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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER
1921.
NOTICE.
A CHANNEL SWIM ASPIRANT.
Henry Sallivan Seeks To Emulate Webb And Burgess.
Henry F. Sullivan, aged 23.
is in England preparing to make his fourth attempt to swim the English Channel.
"Henry is going to succeed this time." says Mr. Thomas B. Sallirap. of Lowell (Mass.), father of the long-distance
"I don't see how my boy can fail this time. He bas that's necessary for
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"li aver man was in the prime of his strength, Henry is. "He has a natural swimming physique. He weighs pounds and endurance.
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My boy hasn't any bad habite He smokes a cigar
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Sullivan made his first attempt to swim the channel in 1913. He started from North Foreland. He was in the water 10 bours. He travelled a distance of about 35 miles,
his goal, being in the water 18 hours. He battled with the backwash for seven hours be
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was within five miles of the French coast before he had to give up.
In 1914 he again planned to start his swim from Dover, The war broke out. The cban-- nel was filled with new mine dangers. He called it off.
He made IWO trials in 1920. The first attempt carried him within three and one-half miles of France. He was in the water 19 hours. His second trish was the bitterast fight he bas ever made. He was with in two and one-half miles of
the pilot boat.
Only certain weather condi- tions and tides will permit the channel to be conquered by a human swimmen-
Captain Webb was the first man who swam the channel. He accomplished it in 1875. But Webb started from the Admiralty pier, which extends a mile and a quarter out from land. Strictly speaking, Webb did not
entire swin the distance.
The channel is 26 miles wide at its narrowest point.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
Continued from page 1
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
Geneva, Sept. 23.
STRAIT OF DOVER
CAPE GRIS NEZ
Webb was wined and dined after his triumph. Later be went to America and metdesth going over Niagara Falls in a barrel The barrel was dashed to pieces on the rocks.
The feat was accomplished in recent years by T. W.
Burgess.
Sollivan swims with the breast stroke. He is five feat sx, having a stocky build.
THE COCKTAIL HARIT.
A Medical Warning. **M.D" writes to the Times --- "Medical men whose practice brings to them patients suffering from disorders of digestion are Ending that some of these patients
The Sixth Committee adopted unanimously a combined resolu-habitually drink cocktails before tion by Lord Robert Cecil and Mr. Schanzer asking the Military meals. In certain cases, not one Commission to draft general proposals on the reduction of bat several drinks of the kind are armaments for submission to next year's Assembly. The resolution taken. It is explained by the resulted in a lively debate in which Mr. Fisher, Mr. Schanzer and patients that without this form of Lord Robert Cecil participated.
stimulation appetite is not abarp "The basis of the cocktail is in
rounding the problem."
THE SOYA BEAN.
London, Sept. 23.
The Committee then discussed the Russian famine. Dr. Nansen vehemently denounced the "deplorable political atmosphere nearly every case gin or whisky
He fatly denied the rumour that one
-to which, as an invariable rule. of Mr. Hoover's food trains was pillaged by Soviet troops and he
other liquors-notably vermouth declared that the American relief organization was now feeding
are added. three million children instead of one million. Lord Robert Ceciland darouringe- warmly upheld Dr. Nanson's agreement with the Soviet which he So the finished article is really considered thoroughly satisfactory. He urged the committee to a mixed drink. Apart from this disadvantage, the effect of many express its approval of the agreement. Mr. Fisher wound up the of these cocktails on a man who debate by declaring that Governments were not able directly to has not yet eaten must be severe. assist relief schemes.
He may even begin his meals in a more or less unsober stale.
"One does not require to ba sị doctor to appreciate the evit effects of this on the compar. atively delicate process of diges "It is a matter of the highest political importance that the West tion. The appetite created is a should learn the lesson of cheaper living as taught them by the East false one and is due to the setting in the adaptation of the soya bean as an article of food. Given the up of what are known as "hunger existing situation on the Continent this is the only real solution of pains" or contractions. The food which is subsequently exten the problem of reconstruction." says a statement made to the Times
cannot afford the nourishment Vienna correspondent by Doctor Berczeller, a young Hungarian who which is aimed at. The habit, in{ is experimenting with soya as food. Berczeller claims to have short, if carried to any excess, is i succeeded in creating three foods, namely, bread, flour and milk in apt to be ruinons from a healtn which the biological factor is taken into account. This "manna" ipoint of view. Unhappily i bread is the cheapest in the market, is very palatable and is easily seems to be growing. I am told digested, while manna milk is very similar to cow's at one-sixth of too, that it is customary to serve the cost. He suggests that these foodstuffs are suitable to combat cocktails, to the young people the Russian famine owing to their cheapness and compactness and who go to some of the afternoon speediness of production while the diffusion of these foodstuffs would tea-dauces in London and that lead to the permanent cultivation of sora in the Ukraine which in this way girls are developing
a taste for them " would be very important to the future provisioning of Europe. ·
OPERATIONS IN ANATOLIA.
Symrna, Sept. 23.
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the evil of excessive indulgence sulted to-day said that, in com- Englishmen must have appetis
in cocktails, now that it has been
of discussion at almost every
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alcoholic ere, they should stick to their
sherry and bitters, which is
parison with other Reviewing the operations in Anatolia during August it is now realised, in arousing anxiety in the dricks cocktails possessed three
specially bad features:-
far less harmful than American evident that the Greek offensive failure cost a beavy sacrifice. Their public mind. It is forming & topic
cocktails.” Americans are not right wing was too extended when it crossed the River Sakharia and luncheon and dinner table, and the (1) An extremely high per-
startled to learn that cocktails are the Turks attacking drove back two divisions in disorder with heavy consensus of opinion is that the centage of alcohol.
1 finding devotees among English loss including most of the artillery. The Greeks were completely hbit constitutes a threat the mo
(2) They are always taken at girls. Young Americas women held by the Turkish second line whereupon the Turkish counter-ment it is allowed to exceed the the wrong time; that is to say. began to indulge la cocktails some just before a meal, when the time ago, and since, the coming offensive developed with considerable and unexpected reserves strictest moderation. against the exhausted Greeks whose general staff, after a hurried Some people are prepared to go stomach is empty.
| prohibitiva drinking among young. (3) They over-stimulate the ap women bas steadily increased. council of war, decided to retreat behind Sakbaria. It is estimated farther than this, and to look on that the Greeks lost twenty-five thousand men in the desperate cocktails as an evil in themselves.petite, and result id over-eating.
Dr. Fisk considers that the This view is not, however,a gener-i ‘A further minor feature, but main reason is that alcohol bas fighting. The Turkish losses were also very heavy.
alone. The New York comes one of some importance, is the the effect of weakening the will pondent of the Times states that fact that the cocktail is a mixture power, and loads to increased people in America take the ques of several drinks.”
indulgence. tion seriously, though we bad Dr. Lyman Fisk, bead of understood America was a pro- the Life Extension Institute, BILL SIKES AND FAMILY? London, Sept: 28.
hibition country,
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