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DUST BOWL DANGER
IN KENYA
NAIROBI.
The danger of a dust howl being ercated in the Ransba Reserve of Kenya is causing concern to coffee! planters in the neighbauteing Thiky district
The planters are pressing for at grant from the Colonial Development Fund or a loan to be used for restur ing the fertility of the Kamba Native Reserve.
The Thika residents complain that try, dust-lukien winds from Kamba country are reducing fertility of their district
the i the
Thika no longer enjoys the soaking) rains common 20 years ago. What is known as the period of long rains in Kenya teens to be steadily shorten- Ing.
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CAMP CARRIED AWAY BY AVALANCHE
BOMBAY
Details of the disaster to the Polish Himalayan expedition on Nanda Devi have been received in a letter from a survivor. He says:
"M. Adam Karpinski, the leader,; and M. Bernadzikiewicz were over- whelmed by an avalanche during the night. The avalanche carried away and buried the whole camp.
"When I arrived at the spet the next day, with M. Klarner and two porters, we found, instead of the tents, à nountain of ice, more than 750ft long and 3001t in width was over 30ft high.
"A day and a half's search resulted only in the finding of a few objects, including a pair of boots.
"We failed to find any trace of the
bodies. -
The catastrophe Occurred at Camp III, at an altitude of 18,500ft. below Tirusula Peak, 21,450ft, and near the lam glacier." AUSTRALIA
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SYDNEY.
Capt. P. G, Taylor, the Australion airman who piloted the Aying-boat' Guba in the survey of the Ilian Ocean al route in June, has returned to Sydney,
He considers that the results of the survey night were encouraging., His report to the Commonwealth Gov- ernment will suggest that the Aus- tralio-Africa route be used in mes! of emergency.
lie says that all the Indian Ocean Islands at which the Guba touched were found to have natural flying boat bases in their lagoons. All these Islanda are British-owned.
The Aying-boat Guba was lent to the Commonwealth Government by the American millionaire-selentist, Mr. Richard Archbold. The fight. was financed jointly by the Common- wealth and British Governments.
Governor's recali demanded.-Mr. Lang, former Socialist Premier of New South Wales, introduced n mo- tion in the House of Assembly alleg ing that the Governor, Lord Wake- hurst, had departed from constitu- tional practice in appointing Mr. A. Mair
TIS Premier of the State.
Mr. Mair
elected leader of the United Australia party and later
Was
Sworn in ns Premier, following
the
Monday,
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Girl Scouts of Aarhus, Denmark, gave their sovereign, King Christian, a hearty welcome when he appeared unannounced at their camp. Among the 2,800 girls, Crown Princess Ingrid, recently an American visitor, lived in a tent like all the others.
Error At Operation
Kills Woman
IVEN nitrous oxide in mistake for oxygen, Mrs. Emily Jane Flower (45), widow, employed as a housekeeper in a Park Lane flat, died during an operation in the Samaritan Free Hospi- tal for Women, Marylebone.
"No one is infallible. Every-} one is apt to make mistakes at times," said the coroner, Ingleby Oddie, recording a ver- diet of "Misadventure" at the Paddington inquest recently.
Mr.Time Magazine
Banned
members not to distribute the mago-
It was stated that, while being TIME the
Amerlenn news- operated on under gas, oxygen and
magazine, ennnot be seen on ether, Mrs. Flower became blue and England bookstalls. The Wholesale the anesthetist, in order to give nd-Newsagents Federation has advised its ditional oxygen, switched on to an ine. following an article on Countess other cylinder which should have Clono which appeared in the July contained a fresh supply. It was 24 issue. afterwards found that the cylinder! contained nitrous oxide.
HOW MISTAKE OCCURRED Dr. Edna Wilson, an anaethetist at
Captain Fuller, of Messrs. Gor- ringe's, agents in Britain for "Time," cannot understand the bin.
He said:
"We do not know if the ban Is
the hospital, told the coroner that she permanent or not but we intend to ɖɔi
did not look at the cylinder when she further in the matter. switched over in the middle of an operation.
COUNTESS CIANO ARTICLE
the
The Coroner-You naturally as been informed officially, that
We assume although we have not sume it is right?--Yes.
Federation took exception to 查门 Dr. M. D. Messent, another amaca. urticle on Countess Ciano. thetist, said that during the morning "Why the Federation should sud-} he changed various empty cylindersdenly feel so anxious about the pre- on the apparatus and must have puttige of Mussolini's family I do not The Italians write far strong- a gas cylinder where there was usual know.
ly an oxygen cylinder by mistake, er articles about the leaders of our Dr. Donald Teare, pathologist, sald country and we consider the action of the Federation to be unreasonable," that the woman died from asphyxla
The ban will not affect those news due to deprivation of oxygen. agents who do not belong to the The coroner sald that he could not Federation, nor will it affect the seriously blame either of the anaes- distribution of the magazine to sub- thetists.
scribers who receive it by post.
Man Who Achieved
Fame By Accident
resignation of Mr. B. S. B. Ste-A MEMORIAL to a man who achieved fame by accident was
vens's Government, Mr. Lang's
motion urged that the Governor
should be recalled.
Following the introduction of the motion the House adjourned.
*
SYDNEY.
recently opened at Sudbury.
William Perkin, son of a London builder, tried, when only
18 years of age, to produce a synthetic quinine.
He falled but found something of most of the reward for his dis- far greater importance. It was the coveries went to Germany. secret of aniline dyes.
Instead of quinine young Perkin
Perkin died in 1907 and recently Sir Archibald Howie, president of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, got a black precipitate. He sought his daughter unveiled the memorial, addressing the annual meeting of to remove the colour and discovered erected 101 years after his birth, to the Chamber, said that there were
that the solution so formed could be the "Inventor of mauve," dangers for Australia in policy of used to dye silk a genuine purple 10 unlimited expansion of secondary in-
become known as mauve--the first dustries.
aniline dye.
He declared that the increase of manufactures circunscribed Aus- tralia's export markets to the extent that Great Britain was deprived of opportunities of exporting to Aus- tralia
He thought the time had come when a competent authority should inquire whether the present methods of restablishing; secondary industries were in the interests of "Australia,
discovery
GERMANY BENEFITED An adaptation of this was even more successful. Perkin found out how to dye cotton by what is called the tannin process,
It's No Joke To Thieves
Forty worn
SEVERETT, Mass.
A third discovery was commercial
spark plugs were method for producing artificial placed by gasoline station proprietor alzarithe colouring matter of the Eldon Strupp in a bird cage bearing {a "sign:"""""Thess" birds" were caught Perkin was knighted for his stealing gas”? Thlaver broke in and services but unhappily for Britain stole the plugai
madder root.
To Command 36,000 At Age Of 34
COMMANDER John Hampden Fordham, R.N, (retd.), who is only 34, has been appointed commandant of the 32,900 men and 4,000 women of London's Auxiliary Fire Service.
Commander Fordham served In the Navy for 11
years before he was selected from 270 candi- dates as a divisional
a divisional officer of
the London Fire Brigade.
The London Auxiliary Fire Service has three deputy com- mandanis for the men, two for the
women, and eight group commanders all auxillarles
A superintendent, a district officer, and eight station officers WH
be "seconded" from the regular brigade 'to 'carry out a scheme to place the auxillary service on an independent baxis from the 2,500 regular fremen.
Anxiliaries will have sub- sidiary stations to every one of the 50 land stations and three river stations in London.
Bearskin Frightened Guardsman
SENTENCE of 50 days' detention was recently promulgated on Guards-, man Reginald Frank Throne (23), 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, who was
stated at the court-martial of Chelsea Batracks, when he was charged with desertion, to have been "genuinely frightened at having to wear a tunle and bearskin."
Throne, who was said to have absented himself from Chelsea Bar- racks from January 2 until arrested at Chard, Somerset, on July 3, was: found guilty of desertion.
Ils defending officer submitted
that since Threne gave himself up voluntarily he was not a deserter, but an absentee,
Wedding 'Joke' Cost Him £2
John Daniel Hillery, aged 20, of Laurel-grove, Penge, guest at his sister's wedding, as a joke decided to hide his brother-in-law's motor-cycle, which was to take the couple on their honeymoon trip to Cornwall.
He sat in the saddle and with his fect on the ground "pushed it round the corner." A policeman' saw him.
Al Croydon recently Hillery was accused of driving à motor-cycle while under the Influence' of drink, taking the machina away without the consent of the owner using it without; un insurance policy, and having no driving licence. driving
The chairman, Alderman H. J. Mor- land, dimissed, the case on payment. of £1 10s. Jd. costs,
Ware, Supreme Court
September 18, · 1939.
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1.03 Dance Music by Billy Collon and His Band.
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