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September
1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
OH, THIS IS MY FAVORITE
KIND OF CAKE?
RADIO
ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metros (9,520 kilo-cycles)
Talk on "Great Authors" By Father Ryan, S.J.
Radio
Programme
Broadcast by
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V 52 and 8-11 pm. meerd
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SIDELIGHTS on middle EAST FIGHTING
SCORPIONS ARE WORSE
GERMAN DEMANDS Want Half The Food]
RAID FEAR THAN ITALY In Free France
CAIRO.
THE Egyptians are getting worried about Mussolini's air force--not so much on account of the damage done in sporadic Italian raids but because of a plague of 12.30 Ly Ganty and Jean Sablon scorpions which seem to be most plentiful in the A.R.P. shelters.
12 15 pan Short Service of Inter- colon.
In Licht French Progranine,
1.00
Local Time Signal and Wra-
ther Report.
1.03 Tchaikowsky ---Azrors's Wed ding-Ballet Masto.
London Philharmonie Orelicstra. 1.30 Reuter and Rugby
Trest
An average of fifty people a day are now being stung by scorpions, but the mimber goes up to 100 on days when the people have to take cover from raids. scorpion sting is painful and dangerous; it often kills a child.
As the natives believe that, *****TTTT
Weather Foreenst jund Announer the way to cure a sting is to kill
Millary Band Music.
ments
1.44
2.13
Clone Down
6.00 Violin and Piano Recital try Yehudi Menghin and Eileen JoJEN
6.30 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.
6.32 Puccini's "La Town“ Act 11. 7.43 Offenbach-Calle Parisienne -Hallet Maale.
all scorpions within range there are crazy scenes in the shelters while the Insects are hunted down.
Network From Cairo
Thousands of bags of mail began to reach the troops in the desert and the men at sea in the Misirle East Lu-day 1 is the Best real Kign that the huge new chum of British co- mattikot going into operaltan
I horned to-day how the network spreeds nu! from Cano over half the curit's muilace One route leads east) 8.035 Studio-Concert by The into Asia along the road Marco Polo
London Philharmonie Orchestra, 7.30 London Relay-The News. 11 00 Lal Time Signal. Weather Report und Announcements.
Paradise Islanders,
8.30 Studio"Great Author" No
3: Goldsmith,
Tnik by Father Ryan, SJ. 8.50 Hongs by Elsie Saddaby prano).
9.00 London Relay-The News.
London 0.30 Moment."
Belay..."M£m$lern
through
across
Jerusalem
desert
Lo
followed Dampers, tracks les Bagdad, then south to Daarn aking the Tigris River.
The British Built Bakra's fine har-
(50-bour and railroad to Bagdad to feed the Merospotamian Army and Law. in 1hp last war rence's Irregulars
or
9.45 Half an hour of Dance Maxia. 10.15 A Variety Programme with Clapham and Dwyer, Florence Des- mond and Others.
11.00
Close Down.
WATER SUPPLIES August Figures Show Gain Over Last Year
Now the route is being opened again! mad it is supported by new Dutch India, and British airline flights to Australia and the Far East.
Trade has started northward again
HITLER'S FOLLIES
re-open
The Folies-Bergere is to soon in Paris, but under the latest regulations
it must have German "muster of ceremonies.”
Entertainment for Pari- sians is being provided at present by German band concerts.
Paramount's Epic Of Naval Heroism
A
BLOOD FROM WATER
The
New York, Sept. 10. Germany has made a formal de- mand to Vichy for 58 per cent of occupied France and for any such the food and raw materials in un-
import the future. This informa- products that France may be able to tion comes from reliable diplomatic reports, says the Washington Curre
pondent of the New York Times. tion will add fresh abstacles to the
It is expected that the informa-
plans of the Vichy Ambassador for oblaining American
the food for French people.--Router.
Demands In Syria
London, Sept. 10. An extremely delicate and lense
to Syria situation
Is indicated by Reuter's Cairo correspondent, who, trustworthy Informant quoting a who has just arrived from Syrin, says that the Hatten Armistice Commis- the alon is apparently "asking for earth. Its demands Include im- ་་།
basca and
-And Plasma mediate nesumption
total demobilisation and repatriation Loeni of the French colonial army
and Arubs alike are not, their
feelings. resentful
A while powder which, when Syrtons mixed with boiling water, be hiding comes blood suitable for trans- Reuter. fusion cases, was described by Mr. MacDonald, Minister for Health,
T
H.K. Stock Market
BANKS
ILK. Banks $1,305 b. H.K. Banks (Lon.) £ 1K Banks (H.K.) £ Chartered £.
BU n.
.72.
This inedical discovery-known to the profession for some time- preserves indefinitely blood from donors which otherwise begins tol
The following quotations were deteriorate as soon us it is withdrown; and in sciess after three weeks issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar- GLOWING page torn'
atorage; constant calling on blond set this morning. from the Navy's log doners is also obviated. book is "Ring of Steel" a Cairs papers publish columns of ad- new production presented by Paramount. Containing vertisements for him preparing to
under convey in the Balkans, the authentic picture-story Turkey and the Black Sra.
when of the little publicised service covered that the white plasma The southward sea Mussolini hoped to break with his which by Its skill and daring just as good for treating average! of shock, where too much submarines has now been declared protects the life-lines of Britain.stood has not been lost, as what Earshotenved that Suez at the Bed King of Steel" constitutes an would call the full-blooded article.
upen
ruute
The Egyptian Government has
Five Days' Travel
How It Is Produced "If the red corpuscles are 1aken. white: out of blood, there is left n
Mr. MacDonald
"The medical people!
paiescent liquid called plasma,” nald
COBER
have dis-;
to
This plasmu stored in bottles was Sen poris will be developed into enduring tribute to hundreds of
not canily transportable. You major depots to clear the vital cot-Britain's nameless heroes.
"Hats off to the Navy" is the could not carry 11 about in your tum erup and to receive supplies now
So they reduced beginning to arrive in bulk fron key-note of the production, a note waistcoat pocket,
to the action. It to a white powder. Engine and America,
wurthy addition
"If you get a little of that artedj reporting style of screen jouruliam sponsored by G. Thomas Cummins, plasma and you pour water upon t Water returns for the end of AuguŊ1
On my way to the Abysstama front
editor and general manager of Bri-it at once takes on all the virtues
of the original liquid, and you can] and reite south tu
tish Paramount News. have been issued, showing that an 1 follow the
[1 in ve days study
The Bim was conceived by Cum- use it for the average blood trans the mainland reservoirs there were Khartoum.
Yel 3,603.29 millions gallons against 3,- travel by train and river boat.
nins as a means of bringing home Fusion cases."
The Next Best Thing 598.42 at the corresponding time last Khartoum is only a quarter of the to the British public the irreparable
fabulous route thuit debt we owe to the men of the Mer- A Medical Correspondent describes Agures year. Corresponding
for way down the
and of the Royal plasina as the next best thing island reservoirs were 2353.37 and takes you out of Cairo's midzumuner cantile Marine
whole blood for transfusion. 2.355.99 million gallons.
Into Capetown's winter
"Plasma is the liquid remaining Mussolim has struck hard at every! In dramatic fashion "Ring of Steel" Shek Li Puf, Shing Mun Reception, Tytan, Wong Ne Chung and Pok-keypoint on these routes he could shows the Intrepid volunteers who after blood has clotted and the clots vice-like pincera of containing the red blood cells have fulam reservoirs were slightly below get at.
tightening about the vital been removed. He raided Multa again and loal steel level.
"Neither liquid can be preserved Sume 425.49 million gallons were plane doing it--this is in addition to arteries of Germany's supply bases, consumed by 770,000 people at a rate twenty other tallan planes which and whose ships stand scaunel on for more than a few days before de- of 18 gallons per head per day on is now revented were destroyed in the extreme Northern limit of navi-composing; even then it is very dir- feult to keep it free from germs, and the mainland last month, as against action with the British Navy
at Half with Savoia He struck
"Hing of Steel" is a picture of dar- the large bulk is inconvenient for by 600,000 gallons 306.34 million people at a rate of 21.3 in August, bombers for the first time hoping to ing and unbounded heroism, a ple- rapid transport in war.
Water Boat Dock damage tankers gathering vil from ture every Britisher will be proud to 1039. Laichikok
there. Fifty bombs took 6.70 million gallons as against the pipe-line
except twa everything 7.97 in August last year. Indepen- missed dent supplies consumed by villagers civilians. totalled 13.11
к
to
million gallons As The British answer has been against 12.31 in August last year. blow up two naval oil tanks at On the island, 585.93 million gal- Tobruk and artillery stores at Bardia long (plus 193.03 from the massland nearby on the coast, plus a tank rald and
7.73
unfiltered water) were con- on Italian lines between Bardin and much-battered Fort Capuzzo. sumed by 630,000 people at a rate of the
26.7
une
233 gallons per licad per day; this We are air ralding through Eritrea compares with 378.32 million gallons again. (141.05 from the mainland) consum- "la all these scattered actions no of line supplies to Cairo have been -cd by 700,000 people at a rate
affected. Unlike all Europe we have "There was a constant supply this no rationing here apart from parafin August, though in August last year and a slight restriction on petrol. supplies were restricted.
Government The report or Bacteriologist and Analyst show that the quality of the water is excellent. The total rainfall recorded by the Royal Observatory for the year up to August 31, was 109.105 inches," compared with 76.893 in the corres ponding period last year. The maxi- mum recorded was 30.42 inches' ot Tal Lam Chung, and the minimum was 20.41 inches at Un Long.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS DONATIONS TO THE WAR FUND FOR BOMBERS
A total of $1,518,183.03 was reached yes
terday by the B. C. M. Post War Fund,
Latest donations are:
Mr. & Mrs. Budden and Katnily in
mensory of F. P. Craft) (
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Britain's Morale "Magnificent"
Tribute From U.S.
Glowing impressions of Britain's morale were given by Mr. Edmund Tayler, a prominent United States war correspondent, in à nation-wide broadcast.
were
Mr. Taylor, who has just returned to America in the liner Washington, said he thought the British "entching up fast," but were stili. "a little slow-moving."
"I cannot help worrying a little over the possibility of Hitler Invading
are embodied. which they are Navy in
maintain
gation.
sec.
Twice Disobeyed Aliens' Curfew
"The plasma can be dried in the same way is milk in conditions of ubsolute sterility.
"By quickly, adding boiling water the transfusion fluid can be prepared for Immediate use. Another very Important advantage is that plasma. may be given at once.
"There is no need to test the
Jailed This Time A few hours after fifty-four-year- patient to discover his blood group
Christiansen, Er
u Danish because the red cells have been re- engineer, of Cannon Hill-road, Bai- moved."
all Heath, Birmingham, was foed
e
have Supplies From U.S
£10 at Birmingham for breaking The United States has arranged to the crew for aliens, he telephoned send huge quantiles of dried plasma the police from the factory where over here practically all that is he worked at 10.50 p.m., saying hej
needed, bud been called to the works because
An official of the British Red Cross Service sald: Blood Transfusion
a machine, had broken down,
When policemen arrived they "America could not send us large] found Christiansen drinking in his quantities of blood-it would be in ofce with 1 taxi driver.
No a uscless state when it
arrived but machine had broken down.
"It enables us to conserve our So, when charged at Birmingham they can send plasma.
with disobeying the regulations, he whole blood for the eases in which it was jailed for three months,
is essential."
Milk Scheme Extended To Children Of Five
It has been decided by the Minister of Food to extend the
England at tea-time or at a week-National Milk Scheme to all schoolchildren under five years of end," he said. "On the other hand, age.
the morale of the British people
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EVACUEES IN NEW YORK.
for anyone school. This produced in some cases the anomalous result that a child attending school was placed at a disadvantage compared who belloves in democracy.
They seem to have developed with a child of the same age not doing so.. under the stress of war a kind of The new arrangement; which removes this anomaly, will heroic philosophy of democracy which
mean that cheap, or free, milk is available for all children up to her of English children arrived early the age of compulsory school attendance;
her all the noble qualities of Fascism and none of the bad ones."
New York, Sept. 10.
A Brlish iner containing aɛnum-
this morning-Router.
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