Japanese Deficiency In Science
Govt Stimulation Not Likely To Succeed SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH
TOKYO, May 28 (Domei).—The Government programme for
celerating progress in the scientifle and technical branches' as an essen- that in the construction of national defence, was hailed by newspaper
Including the "Kokunin" and the "Yomiuri" this morning.
there
und
"Better late than never," papers declare. Sclentine technical fucilities in
Japan fre
below world levels, these papers point out, blaming Japanese poli- lelane ignorance of and indifference to selentine matters for the situation. Warning scientists and teclinicians against their excessive academle attitude, these popers urge the students of science and teclinical skill 215 turn their ablilties, to State Ригровек,
Total Scientific Spirit The "Kokumin Shimbun" says that the Japanese spirit has never been "unseientific" as many believe. This spirit must be made "more scientife" because a total war cannot be waged without the nation being armed with a scientific spirit.
While endorsing the proposed "new
structure of scientific skill," the "Yomiuri Shimbun” ia sceptical whether the proposed facilities for researches in. science and technical sk will be realised. So many new Government offices have been created since the outbreak of the Chinn campaign and yet these have failed to achieve their original aims, the paper warns,
TRAIN FIRE TRAGEDY RECALLED
LONDON, May 28 (Reuter)-A
verdict of accidental death was re- urned at the inquest to-day on the victims of a fire on a train in which hoys from Ampleforth College. Catholic school, including two sons of the Belgian Prime Minister, M. Hubert Pierlot, lost their Ilves.
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The Coroner said that he had come to the conclusion that the fire started through lighted matches and cigarette ends being thrown about in fun and mischief by the boys, but he did not ntlich blame to any of them.
A Zoological Monstrosity
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
BIG SHIP-Crow stands at attention on the quarterdeck of the now U. S. battleship, North Carolina, as the sea fighter goes into commission at Brooklyn, N. Y., Navy Yard, Three of her nino 16-inch guns ara seon.
She carries 100 officers and 1,600 mon and is the mightiest war vessel afloat.
PARLIAMENT
May 29, 1941.
Cheque For Bombers
Sent To London.
Owing to upwards of $135,000 being received in donations yester- day, for, the Bomber Fund, and the toll reaching over $2,118,800, it was possible to send a very large instal- ment to the Pritish Government to- wards the purchase of aeroplanes.
The South China Morning Post, Ltd, remitted yesterday the sum of
Ibrary, Bútprents,
€14,000, the equivalent of HK NEW STOCKS OF
$224,467.64.
British Control VAN HEUSEN
Law Test
A Yale clinical professor of medicine, Silber Tileston, Med suit recently in Now Haven challenging the constitutionality of Connecticut's birth control ban.
He asked a declaratory judgment so he could prescribe for three women pullents without fear prosecution,
of
It was a matter of "life or death," he said, that these women be in- structed in birth control practices.
Early last year, the court re- versed a lower court decision vold- ing the law. Ак a result, the Connecticut Birth Control League closed nine clinies and at the current sesalon of the gislature supported n bli repealing the 70-year-old net
SHOULD Captives Work
HAVE YOUNGER BLOOD
For Nazis
Supply From France
A resolution carried at a meeting of the Central Council of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations recently on the motion of Major Sir Der- rick Gunston, M.P., emphasised the urgent need for enlisting in the public service younger people of proved capacity, and stated that "the possession of wealth or the 140 Russians interned in backing of vested interests should never be tacitly accepted as a principal qualifica- tion for a local or Parliamentary candidature."
Sir Derrick said: "The prophet Joel spoke about young men seeing visions and old men dreaming dreams. The dictatorship ly seen visions through evil, of conquest and the brutal use of- countries are led by comparatively young men who have certain- seemingly irresistible force.
on
"They provide a contrast to The Labour bugbear is the vested the democracies, who the interests of the trade unions," he whole were led by old men who said. dreamed dreams of Europe be-M.P.s. Out of them 80 per cent. He had discovered the ages of 520 fore the days of Hitler, with an were over 40, while If the old-age outstanding exception in the pension was given on present Prime Minister, who about one in three would receive the alone was always awake to the dan-
old-age pension. gers.".
Money Mind
age
If Nazis Use Blister Gas
Great Britain are to be asked to PHARMACIES throughout
cream available for members of help in a scheme to make bleach the public if the enemy closed in the "Lanect." blister gas. This has been dis-
uses
In compliance with insistent certain foreigners detained in demands by the Germans that French should be sent to work in Ger- concentration camps
and 1,000 penniless Jugo-slavs the Vernet camp in the Pyrenees from various camps in France have been turned over to the Nazis.
The Russians, who have been beld in French gaols since May, 1937, were accused of taking part in kidnapping the White Russian General Eugene Miller, who dis- never found again. appeared on Sept. 22, 1937, and was
t
Wanted Rouge
The proprietor of each pharmacy, For 1977
Give Youth A Chance Sir Derrick concluded: "We must
having been provided by the au- Warning purty selection committees youth who have proved themselves 141. of tropical bleach cream in the see that the best of our splendid thority with two enamel pails and Hitler Described agalast paying too much attention to in the fire of battle and have de- palls, is to be asked, as soon as gas LONDON, May 28 (Reuter). dates, be quoted the case of a man war-time must not be frustrated dropped-in. the vicinity to place the
the money asset in choosing candi-dicated their lives to the nation in pulls, and if blister gas
is used, to mix bleach cream in the ----Hitler is a zoological monstro- of means who was interviewed by a from serving here in peace."
is being sity according to Professor Ger-selection committer. brandi, Prime Minister of
The committee asked him if he solution, said she had seen younging the public how to apply it.
Mrs Tate, M.P. opposing the re-
pails of cream on, the pavement out- side his shop with a poster instruct- Netherlands.
would
agree to pay £000 election M.P.s fall asleep in the House, but **Speaking in London to-day
expenses, subscribe £500 a year to Professor described Hitler as, "this
the local charities, He said he would, creature which combines the strength and was then told he would be re- of the rhinoceros, the poison fangs of commended as a proper person to re-
ent
the
the snake and the stench of a pole- inspires only_leuthing_and disgust because it clutches with dis- honest hands at the tree of life plant- ed in our Christian civilisation."
Excessively Valiant
Japanese Soldier Will
Get Quick Promotion
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
present them.
"I have watched Mr Lloyd George, Earl Winterton, and the Prime Minister. They never fall asleep. There are young people there whose mouths fall gently open before-their-meal because of the vacuity of their ninds and
Man Choked By-Steak
Rouge and face powders are know it, but what do they care! short in Britain. The hoarders
of rouge," an assistant at a West End demanded 30 boxes of a certain type beauty counter told a reporter.
"A woman came in last week and
"I pointed out to ber that each box would lust her a year, and that what she was trying to buy was a 30 years'
happly.
annoyed her. She seemed to think I was very impertinent to mention it.
After-all,-when-i-box of rouge"
is going to last a minimum of twelve
fall gently open after the meal be- forty-one-year-old company dir- men to ask for two boxes, úr even MR JOHN WOOD NEWTON, months it might be reasonable for n
cause they are asleep," she said,
Death Of Wealthy industry
Charity Worker
+Mrs
But when they try to buy up n 30 years' supply
Delay In Riom Trials
He replied: "But are you fit and "proper persons to be represented by me? have come to the con clusion you are not," and he put on his hat and walked out, Sir Derrick asked: "Are
ector, who had important war to allow this iniquitous system to you going
contracts with the U.S. aircraft continue because you are too lazy to
was entertaining work and raise the subscriptions yourselves, with the result that un-
friend in a West End restaurant Intentionally you do in fact sell to
to a luncheon of smoked salmon the highest bidder? If you put a wealthy charity worker and philan- to cough and
Pilar Advincula - Javellana, and beefsteak, when he began TOKYO, May 20 (Domel) premium on riches you tend to put thropist, died suddenly Following recent changes in Army premium on age."
of heart Assisted
change colour. promotion regulations providing for
Labour No Better
failure at follo, P.I., recently,
downstairs by his two-grade elevations of meritorious
She was the wife of Angel Javel-friend, he collapsed and died. The Labour party was no better. Iana, one of the
The lack of energy shown by officers, revised regulations govern- "They may not have so many rich owners and businessmen of Hollo, ander, Sir Bernard
wealthiest land- At the inquest held in Westmin- the Riom Court in getting on ing the appointment of lower Army men, though, curiously enough, the was specially prominent in religious death was due to a large piece of
Spitsbury being promulgated on parable about it being more difficult activities.
sold with the trial of a number of for a rich man to enter the Kingdom Non-commissioned officers includ- of Heaven an
She was an aunt and adopted
A verdict of "Death by misadven-leaders, among whom are the ex Sergeants, may
a camel to pass mother of Mrs Juanita Javellana-ture was returned by the coroner, be accorded through the eye of a needle does not Ledemna, wife ofleer commission immediately when apply to a rich Socialist who wants mayor and acting provincial gov-
of the Iloilo City Mr Bentley Purchase. their excessively valiant deeds in the
to sit for a particularly Red scalernor, Oscar Ledesma. face of enemy are commended Commander before the whole forces, or when the War Minister proclaims them as model soldiers to the whole Army,
distinguished treat- inent will
those wh
who have
officers
May
Ing
are
made exceptionally
to
butions toward brilliant contri-
non matters
When endets or non-commisaloped
officers eligible for
commils-
sion have achieved sucht distinguished services the new regulations enable to be promoted at once to the them to rank of Lieutenant instead of Sub-
Life Is Good Now In
Internment Camps
Conditions in the interament camps in Britain have been SO much improved that those concerned with the welfare of refugees now want to get people into them instead of out of Lieutenant as hitherto,
them. That is, of course, subject to the release of the ardent Superior Privates may be ap- anti-Nazis who want to be in the struggle, writes a "Daily pointed Sergeant without as Corporal according to the dis-Herald" reporter. tinguished service regulations.
serving
PRINCE BERNHARD, AIRMAN, TELLS OF DUTCH EFFORTS LONDON, May 28 (Reuter) Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands recently won his wings and appeared at a meeting in the uniform of Air Commodore.
He announced that the Bernhard Fund" has now
The leader of one of the big-pants.
meat "going down the wrong way." French political and military
BBC
Premiers, MM. Daladier, Rey- naud and Blum, and the former C.-in-C., Gen. Gamelin, is
Ban Now described us "suspicious" in Lifted
Churchill Explains Announcement by the Prime Minister that the B.B.C. had lifted its ban on artists who. supported the People's Conven- tion followed many protests on the subject.
ક
some Spanish quarters.
According to the latest reports, which ure not denied by the Press of unoccupied France, the trial has once more been postponed.
The Paris correspondent of the Madrid
"ABC," states that allegations made by the accused bgainst former high officials who are Administration have made the Riom now important members of the Vichy Court "afraid to let the cat out of
the bar."
newspaper
RESPITE FOR BRITAIN
LONDON, May 28 (Reuter).-Only a few enemy aircraft dew inland and only for short distances from day- break until this afternoon, says the Air Ministry,
The ban applied to Michael Red- grave, the Alm star: Miss Beatrix Lehmann,
Lew the actress; Mr Stone, band leader, and many other The voluntary internees would the Isle of Man is considerably less
well-known people. able to find work. be elderly refugees or those un-than half what it was six months
Dr R. Vaughan Williams, the ago. Some of the camps are likely composer, withdrew
n choral soNJE to be closed through Inck of occu
a protest after the B.B.C. banned the works of Dr Alan Bush, of the Commons recently that while it was "Some of the cumps have excel-Royal Academy of Music,
Mr Churchill told the House of no part of the Government's polley to accord the faellities of the micro phone to persons whose words or actions might hamper the nation, the connection between these and musical performancea was not ap-afternoon.
gest refugee organisations, who has recently been to the Tale of lent playing-felds, and a good deni Man, was enthusiastic about the of land has been taken over for the reforms which have taken place, growing of vegetables and other pro-
Studies Continued
orderlies and stairs have been recruited from
"I cannot speak too highly," he sald, "of the officials in charge of the
duction.
"Cooks,
clerical
£1,200,000 which had brought 32ouse and cump leaders havo/ciple. Bakeries, laundries and so on
cause for
parent.
First Edition Of Keats Sold
enemy
bomber was shot down by British
During the afternoon, an fighters over southeast Scotland.
Bomber Down LONDON, May 28 British fighters shot down an enemy
(Reuter), bomber in southeast Scotland this
INDIAN PRESS
VISIT
an campey are administering the 'new, among the internees. "Prince humanised system admirably, and reached with the full co-operation of the in-and not on n general communal prin- "Feeding is arranged in houses, bombers manned by Dutch crows und operating from England. been elected by the Interneos, and
have been established. Seventy-nine, fighters had been pre- they work excellently with the comp keep the interaces lively and inter- "Everything possible is done to sented to the British Government, administration. The
Prince added, "Our army too, is "Camps which were
ested.
A party of 16 newspaper represen- getting ready. Extensive
In 1874 John Addington Symonk, latives from India forces complaint are now running smoothly work training-tailoring, carpentry, of the first edition of Kents "Endy- from Madras recently on a tour of "More might be done to provide the critle and poet, presented a copy photographer arrived in Singapore are now being trained in. Enginnd under the ortly due to the fact thashandicrafts and elementary indus- mion," 1818, to his bosom friend, I Malaya. arranged under the auspices and one official Home Office. This is the wholesale, Indiscriminate intern-trial training. ment of anti-Nazis is being remedied.nad students and others are encour for it.
Excellent libraries are available, recently Mr Ernest Maggs gave £72
Prof. A. C. Bradley. At Botheby's of the Government of India. Likely To Close "When the panic-Internment look to equip themselves for their carcera. "Lives of the Fathers,"
aged to continue their studies and a barber shop in Brooklyn saw 14 place after the invasion of the Low.
SIX MEN'S TASTE A rare survivor of St „Jerome's men go in and saw 14 come out, none Countries, camps were grossly over undertaken the supply of specialised cessor Westminster, Wyakyn de woman he would choose for an even- "Recently the British Council has 1495 at Westminster by Caxton's sucquiring reporter asked six men, which
printed In The New York Daily Now! Ini of them with shaves or now, haircuts. crowded and the administration dis-textbooks for this purpose. He went in too,and-found-a-book-gracefully overworked, maker taking bets on horses.
The morato of the Internees. Is good bidding for books in a two days be chosen. All named girls from the Worde, -brought 200. There wasing. It he could choose and she would
als totalling nearly 3,000 movies, none named their wives, ALZIR
and Canada.".
CURIOUS POLICE
A patrolman who stood in front of.
"Now, the internee population of excellent now," he said,
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