Monday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 31, 1939
:
EMPIRE NEWS
SAFETY, IN MINES IN
AUSTRALIA"
SYDNEY.
The Royal Commission on safety and health in coal mines, which was act up..by.. the New South Wales Government in accordance with the settlement reached in the recent coal strike, has Justed Its report.
The Commission recommends the compulsary, use of electric safety Iamps, the prohibition of smoking "and" tho' carrying "of matches in coaI mines, the supply by mine owners {of various articles of protectívo *equipment" and, the attachment of a chemist and fabbratory to rach of four, central forego stationa ...........Dthic recommendations include an increase of the number of, inspectors by the appointment of one. Inspector of mines, and another inspector; of electrical equipment, and an Inercosa, In the salaries of cpal inspectors.)
Batucaddy Dock Sir Leopold Savile, who will advise the Common- wealth Government on the proposal to build a battleship dock in Sydney, has arrived in Australia, and is in close consultation with the Minister for Defence, Brig. G. A. Street,
Biggest Sheep Bhow. Sydney. 'Sheep Show, which recently ended, was the biggest ever held in Aus- tralia. Experts say that the merinos were the best to be shown in Sydney for at least a decade. British breeds were well represented and of high class.
INDIA
MALARIA ATTACKS SURVEY PARTY
CALCUTTA
Mr. W. H. Tilman, leader of last year's Mount Everest expedition, who sel out in April with three Darjeeling porters on a survey of the unexplored country between Eastern Assan and Tibet, has returned to Darjeeling,
Before reaching" the Assam hills the party had to travel four days
Members of the Hongkong Volunteer Nursing Detachment
wil their Commandout, Mrs. E. M, Berr-King's Studio,
"Can You Hear Me, 30 Millions
Mars?"
through thick jungle, where everyone AS the planet Marn approaches nearer to the Earth than it has
contracted malaria. They used up most of their quinine supplies, but moved on, hoping that the mountain nir would make them at again. At about 15,000ft the malarin recurred and the expedition was compelled to
return,
been since August, 1924, hundreds of radio enthusiasts in all parts of the world are keeping their cars tuned for any message. which the Martians (if any) may send.
On July 23 Mars will be only 36,000,000 miles from us, ind at the speed of light it would take radio less than 3 minutes to travel that distance,
Public Opinion Survey
Don't
To Do
Know What
If Air Raid Came
what to do, either at home or at work, if an air raid
OVER half the adults of Great Britain have no idea Mr. Tilman hopes to make a trip to the Guicha La and the slopes of "We figure it out that wavelengths discourage any further attempts to' Fandim before he returns to England. of ten metres would be suitable for use Rugby Radle for talking to Mais. occurred to-day. The average is almost certainly much
assuming "Our Telecommunications Depart-higher in Hongkong. - Deccan Rulers Meet-A meeting of inter-planetary contact, 12 of the 17 rules of the Deccan such a thing to be at all possible," ment is not in touch with any planet," States was held at Poona to consider ndio amateur GBW. of Somerset, add an official. the revised dratt Instrument of c-suid. cession. The majority are under stood to have been in invour of necession to federation.
JAMAICA
NO MORE CHINESE TO BE ADMITTED
KINGSTON.
NOT SO SCEPTICAL MESSAGE LOST
Broadcasting House was far less "Some of us have been transmit-seeptles than might be imagined. ting on this wavelength all the sum- "We've more serious problems on mer and our messages have simply our hands than broadcasting to Mars," disappeared," he continued.
said an engineer.
to
the messages
"We know that the transmlesions "Nevertheless, anyone who said it have penetrated the E layer of tite was impossible to transmit to Mars Heaviside Layer, so presumably they would be rash Indeed." have gone into space. It is too much Prychle investigators said in 1024 have that the Martians were gonig to send expect that As an aid in helping the Jamaica gone to Mars, but many of us are Morse messages on 30,000 metres-v unemployment altuation, the Govern.
which scientists have ment has decided that after June 1, determined to keep on with our 10-wavelength
since declared to be incapable of inctre research," 1940, no more allen Chinese will be allowed to enter Jamaica. At present The Post Once (who in 1924 ne-penetrating the lonised layers.
Now, 15 years later, all radio ex- alien Chinese resident in Jamaica are cepted a radiotelegram addressed to allowed to bring in their wives, Mars and charged 1. 6d. a word for perts seem agreed that waves in the flancees and children under 10 years, although it was marked "Delivery neighborhood of fen metres, might
The number of workers on the not guaranteed") said they would easily reach us from space.
Government relief scheme, reclaim-
ing swamps near Kingston, continues
to increase. The total working yes-
terday was 140.
UGANDA
WOMAN
MISSIONARY'S
40 YEARS' SERVICE
KAMPALA,
A
Bank Manager Shot Dead in Bathroom
SANDY (Bedfordshire).
FEW moments before he was due to leave on a motor journey Mies Furley, one of the pioneer to Bournemouth, where he was to spend his holidays with his women missionaries in Uganda, is returning to England at the age of wife, Harold John Unwin, 62-year-old resident manager of 84. During her 44 years' residence Barclays Bank branch here, was found shot dead in the bathroom in Uganda she has been home only of his home above the bank offices. four times,
A six-chambered Wobley revolver, which he had retained She was one of the rat while since he was in the Army, was clasped in his right hand when his women to arrive in Uganda. In com- pany with six other English women, body was found by his wife.
she walked from Mombasa to Kam-
The revolver had been fully loaded
المسا
INSPECTORS' AUDIT Later Inspectors of Barclays Bank
About one person in every six in England has re- ceived some sort of training in Air Raid Precautions; BUT-of those who have received no training, over two- thirds are completely ignorant of what they should do in a raid.
These startling facts are established by a nation-wide survey taken by the British Institute of Public Opinion, whose inter- viewers asked a representative cross-section of adult Britons:
"If there were an air raid to-day would you know what to do?"
Fate Told By
His Bumps
· RECEIVED TRAINING Of the total number ques- tioned 17 per cent, anid that THAT he is a fatalist and went they had received some training away in order-to-precipitato in ARP, as wardens, auxili- a major crisis in his life was aary firemen, decontaminators, statement made at an Aldershot nurses, first-aid workers, etc.
When an air raid occurred court-martial recently by War-
The
rant Officer Instructor (Class 2) Some people would probably be Reginald Hatton (41), of the at work, some at home. Army Educational Corps, who Institute's interviewers asked
about both possibilities: was charged with desertion.
Pleading not guilty, Hation stated Of the total number question- ed, 30 per cent. said they that when 12 he was taken by his
would know what to do if at mother to a London phrenologist, who said: "This boy will never
work, 27 per cent. said they possess any money. His Anancial
would know what to do if at will invariably end activities
home. disaster."
These predictions, sald Halton, had been borne out for the past 30 years. In 1033, when his mother was ill,,she told him that three domestic tragedies each other,
in
palo, a distance of some 800 miles, and one shot had been fired. In 1895, suffering great hardships Mr. Trench-Smith, relief manager during the long march through hos-from Biggleswade, had just arrived at arrived to conduct an audit of tho would affect him within a month of
tile country,
the bank to take charge during Mr. Mias Furley is going home to be Unwin's absence when the shot was present at her sister's 90th birthday. heard.
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Mr. Unwin was vice-chairman of the Sandy branch of the British Le gion, and treasurer of the Parochial Church Council.
So that 53 per cent. If at work, and G6 per cent. if at home, are entirely ignorant of what to do in the event of a raid. ANY DÉFINITE ANSWER He sobbed as he told how his wife's
The state of their ignorance may father and mother and his own
and be judged by the fact that the inter- mother died between January
viewers were prepared to accept April, 1934.
His mother also told him, on her any definite answer, even the reply death-bed, that he would have to face "Yes, stay in bed" as sumclent to
the person During the war Mr. Unwin served three crises between the ages of 40 include
among the og alleutenant in the Cambridge- and 42, in the same way as his father, "Knows," shire Regiment and was wounded in and that the lust would be a major And to this unprepared-half of the the Dardanelles campaign.
crisis.
population must be added all chil- After going through two financial dren and young people, for. It must Friends had noticed that he had been in poor health recently, suffering Tises, one of which resulted in his be remembered that only those of from recurrent attacks of malaria and being in hospital at Singapore for voting age are interviewed.
three months with nervous trouble, If these are added it would from the effects of a wound received the found last May that the third was dicate that there are nearly 30,000,- during active service.
approaching, so, he decided to accele-000 men, women and children In Great Britain who, in spite of three
R. A. F. Officer's Gretna Wedding
Margaret Patricia Porritt, daughter of a wealthy Scottish landowner, Mr. O. W. Forritt, of Lochnaw Castle, Stranraer, Wigtownshire, went re cently with her sweetheart, Flying Officer Hector Yates Lawrence, of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, to Gretna Green,
They were married over the anvil in Gretna Hall Smithy by the killed priest, Mr. David R. Macintosh, and left immediately by car.-
rate it.
in- |
He accordingly "walked out on years of Intensive A.R.P. propagando, things," feeling that when the crisis are sull without any individual plani was over he would be able to enjoy of conduct. If a sudden alr raid came the peace of mind so long denied him. upon them.
The decision of the Court will be made known later.
Told By Bench
To Join Up
WOMEN WORST OFF Though it is comforting to know that about one in five among men and about one in eight of the women have received some sort of training in actudi air raid precautions, the high proportion of those in complete Ignorance shows that the propaganda has had little effect.
MAGISTRATES at Milverton, Leamington, recently postponed sen- tence on a youth of 18 and suggeried The Institute's Ogures show that among he should join the Army or Navy, thlale particularly true
The youth, James E. Collins, of women and in the poorer sections of Coventry, pleaded guilty to stealing the population.
The Institute's Interviewer found jewellery valued at £5 10s.
Flying Officer Lawrence is station.
It was alleged that Collins had a that in both these groups the pro~ ed at Abingdon R.A.F. station, Berks 10-year-old accomplice, who was portion of those who had no idea He returned by ear from Green
Gratna blamed by Collins' father for leading what to do in an air raid was higher to Abingdon later. Mies his son astray..
than in any others,' and that it is to Porritt is 20%
The father, snid he had been res- these two groups that educational A sister of Mr. Lawrence said: ponsible for getting his son out of the propaganda should be more inten- "Mr. Lawrence and Miss Porritt-have Army on compassionate grounds after alvely addressed in future. | been engaged for some months. They 12 months' service.
met about a year ago. They had The chairman, Mrs. E. - M.A
intended to have a church wedding fandail, announced that sentence it Is an excellent thing to send certain quite soon, but they must have would be postponed until next week. types of young offenders into the suddenly changed their plans." Later Mrs. Itandall sold "I believe Arty."
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