Daily Herald from London, London, England • 9

THI'RSb. HURLING ROCKS TO MAKE SHOW. Chelsea Fun At £250 A Time WF you and I had our garden invaded by an army of men with pickaxes, who threw rocks and put up tents and built ponds all over it we might complain. This Is exactly what is happening to the gardens of the Royal Chelsea Hospital this week. And care.

It may take them three or four days to make all this mess," an old man with R.H." on his cap said yesterday, but it only takes a little while for them to clear it up. Once the Chelsea Flower Show Is over we get a whole lot of new grass. The Royal Horticultural Society pays for the seed, and it comes up lovely in no time." THROWING BY FLAN At present the Hospital gardens are in a state of chaos. The British Industries Fair seems to have invaded it with the noisy building of three-ply stands down the avenue; rooks brought from Derbyshire are thrown about, not haphazard, as you might think, but according to blueprints. By next Tuesday, when the Flower Show opens, the stands will be covered with exotic plants, and the broadcast rocks will be turfed and considered ornamental.

By talking to one nf thr chief rockcasters I learned, writes a Daily Herald" representative, thai a few square yards of ornamental ran cost as inurh as £250. Ponds have to be made, water laid on. rocks tfrom Derbyshire i put on trains and taken off again. And all along the Embankment end ot the garden are dozens of these "ornamentals of them at £250 a lime Something you may not see when the Show opens, but which I saw yesterday, was as exotic as any flower they can show you. It was a bag of Portland Cementmade in Belgium Just shows how far the Empire can tling itself when it tries.

148 LINES TO STOP ONE TAX DODGE TMIE Chancellor's proposals to stop tax-dodging are put into legal form in the Finance Bill, published yesterday. Ten highly technical clauses and 148 lines of small type are needed to or so it is the loopholes associated with "settlements, dispositions, trusts. covenants. agreements and arrangements" which some taxpayers have found so useful in the past in drawing plans for the benefit of their children." In Clause 16 of the Bill provisions are made for preventing tax evasion by transactions resulting in the transfer of income to persons abroad. Unless the authorities can now be assured that such transfers arc for legitimate purposes, income tax will now be payable exactly as though the sums were paid direct to people in this country.

Clause 19 spells the death-knell of the educational trust" scheme, and any income settled on a child by a parent for purposes of the child's education or otherwise now becomes treated as the income of the parent and in consequence fully taxable (editorial on Page 10.) INTELLECTUAL MURDER! NEW CHARGE AGAINST THAELMANN? Ernst Thaelmann. the German Communist leader who has been imprisoned by the Nazis for more than three years, will be tried when adequate preparations have been according to an official in Berlin. It is reported that a new charge has been added to the indictment against him that of "intellectual responsibility lor the murder of 400 Nazi supporters." This would involve the death sentence, contrary to assurances given to British Ps who visited Berlin recently. NOTICES TO JURORS PRIVATE JOB AGENCIES: INQUIRY SOUGHT ci the liner grounded a Blackinore Point. Some jid say they could see but were i ot those Kcrbcv, master Special Jurors for King's Bench Court VI, oilier than those in the part-heard case, need not attend until to-morrow.

Common Jurors for Court discharged. i to clean up London's that it has received "numerous eomprivate eniplov nieut agencies plaints about excessive charges made by ias been launched. Excessive employment agencies hareine is alleged Artists receiving the minimum salary nargrng is anegea. have paid 10 per cent, commission tor British Actors Equity Association Urst ond ind tlnrtl engagements, but ind the London Trades Council have le has done no more than send a passed on to the C.C the licens- postcard informing the artist of a posing body, the suggestion that they Mble engagement." should request the Home Office to set Eear of victimisation, however, has up an inquiry into the operation of created a reluctance by Equity memprivate agencies. Iters to give information, and it is felt The Public Control Committee of the that the llomc Office could obtain LCC his the matter under evidence not available to the or and a move is expected shortly Equity, said he saw I'nder the heading Private Employ- Certain agencies which arc alleged to 11 bu' hr did ment Agenrie- a booklet published yes- have excessively charged typists for getas to tar lerday on what Equity is doing, states ting jobs, are also criticised.

£lOO DAMAGES FOR GOSSIP AT TEA Wife Who Knew Air Council Secret Df. CAUSE his wife made remarks about an R.A.F. officer at a tea party, Air- Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, a member of the Air Council, was jointly sued with her in the Hich Court yeesterday for slander. They were ordered to pay £lOO damages to the plaintiff. Air Commodore W.

F. McNeece Foster. The case was stated to be probably the last in this country in which a plaintiff could sue a husband in vpect of his wife's torts. Only ten days after the action was the law was changed, said Air xiore Foster's counsel, and now a could go abroad feeling imrom ins wile LADY NEW ALL "I Couldn't Challenge To A Duel" Maeaskie suggested that that was a hall'-hcarted apology for a most serious attack. MOST PRECIOUS assurance that we will, in future, discourage any discussion of you and your laiter Sir Cyril offered a full withdrawal of any suggestion that might have been conveyed by the words.

Air Commodore Foster, in evidence, said that he regarded Sir Cyril New-all's letters of apology as entirely unsatislactory. REFiSEDTO PROMOTE HIM I IR COMMODORE FOSTER case was that, after being informed in 1933 bv the Council that he was not to be promoted to Air Vice-Marshal, trouble arose over official documents which he was alleged to have copied or was sent to him which, he d. cast a slur on his character, the Air Council asked if he i appeal to the King against ision not to promote him He eplK 1 Yes." but contended that the ippoal could not go forward unless the as withdrawn. May 24. 1935.

said Mr. N. Kc his counsel, controversy Air Commodore Foster and the 1 went on discreetly and con- No one else knew anything HE IS RUSH Nr. HIS CHANCES 4 May 25 Lady Newall went to the home of a Mr. and Mrs.

Bosanquet. where there were also a Mr. Harris and daughter, who, though strangers to Ladv Newall. knew Air Commodore and his wife. New all said to Miss Harris: I Mr Foster is a harming peril vou' I hope she is not agretuith tins ridiculous way her husband 'having He is ruining his chances, so stupid, because, with an increase lie Air Force, there would be a great chance for him to get a very good posit.on That is now quite impossible." To Mi Bosanquet Lad New all said, when asked whether she knew Air Com- but not as well as we used to.

Foster has been behaving like an also said. Mr Foster has been ng such an ass of himself in kickip a fuss about not being promoted Mr Bosanquct ami Mr. Harris. Newall said I am so sorry lor hosier because her husband is IKh fool of hmiseit He has disappointed at not securing pro'u and is behaving stupidly. He is dly threatening to tiring an action ist the Air Council." HM.F-HEART ED iPOLOC.Y he persons who heard thin-ported the matter to Air Foster, who wrote to ttie Air 3 Sir Cyril Newall wrote to slore Foster.

My wife and I that the conversation which apparently reported to you rally hurt your feelings, but be i.tkt-ii that I am admitting ol what was said lid like you to know how very hat anything my wife said you and your wile distress, you our sincere regret and THING HE HAS IR PATRICK HASTINGS, rrossexamining: Do you want Sir Cvril lo pay you damages for what Lady Newallsaid at a tea The reputation ot an otlioer is the most precious thing he has got. It is laid down in King Regulations that, if his reputation is attacked, he must defend it I ask simply lor the remedy which the law gives. I couldn't challenge him to a duel. Because this was said at a Kingston tea party? Because Ladv Newall abused and distorted the confidential information I shall be very glad for the damages to go to any purpose or charity. Sir Patrick Hastings submitted that there was uo case to answer.

"I do not think." he said, anyone could suggest that to say of a man that he is behaving like an ass is dela mat orv unless you can prove special damage. To say that a mail is an ass is nothing defamatory against his rapacity as an officer. A man may still be a very good retired officer but may still be an ass. Mr. Justice McKinnon.

summing lip. instructed the Jury not to pa.ss any opinion as to whether or not Sir Cyril Newall should have told anything to his wife. After a retirement the jury found that two of Lady Newalls statements were defamatory, and were spoken in relation to Air Commodore Fosters profession. They awarded £5O damages on each slander. Judgment was entered accordingly.

with costs up to the date of a payment into court, which had been made CAPTAIN THOUGHT LIGHT BELONGED TO CINEMA lie thought that a red light -till from 31.000 tons motor Winchester Castle brfon- stranded Portland Bill. i on February lb was that of a tinnn.i was fold by the master to the Board of Trade inquiry in Loiulun bound from the Cape Castle hud 33G opened be lore Mr he Thames magistrate) Captain A E. Dodd and Williams as assessors Pilcher. KC. and Mr red for the Board ot ward.

and Mr Navigators and Enand Mr Kenneth Mr Charles Steven- I nion Castle Mr Alexander anal Union of away they were. He also saw a red light and he thought they were all lights of a mall villngi Mr. Pitcher: Did you think that the red light was shining over a doctor's I thought it was to do with a cinema show It did coastal Th- occur to him that it was a inquiry will be resumed to-day DAILY HERALD MAY it. ms. MISS COW ELL THEY WILL BE SEEN AND HEARD "TERRIBLY thrilled with 1 their jobs.

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dark, and 23, has been connected with mannequin work, dress designing and display. They will be heard in the CeralJo programme on May 26. and seen in test I I transmissions in July. I Now the C. is looking for a male announcer.

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