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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 18, 1940.

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THE danger of being bitten or stung by mosquitos and other insect pests Hes in painful swellings and sores that so quickly develop. Guard against complications by treating the poisoned places at once with antiseptic Zem-Buk. The valuable horbal olis in Zam-Buk are absorbed into the tires, soothing pain and reducing swelling and Inflammation. Zem-Buk also prevents festering and blood-poison. It hoals quickly and never leaves unsightly scars.

Beware Of

Bride

Doesn't

Poisonous Know If She BITES Is Mrs. Or Miss

&

STINGS

ZAM-BUK Prevents Complications.

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THIS WEEK

THREE out-of-the-ordinary weddings. One bride who doesn't know whether to callį herself Mrs. or Miss; one bridegroom who'd "rather go over the top than go through this agaln;" one couple who made a village' "event"

Hendmen

of

The uncertain bride is Miss Nan Calder (or is she Mrs. Insull?), of Doncaster, York indicate at Tuc

shire.

She and Charles Insull, of Guern- sey, were married, in the presence of! the registrar, at Doncaster Presbyteri- an Church.

four Indian tribes

Bon, Ariz., that further

Use of ages-old swastike Is banned

oh

But in the vestry afterwards the blankets and pro- parson told them the ceremony was potiery, ns

not test against Na- legal as the bridegroom could supply necessary certificate.

zix Action was

Guernsey,

So they made a rush journey to taken recently at arrived the following conclave of Nava- night, and, first thing next day, gave jos, Papagos, the Guernsey registrar seven days' Apaches and

notice of their second wedding.

THE nervous bridegroom is Private Charles Woolven, aged 27.

He was so nervous during his wedding at Brentford, Middlesex,

Hopis, with lea- ders agreeing.

No More Swastikas For These Indians

Register Office to Miss Edna Hedges. Says Blinkor Hats Should Be Illegal

of Churtis-road, Hounslow, that ha

stumbled over the marriage vows

and the registrar made him repeat) them.

"I would rather go up the front

line than go through this again," he said.

THE village "event"

WOS at the little chapel, at Hyde Heath, near Amersham, Bucks.

Woman

Replies: We

Live For New Hats

Woman Who Kept Perfect Secret

A CAPTAIN'S · WIFE

WITH messages of congratulation pouring into her home, Mrs. Townley, the woman who can keep the perfect sverot, enhled

greetings, to her husband, Cap. tain J. C. Townley, commander of the 85,000-ton liner Queen Elizabeth, now safe at Now York.

Heir to million awaits 2/-a-day call

RHYL. MR. BRIAN HERVEY TALBOT, twenty-four-year old

heir to a million pounds, expects to become a 128.-a-day airman.

.

"I told him how glad I was, but that I knew he would do it," she said. "I don't mind admitting that the past week was a time of anxiety for me, but I soon forgot all that when I heard that the Queen Elizabeth had got acroas.

Not Surprised

"I have been flooded to-day with messages of congratulation, and of course I am very proud. Not that I'm surprised in the least that my husband has succeeded in something he has undertaken. He always does." Her home is on the Alton-road nt Basingstoke, Hants.

Her husband comes from Keswick, and had he not gone to sen he would

have been a farmer,

One of his uncles helped to lay the first cable to South America. Tint is

the family's only other connection

with the sea.

Undar Sail

He is one of the 250,000 men, Captain Townley first went to sen twenty-three at the end of last in sail, and joined the Cunard Com- year, who registered on Febru-pany in 1904, going to the Saxonin as

fourth officer. ary 17.

He has commanded the old Maure- When he leaves his flat in Marine- tania, the Aurants, Coorgle and Lan- drive, facing Rhyl Promenade, his castrin, and has taken over the Queen young brunette wife, Katherine, ex- Mary and Aquitania on relief duty.. cinema attendant, will keep the home; going.

She Intends to live alone in the fiat-which has been their home Llandudno

SPRING IS IN the air and women's fancy lightly It was only the third marriage to turns to thoughts of new hats. And that is why Alder-since their wedding in

take place there in 400 years.

As the bridegroom, Mr. Charles)

Henry Hall, of Amersham, and his man G. H. Barber, a veteran Stoke-on-Trent motorist, is bride, Miss Elsie Mabel Sinecy, of worried.

Hyde Heath, left the chapel hundreds of villagers pressed forward showered them with confett!.

Surgeon's Discovery Will Save Thousands

NEW YORK.

anci

He believes that new "blinker hats"-tilted at a gay angle and covering one eye--will cause many accidents on the road. In fact, he demands a law prohibiting the wearing of certain types of women's hats and regulating the angles at which they are worn.

until the war is over.

זיי

Mr. Talbot sald:

an ex pecting a letter any day telling me to report somewhere. When I was asked if I had any preference for any particular service i said The Air Force, of course."

Mr. and Mrs. Talbot met four years ago at a dance in Bungor.

When he was sixteen Mr. Talbot was left the residue of the £838,000 Lord great-uncle, estate of his Wavertree, to accumulate for him for twenty-one years.

Alderman Barber, who will be 80 next month, said "We have beautiful girls in Stock-on-Trent, but I think they disparage themselves when they put their hats on is expected the trust will amount to one ear and give themselves a blind eye."

"WENT OUT YEARS AGO"

The aldermon complains that two THOUSANDS of mortally

women wearing these hats stepped wounded and critically ailing of the pavement in front of his car. men and women may have "They could not see where they were new promise of life as the result going, and I nearly killed them," he of a development in the method added.

of preventing surgical shock,

But Mrs. Barratt, who like Ald. announced to-day by the Society Barber, is a member of Stoke-on- of Experimental Biology.

The method,, discovered by Dr. David Peria, of Montefiore Hospital, New York, after 15 years' research, is based on an adrenal cortical hor mone, known as Desoxycorticoster- one, obtained from entt

cattle.

Trent City Watch Committee, de- clares that "Life will not be worth living for the women if Alderma Barber has his way.

"All a woman lives for is a new hat," she says. "The hats he talks When used in connection with about went out years ago, I hope the saline injections this minimises oper- day will never come when you will alive shock and hastens recovery to be able to say at what angle a woman

must wear a hat." an extraordinary degree.

Results charted over a period of several months at Montefiore Hos pital show amazing successes in a series of major operations.

He Was In Roberts'

Surgical shock is the most serious March To Kandahar

complication of severe wounds, burns

Bart.,

and other Injuries (writes the Medi- Colonel Sir Charles Yate, ca! Correspondent). Shock is often who had a distinguished career in the so serious it is impossible to continueArmy and also the Indian Politicni Irealment even if urgently needed, Service, has died at his home, Made- say, to arrest haemorrhage. Even anley Hall, Shropshire, aged ninety. minesthetic might be fatal.

Sir Charles, who joined the Army The discovery of an antidote, there- fore, will have an inestimable value as an ensign in 1007 and served in and will ranks with the greatest dis- the Afghan War of 1888-81, marched coveries of medicine,

with Lord Roberts to Kandahar.

Archbishop Flew To Meet Germans

IT was disclosed recently that the Archbishop of York, William Temple, recently flew to The Hague to attend a ference at which German Church leaders were present.

The tople discussed was the 'possi- billy of peace,

Dr. Alfred Salter, Labour M.P. for

By the time he is thirty-seven t

£1,000,000,

Mr. Talbot's father was the late Lieut.-Colonel Talbot. His wife's father was a regimental sergeant-

!! X X ! - ! X major, in the last war,

THEY were pretty good at · awearing in the Sergeant's Mess at an Anti-Aircraft unit near London. Now they have a “Bwear Fund. A litle swear word costs a halfpenny; a full-blooded one costs a penny.

So far one week's swearing has equalled 169, 11d.

Part of the proceeds will go to buy a winter waistcoat for the unit's mascota mongrel terrier.

Right and Wrong

PARIS-Sir Ronald Hugh Camp- bell, British Ambassador to Paris, has urged Americans to "bless our cause with your sympathy."

Addressing the American Luncheon Club of Paris, Sir Ronald declared:"

"While we have not the right to

In 1933 he left a sick bed at 24 hours' notice to take the veteran Mauretania across the Atlantic through continuous gales and high seas, which delayed every other west- bound ship.

The old Cunarder berthed an hour ahead of scheduled time-a great feat of seamanship.

Never Up To See Her Now!

"I once said I rather liked Mae West. Now my wife objects to my oing to the pictures in case Mae West should appear on the screen."

Fragment of matrimonial dialogue from the courts.

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Germany Misses The Ingenuity of Jewish Inventors

By HECTOR BYWATER

FOR the first time, It can be stated definitely that the German claim to have played havoc with a convoy in the North Sea recently by means of air attack was sheer bunkum.

In that week the only important vessel damaged by German air attack was the Italian liner Amelia Lauro.

It would be unwise to draw hard conclusions from the paralysis which appears to have smilten Hitler's sea forces,

All one end say definitely is thint they are not following the fighting traditions of the old German Navy.

Reports from entirely unofficial Dr.ources point to feverish netivity In German sulpbuilding yards, where con-work on U-boats appears to have priority. This may foreshadow a ble new under-nen offensive before the end of the year.

Wonders If Tea Is West Bermondsey, made the dis- Hot After 17 Years

closure.

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BAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling with Intereni allowed at ratës obtainable on application. The Bank's lead Omico in London undertakes Executor & frustee business, and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of its Agencies" and Branches.

B. A, CAMIDOE,

Manager.

20% Cannot Afford To

Buy Full Rations

Is the rationing system in London working fairly as be- tween families of varying incomes? One way of estimating this is to find out whether people are buying the full amounts allowed them under the present rationing system.

Couldn't Did

full ration.

afford not need to buy to buy Per cent. Per cent.

Answers Analysed

The British Institute, through its

Higher income Medium income

2

26

6

21

25

17

According to the results of a survey Proportions of those in the economic Big Asset Lost

taken by the British Institute of groups who said they either could Public Opinion, people generally in There is reason to belleve that the Britain are buying the full amount of not afford to buy the full amounts early discovery of the magnetic mines sugar, rather fewer are buying the of foods rationed or did not need to and its secrets, and the provision of fuit quota of butter, but when it comes buy the full amounts are tabulated a stære molidote were bitter disappoint to bacon and ham, both foods which below: How long will tea keep hot in ments to the Nazi naval command. He believes that the conference THIS WEEK

have risen considerably in price was a factor in President Roosevelt's of 28. Addison-road, Walthamstow, many's "sceret weapons" in the last 2 per cent. of the public buy their The truth is that many of Ger- since the beginning of the war, only. vacuum flosis? Mr. Frank Barford,

decision to send Mr. Sumner Welles E.17, is wonderlag.

war were the fruits of Jewish EARLY MAY on his European mission.

Because on board the liner fugenuity, and that Hitler's anti- Empress of Asla is a flask which Jewish frenzy has robbed Germany "After a.conference of the Scan- FORTNIGHTLY

Mr. Barford filled with hot tea of one of her most formidable assets dinnvian Churches at Oslo," Dr.

seventeen years ago. It has been in war, Salter sald, "the Bishop of Oslo flaw out of reach over since.

It is quite on the cards that before corps of interviewers, put this ques-Low income to this country.

Air. Darford was working as a car very long the concentration camps

tion: THIS WEEK

penter

on the liner in Vancouver will be combed for Jewish scientiols "As a result four British represen- Harbour In 1923 and put the flask in- to show German "Arynn" technicians |tatives attended the Hague confer-¡nide a cavity wall in the hold. Later, how to match the combined wils of THIS WEEK jence.

when he went to get it he found the British and French-one might nimost wall had been covered with insulat- include American-scientists, who NEXT WEEK "They were the Archbishop of ing material and hile flask was behind have so far trumped every German

York, tho Rey. Henry Carter, secre- It."

trick in the war of sca. tary of the Social Welfare Council of

NEXT WEEK the Methodist Church, the Bishop of THE NEW PRENON REMEDY.

Chichester, and the Rev. W. Foton,THERAPION NË secretary of the International Mis

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sionary Council.

"They were there for two days. Representatives of the German Con- fessional Church were also present at the discusalona."

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METROPOLE.

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"Is your family buying the full The British Institute of Public Opinion is an entirely independent fact- amount of rationed foods allowed?”*

Anding organisation which samples The answers analysed as follow:

the views of the public by personal interviews with a carefully balanced cross-section of the whole popula- tion representative of all shades of public opinion.

of Sugar of butter

You Na You No

Of bacon

And Inte Усл No

pc. 0p.m. tsp.c. 13p.e. aap.c. 30 p.e. Of the total 20 per cent. sald they could not afford to buy the full jamount of the rations, and 10 per cent. [said that they found they did not re-

quire the full amount rationed,

The breakdowns are given in full below:

Hither ingame

THE LAWS OF WAR

Dr. Lin Wo-chilang gave an in- Sugar Butter Dacon &c. formal talk on the laws of war at Yes No Yes No Yes No the Chinese Y.M,C.A. last night. The nc. pr. pc. p.e. p.e. p.e. talk was arranged by the English

Forum and was attended by, a. largo .

SCENTRAL - CLEAN "COMFORTABLE = FIREPROOF Medium Income K7 Lower income.. 94 ·

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