PROMINENT EDITOR FROM AMERICA
Dr. John La Gorce To
Visit Colony
OFFICIAL OF NATIONAL
:
GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
On a journey which has taken, "him to many cities of India and,
fo Singapore, and which later will include the Chinese mainland and) Japan. Dr. John Oliver La Gorce, Vice President of the National Geographic Society of the United, States of America, and Associate Editor of the National Geographic Magazine, the official publica- tion of The Society, will reach Hong Kong early in March. As one of the active editors of the National Geographic Magazine, Dr La Gorce handles, thousands of manuscripts from all parts of .the earth. His present trip is for the purpose of familiarising himself with the recent and con-i Unuing changes in Asia.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935
The Society has for its aimi
This photograph made in the courtroom at Flemington shows the convict "the increase and diffusion of
ed Bruno Richard Hauptmann and his chief counsel, Mr. Edward Reilly. in geographic knowledge." During animated conversation, belying rumours of a rift between the celebrated pri the 46 years of its existence, it soner and his attorneys. An extra guard was placed over Hauptmann after has played a prominent part in his outbursts against the State witnesses. geographic and general scienti- fic fields by fostering original exploration and research. In re 'cent years it has assisted Ad- miral Richard E. Byrd in his flights to the North and South Poles It has co-operated in his
most recent exploratory work, and also with Mr. Lincoln Ells. worth in his. Antarctic flights.
Great Undertaking. Other feats in which the So- ciety was a participant are the
AN ANCIENT DEVON FORTRESS
Defences Of Hembury Excavated
POLISHED GREENSTONE AXES
· REVEAL THEIR SECRET
“BATTLE” OF THE SHIPYARDS
Tyne Work "Better Than That Of The Clyde"
WHO SHALL DECIDE?
MYSTERY SKELETON H.K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS MARCONI COS LOAN
DISCOVERED
May Be Relic Of Perfect Crime
ORDERS FOR THE
COMING WEEK
Orders by Lieut.-Colonel H. B. L. Dowbiggin, O.B.E. Comman- SENSATION OF 10 YEARS AGO dant, Hong Kong Volunteer De
fence Corps.
RECALLED
The mystery of the skeletonsi
fof a man and woman found buried
22nd. February, 1935, Friday, PARADE
Corps 1st Battery
at Breedon lime works, near Thore will be no parade on Ashby-de-la-Zouche, is giving Thursday, 28th February, 1985. rise to all sorts of intereating Detalla regarding Camp, 1st theories It is suggested that 3rd of March will be circulated to they are the relics of a perfect all ranks as soon as possible... Jerime.
Corps Engineers
Beach Defence.
Dress:-Mufti (repeated)." Musketry, Part II will be fired March, 1938. Launch will leave at Stonecutters on Sunday, Srà Queen's Pier at 9.00 a.m. and Kowloon at 9.10 am. Uniform is optional but belts, frogs and pouches must be worn.
Corps Infantry (Portuguese Company)
The skeletons would not have Furode at Miniature Range on come to light but for heavy rains Monday, 25th February, 1936 at February at Stonecutters Range. which caused the bank at the 5.30 p.m. limeworks to be disturbed. Jewellery found
REPAYMENT
Interest Forgone SUGGESTED HALF IN CASH, HALF IN ORDERS
Nanking.
In connection with the repay- ment of the loan of £170,376
The Company will parade; in from the British Marconi Radio full strength, on Tuesday, 26th Company, it is learned that an February for Arms and Foot Drill agreement has been reached be under Regular Instructors. Belts tween the Ministry of Communi- and frogs must be used. cations and the representative Classification Tests (repented) of the Company to refund it by will take place on Sunday 24th instalments of £709 per month without interest. With accu- 1934 Recruits will not fire this mulated interest, the loan would Corps Signals
test. Launch leaves Queen's Pler now total £476,270. beside the Parade at Headquarters at 6.30
at 8.30 am and Kowloon Pier. At are willing to accept half the re- The Company state that they woman may give some clue.
p.m, on Tuesday 26th February,NOTE: This shoot is primarily chases of material from them of
8.40 am A They were buried under about 1935.
payment in the form of pur a foot of soil. The man could not
for Lewia Gun and only those as the expenses of engineers sent Corps Machine Gun Battalion: have murdered the woman be-'
N.C.D.s and men who have not al-by the Ministry to the Com cause the two are buried to Parade on Tuesday, 26th Febru-be allowed to fire Rifles and tical training-Chekial Agency
Troop
ready fired Part III Musketry willpany's factories to receive prac gether. The theory is held that! the two bodies were taken there teer Headquarters for Machine Stores before SATURDAY-23rd at 5.30 p.m. at Volun Bayonets must be drawn from On the other hand, it may be a Gun Course. triangular. løve affair..
woman.
ary, 1935
No. 2 (Scottish) Company
February NOON.
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U.P. PICKS TEN BEST. 1934 STORIES
EXPENSIVE LEGAL "SILK"
What It Costs A K.C.
CHEAPER IN CANADA THAN IN BRITAIN
Armoured Car Section Derbyshire Mystery The latest theory is that the ary, 1935 at Headquarters at 5.30
Parade on Tuesday, 26th Febru skeletons are associated with a South Derbyshire mystery of 10 p.m. for Vickers Gun Instruction. At that time the Monday, 25th February, 1935-
Motor Cycle (M.G.) Section years ago. police dug Hartshore Parade at Headquarters for Ma-Hauptmann Arrest Lead about seven miles from Breedon chine Gun Instruction at 5.30 p.m. for the body of a missing young Wednesday, 27th February,
Last Year's Events The search, which caused a Headquarters, for Musketry In- United Press editors have chosen with surprise a Toronto message
1995-Parade at Miniature Range,
English lawyers will have read- great sensation at that time, was the result of an alleged struction.
the 10 best news stories of 1934, that Mr. Howard Ferguson, the admission by a man in America
The United Press selection were Canadian High Commissioner In who had gone there from this Thursday, 28th February, 1935-made from the viewpoint of the London, has been deprived of the country. He stated that he had Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 American reader. Had judgment title of KC, ginaga The controversy regarding the murdered a woman and deposited Pm for Arms Drill under C.S.M. been based on the foreign view This is stated to be because
Parkinson.
point other stories would have been he failed to pay the latent fee of Citroen-Haardt Trans-Asia Ex- The fourth season of the relative merits of the Clyde and the body in a wood. The man
the Tyne as shipbuilding centres indicated a lonely spot near Frogs and belts will be worn. included. pedition which, of 1931-32. start Devon Archaeological Explora- was carried a stage further when Woodville, which was believed to
Sunday, 3rd March, 1935-Nus-
220 when he took silk 27 years ing in Syria, passed through In- tion Society's excavations of Mr. R. S. Dalgliesh, Lord Mayor be the Hartshorn Wood. The ketry Part III will be fired at sarily in the order of importance: Mr, Ferguson, however, denies
The selections follow, not neces-ago. dia. in special motor cars and Hembury Fort proved by no of Newcastle, who is a ship-police, however, after weeks of Stonecutters. Launch leaves emerged at Tientsin, China; last means the least interesting of builder, maintained that National digging, found no body.
1. Arrest of Bruno Hauptamann. Jány knowledge of the matter. Queen's Pier at 9:00 am. calling 2. Assassination of King Alexan summer's expedition by balloon the many months devated to the Shipbuilders Security, Ltd., is The doctor's report on his at Kowloon Pier at 9.10 a.m.-B.O.der and Barthau. into the stratosphere; and a investigation of this important controlled by Sir James Lithgow, examination of the skeletons is. T. P. Saunderson.. series of dives by means of a site. hollow steel ball far into the Although traces of the actual on the, Clyde, and that although awaited with considerable depths of the Atlantic Ocean, off occupation of Hembury in the there may be four representa-terest.
tives on the Board from the the Bermuda Islands, The Early Iron Age are still acant. North-East coast, there are not stratosphere fight, although its the excavation work has pro- balloon finally crashed, obtained vided abundant evidence of both many as there are in Scot:
land,
RARE OLD ITALIAN
VIOLIN FOUND
Maggini Instrument Turns Up In Kobe
BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF MASTER'S WORK
in-
records of the first cosmic ray the habitation and fortification of
"Sir James," he asserted, "calls studies ever made by pausing for the hill in the Late Stone Age. the tune and all the shipbuilders considerable periods at prede-t
Neolithic Remains
dance to it The other day }; termined levels. The deep sea During the previous season's discussed this matter with Sir dive of Dr. William Beebe estas work post holes and hearths and James, and he admitted that blished a world depth record of cooking pits of Neolithic huts National Shipbuilders Security more than half a mile, and were brought to light.. and two had scrapped more yards on the brought back data in regard to or three sections of the charac North-East coast than they have previously unknown sea crea- teristic "interrupted" ditch were on the Clyde." tures that live subjected to the uncovered. Not a trace of these Sir George Hunter, formerly tremendous pressures of great is visible on the surface. Both Chairman, and now a director, of An old violin purchased some depths.
ditch and bank have been com- Swan, Hunter and Dr. La Gorce will return to pletely obliterated in the course Richardson, Wallsend, in an in noulo, a well known Kobe
Wighar years ago by Mr. A. E. Pappado America by way of the Pacific of 4,000 years, and, further, they terview remarked: "I believe that amateur musician, has just Ocean.. He is accompanied on're buried beneath, and frequent-Tyne-built than those built his journey by Mra, La Gorce and ly destroyed by, later earthwork the Clyde. I hold this belief not probably worth several thousand on proved to be a genuine Maggini, by Mr. and Mrs. Gene Tunney. Photography from the air, which merely because I am a Tyneside dollars.
DIAMOND CUTTING FOR JAPAN
:
Indian Declares He Can
Train Workmen
has proved so valuable an ally of shipbuilder, but because shipping Though Mr. Pappadopoulo re he failed to reveal any sign of that Tyneside workmanship is make, it was so queer of form. the archaeologist on chalk sites, superintendents have told me cognized it as of old Italian what is invisible on the Hembury superior to that of the Clyde, and and so completely out of order, greensand.
that they have advised their that he hesitated to have it re Contract With S. Europe
principals to this effect."
fpaired, believing it only a Polished greenstone axes from
Sir James Lithgow is Chair-museum piece, and of no parti- the same provenance as the pot man of National Shipbuilders cular interest. However, it was
tery and two beads of jet and Security, which was formed to eventually repaired by one of
An Tudian merchant who land-steatite resembling those found assist the shipbuilding. industry Europe's foremost artists, and ed in Kobe from the Asama Marun the Dolmens of Brittany and by purchasing rebundant or ob- has proved to be a genuine Paolo astonished the Customs officers Spain are a further indication of solete yards, and dismantling Maggini. when he produced a wooden box contact by A south-westerly' them. containing about Yen 1,000,000 route with the Atlantic seaboard
worth of diamonds.
Most of of Europe.
them were small stones, but The work of excavation is un- "MASS WEDDINGS"
there wab one valued at Yen 80,000 which is reported to be "one of the biggest" in Japan.
der the direction of Miss D. M. Liddell, F.S.A.
ON CAPITALISM Failure Of Economic
It is 15.5 carata. It is under- CANADIAN PREMIER stood that the importer's inten- tion is to have them polished in Japan and then to re-export them. "Labour is so cheap in Japan that I think I can train men for the work, and make it! pay handsomely." he told officials.
INGENIOUS NOVEL SCREWDRIVER
System Stressed
ONLY WANTS TO MAKE IT /
“DECENT AND ` CLEAN”.
IN CHINA
Shanghai Will Hold Them Each Month
Though over 300 years old; it still retains a superb, velvety tone, full of sonority and depth, a typical Maggini instrument: Palo Maggini (1880-1640) was the perfector of the present day violi and the outstanding artist of the Brescia School of violin makers and teacher of several of the great artists of the Cremona. school
FIRST NEW COMET OF 1935
South African Claim
"Mass Weddings," proposed by In fame he ranks together with the Shanghai City Government, Stradivarius and Joseph Guar will take place 12 times in nerius and his instruments are Shanghai every year instead of in a class by themselves for the four times as hitherto planned, rendition of the old classie works. according to a new order of the Maggini violina, being very rare, Social Affairs Bureau. The four are catalogued in America at days for such weddings, as from U. S. $8,000 to $16,000. Addressing an audience of formerly suggested by the 7,000 at a Young Conservative Eureau, are New Year's Day, the British Product On Sale Canadian Prime Minister, said day and Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birth- Club meeting, Mr. Bennett, the Double-Tenth. Confucius Birth- that he had no desire to wreck day. In order to enable a greater An ingenious self-luginating the capitalist system, but wish number of couples to enjoy the screwdriver is now being sold in ed only to make it "decent and privilege of taking part in the England and is the product of a clean."
"Mass Weddings," the Chinese British accessory, frm.
Reviewing his recently an-authorities have ordered that such It la specially for making delicate nounced programme of reform, wedding will be held on the first adjustments to the mechanism at the Prime Minister declared that Wednesday of each month from night, or to manipulate inaccessible he was neither Communist, now on. ecrows. The handle of the Instru- Fascist nor Socialist. But the ment is a small aluminium cylinder, present system could be so which houses a pocket-lamp battery, changed as to make depression and a miniature electric globe conditions impossible.: which is so placed that its light is Mr. Bennett said that when projected down the shaft of the the speech from the Thorne was. screwdriver on to the screw and Its read at the opening of Parlia surroundings." A
ment on Thursday, it would
A suitable switch is mounted in seen that the Government the head of the container and the taking steps to deal with broad aluminium handle enables the problems arising from the failu operator to exert a good twisting of the economic system to serve for
present day needs.
EDDIE CANTOR MOBBED IN LONDON:
hen? Mr
-Johannesburg. The first new comet of 19857is claimed by Johannesburg
.... It was discovered at the Union Observatory with the aid of photography by Mr. EL Wohn- son;
tor | The comet is indistinct and
can only be seen through a teles cope: Ita motion is due north at theszata of
way2in accordance;
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family new
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Machine Gun Battalion The Company Commanders Meet- ing arranged for the 4th March will now be held on Friday, 1st March, 1985 at 5.30 p.m.:
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3. Dionne quintuplets.
4. Hitler's blood purge. 5. Morro Castle, disaster, 6. Killing of John Dilliger. 8. Assassination of Premier Do fuss.
No: 3 (Anzac) Company 9. Samuel Insull's extradition and Parade at Headquarters at 0.00 trial.
Apparently legal "silk" is a comparatively cheap commodity.. in Canada. In England the Re- venue pounces smartly on the new K.C. It demands a fee and stamp duty of 280, "cash down."
If expenditure on outfit and tips on his ceremonial admission within the Bar is also taken into account, the new K.C. who finds
may consider himself lucky.
a.m. sharp on Sunday, 24th Febru 10. Senator Huey Long's ascend-himself less than £150 the poorer ary for Practical Instruction inlency in Louisiang.
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