1936-12-01 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. : . TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1936.

Mother-Love Of Ex-Queen Ena

Wins Life for Her Dying Son

When the Next War Comes

GIRLS AS. BOMBING PILOTS

CALM

*ALM 'facòd girls at the controls of 300 m.p.h. bombing planes; women acting as gas instruc- tors; mobilized into a well-trained, determined and formidable forco

This is the picture of the part women may play if and when Britain is faced with a great national emergency.

It is conjured up by Commandant Mary Allen, O.B.E., who, once an imprisoned suf- fragette, has since the war organised women police forces all over the world.

Their job at the Front

She is now the head of the Women's Reserve, which

is being organised, to maintain^national services in time of emergency.

Hever

Delicately bred women who had

DIR- ,viously done hard physical work, tackled without warning the problems of driving big lorries, farm 'laboating, making high explosive shells and nursing

min_with_terrible wounds during the last war.

"Everybody to-day acknowledges the certainty that the next war, should there be another, will not be fought on the same lines as the last,” she|

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"Nearly every European country has or- ganised, in some form, what may be called a Women's Army, though not necessarily for actual fighting."

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In her book. ""Lady (Stanley. Paul, 18s.) Commandan Allen says that, there, Is not the slightest doubt in the minds of com- petent military authorities in Europe now that women will have to be user

and will alfinst certainly be enlist- ed for betual worit at the front its the next gal war

"Women once forced to fight to defend their, offspring, might send overboard, the whole system of rules and regulations

which modern wars are waged," she says.

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Stalin's "Peace In the Other World"

Moscow, Nov. 18. Stalin har sent a Shavian reply from the Kremlin to a foreign correspondent In Moscow who asked him:

"Are you dead?" Stalin's Jeller reads:

"As far as I know from the foreign Press, I left this sinful work a teng time ago and settled in the world beyond,

"Sinco one cantos doubl" such foreign Press dispatches unless one, ivanta to be trossed off the list of elvilised people, I request you to believe them and, not to disturb my peate in the other world. (Signet) Stalin."-Reu

This strange machine completes the weaving of 1.640 miles of world's largest hollow cable to transmit Boulder Dam power from the Colorado Valley to Los Angeles, across miles of desert and mountains.

HERORDEAL AT COUNT'S

BEDSIDE

ROYAL mother, who helped doctors to save her, son from an apparently in- curable disease has just arrived in London, ̈almost worn-out by her sick-room ordeal.

She is ex-Queen Ena of Spain, who has nurse her eldest son, Count Covadonga, to a miracle recovery from hæmophllin-uncheckable bleeding a disease that has beset the Bourbon Royal Family for generations.

The New York doctors who, as a last resort, injected the Count with deadly snake venom, are technically-responsible-for-the Count's-eure.

But they consider that just as valuable was the devotion and, encouragement of ex-Queen Ena, who sat long hours at the sickbed. Three

have passed since Count years Covadonga set all Europe talking when he re- nounced his claims to the Spanish Throne in order to marry beautiful Edelmira San Pedro Ocejo, 27-year-old daughter of a Cuban sugar planter. Even at the time of his romantic mar- riuge the Count was suffering from hæmophilia. Urgent Blood Transfusion

But soon the Count and his bride separated. Following this separation the Count again suffer- ed an attack of hemophilia.

NEW EMPIRE AIR SERVICE

TO BE POSTPONED

Sensational Statement By

Australian Minister

OWING TO THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE COMPLETION

OF THE EMPIRE FLYING-BOAT CONSTRUCTION PRO- GRAMME. HY BRITAIN, IT HAS BEEN DECIDED TO POSTPONE INAUGURATION OF THE SERVICE UNTIL JANUARY, 1938,

This sensational announcement was made at Can- berra by Sir Archdale Parkhill, Minister of Defence, according to a Reuter cable from the Commonwealth capital.

:

The new Empire service, for, Canberra three cardinal principles which a fleet of 28 flying-boats wefe insisted on by the Common- are under construction, was wealth as a condition for entering jorginally intended" "to start in tnto the 13-year--Anglo-Australian

April. 1937, but the date was alemall contract.

time she becomes dissatisfied with

Iater put back to August. One Firstly Australia's right to with of the new flying-bonts, the draw from the partnership at any Canopus, has already been con- structed and is now in operation in the Mediterranean.

According to the Reuter cable from

Germany Raises Soviet Loan

THILE HITLER IS ATTACKING'

STALIN

AND LITVINOFF IN PUBLIC HE IS ARRANGING TO LEND THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT £25,000,000.

the conduct of the service;

Secondly, severe penalties ip pre- vent the late arrival of the English mail in Singapore:

WITCHCRAFT

WOMAN PAID 10s. A DAY

Berlin, Nov. 20. WITCH doctoring is still a paying W profession in Berlin. Fourteen years ago Frau Loulse D., the divorced wife of a tradesman, told her neighbours that she held mid- night conversations' with spirits.

The neighbours believed her. Then she told them that the spirits would exert evil Inflacitce on them unless slie was employed to keep them off.

They paid her five or ten shillings day to be "protected." She told payment the protection charm would them that if ever they missed, a day's be broken

One family alone paid her morc than £1,200 during the past fow years for "protection." From other clients she collected a further £3,000. One day the police came to listen to the spirits' telephone conversation. When--they-left-she accompanied them, Yesterday the court ordered that she should be taken to a mental home.

FRIGHTFUL

DEATH

Thirdly, complete and effective OVERCOME IN

control of the Singapore-Sydney leg of the Journey.

MONOPLANE AIRLINERS

Another Reuter message from Lon- don states that Imperial Airways an nounce that the 12 large monoplane uirliners being built for use on Conti-

HOT POOL N.Z. DRAMA

Auckland, Nov. 24

D ESPERATE efforts by a com-

Russia is to spend the money on buying factory plant, electrical machinery, cement, ships, railway material, locomotives, and chemi-nental and trunk Empire air-routes cals from Germany.

have an average top speed of 200 panion failed to save the life miles an hour, representing an in- of Stanley Stone, 55, who got into Diplomatists Interpret this move as an indication that Itler's crease of 80 miles an hour and a total difficulties while bathing in the constant attacks on Russia are intended as à mere blyft. *

Venus hot pool at Waiotopu re- They take the view that 1 Hitler were really contemplating war will seat 27, with 20 sleeping berths

The machines on the Empire routes serve. against Russia he would not be lending her German money, and would and will probably start operating in Stone was dead from the effects of When brought ashore eventually, not be helping to rehabilitate her Industries-and-railways.

·sulphur fumes and hils long immer- slon in the hot water.

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Stone and, Ernest Gullging, who were on a visit to the reserve, had heard of the invigorating effect, of the mineral water, and decided sample it.

Stone dived into the poul, followed by his companion, who, finding the water.too hot, scrambled back to the bank. In the meantime, Storie got | into difeultics, and shouted for help. Guilging pluckily dived in gain, und after a struggle managed to pull Stone into cooler water. Stone was now unconscious, and Guliging found the bank too steep to drag his com- panion to safety.

Noticing on overhanging bush, Gulging led Stone to ong of the. branches, with his head above water, then scrambled up the bank, and 'dashed mile for help...

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Stone, however, was dead when pulled asliora.

Joyce Wethered To Wed In January THE marriage of Miss Joyce Wathered, the famous woman golf champion, to Sir John been Heathcote-Amory has arranged for January 6 next.

After a tour in the West Indies, it is probable that they will compete in tournament golf together, and may be partners in poxt year's-mixed-four- nes tournament at Worplesdon, Which Miss Wothered won.

| Last February he was so Ill that Extreme Unction was administered to hhn when the doctors, noticing o "weakening of his heart, were unable to give a blood transfusion.

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To-day, thanks to the courage of his doctors and the patience of his mother, Count Covadonga Is awaliing the full return of his strength to

to travel England and live with his mother in London. Count Morn, aide-de-camp of the

told ex-Queen, yesterday

ine the whole

story of the part this Royal mother has played in her son's covery, writes a Home reporter.

"Once It was reported that the Count was on the point of death in New York," he said. "His mother hurried across the Atlantic to nurse him,

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"She found that the cleverest

doctors in the United States had vainly tried to cure her son. For: years the Count had suffered from haemophilia, which meant he would bleed incessantly from the slightest injury. Even to have Tooth extracted was dangerous.

VENOM INJECTIONS "When the Count's mother arrived the doclors were preparing a last remedy-the Infection of the venom of a deadly snake. would know the In two days, they fold her, they result of the experiment.

"And so for two days the Queen waited-by-the-bedside-of-her-son Then a doctor made a small flesh wound in the Count's, arm. The blood clotted proving that the Count had been cured, perhaps. permanently, of a discuse which once puzzled the cleverest surgeons."

"It has been -severe ordent for the Queen."

en." Count Mora added. "Twice her son has been near death. The trouble in Spain adited to her distress.

"Now she, is happier, for her son

seems to be cured from this terrible allment and was able to rise from his bed and have

have a farewell meal the hospital with his mother in ward before she left New York."

During the last few days ex-Queen Ena has been supervising decorations at the new house where her son will soon arrive. She has been helped in this task by Princess Beatrice, ner mother.

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