1950-10-20 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY OCTOBER 26, 1950.

New Double - Decker

No Newspapers, No Railways

A demonstration was given in Chicago, recenlly, of 148 streamlined, stainless steel passenger cars by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. This view down the interior of a car shows double seats for 96 psengers on the lower level and single seats for 52 passengers on open balconies reached by short stair- ways. (Acme).

GRANNIE

TWO

STOPS LINERS

At Hope Park Crescent, Edinburgh, they have heard from Granny Elisabeth Arthur, just recently returned to America. Indeed, they have also heard from her New York grandchildren, Bob and Betty Smith, newly arrived in Edinburgh from the States—all about that day when thoir 84-year-old Grannie stopped two

in mid- Atlantic.

went

to

liners

Nun-

Ivised

ย

It was like this. Gran-| learning all about the inviga- nie, already

tion of a modern liter. 1 great

the captain chalantly favourite with all aboard, Grannie keep strong was three days out from weather eye on mother

ner Southampton bound for looming up on the horizer - Over America after visiting her and then it happened.

And granddaughter, Mrs Scott. Grannie observed her ship slow

the "stop" signal in Hope Park Crescent. down to a dead stop. Bob and Betty, too, were Bomewhere in the same ses pronched, and it, too, stopped a Slowly the other liner ap- are making for Edinburgh. bare hundred yards from Gran- and they reckoned that nic. And-what do you know? Grannic would be somewhere there were Bob and Betty around.

They quizzed the captain, whh buat said "YM" and "No"

on the bridge waving like mad at Grannie. She nearly fell oft the bridge in hør oxcilemont.

and left it at the But is Equally thrilled sexunca help. most human of comen had aed the parties to exchange and wireless chat about it with the understand signals until Anally captain » of “, Grannie Arthur's both liners rennned their voy ship, and co a plot was hatched. age.

Chime the day when that nice caplain invited Graanle on to the bridge "Just to see how

Well wrup Things worked." ped up, she stood by his side

was

And it was not until Bob'a and Betty's liner

the merest speck in the ocean that Grummio Jeff the bridge, the happiest pansenger abourd.

Accepting

And No Banks

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

London, Oct. 12,

Somaliland Protectorate—the territory of 68,000 square miles with neither railways, newspapers nor commercial banks—has provided the archaeologist with research discoveries from the earliest palacoli- thic cultures to medieval cities. So for only teurs have taken part in these discoveries. "what is required is systematic excavation by an expert".

investigation

ama.

Now

and

Stone Age. Palacolithic discovered from

These observations unei the

theplements on

mado

in report

time to time have been sent

Somaliland Protectorate for to the Archaeology Museum 1949, issued today for Colonial ORlce.

the

at Cambridge and to the Unl- versity of Witwatersrand in the Union of South Africn,

The report also reveals that

Palacolithle implements have the fort of Taleh, In the Del-

Included large hand axes of bahanta country, where tho

workmanship, generally Zuliah' (Mojnmed *Mind

Lin frough

the Chellean cul- Abdulla Hassani made his last ascribed to stand against Dash forces in

}

A few fine specimens of

1920, is to be preserved as an Acheulean hand axes have re- cently bern found two miles) west of Hargeisn, the capital, others near Sheikh.

historie monument,

Somaliland, the report says,

is comparatively rich in relies of

One

FLAKE SURFACE

Tools in the Mousterinn perics, said to be the most represented of the Palaeolithic cultures, are tpyl-

Reason widely

CHRISTINE Gor. mano, perched on a diving board

Vegas, In Las Nevada, is a good reason why the number of visi- tors to that city between January and July of this year broke all previous re- cords. Almost a million arrived. (Acme).

U.N. Flag

READY to head a Swedish Red Cross mission to Koren, Col. A. Groth, left, accepta the fag of the United Nations from Sven Grafstroem, Head of the Swedish delegas tion to the UN AL ESTI DE

The presentation took place prior to the unit's

(Atime).

of this culture, in which the main flake surface un- worked. Implements of the upper Mousterian culture merge Into the next verles which appears Identical with

the Kenya Sibay, and oc- casional points have been found In which the working is very One.

Finds In the Aurignacian and subrequent cultures have been uncommon, though typical backed blades, crescents and burins have occurred. A few specimens, said

to belong to cultures of period, have

the

the

Microlithic Mesolithic

also been found, So far no specimens of The Nelihle period have been recorded.

The

conventionalised

cave

paintings, largely representing wild animals and crude forms, discovered In the Caan Libah Jarča In 1913 by Major Glover. also dealt with in the Microliths of flint and report. quartz have been found near the eaves, suggesting an

ure

of

Mesolithic

the

tribution to a Magosian i dustry period.

NOT DATED

NAAFI On Its

PTE. L. Kneel, of Barnes, Surrey, one of the first NAAFI volunteers for Korea, trying out a new string vest-an idea developed in World War Two to insulate the body against cold-which he will soon be needing

north of the 38th Parallel.

GOOD NEWS FOR

VICTIMS OF

HIGH

BLOOD PRESSURE

High blood pressure and the troubles that follow in its train are responsible for about a

No systematic excavation hos quarter of all the deaths of people over the age of

been

carried tu! and the

50. paintings have so far not been (dated and their culture' affinity

not definitely affirmed.

in othera it

Now a real advance does ap- pear to have been made.

Two

In

The symptons vary great- As many as 18 ruined towns, the report concludes. havey. In some people morn- been discovered. Most of theming headaches with loss of

doctors working are in the west of the Protec-vision are the first aigns: severo

Paisley report on eight cases of torate and on

the Ethiopian

high blood pressure side of the barder. They have

kidney treated with is

a new compound contained roughly - dressed,

caled "hoxamothonium mortarless stone buildings trouble. Others again first bromide." clearly indicative of mosques discover that their blood of the Mohammedan era.

The patients, selected at ran- Investigations

of

the signs nearby pressure is too high when dem, had all have rubbish heaps

yielded they feel pains in the chest symptoms at high blood pres such Ands as fragments of pottery, glass, bangles, beads on exertion, or when they mercurial reading and cowrie shells and a few are awakened at night by coins. Surface finds have included fragments of blue and attacks of asthma. white Porcelain, assigned to

the

Chinese Sung

dynasties

Kuro

the as well an

Ada

actual

Way To

Korea

SIX MOBILE CANTEENS LEAVE IN FIRST DRAFT.

At sea with the first draft of N.AA.FI. men to leave Britain to provide a service for the British forces fighting in Korea is 28-year-old Lance- Corporal Maurice Dimech of Rochester, who has bitter memories of the "land of the morning calm."

Captured by the Japanese while serving in the Naval Canteen Service on board the destroyer HMS Encounter in 1942, this swarthy little Maltese was put on rond-making with other British pri- soners of war near Yongdek, and never dreamed in those dismal days that his handiwork would be of some service one day to the Allied cause.

Dimech bears ugly scara) could quite possible give him Herons his forehead and tem-1 few years, though he

only ples to testify to the brutal-owns up to a half-century.

Most of the men. Be wearing ty of his captors, but his full rows of campaign medals experiences did not dis. And have seen plenty of ser-

him from

vice courage

in the re-

fighting ranks, Sgł. Jock Bor, of Manches- enllating as soon as it was ter was

with Wingate's announced that volunteers | Chindlis In Burma, for in- were required once again for stance, Sgt. Alfred Hale, of Expeditionary Forces In-

and formerly of West stitutes.

Kents, wa al Dunkirk and later operated

now

Teltenham, the Royal

.

of

Ho and another 95 volunteers in Commando, James Alexan- mado up the fint draft that der. (ex-Cameronians) teft Nutfield Flory, a once-Peterborough, went with the stately home of England Just Eighth Army from El Alamein outside Redhill, Surrey, which; to Tunis and Italy, whito Wil-

serves as the RASC/EF1|om

Girlock, Highgate Depot,

(North London) Irolley-bua All except one arc

ex-driver who fought the guns of servicemen, and some 40 per- the 64th. Medium Field Ar- cent were in EFI service during tillery Regt in Greece and World War Two, They will pro-Crete in 1041, was captured at vide the usuni NAAFI facilities ¦ & Daba In The Western De and run

six mobile canteens 1sert in the Great Rommel of- Six more canteens will follow fensive of summer 1042 and with the second contingent spent three years in and out of soon as shipping priorities al-prison camps in Italy and Ger- Jow, and these will be fol-many. lowed, as soon as the shooting

There Is even an Australian, war ends, by women person-30-year-old Arthur Ingram, of nel, hundreds of whom have Sydney, who was on a work- already applied.

ing holiday in Britain when he Average age of the Brat party decided that he did not want to 35 and they have volunteer- mls the Korean adventure, ed from all walks of life for 18 while the only real "rookie" IS months* July. The oldest, a life Scotsman, Jack Turn- oficially, is 51-year-old Joba bull, who was an apprentice Hodson,

of Blackpool,

who jockey: was n sergeant major in ihe 2nd In

who

Manchester Regi- Their Commanding Officer ment in World War One, with Major A. Bridgett, when he served in Flatadera was a lieutenant-colonel during Gallipoli and Palestine. Da World War Two, and was until Joseph O'Dwyer, canteen 05- recently Area Stipervisor for

Islant from Middlesbrough, Southern Command.

A

SUBMARINE

IS BUILT IN GARDEN

Britain's only backyard one-man submarine will soon be Guished. And then Mr Frank Russell, of George Street, Biggleswade, Beds, will get it taken from the garden of his prefab house to Bedford, where he intends to take it down 15 feet in the River Ouse

A crane will stand by intui he expects it will be a proto-

for m time

much heavier Treatment with this drun case of accideïts.

model, capable of descending brought down the pressure and

Mr Russell has been on the 1000ft. relieved the symptoms in every job in his small workshop in Now, his garden for two years

THEN-AN EXPEDITION he says, he has only a ballast important: once tank, and some internal fittings

With this he hopes to go on the blood pressure was reduced to complete to give it

to and the re- pre- an expedition it did not rise agala when ad- Ilminary underwater tests. Homains of the so-far mythical of the drug wasins already floated it on Allentis, a contineat fald to

have been drowned in river.

the Atlantic millions of years ago.

To date treatment unsatisfactory.

has been case.

Even more

and Ming

It has been established that these towns" were in occupa- Rest, combined with an ton down to the 15th and 16th almost meat-free diet, without ministration centuries, that they Ink up any sall, has been advocated stopped. with historical records obtained Later the "coolle" dlet com- from Ethiopian and Portugese posed almost entirely of rice It in too early yet to shy . Mr Russell, who has spent He is a member of à technical writings and that they formed was commented upon favour-whether this drug will relieve £120 on the vessel, saya he commlitee of Atlantean Re- part of the province of Adalably. But few paticats could all cases of high blood pressure. has dreamed of building his search Centre Group, which This was one of the seven Mo-stick the deadly monotony. But the fact that cases can be own submarine `sinco boy, have already considered an ex- hammedan provinces known to

relieved to such an extent is an It is built of kin, steel plate pedition.

mountains од have existed in this neighbour- Apart from this many drugs advance in treatment such as and will weigh, fully loaded, the Azores are supposed to bo hood.

have been tried,

has never been made before, about half ton. If success] the top of Atlantis.

LIFE GETTING

FASTER

Thirty-three years ago. Capt. O. P. Jones, doyen of BOAC pilots, made his Arst light In a Maurice Farman "Shorthorn," weighing three quarters of n ton with & maximum speed of 62 mph. Recently he landed at London Airport after completing his first round transatlantic irip in a 60-ton 325 mph. Strato- cruiser.

He is only BOAC pliek still operating to have down over [3,000,000 miles, Capt. Jones has been at the controls of 97 different types of alteraft.

With Imperia) Airways (onc of BOAC's predecessors) from 924, his trim, bearded figure ta well known to thousands of prewar travellers to the Con- inent on the "Silver Wing," ervice, operated' by the famous Heracles cinsa biplanes.

La Scala In Germany

Members of the British jAir Forces (of Occupation' will have |(several", tpportunities to at- lend -performances by the Lat: Sculo: Opera / Company i of Milan - wijlch is how,

Company will

Madame Butterly ht

the service theatrer at Colle

Hamburg Hanover and Bucks-

Some

Practical

burg,). For the~~ latier ferior--- THỂ prouf of Bouth Korng recruită pays strict attention

mance, at the Adestral Theatre.

- Laoata ¿weza; "sold a Lört-

bazookasialis Bouth Koreans want regular GI dutfits

Lessons

The