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LENNOXVILLE, QUEBEC, CANADA,
140th YEAR. · ·
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Has pra -enrollment which includes boys from dininnt parts of the Empire.
_Boya_ure_peeryyed_for_the_Universities_the_"Royal_Military College, and for business life. Munters are gradites of English and Canadian universities. Eproliment of 150 boys, grouped in Preparatory, Middle, and Upper Schuls. The Preparatory School, for boys from eight to. thirteen years of age, is United to forty, has its own staff, and is housed in a building completed in 1937.
The syllabus includes all subjects leading to Junior and Senior Matriculation in Arts and Science. In addition, economies, biology, rhetoric, art, music and handicrafts are taught formally. The Chapel Choir number fifty boys. The school produces a Gilbert and Sullivan opera each year.
Modern, fireproof buildings are set in 500 acres of grounds. Healthy: surroundings alford splendid opportunities for recreation, * facluding excellent ski-ing. Ample playing-Belds for cricket and football: indoor and outdoor hockey rinks: hard Jemix courts: gymnasium: Chunda's senior Cadet Corps.
C. G. M. Grier, M.A., (Oxoni, Headmaster.
For particulars apply The Secretary, Bishop's College School, Lennoxville, Que., Ennada,
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THE grey special to the Telegraph** Is used by the Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate news which I strletty copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- entions Ordinaner, 1916 Such ne bears te ndiention "UP" Is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republication. either wholly or in part without previous arrangrovent.
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At the present juncture the aerial war has entered a critical phuse, and operations are in pro- gross which demand the obser- vance of the strictest reticence. At all times in war, and especial- ly just now, it is axiomatic that military considerations must govern the communication of news to the public. Information, if only inferential, which would be of value to the enemy or de- trimental to discipline must be withheld; and the decision as to what may be given out and what must be withheld properly rests with the Services directly con- cerned. But when those reser- vations have been made, is it not possible to enlighten the Empire
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NEW MEN BEHIND THE MINISTERS
by Maurice Webb
ATROLLING my beat down at Westminster I frequently bump into some Minister bearing all the signs of one who has been grievously strickon: At once I know what has happened to him. He has lost touch with his Parliamentary Private Secretary.
ean No worse embarrassment overtake a member of His Majesty's Government.
With his P.P.8. at his elbow a Minister can face any situation, But let him lose him for a time and he is as helpless as Samson shorn. Ministers will tell you that a good P.P.S. has a price beyond rubies. The ace occupants of this post are guarded by their masters with the concern of a gardener for his record-breaking marrow,
For they stand between their chiefs and whole armles of badg- erers and worriers.
New Labour recruits
just joined the ranks of this T NUMBER of Labour M.P.a have
noble 'army of martyrs. I applaud their public spirit.
Let me put the spotlight on some of them for you... 1826
Indignation surged through the mining valleys of Mon- mouthshire when it was learned. that one, who-as County Alder
man. miners' leader and prominent
PP.S. to Ernest Bevin he is waiting to sit on the row behind it when his chief takes his seat in the Commons.
Bome people wonder why the new Muister of Labour picked out a man who, as they say, "doesn't look like
one of the trades unlonista."
They do not know that for many years Creech Jones was one of the biggest of the younger figures in the trade union world.
He headed with outstanding skil one of the sections of Mr. Bevin's own union. And was President of an important international group of commercial workers..
He is among the first half-dozen real experts in the country on colonial affairs. The work he has done, away from the limelight, for native populations is acknowledged by those who are aware of it to be deserving of unqualified praise.
But he is not, by nature, a lime- light man. He has a mind of rare worth and Integrity, which sucks avenues of service rather than re- wards.
His successful piloting of the Access to Mountains Act is but the first of the many big jobs he will perform in the political career he has now closet.
Happy combination
mander R. Fletcher put on his
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Chancellor
the office as Parliamentary Private EN the war started, Com-LONG association with chapel oficial-was revered in every
Health has Secretary to the Minister whose Ministry of valley home, had been sent to prison naval uniform and went back to given Sir Kingsley Wood the post he had been instrumental for participating in riotous the quarter deck, or wherever it is perfect bedside manner. In his in creating. assembly."
that maval Commanders go.
Chancellor of the Forty
new post as
Political ambitions apart, how- Now, oddly enough, he has taken Exchequer, he will persuasively ever, Sir Kingsley Wood's pre- thousand people stened a petition for his release. His vacant his uniform off, and put on his well-take all our money from us and occupation with the Ministry of chalr in The County Council tailored civilian clothes, in order to chamber was decorated with flowers enter the Admiralty, as political still leave us with the feeling Health had been a deep, lasting and carried curd which said, right-hand man to A. V. Alexander. that we are much better without and commendable
Return soon."
This 13 n happy and original com- That man was Arthur Jenkins, binatlen-a sea-going PPS, with To-day he is M.P. for Pontypool,
Clilet, civilian
Each has a
n big And P.P.5., friend and confidant of regard and respect for the other.
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a member of the War Cabinet, Mr. The Commander," or "Reggle
A
C. R. Attice. To know this gracious, Rentle-mannered man with remark- able deep-set blue eyes is to wonder
how anyone could associate him with a riotous assembly.
He will funch from nothing when the things he values are at stake. but above all else, he cherishes the things which make for decency and order in pubile life.
as his associates call him, was naval cadet in 1800. As tutor in a naval college he initiated the Duke
of Kent into the profession.
one. It has
it.
falso been the source of n Even the wealthy will accept Istimulating Parliamentary the most drastic purges on his rivalry, which has enlivened the prescription, because Sir Kings-Commons for nearly 20 years, ley is such a "safe" Tory. Is between him and his new Minis- he not already a Chancellor. of the Primrose League?
...terial colleague, Arthur Green-
wood."
Neville Chamberlain was his I have myself served as a sort of Kingsley Wood (he has never Lemporary A.B. under his command.been just "Wood,” as others chief at the Ministry from 1925- At Geneva together some years ago have been "Chamberlain," 29, and that formed the basis of The Commander sald he would "Simon" or "Churchill") has had 4 partnership which "mude"
take me for a row.
Their joint took the oars. He sat in the a career which reads like a cor- both of them. During all the recent critical years stern and controlled the operation.
handling of the complicated he has been at Mr. Attlee's side. His control was so brilliant that-f
Derating Bill helped both their Now, in his wider responsibilities, he only after two hours' pulling and
BRITAIN'S LEADERS reputations. When Chamberlain will give his Leader support of sweating did I dare to suggest Immeasurable value."
we might change rules for a ̈hit: But
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JOHN WILMOT has taken up duty to go home.
as h Triend Hugh Dalton's lleu- tenant ut the Economie Warfare
Ministry.
Here is a man of whom it can be said that his poitical future is
certain. As a Labour candidate he has two historie by-election victories to his credit, As an MP. his impres- sive mental equipment has brought him right to the front.
took on the job of building` up to drive Labour from Office. the Conservative Party muchbie Kingsley Wood was his right- hand man.
by then it was time, he said, for us respondence course in "How to Succeed in Politics." Only once has he been "ploughed" and that was when he was replaced by Sir In 1931, Kingsley Wood Samuel Hoare at the Air Minis- try.
The miners' part wo miners have Joined this valuable band of public servants.
Tom Smith, who was leading-plt
boys in strikes when in his teens. icams up with D. R. Grenfell at the Mines Ministry.
and the outside, world less aside politics he goes in for officials are glad to see him back. qualified as a solicitor, and be-General, Farley, is to Roosevelt
sparingly as to the nature of the deeds that are. done, and the ex-
periences that befall the men by whom the brunt of the war is being borne? After all, the value of the human element in this grim war-drama as a means of quickening an understanding of realities is not to be ignored. From every quarter of the world, and not least from those which are most attached to the British cause, comes complaint that while German publicity is served out without stint, news from authentic British sources is too meagre and colourless. No one wishes British publicity to enter into competition with the Goebbels lie-factory; but the British war-effort is providing abundant material for vivid and informing narratives which would be the best correctives to the impudent extravagance of German propaganda. For rea- sons of State, it may be some- times impossible to give the Press facilities for gathering at first hand the material for these hunian stories, with their power
"doubled" the post of Post- master-General with that of the He was the son of a Wesleyan chairman of the National minister. He has remained true Government propaganda com- to his origins, and remains a mittee.. He was to Baldwin This is his third spell there. The Wesleyan. At the age of 22, he what that other Postmuster- golf-and Are-fighting
Ike his pungent North came eventually the head of the man who runs the elec- Chairman of the LC.C. fire brigade. Country comments on the changing City firm of solicitors-Kingsley tions. And in both his Govern
I have never been fire-fighting dally scene. with him, but I have first-hand ex- Now he is doing a big job of work Wood, Williams and Murphy ment and his Party functions he perience of his unorthodox efforts for nothing. And although it is not (notice that the "Kingsley" in was successful. Ife brought to 10 atcer o smack Into port and a ball in the pit it will be of great value not divorced even in the law- both a flair for publicity. For it into a hole. I cannot say that he will to all the men who are in pits. list).
is part of Kingsley Wood's poli- go far in these directions. Band has
Ted Williams, whose wing collar
as They
too much fascination for him and academic features, like those of
When he was 30, he began his tical genius that he knows how sandbanks and bunkers.
his namesake, Tom Williams, sug- career in politics by entering the to "stage-manage" things and to When
played him once, he used rest the schoolmaster rather than L.C.C, as member for Woolwich. value publicity-not forgetting up all his own balis, and ail mine the miner-ho started in the pit at He was quickly recognised as a personal publicity, in which he except one, long before we finished 12 earning as. a week-supports his good committeeman. At the end rivalled Hore-Belisha, the round. My Idea was to give it up, South Wales colleague, George Hall, of the last War, he organised the At the Post Office, he cut a lot of but John is aticker.
at the Colonial Omice. We finished off the game hacking Quietly but effectively, in his ten national memorial demanding ideas ripe for release. He added some in turn at the battered remnant of years in the House, he has built up from Lloyd George the setting of his own and unloaded them. He
the ball which remained to us.
Would" box my ears
ERBERT MORRISON 18 fortun-
a solid-based reputation
When ho speaks the
red tape. To his band were new
up of the Ministry of Health got millions allocated for publicising House embodying the Local Govern- the G.P.O., for advertising, for films, llatens. For he never wastes time on ment Board and the public for "glamorising" the State service, things which need not be said. #health services. It
earned and for making the public realise what a successful business they own- Д him knighthood and
oned. He started shiling night-culls, and go on to his return to Parliament for cheaper telegrams; and vitalised the the first time, his first political Turn to Pago 2, Second Column
This is his first executive job in He will carry it out
Hat John Jagger, the wise and Parliament
sagacious head of the National with distinction Union of Distributive and Allied higher things. Workers, is at his elbow in the Ministry of Supply.
There is no shrewder man in the Commons. Nor a kindlier.
Impetuous young bustlers like me need lots of John Jaggers about to keep us on the rails. He is full of that kind of mature wisdom which not only suffers tools gladly but never despairs of licking them into some sort of useful shape,
His biggest joy is bla ancient pipe. For more years than I can remem-
ST. HELENA FOR WAR PRISONERS?
COLONEL Josiah Wedgwood. M.P., Parliamentary Under- Secretary for Scotland and Socialist M.P. for Newcastle-under- Lyme, thinks St. Helena should become Britain's prison camp for Gormans.
He had suggested this to the House of Commons.
them in the course of their normal voyages, for many call at the island
The island is roughly twice the size of the Isle of Wight; it has a healthy climate and a good soll.
"It is not developed as much as it might be," said Colonel Wedgwood. to pick up fresh water and vege-"The prisoners could cultivate the soil
Lables."
and they could make ronds. They
to kindle the imagination and ber he has been buying his favour- quicken the understanding. It Ite brand of tobacco by the pound "With the possibility of in- should not be impossible, how- from the Co-op. Hea
says he is miser- vusion the German prisoners in ever, for the Services to employable if he cannot get it.. under their own discipline per-
this country could become a real;
sons with the news-sense to get the stories and with the writing ability to tell them effectively. The attempt would surely be worth making, even though the
St. Helena's history started with a would be making themselves useful with only one hand who was Innded food. certain John Jagger was never miserable in his life. He wore his mean the Jews and refugees so by pirates in the sixteenth century engaging twinkling smile even when much as the crews of scuttled, and became the island's first inha he told me the other day that he ships and the prisoners of war, bitant. "would like to box my cars" be- who are real Nazis. cause of something I had written which he did not like.
That I cannot believe, for I am | danger," he said. "I do not prisoner of war. He was a Dutchman and could provide much of their own'
stringency of present regulations Well, if my ears must be boxed, had to be relaxed a little. Be there is no man I would rather have it remembered that this is a war do it...
in which the whole Empire is | combatant, and in which the whole world is concerned..
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One day Arthur Creech Jones will
ait on the Front Bench. To-day as {
"They would not have to be very strongly guarded because any who ezcaped from camp and beesme out-
He supported himself in St. Helenaj laws would risk starving."
years before
Camps For Boors:
"Imagine what might happen if for several arms, and leaders were dropped by rescried. parachute into the prison camps. There must be 2,000 such prisoners In this country,
being
Colonel Wedgwood told me that extra_fded for the prisoners could be sent from Africa and would cost less In the South African war, the than it costs us to feed the prisoners itland was used as a prizen camp for. In this country. The reply given in "I should like to see them ship-Boers Colonel Wedgwood's brother Parliament to his suggestion was that ped to 81. Helena, - Eblps could takei was one of their querd.
the mutter was being considered.
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