THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 19, 1989.
"DELIBERATE AND IMPUDENT" FLOUTING OF GREAT
Labour Leader's Attack On
Japanese Military
London, To-day.
"Japan, doubtless inspired by her friends in Europe, has deliberately and impudently flouted both Britain and her own international obligations." So declared Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Deputy Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, speaking at West Bromwich last night.
ESCAPE PLOT NIPPED IN THE BUD
Mr. Greenwood said it must be made clear to the dictatorship and militarist Powers, whether in the East or West, that Britain and the other Democracies will not tolerate this organised attempt to under- mine the foundations of interna- tional law and to impose the rule of force on the world.
RULERS' AMBITIONS
A plan to escape from the intern- ment camp at Matauchung by some 300 Chinese soldiers was nipped in the bud by the Police on Friday when five alleged conspirators were taken into custody from the Camp. The soldiers, however, were dis- charged this morning at the Kow-be curbed. loon Magistracy for lack of evi-
GIVING THE LIE TO
JAP. CLAIMS
Shanghai, To-day. Neutral observers of the Sino- Japanese hostilities declare that the Chinese forces are putting up a good fight and that their mor- ale is good.
The Chinese forces, it is learn- ed, are pursuing their tactics of drawing the Japanese on and cut- ting off bodies of the invaders in difficult terrain.
Guerilla activities are on an ex- panding scale, in spite of Ja- panese claims to have met this form of warfare successfully.— Trans-Ocean.
BRITAIN
GUERILLAS BUSY NEAR NANKING
Shanghai, To-day.
Chinese guerilla forces are still active in the Nanking and Shanghai
areas.
A Chinese force about 1,000 strong engaged Japanese troops near Kuyung, on the Nanking- Shanghai "highway, about 50 kilo- metres east of Nanking. Ocean.
Trans-
Hamburg, To-day. Basking shark which infeat the waters between Scotland and Iceland are in for a bad time, as the area is to be made a training ground for German harpoonists. Trans-Ocean.
Shark Hurls Boat
Out of Water
Of
Peace is being imperilled, said Mr. Greenwood, not because of the
Three men testing the engine years ago when three lives were desires of the people of Germany, of a motor fishing boat off Pen- lost, and we were not feeling too Italy or Japan, but owing to the inver, six miles from Campbel-comfortable with the monsters ambitions of their rulers.
escape all round us. town, had a remarkable Such ambitions, he declared, must from disaster when a huge bask-
ing shark struck them. Mr. Greenwood criticised the po- dence. They were charged with aid-licy of the National Government, to ing and abetting others to escape, which he ascribed the present
Inspector H. Rodgers, of the Kow-threatening situation.-Reuter. loon City Police Station, disclosed that the majority of the interned soldiers were involved in the con- spiracy to escape.
Working in shifts, the men work- ed four days in digging a hole lead- ing to the nullah nearby. The work was well organised and planned. Strict watch was kept for officers where who approached the area the hole was being dug, and upon warning received the hole was quickly covered. with a mat which the diggers sat and played games.
on
On Friday at about 3.30 p.m., Inspector Rodgers and Mr. Wilson, A.S.P., visited the camp. They saw five soldiers sitting on a mat playing a game of dominces.
They were asked to get up and the mat was removed, revealing the hole. One of the five attempted to escape from the scene but was chased and arrested by Mr. Wilson.
Could Have Touched It The helmsman, Mr. Edward McCallum, of Peninver, was able shark appeared right in front of "Suddenly the fin of a basking to control the boat, and the party us. I looked over and to immediately dashed back to land. horror saw a huge shark rising The party comprised Mr. Me-to the surface immediately un-
RECORDING BEATS Cullum, Mr. Hugh Cameron, the derneath the Maggie.
OF HEART
Two young doctors and a radio engineer, Mr. C. Leghorn, are making experiments which may lead to great improvement in the treat- ment of heart diseases.
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In a specially-equipped laboratory they are endeavouring to record- heartbeats on gramophone discs, so that doctors will have permanent records of all abnormal conditions.
Hitherto, medical men have relied on the somewhat unsatfactory me- thod of stethoscope listening, though no two doctors might have the same re- impression of the beat or its gularity.
If permanent gramophone disc The five were then taken into cus-recording were perfected, any num
at the same time, and discuss the
tody.
The hole was two feet wide and
between six and eight feet deep.
APPRENTICE DROWNED AT POKFULAM
A young lynotype apprentice of the "China Mail" lost his life yes- terday afternoon while bathing near Telegraph Bay, Pokfulam.
ed some friends for a swim near Telegraph Bay.
ber of doctors could hear the beat
case.
In the past, professors have used microphones to amplify heart-beats for the benefit of students, but these demonstrations have no per- mamency.
In the present experiments, cer tain technical difficulties made them- selves apparent, Although it was possible to recordheart-beats, ex- traneous sounds also came through and research is now concentrating on climinating these foreign noises, without in any way reducing the volume or accuracy of the true best.
owner, and Mr. Brown.
my
"We had not got very far," "I could have touched it with said Mr. McCullum to a reporter, my hand. I swung the Maggis "when our boat, the Maggie, was round to starboard, but the pro- surrounded by the biggest shoal peller was struck by the shark of basking sharks we have ever as it rose to the surface, and the 40 boat was flung out of the water.
seen.
We counted between
of
and 50."
"I was almost blinded by the "We were actually discussing flood of water which was thrown the Carradale tragedy two in my face, but managed to keep hold of the wheel and bring the Maggie back to an even keel when she struck the water again.
MRS. BURTON PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Dulcie Burton, of No. 114, The Peak, died in the War Mem- orial Hospital at 8 a.m. to-day.
She was the wife of Dr. C. H. Burton, the well-known dental surgeon, and had been ill for the
past two months.
"The shark which had struck up, so far as we could make out amid all the confusion, dived again immediately afterwards."
Basking sharks, normally harmless, are so called because they bask. on the surface.
Three men were drowned in Carradale Bay,
Campbel- town, in September, 1937, when
near
their boat was upset by a bask-
Besides the bereaved hus-ing shark. band, she is survived by a seven and a half year-old son, Brian.
and EGYPT'S FOREIGN
Deceased was resident in the Colony some 10 years leaves many friends to mourn her death.
concentrating NAZIS
AGAIN DENY
MINISTER IN ISTANBUL TALKS
Istanbul, To-day.
TROOP MOVEMENTS Yehia Pasha, the Egyptian For-
V
eign Minister, who is at present on Only 21 years old, Leung Chuen
Endeavours are being made to attended the office yesterday morn-adapt the microphone, go that the
The German authorities in Berlin an official visit to Turkey, was ing and later in the day accompani- ends of a stethoscope fit perfectly have again thought it necessary to received yesterday by Ismet
against the instrument,
issue a denial of reports of German Inoenue, the Turkish President. troop movements.
Yehia Pasha then left Ankara, The latest denial (received where political discussions between All attempts on shore and in the through Trang-Ocean) refers to re-Egypt and Turkey are to begin.
After the conclusion of the Queen Mary Hospital to restore reports of a concentration of the 8th, spiration were unsuccessful,
28th and 81st Infantry Divisions Ankara discussions, the Egyptian Deceased joined the Company and the 4th Armoured Car Division Premier is to visit the capitals of three years ago and was a very in- and the 118th Heavy Artillery the Balkan Entente countries. telligent and promising young man. Division around- Mashrisch-Ostrau, Trans-Ocean.
Leung, while swimming in deep water, was noticed to be in difficulty by others who were some distance away, and immediately several swim- mers struck out to reach and as sist him.
The lad, however, was uncon scious when brought ashore.
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