Crown Prince Frederic and Crown Princess Ingrid of Den- mark, as they embarked at Southampton, England, before leav- ing for the United States.
English Girls To Camp In Rockies
ents.
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 25, 1939.
EMPIRE NEWS
HIGHER SHIPPING FREIGHTS FEARED
Auckland.
The new Shaw, Savill and Albion ilner Dominion Monurch, 27,000. tons, salled recently with representatives of the shipping companies trading here to attend the triennial shipping freights conference and Ax future charges for Dominion primary ex- poris.
The "New Zealand Herald" states that ull-round inercases in rates seem practically inevitable, and will strike n heavy blow at Dominion primary industries.
SOUTHERN RHODESIA
SUCCESS OF APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEERS
Salisbury.
A week after the appeal for volun- teres for a battalion to serve outside the colony, 350 Europeans had applied for forms at Salisbury and 300 at Bulawayo. The population of each town is about 12,000. SOUTH AFRICA
NATURALISATION OF GERMANS
enst
UFS
Returning from the
where he made underwater sequences for his Intest. Tarzan picture, Johnny Weissmuller was met ut Los Angeles by his flancee, Mrs. Beryl Scott, as above. They plan to be married as soon as Lupe Velez. Johnny's former wife, gets her anal decree in July.
Steel Is Banned In
£100,000 Ship
IN October a sailing ship, built for the Admiralty at a
cost of £100,000, will set sail for the Indian Ocean.. She is the Royal Hesearch ship Research, soon to be launched at Dartmouth to make magnetic surveys vital to all who "go down
the sea in ships."
Research is brigantine-rigged, withi
Empire Air Route To Be Filmed
Capetown. A PERMANENT log cabin is a seven weeks' programme costs
Germans occupy a prominent place being built on Sulphur 62, und must be paid by the par- in the latest returns of naturalisation Mountain, Banff, in the Cana-1
Issued by the Union Deportment of The girls will enjoy the hospitality The Interior. In the second half of dian Rockies, for the accom-for Canadian homes for a considerable 1938, 141 persons holding Germon modation of young visitors from part of the line. They will see nationality were granted South England and her Dominions. Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa the capital, African nationality,
Kenora on the Lake of the Woods, Each year English children Banff, Calgary and the Turner Valley Most of them were of the pro- a sail area of nearly 12,000 square The Empire air route to Durban from private and secondary onelds. Vancouver, Victoria, Winni-fessional class, but there were two feet. She will carry 6 officers, 4 will be the subject of a film to be schools will live for a while in pen and Toronto.
Roman Cathalle pelesis, one mis-scientists, and 22 petty offers and directed by Stanley Hawes for the that dream pluce set among the CRICKET DEMONSTRATION sionary bishop and one baptist mini- Į men.
Strand Film Co., whose "The Future's Two girls' cricket teams in the ster
Difficulty has been met in finding in the Air, dealing with the air впоw caps and lakes.
a youthful crew with experience of ante to Australia, has been shown The returns include the names salling ships, and her captain, Licut-in more than 700 einenas during the This time 125 English girls are! Party will give demonstration games.
The second party will have six persons officially going. Next year it will be the turn shorter trierary and the estimated Seless, including one Jewish rabbi recently completed a voyage to Aus-
Commander D. H. Fryer, R.N., has last two years. of the boys. Each year their visits cost is £32.
Mr. Hawes is now flying to Afrien. will alternate. In addition to the! All applicants must be between the! Fland and Storm Deaths Two trafia and hock in a rain-carrying His arrival at Mombasa will coincide English girls students will go from ages of 15 and 10 and must apply European women were electrocuted
says "solely for Australia, New Zealtcal and perhaps through their headmistresses.
with the completion of another South Africa this year.
Stand film now being matte for the "The ideal age," said Major Ney, when a heavy storm severed electric "Some of my crew will know! is about 17. It is astonishing how wires. A number of natives have nothing of a salting ship." he sud what Great Britalu is doing for her Pmpire Marketing Board to show Major F. J. Ney, executive secre- much real good they get out of travel been drowned in the widespread "but, they will karn tary of the National Council of Edu-at that age."
floods which live resulted from the long." cation of Canada, said: "The scheine
unprecedented rainfall in Eastern Nine Were drowned
COSTS 562 A HEAD
Is under the auspices of our Council
described
at Lydenburg. Eastern Transvaal.is
in co-operation with the Overseas The Correct Answer? Transvaal.
Education League. The comp is to be called King's Camp.
LONDON.
when attempting 10 swim across swollen rivers. The town of Stander- In the Southwark Diocesan Gazette, ton is partially submerged.-Reuter, "About 125 girls whit go from Eng
Cape Town Two Words.-Cape lund this summer, one party leaving: which he edits, the Rev. T. P. Stevens, Liverpool on July 28 and returning vizar of St. Paul's, Wimbledon Park. Town, the seat of the South African from Montreal on September 9, and quotes the following answer given Legislature, is to be written in two the second parts toying on August 5 by a boy in a Scripture exam he words, instead of one, as hitherto, and returning with the others.
SEL: Q: Who was sorry when the according to a recommendation of the The invitation does not include Prodigal Son returned home? A. The Place Names Department Committee
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After shooting scenes
East Africa, Mr. Haves and the unit will pend 14 weeks on the dying-bout oute to Durban. The intention is to illustrate not merely the operation
Lieut.-Commander Fryer will com- mand the scientifle side of the ex- pedition as well as the ship herself thus keeping to a tradition founded by Captain Cook.
Research
Variation. Investigate atmos- ment and administration of the ferri- netic arch will collect data of mag- of the flying service, but the develop pheric
take meteorological tories through which it passca. observations-particularly in the Scenes will also be shot at Mar- upper air, with pilot balloons seilles, Rume, Athens, Mirabella Bay deep-sea soundings, and perhaps and Crete, where the Imperial Air- study marine blology.
a yacht "Imperla" Is stationed as results
will be recorded on! a wireless centre for all flying-boats, į se Admiralty charts, and will be avail-f ible to
to the world.
Research herself must be non- magnetic. She is built almost en- tirely of wood and bronze, and the crew will not be permitted to curry steel pen-knives, nor to have metal buttons on their clothing. Even Пaper
will be of brass. "Necessary steel tools will be kept}
far from the extremely sensitive (und very valuable) instruments-s will the crew's razor-blades!
Food enough to last a year-will. be stored in glass containers.
Cooking-sloves will be made of bronze, and aluminium pots and pans will be used, The baths are of teak so the crew will "take a tub"
In actual tact.
Girl "Healer" Charged As Quack
PARIS. NDREE MAUREL, a girl
"healer" of 15, whose hands are said to possess a "curative fluid," was tried before the Albi Correctional Court recently on a charge of illegal practice in medicine.
A tall, thin brunette, she lives with her parents in their little chateau of Claremont, near Albi, and has treat- ed during the past year thousands of patients from the region of Toulouse and Montauban, where her reputation as a healer stands high.
She was not in the least intimidated when the judge said to her; "We
are told that you eure patients by simply laying your hands on them and that you can even cure them at a distance by lying your hands iheir portraits. that true?"
The girl laughed and replied: "Of course it is true."
"CURED APPENDICITIS" Asked how she or her parents dis- covered that she possessed such curative Buid, Andree replied: ᏐᎢ ; was la a bod state of health about a year ago suffering from nerves. A doctor ancù suggested that I had an tried it on
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Lis. I Inid my hands over his stomuch and he was cured.".
She received patients in the draw- ing-room and sat by magnificent armchair with a high glided back; an archbishop's former throne, which Andree's mother bought from an
antiquary.
"How much did you charge?" asked the judge.
"Nothing," she replied, "and i never expected n xou from poor people, but those who could afford it rave me. 100 francs or 200 francs. Many presented me with 2,000 frames, even more.
The Public Prosecutor asked the Court to deprive Andree's parents of peternal rights and to have the girl sent to an institution for girls unti she is 20.
The Union of Doctors of the depuri- ment of the Taru, at whose request the girl healer was prosecuted," are elaiming 50000 franus damages.
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