Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 31, 1939.
1.
EMPIRE NEWS
SAFETY IN MINES IN
***AUSTRÁLIA
SYDNEY.
The Royal Commission on safely and health in coal mines, which was set up by the New South Wales Government in nccordance with, the settlement reached in the recent coal strike, has issued its report.
The Commission recommends the compulsory use of electric safety Inmpa, the prohibition of smoking and the currying of matches in caal mines, the supply by mine owners of various articles of protective equipment and the attachment of a chemist and Jabaratory to each of four central rescue stations."
Other recommendations include an increase of the number of inspectors by the appointment-of-one-laspector of mines, und another inspector of electrical equipment, and an increase in the salaries of cool Inspectora
Battleship Dock. Sir. Leopold Savile, who will advise the Common- wealth Government on the proposal to build n battleship dock in Sydney, has arrived in Australia, and is in close consultation with the Minister for Defence, Brig. G. A, Street.
Biggest Sheep Show. Sydney Sheep Show, which recently ended, was the biggest ever held in Aus- tralla. Experis Bay that the merinos were the best to be shown in Sydney for at least a decade. British revels were well represented and of high clus
INDIA
MALARIA ATTACKS SURVEY PARTY
CALCUTTA.
Mr. W. H. Tilman, leader of inst 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 bills the parly had to travel four days'
contracted malaria,
They used up
Members of the Hongkong Volunteer Nursing Detachment with their Commandant, Mira.. E. M, Berz-King's Studio.
"Can You Hear Me, 30
Mars?"
through thick jungle, where everyone AS the planet Mars approaches nearer to the Earth than it has been since August, 1924, hundreds of radio enthusiasts in all most of their quinine supplies, but parts of the world are keeping their ears tuned for any message moved on, hoping that the mountain which the Martians (if any) may send. alr would make them at again. At about 15,000ft the molarin recurred and the expedition was compelled to
return.
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On July 23 Mars will be only 36,000,000 miles from us, and at the speed of light it would take radio less than 3 minutes to travel that distance,
Mr. Tilman hopes to make a trip
"We figure it out that wavelengths | discourage any further attempts to to the Guleha L and the slopes of Pandim before he returns to Englund.of ten metres would be suitable for use Rugby Radio for talking to Mats. contact, assuming "Our Telecommunications Departs Deccan Rulers Meet A meeting of uter-planelary
12 of the 17 rules of the Decent such a thing to be at all possible," ment is not in touch with any planet." States was held at Poons to consideradio amateur COBW. of Somerset, said an official.
the revised draft instrument of ne- cession. The majority are under- stood to have been in favour of uccession to federation.
JAMAICA
NO MORE CHINESE TO BE ADMITTED
KINGSTON,
As an old in helping the Jumaica unemployment situation, the Govern ment has decided that after June 1, 1940, no more allen Chinese will be allowed to enter Jamaica. At present alien Chinese resident in Jamusica are allowed to bring in their wives, dancees and children under 10 years The number of workers 011 the 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.
vald.
MESSAGE LOST
"Some of us have been transmit- ting on this wavelength all the sun- mor and our messages have simply disappeared," he continued.
NOT SO SCEPTICAL
Broadcasting House was far less sceptical than might be imagined.
"We've more serious problems on our hands than broadcasting to Mars," anid an engineer.
"Nevertheless, anyone who said it was Impossible to transmit to Mars would be rash Indeed."
"We know that the transmissions have penetrated the E layer of the Heaviside Layer, su presumably they have gone into space. It is too much Psychic investigators sald in 1924 to expect that the messages Inve that the Marllans were gong to send 10 Mars, but many of us are Morse messages on 30,000 metras-a determined to keep on with our 10-wavelength which scientists have
since declared to be incapable
Kone
metre research."
The Post Office (who in 1024 ac- penetrating the lonised layers,
of
cepted a radiotelegram addressed to Now, 15 years later, all radio ex- Mars and charged 12 d. a word for peris seem agreed that waves in the it although it was marked "Delivery neighbuorhood of ten metres, might not guaranteed") said they would easily reach us from space,
Bank Manager Shot Dead in Bathroom
Public Opinion Survey
Millions Don't
Know What To Do
If Air Raid Came
OVE
VER half the adults of Great Britain have no idea what to do, either at home or at work, if an air raid Occurred to-day. The average is almost certainly much higher in Hongkong.
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
When an air raid occurred some people would probably be at work, some at home. The Institute's interviewers... asked
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_precipitate in A.R.P., as wardens, auxili- a major crisis in his life was aary-tremen, decontaminators, statement made at an Aldershot nurses, first-aid workers, etc. court-martial recently by War- rant Officer Instructor (Class 2) Reginald Hatton (41), of the Army Educational Corps, who was charged with desertion.
Pleading not guilty, Hatton stated mother to a London phrenologist, that when 12 he was taken by his boy will never possess any money. His financial end in A six-chambered Webley revolver, which he had retained activities will invariably since he was in the Army, was clasped in his right hand when his disaster." body was found by his wife.
SANDY (Bedfordshire).
A FEW moments before he was due to leave on a motor journey Misa 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, 52-year-old resident manager of 84. During her 44 years' residence Barclays Bank branch here, was found shot dead in the bathroom w00 10:
of his home above the bank offices.
in Uganda she has been home only four times.
She was one of the first while pany with six other English women, she waked from Mombasa to Kam-
women to arrive in Uganda. In com-
The revolver had been fully loaded
INSPECTORS' AUDIT Enter inspectors of Barclays Bank Bank accounts.
These predictions, sald Hatton, had been borne out for the past 30 years. In 1933, when his mother was ill, she told him that three domestle tragedica
palo, distance of some 400 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 Breived to conduct an audit of the would affect him within a month of
tile country.
the bank to take charge during Mr.
Miss 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 glan, and treasurer of the Parochint Church Council.
During the war Mr. Unwin served ag n lleutenant in the Cambridge- shire Regiment and was wounded in the Dardanelles compaign,
Friends hnd noticed that he had been in poor health recently, suffering from recurrent attacks of malaria and from the effects of a wound received Įduring neilve service.
R. A. F. Officer's Gretna Wedding
Margaret Patriela Porritt, daughter of a wealthy Scottish landowner, Mr. O, W. Porritt, of Lochnaw Castle, Stranraer, Wigtownshire, went re cently with her sweetheart, Flying Omeer Hector Yates Lawrence, of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, to Gretna Green,
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about both possibilities:
Of the total number question- ed, 30 per cent. said they would know what to do if nt work, 27 per cent, sald they would know what to do if at home.
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So that 53 per cent. if at work, and 66 per cent, if at home, are entirely ignorant of what to do in the event of a raid.
each other.
ANY DEFINITE ANSWER He sobbed as he told how his wife's
The state of their ignorance may father and mother and his mother died between January and be judged by the fact that the inter- 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" three crises between the ages of 40 Include and 42, in the same way as his father, "Knows."
And to this unprepared-half of the and that the, last would be a major crisis,
population must be added all chil- After going through two financial dren and young people, for it must crises, one of which resulted in his be remembered that only those of being in hospital at Singapore for voting age are interviewed.
In- If these are added it would three months with nervous trouble. he found last May that the third was dicate that there are nearly 30,000,- and children in approaching, so he decided to necele-000 men, women rate it.
Great Britain who, in spite of three He accordingly "walked out on years of intensive A.R.P. propaganda, things," feeling that when the crisis are still without any individual plan was over he would be able to enjoy of conduct If a sudden air rald came the peace of mind so long denied him. upon them.
The decision of the Court will be mado known later.
Told By Bench
To Join Up
WOMEN WORST OFF
Though 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 actual air raid precautions, the high proportion of those in complete MAGISTRATES ot Milverton, ignorance shows that the propagandn Leamington, recently postponed sen- has had little effect, They were married over the nnvli tence on a youth 10 and suggonied The Institute's figures show that Is particularly truc among in Gretna Hall Smithy by the killed he should join the Army or Navy, this priest, Mr. David R. Macintosh, and The youth, James E. Collins, of women and in the poorer sections of left immediately by ear.
Coventry, pleaded guilty to stealing the population.
The Insitute's Interviewers found Flying Officer Lawrence is station-jewellery valued at £5 168.
It was alleged that Collins had a that in both these groups the pro- ed at Abingdon R.AF. stallon, Berks, 18-year-old accomplice, who was portion of those who bud no idea He returned by car from Gretna blamed by Collins father for leading what to do in an air rold was higher Green to Abingdon later. Miss his son astray.
than in any others, and that it is to that educational Porritt is 20,
The father sald he had been res- these two groups
A sister of Mr. Lawrence said:ponsible for getung his son out of the propaganda should be more inter- "Mr. Lawrence and Miss Porritt have Army on compassionate grounds after sively 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 Randall, announced that sentence it is an excellent thing to send certain quito soon, but they must have would be postponed until next week. types of young offenders into the auddenly changed their plans." Later Mrs. Randall said "I believe Army,"
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