1940-05-25 — Page 7

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH·

May 25, 1940.

£1,000-A-YEAR BEGGAR A CHILD'S

KING" DRIVES CAR

This Makes 4 "Blind" Men Earn

Butchers Shy

AA WOMAN wrote to Bridg- water Food Control Committee, Somerset, asking permission to chango her butcher.

She said: "He won't call on me"

Inquiry from the butcher brought the reply: "I don't call because sho expects to have meat without paying for it."

Application refused,

JUSTICES SURPRISED

Kathleen Smith's

1940 Skirt

KATHLEEN SMITH, aged 18, of Brackley-road, Chis- wick, surprised Mr. J. Kent, chairman of Acton magistrates.

Standing in the witness-box Kathleen held up what she enid was n fashionable skirt.

I suppose is n skirt," old Mr. Kent doubtfully. "It seems far too short to me."

When assured by Kathleen, a shopi

assistant, that it was indeed modern skirt, Mr. Kent com mented: "Well, there doesn't up- pear to be much of ii. I suppose

It For Him

THE UNCROWNED KING OF THE BEGGARS IS IN LONDON-WITH A BIG CAR, A "STAFF" OF FOUR "BLIND" MUSICIANS, AND £20 A WEEK IN HIS POCKET.

THE MEN: ARE NOT BLIND. THEY POSE AS BEING SIGHTLESS TO EARN THEIR OWN LIVING AND THEIR "BOSS'S."

Six days a week he drives them through London, depositing each at a specially picked pitch.

He leaves them on the corb to play and collect pennies from the public. Then at night he returns to take them home and collect their earnings.

Each of the four men takes from £7 to £10 a week. The "king'a" weekly rake-off from the four is £20.

The police and the National Institute for the Blind are in-

vestigating the "king's activities.

An official of the institute said.

"The leader dresses his men in tattered suits and broken-

down shoes. Round the neck of each man he hangs the lying

placard 'Blind."

They can play their instruments reasonably well, and kind.

hearted people give them a great deal of money.

"I watched them recenty. When the leader decided they had collected enough for the day, they hid themselves from the public, removed their boards, and trooped into a public house for a drink.

"Then they were driven away in a big car.'

The king beggar and his men have been reported as far away

fis Devizas.

- Police records show that they are not the only beggars to "cash in" during the last few weeks on faked war wounds and second-hand medals bought from pawnshops.

......

JOBS FOR ALL

"London has become the beggar's Mecca," said the institute

official.

The public should refuse to part with their money.

All blind persons in this country are guaranteed support without begging. If they are employable we find them a good job. If they cannot work we make provision for all their needs." being a woman you must know Blind welfare organisations pay a minimum wage of 50s, a 'what you are talking about," week. And the garment went down in the court shorthand notes of the case as a skirt.

Kathleen was giving evidence against Emily Walton, aged 42, who was charged with shop-lifting froin a multiple stores. One of the articles

GERTRUDE

JOHANNESBURG.

"GERTRUDE," the generous South African who has just which she admitted taking was the sent another million cigarettes to Empire troops overseas, is not black skirt produced by Kathleen.a woman, but a leading Johannesburg business man who smokes Emily Walton was bound over. Outside the court Kathleen sald: "cigars and plays golf.

thought everybody knew how But "Gertrude" wants to keep secret his identity, and

dainty giris skirts are to-day. I threatens that he will stop his gifta if his name is revealed, wear a typical 1940 fashion my-

So the secret remains-and the troops in France may Belf."

soon get another million cigarettes.

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!' ACCUSED of having burned a four-years-old girl, Olive Leyden, with a poker and beaten : her with a leather belt and atlek. Eather Scott, of Douemount-place, Hawick, was at Edinburgh com- mitted for trial on a charge of culpable homicide.

"The chlid, "I Was stated, was ia Scoti's, charge at the time.

On many ocensions I WAS alleged, she burned her behind the right car and on the chest withh

heated poker, and thrashed her with a leather belt or stick, beal her over the head. face, body, and legs, as a result of which she died

Scott pleaded not guilty.

Names Taken

Off War Memorial

Parents Object to Dances In Hall

BECAUSE relatives object to dances being held in the hall, the names of three men killed in the lost war have been re- moved from a commemoration tablet in the war memorial in- stitute at the Cornish village of St. Dennis.

Controversy about dancing In the inalitute was brought to a head by n danse Axed for last night in aid of the local football club.

Three of the 49 names on the roll of honour were removed before the dance—those of the two sons and son-in-law of Mr. R. C. Solomon, of

Hendra, St. Dennis,

The Institute committee took this course at the request of Mr. Solomon and Mr. J. Commons, fathers of the men.

"I think dancing is against the

split of a war memorial," said Mr. Commons, "Probably most people who have sons'. or husbands' names on the tablet would desire them to be removed."

Nazi Maps Draw Protest- From Swiss

DERNE. German atlas publishers printing napa under the National Socialist regime have drawn pro- tests from the Swiss in the past end now they've done it again. Their programinic calls for assembling or drawing all Germanic

proptional In the-Reich-or-at-least-into- Socialism, and they forget that the Swiss Germans.

aren't interested. atlas, printed

printed in Berlin, carries

map "Germans headed

living out- side the frontlers of the Reich" and the

Includes German Switzerland in that group. To drive the point home, the atlas states that "There are three million Germans llying

The

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in Seriana.",

Papers

in its new

In their news- and by word of mouth, to being called Germans. "Let them come here, those Nazi mapmakers, let them come and listen to what we think, and they'll learn we're Swiss, not German," said the Zurich Volksrecht", Д German language newspaper.

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