THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 11, 1939
900 SEEK LIFE LIFE OF THE MAN
OF EXILE
Alone Ten Months
Of The Year
More than 900 people, including
WHO SAVED DR. SUN
YAT-SEN IN LONDON
How a Scottish doctor saved the a number of women, have applied life of Sun Yat Sen, founder of the to the National Trust for the lone-Chinese Republic, when his political
ly job of Warden of the Calf of Man, the tiny island bird sanctuary off the Isle of Man.
"People from all walks of life have expressed their wish to en- dure the life of semi-exile which the job entails," said an official of the National Trust.
"Some were anxious to escape the rush of modern life, others were attracted by the ruggedness of the life they would have to live on the island, and many were chiefly in- terested in the bird life there."
Whoever is appointed will have to protect the wild birds on the is- land and study and report on them, He and his family, if any, will be the only residents of the island, and will have the free tenancy of a 60-acre farm and a well-built farm- house. The farm, according to a National Trust official, will not provide more than a bare living.
UNUSED LIGHTHOUSES
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smuggle Sun of the Legation on Sunday, had to hire a detective to watch the house. enemies had kidnapped him and Eventually the Foreign Office in- were trying to smuggle him out of tervened and Sun was set free. biography of "Sir James Cantlie." made against Sun Yat Sen on Eng- Britain to execution, is told in the This was not the last attempt
and George Seaver.
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lish soil.
Cantlie had for some years 2. practice in Hong Kong, where he gram was sent from Canton address- In November 1911. a coded tele- was the moving spirit'in the founda-[ed tion of a College of Medicine
to "Sun Wen, London." The the Chinese.
for Post Office marked it "Try Chinese Legation." The Legation, delighted Sun Yat Sen was the first student at the chance of locating Sun, sent to join the classes. When he had the message round to Cantlie's house completed his training he entered to ask if he knew anything about into practice in Macao, where the addressee. Cantlie often visited him.
Time passed. Sun turned from medicine to politics and organised the first revolt against the Manchu Empire. It failed, and he had to flee the country. Sir James Cantlie had meanwhile returned to London and Sun came to visit him there.
A PRISONER
“IS IT IMPORTANT?”
Janet Gaynor and Franchot Tone, who star with Robert Mont- gomery in "Three". Loves Has Nancy, starting at the King's Theatre to-day.
Lady Cantlie received the mes-view which he sustained by taking sage. She was actually expecting a the temperatures of two girls wear- call from Sun, and 'was in a dilemma.ing thin blouses whom he met in a If she sent the message back, Sun railway carriage. might never learn what was in it. If she accepted it, she might betray Sun's whereabouts..
She made a quick copy, of the It happened that Cantlie's house telegram, imitating with a pen the the Chinese Legation, and one day by the Legation. in Devonshire-street was close to Chinese characters written across it Then she told as Sun was going to see his friend the messenger that "Sun Wen" was he was accosted by two Chinese, not there. who professed friendship and invit- ed him to their house.
summer, after the nesting
Too late, as the door slammed be- is over, visitors are per-
hind him, did Sun realise that he mitted to land on the island, and had been trapped and was a prison- the warden will be permitted to er in the Chinese Legation. serve teas if he wishes to do so.
getting it, but I got it," he
"I had considerable difficulty in said. "The temperature, as I expected, was much too high."
· PLAYED CHESS He hated babies' comforters, and proposed that they should be pro- hibited by Parliament. He claimed. to be able to diagnose the size of the liver, the heart and other organs by using a tuning fork of the note G sharp.
Presently Sun arrived and read the telegram. "Is it important?" he was asked.
"Who knows?" he answered. "It He advocated much exercise. is asking me to be President of While he was in Hongkong he used China."
to go to see his patients, not in but
He soon learned that the Chinese Sir James Cantlie was an unor- with a rickshaw, running alongside. Government, considering him a dan-thodox person in many ways, and it at the coolie's jog trot. There are two unused light-gerous revolutionary, intended to he never hesitated to speak his mind. When he was a medical student, houses on the' island, but one has kill him. But as it was too dan- He firmly believed in the use of just before his examinations, he fallen into dis-repair. The other gerous to kill him in London, they alcohol in illness, and nearly suc- took up chess, and became so en- been converted into a summer re-had arranged to put him on a steam-ceeded in e t'ing whisky included grossed with it that he appeared sidence, which may be let during er bound for China, where he would | in the British Pharmacopoeia, in before the examiners with three August and September.
be beheaded.
order to prescribe it.
days' growth of stubble on his chin. Only three days before he was He praised crosets, for keeping When twitted with his appearance, to be smuggled out Sunsucceeded the liver warm, and denounced Eton he replied that he was growing a in persuading an English servant in jackets for exposing the kidneys to beard; and he never shaved again. the Legation to communicate with cold. He held that skimpy dresses The book will be on sale at Messrs. Cantlie.
made people too hot, not too cold-a Kelly and Walsh shortly.
For long periods the island is liable to be cut off from the main land by storms and currents.
Accredited bird watchers may obtain permission to visit the is- land at various times, but apart from such occasional visitors the warden will during ten months of the year have the company only of the 70 species of birds he is to watch over.
HIRED DETECTIVE
·Cantlie found an annoymous note pushed under his door at 11.15 p.m. on Saturday night," informing him of Sun's peril. Northing could be done by the Foreign Office, and Can- tlie, afraid that the Chinese would
LYNCH COULD NOT SLEEP, GOT LOST
LONDON, JANUARY-25. BENNY LYNCH, EX-FLY-WEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD, LYING ON A “MADE-UP” BED ON THE FLOOR OF HIS TRAINING HUT AT CARBETH, NEAR BLANEFIELD (STIRLINGSHIRE), YESTERDAY TOLD ME HOW HE HAD BECOME LOST FOR FIVE HOURS IN THE HILLS AROUND.
Lynch, dressed only in allk “I came here to get fit with Frank pyjamas, a dressing gown, and Kenny (Scottish feather-weight slippers, went missing from the champion) because I hope to go hut, balanced on a shoulder of back into the ring. Aulderroch Hill, at "10 o'clock on Monday night.
After a search in which police took part he was found lying under a hedge about half a mile from the hut early yesterday. He had lost his dressing gown and slippers and was sufferling from exposure.
EASY TO GET LOST Hot towels bound his feet when he spoke to me yesterday.
"Who wouldn't get lost in these hills at night?” he said.
"I thought I would go out for a breather from this stuffy atmosp- here, and then I couldn't find the shack again. wandered all over the slopes in the darkness and the cold until I. collapsed.
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"I'd been finding it difficult to sleep, and when I couldn't fall away on Monday I decided to have a look outside.
"The result is that I'm on my back shivering, and my feet are bad. But I'll be up in no time and back at my training.” -
Lynch took up training on Fri-. day at the hut, which is about five yards by four, and is illuminat- led by a paraffin lamp. Cooking is done on a stove, which has an out- let through the centre of the roof.
A policeman who joined in the search for Lynch told me: "It was so cold that another two hours and we would have been too late. It's amazing he survived the ordeal.
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