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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1987.

Four Meals a Day Soon for the Army

MORE HOME LIFE TO HONGKONG–6,454 M. Mrs. Freer

IN BARRACKS

At last the Army is to have four meals a day—and possibly an early cup of cocoa 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. He agreed with Mr. Anstruther is also provided with cocon when engaged, on rising, in "ashing up and Gray (Con., North Lanark), an ex- Guardsman, who seconded the reso- stowing hammocks."

lution, that ability to long service abrond was one of the main causes This was of the inek of recruits. one of the problems now being con- sidered.

If the Army Is to be put on the same level is the Navy, as the Minister suggested, the troops should have a good ease for demanding early cocon.

TEA THE LAST

Was

He disagreed, somewhat vchc- mently, with Mr. R. Acland (Lib., MEAL OF THE DAY Their chief grievance under pre-Barnstaple), who suggested that the

Government's foreign policy

orgely to blame and that men would not join up unless they felt they were doing so for a really warth-while purpose.

sent conditions is that tea--never at 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 be no doubt the reform will co through.

"I doubt very much." observed Mr. Duff Cooper, "whether a young man hesitating to Join the Army takes gravely into consideration, as he stands outside the recruiting office, how far he can give his ap- proval to the foreign policy of the Government."

PROTEST AGAINST

Ile was equalis emphatic about the need for more comfort for the private soldier, and suggested that there should be sitting-rooms In

"MISLEADING" POSTERS barracks for every 20 or 30 men in which they could sit in comfortable

Moving an amendment blaming the chairs and read the paper or listen Government for having neglected to to the wireless.

Improve Army conditions, Comman These two reforms, and many der Fletcher (Lab, Nuneaton) com- others, he explained, were being conplained of the misleading impression sidered by a Cabinel committee. He given by recruiting posters of the hoped that in the near future theySee the World for Nothing" type. would be able to report on how con- He also protested against a pamph- ditions in the Army might best be let entitied The Finest Job in the improved.

World." In which there was a photo- graph of several soldiers shaking hands with the King.

URGENCY OF

ATTRACTING RECRUITS The urgency of ultracling recruits was suggested by this passage:

"The Immediate problem is to attract men during the next two or three months. These are the men

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

The amendment was defeated by 146 to 112. No division was taken

on whom we shall have to rely in on the motion, which urged the

the next two or three years when Government to carry out any neces-

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-FINAL DECISION

Melbourne, Dec. 24. THE Coalition Australian Government

has taken its decision to stand to its guns and forbid permission to enter Aus- tralia to Mrs. M. N. Freer, 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 was given a dictation test in Italian. She failed to pass it. On that purely technical point she was excluded.

The low In Australia 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 ingresa to politically dangerous people and to people of a race Australia fears whose immigration it is desired to limit.

a Japanese influx.

Mrs. Freer immediately announced that she would fight the issue even if it meant taking the case to the Privy Council,

Artist Takes Trance Drug For Science

Fantastic and imaginative pictures, painted under the

the problem of re-equipping the cars improvements in the conditions influence of a drug which had been administered to the

forces has to be solved."

Discussing a suggestion by Mr. G.

E. H. Palmer (Con., Winchester), who moved the resolution on which the debate was bosed that the art of more widely publicity should be used to attract recruits, Mr. Duff Cooper revealed that he felt existing were Inr from army conditions

by saying he satisfactory

felt strongly that the best advertisement was not of great use uniess the

MYSTERY OF LONE BRITON'S GRAVE

Stockholm, Dec. 31. THE remains of a man found by a Laplander beneath a pile of stones in the Karesuanda Mountains, North Swedent, are believed to be those of a rich Englishman who travelled there.

of Hie Forces.

Centenarian's Night Out

Belgrade, Dec. 31.. The habit of Miya Tchurkovich, aged 106, of Serajevo, of coming home late at night after visiting the local taverns so annoyed his 75-years-old daughter, Mara, that she locked.him out.

Miya, arriving home after mid- night, climbed up to the first floor, prised open window, and let him-

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 students in order to study its effects, Local Sorajevo newspapers-bove (1 begged him to treat me also," he lauded the centenarian's exploit, to said,

interested in fourth-

self in.

He smiled ruefully at the memory. of his experience.

FANTASTIC WORLD

"The drug was injected into my arm and took effect almost imme-

the great annoyance of his septuagen dimensional and mystical art, and I diately," he wenating arian daughter,

Swab Left at Operation Causes faculties, yes, seemed to be dra

Typist's Death

A VERDICT of Accidental fat a previous operation performed 10 Death was recorded at a months ago in the Royal Northern Tottenham inquest recently on Hospital.

011 operated

Miss Macdonald In

"It was a fascinating and unusual experience and very frightening. I retained possession of my normal different, utterly fantastic world.

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

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

at them.

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

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

taged 21, typist, of Weston Park, January. He was assisted by two size, shape and colour as I looked en his way from Karesuando village Prince of Wales Hospital follow-swabs. to Norway, carrying a large sum of money. Two Lapps are said to haveing an operation. followed and robbed him.

It was stated that death was due to

He recalled asking the nurse about His name is unknown, but police chronic peritonitis caused by a swab counting them and she replied that are going to the spot to investigate. which had been left in her abdomen they were correct.

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Middle age

There is not a woman any-

where, married or single, rich

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

The Coroner, Dr. George Cohen, la 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 said. "There must have been some mistake, but where it is we cannot tell."

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"The sceno way infested with every creeping, crawling thing mind could conceive.

TERRIFYING SIGHTS

the

"I was conscious of the fact that these strange sights were halluci- 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- gan 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."

GIVE

AWAY

ZAHAROFF RICHES, IF-

ISTANBUL, Dec. 31,

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

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

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

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

MRS, FREER'S DENIALS

'Denials poured from Mrs. Freer. She issued a statement that she was not a person of doubtful character; that the information on which the was banned' did not come from India, but from the Australian Defence De- partment; that she was not a drug dend, a white-slaver, 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 be wrecked" is that of Lieutenant Dewar, a 20- year-old soldier. He travelled with Mrs. Freer in the Maloja. He admits his marriage has falled "for a variety the of reasons." He is challenging Government to prove its case against her.

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. Puble the divided on opinion. sharply Issue, is, on the whole, strongly on the side of Mrs. Freer, holding that it is 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. Meetlags 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- ingenise the Left Wing, headed by Mr, Jock Garden, who has championed Mrs, Freer.

Rumours and counter-rumours have been circulated and published since the first 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 Sydney 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- she is travelling) and the Federal Government to show cause why she, as a British subject, should not be permitted to enter

British Dominion.

or poor, about the age of forty, who is not perturbed at the Two sisters, Iphigenia Zaharopoulos, aged eighty, and Melpomeni Zahatain of the steamer Awaten (in which

rupoulos, aged seventy, living in a wooden house on the Asiatic coast thought of the next few years of the Sea of Marmora, are claiminx the late Sir Basil. Zaharoff's forlung before her.

saying the "arma king" was their first comain. They offer to share their Greek and Turkish Inheritance-If their claim succeeds-between the Governments.---Reuter.

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