1939-02-25 — Page 3

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DANCING TIMIE Two of the Polar beura at the Zun delighted their publie recently with Rame intricate dance steps, after a bathe.

AT THE ZOO

His £100,000 Parties And Horses

Park-lane Host Spent

In 4 Years On

WENT TO JAIL

February 25, 1939.

GUEST ROBBED BY ARMED MEN

M'S

[ISTAKING armed intruders for his host's sons, Lieut. P. Smyly, 13/18th Hussars, Shorncliffe, was robbed of £8 10s, while staying with Mr. Gilbert W. Har- rap at Marsh House, Bentley, Hampshire, recently.

The lieutenant was sleeping at 5 a.m. Two men entered his room, one with a torch, the other with a double-barrelled sport- ing gun. They woke him and asked for his money.

Lieut. Smyly, thinking a joke was being played on him, told them where his wallet was. The men took the notes and left.

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"I was awakened by Mr. Smyly's shouts, and we searched the house for the burglars," Mr. Harrap rald.

"Mr. Smyly was half awake when

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the men came into his room. Ile Skirt, Short Sleeve Jum- thought the whole affair was a joke being played by my sons, until he per discovered that its door had been Jucked.

and Long Sleeve

Coat.

Angora finish. colours of

Navy,

In

TOOK WIFE'S FUR COAT "The burglars got in through the billiard room, ransacked everything downstairs and took some odd money and my wife's fur coat,

"There were fresh motor-car tyre UNQUESTIONABLY the Govern

ment's marine war risk Insurance marks in the snow. The police have Brown, Wine, Green, etc.

that car is scheme, as outlined by Sir Johnice been informed Simon in Parliament recently has misstag from a garage at Chawton, created a favourable impression near Alton,

marine insurance eircles. This is The gum was mine, and not loaded not surprising, since it embodies the far as I know." main recommendations of the con mitte of under-writers who advised! th: Board of Trade.

So far as budi business is

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Home Is Being

crined, it was previously known that i Pulled Down

not

the scheine would follow that which operated during the war, the mutual associations or "clubs" covering the risk and the Government reinsuring them to the extent of 80 per cent, The "clubs," which have behind them the whole wealth of the British

should shipping industry, sho the balance of 20 per cent, beyond their resources, but, if necessary, the Gayunment would probably sure the whole liability as was done at one time during the war.

be presumed It may also vessels under Government charter requisition will not be insured, but will be at the Government's risk.

rein-

that

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LTHOUGH workmen are pulling

his 100-year-old cottage down

Dien

home were

re

His

$1150

set

TWIN SETS

$650 set

Slacks & Jumper Set

around him, Mr. George Thompson of Short Sleeve Jumper of North-street, Banning, Kent, re- fuses to leave.

and Long Sleeve Cardigan Find The

carrying out

All cols. demolition order made by Maidstone Rural District Council.

When they knocked off recently, only two rome of Mr. Thompson's |

left.

Soon Mr. Thomp- bet: to be homeless. so expect: Marlow (Bucks).

While the men work he sits in his He told her he could raise £800 in merchant, of an hour if she could lend him £60

little living room, a black and white CHARLES Edgerley, fifty-four-year-old timber

West-street, Marlow, sent to jail for three months at Bucks to show an uncle. She fell for the

kitten, his only companion, and plays He was caught and sentenced

the plane to the accompaniment of CLEARING HOUSE LIKELY

tenring timbers jto nine months' imprisonment. Quarter Sessions recently for forging a receipt, made $100,000 trick.

and falling bricks. There is much sympathy in the He went to Maidstone Jail, and during the war, lived like a prince for four years, spent all his

The cargo insurance scheme there met Horatio Bottomley. He money, and then went to prison.

pears to be well thought out. tillage for Mr. Thompson, who is 53. smuggled Bot- luter boasted that he

would seem that business will con- and has lived in the cottage for 3 the He still suffers from years, I While his luck was in he was a more than 2,000 of them-to a spetomley's story out of prison.

tinue to be transacted in the ordinary Liberal candidate, owned a Rolls-tacular tea party.

Since then he has lived by selling way, each inerchant and shipper effects of wartime shellshock.

A man who He wore a military overcoat, and, furniture and timber.

through

is the the pottage orders

of a row of nine to placing Royce, rented n Park-lane fat and

"I would sell you standing in a Rolls-Royce, he led the knows him sald. gave lavish parties.

nient will take place after the risks they were unit for habitation. men in procession through Maiden-anything-his shoes or his hat--if he customary channels. The readjust-be demolished on the ground that He complains that all the other thought he could make a proût out of

have been written, and it is assumed

found Council He took a fiat in Park-lane and en- it.

a clearing tenants have been that for this purpose tertained lavishly. He had a nei "He has a great personality, but he

house will be set up through which houses near by, but he cannot have wine cellar at his Maidenhead man also has a kink which leads him inlo

the business will be redistributed. jone because he is singly. sion. He bought racehorses, and he trouble."

ent to society function..

His first conviction was in 1913, That part of the risk composed of

risk prior to shipment and he a girl, perils which may

grouped to- Then his fortune ran out...He when he became engaged to

discharge. went to see a woman who had ad-persuaded her to give him ber jewel-gether under the heading of “The

PARLIAMENT TO DECIDE" capital for herfiery to be valued, and then dis King's Enemies" will be reinsured by

DETAILS Part of his campaign was to in-vertised for £300

under the covered vite all the town's ex-servicemen-- 1 business.

Questions of detail will, be settled such as the perils at

in Chinese and during the discussions in Parliament

that must loke place before risks and the riots and civil commotion, legislation necessary to give effect to will be run by underwriters, each the Government's scheme

mit in the pool receiving a pre-enacted. determined proportion of the whole!

He made his £100,000 by doing carting work for the War Ofee on Salisbury Plain.

As his fortune grew he took a riverside mansion at Maidenhead. He was adopled Liberal candidate for Maidenhead at the end of the war,

2,000 AT PARTY

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head.

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One of the matters to be decided

of the business placed in the market, will be the means of fixing the pre- If, as may be assumed, the current mum payable to the Government for system of schedule rating by a joint remsurance, and in this connection di committee of company and Lloyd's understood that it is the intention this to build up a vast war risk reserve underwiders is continued.

ana, it creuinstances permit, and scheme, should operate perfeclly that there will be no distribution of satisfactorily.

There remains the question of the apparent profits until the situation is such that the fund could be de-, virk in worchouse prior to shipment pleted or disseminated without dan-j and after discharge. and between

ship and shore. Slice this risk was to the security of the scheme as

John a whole. separately mentioned in Sir

Points to be noted are, that the. Simon's statement, it may be pre-scheme is to apply only to the perils sumed that it will be covered in- of the King's enemies and only to dividually and not as part of the

10 and Crouz Britain, Voyages general marine war insurance con- but this is

matter affecting underwriters and the Government By this means the integrity of the and not the merchant and shipper, "waterborne“ wan risk agrement who will be given as usuels as or even

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tract.

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What Are Husbands

Worth

ONE

To Teachers?

as

NE THOUSAND buildings, condemned as "unfit for human habitation," are, being used in Britain schools. For five hours a day children study in class- rooms that are airless, too small or too dark, and that have been black-listed by health authorities.

This was one of the state- The meeting then discussed the ments that Mrs. A. MacMillan, value of a husband and decided he was an inspiration, rather than a and that a domestic new president of the National hindrance. Union of Women Teachers made background helps a woman teacher. to a civic reception in East-e Sueur, of London, backed the pre-

bourne.

It was the opening of the annual conference, and in a practical, do- mestie way Mrs. MacMillan pre- sented her vision for a perfect school le. She wants:

Better buildings,

More playing fields, Smaller classes, and

Another married wontan, Mrs. A.

sident.

She said: "There is a body of women who state publicly that because they have not secured a husband they ought to be given Rome

htt compensation. They spinsters-that is why they have taken this funny view of the value of a husband."

There were a number of innerlei women teachers at the conference, and they sald they did not think

had a husband.

Bright, clean dining roonis. She sald; "The children of n- tion cannot be kept at by drilling their work had suffered because they daily in concrete jiluying grounds or with half- on splintering doors. alled stomachs."

She wonis secondary school educa- tion for all children, not as a privi-1 lege for those children "who have Irhosen their parents wisely."

"We have a vision of every child released from the strangle-hold of scholarships and the nightmare of

examinations."

Crow Goes To

School

Mount Vernon, Wash. Mary had her little lamb, but Leona Thomas, an Avon girl, has a

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an window silla or a fire escape of And she wants women teachers to the school and walls will Leona geta have the right to marry.

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