Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 23, 1940.
PRISONERS HISS
AT I.R.A. CONVICTS
DAUGHTER FOR
DEAN OF CANTERBURY
A daughter was born at The Deanery, Canterbury, recently to Mrs. Hewlett Johnson, wife of the Dean of Canterbury,;
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Mother and child are both re- ported be doing well. The child, which welchs 834ib, will be named Mary Keziah, *** The Dean who is sixt
sixty-By and his wife were married October, 1038, at Slokesay, Shrop
detalls being kept a› close shiro, secret till after the ceremony.
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Mrs. Johnson is thirty-three. She was formerly, Allas Noel Mary Edwards, daughter of the lato Rev. G. 7. Edwards, of Formby (Lancs), and A second cousin of the dean. She is a lafented artist, and before her marriage often, acted as hosicas at the deanery.
Scots Isle
Ban on Unity
MISS UNITY MITFORD, Lord Redesdale's daughter, who recently returned from Germany, has been refused permission to live, on the Is land of Inch Kenneth, which Is within the area of Scotland prohibited to all except nu- thorised persoils.
This announcement was made by the War Minister, in a written reply to Mr. Davidson (Lab., Maryhill).
Inch Kenneth is a small island off the coast of Mull and was bought by Lord Redesdale about 18 months ago.
PRINCETOWN (Devon), mor FIVE-HUNDRED Dartmoor prisoners hissed and booed and shouted threats as they marched past the cells where the nine- teen LR.A. men who mutinied are now housed.
The shouting went on at intervals all day and was heard outside the prison.
Dartmoor prisoners have taken every chance of show- ing their hatred of the.
I.R.A. men.
In September eleven I.R.A. men were beaten up by other prisoners. And every day the men threaten to attack the Irishmen if they get the chance.
Because of these threats and yesterday's muliny It Is Hikely, that the terrorists will be separated and scatter among other prisons.
of the 1810
The mutiny-ed to coincidel rising-caused £1,000 damago,
with
the
The I.R.A. men, guarded by two warders, were released as usual for exercise in the hall of "D" Block. One of the officers "went away to ket come books from the prison' Hbrary.
Suddenly--they must have used some secret signat-all the prisoners dashed at thirty-five-year-old Wolter Yetman, the remaining warder.
with his was soon
over-
Put in Cell
Ho
them fought trimcheon, but powered.
His keys were taken from him and he was bundled into a cell. Some of the men rated along the whitewashed corridors to the main steel gate. They put up 'n barricade of ladders and trestles being used in redecoratnig the block.
Some of the men took blankets from the cells and started a fire in air vent five storeys up under
an
the roof.
Everything they could lay their hands on they put on the growing fire. Smoke and flames shooting through the roof were seen from outside. For
Since her return from Germany
nfteen minutes the terrorists Miss Mitford, who before the war defied the warders. Then Canon J. often spoke of her admiration for M lynn portly Roman Catholic Hitler, has been staying at her priest, climbed on to a barricade of father's home at High Wycombe. sandbags and shouted in the men
She is stated to be making a good recovery from the shot wound. she received in mysterious circum- stances in Germany. She was to be taken to Inch Kroneta"to com- plete lier convalescence.
A member of the family said: "The statement in the Home appears to dispose of the matter. There-is-no- reason to discuss further." :
OOMPH BARRED
secretary.
to listen to him.
They listened-the riot ended! and almost as soon as they got! back to the cells the fire was out.
Why Germans Need Lebensraum
AMSTERDAM. Remarkable statements about the "superiority of the German race" were made by Dr. Ley, the Jovial leader of the German Labour Front, In a speech to-Nazi "educational leaders" in Berlin.
"An interier race," he said, "needs CORNWALL wonts more Landless space, less food and less culture than a superior race. A German Army girls-but not "young women could never live in the same condl- of the exotic chorus girl type who like to pose for_photographs," says
tions as a Pole or a Jew,
"We Germons regard it on a great Mrs. PCHRY Pollard, organising blessing that the German workers is
racially on
on the same level, as the She is arranging for surplus re- German business man, the German
other parts cruits from
the farmer and the German engineer. country to be drafted to Cornwall. Only among racially equal men is A number of London girls will be national community possible such gin preliminary training within as we have created in the Germany few days.
of Adolf Hitler.
"How different are the conditions
of
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"Here you scu the King acting na ticket-col- lecter, hand. ing back
voucher to one of the B.E.F.
at passing
tho barrier on his way home.
KING BECOMES A TICKET-COLLECTOR
“POACHER” GETS MEDAL || He Escaped
Gallows, Is Told:
You-Can
Reform
THIRTY-YEAR-OLD Herbert Charles Ridley stood in the dock at Birmingham from which, in 1930, he heard the death sentence passed upon him.
Capt. J. H. Hud-
· #on—hicknamed "Poacher" re- cause he to the ideal. patrol leader -- ONG
Fusilier -Worsley,-of-the Lancashire Fusi lers, being con- gratulated On receiving the French Croix de
· Guerre. The u took part in the “British” matrol which recently routed Nazi patrol, killing five of the Ger mans and cap- turing one.
Seven Men Grew Beards:
They were Hoax Victims
í
THE Seven Bearded Boys of Brixton are looking for the eighth-and when they got him there's going to be hell to pay.
Promised jobs as film- extras by one of their workmates, Choppy, they spent the past month growing black, blonde, and even ginger beards.
He pleaded guilty to three charges of housebreaking, and naked for 29 other offences to be taken into considertion.
Ridley, a motor-driver, was sch- tenced to twelve months hard labour.
Detective Inspector Hewing fald after being sentenced to death Waley was reprieved and the sentence cam muted to penal servitude for life..
He was released on licence in De- cember, 1935, and returned to his
wife,
Since then he had appeared before the courts for felony. He quarrelled frequently with his wife, and was now separated from her.
In passing sentence, the Recorder, Mr. H. J. Wallington, said it was plain that Ridley could lead an honest, decent ife if he wished.
"Your recora is a very bad one," he sald.
Ode would have thought that a man with your mental and physical, capacity would have been only too glad to show appreciation that he was at liberty and would have helped his wife and children,
"I have got a feeling that bad as your make up is you can reform.
Ridley, and another man, Victor Edward Belts, were found - guilty : of killing a bank messenger, who was robbed of a bag containing £900. Bella was executed,
Anti-Nazi Sailor Wins Step
They became the laughing stock of their wives and pals, People in the street would stop and stare at them until they Mrs. Pollard won't let girls bein the English plutocracy! They blushed. photographed it creates A wrong carry the Bible in their hands and Grimly they carried on, buoyed with visions of themselves Impression of their abilities, she ruin for the whole world in their playing the part of herole sailors who had reached a desert island thinks. Cornish farmers, at “Arst brain. That ig England and the
English." antagonistic, now want land girls.
after their submarine had been sunk.
At least, that's how Choppy
SANFRANCISCO--Erich Rix.
other men who had been pro-tation to his native Germany. Mr. put it to them. With thirty anti-Nazi seaman, won in the first steps of his efforts to escape depor- mised jobs in erowd scenes, they Rix fears he would be slain If sent met at a pre-arranged time out back. side the Royal Eye Hospital, $1. George's-circus, S.E.
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"Give 'om· Halfpenny"
But Choppy, who had also grown beard, seemed to have another (ap- pointirtest.
Drogging out a letter from his pocket which had been given, to, him by Choppy to be opened on the "great day," one of the bearded men gasped, then read to His.matest k
"These men, think that they are
· wise, men of the world. I told
J. J. McGrath, District Immigra- tion Commissioner, said he would recommend to the Labour Depart-i ment that deperiation proceedings against Nix be dropped.
Heart Trouble
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them that if they grew beards 1-ir you have scine ground the heart, pal-
could make great film 'staru (of them, wh
"I believe if you told them that It is Santa Claus that feiches their) fors they would believe you. Soj -give-them-a-halfpenny-esch-and
send them home."
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They telephoned Pinewood Studios, which Choppy had mentioned as their new employers, but nobody there know of the new film stars.
That was the last straw. They marched to his home, but
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were toll! "Choppy is out and we beards as though you haven't shaved LOS ANGELES & PANAMA
don't know when he'll be back."
"Walt t'll we get hold of him, we'll thow him". a bearded man, sald,
Tickling Like Holl
A month ago Choppy came up to
A group of sis and Jald há could get
good jobs on the aims
ite salu You'll be given pärls ús submar he ich wylio have been ship- wrecked on a desert "island,"
"*'But Arst
for months.
We took him at his word. Ha CALCUTTA even grow a beard himself.
For a month now we've been JOMBAY laughed at.
-¦ We were slopped: In the street
· and asked if we were the: Altinark survivo
For if we hand "furt been shipwrecked;, kupolatione
Now we daren't go back and tell you've got to grow, the "bays we're not in Nims.”
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