THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1938.
PILOT TELLS OF RESCUES IN
IN ARCTIC
Weak To Reach Food
Starving Men Too
Channel
'NEVER GAVE
Tunnel:
Cabinet
Action
Britain
Proposals for the construction! of the much-discussed Channel tunnel to link
and France will be put before the British Government by the .French Government in the next| fow weeks.
The cost of the scheme would be. £10,000,000 Another £100,000 year would be needed for mainten-1
ance.
But against this it is belleved that an income of £2,000,000 a year could be obtained by the carriage of passengers and freight between the two countries.
TOP PAY—A Congressional com-
mittee, giving a took into the 1936 pay of American industri- alista. movie stars and financiers, disclosed that Gary Cooper.
shown above, hnd the largest salary of anyone in the enter- tainment fleld. His was $370,214,
'MOVIE THRILLER REALISTIC
Sydney. G-men Alms apparently have a value. Under
At each end there would be lulces that could be opened to flood the tunnel in the event of war opern-marked educational tions making this necessary,
FRANCE IS KEEN
the influence of one which was being shown
theatre the entire 442 4 nudience left and chased a masked
All departments of the French and armed bandit who held up the Government are in favour of
the box
office cashier. The
scheme. The French military auth-escaped, but empty handed, orities are especially keen, as they see in it a speedy way of rushing British forces to French aid in the event of a German invasion.
The British War Office has never been keen on the idea, fearing that is would destroy the insularity which is Britain's mala protection against invasion.
When the French proposal comes before the Cabinet a special sub- committee of Cabinet Minister and
Gretna
bandit
UP
HOPE
PRAYED EVERY NIGHT'
Toronto.
Fifteen bearded, withered figures, bent with starva- tion, cramp, staggering and falling in the snow, greeted an airplane which came out of the Arctic sky on New Year'sTM morning to save them from death.
Lieut.-Colonel J. Romeo Guenet, his nineteen- year-old son, and thirteen other members of a survey party stranded on James Bay, inlet of Hudson Bay, North Quebec, had lived since November 22 on the flesh of fourteen rabbits and four squirrels and soup made from birch bark.
or
Fight-Lieut, G. R. Spradbrow, res- feet long, the distress signal to air- Snow can easily cue pilot, said to mo to-day that craft in the north, within a day two the weakesthe shaken off the bush to leave it would have died as blizzard upon black against the white, for us to see. blizzard assalled their last stand against the northern winter, says a correspondent.
a
Here is Spradbrow's story: "Rodolphe Houde, contractor, sent the party into the wastelands by plane. He planted a cache of food and snowshoes for them on October 22 at a prearranged epot be- side
big lake. "Houde flew up there cember 21 to collect the party. He found the cache untouched. He at Indian to oneo sent messages settlements to send out search portles.
on De-
"I was ordered up. I had to watch for big triangles of bush, about thirty
Weddings
To be Stopped
defence experts will be set up to MR. WALTER ELLIOT (Secretary for Scotland) is preparing a
consider it.
HEAD IS WILLED TO SCHOOL
Melbourne,
Bill to put an end to Greina Green marriages. There are now two rival blacksmiths carrying on marriage businesses there.
The Bli will be introduced when s Parliament reassembles next month.)
Dr. D. W. Maloney, for 40 years
It will be made an offence for any Melbourne's representative In the Federal Parliament, has willed his but regular clergymen, registrars and head to the Institute of Anatomy at sherifts' courts to conduct marriages. Canberra. At 83, Maloney is the The new law will mean that the British Empire's oldest active paliti-blacksmiths will have to go out clan..
business.
His
of
The Bill will state a time limit within-which people who avo contracted Gretna marriages will
be able to regularise them with the Sheriff's authorities.
If this is not done, the validity of the weddings will not be recognised in the courts.
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JOHNNIE WALKER
Born 1820—still going strong
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"On New Year's moming I got away carly. Soon 1 saw four men signalling frantically.
*LIKE SCARECROWS "I found a patch of good lee end set the ship down.
"The scene Avas indescribable. They all came out to welcome ine, even the weakest.
"They were dreadfully emaciat- ed. Their clothes hung on them Uko Scarecrows, Thele checka were sunkent Their glazed eyes shrunk back into seemed to be their heads. "This Colonel Guenet is certainly hero of the story." Hera
the Spradbrow sald nothing me about the nerve and skill needed to set his patch of fee. "He 'plane down on is a big man, welghing normally over 200 pounds (14st. 4lbs.). Now I should say he is less than 100.
"He told me how they had search- ed for month for the food caclic.. By November 22 they were too
weak to carry on.
They were only ten miles away cache, but the country is from the
wilderness of swamps broken with lakes. The lake they were looking for was frozen and snowed over "They held prayers every
night and never lost hope or nerv
"I took the sickest man and flew back for help for the rest of them." Two airplanes completed the res- cue to-day. Doctors report that, al- though terribly weak, áll are likely to recover.
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THERE is a danger in certain professional types of speech of $1 TIFFINS
vowel distinctions disappearing.
Professor A. Lloyd James, linguistic adviser to the B.B.C., and Professor of Phonetica in the School of Oriental Studies, London, told an audience this at-a lecture at Queen Mary College, London, E,
36-Hour Cold
Cure Claimed
By Doctor.
"It is a little disturbing." he said, amid laughter, "when a mon stands with his back to the 'fah' and an- nounces that he got some 'tah' on the 'tahs' of his 'cah' in 'Gah' Street on his way
to the Tah."
had
It was ✡ modern tendency to speak of "Ah-land," and when he to tell announcers that the place was called "Ireland" they were very nice about it.
"A
Claims that common colds can he his fung man told me that one of i
Jiad
red-enr," Pro- cured In thirty-six hours with sulphanilamide put this newly heard of white-throats and red- fessor Lloyd Jumes said, "I had developed drug into the forefront breasts, but not of red-cars, but then of medical practice.
it came out that the thing was in possesses astonishing curative
radio." properties, and doctors who have been hi car, and was a experimenting with it have made an nouncements already which justify being described as a "wonder-drug.'"
Dr. Michael Elyan, of Hanwell,
on, has London, been using it for com- mon cold-curing.
He says in a letter to the British Medical Journal: "In all cases the results were swift, postuve, ond, In cases treated in the prodromal
glage, most dramatic.
"What an awful thing it would be if our beautiful language, so rich in vowels and dipthongs, were reduced
to one vowel the bleat of the
baalamb and many consonants.
"Donald Duck is a great character sal Hlustraies truths, not the mony least of them being linguistic."
The broadcasting for 500 years of visual English through the medium of printing had produced an enor- "I have not had one failure to re-mous degree of standardisation, but
there
Was no standard of spoken cord so far
Dr. Leonard Colebrook, of Queen language. Charlotte's Hospital, London, Has There was no wish that everyone stated in The Practitioner that is should talk alike, and the only ad- has been using it in puerperal fever vantage he could see from cases and the treatment has reduced standardised spoken English was that the death-rate from 22.8 per cent. to for broadcasting purposes,
It the 5.5 per centra
signals were put out with a great degree of constancy, intelligibility was more likely to be achieved over the
widest pres.
FOR NURSES
In other cases of septic infection at the hospital the mortality rate has
cent.
1
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If he had to set up a standard of dropped from 71 per cent, to 27.3 per spoken English for the whole of the English-speaking world, he would Dr. A. 1, Douthwaite, of Guy's take Lord Macmillan or President Hospital, London, has been testing Roosevelt, because their speech was sulphanilamide for treating doctoral nearer to the visual standard then and nurses: Infected during post-any he knew.
ople could not stand the mortem operations.
Many people He says, in The Practitioner, that mine mid he and many ton
and known people lities of post-mortem and operation who belleved that to roll the r'e gave wounds, zo tragically familiar to hos- evidence of grit and courage. The pital workers, will dwindle to insigilate Lord Snowden, when he wanted ficance under the power of sulphani- to be impressive in the House of lamide."
Commons rolled his r's; so did Mr. Dr. Douthwaite has also been using Itamsay MacDonald.
the drug raises hopes that the Inta-
it in cases of acute tonsilitis.
Professor Lloyd James cald that He says, "The more alarining the many people might take lessons in cultuition of the pallent the more telephonlig with profit. The tele- dramatie will the effects o of therapy phone did not differentiale between to or who have been ex-factor in intelligibility was context certain sounds, and an Important
prove the
All perlmihung with this drug warn whlch broke down' when one ~ ins ogulast its Indiscriminate use, suggest quired the name of the sponker. that it would be a great miatorius It was possible, but noi scono if it were discredited by rotional
mically possible to provide teles uso, pay the Dally are phone Instruments which did
That happened in America wisere afferentiate between all sounds, - over, seventy people died following the tout Office Rearch Department
at-
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*VICTORIA THE GREAT
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