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FIRE! FIRE!! "FIRE!!!.

FIGHTING THE FLAMES.

(BY LIBUT-GENERAL LORD BADEN-POWELL.)

[Special to "Hong Kong Dally Pross.". All Rights Reserved.]

For fellows who are Scouts there you know how to do this? Do you are always things for which they know how to use one of the street have to BE PREPARED.

At fire alarms i If not, go and ex. Christmas it is the "Good Turn ".

amine one and see if you under-

"..

THE WORLD WILL "V.C.S" OF PEACE.

NOT BLOW UP.

ATOMS HAVE BEEN

SPLITTING FOR

AGES,"

EDWARD MEDAL FOR FIVE

HEROIC MINERS.

The King has awarded the Edward Medal in silver to Robert Glendon- Cambridge.-I came to Cambridge Thomas Baker, Samuel Hughff, ning and the Edward Medal to John troubled with fears lest the two John Kenny, and James Sidney Berlin scientists now on top of a Parvis in recognition of their gal 6,000-ft. Swiss mountain should be lantry in the following circum- able to blow the world to pieces by splitting the atom with 9,000,000 volta of electricity, writes & Press correspondent.

itances:-

On Friday, May 17, 1920, about p.m., a telephone message was re-

Now I have an easy mind, for Iceived at the office of the South have talked to Sir Ernest Ruther- Richard Lowes, one of the colliery Garesfield Colliery, Durham, that ford, the famous professor

of

physics, who has experimented with deputies, had been injured during atoms for years, and knows all their blasting operations. Robert Glon- artful little ways.

denning, an overman, 55 years of "There is no need to worry," Sirage, who was in the office, at once Ernest said. The breaking up of set off down the pit, and, collecting the atom has beco going on prob-

ably for, a thousand million years, two lads, Jane Sidney Purvis and peope have not even noticed and John Theinas Baker, at the it, and the world is still safe for bottom of the shaft, and a democracy.

tram

earth has been disintegrating cer- Lowes. They were joined by two "The radio-active matter in the and stretcher, went in search of tain kinds of atoms steadily on a bowers, John Kenny and Samuel small scale since the earth

was Hughfi. formed.

leanwhile five other men had been trying to rescue Lowes. Four monoxide gas, while the fifth man- aged to crawl out just in time. It

In all twelve elements have been

method.

season; in Summer it is the stand it, or get your Scoutmaster shown to be disintegrated by this of them were overcome by carbon

❤thos

was on meeting this man

the quarter of a mile from the scene of

"Drowning" season. I don't mean the season in which Scouts

to explain to you how it works.

"The scientists are now trying to produce the results on a larger scale. ought to be drowned; I mean thei Of course you know how to use whether the electrons, which they The German professors want to find season in which other asses get a telephone, and you won't go and would have to produce in a vacuum drowned, and Scouts get the op- do as a man did lately in case of would have a similar effect.

tube of sufficiently high energy, It is portunity of saving them--IF, they fire. A notice in the Telephone they want."

quite possible that they can do what have learned how.

Book said "In case of a fire ring } the Germans want to trap a furion, the lives of two, but the other three

Then there is always the danger of fire, when houses and people are apt to get burned unless Scouts are about who know how to do the right thing for saving them,

Chimney Fire.

A chimney on fire is the. com- menest kind of fire. It is always happening, and yet people often don't know how to deal with it You can tell when a chimney is on fire by the thick, whitish-yellow smoke that comes out, with a sour kind of smell of its own. It is caused by having a chimney dirty and full of soot.

The silly way of finding it in

to look for it with a lighted candle.

One way to put it out" is to throw a lot of salt on the fire in the grate, and hang a wet-blanket or rug in front of it so as to let the gas, which the burning salt makes, te drawn up the chimney. ·

I gathered from Sir Ernest that

enter a vacuum tube, and there do its worst with any poor little atoms that may have. strayed inside...

up No." So he rang up the ex-electrical disturbance, induce it to change and said "No. 5 please." He put back the receiver and won- .dered why no fire-engine ever came

He had never told them why he called nor where the fire was!

House on Fire..

If you see a house on fire, the first thing to do is to give warning to the people inside. Shut doors and windows to prevent draught from fansing the fire.

Shut off

gas at the meter and also electric light, and calf up the re-brigade

or Police.

..Gas Escape.

This of course you can sniff fast enaugh, but the difficulty is to find where the leak is. It is generally in some dark out-of-the-way corner, and the silly asa way of finding it i to look for it with a lighted condle; then there is an explosion, a house on fire, and generally one silly ass the lesa in the world.

What is the right thing to do! Turn off the gas supply at the meter, send for the plumber, and summon the fire-brigade with their gas musks, if it is a bad leak.

Oll on Fire,

"It will require a tube of very great length," he said, in order not to get a spark across."

Sir Ernest laughed at the idea of the world being blown up.

"The experimenters themselves will probably know nothing about it," he said.

mented with voltages of one to one "We in this country have experi. they have tried up to five millions, and a half millions. In America vacuum tube, and, as I say, that but it all has to be applied to the will have to be of extraordinary length.

accident that Glendenning realised the serious nature of the occurrence. He hurriedly organised his party, and by repeated efforts they aucceeded in extricating the five men who had been gassed. They were, fortunately, able to save were found to be dead.

Rescuers Collapse One by One.

The rescue party took such pre- cautions as were possible at the time, but first Kenny and then Hughff were rendered unconscious. After they had with difficulty been Glendenning sent Purvis for fur- removed from the danger arco,

work with the assistance of Baker. ther help and continued the rescue Baker was next overcome, and. Glendenning was also affected by efforts until, when further help had the fumes, but he continued his

the last of the victims of the ac arrived, he was able to bring out

to be carried out from the pit. cident. He then collapsed and had

For an hour, during the whole of which time the atmosphere was

rest thirk with. smoke and carbon mono- KES, Glendenning showed great courage and resource, and dis- played high qualities of organisation

really make the potential and the "If the German scientists can tube to stand the strain," be aum- med up, it will be interesting to see if they can observe anything.in directing the rescue operations. It is all hypothetical."

He himself and Baker, Hughff, Kenny, and Purvis, under his leader- ship, knowingly and repeatedly risked. their lives in determined and sustained efforts to save the lives of their fellows, and there is CHIEF SCOUT ON THE £10,000 ous action the death-roll would have. no doubt that bul for their courage- been heavier than it was.

JAMBOREE FINANCE.

SURPLUS.

The Chief Scout, recently wrote the following letter to the Press --

the Boy Scouts Association have The Jamboree Sub-committee of had before them the accounts of the World Jamboree, 1929, which took place at Arrowe Park, near Birken- Although there are still a certain head, from July 31 to August 13. number of final accounts to be settled, the present position is that there is a surplus to the Boy Scouts Association of about £10,000. This satisfactory result was mostly due to the very considerable attendance. of the public, the total number pay- ing for admission being 314,422

does not include Scouts and Guides day 50,000 adults, This cumber

free. Our grateful thanks are due in uniform, who were admitted to the Press for the very good publicity that was given to the Jamboree, and which contributed to a good financial result.

If it is oil from an upset lamr,adults and the maximum on one or petrol and oil from a motor. car or aeroplane that is on fire, don't pour water

on it. That will the fire to spread. The only thing not put it out, but will only help

is to choke it by covering it with rugs and stamping it out, or by A better thing than salt is to put an imp into the fire. By "imp".

pouring sand and earth on it. I don't mean your younger brother

Clothes on Fire. ara Wolf Club, but a little thing: In the same way, if you called an imp, which you can buy someone with his clothes on fire, at a grocers for a few pence. This get him down on to the ground and makes a sort of explosive gas which roll your cost round him or a rug puffe the burning sout out at the or blanket, and roll him over in top of the chimney.

it so na to choke the fire.

find

If you haven't got salt or an imp, It won't be pleasant for the per- the best thing is to rake out the son, but it will be better than being fire and choke the burning soot by burnt alive. Of course, if there is stopping up the chimney at the top water handy pour this over him,

and bottom.

tea; but the rolling-over business Calling the Fire Brigade. is generally the quickest, and it If you are in a town, as a Scout only takes a very few seconds for you will know where the nearest a person to get badly burnt. fire-alarm telephone is, and the So it is the Scout's business to nearest fire-brigade station, and keep his head, to know what to do, how to call it up. By the way, Do and to do it at once.

Each contingent, whether home, oversea, or foreign, paid for its own travelling expenses to and from the Jamboren, and also for camping charges, including food, while over- Ben and foreign Scouts also paid an extra charge for special arrange- menta for them, including Scout excursions during the last part of the Jamboree.

considered a success from the point The Jamboree can, we feel, be of view of scouting, and it is all should have been & financial sur- the more gratifying that there plus, although this does not nearly cover the loas sustained by the association in the previous Jam. borces in 1980 and 1924.

thanking everybody who in any way The Boy Scouts Association would like to take this opportunity of assisted in making the Jamboree a welcome to Scouts from oversea and success, and giving such a warm foreign countries.

A full statement of account, duly audited, will be given in the annual tion, which will be published in report of the Boy Scouts Associp- January, 1030-Yours, etc.,

BADEN-POWELL, Chief Scout. The Boy Scouts Association,

Imperial Headquarters, 25,: Buckingham Palace Road, London SW Nov 200

CHURCH NOTICES.

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, Howa Kone. JANUARY 12, 1930: 1st Sunday after

Epiphany:-

Choral Eucharist et 8 a.m. Holy Communion (Peak Church) at

8 a..

Children's Service at 10 s.m.

Sunday School at Peak School at

10 m.

Matins and Sermon at 11am.

Preacher:-Rev. B. V. Koop. Evensong (in the Lady Chapel at

4.30 p.m. Confirmation Service at 6p..

Preacher-The Lord Bishop.

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11.15 a.m,

The Sunday School is held on Sunday Mornings at 10 o'clock...

Wednesday Evening Meeting at 6.30 p.

Monday and Thursday, 3.70 to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Friday, 10a.m. to 12 Noon Reading Room at above address, open:-

the services and visit the Reading Room. The Publicis cordially invited to attend

WESLEYAN METHODIST

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CHURCH, "QUEEN'S ROAD » EAST. SUNDAY SZEVICES, January 12, 1930 :--.

Morning at 10.18 m.

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Preacher Rev.J.C. Knight Anstey. Evening at 6.00 p.m, ̈ ̈

Pronober-Rev J.C.KnightAnstey, Sunday School at 3:00 p.m.

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