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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1987.

Four Meals a Day Soon for the Army

MORE HOME LIFE

IN BARRACKS

At last the Army is to have four meals a day-and possibly an early cup of cocon as well.

That, at any rate, was the impression given in the House of Commons recently by Mr. Duff Cooper (War Minister) when replying to a debate on how recruits could be attracted to the Army.

This was how he put it: "The suggestion has been made that the Army should have as many meals a day as the Navy. That is also the view of the Army Council, and it is one of the reforms I hope we shall be able to introduce in the near future." (Cheers.) The Navy has four meals a day-article they were advertising was up breakfast, dinner, ten and supper." It to the standard of the advertisement. is also provided with cocon when

agreed with Mr. Anstruther engaged, on rising, in "lashing up and Gray (Con.. North Lanark), an ex- stowing hammocks."

Guardsman, who seconded the reso- If the Army is to be put on the lutlun, that Hability to long service same level the Navy, as the abroad was one of the main causes Minister suggested, the troops should of the lack of recruits. This was have a good case for demanding one of the problems now being con- carly cocoa,

sidered.

TEA THE LAST

He disagreed. somewhat che- meatly, with Mr. R. Acland (Lib.,

MEAL OF THE DAY Their chief grievance under pre-Barnstaple), who suggested that the sent conditiona that tea-never an elaborate affair-is the last meal of the day. Anything they want later they have to buy in the canteen or elsewhere.

Judging from the emphatic way in which the Minister supported the demand for four meals, there should no. doubt the reform will go be through.

He was equally emphatic about the need for more comfort for the private soldier, and suggested that there should be sitting room in barracks for every 20 or 30 men in which they could sit in comfortable chairs and read the paper or listen to the wireless.

Government's foreign policy Was largely to blame and that men would not join up unless they felt they were really worth-while duing ac for a purpose.

"I doubt very much," observeil Mr. Duff Cooper, "whether a young man hesitating to Join the Army takes gravely into consideration, as i he stands outside the recruiting office, how far he can àlve libs ap- proval to the foreten policy of the Government." PROTEST AGAINST

"MISLEADING" POSTERS Moving an amendment blaming the Government for having neglected to. improve Army conditions, Comman- These two reforms, and many der Fletcher (Lab, Nuneaton) coin- others, he explained, were being conplained of the misleading impression sidered by a Cabinet committee. He given by recruiting posters of the hoped that in the near future they "See the World for Nothing" type. would be able to report on how con- ditions in the Army might best be improved.

URGENCY OF

ATTRACTING RECRUITS

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Te niso protested against a panph- let entitled "The Finest Job in the |World," in which there was a photo- graph of several soldiers shaking hands with the King.

* suppose," he said, "that is an indication of what, daily life in the Army is like."

The urgency of attracting recruits was suggested by this passage:

The immediate problem is to attract men during the next two or The amendment was defeated by three months. These are the men|146 to 112. No division was taken

on whom we shall have to rely in on The tuation, which urged the the next two or three years when Government to carry out any neces- the problem of re-equipping the sery Improvements in the conditions

of the Forces, forces has to be solved."

Discussing a suggestion by Mr. G. E. II. Palmer (Con., Winchester), who moved the resolution on which the debate was based that the art of publicity should be

more widely

used to attract recruits, Mr. Duft Cooper revented that he felt existing army conditions were far from satisfactory by saying he felt strongly that the best advertisemeni was not of great use unless

MYSTERY OF LONE BRITON'S GRAVE

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THE remains of a man found by a Laplander bencath a pile of stones in the Karesuanda Mountains, North Sweden, are

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Local Serajevo newspapers have lauded the centenarian's exploit, to the great annoyance of his septungen- arian daughter.

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-FINAL DECISION

Melbourne, Dec. 24. THE Coalition Australian Government

has taken its decision to stand to its guna and forbid permission to enter Aus- tralia to Mrs. M. N. Freor, wife of an officer in the Indian Army, a niece by marriage of the late Viscount Cave, once Lord Chancel- lor of England, and a British subject.

The Government also refuses to set up an impartial tribunal to investigate the

case.

*

It was on Oct. 30 that Mrs. Freer came under the displeasure of the Australian Government.

When she proposed to land at Fremantle, Western Australia, from the P. and O. liner Maloja, She failed she was given a dictation test in Italian.

to pass it. On that purely technical point she was excluded.

The low in Australla permits the authorities to refuse permission to land if a person falls in a test of any known language. This permits the authorities to forbid Ingress to politically dangerous people and to people of a race whose Immigration it is desired to limit. Australia fears a Japanese influx.

Mrs. Freer immediately announced that she would Signpost at the Qantas Airways Airport at Cloncury, fight the issue even if it meant taking the case to the

Queensland,

Privy Council,

Artist Takes Trance

Drug For Science

Fantastic and imaginative pictures, painted under the influence of a drug which had been administered to the artist in a famous London hospital, were put on show in London recently.

The artist, Mr. Basil Beaumont, a painter whose strange work has won the admiration of London critics, allowed him- self to be experimented on by a doctor in the cause of his art.

He was injected with a drug prepared from the cactus plant. The drug induced strange visions and hallucinations and these provided the inspiration for Mr. Beaumont's work.

thought the drug would inspire me.

"It did!"

Surrounded by these weird and colourful pictures in his Lon- don studio, this small, long-haired, enthusiastic young man told a reporter the whole strange story.

"When I heard that a doctor friend of mine, who works at a big London hospital, was to inject the drug into a small group of medical 1 begged him to treat me also," he students in order to study its effects, said.

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He smiled ruefully at the memory of his experience.

FANTASTIC WORLD

New Zealand offered her hos- pitality, and she went there, staying at Auckland.

On Nov. 11 Mr. Paterson, Minister of the Interior (Home Secretury), an- nounced his reasons for her exclusion. He said she had become entangled with a married Australian officer.

lte claimed he had banned her because she was a "person of un- desirable character," whose pre- sence in Australia "might result in an Australian home being wreck- ed."

He claimed that his information came from India, where Mrs. Freer was living before she left for Aus- tralla.

MRS. FREER'S DENIALS

Denials poured from Mrs. Freer. She issued a statement that she was not a person doubtful character; that the information on which she was banned did not come from India, but from the Australian Defence De- partment; that she was not a drug flend, a white-sinver, or a Communist. She admits that her marriage has been dissolved, and she is in love with an Australian who is married,

The home that might he wrecked" is that of Lieutenant Dewar, a 20- year-old soldier. He travelled with Mrs. Freer in the Malojo. He admits his marriage has falled "for a variety of reasons,' He is challenging the

her.

"The drug was injected into my "I OT interested in dimensional and mystical art, and I diately," he went on.

arm and took effect almost imme-

"It was a-fascinating-and-unusual-Government to prove_its_ense against experience and very frightening. Į retained possesalon of my normal

different, utterly fantastic world.

Swab Left at Operation Causes faculties, yet seemed to be in a

Typist's Death

"Rooms seemed to change shape, colours appear different. There were faint sounds, and the whole world was very much like a dream,

believed to be those of a rich A VERDICT of Accidental jat a previous operation performed 10 Death was recorded at a months ago in the Royal Northern Englishman who travelled there Tottenham inquest recently on

Hospital. 60 years ago and mysteriously Miss Audrey Eve Macdonald, Dr. Hamilton Bailey said that he disappeared.

operated

Macdonald The man is said to have vanished Crouch End, who died in the nurses, one of whom handed him the

jaged 21, typist, of Weston Park, January. He was assisted by two size, shape and colour as I looked on his way from Karesuanda village to Norway, carrying a large sum of Prince of Wales Hospital follow-swabs,

fing an operation.

"money. Two Lapps are said to have

followed and robbed him.

His name is unknown, but police are going to the spot to investigate.

Miss DM

It was stated that death was due to He recalled asking the nurse about chronic perftonills caused by a swab counting them and she replied that which had been left la her abdomen they were correct.

A WOMAN'S TRIALS

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Middle age

There is not a woman any-

where, married or single, rich;

or poor, about the age of forty,

"I have performed about 19,000 operations and have never had a pack left in."

The Coroner, Dr. George Cohen, in addressing the jury, said evidence showed that it was no part of the surgeon's duty to count swabs. If he did so, it might endanger life.

"We are all fallible at times," he sald. There must have been some mistake, but where it is, we cannot tell."

"As I looked out of the hospital window, I saw, not a mere street or an alley way, but a jungle, full of weird plants which seemed to change

ut them.

The scene was infested with every creeping, crawling thing the mind could conceive.

TERRIFYING SIGHTS

"I was conscious of the fact that these strange sights were hallucl- nations, but at the same time they seemed real and terrifying.

"I managed to grasp a brush and dip it into colours as the effect be gon to wear off, and feverishly transferred the flowers which seem- ed everywhere, to canvas and paper.

I wrote a complete and detailed account of my sensations and ex- periences for my doctor friend, and that report has been of great help in defining the medical properties. of the drug."

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ISTANBUL, Dec. 31.

who is not perturbed at theWo sisters, Iphigenia Zaharopoulos, aged eighty, and Melpoment Zaha- rupoulos, aged seventy, living, in a wooden house on the Asiatic coast thought of the next few years of the Sea of Marmors, are claiming the late Sir Basil Zaharoff's fortune, before her.

saying the "arms king" was their first cousin. They offer to share their

The changing conditions of existence would alone be enough to cause a Inheritance-if their clalm succeeds between the Greek and Turkish certain wistfui regret, even if they passed without any suttering of mind or Governments,--Reuter. body. But every woman fears the miseries that often develop at this age. She fears them all the more for their uncertainty. Often the first sign in not recognised at all--a certain irritability of temper, a low-spirited depression which the patient does not attribute to its true cause until bodily suffering in the shape of violent headaches, back pains, and palpitation give an unmistakable warning.

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Mrs. Dewar says she is fighting for her husband, her home, her child and her future. She refuses to accept a divorce and admits showing a letter from her husband to the Army authorities.

Meantime, the Government is faced with a major crisis Public divided on the opinion, sharply Issue, is, on the whole, strongly on the side of Mrs. Freer, holding that it is a question for the civil courts and not one for Government inter-

ference,

The Press has been using Mrs. Freer as a stick to beat the Govern- ment. Meetings have been held, de mands have been made for an im- partial inquiry,

But the Government knows that if it rescinds the ban Mr. Paterson will resign. And if he resigns the Country Party, of which he is a member, will desert the Coalition.

If the Coalition is to be split, Mr. Lyons, the Premier, would sooner an- tagonise the Left Wing, headed by Mr. Jock Garden, who has championed Mrs. Freer.

Rumours and counter-rumours have been circulated and published since the Arst ban was enforced: the Government would rescind; it would stick to its guns; Mrs. Freer 'would be allowed to land; she would be forbidden to land.

Now, after a stormy session which lasted for an hour and a 'half, it has taken its final decision, When she reaches Bydney on Friday she will be forbidden · to land.

But it is expected that application will be made to the Supreme Court on her behalf, calling upon the cap- tain of the steamer Awaica (in which she is travelling) and the Federal Government to show causo why she,. asa British subject, should not be permitted to enter П British Dominion.

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