1939-05-25 — Page 3

Thursday.

EVHONGKONG, TELEGRAPH over May 25, 1939.

THAMES-SIDE SERBS TO GO

Il-Kept" Camp Has Phone and Radio

THORPE, near Chertsey. TROUBLE has come to the family of Serbian "gipsics" 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-Minnic, Millie, Nellie, fary, Stanley and John Georgeovitch-came laughing nd shouting home from the village school, but sobered

wn as they entered the camp.

Aged 8, He Liked

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 theft and at a previous earing it was alleged that While at the police station he Tried to get the pipe which Rhe sergeant was smoking.

The cases had been adjourn- nd to see if the boy would give up smoking and in Court the boy, who had to stand on a scat to enable the magistrate fto see him, solemnly declared that he had not had a puff at 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 efence Cadet Corps are to be given

Old Magda Georgeovitch, their grandmother, whose fingers are so thick with rings that she can. 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 so unhappy, she wild. It is that our youngest, a boy of in Weybridge four months, is sick Hospital.

Members of the family of 22 plan to go to the Russian Church, Buckingham Palace Road, S.W., to pray for the baby's return to health. The Georgeovitchen all belong to the Greek Orthodox Church. Technl- cally they are not gipsies but wan-

They Yuro-Slavian and do not understand dering entertainers. Romany, the gipsy tongue.

spcak

All but one speak English fluently. She is the young and good-looking Serblan bride whom Georghts Georgeovitch, son of Madga and her husband Stanislaus, went to Yugo- Slavia to And Inst summer.

ANCIENT AND MODERN Their camp is a strange mixture of primitive and modern. Caravans and waggons are packed. higuledy- pingledy amid a welter of rubbish In

tiny patch of hard, blackened earth.

But on the gate is the house-nam "Riverside," and by 1 n letter-box, The camp has telephone, radio and water laid on.

The final touch of incongruity is u go hp. sports coupe, 1939 model, be- iding Instruction at summer camp side a broken organ waggon,

Although the movement

of the gliding instruction of

ormed only lust year, it now has 100

10 picked- Quadrons in various parts

of the first 70 Bountry with in total of 10,000 endets cadets from each

lween the ages of 14 and 10, who squadrons. Each contingent will be Are being trained for full duties at given a fortnight's training, by which RIA.F. stallons in time of war. time endets should have qualified for

The Air Ministry is to pay for the the initial licence.

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This photograph of a cascade of much-needed water was taken on

Ure Peak after the recent heavy rainfall.

Boxer's Daughter In London Town

[F Hormicide Henry Armstrong, chocolate prize- IF

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

cream

The

finest

La Netta hus Just turned four. She arrived in London recently with her parents and her aunt and uncle

For three hours after she woke up the day after at noon, she worked on the English.

Her score was perfect. Every chance meeting brought her another enthralled slave-bellboys, chamber- nalds, porters, doormen at her West End hotel, a crowd of shy English children playing in the sand pit near Vauxhall-Bridge, another-crowd-ln. Trafalgur-square,

a truc

Her technique Is $ model of simplicity. Sho turns her face gold, with a brown bloom all over It, up to you. She laughs plecaninny gurgle and crinkles her button nose. She has not a doubt that the world was made to be en- joyed.

When La Netta was bom her Bghting father could not think of a name for her. Then her granddad, a Baptist. preacher, bad dream nbout La Netta, and that settled it.

MISSES HER PET

At the hotel sho produced her doll, a piccaninny dressed in bright em- broldery and beads.

"She's La Netta," said La Nelia. "She all's got the same name as me."

Then she found the white velvet bunny they had given her for Easter aboard the Queen Mary. But she had something elsa to show.

She bunted around, shouted: "Momma, Momma. Where's mah aaaaaapas? I coyan't find mah Easta adaaabaaanogs.”

At her home, a white, Spanish- style house in California, La Netta has a dog, Barney.'" "He's a chatow," the says, and she misses him. So

she went out to find some one to

play with her.

She could not And a chow. But

she found Rosie Ring, of Tinworth- street, S.E., and her chum, Rosla Hicks.

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When La Netta, in her whito cont and hat, ran towards them, they | stopped their chattering. Tooked long, then Rosie Ring sald: "Crumbs, where did you come from?".

SHE GRINNED,

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and in guaranteed ja end your troubles în Two minutes later she was "show~):6 days or money back. At all chemists ing the two Rosies and a crowd of other youngsters the inside of her little white handbag.

"Chickens. 000h, Chickens," "shu shouted when we rot to Trafalgar- square.

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Not until he got back to her hotel did La Netta turn fickle,

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