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NS NE GR > on THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Monday, July 12, 1926. A PAGE OF BRITISH NEWS FOR THE READERS OF THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG PERFECT BUTLER PLAUSIBLE FYClSE FORBLACK STUDS Posed as a Member of Par- ~~ liament 'Who Dressed in Black Entertained by Family Who Were Entranced by His Employer's Exploits ' S------ Scotland Yard detectives are still Searching for a butler who is sald to have represented himself more than Commander Locker-Lamp- - |& jutting rock Hs explained the slip away by say- ing, "X dressed in & hurry in the PLAUSIBLE PERSON, Locker Lainpson, sald fe3f. © == IUNORFARNERS FIREMAN CLIMBS 100 FEET WITH BOY ON BACK Waste Not, a { | | Lad Had Fallen Over Cliff |[R anl Broken a Leg . FIRST AID Made Temporary Splints from Branches and Handkerchiefs -- A perilous climb down--and up--a Precipice to rescue a boy was made by Fireman Marshall, of Sheffield, while on leave. Marshall was walking in the woods at Little Matlock when some children him to rescue a chum who had en over the cliff and was lodged on halfway down. Marshall could not find a way up, 80 he made the dangerous descent of & hundred feet, and on reaching the boy found he had a broken leg. Small branches and twigs were thrown down and used as temporary Splints; while handkerchiefs were used or 5 ; lane, Sheffield, was taken to the Royal * | Infirmary, where he is progressing vorably. FLOURISH IN BRITA New Clubs Being Formed Every Day in Old Country Young farmers' clubs are now be- ing established In Britain at the rate of one a day, and their members now total more than 2,000 according to a prominent official of the Ministary of Agriculture. The boy and girl mem- bere keep calves, sheep, pigs, poultry, bees, and other live stock, cultivate the soll, and go through the entire process of work on the land. Although yet in its infancy, the movement is strides in Britain. All boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 20 are eligible for membership, Droviamg they are in a position properly to keep stock. Usually each mmeber has charge of a calf, or perhaps two pigs, or again, haif-a-dozen hens. All the clubs are self-supporting, and the members are lent pedigree stock on a promissory note from thelr parents or guardian. They care for the stock tl the sud of the year, paying particular atten- tion to increase in weight and feeding. meet once a f in KITTENS WORST TREATED ANIMALS No Heart to Destroy But ~~ Callous Enough to Abandon The British mines are still closed Ing on, not in the pit weighing up of sacks of coal gleaned Colliery In East Lothian, to be sold to but on the surface. Want Not PRISONER GIVES | ECHO OF FAMOUS CASE FROM COT Solicitor's Clerk Dying in 'Wandsworth Jail from Heart Disease "MR. A" TRIAL One of Principals in Most Impudent Frauds of Century William Cooper Hobbs, the fraudul- ent accountant and solicitor's clerk, who was sentenced to two years' hard labor in March last year for his share in the notorious "Mr. A" case, is, ly- ing seriously lll in Wandsworth Prison, He is not expected to recover. Representations for his release, made to the Home Office by his rela- tives, are being considered. These, it is understood, are supported by the ; prison medical authorities, who state blit some of the miners are The above illustrations from the waste du local residents. HOSPITAL GIFTS SCOTSHAN BEST HAVE WIDE RANGE Queen's Scrapbook King's Beer to Be Auctionkd ---- ALSO "FORD" Middlesex Hospital Recon-| struction Fund Receives Novel Donations Many qilaint gifts have been receiv- ed for the reconstruction fund of the Middlesex Hospital. They range from a Ford car to gold and platinum brooches, the donation of a "Rejected Lover." 'While the appeal conmimittee have never asked for anything but money, there has been a steady stream of all sorts of gifts, including furniture, and | English Effort in Tweeds COLOR BLENDER is Too Quiet or Too Loud PULL OVER Prince of Wales Creates Demand for Fair Isle Knitting "All the finest tweeds come from Scotland, and the best color blender is either a Scotsman or a drunken Irishman," announced Alexander Merchant (himself a Scotsman) at 'the Board of Trade inquiry into a duty on Imported hosiery, Mr. Merchant, a London agent for British, American and Swiss firms, sald that In the United States 99 per cent. of the best-class goods for men, sliver, old glass and--latest of all--the tall of a bull elephant sent anony- mously from Northern Rhodesia. 'What to do with this 8rowing col- | lection of goods and chattels wes at first a problem to the authorities. Now they have hit upon a solution, and to- wards the autumn there will prob- ably bo a big auction sale of the really useful articles and a "junk" sale of the--~well: not so tiseful ot A well-known West end auctioreer has offered to conduct free of charge, and bear all expenses, a three days' auction. LIVE STOCK GIFTS. In addition to the Ford, the hospital been presented with a brougham and a four-wheeled dog cart by a wo- man who has given up her carriages for motors. All sorts of live stook are constantly being offered, and the ap- peal committee can only suggest that the owners conduct the sales them- selves and hand over the money. A sorapbook of Queen Victoria, started when she was 13 years old: a beautiful Dresden mirror, which had been in the donor's family for more than 100 years; a clalrvoyant's crystal, sent to the hospital because it had brought the owner luck, and two bottles of "King's Beer," brewed by King Bdward at Burton-on-Trent in 1 d which has realized as much as £100 per bottle--are amongst the queer collection of gifts which the ap- peal committee have received. "E2(ORIPPLE LAY IN WOODS THREE DAY Looking for Work Was Overcome and Groans Brought Relief Groans heard coming from a wood Mipshiead. Somerset, led to a such 'as pullovers, sweaters and cardigans, were Scottish, with English goods goming second. A Scotsman could blend colors in a way that had never been achieved by the Englishman. Mr, Faraday (for the Joint Indus- trial Council): Are you referring to the Tartan? Mr. Merchant: No. The wears tweeds in the open air, and his- eye gets used to colora, whereas the Englishman usually wears dark clothes, and directly he goes to blend colors he achieves something either too quiet or too loud. (Laughter.) The Prince of Wales, he added, had greated a demand for the Fair Isle pullover. The islanders had more work than they could cope with, and orders were placed with Donegal knitters, : Then Leicester manufacturers evolv- ed a machine which made fine imita- tions of the pullover, and thers had been a European demand. Some fac- tories had worked night shifts making them, WIND BLOWS BABY OVER SEA WALL London Visitor to St. Leon-|- ard's Rescues Peram- «bulator, Too A perambulator containing a baby, Which had been left by a girl on the Under-parade at St . Le was blown into the sea by the wind, The girl's screams brought people to the spot, and J. Hooker, a visitor from London, dived in fully dressed and rescued the baby, which was still in the perambulator. He then went in again and brought the perambulator to sufety. . 'The baby was unhurt except for a cut on the mouth. It was treated at a chemist's, and then taken home in a taxicab, that Hobbs is suffering from severe gwart disease, and is net like to re. Var, Sn 3 that permission for his may be granted within a few dash Hobbs is too ill 1a. be moved ye! aes > A #s yifig in the prison hospital, where he has been for the last five months. He is visited daily by his brother, who has a special pass to visit him on other than the ordinary visit. ing days, The dying man, it is understood, has already made his will, and is anxious to arrange all his afafirs, He is receiving every care from the prison medical officer, Special permis. sion has also been given for him to receive special food and delicacies from his relations. Considerable offictal secrecy con- cerning Hobbs' condition is maintain. ed. Hobbs, who has been described as the "most consummate rogue in modern criminal history," was found guilty at the Old Bailey--in March, 1 » on charges of conspiracy to de- fraud Rajah Sir Hari Singh (Mr. A."), and of receiving two cheques for £150,000 each, knowing them to have been obtained as the result of the con- spiracy, He was sentenced by Mr. Justice Avory to two years' imprisonment with hard labor, the maximum sen- tence for cbnspiracy. £150,000 CHEQUE, His sentence brought to a dramatic conclusion one of the most sensational cases heard in a British court of jus. ce. tice. It opened with a High Court action brought by Charles Robinson the Midland Bank to recover £125,000, which, he said, was money received by the bank for his use, and which had been paid out without his authority. a Dart of a Shon sor An OOS WAS a cheque for , - tained by a blackmailing conspiracy. For ie Jutege HIS WILL, by Sir Hari Singh succeeded throne of Kashmir on the death of uticie In September, 1025. The conspiracy was described by Sir Ernest Wild, K.C., Recorder of Lon- don, as "as monumental and impudent a fraud as perhaps has ever been per- Petrated in our criminal history." Hobhbe. the seemingly respectable cletk of a solicitor, was unmasked as a consummate hypocrite and clever criminal. He began his career at the age of fourteen as a junior clerk in an ac- countant's office. He never received more than £6 a week, but was said at the time of hix imprisonment to yg a fortune of more than £200, , mainly invested abroad, CURIOSITY GAVE --Had to Be Sawn Free To get a better view of a steam tug passing under Westminster Bridge, Walter Donald Reardon, aged 5 years, of Longfield street, yaIworth, Jut his head through the iron balust , and then found that he could not withdraw it He started to ery. A crowd collect- ed. Eight or nine policemen came on the scene and tried to extricate the boy's head. A doctor and one or two students hurried from St. Hospital. The ambulance was moned. Then came the 'fire A river rachman in a boat arch got ready for any emergency. Not until a fireman eu 5 veg Sg AAA AAA AR AAA RRR CLIMBER"S SKELETON FOUND ON SNOWDON at Peny-Gwryd, at the foot of Snowdon, following an inquest. The bones were discovered at a height of nearly 3,000 feet by four aout taineers while BIR a0 0 00 wv * * * w * x * *® ® * zx ® ® ® * * " * = AAA AAA AAR AAAS HINDU "MESSIAH" WRECKS SOCIETY Introduction of Mrs. Be- sant's Protege Has Up- set Theosophists GREAT SCHISM Balliol Undergrad Will Have Twelve Apostles and Tour World Mr. Krishnamurti, the young Hindu "world teacher" discovered by Mrs. Annie Besant, has been creating much interest because of his Inaccessability. Pleas for some light on the new religion are met with the offer of leaflets announcing a forthcoming series of lectures by Mrs, Annie Besant, Krishnamurti's patron, "which will reveal all that anyone wants to know." The great split in the Thesophical Society, which has led to wholesale secessions during the past two years-- by individuals, by the entire London Lodge, and by the National Society of Czecho-Slovakia -- was caused by the Introduction of Krishnamurti by Mrs. Besant, president of the Thesophical Society, into what had hitherto been an unsectarian body. "THIRY-THREE LIVES." Krishnamurti, who was an under- graduate at Balliol when the war broke out, has been educated by Mrs. Besant for many years past in order to fit him for his sacred role. He was only in his 'teens when he was adopted by her in India, and she announced at once that she would soon proclaim a new "Messiah." Since then he has preached in India under a banyan and has travelled in Am- erica and on the Continent. As a boy he was worshipped by devout fol- low, as the possessor of "thitry- three lives.*" Mrs. Besant announces that there will be Twelve Apostles, of whom she is to be one, and that they will live at a house in the Highlands of Scotland which has been taken for the '*teacher." The Order of the Star of the East elected Joie of the new "Aposties" at 40ibs ring in India last Enron h, was at the head of the the Order. nd Re the ae ote young Fn u 2 . The Continent, America are to be visited in tum. RADIO ANNOUNCERS HAVE NEW DANGER Remain Anonymous to Avoid Admirers, is. Claim An explanation of the fact that B. B.C. announcers, formerly known familiarly to the public by their pet names, are now Anonymous, was at a dinner at the Forum Club to mark egation of | & SCALE THAT WEIGHS WORDS EXHIBITED IN LONDON HALL But Still Shopkeeper Can Give Houséwife Short Weight NOVEL TEST Only Security is Home Machine Tested by Inspector Scales that weigh words and are so delicate that they are thrown out = ustmént by a speck of dust, the Poligirtant alr current, or the heat of the human body several inches away, are to be seen at the exhibition of weigh« ing and measuring instruments at the Central Hall, JUSS. | Bis pen A newspaper - cilled signature (13 letters) weighed in one of these fragile balances. Two small pleces of paper were balanced in the scales. One plece was cares fully removed and signed, and on be- ing returned to the pan had put on weight sufficiently to pull the pene dulum considerably off the perpene dicular, How heavy the words were nobody cared to estimate. *"About a million to the ounce" was ane reckoning. The wonderful adjustment of the machine was shown by the violent way it responded when the smallest recognized weight in the world, a one hundredth part of a grain, was place ed In the balance. , x The pan immediately 'grounded. Yet the weight, a tiny, almost invisible platinum wire, is so minute that it ree quires 700,000 of them to make up a pound. BUT NOT TAMPER-PROOF. 'While the science of scales and bale ances has reached this wonderful pitch of accuracy, it has not yet succeeded in inventing a balance that cannot be tampered with, 'If a shopkeeper wants to give short weight he can rig any machine in the world in hs own favor," said one expert. "The housewife's best defence is to buy the superior type of domestic scales tested and stamped by an ine spector of weights and measures. Then her evidence can be accepted in a short-weight prosecution.' FOR MEDICAL WORK. '"This machine," sald-an exhibition official to a press representative, "is used almost exclusively for medical, chemical and scientific work, and is probably the most delicately adjusted apparatus of the kind in the world. ""Another machine for use in shops has such fine mechanism that it weighs anything from a human hair or a cigarette paper to articles up to + 'One exhibiting firm is so rigorous In the tests for fts automatic weligh- mac! TERRIER'S S.08. Directs Help to Crumbled Cliff Where Lad Hung to Ledge dog, a terrier, was fnstrue i ia er appreciation of the work of the B.B.C. Porth General uring BOY HEADACHE js Got Caught in Bridgework he; MOTORDRVERIN FATAL SOMERSAULT if si F rescued. said he wds reaching for a bird's nest when the cliff beneath his feet and he fell. Hé had been' to the ledge for two PERSEVERANCE HAS 1S RH RE ns, Brothers in Welsh Coal . Field Strike Valuable Seam : One "'colliery" at least in West Wales is still working, and in tie po SAVES BOY CHUM YN w y 4 »