THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 13, 1936,
CANADA TO HAVE CROWN JEWEL
TO BE USED IN . DOMINION FESTIVITY
WHEN the liner!
Duchess of Bedford, sailed from Liverpool] recently for Canada, she carried with her full- size reproductions of the Crown Jewels for use in the Dominion celebra- tion there this month.
valued at
These replicas, about £150. were made for # Vancouver firm by Messrs. Robt. White and Sons, theatrical
jewellers and embroiders, Drury lane. Mr. K. L. Davy, manager of the London firm, sakl;
All tricks are allowed In America's Presidential elections, Governor Al-
fred Lansion hopes to gain mid- western adherents by driving an old
fox-drawn prairie schooner,
Though photographs and pictures of the Crown Jewels were alrendy) available, wis made several visits to 66 the Jewel Haine in the Tower of London to make sure of getting the, exact size"
Woman Mesmerised For 7 Years
Berlin, July 1.
FRANZ WALTER, who
kept hypnotic trance, at inter- vals, over a period of seven years, was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude at Heidelberg to-day.
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Under the pretence of being a doctor, Walter mes- merised the woman into he lieving that she had various liseuses, of whleh he then "cured" her. In this mon- ner he got £240 from the
woman.
Walter
was
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U.S.A. PAYS ITS OWN WAR DEBT
THE
JIE ́biggest pay-out for years has ended in Americą, where the veterans of the great war
· have received a £400,000,000 bonus. This mass relcase of money is expected to cause w
temporary, spending boơm. Each man, on an average, has received about £120.
Blind Man To Lead Brazil Expedition
Budapest, July 10. Gabor Molner who lost his eye- sight two years ago, is to lead an expedition to Brazil.
He knows the country in which; few white men have ever set foot. am he speaks many native dia- leets.
The expedition's aim is to collect
rare
beetles for the National į Museum of Hungary, It is being financed by the blind adviser.
"I mean to make gramophone | records and Alms of the natives in
the unknowo parts of Brazil," ho¦ said.
One Motar has himself made a
Proud of Modern Surgery"
THE smallest bronchoscope in the world was specially matie in an effort to save the life of a |two-year-old child who had swal- lowed, auknown to his parènts. jan open safety pin.
The child. Thomas Custy, of Oldham, died in King's College Hospital, and at the inquest Mia- adventure WI ༢ returned. The Coroner (Mr. A. Douglas Cow- burn), after hearing the story of the efforts to save the boy, said: "IL is a marvellous record, It makes one proud of modern sur- gery."
Mr. Thomas Cusly, the father, said that an X-ray examination at Man- chester frst showed the presence of the safety pin.
Two efforts were made in remove the pia.
Then a woman doctor told him that If there way one man in England who could get from the lung that man was at King's College Hospital, Lon- don. So the ebild was taken to London.
Dr. Stephen Gerald Shippard, hous. -surgpan-in-the-throat-department-of- King's College Hospital, said that the child responded to treatment for its general health and by May 7 he was fit for an anesthetic. A bronchoscope was passed, but they were entirely unable to see the pin because granulations.
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"I was decided to wait until 21 special smaller bronchoscope could be made," sald Dr. Shippard. "This is it."
He handed the bronchoscope to the coroner with the remark," believe it is the smallest in the world."
The doctor continued: "We were able to pass this new bronchoscope down on May 21, but again we were not able to see the pin, because of granulations and owing to the fact that the bronchoscope had a very small.orifice, 11 was difflevit'to judge how far we could thrust It without damage."
It was decided to wait and make another altempt, but the child developed pneumonia.
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AL the post-mortem examination it was found that the pin was embedded In the bronchus and part was actually in the lung.
The coroner said that it wres marvellous story, simply fold, of the wonderful efforts to remove the pin. It was right to bring the child to hospital department which had such brillant successes.
Bronchoscope. An instrument constructed on the principle of the telescope, which on introduction In- to the mouth is passed down through the larynx and windpipe and enables the abserver to see the Interior of the large bronchial tubes.
English Speech
map in relief of the country to be explored.-Router.
'Alibi Witness'
An important witness against Robert James and Charles Hope, central figures in the Los Angeles "rattlesnake murder case,
is Madge Reed. She told authorities James offered her $1,000 to say. she saw Mrs. Janes alive after her husband left the house on the day of her death.
Ban On Cavell Execution Scene
Coventry, July 1. A
TABLEAU depicting Nurse Cavell standing before a German firing squad was cut out of the programme of Coventry's Godiva Pageant, held on June 27.
Objection was taken to the tableau on the ground that it might disturb the new friendship which was growing up between Britain and Germany.
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Where The Money
Goes
Wall-street anticipates 2 rise in stocks. Some motor stocks have already Kone up. The veterans will want
new car
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Tallors and cloth merchants are prepared, cosmetic hope to get their stare.
But some people are duliiona of the effect of the bonim. "The only results are likely to be wiight outbreak of alcoholism, an acute attack of automobilism, a considerable amount of
of absentee. ists, and the appearance of a large number of well-dressed men," "is the forecast of one
The payment was made on bonus
пульсті вие суніс. certificates that were issued more than ten years ago, and which would have'matored in 1915. This wan too bng for the veterans to wait.
A campaign at Washington and influence brought to bear on Cun. gressmen throughout the country resulted in a Bill being passed— despite President Roosevelt's veto by which veterans could receive bonds equal to the face value of their bonus certificates, less any amount they had borrowed them.
It is the distribution of these hands which has now ended..
BLOW IN
FACE RESTORES SIGHT
WAR VETERAN WAS BLIND 18 YEARS
A WAR-BLINDED veteran was sitting in a billiard- room, his sightless eyes facing the direction of a self-appoint- ed commentator,
One of the players asked for the billiard rest. The marker went to hand it to him. Ie turned round and the butt end. hit the blind man in the fore- head, laid him out.
Three weeks Inter-ke-was sitting! in his garden when his night return
ed.
The man Frank James Doherty, Bridge-road, Letchworth, sald;
DISBELIEVED HIMSELF
"I couldn't believe it, and rubbed my eyes. It was just an illusion, It | told myself, but it was true. Still un-} certain of my own senses, 'I sent for
| my doctor, who knew me well.
British Films "Due For Sad Awakening"
Los Angeles, July 10.. British flm producers are "due for a sad awakening" necording to Joseph, M. Schenck, hend of the 20th Century-Fox Film Company.
British producers, he said, “are going through the same growing pains as Hollywood did in the boom days of the film industry.
"Money for production is elay (to obtain, and the British ore do- ing pictures on the grand scale; but they are apaing Hollywood.
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Prexy By Proxy
Charles Stauffacher, exchange student at Lingnan, Canton, China, conducted long range campaign for student body, pre- Eident of Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. And he won.
Threw Her Husband Out In His Shirt
New York, July 1. MRS. EVELYN COLLISIŁAW. Evelyn Provost of the silent "I believe he thought I was a bit films, built herself a glass house barny. But after I told him what had happened, and he had tested my overlooking New York's Hudson sight, he confirmed my hopes that River so she could worship the
could see again.
"When the rest hit me, I was more annoyed than hurt," Mr. Doherty added. "Someone give the a drink and I felt better.
"All that happened was that friend said an eye looked bloodshot.,
sun,
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Although she lives in a glass house, Mrs. Collishaw did not throw stones. But some of her neighbours die during al her absence in Florida.
"When I got home my mother wanted me to go to the doctor, but I told her not to be silly, went to bed and forgot about it."
Sir William Noble and Caplain J. P. | Mr. Doherty was wounded on the Black, two of Coventry's Industrial Somme in 1918 while serving with the lenders, declared that they would King's Own Royal Regiment. His withdraw their support of the carni-head was shattered and sight prac- val unless the Cavell episode wastically destroyed. modified.
"I want to know what President Roosevelt is going to do about this," she said on her return to-clay.
"Look at my private papers scatter- ed about. How can I tell what will be divulged?"
Some of those papers reveal that Mrs. Collishaw recently instructed a local tailor to make a pair of pants.
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The bone structure of his skull was. Mrs. Collishaw eloped with a focal Colonel J. A. Cole, another promin- so mutilated that as a last resort sur-taxicab-driver, and threw him ent industrialist, also protested,
geous amputated several bones in his after a week of married life-in his At the request of the Mayor the fers and grafted them on the wounded shirt. Carnival Committee reconsidered the skull in aut effort to restore it. matter, and devided on changes to
They
did their job so well that Mr. meet the wishes of the objectors. Doherty now bears hardly any marks
of the operation.
The pageant, which is in ald, off Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitni, depleted famous women through the ages.
LANGUAGE OF WORLD'S,
PIPE-SMOKERS
But all the skill of the surgeons was insuficient to bring back his sight. From that day he was almost stonoj blind in both eyes,
ONLY CASE
The house surgeon at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital yaki.
Aeroplane
Arm-Signals
May Be Changed
London, June 26. Mr. Doherty's experience was extra accidents in history it is probable Following one of the strangest
ordinary. There
were, of course, many cases that, the method of signalling by during the war of skull bones being arm from highspeed aeroplanes repaired by the grafting on to them of will be changed. bone from the legs," he said.
"But in such cases one would ex-
Berlin, July 1. "as, with everything he is fond of, THE English language is the makes a special cult of his pipe.
Flight LL."Rhys-Jones was lead- peet the central optic nerve in the ing a formation of Gauntlets from "We ordinary Europeans only one in the world that pipo-smoking as a comparativelymanently lost.
regard brain to be destroyed and sight per- No. 19 Squadron over Gatwick, ean be spoken with a pipe in the simple affair. But anyone who goes "I do not know of any other in- Gauntlets, one of the latest type of mouth,
into a real old London tobacco shop'stance of sight being restored to a war single-scator.fighters, have a top So comments a Berlin newe-will soon realise with this conception veteran in this manner after so long speed in level flight: approaching
He has made a great mistake.
a period.' paper correspondent in an article
ONE HOUR IN TOBACCONIST SHOP
"In one street, for instance, I simply
describing how he bought a pipe. in London..
"Many people even assert," he mys, wanted to buy a little tobacco, and FAN MAIL DIVORCE "that if sounds best of all when spoken reckoned that 10 minutes would suf-
Chicago, July 1.
240 M.P.H. They have opon cock- Ipits. The officer flung out his arm
to give the break-up signal.
The blast of air from the slip- stream flung his arm back with such violence that his right shoulder was discotated. In spite
like that. If it were not generally fice. But after an hour I left the shop... known that English was invented with a new pipe, thrco special packets before pipe-smoking, one might sup-of tobacco, a box of snuff and a mass tained a divorce because his wife landing with his left hand.
A radio announcer. here has ob- of the agony, ho made a perfect | pose that the latter were not without of new ideas which will remind me tore up the fan-mail-ho-received The problem has not arisen Influence on the formation of this-the end-of-my days of what from admirers of his radio voice, before because aeroplanes" have language...
barbarian at pipo-smoking I had "The Englishman,” says the writer, hitherto been.:-Reuter.
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