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GEOFFREY SUCKLING

IRL GUIDES to the right of us, girl guides to the left of us, girl guides in front of us, girl guides behind

| us—we are surrounded by girl guides.

Pick up a Chinese newspaper and look for the front page news. Is it the war in China? No, it's the girl guides or "girl escorts" if you prefer that term.

Pages and pages of them-in 4.30 p.m.-"Big Heart" arrives. one evening paper alone I count. She is an attractive looking girl, and the moxtern semi-European dress ed 150 photographs. Fat girls, she wears defnes to advantage thin girls, girls with a smile and girls with a frown, girls with glamour and girls without.

Some periodicals are devoted

Hongkong Telegraph. solely to the display of their

Wyndham St., Hongkong

'Phone 26615 July 29, 1939

A. P. D.

THE Government's plan for taxing armaments profits is an example of its reluctance to deal adequately and effectively with

こ problem upon which there is strong public feeling in England.

charms.

There is no doubt that the busi- ness is thriving, and one wonders where it will stop.

This is how it began.

the concavities and convexitles of the human figure. Such 21 girl you might meet any day in the lounge of hotel or on one of the bathing beaches.

She bows and takes the profferred sent.

Does she speak English17-Yes, she speaks a "lectie" Englishz.

Geoffrey starts a conversation in. English, but it turns out to be en- Lirety one-sided. However, he knows

"Jeetle" Chinese, so he tries it out, und discovers that his Chinese is better than his compan- ion's "leetle" English..

The tete-a-tete progresses. "B: Heart" asks how

long her

ABOUT a year ago-at the time services are required and is told one

of the Shanglini exodus-some enterprising Chinese girls from the

hour.

She looks in the direction of the

northern part introduced the germen, and Geoffrey passes it across.

"Big Heart" has a big appetite. of the girl guide iden into this

She orders a beck steak (special), Colony.

but declines a glass of wine in favour They reasoned that, with so many of an orange squash. afrangers walking our streets, some

Only businesses whose receipts in kind of a guide service would be elicits that

useful, and, with a commendable business acumen, they immediately Bet about organising "escort bureaus.”

an accounting your from urmament work are not less than £200,000 will come within the scope of the duty. Businesses whose profits froin armu- ments are below this line will not be! The fact that they themselves were affected. The tax of 60 per cent. is strangers to: Hongkong did not deter to apply where profits exceed a cer-them in the least, and the success tain standard and on such excess as

that crowned their efforts only goes

arises from armaments work.

to show that in some cases, at any

rate, the blind can lead the blind! Our local girls were not backward

•

Geoffrey

TN cross-examination,

"Big Heart" enjoys her mode of

life.

There are eight girls in her house, their ages averaging 20 years.

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A Quarter-Pago From A Local Newspaper

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Blood-A.R.P. Life-Saver

WE had heard the dull thud

of heavy bombs dropping twenty miles to the south in Barcelona and we were hurrying along the coast road through the white fishing villages. At the cottage doors the people stood silently listening to the wireless,

They were broadcasting a request and night, but their busiest time is donors please come at once to the They are "on tap", as it were, day for human blood; would blood from 9p.m. till 2 or 3 .m.

Blood Transfusion Service head- Some of the girls are more "In de-quarters to give their quota? mand" than others and have wealthy men as patrons.

In addition to refreshments they often receive presents.

Usually they are called to hotels.

In the stricken city they bud but sometimes go for plenies and joy of the life-fluid, kept in cold storage already rushed hundreds of litres rides,

VESTERDAY, the "Telegraph"

published an appeal from the 1longkong authorities for volun- icers for a Blood Transfusion Panel In times of emergenos. In this article JOHN LANGDON- DAVIES explains how blood trans- fusion works and how I saved hundreds of lives during the Spanish War,

Dr. Duran knew that of ali violent deaths none was more tragic, because so unnecessary, na "bleeding to death," and before the Civil War had broken out he had begun to organise o service for victims of accidents.

The Chancellor described it as a second or reserve measure to apply in coming forward when it was in cases where the existing provisions question of such "easy money", and did not adequately secure the results bureaux began to spring up in all

Their fee is $1 an hour, half of for such an emergency, to the hox- desired. He claimed that the main parts of the, Colony. Their name is "house"......

which Is handed over to the pitnix

where the shattered bodies

Two things, he says, are necessary were being delivered by Red Cross for an adequate blood method for controlling prolits must now legion.

The conversation is cut short by ambulances. A queue of men and service, frat well thought out techni- transfusion be through the terms of contracts I don't think a similar organisation "Big Heart" glancing at the clock. women, young and old, waited to cal arrangements, and second, un entered into between the State and exists in any other part of the world, duces a dollar note.

Geoffrey takes the hint, and pro-rate of some 15 an hour they passed sufficient donors are willing to volun- help replenish the supply. At the enthusiastle population from which It is idle to suggest that their "Big Heart" smiles; takes from her through the laboratory, while euch teer. patrons are all strangers to Hong- bar a printed engagement slip, on our 30 litres of blood poured from kong-who- genuinely..need nasistance_which she fills in the time;-presents humau veins. into-glass-containers second in Barcelona. Almost 30,000 Geoffrey with a business card; and carefully stacked in the refrigern- commences to powder her nose.

Five minutes later the curtains are; drown aside.

the armaments manufacturer, and the

priers which he would receive. The "Minister of Supply," "be"said,"would receive drastic powers. But that Ministry is in its infancy and the scope of its powers are far short of what are required for an effective Supply Ministry. A Supply Ministry and a supplementary measure, both

of which are far too limited in their scope, are not sumcient guarantee

in Bnding their way about.

No. The majority of them are Hongkong residents with Inr more knowledge of the ins and outs of the city than their fair conductors.

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A pair of dainty feet plek their

way hcross the room.

Geoffrey is left with a chit for $4.50, "Big Heart's" telephone num

his own reflections!

WHAT, then, is the object of the ber and.

whole business?

Is it a question at lonesome' young:

tors.

Very few people spoke, though all listened to the ambulance bells in the street outside and wondered which of their neighbours might be lying

wounded within,

The medical staff looked each

There was-no-difficulty-about-the volunteers came forward and 0,000 litres of blood were often in storage at one time.

But blood cannot be kept in- definitely. The limit is 15 days and Dr. Duran had to organise a system for getting his donors together to meet an emergency. This he did through the trade union branches, clubs. Each of these had a blood- the factory groups and the pollent

that profiteering will be arrested and men toolslan for female companion Divorce Decree For donor up in the card Index prepared transfusion secretary to whom the

eliminated.

ship?

Is

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kind

Earl's Daughter

long before, noted the details as to laboratory could telephone to de- what blood group each belonged to, mand the number of donors required wiped the arms with antiseptic and on a given day.

apparatus.

up und

was in

Public opinion has long been deeply

of matrimonial disturbed by the conviction that ex-

bureau?

Or is it, as the Pulse Judge aus-the Earl of Onslow, was granted a There was no pain or discomfort and

Lady Mary Garside, daughter of carefully attached the ccasive profits are being made out of rearmament. The introduction of gested in a court case recently, only deeree nisi in the Divorce Court re- when the right quantity had been the new proposal is evidence that a cloak for prostitution?

cently on the ground of the miscon-extracted each donor got

husband. Mr. George went outside to drinke a large cup touch with his local secretary und

Every registered donor existing safeguards are not sufficient. Let us take the merelful view, and duct of her

Garside, with Mrs. Mildred Cecile of milk and coffee and to receive in But what the Government proposes is say that the business is a harmless Bryson."

one, that its purpose is merely to

card entitling them to buy a certain could be trusted to answer the call. not the bold and simple remedy that

quantity of food at the special depot,, fill a social void.

The donors had to be scattered in a precious privilege in is required. It is regarded as un-

the half-

as muny directions as possible in necessarily complicated and for from

order to avoid giving away military satisfactory and us a political and not

In the reception room new volun- sive was being planned by the Gov- secrets. For example, if a big offen- a revenue tax. It forms no part of the Budgeting provision for the year. The yield is so problematiest that the Chancellor did not think it necessary

The suit was nol contested. Lady Mary Garside, who gave on

Certainly my own experiences the S.W., was 24 when she married in

address in St. George's-square, starved elly.

from the ranks,

Allow me to describe the inter- view.

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to mention a hypothetical figure. "The | CENE-A Cafe in the Centry/responsible in regard to money mat-health questionnaire and sent each

Mr. Pethick- proposal," declared Lawrence, "was not designed to bring in a bed amount of revenue

at all, but to meet the political op position to the Military Training

Bill"

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District.

1930.

The whole operation takes less than

other day, when curiosity urged me January 1933, Mr. Garside was 22 to send for one of these escort girls, and a second-lleutenant in the Irish teers were being admitted, citizens ernment forces the supply of blood did not indicate anything to the con-Fusiliers, having entered Sandhurst moved by the horrors they had just had to be Increased; if a number of trary,

scen lo come at once to the Labora- donors were suddenly called in from The case for Lady Mary was that tory and offer themselves to awell one source the enemy sples would bo she and her husband had a widely the lists of volunteers. The secre able to draw obylous conclusions.

tary took each name, filed in a; different upbringing and he was ir

No donor was pald anything for tera.

newcomer to be physically examined. his services, apart from the food After the birth of their only child,

privileges their gift was quite free. TIME 4.15 p.m.

she and her husband lived in the

Of course it is not particularly Sudan. Differences arose and, as a

herole to be a blood donor in spite Geoffrey Suckling is seated in a result, there was a parting. small secluded alcove, conveniently

of the highly-coloured description of No discored or unhealthy person sme nation writers. The donor suf- Subsequently she learned that her could be accepted, Samples of blood fers no inconvenience beyond a alight curtained and discreetly lighted. He husband had stayed with Mrs. Bry had to be taken for Wasserman and prick. Is sipping a whisky and soda whilst un

at a Brighton hotel in April other tests and a few drops ex- Mr. Pethick-Lawrence criticised studying a page of photographs,

determine what Mr. Justice Hodson said he was mined so as to the Government for Axing 1936-37- At length he comes to a decision, prepared to exercise discretion in blood group each belonged to.

15 minutes of which only about Ave and presses the bell. year in which considerable

are occupied in fetunt drawing of favour of Lady Mary Garside, and Human blood is not all The boy appears and he anys: pronounce a decree nisi. But he

of the blood. It is only the novelty of the amount of armament profit was made "Ring up No. 00000. If 'Big Heart' thought it was fair to Mr. Garside to blood of the donor and of the re- Imagine that there is anything to same type and does not ali mix. The thing that makes some people as the basle year. He referred to is not engaged, ask her to

say that Lady Mary Garside deserted him many years ago and was at that cipient must bear certain relation muke a fuss about, but really such one firm which made a net proot of along."

time associating with another manships to each other or harm rather headlines as "Sailor Gives Life-blood against his wishes.

than good will come, of the trans- that Sweetheart May Live" are tho Mr. Garalde did not know of the Jusion. Fortunately those whose merest nonsense, full extent of the nasociation which blood belongs to one of the four 37. Another firm had made £50,000

The Government refuses to nation-had now been disclosed in court. chief blood groups can be used as [In 1934-35 and nearly £300,000 in

There was no doubt, on the evi- | "universal donors" and these are allee the prmaments Industry. It dence of what the wife did, that therefore the most valuable people; 1930-37. The new duty will take refuses to give the new Ministry of Mr. Gorside could have obtained a from the doctor's point of view.

Thanks to the new technique for only a very small part of the addi-Supply adequate powers and sufflel-

decree against his wife.

storing blood the donor never sees He was not prepared to make an Superintending ali this highly the recipient; in fact, the blood is tional wealth that is coming into ex-ent scope. It limits the application order for costs ainst Mr. Garside, technical work Was Dr. Duran bulked and one recipient has · rẻ. istence. It does not take the profit of its new tax on armament profits, child of the marriage, was also Blood Transfusion Service, saver of

A decreo nist, with custody of the Jorda, director of the Barcelona celved the blood of more than 00 donors mixed together without out of the production for war, and As Mr. Pethick-Lawrence rightly granted to Mr. Oliver Campbell Dry-thousands of human lives and to-day diminishing the efficacy of the treat- it does not really inp, for the parald: The country wanted to take son living at Scampton, Lincolnshire, homeless exile in London, doomed ment. poses of the protection of the coun- the profit out of war, and wanted to the ground of his wife's misconduci centration camp or worse as a politi-serves the enthusiastic co-operation nn officer in the Royal Air Force, on if he returns to Spain to the con- This essential ARP service. “do- try.

the vast wealth which war and do it before war came."

with Mr. Garside.

cal criminal.

of every lover of peace..

013,000 in 1034-35 and whose pro-

$1s had risen to £1,411,000 in 1030-

aggression threaten to destroy.

come

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