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THE "HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1938.

THE STORIES OF TWO BLIND MEN

No. 1

it

Hundreds of normal golf. ers, whone

only handicap is bogey, watched two players beat- Ing Bogey and Blindness on

the

Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.A., course recently.

They were W. II. J. Oxen- ham, a London osteopath who lives at New Church-road, Hove, and Mr. Clinton Russell, of Duluth.

Both are totally blind.

The match for the world blind golférn' chompionship was won by Russell by 5 and 0.

PERFECT SWING

A member of the West Hove Golf Club, where Mr. Oxenham sald to the Sunday Dispatch:

plays,

their

"Taking into consideration enormous handienp they must be the world's finest golfers. To hit a bail without seeing it and drive it 200 yards as Mr. Oxenham does, must mean the perfect golfer's swing.

"Mr. Oxenham plays like any other golfer

Dis except that chauffeur, who acts as his caddy, places in head of his club Rgainst the ball, polnis

hi

shoulder in the correct direction. and tells him the distance.

"He has a handicap around 20, but consistently goen round the course with a score of about US."

Mr. Oxenham is 43. He is a doc- tor of osteopathy, and was blinded by a bullet in the war.

HOLE IN ONE

He began to play golf five years ago. He was going round the course with a friend when he had a sudden Impulze to play # shot. He had never handled a golf club before.

When be did his first hole in one he decided to take up golf seriously.

A member of his household said: "Mr. Oxenham practises his shots for hours in his back garden. He, han a captive ball. I have never seen him completely miss,

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"He also plays the guitar very well, is a keen card player, but uses special cards."

DIRECTION FINDER Mr. Oxenham usually plays twice n week with friends. The only con- cessions made are difcuit Bes

when Mr. Oxenham has the option of picking is ball up for the loss

of a stroke.

Sometimes his opponents rattle the bole "tin" to give him a better idea of the direction of the hole.

Frequelle

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have resulted in many deaths and many more Injured. Here is a Jewish workanan being assisted to a nospial in Tel-Aviv, after he had been stabbed one of the sporadic clashes, Younger Palestine Jews known as Revisionists, are for retallation against Amb terrorism. Older Jews are passive.

Police S.O.S. In Riddle

Of Gipsy Boy

A blocky 35- years old

No. 2 man walked

Into Westminster Labour Exchange and put his name down for a job-bla first for 16 years.

RADIO BROADCAST

Albert Barton (Baritone) From the Studio

The man is John E. Holmes,Z.B3.W. on a Frequency of 045 .e's. fladio Programme Broadenst by once of Southampton, now of the and on Short Wave from 1-2.10 p.m. Salvation Army Hostel, Great and 0-11 p.m. on 9.82 m.c's. per Peter-street, Westminster. Blind, second,

for nearly 15 years, he has now miraculously recovered his sight.

"FOOLING AROUND"

He

toid

the Sunday Dispatch that he lost his sight at 20 "Cooling around" with acid.

electrical en- Ile lost his job as an ginees and had to live on grants from charities, picking up a few shillings by making mats and baskets, and by going to eye hospitals to be examin- ed by students at 2s. 6d. # time.

Last January his sight began to return. For the past five weeks he has had perfect sight.

He used to have a dog which guided him when he went about, That dog seemed to sense that owner WILS regaining hals

alght.

6 Studio ChEdren's Ifour.

7. Closing Local Stock Quotations. 7.02 Turner Layton (Piano and

Vocal).

Old

Plantation (Redmond and. David): September In The Rain (film 'Melody for Two'); When The larvest Moon In Shining (Wilfred and Swalne).

Dance Music. 7.12 Fox-Trots-Empty Saddles (from Rhythm on the Range'); I'm An Old the Cowband (from Rhythm on Range)...Ambrose and His Or chestra with vocal chorus: Waltz- Allee Blue Gown: Rumba-El Copul- lite De Alell...Henry Jacques and His Orchestra Fox-Trots-1'so A- huggin'; Wal-Hoo....toy Fox and Its Orchestra with vocal chorus; Waltz-Music In May (from Care- loss Rapture"); Novelty

Fox-Trot Peter's Pop Keeps a Lollipop Shop Ambrose and His Orchestra: Fox- Trot--The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down; Paso-Doble-Le Touquet... The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra directed

One day it run into the road near Victoria Stalion and was killed. had never tried to run away before, and John Holmes trusted his life it implicitly,

SENTENCED

to

"It is marvellous to see trees and flowers again," he told me, "Blind- ness is like a prisonic you think

a life sentence from which you can never escape.

"Even now I cannot altogether grasp that my sight has return- ed. I and myself unconsciously feeling my way along walls. "The thing that strikes me most HOW is the great advancement made in the past 16 years in films. When I went to the cinema the other day I could hardly believe that the ple- tures I saw were flims at all. They certainly were not the films I knew years ago.

"I learned to read Braille, but now 1 need it no more. All I want is n job."

45,000 TON COAL ORDER

by Heary Hall with

Novelty Fox-Trot vocal

Who's There?: Fox-Trol-Wood and Ivory....Ame

Ambrose and His Orches- tra: Slow Fox-Trot-Me

And

The Moon; Comedy Wallz-Dandelion, Daisy and Daffodil....

..Billy Cotton and His Band with vocal chorus; Fox-Trots-Ebony Shadows; Big Boy lue .Teddy Faster and His Kings of Swing with vocal refrain by Betty Kent.

8 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.02 London Relay-'Work Affairs.' A talk by J. L. Brierly, O.BE, Chichele Professor of International Law in the University of Oxford.

8.15 Vladimir Horowitz Plano,

at

the

Continuity of employment was as- sured hundreds of British miners re- cently when the Norwegian State Presto-Passionate (Appendiz to The BBC. recently broadenst 21 Whether un inquest will be held Railways

ordered 36,000 tons of Op. 22-Schumann); Traumeswirren, police appeal for information about depends on any developments which Exchange for delivery between Octo-Op. 12, No. 7 (Schumann); Mazurk

steam coal from the Newcastle Conl Caleb Chapman, 13-year-old gipsy, may come to light as a result of the ber

In E Minor, Op. 41, No. 2 (Chopin); and December. The who was reported missing on June 25,

company Forgotten Waltz (Liszt). and whose body was found on Sept. broadcast. A report has still to be have also placed contracts for 10.000 2 close to his caravan home in a wood received frum experts who are exn- tons of Northumberland steam conl near Westerham Hill, Kent.

mining the body.

for delvery in the same period.

Wife Sent Man To Sail Workless

82 DAYS WITH A SICK MATE

Brighton.

Mrs. Jacob Kuijt, of Za- andijk, Holland, tired of seeing her husband hanging about the house without a job, bought a boat for him, told him to sail round the world "for something to do.'

Round The World

Jacob Kulji, fifty-nine-year-old ex-clerk, ex-engineer, ex-planter, told me all about it at Southwick, near Shoreham, as we sat under the swinging oil lamp of his forty-year- old ex-Norwegian pilot boat Holland, in which he had just crossed direct from New York in thirty-three days, i says a Correspondent,

14,000 MILES SINCE AUGUST When he arrives back in folland Jacob will have salled his little ves- miles sel, 39ft. In length. 14,000 since he left home on August 22 last year.

He has not been round the world, but he has certainly found "some- thing to do." With companion, Dirk Hofman, he made for Dakar, on the French West African coast, then set sail for Rio de Janeiro.

"But we never got there," said Kuijt. "Young Dirk became sick and grew rapidly worse. He had three fevers, and a terrible swell- ing in the leg.

"Tropical storms struck us, des- troyed our ropea and salis. Between storms we were becalmed under a blinding sun

tended Dirk as best I could, and patched the nails. I made a

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Sir Edward Leonard Ellington. air marshal of the British cm- pire, as he arrived in Los Angeles from Australin. He planned to look over American airplane factories with a view to placing British orders in America and Canada. He is one of a tim- mission of three making the survey.

Restaurant Ban On Japanese

Japanese merchants and City men Bag with red cruss on it, to warn have lost their favourite eating place passing vessels we needed a in London--the Chinese restaurant in

but for eighty-two Piccadilly-circus.

days

I had to sail the Holland.

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doctor's ald single-handed. No vessel came in "No Japanese will be served at aight.

tils restaurant," says a printed notice "HE LOOKED LIKE A SKELETON affixed to the entrance door.

SKELETON"

"Far from losing bustness," a re- "At last I struggled into Cayenne, porter was told at the restaurant, in French Guiana, then on to Para-"we have been doing more business maribo, in Dutch Gulano, where than formerly.

Dirk, looking like a skeleton except

for his swollen legs, went into hos

"It may be that feeling in this

very

sympathetic with the Japanese, and

pital. We stayed there three months, country is, generally, not and he was cured,”

On to Curacao sailed the Hitle People 'admire the spirit which has Holland, then, with new stores and prompted the management to bur the sails and a new companion, twenty-admission of the Japanese,

Sent

Lover's

Picture To Her Husband

Before dying with her married lover in a gas-filled room at Birmingham, Mrs. Nina Cadell Forsyth (28), of Gold Tops, Newport, Mon., wrote to her husband en- closing photographs of the man she was with.

"It seems rather curious ... " commented the coro- ner, Mr. G. F. Lodder, at Solihull. "It is not the letter, you would think, of a bad woman.'

"

Of William Harold Pountney (38), motor finance company inspector, who was found dead with Mrs. Forsyth-both in even- ing dress in his home at Sandy Hill Road, Shirley, the coroner snid:

8.30 StudioAlberi Barlon (Bari- tone) with the Z.B.W. Orchestra.

1. Arlequinade (Gazeneuvo); (0) March, (b) Gavotte, (c) Segredillo, (d) Serenade Orientale, (e) Scherzo, (1) Carillon

Z.B.W. Orchestra; I Travel the Rond (Put Thoyer); There is a Ladye (Winifred Bury)

.Albert Burton (Bartone);

Caravan by Night (Bangato) Z.B.W. Orchestra; 4. Fairings (East- hope Martin); Cloze-Props (Walseley Charles) ....Albert Bârlon (Bari- tone): 5. Spanish Dances (Moszkow- skl) ...Z.B.W. Orchestra.

9.30 London Relay Tho News, 9.55 B.B.C. Recording-The Air- do-Wells',

A Radio Concert Party with Claude Gardner, Efe Atherton, Brian Low- rence, Jean Colin, Ronald Hill, Marlon Dawson, Wilfred Thomas, Margaret Steddeford and The B.B.C. Variety Orchestra under the direction of S. Kneale Kelley,

11 Close Down.

AUSTRALIAN AID

All Classes Sympathise With China in War

The Federal Government of the Commonwealth of Australia has made a gift of half-a-million doses of anti-cholera vaccino Lo assist China in the campaign against epi- demic cholern, caused by the war.

Last May, the Chinese Govern- ment appealed to the League of Nations fur international assistance in the fight against the epidemic cholern which had broken out in the devastated areas. The first response came from Yugo-Slavia, where the

ately supplied free of charge, 500,000 doses of anti-cholera vaccine. With commendable promptitude, the Aus- tralian Government,

on August 3, despatched to China half a million

"He was a very selfish man, who found lip-stick and cigarette ends in thought only of himself and not of the house-and she left him Inst famous Zagreb Laboratories immedi-

May.

others in any way.

with," added Mr. Lodder.

"He has not even thought of the Evidence that Pountney, had been woman he had decided to go away warned by his firm about his work "From and general behaviour, and given her jetters she does not acem to be notice on August 8, was given by very bad, but she, too, must have John Douglas Grover, a director, been lacking in mora) stability,”

sc."

"The Can Lino's Tanda

The verdict on each was "felo de journalist, of Stow Park Avenue Australia, Dr. C. J. Pro, in expressing

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doses of anti-cholera vaccine, which was corried, freight free, on the Austin James Esslemont Forsyth, Eastern and

of China in Newport, said that his wife and he separated last December. He had his gratitude, said the gift a prac- Thelma Olive Pountney, of Church reasons for complaint about her as- Ucal evidence of Australian friend- Road, South Yardley Birmingham, sociations with other people.

ship for China's Government__and the dead man's wife, said that her

people. This sympathy for China She had an Exotic outlook on life, was creating in the country married life had been unhappy be- cause of her husband's violent tem- and was a neurotie, he said, adding movements to assist Chinese relief per. Later she complained of his that she had threatened to take her measures by raising funds for the associations with women-she once life once before.

Higher Wages Asked By 1,500,000 Engineers And Shipbuilders

many

care of China's war victims and or- phans and in supporting proposals to send medical ald in variou forms, ranging from ambulance unita to this latest and most generous con- tribution of precious anti-cholera vaccine by the Federal Government itself.

WAR GAS TREATMENT

The Hon. Dr. Li Shu-lan, St. John Ambulance Brigade Surgeon, gave a lecture, on "The Treatment of War Gares" at the St. John Ambulance This was Headquarters yesterday, Voluntary Aid Courses.

Blackpool. they will probably range from 108. to the arth lecture of the series of the

128. a week.

women;

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About 1,500,00 men and members of between 10 and 00 Zara Nisi KRENOM REMEDY. unions, will be involved. preto MEMORIA

I learned to-day that all the unions In the engineering and shipbuilding three-year-old Eugene Heinze, in "At any rate, no self-respecting trades are mooting the employers in case Dirk should fall again, to Chinese could do anything else than London on September 22 to ask for Porto Rico and New York.

exclude the Japanese considering the wage increases for their members,

The demands will be made both to guessed my way to New things they have done to China and writes a Correspondent.

said Jacob, had no the brutality with which they have

Arms engaged on artnaments and to carried on the war against the posed have not been settled, but I all the workpeople whom they em

The precise amounts to be pro those who are not, and on behalf of was told by a delegate attending the ploy who belong to the unlodi "No Japanese will be admitted Trades Union Congress in Blackpool whether their work le on, tho ammia) hara aguln for n Very long time.””| who is concerned in the request, that'ment programme be nókasa

And so across the Atlantic again Chiness people. came the lite, pliat boat. In a few days Jacob Ruift will, sop his wife

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