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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1936.

My Long Prayer Challenge Answered By

Round-the- World Hike' London Woman On Her Adventures

By MARGARET LANE

VER the London-

Simla telephone_line Miss Audrey Harris, a Lon- don woman, aged 30, told me how she plans to return home in a few weeks after a lone journey of 24,000 miles.

!

Mins Harris, whose parents have houses nt Sharpthorne, Sussex, and

In Phillimore-gardens, Kensington, will then have travelled across Europe, Siberia, Manchukuo, Koren,

MARRY SOON

Japan, Dutch East Indies, Nepal, Jeunette MacDonald and Gene Ray- Tibet, Afghanistan, and Persin,

mond, whose engagement was re- Now resting at Viceregal cently announecel. The photograph Lodge, Simla, before starting of the happy couple was taken just affer the announcement in Jeanette's on the last lap of her journey,

home at Hollywood. she has completed the first year of her travels by train, boat, aeroplane, and on foot- with no luggage but a ruck- sack and no company but her

Own.

Misa Harris, who was presented at Court in 1925, thinks her adven- tures anything but extraordinary.

Moscow.

World Rabies Cause 408

Deaths

"I've lived so much from day to day" she told me, "never making

Geneva, Sept. 25. plans until the last minute, never worrying except about immediate Human and animal bites, in- problems, that it's dimcult for me flicted on 118,062 persona, caused to think of the journey as a whole.

"I left London last August, and 408 deaths by rabies in 1933,` a travelled third-class by train to League of Nations study reveals. The jaws of 339 dogs, 16 jack- "Then I crossed Siberia by the uls, 16 wolves and two cats were Trans-Siberian rallway, travelling 'hard' class all the way. It wasn't mainly responsible, the investi- half

as you'd gation shows. Of 1,501 human as uncomfortable think. We were four in a car bites, one death was recorded at rlage, the others being an Ameri-

woman,, Kasauli, Indin. Another death a Russian peasant

was caused by a deep bite in the

Several hyena and arm by 'n cow.

and a Chinese, "In Manchultus I travelled about by train and lorry, sleeping in native huts, and buying my food as I went along. Food WHE always a gamble, because I don't spenk Russian or Chinesc, and everywhere I had to ask for every-] thing by signs! One becomes an excellent actress when really hun-

rather

Hry.

IN ARMY LORRY

2

"The British authorities warned me not to try to go to Jehol, as there was trouble with bandits and the Red army. However, I made friends with some Japanese soldiers, and by pointing and saying 'Jcholl' over

and over again persuaded them to také me with thein in an army lorry, There was fighting going on most of the time.

"Everyone told me that I would be shot, or at least run into bandits, but I'm still alive!

really

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100 Telephone Calls

CAN IT ALTER

EVENTS?

40% Say 30% Say 30% Say Of Course Possibly It Cannot

Therefore I say unto you, What things syever ye desire, when yo pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.-St. Mark xi., 24.

DR

R. W. R. INGE, former Dean of St. Paul's, talking of prayer at the Modern Churchmen's Conference at Oxford recently, said:-

"I believe that many would shrink from an impartial test be- cause they wish to believe that prayer can alter events, but are afraid that their belief would not stand investigation."

I picked one hundred names out of the London telephone book last night,' writes a Daily Express Staff Reporter. I took them at random, going through the alphabet. I tele- phoned to those hundred people, quoted Dr. Inge, put the question: "What do you believe? Cati prayer jalter events?”

in every case I got a frank and forthright answer.

Forty per cent of the people to whom I talked stated their abs0- lute bellef in the power of prayer to alter events,

Thirty per cent bellored that when faith is present prayers are answered,

Thirty per cent, including con- fessed Atheists, sald emphatically that prayer; however fervent and sincere, has no power to alter events in any way, cannot kill a single microbe in case of illness,

Half of those who expressed their nbsolute bellef In the power of prayer As a healing agency were men, Twenty of them were bachelors.

"MY PRAYERS ANSWERED"

Mrs. A.. who lives in a fashionable

leopard bites, are also noted. Dili- part of N.W. London, was the first gent search through the report, how- ever, fails to reveal any record of a man biling a dog.

Some 1,244 cases were reported in New York und 443 cases in Paris, with no deaths. Europeans and non- Europeans, according to the statistics, were victims of rabica to an almost equal extent, but deaths among pon- Europeans were about double those aniong Europeans.

Two cases of human rabies occurred in Hongkong in 1933.

Dangers of Copying

Ink Poncils

INTENSELY POISONOUS

"The only time. I was

The danger of copying ink pen- frightened was when flying out of cils was emphasised in a case heard Manchukuo in a tiny Japanese aero- in Glasgow Sheriff Court recently. plane. There

was something the A Glasgow shorthand-typist, who intter with the, exhaust,' and the has been ill for more than nine floor got terribly hot and then be-years as a result of the point of a gan to burn. Ilowever, we got down copying lead penel breaking off in in time and the pilot put things her arm, won a claim for workmen's right.

compensation against the Ministry of Labour.

"I have kept a diary. Why have

I done all this travelling? Ahl just

Sheriff Haldane awarded Miss

for the interest and pleasure getEleanor Ramsay Gray, of Station- toad, Millerston, compensation for out of it. Traveling along has nl- ways been the thing I've liked best, total incapacity at the rate of £1 and I was determined to see the Far 63. Bd. a week from June, 1933.

The Ministry accepted liability East"

from the first, and had paid compen- sation until June, 1933.

TOURIST

woman to whom I put my question. She said without hesitation:-

"I certainly believe in prayer. believe that if we have falih our prayers are answered.

"I have had experience of pray- ing for some one, for their re- covery from illness. and my prayers have been answered.” Mr.

young Twickenham bachelor, sald:-

"Prayers can heal-if not from the religious point of view then through

Is auto-suggestion. Mind stronger than matter."

Mrs. N. B. Cameron, of The Pan- tiles, Temple Fortune, N.W.LL., suid-

don't "I go to church but I believe in prayer, most definitely.

"I prayed in my dining room this morning. I don't know yet it my prayer has been answered or

·nol-

"Prayer gives strength to fight illness, helps towards recovery. I was a trained nurse before my marriage."

Mis B., of Barnet:

"You don't always get what you pray for. I don't agree that if arty one is very prayer can restore them. They can't always get better, can they?"

'How Can Prayer

Affect Microbes?'

Dr. INGE said:—

"I once had a letter from a good lady who said, I am pray- ing for your death. I have been very successful in two other.

· conts,'

"We know somthing about interobes; how can they be affected by our prayers?

"Is the husband of a loving and prayerful wife a better life from the point of life-insurance than no Christian re- who has no lative anxious for the prolonga- tion of his existence?

FUT

"There are questions which a nian really asks without impiety, and they are questions which a statistical Inquiry could swer.

GM-

940 Villages Engulfed By Advancing Desert

14 Square Miles Claimed Every

Year In The Punjab

bhiri,

YEAR by year desert is claiming that rate of flow and the stream many miles of the fertile dis-drops its burdens, first the boulders,

then the trlet af Hoshiarpur in the Punjab.

stones ind Eighty years ago this desert was and finally the sand and silt. but 75 square miles in extent, 40. Thus it is that hill torrents enter- years later it had been doubled, to-fing the plains are wont to choke day it is a waste area covering 700 their beds with boulder deposits and square miles.

rush off on a new and devastating course, not once but often.

It has overwhelmed nearly 940 villages with their 70,000 acres of

JUMNA 60 FEET DEEPER fertile fields and seriously endanger ed the headwork of canais, tor- Rock debris con not only smollier, rible lesson of the denudation of it can also eat away its own river forests that has taken place in the bed and cause it to sinkt far below Punjab in recent

ground level, with dis- years (says the ordinary Calcutta Statesman).

astrous effects on the local drainage. The Hoshiarpur area to-day is an Elawah (United Provinces) about chaos caused by the seasonal tor-200 square miles of flat fertilo coun- rents from the treeless Stwalk try, once covered, as history testl range that have spread their desola-fies, with shady sal forest, lapsed tion of detritus (rock sand etc.), to into a scorching ravine-cut desert where even the hardy goat can bare- cover an ever widening area.

UNCHECKED TORRENTS

Forests in India act ha nature's ly pick a living. The jungle was Igreat "buffers against the weather.cleared for flelds, but these have now They regulate and tame the force been eaten away. and destructiveness of rain, protect The Jumna river too rapidly fed the soil, bind cari and rock firmly from disforested hills along the and check the mad rush of water. western borders of the U. P., is fed

not merely with water

but with boulders and gravel and silt. The If deforestation proceeds as it is Jumna is said to have sunk over 60 inclined to do in the Punjab, we cold weather level of flow is now feet in the last 500 years, so that its shall have floods which will in- crease In their destructiveness. anything from 150 feet to 200 feet The rivers will receive the mon This

below the general level of the plains. bas resulted in excessivo soon water in one mighty burst; sub-soil flow will cease, and the drainage of the surrounding fields, plain dwellers' fields and dried up wholesale drying up of wells, desic wells will be choked

cation and erosion. with bafrl and boulders from the denuded

in hills.

A hill flowing at a certainOTHERWISE

rate can ben

can bear along with it stones of the size of an egg, weighing between ane and two chattacks. Double that rate of flow and it will sweep along boulders weighing about seven secra. Treble

that speed, after a heavy monsoon storm, and the torrent will transport massive rocks of over 100 maunds each or nedely the weleht of a couple of elephants. Check

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Should a widow be forced to lose the bulk of her husband's fortune if she remarrics?

Should a husband have the power to penalise his widow?

of the publication in London recently of four wills in which husbands have placed what amounts to a ban on the remarriage of their widows. Three wills published

were:

Mr. Joseph Greenwood, of Haslingden, Lancashire, who left £9,285, bequeathed all his property on trust to his wife during widowhood, and then equally" divided between his children or their issue.

Mr. George Williams, of Rectory-gardens, Cranham, Essex, an estato agent, who left £10,101, bequeathed £9,801 to his wife during widowhood, and the remainder to various charitable, or- ganisations.

Mr. William Teulon Blandford | husband made his will many years Fletcher, an artist, of Northcoto

ago, and, of course, I knew what Lodge, Abingdon, Berkshire, whose won in it. Agree with it? Of course estate was £15,407, left an annuity I did." of £50 to each of his children, and the residue in trust for his wife while she is his widow. On her death or remarriage the estate is to go to the children.

The will of Mr. Francis John" Whit- lock, Rugby auctioneer and surveyor, revealed that his widow will lose the bulk of his fortune, estimated at £100,000, if she re- marries. He left her an annuity of

£500 i she remarried. WIDOW'S "I WONT MARRY"

“Marry again at my age? Not likely. There will never be anyone elke for me," said Mrs. Joseph Green- wood, aged €2, when asked whether she intended to marry again."

"I knew all about it and it was no surprise to me,” she stated. *My

Will "bans" against remarriage have always been strongly opposed by women's organisations.

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Comments on the subject to London reporter included:

Miss Bylvia Pankhurst: 1. should say that such man-have real love for their wives or they would wish them to be happy in the future. Such conditions, are a form of jea- lousy from the grave.

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Mrs. Seaton-Tideman, the sccro- tary of the Divorce Law Reform Union: A wife should be protected In the sense that she should have” a part of her husband's estate, and the husband should not have the vantage of giving the whole of his money away, thus leaving. her pen-

niless

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Leader of the People, Father of the People.

Our Father,

Our Sun.

Our

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Our great Stalin,

Stalin the Great,

Jaset the Great,

Our great leader,

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The only true successor to Lenin.

Stalin's ofejal tille Is "General

Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R."

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