THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 29, 1939
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£100,000 GIFT TO FIGHT PARALYSIS
A HOSPITAL with therapeutic pools and seawater baths, designed on the latest scientific principles, is likely to be built at Hayling Island for the treatment of infantile
paralysis.
Sir Alexander Campbell Maclean has given £100,000 to the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples' Hospital for a new seaside branch.
R-R-RATS!
Most rat-Infested county In England is Yorkshire, says An... drew Hutchison, of Ayton (Ber- wickshire), the Scottish "Pled Piper."
He has caught 650 rats In Middleham, North Yorks, In six days. His total "bag" In Yorkshire is 70,000.
Hutchison attracts rats in a pe- culiar secret manner handed down from his great grandfather, Robert Hutchison, and kills them with his hands. His "enticement" is effective to 300 yards.
The Dangerous Age
It is remarkable that people killed on railways or buildings are not the young and inexperienced, but nearly always, the thoroughly experienced people, said Mr. A. Douglas Cowburn, South London coroner, at a South- wark inquest..
Invalid In River
An aged invalid, Mrs. M. H. Hether- ington, of Birmingham,
was rescued from the River Wye after her bath chair had :run backward down grassy slope.
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£115 For 4-inches
Bronze Horse
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A bronze horse only 4in, in height- Assyrian. work of the
seventh cen-
tury B. C.--was sold for £115
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Sotheby's. Modelled in galloping at- titude, it had formed part of a chariot group.
Art School
Fire Drama
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The destruction by fire school at Dedham, Suffolk, followed" what is said to have been the students' defiance of a Buddhist superstition statue of Buddha arrived at the school and the students were told that if it were removed from its pedestal dis- aster would follow. Some of them placed it on the floor. After the fire only the statue remained undamaged.
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P.-c. Ernest Hayward was presented
at Bow-street Police-court with a che-. que for £15 in recognition of his cour- age in dealing with an I.R.A. bomb found in Tottenham Court-road, W.
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The 626-ton steamer Colorado, fly- ing the flag of Panama, and carrying 373 Jewish refugees, was detained off Herzlia Colony, inside Palestine terri- torial waters, by the destroyer Im- perial and escorted to Haifa,
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M. Adam Karpinski, the leader, and M. Herna, a member of the Po- lish Himalayan Expedition, have been killed by an avalanche, according to messages from Almora, India, where the expedition was due to return.
He recently visited America to study hydro-therapeutic treatment (under- water gymnastics) for infantile par- alysis and other crippling conditions, and has provided money so that Bri- tish sufferers may have similar facili- ties.
Sir Alexander, who received his knighthood in the last Birthday Hon- ours list for his public and philan- thropic services, has already given £10,000 to the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital, Bournemouth, and £5,000 to the fund for a cancer treatment centre in that hospital. He also financed the first laboratories for the Empire Rheumatism Council at St, John's Wood. N. W.
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Australia Decides
On Militia
AFFECTION AT. THE ZOO-Judging by this picture of Raj-Piari,, the young Indian elephant at the Chlidrens' Zoo (London Zoo) he is evidently very fond of his keeper and gives him a caress with his trunk.
The Australian Government is to rely on a more intensely trained Mili- tia rather than on a standing army, the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Woolwich Arsenal R. G. Menziés, announced. This was decided by the Cabinet despite strong opposition by General Squires, spector-General of the Australian Forces.
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Somerset Maugham Honoured
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Mr. W. Somerset Maugham, the British novelist, has been promoted to the rank of Commander of the Legion
Holiday
Gymnast's Broken
Neck
About 20,000 employees at Wool- Six days after he broke his neck in wich Arsenal and Royal Dockyard a gymnastic display at a fete, John ceased work until Aug. 8 for their an- Moore, 18, of Padcroft Remand Home, nual holiday with pay, leaving es- Yiewsley, Middlesex, died in hospital. sential work to be carried on by a skeleton staff.
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Wolf, last Austrian Mayor's Party
Foreign Minister, was killed in a car crash at St. Poelten, 25 miles from For 50,000
of Honour, it was announced in Paris. Vienna.
ARMY BREAKS ALL RECRUITING RECORDS Regular Army re- cruiting broke all records for June since the war. Recruits accepted
numbered 4,672 which; is an increase of 1,069 over the correspondin
figures for Jun's of fast year. This means a very busy time for the crulters, especially at the Central Recruiting Depot at Great Scotland Yard, London. It is a little known fact that the Recruiters accompany, the batches of recruits to the railway station to see them bhi to the Depot. Photo shows Army Recruiter H., Harris having Van yet another batch of recruits as they sat off for thell Holes
Ald. A. B. C. Kempe, the Mayor of Ramsgate, has invited all holiday- makers there to take tea with him on the sands. His idea is "to make visi- tors feel at home and give them an opportunity of airing any grievances and offering suggestions." It is es- timated that there are 50,000 visitors at Ramsgate.
Monk Kept
Promise
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A benedictine monk of the Buck- fast Albéy community in Devon smiled happily as wedding guests showered confetti ou a couple he had just married.
It was Father Martin's first wedding ceremóny since his ordination a week ago. Appropriately, the bridegroom was his brother.',
The bridgeroom was Mr. Leonard Francis Griffin, of Roton Park-road, Edgbaston, Birmingham; the bride was Miss Kathleer. Hooper, of Har- borne, Birmingham.
"My brother. has been a monk at Buckfast for six or seven years, and long ago we agreed that if it were possible when I was married he would perform the ceremony," the bride- groom sald.
Cmdr. H, Owen, British Naval Attache in Portugal, who was rescent- ly appointed to a similar post in Spain, has returned to Lisbon after his first official visit to Madrid, a
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