1938-08-29 — Page 3

The Navy Always Gets Its Beer

Hankow.

NOTHING stops the British Navy getting its beer-

four pints a day per man,

The final consignment of 14,000- odd gallons-three months' supply for 300 thirsty bluejackel srrived here despite

Immense distances along Yangtse,

the

The ban on downstream trafej owing to hostilities,

River booms and ninefields. Congestion on the Hongkong- Canton-Jankow railway which is choked will war traffic and bomb- ed almost daily.

The consignment, totalling 57,000 quart bolts

bottles,

and intended for men serving in British gunboats stationed

at Hankow. Ichang, Chungking, and Chongsha, had travelled:

810

sca miles from Shanghal toj

Hongkong, and

864 railway miles from Hong-

Wuchang. kong to

At Wuchang it was transferred to Junks and then to a Yangtse steamer, which carried it the few remaining miles to Hankow.

Henkow foreigners, less fortunate!" placed than the crews of H.M. shipa, find difficulty in getting supplies by the ordinary railway route.

CORRIGAN UPSETS LIE

DETECTOR

WRONG-WAY"

Jill Of

All Parts

In Europe Fran- elska Gaal, the Hun- garian actress.

starred in musical comedy, comedy and drama filma.

Now

she is going to croon

in her second American

plcture,

Bing Crosby's "Paris Honeymoon."

Infant And

Nurse Dead In

Mansion Fire

A seven-month-old girl-the

CORRIGAN, only child of Flying Oflcer and

"W who flew the Atlantic by mis- Mrs. Clement Nelson Swann-

take-he said-submitted to "lie detector" nt

by

Yt

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test and her nurse were burned to Boston, death recently in a fire at Woot- U where he is touring.

ton Hoo, a mansion near Bed- When the belts of the detector were fixed on his arms and neck, the ford. inventor asked: "Did you fly the Atlantie by mistake?”

"Yes," answered Corrigan.

The nurse, Miss Violn Vincent. daughter of Mr. W. Vincent, of Den-

lying on a bed across the body of the she hnd bcen child. Apparently trapped by flames on the staircase outside the bedroom.

The needle of the delector remark Street, Bedford, was found acted violently. Corrigan's heart beat faster, there was "inner exelte- ment," said the inventor.

+

POLICE WERE PLEASED

"Look!" shouted the inventor. That detector will break if he says another word."

The police chief was so pleased with the lie detector that he de- elded to install two at head- quarters!

ac

Corrigon has refused vaudeville offers totalling £100,000 and cepted a job as pilot in a commercial 'plane.

WOMAN "LOST"

IN LUSITANIA COMES HOME

WHEN Mrs. Margaret O'Connell

WH

Flying Officer Swann, who had most of his nightclothes burnt off in attempting to get to the bedroom, and Pilot Omcer Fairbanks, a quest at the house, were seriously injured. Mrs. Swann, daughter of Lady Law- rence, of Dorking, was away from home at the time, having gone to at- tend the wedding of friend in

London.

Flying Officer Swann, who is in charge of the N. Balloon Training | Unit (24th Training Group) at Car- dington, and Pilot Oficer Fairbanks,

who is attached to the unit under-

going Instruction in balloon barrage work, are both in Bedford County

ገ critical condition. NEIGHBOUR'S RESCUE EFFORTS

The fire is believed to have begun on the ground floor, where some

Hospital. They were stated to be in

Janded from an Atlantic liner clothes were being aired. Only the at Liverpool this month, await-brick shell of the house, with a few ing her on the quayside was her burnt-out rafters, was left. Flames sister, who had mourned her as dead were shooting through the roof when .for twenty-three years believing the brigade arrived.

she had been drowned when a Ger-i

man submarine sank the Lusitania Mr. Fred Crowsley, a 27-year-old off the Irish coast on a still Mayworks accountant, who lives near, morning in 1915.

Her sister,

bravely tried to rescue the child and Bird, ran cogerly Miss Vincent. He climbed a drain-

from

pipe and broke a window, cutting himself badly, but found that it led to the bathroom.

to her, recognising her photograph. Then they went to the home of the mother. Mrs. Splane, In Whitecate, Bramley. "MOTHER, AT LAST!".

:

Flying Omeer Swann ran to u farm for a Indder, which he reared out- Mrs. O'Connell ran into the side the nursery. Mr. Crowsley went hent and house, up to a bedroom where she up and, in spite of the found a frail, whitehaired lavalid. flames, leaned through the window Flinring her arms around the old and pulled the cot towards him, but lady's neck, Mrs. O'Connell kissed it was emply.

her

Inst

crying, "Mother! Mother! At

Wootton Hoo was of Tudor design, Sauggling close to her mother, and stood in its own ground. Flying Mrs. O'Connell said, "To stroke her Officer and Mrs. Swann had been hair as I did when I was a little living there since April.

girl means a good deal to me. It is one of the biggest thrills of my life. "I left for America with my eldest sister when I was twelve years old.

"For years my sister and I wrols to my people, and after I married

I wrote home saying that I was leay-

that I had been drowned. That bolict was strengthened because they did not receive letters I wrote later.

"A few months ago I traced one)

ing on the Lusitania and would be of my sisters to Bromley. She re- home soon.

plied at once, saying she could hardly

"At the last minute I changed believe I was still alive, and asked my mind and my relatives belleved me to come and see them."

CONSTIPATION

requires far more than sim

ply a laxative. Neutralize the stomach acids

tion

aid diges-

-tone up the entire

intestinal tract by taking

The sum o

PHILLIPS

NESIA

| PHILLIPS (IF)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

健康

Takén För A Ride

was

Gracie Fields Little

"CURSE OF

BABEL"

RETARDS WORLD

PEACE

to world

of

Esperanto as a means brotherhood was the keynote meetings when the World Congress of Esperantists continued at Univer- sity College, London.

Sixteen hundred delegates from parts of the world travelled to London for the congress but Ger-

various

many was not represented,

Germans are not allowed to learn Esperanto since titler discovered that it was invented by a Jew.

The Quaker. Esperantist Grour ot

Great

brought

press on

were

mong those who to address the Con-

problems, Mr. C. R Buxton, president of the Quaker Esperantist Group, appealed for more turcful understanding' of the world situation.

"The great fact of our time," he Bald. is that the whole of humanity. is bound together as never before. feel that the world is one.

theless, national consciousness

Is still far too strong.

"All problems of economic deve- lopment should be studied from the world point in Poland is entitled to of view. The man who loses his

as much sympathy as the man who loses his job in London.

The statesman who preaches or nationalism economic

practises

should be regarded as a traitor with- in the camp.

"If we are truly desirous of being loyal to humanity at large we shall feel deeply the curse of Babel.

"A friend In Czechoslovakia wratc to me

me in the recent crisis that the inability to understand one another's language was the cult, in- tensifying ri

all other

M. Edmond Privat, n Swiss who

Zenda. Spencer-Lewis in ured to represent Iran at Geneva, vited her to take a chute declared that the spirit of Esperanto ride after she had opened a was the sort of international spirit Children's Fair in aid of the which the League of Nations had League of Mercy at Bed-always sudly tacked. ford College, Regent's Park,

HAPPY PATIENT in a new ward of the Great Ormond- street hospital, now being made into the most modern hospital in the world. When finished nearly half-a- million pounds will have been spent, hut more than half of that amount has still to be raised. The up-keep alone will cost £88,000 a year.

"Wreckers' Ruined Last

Census In Russia

NEW census of the entire Soviet population is to be, taken next January. The results of that taken in January, 1937, did not satisfy the authorities, who have never published them.

The last one published was in January, 1983. The population was then given as 165,847,100.

It is declared that the Central Statistical Bureau was last year in the hands of a "gang of wreckers' headed by Prof. . Kraval, who not only falsified the actual count but even intro- duced "wrecking" principles in drawing up a list of questions to be asked of all citizens to establish their nationality and

· religion.

for allowed, The people were example, to state to what "National culture" they claimed to belong in stead of declaring their race by birth. Thus n Jew or a Soviet Pole might claim to be a "Great Russian" or a Ukrainian.

DISCLOSURE OF RACE

In the next census according to the Daily Telegraph Moscow correspon- dent, they will be compelled, as in all Russian consuses before 1937, to disclose their race by birth and their native language.

by race to that communion, just as

German Russians were

necessarily

Lutheran, Calvinist or Mennonite

and Polish Russians were necessarily Roman Catholic.

Next time only those profession- ally employed as priests will be compelled to declare their religious

convictions.

REPEAL OF LAW

Another interesting point about the 1937 census is tint Kraval and his fellow "wreckers" in the Central Statistical Burenu seem to have

the

full

a grossly exaggerated estimate .of the population in 1934 because to take into account the they failed wastage of population during hungry years.

the By next year, however, effects of the repeal in 1930 of the law permitting free abortions and the severe penalties which were then Imposed on

practising auch those operations will have become evident

In births in a great Increase in.

and

therefore in the population.

These will counter-balance the losses in earlier years in the grand total, although, of course, there wil be a higher proportion, of infants to men of Aghting age.

Snake Causes Triple Crash

Agala, In the census of 1937 all citizens were invited to declare their surprisingly large "religion"A number seem to have declared them- selves to be "Russian Orthodox"

Sunbury, Pa. under the misapprehension, based on Because a snake wiggled across the the traditional habit of mind of the highway, three automoblies crashed oki regime, that all "Great Russians together, a woman was injured and proper and all Ukrainians belonged | damages of $85 resulted..

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