Peace in Flanders
917 Reasons
Why New
War Is Taboo
BRITISH BODIES FOUND IN FRANCE THIS YEAR
A GRIM REMINDER During the past 12 montha the bodies of 872 British soldiers were found on old battlefields in France, and 45 in Belgium, according to informa- tion released last week by the Imperial War Graves Commis- sion in London.
F the bodies, it was stat-
OF
ed, 437 were found by metal searchers, 287 by farmers, 111 by search par- ties recently organised by the French Government for clearing its own battlefields, and 82 by other agencies.
Of the 872 bodies recover- ed, 642 were found in the Somme region.
German Memorials Negotiations have been almost completed for the erection, at the expense of the German authorities of headstones On Gorman graves in British cemeteries in Belgium, says the Commission.
The trees in the old me teries have grown to such an extent as to throw shade, this having enhanced the appearance of the cemeteries.
In Great Britain alone, there are 90,000 war graves in more than 9,000 cemeteries, extend- ing from the Shetland Islands in the north, to the Channel Islands in the south.
Of the 1,101,890 names of Bri- tish Empire soldiers registered by the Commission, 587,119 dead have been identified and buried in known graves, while $17.771
are recorded as "missing."
Of the latter, 180,861 are miss-
ing only in a technical sense. They have been found, but not
THE HONGKONG | TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1935.
KNOWN WARRIORS
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THEY ARE SOME OF THE HALF WHO WERE FOUND. Elsewhere in France lies the bodies of 517,771 British soldiers, still posted as "Missing,"
TO MARRY
JOSEE LAVAL, only daughter of identified, and have been buried the French Premier and Count Rene as "unknown." On the Menin | de
Chambrun, who have been Gate alone are inscribed the engaged. Count de Chambrum is a names of 6,141 Australian "miss.lawyer in New York and is a relative ing."
10 President Roosevelt.
Lawrence Was Tortured As A British Spy
PAIN WAS HIS ONE OBSESSION
"We had ropes about our necks, and on our heads prices which showed that the enemy intended hideous tortures for us if we were caught. Each day some of us passed."
These are the words of Lawrence of Arabia.
Cinemas: Women: Radio
Are Some Of The Grouses.
AIR ACE PLANS
NEW FLIGHTS
CATHCART JONES TO FLY TO HONGKONG?
"I want Britain to be right on top of the commercial avia- tion world."
THESE words give the
Valeteria
true meaning of a small paragraph which appeared in the personal column of The The Times a fortnight ago. This read:
"Lieutenant O, Catheart Jones re- quires sponsor tu finance building the world's fastest commercial aero- plane for nine special long-distance record flights in 1936-7 showing profitable returp,”
Lieutenant
Cathcart Jones ¡made, with Mr. Ken Waller, the | record-breaking flight to Aus-
tralia and back.
The designs of this super- machine are ready. The details fof the nine long-distance Rights Jare complete.
All that Lieutenant Cather!
is some air-minded
WHY HONGKONG PEOPLE HAVE MOODS benefactor to for her with wet
THREE Hongkong people, in response to the
article in Monday's issue of the Telegraph, have come forward with their grouses.
The 100 per cent. grouse comes from "A Reader," who says:
"Hongkong is full of dis- gruntled people. My only grouse is that I am sick and tired of listening to the grouses of other folk. If they're so fed up with the place why don't they get out of i.
"If sate of these grousers would only stop to think, they'd Frealise that. on the whole. they've never been so well off. ·
"The women have all the ser- youts they desire; they live a lifej (of comparative luxury and they have nothing to do but ruc about. Yet, to hear them, their cup of bit- Terness is full.
Men are IIG better.Despite their social amenities and their nigh made of living, as compared with Home would the average 1mlom worker patronise the Ritz?) they do nothing but
crumble"
Unbearable Women
He has no fine for
Women whom he
IN LONDON
Princess Maria of Savoy, youngest Hongkong
visiting the English capital. She was "ill-mannered, suabbish, unbear-¦
considers an photographed on a shopping expedi
tion in Wast-End. ible and selfish fat; believes that
Two months after his death as humble Aircraft- "Fed Up" had three grouses. daughter of the King of Italy, is man T. E. Shaw, his own vivid descriptions of some of his sufferings in the desert are to-day made available for the first time to the general public.
One of his most terrifying experiences was when he went spying in the town of Derka as a Circassian and was taken one night before the brutal Bey, who was in his bed in a nightgown. "trembling and sweating though with fever,"
When Lawrence refused the Bey's request, the Rey attacked him with a sword:
I winced while the blood wavered down my side and dripped in front of my thigh. He looked plensed."
gradunt cracking apart of my whole being by same too great tire whose waves rolled up my spine till they were pent withis
ZBW. shouldi be given over tol private interests "so that we can! uret stan devent programmes of mur radio auring the summer monthe" and apres with the
Moods,, it lins been proved, let the average person in four-week cycles,
Professor Rexford Heysey, of
my brain, to clash terribly Protsers who say that the Hong the University of Pennsylvania.
together.
tour overn
-hould
"After the corporal ceased th men took up, very deliberately. Some action about noises jgiving me so many, and then an
squabble for the next turn. interval during which they would This was repeated often, for what may have been
20 10+ than tess
It Wan
momentaril;
thing
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for
fake
kept records for two years of the Buetrations of the spirits of men employed in great factory.
The Cinemas *
They Complained The third rou comes from Be found a definite, regular re- "F..."
ef depression in every "I know I am only going over of his life.
minn, independent of the events old ground when I air my grouse."
eurtener
he says, "It concerns Hongkong's Men in the "down cycle"
rinranas, Daring
fargued complained about condi- nemeritions, wages, the Government, and mnths, unless". you have a motor had trouble at home. var to reach the benches, they
The same men in the "up eyele provide the only amusement avail-
were contented and ungrumbling, in
Colony. While l
their mods slept better This
the money.
"First of all, 1 nm determined it must be an all-British under- taking." he said. "At the mo- ment I cannot divulge the routò of the fights. That would be giving nwny secrets-but I do want to make it plain they will not be merely stunts with crack racing machine.
"My conviction is that if my. attempts are successful. Britain will be able to lead the way on the great cominercial air routes of the Empire.
"I am sick and tired of hear
that ing people say
foreign countries have better machines than we have for commercial purposes.
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"I have come out right into the 6 &-9.30 P.M. open now with my request for a sponsor, because I want to have plenty of time to make the detailed preparations before 1936.
"I require nine months at Joust for the manufacture and the test- ing of the machine, and I have fixed the date of the proposed flights for 1930-37, because I don't want any repetition of what hap- poned in the Australia Air Race, when one of the machines ready only ten days before the The started.
Beating America
WON
"I can say this! One of the proposed records I have set my heart on beating is the American 'coast-to-coast flight.
"It has been salt that the American machines are the last word in aircraft. My aeroplane, I believe, would leave them stund. ing.
"Six of the nine flights will be lover routes where there are exist-
ing records. ·
"I do not contemplate cruss. ing the Atlantic because I don't think they will ever be a com. mercial success"
As to the commercial aspect of the ventures Lieutenant Cathcart Jones has no doubt that he will show his financial backer-if he turns up-a hundsome profit,
"This is no have brained scheme," be said earnestly.
"I thought he was going to kill minutes. ime, but he only pushed up a next knew that I was being fold of the flesh over my ribs, dragged about by two men, each worked the point through after disputing over a leg as though to considerable trouble and gave the lit me. blade a half-turn. This hurt, and better than more flogging."
Dizzied By The Wind The poignant Lawrence was that pain of the jable slightest had been his obsession patrons appreciate the cooling A curious fact was that men in and secret terror from a boy systems, they are certainly paying was due to low emotional energy."When I have shown that what I Then he set soldiers on the
Seldom has # more terrible diminutive Lawrence:
through the neck for Faceotiat of torture
the con- At other times stored-up energy have in mind can be done the. ever been "They kicked me to the head written,
venience this provide. To ask made them restless.
future of British commercial avin- of the stairs and stretched me This description of his torture
to pay the equivalent of over a guard bench, pommelling did not appear in Lawrence's . d. to sit through
One elderly man, who laughedtion will be assured." one in- j Two knelt on my ankles, "Revolt in the Desert, but it was different feature film and two or by "emotional energy cycles" was dones flies in the King's Cup air
at the idea of his being affected
When Lieutenant Cathcart bearing down on the back of my in the fuller version of his history three even more indifferent shorts shown that he had recurrent knees, while two more twisted f the · campaign in Arabia.
is little short of robbery. To in-periods when he never joked, was
race in September, one of his rivals "Seven Pillars of Wisdom."
flict, on top of that, two trailers, reserved and introspective and
will be Kenneth Waller, my wrists till they cracked, and then crushed them and my neck
an insult. Why can't these(grumbled about his employera. against the wall,
picture people realise that, by providing rotten films nt rich prices, they their patrons, who are finding that easy going, more efficient, and con- are losing most of At other times he was cheerful, it's cheaper to find some
tent with his He.
me.
the "Seven Pillars" was issued Only very limited edition of
when the book was published in "The corporal had run down 1926 at 30 guinens. Copies of it stairs and now came back with a have fetched very high prices, whip of the Circassian sort, Now his death has made it possible thong of supple black hide, round-to republish it, and it appears to- ed and tapering from the thickness day at 308. of a thumb at the grip (which was wrapped in silver) down to the hard point finer then a pencil.
“Numbered The Blows"
"To keep my mind in control |
Form of amusement.".
ather
The full text is far more thrill.
Everybody grouses in
Hong- ing than the abridgement, which kong at some time or the other. la concerned mainly with plain -narrativo.
You may call it the result of “off- days.
"the "By day the hot aun fermented days" or "depression"
| blies,"
I numbered the blows, but after us," he says, "and we were dizzied twenty lost count, and could feel by the beating wind. At night only the shapeless weight of wo were stained by dow, and pain, not tearing claws, for shamed into pettiness by the in- which I had prepared, but a numerable silence of stars"
or
Now science has taken a hand- provod that moods arise without any necessary relation to what is happening in your life.
Moody Person
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Another worker, known - moody person, was found to have a regular cycle of twenty-four
In hup-periods-he Was“ an enthusiastic amateur painter In his spare time.
In the "down cycle" he spent his evenings in billiard saloons- `ard was given to cynicism.
Waller will fly a Percival Gull munchine entered by Captain E. W. Percival, the designer, while Liou- Miles Hawk Major Trainer on- tenant Cathcart Jones will be in
tered by Major G. W. G. Allon.
In the nine flights Lieutenant Cathcart-Jones would cover total flying distance of about 115,000 miles..
'Three of the nine fights will almost certainly cover the route Campbell Black proposes to traverse this week, Le, to South Africa, to Hongkong and to Canada.
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