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NEW MOSQUITO PLAGUE: SINGAPORE FEARS
YELLOW FEVER PLAGUE
IN MALAYAS.
Threat to £1,000,000 Aerodrome
Singapore, Dec. 28.
A mild outbreak of malaria at Singapore and the presence of myriads of moquitoes capable of carrying yellow fever are giving rise to alarm lest yellow fever should make its appearance in Malaya,
Sir Malcolm Watson, director of the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene, has declared that if this dread disease once broke out in Malaya there would soon not be sufficient persons living to bury the dead.
CLERGYMAN.. HERO OF ZEEBRUGGE
FAMOUS NAVAL CHAPLAIN RETIRES
nayaratd
Two of the worst mosquito- breeding swamps, many square miles in extent, adjoin the £1,000,000 civil acrodrome now nearing completion here. It is understood that the interna- tional airport regulations now being framed insist on the im- munity of aerodromes from mosquitoes, in view of the rapidity with which
terins from African soil might be disseminated.
A clergyman who won the D.S.O., who went unarmed on that historic The authorition will be faced the Mole at with a stupendous task if called Zeebrugge, who steamed up the on to reclaim the Kallang Basin Dardanelles in the Cornwallist while the Turks popped shells at estimated that the cost would be Geyland swamps, for it in her, told a correspondent all about fur in excess of £1,500,000, it recently,
just retired from KING'S DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS.JMR GERTRUDE LAWRENCE
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MIMI
freely adapted from Murgers Masterpiece LA VIE DE BOHEME
Directed by PAUL L STEIN
Decor of RID WAGON, BIOSSOM LE
Murger's Immortal Story of the Love of Mimi and Rodolpac, Brought to the Scroen in one of Elstree's Most Lavish Pro- ductions A Super Attraction for Everybody
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ASIA LIFE BUILDING. THIRD FLOOR,
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On the rubber plantations as The amazing clergyman who revealed this
work well as in the towns the most great
daily the Rev. CE. Peshall, who has careful
precautions tu taken the past
prevent Infection by of Chaplain of the Fleet, where
Preventive squads he Mosquitoes.
taught to recognise the disease- currying speeles are constantly on with swatters, and duty armed
are regularly working coolies paraded, their temperatures taken, to detect and other tests made malaria in its earliest stages.
held the "rank" of Archdeacon, and where he was regarded as the "most popular man in the Navy" Modest to an extreme, it is only with the greatest difficulty that he can be persuaded to talk of him self. Almut his achievement at Zeebrugge he i particularly
reticent.
All ponds and ditches are treat- ed with paraffin and other special preparations to prevent the freed- Ing of larvae.
"The story of the raid on The Mok is well known," he said. "I was there because I felt that I So successful has been this ought to share with the men their most hazardous experioners,
"Only thus could 1 hope to retain my influence with the Lower Ilvek.
"I
His Greatest Scare
wore
daily war against the mosquito that it has been possible hitherto in some parts of the country for Europeans to sleep without mos- quito nets.
The most recent major outbreak a chaplain's khaki of malaria was in Ceylon early uniform, but I kept on my dog-this year, when it was estimated enllar! My job, naturally enough, that there were 80,000 deaths in developed into attending to the seven months.
wounded.
"It WOM
heart-rending experience. The enemy gunfire! played havoe with our ranke, Before and after the landing the decks were littered with deser ately injured men.
"I think the worst part was get-l' ting down the ladders from the steep sides of the Mole to the Vindictive. How the men' did it I don't know. Just courage, faith and determination."
The Cornwellis adventure in the Dardanelles was a different affair. Mr. Peshall speaks light- ty of it,
"We were not hit," he said quietly, "That was very lucky for us. There seemed no reason why
we should not be.
"The Turkish searchlights sud- denly caught as as we steanted up the straits in the dead of night. Shells started popping, but the shells ricochetted over us after hitting the water.
LOST HIS
QUETTA
Ins Desta, the Abyssinian strate gist, who commands the right wing of the Abyssinian army on the Southern front, and who threatens to sever the Italian lines of communica- tlont.
Man Who
Saved The
47th Div.
Is Dead
A VERY GALLANT SOLDIER
MA
JAJOR GUY WILLIAMS, the.
who saved the 47th Division at Loos, died this month at his home in Westwood-rond. Barnes, S.W., from the wounds he received in the war. He was Afty- one years old.
For nineteen years he suffered from partial paralysis due to his wounds.
At Loos he captured guns which are now kept as souvenirs at the Blackheath headquarters of his battalion--the Queen's Own (20th Battalion) London Regiment.
One of his friends said last month: "He was a very gallant Poldier. He held the right flank of the 17th Division at Loos against determined, counter- attack and secured the position there.
"He also beat off a heavy attack at Vimy Ridge in May 1916. He was twice.recommended for the Victoria Cross, but did not receive It. He was awarded the M.C, and bar."
WIFE IN QUAKE
RESCUED HER SISTER-NOW-
TO WED HER
A pretty twenty-one-year old girl leaves England shortly to marry the man who saved her life and lost his wife in the Quetta earthquake.
Miss Nancy Pope, of Berwick- || "Meftah's grief over his wife's street, Warwick-stunee, W., is the death atas píliable. girl.
Her fiance is Mr. A. H. Meftah,
Son thirty-five-year-old
of Sir David Meftah, once Iranian Con- sut in London.
"He dug her grave himself and would not let her body out of his sight till she was buried. "Then he went to look for taking her away with Nancy and found that they were the dead bodies.
"He rescued her and had her taken to hospital.
Her sister Mary was his first wife. Mr. A. HI. Meftah came to Lon- don twelve years ago as a secre- tary at the Iranian Legation. He met blonde-blue-eyed seventeen- "He saw her off to England "1 think the greatest scare I ever
fused to let her stay. had was when I was in the Hin-year-old Mary Pope. They fell in when the British
love. dusinn, lying in
"Meftah wrote to her the most pitiful letters telling of
the
Thames
"There was no keeping them
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VOLGA SONG.
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Phil Green
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WHENEVER I THINK.
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Did not allow for evil.
4 Popular sweet at Bisley."
9 Scottish Quartre day.
10 Ambitious.
12 Escape.
13 Work at a sign-writer perhaps; sounds rather suggestive of what
the salty servant said.
15 What cup should suit riotous
locks?
16 Name.
17 A bit suggestive of sharing. ? 29 Dress not necessarily in a Near
SKAL Lown.
No, this is not a slow swimming stroke.
27 Is this girl Canadian? 28 Transitory.
31 The east ihat upset merit.
32 Some learned work.
Expand to make it lead.
34 Modest, like beaten troops.
35 Is this holiday in same secluded
spot 7
DOWN
1 A high pitched version of Lot's
Jate.
2 "Stern man" (anng.).
Bad men in n humble abode show humility.
5 Disturb,
6 French river.
7 Some drug this,
8 Part of a greengage but not of
yellow plum.
authorities re-11 Prima donna,'
his
33
14 Fastening.
18 Ladies may be an apt anagram. 10 Scar.
20 Vehicle.
21 Perfect, ut criminal beheaded.
23 This starks to eject an undesir-
able person,
26 Is a man with this name apt to
be a bully?
26 A warning of trouble from the
rat.
20 Engine.
30 Vegetable substance, that might
make a charmer useful to fl dlers.
Saturday's Solution
S COTCH- ABERDEEN
ATTIRE ACROSTIC LA JA DA SE OB SE AD E LTOTT CONSTRTOT OIATRUE ONE L FRANKENDURE SNEEMNEE
GRANGE OR
U SPEW DOB SHUFFLING ANENT
EM- BEBEM FAMILIE S 8 IW A SE UT OF EE NETE IN THE LANDSEER BEHELD
estuary. The night was quiet, apart." Mra. G. R. Gordon, the angulah at the loss of his be-ROSS AND CROMARTY two shovels and gum boots in his
when suddenly a young officer of the watch sent round word that the magazines were on fire.
"It an awful feeling, wonder- ing at what moment you will be blown sky-high. I felt calth, et anything but happy. It was an awkward few minutes.
"As a matter of fact, the thing was only a fuse that was sizzling and they soon removed the danger. Still, it made us all think-which is not a bad thing."
SALESMAN 'SAM
even-
girls mother said. "And tually we had to let them marry.
"Mary went to Iran with him. and last year he was Iranian Con- sul at Quetta when the earthquake Happened. They had been married ten years.
"My other daughter, Nancy, had gone to them for a holiday.
"Then the tragedy happened. The house collapsed on them, kill- ing Mary. Nancy was buried for twelve hours.
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loved Molly.
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"Then he asked her to marry him.
"He said she was the second | most beautiful woman to her sister, that she would remind him of Molly, and that she could comfort him.
BLIZZARD AND BY-ELECTION THRILLS COMBINE
car.
His Labour opponent, Mr. McNeill, has just returned from the same re- gion and reports that terrible bliz zards repeatedly feopardised his life on the precipitous road. London, Jan, 19. It is now almost certain that In-
dependent Liborals will fight Climatic obatacles, are increasing seat with Captain A. R. MacDougall, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's many dis making, with the Independent tractions in fighting the Ross an didate, in Cromarty by-election. He departed a four-cornered
for the snow-bound west coast with Special.
"At last she consented.
married "They will be Teheran, where he is in the Foreign Minister's office."
Sam's No Mind Reader
I TOLD YA IT, WAS EASY!
thu
ta
GOSHI WHERE ́S. TH"
2000 I HAD IN KERE! WANTED TA GIT IT TO THE BANKĮ
WHY DIDN'T YA
YA WANTED -MONEY
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Mr. Randolph
By Small
the
cati- Churchill'
contest--Reuter's
I DEPOSITED IT IN, TH BANK THIS MORNING,
OFFICE
LAL. 3. FAT, OFF.