THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST
1938.
The Navy Always Gets
Its Beer
Hankow.
NOTHING stops the British
Navy getting Its beer- four pints a day per man.
The float consignment of 14,000- odd gallons--three months" supply for 300 thirsty bluejackets-arrived here despite
Immense distances along the Yangtze,
The ban on downstream traile owing to hoses.
River booms and minefields.
Congestion on the Hongkong- Canton-Hankow railway which is choked with war traffle and bomb- ed almost daily.
The consignment, totalling 57,000 quart bottles, and intended for mrn serving in British gunboals stationed at Hankow, Ichang, Chungking, and Changsha, had travelled:
816 sea miles from Shanghai to Hongkong, and
881 railway miles from long-
kong to Wachang.
At Wuchang It was transferred to Junks and then to a Yangtse steamer, which carried it the few remaining miles to Hankow.
Hankow foreigners, less fortunate placed than the crews of HM, ships,| find difficulty in getting supplies by the ordinary railway route.
CORRIGAN UPSETS LIE DETECTOR
44]]] RONG-WAY" CORRIGAN,
"W who flew the Atlantic by inis-
Boston,
take-he said-submitted To test by # "lie detector" l US, where he is touring.
When the belts of the detector vere fixed on his arms and neck, the inventor asked: "Did you fly the Atlantic by mistake?"
"Yes," answered Corrigan.
The needle of the detector re- usted violently. Corrigan's heart
Jill Of All Parts
In Europe Fran- ciska Gaal, the Hun- garian actress, starred in musical comedy, comedy and drama finis. Now she is going to croon - her second American picture, Bing Crosby's "Parla Honeymoon."
Infant And Nurse Dead In Mansion Fire
A seven-month-old girl-the only child of Flying Officer and. Mrs. Clement Nelson Swann- and her nurse were burned to death recently in a fire at Woot- ton Hoo, a mansion near Bed- ford.
The nurse, Miss Viola Vincent, daughter of Mr. W. Vincent, of Den- mark Street, Bedford, was found lying on a bed across the body of the
beat faster, there was "inner excite-child. Apparently she had been ment," said the inventor.
POLICE WERE PLEASED
"Look!"
the chouted
inventor. "That detector will break if he says another word."
The police chief was so picased with the lie detector that he de- elded to install two at head- quarters!
ac
Corrigan has refused vaudeville offers totailing £100,000 and cepted a job as pilot in a commercial *plone.
WOMAN "LOST"
IN LUSITANIA COMES HOME WHEN Mrs. Margaret O'Connell landed from an Atlantic liner
trapped by flames on the staircase outside the bedroom.
had
Flying Officer Swann, who most of his nightclothes burnt off in attempting to get to the bedroom, and Pilot Officer Fairbanks, a guesi at the houre, were seriously injured. Mrs. Swann, daughter of Lady Law- rence, of Dorking, was away from tend the wedding of home at the time, having gone to al- 2 friend in London.
Flying Officer Swann, who is in charge of the N. 1 Balloon Training. Unit (24th Training Group) at Car- dington, and Pilot Officer Fairbanks, į
who is attached to the unit under-
going Instruction in balloon barrage work, are both in Bedford County
a critical condition. NEIGHBOUR'S RESCUE EFFORTS
Hospital, They were slated to be in
The fire is believed to have begun on the ground floor, where some clothes were being alred.. Only the
at Liverpool this month, await-brick shell of the house, with a few ing her on the quayside was her sister, who had moured her as dead burnt-out rafters, was left. Flames for twenty-three
were shooting through the roof when she had been drowned when a Ger- the brigade arrived.
years believing
man submarlac sunk the Lusitaniu Mr. Fred Crowsley, a 27-year-old off the Irish coast on a stil Mayworks accountant, who lives near, morning in 1915.
Her sister, Mrs. Bird, ran cagerly 10 her, recognising her from photograph. Then they went to the home of the mother. Mrs. Splanc, in Whitecote, Bramley. "MOTHER, AT LASTI”
bravely tried to rescue the child and Miss Vincent. He climbed a drain- pipe and broke a window, cutting himself badly, but found that it led to the bathroom.
Flying Ofteer Swann ran to a farm for a ladder, which he reared out- Mrs. O'Connell ran Into the side the nursery. Mr. Crowsley went house, up to a bedroom where she up and, in spite of the heat and found a frail, whitehaired invaild, flames, leaned through the windowi Filnging her arms around the old and pulled the cot towards him, but lady's neck, Mrs. O'Connell kissed it was empty. her crying, "Mother! Mother AU
last!"
had been
Woolton Hoo was of Tudor design, Snuggling close to her mother, and stood in its own ground. Flying Mrs. O'Connell said. "To stroke her Officer and Mrs. Swann hair 35
I did when I was a little living there since April. girl means a good dent to me. It is one of the biggest thrills of my life. "I left for America with my eldest sister when I was twelve years old. "For years my sister and I wrote to my people, and after I married
that I had been drowned. That bellof was strengthened because they did not receive letters I wrote later.
I wrote home saying that I was leny- A few months ago I traced one ing on the Lusitania and would be of my sisters to Bramley. She re- home soon.
olled at once, saying she could hardly
"At the last minute I changed believe I was still alive, and asked my mind and my relatives believed me to come and see them."
CONSTIPATION
requires far more than sim-
ply a laxative. Neutralize the stomach acids
aid diges tone up the entire intestinal tract by taking
tion
PHILLIPS
PRILLIT
Taken For
was
A Ride
Gracie Fields Little Zenda. Spencer-Lewis in- vited her to take a chute ride after she had opened a Children's Fair in aid of the League of Mercy at Bed- ford College, Regent's Park,
"CURSE OF
BABEL"
RETARDS
WORLD PEACE
Esperanto as a means to world brotherhood was the keynote of meetings when the World Congress of Esperantists continued at Univer- sity College, London.
Sixteen hundred delegates from various parts bf the world travelled to London for the congress but Ger- Inny
was not represented.
Germans are not allowed to learn
Esperanto sin
since Hitler discovered
that it was invented by a Jew;
The Quaker Esperantist Group of Great Britain were among those who brought
speakers to address the Con- Hress on International problems,
Mr. C. R. Buxton, president of the Quaker Esperantist Group, appealed for more careful understanding of the world situation.
The great
eat fact of our time," he said, "is that the whole of humanity is bound together as never before. "We feel that the world is one. 'Nevertheless, national consciousness is still far too strong.
"All problems of economic deve lopment should be studied from the world point of view. The man who loses his job in Poland is entitled to as much sympathy as the man who Joses
his Job in London.
"The statesman who preaches or practises cconomic nationalism
should be regarded as a traitor with- in the camp.
"If we are truly desirous of being loyal to humanity at large we shall feel deeply the curse of Babel.
"A friend in Czechoslovakin wrote
to me in the recent crisis that the
| inability to understand one another's
Innguage was the
the greatest evil, in- tensifying all other evils."
M. Edmond Privat, a Swiss who Used to represent Iran at Geneva, declared that the spirit of Esperanto was the sort of international spirit which the League of Nutions and always sadly lacked.
HAPPY PATIENT in a new ward of the Great Ormond- atrect hospital, now being made into the most modern hospital in the world. When finished nearly half-a- million pounds will have been spent, but more than half of that amount has sB) to be raised. The up-keep alone will cost £88,000 a year.
"Wreckers' Ruined Last
Census In Russia
A NEW census of the entire Soviet population is to be
taken next January. The results of that taken in January, 1937, did not satisfy the authorities, who have never published them.
The last one published was in January, 1933. The population was then given as 165,847,100.
It is declared that the Central Statistical Bureau was last year in the hands of a "gang of wreckers' headed by Prof. Kraval, who not only falsified the actual count but even intro- duced "wrecking" principles in drawing up a list of questions to be asked of all citizens to establish their nationality and religion.
The people were allowed, for example, to state to what "National culture" they claimed to belong in- stead of declaring their race by birih, Thus a Jew or a Soviet Pole might claim to be a "Great Russian" or a Ukrainian.
DISCLOSURE OF RACE
In the next census according to the Dally Telegraph : Moscow correspon- dent, they will be compelled, as in all Rusalan censuses before 1037, to disclose their race by birth and their native language,
Again, in 'the census of 1937 all. citizens were invited to declare their "religion.”...... A... surprisingly. | large number seem to have déclared them-- solves to be "Ruslan Orthodox" under the misapprehension, based on the traditional) habits of mind of the Hold regimony that all "Great Russians
Proper and all Ukrainians belonged
by race to that communion, just as German Russians were necessarily
Lutheran, Calvinist or Mennonite and Polish Russians were necessarily Roman Catholic.
Next time only those profession- ally employed na priests will be compelled to declare their religious convictions.
REPEAL OF LAW
Another Interesting point about the 1937 census is that Kraval ond his fellow "wreckers" in the Central Statistical Bureau
seem to
have made a grossly exaggerated estimate of the population in 1934 because they failed to take into account the wastage
of population during the hungry years.
By next year, however, the full effects of the repeal in 1938 of the law permitting free abortions and the severo penalties which were then Imposed on those practising such operations will have become evident In streat increase in births and therefore in the population.
will counter-balance There
the losses in earlier years in the grand. tatal, although, of course, there will ba a higher proportion of infants to men of Aghting age.
Snake Causes Triplo Crash
Sunbury, Pa. Because a snake wiggled across the highway, three automobiles: crashed; together; a woman was injured and damages of 388 resulted,
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