THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1938.
EMPIRE TUNNELLERS' "PLEASED TO MEET
NEWS
HARBOUR WORK AT
CAPE TOWN
In view
CAPE TOWN.
of the international situation, work on Cape Town's harbour development scheme is being -accelerated to provide a safe anchor-
age for shipa in a
shelter water.
large area nf
The SUJA of
£2,300,000, spread over the next
schenie.
seje islands of sand und debris are
YOU" UNDER THAMES
GESTAPO
WATCHED RUNCIMAN
Warsaw. four years, is being spent on the Gestapo spies, watching the members of Lord Runciman's The work of building an outer wall mission at Prague, are credited cross Table Bay is being hastened, here with a most unusual vic already appearing in the part of theory over the British Intel bay which is to be reclaimed, ligence Service, and are made Stuns Clearance Plan-Cape Town responsible for Hitler's ultima- has accelerated its slum clearance tum to the Western Powers on plan, under which £0,00,000 is to Czechoslovakia, and all that be spent on 12,000 flats and houses followed later. for non-Europeans.
Formactly a Hlave. The death has taken place at Paarl, Cape Province, of an old coloured woman who bure on her forehted the brand of slavery, She was considerably more than 106 years old.
AUSTRALIA
MEDICAL POSTS AT OXFORD
SYDNEY,
Applications are now being sought among Australian medical gruduates if the demonatitorships and as tantships at the University of Oxford,
recently founded by Lord Nuffield, The sum of £100,000 was placed at the disposal of trustees by Lord Nuffield to establish three demon- stratorships, to be held in turn in
According to disclosures in a re- cent issue of the Cracow "Kurjer," Lord tunelman was surrounded by a large number of German aples, all speelilly chosen by Herr Himmler, Gestapo chief,
With their help Here Hitler ob- tained full knowledge of Lord Run- einn's secret reports to the British Cubinet.
ORDER TO HENLEIN
Two-inch Hole
Greetings
For
Dartford (Kent).
Workmen on either side of the under-Thames tunnel from Dartford to Purfleet (Essex) exchanged greetings recently when the last "wall" of chalk was pierced.
The men on this side of the river forced a two-inch hole, which in a day or two will be 12ft. across, and the "pilot tunnel," started 13 months ago, will be complete.
But members of the public may not see this first stage in the construction of a tunnel which will be 35ft. in diameter and have a carriageway of 30ft.
"It would be as much as my job, and your health, are worth,' Mr. A. Blunt, one of the engin- eers in charge, said. "To keep the water out of the workings we are pumping air in from compressors.
are con-
Hitler learned, through them, that Lord Runelman regarded the con- "The pressure in the tunnel is 35fb. tinuation of the Sudeten Germans to the square Inch. We under Czechoslovak government as ditinned to withstand ordinary atmo- he advised spheric pressure of 14lb. to The impossible, and that secession to Germany.
square Inch. fein to increase his
Hitler Immediately ordered lien- demands from
the eight points put forward at Caris- bad to complete surrender of the Sudeten territory to Germany.
It appears, according to these din- the departments of anatomy, blo- closures, that Hitler also knew tit chemistry, "pathology, pharmacology the leading article in the "Times." and physiology, and three assistant-] suggesting the secession of certain ships in the departments of medicine, areas of Czechoslovakia, was reflect- surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, ing the official British view, and was anaesthetics, orthopaedic Surgery and the result of Lord Runciman's report
to Mr. Chamberlain.
Therapeutics,
The posts will be tenable for three years, and will be open to graduates) of the Universities of Queensland, Sydney, Melbourne. Adeinde, New) Zealand, and two of the Universities in South Africa.
CONGRESS METHODS
CIRCUS WORKER KILLED BY ELEPHANT
The miners employed to dig these tunnels are medically tested once u month and also are acclimatised, as are divers, to working under large
ressures,
THEY GET "THE BENDS" "And even at that they sometimes get what we call the bends," added Mr. Blunt. "You don't want to get rheumatism or selatien, and then, if the bends-it gives you pains like
be pretty serious. it gets round the old ticker,' It can In fact, it may kill you if you're not used to it.
"If there isn't a heavy pressure in the tunnel the walls will begin to bleed-ittle streams of water will run in through the walls. So, when that happens,
increase we
the
About 150 men have been working on the pilot tunnel, counting both sides of the river. There are seven six hours a day, six days They get about £12 or £14 a week,
or eight miners to a gang, working a week.
"And they need it, doing that sort of work," said Mr. Blunt. "If Diey you can't keep it up for long, not were sensible, they'd save-because
Work goes on 24 hours a day-four- under two or three ntmospheres.**
shifts.
Then
there are
011
A
MEN "CONDITIONED"
engineers
bolt workers, grouters. The compressor.men work the compressors,
in two 12-hour shifts. "But in 12ft. tunnel you can't get many men ut work, There isn't room for then. I expect we'll have more hands on when the 35 "Iron"-the segments are called an "iron"-goer in.'
Mr. Blunt pointed out the air-locka In which the men are conditioned to emerge after their spell,
The new uniform of the Auxiliary Territorial Service,
25,000 WOMEN
ARE
NEEDED
"If a man gets the bends they send him back, put him in the air- lock and keep him in heavier than the one he's been work-
pressure evenTWO
officers ing in. Say, about 381b, or 35lb.
TWO thousand
and 23,000 members are Then they lighten it so gradually that! An attendant, Willion James in, and also blow out through a pipe tore he's down to the normal 144lb. auxiliary organisation, it pressure, check the moisture trickling it takes maybe a couple of hours be needed for a new women's the water that has got in. We call Then they let him out, and he's all that snoring
was announced recently at Home.
London.
The emoluments will be 2400 per Astett, 50, of Market Rasen, was kill annum for weinen und unmarrieded by an elephant at the Rosaire's men and C600 for married men.
Continental Cireus, which is visiting Crowland, near Peterborough, Aslett INDIA
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In a tent with two elephants when one of them turned on him and killed him.
One of
belon of the men, to the circus, went to the tent in ing to response to Aslett's crles and the The dissatisfaction of Congress | members with the authoritarian *** of the elephant, he was follow- methods of what is popularly called by pre men, but before the ele the "High Command" of the party it could be calmed it practically
BOMBAY
is increasing. The High Command is the Shadow Cabinet which gives orders to all the Congress Provincial
Governments.
Several resolutions challenging its
Quise
ed
wrecked the children saw the tragedy-belies
fent. A number to be unprecedented in this runtry. Aslett was a newcomer to the circus.
powers are put down for discussion Muskeg Burns 3 Years
at the coming meeting of the Con- gress Committee at Delhi,
Loon Lake, Susk.
right."
Boy Vanishes: Bible
Tale Fascinated Him
A Sunday school lesson may explain the disappearance of four-year-old Brian Whaily from his home in Cowley, near Uxbridge, Micklesex. He was still missing after a four-day search.
Brian went to a Sanday school repentedly the story "all about the After being annoyed for three for the first time recently. boat." Englishman Stabbed.-Mr. Ewant years by a smoke pall from continu-There he heard the story from Show, who came to India in July ously burning muskeg near by, Loon St. Luke's Gospel. chapter 5, of from Liverpool to become manager Luke residents have asked the pro-the miraculous catch of fishes. of a British company, was stabbed vincial government for ald. Om- this afternoon by an Anglo-Indian employee in Calcutta. Its condition is described as critical.
cials are considering flooding the area. The smoke hinders traffle and Increases lighting costs.
His teacher noticed how the story captured Brian's imagination.
He went home and told his parents
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They will carry out non-combatant duties with the Army and the R.A.F. The Auxiliary Territorial Service, as the new organization will be called, is dri effect an amalgamation of the three women's organisations in existence at the moment.
The Women's Transport Service, the Women's Legion Mechanical Transport Section and Emergency Service are tell- ing their members to Join the A.T.8.
May Go Overseas
Women between the ages of 10 and 65 can join.
Those of ages up to 47 will be used for, general service at home or overseas, and those between 47 and 55 for local service within reach of their home.
Terms of service are four years with the option of re-enrolling.
'ON A BARGE' Next day he vanished-leaving his dinner uneaten and failing to help and Dick Watson"the Three Mun- his two playmates, Sonny Kitchen
Free' uniform will be supplied, with keteers,"
Mein- drive the cows on a local farm into bers will have free travel to and from
every one called them-torations during camping periods. The milking shed. The boys had camp and a grant towards expenses In- done that every day almost since they curred in attending training. could walk.
In peace time A.T.S. will be amliated to Territorial Unita.
Brian's father suid: "I think he Recruits will be used as motor-drivers, may have been picked up by a clerical workers, cooks, orderlies, and barge on the canal. After hearing that Mory be may
have been
fuseinated by the boats, and gone
to look at them."
The canal leads as for as Birming- ham.
NAVAL WARRANT OFFICER ACCUSED OF SHOPBREAKINGTM
Chief Engine-room Artificer Henry John Palmer, 35, of H.M.S. Pem- broke. Chatham, was charged at Chatham recently with being found by night with housebreaking imple- ments-a screwdriver, table knife, pocket knife, electrle torch, chiset, Jemmy, hacksaw and two blades-al Gillingham.
He was also accused of breaking into a shop and stealing chocolate
AS
castren auper-
visora.
The Parlianten- tary Under-Eccre- tary of State will be the Member of the Army Council responsible for the control of the Now Women's Service of the Auxiliary Terri- torial Service.
Companies will be raised on a mational beals through the County Terri korial Army and Air Force Associations.
The crisis brought hundreds of women to the aid of the Women's Voluntary Service, which is purely civilian.
Car Drivers
The wife of a Cabinet Minister called at the headquarters of this organisation, asking for a job to do. She was given one at once.
and Avo oranges value is. 8d.
The Fire Brigade wants Women Palmer, who was also alleged to drivers for emergency work, and the have assaulted Pic.. Freer, was re-L.C.C. is appealing for car drivers. manded in custody.
Already hundreds have volunteered, P.c. Freer said that he saw Palmer A scheme of personal enrolment as looking over a fence and while he been started for Queen Alexandra's WAA
being taken to the police station which is maintained for the purpose of Royal Naval Nursing Service Reserve, Palmer ran away, but was caught.
Later, alleged the
supplementing Queen Alexandra's Royal Palmer struck several blows at him war or a national emergency.
constable, Naval Nursing Service in the ovent of und in a struggle Palmer fell against
a tur.
Charged Palmer said: "I sorry I struck you, but it was a des- am perate bid to get away."
COCKTAIL MAKES BOY
When
DRUNK
London. 15-year-old boy
Nurses must undertake to report for nursing duties in naval hospitals and hospital ships when chiled upon.
A Job For You
Apart from the new women's service, there are more than a dozen organisa- tions waiting for men and women volun-
The Regular Army needs men from
Wemichi-a10
18 to 30: men over 30 are wanted for A.R.P. was Younger men-and charged at the Morecambe Juvenile wanted for auxillary firefighting services. Court recently with being drunk and, The Civil Air Guard has so many re- Incapable it was stated that he had cruits that it is not worrying, Leen found tying helpless on a Pro-
nenade seat. He told the Court that every man it can possibly recruit. Anti he drank a thimbleful" of a cock- tall because he liked the taste of 1. The boy's mother explained that her
Men between 38 and 50 are wanted for son had been playing in the pantry, balloon barrage squadron, where he found sweet-tasting cock-
The RAP. wants recruits of all types. tall. He must have got drunk and trictatis and trades" workers.
FOCK Particularly it needs armourers, elec-
then left the house. The Chairman)
But the Territorial Association wants
aircraft units are manued almost en tirely by these amateurs"
bound the lad over for six months for men between 18 and 50. Most of The RAF. Voluntary Reserve appeals and said that they thought the ex-them will not be needed for flying duties. planation quite feasible and it was but for the essential ground-work con. accepted.
biected with flying.
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