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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Mayary, Kyrosa Court
May 25, 1939.
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THAMES-SIDE SERBS "Ill-Kept" Camp Has Phone and Radio
THORPE, near Chertsey. TROUBLE has come to the family of Serbian "gipsies", who have been ordered by the Chertsey Bench to remove their camp by the riverside here within 28 days. Egham Council complained that it was noisy and ill-kept.
The six children of school age-Minnie, Millie, Nellie, Mary, Stanley and John Georgeovitch-came laughing and shouting home from the village school, but sobered. down as they entered the camp.
Old Magda Georgeovitch, their grandmother, whose fingers aro
Aged 8, He Liked so thick with rings that she can
His Pipe
A boy aged eight was stated at, Belfast Juvenile Court re- cently to be a hardened pipe smoker.
He appeared on two charges of theft and at a previous hearing it was alleged that while at the police station he tried to get the pipe which the sergeant was smoking.
The cases had been adjourn ed to see if the boy would give up smoking and in Court the boy, who had to stand on a seat to enable the magistrate to see him, solemnly declared that he had not had a puff at a pipe in the last four weeks.
The Magistrate: Are you sure you had not one on the quiet?—No.
Gliding For Air
Cadets
Seven hundred cadets of the Air
not bend some of them, sat on a heap of coloured rugs smoking one cigarette after another.
PRAYERS FOR BABY
"It is not the Court order that makes us 60 unhappy," she said. "It is that our youngest, a boy of four months, is sick in Weybridge Hospital.
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Members of the family of 22 plan to the Russlan Church, Buckingham Palace Road, S.W., to pray for the baby's return to health. The Georgeovitches all belong to the Greek Orthodox Church, Techni- cally they are not gipsies but wan-
They dering entertainers.
speak Yago-Slavian and do not understand Romany, the gipsy tongue.
All but one speak English fluently. She is the young and "good-looking Serbian bilde whom Georgius Georgeovitch, son of Madga and her husband Stanislaus, went to Yugo Slavin to find last summer.
ANCIENT AND MODERN Their camp is a strange mixture of primitive and indern. Caravans and waggons
packed are
higgledy- piggledy amid a welter of rubbish in tiny patch of hard, blackened
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I earth.
But on the galo is the house-name "Riverside," and by it a letter-box. The camp has telephone, radio and water fald on.
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Defence Cadet Corps are to be given: 30 hp. sports coupe, 1939 model, be- The final touch of incongruity is a gilding instruction at summer camps side a broken organ waggon.
Although the movement was formed only last year, it now has 100 squadrons in various
of the gliding instruction parts
10 picked of the Brst 70 country with a total of 10,000 cadets cadets from each between the ages of 14 and 18, who squadrons. Each contingent will be are being trained for full duties at given a fortnight's training, by which R.A.F. stations in time of war.
time cadets should have quatified for The Air Ministry is to pay for the the initial licence.
TO GO
This photograph of a cascade of much-needed water was taken on the Peak after the recent heavy rainfall.
Boxer's Daughter In London Town
IF Hormicide Henry Armstrong, chocolate prize- fighting champion from Los Angeles, wants to double his victories in England, all he needs to do is
to take his daughter, La Netta, into the ring beside him.
She will keep the victims en- or light-weights, it will make no chanted until her father has difference. time to knock them out. Welter
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La Neita has just turned four. She arrived In London recently with her parents and, her aunt und unclo
For three hours after she woke ap the day after at noon, she worked on the English.
Her score was perfect. Every chance meeting brought her another enthralled slave-beliboys, chamber- Imalds, porters, doormen at her West End hotel, a crowd of shy English children playing in the sand plt near Vauxhall Bridge, another crowd in Trafalgar-square.
Her technique is a model of ~Isimipilcity. She tinns her face, gold, with brown bloom all over
it, up to you. She laughs a true piccininny gurgle and crinkles her button nose, She has not a doubt that-the-world-was-made-to-be-on-m
Joyed.
When La Netla. was born her Sghting father could not think of a name for her. Then her granddad, a Baptist preacher, had a dream Jabout La Netta, and that settled it
MISSES HER PET
At the hotel she produced her doll, a plccaninny dressed in bright em- broldery and beads.
"Sho's La Nett," sold La Netto- "She all's got the Бате name as {me."
Then she found the white velvet bunny they had given her for Easter aboard the Queen Mary. But she had something else to show.
She bunted around, shouted: "Momma, Momma, Where's malı aaaaaaanays? I cayan't and mah Easta saanaaaaaaags,"
At her home, a white, Spanish- style house in Califomla, La Netta |has a dog, Bamey," "He's a chaoow,” she says, and she misses him. So she went out to find some one to
play with her.
She could not find a chow. But
she found Rosie Ring, of Tinworth- street, S.E., and her chum, Rusio Hicks.
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They were digging, their shoes and Don't Take Drastic Drugs stockings off, in the sand at Vaux- hall Bridge.
When La Netto, in her white cont and hat, ran towards them, they stopped their chattering, looked long, then Rosie Ring said: "Crumbs, where did you come from?".
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L Netto could not understand Ronie, so she just grinned.
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