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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1936.

Supreme Court

£1,700 To Save Old War Horses SUIT FASHIONS

Unemployed Man's 2s.-Cheque For £100-And Jewellery

"Veterans" Bought

-Then Shot

SALE ABROAD

TO BE

BANNED BY LAW

London, Dec. 21.

BRITISH investigators returned from Belgium a month ago with pitiful stories of old British Army horses overworked and underfed.

Questions were asked in Parliament. Sir Victor Warrender, Under-Secretary for War, gave an assurance that no more "retired" war horses would be resold abroad.

NORMA SHEARER WILL BE PRODUCER

TORMA Shearer, film star widow of Hollywood's Napoleon, will probably Irving Thalberg, succeed her husband as producer

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But the hearts of many people who read of this were touched. There has been a food of tributions to help in buying back 200 of these horses for humane destruction or proper care in Eng- Jund.

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The told has already reached £1,700. One cheque for £100 was received.

Mr. Kelth Robinson, the secretary Our Dumb Friends' Leaguò,

showed a brooch representing a lizard bles, emeralds, and pearls. It had been sent anonymously.

in rubles,

An ex-soldler wrote stating. that

and guldig geulus of the powerful he had driven an ammunition wagon May Shearer, undetermined about In

Metro-Goldwyn studios.

Belgium. His horse had Inter

her future as an actress since her been sold and lie wondered what had husband's sudden death last Sep- become of it. He said: "I am out tember, In determined to see his of work and my income is only 17s. unfinished work continued and that 80.

The Cat Came White Woman's Ten

Home-250

Miles

London, Dec. 21, 1CK, an eight-year-old cat,

Maken by his master, Mr. II. J. Gow, Glenmore-terrace, Brixham, Devon, by train to Paddington, Beross London by tube, to London Bridge, and then to the horne of his daughter al Erli, Kent.

That was on November 1. On *November 8 Mick was missing.

Mr. Gow was at the back of ls house In Brixham last week when Mick walked tired, emaciated and too feeble even to lap milk that was placed before him

He had found his way from Erith to Brixham-250 mlies.

He had to be destroyed.

Two New Battleships Ordered ORDERS for

two

more

new battleships are to be placed immediately after the New Year.

They will both be 35,000-tơn ships, anti-aircraft fitted with the Intest

the Thaiber;; polteles are maintained, i cha week, but I am sending you two land untl-submarine armament.

Her determination in this direction is helped by her important, holdings In the Metro Company.

Why Airmen Get "Nerves"

R. A. F. MEDICAL INQUIRY

Royal Air Force doctors are conducting an inquiry into the psychology of the air pilot and into the effects of fatigue. One of their objects, is to discover what it is that shakes a pilot's. "nerve" and what affects his judgment.

It was thought at one time that there would be adverse psycholerical effects as a result of the increased speed and performance of the latest types of Service aeroplane, but this does not seem to be so.

The Improved comfort of the cock- pits of modern aéroplanes may have Counter-balanced

naditiona strain consiguent upon high perforo- ance. Even high lying with oxygen,

any

Ex-Army officers wrote to say that the trame in old war horses was e national disgrace. Many asked the league investigators to try to find old horses which the writers. known Mr. Robinson said:

HAD TO BE SHOT

bad

"So far, we have bought fifteen war horses. All of them had to be shot.

"It is hoped that we shall find some horses fit enough to be sent home to England. I have received hundreds of offers' of homes Miem.

for

"We have enough money to buy all the horses, but I am afraid that 98 per cent of them will have to be shot immediately, no terribly have

they been trented.

horses which had to be shot:

Here are the pitiful stories of three

J. Thirty-year-old bay mare, blind with old bullet wound near eye, knee broken, in low condition through overwork and underfeed-

2. Bay gelding suffering from debilly; habitually starved.

3. Be dark gelding well over thirty, with long-standing partial paralysis, teeth worn Juose iacerated tongue.

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Next March, when the Export of which is more frequently necessary | Horses Act comes up for review, ex- then it used to be, seeins to produce port of war horses abroad will be little effect.

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1936-1937

SEE THE OLD YEAR OUT

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Neither aeroplanes por tor- pedoes will be able to sluk them. They will be heavily equipped with anti-aircraft guns, and will carry seaplanes.

Five cruisera will also be ordered in the New Year programme, as well

as 18 destroyers, six submarines, and several small convoying ships.

NEW DECK ARMOUR

Battleships and cruisers are now going into dry dock to be fitted with heavier deck armour.

They are also being equipped with the new type of 1,600 minute anti-aircraft guns,

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Their engines are also being overhauled to Increase their speed and cruislug range. The type of submarine that is be- Ing designed for the New Year pro- much ramme will have a range wider than existing types, in view of the changed conditions in the Medi- terranean.

The

Months in Jungle

Sydney, Dec. 27.

AN Englishwoman who has spent nearly a year in the wilds of New Guinea, with 30 native carriers and four camp boys is now her way back to London.

Although for months she was hundreds of miles away from any other white person, Miss L. E. Cheesman, a native of London, carried on her job undaunted.

She La an entomologist, and went on the lonely expedition in the Interests of gelentile re- search.

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During her stay she sent back to the Iritish Museum 300 Ash, reptiles, and 20,000 insects.

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ON CANNIBAL ISLE Miss Cheesman visited the iremely old Cyclops mountain range, Just over the border from the Mandated Territory, and near terri- tory called Hollandia, in Netherlands New Guinea.

Miss Cheesman has travelled ex- tensively by herself in the islands.

Eleven years ago she visited the Society Group, and then the New Hebrides, and Papua Islands of the once famous head-hunting connibals.

FOG IN LONDON

London recently experienced its first pea-soup fog of the winter. The picture shows flares being adjusted to assist traille in Parliament Square, Westminster.

Arithmetic of Seasickness

Nerves imagination seasickness..

This is the view of Dr. A. Rose, a Bloomsbury medical man who has crossed the Atlantic 80 times and survived cyclones in the Caribbean.

Writing in the British Medical Journal, he declares that suggestion cures where all the drugs in the

PADUSEVAJUVAJ | British Pharmacopæla, have failed

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HE ATE HEARTILY ·

Dr. A. W. B. Livesay, Surgeon- Captain, I.N. (RCL). writes from Norwich telling of another cure. He tried it on a civilian passenger on H.M.S. Cornwall in 1011. The passenger wds apprehensive of the voyage, so Dr. Livesny fastened an elastic bandage round his neck and left him in his bunk, intending to re- turn in a few minutes..

He was delayed and when he went back found his patients' face

was congested and his eyes staring

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"The sequel is interesting." reports Dr. Livesay, "The Cornwall had the worst, passage I ever experienced; she had a gale on her starboard quarter and her rolling was terrifle,

"My friend never missed a meal, and was quite happy. He told me afterwards that he never felt- a quqim during the whole,passage,"

Einstein's

Electric Eye

New-York, Dec. 27.

Dr. Albert Einstein, whose abstruse theory of relativity

moal has puzzled

amateur physicists and mathematicians, was to-day. "revealed as the in-.; ventor of a relatively simple device which will be a boon to amateur photographers, "

With Dr. G. Bucky, who developed the, curative use of And borderline-rays, X-rays

··Einstein – hás patented a photo- electric ove for the camera lens. the effect of which is to make under or over exposures possible.

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CLAIMS TO

BE SON OF ZAHAROFF

By a Special Correspondent

London, Dee. 8. IN tiny shoemaker's shop near Hammersmith Broadway to-day n man, who claims to be the lawful son of the late Sir Basil Zaburoff, told me that he intends to be present at the funeral.

The claimant, Mr. Hyman Barnett Zaharolf, has been making shoes near Haminersmith during the "pasl months, but he has been in England for innny years.

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Much of his time and money have been spent in forwarding his cinim to be the son of Sir Dasil.

"I am in my present position to- day," he told me, "because, whenever I have had any money to spare I have used it in trying to get into touch with Be mon whom I claim was my father.

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"I have made a number of journeys

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[always refused a hearing.

"Now that Sir Basil is dead it may be that those who are looking after his estate will appreciate my rights. I have consulted with my solicitors In London to-day, and I have hand- jed to them all the necessary docu-

ments."

Mr. Zaharoff, who is a Lithuanian, İnged 60, told me that he came to England many years ago, and was married at Leicester in 1808.

ile has five sons and four daugh- ters.

Mr. Zaharoff said:

that

"I have always maintained Sir Basil is a Hussion, and that his real name was Manel Subar. A few years before 1070, when I was born, The married » Russian, Hala Elka Karolinski, in Vilkemir. At that time this was a part of Russla, but is now Lithuania,

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"I was the only child of the mar- riage, and I can remember my father quite distinctly.

-DOCUMENTARY-EVIDENCE- "Apart from my personal recollec- tions I have a number of documents which I contend support my claim.

I have a declaration issued by the town council Vilkumir showing that Manel Sahar, then, a soldier, was married to Hala Karolinski, und that they had a son. Sahar Is an- other form of Zuhurott.

"have been demanding reengal- tion as Sir Basil's son since 1011, and wrole to him. frequently, but could not obtain any satisfactory reply.

"For twenty-five years I have been working on this claim, but time when I tried to get near Sir Basil he refused to see me.".

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JOKE BETWEEN OFFICE FRIENDS HOW IT CAUSED A 100-1 TRAGEDY

For six years Frederick Buck and Sidney Flower worked side by side as clerks in the offices and Cheam of the Sutton Borough Council.

They were, in Buck's words, "the very best of friends."

One day Buck made a Joking re- mark, and Flower came playfully to- wards him with a ruler. Buck made to "shoo" him off. Ho hud a paper- knife In his hand. It touched Flower's leg.

Six days later he died from hemorrhage of a thigh artery.

nuck, at the inquest, said it was oll "just a bit of fun.”

Other clerks 'said that if Flower had not bumped against a table.the knife would not have touched film,

A doctor said that the same sort of wound could have happened hundreds of times without doing any harm.

A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.

Rumanian Girls Must Know How To Shoot

Bucharest, Dec. 21.

The curriculum of all Rumanian primary schools in the country will Include shooting. Girls, as well as boys, are to be trained in marksman-, ahip.

Rifle experts will be sent to each school oven in the most....remote. mountain village.

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