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. Haldane-reveal- ed-recently how he epurod a genre. After reading about "a terrible new substance," discovered in America, that wouki make millions of people unconscious in the event of on- other war, he did a little investi- Kating.
"Then," said the professer, "I wrote
to the Manufacturing Chemist: *'Are you aware that ethynol is be- ! ing produced, In quantities suffle-· lent to render millions of people unconscious, at Munich und Bür- 1on-on-Trent?"
That started another seare...
"Now ethynol in the scientific name
for nlcahul, which, I bellove, is to be found in what is vulgarly called beer."
The professor toh his Aloy 1
London book fair.
MRS. ROOSEVELT
BY HERSELF
New York.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in her i autobiography just describes herselti as "a shy, sojemn chiki who never smiled," drenuse she was ashamed that the bad
Inherited nol
The
QUITS HOLLYWOOD Exhibiting little of the Aery spirit of his renowned father, here in Vittoria Mussolini, son of the Italian dictator, as he quit Hollywood by plane to go to New York. Ile gave no reason för his audden trip.
NOEL COWARD'S FATHER
The story of Noel Coward's love | for his aged father lies behind the
beauty with which other women of į amoumeement that Mr. Arthur Sabin her family were endowed.
·Coward Jell $1545 to his widow, Mrs.
"The book is an amazing mud reveal-¡ Videt Anne, Coward.
lng document of her transformation!
trum an inhibited, senred child into!
fle died in it.. Bith year at Goblen-
the most vital and most tolerant ; has a Plant, Alainglon, Kent, a vil-l First Lady of the Land.
On the cafe ef
Muther TWIT
Mrs. Roosevelt pires a candid account of her personal experiences. from early childhood through mare smugglers. Plage when
Romney
oner the hangu
"Uncic Ted," then to 1926 Nood Coward went with his President Theodore Roosrorit,
"stole the entire show"--and dur- wether to an pect the faran. ing the ten years when she always just getting over Juni
Juming a baby or about to have one." She describes also the trying time. when the helped her husburid to fight off the ravages of infantile paralysis. 1
Despite years of travel and many series of lecture tours Mrs. Roosevelt confesses that, even to-day, when she faces a crowd the wither the ground would open up and swallow her.
Thes thought it "a bit pokey,' but as the yearly rent was only
$50 and it included six acres of gruumi, electric ght, and garage, they decided to take it. Hi Tatre Ilked it
a
Czechs Arrest 926 Spies
Vienna. Dec. 1. Czerho-Slovakla is making a determined effort to round up the army of spies working tor Germany and, in a lesser degree. for other neighbouring States.
Arrysix now number 926, In- clading 73 German Nazis.
The anti-spy drive is particu. 1.erly strong
the frontler districts where the new forlifea- tions are near completion.
At Brno yesterday 12 sples. including railway alllelals and oap Avannah,, were seat to pelson,
and a non-hickle garden consisting
must entirely of hedges," Noel Coward.
wrote
Famous Readers
Meet His Famous Heroes
By Richard Jones
England, and the Empire about which he wrote 10 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," alins Mr. G. C. Navy, and the Royal Marines. There were contingents, too, of grent socle- Beresford, were guests of ties concerned with the welfare of honour at a banquet nt Gros- the Empire us a whole. The Univer- venor House in aid of the Rudi-lutes which conferred 'honorary de- grees on the poet formed a United yard Kipling Memorial Fund.
Universities table.
The function, one of the most bril-
A bust of Kipling looked down liant of the London scuson, demon-¦ over the throng, walle around the strated more than ever the tasting hall Union Jacks, which stood for all esteem whieh friends and admirers he wrote, fluttered bravely. of Kipling hold for his genius.
'Mr. Winston Churchill paid the The King referred to Kipling's poet a wonderful tribute when he genius in a message in reply to an said: "Although in my politlen) ne- expression of loyalty, which read: "Itions I was often fiercely opposed to am glad to know that representatives hin, yet there never was a moment of all parts of the Empire ure united when I did not feel the surge of his in planning a fitting memorial to appeal upon the great verities of our Rudyard Kipling, whose genlus is the race und Slate, cummon heritage of all who speak the English tongue."
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Talking of the triumvirate known as "Stalky," "M"Turk," und "Beetle" To perpetuate his memory, a fund (Kipling himself), "Stalky" recalled: of £250,000 is being raised, the main ( how the three shared a study nt; object of which is to endow 50 Westward Ho! bursaries
at the Imperial Service | College, Windsor-Kipling's school, which was then at Westward; Ho! Devon. They will be open to the son of public servants in all parts) of the Empire,
Sullable memorials will also be erected, and Kipling library will be built at the schurol to create a centre at insting 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 accom panied by Princess Aller THE FORCES In
What finally persuaded him to take there was a muddy yard enclosed by October 1926, and the aged father
the farm, however, was the view. Immediately.
The Cowards took possession thatched barns which were falling to spent his last ten
pottering ples, two small ponds, five poplars, about the garden.
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inspired with a spirit of uilchlef not un- common in boys of that age," he Kald. "But I venture to suggest irat 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 to set the Thames on fire, Kipling must have been a youth of sufflelent pre- cocity and originality to give colour
to his tales.
"Please," pleaded "Stalky," "do not regard those schoolboy events as so many do-as history. They are, for the most part, pure Hetion, and it is very embarrassing to have to under- go a cross-examination on any of the Incidents so dramatically described!" THEN "M'TURK"
"I don't know where to begin," said "MTurk." smiling. "I could tell you so much about the youthful Kipling. He was not carefully brought up by hand to have particular preferences in public affairs; his education was not conducted in blinkers.
Do
"At Westward Ho! contrary to the general impression, there was great propaganda of imperialism, or even patriotism....In 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 decorn- tive uniform, and had better meals, better beds, and above all, did not get up so carly in the morning!
"M"Turk" were presented
Pastel portraits of "Stalky" and to their originals by the Earl of Athlone, while every guest received a spreial selected by Kipling during his life- banquet edition of the 20
popular poems. time as the most representative of his
PAIN DIED NINETY
YEARS AGO
poems
Chloroform WILS discovered 90 yearn, ago--on November 15, 1847, Prof. James Young Simpson, son of n baker, announced his Andor doubting world.
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One day Simpson and a few doctor and may
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Professor Simpson was in charge.
the midwifery department of Edinburgh University
and decided
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 mind and re- solved to seek out the cure of pain
especially that of childbirth.
THE CRAZY REVUE
MELTOFONG ROZG!!
TO-MORROW and THURSDAY
He spent hundreds of pounds (9.15) trying to find a satisfactory sub- stance, until an obscurb Liverpool chemist suggested the new drug chloroform.
· Simpson met with bitter opposition
—even on religious grounds; pain, it
was said,
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