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A Puzzle for Doctors
Evacuees
Hardier
Were Country Children
Than Country
UNCA DONALD!
"Dierbored by Kine Peanupra
A DISCOVERY made by a schools inspector in a Devonshire village promises
to open up a new field of medical research.
The inspector found that while 60 per cent, of the local children in Yarcombe, on the Devon and Somerset border, were suffering from colds and influenza, all the evacuee children from the
One Plain,
One Purl,
No Twinge
towns were fit.
One theory is that town chil- dren have become self-inoculated against the illnesses and disease. which lack of fresh air and sun-, shine, poverty and poor food bring.
Their bodies are tuned up by long practice in resisting germs and epi- FROM many dentists' wait-Pdemies in their normal home sur- ing-room in England there arises
a ceaseless clicking.
It is not due to me 'chattering of) teeth soon to be extracted or stopped, but to the patriotic effort of the den- ial profession.
Dentists have installed in their
waiting rooms, at the suggestion of a
dental magazine, balls of blue wool, needles and the following notice:
WILL ANY PATIENT able and willing kindly add a few Toas (1 plain, 1 purt) to this scarf to be sent, we hope with others, to our Naval boys. Soothing
roundings.
Tonic Value Of Fresh Air Another theory is that the tonic value of the fresh air and sumulant! of country life has increased town children's disease resistance.
This, if proved, would be a strong
argument in favour of the extension
of holiday camps for children.
The ages
of the 22 evacuees who
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The
Five
Luckiest Of The
Girl
of Aran'
LOOK AT 'ER GO!'
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REMEMBER Aran, the rugged. island in the Atlantic, whose Tim story, made by fishermen actors, gave us that great film "Man of Aran' Barbara Mullen was the daughter, of the hero of that Gim. Now at 10 she is in London playing the lead in Jennie at the Torch Theatre, and halled everywhere as a star of the future.
Men
R. A. F.
FIFE.
THE pilot of an R.A.F. bomber taxi-ing at 80 miles an hour across a Fife field for the take-off, realised that the machine would not rise in time to clear a wood right
were attending school usual ahead. ranged from five to ten.
Apart from their sturdy London
to
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Every second brought death nearer to the five men; upbringing, the inspector attribute aboard, for the plane was carrying live bombs. The pilot their immunity partly "antural resilience" and partly yelled to his companions to jump for their lives, and, Patients soon begin to knit.
new homes and their delight in rapidly unstrapping, he followed them.......... "Knitting-especially so simple a "discovering" the countryside and atlich-has o soothing quality very wonders of the form for the first valuable to the patient as well as to time.
the lively interest they take in their
at
the dentist," an expert said recently. | Expreting to find trouble
It is not only women who init; Isolated village housing 24 evacuees quita a third of the men patients ply in the Honiton oren, the same inspec- the needles as industriously ng any for was surprised to discover that tricoteuse of the Revolution.
they were fit. Though they walked Only rarely, under stress of a par- distances up to three miles in diculary painful twinge, does anyone wretched weather the school atten drop o sütchi
dance was 100 per cent.
All fell clear of the racing machine unhurt except for minor cuts and bruises.
A few seconds later the bomber struck an electric transformer carrying 3,000 volts and then crashed into the wood on the oppo- site side of the road.
Wreckage In Trees There was a terrific explosion and the plane was blown to picces, the
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debris being scattered over a radius of a quarter of a mile. The eng.nes fell 200 yards apart and pieces of wreckage in a nearby plantation.
Parts of the fuselage were caught in the branches of trees, Windows of three houses alongside the planta- tion were blown out, the ceilings of rooms fall in and crockery
Wis! smashed.
None of the residents was hurt. They
They ran from their homes in time to sce the almen gelling to their feet. The transformer was demolished and large number of telephone wires severed. The plone also brought down flr and larch trees.
The explosion was heard over a wide area of Fife and Ave miles away, windows were shaken.
Shanghai Assassins
Shanghai, Apr. 10.
at
Two gunmen shot and killed Liu Fol-chai, 40, workshop chief of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board. 12.10 p.m. to-day on Chengtu Road. Four shots were fred at Llu, who was struck by three bullets and died instantly.
The gunmen escaped by running into an alleyway. One threw away 1 pistol which was recovered by the Police.
The Japanese recently reorganised the Conservancy Board in which Llu was an employee for a long time.- United Press.
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April 11,
1940.
By Walt Disney
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MRS. BENJAMIN HEBALD, an elderly Brooklyn matron, was to-night_recovering from a nervous shock which came upon her like an Edgar Wallace thrill
LETTERS
Ambulance Inspection
To The Editor,
The "Hongkong Tolegraph,"
Sir-1 am not a little perturbed to learn from Newspaper reports of the St. John Ambulance Inspection that only 800 members paraded before the G.O.C.; Major General Graselt on Monday last, and that this number
She was reading Wallace's "Thoj PARKER WATKINS, jobless negro exceeded that of the previous year Hairy Arm," when, happening to troubadour who singed one-man by 50. glance up to a window, she saw a impromptu concerts in New York's If my iden of number is correct, man's face pressed close to the glass. Pennsylvania Station at Christmas 800 must have attended last year's
function, Ilis right arm was thrust against the time, has fasted the edge of fame. The reports state further that 700 upper sash,
ite thought he had concert and recruits were enrolled during the She screamed, but the man didn't radio contracts within his grasp, but year, budge. Ho didn't even blink,
nothing happened, and to-day ho Is By the process of simple addition trying to rnoise ten pounds to avold]ant allowing for ordinary casualties Then she rushed for the telephone. eviction from his humble Harlem the number attendiniz Monday's function should Have approximated to between 1,400 and 1,500.
become of the others and how this Jeakage is acrounted for.
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With a few minutes radio apartment. police cars came up, sirens scream- He
took things philosophically, ing. Detectives found that the however, saying "Everybody thinks i am led to enquire what has man was a prowler who had been I've got millions. shot by a policeman-who thought he had missed his man.
The prowler, identified as a young
Ex-convict, had managed. 10 climb two storeys by a fre escape, and run across the roofs of two
"They stop me in the street and; want to shake hands. Boy, wo Is mighty happy for you, they say and mean it.
"Merchants offer mo sults, auto-
houses before collapsing, dying from mobiles and radios. One man came Mr. Mackenzie King announced Mrs. up here and wanted to be my valet. the establishment of a Department of Man, I haven't got ten cents.” Munitions and Supply.--Renter.
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