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DAILY PRESS
I SAIL IN A CONVOY
BY FREDERICK SALFELD,
Daily Telegraph Special Correspondent."
This article should be read before a hot fire, after a night's sound sleep and a good breakfast. It will be easier then to feel the gratitude due to the men with whom I have just finished a voyage in a convoy from 'Southern Scotland-the men who every day run risks of fog and gule and four kinds of mechanişed death, so that England shall not lack food. fuel and all her other means of life.
We made port that morning an hour ahead of schedule. When I said goodbye to the commodore in charge of the con- voy he was going to a hotel for his arst sleep since four days a.go.
FINANCE & GENERAL
Finance and Commerce
SOVIET-JAPANESE "
TRADE PARLEY
EASTERN GROUP SUPPLY COUNCIL. MOSCOW, Feb. 18 (Reuter)—The NEW DELHI, Feb. 18 (Reuter)- Soviet-Japanese trade negotiations | Mr. Archibald Carter 'has assumed which have been suspended since charge as Chairman of the April were formally resumed yes-ern Group Supply Council, terday at the Commissariat for Periding the arrival of Foreign Trade.
sentatives from Australia,
The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Africa and New Zealand, I travelled with the commodore. He signalled the ships to take up Tatekawa, and Mr. Miyakawa, John Whyatt. Secretary of
and in this Counsellor of the Embassy, confer Council, fashion we steamed steady, un-red with the Foreign Trade Com-spade-work, attacked, through mist and rain. missar, M. Mikoyan, and his de-
their
positions.
.commenced
East-K.
CURE FOR BALDNESS
Reinhardt, who is resident in Several years of research by Dr.
Shanghai. resulted in her dis- repre- covery, in 1937, of a successful South
treatment for baldness and grey Mr.hair, which has been patented in the America recently. American doc-
the
with our guardian warships. puty, M. Kaganovitch, for one NAT. FOOD CONFAB
Lifeboats were swung out ready
and a half hours,
I met him on the pier at 6.30 one morning. It was intensely dark and freezing. His torch gleamed on the frost, greasing the pier's timbers, as we stepped down" into the boat, that took us out to the to be lowered, and the warships It will be recalled that the talks anchorage. We were under way floated their protective kite last year dragged on fruitlessly for at dawn.
| barrage, Made of linen and bam-three months. "Better get your tin hat. You'll boo, these kites appear an in-. probably need it," the commodore adequate defence. against said. A veteran officer of the dive-bomber, but the Germans Cunard Line--he
the fear the wire, which cannot be Queen Mary before the R.N.R. seen against the dull clouds of summoned him-he was in hopes the North Sea.
was
in
the FEDERAL RESERVE
RETURNS
New York, Feb. 17 (Reuter).
Jan. 22 Feb. 11 (000's omitted)
9,377,000 16,397,000 16,871,000
of a quiet life in the country. In- Aft, the naval gunner attended stead he has to endure week after to his gun. Soldiers, with Bala- Total loans $9,287,000 week the physical and nervous clava helmets, waited beside their strain of taking convoys north anti-aircraft guns
Investments
HONGKONG
SHAREBROKERS'
ASSOCIATION Volume of Business Transacted on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1941. SALES
tors were working on it. for a long time, discovering the value of Vitamin B in rejuvenation, but it
was Dr. Reinhardt who brought this research to, a successful con- clusion in the treatment of human
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1941 -PAGE
IN CHUNGKING CHUNGKING, Feb. 18 (Central) beings. The National Food Conference
In an Interview the doctor de- summoned by the National Food scribed her treatment and dis- Administration is scheduled to becovery. She originally came across held in Chungking February 20-it by accident when treating a 26. Delegates from most of the lady for an Intestinal disease. The provinces have arrived and pro- treatment Included injections of a posals are being subjected to a certain substance, and the effect preliminary study by committees. was a general rejuvenation. In- cluding the restoration of natural colour to grey,, hain The doctor continued her experiments, anally arriving at a perfect cure. Several German medicine manufacturers. including Bayer, wished to obtain patents on the drug, but the war intervened.
SPECULATORS GO
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Favourite ..
BLACK &
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examination her degree, of success being 100 per cent.
"
Dr. Reinhardt first got on the track of her cure when she dis- covered that the reason for there being so few grey-haired Chinese was that they ate rice, which con- tains a very high percentage of Vitamin
this B. She followed
and south through attack by sub- I stood on the concrete-walled marines, mines. E-boats and dive bridge beside the commodore until bombers. Sometimes he is on the my feet and hands were numb
Many speculators of moderate bridge almost continuously, for and my back ached with hours of
means in Shanghal are reported to
SERIES OF INJECTIONS three days. He is late for meals standing. His watch never relax-
have gone bankrupt as a result of and he eats them in 10 minutes, ed, nor that of the captain, a
The doctor described her treat- the sharp fall of stocks due to the This has been his life for over a Liverpool man. who had had an
Far Eastern tension.
ment as consisting of a series of Losses incurred by the fall on America, where the Rockefeller 20 injections. half earlier command., torpedoed, and,
being in- year.
A pilot took us out to sea. In re the masters
February 14. alone are roughly Institute tested her cure, and ap- travaneous, and half intramus- single file behind us the convoy ships. is never out of his clothes China Lights Lights 150 $0.65 estimated at between $25,000,000 proved of her taking out patents cular. Her cure for baldness is course of inquiry in other fields, rode through the mist. Visibility and never sleeps in more than Dairy Farms
of
the other
Was never more than two miles catnaps. the whole way, and at dusk our Together they started into the only guides
down. and were the pinprick gloom, Night came
the young moon sank into the sea,! flashes from mark buoys.
READY FOR EMERGENCIES Suddenly the captain pointed There are no shore 1ghts or ahead. "What is that light on radio beacons these days to help the port bow?" he said. "It's too ships along a trick coast with high for a buoy." We waited for
E.K. Tramways
..
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50 1875 100 17.60 200 17.50
500
The total value is $6.295.00.
and $35,000,000.-(Central News).
LONDON GOLD
London, Feb. 17 (Reuter). Bar Gold, Fine per oz. 188/-
strong tides: but the convoy kept a few long second. The light HONGKONG SHARE
ite stations throughout. For some shone again. time the pilot took us on a course "It's only 器 star breaking STOCK EXCHANGE · over which German planes might through," said the commodore. appear at any minute. We were with relief.
visiter lucky; the only strange
The enemy being absent, I talk- was a barn owl blown out, to sea, ed ta some of the crew. They Once I saw what looked like the were men of little showing," but top of a periscope. It was the scarcely one lacked some story of.
of a sunken ship. A few narrow escape.
mast
minutes afterwards a shark's fin Even the junior wireless opera- turned out to be the torn plate of tor, a newly-married boy of 18. another wreck A little "later we who had exchanged a £17 a passed a victim of an enemy month job 1 an American ship mine. its derricks still showing for the 15 a month hazards of above the tiar
home waters, had been bombed on
a previous voyage. He was re- called to the ship the day after his wedding.
.
When we dropped the pilot he shook hands solemnly, for he did not know if he would ever see us again. And as his, boat, bobbed The chief operator's last ship away astern the commodore's vigil was blown up and sank in two minutes, dragging him down with began.
He put on the woollen cap neit. He still likes the sea. One had worn. In the last war, and seamen has been torpedoed or: had never washed it because he shipwrecked 12 times. He has no did not expect to use it any more. wish to stay ashore.
AMBER CURES
DEAFNESS!
H.K. STOCK EXCHANGE
Amber and cornellan are now Quiet conditions again prevailed greatly in vogue for jewellery th the market, the rates remaining worn in the daytimea romantic unaltered, with the exception of revival of a century-old fashion. 4% Government Loans which ad- Of the two. amber វទ first vanced to 97. favourite. Particularly people born in July and August should wear amber as their lucky beads
Amber--that beautiful substance women wear in the shape of beads and clasps and ear-rings and also for the mouth-plece of cigarette holders. What is it?
Nothing but the fossilised gum of the prehistoric" pine tree. You will have seen how the pine exudes its resin through the bark.
There were pines-no one knows what species exactly-at an early period in the history of the world, anyhow which had
Little 2 Insects would find peculiarity. themselves caught in their little bilsters of gum: the sticky fluid engulfed them as they alighted
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Cts.
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1. Cts:
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Union Ins., $412,50. HK. Fire Ins., $170.
Providents, $5.75.
Lands 4% Debentures, 497.50.
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£70
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£70
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293
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Indo-Chinas (Pral.)...)
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Waterbosta
39
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#60
41/3
$7
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826
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$17.80
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426
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Dr. Reinhardt then went to
on it. The tests were performed perhanent, hair beginning to grow finally arriving at the solution
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a boy of 12. who had had after the third injection. In the through the successful treatment neither hair nor eyebrows for six case of the cure for grey hair,of an elderly lady, as mentioned years. After a number of infec-however, it is necessary for the above.
Hons the eyebrows grew normally, patient to have a series of injec- The treatment, besides restor- while hair returned on the head. tions every year. A thorough ex-ing hair, has a general rejuvenal- She finally took out patents in amination of the patient is re- ing effect. The course of the care America, and returned to Shang-quired before the treatment can for baldness. ls based on glandular hai to continue her practice here.be given, however, so that, only improvement, that for grey hair the nervous Many Shanghailanders heard of qualified doctors can perform the being dependent on
treatment and... came
system.
her
for cure..
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upon it. Perhaps the resin was Indian Exports Hard
otherwise
sweet and enticing-certainly it had sticky qualities, there would not be a fly in the amber. Legend says that amber is a concretion of birds' tears-but science knows better!
FINE GUM
Hit By The War
'NEW DELHI, Feb. 18 (Reuter)— The Commerce Member repre- senting the Viceroy told the In- dian Legislature yesterday that even though Indian exporta to Eventually, by the action of the
markets still open to India showed sea and earth, that pine gum or resin was converted into the sub- an increase prior to the outbreak. stance with which every smoker of war, these, were insufficient to is familiar. The gum clung to the compensate for the lost markets.
Therefore the Viceroy was now preserved
Insect fly, and
the through the ages, while it was be- actively considering the question of sending trade missions to such ing evolved into amber.
The use of amber is old-very countries whose markets are still old. It is mentioned in the Bible: open to India with whom trade "And I looked, and
a relations can be improved. whirlwind came out of the north.'] =
behalf
a great cloud out of the north, a for deafness and loss of eyesight. great cloud and a fire unfolding Folk with delicate throats can itself and a brightness was about be found wearing amber beads it and out of the midst thereof as even today, while in 1660 Or a colour of amber out of the midst thereabouts they were recom- mended to be "bound to the neck
of the Bre.”
In old, Grecian times, amber, behind, to cure defluxions of the
ground up and mixed with honey eyes and hung about the neck to and rose oil, was used as a cure keep detillations from the throat."
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