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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August, 24. 1939.

Pastor Would Not Fight One-Way Corrigan Weds

For Christianity

WHEN he supported a conscientious objector before the South Wales appeals tribunal at Cardiff recently, a pastor said it would be against his conscience to fight, even if England were at war against a country whose object was the destruction 'of Chris, tianity,

He was Pastor Frederick A. Poole, of the Apostolic Church. He appeared for Ivor Hugh Baley, of Aberdare, who said he was opposed to all forms of service under the Military Training Act. Refused To Help War Machine

THEY'RE ALL IN

CAMP TOGETHER

Father, mother,

County Court Judge Davies, the chairman, asked Mr. Poole ¦ son, aunt

if he agreed with Baley, who had declared his refusal to under- take even civil duties as he believed that by sa doing he would help. the war machine.

Mr. Poole: Yes, if that meant that by undertaking civil İrain- ing he would be releasing another man for military service.

Fred Price, steel worker, of Ebbw Vale, said to the tribunal:

"III shot someone in the sheet I, dould be charged with murder. It i Eagree to be trained in the use of gums to shoot people on the buttle- field I should be praised. Is that Christianity?

Judge Daviest Suppose someone lied to kill you would you try to defend yourst it?

"I could not say until the occasion arose," Price replied.

GERMANY'S

MANUAL FOR

INVADERS

"AN

WARSAW.

N. Invader's Manual and Dictionary" has been issued by the German military authorities for use by the troops now massed on the Polish frontier.

The manual was compiled by

a Colonel von Sultsberg.

It contains a number sentences, such as

of Polish

"Stop! Stay Where YOU tiger. Hands up, or I will shoot! Put away your gun"

"Speak the whole truth, If not, shoot you and burn your house." "Where is your husband? Please jungble food for me und fodder for my horse, uted also wash our linen and shirts,"

The extrac an produced in the Polish Pres

80-Hour Week,

Earned £2

"THIS case seems more like 1839 than 1939. commented Mr. Clyde Wilson, the South Western police court magis- trate during a charge against a despatch clerk who was said to earn £2 a week for 80 hours' work.

For eight years. it was stated, Harold Martin (23), of Hatcham Park Road, New Cross, S.E. who is married with two children, had been employed by I. E. Dixon's news agency. Fleet Street.

on a

He was bound over charge of stealing a handbag. The court will try to find him a better job.

Indians Seek Land

Indemnity

and cousin

FOLKESTONE.

THERE are 6,000 Territorials under canvas at Dibgate, near Shorncliffe, and among those present are:-

Lance Corporal Shaw:

Chford Jolin

Lance-Corporul Perry Shaw this

father);

Corporal Gertrude Shaw this (mother);

Auxiliary Viney White Chis father's sister);

1. Auxiliary

Marjorie White this sister's daughter).

A

Father and son are in eamp with the 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment. few hundred yards away are the

UPS

Doug Corrigan, famed wrong-way filer, got out of his leather Jacket and Inio whiles, when he was married to Elizabeth Mar- vin, his childhood sweetheart, ni San Antonio, Texas Here they Are after wedding.

Three Scouts' Music And.

12,000 Miles

In 50ft. Yaw

Flowers While Miners Bathe THOUSANDS of miners now

women, who are in the 13th Cam-A 60-FT. yaw sailed into their day's work underground,

bridge Auxiliary Territorial Service, Father is batman tis Colonel F. N. Drake Digby. commanding the regiment, and the son is his chest feur.

Mother is in the Q.M.S. sloves Cufferts aunt is in the rookhouse, and hi girl cousin dors elertea duties.

SERVICE RECORD

hathe to music at the end of

Southampton Water recent- says the report of the Miners' ly with a crew of three, having Welfare Committee, published made a 12,000-mile voyage from recently. Australia.

In the past eighteen years £17-

The adventurous young mariner; | 000,000 tuis been spent on making are Beard Plowrhht, 25-year-old miners' lives happier. It has been Sydney plumber; David Walsh, Aus- obtained by a levy of ad, a ton on: trahan clerk, aged 28; and Wlady-all coal raised and Is. in the pound claw Wagner, 26-year-old Pole, from on mining royalties, Most of the Tidynia. They hope to attend the money has built recreation grounds World Rover Mout at Crieff, Perth- and thead baths. shute.

Their ship, the Zjawa HI, left Townsville, Australia, a year ago. "Bad weather upset our plans," said Cam-Flowright. "We hoped to get here

by the end of June."

・ “Yes," said Lance Corporal Perry | Shaw. “It's quite a family offair and |probably a Territorial service record, "When we left for wamp we shut

home in Hahurt-rondi, bridite. The women did not think a Krent deal of camp lite for the first day or so, but now they are guing the ramp will be over this week- end.

"Army regulations say that the men and the women must not talk together in camp, but 1 don't think the War Once thought of husband and wife being in camp together.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. Four thousand Chippewa Indians have taken step to establish their elaims to indemnity for lands which they charge was taken from their ancestors half a century ago. The "I have only seen the wife three elaim is based upon the fact that times shree have been here. I met their

her in the Q.M.S, stores to-day, and ancestors were 'forced to

(pulled her leg when I found out that migrate here from North Dakota

camp life is agreeing with her sa compensation for Jands much that her funte

the which the government tank over. tallors being made binger.”

A shnor manual was issued be fure the German entry into Sudeten-without lund last October.j

VXIS

at

SAILED 50,000 MILES

The_report_adds: "AL some vel- Heries they bathe to Raisle from a radio relay service or a gramophone With Foud speakers iri the locker 100ms

"At others, baskets of growing Howers are bung in the bath house or locker rooms, "During a spell of unemployment The Hulle eraft, battered but in workmen of a South Wales colllery Wagner, who has still to complete around their baths and planted themel good sea under, was 'skippered by formed a lawn und Harden beds

is journey, having left his native with shrubs and flowers." Gdynia seven years sailed 50,000 miles and has had his He has nyo.

Now leaders of the welfare move- tment are full share of thrills and adventures. help miners take their families to to find a way to trying He set ut in 2uft. eutter, the the seaside during their paid holi- Zjawa 1., in July. 1932, salled tong. Most likely scheme will be a Panama, built a second boat there chain of subsidised holiday centres.

the Zjawa 4811. Reten,

II and

voyaged heres to Fiji. The ketch signed and built his present craft sank there, and he had to start all and sailed her across the Pacific to

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