THE HONGKONG... TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1936.
Woman 100,000 Frenchmen Loved
NATION'S HIGHEST HONOUR FOR NURSE
Under Shell Fire for
KM
Two
Years
Verdun, Nov. 18.
NOWN as the "Florence Nightingale of Verdun," Miss Hilda Turner, of Ixworth, Suffolk, has just been. invested with the cross of the Legion of Honour. Very few women have received this high award,
Miss Turner, who told her dramatic story very modestly, lives in a villa at Charny, on the River Meuse, near Verdun, and, with one assistant, visits 21 villages every day as the district nurse.
"From my carly days I had but one ambition to help the sick and suffer- ing," she said.
She began her training as a nurse
in London in 1912, worked In London hospitals, and then enrolled-in-the- British Red Cross.
"In August, 1014, I was mobilised with
the Auxillary Medical Service. nursed the war wounded in British hospitals.. In 1915 I came to France, went first to Are In Barols in the Haute Marne, le mi
slic unid.
The pollus of Verdun worshipped her as a rainlulering angel-at lenst
100,000 of them must have known
China Moves Against "Insulting" Films
Shanghai, Nov. 25.
of her and her splendid work among China has declared war
their wounded comrades.
on
Thus she devoted her life to war motion pictures regardėd victims in Malta, Salonica, and insulting to the nation or dis. Mesopotamia.
"In April, 1919, I returned to Lon-respectful to its people.
The Government's recent dis- don and was demobilised," she said.
pute with Paramount Pictures over "The General Died at Dawn" was only an incidental manifestation of a programme which has for its aim the total suppression, in all parts of the world, of any pictures deemed offensive to China.
BROTHER KILLED "Six months later I came back to Charpy.
"Ffance, you know, is a little bit my country. One of my brothers served with the French Red Cross on the Verdun front. He was on ambulance driver and was decorated with the Croix de Guerre.
That the programme
has "teeth"
"I have not left Charny since in it was demonstrated by the "sanc- 1918, except for a visit, two and ations" which it is proposed to Invoke half years ago, to Yugoslavia, where
helped to found a nursing school any motion-picture company mak- at Belgrade.
"Now, at Charny, I have very little time to myacit.”
And Misa Turner left me to con- tinue her rounds in pelting rain.
"FILMS' NEED FOR
US. MARKET
BRITISH COMPANIES'
OUTLAY
ing
a film to which China objects will be asked to destroy it, und any com- pany which faila to comply will have all ita aims banned throughout Chinn.
Five agencies of the Chinese gov- crament und its ruling party, the Kuomintang, are enlisted in the campaign: the Ministries of Forelin
Affairs, Interior and Education, the Motion Picture Censorship Board and the Central Publicity Council of the Kuomintang.
Although the dispute over *The General Died at Dawn" received wide publicity because China demand the withdrawal of the film after it had been shown in many parts of the £1,250,000 WORTH IN Ward, inc casc of the Chines
against pictures government lieved to ridicule or discredit the Chinese people
STORAGE
z one
bc
severu
BY A FILM CORRESPONDENT years' standing. The importance of the Gaumont-in 1020 Chinese groups protested British Corporation's plans to secure against "Shanghai Express," but the a larger share of the world's film, movement lacked unlly and direction, market, ls shown by the fact that two and made no headway. Later, the companies alone Gaumont-British showing of a Harold Lloyd. comedy. and London Film Preductions have with some Chinese sequences brought dims that cost about £1,250,000 lock-a sharp protest from China and a ed in the prosaic eans used as
in hasty apologies from the
up
- colt of Lloyd time which
<mar British have just com- comedian himself as well
picted the following, at an average cost of about £100,000:
"O.H.M.S., a
story of Army life. made with the co-operation of the War Office, starring Wallace Ford, Anna Lee and John Mills.
na the
studio, and the deletion of the offend-
Chu
never
Ing_scenein Chow," old-time musi- cal comedy stand-by, was banned in Chins, but effort was made to re- gulate its showing in other countries. store," a Hitchcock plcture, The picture "Shanghai" was
Sylvia Sidney, John Loder, brought to China, as the chances of Oscar Homolka, and Desmond its passing the censorship board were Tester.
practically all. "The Great Barrier," a story of the building of the Canadian Pacific Rallway, with Richard Arlen in the chief roic.
BAN ON FILMS
Eleven years ago the tragically short-lived Locarno Treaty, was signed in London. The photograph shows the German Chancellor (Dr.; Lüther)—whose' country has now repudiated, the pact-affixing his signature to the document; Treaty of Locarno was signed in London, in the Reception hall at the Forelen Office, an. De.. cember 2, 1925. In above photograph Dr. Luther (third from left on the far side of the table) is seen signing the treaty. At the right-hand end of the table is Sir Austen Cliamberlain (signing) belween Mr. Baldwin and M. Briand (scated at right corner). Behind Sir Austen is Sir Samuel Hoare. By Article 42 of the Ver- Bullion Treaty Germany was forbidden to construct Tortifications on the left bank of the Rhine or on the right bank within 50 kilometres of the river. By Article 43 the maintenance and assembly of armed forces within the same area was forbidden.
CHILD TURNING TO STONE
DOLORES BRESKA,
NEW YORK, NOV. 21. PRETTY TWO-YEAR-OLD
CHILD OF ARCADIA, WISCONSIN, IS SLOWLY TURNING TO STONE.
RADIO BROADCAST
Recorded Tunes From Swing Time
VARIETY PROGRAMME
Radio Programme Broadcast by
metres (045 k.c's.), 31.40 (0.52 megacycles). ·
She has contracted a strange complaint which is slowly Z. B. W. on a Wavelength of 355 ossifying the muscles of her right arm and shoulder.
The arm is already useless, but Dolores, who is 'in no pain, continues to play happily with her dolls with one hand.
But her left arm, too, is gradually becoming paralysedl and she can raise it no higher than the shoulder, says Central News.,
fier mother, Mrs. Aloysius Breska, ins been deluged with letters offer- A cures, giving advice.
Dolores has been to several cltles Ossification
for treatment, but the
continues,
child say that only time can tell the Doctors who have treated the
extent to which other muscles of her body may become rigid.
MARRIAGE OF FOREIGN WIDOWS
BLUE LIFE
FOR THE
MOSQUITO
metres
12.36' n.m. B. B, C. Wireless Mill- tary Band.
1 p.m. Time Signal and Weather: 1.03 p.m. Light Concert Items.
1.30 p.m. Reuter Press, Rugby Press, Weather, Time and Announce- ments.
1.40 p.m. chestra.
Geraldo and His Or-
2 p.m. Jazz Piano Solos by Vivian Ella.
2.15 p.m. Close Down.
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.
7-p.m.Hawalian Music,
7.20 p.m. Three Songs by
BRAND TEST Hildegarde.
Brisbane, Nov. 24.
FOR years the victim of 11 very musical and equally ferocious varieties of mosquitoes. Brisbane is halling with glee the announcement that Its Health Inspector (Mr. W. J.
pests.
SHOCKS CHINESE Fehlberg) will brand swarms of the
Shanghai, Nov. 14.
A
small
7.30 p.m. Stock Quotations and. Exchange Market Report.
7.35 p.m. Bournemouth Muni- cipal Orchestra.
8 pm
Time, Weatherond nouncements.
8.03 p.m. Nelson Eddy and
Απ
8.20 p.m. Selection from “Swing
Jeannette MacDonald Film Songs. Marringes of widows of prominent To obtain more definite knowledge Along," played by Debroy Somers
Band. men in foreign countries stuns the as to how for a mosquito can travel
8.30 p.m. While on the wing, Mr. Fehlberg is brand-
Mantovani and his Chinese sense of chastity, Mae West's "Klondike there is now no law in China pro-ing mosquitoes from the swamps at Tipica Orchestra." This year
hibiting
0 p.m. News and, Announcements, the marriage of widows, Lytton, near the mouth of the river, Annie" was passed by the censors public opinion
9.20 p.m. stlil
by spraying them with is violently and exhibited in Chină but the early | Pa
Light Instrumentai atomiser.
Music. "King Solomon's Mines." the scenes showing Chinese as the against it. When a widow decides to
9.40 p.m. Tunes from "Swing and his subsequent remarry in China, her wedding cere. Already he has produced multi- Rider Haggard favourite, with Sir heroine's lover, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young before the censors viewed 1. Later,
death, had been cut out of the picture her bridal chair, less colourful and blue, and so when the citizen
mony is usually held after dark, and coloured mosquitoes, but he prefers Time" by Fred Astaire with
of Johnny Green and His Orchestra. Paul Robeson, John Loder, and it was learned that the picture was
ornate than her first, must leave her Brisbane sees a bright blue mosquito 10 p.m. Variety and Dance Anna Lee..
home from the rear door. No pro-singing round his home he will, Mr. "Head Over Heels," a Jessie being shown elsewhere in the world
in a different form, and a demanding widow for fear of ruining their the city and then take the Insect
fessional bricicamalds attend Matthews musical,
a marry-Fehlberg hopes, give his blood for for its world-wide suppression was business careers. made, Paramount, makers of the nim, agreed to make sultable cuts,
Making of "The Good Earth" mark ed the first positive effort, to modify China plctures in the production stage. Gen. Tu Ting-holu, known in America as Gen. Theodore Tu, was
£750,000 PRODUCTIONS London Film Productions have just madó: "Rembrandt," with Charles Laughton
as the painter.
+
ed to
at Los
Such, restrictions, However, are not placed on widowers who often
genfly and bear it to the City Hall.
THEY STILL BITE
remarry one month after the death It generally considered that
of their wives.....
mosquitoes before д breeze enn travel from 10 to 15 miles, so ibat| despite the Iact that it spends "Elephant Boy," based on Kipling's sent to Hollywood as adviser to the 500,000 DOOMED
annually £7,000 on their elimination story, directed by Robert Flaherty, producers. While there he was ask- who made "Man of Arun,"
from the city, the council believes li on "The General Died
1. is still faced with their influx from at "Dark Journey," a spy drama star- Dawn, and on the basis of bis O.K, TO BE MURDERED! datant areas.
ring Conrad Veld, produced by after some scenes. Victor Saville.
were changed,
Brisbane is now walching out for Paramount thought the film was en- "Men Are Not Gods," directed by tirely acceptable to China.
million Innocent people these blue mosquitoes, since the HALF & Walter Reisch, with Miriam Hop-
That it was not was soon apparent:iving in the United States to colouring is irremovable and does kins in the leading role, and
Chinese vice-consul
day are doomed to be murdered. not affect their light. Neither does the Fire Over-England,” a spectaculer Angeles protested against the show a study of
This appalling, truth is revealed by it affect their bite. drama of Tudor England, produced ing of the picture and the Foreign taken in conjunction with the aver statistics, by Erich Pommer, directed by Omes followed with demand for William K. Howard.
*** | ago expectation of, Ilfe. the pictura's world-wide suppression. Their total cost is about £750,000. When the
Walking the streets company failed to accede
American In addition, "Knight Without Arm- the government banned Paramount
amount cities to-day are 281,000 armed our," with Marlene Dietrich and Ro- films in China. Later it agreed to se criminals who have committed at bert Donat, in half finished, and "I.
murder apiece. In fact, open the case if a print of the film, least one Claudius" (Charles Laughton) and which the censors had never
there" are more maturiterers in the "Sterm in a Teacup" will shortly be were brought to China, in its original China will not delay Its protest
has been
screened in many countries. -All
shown.
forn, for
censorship.
Hereafter, how a picture
re-
of
U.S.A, to-day than there are clergy- men. - lawyers. Judges anil · magia-
rates, put together! ;; try
...: 'IMAGINE THISI
Wife Puts Her Vows Before Divorce
Scunthorpe, Nov. 21. [RS. PHYLLIS · MARY - PETCII,
M Scunthorpe, decided after a visit Quake-proof City From Flenne pictures, which may be, often- over a quarter of a mere 4.0
componies have been worned not to Latest statistics show that, whilst to church he is a Catholic that
sive to China for censorship before derers aro af large, a mero 4,000 are ber husband.. distributing it throughout the world, behing bars, and of this number and to make any cuts suggested. The fewer than three her cent. go to the counsel applied for a decres alt alternative-a ban on the importa electric chair. The rest Kerve a sen-
Ruins
EARTHQUAKE-PROOF buildings after
mur- {'she all not wish for a divorce from
In the Divorce Court yesterday
will soon begin to arise at Quettation of fins into Chino by, thetence of five years or under * - | obtained by Mrs. Petch last Novem-
ber, to be rescinded, teen, To give an exact, parallel; imagine It was stated also will seek Instead
where there is a "rate" of 60,000. tlon wan krantenien langen
the Indian city from the ruina cf offending company and a simultane- Welch 6062 bodies have now been ous ban on the showing of pictures that you go to a big football match a Judicial separation. The applica recovered...
Quetta was devastated by a already here," fremendous esrihquake last year.
In view of the number of Alms. Packed among the stands will be 120 3/Mira. Felch, said: "I remembered: 1 "and the work of clearing the
with Oriental backgrounds, the actual murderers, another 228 people had taken vows in Church which I wreckage is now nearly finished, stand of the Chinese government in who will commit murder before they could not break without doing Already, the city is beginning to expected to have a drastic effect on die, and 252 destined victims. Thai, wrong. I thought of my child away resume lis old: animated appearance; { aim fare in other parts of the world. In brief, is the American Boene.
at school.'1
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FRENCH AIR HERO fered by the French Air Ministry
GENERAL DENAIN DUE
TO-MORROW.
for a new record.
trained for the army and when the Born in 1800, General Denain was
War broke out was a lleutenant in the infantry. A man of restless A distinguished French statesman activity, he applied for a post in the and airman, General Denain, former Air Force in 1916, when the effect Minister for Air, is due in Hong- of the Battle of the Marne threatened In a Potez bi-motor- a long period of stagnation, Quelle
kong to-mo".companied by tirea Lying us'u pllot, he was soort in the
ed
'plans, pilots and engineers. Ho intends near East in command of the 'alp to stay in Hongkong for the after- force engaged in the Bulgariun cara- noon and night,
paign. Ho proved himself abril- ant organiser, of attacks, a man of quick decision and (a" tireless
coful leader
and
Although nothing further at his visit is known. It is possible that he may be accompanying Jean Peraud and Gilbert Dents, who Intended
Appointed Chief of the Air Stad Icaving, Paris on Monday on a fight in 1933 he was promoted to Minla lo Tokyo, presumably in an attempt ter for Air in the Doumergun cabinal
to win the 400,000 francs priza of in February 1984.