Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 15, 1939.
SAILED ACROSS ATLANTIC Threat To ALONE TWICE IN 7-TON YACHT
Arrested As Pirate, Weathered Gales
NEWLYN (Cornwall).
SITTING on the edge of the quay of the little harbour here recently, signing autographs for a few pence a time to buy his Sunday dinner, was a man who has made one of the most adventurous Atlantic voyages ever reported.
In a seven-ton yacht, with only a compass and sextant for navigation, and very little food on board, he had sailed! from New York to England at a cost of about 10s., taking 33 days for the crossing.-
The man, 58-year-old Francis Edward Clark, brought his yacht, the Girl Kathleen, into Newlyn Harbour.
The Girl Kathleen is at present in the possession of the Cus-i tons authorities, as it is alleged that her papers are not in order.
This is Mr. Clark's story:
"Last year when on holiday in
Canwall I bought my little boat from Blind Five Years,
fisherman in Mousehole,
"I sailed her up the Channel to my
home town, Portsmouth, where my
Now Sees Again
father for many years kept the Stag PETER CRESSWELL, an ex-
Holel.
soldier, of Bertram-street,
I wanted to visit some old friends Birtley, Co. Durham, blind for
of mine in the United States, but I
could not afford the fare to America
I provisioned the boat and set sail from Portsmouth last August.
"bad
five years, can now see again.
He owes his sight to an unknown benefactor who became interested in a good crossing and even-his case, and to the delicate skill of tually reached Savannah, but there 1 Newcastle surgeons. was arrested us a pirate, being unable
to convince the authorities that I was the rightful owner of the boat.
"Eventually President Roosevelt intervened and 1 was released.
SOLD CHRONOMETER "sailed up to New York and, having visaated my friends, realised that i had not sufficient money to provision the boat for my return to England.
For three days and nights after the operation which gave him back the power to see Cresswell was closely watched.
So delicate was the operation that, the slightest toneb, or even a cough, i might have shattered the vital part of which the surgeons had the eye brought to life.
BACK TO WORK
UFS
Henri Couraud, left, French war hero, with Ambassador William C. Bullitt, at Chalons-sur-Marne for dedication of monument to Henry Farman. Farman flew from Chalons to Reims in 20 minutes, In 1908.
Measles Serum Comes
From Scots Policemen
THE bulk of London's supply of serum for inoculation
Cresswell hopes to get back to work against measles is derived from policemen from the West 4.571. While he has been blind the of Scotland and domestic servants from Ireland and
"I sold the ship's chronometer to name of Peter Cresswell has been re- buy stores and eventually left Newtained on the payroll of a bus com- York on June if
party, his last employers. But It was, Mrs. Cresswell who went there to work.
"When off the coast of Newfound land I encountered a terrific gale and the boat's main boom broke.
"I was unable to repair iL.
Scotland.
Dr. William Gunn (London) made this statement when addressing the medicine section of the B.M.A. con- Cresswell's sight was injured when ference at Aberdeen recently on the difficulties of obtaining
in the RAS.C. in France during the "For days and nights I run before war and gradually became worse. serum. the Kale.
.LASHED TILLER
"At nights 1 Inshed the steering) Hear, and sheer fatigue caused me to
sleep.
>
Twelve sea-gulls followed me at the way from New York to the English Channel, and these were iny unly company,
"On Friday saw a fishing-boat and said, 'How far am I from land?",
"A fisherman pointed to the south- east and said, "There are the Scilly,
Isles.'
Five years ago his left eye was re-i
moved. Immediately after he also! With the epidemic occurring in two-year cycles, he said, it
Just the sight of his right eye.
had in the past been found difficult to keep the serum in effective vention. Cresswell was taken to New-
As a result of his benefactor's inter-condition. castle Infirmary
and
examined by
Mr. J. S. Arkle and Mr. H. V. In- keep it effective for as long as 14 or 15 years.
Now, by a process of powdering the serum, it was possible to gram, local ophthalmic surgeons.
They said that there was a remote restoring his sight. chance of the delicate operation
STUMBLING BLOCK
the
ing only the knowledge and Professor Sir John Ledingham,
facilities at the disposal of the inedi- director
of the Lister Research cat profession at the moment, greater Institute, London, declared that pro-framediate achievements were possi- When he reached Newlya htheria has been impeded by "doltish education and propaganda
gress in immunisation against diph-ble by more simplified methods of possessed a little rice, oatmeal, dried "I sailed on through the night and beans, a pot of marmalade and seven societies posing as protagonists of early treatment of the accessible
prejudice fostered by anti-social
for tic In the morning saw Land's End." Idollars in money.
liberty."
cancers and by the organisation of "Before we can embark seriously ble promise of accomplishments in treatment facilities than by any visi- on well planned campaigns against diphtheria and whooping cough," he the technique of trentinent, whether sald, "one stumbling block has to be by surgery or by radiation. get rid of many public health autho- illes cannot afford, or are not sufl- elently alive to the necessity for fraining
whole-time bacteriologists, on their staffs for these campaigns Sir John said that he regretted that what, could be called the social im- pact of medical discovery in the field of prevention took so long to fructify in Britain.
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"Through ignorance, vested in terest and complacency in high places, I sometimes despair of getting preventive selence across,"
Mr.
Ralston Paterson (Man- chester), addressing the surgery sec- tion, on the treatment of cancer, said that the types that could be called curable included cancer in the breast, mouth and skin.
EARLY TREATMENT
He stressed the importance of early treatment and added that consider
A plan of action to set up special hospitals staffed by skilled plastic War Office to deal with the rush of surgeons has been drawn up by the
casualties kuffering from severe facial injuries expected in the event of air raids.
This disclosure was made by Mr. A. H. Melndae, the specialist and consulting plastic sur- Marley Street on to the Royal Air Force, in un- other surgery section address.
Remarkable instances of successful plastic surgery operations on victims of air crashes and car accidents were mentioned by Mr. McIndoe.
Mfg referred to the case of a woman who, in an accident, had a plece torn out of her nose. It was sewn back into place 16 hours after the accident with complete success.
Victorian Manners
To Help Digestion
THE Victorian insistence on good table manners and "grace before and after meal" was ridiculed nowadays, but restraint during a meal and a pause afterwards helped good digestion and efficiency.
This was stated in a paper by Mr. W. L. Sumner, lecturer in the Science of Health at University College, Nottingham, which was read at a recent session of the Imperial Social Hygience Con- greas in London,
"We have a great deal to learn; mother, who had never heard of a from the Continent." his paper balanced diet, might added. "We have
result Ert never investi- trouble. gated the infinite variety of home-
it was not only among the more Inado soups, vegetable, egg, and backward people in the colonies but cheese dishes, which can be made in this country also that they needed without further expense if a little to combat ignorance about diet. Imagination is used.
"cannot help but compare the had not been feeling well making a Recently he heard of someone who, 10 or 12-frane lunch which I used long journey
to get in Montmartre with the
average English half-crown meal."
TELL THE MOTHERS
to
taining "75" 9 "a vitamin eon-
Mr. J. H.
You Craity
secretary to the Appointments Board. Uni- of Wales, said he thought Mr. W. G. Freeman (West India their biology courses would be in-. Committee) urged that it was improved if they hinged on Man rather porlant for mothers to be given a than on the frog or the rabbit. knowledge of dielelles as well as People wanted to know things, but their children. To teach д child it was no good beginning a course of about food values and then send him biology for unemployed miners with home to
meals prepared by his talk on life in a pond.
Two Homes Of Opera
TWO world-famous opern houses- Covent Garden and the Metropolitan in New York-are facing Anenclat dinlcullies.
At the annual meeting of the Covent Garden Properties Co., Ltd., in London recently. Mr. Philip the millionaire whose syndicate negotiated the £600,000 half-cream deal, told the shareholders:
"In view of the present situation it is becoming increasingly cult to obtain a satisfactory and re- munerative letting of the Opera House.
"During the last few years the company have spent-about-270;000- in modernising the bullding. While the directors are reluctant to use it for any other purpose than opera, we feel that unless more satisfactory arrangements for letting or for a sale of the property can be made the board must develop it in the best in- terests of the company."
NEW YORK FEARS
Afterwards he said: "Covent Garden will definitely have Its opera next season. It is being arranged already. But what will happen after that I would not like to say. We have not yet considered how We should develop the site if it became necessary."
in New York the owners of the Metropolitan Opera House (the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company) proposed 10 sell the building. Stockholders have fused to pay their unnunt nsscss-
ments,
re-
The owners want the Metropolitan Opern Association, which now rent the opera house, to buy it.
Mr. Comellus Bliss, chairman of the association, said recently that unless this was done opera in New York "would go into discard."
Bought Bank For £700
Don." secret messages, a scheme to A mysterious man known as "The
make England independent ot
and a bank in France
for us by Betting tich was
bought for £700 were mentioned at the London Bankruptcy Court recently.
Mr. Joseph Aspinal, described as a mining engineer and bunker. of Dailing-road, Hammersmith, appear- ed for public examination.
His statement of affairs showed Jabili- ties of £08,105 and assets £24,250. Replying to Mr. L. A. West, Senior Official Receiver, Mr. Aspinall said he had falled on three previous occasions, liabilities totalling 200,- 531 and assets £287. In the third bankruptcy when abilities were £25,204 and assets £13, other per- applied for his discharge in either cons wer concerned. He had not
case,
SENT TO PRISON Mr. Aspinall said that following bis last failure he was sentenced to four years' penol servitude.
Questioned about transaclions in 1930, he agreed that he acted as a "go-between" for the supply ot money for the purchase of shares in the Semerset Sirate Co.
"I took money to a man I knew as 'the Don and I handied quite a lot of secret messages." He added that the money was to come from Spain, and he was to get 25 per cent. He made about £3,000 out of that,
of
Certain people had the idea making England independent of foreign oil, by getting elf from shate,
"DON'T REMIND ME"
You had a bank in the Rue Lafayette, Paris?—Yes.
it.
Mr. West: This bank could burd- ly have been of great financial stand- iny, since you only paid £700 for
Replying to Mr. C. Salmon,
for Mr. Petre, Mr. Aspinall agreed that he was convicted in Paris of obtain- in an, £19,000 from Mr. Petre. "The tria! lusted three years and nine months," he said.
Mr. Salmon: You went to prison for perjury arising out one of your bankruptcies?
of
Mr. Aspinall: I know. I don't want to be reminded of it,
The examination was adjourned.
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