THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1936,
Scientists Alarmed at Britain's Dwindling Population: Crisis Will Be in 2036"
Miss Vivi-Ann Hulten, Swedish fancy woman skater, and is one of the most remarkable executors of this sport in the world, has decided to follow the example of her Norwe gian colleague Sonja Henie and be- come a professional. The Swedish champion will appear in a great len Show in 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 lcon's young dream of con- quering the East.
So said Mr. Winston Churchill to-day when he unveiled 11 plaque in memory of Lawrence at Oxford High School, where Lawrence was educated.
war
Towards the end of the Lawrence's fan was spreading fast throughout Asia, added air. Churchill. In 1919 or 1920 he might have arrived at Constan- tinople with most of the tribes and raees of Asia Minor and Arabla at his track.
in his great period of adventure or in later years of self-suppression and self-imposed eclipse he always reigned over those with whom he came in contact. His grentness lay in his disdain of the prizes and plea- sures of life.
HIS ARAB FRIENDS Mr. Churchill added: "The suffer- hus and stresses. Lawrence ings undergone during the war had left their scars and injuries upon him.
"I am sure that the ordeal of watching the helplessness of liis
grand Arab friends in the fusions of the Peace Conference was the main cause whichi decided his renunciation of all power and. so far as possible, of all interest in great public affairs.
con-
"While Lawrence lived one always felt that some overpowering need would draw him from the modest path he chose to tread, but it was not to be."
Nudist Queen Piqued
San Diego, Cal. Ort. 20. Tanya, the latest queen of the ex- position's nudist colony, has decided that she will either make or break the University of California 2013- gered at the decision of San Fran- ..cisen exposition officials to have nnuist colony, she says she will undertake to Install her colony on of the university at the campus Berkeley.
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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! recently by two of Britain's foremost 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 Economics, sald:
"Families to-day have become so amall that the life of the nation 11- self is in danger.
"If the present alarmingly low birth-rate is continued Britain will become a nation of old men and old women incapable of reproduction.
"A vast industrial depression will follow. Mass production and spe cialisation will cease. Prices of the
will commodities
sonr. essential There will be a gigantic stump in the building trade and other basic 66 industries. There will be increased Laxation,
"Thousands of houses will re- main unoccupied. Hundreds of factories will become derelle The economia fabric of the nation will collapse in ruins.
Lloyd George recently opened 11oney Show at the Crystal Palace in London. Photo shows the renowned politician testing a sample.
Murder Trial
Theory of Girl's Slimming Death
Bucarest, Oct. 25...
FOLLOWING sensational evidence here
to-day there seems little doubt that Livy- Cluley, 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 polson on Miss Cristesco's toothbrush out of revenge for her chonging her affections to another man.
witnemes, Prot. One of the prosecution's own
the Nicolas Romanescu, chief medical officer for Rumanian Ministry of Justice, said that he has come to the conclusion that the girl's death was due to allmming.
A popular slimming diet in Rumania la nonds, which, the professor said, contain potassium cynnitle, A post-mortem examination revealed that Miss Cristesco 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,
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Department
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"Men will continue to work until Men" who watch for illicit trade they are 75 or 80. The British race in narcotics and liquor staged a will cease they will die in harness'
unless social life is so radically one-day raid as the most effective changed that young couples decide means of rounding up the offenders. now that they will have four instead They sent 2,500 agents scouring clics
throughout the country. of the average two children."
More Marriages, But-
ILLICIT STILLS Texas yielded 149 arrests. A large Mr. Glass revealed the interesting quantity of drugs was seized at San fact that since 1920 people have been Antonio. Several hundreds of illicit marrying at a younger age than everstifts were found and 100 motor-cars, before and the marriage rate since that date has itself been bigger than ever before,
"But the young people of to-day have not been replacing themselves," he said. "The position is such that
in the next 100 years our population will dwindle to à mere six million of, sterile old men and women.
"Even in 40 years, at the pre- sent birth rate, Britain's 48 mii- llons will decrease by a quarter. "If each married couple had three children that would not be enough; four is the minimum."
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"Forty years from now there will be os many old people in Britain as young people.
"After that the people over 50 will begin to predominate. Then there will come a paint when the older people will no lututer be able to carry on the race.
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Queen Mary Leads
New Fashion
For Lace
Nottingham, Oct. 20. UEEN-MARY-has-brought- happiness and prosperity
to thousands of Nottingham
lace-workers by deciding to
favour lace for her Coronation
dresses.
Just as the lace industry was "That is the zero point in a nation's in need of new impetus it has history."
Mr. 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 maintaining their present popula- und tion-Russia, Italy, Bulgaria, while the death rate in Britain 19 falling, the birth rate in this country is lower than in any other country except Germany.
Sense of Insecurity
Dr. Salter, who as doctor and M.P, has spent a lifetime studying social
Already Nottingham-capital of the lace Industry-s produelug lace us speedily as possible to meet the ever-increasing orders from London fashion houses.
In Coronation Year women are to
all-Ince
und ayoning day weat gowns. Lace is also appearing again int lingerie.
WORKING OVERTIME
conditions, says the falling birth-rate A member of one of Nottingham's
is duc to
a sense of insecurity in- ingest duced by world unrest; industrial un-nesses
Ince-manufacturing said to-day
busi- thal orders
certainty at home, and over-crowding for cotton lace are keeping hands
on full time and overtime.
in the larger towns.
"Young couples educated to a de-
"There is a brisk demand for rent standard of living, but crowded into small houses and flats, are uni- cocktail suits in wool lace, in deep willing to bring other lives into the wine, bottle green, and beige shades. world to share squalid conditions," We are also turning out dress lengths
In Coronation blue and red." he said.
"Further, they sometimes de- liberately avoid the responsibility of parcnihood because of the un- certainty of their livelihood."
is Dr. Salter agrees that
Kreat danger of Dritain a
sterile nation, and suggests that the
danger can only be avoided by
To-day lace is made in c. woot, linen, culton, and artificial silk. Cotton is, however, the clef material employed, so that Lanca- this shire mills must share in broom.
A leading lace manufacturer sold:
An immediate and drasle improve- "One of the new materials
ment in housing conditions;
which will be seen in Coronation
Greater stability in industry and in-year is cellophane lace-that is, luce a net foundation," superimposed on ternational relations.
"Then," he added, “we may see a Victorian Idenis of return to the family life which proved the founda- tions of this nation and which in these chaotle 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 oplum, India has sustained an enormous loss of revenue.
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. From January 1 of this year, no] He was in his Blat year. oplum has left the country, except He was born in Gloucestershire in such supplies as are intended for 1040, and was educated. England. medical and scientific purposes.
He came to the United States in 1860,
By this stop, which, is aimed at and was naturalised 18 years later. 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 ̈£1,009,000.-Reuter--
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believed to be used for distribution of "moonshine" liquor, were confisented. The arrest of 20 dope addicts at Rich-3 mond, Virginia, followed.
The South Eastern Narcotic Supervisor said: "The ease with which dope is bought in Richmond caused a great Influx of addicts whose petty thievers robled mer- chants of £10,000 sterling a year."
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Daughter For Fay Wray
In San Francisco another scene of much activity resulted in 21 arrests. A ship from the Orient had aboard 1,200 "snore" (cocaine) pills. Bere
Hollywood, Oct. 25. agents seized 15 50-gallon barrels of
Miss Fay Wray, the film star, whisky, twe utilis, and a huge quan-
wife of Mr. J. M. Saunders, a tity of illelt alcohol.
In Maine there were 43 arrests; in scenario writer, gave birth to a Connecticut, 23: together with the daughter to-day.
Miss Wray was born in Alberta, "mmh," and 103 gallons of distilled Canadu, in 1907. Among successes seizure of seven stills, 1,300 gallons of
spirits.
When the Treasury singed their last in which she has starred were "King one-day rald throughout the country." "Four Feathers," and "Mystery in March 1935. 2,000 persons were of the Wex Museum, while recently caught. Officials say that crime con- she has been making Alms in England
with Mr. Jack Buchanan.-Reuter. ditions are improving.
SEIZED IN LINERS
PRISONERS PROSPER
The Treasury announce to-day that
Belgrade, Oct. 25. more "dope" suspects are being brought m. The number is expected Mehmed Shehitch, a Moslem who to approach 2,000 by to-morrow night. has returned to his home after twenty A large quantity of liquor and per-years in captivity in Russie, says fumes has been seized aboard two there are sill 30,000 war prisoners passenger liners from the Caribbean there, and some of them are now Sea at Miami.-United Press.
rich merchants-Reuter.
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