THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1936.
Brown Paper May Save Your Life
WHAT TO DO
IN AN
AIR RAID
SAFETY ROOM
·FOR EVERY
HOME
BROWN PAPER PÅSTED OVER THE WINDOW OF ONE OF THE ROOMS IN YOUR HOME MAY BE THE MEANS OF SAVING YOUR LIFE IF WAR EVER COMES TO HONG- KONG.
So the Hongkong Air Raids Precautions Committee will tell you shortly in pamphlets to be. issued to the general public on methods of fighting gas raids.
The Information is already contained in the British Govern. ment's Handbook on Anti-Gas Precautions and First Aid for Air Raid Casualties, now obtain- able in Hongkong from the St. John Ambulance Brigade at H cost of 55 cents.
PROOF GAS ROOM
In every house in Hongkong at least one room will be required to be prepared with a view to pro- venting the entry of gas, so that It may be safely occupied by the occupants of the building in the event of an air radd.
It is possible that one of the
REV. FATHER" "SANCJAN SANDY" CAIRNS:
fin centrei
His double does not have his looks
requirements of the Public Works Viki Baum In Hongkong Department before passing archi- -tects plans of new buildings will bo that one room on the first floor be rendered gas-proof.
The first floors of buildings have been decided upon by the Hongkong anti-gus Committee be Cause (a) the risk from incendiary and high explosive bomba
fa
HOW "GRAND HOTEL
CAME TO BE WRITTEN
HE HAS A DOUBLE!
SAME NAME
SAME BIRTHPLACE SAME WORK
AND THEIR
RADIO BROADCAST
Relay of Band of Royal Ulster Rifles
FATHERS HAD-IMPERIAL AFFAIRS RELAY
SAME NAMES
SAME HOMETOWNS
· SAME BUSINESSES
1-2.10 pm. European Progranine.
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programime.
7-11 pm. European Programine.
7
p.m. "An American in Paris" (George Geshwin) playel by the New Light Symphony Orchestra..
7.17 p.m. Song Recital by Josept: Hislop (Tenor).
(1) Ye Bank and Braes (arr, Leca) (2) Sing to me the Old Scotch
"The
Father. Robert Rev. Cairus, son of Mr. Robert Cairns, one-time eveuer of a well-known dairy business in the Parish of St. Patrick's, Anderston, Glas- | Songs (Leeson) (3) MacGregor's pow, is visiting Hongkong." Gathering (arr. Kahn) (4) Hounte
Wee Thing (Fox). Rev. "The
Father Robert Cairns, son of a well-known dairy. business in the Parish of St. . Patrick's, Anderston, Glasgow,' is
visiting Hongkong.”
7.30 p.m. From the Studio. A Jazz Recital by Fred Carpio (Banjo) and Sopronie Falles (Piano) St. Louis Blue; 2. Piano Solos Jubi
1 Banjo Solos-Frosted Chocolates; lee; Halidny; 3. Banje Solas-Frettin: Sirings; 4. Piano Solos-Study in Blue; Nagasaki. Rusty
8 p.m. Local Time Signal, Weather Report, Stock Quotations and An-
younouncements.
for
If you saw the above paragraphs in your local newspaper one day, might be pardoned thinking that a sub-editor had passed two items about the same person.
You would be wrong.
8.05 p.m.
Variety of Vocal Items. Songs. If you love me; My Heart
and I ("Anything Goes")....Evie Hayes (Contralto); Tap your Tootsies ("Jack of All Trades"). Jack Mul- Over bert; He's an Angel, Moon Minmi...
....Turner Layton; Gertrude Lawrence Medley,
8.70
By a singular coincidence, the
From the Studio. Rev. Father ("Sancian Sandy") Two Violins and Plane, Prue Lewis 1. Concerto in D Minor (Bach) for Cairns, the well-known Pastor of (tat Violin); Pedro Antonio (2nd the Maryknoll Mission at San-Violin) Lindsay A. Lafford (Piano- cian Island, has a double in all forte), hat appearances who lives in felt); Traumerei (Jarnefelt)....Pedro Violin Solo-Berceuse (Jarne-
County Down.
ASSOCIATION OF NAMES
The curious association of the name "Cairns" with the Parish of St. Patrick's in Anderston, Glas- row, was brought to light in a recent issue of the Scottish edition of the Irish Weckly.
Antonio.
9 p.m. A Relay of the Daventry News Bulletin (Copyright by Reuter)
Announcements. and
9.15 p.m.
A Relay of the Band of the 1st. Batin.; Royal Ulster Rifles from the Officers' Mess Murray Har racks, by kind permission of Lieut. Colonel Rodwell and Omeers. Con- ductor-Bandmaster H A. Hole,
There was a Mr. Robert Cairns, A... who had a dairy business in Trik: "Imperial Affairs"
10 p.m. Big Ben from Daventry. Stubeross Street 40 years ago. Ile Hodson.
by H. V.
10.17 Dance Music by Jack Jackson St. Patrick's by his business asso- and his Orchestra. ciations.
11 pm. Close Down.
grenteal on the top floors and "You Should Have Seen My Hands" was well known in the Parish of
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room on any floor above the
ground level is safer from gas)
than one or below ground level.
REQUIREMENTS
"Telegraph" Special Correspondent
The author who always expects her books to be "flops" and The following are the require is always astounded by their success was in Hongkong this morning. She is Vicki Baum, author of "Grand Hotel" and a host of other ments for a gas-proof room:
En route from the United i Læis remarkable book.
chambermaid at the Hotel Bristol
་
1The windows of the rooms
successes.
should be small and if possible not States, viz "an unbeaten track," "I worked for six weeks' as a in an exposed position. If they face soft ground, the blast of an Miss Baum arrived in Hongkong exploding bomb may be more earlier this week. She left by mothered than if they face a paved, the J.C.J.I.. liner Tisadane this or metallic surface. The glass will
In any case be liable to be broken morning for Bali,
by the explosion of high explosive bombs, even at a considerable dis
"My next book is going to be tance, and some other covering will written in Bali," she said. "Don't have to be fastened over the wink me whether I'm going to write a book about China. I've visited dow frame.
that country thrice, but I still don't know anything about it.
2-Where possible, the room should be on the side of the house least exposed to the prevalling wind. Wind presKUTE will assist the entry of gas through small crevices
window and ill-fitting frames.
Most of her prolife output owadays is on behalf of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer'a for whom she
in Berlin, in order to find out just what took place behind the scenes in a 'grand' hotel.
"No one know I was Vick Baum
and i was paid, tipped, roured at. winked and at worked just like any of the hamtreds of other girls em- ployed there.
"The work was very hard. I started at 4 or 5 a.m., and finished
veive or thirteen hours later.
"You should have seen my poor has contracted to write a number hands,” She involuntarily held of novels. One, already complet-them up for inspection, and then éd, will star Greta Garbo, who has laughed at their snowy whiteness, is always ansiated by draughts, just returned from an excursion "I mean, then!" she added." it is important to shot all doors and to Sweden. windows throughout the house be- fore retiring to the gas-protected room.
1.The entry of gas into a house
..
"Grand Hotel" was the best seller of 1930. It was nequired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for à fabulous sum, sufficient to make Miss. Baumits author a comparatively rich woman for the rest of her life, and Her most famous book was became the senzational film of "Grand Hotel."
None of her books are at present belug produced at Hollywood, but 4. General gas-protections should : French producers are making two be applied to the whole house as Alms based far as possible, afte; paying special, novels. attention to the selected room. the penetration of gas into the house in reduced to a minimum, the occupants of the selected room" will be all the safer, and a great deal of trouble will be avoided because the house will not subsequently need alring to the same extent na it RA
terlor.
had penetrated freely into the in-
GLASS UNSAFE
1932.
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:
His son, Robert, was ordained
to the priesthood by the late Arch-i bishop Maguire in 1904. Father Cairns was stationed at Dumbar ton and Wishaw until his appolat-
ment as parish priest at Stratha when he retired and went to live at Drumrea, Newcastle, County
ven, where he remained until 1926,-
Do
BELGIAN COALITION RETURNED
Another parishioner bearing VAN ZEELAND TO
the name of Mr. Robert Cairns, also had a dairy business in Grace Street at about the same time is the above-mentioned Mr. Robert Cairns.
WENT TO AMERICA
This Mr. Cairns also hud a son named Robert, who was not very old when his son emigrated to America. There he joined the order of the Maryknoll Missionary Fathers.
In 1920 Father Cairns was eent by his Order to China, and, on January 1, 1932, was appointed to take charge of the Mission Sandian Island, about 100 miles southwest of Hongkong, where he is now stationed.
HONGKONG BROADCAST
at
KEEP OFFICE
TWO MINISTERS DEFEATED
Brussels, May 25. The Government coalition retains an
overwhelming majority of 150 amidst a combined Opposition of 46, it was disclosed toying at the end of the general elections.
The
party standing is as follows: Sociallets, 70; Catholics, 63; Liberals,
23;
217
Rexists, Nationalists, 16; Flemish Communists, 9.
The Prime Minister, M. van Zee- land, will continue in offies, but It is predicted that the coalition may lose It will be recalled that, Father its former stendiness due to the fact Cairas recently broadcast an ad-that the small opposition plans to She told me this morning how best place in the world to seitle "Saint
Ball, Miss Baum considers, is the dress from ZBW on the subject age eternally vigorous war.
The outstanding casualties of the Xavier and Sancian Mection. were M. Paul Hyman, down to serious book-writing. Island."
Liberal Minister without portfolio, "For a woman," she added, with The Irish Weekly reports that and M. Eugene Soldane, the former twinkle. "Men are apt to find this broadenst from ZBW's short Minister of Justice-United Press. wave station was picked up by counter-attractions."
listeners in Father Cairns' home town in Scotland.
she obtained the background for
Father Cairns visited the Parish of his birth about three years ago, Ho has relatives living in Mary hill and in the south side of Glas- grow,
Hongkong houses it will be found that the windows and doors are an
-fitting that it is necessary to When she completes her novel, Having selected the room for paste newspaper or brown paper she will proceed to Europe, re occupation in emergeney, the next over the cracks to render them nir-visiting her home country. step is to render it nå gastight as tight. A mush of newspapers and
On her last visit to Hongkong, possible. Glans windows should water is useful for stopping up Miss Baum was emphatic that the not be depended upon. If strong large cracks.
would not re-visit Germany. This paper is pasted over the glass it
It'me she is not so sure. will prevent collapse in case the glass is cracked. If planking is available it is advisable to board up the windows on the outside, na an additional measure for pro Much of the above information toeting the glass against the is taken from the Air Raid Pre- effects of high explosive. The cautions Handbook No. 2, durtain- inside should be covered with able froin St. John Ambulance now. like Americs, and intend materials such as oileloth, no- Brigade Ilendquarters leum, carpet or blanket. Linen or coals. cotton sheets, which have been
Five other bandbooks are to bo backed by pasting strong paper on issued by the British Air Raids one side, will also prevent the Precautions Committee, and they penetration of gas.
will form the basis of Hongkongʻa
In the case of a hall or largo Last year the German Pro- In Sanzian he is the only Euro- room, an air-lock should be pro- | paganda Bureau ordered every gean resident. vided for the entrance,
for 55 t
A blanket, or covering, of one plan of defence. They are: of the suggested materials should 1-Air Raid Precautions in the also be fastened over the outalde | Home-Advice to the general public of the door frame, leaving a flap what to do before, during and after which can be turned up to allow an air raid, including what to do in entrance. If there is a largo case of fire, crevice under the door, a thin strip of wood should be nailed to Ald the floor to form a small step against which the door--will fit tightly.
STOP UP KEYHOLES ·
2—Anti-Gas Precautions and First
copy of one of her books to be destroyed.
Although Austrian by birth, she consider America her homeland
continue living there. My absences from the States will only be short onCA.
QUEEN MARY'S BIRTHDAY
53 EXECUTIONS BY ITALIANS
39 LOOTERS CAUGHT RED-HANDED
Civil
Servants
Salaries
CONVERSION RATE EXEMPTION PLAN
At to-morrow's meeting of the Legislative Council, the Hon. Colonial Treasurer will move the following resolution:
"Resolved pursuant to section 0 of
the Hongkong Government Service
(Levy on Salarios) Ordinanco, 1930, that with effect on and from the Ist day of January, 1936, the salaries, “Klume, May 25.
which are expressed in terms of Altogether 63 persons have been sterling, of all officers of the Hong- shot by firing squads since the kong Government Servico who aro or Talian occupation of Addis Ababa, on shall be absent from the Colony on WARSHIPS DRESSED IN May 5, says an official announcement leave for a period exceeding three
HONOUR
from the Ethiopian capital to-day. months or who are or shall be absent Of these 30 were caught red-handed from the Colony on duty for any nt incendiarism or noting and the period shall be wholly exempt from fourteen others were all, guilty of the operation of the special conver various grave crimes-Reuter Special. sion rate provided for in section 2 (4) of the said Ordinance during tho period in which such officers aro so absent."
BLOW AT NEW DEAL
In honour of the 69th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Mary, warships in harbour dressed overall this morn- 3---Treatment of Gus-Casualties. - ing A Baluto of 21 guns WAB 4–Decontamination of Material. fired at noon by 11.M.S. Tamar and men on the upper decks of 11. M.
The Council will also take the first 5-Structural Precautions agalast ships fell in at that time,
readings of a Bill to amend tho The fireplace and any other Bomba and Gas--Designed for use by
Washington, May 25. Marriage Ordinance, 1876, and of a The Japanese gunboat Saga wap opening through which air can architects, builders and others direct also dressed overall, she and the U.S. Sill another blow has been de Bill to amend the Protection of enter will require closing up by ly responsible for the construction or auxiliary vessel Gold Star being the livared at the Now Deal, the United Women and Girls Ordinance, 1807
cardboard
similar maintenance of buildings. wood,
only foreign warships in harbour, States Supreme Court ruling to-day and the second reading of a Bill to material. Even tho keyhole 6-Air Raid Precautions in Faê- The Gold Star arrived this morning that the 1934 Municipal Bankruptcy amend the Female Domestic Servico
hould be stopped up. In many tories and Business Premises.
and will remain bere until May 30. Act is unconstitutional-Router. Ordinance, 1923,
or
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HONG KONG. SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure in 1938 on behalf of sick and destituto children is estimated at $20,000, against which the Income to datò in $12,000 only.
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The Society asks for the balance of
$13,000
to continue its work, Mr. A. McKELLAR, CLA.,
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzio & Co.;
P. & O. Building.
Mr. KWOK CHAN, -
c/o Banque do L'Indo Chine,
Hongkong.