Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 11, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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KIND OF CAKE!
NANCY
IT SOUNDS SILLY, BUT I'M SURE SLUGGO HAS FALLEN IN LOVE WITH MY
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RADIO
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Talk on "Great Authors"
By
Itadio
Ryan, S.J.
SIDELIGHTS ON MIDDLE EAST FIGHTING
SCORPIONS ARE WORSE
Faber RAID FEAR THAN ITALY
Programme Broadcast by
2. B W. on a Frequency of 845 h.c's
and on Short Wave from 1-2 15 p.m
and 8-11 pm. เม 9.52 mc's per secondi,
12.15 pm Short Service of inter- rezaton.
CAIRO.
THE Egyptians are getting worried about Mussolini's air force-not so much on account of the damage done in sporadic Italian raids but because of a plague of 12.30 1.71 Gauly and Jean Sablon Scorpions which seem to be most plentiful in the A.R.P. shelters.
in Light French Programme.
1,00 Local Tume Signant and Wes-
ther Report.
DECOUX STANDS FIRM
-Report
Chungking, Sept. 10. According to
unimpeachable
foreign source,
Adiniral Decoux In standing Arm in the negotiations and
is preparing to resist the Japanese landing bal Vichy Is apparently under German Influence and Is
accept them.-Reuter.
An average of fifty people a day are now being stung by scorpions, but the exerting strong pressure on him to 1.03 Tehalkowsky-Aurora's Wed- number goes up to 100 on days when the people have to take cover from raids. The
scorpion sting is painful and dangerous; it aften kills a child.
sing-Ballet Music.
London Philhaumonte Orchestra
HURDY
Press,
1.30 Reuter and Weather Forecast 2 Antxoangt inents.
Miltary Band Music
1.43
2.13
Cluse Down
0.00 Violin and Piano Recital by Yehudi Menuhtu and Eileen Joyce.
Closing Loent Stock Quote-
Paconi's "La Tomes" Act II. Offenbach-Calle Parkienne
0 30
tiana.
0.32
7 13 -Ballot Music.
London Philharmonic Orchestra 7.30 London Relay-The News.
al Time Signal, Weather Report and AnnouncemenĖS,
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As the natives believe that, The way to cure a sting is to kill' all scorpions within range there are crazy scenes in the shelters while the insects are hunted down.
Network From Cairo
Thesaraf of baga of mant began to reach the Troops in the desert and
sex in the Middie B the men al 30-atay it in the list real sign that the huge new chaon of British em- maunications is going inte operatiems
I learned to-day how the network |apeads out from Caro user half the
earth's surfore One route trada cast'
8.03 Studio-Concert by The into Asla along the road Marru
Jerusalon to followed through Paradise Islanders,
desert Damascu
Catavar tarka tu Bagdad, then south to Basin
the Tigris River, Inkong
8.30 Studio "Great Authors" Na
1: Goldsmith,
Falk by Father Ryan, SJ 8.50 Boogs by Elsie Suddaby (50- prano).
The British butt Basta's ne har te and entiromf to Bagad to feed the Mesopotamian Army and Law the Inst wat renee's Irregulars in
8.00 London Relay-The News. 9.30 London BelayMatters of Now the ronate is being opened again. Moment."
11.00 Clase Down
WATER SUPPLIES
Butch
and supported by and British airline flights to Indir Australin and the Far East
Trade has started northward again.
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submarines has now been destared! ESHITE
thot Surz otad
HITLER'S FOLLIES
it
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The Folies-Bergere in to re-open soon in Paris, but under the latest regulations
have mus!
German "master of ceremonics."
Entertainment for Pari- siams is being provided at present by German band concerts.
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Paramount's Epic Of Naval Heroism
BLOOD FROM WATER
French Proposals
Shangna, Sept. 10. Admiral Decoux is anderstood to have submitted counter proposals to the Japanese demands and General them to Nishihara has forwarded Tokyu for instructions.
it is understood that the French proposals seek to limit and specify the pourts where the Japanese will be permitted to land, the area in which they may conduct military operations and the points to be used as air bases
Commenting on these reports
nese rucic
cucles declare they are con
Montignition
A white powder which, when preparations mixed with boiling water, be-j comes blood suitable for trans-
They
-And Plasma at the Chinese military author
Des bave already completed to Acal
such with express the that if Indo-China in.on however, fusion cases, was described by "ress to the Japanese landing, how
ever limited the aren of operations for may technically be, it will gradually
to restrict become impossible
and movemenika Japanese demands with the result that all semblance of Indo-China's Independence will be
Mr. MacDonald, Minister Health.
Thin medical discovery-known to the profession for some times preserves Inde Anitely blood fron
doners which otherwise begins to seriously threatened. Reuter,
deteriorate as soon as it is withdrawn and is useless after thrée werks' storage; constant calling оп
blood
the
Hainan Concentration
Kwellin, Sept. 10 Ninety Japancan warships and 150 warplanes are concentrated at Hal- nan, according to authoritative quar- fers here. The Indo-China govern- Laken
ment has ordered European wonen while und
children to evacuate border
"The medicul people have dis
A GLOWING page turn
from the Navy's log donors te nisu obvinted.
How le Produced 9.45 Half an hour of Dance Music.
book is "Ring of Steel," a 10.15 A Variety Programme with
"If the red corpuscles are Clapham and Dwyer. Florence Des-], T
jout of blood, there is left a publish columns of a new production presented mand and Others,
Certircuts for Male preparing to by Paramount. Containing opolescent liquid called plasma," said, dus Kaobung and Lang-
Mr. MacDonald. to the Balks the authentic picture-story Sail
under convoy Turkey and the Black Sea
of the little-publicised service covered that the white
Some quarters plasma is
declare that Ad- The
h southward
resigned on Sunday Musaliti hope to break with he which by its skill and daring just as good for treating average mital DecoIEX
too much but Vichy refused to accept it. blood has not been lost, as what I, Private cable advices declare that The Egyptian Goverment hastect the life-lines of Britain, uses of shock, where
wad the Red
"King of Steel" constitutes an
would call the full-blooded article the Franco-Japanese conversations This plasma stored in bottles was are continuing in a peaceful atmos- will be developer into enduring tribute to hundreds of Se ports
rest Carily transportable. You! phere-United Press, major depots to clem the vital Britain's nameless heroes.
"Hats off to the Navy!" is the rould not carry it about in for crop and to receive supplies now
Hanoi Brightens So they reduced, beginning to arrive in bulk frvin; key-nute of the production, a nate-waistcoat pocket.
The uniformed Japanese inspec- England and America
worthy addition to
action; it to a white powder.
recently sta- reporting style of screen journalism "If you get a little of that dried tors, who have been sponsored by G Thomas Cummins, plasma and you pour water upon 1, tiened at Hanoi, have now left ac- who arrived Wuter return for the end of August;
from Indo- On my way to the Aligasiman front editor and general manager of Britai once lakes on all the virtues urding to passengers
at Hongkong yesterday of the original liquid, and you can! the land route south to tish Paramount News have been issued, showing that on Inllow
it Is Eve days' ateudy; the mainland reservoirs there were Khartoum
The old French offfeer in charge The film was conceived by Curn- use it for the average blood tran Ching by an Imperial Airways plune. Yet mis as a means of bringing home fusion cases."
f the Hanoi airport 3,603.29 millions gallons against 3.travel by train and river bat
who has not The Next Best Thing
alled for weeks was wreathed in D98,42 at the corresponding time last Khartoure is only a quarter of the the British publie the irreparable
route that ebt we owe to the men of the Mer- A Medicul Correspondent describes smiles resterday and was wearing a year. Corresponding Agures for way down the fabulous
lakes rou out of Catru's midsummercantile Marine and of the Royal plasma as the next best thing to new topee and uniform. We guess- mto Capetown's winter
Navy in which they are embodied, whole blood for transfusion.
ed something was in the wind and Mussolini has struck hard at every In dramatie fashion "Ring of Steel" "Plasma is the liquid remaining there was as the Japanese inspec-
shows the Intrepid volunteers who after blood has clotted and the clots tors had left." une passenger raid. keypoint on these routes he could shot
A Japanese planc urrived at get at.
about tightening
the viin teen removed.
Hanol frem Bangkok at about the
August Figures Show Gain Over Last Year
istand reservoirs Weir 2,353.37 FLT3 2,353.09 million gallons.
Five Days' Travel
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your
Shek Li Pu, Shing Mun Reception, Tylum, Wong Nei Chong and Puks fulam reservoirs were slightly below
He raided Malla again and lost maintain the vice-like pincers of containing the red blood cells hove
steel level.
Some 425.48 million gallons were plane doing it-this is in addition to arteries of Germany's supply bases, "Neither liquid can be preserved mene time as the Imperial Airways consumed by 770,000 people at a rate iwenty vllier Italian planes which it of 18 gallons per head per day on is now revealed were destroyed in and whose ships stand sentinel on for more than a few days before dc-plune, he said.
the extreme Northern limit of navi-composing; even then it is very dif- Kation.
the mainland fast month, as against helion with the British Navy 306.34 million gallona by
at Haifu with Savolo 000,000 He struck
"Ring of Steel" is a picture of dar- ing and unbounded heroism, a ple- people at a rate of 21.3 in August, bombers for the first time hoping to 1939. Laich kok Water Boat Dock damage tankers gathering of from ture every Britisher will be proud to
there. Fifty
burnber KL Look 6.70 million gallons as against the pipe-line
everything except 707 in August last year, Indepen-missed dent supplies consumed by villagers civilians. totalled 13.11 milion gallons against 12.31 in August last year.
and
S
The British answer hus blow up two oval of
1we
been lu tanks ant
Twice Disobeyed
On the island, 585.93 million gal Tobruk and artillery stores at Burdila Jons (plus 193.03 from the mainland nearby on the coast, plus a tank vuld
7.73
unfiltered water) were con-i on Italian lines between Bardia and sumed by 030,000 people at a rate of the much-battered Fort Capuzzo, 23.3 gallons per head per day: the We are air raiding through Eritrea compares with 378.32 million gallons again.
In all these scattered actions no (141.65 from the mainland) consum-
of line supplies to Cairo have been affected. Unlike all Europe we have and a slight restriction on petrol.
Aliens' Curfew
Jailed This Time
Beult to keep (1 free trom germs, and the large bulk is inconvenient for repid transport in war.
The plasma can be dried in the same way as milk in conditions of absolute sterility.
GERMAN DEMANDS
Another very Want Half The Food
In Free France
"By quickly adding boiling water the transfusion fluid can be prepared for imunediate use, Important advantage is that plasma may be given at once,
"There is no need to test the A few hours after fifty-four-year- patient to discover his blood group
New York, Sept. 10. old Ejnar Christiansen, a Danish because the red cells have been re-
Germany has made a formal de- engineer, of Cannon Hill-road, Bal- moved."
mand to Vichy for 58 per cent of sall Heath. Birmingham, was fined Supplies From U.S.
£10 at Birmingham
for breaking
The United States has arranged to the food and raw materials in un- accupied France and for any such There was a constant supply this no rationing here apart from parafin the curfew for allens, he telephoned send huge quantities of dried plastna uroducts that France may be able to
the poffer from the factory where over here practically all, that is import in the he worked at 10.50 p.m., saying he needed.
future. This informa- had been called to the works because An official of the British Red Cross ton comes from reliable diplomatic reports, says the Washington corres- Blood broken down. a machine had
Transfusion
said: Service When
policemen arrived
they "America could not send us large pondent of the New York Times.
It is expected that the informa- found Christiansen drinking in his quantities of blood-it would be in tion will add fresh obstacles to the ofice with a
tax driver. No a useless state when it arrived--but plans of the Vichy Ambassador for machine had broken. down.
ed by 700,000 people at a rate
20.7.
of
LIJE
August, though in August last year supplies were restricted.
Government The report Bacteriologist and Analyst show that the quality of the water is excellent. The total rainfall recorded by the Royal Observatory for the year up inches, 10 August 21, was 100.105 compared with 73.609 in the corres ponding period last year. The maxi- mum recorded was 30.42. inches at Tai Lam, Chung and the ralnimum was 20.41 inches at Un Lung.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS DONATIONS TO THE WAR FUND FOR BOMBERS
A total of 1,318,153.93 was reached yes- torday by the 3. C. M. Post War Fund. Latest donations are:
Mr. & Mr. Budden and tamily fin
memory of F.P. Croft). Chief Inspector B. C. Saunders Gloucester Lounge
Player (August)
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The following were received In memory of the late Mrs. Maud Wood
"In loving memory from Lenors
and Robert Mr. Hopwar
'Britain's Morale "Magnificent"
Tribute From U.S. Glowing impressions of Britain's morale were given by Mr. Edmund Taylor, a prominent United States war correspondent, in a nation-wide broadcast.
Mr. Taylor, who has just returned to America in the liner Washington, spid he thought the British "catching up fast," but were still " Httle slow-moving."
wete
worrying a little "I cannot help over the possibility of Hiller invading England at tea-time or at a week- end" he said. "On the other hand,
So, when charged at Birmingham with disobeying the regulations, he was jailed for three months.
they can send plasma.
"It enables us to conservo
.1
our!
obtaining American food for the whole blood for the cases in which it French people.--Reuter. is esscatial.”
Milk Scheme Extended To Children Of Five
It has been decided by the Minister of Food to extend the National Milk Scheme to all schoolchildren under five years of age,
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Demands In Syria
London, Sept. 10. An extremely delicate and tense situation In Syria is indicated by Reuter's Cairo correspondent, who, Quoting a trustworthy informant who has just arrived from Syria, says that the Italian Armistice Commis- sion is apparently "asking, for the earth."
demands include im- of bases and
Its medlate.assumption total demobüisation and repatriation of the French colonial army. Local
Syrians and Arabs alike are not:
feelings. hiding their resentful Kcuter.
SEVACUEES IN NEW
YORK.
the morale of the British people is Under the original arrangement children under five were 18.33 magnificent. It is so magnificent included in the scheme only when they were not attending
of the atmosphere that it makes
stimulating for anyone school. This produced in some cases the anomalous result that England really
a child attending school was placed at a disadvantage, compared who believes in democracy
They, seem to have developed with a child of the same age not doing so. under the stress of war a kind of The new arrangement, which removes this anomaly, will
mean that cheap,, or free, milk is available for all children up to ber of English children arrived early the age of compulsory school attendance...
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heroic philosophy of democracy which has all the noble qualities of Foscism and none of the bad ones."
Now York. Sept. 10. A Brish liner containing a num-
this morning-Reuter.
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