1939-08-12 — Page 3

Saturday,

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

August 12, 1939.

SCHOOLGIRLS' SOLENT SWIM WAS TRY-OUT

BUT THE LAST MILE SEEMED "ETERNITY"

RYDE (I. o. W.).

"THE

THE last mile seemed an eternity and I really thought we should never reach the mainland,” said Audrey Macdonald, the 17-year-old Ryde girl, who, with Jean Holness (15), of Hatfield Road, Ryde, swam six miles across the Solent recently.

They are the youngest swimmers to achieve the feat. Audrey's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Macdonald, are in Mal- ta: Jean's father is Mr. B. F. Holness, Ryde Borough surveyor.

Telling their story Jean said:

"Audrey is really the hero, for Elizabeth, Aged 15,

she used the breast-stroke for the whole six miles. I used the overhand stroke.

Takes Charge

Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire.

"HUNGRY AS HUNTER" ELIZABETH MacIntyre

a recret and were followed in a bont

is

only 15. She is a typist at

"We tried to keep our adventure the gasworks here. But when, by my father, Police Sergeant Lock, after an explosion recently, she Police Constable lienderson, Mr. and saw part of the building inj Mrs. Jack Westwood, and Miss Hills, flames and injured men slagger- our games mistress ni Westwinging about the yard, this is what

"Audrey is taking her test for she did:

School,

the Royal Life Saving Society's 'Phoned for the fire brigade, am- bronze medal, and we thought bulance, and ductor; this would be a good try-out.

Went out with a fire extinguis-

her; and

Got out the first-aid equipment and helped to, treat the in- jured.

"When we were three miles out the sea became very angry and we both felt a bit tired. We should have liked the hot drinks Grey ind for us on board but could not get them. All Daddy could do was to drop su- gar knobs and pleces of chocolate Elizabeth's brief explanation Into our mouths, if we were lucky of her bravery: "I wasn't frigh- enough to catch them. I was atened, but I knew we should hungry as a hunter.

have to move fast."

THEN TO THE "PICTURES”

Four men were injured, three seri-

To keep our spirits up we con-ously. versed as much as possible.

They were Hugh Reid, Alexander

gas holder when a by-pass valve ex- ploded. Johnstone was bjown through the open window and so es-

"When we started we thought we Hlller, Robert Congalton, and David should have to swim only four miles Johnstone, all of Kilbarchan. but we miscalculated the tide and Johnstone and Reid were working Instead of landing near Portsmouth in the meter house near the maki we were taken westwords and had to swim an extra two miles."

Their first thoughts on reaching the island were to run and tell their caped being burned. Congalton and head-mistress. Miss Hough.

Miller, who were by the open door- "The

girls told me of their achieveway, were both bndly burned. ment," said Miss Hough, "and Jean Held was still in the burning build- casually asked, 'Will you let Audreying, and a stoker, John Campbell, come to the pictures this evening, who had gone off duty, dashed back please? What could any school to the yard and pulled him through

mistress say? I ask you!"

the window to safety.

At the

· Japanese soldiers fizhting against Chinese guerillas in Hupsh take a rest. Ironically enough their bat- tle flag emblem is two white doves, the sign of peace.

IN

Duke Holds Ball in Floodlit Palace for His Daughter

a floodlit palace, set in a fairyland of coloured lights illuminating trees, fountains, and lily ponds, Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, 17-years-old daugh- ter of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, made her debut recently.

The Duke of Kent was one of the 900 guests at the ball, the first "coming-out" bali held at Blenheim Palace for a century.

To guard against gate-crashers, plain-clothes police were on duty inside the palace. Bach had a list of Invited guests. Other policemen on duty in the grounds had the number of every car used to bring guests.

"Colonel Of The Trees" Wins A Town's Thanks

SOUTHWOLD, Suffolk,

A TREE planted by the King at Southwold, Suffolk, which withered and appeared to die despite the efforts of the Southwold Council, is blooming again, thanks to the care of Colonel F. J. Brown, of Reydon.

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The council, are so pleased that they have made Colonel Brown "Colonel of the Town's Trees."

The huge mansion-It is the largest private house in England- Was food-lit in whlic. Coloured lights shone on the terraces and Italian gardens, and across the lake searchlights played on the ancient trees on the far side.

200FT. LIBRARY

Guests danced to the musle of Am- brose's Band in the 200ft.-long library.

Before the ball the duke and duchess held a dinner party in the saloon, Footmen in scarlet walled on the guests, and the duke's fam- ous Queen Anne stiver was used.

In another wing Lady Sarah and her sister, Lady Caroline Spencer- Churchill, in dresses of yellow net, held their own party for younger quests.

On the terraces an effect of sun- shine had been produced by shining floodlights through orange nwnings and in the formal gardens Don Car- los and His Strolling Ployers seren- aded guests.

The King's tree was planted by him when Duke of York. to com- The Duchess of Marlborough, who momorate a visit to his boys' camp at wore a dress of black lace over pale Southwold.

pink, and an aquamarine sash to match

her

Aquamarine necklace, said:

All efforts to make it thrive failed, First souvenir hunters broke off twigs, and then, when it was fenced "Every member of the staff, from in, a horse ate the young shoots, The butler to the kitchen-muld, has Southwold councillors were per-had a share in making the ball a suc- turbed, especially when the King cess

joked about it, and presented the I do want to thank them ' for Town Clerk with a Gd. book on gor-working so splenddiy." dening when he visited his "camp"two

years ago,

ACORN FROM VERDUN Then Colonel Brown took it in hund. He said:

"I mm ako trying to restore life to the tree planted on the common to commemorate the marriage of King

George V. With the help of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, I am tending the sapling growing from its base,

and if this is not vigorous enough to grow into a tree I shall graft

it on to a new stock and thus re-establish

lish It.

Miners Radio To

Germans

BRITISH miners are to send

E pence message to their German colleagues from a secret radio station and by "underground post" direct. into | German homes.

"A neorn from the battlefield of

The message is similar to that re- Verdun planted near our Methodist church has grown into a fine tree.cently sent by the National Council and I am going to place a tablet on of Labour, which reached thousands it, as I have en the King's tree, and of Germans despite Nazi censorship

and vigilance. look after it 100.

The miners say: "The dictators, The Council have given me per- mission to ask the Canadian Govern-through aggression, are forcing the ment to send me a young maple tree nations to war. We urge and plead to commemorate the visit of the King with you to assist us in this fight against aggression, from whatever end Queen to Canada."

country it may come."

GERMAN MONEY

German bankers are alarmed

at the extent which camouflaged Inflation has reached in Ger- tuny.

•

in addition to the 200 per cent. Jump in the nole circula- tion during 1038, there

another new flood of token paper money,

#

It is formed by tax vouchers. -If an arms ranker gels a Blato contract he is paid 60 per cent. in cash and 40 per vent, in tax vouchers. Ele can use these to pay his taxes-later.

In the meantime they are as good as money. Night clubs re- ceive a lot of them in payment for food and drink,

The volume of these vouchers in circulation as money is quite uncontrollable and growing fast.

Giant Calf Born

Angry comments on the British messages are appearing in the Ger- man Press.

PUSHED UNDER DOORS Recently the Berlin Lokal-Anzet- ger announced that the British pro- paganda leadots are Anding their way into German homes in consider- able numbers.

Some are sent through the post, others pushed under the door at night.

The Voelkischer Beobachter, 10 ferring to the pamphlets, speaks ‘of the "back door methods" of Lord Perth, Sir Robert Vansittart, and. Commander Stephen King-Hail.

Commander Stephen King-Holl saki: “Believing, as I do, that public opinion in Germany is misinformed as to many of the views held in Britain about foreign affairs, I deter- mined to write a nowsletter in Ger- man."

He emphasised in the newsletter, a number of copies of which entered Germany, that he was writing only for himself. Beyond that he said, the newsletter had no purpose...

Acadia To Be Restored

· LOWER GRANVILLE, N. S. The first settlement founded in old

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TWIN FALLS, Ida. (UP.)-A record-breaking calf, weighing 155 pounds, was born here. Dr. E. T. Acadio, a village which grew with establishment Powell, Idaho veterinarian, said the connection normal weight of a calf at birth Port Royal by Champlain, the French 70 pounds and the heaviest he had explorer and soldier, is to be restored. hoard of previously weighed 104 An archaeological survey of the site

is being made. pounds.

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THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The total Expenditure in 1939 on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $28,000, against which the Income to date is $21,000 only.

In order to continue is work, the Society asks for the balance of

$7,000

before the close of the financial year on 31st October.

Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,

P. & O. Bulding.

Mr. KWOK CHAN;

c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chine,.. 1st August, 1939..