NANCY
AUNT FRITZ! --- I'M GOING TO TAKE MY BATH!
NOW REMEMBER--- THERE'S A SHORTAGE OF WATER--- SO
DON'T WASTE
IT!
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
By Ernie
March 26, 1940. Bushmiller
WELL, NANCY!--- ARE. YOU BEING. CAREFUL
WITH THE WATER ?
YES MA'M!
Jel. 28151.
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ANOTHER SCUTTLE:
ELECTRIC
CURE
FOR INSANITY
1
ELECTRIC shock, applied to lighly skilled operators. Apparatus the brain, has been demon-faced not be expensive.
order.
strated by two Independent that a severe shock, whether physical
It is well-known to mental experts) groups of British doctors as a or psychological, can lead to a rapid method of curing mental dis- Improvement in cases of mental dis- order.
"Split minas" have been, coordin- By coincidence, both the "British ated by shock-infections of insulin Medical Journal" and "The Lancet" or of the powerful drug cardiozol. carry accounts of this dramatic new Both methods Involved risks. The process of healing minds.
One Board of Control report last year in- comes from the Burden Neurological cluded ten deaths from cardiazol Institute and the other from War-treatment. lingham Park Hospital.
The methods are similar. Electrodes are clamped to the skull. These are pads through which the electric charge is tranamilled into the brain. High tension voltage, varying] from 80 to 160 volts according to the
pre-determined needs of the patient,
LAST OF - COLUMBUS
HERE are the first pictures of the sinking of the Nazi liner Columbus, scuttled by her creto of the United States coast. They were taken from the United States cruiser Tuscaloosa.
is seen blazing fiercely just before she sank, while the British warship which had chased her stands by.
Below, the Nazt crew rowing in lifeboats to the Tuscaloosa, which took 579 survivors to
At the top, the Columbus New York,
Parents Reclaim Adopted Basques
TWO people are facing, heartbroken, the fact that they may have to lose their adopted children from Spain.
They are Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Mayers, of Bampton- drive, Ruislip Manor, Middlesex. Chlidless themselves, they have been father and mother for two years to two little Basque refugees who were believed to have been orphaned Sa the Sparth war.
Now they have received news that the real purents are alive and want
·their children back.
Great Shock
"It has come as a dreadful shock," Mr. Mayers said.
"We have grown to love the chlidren so. We have called them Peggy and Molly, and they won't believe their parents ore still alive,
They came
to England when was besieged three years ago, and went to a camp in York- shire. They wrote four times to their mother, but got no reply. "A year later they heard their parents were dead. We were told of the children's plight and legally adopted them.
May Fight It
that
"We cannot find out where the parents are and are waiting for more news. I suspect the father is a political prisoner at the moment. "We do not want, to let the children go back as they are very happy here. There may be a legal fight for their guardianship."
Peggy is eight years old and Molly
is seven.
This Story Is About
A Waitress, A Train
And
A Prince
TWO Swedish officers in a first-class sleeping car were as- tonished when a little waitress' pushed open their door and said: "Please tell me what to do.”
Breathless, she explained that there had been a crowd in the restaurant at the last station. Passengers had so little time for their coffee that) many of them left without paying. So she jumped on the train to col- lect her money-and the train moved off.
One of the officers, tall, dark, good-
. CASSEROLES
Various Sizes & Shapes. $2.50-$6.00 ea.
.PIE PLATES
$1.50-$3.25
•
CAKE DISHES.... $2.50 & $3.00
•
CUSTARD CUPS
30c.
. LOAF PANS
$4.50
. UTILITY DISHES
$3.00
. BEAN POTS
$5.00
REFRIGERATOR DISHES
$2,50
. SAUCE-PANS
$6.00
. -PERCOLATORS-5 CUPS
$12.50
VACUUM COFFEE MAKER'... $20.00
China Ware Department
10% CASH
DISCOUNT
LANE CRAWFORD'S BU
The House of Quality & Service
looking, sprang up. "I'll help you," 66
he said.
Together they walked down the entire train. The officer woke up passengers in the sleeping cars and collected coffee money who ow
from those
owed- it. Afterwards the girl thanked him. "A pleasure," he assured her.
Then somebody on the train told the waitress the name of the help- ful officer. He was Prince Gustav Adolf, thirty-six-year-old Gon Sweden's Crown Prince.
EASTER CRICKET WASHED-OUT
British Warships Are So 4
Healthy, Say Doctors
warships
Hitler Has Lead BRITISH
In The "I" Output healthy places to live in.
are incoming air. Is regulated by steam
or electric radiators.
According to an article in the SYRACUSE, NY-Adolf Hitler current issue of the British refers to impublie dddress, while Medical Journal, they are models words in is applied.
Benito Mussolini uses the pronoun "of hygiene. The shack produces a convulalon. once in 83 words, The patient becomes unconscious.
Pearl Waxman, Syracuse. Uni- Ho recovers within a few minutes,versity student reported these with no memory of the shock or of findings in a survey as a part of her the preliminarics. Where higher speeels studies. voltages are necessary the effect of
an epileptic at is produced.
President Roosevelt ranks third,
"The vast revolullon la byglenlo
practice which has taken place in civilized countries L nowhere better Bluntrated than in ships of war.""
Near the engines it is cooled. In more exposed parts of the ship It is heated. modern electrical gadgets; kitchens The cooking galleys are fitted with
are clean and tiled.
through
Drinking water
passes
purifying and Jelng apparatus.
Then there are no rats, but plenty
of showera.
of
had taken an hour and a half to score a hundred for four wickets,
After
AT the time of sending, these notes Ain there appears no chance of crie- ket to-day (Saturday morning). But I should mention that we went into committee over the point I raised in the Inst paragraph while refreshing the inner man after the game. There statement that the runner must he is nothing in the rules-not even the
dressed as the batsman for whom he runa l.e. pads gloves etc. But this is ́always done, now at any rate, and think my irst point is a I rather matter of etiquette.
It stands to reason - that it is a sound.
AMBULANCE INSPECTION. wn proposition in the case of men Modern ships are built in small
are capable of making hundreds ahe disclosed, with one "1" in every vertient compartments. Fresh air is
His Excellency the Governor will and then being wanted to send down Both groups of research-workers 100. words.” Winslən Churchill's delivered by power to every remote inspect the St. John Ambulance ten or twenty overs. A bit of have found that the method is safe, average was one 160, Premier corner. It is changed many times an at the Naval Recreation Ground, wangling would be very useful though without ill-effects afterwards." The Daladier's one in 234, and Prime hour.
Causeway Bay, on Monday, April 8, of course it would hardly ever method is almple and does not need Minister Chamberlain's one in 240.
at 5.30 pm,
happen
The ship is air-conditioned:
the
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CORNS?
Better
because it's liquid.
slop that pain instantly with
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the infallible
corn cure.
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF LADY NORTHCOTE The Hongkong Branch of the National 'Women's Relief Association presents
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHINESE VICTIMS OF THE SINO-JAPANESE HOSTILITIES
Queen For A Night"
THE FAMOUS CHINESE FILM WITH MISS CHEN YUNSANG WHO WILL PERSONALLY ATTEND THE PERFORMANCE AND SING THE "SONG OF
THE SPRING"
KING'S at the KING'S
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