1939-03-27 — Page 3

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH 100 March 27, 1939.

SCIENTISTS PLAY AT SPOT THE SATELLITE

CIENTISTS from half-a-dozen countries joined Eng- SCIENTISTS fity 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 replica of Huygen's early aerial 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 "satellite" through the floating eye. piece at a distance of 50ft. 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- markable autograph album in the world,"

Bound in antique red velvet, with gold clasps, it contains the slintures

of every British Sovereign since Charles 11, and of!

Baby Born In

practically every prent scientist Barricaded House

and thinker the world over since 1662.

One of the last signatures is that! of Professor Sigmund Freud, in bold letters with heavy strokes. Since he

to Com

the Society's could not

taken to its rooms, the loo tour in Hampstead for him to sign. He is the first forcin Fellow of the Society thus bonoured.

WITH

PAPERS WORTH £500,000

The cream of the 100,000 letters and 50,000 manuscripts in the munt- ment rooms were set out under glass,! chosen to illustrate the Society's traditional connection with men of science abroad.

Half a mon pounds worth of these papers were taken to Wales for safety during the September crisis. Among them were 60 Newton letters letter from and

eight-page 2193 Galileo.

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

Its foreign guests were all refugee

Germany, scholars from

Austria. Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, Italy and Spain. A national appeat was made to assist them.

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house barricaded against

IN abnormal tides at Portland,

Doctor

Gave Life

For His Patients

Dr. J. Watson Struthers, aged 30. his of Indfleld, avo his life for patients.

For weeks he fought a flu epidemie in his village, for weeks he struggled waist-deep through snowdrifts to his patients,

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

His wife and his colleagues recently tok the tory of this hero Whose nate the world has never known, whose only recompense'ns he breath- ed his last was the knowledge that he had done his best for his fellow men.

TRAMPED THROUGH SNOW Salt his young Scottish wife, for- merly his housekeeper: "Repeatedly Dornel, a baby was recently burn.

Doctor and nurse had to climb I asked hin: 'Won't you have a doc- aver backyard walls to reach the for? but each time he replied: "I'H mother, Mrs. J. W. Waite, of West li right in a day or so. Bay-terrace, Chesilton.

Council roadmen, in thigh-boots, waded through the foods to carry milk and food to mother and child.

Vanished Boy In Canal

After

-

of

the

further dragging Surrey Canal, near Canal Bridge, Old Kent-road, by police recently, the body of Kenneth Bridger, aged 8, was recovered.

The body footed to the surface within a few yards of the spot where the body of Kenneth's companion, William Henry Ellis, aged found.

a;

He

"But when he became so ill that I had to telephone Dr. E. J. Allan, a friend, of is, in Glossop, fetched a specialist, and within no hour or two my husband was rushed to Ashton Infrinary, where he died," Sakl Dr. Ailan: "Dr. Struthera simply overtuxed his strength through working for his patients.

"He must have had well over a hundred pallents, some of them scattered about in isolated farm- stends. During the terrible wen- 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 tasted out the night.

always

"His patients worshipped him." Sald the specialist, Mr. M. Mam- wasourian: "Dr. Struthers had

been rather delicate, but instead of Both boys lived at Guinness-bulld-nursing himself, he used every one Page's Walk. Bermondsey, of energy he could command to help ings which is about a mile from the canal. his patients, They had been missing from their homes for 10 days.

of rearch during the dred yards each side of the Conal Bridge.

Honour To Old Grader

PHILADELPHIA,

morning was extended several hun-

Women Lead Men As

Wardens Air Raid

More than half of the 1,100 train- A police launch with officers hold-ed air raid wardens of love, Sussex, Federal Judge George A. Weisht,

the bank, P.L.A. are women, the Chief Constable, Mr. who sold newspapers to earn his way us a chain on through Temple College in the early Rangers, and policemen with dragg-W. C. Hillier, disclosed recently, add-

to have remedied." '90s, has been elected a vice prest-ing clins thoroughly sourched the ing. "It is a situation I should like' deni of Temple University.

canal

Charming young Queen Farida of Egypt, centre, posed with

her sisters-in-Inw. Princess Fawzia, left, and Princess Faiza, at.. the royal opera in Cairo, recently. The Princesses wear identical gowns. Fawzia wed the Crown Prince of Persia recently,

ONCE LONDON

PELTED HER

GENERAL EVANGELINE health. The Chancellor of the Ex- Willingdon, an BOOTH, lunched at the chequer and Lord

ex-Viceroy. paid honeyed com- were sents for Grocers' Hall in the City recent-liments. There

ly on the approach of her retire-three Ministers of the Crown at the ment, looked back on days top table.

A dozen peers attended, with the when, over half a century ago, representative of a score of foreign she, as a young Salvationist, "ountries and all the Dominions—R.

pelted in London's streets. B. Bennett was there for Canada- Then, she and her father were and with the Bank of England just despised, mocked at by almost over the road. everyone.

At the Juncheon the Lord Mayor took the chair, and proposed her

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Jews, Lord Samuel among them. sat down with Christians of every with no faith or ind and people crced. I saw Socialists in the gather-

ng-and pro-Fascists!

A REMINDER

Behind the General, as she rend a speech sent over the nlr, way a miss of plate. Everywhere, were signs of

breathed wealth. Omeinido

op-

proval.

Nancy Astor was

pleased to see

that there was no alcohol on the

tables and St. John Ervine that ampk-

was barred.

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The General, tactful as she was to he City of London, which she said

the

had "ever been generous," could not help reminding the threng that, in "even men of re- early days, ligious thought ridiculed my father.". The Bishop of London sat listening to this with cupped cars,

"They flung him such phrases us What sort of men do you think you can make out of broken humanity?* Yet we have seen the supreme

snerifice fullment of the

of the Lamb of God. God has been good and merciful."

The General, her voice strong and her inanner dramatic, in spite of her 73 years, told in moving words the story she has told me in private- how in Javu begzor camps have been opened, and how in India there are homes for lepers and settlements in which even the criminal tribesmen, handed over to the Army by the Government In despair, had become Salvationist officers.

"Oh, my Lord Mayor. the frulis of Christianity are over the same... The Man of Nazareth is the greatest factor for pence in the history of the world.... He is Justice. He is 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 to of how towards the end, her father. tinged by lness, could tint see the glorious sky.

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

'We shall, all see it rise,” com- mented his daughter and successor, in her closing words. "We shall all sce a rise, the light of His pre- sure"

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

And the Army, with its hundred leagueges, and its world-wide net- work of netivities, needs firm guidance more than ever.

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