1936-08-28 — Page 15

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1936.

Perfect Gas Masks by the Million

Baroness To Join

Atlantic Flight

Baronesa

BIL

Finre: Aritish-born racing motor- jet and air pitat, is soon to accompanĦ Kur ork- wall it nf- tempt to maki

rat zou-step fight from

New York to Stockholm

She i: the wife of dis- tinguished Swedish

hunter. Their

Jarm

18 Tan-

grams. 1/12 1 8 0

MILLIONAIRE

MUNITIONS CHIEF MR. B A NAVAL EXPERT

TWO NEW GOVERNMENT. MOVES IN DEFENCE PLAN

THE appointment of a Director-General of Munitions and a supplementary estimate of £850,000 for the pro- duction of 15,000,000 "perfect" gas-masks for the public are the latest moves in the British Government's defence campaign.

For a year experts have been designing a gas-mask which can be produced by mass production methods at a cost of about 2s. each. The designs have now been Japproved,

The mask, it is guid, will resist the strongest concentration of as for 15 minutes and normal gas conditions for four to five hours. It is to be manufactured in all sizes—for babies, school- children and adults.

The parts of the mades are to be purchase and adaptation of two exist niade by private firms under contracting factories at a cost of £57,000). to the Government, They will be assembled at Government factories in Manchester.

PUBLIC MAY TEST

Production will start soon and when Provkshot has, been made for the the first maska nre ready they will be distributed to local centres throught- out the country wendy for emergen- cles.

DEVIL'S

ISLE

NOT WANTED

BREEDS CRIMINALS

Paris, Aug. 15.

The pubile will be Invited to call at the depots to try on the masks İ and to receive Instruellan in their

ur.

Whitehall is at pudres lo explain that the production of gas masks now bears no relation to the recent un- settling events in Europe.

Money for the Air Raid Precautions Department and the civilian anti-gas

THE fate of Devil's Island, the notorious ex at Falcld, Gloucestershire, is French penal settlement in Gujana, is included in a supplementary estimate

for $4,008,250.

There is alon $100,000 for thej the balance.

it Secret Servicn

The United Frout, maintaining that is a blot on French justice, thinks it should cease to exist. M. Marius Moutet, Minister for the Colonies, declares that it breeds incorrigible criminals instead of discourage ing crime.

Mr.

MUNITIONS DIRECTOR

Asked For 'Discretion'

SO MRS. B

Asked For Decree

1 Mr. B. nelitious for divorce against Mrs. B, eling Mr. G, und

asks the court to exercise

la

cretion" In his favour, bas he made

an admission entitling Mrs. 15 to usk

for a decree?

THAT is the problem that Mr. Justice Langton had to tackle in the Divorco Court in London recently.

The names of the parties were not revealed.

Arguments advanced by Mr. C. L. Beddington on behalf of Ms. B, who appealed from a registrar's order striking out her cross-charge of misconduct -- That

denied her husband's charge of misconduct.

In asking that she be granted a decree she relied only on the fart that her husband had asked for the court's discreuón; she was un- able to give particulars of hi misconduct.

When a husband has committed misconduct and acknowledged it. his wife hns.a right to claim refier.

"NOT CONFESSION" Arguments advanced by Mr. P. 03. Mole on behalf of Mr. B That a husband's plea for "dis- cretion" was not a clear confessium of misconduct, There was nothing in the husband's prayer to the court to show that he was ennfestiny mis onettet. Mr. Justice Langton, giving his decision, said the fest was whether the allegation against the ba could stand without the support it received from the original petition. wife's allegation would fall to the He would be

be responsible for co-ground. ordinating and expediting the pro- The judge beld that the registrar's duction of munklans In accordance decision was right, and he dismissed with the Government's programime, the wife's appeal. Mr. WOL Thorne (Lab., Pialstow)

"In asked:

this! of anxiety in the Government about fighting forces will the Secretary of State for War tell us if the Govern- ¡ment law made up its mind when it

of war?"

Duff Cooper (Secretary, off War sald in the House of Commons recently that he In appointed Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Harold Engineer-in-Chier of the Fleet, to the past of

Brown

It has taken 80 genus for Franze to realise this, but of Munitions Productior-General If the petition avere discontinued, the

Jurder M. Blund's Gaverment tentative suggestion, te: (abolish the zettlement and pubotitute for at presents

equivalent to Dartmoor and Peterhead, have ehance, if becoming how than ever before,

BROKER'S

PREFERENCE

New York, Aug. 10.

MILLIONAIRE ROBENT GUTHRIE, Wall-street broker, to-day married thirty-one-year-old Dorothy Martin Smith, one of his 'clients.

34 3.

The system of transportation was branded in a private member's in 19 os morally bankrupt,

There are 6,000 convicts in the settement and each year 806 attempt to escape. Of these 500 are regular-

die in the Jungle or at sea.

entiseruener

Robot Heart

ly captured. Most of the remainder going to fix the date of declaration Lindbergh. To Show

HERDED TOGETHER

All transported felons-hardened erinials and men serving their first centeret--are herded together.

There was ab answer,

Sir Harold Brown has been En-| gineer-in-Chief of the Fleet since July 1032 when he succeeded Sir! He said: "She was the best-looking client I ever had, so I decided

The younger conviels degenerateReginald W. Skelton. He is 50. to make her a member of my domestle flrm. You know, we were both | to the "level" of the lowest of their before his promotion to engineer- caught short or taken uniwarest by Cupid.

I've tried most brands

of cigarettes

in my time now I've settled down to Craven 'A' because

They

r Vary!

never

IN EASY-ACCESS' INNER FOIL PACKETS, ALSO ̧IN “TRU-YAC” '50′ TINS/ When we cal, the TRUMAC ale-ith TIN the FACTORY. PRESHNESS of CRAVEN "A is securely imprisoned unill-the solie braken by pulling the rubber tano estierf NO biggið eðget.

Remember

companions.

CHAVEN

CRAVEN

4

VIRGINIA SIGARETTES

CRAVEN

CRAVENA

ARE MADE SPECIALLY TO PREVENT SORE THROATS MADE IN LONDON, ENGLAND, BY CARRERAS UTO

תי

World Experts

New York, Aug. 20. The "robot heart," designed

praplain in 1924 he was assistant y Colonel Lindbergh and Dr. naval attache at Washington. In Alexis Carrel, Nobel Prize win- 1927 he was made assistant engineer-ner, is to be demonstrated by. -chief at the Admiralty, and later the inventors, at the Inter- served as Firet engineer afleer on the sta of Vice-Admiral Sir Ernie Chat national Scientific Congress, held in the Atlantic Fleet.

opening at Copenhagen next Sunday.

Reno Slump

New York. Aug. 20. Something has gone wrong at Reno, America's easy-divorce capital,

Only 1,520. decrees have been granted there in the first seven months of this year-a consider- able drop compared with last

year.

In the same period there have been 3.881 marriages.

The invention is a maze of glass Tubing, in which, it is chained, Iving jorgans may dry away from this

Lindbergh and Carrel perfected it k the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

They hoped that by placing an organ, healthy or diseased, in the "robot heart," they would lay bare important secrets of natural pheno-

menu.

Both men are at present abroad. In their absence the invention has been in constant use by members of the research staff.

Babies

50 British "Exported" a Year

STRONG action is likely to be taken officially before the end of the year to put an end to a long-established "traffic" in British babies for adoption in Holland.

For some months, in a general inquiry into chill adoption in. this country, the Home Office has been paying particular attention to the question of the adoption of English babies by foreign foster- parents.

NETHERLANDS LAW

In the Netherlands there is a law against child adoption. As a result, it was stated at a meeting in London of the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her. Child. hundreds of couples have come to England in search of babies.

Dr. H. Surk, hon, general secre- tary of the National Federation for the Unmarried Mother in the Netherlands, said that much concern was felt for British babies 'so "ex- ported," 90 per cent. of whom werd the children of unmarried mothers.

There was no control over babics adopted by parents in the Nether- lands, for they retained their British nationality until the age of 21.

About 300 children were said to have been received by foster-parents in Holland already.

་་་

GOOD HOMES

Further Inquiries reveal that the exportation of British babies to the Netherlands has been much extensive. Reboredo

more

Among the Views expressed were: The Nilssion", of Hope, Incorporated, South Park-hill, Croydon.-Over 'a period of 20 years we have found homes in Halland for an average of 50 British bubles a year, and thero as rarely been cause--for-com- Paplaint: But we have now decided to stop such adoptions, because the children are very difficult to keep.

trace of in later years. The National Children Adoption Association.We have had 18 ap- plications from prospective foster- parents in the Netherlands during the past year, all of which have been refused. The laws against granting nationality to adopted children make conditions Hard when the children grow older. NOT RESPONSIBLE

The National Adoption Society. It is against our rules to accept any Dutch homes for British babies since adoption in that country is illegal, and the adopter is not -legally, Ilable to provide for Д

child.

The Homeless Chlidren's Ald and

Adoption Saclety-Wo have stopp ed sending children to Holland, al- though in every caso in our experl- ened the home found has been most Entisfactory.

י

It was stated at the Home Office |that the Committee on Child Adop- tion, of which Mies F. Horsbrugh, M.P.(Con, Dundee), "Is chairman, has not yet finished its sittings. If will be some months before its find- ings will be known.

даже венную

A feckless young lovely of Lepe Always purchased her toothbrushes cheap,

Jill she cried It's revolting

They're constantly moulting,

ot ek would have saved me a heap."

Perhaps you too have suffered the same distressing experience as this young lady! If so, it's time you tried a Tek. A Tek is worth every cent you pay for it because it lasts and because it's supremely efficient. Tek is the original short-headed brush designed by dentists. The special shape of the Tok head is 'protected' and cannot be copied. Shaped to match exactly the inner curve of your teeth, it cleans every crevice from behind. And the bristics can't come out-they are locked in. Incidentally they are made only of the best part of the best bristles.

Tek

the long-hved toothbruch

that encouraget lang-lived teeth

THE

FOR THE CHILDREN'S FIRST TEETH

Tek JUNIOR

The hygiene af the milk teeth is highly important The appearance and s

nes of the permanent teeth are greatly inducoved by ir.

TEK Junior is the only toothbrush made to fit ali the curve, of a child's jaw, andreachand clean all roul both front and back teeth.

JOHNSON & JOHNSON (GT. BRITAIN),.LTD., SLOUGH, BUCKS.

(2)

SWAN, CULBERTSON & FRITZ.

PHILLIPPINE MINING SHARES

As members of the

Manila Stock Exchange

we are able to render an exceptional service in these issues.

Cable quotations' are regularly received during trading hours.

Our Statistical Department will be pleased to answer any enquiries:

Telephone 30244.

Cable Address: SWANSTOCK. Suite 119-122, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building. Hongkong,

THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL

& SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Poking

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LIMITED,

PENANG.

2

The most fashionable

and

leading Hotel.

Finest position with magnificent

Sea-front.

Private Cars

Samo management-Crag Hotel, Penang Hills 2,400 ft.

Page 15Page 16