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HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

March 27, 1939.

SCIENTISTS PLAY AT SPOT THE SATELLITE

SCIENTISTS from half-a-dozen countries joined Eng- University professors in a game with a toy. telescope at the Royal Society recently.

Made by one of the Fellows of the Society, it was a miniature roplica of Huygan's early acrial telescope, to mount which New- ton bought the historic 100ft. high maypole. In the Strand and transported it to Wanstead,

The game was to spot a "antellite" through the floating eye plece at a distance of 60ft. The satellite was an ordinary electric bulb fixed in the gallery of the library.

To honour the foreign scientists the Society's greatest trea- sure was on view-Its Charter Book, the most valuable and re- niarkable autograph album in the world.

Bound in antique red velvet with gold clasps, it contains the signatures of every British Sovereign since Charles 11, and off

Baby Born In

practically every great relentiat Barricaded House

and thinker the world over since 1002,

One of the lost signatures in that of Professor Sigmund Freud, in bold letters with heavy strokes. Slace he could not come to the Society's rooms, the book was taken to his house in Hampstead for him to sign. He the first foreign Fellow of the Suciety thun honoured.

TN 1 house barricaded against

abnormal Liden at Dorsel, a baby was recently born.

Portland, Doctor and nurse had to climb over backyard wails to reach the mother, Mrs. J. W. Waite, of West Bay-terrace, Chesllton.

Council roadmen, in thigh-boots, wnded through the floods to curry milk and food to mother and child.

PAPERS WORTH £500,000 The cream of the 100,000 letters and 50,000 manuscripts in the munl- ment rooms were

to lustrale the Society's chosen traditional connection with men of science abroad,

get out under glass. Vanished

Half a million pounds' worth of theso papers were taken to Waler for safety during the September crisis. Among them were 60 Newton letters and An eight-page Jetter from Galileo.

The Royal Society is the oldest and richest learned society in the world. It maintains three professurs, twelve research fellows and five students.

Its forelyn guests were all refugee scholars from Germany, Austria, Czecho-Slowkia, Hungary, Italy and Spain. A ntional append wus made to assist them.

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After further dragging of Surrey Canal, near Canal Bridge, Old) Kent-road, by police recently, the body of Kenneth Bridger, med B, was recovered.

Doctor Gave Life For His Patients

Dr. J. Watson-Struthers, aged 39, patients, of Hadfield, gave bta life for his

For weeks he fought a 'du epidemic In his village, for weeks he struggled waist-deep through mowdrifts to his patients.

For weeks, desperately ill himselt, he wrale out prescriptions from his bed when he could no longer go out, gave advice by telephone,

His wife and his colleagues-recently fold the story of this hero whose nuine the world has never known, whose only recompense as he breath- ed his last was the knowledge that he had done his best for his fellow: men

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TRAMPED THROUGH SNOW Said his young Scottish wife, for- merly his housekeeper: "Repeatedly asked him: Won't you have a doc-

but got time he replied: "I'

be all right in a day or so."

"But when he became so

that

friend of his, in Glossop. had to telephone Dr. E. J. Allan, fetched a specialist, and within an Не hour or two my husband was rushed to Ashton Infirmary, where he died." Saki Dr. Allan: "Dr. Struthers simply overtaged his strength through working for his patients.

"He must have had well over a hundred patients, sume of them scattered about is isolated form- stends. During the terrible wea- ther recently he used to plough through the snow on foot when his car was held up.

"If it had not been for his wife ringing me up he might not have lasted out the night.

The body floated to the surface within a few yards of the spot where

"His patients worshipped him.** the body of Kenaeth's companion, Sald the specialist. Mr. M. Man- William" leary Ellis, aged 5, was ourlan: "Dr. Struthers had always found.

Both boys lived at Guinness-build-nursing himself, he used every ounce been' rather delicate, but instead of Pure's Walk, Bermondsey, of energy he could command to help which about a mlie from the canal. his patients.

had been missing from heir homes for 19 days.

The orva of search during the dred

3ards ench side of the Conul

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Honour To Old Grad morning was extended severni hun-Air Raid Wardens

Charming young Queen Farida of Egypt, centre, posett with her sisters-in-law, Princess Fawzle, left, and Princess Falza, at the royal opera in Cairo, recently. The Princesses wear identical Fawzin wed the Crown Prince of Persia recently.

gowns.

ONCE LONDON

PELTED HER

pald honeyed com- were seats for

ENERAL EVANGELINE health. The Chancellor of the Ex- Grocers' Hall in the City recent-timents. There

BOOTH, lunched at the chequer and Lord Willingdon, on

ex-Viceroy. ly on the approach of her retire-three Ministers of the Crown at the when, over half a century ago, ment, looked back on day's

top table.

A dozen peers altended, with the she,

as a young Salvationist, countries and all the Dominions-R. representative at a score of foreign was pelted in London's streets. despised, mocked at by almost over the road.

B. Bennett was there for Canada- Then, she and her father were and with the Bank of England just

PHILADELPHIA, Bridge. Federal Judge George A. Welsh, A police launch with officers hold-ed air raid wardens of love, Sussex, More than half of the 1,100 train- who sold newspapers to earn his way ing a chat on the bank, P.L.A. are women, the Chief Constable, Mr. through Temple College in the early Rangers, and policemen with dragg-W. C. Hiller, disclosed recently, add-everyone. '90s, has been elected a vice presi-ing chains thoroughly searched the Ing. It is a attuation I should like lent of Temple University.

to have remedied."

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Jews, Lord Samuel among them, sat down with Christians of every Ind and people with no faith or ereed. I saw Socialists in the gather- ing-and pro-Fascists!

A REMINDER Behind the General, as alte read a speech sent over the air, was a mass of plate. Everywhere, were signs of wealth. Ofcialdom

breathed ap- proval.

Nancy Astor was pleased to sec that there was no alcolio on the tables and St John-Ervine that smok- Ing was barred.

The General, tactful as she was to he City of London, which she said bad "ever been generous," could not help reminding the throng that, in the early days, "even men of re- ligious thought ridiculed my father." The Bishop of London sat listening to-this-with-cupped ears."

"They flung him such phrases as What sort of men do you think you can maite out of broken humanity?' Yet we have seen the supreme fulniment of the sacrifice of the Lamb of God. God has been good and merciful."

The

General, her voice strong and her manner dramatie, la spite of her 73 yenre. told in moving words the story she has told me in private how in Java beggor campa have heen opened, and how in India there are homes for levers and settlements In which even the criminal tribesmen, banded over to the Army by the Government In despair, had become Salvationist officers.

"Oh, my Lord Mayor, the fruits of Christianity are ever the same. The Man of Nazareth is the greatest factor for peare in the history of the world.

He is Justice. He Truth. He is Life...

"TO THE END"

"We are a mission of the poor to the poor, and we shall go on to the (very end."

Then, her notes all read, the Gen- eral told of how towards the end, her father. hard by tiness, could not see the glorious sky,

"I cannot see the sunset." he said, "but, my darling child, I shall see it rive.

'We shall ali zee it rise," com- mented his daughter and successor, In her closing wards. "We shall all Een rise, lit the light of Its pre-

sence.

Nine Commissioners of the Salva- tion Army heard. their General's proud avowat in the heart of London's citadel of Money. I wonder, which o'tlem. next October, will take her i place. There is not one with half her personality.

And the Army, with a hundred nguores and its world-wide, not- work of activities, needs Arm guidǝnco more than ever..

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