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HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

August 15, 1939.

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SAILED ACROSS ATLANTIC Threat To ALONE TWICE IN 7-TON YACHT

Arrested As Pirate, Weathered Gales

NEWLYN (Cornwall).

SITTING on the edge of the quay of the little harbour here recently, signing autographs for a few pence a time to buy his Sunday dinner, was a man who has made one į of the most adventurous Atlantic voyages ever reported.

In a seven-ton yacht, with only a compass and sextant for navigation, and very little food on board, he had sailed from New York to England at a cost of about 10s., taking 33 days for the crossing.

The man, 58-year-old Francis Edward Clark, brought his] yacht, the Girl Kathleen, into Newlyn Harbour.

The Girl Kathleen is at present in the possession of the Cus- toms authorities, as it is alleged that her papers are not in order.

This is Mr. Clark's story:

"Last year when on holiday i

Curnwall I bought my little bunt from Blind Five Years,

a fisherman In Mousehole.

"I sailed her up the Channel to my home town, Portsmouth, where my father for many years kept the Star

Hotel

"I wanted to visit some old friends of nine in the United States, but I! could not afford the fare to America

Now Sees Again

PETER CRESSWELL, un ex-

soldier, of Bertram-street, Birtley, Co. Durham, blind for five years, can now see again,

I provisioned the boat and set

He owes his sight to, an unknown Benefactor who became interested in Jail from Portsmouth lust August,

"I had a good crossing and even-his case, and to the delicate skill of tually reached Savannah, but there I Newcastle surgeons. was arrested as a pirate, being unable to convince the authorities that I was the rightful owner of the boat.

"Eventually President Itoosevelt Intervened and I was released.

SOLD CHRONOMETER

"I kaited up to New York am, having visited my friends, realised it had not sufficient money to provision the boat for my return to England.

For three days and nights after the operation which gave him back the power to see Cresswell was closely watched.

So delicate was the operation that the slightest touch, or even a cough, might have shattered the vilal part of the eye which the surgeons had) brought to life.

Am.

BACK TO WORK

Creswell hopes to get back to work "I sold the ship's chronometer to name of Peter Cresswell has been re- While he has been blind the buy stores and eventually left Newtained on the payroll of a bus com- York on June 15,

pany, his last employers. But it was "When off the coast of Newfound-Mes. Cresswell who went there to land I encountered a terrifle gale and work. the boat's main boom broke,

Cresswell's sight was injured when "I was unable to repair it.

in the R.A.S.C. in France during the "For days und nights I ran before war and gradually became worse. the gale.

Five years ag his left eye was re- LASHED TILLER

moved. Immediately after he also "At nights I lashed the steering just the sight of his right eye. gear, and sheer fatigue caused me to vention, Creswell was taken to New- As a result of his benefactor's inter- sleep.

"Twelve sea-gulis followed me llcastle and examined by the way from New York to the

Mr. J S. and Mr. H. V. In- English Channel, and these were my local ophthalmic surgeons. only company.

They sald that there was a remotel restoring his sight, chance of the delicate operation

"On Friday I saw a fishing-boat and said, 'How far am I from land?' "A fisherman pointed to the south- cast and said, "There are the Sellly Isles,

sailed on through the night and in the morning saw Land's End."

When

UPS

with Ambassador Jor dedication of Parmar flew from Chatons to

Henr! Gouraud, left, French war hero, William C. Bullitt, at Chalons-sur-Marne monument to Henry Farman. Reims in 20 minutes, in 1908.

Measles Serum Comes

From Scots Policemen

THE bulk of London's supply of serum for inoculation

against measles is derived from policemen from the West of Scotland and domestic servants from Ireland and Scotland.

Dr. William Gunn (London) made this statement ference at Aberileen recently on the difficulties of obtaining when addressing the medicine section of the B.M.A. con- Serum.

With the epidemic occurring in two-year cycles, he said, it had in the past been found diflicult to keep the serum in effective condition.

Now, by a process of powdering the serum, it was possible to keep it effective for as long as 14 or 15 years,

STUMBLING BLOCK

the

anti-social

and

the

ing only the knowledge Professor Sir John Ledingham. facilities at the disposal of the inedi- director of

Lister Research cal profession at the moment, greater Insitute, London, declared that pro-immediate achievements ivere posal- gress in immunisation against diph-ble by more simplified methods of he reached Newlyn he beans, a pot of marmalade and seven societies posing possessed a little rice, oatmeal, dried thoriu has been impeded by "doltish education and propaganda for the

prejudice fostered by idollars in money.

liberty."

as protagonists of early treatment of the accessible cancers and by the organisation of "Before we can embark seriously bie promise of accomplishments in treatment facilities than by any visi- on well planned campaigns against diphtheria and whooping cough," he the technique of treatment, whether said, "one stumbling block has to be by surgery or by radiation. got rid of many public health autho- rities cannot afford, or are not suffi clently alive to the necessity training whole-time bacteriologists, for on their staffs for these campaigns. Sir John said that he regretted that what could be called the social im- part of medical discovery in the field of prevention took so long to fructify in Britain.

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"Through Ignorance, vested in terest and complacency in high places, I sometimes despair of getting jréventive selence across."

Mr. Ralston Paterson (Mun- chester), addressing the surgery see- tion, on the treatment of cancer, said that the types that could be called curable included cancer in the breast, mouth and skin.

EARLY TREATMENT

He stressed the Importance of early treatment and added that consider

Victorian

A plan of action to set up special hospitals staffed by skilled plastle War Oflee to deal with the rush of surgeons has been drawn up by the casualties suffering foetal injuries expected in the event

from

of air raids.

severe

A. H. Melndou, the Harley Street This disclosure was made by Mr. sperialist and consulting plastic sur- on to the Royal Air Force, in an- other surgery section address.

Remarkable instances of successful plastic surgery operations on victims of air crashes and car geeldents.were mentioned by Mr. McIndoe.

He referred to the case of a woman wha. in an accident, had a piece torn out of her nose. into place 18 hours ofler the accident It was sewn back with complete success.

Manners

To Help Digestion

THE Victorian insistence on good table manners and “grace before and after meal" was ridiculed nowadays, but restraint during a meal and a pause afterwards hielped good digestion and efficiency.

This was stated in a paper by Mr. W. L. Sumner, lecturer in the Science of Health at University College, Nottingham, which was read at a recent session of the Imperial Social Hygience Con.. gress in London,

from the Continent."

In

"We have a great deal to learn mother, who had never heard of a

his added. "We have

paper balanced

dict, might result never investi- trouble. anted the infinite variety of home- made soups,

It was not only among the more vegetable, cheese dishes, which can be made in this country also that they needed egg. and backward people in the colonies but without further expense if a little to combat Ignorance about diet.

nagination is used.

"cannot help but compare the had not been feeling well making a Recently he heard of someone who or 12-franc lunch which I used long journey to buy "a vitamin con-

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to get. in Montmartre with the taining sausages."

average English half-crown meal."

TELL THE MOTHERS

Mr. J. H. Lloyd, secretary to the University Appointments Board, Uni- versity of Wales, said he thought

Mr. W. G. Ereeman (West India their biology courses would be im- Committee) urged that it was improved if they hinged on Man rather portant for mothers to be given a than on the frog or the rabbit. knowledge of dietetics 518 well as People wanted to know things, but their children, To about food values and then send him biology for unemployed miners with child It was no good beginning a course of home to meals prepared by his talk on life in a pond,

teach

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Two Homes Of Opera

TWO world-famous opera houses- Covent Garden and the Metropolitan in New York-are facing Anancial cliBleuilles.

At the annual meeting of tie Covent Garden Properties Co., Ltd., In London recently, Mr. Philip Hill. the millionaire whose syndicate negotiated the £000,000 hair-cream deal, told the shareholders:

"In view of the present situation It is becoming increasingly dificult to obtal nsatisfactory and re- munerative letting of the Opera House.

"During the last few years the company have spent about £70,000 in modernising the building. While the directors are reluctant to use it for any other purpose than opera, we feel that unless more satisfactory Arrangements for letting or for a sale of the property can be made the board must develop it in the best in- terests of the company."

NEW YORK FEARS

Afterwards be said: "Covent Garden will, definitely have Its opera next season. It is being arranged already. But what will happen after that I would not like to say. We have not yet considered how should develop the site if it became necessary."

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In New York the owners of the Metropolitan Opera House (the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company)

proposed 10 sell the building,

Stockholders have fused to pay their annual assess-

nients.

TO-

The owners want the Metropolitan Opera Association, which now rent the opera house, to buy it.

Mr. Comelius Bliss, chairman of the association; said recently that unless this was done opera in New York "would go into discard."

Bought Bank For £700

Don." secret messages, a scheme to A mysterious man known as "The

and a bank in France which make England Independent of foreign oil by getting oil from shale

Was

bought for £700 were mentioned at recently, the London Bankruptcy Court

of

Mr. Joseph Aspinall, described as a mining engineer and banker, Dalling-road, Hammersmith, oppear ed for public examination.

His statement of affairs showed liabili tles of £88,105 and assets £24,250. Ometal Receiver, Mr. Aspinall suid Replying to Mr. L. A. West, Senior he had failed occasions, liabilities totalling £69. 531 and assets £287. In the third previous

bankruptcy. when

Nabilities were £25,284 and assets £13, other per- sons were concerned. He had not applied for his discharge in either

case.

on

three

SENT TO PRISON

Mr. Aspinall sold that following his last fallure he was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. 1930, he agreed that he acted as

Questioned about transactions in

"go-between" for

the supply money for the purchase of shares in the Somerset Sitale Co.

of

"I took money to a man I knew as 'the Don' and I handled quite a lot of secret messages." He added that the money was to come from Spain, and he was to get 25 per cent. He nade about £3,000 out of that,

of

of

Certain people had the. idea making England independent foreign oil, by getting oil from shale.

"DON'T REMIND ME" You had * bank in the Ruc Lafayette, Paris? Yes,

Mr. West: This bank could hard- ly have been of great financial stand- ing, since you only paid £700 for

Replying to Mr. C. Salmon, for Mr. Petre, Mr. Aspinall agreed that he was convicted in Paris of obtain- ing. in

all, £10,000 from Mr. Petre, "The trial tasted three years inal

Mr. Sulmon: You went to prison

nine months," he said.

for perjury arising out

your bankruptcles?

of

of

Mr. Aspin]: I know. I don't want to be reminded of 1.

The examination was adjourned.

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