1937-12-24 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 24, 1937.

How Professor Found Out

fessor J. B. S. Haldane, at a mee ting in London

Fate Of Foreign Missionaries In Interior Of China

How his scientific knowledge, Shanghai mission headquarters received by the mission authori

are finding it increasingly more ties. coupled with a sense of humour, difficult to keep track of the where Informistion regarding the total caused a scare was related by Pro-abouts of their members of the number of mission workers in Nan

Central China provinces as hostili-king is also indefinite. As far as ties spread rapidly over a large can be ascertained, the group clude Dr. C. S. Trimmer of Meagre information through in- Methodist Episcopal Church, direct sources can only establish Rev. Johr Magee, Miss Grace in the location of a small group of Bauer, Miss Iva Hynds, Mass mission workers. These include five Minnie Vautrin, Mr. HL Sone and Americans at Kwangfoh, near Dr. W. P: Mills.

After reading about "a terrible new substance" discovered America that would make millions

area.

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of people unconscious in the event Soochow, where they have taken Several American and British

used in the last war.

ANOTHER CHAPLIN DIVORCE ?

Paulette Goddard

Rumours

ional report has been in New York from Holly- nouncing the divorce be

Charles Chaplin, world- comedian, and Miss Pau- ard, long regarded as his

We had her

were

inquiries

admitted despite re- Harig is

ed to have taken place on the yacht Panacea during their trip to the Far East, and per- formed by the captain of the vessel. Miss Paulette Goddard first ap- peared on the screen opposite Mr. Chaplin in "City Lights and later again in "Modern Times.***

of another war, he did a little in- refuge since fighting started in mission workers are also known to vestigating, and found that it had that area

be at Wuhu. A partial list includes

been made 70 years ago in Germany,

The five mission workers, who Dr. R. E. Brown, Dr. L. D. Morgan, have with them a party of refugees and Dr. R. Morgan, of the Metho but for some reason it was not and several mental patients, are dist Episcopal Church: Miss the Rev. H. A. McNulty, of the Florence Culley, Miss Florence Say- American Church Mission, Dr. Mles and Miss Cora Simpson of the "Then," said the professor. "I P. Young, and Miss Lucy Grier of Women's Foreign Missionary So Charles Farelough of the China Inland Mission is also in the lake- wrote to the Manufacturing the American Presbyterian Mission ciety...

(South), the Rey C. G. McDaniel

The China Inland Mission sta-side city at the present time.. and the Rev. H. H. McMillan, of tion at Wuhu, according to the lat With Kiangsu province appear the Southern Baptist Mission.

Chemist:

"Are you aware that Ethynol is being produced in quantities suficient to render millions of

5 RETURN TO SOOCHOW

est word, was being maintained by ing likely as the next field of the the Rev. E. A. Kohfield, the Rev. G. Japanese campaign, many mission- T. Dunn and the Rev. A. Hayman aries have started to evacuate from It is reported that the five mis-women workers and familities of the area. Those believed to be still people unconscious at Munich and sion workers have been permitted C. I. M. workers have evacuated in Nanchang include the Rev. W. B. by the Japanese military officers The American Church Mission per-Johnson, Dr. W. B. Libby, the Rev. Burton-on-Trent?

to return to Soochow to carry on sonnel at the Yangtse city include W. E. Schubert, Miss A. M. Waxon their relief work, but no definite

Sister Constance Anna, Mr. L. R. and Miss C. Huston of the Metho- information to that effect has been Craighill and Mr. E. W. Lanphear dist Episcopal Church; Mr. A. B.

"That started another scare.

“Now,” added the professor, "Ethynol is the scientific name for alcohol. which, I believe, is to be found in what is vulgarly called beer*

TRADE "GOING UP

Professor Haidane said he had IN

IN SMOKE'

not been brought up to take science seriously, because it was part of his fe

I have passed no examinations in science at any University," he added "I am only a quack”

REMAIN IN HANGCHOW Lewis, Mr. R. W. Porteous, and Mr. Except for a small group which R H Glazier, of the China Inland has evacuated, practically all the Mission.

foreign missionaries of Hangchow At Kiukiang, another large are still staying in the city. The group of missionaries is now stay- Church Missionary Society mem-ing in the city. These include Miss. bers include Bishop John Curtis, Evaline Gan, Miss Deanetta Ploeg Miss D. M. A. Leathers, Miss E. and Dr. E. G. Perkins of the Me- Miss M. Varley, Miss M. Woods and thodist Episcopal Church; several others. The American Pres-Helen Ferris, Miss Edith Fredericks, British business men are reluctbyterian Mission (North) as well Miss Jenny Lind, Miss Leona and ant to smoke cigars in case they as other mission organisations are Miss Molly Townsend of the Wo- appear too affluent -

maintaining a skeleton staff. Mr. men's Foreign Missionary Society.

This is one of the reasons given by a prominent trade official for the big decline in recent years în

When he was three, he said, his cigar smoking. father started experimenting on Since 1980 there has been a drop him by taking samples of his blood of 300,000,000 in the annual sale of At the age of eight he was taken cigars, and the trade is falling Ex- down a coal mine in a bucket and more rapidly year by year. was told to stand up near the roof perts believe that unless there is a cigar and say something.

sudden revival in demand making in England may become lost art.

re-

"I recited, Friends, Romans, and countrymen,” büt before I got to Parents are showing great the evil that men do' I tumbled luctance to apprentice their boys down: That taught me quite a and girls to the trade, owing to the lot about fire damp."

uncertainty of its future..

INCREASE IN DUTY “A little later the British Navy

Another reason for the decline was so frightened of diving that is that the price of a good "weed? the authorities said that before a has risen about 100 per cent. dur- man could go down 40 feet he ing the past few years. must have months of training.

"My father thought that

any-

in- This is mainly due to an bcrease in duty from 38 10d, to 9s. 10d. per pound of tobacco—a rise body could go down 40 feet at once; of nearly 200 per cent.

Last year nearly £75,000,000 was and, to prove it, he said, "Here is my son. He is only 13.

Throw paid to the Government in tobacco him overboard.”

duty, and this year the figure will "I went down all right," added show a further increase, because the professor, "but the diving suit even more tobacco is going up in was too big for me, and when I smoke. ·· was hauled up it was full of water up to the neck.

SUBSIDISED CIGARS. Experts say that the demand for the cigar has fallen so low that "In that way I found things out only 50 per cent of the country's productive capacity is now being used:

EMP. RUSSIA GOING INTO DOCK

Yet in several Continental coun- tries the cigar is the national smoke. Denmark, NOW

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