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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 19, 1939.

TO SAVE THE NEW FOREST

UFS

Sonja Henie, lee-skating Aim star, left, herself of Norwegian birth, greels Crown Prince Olay and Crown Princess Mariha of Norway as they arrived in Los Angeles. Later Sonja gave o command rink performance for the popular royal couple.

SLEEP-WALK TO DEATH THEORY

THEORY that a man whose partly-clothed body was found. recently in a trench on a building site in Ferrars-road, Sheffield, fell to his death while sleep- walking or delirious is being investigated by Sheffield C.I.D.

Workmen found the body clothed only in shirt, pants and vest.

The man was identified as the house. When I returned home Henry Globe, aged 68, of Ind- this morning after working on the night shift I found the front door cliffe-street, Rotherium.

I did not think it unusual, as open. Mr. Globe often went for early morn- ing walks."

that The police stated

the pos- being knocked his fall-sibility of the man

[down in the road when he was walk- ing, and being put into the trench could not be ruled out.

A wound at the back of his head might have been caused by ing into the trench.

Detective-Superintendent

head

Allen, Sheffield C.I.D., said that five hours before the body was discovered

a

of

lorry driver and a private motorist

LAMBETH WALK

THE

AS A SIN

HE Lambeth Walk and other modern dancer may be de- clared a sin by the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church In South Africa.

Praising folk dances by com- parison, the Rev, D. G. Van der Merwe said he feared these did not satisfy the taste of modern youth because they could not cling to one another.

Hongkong Girl Fined

Control of Population

And Amusements

SOME of the most drastic recommendations ever made to preserve the beauty of the countryside are con- tained in the report of a Committee of Planning Officers on the planning of the New Forest and its environs set up after a conference of the Forestry Commissioners last year.

Buildings, vehicles and road works, people, overhead wires and advertisements are the principal sources of danger that beset this beautiful stretch of forest, the prime requirement of which is quiet and freedom from disturbance.

The character and possibilities of every, village in the forest have been examined and the population figures Indicated should on no account be exceeded. Speaking, for instance, of Lymington, Die report says:

"The forest is a miraculous survival in the twentieth cen- tury of part of pre-Norman England," says the report. It has suffered change... but it is

These visitors whose main delight the direct descendant of the pre-is in mechanical amusements are Norman scene and contains foreign to the natural character of many of its original characteris- the place." tica.

RICHES KNOWN TO FEW "It still remains the habitat of a number of rare plants and insects which have disappeared elsewhere. It harbours rare birds. ... Its full riches are known to few. It is, in fact, a nature reserve which would leave the country infinitely the poorer if it were destroyed."

The very hogs which many regard as a symbol of neglect are an essential part of the nature reserve

The report advocates:

Two roads only for through trafle and others restricted to Forest tramc:

Control of the population, parti- cularly in the Forest villages:

The suitable development Southampton and Lymington relation to the Forest;

Nu mechanical amusements

holiday comps; permanent

of

in

or

of poles, overhead

Strict numbers.

tires and

Maximum

of houses for each of the Forest villages,

The local authorities concerned should be asked to set up a permanent joint body with the object of con-

MARY CHAN. & Hongkong girl trolling all development likely to appeared before Mr. C. H. Whit-affect the Forest is another recom- ton. in the Singapore Traffle Court mendation.

driving along the Shefeld-Rotherham It's Pronounced As recently. and pleaded guilty to

road 400 yards from the trench saw

a man in bls underclothing walking towards Sheffield.

Spelled

charges of driving without a licence and without third party insurance policy,

made a

BUILDING RULES

NO DOG RACING

There should be no amusement park at Lymington, no dog-racing track, or similar undertaking. Fun- parlours are of the same nature, but their effect would not be so great.

With regard to the control of camps an officini

of the Forestry Commission said: "As a matter of fact, if is quite all right for ordinary campers to plich anywhere in the New Forest where it is open forest. Obviously campers cannot go into the enclosed parts."

"We are not affected," said on official of the Youth Hostels Associa tion. "The places we have in the. New Forest area are old houses or small farms."

The following were members of the Messes, K. S. Dodd, committee: Ministry of Health: D.. W. Young, Forestry Commission: A. H. Schofield, Hants County Council; W. L. Clowes, Bournemouth County Borough; H. T. Cock, S. Hants Joint Plansing Com- mittee; A. W. Currie, Lyraington Borough E. B. Wise, Christchurch Borough; and F. F. Freeth, New Forest duint Planning Committee.

Dog Haunts Old Home

SALINAS, Cal, For six years, Van, a 13-year-old The last two decades have seen the dog, lived with his master in a 71- Recently his rude breaking of the Forest's seclu- yeur-old residence. ston by the motor-car, which has mantled. Yet, every day at the same master moved and the house was die- "We are anxious to interview these

Cape Town. two drivers and any person who can

a lonely and remote dis The longest ward in South Africa

Imposing Ines of $2 and $13, res-

district of give Information," said Mr Allen.

The body was

Movimeisiesfonteindistrikjaarlik-pectively, Mr. Whitton told the de-44 square miles into a "dearable hour. Van leaves his new home, residential neighbourhood," says the makes his way through the auto huddled-ups: position. face downwards."

sesamesettendedingannsfeesvlerende fendant she was liable to a fine of report. The expansion of the villages trafic and returns to his old stamp- into fair-sized towns would destroying grounds to nose among the vines Mr. Frank McCarthy, with whom kommissieledevergadering. It means $500 for driving without an insurance

their character. There is no guaran- where he used to hide his soup bones. policy. deceased lodged said that Globe hadMosimelslestontein District Annual Combined Dingaan's Colebration

tee that future owners of possible been ill for three days.

building land will exercise restraint, "He must have become dellrious Committee Members' Meeting. It is

and control is essential during the night and walked out of pronounced as it is spelled.

Chan was also disqualified from driving for a period of three months.

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The report boldly advocates "No building at all" in certain internal areas and sets out a list of the sug- gested maximum numbers of houses that should be allowed in various

Akron, O. villages.

Twenty-one-year-old Madge Hex- The area just outside the forest, too, cock, who "never dreamed of getting should be subject to a low-density into politics"-has-been-elected presi-- residential zone restriction eg., one dent of the Young Women's Re- house to five acres. Where rows of publican Club here. She is the houses already exist in these fringing youngest president in the history of areas they should be screened by the organization,

trees.

CONTROLLED ROADS

Pheasants To Leave Jail

Special care should be taken in dealing with filling stations. They should be made unobtrusive and the number of advertisements should be reduced to

Pittsfield, Mass. amininum. Through traffic must be made to use a few About 280 pheasants which have specified routes and oll roads should wintered at Berkshire county jail was be controlled. It is anticipated that released on the first of April and dis- two major roads designed in sym-tributed throughout the county pathelle spirit should be sumclent" for ["wherever they will do sportsmen the all me to deal with through tramc. most good."

Fate Puzzles Yeop, The Pump-Man

YEOP CHING-PUI, Chinese pump-hand in the British steamer Mactra, left the Old Bailey recently carry- fing a kit-bag as big as himself.

He had just been found not guilty of the murder (and alter- natively the manslaughter) of his bo'sun,

But he had also heard thint Japanese bombers had smashed up his home at Nantou, in Canton.

He was a little puzzled by Fate. The death of Ah Sing took place 000 miles west of the Canaries; Teop was tried at the Old Bailey because, in law, British ships the world over. come under its jurisdiction.

The

Chinese witnesses. In the case took, the path in their own fashion by brenicing a saucer,

Yeop pleaded self-defence. After his acquittal, he said, in mechanical, carefully, thought out English, "I am very happy.”

But he was still puzzled as he set out for his lodging-house.

He was thinking of what had been his home in Nantou.

Law To Protect Blind

WALLFORD. N. H.

The legislature has passed a bill to protect the blind. The measure res quires.motorists in oiljos or congested districts to come to a full stop when they tee a person with, a white cano- which Indicates blindness,

TOO BIG FOR

À GAS MASK

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Mr. William Marekum, an eighteen-alono refired, Metro- politan policeman, to with a large face. There is nothing extraordinary about it. He is a larwo man with a face to match.

KAN

But the largest

mask issued for civilians will not fit lim. The largest mask of the type issued to wardens will go over his face-with much ad- Justment of straps. Even so, ho cannot see properly through the ore-pieces.

He lives at Seafield-road, Hove (Sussex), and all Hovo 'A.N.P.⠀ "authorliles have been able to tell him-after a special conzaliation with regional head- quarters—is that he will have to travel to London (at his own expense) and be filled for a special mask (for which he will, have to pay).

He links this unfair," han written to his local. M.P., ' and is: now" "walting "for""komething?" to be done for him,

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