THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1936
LIFE GIVEN FOR PAIR OF GOGGLES
Britain's greatest liner, the Queen Mary,"whose commander, Sir Edgar Britten, hopes that she may help to change the ocean from a barrier between peoples to a neighbourly: highway.
CANADIAN
SINGAPORE'S FLEA "INDEX" IS 43
JUBILEE
"
ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION
Bacteriological Work Of Health Dept.
Did you know that fea inder
OF C.P.R. LİNE for Singapore was is last year,
Coast-To-Coast Run
By Special Train
GREAT ENTHUSIASM SHOWN
EVERYWHERE
and that among the decumanous rats who raided the larder two out [of three were femalez?
Probably not. But it is true, and the fea index is not so bad as it sound.
In scientific parlance it summarises the activities of bac-! teriologists in the Health Depart- Iment who are working day and
Lonely settlers along the Can-night to guard the city's health
adian Pacific Railway line turnedļagainst disease.
-out to the last man, woman sand Altogether 3,888 rats and 2,218
baby as the beflagged anniversary fleas, caught in various parts of train passed through Western On-the municipality were brought into ‹tario last month. The train was the laboratories for dissection.
making a five-day journey · from Montreal to the Pacific coast" to ocommemorate the first Transcon-
tinental trip 50 years ago.
Home-made Hags were Bown outside the wooden cabins perch- ed on the rocky slopes above Lake| Superior. Lambermen from the uninhabited hinterland, fishermen in dungerees, and coalminers stood cheering on the quay at Jack Fish Bay.
More than 25,000 people were waiting at the twin lake pòrts of Pork Arthur and Fort William. Shortly after 10 p.m. the train halted, and there were speeches and music and cheers from the stands erected alongside.
on
At 8,30 next morning the train entered Winnipeg, where the po- pulation surrounded the station. The Lieutenant-Governor of Mani- toba, Mr. W. J. Tupper, was the platform with members of the Provincial Cabinet, the Mayor, Mr. R. D. Waugh, and members of the Municipal Council, and guard of bonour of the scarlet- uniformed Royal Canadian Mount- ed Police.
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Old-timers who had helped to. make the way for the first train were also there.
The pilgrims on their way to the Golden Jubilee celebrations at Vancouver were gathered in a little park opposite the station, where the "Lady Dufferin the engine which drew the first train westward to Winnipeg, has been preserved as: a` lasting monamentį to the efforts of the railway- makers.
MARIE TEMPEST'S FILM DEBUT
Paderewski Picture
Marie Tempest will be seen for the first time on the screen "in
Sir Edgar Britten, commander of Britain's super liner, Queen Mary
RAT WITH AN EAR FOR MUSIE Scared Pupils
Mise-Elsie Nicholls, of Lon- don, told this to the National Council of Women at South- port recently?
"At a fastitate with "which" 1; wis connected there was trouble with rate.
ordinary partiality for music
"One rat developed an extra- “Whenever we had a muxfex)
"Moonlight Sonata," which Pall class it would come out and listen. Mall Productions are making at "Unfortunately for the rat, the classes were stopped because the
"Denham.
The star of the picture is girls were in betroË...”” Paderewski, aged 75. Miss Tem- -pest,, who also has an important! zole, is 71. The great pianist will appear as himself:
HOLLYWOOD FILM ACTRESS
MARRIED
Betty Bryson Weds Director
Hollywood-Miss Betty Bry- son, the film actress, was married last month at Fuma, Arizona, to Leroy Prinze, the screen dance director who once served in the French Foreign Legion
Miss Bryson is the piece of Warner Barter, the film star. Films in which she has appear- ed include "Kiss and Make Up" and "Dr. Bull"
FIRST ASCENT OF MONT BLANC IN
1786 RECALLED
Commemoration Fete
At Chamonix
BIG MEETING OF CLIMBERS EXPECTED
Moun-
Chamonix. France. tain climbers of many countries, are expected to participate this summer in the 150th anniver sary celebrations here of the first ascension of Mont Blanc.
The first mountaineer to reach: the summit of Mont Blanc is be! lieved to have been Jacques Bal- mat, who scaled the Alpine peak
MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY-
YOUNG BRITISH
CLIMBER LOSES LIFE IN NORWAY
Fall Of About 1,000 Feet Follows Slip.
BODY NOT RECOVERED
QUEEN MARY AS PEACE SHIP
Sir E. Britten's Hope
Southampton Replying to the toast of his health at a luncheon given in his honour by local business men,
Commodore Sir Edgar Britten.
commander of the Queen Mary,
said:-
Such rivalry as the public in- terest in speed has imposed upon Us Is a friendly rivalry and a peaceful and sportsmanlike rival-j ry in the sole interest of building. * firmer understanding between! nations.
"Perhaps my greatest satisfac- Despite an intensive search notion in bringing the Queen Mary trace has been found of Rupert into this port lies beyond a par Douglas Sweeney, the 23-year-old donable pride in the ship herself Cambridge graduate who fell 1,000 and in her comfort and speed. feet to his death while mountain- “It is a satisfaction which eering in Norway last month springs, I think, from the con-
Roped together, his two
sciousness that the shipbuilder, panions on the fatal climb, Mr. the owners and the sailor Nigel Beaumont-Thomas and Mr. steadily charged with the respon». A. Hamilton Robin, with two Nor-sibility of changing the character wegian guides, next day descend of the ocean itself from a barrier ed from the point at which he fell between peoples to a neighbourly to the glacier below. They found highway."
Com-
no signs of the body, and it is be-
are
lieved in must have disappeared WHEN LADY ASTOR
into a ravine.
The three men, all members of
the Cambridge University Moun
Skagastoelstind, one of the high- taineering Club, were climbing the¦
est mountains of the Jotenheim district, when the tragedy occur red. Mr. Hamilton Robin said:
Robin's Statement
"It was about seven in the evening when the accident took place, and it WEB still light. Sweeney went down into a gally) to recover some goggles which had
been dropped.
SEES RED
Children Improperly
Looked After
Speaking at the Conference of the Association of Education: Committees at Jorquay, Lady Astor said: 4
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"There is staggering waste in our educational system neglecting children under five * and letting them go into. in- dustry at.14.
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"When he had gone a short way he suddenly slipped and fell for
"We are always fighting against about 1,000, feet, his body finally a minority who, although educated appearing to lodge on a ledge. We themselves, seem to have a terror FB were not roped, as this was not of others being educated.”
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POLICE RESERVE Orders For The Current Week
AIR PILOT ASKED TO SPIN
Friend Killed When
They Crashed
SUDDEN RISK OF COLLISION
An inquest was held at Liver-
Orders by the Hon. Mr. T. H King, Inspector General of Police. Appointment Mr.Oscar Earger. Assistant (Re-
in 1786. His statue here is to be pool last month on Geo. Horst, 33, Superintendent of Police
the centre of the ceremonies com-motor-car electrician, of South-serve) is memorating the event.
appointed Adjutant,
port, who was killed in an air Hong Kong Police Reserve Mont Blanc is one of France's crash at Liverpool airport on from 27th July, 1936. greatest touristic attractions. It June 10.
has been estimated recently that Fred Evans, of Birkdale, visitors who come to climb or sim-pilot of the aeroplane, said ply to admire the snow-capped took Hurst, his friend, for mountain spend annually more evening fight. than 250,000,000 francs
-nearly $17,000,000
Not all of this, however, is ex- pended in France, since Mont Blane is in an international corn-{ er and may be approached from Switzerland and Italy as well as
the
"We had been up for about half an hour,” he continued, "when Hurst asked me for an other spin. I had just come out of this spin when my en- gine stopped
Chinese Company
Training Course-Part II-A||| he recruits of Chinese Company who an have not yet passed Part II of Training Course will attend at the Chinese Company Headquarters jon Tuesday, July 28th at · 17.30
hours for instruction.
aero-Dress-Mufti All mea,
Drill Parade-A Drill Parade will ke place at No. 2 Police Station on Wednesday, July 29th "While I was trying to restart at 17.30 hours under S. L Hunt from France. It is estimated that the engine I saw another
except last year $10,000 tourists visited plane about to land. I was so ab- Recruits will attend. the Mont Blanc region from the sorbed in the danger of an French side, 350,000 from the collision that I did not realise how
Indian Company Strength-Constable R213 Syed Italian Swiss side.and 275,000 from the fast my glide was. I stalled at Bashir Hussian. has been taken on
side a total of more 100ft and when we had crashed I the strength of the Indian Com than 1,000,000. The base of the found my friend dead.” mountain is in all three countries, but the summit ja in France.
air
pany. Hong Kong Police Reserve The jury returned a verdict of as from 13th June, 1936. accidental death.
Supplies Of High-Grade
Quartz Found In Uganda
Training Course Part I AD recruits of the Indian Company will attend the Indian Company Headquarters on Tuesday, July 28th at 17.30 hours for instruc- ition.
Flying Squad Instructional Patrol-The in- structional patrol for members-of
Emergency Unit. Reserve.
A supply of quartz suitable for started to investigate the practic-the Flying Squad will take place sion and wireless use the ability, of obtaining supplies from Friday, July 31st 1936. Mem
be found within the Em-the new source.
has been discovered in
{bers will parade at Central Police The Director of the Imperial Station at 17.15 hours. Dress- Institute, to whom the samples White Uniform, and Cap with very was made four were went from Uganda, said re-White Cover.
by the Uganda Gov-cently: "Commercial tests in Lon geological survey, Adon and on the Continent have Defendu.-Defendy Instructional of exhaustive taste has now given satisfactory results. Awill take place in the basement of been concluded.
though quartz is one of the most the Sailors Home and Seamen's The search for a supply in the crust, the supply of really good 1936. All members are request- abundant minerals in the eartha)
Institute on Friday, July 8let Nearly 3,500 Rotarians and Empire has been proceeding for crystals of large-size is limited to be present at the above men- The Four their families, from various paris number of years. At present the
the "Quartz is used in wireless teletioned place at 17.20 hours.
{graphy, television, -depth sounding jat, ses, and in detecting the pRO- |sence of icebergs, rocks, and other
dangers to shipping.”.
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He is now PIMI Produitio
ROTARY AND THE QUEEN MARY
sent Defer-br England recently inspected the principal sources of supply" "are
Queer Mary at Southampton
of bell was presented for the Queen
Mary Rotary Club.
Brand and Madagascar ne
One of the largest British fri using quartz crystals has alrend
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