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·THE· · ·HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH... THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 201 1934.

AMAZING FEATS.

OF MEMORY

NO PROOF OF HIGH INTELLECTUAL LEVEL

BY THORPE BEVAN

sticks in the mind, and, what is more, it can be recalled without an effort years afterwards,

It used to be thought that memory lived exclusively in the brain, but modern science holds that it is a matter of the whole nervous How early in life does memory system. "In every nerve cell there begin? Some well-known men gave in memory," said Dr. Maudsley. their experience in this connection In other words, we remember with some time ago. Mr. Lloyd George our bodies as well as our brain. said that he could distinctly re- Our hands, for instance, remember member an incident that happened. how to grasp the knife and fork at at his home in Pembrokeshire when meals without our conscious he was two. Sir Robert Horne thought.

said that he could not have been

A good memory is a useful thing:(more than that age when a little but it is not a sign of great In-sister was born, and he remembered tellectual power. People of poor the fuss consequent on the arrival mental capacity, and even the quite well. definitely foeble minded, have Incidents that came to Dama before now displayed prodigious when they were not more than memories. This has been explain three years of Age were recalled ed by the fact that, having no by Sir Austen Chamberlalu and capacity for higher thought, thair Sir John Simon. minds are free to grasp and retain details which normal peoplu would forget. An inmate of Earlswood Asylum could repeat a whole page of a newspaper after hearing it read through once.

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felony. His defence was an alibi. Ho said that at the time the crime mitted he was altting in his friend's There are many curious aspects cottage listening to his recital of a Workmen on board the vessel foreseen this also beforehand, and it was impossible for anyone to be of this business of remembering short story by well-known author, are keeping a lookout for another had erected his shelter in such a down there, and it was with a sigh| and forgetting. People with the which he could repeat word for deserter, who is understood to have position that he was supplied with of relief that he heard them go to best memories have said that they word. His counsel was very doubt- accompanied the German on his a pontiouous current of air, which another part of the vessel. are able to call up a visual image ful about such a defence but deem- escapade. The two men arrived at found its way to the bottom of the BOTTLE OF BARLEY WATER of what they want to remember. ed It beat to put it to the test.

The soldiers thon left the vessel A noted blindfold cheas-player The man of memory was sont for the vessel together, but it is not cargo between the masthead indider

apparently satisfied, and after the said that he could see in his mind's and told what was required of him, known whether the second succeed- and the mast.

If so, it is im- How the man's plans pearly went cargo waa completed the vessel put eye the different boards on which With a preliminary cough he ated in boarding it.

was playing a dozen games once plunged into the story, and it possible that he can be alive, as he astray, and how after the vessel out to sea: After a day at sea, munt lie, burled under tons of had left Arzeu for four days and when the vengel was near Gibral simultaneously. These mental was soon seen that he could repeat Images changed with every move. the whole. He went through the sparto grass, which formed the returned when he was on the point tar, the man, after great difficulty,

vessel's cargo.

of showing himself, is an interest-managed to climb out of his hid- Lord Macaulay, when he was re- feat again in Court, to the stupe-

The German boarded the vessel ing story." The vessel encountered ing-place and made his presenco peating without a mistake passages fnction of Judge and jury, and the from book he had previously result was what barristers are fond exactly a fortnight ago, and he bad weather during the loading of known to the captain. He still had evidently planned his escape the cargo, and it was deemed ad-wore hls Legion uniform and im- read, admitted that he had before of calling "a galloping acquittal."

a long time ahead, ns he was visable to leave the port and an-mediately asked for food, stating his eyes an Image of the page und

equipped with a chart showing how chor out at sen. The bad weather that he had survived the five days column containing theso passages,

long it would take a vessel to get continued for four days, and all with nothing but a bottle of barley THE PAINTER'S GIFT

out of French territory. When be that time the stow-away imagined water to sustain him. showed himself five days after that he was licing borne further The captain immediately gave him. This is akin to what we venture

cull "professional" memory. Just as the chess-player can "see" the boards on which he

he

to

may

is conducting various games, the artist retains and calls up at will the image of what he wishes to draw. Dore and Vernet could paint faithful portraits entirely from memory, and J. M. W. Turner did i even more striking fenta.

His friends said that

after

ALBANIA AND BALKAN PACT

latanbul, Nov. 11. Albania is expected soon ́to join

carefully studying a ship, he would the Balkan Paet.

go home and make a drawing of it

Following the rapprochement be

with every rope and apar in the Bulgaria and Yugo Slavia

right place. The professional musician often hus a repertoire of hundreds of pieces which he can play correctly without notes,

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in

the

this would mean the complete Italy's influence elimination of from the Balkan Peninsula.

According to reports of the Tur- kish press from Athens, Tsaldaris, Just ne the eye helps the memory, the Greek Premier, on behalf of so does the cur. It is much easier the Turkish and Greek sponsors, is to learn a piece of poetry by repeat-planning soon to undertake a trip ing it aloud to oneself than by to Belgrade and to Bucharest simply reading it silently. The order to pare ear, like the eye, has a memory of adhesion of Ahmed Zogu's kingdom

the way for

Its own.

to the Pact.-United Pyesa, To enlarge upon this. Erasmus, Darwin and Professor Fenchtersle- ben agree that people wito have been blind for years never dream about seeing, nor do people who have long been deaf ever dream about 'hearing.

One more curious Instance of "eye-memory." A famous author confessed that he was hopeless at

Escape From Foreign Legion

reading his proofe for printers GERMAN DESERTER

TELLS HIS STORY

errors and so on because, in spite of himself, his eye always saw the print as it ought to have been, and

not as it actually was.

FATIGUE EFFECTS

COMPANION MISSING

Speedy rescus work saved the occupants while flames spread through shops and dwellings in Tongshan

·Road, Shanghai, racently. A scene of the burning block is pictured above.

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NINE LAYERS OF BALES

secreting himself on the vessel, it and further away from French food, and the crew showed great is understood that the ship was territory.

kindness to the stowaway. only about five hours outside off On the fourth day the vessel re- He offered to help in their work Hurned to the port to continue the and was given a job in the galley. French territorial waters.

The man hid under bales at the loading, and the man was on the where he assisted the cook. He mast-head, where a space is loft point of leaving his hiding-place told the crew that he had served during the building-up of the car when he heard voices. They be four out of his five years in the go. He had climbed down into the longed to an officer of the Legion Legion. space and built the bales. over and two gendarmes, and Im- He stated that another man had himself.

mediately he realised what had accompanied him in his bid for French soldiers freedom, but he did not know what happened. The hod discovered that two legion-had happened to him after they The next morning more cargo aires were missing and boarded the reached the ship. When he landed fatigue. Try learning a piece of The thrilling adventures of poetry by heart when you are very German deserter from the French was built on top of him, and when vessel to carry out a search. They at Granton he was still cind in the the operations were finally com-were assisted by the chief officer picturesque garb of the Foreign tired, and the memory fails to re- Foreign Legion, who stowed away pleted about 30 heavy bales were and the chief engineer, and at one Legion. His belt, however, had tain the lines. After the refresh-on board the steamer Ulmes at thrown down on top of him. Thus time the five of them stood on top been lost in the grass, and there ment of a night's rest they are Arzeu, Algeria, were related when the man was imprisoned under of the narrow shaft where the man was great competition among the easily committed to memory. In that vessel reached Granton.

jerew and dock labourers to gain the same way an actor, learning a The man was handed over to the over nine layers of bales, and it lay hidden.

He heard one of the man say that 'possession of it. part in a hurry for a special per-immigration authorities, and it is was fortunate for him that he had formance, soon forgets it. A part expected that he will be taken to mastered after several rehearsals his own country in a few days.

Like all other parts of the system,

the memory can suffer from

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