1938-01-06 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1938.

Pole Men Tell Of Sausage And

MEDIATOR

FOR PEACE-German efforts to mediate pence in the Sino-Jap- anese war were seen in the ad- den arrivni of the German Ambassador to Chisu, Oskar. Trautmann, above. In Nanking. He refused to comment.

Doris Duke to Share Millions

From RICHARD JONES Doris Duke, world's richest girl, ant in her palatial New York man- sion recently reflecting on the em harrassment of riches while her band, Mr. James Cromwell, author and Germanist, discussed with mei

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. Krenkel is the radio operator.

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

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

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

firul us.

I

"You have probably heard of the ten tin which we live. 1-objeet to it being called a fent. 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 du not want a heap of snow down your neel, and then uper a very tight-fitting rubber door.

"AVOID CEILING"

"We have got used in this door by now and manage to get through it carrying teapots and saucepans with otir dinner. You. however, would find diffeally opening the

dour.

"Now that winter has come We have Loi a lot of things in mur house and I have evolved a set of rules which follow closely whenever 1 get inside my deeping bag or change my clothe

table when getting in sheeping bag. "Rule 1-mud sharp emner of the

"Rule 2-Avoid sharp metal boll

the manner in which she proposed; on the ceiling when gelling up.

to dispose of her latest birthday gift!

of £2,000,000.

i

Rde 3. Waen pulting on trousers Avo upiting lamp, with the right !

This gift, the second instalment of foot and Sai: Davi writing dan

A trust fund established by her wild the left.

Lather, the late J. B. Duke, president'

of the American Tobacen Company,

Our own teraved perega lot dog

nad just been paid to her on her 25lug weeweer te wen contants birthday,

the rest of on: laisv We have Tratasi move, to a thought that: "It's a lot of money," admitted her. His tile a far more wmportant th -to-yen-oid hubami, humsrif a mid- our own heads Jonaire, "but what Doris is going to

do with it frankly bony s bursa-

13.

bring ik "I will be used to greater measure

euttiert, Of security, and decency

Luto the lives of those people who are less. fortunate than ourselves."

LUXURIES

everal aanges in one house. The metal plate over d. kan gut tame to protect the our roof. Tant is where 30

i samote Thus we can go the better i dan many re-dateant run by the Mogane Pool Trust; we can have

Mr. Cromwell pointed out that they not rau age at any time of the day original legacy of 33,000,000 dollars left by his father-in-law shrank con- "Then we have our chemist's shop. haring the world depres- A few days ago we "put the jars“ So, and, wie rei anight have been-Soirshop-with-had-a-chill. I was in the neighbourhood of £10,000,000 priceless sight and we all roared or even £12,000,000. today it was with laughter, including the patient. recovered now. The worth only £4,000,000, of which Mrs. Cromwell had received two-thirds.

sion,

general opinion is that, the jars did

He said that he could not divulge. But 1 strongly suspect that how the money would be spent.

"My wife prefers not to be pinned down to any plan. She has enough to think about as it is without going into detail," he said.

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:

CAKES AND SWEETS And Everything were provided for youngsters at the K.C.C. Annual Children's Party, to which the kiddles invariably look forwards each year. This youngster is ecrtably enjoying him- Relf-Stag Photographer.

Two British

Women

Are

White Angels Of Jungle

Release MOTHERING 2.000

Plan

For Army

Officer

The Horne Secretary as rodantenna Ce release from ra tory of PAS Lieutenant Aut.n C. Dullkeld, who, ie: June 1927, Wi condemned

for the mustler of Lieut.- death Colonel J. S. Fitzgerald, his cost- ananding officer.

A week after the execution day bad been fixed the sentence WHE commited to penal servitude Iife,

for

Duffield was in the East Surrey

CHILD REFUGEES

Nairobi. Two British women, the only white women in the jungle, have become guardian angels in the refugee and camp which 6,000 Abyssinians, men, women 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 last Abyssinian stragglers, worn and weary, trickled over the frontier recently to come under their

care.

BRITISH FIRM TO BUY LEVIATHAN ·

The two women are Mrs. Bennett, superintendent, and Mrs. McKenna, wife of Dr. McKenna, the hospital, FAMOUS LINER TO BE superintendent and herself a qual led doctor.

Pes

They live in their husbands' tents.

has assumed Mrs. McKenna Regiment, which-was-station-of-ponsibility-for--the-women and Gibraltar.

children. She has won the conte

urphaned He said at his trial: "It was better dence of hundreds of that one man should die than the children, and the ling ones come

without fear to her clinic daily. whole regiment should be ruined."

lu

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

ughter was the cause of the spondy cure,"

["Putting on Jars" is a Invourite Russkin method of treating chills un the chest.

had to fire both at his victim. A candle stump is lit and

He has now been

Maidstone "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 supposel dad for ten years.

to draw out the ailment

After this message

[u!w.

the

read, was

Perhaps she is a little young to Moscow switched on to Prague. Th

in

know exactly what to do with the Pule scientists listened to a greeting: SPECIAL EMPIRE

money, but she will

expert have

frum M. Navodny, Czech Arctic air- advice at her disposal and will her man on behalf of the people of sett nominate the charities to which Czeen-Slovakia."

sive.

she wishes to

with me, she's been inundated

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. A. J. Cronin, who diagnosed Harley-street's Binesses in his book Boston "The Citadel," revealed in recently that he was thiriking of be coming an American citizen and was likely to bring his wife and I.-I year-old on over here.

Dr. Cronin, who is on the way t Hollywood, said he would allow the Alming of The Citadel"

only

CIE.

condition that he was given diree control of the production.

SOUTH AFRICA

LOCOMOTIVE ORDERS

FOR GERMANY

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

It was recently announced that the South Afrlean railway had placed

contract for locomotiven worth £1,308,000 with the German firms, Henschel and Sohn and the Berliner Maschineban-Reuter,

PROMOTED-Mine, Zhemcht- alina Karpovskaya - Mola'ff, wife of the Russian Premier and head of the Soviet State cosmetic trust, recently uppoint- ed Vice Commissar for Internal Supply, according to announce. ment in Moscow. She visited the United States in 1930 and was a luncheon guest of Mrs. Frankiin D. Roosevelt in the White House, Her cosmetic trust is most suc cessful.

NEW ZEALAND

CABLES

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

Mrs. McKenna has trained some of the cluer giris ns hosprani muises. The girls are very proud of their white, uniforms with the rea cruss

The camp site, which the Brilish have pro- Authorities in Kenya vided for them, wil be a Jungle elty when it is tinushed,

It is rectangular and the lanes are thid out on most modern lines. All able-bodied men are busy building materialn

like tree-poles and grass,

AUSTRALIAN LOAN new homes of primitive

PLAN ATTACKED

Sydney.

Some me already inished and the interiors decorated with a few pre- saved from clous househuld goods

homes 12 the wreckage of their Abyssinta and carried thousands of weary miles to refuge.

Mr. Curtin, leader of the Oppasi- tion, and Mr. Seullin, the former Socialist Prime Minister, launched a new attack on the Lyon Government over the proposal to borrow £2,500, the hospital, which 800 in London for defence equipment.j They urged that the money should he raised by a special internal tax

high incomes.

building put authorities.

>

About 175 wounded and it are in was the first by the British Most are recovering fram disease caused by lack of food. will be the The jungle city Abyssinians home for many months, Mr. Casey, the Treasurer in the i Federal Cubinet, emphasised that the until the British authorities decine

What to do with them. proposal in no way represented a re- turn to genral Londin-borrowings.

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

• Kune

BENEFACTOR

tatats had largely increased, Labour. TO BRITAIN

in consequence of the fall in wheat and wool prices, was demanding Im-

mediate preparation for another de- IN

pression within a year.

NAZI GAOL

London

A

that report

ihe anonynious Hamburg merchant who in October endowed a Ger- man "Rhodes" sholarship is Here Alfred C, Toepfer, who is now in gaol, has been confirmed In the following message,

the

SCRAPPED

DEAL PRACTICALLY COMPLETED

The

New York. Leviathan, the famous 48,- 900 on liner, which was taken over from Germany by the United States Government during the war, is like- ly to be sold for scrap to a British

Arn.

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

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

This year Congress authorised the building of a successor to the Levia- than, which has been laid up for several years. Tenders were vited for the purchase of the liner as scrap, but none of the American bids reached the reserve price.

in-

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

the operated Leviathan under Government mort-

gage, admitted recently that negolia- tions were in progress for the sale of the liner. Several offers, he said, had come from Brituin.

Newspapers here have suggested that bids as high as £600,000 have been made, but brokers regard any such amount as ridiculously high.

SHIP WITH VARIED HISTORY

WAR TIME TRANSPORT By A Shipping Correspondent

has Ja Leviathan The chequered history. Built In Ger- the Vaterland, she went minny as into service in 1914 and made several voyages before the outbreak of war caught, her in New York.

Shortage of Engineers,--Rearma- ment is leading to unusual competi- tion between England and Australia 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 artisans

Hamburg. from Great Britain. Hundreds of Australian enginers, seeking expert- The anonymous founder of ence la England in the past year, annual scholarship enabling British have been snapped up on arrival. students to enjoy a year's study in Germany is Herr Alfred C. Toepfer. MORE FOREIGN TRADE

Boniany Bay Meinories.-There Je some criticism of the "Over"

It is learned here that he has been Wellington.

regulationA currency marked expansion in Newqueamishness" of the 150th anniver-in prison since charges of infringing

ry celebrations commitice in for-the German

him and Zealand's foreign trade is revented bidding all references to convicts dur

Bgninst were brought £29.000.000 for Roads-It is now by the figures for the first 10 months

ing the celebrations, Mr. Herbert J. several members of his staff a fort- believed that the kcheme for con- of this year.

Rumsey, President of the Society of night ago. Exports, Ιπ English currency structing 3,400 miles of national

Genealogists, has privately publish- Fonds, due for completion in 1943, will amounted approximately to £40,549,-ed biographies of all those who or- cost £70,000,000 Instead of the 600, compared with £38,687,200 for rived with Capt. Phillip in 1700. Ileuse £11,000,000 originally estimated the same period last year, and Im says that there is no need to ask charges. They are Otto Emdere andMalestic, whose displacement tantal The difference is due to a decision to ports to £37,204,000, compared with whether they were sent out to Botany Co

£20,000,400,-Reuter macadamise the roads.

A

Bny.

There she lay until April, 1917, when, on the United Sintes' declara- tlan of war. she was taken over by the authorities and fitted out as a transport. She carried large m→ ber of American troops to Europe.

After the war she was reconci- tioned at great expense and put on the North Atlantle passenger ser- vice under the management of the United States Shipping Board. She never paid her way and a few years ngo was laid up.

Whent the Leviathan hauled after te war. It was claimed that her pros tonnage had been raised to 19.057 tons. which would have made her the largest ship In business the

work at that time. Actually, Involved In Miritur however, she was outclassed by the Norddeulschia "Uberase "weight"of ship-way nearly 1,000. Gesellschaft and Hanssen and Studl

tons greater.

Three other Hamburg

arc

the

Was

over-

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