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Missionary
Who Rejoined Whites To Die
A missionary who W23 known to white men only as
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legend has died in the " Mackay Memorial Hospital at" Talhoka, capital of For-
mosa, aged 76.
He was the Rev. Narcissus Peter Yates, who for the last six years had isolated himself from the European community, living in one of the wildest parts of the island with aboriginal tribes.
Rare
ת!
travellers through that part brought back rumours of a foreigner who shared
the Ilves of his flock at peasants and fisherfolk. sacrificing Himself continually to help them., and regarded almost as an Incarna- tion of one of the legendary saints of Buddhism.
The warning of the end came swiftly. When suddenly Nar. cissus Tales found his strength tailing him he made one last concession to himself that be would die among his Own people.
GENERAL
VIEW OF KEEKUNGSHAN
A view of Keckungshan in Hoaan, North China. (Photo, C.M.P.S.).
BALLOON BARRAGE
Forest Of Cables In
Air Defence
The first of the balloon squadrons showed their equipment and their skill at the depat at Kidbrooke, to Sir Kingsley Wood, the Secretary of State for Air, and a party of privileged visitors. Fight balloons were inflated' and in process of manipulation so, close to- gether as to prove that a close-sét fence or entanglement, such as is contemplated for the protection of London, may in practice be achieved.
.... .
There is also a valve cable to By chair, train, and bus he Scores of other balloons lay in travelled almost the whole length store. waiting for the volunteers enable deflation to be begun as of the island to kriock latė one who will bring the units up to soon as the handling cables are evening at the door of Dr. Little, strength and serve as crews to the seized. The valve which it oper- ates responds automatically to gas surgeon la charge in the Mackay gasbags. Hospital, asking for a bed in Mobile winches, drawn up in pressure. and allows the appro- lines of 20 each, likewise lay in the priate amount of gas to escape as which to die.
sheds awaiting crews A lorry and it expands with diminishing air a trailer and a balloon demand a pressure at heights.
There is likewise an inlet pipe set crew of 10 mien. "Thus supplied, it flock may go almost anywhere to help close to the cable for "topping up" actually gasbag set a stockade around a vulnerable the target or to raise a forest of cables grounding it. over It.
"The "end came ̈peacefully ten days later. In the meantime messages of Inquiry" and small contributions
his from poured in.
Narcissus Yates now iles in the Tam- little mission cemetery at sul.
the on
blum overlooking what used to be the most import- ant port of North Formosa.
WAS NEARLY
MILLIONAIRE,
without
It is a relatively simple plece of On the lorry are carried the de- apparatus, but it does quite eff- hated balloon and such gear as clently what it is intended to do, might be needed to get the lorry and obviously the balloon alone in over ditches, a drum of cable, and vites development work, to say equipment. No a motor winch with pulleys and nothing of the guides for the safe and rapid reel- doubt the research and experi
work at Cardington ing or unreeling of the thousands mental
and elsewhere is already yielding of feet of cable.
However the apparatus may be
On the trailer are the cylinders fruit. of hydrogen, built firmly into a pyramid so that they shall not roll improved for particular purposes,
NOW IN GAOL off, and detached only for periodi- the principles on which the units
A wife who saw her husband within a hair's breadth of becom- ing, a millionaire, who lost £5.000 of her own money in one of his
heard Anancial gambles, sentenced at the Old Balley cently to eighteen months' prisonment for fraudulent
version.
First thing she did on
hira
cal inspection and treatment.
"
A FRINGE OF CABLES Wherever the lorry may have to go, it takes all that is required for hoisting a balloon.
Having seen the balloons in- about the field, re-fated, towed Im-raised, and hauled in. one is ready to belleve not only that a crew of 10 is adequate. but that in any but rough and gusty weather the apparatus and the system suffice
con-
leaving
are now being trained will hold good.
the court was to have a 2s. 6d. for the safe handling of the big "NIKS"
lunch sent to him in the cells.
Her husband, David Jacoby, financial agent, pleaded not guilty to fraudulently conver- ting £1,200, the money of Walthamstow doctor and his
wife.
а
"My husband was in an £8,000. 00 deal for arms for China but there was a hitch at Prague and
it féll through." Mrs. Jacoby said
balloons even in the comparative- ly close quarters of, a suburban street.
The idea put forward some time ago by Air Commodore J. G. Hear- son, who commands the Balloon Barrage Group, of balloons tether- ed at 100-yard intervals about
London. begins to appear possible
of realization.
Six hundred balloons' so disposed would cover the whole of the area "I was brought up by a titled within 10 miles of Charing Cross, family. When I went with and no aeroplane dare try to pick-
David that family disowied
me. its way between their cables.
But I have never regretted follow- Ing him.
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The balloons-are-very-much like: the kite balloons which were used
"He came to mne once and asked for observation purposes towards for £5.000. I gave it without a the end of the War. question. He stood to win a large sum. but the market tumbled.
* 'Your. £5,000' has gone. · old girl, he said, "and that was that.
"He is in the position he is in now through stupidity, not through any criminal intent. "When I left him in the a few moments ago, he was
they taper towards the tail. where
They have big snub noses, and
vertical and horizontal stabilizers, filled by the wind, keep the gasbag from rolling and compel it to point into the wind:
TETHERING CABLE They have eight handling cables, which dangle like a fringe from cells their envelopes, and are seized by livid the crew as the winch winds in the with temper at himself because last few feet of the tethering cable. he, aman who had dealt Int hundreds at thousands of pounds, had been so stupid over a comparatively small amount. "Everything I had has gone but when, David comes out he will find ready to help him make a Mc new start."
"
Mr. Percy Lamb: prosecuting, told the Court that the had explained when the was handed over in 1936 wanted a safe Investment
Two Men Ask For £30,000,000
ΟΙ
doctor
Mr. John Carruthers Little, pre- moneysident of the Amalgamated En- that he gineering Unip, and ve
alx members of his executive, įwalked in the sunshine to Carton |Hall, Westminster, recently to meet Later Jacoby was adjudged Britain's leading engineering em- bankrupt with liabilities of about ployers. £3,000.
MADE BANKRUPT
Jacoby. in the witness
ww
Ten minutes after hiq arrivai Mr, box, Little was opening # request for
Mr. Little spoke for, 300,000
said, however, that he told the wage increases that would total doctor he was a gambler and more than £30,000,900 a year. that it would be better to buy Bank of England stock; but the doctor was content that money should be used in Jacoby's business operations,
the
A detective said Jacoby was
of 1,100,000 engineering workers who hope to get 3d. an hour
more.
St. Alexander Rammy, director 01 the Engineering Employers' sentenced to eight months hard Federation, said, the employers labour in South Africa for theft would consider their case..
In the afternoon a similaz claim
In 1933, while at Old Street in 1937 he was fined £100 for being was made by Mr. Mark Hodgson concerned in the management for the members of the three of a company while an undis dozen unions in the Engineering
Confederation, charged bankrupt.
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