Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 30, 1939.
THREE MEN FIGHT 50 SHARKS
AS THEIR BOAT IS
Hurled High Out Of Sea
THÍREE men had remarkable
escapes recently when i school of 50 basking sharks aurrounded their boat and, one of them hurled it out of the water, off Peninver, six miles) from Campbeltown, Argyll- shire.
Blinded by wator, Mr. Hugh Cameron, the owner, hung on! to the wheel, and brought the boat back to an even keel.
Struggling to beat the sharke off,
to manuged
reach the three men 104.
Mr. Cameron had taken the motor; Ashing-boat Maggie out for an en- gine test after Is anaual overhaul. With him were Mr. Edward Me- Collum and Mr. Archibald Brown.
"COULD TOUCH SHARK" Afterwards he sald: "We had not got far out when the Maggie was surrounded by sharks-40 or 50 of them.
"Suddenly a An appeared right in front of us, and I saw a shark rising to the surface underneath the boat,
"I could have touched it with my hand. I swung the Maggie round,
the
HIT
This unusual roof garden in the heart of the elly has been built up by air. and Mrs. G. Stanley-Lovatt round their flat. The luxuriant growth has been attained by scientiflo treatment grapher.
of the soil-Staff Photo-
but in propeller was struck by the Refugees' Thanks B.B.C. Hold Dance
shark, and we were flung out of
water"
drowned In Carradale Bay, near Campbeltown, in September 1937 when their boat was upset by a basking shark.
Three mexi wert.
QUESTION IN COMMONS
In Letters
་
Richborough Camp,
Sandwich (Kent).
WHEN Julius was seven years
old his schoolmaster in Berlin
Tune Conference
is to ask the Secretary of State for taught him to say: "Gott strafe THE B.B.C. held their first dance tune selection conference re-
Mr. Kirkwood (Sec. Dumbarton)
Scottfind
Ini the Commona
he is aware that big shoals of basking sharks have entered the
Firth of Clyde, and that large sharks
have been seen in Kildaltoig Bay, Ardnacross Bay, and Campbeltown
Loch?
As the shark-hunting cruiser, from Carradale does not carry wireless, the local fishermen have not been able to srcure her for help, and are afraid to put to sca; and he wants the Secretary to consider sending a fishery cruiser. or other sultable vessel, to destroy the sharks.
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Photographer to all
England."
Now, outside the hut where he
alps with 21 other refugees he has planted in turf letters 2 high the words: "Our thanks to England." It took him six weeks to get every blade of grass straight.
He scoured the rurah flats for the finest turf, and measured his letters with Teutonic precision.
The effect so delighted the camp that he planted in the same way the words "Gud Save the King."
cently.
Under a new agreement with music publishers and band leaders a list of 32 tunes will be selected each week, and 40 per cent. of all broadcast dance programmes must be composed of these tunes.
No names of selected tunes were issued after the meeting. which was of a preliminary nature. The first official meeting between the B.B.C., the music publishers, and representatives of the Dance Band Director's Association was held later.
"The tunes selected cach Mon-
Fifty men, among them a portrait day will be for programmes ten painter and a film producer are how-days to a fortnight ahend," a
ing eight large sunken gardens out B.B.C, official.sald.
at the rocky, humpy, wilderness of
thistle and diickweed inside the main
iates,
The method of selection will
They dig, haul, sift and plant to probably cause words of their own fitted to a famularties.
tune:
certain difficul-
The lunes selected cach Monday
Any time you're Richborougis Way, will be for programines ten day to
Any erening, any day,
You'll find us all
n fortnight ahead," a B.B.C. official safd.
The method of selection will pro- bably cause certain difficulties.
"The choice. must depend largely
EMPIRE NEWS
KENYA POLICE SENT TO QUELL UNREST
MOMBASA.
Working the English way. England and the Engilsh are the centre of the men's working day.
They make courageous attempts to
A considerable force of regular learn English. They paint English on the music publishers themselves." police has been drafted into the Sam- country scenes, play English games sald Mr. Jack Harris, moving spirit buru reserve, where, it is officially end hold their self-governing meet-in the Dance--Band Directors-As-stated, there is unrest among the ings on the model of the English selation. "They will have their tribes, who are discontented with the Parliament. They discuss industry sales returns to go on, and the tune's Government's destocking policy. and the, to them, Baffling secrets of record in America if it comes from English mentality,
there.
The chief qualities they like in us "When a list is agreed upon the are kindliness,
gentlemanliness, B.B.C. will send copies of it to all humanity,
Martin, for 12 years head brarian broadcasting band leaders. I see no of the 30 libraries of Vienna's Volk-son why it should not be made
pubile." shochschule (Adult Education Insti- urles), sums us up as "unostentatious,
never loud or fussy, always polite,
.
There is increasing evidence of contempt for authority and of dis- obedience of the Government's ordera, while it also appears that headmen are illicitly moving large numbers of cattle. It is officially
stated that there has been no disorder, but that It is necessary to take firmer steps.
the most civilised of neopies and most After The Airmen's it is also believed that the unrest
worthy of imitation."
THEIR "CRAZY SHOW"
They even write poetry about us.
Dance
Admitting, in the House of Here is a verse from a poem which a Commons recently, that women Berlin architect composed in English guests were "put up" for the at the end of his first week of lessons: night in an Army "hutment" We refugees start here a second after a R.A.F. dance at Debden
span of lives,
Aerodrome, Sir Kingsley Wood Striving with all our souls and
said: hearts and powers.
And like spring. an apple-tree
revives
With broken ruots; it grows, it!
buds, flowers,
improvised
I think that the neighbourhood was perhaps unduly suspicious in
the matter,
is partly due to propagandu,
The Government is attempting to reduce the number of cattle, owing to the progressive destruction Of
grazing lands and the spread of soil
rosion.
Electrical
Opposition to the granting
Monopolj Opposed.-
10 one electric company of an extended monopoly in the Colony has entered a new phase in the appointment at a Government committee to examine the protists. The proposed mono- poly would be for almost half
century.
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"I have had a report from one of Thanks largely to the Austrians the four chief officers, who had the pleas Young,
Tanganyika's Loyally-Sir Mark camp is rich in hone-mate enter-ure of attending the dance (laughter); speaking at the Royal Empire Society. Governor at Tanganyika, taninent. An
"crazy and he told me that it completed dinner at Dar-es-Salaam, emphasised show" was put on during lunch hour with complete decorum and recently. It included "Horror Hour nunner well in keeping with the ments were carried out, Tanganyika "the ensure that, whatever settle- at Richborough Castle" and "Hut-en-accepted traditions of functions held
tut Review," neither of which would in the officers' mess (laughter and would remain within the confines of have disgraced a West End cabaret. cheers).
the British Empire." JAMAICA
"ALWAYS ON HOLIDAY"
BUT NOT AGAIN
TAKEN UP
KINGSTON.
The Air Minister was answering. Bangl, the camp clown, who is 8ft. questions on the incident put by Mr. £200,000 BANANA LOAN Bin. tall, with dark hair and a ginger John Morgan, the Socialist M.P. beard, kept the crowd roaring with He said that owing to the dimeully hia "Men With Headache," "Man of finding hotel accommodation, the Stung by A Bee," and other im-Group Captain upproved the use of a personations. He makes capital out temporary hatment, formerly used as The Royal Bank of Canada in of his height,
lofficers' quarters, for a certain num-Jamalea has taken up the entire issuc "You know
what makes me such aber of women guesta.
of £200,000 Government loan Jolly fellow?" he said, "I'm always
the campaign against the leaf spot on holiday because the ale away: UP of the regulations, instructions had
While there was no formal breach disease in bananas. here is so good,"
been issued that such urrangements The price paid is £102 39. for the His friend Hugo,, a professor of should not be made in future. £100 stock. The money is to be paychology, said that after lights
used for purchasing spraying machines and materials to help, the plantera: '
but Bangl got up again, dressed
and slipped out to finish a section a month. He does not know what of the bookshelves which will hold became of him.
the '9,000 volumes sent by donors all
Bruno, (20) arrived here the day
over the .country for the camp before his brother (17) went as library.
settler to British New Guinea. Their "Bangt sleeps badly because he is family in scattered in Ave countries. worried about his widowed mother
Over 40 per cent. of the men have: and two young sisters who were come here straight from concentra-
events of public driven from the lovely house intion camps, where many had lived.
interest. Requests
should be addressed
to the Pictorial Editor.
Vienna when he was taken to con-under the most degrading and pain- centration, camp 18′ month ngo," ful conditions. said Hugo.
News Carrier Carries On
for
NEW ORLEANS. George Arno, 45, has started on his But the joy of the first step on second 28 years as a newspaper car- Poor Bangl's story is only one of free English soll changed their des-vier, convinced that the first 109.500 1,800 at the camp.
pair to hope.
miles of walking dre the hardest. IN FIVE COUNTRIES
"Our children's children shall tell Arno started delivering newspapers Max has heard here for the nest of the second coming out of bondage, in 1913 and how missed walking at time that his boy of 18 was in the with England as our saviour." sald least 12 miles a day only once or same prison with him last year for Ernst, once head of a German, bank twice.!!
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