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Reinforcing Our Troops In Germany

The Cabinet will discuss reinforcing British troops in Germany at an early date, according to newx frum London. A decision will certainly be made before Mr Bevin leaves London. for New York,

Britain has at present two combat divisions in Grmany. The reinforcements will, it is believeil, come from the 60,000 men who will become available by lengthening the canscription persed from 18 moning to year

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This is expected to be noticed when Parliament meets on September 12. Part of the conscripts" training will be done in Conany. Britain thus aime at lceput a permanent force of five divisions in Germany, it la #interstock.

The role

reinforcing of American

troo In Germany in also being studied iri Washington. At present the United Stale: han about 110,000 men in its Army and Air Force in Germany.

The American ground force consists of the First Infantry Division and a Constabulary of division strength. The U.S. aim Is believed to be to raise these two divisions to six.

The British and

means

American

decision to study ways and

of meeting

Dr Adenauer's request for Incremed Harrison forces in Germany, as well the decision to

to study how Ger- many can contribute to her own and to Europe's defence, are un- derstood to have been made be- Cutie of certai Information given by Dr Adenauer to the High Commissioners sat their murting. Dr. Adb nater is unchre Atour to have passedi on inforuna-

AND

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 7, 1950.

EIGHT PERSONS LOSE LIVES IN NORTH WALES TRAIN SMASH

Centenary Of The

Cable

10 MORE COACHES

3RD CLASS COACHES

43

Exnetly 100 years ago, a hon that Soviet plans for at-submarine cable was laid pression oppadn't West Gerinany through the East German arinross the bed of the English People's Police are more Channel from Dover 1.0 serita than bad been thought. Calate, A few messages were exchanged between the two countries to prove, one verbose correspondent of The Times put it, that "the jest or scheme of yes- terday had become the fact of tolay."

Two brothers called Bretl were responsible for the first submarine cable-one brother, Jacob,

the an engineer, and other, Jolin, an antique dealer with modern Ideas.

FRANCE

GERMANY

Paris, Sept. G.

The Foreign Minister, MI. Robert Schuman, said today be was convinced no nation now wanted war.

M. Schuman said he favoured the formention of a West Ger- man police force anul

len- porary raising of the ceiling of

ן;

in

To celebrate their work-and of countless other, farsighted German steel production to ennen-the Science Museum able West Germany to contri-

South Kensington has arrangeel North Atlantic an Tilfe

to the

exhibition entitled searmament drive. However he Hundred Years of Sumbarine "One warned that

France was

till Cables" opposed to the formation of a "The exhibition Wat terman army or produc-by twn of

AIDES IN Germany Postmaster-General. Chited Pres...

a telegramı round the world in less than a minute to Mr George Tomlinson, Minister of Educa- tion who was sitting beside alm. Mention is made of the many men who

and planned

Rewarded

THIS Ethiopian school- boy, in Addis Ababa, re- ceived his hooks from Em- peror Haile Selassic as I prize for efficiency in class. While celebrating his 58th birthday, the Em- peror gave presents to several other youngsters. (Acme)

K. O.

M

Ness

was opened Edwards, who Bent

for the vede use of the

telegraph before

Detore the Brett brothers made submaries com- munication postule.

There is an acknowledgment of Charles

White W Charles Morton,

recuthbed as Uw true inventor

of the electriy telegraph anal 100 years before the first cable was laid. And the part played

in the grater pattern by Morse, W. P. Cooke, Prutemor Wheat- stone, and other is set out fascinating yet not too involved. detail.

Truman Policy

TO DANGOR

PENMAENMAWR STATION

TO CONWAY |

PANTRY CAR

3RD CLASS SLEEPER

EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL TO

EASE

PARENTS' BURDENS

A hotel where children take a vacation from their versa, has been started by an Illinois child specialist. get away from the constant stampede of youngsters' feet. play with children their own age under expert but almost

ence.

The Little Yankee Inn, "Children, why from one located about 36 miles west need the must careful individual

atteni ton. of Chicago,

We can do that best even has two with a sal number to watch reservations

file for over,"

saki Mrs Margaret Jor- children not yet horn, whose dan, clirector of the in and for- parents plan to take vaca-merupervior of nurs; t

large Chicago children's bos

¡On Formosa ties after their offspring|pital.

Reiterated

Washington, Sept. 0.

The Sceretary

arrive.

To parents where the

"Tou

place left with it is a

Many youngsters are Practical is Di younger gencrallon who don't fel or won't can get the best care if malber take responsibility for a child'. and and think it is best for them complete wedare, I've seen su

when

of State, Mr to be away from home fur i many cases of pitiful neglect Lean Acheson, said today that while. American shipments of aviation

casoline to Formosa were being The parents might want a va- made to the extent that Generas ention, ur there might be a

It

child supposedly was being taken care of very well."

Doug McArthur ricemed death in the family, or danger DOCTOR MUST APPROVE such cupplies necessary to ard of contagion from colds Ar The Chinens Nationalists in, or a mall brother exprct- repelling on attack" from the ed,

4-held maintand.

But he added that the United States worth nake cert in thi the Nationalists did not receive so much in the way of straten.c

supplies

SCHOOL KEPT SMALL

The age limits are from

Iwo

The Little Yankee

Inn

prepared to be everything to a chila but his Inother father. The small guests accepted ony on approval by their family doctors. 1- | stemas" und nurses'

is

A former

it would be posst weeks to seven years, Reserva-available constantly. ble

or tempting for em totions are made out for three hospital det specialist plans ali aunch an attack on the main days or longer.

and from Formosa.

My Acheson said his polley is So far, the Little Yanlive lun

itze meals.

Children sleep in large, airy

complete conformity with a small, having a espany of Prezident Truman's deek:ration 13 with faciluies expanding to rooms and play in a special

which he ordered the United (take care of 20. But people "Lustle Yankee" States Seventh Fleet to who belted to dream up Le and playground. "neutrale Formosu and pre-idea for it and brought, it to vent on allack from either side. completion this summer hope The

-United Press.

It will stay small.

CANNON

LISTEN,STUART..HE OBVIOUSLY\SHE LOVED HOLLIS, BUT HE WOULDN'T

INTENDED TO HILL HIMSELPI

SEI WHAT HE SAYS IN THIS

NOTE-BEWARE OF CARAMELLA,

MY DAUGHTER, SHE HAS

DRIVEN ME TO THIS BECAUSE

¿ON HER CRAVING FOR DRUGS)

GET DRUGS FOR HER,

50 SHE DROVE HIM

TO SUICIDE 1.

BEWARE OF CARAMELLARY SHE IS VERY IDANDENDUS

WHEN SHE

KAS NO

DAUGS!

out

school premises to carry

the same habit and be.

THE SEARCH-AND THE SERIAL-ENDS

SO THAT'S !!! THATS WHAT I WAS SENY OUT TO DISCOVER AND IF CARAMELLA 15 50 DANGEROUS. WE'D BETTER RUSH BACK TO WHISPER,

WOMEN CAN YOU BEAT IT?

ÉGREAT CAESARS!

I'LL LEAVE THIS ALL

TO YOU, STUART, AND

SCOTLAND VAЯD!... J'LL GET WHISPETT BACK TO ENGLAND.

TORM OUT SEATS

IST CLASS SLEEPER

BAGGAGE VAN

ON August 27, the Irish mail express trashed head-on into a switch engine shunt. ing freight shortly before dawn just outside Penmaenmawr, North Wales... Eight persons were killed and many injured. Pictures show location of the wreck and how the cars were thrown off the track. (London Express Service).

Link-up

Electricity With Europe Urged

A form of Schuman plan for electricity was suggested by Brig. Gen. Sir Harold Hartley, president of the World Power Conference meet- ing in Birmingham. He was delivering his presidential address at the opening session of the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

The iso large.

He put forward "the in- importance in the future.

Once more We see teresting possibility of link-possibility of transmitting elee- how hard it is to be creative ing the British and Euro-y h-voltage direct current with which man can destroy."

tric power over long distances compared with

the case with Ipean grids and thus securing as

.

pasted the experimental better balance between stage and is waiting for deve- jcapacity and requirements lupment."

by taking advantage of the seasonal variations in capa- Jelly and the diversity of

demand.

"Such offers an opportunity for us to share in European co-operation without raising: the delicate problems of supra-national at- thority.

scherne," he maid,

The plan proposed by M. Schuman, French Foreign Minister, is for the pooling of Reviewing the rise in demand European steel and coal re- for energy, Sir Harold said that frources under a supra-national

hundredfold increase in the authority. world's consumption of elec- treity between 1900 and 1930 bad been accompanied by a six- fold increase

In efficiency of generation.

COAL "FOR CENTURIES**

DOCTOR

How long could the world' CRITIC OF

HOSPITALS

"A link of 250,000 kw, resources meet those growing pacity should be of maltat demands? Coal reserves were Bervice to both sides by provid-ample for centuries. Reserves of jinu the equivalent of a large oil and natural gas were smaller, ndern generating station aga fresh fields were being tand-by plant,"

found and there was no reaso Dr W. P. U. Jackson, in to fear a shortage for some de Nearly 4,000 scientists and

Ari article

in the Lancet, Before then synthetic oil cades. cthers interestedt in celine from coal and thate oll would states that the medical pro- matters assembled in Birming parents,

vice ham for the 112th conference of

fession is in some respects " provide substitutes. Harried parents

the British Association since its

10 years behind the times, Metal reserves might preset the nursing profession about Their offspring can attend meetings

foundation in 1831. They will invisible adult guid sections.

of 13 different reserves of copper,

a difficult problem. Estimated

zine, lead 30 years, and the lay. and tin were adequate only for educated public 100 years. zome decides. "If all the world The last-named used them at the same rate hourds of governors.

includes

be shortages within 10 years."

the United States there might

and

CAN

haviour training a child gets i home, with perhaps a few im

uvements.

UNESCO PROPOSAL The main theme is "Energy in the service of man," the top,

ggested by the United Nations A child who wil

not cal Educational Scientife and Cul energy could be tamed, "ener

Sir Harold sal that if muclear pinach, for example, may be turni Organization for world could be taken to remole places eleaning it up by the time be wide discussion and study this of the earth when it is needed. gets home because "an outside year. Sir Haroid Hartley's sub- Deserts, person sometimes

Jacking only aject was "Man's use of energy. child to do Fumething_when|

might be male a paradise. He raid: "The unequal distri- parents can't," Mrs Jordan bution of energy said. United Press.

sources wil! | But to lay the unsolved prob- make its transport of increasi lems of these peaceful uses looma world shortage of nurses,

his

can

tell

Wrac's Toughness

Test

water,

Formerly, Dr Jackson was

Physleles, Selly Oak Hospital, Resident Medlen) Officer, Royal Masonle Hospital and Assistant Birmingham. He is now in the Department of Clinical Medi- cine, University of Cape Town. He states that although there

they are still employed "- ligiously carrying cut flowers out of wards at night and rearanghy them each morning. At one hospital employing 300 trained nurses he calculated a wastage of at least 200 nurse- hours

* week, equal to four cxtra cres,

Hearing, says Dr Jackson, is the last conscious function to sappear under anesthesia. He recalls occasion, when, as a patient, he heard a nurse say that the doctors did not expect him to recover. A minute's in- struction, he says, should be enough to prevent such occur- rences.

FIFTY London girls have returned after driving Army trucks on a 1,000-mile trip to Scotland most rigorous training, yet for women of the Territorial Army. With them went 50 girl cooks who provided meals under field conditions. Photo shows private Sylvin Wordsworth (driver) with three of the cooks and the sergeant

major (right) who took part in the trip.

U.S. CHARGES OF COMMUNIST AFFILIATION

Washington, Sept. 6. The Senate Interior Com- mittee will open publle bearings temorrow en

charges of Com- munist affilation made against top officinte the Interior, De-

partment.

The

Commitive Chairman, Senater Joseph O'Mahoney, said today that the Secretary of the Interior. Mr Oscar Chapman, key target of the charges, would be the Grat witness and he would be followed by the delo. cate fom Alaska, bir E. L Bartlett.

The charges were made on the Senate floor by Senator Andrew. Schoeppel, who mašči Mr Chapman had been affiliated with least four Communit fronta United" Press,

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