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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 22, 1939.

Sir Oliver Lodge Plans Rain To Order

G.O.M. of Science Says Droughts Will be Banished for Ever

EMPIRE NEWS

SCHEME TO. USE WILD

RUBBER

Secret In Sealed Message

SALISBURY.

MOMBASA SIR OLIVER LODGE, Britain's Grand Old Man of

The opening of a shoe factory at Mombasa has drawn attention to the supplies of wild rubber uni Kenya Const. It is thought that

the

they might be made available for the

shoe industry.

Thirty years

thousands of go neres were planted with rubber along the coast, but the scheme come to nothing. Wild offshoots of tits cultivation flourish in the Tana and Lamu areas. It is believed that

Science, joined farmers and gardeners recently in gazing at the sky for signs of clouds to bring rain and end the drought.

As he gazed. Sir Oliver was thinking. How can man, he was asking himself, control the weather and bring rain at will?

One of his dreams throughout his researches into the ether

these forests could yield a product has been scientific weather control, which could be blented with bighs Krode rubber from Indla Uganda.

and In one of his lectures some years ago he said: "Droughts aro

due to the non-electrical state of the atmosphere. The atmos phere needs electrifying.

Most of the land on which the rubber grows is the property of the Crown, to which the hind revertes after the plantations were given up during the rubber slump.

"Some day, I have no doubt, aman," which will soon be completed. method will be found of electrifying the atmosphere to produce rain at wil. It is one of my dreams for the

Ometal Transferred. Mr. Harold B. Walers, Director of Agriculture_le | future.** Kenya, has been appointed Director of Agriculture for the Gold Coast. INDIA

PUNJAB PREMIER ON DEFENCE NEEDS

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Sir Oliver's secretary' revealed that he has beca in regular cor- respondence on this rainmaking toplo with Sir Ambrosa Fleming the 89-year-old scientist.

TV miles from Sir Oliver's home, Normanton House, near Salisbury, is Stonehenge.

Sir Oliver goes there when the With an unprotected frontier ond seacoast there could be nothing weather is fine, sits on the ancient worse for Indin than the defent of stones, and contemplates the my- Britain in a war, salt! Sir Sikande.aleries of sun, cloud, and atmosphere, Hyal-Khan, Prime Minister of the

Punjab, in a speech here un the world situation.

Sir Sikander sold he was speaking as a soldier who had closely studied. the problems of Indian defence.

Mab Attack Englishmen.-Three Englishmen were besleged by a mob of angry strikers at jute mil at Calculta recently, and were forced to retreat from room to room. Final- ly, they barricaded themselves in no Inner room, while the strikers bat- tered on the door. The interven- tion of the police eventually raised the siege.

INDIA

PUBLIC SERVICES

RECRUITS

CALCUTTA.

The Bengal Government announce that the policy of future recrulünent, to the public services of the Provinc will be parity between Moslem and non-Moxlein communities.

The percentage of reservation for Mosions in direct recruitment will therefore be 50 per cent. The other 50 per cent, will be divided among Hindus, Anglo-Indians, Indian Chris- tons, and Buddhists.

The Government has further ac-

cepted the principle that provided

qualified candidates are available, 15 per cent. of the appointments by direct recruitment shall be reserved for the scheduled castes.

Vierroy' Orissa Visit The Vice

Marquess of Linithgow roy, the visited Orissa recently, presumably to study at first hand the problems of the native States. There is much distress, which is alleged to be due to the abitrary rule of the Indian Princes.

TEN YEARS' TASK

There will be a family reunion on the 88th birthday of Sir Oliver, who, famous as a scientist and wireless pioneer, is equally famous, as a spiritualist.

To prove survival after death he bas written a scaled messag the text of which he alone knows.

After his death he hopes to communicate

message through a medium and to con- Unue his'selentille researches on the "other side."

WI the findings, which, he says, he will communicate to friends on

secret For ten years he has been busy on earth, include the

of rain- massive work, "Physics for Every-making?

Snow-White Bible For Each Man

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DIBLES have been falling from the Government printing presses; thousands of Bibles printed against time.

The Ministry of Labour has just taken delivery and is now distributing the Bibles all over Britain. They have been bound in snow-white cloth.

Recently they were held by thef first 20-year-old militiamen to pass their medical examination. On them they aware their military Oath of Alleglance.

RED-HAIRED GEORGE George Oliver, red-haired, sturdy, living in Halliford-street, Islington, N., was one of them.

Before he walked into the King's Cross employment exchange in Pen- ton-streek, ha hed happened.

Mr. Fair, manager of the exchange. had held one rehearsal with typed dummy-forms, and another, half a hour before the exchange opened, with the rent forms.

There were ten of them:-' Envelope-shaped registration form Postcard certificate to be handed to registered ment

M.R.;

Blue envelope form for tipus objectors;

Conscientious certificate:

objects'

Signing of pact in Washington by which United States gives credit not to exceed G$500,000 to Paraguay. At left is General Felix Estigarribia, President-elect of Paraguay, with State Secre- lary Cordell Huli.

Bogus Curate's "Victims"

Couples He Wed Are Married

DOZENS OF EAST END MARRIED COUPLES, WONDER-

ING RECENTLY WHETHER THEY WERE REALLY MARRIED, HEAVED SIGNS OF RELIEF WHEN THEY READ THIS. MANY OF THEM FEARED THEY MIGHT HAVE TO BE MARRIED AGAIN.

The former curate of St. John's Parish Church, in the East End of London-the man who had married them-was sen- tenced to six months' imprisonment for forgery at the London Sessions recently.

He had obtained the post of curate by posing as "the Rev." Frank Anderson Moss, also known as "the Rev." Moss Ellis. He was really Thomas Joseph Ellis, former sculleryman, and was found guilty at the sessions of forging a Post Office Savings Bank withdrawal receipt and obtaining £3.

The Bishop of Stepney, the Rt. Rev. Robert Moberly, is able to reassure the couples whom Ellis married, however.

Despite the fact that a real priest did not perform the cere- monies, they are still legally married,

mat.

"I have consulted the Bishop vienr of St. John's Parsih Church. of London's legal advise," the The rector of that church left in Bishop said. And the

January this year, and Ells was conscienriages are quite legal. So the George-in-the-Eist, where he con- transferred to the church of St.- postcard people affected need worry no tinued till March this year,

longer--they will not have to be married again. So long as the marriages were made in good faith-that is, so long as both the parties believed that the volun-curate was a genuine one, which they did they are perfectly legal."

Form for applications by post; Loss of registration certificate; Application form for special cases tinder 20 years of age;

Application form for R.A.F. teer reserve;

Form for the Royal Naval Special Reserve;

plicant had changed his mind,

Postcard form saying that the ap had decided not to apply for the Air Force or the Navy after all.

When George Oliver walked up to the counter he presented his birth certificate. That saved a lot of ques tions.

UNDER 10 MINUTES

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other form to all up. He signed it, collected his registration certificate, and was out of the exchange in less than ten minutes,

When he was called up for medical examination that day, George Oliver saw his envelope application form, M.R.I again.

"IMAGINE OUR SHOCK" the "curate"-18 months ago, said: Mr. J. Yerns, who was married by "You can imagine

our shock when we heard the news.

We wondered whether it would affect our marriage. My wife was more worried, even, than 1 was. I suid, 'We have our marriage lines That's all that matters.'

Mrs. Yenis said: "I could hardly believe the news. Mr. Ellis was a charming man."

THREE CONVICTIONS

Ellis had three convictions. It is at present serving a sentence for making false statements to obtain a passport,

Born in Newbridge, Monmouth- shire, he had worked as a scullery-: man at Cleveland, Somerset, Inter obtaining work as a manservant to a clergyman at Filey, Yorkshire.

Later he called on the Bishop of Stepney, saying he was the Rev, After that he gripped his snow- Frank Anderson Moss, and that for Jwhite Bible. repeated the words of certain reasons he had changed his

the oath, and waited for the sergeant-name to Moss Ellis. major's first bark.

It was in the hands of a medical officer for further filling up,

He was given a curacy under thei

"SAY SIS-

"VERY RELIGIOUS" Ellis is still popular in the parish. Mr. John Bull. who acted ns verger for the "curate," said: "I have was the finest curate we have had. been here 23 years, and Mr.

"His sermons were good, and he was very religious."

Spend Wisely --Lady Snowden

Ellis

PEND

In- money wisely to crease the common well-being and prevent war,

This was the advice of Lady Snowden recently when she spoke to leaders of the Irish linen in- dustry at Harrogate.

"It is absolutely essential in these days we should spend on serviceable goods every penny, we con afford. because it is the cliizens' duty, as far as possible, "Saving is a great virtue: hoard- declared.

io reduce unemployment." Blic Ing la not. It is not wise saving. for instance, for a man who can afford it to economise on his own and his ebfldren's food or to put money in the bank at the expense of his children's education."

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