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At the Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce in Berlin, Mr. Thomas J. Watson of America, well- known industrin circles, was elected the new President for the next two years.

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Barrie's Birthplace For Nation

A well-known British philan- thropist has offered to purchase Sir James Barrie's birthplace at Kirriemuir-the "Thrums" of his stories and present it to the nation, the News Chronicle was informed recently.

A white-washed enttage in Brechin Road, with its washhouse, was the setting for Barrie's first theatre.

Sir Lacon Threlford, the chartered accountant, is the owner, and his secretary stated:

. "Only sentimental reasons, and not the purchase price, are holding up acceptance of the offer."

"I has been suggested that a national fund, known as the Peter Pan Fund, might be set up, and the philanthropist has no wish to interfere with any such plan. "He felt that Darrie's birthplace must remain in the country. Sir Lacon has already refused an Âmeri- can offer."

Stop, John. Ihala

you dabbing me

with your shaving brush-it's not funny!

Oh! Mary! Has your Charles irritating

galistie habits that

drive you mad Hoo? Bonestly F.3

don't think! i-can sland It much

langer.

... Yes I do wake up feeling I've only had a few hours sleep.doctor

THE HONGKONG

FASTEST

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 27. 1937.

EVER BRITISH

TRAIN'S

SHIPS'

SALVAGE

DUTY AT SEA

DISPUTE, PROBLEM

FOR LORDS

"Suppose there is a ship in great peril of sinking and there! is another vessel standing by, iaj the position to be that the master of the vessel standing by will say: I refuse to lend you a hand because I shall not even get my expenses”?”

This question was asked by Lord Macmillan in the House of Lords recently.

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He was hearing an appeal to decide whether Mr. Justice Buckallt and the Court of Appent were right in holding) that the owners of a vessel which had performed salvage services not entitled to be paid for those ser- vices, because they owned another Vessel which was partly to blame for the collision that caused the Injured vessel to require salvage services.

"DISASTROUS "

Lord Atkin's comment on the ques- tion put by Lord Macmillan Was:

"It is disastrous."

The appellents were the Canadian recife Railway Company, owners of | 5.5. Beaverford, and they asked the House of Lords to reverse the deri- sions of Mr. Justice Buckmill and the Court of Appeal.

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The above picture shows the baby son of Count and Countess Heupwitz- Reventlow, He is only eighteen months old and heir to the Woolworth millions. He is one of the richest

children in the world.

190 Eton Boys Withdrawn

Infection Feared

London, July 2. Eton College authorities last night stated that 190 boys have been The respondents were the Hindu withdrawn from the college by their stan Steamship Company, Ltd., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, vers of the rents because of a case of infantile paralysis, the disease which crippled .s. Kafiristan.

President Roosevelt,

Lord Atkin said he was much im- pressed by the matter as it had been put by Lord Macmillan because, in these days of wireless, it was usual to send out calls to all ships request- ing them to come to the assistance of a vessel in distress.

If the first vessel to come up was one owned by the same company as

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The boy who contracted the illness has been in isolation at the Elon sanatorium since June 21, and no new case has since been reported.

Parents were told, however, that boys could be withdrawn if it was thought desirable.

another of two ships in peril through and I cannot afford to render this

n collision, it would be disastrous if service because I may not be paid

the captain of the ship that had come for it."

up to help was to say: "No: one of

WHITEAWAY'S

M.P.H. DASH SALE

World Record

Falls to £30,000

Coronation Scot

By H. de Winton Wigley.

London, June 30.

In the Coronation Scot, the new London Midland and Scottish streamlined express, I have to-day travelled faster than any railway passenger has ever before travelled in the British Empire.

On the first test run of this blue and silver luxury train from Euston to Crewe we reached a speed of 114 miles an hour. The previous Empire record was made by the L.N.ER. Silver Jubilee express near Essendine last August with a speed of 113 miles an hour.

On the return journey from Crewe to Euston, with the colossal overall speed for the 158 miles of 80 miles an hour, the Coronation Scot established a world record for steam locomotive speed over that distance.

The Coronation Scot, which has burst straight out of Crewe works into the records, has been "running herself in" for only a month, and Tom Clarke, of Crewe, her 63-year-old driver, told me he believes that when she works "looser" she can equal the world top speed record of 124 miles an hour held by a German steam locomotive.

Tom, covered with oil and grime through which we could see his happy smile, came over to the hotel at the end of the run with his fireman, Jack Lewis, of Crewe, and had tea with the vice-president of the L.M.S.,

E. J. H. Lemon,

COULD HAVE done bETTER

Mr.

While the admiring walter prof- fered tea and cakes into their olly hands. Tom said to me, "We could have done more. I could have done the return journey in an hour and 50 minutes, knocking lee minutes of what we actually did do, but for the speed restrictions.

Over 100 curves on the route have been specially re-aligned or recanted for the Coronation Scot, but one of

not allowed to travel at more than 90

the ships in collision is a sister ship The appeal was adjourned until Tom's restrictions was that he was of mine, under the same ownership, the next day.

DOMESTIC

SQUABBLE

WHOSE FAULT--MINE OR MY HUSBAND'S ? Somehow when wo wore first married John' little habits didn't worry me, but now.

You used to

be amused at

it once, you

know!

Good heavens, every man's got little habits and mannerisma. I'm sure wa all have, you know i resiły

think...

That seems to be the trouble.

You go on using up I night. If this isn't tired

Renergy

replaced, you wake up and never catch up so to speak-result- Night „Starvation. You get Irritable,

fussy, short-tempered.

I advise you ...

SIX WEEKS LATER

It's years since we went for a walkk,

in the country

derling-just film

old times

isn't it?

and I'm enjoying

every minute of it.

Gosh! Perhapal do get upset easily, I feel

For goodness sak@ stop poking that fire! You get on my norvos!

10 nervy and run down these days. I might see

a doctor as Mary suggested.

Horlick's!

So that's what

the doctor recommended?

All right..!

'OU can't get any fun out of life if everything You get fun. In itself, that's a sigu that you haven't the energy to cope with even trivial things. Probably you're not replacing, while you sleep, the energy used up.--- Night- Starvation, in fact.

“Make your sleep effective with a regular cup of Horlick's at bedilme. Horlick's

builds up your energy and keeps.

you fit and active. It's economical, too - just add water, the milk is In it.

TIDA'S

1. 5. Bherly Co. Kayamally Bilde. 20-22, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.

HORLICK'S GUARDS AGAINST

THIS MEANS YOJ STEFF SCUNTAY.

WAVE RUFDEANED AND HAVE EXTRAL ENERGY ALE PAY

NIGHT-STARVATION

miles an hour through Watford tun-

nel to-day.

Here is a brief diary of the trip!

reached 60 mph. Through Wilkes-

LORD

NUFFIELD AGAIN

£146,500 FOR HOSPITAL

Lord Nuffield has become Birmingham's fairy father.

UNUSUAL VALUES

IN ALL

DEPARTMENTS

Over 500 choice new season's styles in WHITE and COLOURED FELTS and STRAWS, all offered at practi- cally half prices

SALE PRICES 5.95, 9.50, 11.50.

SUMMER GLOVES

All Styles Mesh, Art silk, Fabric Usually 1.50 to 3,50

SALE PRICE 1.00 to 2.25 SPORTS SHIRTS

ART SILK, NEAT CHECKS, USUALLY 3,50

SALE PRICE 2.50 WASH FROCKS Various Styles, Seersucker and Locknit

Usually 13.50 to 21.50

SALE PRICE 8.50, 13.50 SUMMER SHOES Linen, Court, Eyelet, Strap

SALE PRICE 4.50 W.

SALE

B.

SUSPENDER

BELTS

PRICE 1.25, 2:25 AERTEX CORSETS

Usually 4.00 to 7.50 each

SALE PRICE ·

2.50 to 5.00

god-Whiteaway-Laidlaw

Swan Culbertson

Four miles after leaving Euston With a cheque for den at 65 and Wembley at 76. |£146,581 he has brought the In the first hour we covered nearly first part of the city's

75 miles. That blur was Stafford,

and now for the fastest time of all, £1,250,000 hospital centre

A hundred and twelve and more made it possible to open it Ninety Ninety-five! A hundred fund near completion, and

between Stafford and Crewe! No!

far from Whitmore, close to Crewe, free of debt. the British record captured with 114 mp.h.! We kept that 112.5 m.p.h. for one mile, and for five miles we hurtled along at 100.5 mph.

RESTAURANT JUGGLING And at these speeds a restaurant stuft was practising and experiment ing with tea and soup serving. They told me it was easy.

A few weeks ago Captain J. C. Stone, organising secretary of the fund, was asked by Lord Nulfield's secretary for informa- tion of the amount needed to complete the nurses' home and college of nursing.

The return journey. Reached 100 Captain Stone replied that the sum m.p.h. just north of Wolverton. The required was £140,581. 674 miles from Welion to Wembley covered at overall speed of 89 miles an hour. Nearly 100 miles an hour through Harrow and Greater London. Intense excitement. Two hours? Yes! Euston tunnels and smoky Euston itself in one minute inside two hours.

I learned to-day that the Corona tion Scot locomotive there are five of them-cost £10,000

By return of post he received an ordinary business envelope. It camo from Lord Namfeld, with a cheque for the amount named and a short note of explanation. Shortly after the fund was opened scribed £52,000, and his latest gift six years ago Lord Nuffield sub- brought his total

nearly £200,000.

contributions to

ench. The train, with its costly woods and furnishings, cost another £20,000. Lord Nuffield's total benefactions to Our load to-day of eight coaches was many projects are now estimated at 203 tons, exclusive of engine.

£0,000,000.

LOVED, LOST, SHOT

DEAD IN AFRICA

Liverpool, July 2. old Mr. Edward Litler- Jones, who was found shot dead in an hotel at Paarl, near Capetown, South Africa, to-day had gone abroad to for get a girl he had loved and lost.

WEALTHY twenty-seven-year

He has died six thousand miles

from home on the eve of the sale

of Gateacre Hall, near Liverpool, the BLIND MAN

eighteenth-century

mansion he

| bought a year ago to live In when

he was married,

Mr. Lilier-Jones was tall, fair-

| haired, good-looking, youngest mem- ber of Liverpool City Council, managing director of a jam factory here, owned by his mother, who lives In Bournemouth.

IS ACCUSED

OF MURDER

Alexander McMillan, blind and aged forty-two, was remanded at the Northern

Court Glasgow Pollee recently accused of murdering his He fell in love with a London girl, ten, and attempting to murder his stepdaughter, Elizabeth Russell, aged spent a fortune on almost priceless wife Annie, aged forty-two.

furniture. Antique collecting was This hobby.

It was stated that the woman and girl were found in their home at Then, last Christmas, the girl said Wigton-street, Glasgow, suffering she could not marry him.

from gas poisoning. The girl died à He left for South Africa in Feb-few hours later. Įruary for a six months', holiday,

Mrs. Liller-Jones, his mother, gardener at the hall; wald - to- vlilfed, the hall to-day, wenk, los night.; "It is a dreadful shock. sleep at an hotel here to-nightwice he brought his lady to ́undwafb" of the trarëdy.

look over what he wanted to be Mr. Henry Ashcroft, grey-haired their home."

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