Oswald Pirow, Defence Minister of the Union of South Africa, who recently toured the Euro- pean capitals to confer with political leaders. He is now re- turning to S. Africa to report to the Union Government.
Woollen
Corsets- 'Non-Tickle
Wool Fabrics are fashion news again. Woollen materials in all shapes and guises will be worn through the coming winter.
Pan, ha ant the lead by designing word from ke, suits, underclothing, and Even woollen corsets, reinforced with elaplar
Many women have not hitherto- cared to wear wood next to their skin heente of the tickle. This has now beenminate.
Colour plays a big part in the and "come-back," greal woot brighter and warmer outfits
are
LIFE IN THE MARINES OVER 100 YEARS AGO
Wednesday HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 14, 1938.
Tomonow will be a big day, Mr. Dilton-basting your new retractable indercarriage design- we are all looking for rasuite. This company's just got to produce the fastest planes,
Library, Supreme Cour
FASTER
PLANES
AT HOME
Testing tomorrow, dear, and Tis not too hopeful of
results. Ive not been working wall recently, "I've been so tired
Chief Engineer Dizon, head of' the research department of a large aero- plane factory, was the moat. valuad man in the firm. one day things began to go wrong
But
Don't worry, Tom. I'm sunt it will be all right
FIVE PINTS OF BEER TWICE A WEEK
600 LASHES OF THE
“CAT” FOR A CRIME
Fascinating glimpses of life in the Royal Marines 100 and more years ago have been revealed by a search which has just been going on in the records of the Chatham Division of the Corps.
Down in the "dungeon" below the offices, of the barracks in Dock Road, Chatham, are filed away hundreds of musty, dust- covered books and papers dating back to the 1770's when the barracks were originally bullt.
EMPIRE NEWS
CABINET CHANGES IN
SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town.
The Cabinet changes announcedi recently bring the Ministry to full numerical strength. It is not so fur- mitable as before the resignations of Mr. Hofmeyr and Mr. Sturrock,
Mr. Pirow relinquishes the port- folio of Hallways and Harbours lo give himself more time for his duties as Defence Minister. His new post at the Ministry of Cominerce is not Da onerous one,
Here is a quaint extract from Divisional Orders one day in 1833:
"Should the weather be favourable, the Right Wing will march frum barracks at half-past B o'clock to Upnor for Ball Practice, each man being provided with 12 rounds of ball carried to direct that Ge and the Commanding
shuling shall be given to each soldier who hits the Bullseye, provided that the largest part of the ball passes through it, but not for merely graz ing the bullseye."
Officer is
TOO MUCH BEER
One of the most amusing stories) found in the records reveals how thei Marines once asked to have their beer allowance cut down.
In June, 1794, it was announced that "is Majesty's most gracious bounty of five pints of small beer per day to each N.C.G.. Drummer and Private man would commence and be served Unl Wednesdays and Saturdays.
the that
his
gracious
Senstor
Fourie, whom the Prime
But the Marines apparently thought Minister, Gen. Hertzog, brought back
uf
Kh! into the Cabinet by way
Majesty Senate, at the price of the resigna George III. had been more generous proving immensely populur. Finer weaves and the combinationtion of Mr. Hofmeyr and Mr. Stur-thon was goud for them and flies rock, takes over Railways and Har-pelloned the Commanding Officer to of wood and satin have also popular-bours. H. task will not be an easy reduce the supply to three pints. ised the new fashion,
Vigour Restored, Glands Made Young In 24 Hours
one.
the Cabinet as portfolio, makes
i
Here a Herschel Grynszpan, 17-year-old Polish Jew, who fatally wounded Ernst vom Rath, Third Secretary of the German Embassy, in Paris. The youth's act set off the violent anti- Jewish demonstrations through- out' Germany and Austria that have resulted in death, property destruction and panic for Jewish citizens. The youth wept over news from Gerinany.
TETANUS BEATEN
Every Man In The Army Immune
The "Sunday Dispatch" is able to reveal that every officer and
min in the British Army is now proof During the great skating boom off Mr. B. H. Henderson, who enters the seventies, permission was given against one of the most
Minister without for the drill shed to be used as
terrible scourges of modern front-line warfare-tetanus. popular addition Park after 4
sa husiness
in the Royal Marines in the But life.
Unknown to the public, the old days was not all beer, skates and
for bullseyes. The Collins, the "bobs" fo
punish-task of inoculating the Army: ment books tell different stories.
For instance, 1814 Private With a newly proved serum has
311 Marine Charles Collins, court mar-
ar been proceeding for several tialled for stabbing a sergeant in months, the last batch passing side with his bayonet, was through the doctors' hands re- sentenced to GOD lashes of the cat onine tails and was afterwards cently.
to the Ministry, man from Northern Ireland.
Cal. Cidt Willlom H. new Minister of Agriculture, is the United Party's Chef Whip. He is❘ Infitential in rural areas. He was a | Republican burgher in the Boer War, author of Col. Deneys Reitz, | "Commundo," is transferred from the Ministry of Agriculture to that of
It is no longer necreuary to auffer from lows of venue and condhand, wonk nemery and body, nervousness, impure Blond, alekty skin, depression, and poor #leep, begatina an American actor han discovered quick, easy way to end NEW ZEALAND these troubles.
Mines.
This discovery is in pleasant, eazy-LESSON OF THE R.A.F.
fo take tablet Yörm, is absolutely
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And in bringing new youth and vigour
FLIGHT
Auckland,
The record-brealding flight of 7.102 miles by the R.A.F. Vickers Welles-
To thousand. It works directly on the Klends and nerves, and puts now, rich blend and energy in your vehun. In 24 hours you can see and fuel yourself Ketting younger. Your eyes parkie, you feel alive and full of youthfulley bombers, from Egypt to Aus- vigour and power,
tralia, is the subject of comment in the New Zealand Press.
vigour restoret, i
And this amazed Dr. Nixon's Vi
now gland and Tabe, in paranteed. It has been proved dis ruby Cherniate less under guarantee of antisfaction or monny
distributed n
Wi13
drummed out of the Corps with a The serum tetanus toxold," the haller
his neck. And even result of ten years' experiments by round then the court had taken into con Arny and civil pathologists, sideration the "provoking and Arst tried out on human volunteers. irritating behaviour of the ser-
It has now grant."
been proved to give drunken-immunity from tetanus-lockjaw
for a certain five years, and, accord- ing to a War Office medical authority. "almost certainly gives lifelong im- munity."
Sentences of 36 lashes for
ness were quite common.
BRANDED ON THE BACK
In 1841, for using an obscene word
on the Quarter Deck, a Marine was
The manufacture of the "toxoid" is) sentenced to 46 lashes, his grog was a triumph of laboratory technique, The "Auckland Star" says that the stopped and the recorder udila on Tetanus serum from infected mice) Dight is an illustration of the hear the next line, as though as auantes pinced in
♫ huge rentiruge tening, but at the same time depress-thought-the word was to be branded machine which spins with almost the back, Dr. Nixona Vl-Tabs mont males
ing, manner in which distances ure on his back.
jspeed of light. you feel full of vigour and energy and from 10 to 20 years younger, or you
being reduced.
Many offenders were clapped
One man got: merely return thi einpty Barkage and The New Zealand Herald" con-Irons for smell thefts.. get your money back. A spéelal, double-
siders the achievement of special; nine days of this for stealing potatoes strength battle of 48 Dr. Nixon's Vis Tabs costs little, and the guarantee pro-significance in view of the purchase from his comrades. teets you. If your chemist is out, witle by the Dominion of 30 Vickers Wel-
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The JUNGLE Picturé of a Thousand Thrills!
BOOLOO
Fofure
COLIN TAPLEY
JAYNE RECAN
made by CLYDE "E. HELIOTI, director
· of 'Being "Tie Bars Alvo' and 'Devil Bgo'
these planes to the defence force, t says "should extend our frontiers hundreds of miles seawards."
INDIA
MILLIONS BATHE IN
GANGES
Calcutta.
Millions of Hindus from all over)
German Film Pays Tribute to Britain's Courage
Berlin.
in
The toxic portions of the tetanus germs are
Dut spun leaving only the mysterious "loxold" behind. It is this which confers the immunising proper- tles against lockjaw.
Before the toxoid can be used. however, it has to be Altered through a jelly-like substance, the pores which are so fine that they can only be test-examined unde: an ultra-
microscope.
WAR TOLL
of
The after effeels of inoculation are stated by the medical authorities to be "very slight."
KEXT DAY ➡ THE TEXT
AT THE DOCTORS
Exactly. Mr. Dilton, it's this waking tired that's holding you back
at your job. You see, you burn up ∙energy even while' you sleep-it takes 20,000 múscular efforts alone to
breathe. If you're not replacing used-up energy, of course you wake tired-that's Night Starvation.
I suggest Horlicks..
AMAZING, DILTON!.... 20 MILES AN KOUR INCREASE IN SPEED!...
A CONTRIBUTION TO.
SCIENCE, SIR/
and so every night :.
The humiliation of it....) can't think what went wrong... I've gone all to pieces lately. Oh, this tiredness, l'even vake
up feeling tired!
Promise me, Tom
you'll go and see a doctor about it
8 WEEKS LATER
'I hope to goodness Dilton has dono
a good job with this new
design
DOES YOUR HUSBAND WAKE TIRED?
WVJAKING TIRED reduces a man's cil- Wciency at work and play--he can't con- centrate properly, he can't do his best work he's unfairly handicapped.
If your husband wakes tired, see to it that he gets Horlicks, a cupful regularly at bedtime. Horlicks replaces energy as it is being used up during sleep. He'll wake refreshed, he'll feel and look alert and slive.
HORLICKS
I'm pretty confident. He seems to have got
into his stride again
Jatoly
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the country bathed in the sarred) Britannia still "rules the waves" in waters of the Ganges and its tribut-June the latest German Ula films aries recently for purification from entitled "Kautschuk," which was re-
As a matter of routine the their sins.
cently drawing packed houses in Ber-
are given 24 hours free of The occasion was Churamont Yoga, Bin's cincina. one of the rarest festivals in the The flim is a tribute to the courage exercise. But the reaction Hindu calendar. It is observed only and indomitable spirit of sacrifice of little troublesome that it "could even after an eclipse of the moon occur the Englishman, Henty Wickham,be given to children." ring on a Monday. The last celc-zilian rubber monopoly by an ad- constant anxiety of every army due
helped England in breaking the
During the war, lockjaw was the bration was 27 years ago.
So great were the crowds at Chi-venturous expedition to the jungles of tor.
werk
cuita that 400 pilgrims from up- country are reported missing. There
vere hundreds of accidents,
Viceroy Federation Reports
and that the Marquess of Linlithgow, the Viceroy
would make a statement on Federation, on
Pura,
Brazil. Wickham obtained rubber seeds in Wounded men were given a routine violation of stringent Brazilian lays injection of A.T.S. (anti-tetunus the death penalty to ex-serum) as soon as they were brought of the valued product.
in by stretcher-bearers. Partly based on British records and But its effect was only temporary, in the Roughly eight of every 1,000 wound- his return from Eng-go by scenes taken land, have so
Brazilian ed contracted lockjaw. Most of them but it is
ess is being made in preparing oficially supported but unuffletally now being used in conjunction with progress the why for rulers of States to signify their willingness to enter the encouraged by British home authori- the serum, makes prevention certain. Federation. Mr. Subhas Bose, Con-es, penetrated the jungle under the
is understood that substantial describes how in 1878 young were fatal.
gress President, continues to preach resolute opposition to Federation, with threats of elvil disobedience,
AUSTRALIA
MINISTERS' TRIPS
ABROAD
Sydney.
Henry acted
by Rene Deltgen, not
disguise of an entomologist.
and acquitted. He was then tried for He was captured, tried for robbery, esplonage
und was sentenced to death, but rescued through the intervention of the British Consul.
The fin contains a number of
A new wonder drug, "prontosil
Stork True to Legend
Fresno, Cal.
The Nygren, Maternity home here
gbes agains! Individual features of claims to be the only Institute of its British colonial policy, but gives full kind that has its own private storit credit to the British Government's Coming from nobody knows where, efforts to respect the law and pays a the stork settled on the grounds of The visit of the Australian trade glowing telbute to hero and hero- the establishment and made a nest in delegation this year to London and worship" for British glory as exempli-some shrubs. Washington to discuss the Ottawa fied by Henry Wickham. agreement revlalon will. cost the
Australlan taxpayers about £17,000, cost £12,200 for the 13 persons in according to unofficial estimates the party.
made
by Socialist politicians.
Firing Doclers-With the сл Since the Lyons Government as-tablishment of a flying doctor based sumed office in 1932, it is stated, trips at Alice Springs, every sporacly outside Australia by members of the settled area in the Commonwealth Ministry have cost £74.800 to date, will be covered by the air medlent and the bills are still
in, In services, working from six stations.
the Seuilln-Socialist Government's Ench base is equipped with a nedal term-1030 to 1931-Ministerial trips wireless transmitting set, assuring cast only £17,300, the most expen- people within 400 miles of rapid sive being that for the 1930 Imperial inedical and ambulance services. Conference, costing £8,170,
About 150 radio sets are installed ni In contrast, the 1937 Imperial Con- lonely stations, farm nad mining out. ference and Coronation` delegation] posti.
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