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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1937.
British Captain in Turkish Gaol
Sea Crash That Cost 24
Twice Held Blameless For Sea Lives-But Still Held
Boat Stopped In
His Path
EIGHT PASSENGERS
CAPTA
CLIMBED · MAST
London, Feb. 28.
APTAIN HARRY FARQUHAR, thirty-six-year-old master of the Glasgow tanker Vanduara has been in
a Turkish gaol for the past four weeks.
Captain Farquhar was arrested by
the Turkish police in January after
a collision between his ship and Turkish motor-boat in the Dar-
Twenty-four lives danelles.
lost.
were
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 retensed in time to join her.
But the Vandunrh was forced to sall on January 27. She is now be tween Gibraltar and Rouen,
A committee of Turkish marl-{ time experts held an inquiry Inla the
of the accident and cause exonerated Captain Farquhar from all. blame.
was still de-
Despite this he tained.
British authorities have been try- ing ever since to procure his release. The Turkish Public Prosecutor de- elded to hold a further Inquiry in Another
district.
Again Captain Farquhar was found not guilty of criminal negligence.
Copthin
The investigations held Hussein, in command of the motor boat, responsible for the disaster.
Captain Husseln was arrested at the same time as Captain Farquhar, A PROMISE
Heiress
Marries Fisherman:
"No Regrets"
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 Powesland, a Hope Cove fisher- Iman, her friends scoffed.
LAUGHED AT SCOFFERS
The reason given for Captain Farquhar's continued detention is! "You will never stick it," they that a further verdict must first be told her. obtained from the Turkish Naval Ministry.
Mrs. Powesland laughed, and kat sathing. She Just went on with her job z Askernman's
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Two gentlemen seem to be vicing for the ladies' names in their dance programmes at St. Patrick's Ball this week.
DR.
King's Studio.
R. 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.
مم
Ten Years
Youth
More Offered
Paris, Mar. 1.
R. VORONOFF, working at his beautiful home at
DR.
for analysing a system
· Mentone, the Chateau Grimaldi, with his laboratories *~*~"AY "BN" us their officiat eXODETE" tion reaches the Governor of wife, helping her husband with the and accommodation for 100 living apes, has completed
lobster and crab-pots, learning to Canakkale Gan) Il 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 cottage man beings. Private apartments of the governor, home, and talked of her life.
said
Captain Farquhar Press representative yesterday:
to
n
laughed.
#rent," she
here, but i
said, and
The motor boat in crossing the regret "They told me i should his monkey gland treatment (based
bows of the Vanduta, unexpectedly pler now than e
never I was
He claimed in a talk recently that
extends I am hap-on his recent discoveries)
Lihe period of "youth" which can be
woman to ten years.
turned against the
inst the wind. stopping "I hated Saclety life and I bated Biv
given to a middle-aged man or
list and capsized the boat.
I
years,
FOR
MEDALS CORONATION APPROVED BY KING AND QUEEN
dead in my track.
being
known as an heiress.
He revealed that the number of "I have fallen in love with the "Panic broke ant in the te
has increased people climbed up simple life that vessel. Eight
patients we lead here, and his women a heavy gradually
during the past the mast. That caused
Lwo um becoming used to seven-fold hard work. I
am healthier and and happier than I have
ever been. ordered the engines fall astern. "Erate and I she smiled up at age Lively-three, my youngest. SPECIAL_SITTINGS AT We did everything possible 10 avold the accident but unsucces- folly,"
་
sieaming slowly WDA
Captain Farquhar finds no fault with his present
in
"I am more comfortable here than the hotel where I passed the first night. I am learning Turkish with the help of a Turkish dictionary and tail every day with the wards.
"My agent here has provided ine with furniture, even including a car- pet, and visits me dally.
"My room is without a lock and my windows are without bars facing
theremor sald:-
wr
back to
He said: "I have had one patient
My two oldest at the moment are men of eighty-three years but it
Is my dream to lengthen human
He to 150 years,
SANDRINGHAM.
Models in white plaster of two The average age of women who Coronation medals, approved by become rejuvenated is ́ about forty-the King and Queen, were ex- hibited at the Royal Mint re- cently.
five.
her stocky, young husband, who stood beside her in his seaboots and blue fisherman's Jersey="read passages from the Bible every night before
to bed. "We are ulu to
by ten, and in bed we get up at seven in the morning.
"They NO MORE PARTIES
take the treatment Just when they "But I would
begin to realise that social round und life of parties
they are gaining weight, Josing vliality, vivaciousness, and their to the small hours in the morning.
attraction. After an operation they "Every Sunday we go to church or chapel together. We join with
look and become younger." our neighbours in
Dr. Voronoit said that British men all the simple{ social life of the village.
and women now represent about 30 "I am in love with Ernie and he per cent, of his rejuvenation patients. loves me.
never 10
have cach other. What more could any woman want?"
regard Captain Farquhar not "We have our home, our dogs, our as a prisoner but as my private guest. Bahing boat-and we I hope to be able to inform him very soon that he has been exonerated. hope he will remain as my guest for Bome time as a free man."
Captain Farquhar is a bachelor. NEW TEETH AT 108.
His mother, a widow, lives in the
shire,
"I
Hamilton, March 1,
fishing village of Port Gordon, Bank-T LIKE life; I'm happy." That is the reason Mardiros
The only news she has had of her
BUIT'S
ARABS TO
The official commemoration medal, by Mr. Percy Metcalfe, will be struck at the Mint alone, and, in accordance with precedent, shows on the obverse the head of the King and on the reverse that of the Queen.
The double head portraiture, of the King and Queen is a standard pattern prototype, designed at the Mint by Mr. Langford Jones, and
intended Lar Incorporation In the medals prepared with various speelal reverses, medals already and in various sizes and metals, for
This was designed at the suggestion
PLEAD FOR supply to municipal and other bodies.
AMNESTY
Life Still Hard In Russia
WAGES TOO LITTLE.
FOR FOOD
Paris, Mar. 1. "Though life in Russin 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 sent back on board."
While in foreigh 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, carnis about 250 roubles a month, and to eat satisfactorily must spend about four roubles a day, Hener a family must put up with poor food, and the housewife spends her time standing. in queues. He had never met workman who was a "Trotskyist."
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A political commissar gives poli- 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 POOR
The machinery of the Soviet mer. chant 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 abrond.
Three years ago the ship on board which Vassily was serving on the Siberian coast was used to transport men, women and children, mostly peasants, who were carried in the
a large party of political prisoners,
hold without any special provision for their comfort or sanitation for eight days.
Last October the Kursk, la whose crew, Vassily belonged, was ordered to call at once at Sebastopol, where cuses containing fighting aeroplanes and tanks were taken on board from
harbour, naval
as well as 135 These smart young men in mufti. were the plots for the acroplanes, tank drivers, and the mechanics.
the
These 135 men left at Alicante, but
most of the cargo was disembarked at. The ship returned home with a cargo of Spanish oranges.
Barcelona.
Woman Novelist Beats Edgar Wallace
WRITING at the rate of a
million words a year, Miss Maysie Greig, the novelist, is now surpassing Edgar Wallace for output. Just over 30,, she has already 30
of the Federation of British Industries, pubilshed books to her credit. And
It was considered that a standardiseri her pen becomes more prolific.
medal, showing suitable portraits of
the King and Queen, was desirable.
The ofBeial medal will be struck
in
two sizes of silver and gold-24in in diameter and 14in. Further quanti ties in bronze will be struck in the smaller size only. Both designs are prepared for King George V's more boldly delineated than those Coronation.
READY IN APRIL ·
In the past year she has written six novels, the latest of which "New
A Window!
Molly Trouped shortly be issued.
will
AMAZING SPEED
at her charming country residence
"Most of her actual writing is done
a modernised Tudor house at St. Mary Bourne, near Andover," her
"She
keeps
a strict time-table,
Jerusalem, March 5. detention are a telegram and a Tatoian, Canada's oldest citizen, AN effort to induce Britain to letter from the owners of the Van-gives for, having attained the duara.
implement her pledges given Captain W. H. Coombs, secretary of great age of 108.
to the Arab Kings before the the Omeers' (Merchan! Navy) He is particularly proud of a third end of the recent strike is be- Federation. said:-
set of teeth which have been grow-lieved to be behind the departure "We feel very strongly about the ling since his second set were ex- of the Grand Mufti for the
tracted three years ago.
Favourite dishes on his daily menu | Hejuz. are pork chops and mashed potatoes. With other Palestinian Arab leaders from studio portraits before the artists
of the Higher Committee, he will so went to Sandringham for special alt-working from ten in the morning to-morrow from Alexandria heading alings given by the King and Queen, till six in the evening. The speed of strong Pan-Arab delegation.
Although ostensibly on a religious These all took place on one day, which her composition is amazing.""
was unusual for these occasions, and Miss Greig always writes love pilgrimage, the real object of the an indication of the King and Queen's stories. 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 holding a Fan-Moslem conference artists.
position of Merchant captains who are able to imprisonment in foreign ports as a result of collisions which, in this country, are dealt with in the
civil courts."
le drinks quantities of milk, but he fever touches intoxicants.--Réuter.
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 tailor. G-Men said he confessed-United Press.
WATSON'S
The preliminary work was done London secretary anid.
"I write hoppy love stories because bellove that happiness is the greatest` virtue in the world and at Mecca on the grounds that he Mr. Percy Melcalfe said that at misery the greatest sin," she says. refused to mix religion and Sandringham he worked on a plasticine From the age of five she has been pollites.
design.
writing love stories, It was hol A more concrete request is to be The Queen is smiling in the double- until she was twenty that her first made to the British Government hend' portraiture, and her profile is of novel was published. through diplomatic channels In a lower level then the King's. The London, for an amnesty for the Arabs date, "12 May, 1037" is neur whose death sentences were.com-centre of this medal, and the words,|67| muted,
"Coronation of King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth," near the edge.
The medals will not be ready unt!! April. Applications for the official medal should not be made to the Mint direct, but to any bank or. [any of the lending metal dealers.
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'Hepburn Wed In Secret'
New York, Mar. 1. Friends of film star Katharine Hepburn belleve she has been accretly married to millionaire Howard
("Hell's Angels") Hughes in Spring-
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Sydney, Mar: 1. Their belief is based on the strange Thirty thousand ducics 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 Ins not contacted with his secre- farm in Australia at Matraville, taries or friends for five days. Sydney.
Miss Hepburn is now playing "Jane The ducks are to be sent in time Eyre" at St. Louls. She and Hughes. for the Coronation" festivities are said to be planning a reunion
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