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SEES BOY IN IRON LUNG

LORD HORDER, accompanied

by more than 100 doctors, visited the "ron lung boy" at Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples' Hospital, Alton,, Hants, recent- ly.

Nine-year-old Eric Merchant, of Andover, Biants, whose life Way saved nine months 010. Was the centre of attraction.

Eric was victim of Infantile paralysi and when taken to the hospital tus hugs were paralysed, For six weeks he was confined by the "ron lung" which pumped alr into and out of his lungs.

As his lungs began to function more 1 more of their own record be was taken out for start perlods, which were gradually lengthened until he was releases altogether,

He is TION in the word and is undergoing treatment In 10 radiant heat tummet.

The run ung" was on view and working with a wax model of a buy inside it.

Lord Horder, addressing the doc- tors, described the hospital as "the last word in the evilised world for the treatment of crippled children."

"The felt work for their frent ment," he ackled. us been here.

and Sir Henry Gouvain's contribu fun in this etirection is second to Bone. Here you see the result of 30 years of genius, Vision and persistent endeavour "

Lord Border was presented with a leather dressing-case maufe e the college workshups by a reipated boy named George Guskins, who comien from Reeplini, near Norwich, and Lady Horde was given szinte necille- work made by three ghi patients

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST

1938,

KAI TAK AIRMEN TAKE TO SNOOKER

Women's Strike Stops A War

SCOTTISH NOVELIST WRITES A REMARKABLE NOVEL

WHEN the next world war broke out, in Nin-teen-Forty-Some- thing, French aeroplanes bombarded Whitehall and the

Grave Of Population Decline

Menace Government moved to Blackpool.

PEERS ADVOCATE

ALLOWANCES

were

Grave words upon the decline of Britain's population uttered in the House of Lords last week.

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Lebate initiated by the Bishop of Winchester, Dr. Garbett, on the needs of the wage-earner with

large family veered rapidly into wider channels. Before the fishop's motion or the appointment of a special com- mitee to report on family allowances was withdrawn Conservative, Liberal and Sorbet prers had displayed un- wonted unanimity as regards the orgency of the problem.

Only upon the methods to grapple with the problem did they diner.

Lord Templemore, who put the Government case, mode it clear that, though there was little hope or any of the suggested remedies at present, the Importance of the malter fully appreciated. The Government, however, could not see is way to set up a committee.

Was

CHILD SUFFERERS

The Bishop of Winchester pointed out that the Unemployment Assist ance Board had found that there were mumbers

ers of working people with Carge familles who could not, through low wages, meet the primary needs their householis. Where there were children the chlidren were the worst sufferers.

A system of family allow ances would but extend the policy already in operation in other parts of the Empire.

Lord Snell, for the Opposition, was quick in support.

For the Liberals Viscount Samuel declared that there

The women of Britain stopped the war-by refusing to have their husbands and sweethearts. They anything to do with locked themselves up in Edinburgh Castle and other strongholds

and declared a love strike.

It was a grand success, says Mr. greatest soldier is Jenter of the love. Erie Linklater, the Scottish novelist, strike. relating with gusto and great free- "Only be resolute," she tells her dom of language these epoch-malding followers, "and the future is urs, events. And It is fo to assum)* our happines secure. that his novel.

For a 1tle: The Impregnable while give up the joy of love and Women (Cape, 7s. 3d.). published you will make love safe for ever," hast week, will be successful, too.

s the naughtiest novel of the your up to now, and one of the cleverest.

Imagine the situation. Lady Lysis trata Scrymgeo", the wife of Britain's

PRISON

WITHOUT BARS

New York.

dc-

and State prison officials assembled Governor Marland, of Oklahoma. at Springtown, Oklahoma, and dicated the site of the new "honour prison" which 400 convicts are building.

now

DEFIANT WIVES

She exhorts the women to make) themselves as attractive as they can, to wear their prettiest clothes, to be glamorous, alluring, irresistible, and

then

"Draw back and make your denial. Be strong and refuse your love. Tell your husbands and your sweethearts that they must choose between love and war."

Su.

New Billiard Table installed at the R.A.F. Station, Kai Tak. The first shot in a gamo of Snooker is being taken by Flight Licut. C. A. Watt, R.A.F., Adjutant of the R.A.F. Station, Kai Tak. The Table was installed by Messrs.

RADIO BROADCAST

Mamak & Co.. Sports Outfitters, Sibelius Symphony No. 2

10. Peking Road, Kowloon.

Died As Ship Ended Last Voyage

trJN

Melbourne.

After

eighty-four

YEATH of romantic

service, Exten elaimed to be the oldest passen- ger-carrying steamship In thr world. has made her last trip.

As she berthed at a Melbourne wharf for the last me. Quar- termaster Septimus Danby col- lapsed and died on the deck.

The

Edinn was launched in the Clyde in 1854, She carried stores and horses to

The Black Sca during the Crimean

war, and Wan once

Florence Nightingale

a passenger aboard her.

Niemoller Dying

In Camp Cell?

Boston Symphony Och.

IRISH PROGRAMME Radio Programme Broadcast by Z1W on a Frequency of 845 ke's; on on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.IN. wil 8-11 pan. on 9.52 m.r's. jer second,

H.K.T. (CB)

John's

12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service

Intercession from SC Cathedral.

of

12.30 Songs by Paul Robeson (Bass)

I'aul Robeson Melley; Intro:- Carry

me back to old Virghny; Mighty lak' a rose; Round the bund of the road; River, stay way from my door; Ol man River toll de ofe Charlot; Mary had a baby; Swing low, sweet shariot; Heav'n, Heav'n (I got a robe),

12.40 Marck Weber's Orchestra, "Der Freischutz"-Potpourri (We- ber); Lehariana (Geiger); The Beg- gur Student Selection (Millocker).

Time and Weather.

1.03 Chopin Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21.

Played by Arthur Rubinstein (Piano) and The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Bur- birolli,

1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press, Wen- ther and Announcements,

1.40 Variety, Including Clapham & Dwyer, Frances Day and Jack

ton, spoke Lysistrata in a play Wife's Bid To Appeal yon's Orchestra

LEO.

by Aristophanes, 2,350 years Then too the women, declaring a love | strike, brought the Greek bays out of the trenches.

own homes

grave

To Hitler

The Fleet's In Port Again--Fox- Trot (From 'O-Kay for Sound').... Jack Hylton And His Orch. with vocal refrain; Tennis,...Clapham & Could the same tacties succeed to- that the life of Pastor Niemoeller, the George Formby Medley: Intro

It is reported from reliable sources Dwyer; (The Radio Favourites); day? Mr. Linklater says they could. German minister and women had declared a strike in their since the beginning of March, is in

"Prominent buildings had

ex-submarine Sitting on the lee; Do de oh Doh; been comunander, whu has been in a con- seized and garrisoned.

Chinese Laundry Blues; Madame Countless centration camp, following his triol,

Moscovitch

My Ukulele; Fanlight Funny... George Furmby danger t "Such tactles were, of course, res-Chronicic according to the News

dian) with Ukulele & ponsible for many breaches of the

correspondent,

Love's Melody (From 'Dreams come The prison, which will be opened to distinguish a girl with whom some losing strength rapidly. For a few days it was easy is said, is pathetically peace.

He has "shrunk to a skeleton," it true)....Frances

Day (Soprano) later in the your, marks

weak and is WH Orchestra; I'm A Fool For a startling **

Loving You Lewis-Wendling).... experiment.

All the inmates will be soldier was deeply in love; for she ing from under-nourishment, as the tru; She Sholl Have Music-~Fox-

navvy or plasterer, miner or private It is put on their honour not to escape.

also stated that he is suffer-Frances Day (Soprano) with Orches- Ancre will be no bars nt the wins would have a black eye or suchlike camp food at Sachsenhausen is notor Hylton's Orchestra with vocal re-

Trot (From dows, no high wall round the build.

the Film)....Jack Ing, guards will not be armed. The

The Ree Song (Kenneth Blain) convicts

sleep in unlocked dormitories.

Those

serving the final stages their sentences and those who being considered for parotes will be selected as the first inmates.

will

of

are

If escapes do take place the system will have to be changed, but Governur Marland believes the convicts make it succeed,

mark to prove 11,"

hose.

lously insufficient and bad.

Psychologically he is crushed

with

by Arthur Askey (Comedian) with

He

lives alone in a small cell, and when Fox-Trot (Erard)... Jack Hylton's the long period of his isolation.

Schoolboy Howlers-Comedy exercised is allowed neither to see nor Orchestra with vocal refrain. spank with his fellow-prisoners. 2.15 Close Down.

HITLER SILENT Frau Niemoeller is striving, as a

6.0 Dance Music and Light Instru- mental Variety Numbers.

SAVED SWEETHEART There was plenty of streel-lighting In Dundee the Black Watch, coming home on leave, were scratched, bitten, and finally driven off a fire-

Solicitors had to do their own last hope, to secure an interview with meeting for food, and to cook 11. Hitler to intercede for her husband, Officers pushed perambulators. Men who, it is declared, can be saved only of all classes grew bad-tempered as by immediate transfer to a zanator- Big Broadcast of 1937)....Ted Fle the cellbary strike wore on noble lord thrashed his wife, his three

One fum.

From The Big Broadcast ut 1937'); Fox-Trots Night In Manhattan Here's Love In Your Eye (From The

were already PLOT TO KIDNAP AL Brown-up daughters, and most fused to allow her to approach him. 1937): Waltz-My Heart's In Old

many precendents for the principle of family allowances-in the system of taxation in the Royal Navy, in the Royal Air Force, the Army, the Police.

the

U.S. STATESMAN

Viscount Astor brought figures to Al Capone Refused Aid

cane.

Rito and His Orchestra with vocal So far the secret police have re-chorus; Fox-Trot-Sneaking Of The of his domestic staff with a rattan

Wenther (From

Diggers of A petition signed by 200 pusters, Meanwhile there were from the women's ranks. They were him to be transferred to a sanatorium, Parade Of The Mills Bottle

deserters priests, writers, scientists and other Killarney....George Ellfolt and His women got into Edinburgh Castle of Berchtesgaden, as Hitler has re- So people of world renown, asking for Sweet Music Makers with vocal re- court-inurilalled. Men dressed

frain; Fox-Trot-Don't Look Now; has been shelved among the archives

Timmy Dorsey and His 09. and were arrested as sples. One of fused to receive it heart turned traitress. them was saved by his own sweet-

THE WOMEN WON

DS

wes

bear upon the discussion. At the present rate of progress, he declared.

population of the country would Harold Ickes, United States Secretary A remarkable plot to kidnap Mr. fall by 1976 to 32,000,000, while in century

it would be well

of the Interior, was disclosed recently below by Roy Gardner, a former train- 20,000,000.

What was the use of stimulating a

robber, who has just been released The women sent an ultimatum to in future from any anti-regime Django Reinhardt from Alcatraz Prison after serving the Government: long-term Empire emigration policy his sentence, says a New York report. If our own population, was to be According to Gardner, the plot was tention to abstain as far as possible

"We hereby declaré our firm in-charged. halved? A family allowance however conceived by two kidnappers now from any contract with men, and we small would be of tremendous benefit.serving sentences in Alcatraz-Tem

Underwood, a Middle West bandit, abandon all marital relations, extra-

utterly renounce, repudiate, and Albert Balos, who took part in marital relations of a like or com the abduction of the oil millionaire, parable nature, and casual Intimacy,

Their idea was to hire an

Charles Urschel, in 1933.

until such time as pence has been re-established." side gang to kidnap Mr. Ickes, who Roosevelt ordered their release from the women's strongholds. With hoc-

be held unill

The Government decided to storm President

keysticks and mashes the

and

Passenger Drunk

The secret police insist that he can Vagabond').

Sweet, Madame (From The Beloved

,Maurico secure his freedom by a promise to (Baritone); Fox-Trot-Star Dust..... Chevaller resign from his pulpit, and to abstain Instr.

Trlo:-Coleman

Hawkins: activities," with which he

phanie Grappely; (Piano); Swinging Em Down... Freddie Jenking Har- lem Seven with vocal refrain; Vocal He Hadn't Up Til Yesterday (Wright, Haines, fucker & Meskill)

Sophie Tucker (Comedienne with Ted Shapiro and His Orchestra; Fox-Trot-The Girl In The Garden; Afterglow....Jan Garber And His Orchestra with vocal chorus by Russ Brown; Waltzes-A Perfect Love.... Victor

Young and His Orchestra vocal chorus by Donald Novis; Inter- A pussenter in Cook Strait mezzo-I Could Be In Heaven; Airways machine, charged with Fox-Trot Anything Your Little that employers in increasing ruimbers Alentraż, refused to lend the £2,000] Ing the Castic, but the War Mints. aboard the aeroplane, was fined £5 His Orchestra with 'voent chorus, The Prime Minister was for shel- drunk willen passenger Heart Desires Joe Sanders and

In the Nelson Police Court.

SCHOOL MEALS URGED The malden speech of Lord Holden was similarly directed. He urged as a partial remedy the provision of substantial meals at school as a dally relief of the burden upon some wage

earners.

Was

prison.

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out-

Wynon

Lord Templemore briefly outlined the various virtues of the suggested when Al Capone, former ruler of the Borderers.

The plan was abandoned, however, drove off the Essex Regiment and remedles. There was the possibility Chlenge's underworld, now also in

might be induced to increases of Wates to men with large families;

but

ter, whose wife was inside, naturally

+

In N.Z. Plane Fined £5

Auckland (N.Z.).

Manserl: Thirty Thirsty Throats

Gingy Sing (A. Winn & Police said the passenger was E. is alleged to have said that objected. Besides, the troops would sober when he boarded the plane but compulsion would but exclude the whole idea was insane, and that, refuse to fire.

(Nesbi such persons from employment. The "any way. Roosevelt wouldn't free

Bros.).. Sung by Anona dronk from n whisky flask. The creation of a national family allow anybody, even if his whole faimly country in Europe, except Bulgaria, had to be assisted from the machine, Comedy

loveatriko spread to every might have emused an necident. Hety-A Feather In Her Tyrolenn Hat; Winn with Orchestra; Comedy Novel- ance fund, or the provision of direct were snatched." family allowances by the Exchequer

where apparently,

Waltz The Travelling women did Mr. Ickes, who is 04, was recently matter much. And as in Aristo-

not they said.

Salesman:...The B.B.C. Dango Or and yet to be widely canvassed, and married in Dublin to Miss Jane Dahl-phancs' uproarious comedy thou-was a case for gnol, but would im- vocal chorus.

The magistrate said he thought it chestru directed by Henry Hall with opinion was not fully informed. man, 20, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sands of years ago, the women won. pone a fine.

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