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Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1924, Page 4

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CHAMPION ISA IS V OF KM PI lIP. lirilish inolhcrs over-seas have lien I - cii, their .-iiter.-i at. home in the KmI iiv’s (foil 11 lest- Ital.v Compent ion organised hv the National liahy Meek (siuiuil. Of the IS prize-winners II are from the Dominions or Colonies. Although all out 10.00:1 of the (Il).(!!)ll babies in Ihe eompet ition were entered I roll) till) lil ilish 1.-h'S. The ehamnioii baby is Mmv Patricia M'ilsan .of Meibom lie, who wins £2i1.1. Among the fifteen babies who win £•_’ I

Peter David Hi ding, I Id, High St. Chipham. i-i.M'.; Henry Stuart Nelson, 1(17. M’ahlegrave lloail. M’avertive. Liverpool; Allan McColnhie Taylor. I. Park-avenue. Potter’s liar. Middlesex; Neville .Vivian Ward, off. Sulishiiry-rnud. Maidstone; and Den k John .Mark.-, ti. .Market-par-ade, North Finchley, N.

A eoiisolation prize has been awarded to Sheila. Patrick and Denis (lirton. triplets, of 78. Mnlmeshury-rond. Row. K. This is to take the form of a perambulator especially made to accommodate the tlirei'.

The I ‘limpet ition was conducted by photographs, and the parents had to answer searching health and devcloivnicnt (|iiostio!is.

HAPPY” SOVIET TROOPS. RIGA. July 27

The life of Soviet soldiers concentrated in the garrisons on the frontier of Bessarabia, the Rumanian province that Russia is anxious to re-posscss. is one long sweet- song, according to General Pavloff. Commander-in-Chicf of the .South-M'estern Army, who has returned to Moscow alter escorting Third Internationale delegates on a visit to ‘Soviet Army camps. The English delegates, it appears, wore specially impressed by what is described, ns tho wonderful discipline and affectionate relations existing between ofluerr, and men of the Communist shock troops, as well as by their modern equipment. General Pavloff is reported as saying that one English delegate declared : “If the British workers could review the Rod troops, ave should have no difficulty in successfully completing a revolution in England immediately.”

JILTED GIRL TAKES POISON. LONDON, July 2S. A .culijilcit from Byron’s “Don Juan’’ was quoted l>v the Grim.shy coroner yesterday in recording a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane at an inquest on Martian Edith Samson, 20. daughter of a jeweller of llaintoli-.'ivo“ line, (irim.sliv, ulio took cyanide of potassium when with her sweetheart.

George Henry Mitdd, 20. a marine, engineer. of Cyilnki Park-avenue, Grimshy, said he and the girl had “walked out" for three years. They quarrelled a few weeks nun hecau.se she laid hee.ii out with another young man while he (Mudd) was at sea. On Tuesday Mudd told her that he should give her up. and she replied that if he diil she would take poison.

The Coroner: Don’t you think the honourable course would have keen to tell her father?—! told jiim the next night that 1 had found she was going out with some'lie else, and he must not Maine me if we parted. Mudd said he met the girl the next night, and when lie told her again he should give her up she s.hhed and heggrd him nut to do so. She said that if he did she would kill hor.-eli. and la* again told her not to talk silly. He did not take the threat seriously. They said good bye near lie girl’s home. She w alked away a few | a: c : and he stood at the corner. She turned and rail hat k to him. saying. "1 have taken it.’’ and showed him a pa kit. “Taken w hat ?’’ he asked/ S' e replied. “(’yanide.” “1 t;T; hold of her.” Mud.l centi.uucd. ‘‘and we started to run to a do; to:", l.ut on the way she collapsed, and I picked I r up ami with assistance i al l ied her there." The Coroner: Do you think you were justified in giving her up. ? 1 think so. The Coroner: Because she had walked out with a uni her man wax scarcely

justification ?— I That is a matter of opinion. The (Dinner said that Mudd would have it on his conscience for the rest of his days that he had directly caused the death of the unfortumue girl.