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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 1939:

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FOOD POOLS IN WARTIME Monkey Island

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Distributors To Form Mutual Aid Groups

SCHEME to ensure war-time food supplies by the formation of groups of firms concerned with the wholesale distribution of provisions and groceries was announced recently by the Food (Defence Plans) De- partment.

It is designed as a safeguard against the possibility that the main office of a wholesale firm, or its warehouse or transport facilities, might be damaged or destroyed, and is to be applied in the first instance to large popula- tion centres including:

London Metropolitan Police Arca;

Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester;

Bristol, Cardiff and Barry; Liverpool, Bootle, Birken- head, Wallasey and Crosby; Manchester, Salford and Stret- ford;

Birmingham and Smeth-

wick;

Leeds;

Bradford;

Sheffield;

Hull;

Newcastle and Gateshead;

Portsmouth and Gosport;

Southampton:

Glasgow;

Edinburgh; and

Leith and Dundee.

All firms whose premises are within any of these areas are naked to form themselves into groups at once for the purpose of assisting each other should it become necessary in war-time.

FIVE OR MORE FIRMS

Each group should consist of five or mora firms, but preferably should not exceed eight.

The main object is that the group should be in a position to take over and carry on the business of an member if he should for a time be wholly, or partially, out of action.

The Department will earmark, as soon as possible, suitable premises outside the evacuation areas to be avaliable for such groups if they should need them,

In the event of the whole neigh- bourhood in which members of a group are situated becoming unten- able the businesses of all members of the group will be transferred to one or more of the emergency wholesale distributors' depots out- side the evacuation area, and operated to cover all the customers and registered retailers of the group.

DUPLICATE RECORDS Immediately a member resumes business after being put out of action his customers (or registered tallers) will be handed back to him.

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It la emphasised that where no agreement had previously been made by a group on the terms on which a mentber's business would be handled

be under no financial obligation to by his fellow-members they would

Precautionary measures will need

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EXPERT IN CAMOUFLAGE

A man who deceived the chemy with ounning camouflage during the war died in London on a Batur- day-Mr. Oliver P, Bernard,

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To have been a passenger in the torpedoed Lusitania when coming home from America to join up was one experience in his strenu ous and varied life.

Mr. Bernard allained captain's rank and won the MC. while serving in the Royal Engineers, and låter earned distinction scente artist and sisge designer at

Covent Garden and elsewhere.

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The Naval Gallery at the Wem- bley Exhibition. 1925, was design- ed by him and also some of the striking decorations in London restaurants,

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Circle encloses the swinging bouy, QJ1

Mountain, overlooking the Hudson river, near Cold Spring, N. X., of Irving Feigin, 20, blown off a ledge by the wind while scaling the clif. Youth became entangled in own safely line and was strangled ́and battered to death before help cam c.

For Whipsnade

WHIPSNADE in to have an island

next year. It will be construct- ed for the Gibbons, and in the middle will be a group of trees, so that visitors will be able to watch the extraordinary, gymnastics of these members of the monkey family.

The Zoo's annual report, lasued

Ann which reveals this informa-

attributes to the September crisis a decrease of 6 per cent in the Regent's Park menagerie attendances 41,810,012 visitors) and of no

less : than 23

per cent. at Whipsnade (523,545).

THEY LIKE CONDENSED MILK Other points in the report show that:

80,700

visitors went into the Children's Zoo ("Pels' Corner") in four months.

The Zoo sold 37 skulls, 49 acts of brains and 121 bodies of animals and other creatures that died in the Gardens, receiving £107 for them.

Fifty-three tons of herrings and whiting.

Gay, colourful

SCARVES

21 bushels of shrimps and from $2.25 each

124 tons of horseflesh were

for food.

bought

Also, as much as 11,000lb, of con- densed milk was consumed by the

Zoo's

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creatures, as well as nearly quarter of a million bananas.

Whipsnode supplied about 900 wildl rabbits, caught within its boundaries, to the Regent's Park Zoo for food.

Incidentally, 41 lambs were reared

at Whipsnade and sold to the Zoo's catering department.

GLASGOW GIRL

FOR FAIR

Catherine Kelly, of Old Kilpart- rick, near Glasgow, is fourteen, has won more than 200 prizes for High- land dancing, and now she is going to dance at the New York World's Fair. She was taught to dance by her father, who lost both his legs in the war twenty-three years ago.

Laird Faces Court With

Girl After 450 Miles Drive

Detectives Go To School

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Campbeltown, Argyllshire. Mr. Richard Hamer, Laird of the island of Gigha, off the west coast of Scotland, and Miss Erica Moler, à German girl, for whose arrest warrants were issued some months ago, charged at the Sheriff Court at Campbeltown recently with con- Australia has just opened its first travening the Aliens Act of 1920. training school for detectives. The syllabus is based upon that of the It is alleged that Mr. Hamer failed

ensure that Miss:

Melbourne, Australia,

salers to safeguard their records of All members of the Criminal Invesu-Meier, who had lodged with him or to be taken in advance by whole-London Metropolitan Police College. to take steps to customers and to have duplicates take the eight-week course.

gation branch will be required to filed in a safe, neutral place.

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Butter is a Protective Food, because it contains the vitamins so often lacking in our modern diet, which fortify you, and your children, against malnutrition and disease. This is the butter par excellence. Free from injurious preservatives and fresh from the green pastures of a land of sunshine.

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had been a member of his household at Achamore House, Gigha, from July 1 to October last year, should register under the Allens Act.

It was sald in court that he was Ilable to a 'fine of £100 or months' imprisonment,

Lightning Ghost

COPENHAGEN.

| MR. LUPLAU JANSSEN, of the

M Copenhagen observatory, did not

six believe in ball lightning.

Miss Meier, whose address was given as care of Miss Nyra Chorton, The Cottage, Pine Ridge, Farnham, Surrey, was charged with falling, to register as an alien.

"NOT GUILTY" PLEA Both she and Mr. Hamer pleaded not guilty,

Now he seems to be in the position of the man in the train, asked (sa f is said) by a fellow-traveller: "Do you believe in ghosts?" "No," came the reply.

"Oh," said the other and vanished into Din olr.

Mr. Janssen's conversion to belief in ball lightning came when, listening to the radio in his private room in the observatory, he opened a tuined window to let in a little light."

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Mr. Hamer, with his wife, motored 450 miles to the court from London. A fiery ball about 18in. In diameter,

Mr. Kenneth Macintosh, Glasgow arrived through the opening.

solicitor, who represented Mr. Hamer, Although unable to believe his said that Mr. Hamer had not appear-eyes" the astronomer gave chase, us ed earlier, so that a warrant was the ball went slowly across his room

Issued.

"That was not in any way due to any desire on his part to show dis respect to the court," said Mr. Mac- Intosh. "It was simply due to the 1 fact that he was nbroad at the, time.

"Mr. Hamer is an Englishman, and was not familiar with Scottish court proceedings."

and through an open dour Into the kitchen, where it made straight 10- wards Mrs. Janssen.

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Suddenly it changed its course and disappeared up the chimney. It ex- ploded outside.

out of all proportion to its import-

ance.

"I hope to be able to convince the The case, added Mr. Macintosh, court that my, clients have a com- had received an amount of publicity plete answer to the charge."

And Now For The Gland Derby?

"AN

ND NOW FOR THE GLAND DERBY." THE WORDS WERE SPOKEN BY MR. A. MENZIES SHARPE, THE HERTFORDSHIRE GLAND EXPERT, AT THE END THE F.A. CUP FINAL, RECENTLY.

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As the man who supplied gland extracts for Wolverhamp- tou and Portsmouth in the final, he had the distinction of being able to visit the dressing-rooms of each team,'

But when the match was over, his Although he would not give me a thoughts turned from footballers to tip for the Derby, he hinted that the racehorses, "Gland treatment is race may be won by a rank outsider being given to more than one runner which had been secretly "glanded." In the Derby, I have reason to be- lleve," he said.

"It is being carried out under con- I-ditions of the strictest accrecy, for the owners are anxious to ‘cash in' on the improved form of their horses.

100 HORSES TREATED "After proving that animal gland extracts are good for toying-up foot- ballers and athletes, I decided to experiment with racchorses. The gland preparations are injected in the neck muscles twice a week over period of six-weeks.

*Already '100 horses have received a course of injections to give then increased speed, stamina and staying Dower, as well as confidence.

"Many a fine horse is an also-ran because it is nervous. Gland treat- ment, we have shown, can nerves in horses."

Mr. Sharpe stressed

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