War Scare
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER
21,
1937.
STALKY & CO. PAY HOMAGE
TO KIPLING
Was- Beer!
A scientist with a sense of humour-
Professor J. B. S. Haldır-reveal- ed recently how he caused a scare. After reading about "a terrible new! substance," discovered In America, i that would muke millions of people unconscious in the event of an- other war, he lid a Bttle investi gating.
Then," said the professor, "I wrote i
to the Manufacturing Chemist: "Are you aware that ethynol is bei ing produced, in quantities suffle- ient to render milions of people unconscious, at Munich and Bur- ton-on-Trent?'
"That started another scare. "Now eilynol is the scientific name
for alcohol, which, I believe, Is to be found in what is vulgarly called beer."
The professor told his story ftl a
London book fair.
MRS. ROOSEVELT
BY HERSELF
New York.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in her autoblography just describes herself; as " shy, solemn child who smiled," because she was ashamed that sha hud not Inherited
never
the
QUITS HOLLYWOOD—Exhibiting little of the fiery spirit of his renowned fallier, here is Vittorio Mussolini, son of the Italian dictator, as he quit Hollywood by plane to go to New York. 1c gave no reason for, bla sudden trip,
NOEL COWARD'S FATHER
The Mory of Noel Coward's love i for his aged father her behind the
beauty with whieh other women of announcement that Mr. Arthur Sabin her family were eutlawed.
The book is an amazing and reveal- ing document of her transformation from an inhibited, scared child into the most vital and most tolerant First Lady of the Land,
Mrs. Roosevelt gives a candul account of her personal experiences from early childhood through mar- lage when "Unele Ted, then President Theodore
Roosevelt,¦ "stole the entire show"-aut dar- ing the ten years then she "ren! always just getting over haring a baby or about to have one.”
She describes also the trying time when she helped her husband to fight: off the ravages of infantile paralysis.
Despite years of travel and many series of lecture tours Mrs. Boosevelt conferues that, even to-day, when she faces a crowd she wishes the ground would open up and swallow her.
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Coward left £545, to his widow, Mirs, Visirt Agnes Coward.
He died in his 10th year at Golden- mit Paru, Albution, Kent, vil- age in the edge of the Romney
Ins'shar E nes, the Iartinst
Zroungiers
Ja 1926 Noel Cowond went with his ! mother to is: peet the form.
They thought it a bit pakey,“ but as the yearly rent was unly £50 and it included six acres af ground, elcclete Night, and a garage, they deelded to take it. His father liked it immediately. there was a muddy yard enclosed by thatched barns which were falling to picet, two șinull perrbs, five poplars,
Czechs Arrest 926 Spies
Vienna, Dec. 1. Częcito-Slovakia la making a determined effort to round up the army of spies working for Germany and, in lesser degree, for other neighbouring States.
Arrests now number' 938. In- eluding 73 German Nazis.
The and-spy drive is particu- farly
strong In the frontier districts where the new fortifica- tions are near completion.
At Brno yesterday 12 spies. Including railway officials and one whanan, were sent to prison.
and a ramshackle garden consisting Almost entirely of hedges,” wrote Noel Coward.
What feally persuaded him to take the farm, however, was the view, October 1926, and the aged
The Cowards took possession spent his last ten years
but the garden.
ira father
Famous Readers
Meet His
Famous Heroes
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By Richard Jones
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England, and the Empire about which he wrote majestically, paid a silent but eloquent tribute to the memory of that prince of writers, Rudyard Kipling, re- cently, when 1,000 of his admirers-among them states- men, diplomats, and stars of the literary world-met for the first time in person those two whimsical heroes of Kipling's famous school story, "Stalky" and "M'Turk."
"Stalky," who in private life which Kipling had close
personal
is Major-Gen. L. C. Dunsterville, ties; the Royal Engineers, the Royal and "M'Turk," alias Mr. G. C. Navy, and the Royal Marines. There were contingents, too, of great soele-- of Beresford, were guests
ties concerned with the welfare of honour at a banquet at Gros- the Empire as a whole. The Univer venor House in aid of the Rud-sities which conferred honorary de
a United grees on the port formed yard Kipling Memorial Fund.
Universities table.
The function, one of the most bril-
A bust of Kipling looked down around the 1innt of the London season, demon- over the throng, wille strated more than ever the lasting hall Union Jacks, which stood for all esteem which friends and admirers he wrote, Buttered bravely. of Kipling hold for his genius.
Mr. Winston Churchill paid the The King referred to Kipling's poet a wonderful tribute when he genlus in a message in reply to on sald: "Although in my politlent ac- expression of loyalty, which read: "Itions I was often fiercely opposed to am glad to know that representatives him, yet there never was moment of all parts of the Empire are united when I did not feel the surge of his in planning a fitting memorial to uppeal upon the great verities of our Rudyard Kipling, whose genius is the rice and State. common heritage of all who speak the English tongue."
50 BURSARIES
To perpetuate his memory, a fund of £250,000 is being raised, the main object of which is to endow 50 bursaries ut the Imperial Service!
Windsor-Kipling's old College, school, which was then at Westward Ho! Devon. They will be open to the son of public servants in all parts; of the Empire.
also be
Suitable memorials will erected, and a Kipling library will be! bull at the school to create a centre of lasting interest to all admirers of Kipling's work.
Last night more than £10,000 was received, and the, fund now totals more than £45,000.
The Earl of Athlone, chairman of the fund, presided, and was necom- panied by Princess Alice. THE FORCES
"STALKY" LOOKS BACK
Tulking of the triumvirate known as "Stulky," "M"Turk," and "Beetle" (Kipling himself), "Stalky" recalled how the three shared a study Westword Ho!
were
at
"Ve
equally inspired with a spirit of inischle£ not un- common in boys of that age," be wald. “But I venture to suggest Uliat the peculiarities of these three particular boys were not at. all of a common type.
"You who have known our great writer through his inspired works, must surely realise that even if Beres- ford and myself were not out lo set the Thames on fee, Kipling must have been a youth of sufficient pre- cocity and originality to give colour
to his toles
"Please," pleaded "Stolky," "do not regard those. schoolboy events as so Every branch of the Forces was re-mony do-as history. They are, for paltering presented. At special tubles were the most part, pure fiction, and it is inembers of the Irish Guards, withį very embarrassing to have to under- go a cross-examination on any of the Incidents so deumatically described!" THEN "MTURK"
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"I don't know where to begin," said "M"Turk," smiling. "I could tell you so much about the youthful Kipling. le was not carefully brought up by hand to have particular preferences in public affairs: his education was not conducted in blinkers.
"At Westward ito! contrary to the general Impression, there was no great propaganda of imperialism, or even patriotism..... a debate on the subject. the weight of opinion was in favour of joining the Army rather than the Navy,
"What influenced them was that in the Army one wore a more decora- tive uniform, and had better meals, better beds, and above all, did not get up so early in the morning!
Pastel "Turk" were presented
portraits of "Stalky" and to their originals by the Earl of Athlone, while every guest received a special banquet edition of the 20 poems selected by Kipling during his life- pupular poems. time as the most representative of his
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Professor Simpson was In charge
the midwifery department of Edinburgh University and deelded to give up his calling after he had watched the agonies of a Highland girl during an operation.
CHANGED HIS MIND
But he changed his mitid and re- solved to seck out the cuté of pain
especially that of childbirth.
THE CRAZY DEVUE
MELTOFING
TO-MORROW and THURSDAY
He spent hundreds of pounds (9.15) trying to find a entisfactory sub- stance, until an obscure Liverpool olietiški auggested the new drug ehloroformi.
Sutipson met with bitter opposition -ever on religious grounds; pain, it Was said. was natural and it was sinful to lessen it,
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