THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1937.
British Captain in Turkish Gaol
Twice Held Blameless. ·
Blameless For Sea Crash That Cost 24
•
Lives-But Still Held
Boat Stopped In
His Path
EIGHT PASSENGERS
CLIMBED
MAST
London, Feb. 28.
CAPTAIN HARRY FARQUHAR, thirty-six-year-old
master of the Glasgow tanker Vanduara has been in
a Turkish gaol for the past four weeks.
Captain For har was arrested by
the Turkish police in January, after
a collision between his ship and a
Turkish motor-baat in the Dar danelles. Twenty-four lives were
lost.
He was taken to Canakkale prison and his ship sailed without him,
Later she returned to Istanbul in! the hope that her captain would be released in time to join her.
But the Vandura was forced to sall on January 27. She is now be tween Gibraltar and Rouen.
A committee of Turkish mari- experis held on Inquiry into the cause of the accident and exonerated Captain Farquhar from
blame.
Despite this he was sili de- tained.
British authorities have been_try- Ing ever since to procure his release. The Turkish Public Prosecutor de- cided to hold a further inquiry in another district. Again Captain Farquhar was found"not guilty of criminal negligence.
The Investigations held Captain Hussein, in command of the motor bont, responsible for the disaster.
Captain Hussein was arrested at
Heiress
Marries Fisherman:
Regrets
"No
By ALAN JOHNSON Hope Cove, Devon, Mar. 1. IN a tiny cottage on the
gale-swept coast, a York- shire girl, who gave up her Society friends and a life of travel and luxury to become the wife of a fisherman, told me to-day how she had found happiness,
When Miss Joan Mary Ellison, daughter of a wealthy colliery owner, married handsome Ernest
the same time as Captain Farquhar. Powesland, a Hope Cove fisher-
Iman, her friends scoffed.
LAUCHED AT SCOFFERS
A PROMISE
The reason given for Captain
Farquhar's continued detention is) "You will never stick it," they that a further verdict must frat be told her.
Two gentlemen seem to be vicing for the ladies; names in their dance programmes at St. Patrick's Bail this week.
-King's Stadlo.
DR. SERGE VORONOFF, 68-year-old inventor of monkey gland rejuvenation treatment tells below of his latest discoveries, of his patients, of his dream of lengthening human life to 150 years.,
"Ten Years Youth"
More Offered
Paris, Mar. 1.
obtained from the Turkish Naval Mrs. Powesland laughed. and DR. VORONOFF, working at his beautiful home at
Ministry.
As soon as their official exonera-
nk nothing. She just went on with her job as a fisherman's
· Mentone, the Chateau Grimaldi, with his laboratories wife, helping her husband with the and accommodation-for-100 living-apes,-has-completed
for analysing a system
tion reaches "the governor
lobster and crab-pots, fearning to Canakkale Gast it is promised that
and grouping the blood Captain Farquhar will be set free. cook and do the housework. Meanwhile the captain is not ac-
To-day Mrs. Powesland sat in of chimpanzees on exactly the same basis as that of hu- commodated in the cells but in the the snug living room of her coltage man beings. private apartments of the governor. home, and talked of her life.
Captain
Farquhar
"It is ទ
He claimed in ptalk recently that Bold
laughed. They told me i should his monkey gland treatment (based extends regret coming here, but I am hap-on his recent discoveries) pler now than ever I was.
the period of "youth" which can be
to middle-aged--m{1}={j*- hated 'Socicly life and I hated tiven to
woman to ten years. being known as an heiress.
to
Press representative yesterday:
"The motor, boat in crossing the bows of the Vanduara, unexpectedly Jurned against the wind, stopping dead in my track.
great," #he
said. and
during the past
two
He said: "I have had one patient
MEDALS FOR CORONATION
AND QUEEN
"I have fallen in love with the, He revealed that the number of "Panic broke out in the Hitle vessel. Eight people climbed up simple ille that we lead here, and his women patients has increased APPROVED BY KING the mast. That
a heavy gradually I caused
am becoming used to seven-fold list and capsized the boat.
hard work. I am healthler and years. "I was steaming slowly and happier than I have ever been. ordered the engines full astern, We did everything possible to avold the accident but unsuccess- fully."
Captain Farquhar Bnds no fault with his prosent quarters.
#1 am more comfortable here than
"Ernle and I'she smiled up at lier stocky, young husband, who atood beside her in his seaboots and blue fisherman's Jersey passages from the Bible
night before we go to bed.
"We are always in bed by
read every
SANDRINGĦAM
aged twenty-three. my youngest. SPECIAL SITTINGS AT My two-oldest at the moment are men of eighty-three years—but it la my dream to lengthen human life to 150 years.
Models in white plaster of two "The average age of women who Coronation medals, approved by
in the hotel where I passed the first we get up at seven in ten, and become rejuvenaled is about forly- the King and Queen, were ex-
night. I am learning Turkish with the help of a Turkish dictionary and
morning.five.
NO MORE PARTIES "But I would never
go back to round and a lite of parties to the small hours in the morning.
social
They
hibited at the Royal Mint re- take the treatment Just when they begin to realise that cently. taik every day with the warders.
they are gaining weight, Josing The official commemoration medal, "My agent here hus provided me
vitality, vivaciousness, and her by Mr. Percy Metcalfe, will be struck with furniture, even including a car-' "Every Sunday we go to church
attraction. After an operation they at the Mint alone, and, in accordance pet, and visits me daily.
We join with)
look and become younger.**
with precedent, shows on the obverse or chapel together, "My room is without a lock and our neighbours in
Dr. Voronoff said that British men the head of the King and, on the all the simple) my windows are without bars facing social life of the village.
and women now represent about 30 reverse that of the Queen. the sen."
"I am in love with Ernie and he per cent. of his rejuvenation patients. loves me.
The governor said:
"I regard Captain Farquhar nol
"We have our home, our dogs, our
as a prisoner but as my private guest, fishing boat-and we have each
I hope to be able to inform him very other. What more could any woman soon that he has been exonerated. I
hope-he-will-remain as my guest-for-
some time as a free man."
want?"
Captain Farquhar is a bachelor. NEW TEETH AT 108
His mother,, a widow, lives in the fishing village of Port Gordon, Banil-
shire.
Hamilton, March 1. "LIKE life; I'm happy." That
is the reason
The only news she has bad of her¦ ; ·
civil courts."
Martiros
ARABS TO PLEAD FOR
AMNESTY
strong Pan-Arab delegation.
The double head portraiture of the is a standard pattern Jones, and is intended for
King and Qned at the Mint by Mr. Incorporation in the medals already
prepared with Various special rever
reverses, and in various sizes and metals,
fals for supply to municipal and other bodies. This was designed at the suggestion
Life Still Hard In Russia
WAGES TOO LITTLE
FOR FOOD
Paris, Mar., 1.
"Though life in Russia has improved in the last three or four years it is still extremely hard," said Vassily, a 22 year old Russian scaman, who left the Soviet cargo ship Pokrovsky while it was unloading man- ganese ore at Boulogne.
Many of my comrades would do the same as I did," he said, "but they are afraid of being caught by the harbour police and seni back on board,"
While in foreign waters, he ex- plained, food rations were good. In Soviet ports the seamen had the same
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An average worker, he says, earns about 250 roubles a month, and to cat satisfactorily must spend about four roubles a day. Hence a family must put up with poor food, and the housewife spends her time standing
never in queues. He had
met workman who was a "Trotskyist."
A. political commissar gives poll- tical instruction to crews during the voyage, and those who do not show interest are kept on coasting vessels and not sent on ships which travel to foreign ports,
MACHINERY FOOR
The machinery of the Soviet mer- chunt fleet was, he said, in poor condition, and attempts to have the ships repaired in the Soviet Union had proved unsuccessful. The Soviet cargo ships were mainly repaired
abroad.
on The
Three years ago the ship on board which Vassily was serving Siberian cost was used to transport a large party of political prisoners, men, women and children, mostly peasants, who were carried in the hold without any special provision for their comfort or sanitation-for eight days.
Last October the Kursk, to whose crow Vassily bolonged, was ordered to call at once at Sebastopol, where cases-containing fighting aeroplanes. and tanks were taken on board from
val harbour, as the naval
well
Dg 135 Bmart young men in mufll. These were the plots for the aeroplanes, tank drivers, and the mechanics.
These 135 men left at Alicante, but most of the cargo was disembarked at Barcelona, The ship returned home with a cargo of Spanish oranges..
Woman Novelist Beats Edgar Wallace
WRITING at the rate of a million words a year, the Miss Maysie Greig, novelist, is now surpassing Edgar Wallace for output. Just over 30, she has already 30
of the Federation of British Industries, published books to her credit. And.
It was considered that a standardised
the
her pen becomes more prolife.
medal, showing suitable portraits of
In the past year she has written King and Queen, was desirable. two sizes of silver and gold-24in in shortly be issued.
The official medal will be struck in six novels, the latest of which "New Moon Through a Window" will
Jerusalem, March 5. son's detention are a telegram and Tatoian, Canada's oldest citizen. AN effort to induce Britain to letter from the owners of the Van-gives for having attained the dunra
implement her pledges given diometer and in. Further quanti- Captain W. H. Coombs, secretary of great age of 108.
to the Arab Kings before the tics in bronze will be struck in the
AMAZING SPEED the Ofeers' (Merchant Novy) He is particularly proud of a third end of the recent strike is be-smaller size only. Both designs are Federation, said:
set of teeth which have been growlieved to be behind the departure prepared
more boldly delineated than those "Most of her actual writing is done
for "We feel very strongly about the ing since his second set were ex-
King George Val her charming country residence-- position of Merchant captains who tracted three years ago.
ja modernised Tudor house at St. of the Grand Mufti for the Coronation.
Mary Bourne, near are liable to imprisonment in foreign
READY IN APRIL
Andover," her Favourite dishes on his daily menu Hejaz. ports as a result of collisions which, are pork chops and mashed potatoes, With other Palestinian Arah leaders from studio portraits before the artists
The preliminary work was done London secretary said. in this country, are dealt with in the He drinks quantities of milk, but he of the Higher Committee, he will sail went to Sandringham for special alt-working from ten in the morning "She keeps astelet time-table, never touches Intoxicants,----Reuter. to-morrow from Alexandris heading a tings given by the King and Queen. till six the evening. The speed of
Although ostensibly on a religious was unusual for these occasions, and
These all took place on one day, which her composition is amazing.' pilgrimage, the real object of the on indication of the King and Queen's stor write happy love stories because Miss Greig always writes love visit is to confer with King Ibn keen interest in the work, and their Saud, who raised an objection to desire to study the convenience of the I belleve that happiness Is the holding a Fan-Moslem conference artists.
greatest virtue in the world and at Rfecoa.on the Trounds that he Mr. Percy Metcalfe auld that at misery the greatest sin," she says, refused to mix
religion and Sandringham he worked on u plasticine From the age of five she has been
design.
writing love stories. A more concrete request is to be "The Queen is amiling in the double- until she was twenty that her first made to the British Government head portraiture, and her profile is ni novel was published. through diplomatic channels in a lower level than the King's. The London for an amnesty for the Araba whose death sentences were com muted.
A PIECE OF THREAD
AND A THIEF
Washington, Jan. 30.
A thread led to the arrest of an army tailor on a charge of stealing six guns. Four were found in a bag. Thread used to sew the bag was examined under a microscope, traced to-the tallor. G-Men sald he confessed-United Proes.
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|30,000 Ducks Are
the
累的
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Sydney, Mar. 1.
It was
not
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New York, Mar, 1. Friends of film star Katharine Hepburn believe she has been secretly married to millionaire Howard
("Hell's Angels") Hughes in Spring-
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Their belief is based on the strange Thirty thousand ducks are to be behaviour of Hughes. He is cruising shipped to London by Mr. R. H. In his yacht in Maryland waters, and Rodes, who owns the largest poultry tras not contacted" ́ ́with his "secre- form In Australia at Matraville, taries or friends for Ave days, Sydney,
Miss Hepburn is now playing. "Jane The ducks are to be sent in time Eyre" at St. Louis. She and Hughes for-the-Coronation festivities are aid to be planning a reunion
Reuter
In Now York shortly."
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