1940-05-22 — Page 9

Wednesday,

Killed Father, Mother, Brother-and Himself

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 22, 1940.

HE WAS THE BOY WHO The Shadow Of Death

NEVER

"I DO not think I ever saw him smile," the family doctor said at the Reigate inquest on a sixteen-year- old boy who killed his father, mother and brother ..with an axe, then shot him-

self.

The jury recorded a ver- dict that Kenneth Wadkin, of Nutfield - road, Redhill, Surry, took his own life after murdering the other three while the balance of his mind was disturbed.

Kenneth started work ou March 26 on a month's proba- tion with a view to apprentice. ship as an engineer. He did well and liked the work, it was stated.

Dr. C. H. Laver said: "Ken- neth used to walk with his arms

to his side and never swung them

GAVE A SMILE

I do not think I ever saw him Naval Chaplain Wants To Stop-

smile. He was clever; he was unsociable,

"His mother WOM 1 cheerful,

bright and happy woman and good mother. She complained that; he found his wark monotonous and below his mental capacities."

He sent Kenneth to a Harley- street specialist la December. The specialist reported that Kenneth! considered he was mixing with

boys."

DEATH WIRES TO NEXT-OF-KIN

WIVES and other-next-of-kin-of“ naval-men-are-in-

what he described as "common formed by telegram if any disaster has befallen their The specialist recommended menfolk on active service. psychotherapeutle treatment,

Cameraman by German

Attacked

Bombers

Baw

AN American cameraman who watched the destruction of the only remaining structure in Namsos-thepler-who the sloop Bittern sink with 1,000 feet of film telling the story of the bombing of the city, and was sunk while convoying troops, arrived in London.

He is Mr. Bonney M. Powell, Ney

representative York

of Fax and British Movietonews. He left Nom- sos with a party of British troops on May 3 and arrived at a port.

"Wherever the British were they were not only bombed and machine- gunned mercilessly, but their posi tions were radioed to German ships lying in the lords, who were able to shell them at the given range," he Aid,

Mr. Powell · gave a remarkable story of his adventures in Norway.

He was originally assigned to Am the war in Finland and spent three months there before the Inva- -sion of Norway.-

was

ON COWS

CANVAS IMPERIL R.A.s

This method, says a Navy champlain, is "unduly curt, ex- tremely 'callous and always acutely distressing."

He has written to Mr. Wins- ton Churchill about it, and has suggested a different 'method of conveying such news,

The chaplain is the Rev. Ralph E. Allport, a Methodist, of Weymouth.

"I have no doubt," he wrote, "that the system of nolifying the bereaved by telegram-regardless of the hour and the state of the health of the re- clplentia the least troublesome to the authorities concerned.

THE pilot's head and the nose of his Blenheim bombor overshadow the sen as ho comes down in a 'steop dive to bomb a Nazi

patrol vessel in the Heli- goland Bight, Hij oppon ent has seen him and has sent up a rocket challenge before opening fire.

Four Worms Turned

FOUR Worms of South Bend, Indiana. U.S.A., have filed a petition with the courts seeking to turn-their

names.

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley W. Worm and Mr. and Mrs. Everett A, Worm asked for permission to call themselves Warren, reports Reuter, as their present names "have constantly exposed us to ridicule and embarrassment."

Boxer-Pilot

Now A Duke

the

SQUADRON-LEADER Marquis of Douglas and 'Clydes- dale, the boxing Marquis," now on active service, became a Dukej and the premier Peer of Scot- land on the death of his father, the Duke of Hamilton and Bran- don.

The former Duke-he was seventy- eight-died at his home, Ferne House, Donhead, near Salisbury, Wilts.

The new Buke is M.P. for Eastern Renfrew, Scotland, where a by-elec

lon will now be held. He is thirty- seven. A few years ngo he was one of the finest amaicur boxers in the

"There is o widespread feeling country, In 1933 he led the expedi-| anong ordinary people, however, tion that flew over Mount Everest. that lie method is at all times un- The late Duke when young naval duly curl, and, on occasions, extreme-oncer, delighted in daring feats, and ly callous in operation.

one of his favourite ones was to swin under the kee of the warship in "News of this kind, always cute which he served. One day he struck ly distressing, might well be more the keel and received a spinal injury fittingly conveyed."

which made him an invalid.

"I suggested to Mr. Churchill," he tod a reporter, "that heads of the departments responsible should avail HARMLESS haystacks and themselves of the services of leading "I then got instructions to go on to

aiming ruminating cows must pass the townspeople now belonging to volun Norway," he said. "I

organisations, whose for Namsos. When I arrived there Censor now-if they have beentary war-time

tnet and experience it then ndmir- the whole town was in ruins. There put on canvas by artists.

the task of breaking the was not a chimney-pot standing. I

And an RA. caught painting aably for have never seen such terrible Inndscape for this year's Acaderny news.

Admiralty Silent.

destruction.

Saw Film Co Down

may find himself landed at a police station.

"Formal notification through the Many famous artists are therefore post might follow." agitating for a removal of restrictions

No comment

on the letter WAS

"I had filmed most of this and sent my results down to the quay, which are holding up their work, learned afterwards that this film had

At present, they my, it is danger-available at the Admiralty.

been put on board the Bitter. Isus for them to paint a haystack. was on top of a hill when the Bittern was attacked by enemy aircraft.

One airplane dived to within about 100ft, of the British vessel and scored a hit, and I watched my film go to the bottom."

Mr. Powell made his way from Namsos towards Steinkjer to take pictures of the withdrawal of the British troops.

| Gallery.

After being such an active man In bls Youth the Duke's injury irked him, and he lived for the day when his sons would grow up and do what he had wanted to do," said an old relainer of the Doke, Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, a brother of the new Duke, married Miss Prunella Stack.

gram saying that her husband was! missing and believed drowned,

Hard To Decipher

Mr. Allport's letter was inspired by "In the darkness she could not see Under Home Security, regulations the experience of Mrs. Dorothy Mil-who handed it to her, and the mes- all artists, if they wish to paint in ler,

whose husband, Yeoman of sage, written in pencil, was scarcely specialised areas-which cover most simale George Miller, was lost in the decipherable in artificial light. of the country-have to apply to a sinking of the destroyer Exmouth.

"I have since learned that the next Permits Committee at the National

"Mrs, Miller," he said," was ex-of kin of other men lost in the Ex- peeting her husband home on leave. mouth received similar telegrams al:

a very late hour, "She heard a knock on the door

think: the present system is just before midnight on Monday, and shocking. If it is to be continued. thought he had arrived.

people might just "Instead, thin poor woman was their bereavements dragged from her bed' to accept a tele-] newspapers."

In The Dark

Many artists do not know this, and in consequence, at least four have been stopped painting by "The Journey was one Incessant

polleemen. attack from the air by German An RA. sold: bombers," he said.

overbend

"When ht

hia

WAS "If any artist wishes to paint a machine-gunned--14-tiones-on-the landscape he mist-apply-to-the-com- Journey. They dived so close to mittee, providing credentials to show our car that I could look into the that he is a recognised artist. He eyes of the ploi as the 'plane Bew must also give the number of his

passport.

"If he has never had a passport "We had a close shave when one bomb dropped only a few feet in he cannot all up the official form.

starts painting front of our car. It did not burst but,} bounced away from the road. The troubles start. A policeman may de- Nazi airmen enme from behind the elde that painting is against the mountains and were on top of us. in country's interests, and a second,

artist to the slation. "I got to within six miles of

Must Hide His Picture Steinkjer and watched the British

"Having completed his painting troops withdrawing. Their move the artist must not show it to any- ments were watched by wave after one, not even his friends. He must wave of German bombers, who flew submit it to the National Gallery just above the tree tops, forcing committee and get it passed by the them under cover. The troops had censor.

take the

TOWN'S

TO ITS

as well learn of

by reading the

WARNING SAILORS

IN words of remarkable frankness, sallors are being warned against harpics by Grimsby Health Committee.

A "Seafarers' Guide" issued by the committee contains an "open letter" to seamen visiting the town. It says:

"Grimsby is no better and no worse than any other senport: "We think it will be a damnable shame if you get into trouble ashore through not knowing what to do with yourself when you are on leave.

"Like all places where men are gathered together, Grimsby. has a certain number of harples to fasten on them.

no backing from British fighters to Another RA. sald: "We are won.

"If some of These giris were Knights Jones declared, "This is an keep the bombers off, and were more dering if the 12,000 pictures to be or less helpless.

submitted to the Royal Academy this German agents they could not do a infernal slur on the town." year will be examined-by-the Consortier job for the enemy.....

There is no love aboutThey to see whether they contain informa-

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The statement declared that the local schoolchildren" was not raised question of the "moral welfare because any trouble had arisen.

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It had been raised "because it was They do not care whether you are young or old, handsome or ugly as felt that in unsettled wartime con- sin, short or long, bandy or straight, äitions additional guidance and help

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"But the withdrawal tactics weretion valuable to the enemy, before accost you in the black-out. They wonderful,

"One company of a county, regi- they go to the longing Committee, do not even want to see what you

An officint of the Royal Academy took like.

Wartime Morals d meni marched 50 miles in 48 hours, aid he had not heard of the Permits

The herolam of a captal Committee, charge of a company of one regi-

"What is

he naked. ment was remarkable. He brought out his company od 200 men through the German lines under Mr. Powell told about his escape ar for that matter white, black or might be of assistance...

"The advisory committed unani- continuous bombing attacks and from Namsos und the sinking of the yellow.". managed to cover 47 miles through | Afridi,

The brochure gives a list of enter-mously suggested that the Education snow across two valleys and mostly The pier was the last structure taiments and social centres where Committee be asked to consider the at night without a single casually. left in Namsos to be bombed. I was recreation is provided for the Forces, advisability of the appointment of

Wartime morals were also a tople women police, "One man belonging to this come only a few hundred yards away when

committee advisory

also: pany W

acted as a runner crawled a German bomber came over, went of discussion at Lowestoft. who through-- snow under continuous into a vertical dive and scored a A public statement was Issued suggested that at the discretion of mochine-gun and rifle fire to bring direct hit with a 500lb. bomb; There about the Education Committee's head teachers Instruction in schools wwws to his company-when-the-road mera. Int of stores on the pier of the decision to set up a secret sub-com-should be given to boys and girls on

time. The lot went up: It almost miles, to Investigate uretorate of the simple facts of Hier was cleor. Ap

"The "whale withdrawal was a destroyed the pier, but we managed the town's girls. The Education Committee decided marvellous plece of work by the to make our way along what was when the matter was discussed in not to isto any instructions on this * British.A.

left to embark for Britain.”

tha Education Committee Mr. J. matter.".

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