PACE 4-HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
Most Spectacular Maiden IF THE WAR
Voyage In Maritime History
a suficient depth of water to na- vigate a ship of her size to the open sea. Such a tide occurred in he latter part of February and the Queen Elizabeth sailed "at that time.
In view of the circumstances, it was decided that she should pro-
under the command
GIANT CUNARDER ceed to America, which she did
MOVES TO NEAR EAST
GENERAL
Incidence Of Malaria In Turkey: Government Action
For centuries past, ma'aria nas been endemic in several provinces of Turkey. The Incidence of malaria is especially heavy in the coastal region, which has a "high average tem
and an abundant perature, many pools of stagnant water ARABS WILL PLAY
rainfall; here, also, agricultural labourers are constantly mov- IMPORTANT PART
ing from place to place wherever labour is required. LONDON Mar. 8 (Renter)—In a In the interior, on the other J. C, Townley, after an dnevent- message from Aman, in Trans-Jor-hand, certain places show a slight
moderate | dah, Neuter's special correspon- ful voyage and at NEW YORK, Mar. 8 (Reuterspeed. The internal accommoda, dent says:" My visit to Trans- Completing the most spectacular maiden voyage in maritime histon on the Queen Elizabeth
IN NEW YORK
tory, the Queen Elizabeth reached
the quarantine station in New York at 3.90
p.m. (G.M.T.). When she was seen approaching she was
unescorted Fire Is and and her decks looked bare and lifeless.
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STRANGE CONTRAST The Queen Elizabeth carried nu identification mark, but after an air liner bad circled over her twice, the Red Ensign was broken out from her stern.
Her businesslike grey paint and the "absence of passengers lining the ralls made the glant yessel's arrival a strange contrast to the arrival of the Queen Mary."
The airmen who sighted her described her as looking like # great dirty TCY whale."
not completed.
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of Captain
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for
No plans have been made the vessel, except for tying her the up at the pter along with Queen Mary, in accordance with all other the arrangements for ships of the company stopping at the American port.
STRANGE VOYAGE" NEW YORK, Mar, 8 (Reuter The gian: British liner. Queen Elizabeth. has brought to an end her strange maiden voyage: lay in quarantine yesterday. wait- ing for the late afternoon tide to take her up to her berth.
Five-hundred police and detect tives had been drafted to the pier and prepared for her arrival as crowds of New Yorkers streamed to
the waterside to welcome her.
TO MAKE ROOM
It was authoritatively stated in London yesterday that the Queen
Bhe
Although hundreds of people the must have seen her leave Clyde en days ago, the an- nouncement on Wednesday night that she was nearing the Unlied | States came as a complete sur- prise, not only to Germany, but thousands of people on both sides of the Atlantic...
She was firs; sighted yesterday by a plane and was then outside American territorial waters and the plane refused to disclose her exact position.
She
making was
her
way
Elizabeth salled across the Atlan-through mooth seas. thick tie to make room for other ships smoke belching
in England, as every berth is need-funnels up into a ed" for the ceaseless stream of sky. shipping entering British ports",
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from her
two
cloud-dotted
TRIAL TRIP
The Queen Elizabeth carried
AN EXPLANATION NEW YORK, Mar. 8 (Reuter- The reasons for moving the Queen Elizabeth are explained in statement issued by the Cunard her maiden voyage, the
no passengers. but she had
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number of technical experts on
to a board, as, in addition being journey
.con.
or average incidence of malaria. this depending upon the figuration of the country. (likes. marshes, Feed-beds. ricefields,
Jordan has convinced me that if the war moves to the Near East. Britain will be in a far stronger | etc). defensive position than the Turks were in the last war.
GOVERNMENT ACTION
One of the first alms of the HAPPY POSITION
Government of the Republic was "Britain is in the happy position
to create an organisation to com- of enjoying the complete con-
bat malaria, Certain regions were fidence of the Arabs of Trans-Jor-declared to be malarial "by the dan and the Arabs will play an Important part in defending the Allied lines of communication.
"An enemy's main objective would be the pipeline from Kirkur to Tripolt and Halfa, which supplies
oil for the Mediterranean fleet and the Allied Armies. He would also aim at the newly-built road along- side the pipiline from Halla ta Baghdad and the Persian Gulf, which forms an alternative to the Suez Canal route to India,
ARAB'S PART
"The Arabs would co-operate in the struggle, not by attacking the enemy's lines of communication, as in the last war, but by defend- ing the Allies' line.
RUMANIAN NEUTRALITY
REAFFIRMATION
BY KING CAROL
Ministry of Health and Social As- sistance, and all government ser- vires were ordered to co-operate against malaria in such regions.
HUNDREDS STARVING IN THE NORTH
FOOD SITUATION DEVELOPS INTO MAJOR TRAGEDY ·
PEIPING, Mar. 8 (Reuter)-The spotlight locally has shifted from political affairs to the economic campaign areas have been ex-inr Central Political Conference at Since 1926 these anti-malaria situation and even the forthcom-
tended continuously, covering 3 Nanking, at which the future totki population of almost 4 mil-political status of North-China will possibly be decided. cannot obscure, or even rival, the serious and rapidly worsening situation.
lion.
PUBLIC EXAMINATION All the inhabitants of localities
MAJOR TRAGEDY within the Indicated campaign
Despite all efforts by the au- areas are examined twice annual Iy. in the spring and in the thorities, the food situation shows all signs of developing into a ma- autumn by the doctors of the campaign missions. As a result of for tragedy and it is a wonder this systematic malaria, control that the Chinese are able to exist Reveral towns which were far- at all under present conditions.
with merly hearily infected malaria have become healthy and thousands of sufferers have re- their gained their health and strength. Moreover, in many of the campaign areas a very marked rise in the rate of births has been noted
FREE QUININE.
Free quinine is distributed
According to the Intest figures. It costs a family twice as much to subsist on the meanest fare as its month- ly income.
are
There has already been neur riots in Pelping. Hundreds gathering dally at food shops and the most tragic scenes are witness- ed as crowds of half-starving Chi- nese, including women and child- the areas by the agents of the ren, gather in the hope of pur- BUCHAREST, Mar. 8 (Reuter)-anti-malaria missions or direct by chasing food, which is efther non- King Carol of Rumania, speaking the institutions concerned existent, or selling at exorbitant
reaffirmed Rumanla's intention to follow a policy of neutrality in own interests and those
White Star Company, which, says! was also in the nature of a trial at the new "session of Parliament Patients requiring treatment are prices, or in the hands of unscru
that only twice yearly. when the trip. tides are unusually high, is there
.
The fact that she managed to
cross the Atlantic before anyone even knew she had left the Clyde has made a great impression in Canada and the United States. the
Canadian newspapers DSA term "audacious" and the way in which the secret of her cross ing was kept has aroused wonder and admiration..
New York papers"printed large Elizabeth pictures of the Queen
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and of the Queen Mary and Nor- mandie, alongside which she is to berth.
The Popular New York Journal banner and American prints a
British headline reading “Huge Liner Folls Submarines in Secret Trip."
REMARKABLE FEATURE LONDON, Mar. B (Reuter)- One of the most remarkable fea- tures about the Queen Elizabeth is that she was completed de- spire the war, It was announced sometime ago that she would be ready on Feb. 28 and on Feb. "28 she sailed.
PUPPET WANG'S
ACTIVITIES
SHANGHAI, March 7 (Ini-, ternational)-Wang Ching- wel, the prospective head of a new puppet regime, has com missioned Chu Ching÷ial to go to Pelping for new political notivities taking with him $100,000 for expenses,
OBJECT OF MISSION One of the objectives of the raiselon la to persuade Tang Hsiang-ming to be President of the Control Yuan, but he has already declined.
It is no yet certain when the much-heralded Central Political Conference will be held.
SPECIAL ENVOY ́“.
ber
of peace."
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King Carol added that the rules of neutrality, had been, and would be followed also in the sphere of Rumania's exports trade.
Rumania's military preparations and the strengthening of her morale, in order to guarantee the defence of national patrimony, remained the preoccupation of the entire nation.
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Coalition Government Plans For Australia?
PREMIER'S OFFER TO COUNTRY PARTY
́S'HAI ACCIDENT: SERGT, CAMPBELL
NOT INJURED
entered m the registers for the pulous hoarders. distribution of quinine, while dally entries are being made "can- cerning the curative and pre- ventive treatment applied, Herr again quinine proved to be the most suitable and most truswor- thy anti-malarial remedy. THA
SHANGHAI, Mar. 8 (Reuter)- Malaria Commission of the League Sergeant J. Campbell, of the Sea- of Nations strongly supports this forth Highlanders Football Team, opinion
For treating malaria it recommends a dally Wednesday, the, Shanghal Times dose of 15 grains to 20 grains of said yesterday.
His identity was confused with quinire during 5 to 7 days and as
preventive during the entire Sergeant George Campbell, of the a dally dose of 6 Motor Transport Compariy, who was injured. J. Campbell was not grains of quinine.
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Issued in 1938, this same Malan S.M.C. Nominations:
Commission stresses the fact that
zmong the antimalarial drugs, quinine stili ranks first in current practice, by reason" of its clinical' effectiveness and almost complete absence of toxicity, coupled with the widespread knowledge of use and dosage, «
Third American
Candidate
SHANGHAI, Mar, 8 (Reuteri- The nomination of
third American candidate to Municipal Council posts makes necessary a primary election among the Ameri- can community. The new nominee
are Mr. R. T. McDonnell, and Mr. Country Party is to hold a meet-
JERUSALEM, Mar. 8 (Reuter)-J. W. Carney. Ing on Monday to consider an offer by the Australian Prime Demonstrations by. Jews in Jeru- If there are more nominees, an campaign la possible. Minister, Mr. Menzies, to form salem. Haifa and Telaviv occurred election Coalition Government, with Mr. yesterday without any serious in- Monday is the nomination dead-
line, Cameron, Country. Party Leader, cident, as Deputy Prime Minister, while other members of the Party are offered three portfolios and three Honorary Ministerships.
SYDNEY, Mar. 8 (Reuter-The JEWS DEMONSTRATE 15 Mr. N. F. Allman and others
It is generally expected that the Country Party will accept the offer.
CLEAR MAJORITY
The coalition of Mr. Menzies' United Australian Earty and the Country Party will give them a clear majority in Parliament, al- though the Labour Party holds SHANGHAI, March 1 (Interna-slightly more seats than either of tional-The special envoy to the them separately projected Wang Ching-wei goy- ernmen: Is to act as a sort of high minister plenipotentiary, it was learned here.
The candidates are two former Japanese Premiers, Mr.
Koki
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CIGARETTES FOR THE FORCES.
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LONDON, Mar. 3 Router)The 14 Changed Hirota and General Nobuyuki British and American employees of 17. Dull
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FIRING PRACTICE
the Bahrein Petroleum Co., have 10 Promenade subscribed for over 112,000 cigaret-22 Vital par tes for the men of the Forces 25 "Mrs. Grundy" through the Overseas Tobacco 28 Owing
29 Explosion- 30 Embers"
Light-gun And-Aircraft prac- Fund. tire will be carried out between This Fund keeps a special eye on today, tomorrow (10th) and 11th. the needs of prisoners of war, to Firing Area 'E' will be affected. whom cigarettes are now being Light-gun firing practice will sent. It is also learnt that 5,000, be carried out between the hours 000, cigarettes will be sent to oo 4.30 p.m. and. 12 midnight to- mine-sweepers shortly. day..
Firing Area 'C' will be affected Alternative date 11th March 1940.
Firing practice will be carried out between the hours of 6.30 p.m. and 12 midnight, tomorrow, Firing Area, will be affect
Alternative date 12th March
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COLONY HEALTH
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23 Waste
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26 Attendant
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Twenty cases of tuberculosis, five cases of dysentery, four cases of chicken pox, two, imported), three cases of cerebro-spinal fever, two cases of enterio fever and one case each. of krasil-pox and dishtheria 14, Osk, 18, Porter, 17, Extent 18, Btagnant. 14. Orb 15, Keg, 19. Merge 21) Ancestor, 25, Ignore. 21. Demur 22, Steed: 2. Bray, 26, Trousers, 27 Achite,
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