1939-05-24 — Page 16

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Woman sniffed A.R.P. in test, became ill

EMPIRE NEWS

SAVED BY OXYGEN

OXFORD A.R.P. OFFICIALS said recently that a report is to be sent to the Home Office about thirty-two- year-old Marjorie Prichard, who has been in hospital having oxygen treatment after being gassed in an

PLANS FOR DEFENCE A.R.P. test.

OF KENYA

Nairobi.

Plana for the defence of Kenya and the utilisation of its man-power are now nearly completed, according to a statement made by the Governor, Air Chief Marshul Sir Robert Brooke- Popham, in the Legislature.

Arrangemens for reinforcements for the Colony in time of need had been worked out in detail, including provision for the movement of the forces involved.

Aslatle man-power would be employed principally in the mainten- ance of railways and similar essential services, and in the construction of military camps; but special op portunity would bo provided for Asiatic and Arab participation In coasin) defence,

Her mother said: "Of course she will join up in the A.R.P. service again as soon, as she is well. She is making progress, but I don't know when she will be quite better."

Miss Prichard is an Oxford re- search student, daughter of a univer- Bity, professor,

The test during which she was gassed, was an examination for First Aid services, and included the Iden- tification of gases by their smell.

11s Prichard, after smelling a bottle containing a minute amount, of deadly phosgene gas, was speech- ters and had a fit of coughing for

ve minutes,

By the evening of the next day she was so I that she had to go to

Progress had been made in the mrsing home, where she was put provision of medlent establishments, into an oxygen teni. including a motor ambulance convey, casualty stations, a hospital train, And a buse general hospital. A would be fully staffed and equipped while maintaining intact elvi needs, particularly in native reserves. BRITISH CUIANA

JEWISH SETTLEMENT

LOAN PLAN

Georgetown,

Dr. Mary Radford, of Oxford, says the British Medical Journal: "The Traction was so great that without The advisability of using this gas in oxygen it might have been fatal.

AR.P. examinations might well be reconsidered."

Pending a Home Office decision thei use of phosgene gas in Oxford A.R.P, tests is to be suspended.

'NO ILL-EFFECTS'

A permanent officer of the Oxfordi

It is reported from New York that A.R.P. services said: "The instruc the American Jewish Commission, for who was carrying out the test in which has been inquiring here into which Miss Prichard took part had the possibilities of large-scale colonisation of British Guiana, will tested several thousand people by the urge the formation of

method with phosgene gas corporation same

to lont un international loan, backed without any ill-effect on anybody.

by the United States Governments,

and British

"The method is to break a one-inch) phial into a big bottle. The people; Mr. Myron C. Taylor, one of the going through the test snift the prime movers of the refugee settle- | bottle and have to try to identify ment schema, Is studying thethe gas.

Andings of the Commission, whose members are now all in New York.

1 survey

An

probably

coin-

precede any development of munications in the interlor..

INDIA

CONCERN OVER TRADE

AGREEMENT

gas

£1,500 For Leg

Knocked down by a motor-cyclist on a pedestrian crossing in Decem- ber, 1917, Mrs, Emily Elizabeth Cor- bell, of Gatton Road, Tooting, SW.. was awarded £1,500 damages, with costs, in the King's Bench Division recently,

Mra. Corbett said she had been un-

fracture.

able to use her right leg since its

Defendant was Mr. Hobert Edward Fenner, of Coverton Road, Tooting, owner of the motor-cycle.

This photograph was taken as Actress Helen Hayes, left, plead.

ed at Congressional hearing for admission of 20.000 German child refugees to U.S. Edith Nourse Rogers, right.

MOTHER JAILS

GIPSY

BRIDE

PARIS.

"In the particular test after SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Valentina Valdes,

gipsy bride of Mr. John Smith, a South African gold miner, teen other people were examined. sits weeping in a Marseilles prison, unable to see the man

which Miss Prichard was I four-

All smelled the gas from the same

bottle with no ill-effect. Before she recently married.

handing the buttle to ench one of

self."

CALCUTTA. There is much concern in India as to what the Government will do now that the Central Legislature has re- jeeted terms of the agreement rement of India enforced it by certi- cently reached between Britain and neation, but it is felt by Europeans India.

When the Ollawn Agreement was grave

and Indians alike that it would be

mistake if the Government similarly rejected in 1932 the Govern- were to do this again.

a sulicase

He had reported that containing £200 and several volu- able Jewels were missing.

were folding their tents hurriedly to When he heard that the gipales leave he took poller in a taxi to their camp,

them the instructor sniffed it him-! She was arrested after her mother had refused to allow her An Oxford doctor said: "Miss to embark on the ship which Prichard was especially sensitive to was to have taken her to her the gas, but she will fully recover. husband's home. There will be no permanent after-

The mother followed the couple to effects."

There the women of the tribe set the quayside, and maintained her objection, although the husband, in on them with such fury, scratching nccordance with gipsy custom. had their faces and stoning them, that puid £250 for his bride when he Mr. Smith borrowed a revolver from married her in February.

the taxi driver and fired several To keep her In France the mother times into the air to score them. denounced Valentine to the police Three of the women were arrested for having no identity papers. This and taken to the police station. was possible because gipsy wedding: The taxi-driver was also arrested rites are not legal in France.

on a charge of being in Illegal pos- There had also been trouble be-session of firearms, tween the girl's father-in-law, n The police fear that the situation wealthy diamond merchant, and will cause a tribal vendetta, which

may end in bloodshed.

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Her fon mali reaches Hollywood pro- She is the front-cover girl on high-portions, but the letters are address- class American magazines. Richly led to "The giri on page

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And why doesn't she smile?

She told me at the Dorchester: "Any woman looks attractive when she

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Her best picture is al- ways the smiling one.

Admirers of her picture often, propose marriage, though they have never

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