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Crown Prince Frederle and Crown Princess Ingrid of Den- mark, as they embarked nt Southampton, England, before leav- ing for the United States.

English Girls To Rockies Camp In

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PERMANENT log cabin isjunal a seven weeks' programme costs: being built Sulphur £2, and must be paid by the par- ents, Mountain, Banff, in the Cana The girls will enjoy the hospitality dian Rockies, for the accom-of Canadian homes for a considerable modation of young visitors from part of the time. They will see Queler, Montreal, Ottawa the capital, England and her Dominions.

Kenora on the Lake of the Woods, Each year English children | Banff, Calgary and the Turner Valley from private and secondary ofelds, Vancouver. Victoria, Winni schools will live for a while in peg and Toronto. that dream place set among the! snow caps and lakes.

This time 25 English girls are going. Next year it will be the turn of the boys. Each year their visits will alternate. In addition to the English girls, students will go from Australia, New Zealand and perhaps, South Afrien this year.

COSTS 162 A HEAD

All applicants must be between the ages of 15 and 19 and must upply through their headmistresses.

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 25, 1939,

EMPIRE NEWS

HIGHER SHIPPING FREIGHTS FEARED

Auckland.

The new Shaw, Savill and Albion Ilner Dominian Monarch, 27,000 tons, called recently will representatives of the shipping companies trading here to attend the triennial shipping freighis conference and fix future charges for Dominion primary ex- porti.

The "New Zealand Herald" states. that nil-round increases in rates seem practically inevitable, and will strike heavy blow at Deminton primary Industries.

SOUTHERN RHODESIA

SUCCESS OF APPEAL

FOR VOLUNTEERS- -

Salisbury.

A week after the appeal for volun- teers for a battalion to serve outside the colony, 350 Europeants had applied for forms at Salisbury and 300 at Bulawayo. The population of each town is about 12,000.

SOUTH AFRICA

NATURALISATION OF

GERMANS

Capetown.

Germans occupy a prominent place

In the latest returns of neturalisation

Issued by the Union Department of the Interior. In the second half of 1938, 141 persons holding German were granted South nationality African nationality.

Most of them were of the pro-

fessional class, but there were two Roman Catholle priests, one mis- słonary bishop and one lapfist min!- ster.

It

UFS

Returning frogs the east where he made underwater sequences for his test Turzan pleture, Johnny Weissmuller was met.pt. Los Angeles by -hls. Buncee, Men. Beryl Scoil, as, above. They plan to be mitrried as soon na Lupe Velez, Johnny's former wife, gets her final decree in July,

Steel Is Banned In

£100,000 Ship

IN October a sailing ship, built for the Admiralty at a

cost of £100,000, will set sail for the Indian Ocean. She is the Royal Research ship Research, soon to be launched at Dartmouth to make magnetle surveys vital to all who "go down to the sea in ships."

Empire Air Route-

·To Be Filmed

"thful has been met in Anding in the Air," dealing with the air Ballinger D. II. Fryer, R.N., has lost two years.

"The dent age." sald Major Ney, when a heavy storm severed electric" fe nagaming, as he says "olely for with the completion of another

"Is about 17. It is astonishing how

"but they J. Ney, executive rente- much real good they get out of trave Major F. J. tary of the National Council of Edu- that age." cation of Canada, said: "The scheme,

is under the auspices of our Counci

Strand film now being made for the Fmpire Marketing Board to show what Great Britain is doing for her they colonies.

Research is brigantine-rigged, with sail area of nearly 12,000 square The Empire alr route to Durbad She will carry 6 omeers, 4 will be the subject of a film to be feet. scientists, and 22 petly officers and directed by Stanley Hawes for the men.

Strand Filin Co., whose "The Future's CRICKET DEMONSTRATION Two girls' cricket teams in the

crew with experience of route to Australia, has been shown party will give demonstration games. The returns include the names of # The second party will have six persons officially described as shorter itinerary and the estimated Stateless, including one Jewish rabbi.recently completed a voyage to Aus-

ships, and her captain, Lieut.in more than 700 cinemas during the

cost is £32.

Mr. Hawes is now flying to Africa. Flood and Stormi Deaths,Two trulla and back in n grain-carrying 1s arrival at Mombasa wlit coincide European women were electrocuted at Lydenburg, Eastern Transvaal,

"Some of my, crew will, know wires. A number of natives have nothing of a sating ship," he said,

will learn as the widespread been drowned in floods which have resulted from the along."

Eastern

shooting scenes in East unprecedented rainfall in

Lieat-Commander Fryer will com-] Nine were drowned inund the scientific side of the ex-Africa, Mr. Hawes and the unit will when

send 14 weeks on the dying-bent In swim across pedition as well as the ship herself- attempting swollen

The town of

o illustrate not merely the operation by Captain Cooks. Cape Town Two Words.--Cape Research will collect data of mag-of the flying service, but the develop- Investigate atmos- ment and administration of the terri- Legislature, is to be written in two pheric

Scenes will also be shot at Mar- words, Instead of one, as hillierto, observations-particularly arcording to a recommendation of the upper air, with pilot balloons scilles, Rome, Athens; Mirabella Bay

soundings. and perhaps and Crete, where the Imperial Air Place Names Department Committee deep-sen

study marine biology.

yacht "Imperia" is stationed as The results will be recorded on a wireless centre for all nying-bonts. Admiralty charts, and will be avail-f able to the world

in co-operation with the Overseas The Correct Answer? Transvaal.

Education League. The comp is to

LONDON.

be colled King's Camp. land this summer, one party teaving which he edits, the Rev. T. P. Stevens,

town of Slander-

After

"About 125 girls will go from Eng In- the Southwark Diocesan Gazette. I ton levers.ubmerged.-- thus keeping to a tradition founded route to. Durban. The intention is

Liverpool on July 28 and returnligi Vicor of St. Paul's, Wimbledon Park, Town, the seat of the South African neticely, take meteorological | torica through which it passes.

from Montreal on September 9, and quotes the following answer given the second party leaving on August 5 by a boy in a Scripture. exam be

set:

Q: Who was surry when the and returning with the others.

The invitation does not include Prodigal Son returned home? A. The transportation, which for 14,000 miles fatted elf!

of Aust

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here.

Food

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and power

to resist disease and cold.

Butter is a vital food substance; you

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mirch herself must be

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She is built ulmost en-

of wood and bronze, and the crew will not be permitted to carry steel pen-knives, or to have metal butions

far

their clothing. Even

paper clips will be of brass.

Necessary steel tools will be kept

from the extremely (and very valuable) Instruments-19 will the crew's razor-blades!

sensitive

Food-enough to last a year-will | be stared in gloss containers,

Cooking-stoves will be made of bronze, and aluminium pots pans will be used. The baths are of trak so the crew will "take a tub" in actual fact.

and

Girl "Healer". Charged As Quack

PARIS.

NDREE MAUREL; a girl "healer" of 15, whose hands are said to possess a "curative fluid," was tried before the Albi Correctional Court recently on n charge of illegal practice in medicine,

A tall, thin brunette, she lives with her parents in their little chateau of Claremont, near Albl, and as trent- ed during the past year thousands of patients from the region of Toulouse und Montauban, where her reputation as a healer stands high.

She was not in the least intimidated | "WC when the Judge' suld "to her:

are told that you core patients by simply laying your hands on them and that you can even cure them al u distance by nying your hands on their portraits. Is that true?"

The girl laughed and replied: "Or course it is true."

"CURED APPENDICITIS"

Asked how she or her parents dis- covered that she" possessed such a curative Buid; Andree replied: was in a bad state of health nbbul A a year ago suffering from nerves. doctor once suggested that I had na extraordinary fluid. I tried it br father, who suffered from appendiel tim. I kelet my. honds over his stomach and he was cured."

She received patients in the draw ing-room and sat in a magnificent armchair with a high gilded back on archbishop's former throne, which Andree's mother bought from antiquary,

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"How much did you charge?" naked Use judge,

"Nothing," she replied, "and i sou from poor never expected a people, but those whe could afford it gave me 100 franes or 200 Iruncs. Many presented ine with 2,000 francs even, hore."

'TA Pubile Prosecutor asked the Court to doprive. Andree's purents of paternal rights and to have the girl xent to un Institution for girls until she is 20.....

The Union of Doctors of the dedeck sent of the Tarn. at whoso requeri The girl theater was prosecuted, afò claturing 50,800 franes damnues.

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