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Signora Mussolini, right, wife of Italy's Premier, chals with colonisis at Forli, Italy, who are about to depart for one of the Italian colonies in northern Africa. Many are settling in Tripoli.

Plague Attacks Refugee Ship

JERUSALEM.

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 12, 1939.

HE SOLVED LONDON'S STREET MUDDLE

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Governor Drives A

45 Years' Hard Work Convict To Son For County Council

Farnborough, Kent.

THE Governor of Maid-THERE retired from the London County Council ser- stone Gaol, Captain A. vice recently a short man with neat grey hair, a neat E. Scott, got out his car re-grey moustache, a watchchain half across his waistcoat. cently and drove a convict in Victorian style, and stiff cuffs and a boiled shirt in the to the hospital here where Victorian manner.

the man's little son is lying This man is Mr. G. F. Palmer, and although his 45 gravely ill with a fractured years' service for the Council has affected tens of thou- skull.

sands of Londoners, scarcely one of them knows his name." Captain Scott was told by He is a mine of metropolitan essential. "Imagine" a fire in one of telephone that four-years-old history, for all his work has 20 John Streets or a telegram for Bobby Weatherburn, of Foots been concerned with the renam-one of the nine Love Lanes," Cray, was dangerously ill-and ing of London streets, their Most fascinating of all to Mr. that his father, 37-years-old proper numbering, the correct developed area where his historical Palmer is to be given a newly- Henry F. B. Weatherburn, was drawing of borough boundaries. knowledge can serving a four years' sentence "The first 40 years of my work When they dealt with Roehampton, in the prison for shopbreaking Palmer.

here Was preparation." saíd Mr. the suburb was port of Putney, so he

and larceny. Weatherburn is an ex-policeman.

IT WAS A MUDDLE

were

have full sway,

Invoked the names of Putney not- ables like Swinburne.

STARVATION and, in one case, plague were facing Jewish re-

Captain Seett at once ordered the there

"When you think that in 1857 When he was turned loose on St. fugees in four ships carrying 2,660 men, women and children to be given a suit of civilion King Streets and nearly 50 Charles planned the names of the streets to

near 02 George Streets, 42 Heller,

Merton Abbey, he clothes. Half an hour later the con- Streets you vict stepped into the Governor's car. muddle it all was. Sorting it out Aberconway down to Westminster in can Imagine what recall the Abbeys of England from With him were two warders. They.hasn't been too easy, for there are alphabetical order.

were in civilian clothes, The a lot of things to be taken into con-

when awaiting their fate off the Syrian coast.

All four ships tried to land their human cargoes on the Palestine coast, but were foiled by British cruiser patrols which

are keeping a strict watch for illegal immigrants.

VESSEL DISINFECTED

One of the steamers, the Breslau,

Governor was at the wheel.

DID NOT KNOW FATHER

sideration.

"There's trade, for example. A.

At the hospital the warders accom-man builds up a business as So-and- panied Weatherburn to the door of So, of Such-and-Such a street. To

said to be Italian, wirelessed the Princess Wants To the ward and motioned him towards alter that name is going to hit him

French authorities at Beirut that she

had plague aboard. Three refugees had already died.

The ship was allowed to land cer- taln passengers, under quarantine conditions, for treatment, and the

vessel was disinfected.

Fly Air Taxis

SING 通 borrowed plane,

Mathilde

the cot where his san lay. Bobby pretty hard. turned his bandaged head to look at

the tall man tiptoeing towards him. street of the same name-if, say, it's "So, if we can, we alter the other

NINE LOVE LANES

Mrs. Weatherburn, at the col-side, a little road with no value attaching threw her arms round her husband to its name. When another of the steamers en tall, slim, Habsburg Princess of Bobb

Winder-Graetiz, and kissed him.

INS fered Tripuli with German refugees

your daddy,” she told the captain reported

that he had Austria, twenty-five years old, gaol 12 months and the little boy did He knows that Bleeding Heart Yard Bobby, Weatherburn has been in History is Mr. Palmer's passion. attempted to disembark his passen- is at Brooklands putting in the not remember him by sight. gers at 14 ports after three attempts flying time necessary to qualify band what had happened. Elizabethan times from a wound in got its name from legend that Brokenly Mrs. Weatherburn told someone bled to death to land on the Palestine coast had for a commercial pilot's "B"

been frustrated.

TURNED AWAY

At each port they were turned away, but local Jews provided food and drink.

The position of all the refugees Is grave and the mondatory authori ties are considering providing a tem- porary landing.

The other two boals, with majority of Austrian and Czecho Slovak refugees, have been forced to stand out to sen.

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"Conchies' Army Jobs

Tribunals to judge the cases of the 4,200 Militiamen who have registered themselves as "conscientious objec- tors" have stated their sittings:

licence.

Money which she raised on jewels saved when she fled from Austria 36 Hitler marched in, has already been spent on flying lessons and technical lectures.

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When she found she could not The warders kept out of sight until his wife, and the two warders had úfford to D

finish the pilot's training Captain Scott sent for Weatherburn lunch together at the hospital. Then course, which costs £500, a friend and his wife.

Capt. Scott drove Mrs. Weatherburn lent her a plane. Now all she need pay for are lectures and the hired)

The five, Capt. Scott, Weatherburn, to her home. lane and instructor when she does her tests.

Social Credit Government in Alberta BRAHMS. Bobby, youngest of their four chil- the heart.

may be favourably affected by the BRAHMS. dren, was playing in a bedroom at

Sometimes he can Cray, when he stumbled, fell through Adelphi, for the window, and fractured his skull John Adam Street; and, though ho their home In Windsor-read, Foots

find equally amalgamation of the Social Credit historical names: John Street. party with the New Democracy

CHOPIN, DVORAK. example, has become movement. in two places.

GRIEG. The amalgamation was announced GONDOLIERS. Husband and wife remained with regrets the alteration of names, it is here yesterday after a four day con- the little boy for nearly half an hour,

two parties. ference between the leaders of the

BOHEME LA. TRAVIATA, LA, TOSCA, LA. Mr. W. D. Herridge, brother-in- PAGLIACCI. law of Mr. R. B. Bennett, the former MIKADO. Dominion Prime Minister, adopted as leader of the combined party, which is to be known as the "New Democracy Party"

Recently the War Office addressed special message to the objectors giving them chance to avold going before the tribunals by volunteering for non-combatant corps.

These are the corps and the jobs

be

likely

objectors:

available in them for the

Army Medical Corps.-Hospital orderly, alck berth attendant, cook house assistant;

Army Dental Corps, Mechanic assistant, batman, clerk;

Army

She sat recently at technical lec- tures at the airfleld, pink-bloused, tatlared-skirted, smoking. She

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refuses to talk until she has her

Then she hopes to make her living as a pilot, flying air taxis, piloting searchlight target planes at night.

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Tea Firm's Stock Covers £1,000,000 Commitments

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It is believed that the amalgama- tion may prove a formidable factor in the coming general election, especially in the west, where the Social Credit Party already holds 10 seals.

Support for Conscription.-British defence measures, including conscrip-

of tea brokers in the market, whose current commit- On the other side of Brooklands, ments, it is thought in Mincing Lane, may amount to tlon, were endorsed by the Canadian matical genius who designed thr about a million pounds, were considered at a meeting of Youth leaders stated that they did Youth conference at Winnipeg. The complicated, super "geodetle"-constructed Wellesley and the Tea Brokers' Association recently.

not want any more appeasement Wellington

in bombers, is calling in

The bulk of these commitments are secured on tea Kavouring military conscription in

dealing with the wamen mathematicians because he can't get

Motions Dictators. the men, he needs as in warehouse.

Canada in the event of Canada be technical calculators.

A qualified woman

ing attacked" and "in the event of Doctor 01 Payment of certain cheques issued Wholesale Society, the largest buyers the Deminion participating in war Science, aged thirty, will get ns a start about £5 10s. a week. A girl at the week's auction sales had to be are not confined to fea; it has de- passed by a large majority.

by the firm in settlement of ten bought of tea in the world. But its interests against the aggressor nationa" were not yet with a first-class.degree will deferred near the end of that week. partiments dealing with foreign tinned Het about £3 a week.

goods, rubber and coffee, and at unej

SOUTH AFRICA As the cheques were met next day, It took sentor Cambridge Wranglers however, there was no actual default, time it had Important property in- years to work out the mathematics but the matter brought the firm's It was emphasised by the War of Wallis's "geodetic" bombers. Once that men who are posted to Now, he says, women

difficulties to a head. It is not ex~

The position is highly complicated, these

account of their conscientious on corps on

and the Ten Brokers abstruse objection to combatant service will matical problems will work

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out sequences In the tea market,

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NAZI PROPAGANDA PROTEST

CAPE TOWN, Forces were at work in the Union to destroy free government, said Mr. R. M. Christopher, M.P. for East London, ut a Dominion party meet- Ing.

It was abundantly clear, said Mr. Christopher, that a number of Union M.Ps udmired Nazi methods. The Union was to-day permeated with Nazi propaganda,

Portuguese Fremler's Visit-Ex- tensive preparations are being made in Pretoria for the State reception to President Carmona, of Portugal, on Aug. 14. The President will stay in Pretoria for three days.

Gliding Club Formed. The first gliding club to be started in a South African university has been formed at Stellenbosch. The club at present, has a membership of 37, all of whom are physical education studenta.

Mineworkers' Secretary. At a meeting of the executive committee

the Transvaal Mineworkers Union, Mr. F. H. Kukkuk was op- pointed neting general secretary in place of Mr. Charles Harris, who was shot dead in a Johannesburg street.

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The United Provinces Government is determined to put an end to the corruption that is rampant in the publle services there." In future. every Government servant, when first appointed, is to give a full list of all immovable property. belonging to him and his family.

Government servants must maks full and prompt payment for all articles purchased by them. All free travelling by Government servants in vehicles is to cease.

All appointments will be made by the heads of departments personally. No Government servant is to no- cept gifts of any kind,

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