1939-06-26 — Page 2

Franco Fails

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 26, 1939.

In Action

Over £1,000,000 Bonds

London Flown To For Refugee Fund

AN EFFORT by the Franco Government to restrain dealings in £1,000,000 securities which were deposited in London by the Republicans as a trust fund for refugecs, failed in the Chancery Division recently.

Mr. Henri de Reding, the proposed administrator of the fund, in addition to resisting the request for an in- junction, moved, to strike out the Franco Government's statement of claim.

Mr. A. Grant, KC., for the Franco Government, said that with the fall of Catalonia, there ceased to be any Republican Government,

Realising the imminence of defeat, which would sweep them out of Spain, the late Republican Govern- ment transferred securities which they had seized from private indivi- duals or hnd in their own coffers.

Mr. Grant Bald it was an attempt to deprive the Incoming Goverrunent of property which was rightly theirs.

"DYING REFUGEES"

Mint Medals

For Natives

EMPIRE NEWS

LABOUR SHORTAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA

CAPE TOWN.:

The Native Farm Labour Com-

mitee, whose report was lold on the

table of Parliament recently, rejects

as impracticable and undesirable the suggestion repeatedly mado by farmers natives that

should imported to relieve the shortago of farm labour in South Africa,

be

The report states that an efficient and contented supply of form labour can be built up on the basis of oxist- ing legislation, without any further legislation, provided the farmers take steps to innke farm labour more attractive in comparison with town labour by paying a higher percentage of wages in cash, by providing better balanced rations, and by improving housing,

The committee urges the establish- MAKING money is not the only ment

of district labour advisory activity of the Royal Mint, for out of boards, comprising representative the same white-hot crucibles comes farmers and a native affairs depart- Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., read on the molten metal from which the ment, which would serve as a guide have become known, now treatment, control and recruiting of ferred by the late Spanish Minister medals and commemorative plaquet-natives. of Finance

Pensions for M.P.#—A scheme to, Mr. de Reding sald he intended to

The latest order is for a silver members of Parliament and Cabinet

establish administer the trust for the beneft

a pension fund for Union medal, to be awarded in whte Ministers may shortly be investigated Southern Rhodesian chiefs whose by a Select Committee. A scheme tribesmen adopt improved and more has been submitted to the Treasury up-to-date methods of raising crops for its observations. and livestock.

stated that the securities were trans-world's coiners, as how Mint's work to farmers in rations, woken, housing,

of Spanish refugees generally, "many of whom were at the present time

dying of starvation."

fle was a Swiss subject, wholly unconnected with politics.

Mr. Justice Morton, giving judg ment, sald that 18 crates of bonds and securities were flown from France to Britain. There was no evidence as to ownership.

His lordship said he had arrived at the conclusion that it would not be right to strike out the statement of claim at this stage.

tex.

The medal has been commissioned

by Viscount Bledisloc, chairman of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Com mission, which visited South Central Africa last year.

KENYA

MORE PROTESTS AT LAND ORDER

Dr. Sorge Varghoff of Paris, who has performed more than 2.000 gland rejuvenation operations, arrives in New York with Mrs. Voronaff, to visit the fair.

Wireless Drowned Noise

Of Murder

BOURNEMOUTH.

UNDER cover of radio music from a flat above, 64- year-old Walter Dinnivan was murdered in his home at Westbourne, near here, recently.

An extraordinary feature of the murder is that although the radio drowned sounds at the time of the murder, two women who occupy the flats on the first and

second floors later heard moans, and one of them twice went down to make inquiries but could see nothing wrong.

MOMBASA. Mr. Dinnivan was found dying Miss Lansfield come to me and said: The obverse of the medal figures a The British Government's Order in from brutal head injuries, which Can you hear anything? Did you native Afrikander bull, and Is in-Council forbidding Indians to hold had been indicted with a weapon hear 17 scribed "Southern Rhodesia Mun-land in the Highlands has led to such as a hammer or a spanner, by "I said: 'Heard what?'

"She said: 'I heard a noise as if tungamiri Umtungamell," the Bantu more protests.

his pretty 18-year-old granddaughter, and Sindabele terms for Leader or Kikuyu Central, Association and Hilda Dinnivan, when she returned someone was moaning." He did not think he would be justl-Guide; the reverse depicts an ear of other natives have protested to the with her brother and friend from fed in granting un Injunction against | maize and is inscribed "The Bledi-Government against exclusion from ย

areas situated outside the reserves,

HIS UNDERTAKING

Mr. de Reding, as Str Stafford Cripps, i sloe Medal for Advancement of Nailvesuch temporary reserves and native house of jewellery, money and other was tapping with a foot or a hand

on his behalf, said he would under- (Husbandry,"

take not to spend more than £50,000

a month, and not more than £100,-

of the securities.

"BLACK MONEY"

At the Mint officials said: "More

I

"We both listered and then I heard murderer had plundered the knocking or tapping as if someone

leasehold areas.

property to the value of many hun-on, the floor. It is declared that the order affects dreds of pounds.

"The noise stopped and then 000 in all, unl judgment in the ac-

100,000 natives, squatters, he.

Mr. Dinnivan, who was a retired heard the tap stårt again. tion, out of the proceeds of the sale and more orders are being received to state that they are being excluded flospital without being able to say on, we will go down and look.'

The members of the association garage proprietor, dies in Boscombe

"I said to Mins Lansfield: 'Come Tite Judge directed that the securi-strike medals to celebrate in metal from fand which has been held by anything about his assailant."

first time that medals or coins have some outstanding event. It is not the their ancestors from time immemorial..

AWAY THREE HOURS --

"We went downstairs and out by a Master in Chambers. Eachilles been

through our door into the grounds were given for a speedy trial of the

distribution 10

Miss Dinnivan, her

1

brother and went by Mr. Dinnivan's window. action.

Walter, who is homo-on leave from "We did not see anyone in there, service in the Navydon the China but we could see the chairs and Station and a friend, Mr. Jack furniture and noticed that the electric Elliott, had left Mr. Dignivan fire was burning, about eight o'clock to go to the

tics should be sold ut prices approved

made

natives."

for

Baby Under Train coinage Of nickel composition they

..

Escapes

NEW ZEALAND

CONFUSION CAUSED BY Five years ago the Mint manufac

IMPORTS RULING tured 20,000 pennies for Fiji's Arst]

AUCKLAND, N.Z. had a hole in the middle and bore a The Customs Department is ad-

party and returned about eleven. "We went back upstairs, and talked Tudor crown and the inscription, ministering the Import regulations They found the front door locked it over for a bit, and then as Miss "George, King and Emperor."

until the new situation caused by the and had to break some panes of glass Lansfield is a little lame, I thought I But the islanders objected to the clarified. The Court ruled that the decision has been Supreme Court's MARTENS FERRY, O.

had better have another look round to get in. Two-year-old Ruth Mogg was run periny "bluck money" ns thes New Zealand Government's import found her grandfather lying in a front

It was then that Miss Dinnivan by myself, by a Pennsylvania railroad called it--not only because of its size, restrictions were invalid. freight train, but escaped injury. colour and weight, but also for its

bleeding and room, Knocked between the ralis, two loco-¦ Laste. For the Fijian, in the absence motives passed over her, the wheels of pockets, often uses his mouth as a missing her body.

over

purse.

Saves

Empty Train

Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy, the United States dlm star, was spirited out of Water- loo Station in an empty train re- cently to escape the attentions of

2,000 cheering admirers.

There the crowd stood, packing the exits, when Tracy arrived in the boat

train from Southampton.

Station officials hurried him from

onc end of the train to the other In

the hope that he could slip out un-

mobbed, if not unobserved.

V. C. Pilot Commands Air Navy

But it was no use. Added to their THE Admiralty recently took

difficulties was the breakdown of the.

over from the R.A.F. the luggage lift, usually employed to get administrative control of the celebrities out of the clutches of their Fleet Air Arm. It will be too-ardent admirers.

brought into line with the rest

Finally the time come for the vacation of the platform by the boat train, and Tracy was still on board.

With brilliant generalship an official suggested that the ator should travel back in the empty train to Its siding at Clapham Junction,

of the Navy.

Rear-Admiral Richard Bell Davies, C.. will be in command, it was offl- clally announced. He became Rear- Admiral. Naval Air Stations, with offices at Lee-on-Solent, where his

Не

A special step was made at Vaux-will administer the stations at hall, and be left in comfort to reach Lee-on-Solent, Ford, Worthy Down and Donibristle, Fife, now transferred from the R.A.F., and direct and co- ordinate their work.

his hotel.

WHY HE'S HERE

The Queen Mary brought him to England with his wife.

"Just a vacation. A hustle for a week," he explained at Southampton. "I've tried four times to reach Eng- land and here we are."

Rear-Admiral Bell Davies received the V.C. in 1816 for "a feat of air- manship that can seldom have been equalled for skill and gallantry."

"In an air attack on Ferrikik June- tion, Thrace, Greece, he landed in "Glad England liked 'Boys Town. enemy territory nicar # burning So did 1. But I liked Captain machine which Flight Sub-Lieutenant Courageous better. There's going to Smylle had deliberately set on fire

took the other offleer

of a a party of the enemy, and returned

The State Reserve Banks control of

unconscious.

exchange funds is not affected by the There were savage wounds on his Supreme Court's judgment,

head.

Blood was spattered about the AUSTRALIA

ream and on the curtains.

BRITISH LOAN FOR HOUSING

SYDNEY.

The New South Wales Treasurer,

"So I went downstairs again and again looked as well as I could through the window, but again saw nothing to excite my suspicion."

After, a police conference it was

decided to call in the aid of Scotland

WHAT WOMEN HEARD

Yard, and Chief Inspector Burt and The house is of three storeys, and Sergeant Dyke are now here assist- is divided into three flats. Missing in the investigation. Young occupies the top fist and Miss Lansfeld first floor flat.

the

Miss Young small, elderly and grey-haired, sald:

Inspector Cherrill, the Yard Anger- print expert, also visited the house.

Firemen In Medal Array

of the "To enter the upper part house I use a separate entrance and

Mr. Mair, is in negotiation with British interests for a loan of about £5,000,- "I had been out and cum? back 000 for home building. Some diffi- at about ten minutes to nine on culties will first, have to be overcome. Sunday night," she said. however, before the loan can be sanctioned by the Government.

The outstanding dimculty, that have to pass the window of the front the money will be made available only room downstairs where Mr. Dinnivan if the State Government will guar was found. untee the repayment of principal and noticed nothing in the drive nor FIRE BRIGADE CHIEFS from Interest.. Under existing legislation, heard anything as I passed the win- 12 European countries, re- this guarantee can be given only to] dow.

splendent in magnificent uni- lending Institutions demiclled in Australia.

"I went upstairs and put the wire-forms, glittering with decora- less on and at about half-past ninetions, met in London recently,

Plan To Curb "Work-

Shy" Youths

CONCERNED by the number of "work-shy" young people disclosed by a nation-wide investigation, the Unemployment Assistance Board are urging a revision in the policy of granting unconditional allowances,

They were received at the Hotel Victorin, Northumberland Avenue, by Sir Thomas Cook, M.P. for North Norfolk, at whose invitation they have come to England.

Sir Thomas runs his own fire

brigade, 14 strong, on his Nor- folk estate.

The countries represented nre France, Belgium, Hungary, Luxem- Commenting on the results of the inquiry, the board express bourg, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, their "sense of the urgency of the problems that arise from the Poland, Rumonto, Sweden, Switzer wastage of young manhood in idlencas due to lack of work, and, land and Yugo-Slavia. to some extent, absence of the will to work."

The inquiry, which dealt specially with men and women of 30 and under, was begun at the end of 1937.

"Unemployment at any age is a

Binnie Barnes calamity, but the board feel special Arras, who were more decorations

Injured

New York.

FOUGHT R. 101 FIRE France was represented by Com- mandant Garbet, of Beauvals, who fought the It 101 are in October, 1930, and by Commandant Lefebvre, af

anxiety about younger-applicants who than I have ever seen on one tunic, are out of work," "it is stated.

writes a News Chronicle reporter.

Three of the officers spoke excel- Stating that the number of cases lent English. They were Count where actual offers of employment Goluchowski, of Warsaw, ex-army be a sequel to Boys' Town poons, into his plane, despite the approach BINNIE BARNES, the actress, small, the board say:

had been refused was relatively omeer E. Hagen, from Oslo, and Chief The liner brought George Arlles,

Omcer A. Grill, of Stockholm...

Chlef Officer Hagen, who com- is in hospital with internal "There's teaslon in the States," he to the aerodrome.

"For the most part, however, the mands the 220 firemen guarding sald, over the International situa- The Naval Air Stations will be injuries caused by being struck men concerned appeared to have re- Oslo's 300,000 inhabitants, wore a tion. It looks bad. But somehow it given ship names, all associated with by a tennis ball while playing signed themselves to a state of unem-decoration awarded him three years always feels worse when you're away. Dying:

with Gilbert Roland.

by the Vienna Fire Brigade. Lec-on-Solent .. HMS. Daedalus. Her physiciati, Dr. Irving L. Reas, ployment and ceased to take any am very fond of tile decoration," 11.M.S. Peregrine said she must stay in bed. He does active steps to alter or improve their he said, and I feel very and when I think that that Vienna does not exist Worthy Down IIMS Kestrel, not expect that an operation will be position."" and figure Donibristle ..... H.MS. Merlin..

now." {necessary. The Admiralty will also take over

Miss Barnes was playing at the net Toscanini, ahyest passenger in the at an early date the RAF. establish- in

After the reception at the Hotel doubics game when ship, walked down the gangwayment at Lympne and the air station

served one of the

balla" for

MEME - Sir Thomas Cook, went to the Foreign "Tin, conducting at the Queen's at Eastleigh, Southampton.

which ho is noted:

CLEVELAND O, Office, where they were received by Hall on May 1. Then I holiday,” he

"I'm a litle : short-sighted and The Christian Commercial Men's Lord Halifax. didn't move quickly enough,

b,*** Miss Association of America, more widely They had tea with the Lord Mayor Bornes sold. The ball knocked me known as the Gideons, held their at the Mansion House, vtalted. The at: I was able to finish: the set, but national rally here, at which plans Houses of Parliament, and spent the a little later I felt a severe pain and for future uideon activities were evening at the Royal Tournament, had to call the doctor's

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Cr Olymplay

So we've come home."

He and his wife will stay at their Ford house near the North Foreland.

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June-September, 1939

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