Saturday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 24, 1938.
Large, Supreine
The Answer To Aircraft
A splendid tribute to Mr. Hubert Scott-inine, designer and bullder of record-breaking alreraft and, more recently, of high-speed surface craft, le published in the current Autumn number of Courier.
"Tall, bulky, red-haired, blue-eyed man of Sussex," says the anonymous writer, Scott-Palne has been the in- strument chosen by fute to produca for this country the new, swift, light- weight motor torpedo boat which is the fogleal answer to the menace of hostile aircraft.
"A new marine animal, combining the ferocity of the shark with the en- durance of the winte; and necessarily Amphibious because of its dependence on food, fuel, and T.N.T.: not prone to bask in home waters over which the sen-hawkn wheel."
When in 1927 Scott-Palne turned from aircraft to designing high-speed surface craft, "with the first straite of his pencil he ignored the experience of 0,000 years of civilised navigation." He went back to the primitive, sen- sible method of progression, which was to skim the surface of the water, --not forɛe a way through it.
Thus was evolved Scoll-Paine's modern motor torpedo-boat, with n speed of about 40 knots an hour, a radius of 1,000 miles, and (in addi- tion to its torpedoes) enough anti- aircraft guns to win an aeroplane's respect.
Pheasant Folled With Stono
Watkins Glen, N.Y. John Coughlin, Watkins Glen state highway engineer, duesn't need a gun for hunting, especially when there is a stone handy. While at work on a construction job, he noticed a phea- sant in a nearby field and with true alm bogged with a stone.
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Gave His Children Presents,
Then Died
With Them
her
Winifred O'Donnell stood in flat in Bellingham, S.E., recently, und looked sadly at a doll's ten set, a toy tank and à pleture-book.
They were presents her husband had bought on Saturday for their father, were now lying dead in the He boy and girl who, with their
next room.
Bernard Joseph O'Donnell, aged forty-three. 311 out-of-work car- penter, was on one bed. Denala, a falr-haired lad of ten, and Jasephine, his six-year-old sister, were on an- other. When they were found the room was full of gas..
WROTE TO FOLICE
Mrs. O'Donnell, with he two- year-old son Johnny, had spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. Stewart, in Fulham, S. W. There she received this letter from her Hus-i bund:-
"I tried to pawn my suit, but they will not take a pledge on Saturdays. I wanted to leave you some cash, I know you will not go into a pawn- shop.
"I have given the children a good lime, as this is our fast day on earth. Kiss baby for me.
NIECE OF
A PEER
SEEKS DIVORCE
HE Hon! Mrs. Brinsley Plunket, Alleen Guinness, When he grown formerly Milas
up tell him daddy was killed in the niece of the Earl of Iveagh, has wan. Don't let him go into the served a petillon for divorce en her carpentry trade. Good-bye, dearest," husband, the Hon. Brinsley Sheri- Dennis had also written her adan Buste Planket, thirty-four-old note: "Dear Mummy, Daddy has brother of the sixth Lord Plunket, given us presents, and money from who was killed in an air crash in our money boxes, and we are having California last February.
a lovely ilme.-Love, Dennis."
Mrs. O'Donnell hurried Over to They were married at St. Mar- Bellingham with: her sister. Shere's, Westminster, on November found the police there: her husband 16, 1927, the bride wearing her golden had written to them too.
hair in two long platty down her back.
Mrs. O'Donnell said: "My husband huck been out of work only three weeks, but he knew there was
no
hope of getting more work in his trade until the spring.
"On Saturday he persuaded me to go for a few days holiday with my mother. They must have all three died that night,"
In January 1937 the Hon. Brinsley unke was left £10,000 by a woman
who nursed him when he was taken
with scarlatina in New Zealand. He was six at the time and was with then father, the fifth baron. his Governor-General of the Dominion.
The two photographs above were taken at the recent Boy Scouts Association Competition Camp liet dat Chal Wan,
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