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THE pred "special to the Telegraph" la used by the longkong Telegraph to lodirate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommunl. cations Ordinance. 1936. Such new as bears the indication "UP" is received In Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
Patriotically Slim
A CARTOONIST in a Canadian paper shows a lady of ample or super-putsize proportions before the mirror, anxiously asking her maid, "Do you think I'll over come in style again?" Tactfully the maid does not answer; for,' indeed, now that war has come, with its rationing the outsize figure seems doomed to fall still more out of favour.
It will not be a penal offence to be stout, for many of the stout ones have placed it on record..
(sary White
STALIN :-"Never mind, my sons. You have died to bring the blessings of Peace to the obstinate Finns.”
(The Russian casualty lista' were issued by ML Molotoff last week).
One
has
man
gone
in to
ten A Look Through
war
from this island
"Sure by Tummel and Loch Rannoch
and Lochaber I will go,
By heather tracks wi' heaven in their
wiles;
it's thinkin' in your inner heart, braggart's in my step, You've never smelt the tangle o' the
Isles."
TORNOWAY,
Isle of
Lewis... The steamer that carried me up through the turbulent waters of the Minch into this northerly port of the
Hebrides Scottish crowded with big-boned Gaelic-speaking men from
was
that their Goering-like propor- the Royal Navy. tions are a perpetual mystery to them in that they eat less than leave. people only half their Bize. Experts may say there is a glandular explanation.
They were all homing to Lewis on
As the steamer slipped past the promontory called The Beasts of
the Houm and
stark contours of
Every time a British
fighting ship meets with disaster there are mourn- ers in Lewis.....
And there are only 770 square miles of Lewis,' which lies in the Outer Hebrides.
No other part of the. Empire has had a larger proportion of casualties in the fighting at sea-than--- this "Island of Sorrows.”
-By-
In any Lewis loomed through the moonlight JOHN HERRIES
the saliors began to crowd the fore- deck,
This blunt arrowhead a big school for the Royal Navy.
caso, it has been recognised for a long time that the reasonably lean man or woman generally has Hebrides is like the best of it, at a longevity table or any other.
The leading British medical weekly comments that though
rating.
AND
of tho training
brother within a month. Mrs. Graham lost husband and
McCULLOCH
LEWI
HARRIS
STORNOWAY
. This blunt arrow- "Lewis head of the Hebrides is like a big
training school for the Navy."
The Telegraph'
50 YEARS AGO
April 4, 1890. The following reliable information re- garding the waist measurements of some of the leading London actresses wid interest our numerous lady readers: Ellen Terry, 28 inches; Mary Anderson, 26 inches: Mrs, Bernard Deole, 17 inches (no slays); Dorothy Deno 25 inches; Miss. Rorke, 23 inches; Kate Vaughan, 31. Chiches (the smallest).
-
London contains at the present time- close upon one hundred thousand pau-. pers, exclusive of vagrants and tunatics.
-
The visit of the Royal party to Canton was not marked by anything special. The usual tons were visited and receptions. heid. They returned yesterday morning but did not land, embarking directly on the launch Victoria and steaming over to the Ancoris, which had dressed ship- for the occasion, Thero they said good. bye to H. E, the Administrator and the few others who were in attendance and at. 12.15 the Arcona left her buoy for the north. No salutes were fired it being. Good Friday but the yards of the war ships were manned and the ensign dipped.
25 YEARS AGO
April 4, 1015. His Majesty the King has directed that from to-morrow, no wines, spirits ur beer shall be consumed in any of lia Majesty's houses.
Yesterday, a Taube was brought down. near Boisson, making 'the third one in. 24 hours. The Ailles' aircraft dropped 127, abella on Vigneulles Station,
Reuter's Havana correspondent states Six weeks ago John Macdonald, that a white pugilist, named Jesse WI!-- staggering driver of the Sheshader bus, was weight championship of the world in the-
lord, beat Jack Johnson, for the heavy- was working in a naval dockyard far, 20th round.
whole world
EWIS men have been used
Our sport-loving renders will hear with. profound regret of the death of Mr. A. T.
ΠΙΘΑΝΗ
*
·
No other part of the Empire has sent such a large proportion of its struck Lewis such n young men into fighting ships; cer- blow that the tainly no other part of the Empire moved by it.
from Lewis. Had been there since On the last night of 1018, the naval the outbreak of war. Suddenly, and has produced a finer type of nuval
vessel Iolaire was carrying mere mysteriously he was ordered back. Britons shall have to eat less of
ND no other part of the than 200 Lewis naval ratings back Hic puzzled about it all the way to
Stoddart, the Middlesex crickster, to the rationed foods, that will be
Empire, it has to be added, to their villages and their nets.
Stornoway.
whom the term world-renowned I cer Their relatives and friends walted "Lewis This blunt arrowhead of tainly not inapplicable. Next to "Dr. W. no dietetic tragedy. Meat has has suttered so severely from mince
and torpedoes.
for them on the pier at Stornoway. the Hebrides is like a big training he was probably the most popular of
British cricketers-and he could lay claim. not yet come within the restric- Already many of the homes of its It was good to have the boys home school for the Navy."
to having made the biggest score, oa CO., LTD. tions, but those who keep a sharp telegrams from the Admirnity which
remoto fishing villages huve received at last and the terrible war over.
The
explanation was simple, The record. This was on August 4, 1830, when, Ceud Mille Failte! "A hundred people of Sheshader had signed a playing for Hampstead against the Stolica thousand welcomes!" eyo on national health think that ¦ bring down the blinds of sorrow,
petition to bring him back to his buy, he made 405 runs. the somer it does so the better. Every time one of our fighting Somebody on the bridge of the it had been standing idle all the Ume
10 YEARS AGO ships meets with disaster the crowded folaire made an error of he was away. The community were Particularly for those who are messages are dashed to Lewis. judgment. The ship. struck the completely isolated. Their key man
April 4, 1930.. Into or beyond middle age, and
When the Hawaipindi was sunk rocky shoulder of The Beasts of was with the Navy. Nobody else Hongkong and Shanghat Hotels Ltd, this Presiding at the annual msoung of the she carried twelve Lewis men. Eight Holm and slipped back into the deep could drive his bus.
morning. Mr. J. Scott Harsion stated that. who lead sedentary lives, a little of them were lost and the other four svo hundred men were drowned, petitions follow the Navy lo far perts, during the coming summer and the estab The long scrolls of these Lewis there was under consideration an aug
mented bus service to Repulse Bay beach. meat should be made to go a
are now prisoners of war in Germany.
When the Exmouth went down six Some of the victims of the mid- Macolm Mericnnan, who pilots the Ushment of pavillon, offering dressing long way.
Lewis men and one man from night tragedy were cast up almost Arnol bus, was called up and sent room and refreshment facilities at rates. Harris lost their lives.
at their own doors. It was as if the to Capetown, South Africa, when within the scope of those of moderate. It is noteworthy that those One of the Lewis men was John sea had struck at these brave island- war broke out. It was no use. A animal sidelines which, almost Morrison of Melbost. His sister had era in their hour of jubilation to petition found him. Back to Lewis
le came. married Malcolm Graham, who was humble them for ever.
The flower sollers who were recently contemptuously, are described as lost in the James Ladford.
Young
anw him leaving Stornoway moved to On Lan Street from the foot
of Wyndham Street, where they hadi offals, receive much more praise
from corliest childhood to yesterday with a load of crofters. piled their business for 50 years, are again from the dieticians than ment
handling boats in dangerous waters, a man of importance again, and
He had shed his uniform, but he is to shift their pitch. So It goes a lengthening list of It was this hereditary background Arnol is no longer cut off from the very bad, and we learn that a new ite Business at On Lan Street has booth itself. Offals, moreover, are not Lewis losses as the struggle on the which enabled young
Malcolm outside.
has been decided on, as a further experts - to be rationed: As for sugar, When the Lochavon was torpedoed Court, to bring his boatload of Morrison, hero of the Arlington
ment this being at the Junction TORNOWAY depends to a D'Agullar and Wellington Street. most English people can keep the carried a deck crew of sixteen, exhausted shipmates bacle to Lewin
them
great
for local were men of Lewis and after steering by the wind through gossip and war news on their consumption of it down three of the remaining six were six wintry days and nights..
from Ulst.
The changing silhouette ha cast drivers. without the slightest detriment Gaelle-speaking lads
Malcolm Morrison deserved the When the Admiralty send a tele Presto! Every one of the now gowns now.
magic shadow on intimate #pparel to health. Those who need more
congratulations the Admiralty gave gram to Portnuguran or any other has its counterpart in lingerie. There are The Courageous and the Royal him, for his exploit epitomised the fishing village on the coast of Lewis, princess slips and nitted panties. Empire will be able to get it in the con- Oak and the gallant little chips that toughness and courage of the breed the news it brings is carried back and allps with Rounces in dainty lace.
combination and circular, sets, #tep-ing fectionery shops as usual.
were mauled by the cornered Grat to which he belongs. Spee have all added to the proud I said that some of the men who
to Stornoway by the bus driver,
Moreover, the dressmaker Enush RiVOE Six thousand men of Lewis served its delicacy to much of the new lingerie. The comparatively small allow.
grlet of Lewis,
left Lewis to join the Navy at the in the Great War. But only about, Tucks, fine handwork, lace and embroid- ery all decornto it. Low-waisted. ips No wonder the folk of this outbreak of this war have been sent 4,500 are serving in this one. ance of butter is widely re-
No
are out, princess lines and wrap-arounds. barren island follow the home.
And this is why,
are in. Silpa do not belt the waist-Ilas gretted. According to report, progress of Germany murderous Noto man the fleet of small motor young Lewis men emigrated because very chle women now has lingerie set To man constal defence "guna? At the end of the Great War 3,000 but at it so that the gown that goes over them has the advantage of aveliness. The Germans are
at the present en warfare with troubled eyes.
Eighteen hundred of their in- buses which cruise the narrow and there were no prospects for them at for each ensemble and dress. moment getting slightly more wart young fishermen and crofters tortuous roads of the island.
home. butter than the Briton, But went into the Navy when war broke There are scores of these sailor- They were allowed to go to for
5 YEARS AGO out such a paralysing exodus that driven vehicles plying the rocky places and the country lost the thon Germans get no milk, some of them had to be brought back, back-roads of Lewis. They are of vigour of their blood and the steady
Atr. Edgar Rice Burroughs, author or except on a doctor's certificate. wherever the ships keep watch, island. They link Its scattered fish-
In every part of the seven acos, vital importance to the life of the warmth of their patriotism.
the famous Taran stories, married Mrs. Florenen Deschall who was the wife of The abundance of the British these men of Lewis will be found. Ing Hamlets with Stornoway, carrying I must never happen again. milk supply is ample compensa- forty Lewis men nboard.
Ono ormed merchant cruiser' his Passengers, goods and news. 'They
Never again "muni
divorced We recently, Mr. Burrought was divorced by are na vital to Lewis as the Dover break faith with this Island of Bor-his wife roms time ago on grounds of At the end of the last war the sea Patrol is to England.
extremo cruelty.
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