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PEACE IN FRANCE

917 Reasons

Why New

War Is Taboo

BRITISH BODIES FOUND IN FRANCE THIS YEAR

A GRIM REMINDER During the past 12 months the bodies of 872 British soldiers were found on old battlefields in France, and 45 in. Belgium, according to informa- tion released last week by the Imperial War Graves Commis- sion in London.

OF

F the bodies, it was stat- ed, 437 were found by metal searchers, 287 by farmers, 111 by search par- ties recently organised by the French Government for clearing its own battlefields, and 82 by other agencies.

Of the 872 bodies recover- ed, 642 were found in the Somme region.

Gorman Memorials Negotiations have been almost completed for the erection, at the expense of the German authorities of headstones 011 German graves in British cemotories in Belgium, says the Commission.

The trees in the older ceme». teries have grown to such an' extent as to throw shade, this having enhanced the appearance of the cemeteries,

In Great Britain alone, there are 90,000 war graves in more than 9,000 cemeteries, extend- ing from the Shetland Islands in the north, to the Chantel Islands in the south.

Of the 1,101,890 names of Bri- tish Empire soldiers registered by the Commission, 587,119 dend have been identified and buried in known groves, while 517,771

are recorded as "missing."

Of the latter, 180,861 are miss- ing only in a technical sense. They have been found, but not

THE "HONGKONG NA TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1935.

KNOWN WARRIORS

NEW RECORD SEEKER

THEY ARE SOME OF The half whHO WERE FOUND. Elsewhere in France lica the bodies of 617,771 British soldiers, stíll posted as "Missing.”

TO MARRY

JOSEE LAVAL, only daughter of identified, and have been buried the Frauch Premier, and Count Reno as "unknown." On the Menin de Chambrun, who have been Gate alone are inscribed the engaged. Count de Chambrun is a names of 6,141 Australian "miss-lawyer in New York and is a relative ing."

to President Roosevelt.

Lawrence Was Tortured As A British Spy

PAIN WAS HIS ONE OBSESSION

"We had ropes about our necks, and on our heads prices which showed that the enemy intended hideous tortures for us if we were caught. Each day some of us passed."

AIR ACE PLANS

NEW FLIGHTS

CATHCART JONES TO FLY TO HONGKONG?

"I want Britain to be right on top of the commercial avin- tion, world."

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true meaning of a small paragraph which appeared in the personal column of The The Times a fortnight ago. This read:

“Lieutenant 0. Catheurt Jones re-į quires sponsor to finance building the world's fastest commercial aero- plane for nine special long-distance record fights in 1936-7 sheiving profitable return."

Lieutenant

Cathcart Jones made, with Mr. Ken Waller, the | record-breaking flight to Aus-

tralia and back.

Cinemas: Women: Radio The designs of this super

Are Some Of The Grouses

WHY HONGKONG PEOPLE HAVE MOODS THREE Hongkong people, in response to the article in Monday's issue of the Telegraph, have come forward with their grouses.

The 100 per cent. grouse comes from “A Reader," who says:

"Hongkong is full of dis-1 gruntled people. My only grouse ! is that I am sick and tired of istening to the grouses of other folk. If they're so fed up with! the place why don't they get out :| of it.

"If Home of these grousers would only stop to think, they'd realise that. on the whole, they've never been so well off.

"The women have all the ser vants they desire: they live a life of comparative luxury and they have nothing to do but gad about. Yet, to bear them, their cup of bit- terness is full.

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better.

Despite

Men are their point amenities and their high mode of living.-as-compared- with Bone (would the average London worker patronise the Hitz?) they Elo nothing but crumble."

Unbearable Women

IN LONDON

"Fed Up" had three grouses. { Princess Maria of Savoy, youngest daughter of the King of Italy, is time for Hongkong visiting the English capital. She was women. whom he considers anphotographed on a shopping expedi "ill-mannered, snobbish, unbear-

These are the words of Lawrence of Arabia. Two months after his death as humble Aircraft- man T. E. Shaw, his own vivid descriptions of has no some of his sufferings in the desert are to-day made available for the first time to the general public.

One of his most terrifying experiences was when he went spying in the town of Derna as a Circassian and was taken one night before the brutal Bey, who was in his bed in a nightgown, "trembling and sweating though with fever.”

When Lawrence refused the Bey's request, the Bey attacked him with a sword: ·

gradunt cracking apart of my whole being by some too great fire whose waves rolled up my spine till they were pent within my brain, to clash terribly together.

is men

"After the corporal ceased the took ust. very deliberately. giving me so many, and then an interval during which they would squabble for the next turn. This was repented often, for what may have been 110 more than ten

z should jable and selfish" lot; believes that |

tion in West-End.

Moods, it has been proved, afflict the average person in four-week cycles.

be given over to private interests "so that we can get some deeent `programmes on our radio during the summer months" and agrees with the grousers who say that the long-the University of Pennsylvania. kons Government should take kept records for two years of the Huetantions of the spirits of men employed in a great factory.

some action about noise,

The Cinemas

The third rouse comes from: "P.JW."

Professor Rexford

Hevsey, of

They Complained

He found a definite, regular re- currence of depression in every man, independent of the events "I know I am only going over of his life. "I thought he was going to kill minutes. me, but he only pushed my a "I next knew that I was being fold ground when I air my grouse," į

Men in

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machine are ready. The details of the nine long-distance flights are complete.

All that Lieutenant Cutheart Jones needs is for some air-minded benefactor to come forward with the money.

"First of all, I am determined It must be an all-British under. taking." he said. "At the mo ment I cannot divulge the route of the fights. That would be giving away secrets-but I do want to make it plain they will not be merely stunts with crack racing machine.

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"My conviction is that if my attempts are successful. Britain will be able to lend the way on the great commercial air router of the Empire.

"I am sick and tired of hear- Ing people say that foreign countries have belter machines than we have for commercial purposes.

"I am assured by the mankers of my super-machine-and the name also must be kept a secret that there is no doubl about the

прес capacity of the machine I have in mind for my project. An Important factor in that of time.

"I have come out right into the open now with my request for a sponsor, heenuse I want to have plenty of time to make the detailed |preparations before 1936.

require nine months at least for the manufacture and the leat ing of the machine, and I have fixed the date of the proposed |dights for 1936-37, because I don't want any repetition of what hap- pened in the Australia Air Race, when one of the machines WAS ready only ten days before race started.

Beating America

the

"I can say this: Оде оf the proposed records I have set my heart on beating is the American const-to-coast flight.

"It has been sald that the

American machines are the last word in aircraft. My acroplane, I belleve, would leave them stand-- ing.

"Six of the nine flights will be jover routes where there are exist-

ing records.

"I do not contemplate cross- ing the Atlantic because I don't think they will ever be n com- mercial sucселя"

As to the commercial aspect of the ventures Lieutenant Cathcart Jones has no doubt that he will show his financial backer-if he turns up a handsome prost.

"This is no hare brained scheme," ho said carnestly,

have in mind can be done the future of British commercial avin-

tho "down cycle" fold of the flesh over my ribs, dragged about by two men, each he says. "It concerns Hongkong's argued, complained about condi worked the point through after disputing over a leg as though to

cinemas, Daring the summer ons, wages, the Government, and considerable trouble and gave the split me. It

months, unless you have a motor and trouble at home. blade a half-turn. This hurt, and better than more Alogging."

ear to reach the beaches, they I winced while the blood wavered Dizzied By The Wind-

The same men in the "up cycle" The poignant

for provide the only amusement avail-' thing down my side and dripped in

were contented and angrumbling. in this Colony. While front of my thigh. He looked Lawrence was that pain of the able

A curious fact was that men in slightest had been his obsession patrons appreciate the cooling pleased."

terror from a boy.systems, they are certainly paying was due to low emotional energy.when I have shown that what

their mons slept better. This Then he set soldiers on the Seldom has 1 more terrible through the

neck for the con- At other times stored-up energy diminutive Lawrence:

account of torture ever been "They kicked me to the head | written.

[venience they provide. To ask a made them restless. of the stairs and stretched me This description of his torture

pay the equivalent of

One elderly man, who laughedtion will be assured." to it through one in- over a guard bench, pommelling did not appear in Lawrence's B. 3d.

at the idea of his being affected Two knelt on my ankles, Revolt in the Desert," but it was

different feature film and two or by "emotional energy cycles" was bearing down on the back of my in the fuller version of his history

three even more indifferent shorts shown that he had recurrent of the campaign in Arabia. knees, while two more twisted"Seven Pillars of Wisdom."

is little short of robbery. To in-periods when he never joked, was my wrists till they cracked, and!

Biet, on top of that, two trailers, reserved and introspective and Only a very limited edition of then crushed them and my neck the "Seven Pillars" was issued picture

an insult. Why can't these grumbled about, his employers.

people realise that, by against the wall.

when the book was published in providing rotten films at rich "The corporal had run down-1926 at 30 guiness. Coples of it prices, they are losing most of stairs and now came back with a have fetchell very high prices.their patrons, who are finding that whip of the Circassian sort, a Now his death has made it possible it's cheaper to and some thong of supplo black hide, round-to republish it, and it appears to-

me.

ed and tapering from the thickness)day at 808.

of a thumb at the grip (which was wrapped in silver), down to the

Jard point fluer then a pencil.

"Numbered The Blows"

The full text is far more thrill.

ing than the abridgement, which

Is concerned mainly with plain, narrative.

form of amusement."

other

Moody Person

At other times he was cheerful, easy going, more efflelent, and con- tent with his life.

Everybody grouses in Hong- kong at some time or the other.

You may call it the result of "of-days.

or "the blues."

"To keep my mind in control. "By day the hot sun fermented days", or "depression"

At night

I numbered the blows, but after us," he says, “and we wero dizzied twenty lost count; and could feel by the boating wind. only the shapeless weight of we were stained by dow, and pain, not tearing claws, for shamed into pettiness by the In- which I had prepared, but a numerable silence of ators."

Now science lins taken a hand- proved that moods arise without any necessary relation to what is happening in your life.

Another worker, known лв 1 moody person, was found to have a regular cycle of twenty-four In his "up-periods" he was an enthusiastic amateur painter in his spare time.

In the "down cycle" he spent his evenings in billiard saloons

and was given to cynicism.

When Lieutenant Cathcart Jones flea in the King's Cup air race in September, ong of his rivals will be Keimoth Waller.

Waller will fly a Percival Gull machine ́entered by Captain E. W. Percival, the designer, while-bleu- tenant Cathcart Jones will be in a Miles Hawk Major Trainer on- tored by Major G, W. G. Allen,

In the ning nights Lieutenant; Cathcart-Jones would

cover total flying distance of about 115,000 miles.

Three of the nine fights will almost certainly cover the route Campbell Black proposen to traverse this week, Le, to South Africa, to Hongkong and to Canada.

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