THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY. 3, 1938.
The Man Who Has Nothing to Lose Hurry! Hurry!
A
One-arm Wyndham,
E
MAN and woman who mado
love to each other by Morse code between lighthouse and mainland, plan, after 38 years of happy married life, to return to the place where they first met, to live their romance all over again.
They are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heary McCarthy, who met, courted and. married in Guernsey. Mr. McCarthy, prinelpal keeper at Port-] lund B Lighthouse, is due to retire early in February, after 411 years' service.
It was while he was keeper al Les Innols Lighthouse, Guernsey, that he met the girl he was eventually to make his wife,
to
"NO BENCH-IN-PARK" "Love-making is a great problem
Mr. the lighthouse keeper." McCarthy snid. "When my wife and I were sweethearts we found we could not see nearly enough of each other.
"Then we hit on
signaling.
the idea of
"It was the only way because the bench-in-the-park was quite out of the question for us.
"My wife quickly learned Morse and in the daytime we talked to each other by flag signals, and al night by Morse lamp.
"Shortly after we were married 1 was transferred to the Coquet light- house, off the Northumberland coast, and we still carried on signalling to *ench other.
.
"GOOD-NIGHT"
"As soon as I retire, carly In February, we intend to go back to Guernsey. The place means 50 much to us."
Mr. McCarthy has just recovered from a seven-week illness in Wey- mouth Hospital. His wife has been almost a daily visitor.
And, after leaving his bedside, she has given hon a final "good-night"
Veteran of 6 Wars, Jumped
BOMBINGS IN KWANGTUNG
Scene of bombing at Salchuan, Canton's industrial district.
Civillan property destroyed by Japanese planes at Toishan district,
near Kongmoon.
STORK MARATHON
UPHELD
Ottawa.
Mrs. Matthew Kenny, who claims leadership in the
from 1,000 Planes
Off To Fight
By L. M. FISK
Again
“The man with nothing to lose,” said Robert (“One- arm") Wyndham to me, "is a king among men. He is free to do as he pleases.”
“And I have nothing to lose.”
"Your life," I suggested, and One-Arm Wyndham laughed.
"My life," he said, "is worth exactly nothing to me. Its only value is to other people. I have sold it a hundred times-in China, in America, în Abyssinia, in Spain.
"At this moment another foreign Government has a lease on it. To-morrow, or some other day, I shall meet a better or D luckier fighter in the air, and then, good-bye. No regrets. No
hard feelings. There goes nothing,"
"Well," he said, "you remember
that Miss Furbes was lost in Northern
Africa. She had entered the For- ĮTORQUAY OF THE
bidden City of Khufara in native dress, and had got away unnoticed. Then nothing was heard of her,
"I flew over the desert for days. At last discovered her 25 miles south of Siwa. Alone I could have done nothing for her, so reported the and to the Frontier Administra- tion, who rescued her.
"When I met her in Siwa she gave me the surprise of my life.
"I had expected to find *
heavy handed brawny,
he- woman, But she turned out to be a charming, pretty girl.” Wyndham stands Gft, 2in. In his socks. Although he is only 40, he was an R.A.F. pilot during the war, and he has been flying and fighting ever since. In 1924 he was a pilot in Chang Tao-lin's Chinese air fect against the Japanese invaders of North Chinn.
U!
were
FAR EAST
TSINGTAO A RESORT GERMANS BUILT
LOOTING DAMAGE AS CHINESE FLEE
From A Correspondent
Thousands of "old China hands," those who bullt up foreign trade with the Far East, will hear and read to-
by Chinese with the
day of burning and looting at Tsing greatest regret. For Tsingtao is the muat beautiful seaside town in China. For many years it was
the fashionable holiday resort Torguny of the Far East.
most the
The town was built by the Ger- mans before 1000. It progressed till it compared with almost any Bca- side, place in the world.
CHASED BY JAPS
Three of
bombing #1 Japanese aerodrome," he said, "when nide Japanese planes came up. My The Japanese are no strangers to two Chinese comrades were shot the place. They bombarded it in down at once, and I saw that the 1019 and took control till they handed only thing to do was a bit of hedge it back to China in 1922, -hopping-skimming
The German: Anally were driven hedges about oft. from the ground."
jout November, 1914. At once the But the Japs did manage to hit Japanese reaped the benefit of the me on the tail, and my rudder con-millions of pounds spent there by the trol went. I crashed. I was dizzy, former occupants. but I knew I had to get out of the A promenade
two magnificent hotels which compared with any others in the world, beautiful walks in the sur- rounding forests, and parks on the
ls were among the amenities.
BIG EXPORT TRADE Tsingtao
by standing beneath the window of "Stork. Derby" with 12 children born in the 10 years machine before it burst into fames. two. miles along the front for
his ward and signalling
Dot... dash.. dot... dash...
Hertzog's Message To S. Africa
Pretoria.
In a New Year's message to the
the Prime Minister, says:
allowed, is seriously ill at Toronto following the still-birth of her 16th child, a girl.
The Supreme Court of Canada at Ottawa to-day up- held the will of the eccentric millionaire, Charles Vance Millar, which inspired the race.
£500-a-week For Child
Hollywood.
people of South Africa, Gen. Hertzog, JANE WITHERS to-day became one of the highest-paid child stars of the screen.
The year 1037 has been a your both of blessing and misfortune. On the one hand we have witnessed a tremendous upward tendency In trade; and on the other, large areas of the country have again been in the grip of devastating drought, now i luckily brought to an end."
A new contract has been concluded for her in Holly- wood for a salary of £500 a week for the Dext two
years.
This is £100 a week more than
Gen. Hertzog gives an assurance that the Government will not heat- fate to extend the hand of protees paid to Freddie Bartholomew, flon to those affieled, to ensure that the British-born star.
no person for whom there is a rea- The salary pakt to the
questioned
The validity was
that-the-will-was-contrary to public policy.
by two relatives who alleged tons, ale circuses, and films.
was the German For
"Two Japs were at flying round, so I stuck in the plane and played possum. They thought I was dead and flew off. Then I took die compass out of walk the plane and started to back to headquarters. The 50
Eastern naval base. Hundreds of miles took me nearly 5 days." thousands of pounds had been spent more than on forts, modern docks and piers to Wyndham has made
parachute jumps for exhibi- deal with the export trade of rich Shantung Province. The old Ger- man forts are contained-in-huge- caverns In high rocks and reached by lifts. They are still intact and one of the sights of Calnu.
Germany
was justly proud of Tsingtao. It was difficult to realise that one was in China on arrival at un-laud of lights and laughter for five the part. It was a veritable fairy-
months of the year.
He still had two good urns when he joined the Bolivian army in the war against Paraguay. He lost the By this decision £100,000 will go left one a little later in Hollywood. to the mother or mothers who gave He also suffered the following in- birth to the most children in Toronto conveniences:
in the 18 years ended October 31, 1930.
The Ontario courts are left to de- cide which of 12 claimants is entitled to the fortune.
Fractured skuil;
Concussion nine times (once
conscious for a fortnight); Fractured riplit arm twice; Fractured right wrist; Compound fracture of both legs; Fractured both ankles Ave times; Fractured four ribs on the left side and all ribs on the right side. Most of these mishaps occurred nowa Brisbane man will be played during n stunts.
WILL PUT ON DISC RECORD
Brisbane.
After his death, the will of a well-
on a gramophone in the hearing of IN SUICIDE SQUAD
and friends. The re-. leoding his relatives
sonable chance of salvation shall be child star, Shirley Temple, is not cord has been placed in a bank vault allowed to go under-Reuter,
disclosed-United Press.
for safe keeping.
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The two big hotels, the Grand, in the town, and the Strand, the front of which swept down to the edge of the blue waters in the bay, were booked up months before the season began.
The Germans made il a model town with a racecourse,
sports grounds, and clubs. The many villas which "In Hollywood," he told me, "we made it the most satisfying scene for dotted the hills above the promenade had a club of airmen called the the business men of China and their Suicide Squad When a dim directamliles. tor wanted a plot to do a crash, n parachute jump, or anything else in the progress of the Colony, and once The Kaiser took a great Interest in
the spectacular lined wording to
were
described it as "the brightest Jewel in my Imperial crown."
the risk. The highest fee I ever got
If trade be restored to some sort of was £600,
Losing an orm did not check his months in Chinn it is certain that working order within the next few flying career. He went to. India Tsingtao will provide a haven for an exhibition parachute jumper, and performed before the Viceroy,
While in America he had met
for
Colonel Jullan, "The Black Eagle of Harlem," fomous coloured avintor. In Abyssinia he met him again.
When that war was ended the noldier
fortune looked of Another and found it in Spain. "And when you have nothing to lose," he added, "It's marvellous how much fun you can have. So long. I am off to Spain again."
Science Can "Make" Light
Chicago, Ill., Jan. 30.
many foreigners in the coming sum-
mer.
other Chinese town taken by the In short, Tsingtao is not Just un-
Japanese, but a magnificent structure built by foreigners as a gateway for the exports of the surrounding terri- tory.
NEGRO WRITES
LORD'S PRAYER
ON RICE GRAIN
Knoxville, Tenn.
R. L. Iliggenbothams, 30-year-old Negro who spends his time puillag more words in less space than any- jone else, would give paper Inunufac- turers a lot of trouble if there were more like him.
A new method for the pro- Iggenbothams doesn't use paper duction of light which can be in la Infinitesimal scribblings. le uses grains of corn and rice and when controlled-in its direction-wns o magnifying glass is used the Lord's lannounced before the American Prayer may be read. He has written Physical Society by two Notre enough Lord's Prayers en corn and Dame University physicists. rico to supply nearly every church
in East Tennessee with a copy and solemnly boasts "bet you can't beat that."
Dra. George B. Collins and Victor D. Heilling, who verifled and extend ed experiments of a Russian selentist,
"Did them all with an ordinary Cerenkov, said that the light was pro-penny pen and a 15-cent bottle of duced by passing electrons through ink," he boasts. "I don't gucas any- liquids or solids with a velocity body else in Knoxville enn write any greater than the velocity of the light smaller than that,"
n the liquid.
On one of the rice grains he has The physicists said that by using an written the 17th Palm on delicate electrostatle generator producing a million and one-half volts, they were able to perform more precise experi- ments than Corenkov, who used rela- tively weak source of radium,
blue lines, and says he can get 35 Lord's Prayers on an ordinary štampi But he isn't satisfied. He wants a smaller pen so ha cah cut his cèreni blit in halfūnited Press.
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