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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, JULY. 30, 1937.

MEDAL FOR H. M. S. HUNTER HERO

Faced Steam And Oil to

Save Five Men

London, July 3.

Lieut.-Comdr. B. G. Scurfield; who braved smoke, oil and steam to save five men after the explosion on board H.M.S. Hunter off the Spanish coast in May, has been awarded the Albert Medal by the King.

The story of his heroism was told by the London Gazette last night:

"On May 13, 1937, H.M.S. Hunter sustained serious damage in an explosion of Almeria, Spain. Immediately the ship took on a heavy lat, all lights were extinguished and these was no steam. Apparently she was about to sink.

"Lieutenant-Commander Scurfield,

who was ult, rushed forward. Pass-

ing the galley, he heard cries from BANK CLERK

Petty Officer Cook, who had fallen

Into the boiler room,

"He jumped down through the

ACCUSED

smoke, oil fuel, steam and debris, OF STEALING

and by extraordinary feats of

strength removed, the wreckage planing the man down. The rating

was passed up on deck, but did not long survive.

"Lieutenant-Communder

£10,000

Scurfield WHEN James Alfred Lesliel

Nicol, thirty-eight-year-old

then proceed to the torpedomen's Manor Park, E., bank clerk, op- mess deck. This was foeded to al depth of 244 feet in oil fuel, also peared on remand at East Ham recently accused of stealing £100 belonging to his employers, Bar- elays Bank, a further charge of stealing £10,071 was preferred.

battery ans had escaped from the

switchboard room.

MIGHT HAVE FALLEN

"The ladder having been blown nway, he jumped down into the mess deck, not knowing whether it was Inlaet, and passed up two men. Call Ing for assistance, he was joined by Lieutenant Humphreys and A.B.S Collins, Thomas and Abrahams.

"After the mess deck had been cleared he led the party Into the stoker petty officers' mess,

“The bulkhead had been, alat- tered and bedding and curialus were smouldering on top of the all fuel. Bodies were pulled out from under the wreckage, and passed ip un deck.

Nicol asked if some of the £43 found on him when he was arrested in Lancashire could be paid to his wife, but Divisional Detective in- spector Salisbury said, "I expect the bank will make some claim to that."|

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WAR WIDOWS DECORATE GUNS At one of the many military displays in Rome, Italy, these war widows, who lost their husbands in the campaign to conquer Ethiopia, decorate some of the guns of the Italian Imperial Army. Premier Mussolint was among the thousands of spectators who witnessed the huge arilllery display, and applauded the memorial ceremony.

Men's Dress Reform Ideal

NECKS, KNEES AND ELBOWS MUST BE FREE

One-piece silk costumes which slip over the head and end three inches above the knee are among the designs for Nicol's request was refused, and men's clothes entered in the Men's Dress Reform Party

he was renunded.

L.C.C. Approve Restrictions

On Coroners

competition.

Among the judges are Dr. J. C.

the psychologist. Flugel, James Laver, the artist, Lewis Casson, the actor, and two members of the clothing tradle.

"Men have come to rely for moral support not on themselves but on the atiffness, heaviness and thickness of their clothes," said Dr. Alfred Jordion.

STREET TROUSERS

For the street he slips over this "scientific' costume a Slouse neatly finished with cord at the open neck, and trousers and cost of conventional cut in fawn palm beach cloth.

For dancing he has designed a

dancing low-neck

short-sleeved Roman tunic in pale violet silk Jamie trimmed with gilt ruching over purple satin, while his dinner dress "During the whole of this time he i LC.C. at their meeting recently ap-honorary secretary of the party,

is after the mediaeval Hallan, with might in the darkness have fallen proved the report of the Depart- Necks, knees and even elbows-must

long hose and buckled shoes. Into the oil fuel tanks below or into wh, among other things, recom-work and play at their best..

mental Committee CIFL Coroners, be freed, he belleves, before men can

Bank clerks, he thinks, should an adaptation of tennis or the sea. By his gallant behaviour hemended restricting their powers 10). The parly consider they have won wear saved the lives of Stoker Pelly of finding out how, when and where an the battle for shorts, open necks and cricket dress, in

bright colours. would abolish al- acers Lott, May and Fenley, Stoker unnatural death occurred.

attached buttonless collars in spurts Pockets he Nell and A. B. Ollife."

Another recommendation was that wear, and are now concentrating on together, because they tempt men to a coroner should no

have office and evening wear.

add to the weight of their clothes by longer

Men power to commit any one for trial

carrying about useless things. on a charge of murder, manslaughter in shorts, Celanese shirt, and ankle should carry on altached pouch, as or infanticide.

women carry a handbag.

A Dream Of 1889 Fulfilled

OLOMON R. GUGGEN-

SO!

HEIM, wealthiest of America's brother copper kings, has made a dream of

his youth come true,

Dr. Jordan spends most of his time

pacts.

CABINET-Senator Camille Chautemps, Radical Socialist lender of France and former Fremier, whom Prezident Albert Lebrun designated to form & Cabinet, following the resigna- tion of Premier Leon Blume and in Cabinet. M. Chautemps was reported having his difficulties. Meanwhile Socialists favor M. Blum were undecided whether to ally themselves with Com- munet or as a governmchin) party with todlea Eocialists.

DEFEAT FOR UNIONS' EXTREMISTS

Moderates Prevail at Warsaw Congress

Warsaw, July 5.

A complete victory for moderate trade unionism over

In 1889, pioneering in Mexico, extreme political tendencies is held to have been gained at panning gold in the rivers, the 1937 General Council meeting of the International smelting copper he had dug Federation of Trade Unions, presided over by Sir Walter himself, he resolved that when Citrine, which ended in Warsaw this week-end.

he became rich he would do Observers at the Congress consider that the affilia- something to perpetuate the tion of the American Federation of Labour to the 1.F.T.U. name of Guggenheim.

undoubtedly brings a stabilising influence into the trade

Now he realised his ambition. union movements, distracted by Europe's political modern art to the American nation, struggles,

He gave his famous collection of

labour

established a trust te proniote and Warm applause greeted the speech made on Saturday by Mr. encourage art education, started it Matthew Woli, vice-president of the A.F.L., who appealed to the with a gift of £500,000 and under- I.F.T.U. to help the United States to solve her own took to provide whatever further difficulties. money might be needed in future. Mr. Guggenhelm is a lean-faced little man, sixty-six years old; ter- ribly shy when asked to say some- thing about himself. When I went to see him at Claridge's he just sald "Please don't make a fuss."

The resolution aliating the A.FL. states that no prejudice la caused by his action to the methods or form of other bodies In the United States.

This is a reference to John Lewis's

940,000 Shades of Colour

BELGIAN PREMIER A VISITOR-Paul Van Zeeland, Premier of Belgium, and Mrs. Van Zeeland, as they arrived in New York to vialt President Roosevelt in Washington. Premier Van Zeeland also was given an honorary degree at Princeton University, of which he is an alumnus. He declined to disclose his subjects with the President, but one was presumed the foreign trade polley.

Committee for Industrial Organisa ALL DISCERNIBLE BY Politeness Or Loyalty To God? Penniless Immigrant delegations during the discussions.

Meyer, his father, went to America

was praised by several

STATE CONTROL OF ARMS "Money and arms from Italian and a penniless immigrant. His seven German Fascists have been smuggled sons all became enormously wealthy:Into Palestine to help the Arabs in the three still alive are millionaires, their warfare against the Jews," said They own mines all over America, Mr. Grabowski (Palestino), during from Chile to Alaska-gold, silver, the debate on action against war and

copper, iin, nitrates,

Mr. Solomon Guggenheim's collec- tion of what is called "non-objective painting" is said to be the finest in

the world. This school is opposed to the photographic,, obtaining rich

Fascism.

THE HUMAN, EYE Bright Report From America

Fashion export may take heart. The normal human eye

dis- con

London, July 1. "What should one do if in a game of bridge somebody says "Good God" because you happen to have four aces in your hand? Should there be politeness on the one hand or loyalty to God on the other?"

Major Macpherson was enlarging at the Church Assembly on tinguish nearly a million shades of his resolution to combat an increasing tendency in conversation, in colour, according to Dr. G. B. Welch, literature and on the stage to use the name of God, often with great of the North Eastern University, irreverence. On the stage, Major Macpherson declared, the name It was resolved to pursue, the Boston, Massachusetts, policy of working for nationalisa- Three separate factors are involv- of God was being increasingly used to provoke laughter or to give flon of the armaments Industries ed, Dr. Welch explains in Nature emphasis.

able hues; and 90

as a preliminary to disarmament. -brilliance, hue and purity. "Hue" i On the suggestion of the Archbishop of Canterbury the word with the successive "increasing" was dropped, and the resolution was then carried,—– Sir Walter Citrine, summing up the corresponds

of the rainbow. The effects by colour and line alone, work of the 1037 meeting, revealed gradations

Our Own Correspondent. that it would have been held in term "purity" indicates the extent The trust has been established on Budapest but that the Hungarian to which any particular colour is

diluted with grey. the broadest lines. It is empowered police wanted to be

distinct steps calculations, he arrives at the final present at

Quoting laboratory records made between neutral grey and red (the answer that the total number of to grant scholarships, endow universession.

by German and American workers, number of gradations of "purity" | "discriminable colours" is approxi alty chairs, bulid museums and art galleries, buy pictures and publish Next year the meeting will be held he esilmates that there are roughly varies with different colours).

mately 840,000. It is pointed out, perceptiblo gradation of Putting all the available figures however, that the actual figure must books-anything to promote and in Oslo. The ciliation of the A.F.L. encourage a greater appreciation of brings the 1.FT.U. membership to brillianco (dogs, it thou can together and making certain necer- vary considerably from

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