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THE LOST SQUADRON
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RICHARD DIX
MARY ASTOR : RODT. ARMSTRONG ¡DEL M.CREA DOROTHY JORDAN Directed by George Archalnhaud
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1932.
LUNG POWER
WHERE “AVERAGE” MEŃ AND
WOMEN FAIL
The extent to which the general population lags behind the Royal Air Force in lung power is illas- trated in a beries of respiratory
MAN WHO HELD UP AN EXPRESS
AND GOT A $10,000 CONTRACT
UNIVERSITY TUTOR
DEAD ON LINE
END OF A YEAR'S HOLIDAY
Sopt. 29.
A message written on a slip of paper and flung from a passing This is the story of a 'Birming-train at King's Langley station early this morning drew attention
tests which have been conducted ham business man who:
at the Middlesex Hospital, London, Held-up an express train travel-to the body of a middle-aged man by Dr. Alan Moncriat, the results ling at 60 miles an hour.... being compared with the accepted. Was fined £2 and 10 guinéas standards for the R.A.F., and pub-costs, but
"Lancet."
The measurements made were
lished in the current number of the i Won a contract for £10,000,
The man is Mr. John Guthrie two in each case the hoight to Sutherland, aged 62, who lives at which the patient could propel a Solihull, three miles distant from column of mercury by blowing. Knowle, Warwickshire. He is the through a tube, and the time for head of Messrs. John G. Sutherland which he could maintain the & Sons, Ltd, gas meter manufac. column at a height of 40mms, turors, of Ashton. (about 1.6 inches).
Brighton and Hove Corporation Acording to the Air Force stand-hand offered a £10,000 contract for ards the height reached should be the supply of gas moters over a
anything period of twelve months. 110mms. (4.4 inches),
balow 80thms. being taken to Indi ente respiratory inefficiency. The! time expected in the second test is between 50 and 60 seconds.
Dr. Moncrieff's average for 39 men, "all presumably healthy as regards their respiratory appara- tus," was 88mma, for the height test, with limits of 55 and 120mma; and for the time test 33 seconds, with limits of 15 and 50 sconds.
Eleven out of the 39 men failed to reach the H.A.F. standard of respiratory eficiency, and in the case of 64 women the proportion which failed was as high as 94 per cent., excluding a small number of patients who failed to co-operate Fully in the tests.
on the lac near Hunton Bridge.
Ho hud been decapitated. To-night he was identified by his wife as Ernest William Victor CHfton (48), a lecturer in Latin and Grook at Manchester Univer- alty.
Railway attendants and. police found his body on the down line, and his car on the roadway by the bridge 20 feet above.
In his pockets were £10 and a ticket for the Irish Sweepstake on
the Cesarewitch..
was
The car was seen on the bridge last evening, when a man noticed to be leaning over the Mr. Sutherland, hearing of the parapet of the bridge. It is be- contract, rushed to Knowle Station iloved, however, that he was not to try to board the 10.37 a.m, ex-killed ́until this morning.
Mr. Clifton lived at Meadow cursion train from Birmingham. He bought a half-day excursion ticket. Bank, Charlton-cum-Hardy, Man- The train docs not stop at chester. He was an Old Alleynian Knowle. The booking clerk said he and an M.A. (Oxon). could not-and would not-stop the train. Mr. Sutherland tried the signalman. No Access...
"If you don't stop the train", Mr. Sutherland said, "I will."
And he did!
The signals were all of; the train came round a bond, rushing along at 00 miles an hour.
which placed other people in dan-
ger.
The train, it was stated, was delayed for 12 minutes.
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Mr. Sutherland said he was glad
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he took the course he did and Mr. Sutherland stond in the per-secured the contract. "The generalisation that the Air manent way, waving his arms, hati "What was I to do?" he asked, Force average could be adopted and handkerchief.
"I found the train did not stop at for the general commanity would Tho driver saw him and blew Knowle, so I decided to take the seem, as the result of this small his whistle. Mr. Sutherland stood extreme course. investigation, quite unjustified," still. Thero was n screen, the "When the fireman got down Dr. Moncrieff comments. "Lungs grinding of brakes, and the train from the train he said he which might be regarded as in-pulled up, the engine almost touch-thought I was under the engine. ellicient for air pilots lying ating the man on the line.
"No one attempted to stop me high altitudes may still carry out As soon as the train came to a on reaching Paddington s0 ex: their functions perfectly for the standstill, Mr. Sutherland calmly civilian population," New civilian jumped into one of the carriages. standards are suggested, but some doubt is expressed as to the rella- When Mr. Sutherland was fined bility of the tests for clinical pur-at Solihull Police Court the chair- man told him that he took a risk poses.
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"Later I found out that I was misled about the train stopping at Knowle. It was a later train that was due to stop there."
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