1938-02-22 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

FEBRUARY 22. 1938.

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PILOT TELLS OF RESCUES IN ARCTIC

IN

Weak To Reach Food

'NEVER GAVE UP

Starving Men Too

Channel

Tunnel:

Cabinet

Action

Proposals for the construction of the much-discussed Channel and tunnel to link Britain France will be put before the British Government by the French Government in the next fow weeks.

The cost of the scheme would be £15,000,000. Another £100,000 a year would be needed for mainten- once.

But against this it is believed that an income of £2,000,000 a year could be obtained by the carriage of passengers and freight between the two countries.

At each end there would be stulecs that could be opened to flood, the

TOP PAY—A Congressional com-

mittce, giving a look into the 1930 pay of American industri- alists, movie stars and financiers. disclosed that Gary Cooper, shown above, had the largest salary of anyone in the enter- tainment field. His was $370,214.

MOVIE THRILLER REALISTIC Sydney. G-men flms apparently have a tunnel in the event of war opera-marked educational value. Under the influence of one which was being tions making this necessary,

shown at 11 theatre the entire audience left and chased n masked All departments of the French and armed bandit who held up the

cashier. The ofce

bandit Goverrunent are in favour

FRANCE IS KEEN

of the box

cheme. The French military auth-escaped, but empty handed. orities are especially keen, as they

of rushing

French

see in it a speedy way of British forces to

uld in the! event of a German invasion,

The Brush War Oftler has never been keen on the idea, fearing that It would destroy the Insularily which is Britain's main protection against Invasion..

When the French proposal comes before the Cabinet a special sub- committee of Cabinet Minister, and

Gretna

HOPE

PRAYED EVERY NIGHT'

Toronto,

Fifteen boarded, withered figures, bent with starva- tion, cramp, staggering and falling in the snow, greeted an airplane which came out of the Arctic sky on New Year's morning to save them from death.

Licut.-Colonel J. Romeo Guenet, his nineteen- year-old son, and thirteen other members of a survey party stranded on James Bay, inlet of Hudson Bay, North Quebec, had lived since November 22 on the flesh of fourteen rabbits and four squirrels and soup made from birch bark,

feet long, the distress signal to alr- craft in the north, Snow can easily he shaken off the bush to leave it black against the white for us to see.

Fught-Lieut. G. . Spradbrow, res cue pllot, said to me to-duy that within a day or two the weakest would have died as blizzard upon blizzard assalled their Inst stund against the northern winter, says away early. Soon I saw four men correspondent.

signalling frontically.

Here is Spradbrow's story: "Rodolphe Houde, a contractor, sent the party into the wastelands by plane. He planted a cache of food and snowshoes for them on October ata prearranged spot be- side big lake.

on

DC-

"Houde flew up there cember 21 to collect the party. He found the cache untouched. He at Indian once sent messages 10

out search settlements to send parties.

"I was ordered up. I had to watch for big triangles of bush, about thirty

Weddings

To be Stopped

defence experts will be set up to MR. WALTER ELLIOT (Secretary for Scotland) is preparing a

-consider it.

HEAD IS WILLED TO SCHOOL

Melbourne.

Bill to put an end to Gretna Green marriages.

There are now two rival, blacksmiths carrying on marriage businesses there.

The Bill will be introduced when Parliament reassembles next month.

Dr. D. W. Maloney, for 18 years U:C Melbourne's representative, in

It will be made an offence for any Federal Parliament, has willed his but regular clergymen, registrars and head to the Instituto of Anatomy at sheriffs' courts to conduct marriages. Canberra.. At 83, Maloney is the The new low will mean that the British Empire's oldest active politi- blacksmiths will have to go out of

bustness. clan.

His

The Bill will state a time limit within which people who have contracted Gretna marriages will be able to regularise them with the Sheriff's authorities.

If this is not done, the validity of the weddings will not be recognised

In the courts.

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"On New Year's morning I got

*LIKE SCARECROWS'

"I found a patch of good ice and set the ship down.

The

Indescribable. Was Scene They all came out to welcome inc, even the weakest.

"They were dreadfully emaciat- ed. Their clothes hung on them

like scarecrows. Their cheeks

were sunken. Their glazed eyes into seemed to be shrunk back their heads.

This

Colonel Guenet is certainly the hero of the story." Here Spradbrow said nothing to me about the nerve and skill needed to set his 'plane down on a patch of ice.]. "He Is a big man, weighing normally over 200 pounds (14st. 4lbs.). Now I should say he is less than 100.

"He told me how they had search- ed for a month for the food cache. By November 22 they were too weak to carry on

"They

were only ten miles away

from the cache, but the country is n wilderness of swamps broken with Iakes. The lake they were looking

for was frozen and snowed over. and never lost hope or night

"They held prayers

"I took the sickest man and flow back for help for the rest of them."

Two airplanes completed the res- cue to-day. Doctors report, that, al- though terribly weak, all are likely to recover. ·

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THERE is a danger in certain professional types of speech of $1 TIFFINS

rowel distinctions disappearing.

Professor A. Lloyd James, linguistic adviser to the B.B.C., and Professor of Phonetics in the School of Oriental Studies,” | London, told an audience this at a lecture at Queen Mary College,

London, E.

36-Hour Cold

Cure Claimed

By Doctor

•

"It is a little disturbing," he said, smid laughter, "when a man stands with his back to the "fah' and un- nounces that he got some 'tah' on the tahs' of his 'cah' in 'Gah' Street on his way to the Tah." "*

It was a modern tendency 10 speak of "Ah-land," and when he hnd to tell announcers that the place |was entled

tled "Ireland" they were very nice about it.

A young Claims that common colds can be his frieng man told me that one of

had

red-ear," Pro- cured in thirty-six hours with sulphanliamide

fessor Lloyd James said, "I had put

newly-heard of white-throats and red- this developed drug into the forefront breasts, but not of red-cars, but then of medical practice,

it cam

came out that the thing was in It possesses astonishing curativehi. car, and was a

radio." properties, and doctors who have been

"What an awful thing it would be experimenting with it have made an-it our beautiful languago, so rich in nouncements already which justify it vowels and dipthongs, were reduced being described as "wonder-drúg." to

Dr. Michael Elyan, of Hanwell, banlamb and many consonants.

one vowel the bleat of the London, has been using it for com- mon cold-curing,

"Donald Duck is a great character

He says in a letter to the British an illustrates many truths, not the Medical Journal: "In all cases the least of them being linguistle"

The broadcasting for 500 years of results were swift, positive, and, in those cases treated in the prodromal visual English: through the medium

of printing had produced an enor (curly) stage, most dramatic.

have not had one failure to re-mous degree of standardisation, bui was no standard of spoken cord so far.

language.

Dr. Leonard Colebrook, of Queen,

Charlotte's

There was no with that everyone

T

Hospital, London, ́ lins stated in The Practitioner that la chould talk alike, and the only ad

could vantage

sed from has been using it in puerperal fever standardised spoken English was that cases and the treatment has reduced the death-rate from 22.0 per cent to 5.5 per cent.

...

cent

FOR NURSES

10 the

for broadcasting purposes, signals were put out with a great degree of constancy, intelligibility was more likely to be pchloved over the widest area.

In other cases of septic infection at he had to set up a standard of the hospital the mortality rate has dropped from 71 per cent, to 27.3 P.English-speaking world, he would English for the whole of the spoken Lake

President Lord Macmillan ar Guy's Dr. A. H. Douthwaite, of Hospital, London, has been feating Roosevelt, because their speech was sulphantasalde for treating doctors nearer to the visual standard than

ho knew. and nurses infected during post-any people could not stand the

"miney

talk mine

inurtem operations.

of Ile says, in The Practitioner, that

many Lon- the drug raises hopes that the fata doners; and he had known people lities of post-mortem and operation who believed that to roll the r's fave wounds, so tragically familiar to las evidence of grit and courage. The pital workers, will dwindle to insigni- tato Lord Snowden, when he wanted House of ficance under tho of sulphant to be impressive in the

power

Commons rolled his ra; so did Mr. outhwalte has also been using | Komsay : MacDonald. it in

in cases of acute tonsilitis.

Professor Lloyd James said that He says, The more alarming the many people might take lessons Iti condition of the patient the more telephoning with pront. The tele dramatle will the

will the effects of therepy phone did not differentiate between prove to be."

certain sounds, and an important All the doctors who have been ex-factor in intelligibility was contaxt: perimenting with this drug warn which broke down when one inst gainst its indiscriminató use, suggest quired the name of the speaker.ne that it would be a great misfortuno ***It was possible, but, not econos If it were discredited by irrationat mically possible, to provide telo- use, pays the Dully. Expres a phone instruments which did That happened in America where differentiate between all sounds and over seventy people died followinıf | the: Port Ofte Besearch Department this use at an Ungu coxspersies of war throughly fandling 101 thi

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