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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

DESIGNER ACCUSED OF STEALING BOAT PLANS

Held A "Good Position"

STATED to have held until the day before a "good posillon" with the British Power Boat Company, Lid, of lythe, near Southampton, Walter Whiting "Moore, aged 25, design engineer, was charged at Southampton Police Court recently with stealing nine plans, the pro- perty of the firm, within the last six months.

When the magistrates granted an application that the accused be re- manded Superintendent D. Lucey, for the police, opposed ball.

On being told by the chairman that he would be remanded in custody, Moore observed:

"I don't understand the position. I don't understand what is happening. What does that mean?"

The Clerk: You will be brought before the court ngain on Friday of next week when this charge will be heard.

Moore: And in the meantime?

The Clerk: In the meantime you will remain in custody.

NO MEANS.

Moore was about to leave the dock when he turned and asked if he could have legal ald, explaining that he had no means to obtain it.

He was, he said, a single man and his pay with the company was £5 108. a week.

He was told that he must apply for legal aid when he appeared before the court again.

The British Power Boat Company is engaged on Important contracts for the Government, Including the con- struction of motor torpedo boats.

Charles Laughton Advises Actors

Homes

Are Worse

Than Shanghai Slums

HOUSING conditions that "baffle

description" and are "worse than could be found in the native quarter of Shanghal," are indicted in the re- port of a committee of inquiry into anti-tuberculosis services in Wales and Monmouthshire, published re- cently.

The report says the high death rate from tuberculosis is largely

stated that their height to the eaves is about Bft. The house is divided into two rooms by a thin partition, one living room and one the sleeping chamber.

In order to provide further sleeping accommodation, boards are put across from wall to wall above the sleeping chamber. This room is called "grogloft," and the height at the

Different than the silent, greet- Ing to Chancellor Hitler In Prague was the eager, enthusia- sile welcome given Der Fuchrer when he arrived Memel, to take over the Bultle senport. This picture, shows Memelland- ers, eagerly waiting to calch a glimpse of Hitler..

'Swimmer' Of

18 Months In Show

caused by bad housing. Local coun- apex varies from about Sft. to oft. MISS HILLARY MAVIS

Mr. Charles Laughton, speaking at

cils are cecused, of apathy, neglect, the annual dinner of the Critics and even "sheer dereliction of duty."

name

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Circle at the Savoy Hotel recently, It is significant, says the report,] said: "Actors to-day must be more that the disease is referred to In vulgar. They must get some of the Wales by the fatalistic vilality of the old-time drama and "Y dical" (The Decline). the sex fim of to-day into modern drama."

The inquiry has been made by two) Miss Fay Compton said: "Nowa-Commissioners, Mr. Clement Davies, days first nights seem worse thon K.C., M.P., and Dr. F. J. H. Coutts, ever. The stalls are full of bored, formerly a tuberculosis expert in the opathetic people completely unre- Ministry of Health. presentative of real theatre-goers, The gallery is full of fans who are Intolerant of all but their own favourites."

be

"FAILED AS TRUSTEES"

The report adde:

"In fact the councils have failed in

elected them."

Mr. Tyrone Guthrie sak that once their trusteeship as guardians of the the National Theatre was built health and welfare of the people we woukl undoubtedly have to amalgamated with the Old Vic. There were not enough actors to staff boll, or the public to support them.

and tapers down to nothing.

"Nothing can be done to make those houses habitable or even anitary. The only thing to be done with them is to pull them down, and pull them down as soon as possible.”

The Commisioners summarise their opinions of individual counties and county boroughs. Some of their com- ments are:

WAND, of Ilford, is just eighteen months old, thirty In- ches tall, and a member of the Daily Ducklings Swimming Club.

When her brother joined, Hillary went to watch and soon made it plain that she was going in, too.

May 4, 1939.

EMPIRE NEWS

MACHINE GUNS FOR

COMMANDOS.

CAPE TOWN.

The conference of commandanta and honorary colonels of South Africa's burgher commandos, which has been sitting at Cape Town, re- cently unanimously decided in favour of the modemisation of commando forcea

The proposal that machine-guns should be sued to each 'commando and that 50 picked young men in each should be given thorough military training was received with remarkable enthusiasm. The result will be a considerable strengthening of the Union's defence forces.

The

commandants, many with flowing beards, were yesterday enter toined by the Prime Minister, Gen. Hertzeg, at Grooteschuur.

Sir J. Maffey's Visit-Sir John Maffey, director of Imperial Airways, who arrived at Cape Town recently stayed at Gavernment House, He will confer with Mr. Phrow, Minister of Defence, and other members of the Cabinet this week on the de- velopment of commercial flying in Central Africa.

Surplus Expected.The

"Capo Argus" states that instead of a deficit of £100,000, which the Minister of Finance budgeted for last August, Mr. Havenga will probably be able to announce when he introduces the Budget, a surplus of more than 21,000,000, KENYA

COMMITTEE REPORT ON INCOME-TAX

NAIROBI. The Kenya Standing Finance Com- mittes reports as follows on the in- cidence of income-tax,

We believe the facts of the matter to be that there is no widespread dissatisfaction with income-tax in Kenya, and we are unable to see that [any useful purpose would be served by prolonging the present inquiries,

"We do not wish to imply that this report is the lost word on the sub- Ject. On the contrary, we believe that when the Colony has had more experience of the operation of the tax it will prove desirable that fur- ther investigation should be made." INDIA

CONGRESS SUPPORT

FOR MR. GANDHI

TRIPURI. The plenary session of the Indian National Congress recently passed Pandit Pant's resolution expressing confidence in Mr. Gandhi by nn over- whelming majority.

The vote was taken on a show of hands amid shouts of "Victory for GandhL"

In about six lessons slis has learned She had her first bathe in February,

Mr. Subhas Chandra Bose, the to jump confidently into the water, Leftist President of Congress, whose Anglesey: The record with regard to order, and to kick vigorously with Gandhi, commenting on Pandit Pant's to Boat, to do the breast arm stroke policy is opposed to that of Mr. to tuberculosis is an unenviable one,

resolution, stated to-day that the but, considering the housing condi- her feet. parts of the county they remain in- club's spring display in ald of Ilford challenged in the plenary describably bad. tions, it is not surprising. In mony She recently appeared in

programme on which he had fought her his presidential election was not Social Service funds. This was open-and that therefore no occasion had session, ed by four-year-old Cyril England, oricen for his resignation. who can swim a quarter of a mile, in the water. and turn somersaults and handsprings expressing "India's national demand Congress also passed a resolution

for self-determination."

measured one

In a description of the old-fashioned house; the living room was 11ft, by

At Llangefnl we Celtic houses in which many live, it is 7ft. by Bft., and contained two double

beds,

Grandmother Has

Air Trip At 91

First Air Trip

CROYDON AIRPORT, from which scores of her compatriots, fleeing from Nazi rule, have had to be turned away re- cently, meant security and happiness for ninety-one-year-old Frau Krampflicek.

Flying for the first time in

.

FIRST TO LEAVE

10 HOUSE

In that house, up to March 1938, ten persons had lived-a man, two wo- men, and seven children,

We are of opinion that Dr. Emrys Jones (the tuberculosis officer) did not overstate the condition of the house when he said:

"I think you will agree that the overcrowding in that house was worse than anything one could And in the native quarter of Shanghai,”

Scientists Smash

"S" Plan of

I. R. A.

Terrorists

Science has been greatly responsible for finally breaking the back of the "g" Plan of the Irish Republican Army terrorists for sabotage in Great Britain.

Caernarvonshire: Has the highest her life, this frail, white-haired

tuberculosis mortality rate among all great-grandmother came alone step from the plane. She walked Houses in Llanberis in some instances the Home Office analyst, has been ex-phuric acid, used to make explosives. At Croydon she was the first to the counties of England and Wales. For three months Dr. Roche Lynch, stains were found to come from sul- from Vienna to join her family with a stick and on her arm wore are so wet that the walls cannot be amining all kinds of articles for traces In England. Sho is a Czech white armlet with three black dots papered.

jof explosives, acids,

EXPLOSIVES EXAMINED on it, Indicating that she was infrm. Jewess.

Carmarthenshire: In Llandovery In the bus that took her to there is one street where there is a minlum powder. The

On a cap he found traces of alu- Explosives

expert of the Home! London she suld: "All my children, row of houses all condemned. They scarcely visible. But Dr. Lynch ex-ing almost daily with various sub- specks were Office, Dr. H. E. Watts, has been deal- grandchildren and great-grand-are all inhabited. As soon as one amined them under his strong lens, stances. He has examined clocks for children are over here. It will be person dies, or goes out of the house, Identified them. lovely to see them all again."

time bombs, explained how they are another one goes in.

set. Or her first fight she said: "I was

A drawer of Merioneth: comfortable.

We have come to the was an exhibit

a chest-of-drawers What is the difference conclusion that the authorities in this Woodwork was stained. So

at the Old Bailey. whether you go by railway or by county have been guilty of serious small articles found in the drawer.

were alr?"

dereliction of duty.

In the analyst's laboratory those

Zer children in Manchester, fear- ing for her safety, cabled to her 10 By before It was too late.

Frau Krampftcek had time to pack only a few belongings into a brown paper parcel, but she travel- led in her best black silk coat and a bonnet lied with strings beneallt her chin.

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Outstanding plece of scientific de tection was made by Scotland Yard's photographic department.

What seemed to be a blank exercise book was found in the house of sus pects. A page had been torn out.

Detective-Sergeant Salter phota- graphed the next page, using a light shining on the page at an acute angle, Invisible writing appeared with the name "Jerry Wharton, Camden-road, N.W.1, Waterford, City Unit." Whar- ton is now serving ten years' penal servitude.

Chief-Inspector Cherrill, the Yard's finger-print expert, found a thumb mark on a pylon under which a bomb had exploded. The owner is in gnol now.

Receipt for the purchase of a type- writer brought Stuart, right-hand man of Mason, the O.C., IRA, Great Britain, to justice. It was found in an arrested man's house, Detectives set out to trace the machine. They found it in an oflce In New Oxford-street. When a man returned to the office he was arrested. That man was Stuart.

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Trouble Quick

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AISLE AND FAREWELL

"So the condemnod man sia a hearty breakfast?"

** Oddly enough he did -- in spite of last night's stag party. All set now for the orange blossoms,”

"And the linte head ?**

"Ticking over beautifully old boy, Cool as a frame-full of cucumbers, Am I becoming a roturated solution -- or is it just the influence of a good woman?"

knowing ma se you do - was that pure altruism 7” “I've never known' you do an unes (fish act in your life old boy,”

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The last Concert in this Season! PENINSULA HOTEL, ROOF GARDEN Wednesday, 10th May at 9.30 p.m. sharp

TONOFF TRIO

in

Chamber Music Concert

This programme has never been playe) before in the Colony !

P. Tschaikovsky-Trio op. 50. A. D'Alessio Trio Symphonico.

(dedicated to Prof. N. A. Tonoff.)

ARTISTS:

PROF. N. A. TONOFF-Violin PROF. ETTORE PELLEGATTI-Collo PROF. HARRY ORE-Piano.

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