POPPY DAY IN WAR TIME
for 19 years British people have given freely to Lord Haig's Poppy Day Appeal. Their generosity has built up the World's finest beneficent men who have served. their organisation for Country in War.
With the tragedy of War again forced on us. OUR NEEDS ARE CREATER.
The men now serving, and those who will be serving in the anxious days ahead, are to share with their fathers of 1914/18, the benefits of all' British Legion schemes of assistance.
POPPY DAY is of even greater importance in War time. It is unquestionably the finest medium through which you can help those who serve the Empire.
Donations will be gratefully received by The Secretary. Earl Halg's Fund, Thomion & Co.,
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TO SLEEP
By D. Compton-James
the
The
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35593 0067 $ 100 Drugs have only a limited though they may experience some initial difficulty in dropping off. Humber 12 Saloon
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increase the dose in order to body or any part of it is cut it is equally difficult to get to sleep 1036
make sure of a good night's when the body is overheated.
clinical temperature of the body sleep; hence the occasional re- falls about one degree during the ports of death from an overdose first hour or so of sleep, and returns to normal during the last hour or so. of sleeping drugs.
The best drug of all is physical One important point is often tiredness, especially if it proceeds overlooked by people who, take from congenial work in the fresh air. No one sleeps so soundly or with sleeping drugs. If you knew such refreshing effect as the farm. that it was essential for you to labourer.
It is not possible for desk or fac- get up at, say, 2 a.m. and had
tory workers to attain this ideal of set your alarm clock for that comfortable physical tiredness, but hour, you would not dream of, they can go a long way towards it by taking a stroll in the evenings taking a sleeping tablet before An hour's walk is particularly useful If the exercise is supplemented by going to bed.
deep breathing Core should be taken not to over- do physical exer- Continuing the series of
cise at week-ends. articles on how to secure theAn overtired body of a quiet night.‡ maximum benefit from your. produces the most Many people take✦ night's rest. The sixth and wretched form of siceplessness, tr these drugs when concluding article will ap there is
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Hypnotic drugs should only be used when there is absolute certainty
without taking precautions to make but is denied sure that they shall not be roused, muscles.
A forced awakening from a drugged Opinion Is sharply divided on the sleep does more harm than if the question of supper. Some people sleep best on a full stomach, others THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph subject had not gone to sleep at all. on an empty stomach; others again can sleep equally well fasting or is used by the Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate nows which is strictly copyright Ordinary sedatives of the potassium feasting. It all depends on the in- under the provisions of the Telecommuul-bromide type are net habit-forming dividual and it does not take any- and they can be used without fear of body very long to find out what suits him best. Actual scientifte Iests harmful effect. They do not induce have revealed that people who had
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.HONGKONG SPEAKS
sleep, like the hypnoties, but merely eaten fight cereal supper slept put the nervous system into a lower more soundly than another group gear, thus making it easier for who had eaten beet and pickles. highly-strung people to go to sleep,
Alcohol has both a soothing and a HONGKONG'S British man-hypnotic effect. It is well-known that a drunken man will sleep like hood spoke with one voice last the proverbial log-for a few hours, night when they asked the sleeping it off." This is unk nt all evenis-hence the phrase Government to remove the in-argument in favour of getting drunk justice of the latest evacuation of alcohol may produce sleep, but it as a means of wooing sleep. Excess decision, For the most part also produces a hangover that makes person feel as df, he had not slept they spoke thoughtfully and dis- at all. passionately; if there was irony A small nightcap of one of the and resentment underlying their more concentrated forms of alcohol is of particular value because It induces criticism of the Hongkongarty sleep, reducing the walling Government, it must also go to period which most people experience their credit that the criticism before they are able to drop off.
valuable Another
of advantage was accompanied by cons- alcohol is that it produces very sound tructive suggestions; burning and restful sleep for the first two or three hours, the period during which sincerity marked all and every most people gain maximum speech,
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Pilot Attacked At 150 Feet
V.C.s Story Makes It All Sound Easy
-Plane Was Hit
FOR a daring attack at 150 feet on an objective on the Dortmund-Ems Canal, during which his plane was
Roderick Alas repeatedly hit. Acting Flight-Lieutenant tair Brook Learoyd was awarded the V.C.
But the words in which Flight-Lleutenant Lenroyd de- scribed the exploit in his own report make it sound ordin- nry:---
Members of the squadron have also taken part in the inflacks on the Dortmund-Ema-equal, the key centre for distribution of coal from the tube to other parts of Ger- many, on the naval docks Cuxhaven and Kiel. anul in the carly: operations to stem the Ger man advance in. Holland, Belgium and France.
at
"We arrived to the target area at 23.05 hours," the report reads, "and we walled to the north end until our
They have lost only half a dozen We predetermined time of attack. dived on the target and flattened out res, and most of these are known
to bo prisoners. about three miles north
Saved His Operator "From there we gradually lost
A month or so ago one height until we were over the aque- duct. We dropped our bombs on this target at 24.33 hours, and the pilots in the squadron was awarded. navigator said that they had dropped the Empire Gallantry
ran up rescuing his wireless operator from In the right place. As wo the canal the searchlights were an aircraft which had burst into switched on and I had to fly blind flames after it had crashed while
taking off. on the navigator's instructions.
Squadron's Record
"The light anil-aircraft fire was intense and we had two hiis, one on the starboard wing top and one through the starboard lap. They put the hydraulic gear out of ac- the
ilon.
of the
Medal for
The squadron is as proud of this medal as it is of the eight D.F.C.S and five D.F.Ms which have been earned in four months In "normal course of duty."
Here are two reports, typléni of:
which make up the many squadron's records: "I dropped my "After bombing our target we set bombs and within a few minutes, course for home. The undercarriage, when we were 13,000ft. up, the which would not operate automa- whole of the aircraft was suddenly lit up. On circling round we saw tically, responded to the emergency that the whole torget was a mass of handle."
finnes."
Flight-Lieutenant Learoyd is meinber of a squadron of liampden
has carried bombers which
out hundreds of sorties since the invasion
of the Low Countries.
"We made four separate altacks on
railway. In the first attack we. hit the siding, and the blast from panel the bursting bombs blew in of the navigator's cockpit. Fortun- They were the first squadron to ately, the navigator was unharmed. undertake mine-laying off tlie Nor- As soon as I knew that nobody was wegian coast. They have penetrated wounded, we continued with our at the German defences to make the tacks and scored three more hits on seas dangerous for enemy shipping. the railway lines."
Alaska Defence
Could Be
Paralysed in Three Hours
By DAN BOWERMAN United Press Staff Correspondent.
SAN FRANCISCO, OCT. 15 (UP)-THE ENTIRE ALASKAN DEFENCE MACHINE COULD BE PARALYSED BY THREE MEN IN A FISHING BOAT WITHIN AN HOUR, DONALD MCDONALD, ALASKA HIGH COMMISSION EN- GINEER, SAID TO-DAY.
THE 700 UNITED STATES ARMY MEN CHARGED WITH DEFENDING
Coming as a welcome guiding that the somnolent effect of alcohol
It has to be admitted, however, THE-POPULATION-OF-80,000 INDIANS AND WHITES SCATTERED OVER 580,- light to those groping in the wears off during the night, and 000 SQUARE MILES, HAVE EXACTLY ONE PIECE OF ARTILLERY. darkness of speculation of people who use it regularly
It was left in Seward, where it now stands in a park, by the Russians when they Hlable to And themselves waking up causes and effect was Mr. J. F. very early in the morning, after left after Alaska's purchase in 1872. The muzzle serves as a flower pot.. Macgregor's speech whieht which they are unable to drop
McDonald, returning from Washington where he conferred with military leaders, had an Moreover, alcohol is habit-
He declares a $25,000,000 highway from forming and Increasing doses ' hre
answer to the defence of America's far north outpost, | authority. Mr. Macgregor at necessary to maintain the effect,.
in these respects it is not so danger- Hazelton, British Columbin, to Fairbanks, Alaska, would bring Fairbanks within two days of a OUS or harmful as the hypnotic steady source of supply, compared to the present seven or eight days required by ships to make drugs. Another disadvantage of the
its coat. Not the voyage from. Seattle to Seward, from where the Alaskan railroad runs to Fairbanks. nightcap method is
Π bottle of
carried with it the note of
least, was able to offer some hope for the render of the husbands grievances, and his assurance that His Excellency the Governor is making this evacuation problem his most important consideration at the present moment provided the meeting with a tonic.
The recommendations to the committee appointed last night were in the main sensible and
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everyone can afford whisky a week.
but
Summing up, alcohol is useful as and sound sleep is desired to make
an occasional nightcap when early
up for sleep previously lost.
Coffee is widely condemned as a destroyer of sleep, but actual tests have proved that one small cup of coffee assists early and sound sleep Two or more cups have the reverse effect and tend to keep the subject nwake. Ten also tends to produce
on
The grizzled Alaska veteran sketched an hypothetical attack Seward, only all-weather entrance to the territory.
On a dark, rainy night the town of 4,000 would be awakened
DOBBIE'S
by explosions of oil tanks-Alaska's entire gas and oil reserve- RESOLUTE
some 500 fect from Seward's only wharf. The dock would be blown up next. As the population gave, chase to the invading : 'boat, it would find channel markera had been destroyed and the whole harbour mined.
COURAGE Prime Minister's Tribute
re-
“REMARKABLE and within two days of a' steady source solute" were. Mr. Churchill's days by boat-if the boats through."
words about Major-General W.
got
G. S. Dobble, Acting-Governor in
A few fishing boats, removing to Fairbanks, through the Yukon markers, would make the entire Territory.
The cost of such n road, $25,000,- LINE essential, although it is possible wakefulness. Yerba mate, the Argen-Alaskan coastline so dangerous
less than a minor that some will become dated tine tea which is becoming popular that no vessels, even naval craft, 000, would be when Government issues ita in England now that ordinary tea is would dare enter the inlets and naval craft. It would put Fairbanks
neither
keeps rationed, is neutral: next promised statement on the you awake nor sends you to sleep. passages until the route had of supply, compared to seven or eight
been resurveyed. For this reason it is a very useful situation. The meeting prob- drink for people who have to work
Malta and O.C. Troops. * Even if the Navy did get ably accomplished as much last late. It keeps them going without
Bill Introduced
But for the illness of the the
subsequent penalty of wakeful-word of the attack on Alaska, night as can any future proness after the use of ten or coffer.
Anthony Dimond, Alasken Dele-Governor, General Sir Charles. posals to the authorities by the Cocoa and milk drinks are slightly McDonald continued, there is
not much they can do. Alaska gate to Congress, has introduced a Bonham-Carter, General Dobbie appointed committee. Govern- soporife in effect.
a highway, with the would have been G.O.C. in would have to be supplied with B for such ment is now left in no two.minds
Tobacco is also a mild soporific. essentials.by air. A fleet of 100 United States standing construction Malaya, which includes Singa He left that well-fortified about the feeling of the Colony. producing a bromide rather than a
hypnotic effect. People who are not big planes daily would be re-cost and Canada footing the main
tenance when it is completed, Me-pore.
station to fill the gap at Malta- There is an urgent desire to be accustomed to tobacco will find that quired to supply Alaska with Donald said,
Already such a programme basin April,
It is due to him, in a large med- loyal in these times when loyalty a cigarette last thing at night will food alone,
the endorsement of a Congressional in service means so much to the soothe their nerves and help them to
"How would they blast the invader committee, and territorial governors sure, that Malta's courage is high get to sleep. Smokers do not, as a cause of the British Empire and rule, suffer from aleeplessness, al-off the shores without transporting for many years back: Canada, too, and her defenders almost Itching for of the principles for which that Empire is fighting; there is a will to "play the game" and. an obvious intention to avoid any thing which can be construed as revolutionary or anarchy; but there is also the firm demand for fair treatment from those whose task it is to see the just adminis- tration remains, a bulwark of British policy.
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Hongkong's husbands are not asking for much; they ask that the Government tak them
little more into their confidence over matters which sa vitally concern the individual welfare; they ask for reasonable nasur ances respecting the future of their wives and families: they ask that where possible and when possible restoration of these families to their homes in Hongkong be made.
Artillery?" he asked.
is receptive to such a proposal, he the Italians to make an attempt to
land on the Island. sold:
MISSING OFFICER NOW PRISONER Major William Fawdington Dundas,
Religious Convictions Alaska Covered
General Dobbie, who is di; is an McDonald said Japan, Russia and
all-round soldier especially well grounded in military engineering and Germany are eyeing Alaska, The
gunnery sclence. He was responsible. Soviets are building a railroad to
for carrying out the Important de- Germans maintain
"Alaska is
fence developments at table" East Cape, within 67 miles of
Bentin In Juno M, Chu Singapore
****You are, they would put a Intion there in a short time, he added. of the Black Watch, previously listed
·"Right now the Navy has three inissing, is now offcially, reported; message to him, saylaketain has
well fitted to rouse and Son of the late Rev. W. and Mrs. Duni~! small bases in that whole area, ad- to be a prisoner of war.
raittedly to serve as the base for a flank attack on Japan in case of das, of Bo'ness, he married in 1985 spirit of all in enduring severe and Millicent Francès Nicol deneral Dobble in Plymouth Mies trouble,
daughter of the late Mr. D. N. Nicol
If Government treats these requests in the manner befitting
The only answer I see, and the Scots Guards, of Artmarnock, Argyll, Brother, and on Sunday evenings at them, Hongkong's men will not one I have tried to tell the Governs and of Mrs. Maclachlan, of Maolach-hia house in Singapore he held a be found, wanting in loyal serment, is completion of the 1,500-mile ton, Castle Lachlan Argyll, They Bible class for officers and men of vice to the Empire's great cause.road from the railhead at Hazelton have a baby daughter, person, the garrison.??-