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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 ·.

OVER

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.

Miss Harris, whose parents have houses at Sharpthorne, Sussex, and In Philmore-gardens, Kensington, will then have travelled across Europe, Siberla, Manchukuo, Koren,

MARRY SOON

Japan, Dutch East Indles, Nepal, Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Ray- Tibet, Afghanistan, and Perala.

›imond, whose engagement was re-

home at Hollywood,

Now resting at Viceregal cently announced. The photograph Lodge, Simla, before starting of the happy couple was taken just on the last lap of her journey, after the announcement in Jeanette's sho has completed the first year of her travels by train, boat, acroplane, and on foot... with no luggage but a ruck- sack and no company but her

Own.

Miss Harris, who was presented nt Court in 1925, thinks þér adven- tures anything but extraordinary,

"I've lived so much from day to day", she told me, "never making plans until the last minute, never worrying except about immediate problems that ita difcult for me to think of the journey as a whole.

"I left London last August, and travelled thirst-close by train to

Moscow.

World Rabies Cause 408

Deaths

Geneva, Sept. 25. Human and animal bites, in- flicted on 118,062 persons, caused 408 deaths by rabies in 1933, a League of Nations study reveals.

The jaws of 339 dogs, 46 jack- "Then I crossed Biberin by the ls, 16 wolves and two cats were Trans-Siberian railway, travelling 'hard' class all the way. It wasn't mainly responsible, the investi- half as uncomfortable as you'd gation shows. Of 1,501 human think. We vere four in a car- bites, one death was recorded at riage, the others being an Amerl Kasauli, India. Another death was caused by a deep bite in the arm by a cow. Several hyena and DILL- leopard bites are also noted. gent search through the report, how- ever, fails to reveal any record of a man biting a dog

woman.

can, a Russian peasant and a Chinese. "In Manchukuo I travelled about by train and lorry, sleeping in native huts, and buying my food as I went along. Food

always rather n gamble, because I don't spenk Russian Chinese,

or

and everywhere I had to ask for every- thing by signat One becomes an excellent actrera when really hun-

Rry.

Was

IN ARMY LORRY "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 unying Jehol!' over and over again persuaded them to take me with them in an army lorry. There was fighting going on most of the time.

"Everyone-told-me--that I would

Some 1,244 cases were reported in New York and 443 cases in Paris, with no deaths. Europeans and non- Europeans, according to the statistics,

were victims of rabies to an almost equal extent, but deaths among mon- Europeans were about double those among Europeans.

Two cases of human raties occurred in Hongkong in 1933.

Dangers of Copying Ink Pencils

be shot, or at least run into bandits, INTENSELY POISONOUS but I'm still alive!

"The only time I was really The danger of copying ink pen- frightened was when flying out of cils was emphasised in a case beard Manchukuo in a tiny Japanese nero- in Glasgow Sheriff Court recently, plane. There was something the A Glasgow shorthand-typist, who matter with the exhaust, and the floor got terribly hot and then be gan to burn. However, we got down in time and the pilot put things right.

has been ill for more than nine years as a result of the point of a copying lead penell breaking off in her arm, won claim for workmen's 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 I get enor Ramsay Gray, of Station- out of it. Travelling alone has al-road, Millerston, compensation for ways been the thing I've liked best, total incapacity at the rate of £1 and I was determined to see the For Enst."

TOURIST

ability

ds. 8d. a week from June, 1933.

The Ministry accepted from the first, and had pald compen- sation until June, 1933.

In giving his decision, Sheriff Haldane said that all the surgeons who gave evidence confessed ignor-

Stocks, bonds, highs, lows and ance of the subject of copying lead ticker tape fled the mind of Sidney pencil poisoning until that case di- L. Schwartz, past president of the rected their attention to it. In- San Francisco stock exchange, delible pencils when the N.Y.K. Hiner Tatsuta violet dye, which was powerful and

contained

methyl Baru moved from her dock for the intensely polsonous. It allowed to Orient, Mr. Schwartz and his remain under the skin, it was highly

100 Telephone Calls

CAN IT ALTER

EVENTS?

40% Say 30% Say 30% Say

'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

cases.'

other

Of Course Possibly It Cannot know somthing about

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that yo 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 ovents, but arc afraid that their belief would not stand investigation."

I picked one hundred names out of the London telephone book last night, writes 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? Cari prayer atter events?

in every ense I got a frank and forthright answer.

Forty per cent, of the people to whom I talked stated their abso- Jute belief in the power of prayer to aller events.

Thirty per cent. believed that when faith is present prayers are answered.

Thirty per cent, including con- fessed Atheists, said emphatically that prayer, however fervent and sincere, has no power to alter events in any way, connat kill a single microbe in use of illness,

Half of those who expressed their absolute belief in the power of prayer as a healing agency men. Twenty of them bachelors.

"MY PRAYERS ANSWERED"

were were

Mrs. A., who lives in a fashionable part of NW, London, wns the first woman to whom I put my question. She said without hesitation:--

"certainly believe in prayer. believe that if we have faith prayers are answered.

I

our

"I have had experience of pray- ing for some one, for their re-. covery from Illness, and Dy prayers have been answered." Mr. C.. young Twickenham bachelor, said:

"Prayers can heal-if not from the religious point of view then through auto-suggestion. Mind is stronger than matter."

Mrs. N. B. Cameron, of The Pan- tiles. Temple Fortune, N.W.11.. said:-

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

"I prayed In my dining

room

this morning. I don't know yel It- my prayer has been answered or not.

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

Miss B., of Barnet: -

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

microbes; how can they affected by our prayers?

be

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

d man

lative

"These are questions which a man really asks without implety, and they are questions which a statistical Inquiry could

swer.

an-

940 Villages Engulfed By

Advancing Desert

14 Square Miles Claimed Every

4

Year In The Punjab

VEAR by year desert is claiming that rate of flow and the

stream

many miles of the fertile dis- drops Is burdens, first the boulders, trict of Hoshiarpur in the Punjab. then the Bloney and bajri,

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-ing 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.

JUMNA, GO FEET DEEPER

Rock debris can not only smother,

It hos overwhelmed nearly 940 villages with their 70,000 acres of fertile felds and seriously endanger- ed the headwork of canals, a ter- 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 sink for below Punjab in recent years (says the ordinary ground level, with dis- Calcutta Statesman).

astrous effects on the local drainage. The Hoshiarpur area to-day is n เอ Etawah (United Provinces) about chaos caused by the seasonal tor- 200 square miles of flat fertile coun- rents from the treeless Siwalk try, once covered, as history testi- range that have spread their desola-hes, with shady sal forest, lapsed tion of detritus (rock sand etc.), to into a scorching ravine-cut désert cover an ever widening area.

where even the hardy goat can bare- Forests in India act as nature's ly pick a living, The jungle was great "buffers" against the weather. cicared for felda, but these have now

ཐ་ They regulate and tame the force been caten

The Juman river too rupidly fed and destructiveness of rain, protect

away. the soil, bind earth and rock firmly from disforested hills along the and check the mad rush of water. western borders of the U. P., is fed

with water not merely

but with boulders and gravel and silt. The If deforestation proceeds as it is Jumna is anid to have sunk over 60 Inclined to do in the Panjab, we feet in the last 500 years, so it is shall have floods which will in cold weather level of flow is now crease in their destructiveness, anything from 150 feet to 200 feet The rivers will receive the mon- below the general level of the plains. soon water in one mighty burst;

haa resulted in excessive sub-soil flow will cease, and the drainage of the surrounding flelds, plain dwellers' fields and dried up wholesale drying up of wells, desic- wells will be choked with bajri cation and erosion.

UNCHECKED TORRENTS

and boulders from the denuded ravine-scarred hills.

This

.

A hill stream flowing at a certain OTHERWISE

rate can bear along with it stones of

the size of an

an egg, weighing between

that

one and two chattacks. Double rate of flow and it will sweep along boulders weighing about seven seers. Treble

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

THREE WIDOWS TO

FORFEIT

£34,000.

ON RE-MARRIAGE

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

Should a husband have the power to penalise his widow?

of China and Japast months four destructive of all living issues which THESE questions have again been raised as the result

encountered..

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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 £9,286, 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 estate 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 Northcote

ago, and, of course, I know, what Lodge, Abingdon, Berkshire, whose was in it. Agree with It? Of course estate was £16,407, left an annuity

I did." of 250 to ench 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, n Rugby auctioneer

and surveyor, revealed that his widow will lose the bulk of his fortune, estimated at £100,000, it she morrica. Ile left her an annuity of

£500 if she remarried.

WIDOW'S "I WON'T MARRY"

anyone

re

"Marry again at my age? Not likely. There will never be

else for me," said Mrs. Joseph Green-. wood, aged 02, when asked whether she intended to marry again.

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

to

#

Will "bans" against remarriage have always been strongly opposed by women's organisations.. Comments on the subject London reporter included:

Min Sylvia Pankhurst: I mould say that such men have

real love for their wives or they would with them to be happy in the future. Such conditions are a form of jea- lousy from the grave.

no

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

STALIN

Warsaw, Sept. 25.

These are some of the titles given to Stalin by the Moscow announcer on the radio during half an hour's talk tonight:---

Leader of the People, Father of the People. Our Father,

Our Sun,

Our beloved Josef,

Our great Stalin,

Stalin the Great,

Josef the Great,

Our great leader,

Our beloved leader.

The only true successor to Lenin.

Stalin's official Uue is "General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.9.R."

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