THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. "WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1936.
Scientists Alarmed at Britain's Dwindling
Population: "Crisis Will Be
Mis Vivi-Ann Hulten, Swedish fancy woman skater, and in one of the most remarkable executors of this sport in the world, han decided to follow the example of her Norwe- Kian collengua Sonja Henie find be come a professional. The Swedish chumpion will appror in great Tee Show i New York
Lawrence The "New Napoleon"
Oxford, Oct. 15. IF the Great War had con-
tinued for several more years Lawrence of Arabia | might have realised Napo leon's young dream of con- quering the Enst.
So said Mr. Winston Churchill to-day when he unveiled plaque in memory of Lawrence at Oxford High School, where Lawrence was eduented,
the war Towards the end of Lawrence's fame STAY spreading added Mr. rast throughout Asla.
In 1919 or Churchill.
1920 he might have arrived at Constan- tinople with most of the tribes and races of Ania Minor and Arabia at bis back.
In his treat period of adventure or in inter years of self-suppression and relf-imposed eclipse he always reigned over these with whom he came in contaci. His greatness. lay in his disdain of the prizes and. plea- sures of life.
HIS ARAB FRIENDS
Mr. Churchill added: "The suffer- ings and stresses Lawrence had undergone during the war had left their scars and injuries upon him."
"I am sure that the ordeal of watching the helplessness of his Arab friends in the grand con- fusions of the Peace Conference was the main cause which decided his renunciation of all power and. su far as possible, of all interest in great public affairs.
"While Lawrence lived one always felt that some overpowering need would draw him from the modest path he chose to trend, but it was not to be,"
NATION WILL "DIE IN HARNESS"
WHAT FALLING BIRTH-RATE
· MEANS TO BRITAIN
N 100 years the population of Britain will have fallen from 48 millions to a mere six million-unless there is sub- stantial increase in the national birth-rate.' This startling forecast was made Britain's foremost) recently by two of experts on social affairs-Mr. D. V. Glass, of the London School of Economics, and Dr. Alfred Salter, M.P. for Bermondsey.
Mr. Glass, who has been conducting research into world birth-rate figures at the London School of Economies, said;
"Families to-day have become so amall that the life of the nation 1- self is in danger.
low
"It the present olarmingly birth-rate is continued Britain will become a sulton of old men and old' women incapable of reproduction,
"A vast Industrial depression will follow. Mass production and spe- claliation will erase, Prices of the
wit <ssential commodities
There will be a gigotle slump in the building trade and other base6 industries. There will be increased tnxution.
"Thousands of houses will re- main unoccupied. Hundreds of factories will become derelict. The cranomic fabric of the nation will collapse in rules.
"Men will continue to work until The British rver they are 75 or 116.
will crase they will die in harness
Lloyd George recently opened a Honey Show at this Crystal Palace in London. Photo shows the renowned
politician festing a sample.
in 2036"
Murder Trial Theory of Girl's Slimming Death
Fo
Bucarest, Oct. 25. OLLOWING sensational evidence here to-day there seems little doubt that Livy Ciuley, the wealthy Rumanian architect, will be acquitted of the murder of his former. sweetheart Miss Tita Cristesco, stage and screen star, whose death last Christmas Eve led to Ciuley's arrest on the "tooth-brush murder" charge.
He was alleged to have placed patson on Miss Cristesco's toothbrush out of revenge for her changing her affections to another man.
the
One of the prosecution's own witnesses, Prof Nicolas Romanescu, chief medical omeer for Rumanian Ministry of Justice, said that he has come to the conclusion that the girl's death was due to slimming. Rumania la hitter popular slimming; dict in almonds, which, the professor said, contain potassium cyanide, A post-mortem examination revealed that Miss Cristescu had eaten heavily of them-Exchange.
"G.-MEN'S" 2,500 ARRESTS IN
U.S. "DOPE" RAIDS
"D%
New York, Oct. 25. OPE peddlers, beware!" This warning is running through the underworld from New York to San Francisco, but has failed to save 1,000 suspects from arrest,
"G Treasury Department. Men" who watch for illicit trade narcotics and liquor staged a
unless social fe
radually one-day raid as the most effective changed that young couples theelde mens of rounding up the offenders. now that they will have four instead! They rent 2,500 agents scouring rities
throughout the country. of the average twn children.".
in
More Marriages, But-
ILLICIT STILLS Texas yielded 140 arrests,
belleved to be used for distribution of "mannshine" liquor, were confiscated. The arrest of 26 dope addicts at Rich- mond, Virginia, followed.
The South Eastern Narcotic Supervisor said: "The ease with which dope is bought in Richmond ested a great
addlets Influx of whose petty thievery robbed mer- chants of 10,000 sterling a year.'
COCAINE HAUL
In San Franelsen another scene of much activity resulted in 21 arrests,
NEWEST SANDWICH
EFT-SIDE ham sandwiches are being advertised in Chicago quick-lunch bars now.
The fura is that the left side of a pic is the more tender. He does not scratch himself so much on that side, so the muscles are less laul.
Daughter For Fay Wray
A ship from the Orient had aboard 1,200 snow (encaine) pills. Here
Hollywood, Oct. 25. agents. seked 15 50-gallon barrels of
Miss Fay Wray, the film star, whisky, two stills, and a huge quan-wife of Mr. J. M. Saunders, a uty of Ulici alcohol. A large
Mr. Glass revealed the interesting quantity of drugs was seized at San fact that since 1920 people have been Antani. Several hundreds of illett marrying at a younger age than ever stills were found and 150 muter-cars, before must be marriage rate since thai date has itself been bigger thon ever before.
"But the young people of to-day have not been replacing themselves," he unid. "The position is such that in the next 100 years our population. will dwindle to i mere six million of sterile old men and women.
"Even in 40 years, at the pre- sent birth-rate. Britain's 48 mll- lions will decrease by a' quarter. "If each married couple had three children that would not be enough; four is the minimum."
Zero Point
"Forty years from now there will
be as many old people in Britain as young people.
"After that the people over 50 will there begin to predominate. Then will come u point when the older people will no longer be able to carry
on the race.
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Queen Mary
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New Fashion
For Lace
Nottingham, Oct. 20. QUEEN MARY has brought
happiness and prosperity
|
in Maine there were 43 arrests; in scenario writer, gave birth to a Conneelleut. 3: together with the daughter to-day.
seizure of seven stills, 1,300 gallons of Miss Wray was born in Alberta.. "aush," and 103 gallons of distifled Canada, in 1907. Among successes spirits.
ith which she has starred were "King When the Treasury staged their last Kong." "Four Feathers," and "Mystery one-day ralf throughout the country of the Wax Museum, while recently in March 1935, 2,000 persons we she has been making films in England caught. Officials say that erime con- willi Mr. Jack Buchanan.— Reuter, ditions are improving.
SEIZED IN LINERS
PRISONERS PROSPER
The Treasury announce to-day that arc being
Belgrade, Oct. 25. more "dope" suspects brought in. The number is expected Mehmed Shehitch, a Moslem who 10 approach 2,008 by to-morrow night, has returned to his home after twenty A large quantity of liquor and per-years in captivity in Russia, says fumes has been reized aboard two there are still 30,000 war prisoners passenger liners from the Caribbean there, and some of them are now
rich merchants-Reuter, Sea at Miami.--United Press.
to thousands of Nottingham Slept On Beach: Forgot Tide
lace-workers by deciding to favour lace for her Corenation dresses.
Just as the lace industry was That is the zero point in a nation's in need of new impetus it has Glass has discovered in his come from Queen Mary, whose researches that in the last century lead in dress is swiftly followed the population of Britain doubled by millions of British women. Itself. But now it is on a decline. Only three countries in Europe are
present popula maintaining their
Nudist Queen. Piqued on Russia, Italy, Bulgaria, and
San Diego, Cal. Oct. 20.
Tonya, the Intest queen of the ex-. position's nudist colony, has decided
while the death rate in Britain is falling, the birth rate in this country Is lower than in any other country except Germany.
that she will either make or break Sense of Insecurity
the University of California.
An-
sered at the decision of San Fron-
cisco exposition oficials to
huve
no nudist colony, she says she will undertake to install her culony on The
of the universily at campus Berkeley,
As Good As
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Children often manifest symptoma of sickness at awkward times. Your child awakens in the night In a state of feverishness, or crying with colle, stomach-nche,
or
Dr. Salter, who as doctor and M.P. has spent a totime studying social conditions, says the falling birth-rate is due to
Already Nottingisim-capital of the lace industry-is produeing. lace as speedily, as possible to meet the ever-increastug orders from London fashion houses.
Wear
In Coronation Year women are to all-lace day and evening gowns. Lace is also appearing again in lingerie.
WORKING OVERTIME
A member of one of Nottingham's busi- lace-manufacturing a sense of insecurity in-largest
that oraters to-day duced by world unrest, industrial un-nesses said certainty at home, and over-crowding for cotton lace are keeping hands-
on full tine and overtime.
in the larger towns.
"Young couples educated to a de- cent standard of living, but crowded into small houses and flats, are un- willing to bring other lives into the world to share squalid conditions,in
he said.
"Further, they sometimes de- liberately avoid the responsibility of parenthood because of the un- ecrtainty of their livelihood." Dr. Salter agrees that there is a great danger of Britain becoming a sterile nation, and suggests that the
can only be avoided by
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"There is a brisk demand cocktail suits in wool face. in deep wine, bottle green, and beige shades. We are also turning out dress lengths
Coronation blue and red."
To-day lace is made in silk. wool. Inen, cotton, and artilcial slik. Cotton is, however, the chief material employed, so that Lancs- shire mills must share int this boom.
Au immediate and drastle improve- "One
ment in housing conditions;
A leading lace manufacturer sald: of the new materials which will be seen in Coronation superimposed on a net foundation."
Greater stability in industry and in-year is cellophane lace-that is, lace
ternational relations.
of
"Then," he added. "we muy sec return to the Victorian ideals family life which proved the founda- tions of this nation and which in these chnotle after-war years have been almost completely forgotten."
£6,000,000 A Year Lost Through Opium Ban
Simla, Oct. 20.
By a ban on the exports of opium, India has sustained an enormous loss of revenue.
From January 1 of this year, no country, except oplum has left the such supplies as are intended for medical and scientific purposes.
MR. W. HORLICK
DEAD
MALTED MILK INVENTOR
Racine (Wisconsin), Oct. 20. William Horlick, inventor of the malted milk which bears his name, and founder of the firm manufactur ing It, died at his home here to-day, He was in his D1st year.
He was born in Gloucestershire in 1848. und was educated in England. He came to the United States in 1869, By this step, which it aimed at and was naturalised 10 years Inter. alding the suppression of dope smok-He began manufacturing food pro- ing, particularly In the Far East. ducts In Chicago in 1873, afterwards India has lost an annual income of transferring his business to Racine- about £8,000,000,--Router
United. Press,
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