1940-03-25 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 251 1940

AT 74 HE WENT BACK TO THE SEA

The story of a man who, although nearly 75 years old, has given his life in his country's service, is re vealed by the announcement that among those who were killed in the bombing of the liner Domala was the Mc- ship's

surgeon," Dr. James Glashan.

Although he was in general prac- tice near Guildford for many years, Dr. McGlashan never forgot his first love the sea.

As a young man, as soon as he had finished his work as a student, he spent several years sailing round the world In wind-jammers. There was not a continent, not an ocean he had not visited. Then he settled down to steady work, married and brought up a family.

HUNTING ANNOYS

THE ENGLISH FARMERS

Farmers are getting more and more angry about hunting in war-time.

They are expressing it in letters to the Press and to their M.P.s, but much more forcibly to one another on mar-- ket day and other occasions when they

meet.

Poultry farmers are, the worst suf- ferers, for with the shortage of feed- ing-stuffs they would like to leave

their birds to range about and pick up what they can, but they dare not be- cause of, foxes,

Nor does it make for very good feel- ing when the poultry farmer has to kill off some of his birds because there are insufficient feeding-stuffs for them, and then he sees the hunt ride by, the horses sleek with oats.

Unworked hunters can be kept at grass, but no horse is going to hunt two or three times a week on such a

modest diet.

STOPPED PAYING Some of the hunts have stopped paying for damage "for the duration,' because, in the master's words, "They have no money.”

Seven or eight years ago he retired from general practice. His wife was dead, his family grown up, and one of them was following him in the medical profession.

Dr. McGlashan answered the call of the sea and went voyaging to West Hong Kong, Japan and the Indies.

Another brief spell ashore followed, and then came the war.

GAVE AGE A8 59:

At the

age of 74 it might have seemed that there was not much he could do. But Dr. McGlashan was a man of `untiring energy and looked a good deal younger than his years. Unblushingly he gave his age as 59 and secured a post as ship's surgeon in a liner.

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The liner was taken over by the Admiralty, armed and sent patrol in Northern waters. Through all the bitter winter weather, with the spray freezing as it came on board, he worked for the Now and then would come a cal! for help from some trawlor, and in the cold and dark Dr. McGlas- han went to tend the sick.

men.

A few weeks ago he was released from duty and came back to Lon- don, but not to rest. The war, with its demands on young men, has left shipping companies short of surgeons for their ordinary liners, and when Dr. McGlashan offered himself for service in the Domala the company signed him on at once.

bom- came the German Then bers..

Dr. McGlashan leaves two sons-

Arthur Mc- Lieut-Commander

Glashan, now serving in the Royal Navy, and Dr. Allan McGlashan, who won the M.C. in the Royal Flying Corps in the last war.

COPY FINNS,

AVOID COLDS

Tribute to the Finns in reslst- Ing "cold is paid by Dr. R. Fortescua Fox in the British Medical Journal,

Dr. Fox recommends people who find it difficult to stimulate! circulation. and so avoid chill to use a very hot footbath, keeping up the temperature to the limit of toleration for ten minutes.

"The magnificent Finns go one better, he says. "Their vapour bath at 120 degrees Fahrenhelt or over is followed by plunging In cold water or snow.

M.P. ON NAZI DRIVE PLAN

Declaring that the war would short-

IT'S STRANGE BUT TRUE

Walter Pond went to Western Canada in search of fortune. He also hoped to trace his brother Clinton, whom he had not seen for eight years.

He found a job, but not a sign of Clinton.

Then came the war and Walter loft\ his home at Quarryville, New Bruns-" wick, to join up.

The other night at the Canadian camp at Aldershot, a soldier hailed him.

"You're wandering quite a spell from home, young fellow, or maybe it's two other guys," said the soldier. Walter rubbed his eyes: it was Clinton all right.

ly enter a second phase, Sir Edward Grigg, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary He had gone to British Columbia to the Ministry of Information, speak-some years ago and joined up on the ing at Altrincham, Cheshire, suggest-same day as Walter. ed that Hitler might be preparing to launch a great offensive.

advantage of

Germany had the very large stocks of munitions, and of much longer preparation for war than her enemies, and if the "care- fully prepared and massive blow" were not struck, it would, comment- ed Sir Edward, be significant.

The Brothers found they had been crossing tracks for weeks with their

billets only a few blocks apart.

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PLANNED

If Hitler did launch "his big push TO DIE-

the British people would rise to the occasion as they always had done.

Sir Edward said four things were needed for victory. They were a rapid expansion of our fighting services, al- ready formidable though they are, a vastly increased output of munitions, strong national finances, and a Buoyant export trade.

HITLER MURDERS TWO WOMEN-IN ENGLAND

Two women who have died in Eng- lend were killed by Hitler--as surely as if he had put a pistol to their heads.

Their names-Frau Elsa Sebald, 50- year-old German refugee, and Frau Preuss, daughter-in-law of post-war 'Germany's greatest democrat.

Frau Sebald, cultured and a skilful sculptress, was born a Swiss, but she married a German official. They had a son who, when war came, was aged 19.

So the farmer pays.

Racial persecution by the Nazis "The Masters of Foxhounds Asso- ciation," writes one farmer from Dar-forced her to leave her husband and lington, "say they have assured the son, and when war broke out she fled Minister of Agriculture that they are from Germany to England. taking steps to keep the foxes down.

"That's all moonshine. Hunts im- port foxes from other districts if they fear they are running short of them.

"And the M.F.A. is very careful not to say what steps they are taking. We could keep the foxes down all right if it wasn't for the hunts."

HEAVY DAMAGE

"I have never interfered with the hunt coming over my land in peace time writes another farmer from Kent.

"But now it's different. We want all the food we can grow and we want it to keep our pigs and poultry alive, not hunters. ‚

"It's nonsense to say the hunt does no damage. It does damage every time it comes across the farm. They came across any land a week ago, with the following result:~

HER SON'S BUST

One of the few things they allowed her to take out of Germany was a bust she had carved of that beloved son.

Then, somehow or other-the details of such things do not leak out of Nazi Germany-husband and so met death.

Frau Gebald went to Nuneaton, be- came housekeeper to Mr. Waller Bradbury, a postmaster, of Arbury- road.

She was very reserved. All she would say of life in Germany was, "It was hell." She had fits of depression, and took drugs to bring sleep.

They found her dead, from an over- dose, in a Nuneaton hotel. In her arms: was the bust of her son,

Letters she left told of her gratitude to Mr. Bradbury. Suicide while of un- sound mind was the verdict.

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"Hoof marks a foot deep on some Frau Preuss was the wife of Dr. E.. soft permanent pasture; a field of G. Preuss, whose father, Hugo Preuss, young beans ridden over and con- was the author of the Weimar Con- siderable damage done; the same with stitution, the model of German de a fleld of grass seeds.

mocracy destroyed by Hitler and the "They ride all over the place and Nazis. don't attempt to reduce the area of

CURBED BY HITLER damage. They broke down a quickset. After a long illness, worsened by the hedge. I have been tending for years, flight from her homeland, she threw although there was a gate at each end herself out of the window of her of it.

fourth-floor flat in Grove End-road, St, John's Wood, N.W

"Hunting in the old days wasn't so bad. It was part of country life. But now -70 per cent of the people who hunt are not hunting foxes but social prestige. Their ignorance le only equal- led by their atrocious manners,

At the inquest. It was said that the balance of her mind had been dis turbed.

Two days earlier her husband had completed a book on Nazi-ism.

No other name has been denounced and cursed by Hitler personally in so insulting terms as that of Hugo Preuss.

Since his death his son has spent his time in London continuing the lifework of his father. He hopes that his book will contribute to the eventual libera-

tion of Germany from the Nazi

tyranny.

OFF THE RECORD

SLEPT

If you had twenty minutes to live, what would you do?

Charles William Airey, a fifty-five- year-old smallholder, of Marlesford, Suffolk, deliberately gave the last twenty minutes of his life to having

a nap,

Airey awoke in the early morning twenty minutes before he had planned his death. So he went to sleep again. Then he got up, walked into the gar den and shot himself.

At the Inquest -it was'-disclosed-.

•that he was heard by his son toʻre-": mark, upon waking up at 5 a.m, and

·looking at the clock: “I can have'. another twenty minutes."

Airey, it was stated, had been de- pressed for two years, since the death of his wife.

Verdict: Suicide while the balance: of his mind was disturbed.

ED REED

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Here's Luck

By ED REED.

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