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TELEGRAPH. HONGKONG

THURSDAY,

17 FEBRUARY

1938

Ex-Member of H.K. Police ALHAMBRA

Lay Still For 20 Years

BODY SHATTERED, Mal-Nutrition HE DIED SLOW DEATH IN HOSPITAL

In British Colonies

COMMITTEE STUDIES

REPORTS

London, Feb. 16. Interesting details of the pro- gress in the Colonial Empiro of

THE day before Frank Hair died-after living for twenty years on his back with a fractured spine-he joked to his nurse: "I haven't fed the birds to-day. The little blighters will think I've forgotten all about them.”

An hour before he died Hair smiled to the matron the study of nutritional pro- and said brightly: "Good night, matron, God bless you." blems affecting those areas were That was just the cheerful way they expected Hair to go given in the House of Commons -Hair, the man who never lost his cheerfulness, never com-to-day by the Secretary of State plained from that day in France in 1917 when as a six-foot-for the Colonies answer. three sergeant in the Royal Garrison Artillery a shell explosion shattered his fine body and doomed him to a life of helpleas ness, says the Sunday Exprc88.

A Putney man, and formerly in the Hongkong police Hair was then thirty years old. He was sent to the Queen Alexandra Hospital Home, for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors at Roehampton.

The home was moved to Gif- ford House, Worthing, in 1933. It was there that Hair died this month.

His neck broken, the upper half of his body paralysed, he had never been able to move off his back since that day in France.

HE STUCK IT

Like other, permanently disabled ex-service men, Hair went through a period of intense depression a few years after the war when the tragic realisation came that he woudd never be able to leave hospital,

But even then Hair's courage ukl not desert him. As the years woro on, though they brought periods of

suffering, he great bodily

con-

quered his mental anguish, To others he gave the impression that he was always clinging to the hope of recovery, and so well did he live the part of a happy man that it almost seemed that he himself must; have believed it.

A Rochampton he had a hut among the tre

the trees in the grounds of the home, and here he tamed birds and squirrels to feed from his bedside or even from his hand.

The matron told a Sunday Express representatives: "Two squirrels used to run up and down some fir trees which he could see from his bed.

TAPPED AT HIS WINDOW "He began by throwing bread and ment to the foot of the trees. Ho gradually shortened the distance un- il the squirrels would creep into his hut and even steal the food he had prepared for the birds.

"He used to have a lot of fun watching their acrobatics on the string as they pecked through the shells.

their way

"Down here at Worthing he made friends with two blackbirds. They would tap at the windows of the sunhouse in which he lay to make him pull up the blinds and -feed them.

HIS FRIENDS

Mr. Halr's sunhouse faces our back gale and he would give a cheery smile and a wave of the hand to regular passers-by. Many of them soon became his fast friends and would come and talk to him for hours.

That was one great reason for his cheerfulness.

He was always so ready to make friends. The greatest comfort to him was his only son. From his bed he has watched him grow from tiny tot who brought his toys to play in the hut to a young man just starting out on a career.'

In the last few years Hair knew he was dying. He had a little Prayer- book that was almost worn to pieces through his constant reading.

BRITISH CONSULATE CLOSED AT LENINGRAD

London, Feb. 18.

It is officially announced that the

British Consulnte In Leningrod is} being closed down.

The effect is that there will be no British Consulates in Soviet Russla

In future. applications for travel

in

How cases

the

the United Kingdom and the Brilish Empire will be dealt with in future is under considerations, but no decision has been reached.

The British Government has per- mitted the Consular Department of the Soviet Embassy in London 10

deal with consular work that may be required, but there has never been Soviet Consulate-General In the

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Industrials met with selling pres- sure and gilt-edged securities and home rails also weakened.

The closing of the Leningrad Con-: aulute follows an intimailön 'by - the| Soviet Government of its wish To regulate consular relations in futuro on a basis of reciprocity-a principle the British Government, was unable to recognise an applicable to consular representation-British Wireless..

SHOOTS HIMSELF

WITH RIFLE AN

Shanghai, Feb. 17. John A. Young, 23, U.S. Marines, of "Linwood, California, committed suicide this morning with a rifle,

The motive is unknown. United

**** Foreign exchanges' continued in- Ballonary fours édused “further sel- London, Feb. 17. Hag of dollars, especially from the With the latest European political Continent, and the rate declined to developments super lingosed, the 5.0367 compared with 0.0270 last Stock Exchange, already listless, saw night. The trane weakened to 163.10 ues conerality marked down" to but recovered briskly following. day. The chat sufferers were Aus-omial support, closing at 152.78 prew.

Reuter Special.

trian bonds,

STOP PRESS

Mr. Ormsby Gore said a clrcular

despatch to all Colonial dependencies of April, 1930, had aroused groot interest in the subject of “nutrition' not least in the West throughout the Colonial Empire, and

Indies.

He had received copies of the re- porta by special committees set up in Trinidad. Jamaica, Barbados and British Gulana. A lengthy and in- formative report from

Britisit Honduras had just been received and would be published shortly. In ag- dition, many useful memoranda had been sent in from the smaller islands, notably Saint Vincent.

All these papers had been luid be- fore

the expert committee of the Economic Advisory Council, which

been appointed to had

advise nutrition matters in

matters in the Colonial en-

understood u summary of all re-

pire, and he

was preparing

On

the committee

plies from Colonial dependencies for

with

covering publication

report. "Meanwhile, practical steps are be

ing taking in the West Indies, as else

10- where to improve nutrition by creased attention to Infant Welfare and the feeding of school children by teaching of Domestic Selence, by en- couraging the growth of green

vegetables, etc.

The Legislature of Barbados, for instance, had recently authorised the expenditure of £4,500 to inaugurate a new scheme for the provision of milk to school children-British Wireless.

DEFEND NAVAL POLICIES

Tokyo Press, Blames Other Powers For Armament Race

Tokyo, Feb. 17, If Great Britain and the United States agree to naval parity with Japan, the latter will have no objec- tions to either disarmament or the convocation of a disarmament con- ference, the

he well-known journut Hocht said to-day."

The editorial in this journal is one, of a large number of articles in the Japanese press, devoted to the cur- rent naval shipbuilding race.

Hochi anys: "We cannot be but surprised by the cunning displayed by British diplomats in axing the responsibility for the current naval. expansion solely on Japan, conceal- ing Bitain's own ambitions."

Seeing Inconsistency in the attitude of the United States, Hochi asserts that the failure of disarmament iniks in the past has always been caused by America's "Bigger Navy" prin- ciple.

The influentint Asali urges Britain: and the United States to reconsider their disarmament formula and pay. more attention to Japan's "actual power"

"It is a matter of deep displeasure. to note that Great Britain, France and the United States are utilising Japan's replies to their Notes to rationalise their own naval expan-. sion," Arall states.

"In our opinion the current naval. race has been motivated by Great Britain's present programme of paval expansion."Reuter,

American Marines Leave Shanghai

Shanghai, Feb. 17.

Thirteen hundred members of the sixth Corps of the U. S. Marines salled for Manila to-day. Colonel Beaumont proceeded down the river to join the transport, Chaumont, which will soll to-morrow.

Admiral Yarnell and the French and Italian commanders farewe

farewelled Corps.

i

the

Admiral D. Okhall;"commander of the Japanese Special Landing Party, who represented Admiral Hasegawa, arrived several minutes after the transport salled. As a result no Japanese officials were present to farewell Colonel Beaumont, United Presi

LABOUR WINS

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6. London, Feb. 17, 5

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by Sir John Cianzonia elevation to

the Peeranto" rérulted in a win for

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