Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
1939.
Evans Of The
Broke
Leaves the Nore Arm Torn Off
LONDON.
THREE thousand cheering sailors gave a rousing send-off to Admiral Sir Edward Evans, Evans of the Broke, when he relinquished his appointment as Commander-in-Chief, the Nore, after three years service at Chatham. Vice-Admiral Sir Henry J. Studholme Brownrigg, formerly Admiral Commanding Reserves, has taken over the appointment.
The sailors were drawn up four: deep outside the barracks. Admiral Evans stopped his car in the middle of the road, got out and waved his bat in answer to the cheers. Hej shook hands with Commodore S.S.
London.
Recently, Christopher Rigby (25) of East Bawtry Road, Rotherham, had his right forearm torn off in the
gearing of an overhead-coal conveyer at the Rotherham Corporaton elec- tricity works, after which he walked 100 yards along the gangway and Bu feet down the steps to the works and telephoned for assistance, using departmental telephone lu report
He was in aceldent. Rotherham Hospital conselous all the time, but it was stated that his con- dition was satisfactory.
taken to
Old School Tie In Court
Bonham-Carter and Mrs. Bonham- MRS. Kate Johnson, of Dombey Street, Holborn, sat
drove away in! Carter and the tone relayed puzzling out the meaning of the Old School Tic recently.
car, the sailors "Auld Lang Syne," Further
down
At Clerkenwell County Court Mr. Registrar Friend Dock Road, Royal Marines lince the pavement and cheered their fore- well to the Admiral. The men had painted the words "Good bye and good luck" outside Admiralty Houre, the Admiral's residence.
Admiral Evans, who in 57, is not
She Is Her
retiring, but his future is uncertain. Husband's Step-
At the moment he is planning a sk.- holiday in Norway with Lady Evana. Afterward it in expected that
given a will be
a new appointment.j
11 suggested that he may return to
er b:come
the Navy er
Governor-General.
"
Dominions
FAREWELL MESSAGE
At the Amira's request. every man at the RN. Barracks, Chatham, received an extra tot of rum. ile! also frued the following farewell message:-
should
like to express my sincere appreciation of the work of the Navy in the Noro command. The high discipline has been of a very order, based on mutual support. I have every reason to be proud of the way in which the dockyard; officers and employees have carried out their work during 翁 dimeult time."
Admiral Evans in the hero of ad- ventures in every part of the globe, from the Antarctic to the China Seas!
have included the is commands
Terra
has
South Pole expedition ship Nova, the battle-cruiser Repulse, the Zealand Squadron, the Africa Station, had th Nore and h been Rector of Aberdeen University, He was probably the only rec.or, as himself has said, who was ex- pelled from school "for ligh inst or pennies in the London Meat Market."
The son of il barrister, he was being
educated at the Merchant Taylors School and he ran away to sea, Join- መደ
the cadet
det ship Worcester at Greenhithe, he was trained for the Merchant Service, but "swopped horses" and in 1897 joined the Navy. When Captain Scott oppitusen his fast tragic expedition to the South. Pole he chuse Evans us his second- in-commund. As leader of the final
**** reluctant
W back when they were willin
Sister And Her Baby Is Her Husband's Niece
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MR. RHODES ELLIOT, widower, morried Mrs Lil'on Philpot, a widow, at the Methodist Church at Tarpots, near Benfleet, recently, with this result:
Mrs, St. John Philpel, of Loten- road. Benfleet, becomes her hus- Her husband band's sten-sister.
1 Mrs. Philpot's step-brother.
Mr. and Mrs. St. John Philpot's baby daughter Christina becomes thrniece
KI Philpot's father is now his step-father and his mother bla step-mother.
HERE'S HOW Here Is the explanation:
When Mr. and Mrs. St. John Philpot were courting, Mr. Phi- pot's mother met his sweetheart's father. As young Mr. Philpot call:
They became very friendly and they fell in love. Now they are married, and here we all area doubly united family."
Gland Discovery Restores Youth
In 24 Hours
150 mts of the Pote. Evans was! Bufforera from laws of vigour, ner-
the last to see his chief alive, brought back his dispatches..
In the Great War, his handling
and younown, wank body, Impure blood,
of
the destroyer Brake during a night rnid by six German
falling memory, and who are old and Worneant before their time will be delighted to iuurn of a new gland dis- covery by an Americnu Ductor.
the Dover Patrol on 40g;royers to quickly nad easily restore vinour to
him the pus title, world-famous
"Evans
of the Broke
Though outnumbered, the Swift and Broke attacked with such success that two enemy vessels were sunk and others heavily damaged, Not content with using his guns and firing a torpedo, Evans rammed one opponent, putting her out of action.
ISLAND HAS MASS WEDDING
nad told her that he was an old boy of Owen's School, Islington, where her son had a scholarship, and that he would like the boy to "come up and see him some time."
"Did he really mean the invita- tion.
or was it just a joke?" she asked, and when assured of the serious side of the Old School Tie spirit she was overjoyed.
Mrs. Johnson ՄՈՒ resisting nn noplication by her landlady for leave to proceed under a possessien order.
Mr. Registror Friend adjourned the application generally, declaring that
he felt Mrs. Johnson had done her best.
CHILDREN FIRST
Mrs. Pearl Buck, American writer, receives this year's Houcl prize for literature-a parchment certificate, medal and a cheque for $37,075 from King Gustaf, In Stockholm, Sweden. Audience watched is fascination as she adroitly made her way backward down the long hall and up a stairway to her place in the balcony, after her curisy.
A Woman Held Up
Plans
For Great Radio City
for two She pays 14s. a week rooms, in which the lives with her From far below ground. deeper broadcasting house in Portland Place husband, who is in casual employ-éven than the vaults of the Bank is complete,
Announcers, musiclans and oiler inent, and their three children. fof England, safe from a direct hit
will travel by "I have always put the children by bomb or rhell, Litain's radio broadcasting artists
voice will come when the new its more than 50 ft. underground Arst maybe that's where
into a huge concrete-lined pit con- wrong," she said.
tling Ave nound-proofed "floating" studios.
I did
"If it was between milk for them or the rent. I bought the milk first. And not on any condition would 1 let my boy leave his good school."
BOY'S AMBITION
And the scholarship boy's ambl- tion is to be good at his books so that he can get on in the world and help his mother.
Mrs. Johnson feels that the kind- noss the received in Court is an omen of better days.
"Mr. Friend sent his usher after me with a 10s. note," she said. "My husband started work to-day, and if it turns out to be regular em- ployment the rent will be paid up in no time."
She had told the Court that when kept five people on 30s. a week.
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Miscouche, PEL Prince Edward Island's first "mass wedding" has been celebrated here. Three couples were married at one ceremony at the St. John Buptist Roman Catholic Church.
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Outsize Potato Worries M.P.s
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potatoes?
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This question arose in the House recently, when Mr. of Commons
Quibell (Soc., Brigg) proposed motion drawing the House's attention to the order restricting the sale of potatoes exceeding one pound In weight.
These "floating" studios, each con- structed as a separate shell and ico- Juted from the building itself so that no shock or nols can reach them, will be but one of the many marvels of London's gigantic Redio City,
The first section of the extension, doubling the present site of the bulld. Ing, will be Anished in two years.
Almost framediately work whil be begun en another scheme which will give London the largest radio centre in the world-an enormous. self-contained broadcasting "lown" bigger even than New York's towering Radlo
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And as his exhibit Mr. Quibell The B.B.C, are reticent about the produced a monster potato weighing cost of the new building, but it is
he understood that it will be in a pound and a quarter, which handed round for inspection.
neighbourhood of £1,000,000. The new order, he said, imposed There is a human story behind difficulties on The chief stain of the BBC's growth of these was in the employment of a, Work would have been held up in- man who would have to stand by definitely if the "Old Lady of Port- the riddle judging the size of the land Place" had not died earlier this potatoes as they came out of the year. ground.
That, said Mr. Quibell, with due solemnity, would mean more labour. and more labour meant more money.
PUZZLED MINISTER
This order, he went on, is affecting the potato industry seriously, and he hoped the Minister of Agriculture would give some
the
re-
That is the name by which they knew her at Broadcasting House, She owned and occupied the adjoin- Ing house, part of the big block of property they had to purchase to make way for the new building.
Fveryone else sold out, but Under new decrees signed by Poilee
"Old, Lady of Portland Place" Chief Heinrich Himmler, groups of
fused to negotiate. ripsies are to be split up and "Ger
assurance to the For a time it seemed that she would man Aryan," "Jewish" and "foreign" gipsies separated. The foreigners farmer that he would not have to de- ruin the scheme, or that her house will be expelled, the Jews rounded stroy good potatoes simply, because would remain in solitary state while
had
outgrown themselves,
the B.B.C. grew around it. up into good citizens of the Third
Mr. W. 8. Morrison, Minister of But in the end she listened to re- Reich.
Agriculture, scratched his head and son. She consented to sell out, but took a long look at the monster only on condition that her home polate before he replied.
should not be touched until after Then he explained that the restric- her death. tion had been made for the benefi Plans for the additions to Broad- of farmers all round.
casting House had been ready many The farmers
who
produce big months, but it was not until she died potatoes have to make sacrifiers for this year that work could start. those who produce little potatoes, One of the studios below ground
In future no foreign gipales will be allowed Into Germany. The presence of any play found in Germany must be reported at once to the police, who will tell the gipsics where and for how long they may camp.
At the same time they must pay £2 10%, caution money per head in enso they do any damage. The police, wherever possible, will put them to work.
And then, with the monster potato will be 80 ft. long. 54 ft, wide, and still being handed from member to, 30 ft. high, and suitable for elaborate member, the discussion closed,
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