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HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI

April 26, 1939;

NUFFIELD LUNGS GO

ROUND THE WORLD

No Nation Appeals In Vain

Oxford,

LORD NUFFIELD'S "Iron Lungs" are going all round the world. They are benefiting not only the British Empire, but foreign countries.

facing or

Many hospitals abroad. emergencles, have telephoned cabled Morris Motors, at Cowley, pleading tar lungs. And to Puris, New Nice, Algiers. Finland, Chalna, York they have gone by special 'plane, special train, speelal boat.

"It meant the saving of the life of some child struggling for breath." un official of the company said, "and nationality was beskle the point.

"In each case the call has been answered in the spirit in which Lord Nuffield, through his love of children. made his offer of free 'iron lungs to every hospital in the Empire."

50 WEEK

A large workshop has been laid out for mass production at the rate of 50 a week.

At one end arrive sels of wooden panels from the sawinllls. Carpen tera (formerly notur-body finishers) assemble them and they pass-look- ing like mass-produced coffins rather than Ilfe-savers to the spray-paint section. From there they go to the Artishing bay, where chromium-plat- ed fittings, rubber seals, and equip- ment are attached.

The patient lies inside the "lung" on a mattress with his head pro- nir truding through a soft rubber seal.

Bellowr, operated by a small electric motor, alternately 11 and emply the cabinet with air in "gnaps" which automatically ox" pand and collapse the patient's lungs.

Whe

One Iron lung is always kept ready! packed to answer emergency calls.

Such a call was received recently

apparatus from Ugandu. The rushed to Southampton and taken ull the way by air. It arrived three days inter--just three hours too late. to Lincolnshire One despatched after an emergency call received at 5.30 p.m. reached its destination and was met by the doctor who had the patient breathing in it the sume night.

been onlered by places as remote as

AIR RAIDS: This is what air raids medut to Konpmson recently. Rows of buildings were shat- tered by the Japanese bombs, and for days afterwards soldiers and civiliana worked among the debris, searching for bodies, as this picture shows,

Magicians Challenged By Spiritualists

THOUGHT-READING ACT LIBEL SUIT.

A LIBEL action was brought before Mr. Justice Singleton and a special jury recently by the Zomahs, Throughout the Empire langs have professional magicians, who said they had been challenged Hongkong, Tanganyika, Falkland Is-by spiritualists to reproduce a medium's performance. lunds, Seychelles Islands, Lagos Madam Zomah told the judge she preferred not to disclose the details of a trick known as "The Unsolved Mystery."

Nyasaland, Burbadoes, Kumasi, and Sorawak.

So far 150 orders have come from Australia alone. Three are for the Australian Surf Life-saving Associa- people tion at Sydney, for use Ory saved from drowning.

Britain Will See More Of Its Army

Mr. Hore-Bellshn, Secretary tur

forming "the unsolved mystery" for over 30 years.

Mr. Justice Singleion: And hasn't it been solved yet?

"No," she replied. "Nobody has been anywhere near it, though there have been a number of attempis. It is un invention of my husband's."-

TRICK KEPT SECRET Reading of messages in' sealed en- very well-known trick, velopes wha Madame Zomah continued

Mr. Justice Singleton You are

not going to tell us how it is done? were asked she was willing to ex-

Madam Zomah said that if she

plain the trick, but she preferred not to do as an object of the Institute of Magicians was to prevent the diu- closure of tricks.

Mr. St. John Field, K.C. (defcnd-

Complaining of an article in "Psychic News," and a contents bill of the paper, the Zomahs-Mr. Alfred James Giddings and his wife, Mrs. Adelaide Ellen Giddings, of Alexandra Drive, Gipsy Hill, S.E.-are suing Psychic Press, Limited, publishers; Mr.ng: Blindfold or not, you can see Maurice Barbanell, editor; Peverleys, Limited, printers; and Horace Marshall and Son, Limited, distributors.

All of them deny ilbel.

tify articles and read the numbers of bank notes handed to him.

net called "The Unsolved Mystery." Meases, Marshall also pleaded that Zomal moved about the audience War, replying to a Commons question they distributed the publication in jund never spoke. Madam Zomah, recently naid it was proposed that un, the course of their business, without blindfolded on the stage, would iden- Army mechanised demonstration knowledge of its contents. column should make a tour in June and July, and that displays illustrat- Mr. Ewen Montogu, K.C. for the! ing progress in mechanisation should Zomahs, mid they were well known be on view at varius exhibitionscenjurers who more than 30 years! throughout the country.

go trulved a thought-transference)

UNSOLVED MYSTERY"

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VICTOR SILVESTER'S HARMONY MUSIC.

Intro:-

"I've Got A Pocketful of Dreams" "Music, Maestro, Please!"

"The Chestnut Tree" "Penny Serenade" "Love Makes The World Go Round" "The Umbrella Man"

H. ROBINSON CLEAVER. Playing on the Studio Organ.

F1359. FOX-TROT MEDLEY. Intro:"Deep In a Dream". "I have Eyes", "Romany", "Sweethearts", "Shull Always Remember You Smiling", "The Umbrella Mon".

PIANO SOLO. BILLY THORBURN,

F1300, Valse Parisienne,

Spanish Waltz, JOSEF PREISSLER, Accordion & His Musette Orch. F1300. Love Is Where You Find It ("Garden of the Moon".) F.T.

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KAY KYSER & HIS ORCH. F1372

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Brother Bill.

BRIAN LAWRENCE & HIS ORCH. 0433. Ferdinand The Bull. (Film.)

Nice People With Nice Manners.

BRIAN LAWRENCE & HIS ORCH. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby. ("Hard To Get") Rhythm In The Alphabet,

SUE & HER BOY FRIENDS. etc.. etc., etc.

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Zomah was president of the Insti- tute of Magicians, a body which he founded.

what your husband is doing, can't you?-Unless the judge makes me, I refuse to give away the secret that has been my living for many years.

In evidence, Zomah said that he was an architect, who did amateur conjuring, until he thought out the "Unsolved Mystery."

Mr. Justice Singleton:" When 'did you get married?-In 1902.

"And you have been thinking it cut over since!" said the judge, amid

Zughter.

The hearing was adjourned.

Counsel said that Mr. Maurice Barbanell Invited 20 members of the Institute of Magicians to see a per- LETTUCE LAND BOASTS formance by John Kelly, a medium, who purported to be able to read, white blindfolded, the contents of sealed envelopes and to give mes- sages from the dead.

Salinas, Cal.

Salad statistics for 1038 show that the Salinas-Watsonville-Hollister area grew 49.0 per cent of all letture con- Mr. Barbandi wrote that he could sumed in the United States last year. not allow a public religious service It totalled 21,431 carloads, which to be interrupted, but the magicians would make up a refrigerator car would be entitled to express their train 178 miles long. views afterwards.

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Mr. Justice Singleton: A religious service, with magleluns present? "Yes," Mr. Montegu replied. added that Zomph came to the con- clusion that Kelly, though a magni- Reent showman, was claiming mediumisite powers.

A CHALLENGE

Mr. Barbenell chollenged any members of the institute to give a similar demonstration. The Institute naked the Zomahs to take up the challenge.

"They found it was going to be quite easy to do the reading of en- velopes, It was a trick they knew, though they had never done It in public before.

disembodied

The production of volee they decided, quite frankly, they

could

not do, because neither of them was a ventriloquist, but it was a thing which could be done by any ventriloquist.

As to messages from the dead, they enused Inquiries to be made about people going to the performance, and discovered facts about people who had lost relatives.

Mr. Montagu sald the Zomahs gave their performance at Conway Hall on January 20, 1938, with complete suc- į cess, and without Interruption.

"CLUMSY COPY"

On February 5, 1938, the "Psychle News" published a report which, Mr. Montagu said, was a sneering attack. The article was headed: "Con- to Emulate

Jurers' Farcical Ath at Clumsy'

Kelly. Audience Copy of Psychic Demonstration."

It stated that: "Even us a con- Juring entertainment it was childish and amateurish and would have been interesting possibly to a kinder gerten.... und referred to "three- obvious

dience.

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Madam Zomah, in evidence, said

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That woll-groomed op. pearance can be ruined by a fow unruly hairs.

Glostora conquors unruly hair-koops every strand in Its placo-brings out the natural lustro of your hair.

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KEEPS HAIR NEAT

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WIFE DESERVED

A MEDAL

We're moving next week, Baty. Itt a lovely little house with a separate play room

for Johnny

THINKS:

WE COULD DO WITH A BIGGER PLACE

I WISH PETER COULD MAKE THE GARAGE PAY

MEANWHILE PETER'S IN TROUBLE

linless you can pay off these mortgages on your qarage in the next six

months, I'm afraid we'll have to take over your business, Mr. Gráham

AT HOME THAT EVENING

I can't make things qp. I'd better throw my

hand in

We're going to fight to the last ditch, darling, to hold that business It's just that you're run down and tired always,

Pleher....

Yes, he even wakes

tired, doctor

THINKEI

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO BETTY AND THE "BABY. ON, IF ONLY 1. DIDN'T FEEL SO TIRED

ALL THE TIME

1. AUGHT. PULL THROUGH

From what you've told me, fire. Graham, Han lå say your husband's trouble is Night Starvation.

You see, even at night we go on using up energy in heartbeats, breathing and other

automatic actions. In his case this has no

doubt also led to an excess of acid waste products in the blood. All this

causes him to wake tired and feel no good at his work, Recent hospital tests have proved that Horlicks is

what people need for that condition

BETTY SAW TO IT THAT HER HUSBAND HAD HIS HORLICKS

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SIX WEEKS LATER PETER FELT WIJA NEW MAN

The front axle... O.K. Sir. I send some down It To minutes with -the breakdown

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Thanks to you, Beay, the mortgage is paid

off-the garage is

ours. You deserve

a medal

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