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SINGAPORE AIR BASETT

CAREER CH NEW CHIEF OF ENGINEERING

London Wing Commander Paul Hunter, the new chief of en- gineering duties, Royal Air Force, Singapore,

takes the place of Squadron Leader W. E. Reason. He vacated recently the command of No. 28 (Army Co-operation) Squadron, Catterick. A good deal of his service has been overseas since the close of the war. It is saven years, however, since he re turned from Palestine and Egypt where he had a lengthy tour of 'duty.

• HONG KONG, DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1932.

THE BEDSIDE BOOK

ship, cowardice, murder, hate vir Philip adóred and Rose was only BOOKS and READERS t and sin, 3 For to pass the tentatively interested. She permit

time this book, shall be plaastat toted an engageinent, but hereafter. read in but to give faith and be her feeling for him turned by de lief that all is true that is coutnin- I grees from tolerant affection to ed herein, ye be at your liberty." exasperation, to a positive, distasto The 888 volumes of Everyman con for meeting-him-and-so to suparn-1 tain-fill this and matas Me. Partion. This constitutes the first mo quharson Sharp has indexed them vement, after which we come to, so thoroughly that no roader can restatment by a reversal of the fail to discover exactly what he wants. The cross-references must be ten times more numerous than the actual numbered references to books

Selected

Wing Commander Hunter. was formerly an officer of the A.8.C M.T...which he joined in 1914 He was mentioned in dispatches for services in France. Qualifying driveg

Conclusion as pilot in 1920, he joined No. 208 that the ideal bed bookshelf would Squadron in Egypt, and in Sep- about a mile long, and would tomber, 1922, accompanied it to contain every author from Moses to Constantinople. In 1994 he was Mr. Wodehouse. No, not Mr. Wode- fying on Army Co-operation duties house--he would keep you lying with No. 14 Squadron in Palestine. awake to finish him; and not any His promotion to Wing Comman-detective story, for the same reason. der was gazetted on July 1. In Every man should make his own 1928 he was awarded a special prize selection of bedbooks, but if he will in the R. M. Groves Memorial not take the trouble there is nothing Essay competition.

for it but a good, fat, comprehen- siva anthology and that is really what Mr. Stanley has given us.

mans to him from Gospel texts I told him in a loud voies all about my earthly life and school days at Montreux. chansone to him, and among them he had his favourites na well as those he disliked cordially. If he did not care for a song he would set up a pitiful howl.

confusion, no lack of proportion. The book is a model of cataloguing.

TALE OF THE CHINA. COAST

A NEGRO SCIENTIST | RADIUM NEEDLE IN HEART

STRANGE CAREER OF DR,

GEORGE W. CARVER

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He is De George Washington

WOMAN DIES FROM ITS - RAVAGES AFTER THREE

YEARS.-

A-needle from a tube of radaru?

being used in an operation entered

of

woman's heart and zha died near-

three years later, as the result ita ravages.

An account of this is, given in Medical Vice of Radiun," um-

Research Council.

who as a child was exchanged for figures. Left, broken-hearted and horse, is now an internationally famous scientist who has turned loan with nothing but his work down a position worth £20,000 a console him, Philip gradually 'drifts into a liaison with Meriel Filmer. year I sang little in the series; and yet there is no She had a husband but had tera Carysis, à negro, who is a Master of mary of reports from research con- ̧

porarily deserted him in the coun- try, and met Philip by accident in Svence and Honginry Doutor of tres for 1931, issued by the Medical Science. He is also a menber of The report regarding the needle the train, as she was going to Lon the Royal Society for Encourages from the Royal Free Hospi don with the idea of finding an ea- gagement on the stage. Te ber, mut pf Arts Manufactures, and tal, London, and is described n

An account of the effect of pro- Philip was all that Rose had been Commerce in Great Britain.

In preference to wealth Dr Cartonged gamma radiation upon the to him; and he learnt, then, by ex- perience all the onnui and dissatis. vor has chosen to stay at Tuskegee heart muscle and the liver."

Institute, where he can create odd faction of being the object of a too?

-products from wood shavings and absorbing prasion."

peanut shells.. Mr. Armstrong has worked out. From ordinary peanuts ho bas al ready made milk, butter, sweets, the combinations of this compara coffee, cheese, pickles, scap, face tively simple plot with the aid of powder, ink, axle grense, and about very few subsidiary characters. He 500 other things. has adopted the device of allowing each of the three persons intimately

Life a Predicament.

the

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Better Facilition. The Council, in their introduction to the report, states:

Thanks to the action of the. Radium, Commission in putting one gramme of radium at the disposal of the Council for experimental pur- ed flour, starch, pate, vinegar, shou, erenso the facilities nt overal cen

The yellow sweet potato has yield poses, it has been possible to in- polish, and 100 other valuable com- tres, and to start other lines of

Dr. Carver, was born in Missouri.

VAMPIRES OF THE CHINA COAST

Bok 2x1334 pp. Herbert Jenkina,, 105, dd, n. This story is based on the actual exploits of the modern pirates of the China Coast, partially who made their headquarters in Bias Bay, and the author has woven these incidents into a connected rative by means of fictitious characterned to write his or her ac-modities to him.

count of the various developmentà; ters, illustrating it with sound La pleasantly gruesome photographs, and it, from a realistic point of Chan, deported from England, rea view, the mathod may be criticised ches Canton at the time of the re-

in that Philip, Rose and Meriel are volution, in which he takes an ac tive part. With a young woman all somewhat improbably endowed named Moon Shadow he is forced with his own grace of style, the re- to take refuge with the pirates of Bias Bay, and then turns pirate sult is an attractive and charming himself, planning and carrying out statement of his theme. the seizure of a steamer with bullion Leap is not a long book, but with on board. In course of time Chan

1860.

hefore the American Civil War, in As a slave piccaninny hs never know his mother or father, Their master changed the child for

rosearch.

Owing to the part which theso lines of experimental work are likely to play in radium-therapy in future, they have been given somewhat de tailed consideration here."

"THE BLOSIDE BOOKS.?!

and Arranged by Arthur Stan- ley Gollancz. 7a. 8d.) What is a Bedside Books The answer seems to depend largely on the person who, is in bed. Does he damand a soporife? Does he wish to forget the worries of the day! Does he concsive of the midnight į hour d one particularly suited for the cultivation of the mind i Does he seek pictyor poetrylere is George Santayana Life ar

We entertainment

is not a spectacle or a feast it is to the

predicament;" or Nansen: The difficult is that which can be done iminediately, the impossible that which takes. littis longer." On the other hand, there are limericks (not very good pies), and some Hood, and "accomplish'd female friend" and other specimens of bad verse, and recipes, and a series of funniments entitled" Chuckles" for the lower orders of intelligence. There is large selection of verse, in which a man must be hard to please if he cannot find the rhyme for the mood and the moment, An Admirable Anthology.

The book is carefully arranged in It is an admirable anthology in sections, but it seems a mistake to many ways, compensating for the think that most people in bed want familiar by choles thoughts from to read about sleep or about the an the hedges and by ways. He goes sociations of sleep. A man in his back to Solomon and Sappho and bath does not sing about the joys Socrates and Ancient China and of water: why, in bed, should he London. The fond the soldier Japan and Persin. He is up-to be specially interested in tullabies is killed during an attack on: Bias in the limita Mr. Armstrong has scientist he toured the United that this particular technique is earries and the dress he wears are date with Mr. de la Mare and Mr. and dreams, and curfews and sup: to come up for consideration at

Leucock and Mr. Herbert. He picks pers and lodgings and moonlight next season's training.

Opinion in the Service is undi titite from essay and history and Fortunately, Mr. Stanicy does not ided as to the weight of the solvel and drama; and W. W. Jacobs keep very strictly to what seems to dier's personal equipment to day and Harry Lauder counteract the have been his programme, and, in

the true spirit of the anthologist,small island, he raide and takes than an economical load, which is Augustine. Here you have a letter finds a corner for everything that He is carrying considerably more verity of John Donne and St. enlculated to be one-third of his from Henry VIII. written after seeins good to him. The result is own wight, or from 35th. to 40th the killing of a hirt, minding a collection so agreeable and so with Gol's grace, Lo-marrow, diversified that we fear most people There is not, however, unanimity of opinion as to the articles that mighty timely, to kill an otter, by will break the rules of the

the hand, which. I trust, thortly and read the book out of bed. en safely be discarded.

shall be yours (Apine Boleyn's); Proposals have been made by a record of a receipt for two! special, committee appointed by the inets paid in July, 1927, to the Army Council, and

Ding-Destroyer to His Majesty King amount of agreement has been rea-George V, for destroying bugs in chod enabling tests to be applied four bedsteads her is the little in the field,

Certain units are to be provid-assage of love between Margery Brews and John Paston, Esquire:.

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The fight will be between utility And smartness, for attractive uni- forms have always been a great sti- mulus to recruiting, and in luntary army it cannot be over- Booked:

Rougement and his little dog:-

But for him I think I must

have died. I used to talk to him just as though he were a human being. We were absolutely in soparable preached long ser

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captive unchecked, striking terror ed nt Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Chater into the hearts of the sailors by dis- Rond. Hong Kong). guising his meri by means of black lonks, masks and phosphorus paint, so that the band became known-ns the Vampires. Exciting incidents interspersed with torture and mas- sere follow, and, in the end, Moon Shadow and Ching decide to ahan. dan their dangerous, though lucra tive, occupation, and, depart to the United States taking their spoil with. them.

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MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S NEW NOVEL

́LÒVER'S LEAP.

Love at first sight, said the wise M Etherton, is "a bad beginning to a permanent relation and he followed that later in the tame con- versation by adding, "There's no such thing, unhappily, as second- hand wisdom; it has to be acquired by direct experience." These are the two postulates that Mr. Martin Armstrong has stated and assumed in his new novel Lover's Leap (Gola Innez, Ta od.net), Philip Marling, the most important of the three voices which take up the story in tura fall too deeply in love at the first glance with Ross Bentley was, al artist Te Enery she an amat

they had mutu

n horse...

Ho worked his way through school and Iowa State College by washing clothes, and it was there that he was found by Booker T. Washing- ton, who took him to Tuskegee in 1896.

But before settling down as et States as a concert pianist. He also

plays the banjo,

The number of patients treated at the various centres during 1931 was 2333, the relative frequency of surgi- cal and radio-logical treatment being about equal.

Commenting on the use of radon treatment in place at radium, lat Council states that it would appear being developed on a considerable

scale,

From Alabama clay this talenteri man makes paints that will not fad He uses his fingers as a brush to students watch, Dr. Cárvor performa paint hin, vivid pictures, which hang such wonders he making synthetio

marble from wood shavings, in the art galleries of the world.

In his laboratory, while negro į dyes from onions and bearis,

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