1939-01-27 — Page 7

Friday,

Parents, in Fear of

Court Told Of £500 Demand By Boy Aged 19

MRS. Emily Matilda Barr, of The Uplands, Caister (Norfolk), forgave her 19-year-old son, William, in Rol- lesby police court recently for

Cutting the telephone wires at their home; Climbing into her bedroom through a window;

and

Threatening to "do her in" unless she gave

him £600.

The magistrates' clerk asked Mrs. Barr: Why did he want £500?

She replied: I think he wants) -

to get married, but I think he is

loo young, don't you?

The mother was asked whom

the boy wanted to marry.

"FOND OF THIS GIRL"

She pointed to a pretty girl sating in court. "He is very fond of this girl, I think," she said.

Mr. F. G. Pearson, for Mrs. Barr, said the case was bram by the police, who believed Barr meant his threat.

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After the bedroom incident December 8, Mrs. Bare complained at the police station and two talleers were sent to the house. It was con- sidered necessary for them to stay all night with the son.

Mrs. Bare and her husband thought & unsafe to remain in the house and had since been living at on hotel.

Preparing For

The King

Portsmouth.

Retting ut the battle-cruiser. Repulse to accommodate the King fand Queen and their suite on the voyage to Canada is now being farried out at Portsmouth. Scores of dockyard mateys" are at work bull- dant the extra accommodation and! adapting existing quarters.

The pace that will be ultimately the Queen's day cabin or boudoir was | ja mere skeleton of steel plates and girders. The royal dining-room was

jungle of timber, new

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January 27, 1939..

Son, Left Home

Left to Right: Mr. Justice R. E. Lluisell, Mrs. A. II. Thomson and Brigadier å. D. Thomson photographed at the recent fadies' tennis match-Newsphoto,

Mr. Hore-Belisha Alarmed

at Shortcoming Stories

BAD EFFECT AT HOME AND ABROAD

fireplaces,

Mr. Hore-Beisha, the War Mini- complete to war strength in the palat-pots, and ceiling bourds. What ter, in a speech al Devonport recent-3.7in gun within a month. wilt later be a Fluss-waflect tealy, sald that thing had sill to bej The number of men la Territorial veranda was open deck, with a few done for the Army, but warned his Army anti-aircraft units had in- cabalistic painimarka on the deck to critics that he was alarmed at the creased in nineteen months from outline its destined shape.

effect abriad of "exaggerated dep- 22,750 to 65,70. The extra accommodation being eriptions of shortcomings." Drastie

they can be retained afterwards to path of the Army reformner was not urovide living quarters for the ad-easy. mirel's saff if it is decided to make Repulan a flagship.

EMPIRE NEWS

ONTARIO LIBERALS MEET TO-DAY

Ontario

Oltuwa.

Liberal membera

She gave hr age as bullt amounts in ail to ten cabins, and measures had been taken, but the Supply branch of the War) Minister, und Mr. Hepburn, Ontario

The girl in the court was called to give evident. 21.

WANTED TO MARRY

She said she and Barr wished to marry soon and the thought they would get on well if Mex, Barr gave her consent.

Mr. Horu-Belisha,

"It has been cter w

Parliament recently met here to dis- cuss the quarrel between Mr. Mac- kenzie King!. the Federal Prime

was undertaking a duty in- Premier. comparably greater in variety and A vote of confidence in Mr. Mac- extent than had ever been entrustedį kenzie King's leadership was taken. who was ads a Government department in AUSTRALIA

tif peace. time

It had built and was | dressing a joint meeting of the Ex-

MOTOR WORKS FOR CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS

ecutives of the Devonpurt Liberal building factories, and its expendi

ture for equipment and stores totall- No new quarter, are being built for National and Conservative

Associa

SYDNEY Mrs. Barr: I think I will allen my the King. He will secupy the captions, said: "Certain charges have no less than £1,000,000 a week.

Sydney. mini now if he will be a better boy,tain's quarters, and the captain will recently been made about my sited. The same

who is re-

General Motors-Holden Ltd., who Bary tok Die Court he who

already have a large motor-body army an that they tremely sorry. The trouble was over posed pea cabin on the bridge, which you will have observed

bulkling factory in Adelaide, are pro- and for obtaining neither open or Di active were

It precise. the girl, he said, I had now been normally he only

the intricate made up and he had asked his service. There are a bist day cabin appears to be suggested that

he sible for the working of this most:

mechanism, which has inbly plant near Sydney la rost

chiidism, mother to be friends with the girl. and study, a dining-room that will War Offley under my administration

branches in

of the coun-i part every

£200,000, has been inactive. The result of the try, and in addition has to negotiate purchase of 25 acres of Crown lands, sent thirty people in comfort, and ahas

The company are in treaty for the bedroom for the King The Queenwork done at the War Offee could will use the spare cabin of the cap not have been attained by a masterly Pants and phases abroad.

fust as the Army has to be raised and have undertaken to complete the tain's quarters, an extra bathroom inactivity or an amateurish super under a voluntary system which is

factory within 15 months. The being built alongside for her use,

faltering course, being exploited the full bath by employment for 800 men:

works, when

hen completed, will provide open-air taken have had to be drastic and de- the improved conditions so are the been introduced in the New South Latge Gifts to Charity.-A bill has by the use of

ex-live, for the time beag, in the ex-ministration at the War Office, an ponsible for sum is respons pusing to establish an extensive sh-

"I think I've had my kon with few days in preon." Bare added "I will never happen again.**

Better Housing For The Army

JINE'S

T On the deck above the captain's Some of the measures that have been

quarters there will be soi

veranda and n sun-lounge ir the cisive. spare normally occupied by a four- instance, to

nch fun.

It was no! paintable, for

-

maise Army Council and in

offered and

The removal of the gun changes in the comprehensive supplies obtained on a war scale Wales Legislative Assembly to deal

IL

merits,"

Sir

He

hnd no illusions when

from a peacetime economy,

"Dolcher Ministers in other coun- trics do not always werk

milar restrictions which here have under been deliberately retained."

TERRITORIAL EQUIPMENT The ferrease in, Territorial Army

with benefactions to charitable pur- poses amounting to 2400,000 under Walker, of Sydney. This sum la to the will of the Inte Mr. Thomas

be held by trustees as a trust to be divided among charitable Institutions in Australia. Mr. Wolker's former

residence, Yaralle, near Sydney is

INDIA

convalescent

is the only change that is being made the Higher Command. The path of Lin the wartime ättings of the chip, the reformer is never casy, and Salisbury Plain. ROYAL YACHT FURNISHINGS reference to history will show what

The the old-time

will royal apartments THE last of

beference

the path of the Army reformer is crudities will be eliminated united with suites, hangings, and like. I was not unconscious of the

carpets from the royal yacht Victoria risk I run. from barrack-room life by and Albert. All the household linen. I came to the War Office of what anti-aircraft units made people thinle comprehensive plan for impen-plate, and crockery required will alan should have to try and do. My that equipment could have proceed to be turned intu ing the conditions under which come from the yacht and the stewards knowledge that the Prime Ministered from the factories at the same hospital.. soldiers live which is now being rooks, and orderlies will be picked was equally acquainted with the rate, but they took no account of the

from

the men serving in that ship. put into operation in the South- There will be some twenty-live-character of the task and of the re-

re rapidity of the increase.

A training seale" of equipment HYDERABAD FORBIDS ern Commund. In all districts tons of luggage for the royal party, pureitssions which must follow from

HINDU SONG of this extensive military area and this is to be stored in one of the the forthright measures to be taken had been provided for all units, but

hangars of the ship.

en has throughout sustained ine. There he was at a disadvantage in dealing

Calcutta. barracks are being modernised,

with questions of equip. easily be loaded and unloaded by the are still things to be done it the publicly

The singing of "Bonde Mataram," if the nation is to have the Army which it ment, as he would have to broad- the Hindu national song. In Hydera- or rebuilt, on lines designed toleranes that normally hoist

st information not given by other bad State institutions has been ban- add greatly to the comfort of ship's aircraft. men who occupy them. Among Dudley North will be on board. Admiral

countries. it is expected that

MISREPRESENTATIONS

The many measures taken since ban follows the expulsion of Hindu ned by the Nizam's Government. The the new amenities being in- commands the royal yachts and is "It has been said," Mr. Hare-the crisis was same Indication of troduced into barracks are cen-responsible for

Belisht went on, "that I am over-

students from Osmania University The King's safety

what they wished to do for the Army and the subsequent If a disser and the nation, but Government de-

strike tral heating, constant hot water when he is at sea. If he goes he will optimistic. I am not.

students. this supply, and shower baths. Sit-only have a small cabin off the lobby vice is done to the nation by paint-partments and Ministers

The Government, in a communi- of the royal apartments.

ing the plcture too brightly, how country did not possess the con- ting rooms, drying rooms, and]

much greater the disservice done by stitutional power to effect all their que, declines to agree that the song.

eir which is of recent origin, is rooms for storing suit cases are

wantonly darkening the colours. I being provided. Floors are be-

agree to compromise. De- Reforms in Rajkot-The Thakore ing lad with wood blocks' so

Ich misrepresentations should dis-

and Ministers forming a Sahlb of Rajkot has announced a plan partments that they can be cleaned by

courage officers and men deprive Government had to make concessions of constitutional reform in his State. us of recruits, and set back the work for n common end-the nation's In addition the Prime Minister, polishing instead of having to

which has been done. have been safety and welfare.

Dewan, there is to be a Minister, ap- be washed; a wardrobe is to be

genuinely alarmed also at the en- supplied for each man; und

couragement which is given outside these shores by exaggerated descrip- messing arrangentents im-

tions of our sherlcoming and of our proved.

incapacity."

"INSOLVENT"

Vicar Denounced Villagers

VILLAGE scandal-mongers

were recently denounced from the pulpit by the Rev. Grainge Wilte, vicar of Haugh- ley, Suffolk.

in

have been genuinely alarmed lestate, and never to compare, estim-integral part of Hindu worship.

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"In these times co-operation und pointed from ameng members of the understanding are greatly needed. Representative Assembly. The As- and loyalty is required to those with sembly will continue to be a wholly whom one works," said Mr. Horse-elected body. The Minister will hold Bellsha., Criticism was the breath charge of the "nation-building" de of political life, and every Minister partments and will be responsible to Mr. Hore-Belisha pointed out that was ready to answer for his record, the Assembly,

but the charges should be open and eighteen

precise, months.

"The first report I received from

Army was becoming insolvent, not

Their talk has brought distress to The scheme lumproves the lot of the 36-years-old sexton of thei sergeants by giving them messes of church and to a 10-years-old girl he had held office a new kind, somewhat after the style in a neighbouring village.

of officers' messes; and it benefits the

for

wives in the regiments by providing gossips at Evensong." Uie vicar sald, my military advisers was that the Thief

"I had something to say to the

married quarters of a much superior type to those hitherto available.

COST OVER £1,000,000

"And I

put it in the form of a

parable.

"I have tried for 17 years to stump only at home but in its cap

capacity to

Montreal.

Missionary Conference-Delegates from all parts of the world to the number of 500 are assembled al Tamburam, near Madras, for the con-

Cerence of the International Mission- nry Council. The English delegation includes Die Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Guildford, and leading

Churches. NEW ZEALAND

Robs Thief

Parking, 53, confessed out scandal-mongering in Haughley, send drafts to our garrisons over-robber, complained here that cams Military establishments spread over (and I have even been a victim my- seas. At the role of recrulling then crook" had stolen the loot he himself personalities from the English Free a wide aren come within the scape self in the past."

prevailing the Army would be 10,- hat, stolen from a summer home ut like Portsmouth, Exeter, and Dor-tradiction of the "malicious rumours" will in the event be less than half the city and hid it. When he went

The vicar lasurd publicly

con-000 men short of establishment by Laval-sur-le-Lac. After robbing the Murch of this year. The shortage home, Parkins brought the foot to linking the

name of Aubrey Allen, the sexton and parish clerk, with that figure.

to get the goods, they were gone. and il must be over that of the girl.

the focal point of the Southern

of this scheine. It includes places

chester, as well as Salisbury

Pla

mand. The cost will be

£1,000,GDU,

So far

the

long

time before the work is completed.

n

"It is frequently said that the War "LITTLE MOTHER"

Offer is responsible for the air de When his wife died this year Mr. fence of Great Britain. This is not is concerned, Allen was left with four children, the cage. The War Office is respon- na new building the largest undertakings will be on three boys and one girl. The eldest, sible for part of the ground defences

Plain. There £200,000 is to be

lo be 13-year-old Sybil, is now the "te agatast air attack, and these in turn! on erecting new artillery bar-mather" of the family. spent on racks at Larkhilli and enlarging the am going to the roots of this against nir attack. Our anti-aircraft

are part of the

general defeness present once. Bar

Barracks at Tidworth scandal," Mr."Allen said, "It has organisation is fairly new and was uro lo be reconstructed the

on "Sand-brought distress not only to me but by no menita complete at the time hurst block"

plan; the Anti-Cas School at Winterbourne Gunner is to

to the girl.

of the September crisis. Since then "There is not a shred of truth in Improvements have been made." be rehaused, and a large military the tale," the girl's mother sold, Mr. Hore-Bellaba outlined many of

Army organisation anul defence ar- |rangements, Points he made were:

The position and prospects of every man in the Army had been im- proved, and 40,000 recrulls were ex-

hospital erected on a central site to "My daughter wept when she heard the changes which he had made in supersede the hospital at Tidworth, the wicked rumours."

Salisbury Plain is Increasing

in

importanco as a military centre and

mechanised

may now be fairly described as the

headquarters of the new

army. To meet the accommodation

Spelling Bee

and training needs the War Office is How many of these words are

correct and what is wrong with

continually acquiring more land on the others?

the Plain, and seems likely

whole of it eventually. Recently

the War Office has bought additional

ta occupy

tracta of the Plain, and the purchase

training purposes, is being negotiatou,

pected in the current financial year.

The organisation had been over- battled. and was being made flexible, 'infoscene

The Territorial Field Army had miscellany

been reformed du the same lines as miscelaneous appelate the Regular Army and was now 200,- English Oxford Dictionary spelt-000 strong.

Apurtenance Impertinance:

of another large area, to be used for, ings of these words will be found on Batteries of The lat Anti-Aircraft

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