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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

BLACK-OUT EXERCISES: DETAILS ANNOUNCED

The Director of Air Raid Precautions announces that black- out exercises will take place on the nights of July 21-22, 22-23, 23-24, 1941. with a possible extension of this period to suprise on July 27,

2. In these exercises, the black-out WILL AUTOMATICAL- LY commence at sunset (8.09 p.m.) on July 21, 1941, and unless the period is extended, will terminate at sunrise (6.51 a.m.) on July 24, 1941.

SECRETS

OF THE SURGERY

FINANCE & GENERAL

A Character Study Of

MAITLAND WILSON OF

SUFFOLK STOCK

Henry Maitland Wilson is a member of an old Suffolk family. He has the largeness and the calm of Constable's country, and, like Constable's country, he becomes the more impressive the better he is known.

On Monday I had to sign one of the two medical certificates required to commit Fred Hylman to & Mental Hospital a much better name than that of “Lunatic Still under 60, he was gazetted more numerous enemy on a much Asylum" which Was commonly to the Rifle Brigade while the wider field. The Government Black-out the lighting restrictions mention-ased aume years ago

Boer War was being fought. Evep

INSPIRES LOYALTY Order of 1940 will be strictly en ed in para, 4 (a) above are com- This recalled the case of a Mrs. In those far away days his bulk, An qld comrade has called forced during this period from plea with,

Broad which came betore the at first glance, called up thoughts Henry Wilson: *An admirable sunset onwards, and the general

7. GENERAL

House of Lords in Englund a few of the Grenadiers rather than of chief to WOTE for and a grand public should observe the follow

Movements of traffic em-years ago. In London, after the the famous light Infantry corps colleague to worn with,” Thor- ing points:-

ployed by the Naval, Military, Air certificates are received by the which had harassed the French ough himself, he demands thor- (a) External lights of every Force, A.R.P. ani Essential Ser- proper authority, two male nurses off their feet in the Peninsula. oughnese from his subordinates. description, both on land and in vices, will be permitted through- are sent to conduct the patient That misunderstanding was dis- When he finds it, he is generous ships, must not be ML, except as jout the whole perlou of the black-to the hospital

pelled as soon as he went into in his acknowledgment, provided for in patas, 4, 4 (b),jout. but the provisions of the The latter were instructed by action. Then On a sudden, he He inspires in bts troops that 4 (c) and 5 below,

Government Black-out Order must telephone in this case arid a mla was agility itself. Memory re- devoted loyalty which is never All Internal lights must be be complied with.

take was made in the address, calls a Service match On the denied to the chief who is master screened by shutters, dark hinds (b) Pedestrians should remain with the appalling

result that crickel

ground at Mount Wise, of his job and does it and who dark curtains, or otherwise, in their houses, and thereby avoid this perfectly healthy normal lady Devonport. when Captain Wilson expects others also to know and that no light direct or Indirect, exposing themselves to the grave was taken, protesting vigorously of the Rifle Brigade. by stealling do it. It is remarkable how atten is visible from above or from any risks of personal injury which are and placed in a public mental impossible runs, reauced the fine for words recur in the attempts other direction.

inherent during a black-ont, and hospital

flelding of the other XI to wild made by his friends to draw his cl Lights on all types of road also to accustom themselves to Instructions must now be given shies at the wicket. To a protest character, Large, genial, quiet, im- transport must be obscured with conditions which would be en in writing only, so there is not against the risks he had taken perturbable are used again and

kely to be any repetition of this he retorted: “I have spread alarm again.

two thicknesses of ordinary bine forced in war-time.

·

•

TAPA IN U.S. VOGUE

close woven cloth or paint, The (c) It should be particularly unfortunate occurrence. The land despondency among the One close observe as him of use of headlights on motor vent noted that. as far as the general Press treated the incident as aenemy. which you should always with the words: "Wilson's mind cies is prohibited, in other lamps public is concerned, black-out "scoop" and intense public india- | do.”

masticates facta." To catch his the bulb mast not exceed 7 watts conditions must be observed nation resulted

The years

have not made him shrewd appraising glance over the the whole period of in power. Road transport velicios throughout

inactive: they have brought him top of his spectacles at a critical employed on Naval, Military Air the exercise, that is, from sunset Dr. Doalot is an anaesthetist: the chance to demoralise a much moment is to realise how com- Force, A.R.P. and Essential Ber- to sunrise on each day, and must that is to say he makes his living

pletely he has absorbed all re- vices, muy Use the authorised not be relaxed, even If the entirely giving anaesthetics for

levant detalls and how vain the headlamp.

"Ralders Passed" signal is sound the surgeons. 1 certainly don't

hope of "getting past with a fast (d) Turches and naked lights (ed, until the termination of the envy him or hanker after his job.

one." are prohibited unless screened exercise. (See para. 8).

It is one that involves constant with two thicknesses of ordinary

and great responsibility: and if a blue, close woven cloth or paint

fatality occurs he gets quite an undue amount of publicity general It always seems to me that they to the mgress and egress of shin public by the switching on of all surgeon gets far too big a gliare ping, and no movements of shipbe announced in

street lights at sunset. It will also of the fees paid for an operation

the press

and and the anaesthetist far too little ping or other craft inside the

over the wireless.

a skilled anaesthetist is just as harbour will be permitted between sunset and sunrise on each night of the exercise, except that restricted ferry service may be

(2)

4. SHIPPING

The harbour will be closed

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8. TERMINATION OF THE EXERCISE

The termination of the exercise will be notified to the

Decorative Bark

Cloth BOSTON.--Tapa the decorative bark cloth which was on its way important a factor in the opera- toward becoming a lost art of the North Africa, one after another. South Seas, has been rediscovered to divine his plans or counter his

strokes.

MONDAY, JULY 14, 1941. -PAGE

25

If you Value

your Health-

Insist upon

Gordon's GIN

NO Colouring Matter No Injurious Ingredients

DRY GIN!

RIVER MYSTERY | THE ODOUR OF

Young Wife Found Drowned

the

SANCTITY

LONDON-The crowded under- General Wilson is not a man

ground shelters of London have whom it is easy to mistake, which

many drawbacks One, 18, that "Someone is either not telling they stink, Another, is that the is shown by the fact inat nearly |

describes tum in much me all they could, or this is a most air in them is lagen with, serma "everyone

remarked case," the same way. He is most diff- unusual

In a recent issue of Langet, cult to

South London coroner, Mr. Hervey Scientists Charles, Cland Twort fathem от decaive. of which the latest proof is the fal- Wyatt, when he returned an open and A. H. Baker of the Portsdale jiure of the Duce's commanders verdict at the resumed inquest at Laboratories in Gussex came out

DAYLIGHT EXERCISE

Southwark on a young wife whose for an old-fashioned way of doing body was washed up on the fore- away with disagreeable smells in The Colony is to have its first tion as the skills the surgeon

shore of the Thames at Wands- a newfangled way of doing away by the American world, and is en- daylight A.R.P. exercise as soon The real criterion of the sur-

A RIFLEMAN

worth.

with germs; burning, incense. Or- as orre of the air raid tunnels geon's skill is in maintained by the Star Ferry and being completed in Wanchal dis- to aperate; the

knowing when Joying a vogue this year.

The day before ner death the dinary pungent Incense smoke, Resembling a skin or hide, tapa

Since the day when he joined actual perror.. the Hongkong and Yaumati Ferrtrict is ready for occupation.

is in reality a cloth made from the Rifle Brigade, General Wilson woman, Mrs. Irene Green, 20, or said they, kills many kinds of mance of the operation is rela-

censed to be a Rifle Warren-drive, Tolworth, Surrey, nose and throat germs, between Hongkong

tree bark. Before the discovery of has never

Next best disinfectant is soul- Since the Department came into tively simple. Any intelligent per- The vessels 50 employed will carry and show the prescribed navigacing a few years back all ARP son can learn to operate well. Oceania by white men, this bark man. He held the command of a was apparently perfectly happy and

supplied the only clothing known battalion for the usual term and normal, and went to a hairdresser-dering cardboard, danped with a tion Aghts bat with their visibility pubile exercises have been staged with experience, but the difficult to natives from Hawall to New is now Colonel Commandant, an She afterwards saw her father, and two per cent solution of potassium.

after sunset, it being deemed technique of diagnosis calls for Zealand

and down to Idonesia. honour in which one of his pre- told him she was going home and nitrate and dried. essential first to train personnel much more knowledge experience, Extremely durable and very near-decessors was the Trou Duke. Would see him the next day. and educate the general public in ablilty, and perhaps one might

When her body was found cer- light-houses

ly water-proof-the tapa proved Perhaps it is not fanciful to see effective measures to be adopted add intuition, with which only a ideal material for tropical gar- Influence of the Rifle tradition in tain articles of underclothing and uide to navigation will not be

are gifted

any ments. ut but to assist in the safe ravi in the event of ralds during the happy few

his strategy in the Libyan desert a diamond ring were missing, marked degree night.

Bark is taken from the slender since December 9, gation of the ferries mentioned in

The Rifles Dr. Cedric Keith Simpson, patho- The proposed daylight exercise Those in possession of all these paper-mulberry sapling, and then have always (a) above, a

believed in swift logist, stated that there was no para. 4

Lavitation

will be carried out in the Wanchal factors become the great surgeons prepared for us through processes movement and in the skilled use evidence that she had been attack- light may be displayed on the

district, Involving one alr raid of their age, and their value to a of soaking, peeling, and macerat of arms of precision. Founded to ed or interfered with. Death was to have her hair restored to plets at Kowloon aud nongkong. provided that ruch light 18 tumnei and the pen shelters. community is beyond price: but ing. With a square ballet, the exploit to the utmost those two due to drowning,

its original colour. She seemed men like Dr, Doalot are essential bark is then besten into strips factors in success, they have never Mr. Edwin Charles Dawson Green quite normal and left after having Holes or thin spots are filled in by forgotten their first lessons. the woman's husband, denied that from above, and that it does not SHANGHAI-NANKING to their success

segments attached securely with General Wilson has certainly there had been any trouble between was wearing a diamond ring,

leaped at the chances given him them,

Det.-Insp. Dorey said he had been SOLID WOOD

Mr. Joseph Palmeri, a hairdres- unable to find where Mrs. Green by the tank, Then the fabric is ready for Gen, Wilson is now C. In-C, the ser, of Fulham Palaceroad, sald entered the river, or any trace of

Mrs. must comply with para. 16, paras.

Green came painting. Two kinds of blocks are British troops in Syria.

to his shop the missing clothing. 3 (a). 3 (b) and 4 of the Black-Chinese mine at Tanyane. 61 miles hours and the preoccupied doctor used to transfer a design to the from Nanking, and was blown up of finds that he has put down out Order 1040 which reads as

tapa. One has a raised pattern

follows:-

(3) Lights may be loading and unloading vessels--

reduced to the satisfact' a of the Harbour Master

(b) Cerlal

And

placed that t cannot be Belt

throw any light on to the water.

(e) Lights necessary

the for unloading of ships loading and

RLY. MISHAP CHUNGKING, July 13 (Centru

*

Doctors afe generally

to

regarded paste from masca,

as "easy marks" by the modern These eXperia will be permitted but these hisThe special express on the Nan- supersalesman. call a generally

busy surgery

king-Shanghai Rallway struck

In many passengers being killed a contract "not subject to used 10

(a) 11 8 screened that no light is thrown above the hort- zontal; and

on the morning July 4, Tusulting thirty shillings OT BU and signed carved out of solid wood. The Ganother is made from a frame with cellation," to pay instalments the ribs and fibres of the pan- amounting to many pounds, for

danuts and coconuts arranged in that the some encyclopaedic work of

a design. train was derailed as a result of ference which he has no real uso

and

to wounded, according Shanghai report

Another report says

(b) if reduced in intensity as the tearing off of many rails by for. far as practicable.

(4) Every Hight to which this

the Chinese troop

re-

For colour, shades of yellow are obtained from the fruits of the

para, applies shall be extinguish- S'hai Requiem Mass about a customer who, visiting an of several tropical plants gives

ed immediately upon receipt of

an air raid warming and kept ex-

fingulshed

until receipt of the "Raiders Passed" signal.

5. SHIP-BUILDING YARDS

ton.

Commented the Lancet, arch in the midst of bombe: "It is a strange turn of the wheel which has revealed antiseptic, properties in the argour of sanctity.

a cup of tea. He observed that she

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I always try to member the loa. The sap of the hibiscus story of a contemporary humorist supplies red and black. The juice

old clothes shop in a part of blues and a bluish-gray. When For Paderewski London ta quest of a pair of golf extremely dark shades of yellow of are desired, slaked itme is trousers, found himself compelled red Shanghai, July 13 (Reuter)-

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still pictures, in excellent condi of the Government will comply and social organisations and socie-company promoters, and the in- to produce a sheet of tapa 47 by Model No. 650 both for movies and tion with dead-beat accuracy?- with the Black-out Order 1940 on

ties, filled St. Joseph's Cathedral Ventors of weird contraptions, re- 18 inches. No two are ever made

the surgeries as mellow exactly alike. the night of July 21-22, 1941, but yesterday morning when a solemn gard

Rudolf Host, a New Yorker, was Used only a few times for taking. on the following nights restricted requiem mass was celebrated for pastures for their 'Stock Charm-

the late Paderewski.

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Ughting may be used, provided that the lights are 50 screened that ny light is thrown above the the British and American Consuls horizontal and the number and

General and, Adiniral Glassford, of their wares. intensity of such Bghts is reduced the US Navy.

to the minimum compatible with safety. All lights should be ex- tinguished immediately upon re-

JOB OF WORK

ceipt of an air raid warning and LONDON, July 19 (Reuter

Mr. Attlee Bald

.

two

kept extinguished until receipt of The Lord Privy Seat, Mr. C. R. the "Raiders Passed" signal. Attles, speaking to workers in 6. AIR RAID WARNINGS South Wales yesterday, said that (a) During the black-out, air from the humblest worker to the rnid warning signals will be Prime Minister, all had a job of sounded, and all road traffic must work to do in this war, ...stop and pull into the side of the

road, extinguish all lights, and things the Germans had not got, remain thus until the "Raiders a sense of justies and a sense of Passed algnal has been sounded, humour.

The Germans could knock down when they

resume their journeys, provided that their four balldings "but they could not. HIghts are obscured in accordance knock down our spirit,

may

with the Government Black-out Order of 1940.

We had

(All names in this article are fictitions).

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at present on camp maintenance and are asking the Labour Depart ment to Formulate other work not connected with the war effort,

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