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THE HONGKONG® TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1936,

Perfect Gas Masks by the Million

Baroness To Join

Atlantic Flight

Baroncas

Blixen Fineck, British - barn zacing motor- ist and air pilot, Is noon to accompan

Kurt Bjork- wall in

at-

tempt to make first non-stop flight froin

New York to

Stockholm. She 1 the wife of d£9- tinguished Swedish big-game hunter. Their farm in Tan- panyika an 180 miles from the station.

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 far 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 approved.

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Asked For 'Discretion' MRS. B Asked For! Decree

If Mr. B. petitions for divorce against Mrs. B, eling Mr. G. and asks the, court To exercise "ls-

eretion" in fils favour, has he made

an admission entitling Mrs. 13 to ask

for a decree?

THAT is the problem that The mask, it is said, will resist the strongest concentration of Mr. Justice Langton had as for 15 minutes and normal gas conditions for four to five to tackle in the Divorce hours. It is to be manufactured in all sizes--for babies, school-Court in London recently.

children and adults.

The parts of the muska are to be purchase and adoptation of two exist- made by private firms under contracting factories at a cost of £37,000. to the Government. They will be assembled at Government factories In Manchester.

PUBLIC MAY TEST Production will start soon and when | Provision has been made for the the first musks are ready they will be distributed to local centres through- nut the country ready for emergen-

DEVIL'S

ISLE

NOT WANTED

BREEDS CRIMINALS

Paris, Aug. 15.

THE fate of Devil's Island. the notorious French penal settlement in Guiana, is in the balance.

The United Front, maintaining that it

is a blot on French justice, thinks it should

It has inken 80 years for France to realise this, but under M. Bhina's Government tentative suggestions to abolish the settlement and substitute for it prisons equivalent, to Dartmoor 'and Peterhead, have a better chance of becoming law than ever before.

cies.

The public will be invited to call at the depois to try on the masks; and to receive instruction. In their

Whiteball is at pains to 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 school at Folfeld, Gloucestershire, is incluried in a supplementary estimate

for £4,000,250.

There is also

| Secret Service.

£100,000 for the

MUNITIONS DIRECTOR

Mr. Du Cooper (Secretary of]

The names of the parties were not revealed.

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Arguments advanced by Mr. C. L. Beddington on behalf of Mrs, D, who appealed from a registrar's order striking out her cross-charge of misconduct:--- That she denied her husband's

charge of misconduct.

In asking that she be granted a deeree she relied only on the fact that her husband had asked for the court's discretion; she was un- able to give particulars of his misconduct.

When husband has committel misconduct and acknowledged it, his wife has a right to claim relief,

"NOT CONFESSION" Arguments advanced by Mr. P. B.

Morte on behalf of Mr. B That a husband's plea for "dis- cretion" was net a clear confession of misconduct. There was nothing in the husband's prayer to the court to show that he was confessing misconduel. Mr. Justice Langton, giving his

cease to exist. M. Marius Moutet, Minister war fald i the House of Commons decision, said the test was whether for the Colonies, declares that it breeds recently that he had appointed the allegation against the husband incorrigible criminals instead of discourag-Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Harold could stand without the support it Brown, Engineer-in-Chief of the received. from the original petition. ing crime.

Fleet, to the post of Director-General If the petition were discontinued, the of Munitions Production.

wife's allegation would fall to the Ile would be responsible for co-ground. ordinating and expediting the pro- The judge held that the registrar's with the Governnient's programme, the wife's uppeal. Mr. Will Thorne (Lab, Plaistow) asked: "Im consequence of this anxiety In the Government about There are 0.000 convicts in the fighting forces will the Secretary of settlement and each year 890 attempt State for War tell us if the Govern- to escape, Or there 500 are regular-ment has inade up its mind when it ly captured. Most of the remainder die in de jungle or at sen.

MILLIONAIRE BROKER'S

PREFERENCE

New York, Aug. 10.

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

He said: "She was the best-looking cllent I ever fund, so I decided to make her a member of my domestic firm. You know, we were both caught short or taken unawares by Cupid..

I've tried most brands

of cigarettes

in my time-now I've settled down

..

to Craven 'A'

because

Vary!

They never

IN 'EASY-ACCESS " INNER | FOIL PACKETS, ALSO (:

IN “TRU-VAC” '50' TINS When we sul the TRUVAC dedight TIN the FACTORY

PRESHNESS of CRAVEN"A"

fa

■ securelv imprisoned until the

real, is brokeń ky dulling the rubber tabwno culZCY 7

no

Remember

The system of transportation was branded in a private member's Bill In 1934 as morally bankrupt.

All

HERDED TOGETHER transported felons--hardened criminals and men serving their first sentences-are herded together,

The younger convicts degenerate to the level of the lowest of their companions.

CRAVEN

VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

CRAVEN

CRAVENA

ARE MADE SPÉCIALLY TO PREVENT SORE THROATS MADE IN LONDON, ENGLAND, BY CARRERAS LTD

CRAVEN

CABRERAB-LIMITED

CRAVEN

VIRSHNA CIGARET

duction of munitions In accordance decision was right, and he dismissed

is going t to fix the date of declaration

of war?"

There

Robot Heart

Lindbergh To Show

World Experts

was no haswer. Sir Harold Brown has been En- inter-in-Chief of the Fleet since 1032, when he, suedeeded Sir

New York, Aug. 20. Reginald W. Skelton: He is 58.

Before his

his promotion to

The "robot heart," designed to engineer- cuptain in 1934 he was assistant by 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 in-chief at the Admiralty, and later the inventors at the Inter- served in Fleet engineer officer on the

staff of Vice-Admiral Sir Ernie Chat- national Scientifle Congress, fteld 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

enpital.

Only 1,520 deerees 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 tabing, in which, it is claimed, living Organs may grow away from the

Lindbergh and Carret perfected it the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

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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,

50 British Babies

"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 child 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. Sark, hon. general, secre- Lary of the National Federation for the Unmarried Mother in the Netherlands, sald that much concern was felt for British babies so "ex- ported." 00 per cent, of whom were the children of unmarried mothers.

There was no control over babies 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-patents In Holland already.

GOOD HOMES

Further inquiries reveal that the exportation of British bables to the Netherlands has been much mare extensive.

Among the views expressed were: The Migston of Hopo, Incorporated, South Park-hi. Croydon-Over a period of 20 years we have found homes in Helloud for an average of to British bables a year, and there. has rarely been cause for com plalat. But, we have now decided to stop auch adoptions, because the children are very difficult to keep

trace of in later years. Children The National

Adoption Association-We have had 10 op- 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 liable to provide for a child.

The Homeless Children's......Aid and Adoption Society.We have stopp-. ved sending children to Holland, al- though in every case in our experi- ence the home found has been most ; satisfactory!

It was stated at the Home Office that the Committee on Child Adop- M.P. (Con., Dundee), le chairman, ∙tion, of which- Miss F: Horsbrugh,

has not yet finished a sittings. It will be some months before.its and- Inge will be known.

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·JOAK DENNYS

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A feckless young lovely of Lepe

·Always purchased her toothbrushes cheap.

Jill she cried It's revolting They're constantly moulting. A Jek 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 Tek 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 bristles can't come out-they are locked in. Incidentally they are made only of the best part of the best bristles.

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