They Are Now 156 Years Old
The long and distinguish- ed record of the Stafford- shire Yeomanry formed over 150 years ago from five troops of volunteer cavalry and now a regiment of the Royal Armoured Corps is to be published in book form soon as official history.
an
The work is being financed largely by officers of the regi- ment, with
from the A grast Staffordshire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, and is beint written by Com- annnder Kemp, RN,
The Itegiment was formed in
1703 to assist in the "inter- nal defence and security of the Kinnlom during the war with F
was at first ad- ninistered by a Committee of deputy Lieutenants and magist- fortnightly at the
rates
Swan
In, Stafford. Later ne year the Statfordshire Volunteer Cavalry, as it was enlled, came into being and the Criginal troops were rated at Newcastle, Stafford, Lichfield, Leck and Walsall.
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Traditional dress was a red Jocket
with
yellow fecings, white waistcoat, white leather Breeches and a helmet with a bearskin erest and feather at the side, Arins consisted of H sword and pistol, and for its badge, it adopted the Stafford Knot. The le "The Queen's -Own Royal Regiment," นาง
conferred memorato 1 Visit from the Queen.
to City-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1950:
AND
PISTOLS, TOO?
EVEN the girls are getting Western-minded these days, Out in Hollywood, Diana Lynn, Marle Wilson and Corinne Calvert (left to right) are demonstrating how they whoop it up in their new picture together. (Acme)
Calls Them Anti-Hate
Stalinists
Mr L. D. Gammans, MI, wrote recently to the Sup day Times, London,
"I notice that several Frenchi newspapers now refer to the Comments always
J "Stall- nists," This might well caped over here. It reveals the frath-fint Communisın
today
bag little to do with pennonser and
lem with rovial equality,
bad - an instrument of Rum san
imperialist
Urges
Russians Flee From Terror In Homeland.
Alexandra Tolstoy, daughter of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, said many anti-Communists are escaping from Russia, rather than live "in terror" at home.
Miss Tolstoy, president of the Tolstoy Founda- tion, which gives shelter to Russian immigrants! to the United States said she has received in- formation that many of the 6,000,000 members of the Communist Party in Russia would like to go West along with other members of the population of 180,000,000.
The leak 13 slower." stic
"Terror keeps most Rus-patrolling escape routes careful- sians at home," she said. ly, she said. "Even the Soviet people who escape arc frightened."| added, "but it la tin there, They are trickling from Russin Many of the refugees are all the time, The trickling army men and some ore Jews, never stops."
Mias Tolstoy sald One army
oficer walked from the Eastera Apparently, MIGU Talloy to die Weston zone of Germany Falch, there is no organised and saki he never wanted to "underground mllway" In
Russia. return to Russla, she said.
During the carly postwar "There is a commitee for a year, Russians fled in large freo Europe, to liberate the numbers, she said. Now, how-satellite ctntes behind the fron the Communists have curtain," she said, "but there ever, cleared the borders of forests is no committee for the libera- and underbrush through which tion of Russia," escapees used to flee and are
Centre
Tolerance
A policy of tolerance and compromise is the only way to avoid a catastrophic war with Russia, the head of Harvard University's "anti- hate" centre contends.
"Cold co-operation should replace the cold war," said Prof. A. Sorokin, director of the Research Centre for Creative Altruism. The Centre was set up a year ago with a donation of U.S.$120,000 to study methods of eliminating hatred and making people more unselfish.
STRANGE MISHAPS
Miss Tolstoy, 05. Wh countera when she led from Communist Russia in 1020 Luder 11 death centerice.
Now
an American citizen, she super- vises the care and resettlement of displaced Russians at Reed Farm, near Nyack, New York.
Strange mishaps have befallen Mika Tolstoy following her out- bursts against Communism. On several occasions, she said, loose screws and bolts have been thrown into her car engine.
maid, "It might not."
NEW
FORM
OF
CLASSROOM
WHAT is probably the world's largest blackboard is shown in Long Beach, Call-. fornia. Schoolchildren are being shown first-hand information on how extensively modern man relies on air transportation after n guided tour of the municipal airport. (Acme)
£4 MILLION
TREASURES
SEEN IN UNIQUE FAIR
(FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT)
London, June 1.
A £4,000,000 display with magnificent royal loans on view, will at- tract thousands of overseas visitors this month to the tenth Antique Dealers' Fair in London. The Fair will be opened by H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent on June 8, and is under the patronage of Queen Mary, a noted connoisseur of antiques,
She spoke reluctantly abou! formation which she has re- In the finely crived from Russia, and said that
Great
Room she knew
no recent escapees who had entered the House, with its U.S..
انه
of
Cost Of Social Services
Mr R. A. Butler, MP, told.
It will be the fourth Fair is closely examined by experts Hince the war, and takes drawn from the appropriate "It might be an accident," she place at the height of the uncle on duty, and every new piece brought in to replace a brilliant London season. treasure that has. been sold-
for the whole of the items on show, with
of proportioned i H
the exception those lent by members of the "t the Communists are call-
Grosvenor Royal Family and the Worship- Statinters they may help to
commodiousfel Company of Goldsmiths, are galleries, there will be 100 ex- open to purchase is subjected open Bie eyes of dupes rangi from the London dockers
One result to!
of his anti- was responded to aggres- Conversely, the professor said,
hibitors well known to alt con- to expert scrutiny before being "It is very difcult to keep noitzcurs and azémirers misguided preintes in the Deas hate studies, Sorokin said, sively, and a friendly ap. hatred is a form of disease.
of Bri- allowed on the stands. track of Russion displaced per- very of Canterbury, and make showed that an
received a friendly
and Oriental aggressive proach
It is the strict observance of a meeting of Conservative. Sorokin's proposed rehabilita.sons." Miss Tolstoy said. "They ish, Continental, then readine FIL they are
are approach, between indivi-response in 80 percent oftion programme nerely helping those who
t spread destroy all evidence that they antiques, Glass, English, foreign this system of scrutiny that has women in St Pancras Town world-wide inve would start, in fare Russians, as safely precau- and ou to destroy us."
or between nations, cases,
and won for the Fair the reputation Hall. recently that in 1900 the fatally, where "wise and ions, and claim false citizen-chia, gold, silverware and for integrity which It has "This reminds us that if we warm love moulds saints, good ship of other countries."
arwter, furniture
Ils prestige is the annual cost of public and carpets, always enjoyest, want a friendly relationship to neighbours and altruista."
"At the end of the war, 700,- pottery and enamels,
reflected in the regular attend-social services was about exist between
United the
|000 or 300,000 Russians
col-21 per head of the popula who and MSS., tuperiry and needle- States and Russia, both sides
"If we can rebuild for all had been forced into Inbour by work, pictures
tion. It was now about £37. prints, should make
the a friendly ap gewly-born
harmonious the Germans went into hiding elocks and jewels, antiquities of There will again be seen As a result of taking 43.5 pronelt,"
"intend of family that is stable and loves and never he said, equal practising
mugressive-its children and members wisYet only 8,000 of them
and other loans from the Royal Collections Percent
of 11.M. The King and H.M. come in taxation, there has Hess."
ly," he said, "most criminality, been listed as Russians by the objects of art will be shown. Insanity, unhappiness and military and
The Queen, M. Queen Mary, been a rapid redistribution of the United Na- hatred is Ikely to disappear.
The Princeza Elizabeth, tions."Unlied Press.
the lacome. In 1938 there were two Duke and Duchess of Glouces£250-£499
million Krosa incomes` là the
duals
EFFECTING
A
CURE
CHANGE IN POLICY
Since the very future of reming less gelfish and more humanity depends on Its bo-
Outlining his programme for world peace, the 1-year-old ruistic, this research is the | Sorokin said a "radient change
of paramount
one study
in foreign policy was necessary Portanec," the amiable
"Our basic poley must be bespectacled professor sald.
grounded en tolerance and com-
promise. We
must stop our
mutual vituperativeness,'
said. "Gradually, cold
ho
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NO MIRACLES
int-
and
"If governments, foundations, private philanthropists
operation would replace the cold and
returned to Itussin, have
past
Some Chicken
How to make chickens taste better-season them by injec- tion. Eugene Elk, Florida farmer, reported today that his sales have gone up by 200 per vent since he began squirting war and eventually there would understand the real situation, chemical, discovered centuries be friendship."
they should immediately ap- by the Chinese, into ths [propriate bllons of dollars for Right now, he said, a third this research, They should
war - way
40-51 gather all the best brains and
put them 10 work
world possibility."
"A
The Russian-born sociologist problem.
on
this
birds.
He said: "It makes
4- cold storage chicken taste better than a fresh-killed one."
CLARK
said he thought his former coun- "We can't expect miracles, trymen would respond 10 but if it's solved, everything is
| friendship. A revolutionary solved and a megalaceat future
himself until he was banished
of death in opens before humanity.
under sentence
1922, Sorokin once was secre- "If it's not solved, nothing tory to the Russian Prime can
prevent further
catastro-
Minister, Alexander Kerensky, phies. Therefore, control of und a founder of the
П
All discuses and other small vils Russian Peasant Soviet. He was becomes useless. They will be a member of the constitutional lost in the apocalyptic suicide assembly that was overthrown
of mankind killing itself by its own hatred and selfishness."- United Press.
by the Bolsheviks.
LOVE SUSTAINS LIFE
Sorokin nakk preliminary
studies at the anti-hate
suggested that
Was
lovt-energy Sky-Struck Cows
a definite fe-sustaining
face and that altruistic persons "Flying saucers" have invad- Lved "much longer than thoir |ed the cloudless Swiss sky. Tricy contemporarles
are balloons sent up by a con- IN an attempt to control heart disease, Dr Eugene M.
"A developed and cultivated Their aim is to make long-dis- frees of metercological, experis.
K. Gelling, of the University of Chicago, demonstrates
luve stema to be the best therapy tance flying in the upper at- for anxiety. melancholia, un mospheres easier. how Jamaican touds may be of help. This one was fed happiness and psychoneurosis," radioactive worma which will cause it to secrete a
he said. "Genuino altruists The Swiss peasants substance that acts like digitalis, used as a heart
obtain the peace of mind that see eye to eye with this. Cows stimulant. Dr Gelling hopes to discover how digitaliseve gives the greatest possible at "fying saucers" give
'passeth all understanding' and that stop chewing the cud to look
works. (Acme)
security in this insecure world." [inilk, they say.
K. 0.
CANNON
YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE
FOLLOWED ME WHISPEN.
THIS COULD BECOME
ROUGH.. BUT I DID HANT SE DE
TO GET A LOOK AT ZUCCI'S,
PRIVATE OFFICE.
cannot
Iusa
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
JA MURDERERS
COME BACK TO THE SCENE OF THEIR CRIMES-BOMBONE MAY HAVE BEEN
"BACK HERE?
5.SHEDONI THE DOOME,
Oriental porcelain
civilisations
books
SCENE OF SPLENDOUR
BRICE of conrolsseurs and lectors.
ter, the Princess Royal, ang the The general scene is one of Duchess of Kent. splendour and of richness of craftsmanship. With so many valuable pieces on view there
and
000.
of the national in-
per
annum rige in 1947 there were 7,000,-
A gross income of £1,100 was needed today to provide - pur-
is established a special day and Air Conditioning, using power equivalent 1030.
night security system.
2000 B. C.
gross income of in To equal the purchasing power of a gross income of £2,000 in 1338, they today to earn £8,-
A 4,800-year old granary 13 000. ventilated by a complex system
The greatest possible care is taken to ensure that every article conforms to the regula tous laid down for the conduct
The growth of the social ser of the Fair, nuniely, that all of alrducts. It was discovered vics system must be watched articles are nuthentic antiques In the Northern Sind, at Mo-carefully to see that beneits of the period they are represent-henjo Daro-the ruins of a wont to those needing was cllm- ed to be, and are made mnde famous prehistoric city, by Dr inated. It would be necessary prior to 1830,
Mortimer Wheeler, who said the review granary was the best prescrved it all known buildings of the Ilus Valley civilisations.
Before the Fair opens dully every exhibit, small or large,
GABLE
IN
SPEEDWAY
the whole system: of social security payments in conjunction with the system of iaxation.
PICTURE
MAURI Rose, three times winner of the 500-milé Indianapolis speed their son, Mauri Jur., sred sight, is greeted by screen star Clarke,
an aitack of pollo. Gable is playing in a picturs built;
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