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MAN JUMPS FROM
FERRY LAUNCH
Kowloon Bay Tragedy
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昶
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MR ASTAIRE OUTDONE
Mr. Edsel Ford, is reputed
be the world's second richest man,
to
TRAVEL IN AFGHAN LANDS
CONDITIONS ON INDIAN FRONTIER
RIVAL CLAIMS OF RUSSIAN AND BRITISH INFLUENCES
(By Rosita Forbes)
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choice of a permanent seat for the many years. They had arrived at Federal Government S made. Southampton earlier in the day.
Into the foyer of Claridge's MROM Mazar i Sherif to Askar; It is amusing to note that while walked Mr. and Mrs Edsel Ford. L Khana, the last Afghan fort-the Afghans say, "In Turkestan There is no mistaking the tall,ress in mid-desert, I motored there is no freedom, no money, no rather slim man of forty odd who, through soft sand. Within sight food," across the river frontier with his father, owns the American of the great square of mad walls Usbegs and Tadjiks assert, "In Ford company. He has the same the car sank in a drift.
Afghanistan there are no schools. [piercing eyes and strong mouth as Thereafter I proceeded in
clubs, no a
factories." Both Henry Ford.
two-horse cart, with the driver statements are exaggerated. running alongside and a guard of On the other hand, I noticed at Mrs. J. P. L. Kim desires to ex-
A once that in the autonomous re- troopers admirably mounted. 20 press her thanks and gratitude to!
few miles from the Oxus the huge, publics north of the Oxus there is her many friends for the expres
rolling dunes proved too much for a terror of British imperialism As the Hunghom ferry launch but a few months ago he was sury conveyance, and we had to un-only equalled by official India's fear sions of sympathy and the floral tributes received in her
recent Man Ping steamed into Kowloon prised to find another claim
harness the horses and ride them of Russia. thrust Bay at about 4.30 p.m. yesterday, fame beresrement
him by apon
to Putta Kesar,
Just * Delhi attributes the la Chinese surnamed Ki jumped the leading
a post consisting tailors of New
straw huts be Communism of unemployed, overboard, but despite the efforts York. They voted Mr. Edsel Ford of the half-dozen
Imiddle-class youth to the influence of a sailor on the launch. aided to be the best-dressed man in longing to the frontier patrol
dressed Beyond them the great river, 900 of Moscow, so Tashkent, which is by two craft in the vicinity, no America "a perfectly
the administrative centre of Soviet Central Asia, imagines British the Chinese mountains and Hows into Electricity And Fishes ace could be found of the man. business executive." Fred Astaire miles long, which rises in the
When the Man Ping landed her was ranked tenth, and was
any subversive movement at Bunghom, a wo-only representative of Hollywood the Sea of Aral, divided Soviet agency behind
from nationalism to passengers
Central Asia from Afghanistan. The eels in the rivers of
banditry. The other visitor must be near- A track led along the south bank Northern Ireland are about to man, Li Choi, aged 29 years, sale on the list.
that she knew the dead man only be attacked by electricity.
She was his as wealthy as the Fords, though to Kems Kesar, where there was Though eels abound in these by his surname Ki.
the divergent elements which go easily "tin fong" wife and lived with his name is less well known. He another patrol and enormous stacks can hope to avoid a clash between rivers they are not
is Mr. Edward Townend States-of petrol cases, caught in sufficient numbers, him in Sing Lam Road.
bury and he must rival the Rocke-pods, raw sugar and bar metal, to the making of her Asian re- for they swim over a wide area day morning she left him in the sellers and the Morgans as a fin-imported from the U.S.S.E.. and publics, Nationalist in form and supposedly Soviet in spirit For awaiting camel transport across and are exasperatingly slow to flat to see a male friend. Wing ancial baron:
instance, the President of Usbegis- find their way into the traps On Kee, lying ill in hospital i Mr. Stotesbury is staying with the desert.
tan is an Usbeg. So are what we that are laid for them. The eel Hong Kong and had informed Ki his beautiful wife at the Dorches-
should can the political and muni- harvest might be enormously of her intention. She later met ter. He is connected with
firm of From the reed yurt of the cus-cipal authorities, together with a increased if it were possible to Ki in Hong Kong near the ferry Philadelphia banking round up the slippery quarry wharf who boarded the Man Ping Drexel, is a member of the firm of toras post, I watched a few wide-amber of party members, but the police, who perform military as and drive him in the direction with her but did not mention any-J. P. Morgan of New York and of sailed kayuks ge
well as civil functions, and the of the traps. At the Experi- thing about suicide.
Party executives, as well as the mental Fisheries Station at
organisations, are almost entirely Russian
Communist Teaching
Yester
the
bales of cotton
Russia Patrol
down-stream, Morgan, Grenfell of London; he is manned by Turkomen in vast The crew's tea- chairman of the great Reading sheepskin hats.
It is difficult to see how Moscow
Alresford in Hampshire, it has SUDDEN DEATH OF railroad and his name is connect-pots were always ranged in neat heads of the banks and trading
EUROPEAN LADY
Mrs. H. J. Perryman
Passes
ed with the most powerful of rows along the gunwale.
Eventually a Russian petrol American railroads and coal com- panies.
barge arrived; and after unloading.
been demonstrated that, by electrifying the water, a sort of barrage can be set up and con-
the captain agreed to take me to Language, music, and literature trolled in such a way as to herd
Thermes. "It's your only chance," are national, and therefore Usheg. the fish in the desired direction.
Your Daily Smile! This
you but the teaching which flows from laboratory experiment
said he cheerfully, "unless want to try one of those inflated the ubiquitous loud-speaker is may or may not be successful
Today's Limerick The death occurred suddenly in The lowly fish known as the founder goatskins which in a full-scale test such as is
smugglers uncompromisingly Commumist.
Generally speaking, it seemed to being carried out by the Gov-the early hours of yesterday of Is quite a bit flatter than rounder. manage to cross."
authorities
As the engine struggled with theme that Soviet Russia has done of Mrs. H. J. Ferryman at her resi
dence in Kowloon. Death was
current he pointed to the long red more than well in the towns. She It's “filet of sole"...the old bounder. roofs of offices and warehouses on has cleaned and drained them, A kind of poetic injustice apparently due to heart failure.
the north bank, to the serials of established hospitals and schools, attends the use of electricity as Formerly Miss May Branson, of
Providential
ernment Northern Ireland.
In order to fatter The fish on a platter
*
On
a weapon of offence against the Peckham, London, Mrs. Ferryman Returned Missionary: "In Africa the two wireless stations, to the unveiled the women and put them edible eel, for it was an eel of arrived in Hong Kong less than many of the natives wear almost stacks of timber on which sturdy to work so that they are financial- children in knickers and sailor ly independent. In fact, she has another species and family that two years ago, and was married nothing." first taught men how an electric at the Registry Office on Decem- Miss Prude: "Mercy! It's a good blouses were playing, to the huge transformed the legendary cities of American cotton-picking machines, Tamerlane, Bokhara and Samar- shock might be used for defence ber 22, 1934. Her husband is In-thing Africa is a Dark Continent"
well-ordered middle the slips where a dozen barges kand inte the The Electric spector of Storehousemen at or aggression.
Its Use
were building, the metal and bales Western "burgs," dependent for Eel, Gymnotus, which is com-Naval Victualling Yard, Kowloon The Vicar- want to speak to
of raw material waiting for their prosperity on cotton farms, mon in some of the rivers of
you. Fishner, about the milk you've South America, is furnished
been delivering lately-we don't re-export, and he said. "You're back silk factories and universities.
in Europe now,”
(Continued on. Page 7)
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with an electrical apparatus of trical discharge. Though the quire it for christenings.
response of -OUT
peculiar muscular tissue which, principal being discharged, stuns small muscles is that of contraction, fish upon which it preys, and by which means they perform may even kill big ones which work, the contraction is accom- offer a greater surface to the panied by a small discharge of electrified water. The animal electricity which can nowadays that wields this death ray is be detected by instruments and from three to six feet in length recorded. Such a record is, for and as thick as a man's thigh. instance, the cardiagram, the It can powerfully shock a large zig-zag pattern representing the animal that happens to be in heart's action that is the prin- the water, and though it is not cipal means of diagnosing dis- fatal to man it may give him a lease of the heart. It is a nasty shock. Its electrical mechanically recorded graph of batteries, four of them, are in the varying current of electri- the tail and the greater part of city that accompanies each the body. It is a queerly con-heart heat. Every deviation structed animal, for its insides from the normal pattern has are all close to the head, the some meaning for the skilled vent being but two inches be-cardiologist, for he is able to hind the mouth. All the rest relate each portion of the pat- of it is taken up by the four tera to its proper place in the batteries. Baron von Humboldt, complicated series of events the great naturalist, observed that is the apparently simple! it in the South American rivers.beat of the heart. The con- He describes how the natives traction of muscle, the passage cause it to discharge its elec-of an impulse along. the nerve tric current by driving horses and the secretion of substances into the stream, and catch it by the various glands are all before its batteries have time to accompanied by small currents recharge. They like to eat it. of electricity. Hence comes Skates and rays, among sea the belief, formerly held, that fishes, also have electric organs there is a special kind of elec- and may give small shocks, but tricity pertaining to the Electric Bay or Torpedo fish things and properly of the Mediterranean and the "animal electricity."
But ex- and Bay of Biscay, which may be as periments
observations much as 80 pounds in weight, made by Faraday over 70 years has a powerful equipment of ago on the production of elec- electric battery muscles, not in tricity in fishes led him to the the tail but in the pectoral conclusion that there is no dif- region. There is still another ference between the electricity kind of electric fishes, including produced by animals and that He the Thunder fish of the Nile and from any other source. a kind of catfish which inhabits examined an electric eel 40 the brackish muddy waters of inches in length that was on some of the West African public exhibition, and calculated rivers. The electric organs of the force emitted by it to be Malapterurus, as this genus is equal to the highest charge of called, are interesting as being a Leyden battery of 15 jars modified glands and not derived exposing 8,500-inches of coated from muscle tissue like those of surface. Thus the Irish eels the others. This suggests, will be stricken with the same what is in fact the case, that thunder or rather lightning most tissues of the animal body-that their South American are potential sources of elec- brethren launch against others.
living
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