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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

JANUARY

1938.

Pole Men Tell Of Sausage And

MEDIATOR

FOR PEACE-Gernian efforts to mediate peace in the Sino-Jap- anese war were seen in the aud den arrival of the German Ambassador to China, Oskar Trautmann, above, in Nanking. He refused to comment.

Doris Duke to Share Millions

From RICHARD JONES

Afternoon Tea Parties'

Moscow.

Life at the North Pole was described by Krenkel, one of the four Russian scientists there, in a message read out from Moscow radio recently. He told how they cook sausages, how they have founded a "chemist's shop," how [they manage in their cramped "canvas house."

The four scientists are Papanin, Krenkel, Shirshov, and Fedorov. Kreakel is the radio operator.

The message said: "You would like to know our address. I [suppose.

"We are now on latitude 83deg. 38mins, north.

If you go along thenorth-east coast of Greenland, branch off to your [right and walk on the ice for 125 miles, you will be sure to

find us.

"You have probably heard of the ten tin which we live. I object to it being called a tent. It is our house, a house with a canvas roof.

"In order to get into it you first have to open a tap, bending very low if you do not want a heap of snow down your neck, and then open a very tight-fitting rubber door.

"AVOID CEILING"

"We have gol used, to this door by now and manage to get through it carrying tempots and soucepans with our dinner. You, however. would And diffkulty in opening the

door,

Now that winter has come 17! have got a lot of things in our house and have evolved a set of rules which I follow closely whenever I Doris Duke, world's richest girl, get inside my sleeping bag or change sat in her palatial New York min-my

clathes.

sion recently reflecting on the em "Rule 1-Avuld sharp corner of the barrasament of riches while her lus table when getting into steeping bag. band, Mr. James Cromwell,

author

and unomist, discussed with me

"Rule 2-Avold sharp metal bull

the manner in which she proposed on the ceiling when getting up.

to dispose of her latest birthday gin Rule 3.-When putting on trousers

of £2,000,000,

This gift, the second instalment of A trust fund established, by her father, the late J. B. Duke, presidenti of the American Tobacco Company. had just been paid to her on her 25th birthday.

"It's a lot of money," admitted her 40-years-old husband, himself a mil- lionaire, "but what Doris is going to do with it is frankly nobody's busi-

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"It will be used to bring

от comfort, traier measure security, and decency into the Hves of those people who are less fortunate than ourselves."

avoid upsetting lamp with the right foot and Snieshov's writing desit with the left.

"Our most treasured possession is j

which contains our well-worn file

We have i the result of our labours, trained ourselves to the thought that i this file is far more important than our own heads.

LUXURIES

CAKES AND SWEETS And Every thing were provided for youngsters at the K.O.C. Annual Children's Party, to which the kiddies invariably look forwards each year. This youngster is certainly enjoying him- nell. Staf Photographer.

Two British Women Are

White Angels Of Jungle

Release MOTHERING

Plan

For Army Officer

The Home Secretary is considering the release from custody of CX- "We have several luxuries in our Lieutenant Austin C. Dufield, who, in June 1927, was condemned to house. There is a metal plate over

the death for the murder of Lirul our lang put there to protect

his Colonel J. 5. Fitzgerdd. our we put roof That is where sausages. Thus we can go one better manding officer. than many a restaurant run by the have Moscow Food Trust; we can

hot sausages at any time of the day.

coat-

A week after the execution day Was

2,000

CHILD REFUGEES

Nairobi.

Two British women, the only white women in the jungle, have become guardian angels in the refugee camp which 6,000 Abyssinians, men, women and children, fleeing the Italian "clean-up" campaign, are hacking out of the jungle as their new home on the banks of the Siolo River, Northern Kenya,

The Just Abyssinian stragglers, worn and weary, trickled over the frontier recently to come under their care.

The two women are Mrs. Bennett, superintendent, and Mrs. McKenna, wife of Dr. McKenna, the hospital superintendent and herself a quali-

been fixed the sentence commuted to penal servitude for fled doctor.

They live in their husbands tents. Duffield was in the East Surrey Mrs McKenna has assumed rusTM Regiment, which was stationed at ponsibility for all the women and children. She has won the confi~~ Cibralta

of hundreds of orphaned dence children, and the alling ones come without fear to her clinic daily.

Mr. Cromwell pointed out that the original legacy at 53,000,000 dollars)

life. "Then we have our chemist's shop. left by his father-in-law shrank con- siderably during the world depres- A few days ago we put the jars" sion, and, whereas it might have been on Shirshow who had a chill. It was in the neighbourhood of £10,000,000 a priceless sight and we all ronred or even £12,000,000, to-day it was with laughter, including the patient. worth only £6,000,000, of which Mrs. Cromwell had received two-thirds,

He said that he could not divulge But how the money would be spent.

"My wife prefers not to be pinned down to any plan. She has enough

"He has recovered now. The general opinion is that the jars did strongly suspect that laughter was the cause of the speedy

cure."

the

He sold at his trial: "I was better the that one man should die than whole regiment should be ruined."

He blamed Colonel Fitzgerald for "extra work given to subalterns," and said he meant to use the second shot in his revolver on himself, but

had to fre both at his victim.

He has now been in Maidstone

["Putting on Jars" is a favourite to think about as it is without going Russian method of treating chilis on the chest. A candle stump is it and into detail," he said.

"Wealthy people now know of a put inside a glass jar. The mouth way to dispose of money, and they of the jar is then applied to prefer to do it quietly and without affected part and suction is supposed Jail for ten years.

to draw out the ailment.]

this After

message WRS "Perhaps she is a little young to Moscow switched on to Prague. The know exactly what to do with the Pole scientists listened to a greeting SPECIAL EMPIRE money, but she will have expert

people man "on behalf of the advice at her disposal and will her- from Mt. Navodny, Czech Aretle air-

fuss.

self nominate the charities to which Czecho-Slovakia."

she wishes to give.

"Of course, she's been inundated

with begging and even

letters, but she is

threatening

always getting

them. We just don't take any notice

at least of the threats."

Dr. Cronin Surprise

New York. Dr. J. Cronin, who diagnosed Harley-street's illnesses in his book Boston The Citadel," revealed in recently that he was thinking of be-j coming an American citizen and was likely to bring his wife and four- year-old son over, here.

Dr. Cronin, who is on the way to Hollywood, said he would allow the

only Alming of "The Citade?"

On

condition that he was given direct control of the production.

SCUTH AFRICA

LOCOMOTIVE ORDERS

FOR GERMANY

read,

PROMOTED-Mic. Zhemchu- lina Karpovskaya - Molaff, wife of the Russian Premier and head of the Soviet Sinto cosmetic trust, recently appoint- ed Vice Commissar for Internal Supply, according to announce- ment in Moscow. She visited the United States in 1938 and was a luncheon guest of Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House, Her cosmetic trust la moal nuc- cessful.

NEW ZEALAND

MORE FOREIGN TRADE

Wellington.

of

Capetown. The South, African Railway Ad- ministration has ordered 17 new los comotives from Krupps, of Essen.

It was recently announced that the South African railway hindi pinced a contract for locomotives worth £1,300,000 with the German firms,

A morked expanalon In New Henschel and Sohn and the Berliner

Zealand's foreign trade in revealed Maschineban -Reuter.

£20,000,000 for Roads.It is now by the figures for the first 10 months belleved that the

scheme for con- pf this year,

Exports, in Englishi currency structing 5,400 miles of national ronds, due for completon in 1943, will amounted approximately to £40,649,- Cost £20,000,000 instead of the 800, compared with £30,887,200 for £11,000,000 originally estimated, the same period inst year, and Im The difference is due to a decision to ports to £37,284,000, compared with

£20,000,400-Router) Avgi macadamiso the roads.

CABLES

The two women have organised a dally children's parade for the milk ralion, when 2,000 children cheerfully line the river bank.

Mrs. McKenna has trained some of the elder girls as hospital nurses. The girls are very proud of their white uniforms with the red cross.

The camp slie, which the British pro- have authorities In Kenya vided for them, will be a jungle elty when it is finished,

It is rectangular and the lanes are laid out on most modern lines. All uble-bodied men are busy building

lite tree-pules and grans.

AUSTRALIAN LOANew homes of primitive materials

PLAN ATTACKED

Sydney.

Some are already finished and the Interiors decorated with a few pre- clous household goods saved from in their homes the wreckage of Abyssiniu and carried thousands of weary miles to refuge.

Mr. Curtin, leader of the Opposi- tion, and Mr. Scullin, the former Socialist Prime Minister, launched a

About 176 wounded and i ure in new attack on the Lyon Gavernment

was the first over the proposal to borrow £2,500,- the hospital, which

up by the British 000 in London for defence equipment. building put

Most are recovering They urged that the money should authorities. be raised by a special internal tax from disease caused by lack of food.

cily will on high incomes.

The Jungle Abyssinlans home for many months, unt the British authorities decide what to do with them.

Mr. Casey, the Treasurer in the Federal Cabinet, emphasised that the proposal in no way represented a re- turn to gencrut London borrowings.

Although the Federal revenue from July 1 to Nov, 30 this year was near- ly £2,000,000 more than for the same period last year, and savings banks

BENEFACTOR

totals had largely increased, Labour, TO BRITAIN

in consequence of the fall in whent

and wool prices, was demanding Im-

be the

mediate preparation for another de- IN NAZI GAOL

pression within a year.

that the A London report anonymous Hamburg merchant who in October endowed a Ger man “Rhodes" sholarship Is Herr Alfred C. Toepfer, who is now In gaol, has been confirmed in the following message.

Hamburg,

of the

Shortage of Engineers-Rearma- ment is leading to unusual compell- tion between England and Australla for skilled engineers and artisans. Australian Industries, already fully employed on munition work, com- plain of shortage of skilled labour, and urge the immigration of artisant from Grent Britain. Hundreds of Australlan enginers, secking experi- The anonymous founder ence in England in the past year, annual scholarship caabling British have been snapped up on arrival. students to enjoy a year's study in Bontany Bay Memories-There is Germany is Herr Alfred C. Toepler.

criticism

It is learned here that he has been "over- Aqueamishness" of the 150th anniver-in prison since charges of infringing German currency regulations sary celebrations committee in for- the

against him and bidding all references to convicts dur- were brought ing the celebrations. Mr. Herbert J. several members of his staff a fort- Rumsey, President of the Society of night ago. Genealogists, has privately publish-

Three other Hamburg business similar ed blographies of all those who ar-

houses are involved in rived with Capt. Phillip in 1788. Ho says that there is no need to ask charges. They are Olto Emden and whether they were sent out to Botany Co. the Norddeutsche Uberira Gesellschaft and Hansseri and Studi

some

Day

of the

BRITISH FIRM TO BUY LEVIATHAN FAMOUS LINER TO BE SCRAPPED

DEAL PRACTICALLY COMPLETED.

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New York. The Leviathan, the famous 40,- 900ton liner, which was taken over from Germany by the United States Government during the war, is like- ly to be sold for scrap to n British Arm.

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The deal has been practically completed. The papers are rendy to be signed as soon as the Maritime Commission in Washing- ton gives its approval.

Small details remain to be settled, such as whether the ship will carry cargo on her voyage to Britain, whether she will be manned by a British or American crew, and how soon she will be broken up.

in-

This year Congress authorised the building of a successor to the Levia- thon, which has been laid up for

were several years. Tenders vited for the purchase of the liner us scrap, but none of the American bids reached the reserve price.

Mr. John Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Marine Corporation, which

which operated

the Leviathan under Government mort. guge, admitted recently that negotia tions were in progress for the sale of the liner. Several offers, he said, had come from Britain.

Newspapers here have suggested that bids as high as C600,000 have been made, but brokers regard any such amount as ridiculously high."

SHIP WITH VARIED HISTORY

WAR-TIME TRANSPORT By A Shipping Correspondent

had A The Leviathan bas chequered history. Built in Ger- the Vaterland, she went many as into service in 1914 and made several voyages before the outbreak of war cought her in New York.

There she lay until April, 1017, when, on the United States' declara- tion of war, she was taken over by the authorities and fitted out as a transport. She carried large num» ber of American troops to Europe.

After the war she was recondi- tioned at great expense and put on the North Atlantic passenger Ber- vica under the management of the United States Shipping Board. She never paid her way and a few years ago was laid up.

When the Leviathan was over- hauled after the war, It was claimed that her gross tonnage had been raised to 50,957 tons, which would have made her the inrgest ship in the world at that time. Actually, however, she was outclassed by the Majestic, whose displacement-total weight of ship was nearly 1,000 zons greater.

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