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UNCA DONALD!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 11, 1940. By Walt Disney

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Evacuees Were Hardier Than Country Children

A DISCOVERY made by a schools inspector in a Devonshire village promises to open up a new field of medical research,

The inspector found that while 60 per cent, of the local children in Yarcombe, on the Devon and Somerset border, were suffering from colds and influenza, all the evacuee children from the

One Plain, One Purl,

No Twinge

FROM many dentists' wuit- ing-room in England there arises a ceaseless clicking.

It is not due to the chattering of teeth soon to be extracted or stopped, but to the patriotle effort of the den- tal profession.

Dentists have installed in their

towns were fit.

One theory is that town chil- dren have become self-inoculated against the illnesses and discage which lack of fresh air and sun- shine, poverty and poor food | bring.

Their bodies are tuned up by long practice in resisting germs and epl- demics in their normal home sur- roundings.

Tonic Value Of Fresh Air Another theory is that the tonic value of the fresh air and stimulant of country life has increased town children's disease resistance.

This,

it proved, would be a strong

The Five

Luckiest

Of The

“Girl

of Aran

of

REMEMBER Aran, the rugged island in the Atlantic, whore grim story, made by fishermen actors, gave us that great film *Man

Aran"! Barbara Mullen was the daughter of the hero of that films. Now at 19 she is in London playing the lead in Jennie at the Torch Theatre, and hailed everywhere as a star of the future.

Men

R. A. F.

FIFE.

THE pilot of an R.A.F. bomber taxi-ing at 80 miles

waiting rooms, at the suggestion of a argument in favour of the extension an hour across a Fife field for the take-off, realised that

dental magazine, balls of blue wool, needles and the following notice:

WILL ANY PATIENT able and willing kindly add a few rows (1 plain, I purl) to this scarf to be sent, we hope with others, to our Naval boys. Soothing

of holiday camps for children.

the machine would not rise in time to clear a wood right| The ages of the 22 evacuees who

attending school 18 usual ahead. ranged from five to ten.

were

Apart from their sturdy London Every second brought death nearer to the five men upbringing, the inspector attributes aboard, for the plane was carrying live bombs. The pilot their immunity partly ta their "natural resilience and partly to yelled to his companions to jump for their lives, and,

rapidly unstrapping, he followed them.

the lively interest they take in their

new homes and their delight in "discovering" the countryside and wonders of the farm for the first

Patients soon begin to knit. "Knitting-especially so simple a stitch-has a soothing quality very valuable to the punk as well as to time. the dentist," an xpert taid recently. is not only women who knit; quite a third of the men patients ply the needles as industriously as any

It is

tricoteuse of the Revolution.

Only rarely, under stress of a par ticulary painful twinge, does anyone drop a stitch!

Expecting to find trouble at an isolated village housing 24 evacuees in the Honiton arca, the rame inspec- tor was surprised to discover that they were ft Though they walked distances up three miles in wretched weather the school atten- dance was 100 per cent.

to

All fell clear of the racing machine unhurt except for minor cuts and bruises.

A few seconds later the bomber struck an electric transformer carrying 9,000 volts and then crashed into the wood on the oppo- site side of the road.

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Wreckage In Trees

debris being scattered over a radius There was a terrife explosion and, fell 200 yards apart and pieces of of a quarter of a mile. The eng.nes the plane was blown to pieces, the wreckage in a nearby plantation..

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Parts of the fuselage were caught In the branches of trees. Windows of three houses alongside the planta- tion were blown out, the cellings of

rooms fell in and crockery was smashed.

None of the realdents was hurt. They ran from their homes in time to sce the airmen getting to their feet.. The transformer was demolished and

a large number of telephone wires severed. The plane also brought

down fir and larch trees,

The explosion was heard over a wide area of Fife and ave miles away windows were shaken.

Shanghai Assassins

Shanghai, Apr. 10. Two gunmen shot and killed Liu Foh-chal, 40, workshop chief of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board. at 12.10 p.m. to-day on Chengtu Road. Four shots were Ared at Liu, who was struck by three bullets and died Instantly,

The gunmen escaped by running into an alleyway. One throw away 1 pistol which was recovered by the Police.

The Japanese recently reorganised the Conservancy Board in which Lu was an employee for a long time.-- United Prets.

AFTER FEVER

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CARE

During fever, the whole system Including the digestive organs is undermined and weakened, Con- valescence will be hastened if tissue can be quickly rebuilt and strength restored by building up The patient must be encouraged to take

as much nourishing food' as the capacity of the weakened digestive orgāna will allow. Doctors all over the world have found that Horlicks ol supplies the right kind nourishment in an easily digested form. Furthermore, it is palat- able and helps to stimulate the appetite. Get Horlicks to-day, at your store. In an amazingly short time you will be up and strong again, full of vigour and vitality.

Mrs. Hebald

was

Reading a Thriller..

NEW YORK,

LETTERS

Ambulance Inspection

To The Editor,

The "Hongkong Telegraph.”

Sir, I am not a little perturbed to learn from Newspaper reports of the

MRS. BENJAMIN HEBALD, an elderly Brooklyn matron, St. Jolin Ambulance Inspection that was to-night recovering from a nervous shock which came uponļenly 800 members paraded before the her like an Edgar Wallace thrill.

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[G.Ö.C.;- Major General Grasett on Monday Inst, and that this number Sho was reading Wallace's "Thoj PARKER WATKINS, Jobless negro exceeded that of the previous year Hairy Art," when, happening to troubadour who staged one-man by 50. glance up to a window, she saw a impromptu concerts in New York'a| If any idea of number is correct, man's face pressed close to the glass, Pennsylvania Station at Christmas 800 must have attended last year's His right arm was thrust against the time, has tasted the edge of fame.

The reports state further that 700 upper sash.

He thought he had concert and recruits were enrolled during the She screamed, but the man didn't radio contracts within his grasp, but your. budge. He didn't even blink,

function.

nothing happened, and to-day "he-la By the process of simple addition Then she rushed for the telephone.ying to raise ten pounds to avoid and allowing for ordinary casualties eviction from his humble Harlem the number attending Monday's Within 2 few minutes radio apartment.

| function should have approximated police cars came up, sirens BCTCOM-

between 1,400 and 1,500. He took things philosophically, ing. Detectives found that

I am led to enquire what has the however, saying "Everybody thinks become of the others and how this man was a prowler who had been I've got millions,"

leakage is accounted for. shot by à policeman-who thought he had missed his man.

The prowler, identified as a young Ish ex-convict, had managed to climb two storeys by a fro escape, and run across the routs of

"They stop me in the street and want to shake hands. Boy, we is mighty happy for you, they say and mean it.

two "Merchants offer me suits, suto-

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houses before collapsing, dying from(mobiles and radios. One man camol Mr. Mackenzle King announced Mrs. up here and wanted to be my valet. the establishment of a Department of

Man, I haven't got ten cents.”

a “stomach wound, outside Hebald's parlour window.

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