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HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

February 23, 1939.

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J.P. AGED 70 SAYS DISMISSAL EMPIRE Findlater's

IS A 'BIT THICK'

"They Gave Me 2 Days' Notice'

- CEVENTY-YEARS-OLD Mr. T. Hị

Davidson Wond.. who disclosed recently dat he had been given two days notice to terminate his posklon

! as a North Landna Juvenile couri magistrate, sald of the dismissal "It's] a bit thick."

Mr. Wood went to the court Islington, N., to bay Rund-bye 10: omlejats andi to make a statement, Newspaper reporters left before!

spoke.

he

Mr. Wood said: "I telephoned the court

beforehand to make sure that Fer the reportera would remain to what I had to

say.

I WANTED PUBLICITY' The reporters feft on the instruc- tion of the clerk of the court, but the chairman of the magistrates toki, me

he knew nothing of this Instruction.

I wanted the publicity for my protection. It is important that should have my say, otherwise, being) seked at such short notice maght! Tead to undesirable cominent. These | are the facts.

ventend a letter from the Honne, Once on Tuesday, December 6, and wie told by the clerk of the court that } could not sit after the follow- į mg Thursday, two days later.

a bit thick. It la olment as bad as being shot at dawn. The Home Office would not dare to get; rid of a junor clerk in satch a man-! new.

"I replied to the Home Office with? a petly suit letter, I can tell you.

pointed out that there were two; maitis.trate titled Indica--who were aller than I, Out wher were binh V- Envined. One of these ladies, accord-

ng to a reference book I ex

is sax years older than I

am

other was nurtied fifty-one years voter.

"I also sad that though I was

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Board of inquiry has inspected the ruins of more than $1,000,000 worth of equipment and three Bulidings destroyed in a mys- telons Bre at Chanute Field. 1, home of a United Stated army air cores technical school. Above is a view of the supply Prome rules after the fire, No planes, but valuabl fites, were burned.

Deer Bagged

Geneva, 0.

Since not more than six mit of every 100,000 der stint

SURGEONS SAY THAT

'A.R.P. USELESS'

'Hospitals Underground'

NEWS

CANADA BROADCAST BAN DEFIED

Ottawa.

Mr. George McCullagh, the 33- year-old proprietor of the Torento "Globe and Mali," bus successfully defted a ban imposed by, the Cana.... diam Broadcasting Corporation TOUT the first of a series of broadcasts by him.

The addresses are entitled "Marching on-lo What?"

The regulations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation state that: "No individual may purchase any network to broadcast his opinions." The Corporation took the stand that Mr. McCullagh's series of broadcasts fell under. this clause. Permission to use the Corporation network was refused,

When Mr. McCulloggh arranged to broadcast over a chain of 10 private stations the Corporation again Im- posed a ban.

air

Mr. McCullagh circumvented this by making electrical recordings of his flest speech and sending them by mail to each of the private stations, where they were broadcast recently. Although the Corporation ran censor broadcasting networks it has no control over Individual private stations,

Mr. McCullagh plans to give the remaining four addresses similarly. In the broadcast he declared that Irresponsible government and in- odoquale leadership were Canada to disaster.

NEW ZEALAND

bringing

DOMESTIC WORKERS FROM DENMARK

Auckland, The New Zealand Five Million Club is assisting the Immigration Into the Dominion of Danish domez

and Roverness 25. It plans to develop The system on a larger scite.

TWENTY-ONE surgeons-the men who never talk have forecasted a complete breakdown in the medicale workers bre white, services of the country after the first air raids on London Adolph Laure Busted a rarity when or any of the big cities,

white doe. * he came home with Foute noticed the 160-pound winte do beiuce the season opened, and an hour and a quarter after huntersi

the wouth could officially take 17 "la 1337 when, prezanuably, I wa. Jart tolled her.

ali fredde,

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pected to sit at last thirteen Time

year I had during murd years of the nae that I served sat twar that

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don't feel like an ok! stan, tout work, but I can still carry o I am satisfied that I am mentally, as a magistrate."

non-smoker teetotaler. He retired, 5 a

and phystenlly fit for public re-j Mr. Wood i view for several years gut.

"I cannot go an with my juvenile, official, in 1930.

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who include Sir Maurice Cassidy, work through an air raid and cop-

These men (ind one woman), jone surg; ons have been

ful a way of preserving Sir Harold Gillies, and physicians in with the casualties. and surgeons of the staffs of the

wan! They

bombproof, under- most important hospitals in

ground shelters, modelled on London and other big cities, same lines as there in Paris

Berlin. Bay:-

"The people of this country hould realise that no medical orginization. could copt with the probabi: number of casualties under present rondi- tions."

One of the surgeons said recent | 3.R.P. match-stick precautions were

useless-airulutely useless."

Br huspitals, they point out, are; usually in the centre of a elly, and one direct hit could wipe out the concentrated skill and equipment of the main medicent rervice of a whole

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suritient purposer, because hote- ever will the existing hospitals are organised they may become damaged that they are no longer able to provide ciller safety for the facilities for their

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"Moreover, urgent operations upon The wounded must be performed in spite of continuous air raids." Paris has built more than thirty of these clearing stations, which have about 200 beds and can absorb sixty clearing station people an hour, operating theatres complet: ; undergrond medical service where patients, nurses and doctors are oui.!

town.

The surgeons appeal for under- ground casualty

with

CRISIS SCHEME WOULD FAIL

They are completely underground, of danger and urgent operations could heavily reinforced, fully equipped co.om in spite of confinual air raids.

band Havas stalť gimelers fur, anwanipe EVERY HOSPITAL IS A TARGET" | three doctors and nurses,

Recently one of the men who Said one of the surgeons: "Soma- signed Lite

elaborated the ing ke this is essential In this scheine.

country if we are to give a continual

effective medical service.

The crisis arrangements would have broken down in a few hours, and nothing has been done about

He said they had felt it was nees-and sary to sound the alarm, in spite of etiquette, and wake peuple ep to the fact that every big hospital, owing to its size and position, was an posed target in any vir raid.

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them.nce.

The dietters could be used Bs enr These are the men who, during the parks or store rooms in peace time. crisis, offered their services to the Present ALP. instructions to hos

Jspitals. They saw the dress re-pitals, recently issued by Sir John i hearsal when every hospital was Anderson are!----

packed

with the midical and nurs-¦

ing skill of the country.

sur-

The patients, mures, and grons would be concentrated in the operating theatre-a room with a

roof and one glass wall.

"Even a nearby bumi would have

wrecked all this in a moment.

Cover all windows with canvas or

wire mesh.

precautions against gas. Sandbag the ward "windows. Replace the dome of the operating theatre with concrete five inches thick.

With this frail protection, opera-

The windows and lighting would tons would have to cease during air have been so damaged that operations raids, and patients would still be ex- would be impossible," he said.

posed to the danger and injuries that

In the last few weeks these twenty-drove them into hospital.

Phone Rings As Girl

Dies In Her Flat

WHILE & man friend was trying toį Miss Billinghurst, said: "She often telephone to twenty-two-year-old | used to come into my room and drink Leni Stolt, a blonde German girl whol tea with me. She said she would Hved in King's-road, Chelsea, S.W.. inther do that than go to these she lay dying la her room from gas clubs." polsoning, wearing IL Yachting cos-

tume, with fannel trousers.

A friend stid, "The last time I saw Miss Billinghurst, who has a room her about a fortnight ago she told at the same address, naswered theme she was soon to be married. She telephone in the hull at half past nine did not tell me anything more about

it." that night. A man's voleo Asked for

Miss Stait,

Miss Stoll's permit to remain la Miss Billinghurst said, "I knocked) England would have expired in a few on Leni's door. There was no reply.) weeks. lier friends believe she was nd I was just coming away when depressed at the prospect of having I thought i Emelled gas.

to return to Germany.

"I called Mr. Anthony Sagar, n young actor, and we forced the door. Leni was still alive, but she died In

few moments.

TWO LETTERS

"There were two lettera 13 her handwriting in the room."

Coal Mine Under

A London Park

Miss Stolt, who came to England Workmen engaged in excavations In 1930, described herself üb ant Wanstead Park recently encounter-

udent of commercial art. Sheed a hard substance with their pick-

In Chelsea about a year, orces.

ta gay, Bohemian life.

and

It was found to be coal,

Miss Slo belonged to a rumber Although the vein was only 40ft. of clubs fretented by artists and below to surface, the coal was com- writers living round King's-road. pletely formed, and as the park was When the police marched het room at one time part of Epping Forest, it they found a large number of bottles, is thought that farger quantities may | left over from a party she had given. be found beneath.

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The Customs at Bombay detained over £1,000 worth of jewels brought to India as the personal property of Mme. Nelly Cartier, who arrived accompanied by M. Jacques Cartier, the Paris jewelter.

The new Customs rules, just re- vised, permit passengers to land with only £370 worth of jewels.

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The usual refund of seven-eighths is payable when the owner leaves the country.

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