1950-04-06 — Page 3

ANGRY TENANTS OVER COUNCIL'S

DO'S AND DON'TS

There is a threatened "mutiny" among the 12 families who sto tenants of the St Marylabone Council in a block of requisitioned flats in Dunster House, Hanson Stroot, W. Cause of the trouble: 15 "rules" Issued by the land. lords telling them, among other things, how often to sweep out their flats and clean their windows.

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The tenants' first taste of "discipline" came when rota for sweeping the stairs and yards of the flats, and cleaning out the washhouse, was posted on the front door.

day.

It was torn down the next Then every tenent was given list of "rules to be observed by occupants of adopted re- quutioned premises."

ROYAL

SCOTS

AND 10TH

GURKHAS

Sir

"Don'ts" included these:

Don't keep pets.

Don't play a piano, wirelera. or grunophone after 11 o'clock.

Don't keep refuse Inside the premizes.

Don't carry out work for the installation of any apparatus to give heat, glit, power or or install à telephone without permission.

energy,

'KEEP CURTAINS TIDY' And tenants were told;

Do watch the rola for your turn at cleaning the stairs and by the landings as directed council.

Do sweep out the floors of Cats every day and scrub them once a week,

D clean the windows at Her Royal Highness least once a month. Princess Mary, Colonel-in- Do keep the curtains gat Chief of the Royal Scots, and tidy in appearance, and will present two claymores have your chimney swept once Philip a car. tu General

The "rules" were signed: Christison, Colonel of the Butt Town Clerk." 10th (Princess Mary's Own)

The council rent a represen- Gurkha Rifles at an historic tative to warn tenants lo ex- Inspections Or ceremonial parade in Edin-pect

surprise visits Just to burgh this month to cele-even

weekly

brate the affiliation of the make sure they were carrying

Gurkha Regiment to the Royal Scots.

ufter the

out the orders,

COUNCIL EXPLAINS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1950.

THE PHOTOGRAPHER HAD A HUNCH

These cats were photographed at the 38th Annual Beresford Cat Club show in Chicago. The photographer had a hunch. He thought that white Persians In- variably looked up with wide-eyed innocence while other cats appeared belli- gerent. To prove his theory, he posed a white animal with an orange one, and

this is the result. (Acme)

Nairobi Made City

By Royal Charter

By Our Own Correspondent

Today Nairobi, capital of Kenya, is receiving_a_Royal Charter conferring upon it the status of city. also be and mother of five young chil

The Duke of Gloucester, who with the Duchess has flown out to Kenya for the ceremony, will present the Charter in person.

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U.S.

FLEET IN PACIFIC WILL BE REINFORCED

WASHINGTON, April 5.—The U. S. Pacific Fleet will reach its greatest strength in more than a year when the 27,000-ton carrier. Philip- pine Sea, joins it this spring. Transfer of this Essex-class carrier from the Atlantic climaxes a series of recently announced `additions to the Pacific fleet.

MARINES TO LEAVE CHATHAM

Gloom has descended over the Medway towna where the glitter of the Globa and Laurel will soon be a rare sight, The Royal Marines are to leave Chat- ham after nearly two and a half centuries.

As a Navy economy measure, the Royal Marine HQ is being closed down, and personnel are to be taken over by Portsmouth and Plymouth depots and quor- tered at Lympstone, near Exeter, and Bickleigh, Portsmouth.

HMS Serious, the centralised part of the Navy's supply service. will take over Chatham HQ.

the

The "Leathernecks" will not depart from Chatham entirely, however. It is understood that their central pay and record

remuin office will

bared a: Melville Barracks.

NO EXACT DATE

The exact date of the Marines' entry Into Chatham is nol known, but it is recorded that they were quartered in nearby Rochester before 1708. The site of Chatham Barracks was bought in 1777, at which time the Marines were quartered in ale- In the Colonies,

the older houses. were all created by Letters Patent at the time of

Mrs McHenry, 48-year-old Later in the year, ol a lun- cheon in London at which 1er wife of Mr Richard Mettoiry Royal Highness will present, General Christison wildren-the youngest a baby of "To do present two Gurkha kurkris three months-cold:

work would mean with razor- this 'rota' murderous kniven like exige-to the Royal Scots. neglecting my children, and 1

to do In thus becoming city Colonial capital to address a don't intend The 10th Gurkhas was one of tainly

Ever since then, the Marines Nairobi joins Port of Spain formal petition to the King ask-cifles connell Explanation by the four Gurkha regiments to

been closely connected have Some of these Colonies have the appointment of their first with the town, and, of course, of felál:

"The rules are issued (Trinidad) Nassau (Bahn-ng for the title of city. be retained la the

to all tenants in our requisi-mas), Victoria (Hongkong) taken advantage of the status of bishops The Letters Patent of

of their departure transfer of Forces power in India two years ago. Honed flats as part of the con- and other colonial capitals their capitals to develop forms August 22, 1842 issued by Queen the news

as a bitter First raised in

that have had this status of local government analogous Victoria for the appointment of short to the townsfolk. 1887 as the ditions of their tenure.

Many to the municipal system of the the first Bishop of Georgetown, of the townsmen "The existence of a fulltime conferred upon them. Poltee

Royal Military Kubo Valley

United work was

gdom. The citizens British Guiana, read as follows: Marines, as were their fathers Kingdom. on to proscrve law. andartaker to do the wor

Several colonial capitals have have been

the which

incorporated, in western

arrangement

Tenants are been cities for over a hundred City Council consists of alder- to 10th, has now ceased. desimation changed

men presided over by a mayor, Madras Infantry and 10th Re-expected to take their turn at years. On some the honour has

Gurkha eleaning the parts of the build- cen conferred by Royal Letters and the constitution and func- giment (1st

Others have achieved tons of the Council are carefully Rifles) Maks Infantry before ing used by all, and of course Patent,

by an Act of their If It

own defined by local laws.

the assuming it present name in keep their own fats clean,

when the regiment was we did not tell them what to do Legislature approved by

Nairobi Is 110 embodied in the Indian Foreign it would probably not be done," Crown.

1903

Legion.

Burma

Burma, 11 | wartine

The additional tille of

"Princess Mary's Own was re-

rently conferred.

a recruits are drawn from the flocky, tough cheery, faith- ful little mountain folk of East- ern Nepal, and it has a very distinguished record of service in the Northwest Frontier and in the two world wars. lis 2nd turt Battalion fought in Egypt Gallipoll.

and the 1st Battalion in Mesopotamia In the 1814-18 War, while in the last conflict battalions fought three throughout in the Far East and the other la

in the Middle Easi and Italy. The Regiment in now based in Malaya, and one bat- tallon, the 2/10, has been in Hongkong since last year.

uf ita

It

is returning to Malaya shortly.

OLDE ENGLISH LOOKE

A nasty little war over the well-dressed Englishman and whether he is the third worst- dressed male in the world-bas broken out along Fifth Avenue.

*irt

A fashion magazine began it by starting a campaign to dress American men after a new--OT old-English look. It printed pictures of handsome men in bowlers, velvet-collared over- coats, and Ughtly-rolled um- Edwardian styles are brellas back, the magazine decreed,

Robert Ruark, who has lived

England,

td, promptly blew his, butions with pops that might in Savile Row. have been heard Roored tho anguished Ruark: "British men dress worse than any men alive, except French- men and Spaniards. Collars gape, punts bag. The Englishman is less heedful of soup on his lapels or stew on his weakit than any nation I have ever met. Only an Englishman would

wear the

same cuffs and collars the days running until they seem to cele brate a separate mourning for unknown relatives."

AMERICAN

MATADOR

Sidney Franklin, America's only full-fledged matador, visited the Spanish tourist office in New York and showed his bull-fighting equipment to lovely Senorita Cayita Tacheco. She is trying on a portion of the costume Franklin wore many times In Spain's bullfighting arenas, (Acme)

K. O. CANNON

SLOW UP A BIT, K.O.]

THIS BRIDGE DOESN'T LOOK SO HOT TO ME.

NICELY TIMED, PAUNCH | EDGE KIM OVER-

NOW!

Arsl

.

N

come

are ......We do......constitute and grandfathers before them. and erect the cald Church of St Even the Mayor, Alderman F. II. fo. be Cathedral Lawrence, is an ex-Marine, and Me Akhurst, George Church and Bishop's See and his Macobearer, tia ordain that the whole town of did 25 years in the corps. Georgetown aforesaid shall

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henceforth be a city and be called "The City of George-

LIMITED AREA Other colonial cities, such as town. Victoria (Hongkong) and Bridgetown (Barbados) have

TRADERS' LOSSES

Although the Marines have been in Chathum so long, it was Besides Georgetown, Gibral-only three months ago that the relatively underdeveloped orlar, Bridgetown (Barbados), Stborough conferred its freedom Hans of municipal government. John's (Antigua), Victoria

in the form of urban or parish longkong), Nassau (Bahamas) on the corps.

Perfectionist

Actress Mary McCarty, starring in a Broadway musical comedy, is still willing to learn. In her dressing room, she records her dialogue, then plays it back to see how she can improve her performance.

(Acme)

Obsolete Ship

To Be Sold.

A ship built entirely of wood and bronze, all steel, in or iron being banned in her construction,

Others are the cruisers Rocheater and Juneau, tha 11,000-ton escort carrier, Sicilly, and four anti-sub- marine destroyers.

These reinforcements mark a reversa) in a postwar policy of keeping the stronger fleet in the Atlantic. The Atlantic Fleet will still be larger but not as top- | sidedly in favour of carriers and

cruisers.

The Pacifle Floot reinforce- ments and the joint exercize of units of the U.S. and Britich For Eastern Fleet showed the growth in concerni

among American military leaders over the Com munist succesma in Asia.

The US. Eastern Fleet is part of the Paclic Ficot.

THREE CARRIERS

The Pacific

Fleet will have three Essex-class carriers, in- wheart of two

since Last February.

AS

Both the Philippine Sea and the Juneau had been earmarked for mothballs, Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, chict of naval operations,

was credited with getting Defence Secretary Louis Johnson's approval to keep them In operation despite economy

measures.

Admiral Sherman believes In keeping the operating feet at a maximum and overhead costs, including shore installation funds, at a minimum.

To help the Philippino Seu in operation, the battleship Mis- Aour was reduced to "training status," with a resultant saving af $3,000,000 a year.

TOTAL NUMBER

After the announced changes are made, the Atlantic and Paci- fle Fleets will shape up as foll- ows (the first figure for the At- lantic, the second for the Pacife, and the third the total):

Large Carriers: 3, 0, 3. Essex-class Carriers: 1, 3, 4. Light Carriers: 9, 0, 3. Escort Carriers: -2, 2, 4, Heavy Cruisers; 8, 4, 9. - Listi Cruisers! 2. 1. 3. Anti-aircraft Cruisers: 0, 1, I, Destroyers: 81, 80, 141. Submarines: 41, 29, 70.

Total number of ships in the

to be stripped and sold as a two fleets is 238, consisting of hulk She is the 770-ton Re- 148 in the Atlantic and 10 in the search, launched in 1939 to study Pacifte-United Press.

councils with limited functions were all raised to city status by The lauret of the Marines magnetle problems.

Others, again, such as Hamilton Letters Patent during the 19th Globe and Laurel emblem is (Bermuda) and now

Berm

Nairobi century. Aret established and evereir town councils

IN DISUSE

Selence, in the form of the incorporated in the borough coat | gyro-compacs.now has made her

absolete. [of arms.

Traders In and then pointed to the efficiency

the Medway Designed with schooner sailk, of these bodies as one of the But the power of the Crown towns-Chatham, Rochester and she had an auxillary engine of grounds for their claim to elty to create bishoprics in the Crown Clingham-estimate that they bronze alloy, Cables, anchors and stalus.

Colonies, by Letters Patent, fell will lose £10,000 a week when rigging were of bronze alloy, and Colonial clties vary very into disuse after 1895, and the the Marines go. This loss will penknives and tools were of much too in size and popula- practice has

ceased. It was include the money spent by non-ferrous metal. tion quite naturally, since then laid down አዳ a rule of Marine familles living in the territories are practice that facilities should be Medway towns, and the messity: mony colonial

of limited area. Islands

by legislativo enact and other contracts As granted,

where necessary, might be expected, the majority ments

to disappear. ore in the West Indies, whèrel churches —

which the Imperial

corporate bodies. Through them all religious

ere to be found the oldest settled.Government had disestablished- colonies of the British Colonia! to

Empire.

form

But what is a city? According matters were to be administered

to Halsbury's Laws of England without the interference of the

city is said to be "a borough Government.

incorporate which hath or hath

hnct

Д bishop." Yet neither of

Kingston (Jamaica), Freetown

these two qualifications, (Sierra Leone). Hamilton (Ber- seems, are essential for cities in muda). Port of Spain (Trinidad). Belize (British Honduras) the United Kingdom. The Cily and

of Westminster Is a borough

were all raised to city status

that is not incorporated; Derhy by Acts of their own Govern- and Guildford are ecclesiasticalment Legislatures.

Becs that are not cities,

IN COMMON

And the same is true of cites HULL WILL

in the Colonies. In a number

of enres they were raised to city status at the same time as they were created opiscopal sees. Not all Colonial cities however are cathedral towns and the scatsi

of Bishops. Nairobi in not the seal of Bishop.

Hamilton,

which was made a city in 1807, only become An ecclesiastical

CHASE THE

HALIBUT

Halibut fishing is being

sce in 1825. Not all Colonial resumed from Hull for the elties are incorporated; there is. first time since before the for example, na city corporation war. The venture is being

of Victorla nor of Bridgetown.

started by the St Andrew But all these cities, in the

the Steam Fishing Company, strict-as apposed fo colloquial-sense of the word, and will be a now Idea in possess one thing in common some respects in the port, They hold their title either

has as trawler line-fishing directly or indirectly from the

never been tried from King,

Hull, although lining vessels sall out of Grimsby and Aberdeen.

The fiddle of the Red Domino

LOOK OUT YOU POOLS NIMP

STIRRUPS

A modem new trawler is be- ing ussd for the lining of halibut, probably in the Greenland fal ing grounds. It in Atted with special line-shooting gear and is without the usual trawl winch."

The experiment is much diff erent from the big halibut fishing expeditions which sailed from the part before the war, when 4. parent ship using dorles away for about six months. The vessel will take about four weeks. She will probably market her catch direét on landing.

First voyage was to have been! that will to the Indian Oecan in 1939, but

the war lutervened.

THE LAST HIC-

tip

Robert Sutherland of Auck- land, New Zealand, stood on his

blew head,

paper bags, and doctors' swallowed emetics prescriptions, but hiccoughed continuously for nine days and nights—even in his sleep.

Auckland hospital stopped him with lodito and oxygen.

STRIKES ON THE WATERFRONT

There are four girls working on this Bet of ten piss in Ban Juan,

but the latest sports twist there in beach bowling is not eas

Bare, used. The girls shouldn't be held responsible for any att

The future of halibut 'faking strom, this port i depends on the Ap