (THE ENGLISH "SHIRLEY TEMPLE"}, ...SANDY POWELL.

0425-Sandy the All-in Wrestler .......

0423-Sixty Seconds Got Together.

A Lille Toy Sailboat ..OSCAR RABIN & HIS ROMANY BAND.

IF

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY Marina House, 19, Queen's Road C. Tel. 24648.

you have any beauty problems, why not try Mrs. Beten's Beauty Salon which has a reputa- tion of being the most reliable in the Colony.

Peninsula Hotel,

Tel. 58081, Extension 34.

Q.M.S. & Mrs. Flinter

(Comedians).

W.0.1. A. Austin, A.E.C.

(Accompanist).

Doreen Ma (Pianist).

Mrs. Waldon (Soprano). Mr. A. R. Colquhoun

(Piano Accordian).

Pietro Macaroni

(One Man Band).

Bud Wheeler (Comedian). Dodger Green & Co.

(Comedians).

C.P.O. Kettle (Caricatures). Wiggins (Male Voice

Dave Kossick

Quartette).

(Hebrew Comedian).

BAND OF H.M.S. "EAGLE”

under the direction of

W. H. A. EVERY, R.M.B.

By kind permission of

CAPTAIN CLEMENT MOODY, R.N.

In aid of the dependants of the Late Lance. Sergeant THOMPSON, Royal Artillery.

PRICES OF ADMISSION

$3.00

AT

$2.00

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THE

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"THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL"

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