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2 MEN ROW 50 MILES TO ENGLAND

Refugees In Open

Boat Rescued

TWO REFUGEES-ONE FROM BERLIN AND ONE FROM VIENNA-SPENT ONE NIGHT RECENTLY IN DEAL (KENT) POLICE STATION AFTER THEY HAD ROWED FIFTY MILES IN A 10FT. DINGHY FROM OSTEND TO THE ENGLISH COAST.

They were saved by lifeboat when their boat-which they bought for £3-capsized near the Goodwin Sands..

Everything belonging to 20-years-old Walter Altmann, of Vienna, and 18-years-old Gunter Mann, went to the bottom of the Channel and to-day they will be sent to a camp while the Home Once make inquiries.

Driven from five countries, plashed after them, flung lifelines and they went to Ostend, bought febelts, and hauled them, half their boat, and sailed, determin-downed, on boart

ed to reach England.

A CLOSE SHAVE

"We kept them warm in the en- The Walmer lifebent answered angine-room and fastened their boat SOS message from South Goodwin astern. On the way in we applied Lightship and went 16 the boul, artlilein? respiration and got a lot of which was drifting.

water out of each of them

COX'S STORY Sixty-year-old Joe Mercer, caxs wain of the boat, told the Sunday Dispatch:

"We saw the dinghy tossing In

"In all my years of lifeboat work i have never known it to be such a close shave. In another minute or two they would both inve bren Irone."

"We had travelled from Switzer bratten water, and I expected it to land to see our parent in Brussels,

ditoppear before we got to her. the rescued men said,

And were "The two men could do nothing, tost to return to Germany. We de- nol even steer and what I thought |efded to make a dash for England was going to happen did happen. and bought our boat--but now we "She struck some wreckage and have lost everything, money, clothes,

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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELLEGRAPH

August 30, 1939.

Doctors Condemn Mental Services

WIDESPREAD reforms in the treatment of mental disorders are urged in the Feversham report on the voluntary mental health services, issued recently.

The committee, which included) famous doctors, sat for three years under the presidency of the Earl of Fevershami its findings, occupy 260

The

both men were dung into the water. Jones and gear. We never thought we❘ pages revort says that at the end of

They were carried away, but we would get to England alive?"

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On Barrel Organ

CHESTER

1934, 155,000 persons were notified as under eare for mental disorder. "This," it adds, "represents only a fenetion of the tutal cafes."

Co-

The committee, urging the ordination of voluntary services, say the evidence "justifies the verdict that these services lack cohesion to such an extent that they do not give full value for the money, time, and effort spent upon them."

Widow of

Rich Men

Sues 3rd Husband

UFSI

"Good-bye, Jim: have a good trip." said President Roosevelt,

Postmaster

General Farley loft him at Hyde Park for trip to Po- land. "Good-bye, Boss," said Mr. Farley, squalching reports of rift between two old friends.

New Era In The Schools

THE British Board of Education lias Issued # circular which it considers "any well mark the be- ginning of a new era in secondary education."

Special attention is given to im- proving the value of sixtli form work to pupils who stay on until they are 17, for the sake broadening their education, but do not intend to ult for the Higher School Cortificate. MRS. SARAH BURKE, aged The Board suggests for them

36, of Woodville. Nenagh, one-year course, with further study of the normal school subjects, physi- Commenting on out-patient treat-County Tipperary, who was said cal training, and a number of special

OVERCROWDED

ment the comunittoe stale that "Some

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DR. G. R. FISHER, Bishop of Chester and Bishop-Designate

of London recently fulfilled his promise to play a barrel rudiments of an efficient service. a peer, then a wealthy farmer, country schools), commercial sub- organ in the streets of Chester.

of the clinics do not even provide the to have married the nephew of subjects, including rural work (in

His performance, which was in aid of Chester Royal In- firmary extensions appeal fund, ralsed £29 109.

"Some meet only once a month, recently sued her third husband, Jects, inuste, art. metalwork, wood- work, nursing and domestic training. some ure so overcrowded that India farm labourer, for main- vidual attention is impossible; others tenance.

One of the advantages of such a are either under-staffed or served bý

course would be its preparation for The chairman of the Infirmary

She said in Nenagh District Court, the proper use of leisure. If, when he reported In London, he inadequately trained personnel." Board of Management, who introduc-was met with the remark "You are

Regarding In-patient treatment that she married John Burke in 1937 An explanatory statement accom- ed the Bishop, sakd they had not got only a part of the man we appoints they declare that the lack of proper after the death of her second hus-panying the circular points out that exactly all of the Bishop with them.ed, he would be able to prove that accommodation is a matter of grave band, a gentleman farmer named it would be the task of the school to He had been a patient in the in-he was all there for he had the car-Importance,

Dwyer, by whom she had four chit-convince employers that a boy or girl Armary and they bad removed

dren. tilage in a little- far,

who had spent th extra year small pieve of him-a cartilage.

Her first husband, Mr. Clolworthy school would be a more valuable em- When he

appointed to the He then seized the handle of the

Rowley, nephew of Lord Langford, ployce than one leaving at 18, Bishopric of London he was a com-barrel organ and played two tunes, plete bishop: now he was a bishop "Smiling Thro" and "Pack Up Your less a cartilage.

Troubles."

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An increase Jn juvenile delin- quency is partly blamed on lack of social security and slackness of home discipline since the wor.

"DULL CHILDREN"

whom she married when she was 10. had also died.

Judge Flood; Are you an ordinary

girl? Yes,

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USE OF LOCAL FACILITIES · It is proposed that small schools, where facilities do not exist for ad-

The committee do not know why | country have been an attractive vanced education, should transfer ex-

there has been an increase in mental "You must dullness. They estimate that about:

type when you married 3 peer's ceptional pupils at the age of 16 to 105,000 children are mentally defec-acphew," he said.

schools more adequately staffed and tive, of whom 35,000 are "education-f Mrs. Burke sald neither of her equipped. ally retarded". only. In addition, first husbands left her any money.

Special arrangements for transport. there is a group of dull and back-She lost her widow's pension when and in some cases boarding, would want children, numbering, with the she married Burke. 35,000 "retarded children,' about 300,000.

The committee's recommendations include the setting up of child guid- nee clinics and the formation of a National Council from the voluntary mental health organisations.

be necessary,

In the main stage of secondary before the School Certi- edtication, Beate, the Board considers that pupils shouki continue to learn English, one

She alleged that after 16 months! Burke deserted ber and failed to support her and her four children.

Burke said he was earning 12s. foreign language and mathematics, week, plus board. He did not want to return to his wife.

The case was adjourned.

Hunted Boar With Bow and Arrow

although they need not now offer all three for examination. A pamphlet to be issued shortly wiil sugges: means of

of using this new freedom to widen the curriculum.

The Board suggests that the in- struction and general life of the school should be more closely related to local opportunities.

In rural districts geography could include local surveys, science could cover agricultural chemistry or plant penetical and animal biology, and

Mrs. Mole told something of her work could take the form of garden- husband's prowess.

ing. Simitar experiments could be commercial industrial or "He uses Swedish steel bows," she made in said, "and not the od yew bow.

centres.

England's most nolable archer for, ench requiring a 40lb. pull, many years, Mr. A. II. Mote, an ex- tea planter in India, hus gone to Oslo to compete in the ninety-sccond] Grand National Archery meeting.

In archery circles Mr. Mole's per- formances are

regarded

as being little less than miracles.

"It is rather remarkable thut my husband should be the finest archer

Recently at Oxford he scored 1,234 in land, because he was wounded Mallard Duck Is Pet

(UP). Miss

the right hand during the war and points in a Double York Round- bus to shoot left-handed,

Washi. SPOKANE, He began to take up archery only Mary Louise Calkins has a pet Mal- f only 17 below the score put up in 1859 by Maurice Ford, England's most five yeara ngo.

ard duck named Jeep that follows The duck was the legendary; famous archer since

"He seemed to take to it naturally her about like a dog. no and has never had a lesson in his given to her last Easter. Whlic al- days of Robin Hood. Hitherto

Walla one had approached Ford's record by life. He has gone out hunting in tending Whitman College at 200 points.

India with only a bow and arrow and Wallo this spring, the duck In shouting a Double York Round has bagged such animals as a 2721b, Mr. Mole had to shoot 144 arrows, wild boar,”

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