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THE MODERN GIRL DEFENDED.

VIEWS OF ADMIRAL SIR ROGER KEYES.

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I don't share with some of my beration a horror of the modern 1," said Admiral Sir Roger yes after presenting the prizes St. Margaret's School, Bushey lerts).

"My war experiences were pretty ried, and will always have eat admiration for the girla ad women in the hospitals and unition fartorius, and in other aya who gave their services ost devotedly and in many cases ave their lives.

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"After the war there was a action, and must honestly von- sa a feeling that the boys and irls of the next derade ather rollers. Then came trike. I was at.in Enginni thon, at it simply Urilled ase to hear But the boys and girls were ont gain, willing to help their ountry.

"When you girls are 21-you will anve the voto, and it behoves you jo take 1 will not say politics-

the welfare of your country leeply to heart. Remember that ollertively you will have a very great influence on your enantry.

"My zulvice to you in to fit your lves to use the Vole. Of emurar, it is not given to everybody to be n Florence Nightingale or an Elith Cavell, but it is given to everybody to show unselfishness and willing. hesis to serve atal make the little world in which you live a happier place."

SURPLUS WOMEN.

HOW AN AMERICAN SEES THE SITUATION.

1 is a sipu of the times that "An Historical and Literary Stiply of Women in British bula-Tries and Professions 1832-18702 should he written by an American, and that American a woman,

Americans, it is said. "navadays delving on,a larper ecxio into the history of Endland Ban Englishmen themselves, and Mrs. Wanda Fraiken Noff, author of

Working "Victorian

Women," which is published, is a B.A. of the University of Minnesota, M.A. of Harvard, the wife of a professor In Columbia University, and r Jorter viting student at the universities of London and 1xford, She has also written a novel,

It is impossible to imagine an English stindent of the history of working women ingiaming her book with the sentence: "The working woman was ail, like 'P'uh' and Free Trade, a Victorian institu- tion." That is Mrs. Wanda Fraiken Sofl's beginning.

Mrs. Wanda Fraiken Neff is a Fively and entertaining writer, and, contrary, perhaps, to what many persons would expect, her book is as interesting as a good many nazel.

The redundant" women nown! days n into millions, but Mes, Wanda Frailton Neff oberves that the rensna showed that there were 365,159 of them in 1851.

The Idle Women" has a chapter to herself. Mrs. Neirates her review from the Restoration, when "women of the upper classes more and more gave up their homely activities for the fashionable show of sariety."

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, AUGUST 24th, 1929.

LONDON'S TRIBUTES TO HIS MAJESTY.

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His Majesty and several members of the Royal July 7 was observed throughout the country as a day of thanksgiving for the recovery of the King. Family attended the Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey, and thousands lined the rente along the Horee Gourda Parade and Whitehall.

picture shows the King and Queen, with the Prince of Wales, returning through Parliament Square. (Times copyright.)

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.

TRAPPED IN A SUB.

VIEWS OF A NAVAL EXPERT.

The week before Christmas, 1927. A little vessel pitched wildly to the wintry sens off the tip of Cape Cod, while a few cork buoya tied to a diving dose marked the spot, one hundred feet below, where the American submarine S4 lay. All the world during that sad week figuratively listened in on the Falcon's microphones as from the depths the feeble raps. of a hanimer beat out in dots,and dashes the last messages of the six men trapped inside the torpedo room of the smashed ubmarine. "Air geliling very bad. Please hurry." and, finally, "Is there any hope 7

The storm blew où; those in the Falcon listened helplessly; the men Inside.tlied. The storm at sca finally subsided. But another atorm arose-n storm of public opinion, which burst into the de- and that never again should such a tragedy be possible,

It is rational to expert that, so long as there are submarines, there will be submarine neeidents. A reasonable degree of prepara- tion therefore certainly war ranteil. One of the early ideas in submarine work was to provide a simple rig which the crew could hastily don in an emergency and escape, through # flooded eam- partment. On one of the German subpurines surrendered after the

found armistice wAN'

a booklet 'describing euch a device with an illustration showing the crew of a zunken submarine reated in f flooded room, each man wearing the breathing device and waiting. This turn is escape up the hatch.

A rezene breathing mask ins been developed in a novel and anch simplified form, consistíng pritsipaally of a rubber bag of the the eaparity of approximate haman lang, together with a mouthpiece for breathing, a muse lip for sealing the nostrils, a smal soda Une entridge for purifying the rebreathed air, and automatic vent valve. With this apparatus, under

conditions, HT 103 breathe under water

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the relatively short period required to rise to the surface, and enn 'then use the Indauled bag (pr

"lung" as a life promover.

The resente of the crew.uf a sunken submarine may be attempt ed in various ways- the erow may emerge to safety assisted by the *lung" or an ordinary diving helmet, leaving the boat on the bottom; or the boat may be lifted with the crew in it.

Submarines may sink from collision damage, from fallure of the

control mechanism, or, of course, from enemy netlon due to depth bombs or gunfire. Providing that the depth of water is not more than 300 feet (and this is likely in most cases of sub- marine operations) divers can work, and escape for the crew is possible.

If the boat is sunk by Booding at one end and the crew la left in possession of the control room midship. It is extremely probable that the crew themselves will he able to bring at least the unflood- ed end of their bout to the surface and thus escape from the bottom without external aid..

If a submarine in damaged in collision or injured by bombs or shells it is unlikely that the crew can raise any part of her unaided, If the boat is wholly flooded as a result of the damage, the erow will all be dead and (u penes time) there will be no need for haste in univnge.

The King's return to London after his long illness was marked by scenes of great enthusiasm. Changing into an open earringe near Albert Hall, the King and Queen drove through Hyde Park, and by way of Plecadilly, St James's Street, und, the Mall to Buckingham Palace. The whole of the 2% mile route was lined by dense crowds. Our picture shows the King and Queen acknowledging the cheers of the crowd in the Park near Hyde Park Corner. (Times copyright.)

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