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WOMAN FLINGS PEPPER INTO EYES OF GOVERNESS
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HAVANT.
MOTHER'S attempt to gain possession of her three-years-old girl by throwing pepper in the eyes of the governess who was wheeling the child in a pram, was alleged to Havant magistrates recent- ly.
The mother, Mra, Kathleen Mary Thompson, wife of a naval officer living apart from her, was fined £3 and bound over for two years for assaulting the governess, Miss Charlotte Beryl Pearce,
A Cross-summons for assaul! against Miss Pearce was dismissed.
Miss Pearce stated that Mro. Thompson stepped from a gateway, bumped into the pram and threw pepper into her face. She tried to get between Mrs. Thompson and the pram, which overturned. A came to her assistance.
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Learning that they were living at Hayling Island, she took up residence In the same rond.
WINDOWS SHUT
She denied throwing pepper and alleged that that was done by Miss
Pearce.
She merely told the governess: "I don't think you are at to have charge of this
baby, taking her by
Mrs. Thompson, giving evidence, train when there is a lot of infection said she was not legally separated about and never giving her any from her husband, but he had sent fresh air at night, as every window her a document which would give in the house is tightly closed." him custody of the children, and this she had refused to sign.
She said that in 1836 she returned from a holiday to find the house in which they had lived at Plymouth unoccupied, and that Mr. Thompson, the chlidren, and the governess had
gone.
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In answer to Mr. Pilkington, for Miss Pearce, Mrs. Thompson denied endorsing cheques in Miss Pearce's name which Mr. Thompson had sent as Miss Pearce's salary.
For Mrs. Thompson, Mr. J. Barnes
the that
governess had pleaded ollenated the husband's affections.
Royal Jewellery Is Taken Out Riddles Of Race
Of Auction
Another shock to human vanity has come from the limestone of China. Some time
of ago the discovery "Peking man" petrified in the cave of Chou Kou Tien overthrew all our ancestral chronology. ilis remains JEWELS and regalia of the proved that a million years ago men Order of the Garter and the used Are and made tools, and we had ort the Order of the Bath were recently to cease flattering ourselves
spoed of the progress of hamo sapiens. withdrawn-by order of the St. Now, from an upper eave at Chou James's Palace authorities-Kau Tien Dr. Franz Weldenreich has from an auction sale ntroduced more devastating remains. These are only a trifle of 100,000 Sotheby's.
years old, but they deliver a shrewd blow faith in the purity of any race.
They were formerly the property of the Grand Duke Michael Alexan- drovitch, brother of Char Nicholas II of Rusals, and were sent to the sale term with a collection of foreign Ordern conferred on the Grand Duke-by a member of his family.
of Hanley, The bones of a family of seven were Norman Wainwright, brought to light, and beholdt there, Staffs, the English 220 and 440 yards swimming champion, and his britle, were three different racial types Miss Alice Porter, steretary of the
Eskimo among them, Melanesian,
Hanley Ladies Club, They were and Neanderthal the huge jawett, married at Trentham Church, near chinless
stcoping
who Stoke-on-Trent, The rules of the British Orders of hunted in Europe during the last Ice Chivalry require insignia granted by U
Are. Since theez were so mixed in ferocious superstition. We dare
halder's death.
ement have been
creatures
TALL FOR HER AGE Sadle, the dromedary just born at London Zoo, photographed with her mother, Fatima. The baby is 4ft. 3in. tall.
When Fisher Hoaxed Von Tirpitz
A
DRAMATIC admission that Ger- many was hoaxed into building second-rate warships on the strength of bogus information from Britain,
inspired by the late Lord Fisher
when First Sea Lord of the Admiral- ty, has just been made in an official Berlin publication.
Lord Fisher always maintained that, by elreulating misleading news nbout the Invincible class, our first battle cruisers, he bluffed his "opposite number. Adml. von Tirpitz, into building. at least two ships which were, in fact, wholly inferior in fighting power to the British type. After consistently denying this statement for 30 years, Germany has at length admitted its truth. Frot. Hans
semi-official Hallmann, the naval historian who makes the dis- closure, recalls that while the British
the King to be returned after the round Peking 100,000 years ago, they; not hope that the last discovery of Admiralty allowed fairly accurate
Knighthood of the Garter is the Everything is race," Disr,efore. Chou Kou Tien will put an end to it. details of the Dreadnought,
oldest and most distinguished Order of Chivalry in the world.
The star and collar of the Garter are of diamonds and gold, and cost several thousand pounds.
the
be
used But facts are stubborn things. That Grst all big gun" ship, to to say, and history is full of proof of there never was
It observed absolute published, puro race since the the singular capacity of this race and fawn of humanity will reinforce the secrecy about the three armoured that. Many nations have made an | truth that the races of highest cruisers of the 1905 programme idol of racial purity, though only in achievement have been most notably invincible. Inflexible and Indomit
able. modern times has the cult become mixed.
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EMPIRE NEWS
VICEROY OF INDIA ON FEDERATION
Calcutta.
The Viceory, the Marquess of Linlithgow, recently, made his firat pronouncement on Federa- tion since his return from leave in England. He was speaking at the annual meeting of the Associated Chambers of Com-
merce.
Lord Linlithgow reiterated his fallh in Federation, the dominant motiva of which, he said, was the political and constitutional unity of India.
He appealed to commercial and financial interests educate pubile opinion on the economic aspect of Federation,
The Princes, he continued, would shortly receive a revised draft of the Instrument, and would be asked to signify their decision within an op- propriate time.
No decision in a particular sense, he said, would be urged on the rulers of the Indian States by the British Government or himself. The decision must be for them and them alone to make.
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of Federation has been expressed by the Aga Khan after consulting the Princes and their representatives, the majority of whom, he believes, are
to it. unfavourable
Moreover, Congress is determined to Bght Federation because, in the Federal Legislature, the States will have representatives of the Rulers and not elected representatives of the subjects.
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PREMIER ON MENACE TO DEMOCRACY
Melbourne.
Mr. Lyons, the Prime Minister, in- augurating recently the campaign of the Australian Defence League in Victorin, said:
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"Austrailar democracy is menaced from without and within and national effort is needed to prevent disintegration as elsewhere,"
Ife added that some nations did not now heed words, which must be back- ed by armed strength. War was already operating in the world, and no one could set bounds as to where and when it would strike next. SOUTH AFRICA
GENEVA AND NATIVE LABOUR
Cape Town.
Al the invitation of the Union Government delegation from the International Labour Office, Geneva, is to arrive in South Africa to in- vestigate native labour conditions,
"The Admiralty, however, appears with special reference to the recruit
to have deliberately furnished false|ment of native workers for the gold Information to the Press," writes mining industry.
Prof
Hallmann, "on the basis of EAST AFRICA
which the German authorities as- sumed the ships to be of about 10,000 tons, with an armament of eight 0.2in Runs Since this appeared to be a logical development of the pre- eeding British class, how were the German authorities to know that they were the victims of a deception?
"Adml. Tirpitz cannot, therefore, be blamed for deciding to build the armoured cruiser Gneiseanu, 11,000 tons and cight 8.2in guns, and, a year later, the Blucher, 15,800 tons and 12 8.2in.
VALUE OF EMPIRE PREFERENCE
Kampala, Uganda. Evidence of the impetus which Empire preference has given to the tobacco industry is provided by a new £40,000 factory of the East African Tobacco Co., which was opened at Kampala recently by the Governor, Sir Philip Mitchell.
The East African Tobacco Co. began operations in Dar-es-Salaam seven years ago and, in a small way, in "Only when the Blucher was on Uganda in 1934. Progress was ED the stocks did the British Admiralty | rapid that it was found necessary to spring its great secret on the world. | build n bigger factory. This new Germany then learned that the In-factory can deal with more than two vincible design was a revolutionary tans of shag and turn out 1,500,000 break with tradition, and represented cigarettes a day.
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"These 'battle cruisers, be they were called, were thus ormed like battleships. They opened up an en- tirely now epoch, and their con- struction was, perhaps, the supreme miracle of naval technique in the pre-war period. Despite the in- adequate armour and magazine pro- tection of these ships, it was clear that the new type had a big future." This information did not reach the German Admiralty fill the summer of 1908; even then it was not at firsi believed. Meanwhile, the Gneisennu and the Blucher were too for ad- vanced to be altered, yet it was plain that they would be obsolete even before, they were launched,
Not until 1907 was the Arst Ger- Iman battle cruiser authorised, but this vessel, Von der Tan, was a better all-round fighting ship than the Invincible.
That Britain gained any real, or Tasting, advantage from her Dread- nought polley may well be doubled, By rendering obsolete the whole Bri- pre-Dreadnought fleet it enabled Germany to start building on equal terms Before the policy was intro duced, we had three times as many - Battleships as Germany. In 1909 OUT superiority over, Germany in Dread nought units was 350 per cent but by Adrust, 1914 It and farunk to 16.5
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THE HONGKONG 'SÒCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The Society seks for
$40,000
in 1939 to meet the Increasing needs of sick
| and destitute children in Hong Kong. [Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.
c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,
P. & O. Building,
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chin
Hongkong.
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