1939-08-10 — Page 3

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

· August

10, 1939,

CONCHIE NO. 1 IS 'VICTIM OF GREAT

WAR'

Father bangs down medals

BIRMINGHAM.

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR No. 1 under

Britain's Militia scheme, twenty-year- old Norman Wort, of Elindale-crescent, Northfield, Birmingham, was registered at Birmingham recently when his father banged. three war modals on the table in front of the tribunal.

Most of thera arrived with their mothers or fathers. who sat in a

A moment later the chair- who object to serving in the man said: "The tribunal's Militia. decision is that Mr. Wort. shall be registered as a con- scientious objector uncondi- tionally."

Eighteen youths appeared before the tribungl that day- first of 160 in the midland area

THEY GET PAID

APPEALING

hastily arranged court-room in two room. Many of these rows of chairs at the back of the chairs were occupied by officials of anti-conscrip- tion and pacifist societies,

WAR INJURIES

The trilunat was composed of kimlly-faced Judge Longson, county court Judge for Derby; Mr. A. H. FORGibbard, a trade union

secretary, who dealt with teclinical points; Councilior

Purser (ex-Suelalit mayor of

of Nottingham), who asked Several sceptical questions: Professor J. G. Smith, vice-principal of Bir- mingham University, who asked only three questions all day; and Mr. G.

Both the conscientious objectors and the members of the tribunal which beard their appeals received money out of the recent proceed- Изда

Tribunal members are paid s. an hour for each hour they sit. That day they were in sesulon for four and a half hours, which en- itles them to £2 04, 6d.

came

T. Lee, former town clerk of Derby, who asked no questions.

UES

Missing a landing fell at Bridgeport, Conn., here is the wreck of the plane in which Bernt Balehen, inset, now a Norwegian air offletal, and five others escaped injury. Two also were Norse air officials. Batchen former Admiral Byrd's, pilot.

"Hoots, Hitler, We Like A Joke" Says Aberdeen ABERDEEN "and twal' mile roon," is vastly amused

at the protest in Berlin literary magazine against jokes made at the expense of Scotland.

Norman Wort was led in by his

Aberdeen is not a little proud of the fact that the best father, a brisk, hollow-backed ex- examples of moderate Scottish humour emanate from the soldier in

in grey flannel trousers and check spurts cont.

Judge Longon Granite City.

The objectors were given travel exu to read Norman's statement:

"I am the only son of a disabled

Aberdeen has its own views on this intervention by a foreign ex-serviceman. I was born after Power in what is after all a matter of internal policy for there his discharge from the Army, and is n policy in Aberdeen jokes and this is it, straight from

By due my condition injuries, I have suffered hell for

to his war the mouth of a prominent townsman;

vouchers If

they

"by train or bus from more than six miles away. They were also given a allowance varying from subsistence ten to twenty miles away to 15. 6d. for sixty miles or further.

Any objector missing his last train, home, and having to spend the night away could' draw an ex- tra 5s for the night's expenses.

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HE'S MINE!

The pulsing answer of this two fisted man who demands the right to his son's lovel

HE'S MINE!

A poign heart loves

rom the

whon

Irene Dunne Fred MacMurray

INVITATION

TO

HAPPINESS

with

CHARLIE RUGGLES William Collier, Sr. Produced and Directed by

Wesley Ruggles

A Paramount Picture

•

SATURDAY

QUEEN'S

ALHAMBRA

"Hoots! Dinna they ken (in

a lifetime. I arn an innocent vic-| tim of the great wor There was a hush in court. The itself almost a good German father isoned over the bare desk word) that we agree wiRabbic separating him from Judge Longson Burns-The mair they speak and said, "My heuring is so per cent. I'm kenned the better? (English I come closer.actically deut.

MayThe more they speak of me- The fudge nodded to Mr. Wort, the better I become known).

but my son

Who

The

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it shows Aberdeen's deserted main

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EMPIRE NEWS

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Auckland,

ed into New Zealand under special More goods are now being import- arrangements which will prevent a call on overseas sterling funds for tivo years or more. cigarettes have More English

manufacturers of arrangements to keep their brands entered into such on the New Zealand market. A well- known brand of American cigarettes, supplies of which had disappeared from many shops in the past few werks, is coming on the market again, Imports of elgars are also said to

have been arranged by one distribu

In a number of instances goods FIVE giant raspberries, held up by the Customs because they were not covered by current licences each bigger than a have been released to the importers

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at

$500

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(Usual Price $8.50 to $17.50)

SUMMER

·

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NOW $10.00

SALE

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Before $32.50 Now $10.00

RUBBER CAPES

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Our Ladies' Dept. is full of bargains in all lines. Call and see.

Museum, Ltd. will finish with an Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

Ora Co-operative Dairy Company output of only about 1,050 tons, or 500 Lons from lower than

in 1937-30. The fall in the company's manufacture is about

AUSTRALIA 82 per cent, Prospects appear good for the coming season.

rapped loudly on the desk to draw his son's attention. He took him by the shoulder, and held hig over the desk to hear the judge postcard (to those who do not know botanical specimens which worst dairy seasons recorded in the

on a flag day penny, were among 20,000 under such arrangements.

Poor Dairy Season. One of the Judge Longson Said it would be street) was one of the best adver-recently arrived at the Na. Gisborne district is ended. The Kia necessary to read any more, as hetisments that understood the father had written

any town has ever tural the statement.

had,

It did not cost a penny."

History tribunal

deliberated. Here "Just remind the Germans," the first conscientious objector Chronicle, "about I was

Aberdonian tald

an-South other

Kensington, the News South America. who had not put forward religious the Aberdeen film star

Margaret Man,; grounds for his objection. Ex-town

who won clerk Mr. Lee hastily turned over wood by her representation of the Mr. A. H. G. Alston while ex- fame far beyond the bounds of Holly The collection was made by The pages of the Military Training Act to find guidance:

German mother in the

the once-famous ploring the great Andean high- Suddenly Mr. Wort drew three picture. The Four Sons." medals from the right-hand pocket "Margaret Mann never lost her way which runs from Caracas of his coat and banged them on the rip of the Aberdeen tongue. One in Venezuela through Colombia table. Judge Longson looked up when she had to plead with a Ger-to Quito, capital of Ecuador. after a moment and said: "The tri-man lieutenant for one of her four hunal's decision is that Mr. Wort sons she exclaimed with tears run- Mr. Alston has not ventured to ager shall be registered as a

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fous objeclor uncondition.onscienti- !ning down her cheeks, 'Oh hinna ye test the taste of the raspberries be- Travel

Five of the conscientious objec tors said they were employed in armament factories, but they did not object to that. The tribunal put them on the register provid ing they stayed at their present work. All five agreed.

Another five who refused to take part in any war work were ordered to go tu Ministry of Labour tenining camps. Two others agreed to join The RA.M.C.

a mither o' yer nin.'

"The rest of the cast thought she was speaking German and were much impressed."--

FOR PACIFIC

Sydney.

Mr. Charles Holmes, general man- of the Australian National cause he did not want to lose even returned to Austruha from an Ameri- Association, who has just one of the specimens which he found can tour, says that expansion of the in the Colombian Andes in a region tourist trattle from North America to between the tree and snow lines. Australia depends upon the provision

of

There are gentians an inch high and tree ferns, which grow to 2011,

more

ships.

NOT BRUCE'S SPIDER

Another curiosity is a low, thick, Then he told the tale of the wo tired spiders which, after the man-meter which looks like a great pin-the feet that the American tourist |

circular plant about a yard in dia-pear to be inadequate. He stresses The present monthly services up-

to tell each other of their troubles.arrot, family, ner of Burns's "Two dogs," began cushion, but actually belongs to the raffle to Australia has greatly in- train from Aberdeen to London. The The spiders were travelling by first commented that he had had a rough time recently owing to corners and modern electric & are used for house building. First youth to appear before the up and he could not find a corner to Five of his families had been broken tribunal was Wilfred Ernest Lewis, live in. of Watwond-road, Hall Green, Bir-and declared that he was getting on The other spider chuckled mingham

Christadelphian, who ore. id that military service was not permissible to their cause, nor combox in Aberdeen and brought up ten "He had found a chrner in a charity tible with the teaching of Christ. families Lewis was placed on the register

STAY AT WORK

bjectors on condition he re-

meined on the work he was doing Study Of Mars By

manufacture of street lamps. William Evetts Judd, of Barrows- lane, Yardley, and employee of Bir- mingham Corporation Gas Depart- ment, who objected on "ethical and Christian grounds," was placed on the register on condition he stayed at is present work.

The Vicar of Handsworth (the Rev. S. King) sat beside William Hands, of South-rond. Handsworth. and vouched for the young man's deep rellious feeling and genuine objection to fighting.

U.S. Astronomer

CAPE TOWN.

ereased within the last year or so.

Wheat Restriction Attacked-A sharp attack on the proposal that Australia should reduce her wheat exports was made recently by Mr. LONG JOB FOR EXPERTS A. A. Dunstan, Premier of Victoria.

ton said, "but it will

The "There are bound to he many new embark on a nation-wide policy of suggestion that Australia should speces in the collection." Mr. Als-restricted wheat production is fanta- take years of mount to advocating industrial sul- research by experts to work them eide," he declared.

oul."

KENYA

Thirty packing cases were required to carry the

specimens, each dried SETTLER FOUND SHOT and pressed flat inside a fokled sheet

DEAD of rough paper. Small plants

NAIROBI. were dried whole, From tree ferns, which bear fronds Holmes Jackson, a prominent settler, A search party found Mujor as long as 15ft., sections of the leaves lying dead by the side of his car or Mr. C. Silpher, director of the

were cut at tip, middle and base. Lowell, Observatory in Arizona, hus serving the geographical distribution by a head wound. A riile lay near the slopes of the extinct volcuno Mr. Alston spent eight months ob- Menengai. Death had been caused arrived as Bloemfontein to begin his the observations of the approach of the them. Except for a

of the

plants, gathering and drying by plane. Mars to the earth.

a month, when he BRITISH GUIANA During the next few weeks South Smithwortion Institute, Washington, was joined by scientist from the Africa will provide exceptionally he worked alone," favourable conditions for a photo- graphic record of the planet.

£30,000 "Magic Box

Swindle in London

PARIS.

AN extraordinary story of a confidence trick, by means of a "magic box," performed in a London hotel by a gang who stole £30,000 from a credulous Frenchman, was told in the Paris court, where four members of the gang have been sentenced.

Two Argentine men, Abriata and Urruty, left London by plane with the cash, and are at large. They were tried in default and condemned to five years' imprisonment.

tork"

Travelling the narrow winding one of the "ighway" in a car which on the Pacific side, Mr. Aiston lived

CHARGE AGAINST

ENGLISHMAN

GEORGETOWN. Richard B. Smith, of Derby, Eng-

in native houses and learned Spanish land, acting engineer at the Roschail us he went along.

For the drying process he de-suger plantation, Canje. WRS com- pended upon three household parafmitted for trial on a manslaughter in stoves.

charge at Berbico Assizes. The police allege that Mr. Smith's cur did not stop after he had khocked down and killed Fredericis Norville on May 7. INDIA

Oil-Engined Car. To

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Tam

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AT,

To-morrow

THE

KING'S

DURO

WATER SYSTEMS WATER SOFTENERS

be offered an oil-engined car for the first time. One will

CALCUTTA The Swiss climbing party in the be on exhibition at the Motor and including M. Ernest Huber, M. Himalayas, led by M. Andre Roch They were Introduced

Show in the autumn. to M. were we £100 "banknotes" instead Maurice Robin, son of

David Zogg and M. Fritz Steur, have a wentthy of one.

The car will be American, but the begun their ascent Parisian manufacturer, as "Inveni-

of Dunagiri, M. Robin went to London, and a who have tested its quietness, Dexl-been reached.

engine is made by a British firm 23.1841L The peak has never yet Their principal invention was out in his hole room. He collected the Continent, in the Sahara and in templs will also be made to climb "magle hox experiment" was carried billy, economy, and performance on If weather condition's permit at- the "magic box" A Bank of Eng- £30,000 which he had in an English Australia. One car completed 40,000 Gauri Purbat, 21,750ft.; Tahti Parbat, As sole Hongkong and China Distributors for The Duro Company Dayton, land note for £100 was placed in the bank all in 100 notes and en- miles recently without trouble. botton, and sprinkled with chemicals. trusted the money to the "inventors,"

22,070ft, und Badrinath, 23,100ft. A blank sheet of paper of the same with the hope of getting £60,000.

Tho engine in a

Ohio. U.S.A, we carry adequate stocies and are equipped to install and size as the nolo was pul In the box.

six-cylinder, Jute Mills Trouble Trouble is The box was opened by M. Robin, noise, and size, have been remedied. The recent decision of the Committee DURO SHALLOW WELL PUMPS. FRACTIONAL HIP ELECTRIC Former disadvantages of weight, again brewing in the jute null area. DURO DEEP WELL PUMPS

maintain the following genuine Duro products: The box was shaken, to cause pres- In the absence of the inventors,"

AUTOMATIC WATER SYSTEMS. sure on the blank sheet, and left shut who had left 48 hours before with his oll-engine makers are that there is to work "the equivalent of 48 hours The chief advantages claimed by of the Indian Jute Milis Association £30,000.

greater fuel economy than with peper week" is being keenly resented, EMPIRE SALE C It contained blank paper. On reopening the box the bank- The four members of the gang, in-trol engines, there are no electrical and the Bengal National Chamber of

re-cuding a Paris banker, tried here and dynamo, and high speed is now Jute Workers' Union are preparing 83, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD

components except starter motor Labour as well as Bengal National printed on the blank sheet-so there were sent to goal.

-M. B. KING possible,

for 24 hours..

EMPTY

note was found to the exactly

to resist it.

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