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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 22, 1939.

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YOUNG PEER WITH £65,000 SAYS: T'LL

KEEP ON WORKING'

Lo

ORD SELSDON, who at twenty-five succeeds to the -title on the death of his father, said recently:- “I see no reason why I should give up my job.” -

As the Hon. Patrick Mitchell-Thomson, he inherited £65,000 from his grandmother two years ago. He was forbidden to touch the capital until he is thirty-five, but the interest gives him enough to enjoy motor-racing and travel.

He said he was "fed up with Jounge parties," and took a £4-a

-week job in a firm which cleans Serum Spray

the inside of buildings. He is now a director.

He married in 1986 and has

one son.

Lord Seledon's father died at hin

Cure For 'Flu

Moscow.

London home on Christmas Eve, TREATMENT of influenza by

aged sixty-one, He was Postmaster-

2 new method-inhaling a General and Chief Cly Commis-spray of serum developed from. sioner In 1924-0.

Ja horse--is stated to have given

A few hours before his death, his favourable results. former wife. Mrs. Joseph, A. Pen- body, was granted a Reno divorce.

A.R.P. Taxi Fleet Planned

In first mines experiments a group

the

of employees of Mustorg, Rissin's biggest department store, in centre of Moscow, inhaled the spray of this scrum.

Another group was Inoculated with the serum, Which was developed from a virus grown under the skin of at horse afler It had been exposed to the Influenza germs.

MORE TESTS

The animal caught the

illness,

HARRÝ ROY & HIS ORCH

NEW PARLOPHONE RECORDS

F1330 Ferdinand The BuB, ("Ferdinand The Bull.") FT.

Umbrella Man. ·

(These Foolish Things") FT.

F1329 Goodnight Little Skipper.

I'm Bloring A Song For The Old Folk.

11340-Joseph! Joseph. F.T.

Day After Day. F.T...

FI33-One Day When We Were Young, Viennese Waltz. ("Great Waltz",}

Daydreaming. ("Gay Imposters") Quick Step.

F1333-Cinderella Stay in my arms.) Waltz.

All Ashore. S.F.T.

VICTOR SILVESTER & HIS BALLROOM ORCH. F1832-Umbrella Man. (These Foolish Things'.) FT.

Two Sleepy People. ("Thanks For The Memory".) S.F.T. F1331-Ferdinand The Bull. ("Ferdinand The Bull") FT

Penar Serenade, Rumba..NAT GONELLA & HIS GEORGIANS. F1342-Solllede. &.F.T..

Blue Rhythm of the Blues. Blues.

JOE DANIELS & HIS HOT SHOTS in DRUMNASTICKS, F1337-Tin Pan Alley Medley, No. 14. (2 Planos with String Bass & Drums.) IVOR MORETON & DAVE KAYE.

etc.,

TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY

Marina House, Queen's Road C.-

WHAT

Frances and Fred, Continental dancing stars, who are appearing nightly at the Gloucester Hotel.

Film Chiefs Agree To Make Cinemas Uncomfortable

PARIS.

Old Home

For towing light fire brigade pumps in an emergency, the LC.C.

BECAUSE attempts at a settlement between the city Preserving Kipling's Air Raid Precautions Committee has prepared a draft scheme by which developed a powerful anti-influenza council and Paris cinema managements over the question 2,000 taxicabs will be available. fvirus, and recovered.

of increased entertainment taxes have failed, directors of In addition, some 100 heavy Affe: the experiment of inhalag cinemas decided to make conditions

for the spray of the serum

$0 uncomfort- towing heavy fire appliances and for group of employees was organised tjable for the public that they will complain. dealing with supplies to hospitals.

A meeting of cinema directors decided that, begin-grounds shall be preserved, the ning on Wednesday:—

vehicles have been carmarked

seconal

correlate results of tests on those in-

The Ministry of Health has also eliminary results are said to

asked for 2,150 lorries to be used on

be

ambulances if necessary. Vehicles extremely encouraging. Those gives are being examined.

About 1.425 private ems are needed the serum were found to recover more quickly and to develop cum- for use is unbul falcations less frequently than those cases, and it in proposed in the Best from

from which the serum was withheld. instance to approach hiring fama. In the British and American re-

"FISHING" IN TRENCHES

search as true epidemic inf

influenza Will fishing rods and worms, beas opposed to the "influenza cold" tween 20 and 30 unemployed me the only susceptible animals went fishing for cels in waterlogged been terrets and apes. For a horse have A.R.P. trenches on Primrose JI, near the London Zoo, recently, in he able to produce un anti-serum They carried posters and streamers it would also have to be susceptible. demanding "Give us work on A.R.P.In this country the serum has been and "Bring Anderson to "Eel."

given by Injection as distinct from

the

The cels were tipped into trenches in which were about 2in. Among the laughing onlookers was of water--from buckets. They were Professor . B. S. Haldane, who is an quickly caught.

expert on A.R.P.

Japanese Occupation

UESTIONS were

of Hainan

London, ship to Hainan asited ip) lize Į stances,

ALTHOUGH it is intended that Kipling's old house, The Elms, at Rottingdean, and its

owner, Sir Roderick Jones, and the Brighton Corporation have

zoned in the local town planning scheme as for residential pur- poses,

Names of films will no longer be in lights outside cinemas. Advertisements for films on sandwich boards, in the Press, or by agreed that the site shall be

radio will be discontinued.

Political propaganda will be suppressed in news films. Programmes will be announced in the shortest form possible in newspapers (for big cinemas) and in handbills for small cinemas.

The directors are to send a letter to M. Daladier, the Prime Minister.

Efforts to settle the dispute have been going on since the call- ing off of the four-day strike by the Paris cinemas early in January.

A.R.P. Women Fingerprint Honour

Mob 2 Men

Won

Oakland, Cal.

The agreement was explained when the Ministry of Health inquiry re- garding the town planning scheme tor Rottingdean and district was re- sumed at. Brighton recently.

for

Mr. C. J. M. Whittaker, appearing

Sir Roderick

Jones, explained that the latter was a friend and neigh- bour of Kipling's. Before the town planning proposals he bought The Elms to preserve it.

MEMORIES

"It was always his intention to keep that property intact because of its memories for him and the public." continued Mr. Whittaker.

INDIGNANT AR.P. women workers, Ray Wesley Conover, 12, belleves surrounded two men who tried to that it is never too early to file your

"But when the Corporation sche- display a banner at a recruiting meet-finger-prints with the Federal Bureau

duled the property us a private 171 present cireum-ing for women's voluntary service to identification. By filing at the QHouse

of Commons recently! Captain Graham asked the Prime tore the banner to pieces, and hustled to have his prints recorded by the life to preserve it, but one could

the lord Town Hall, E., recently, proclse time he did, be attained the open space, Sir Roderick abjected.

honour of being the millionth person "It was his intention during his regarding the steps to be taken to Minister whether he will instruct is the interrupters out of the building civil identication section of protect British interests during The Majesty's Ambassador in Tokyo to The banner read, "Let wiemploy-

the never tell what circumstances night bureau. Japanese occupation of Hainan.

build

A.R.P. shelters-nt T.U.

be in future generations, and he did Sir J. Wardlaw-Aloe asked some further detailed amplification of fates

press. the Japanese Government for jed There were "60"wonien at that

"not" feel he "eould permit the property Prime Minister whether he will give their excuse of military necessity for neeting.

warden, who was acting as a steward in be sterilised in perpetuity. orders for the immediate despatch of their present occupation of Hainan, a British cruiser for the protection off and to obtain from them at least an was speaking at the time, watched the men unfurl the banner, I pouneed The Dowager Lady Reading, what the meeting, said. "When I saw British interests in the island of explanation of the conditions which, the incident, and afterwards sald. on one of them and held on to him. Haimun so

so long as the Japanese re-is-their view would terminale this "The women in the audience dealt The banner was torn in the struggle.

necessity?

with the Interrupters so quickly that Other women got hold of the other my speech was hardly interfered man und both of them were thrown out of the building. I was not Mrs. Simmians, an Hord A.R.P. frightened, just very indignant."

main in occupation there?

Mr. Butler: The question has been fully considered, but no decision hus been taken to despatch a British war-

Mr.Butler: These mullers are eriving consideration, but I cannot at with." the moment add any more,

He Nearly Failed His Only Son Through

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acadeinle."

is entirely

"SHOOT IT OUT?`

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