THE CHINA MAIL AUGUST 14, 1937.
SOVIET POLAR FLIERS Indian Police
MAKING PROGRESS
BATTLING HEADWINDS
NEAR POLE
London, To-day.
Colonel Gromeff, leader of the Soviet trans- Polar non-stop flight in July, prophesied in London last night that within two years a regular service would be established between Moscow and San Francisco or New York.
The flight, he said, would take only 24 hours irrespective of weather conditions.
Meanwhile a message from New York states that terrific head-winds beyond the North Pole have delayed the Soviet trans-Polar fliers who are making the third Russia-U.S.A flight, for four hours.
The machine as a result is not expected to arrive at Fairbanks, Alaska, until 1 p.m. (British Stan dard Time) to-day.
Three radio messages were re- ceived in Moscow in the early hours of yesterday morning from the chief pilot of the plane.
The first message, which reached the Russian capital at 2.20 (Mos- cow time), gave the machine's post-
NAVAL BATTLE OFF SPAIN
Valencia, To-day
tion as 70.20 degrees north- and A naval battle occurred yester 45.15 degrees west. The airmen day between the Government des were then flying above the cloudstroyer Ciscar and the Nationalist at a height of 7,5000 feet.
vessels Jupiter and Ciudad de Cadiz
The temperature was given as 25 degrees below zero, Centigrade.
EIGHT DIE-
IN HANOVER AIR CRASH
Berlin, To-day.
The eight ocenpants of a new aeroplane for a passenger ser- vice were killed when the ma- chine crashed at Hanover airport
yesterday.
The plane burst into flames Bafter it had plunged to earth-
Renter.
COUP D'ETAT IN PARAGUAY
- Asuncion, To-day.
A swift and bloodless coup d'etat effected by naval forces under Colonel Parades yesterday
Constables Found Shot Dead
startling double tragedy was discovered in the Taipo Police district early this morning, the victims being Indian constables of the H.K. Police Force.
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Only a brief report has been re- ceived of the affair so far, stating that at Tai Me Tuk this morning, the bodies were found of P.C. D449, Kaka Singh, and of P.C. D309, Ar- jan Singh
Both had bullet wounds in the body and it is believed to be a case of murder and suicide.
The police reconstruction of the affair suggests that Kaka Singh was murdered by Arjan Singh, who afterwards took his own life.
WORLD'S YOUNGEST
has overthrown the Paraguayan GRANDMOTHER
Government,ONLY
**_______Budapest, Yesterday.
the
The President, Colonel Rafael Franco, has taken refuge in the Military College but Colonel
The distinction of being Parades states he will be allowed world is claimed by the Budapest youngest grandmother in the
to retain his Presidency.
-how-
Colonel Parades msisted, lever, that the Government must go.
The Government went Renter
Colonel Franco, who is Pro visional President, was placed in office by a military junta in Febru-
Hymns At Football Matches
The second message was receiv- Although the Nationalist war-ary last year. "ed in Moscow at 350 and said that ships were accompanied by armed
Owing to unfavourable weather
trawlers, messages from Gijon conditions, the pilot had been com- have been seriously damaged.- state that the Jupiter is reported to pelled to make for the directional wireless station
on Alexander Island instead of flying straight for Prince Budolf Island. This meant an alteration in course of about fifteen degrees.
A later message received-at-428- merely gave the position of the plane as 76:52 north and 44.50! west-Reuter and Trans-Ocean.
A WASHINGTON RELIC
Addition To Sulgrave
Manor Collection
Reuter.
THE APE MAN.
Creature Who Hunts With Jackals
An "ape man” living at Skoura
an out-of-the-way oasis in the haran region of Morocco is tracting great interest among vellers and tourists.
Singing of hymns at football matches was criticised by the hop of Durham, Dr. Hensley son, speaking at Durham Cathedral early this month.
newspapers for Mrs. Maria Min- arits, the wife of the burgomaster of the Hungarian village of Bajesa, birthday and has just given birth who recently celebrated her 29th
to another son.
Mrs. Minarits became the of the present burgomaster, Mlinarits, before she was quite
een years old, the bridegroom being then 26. A special minis terial permit was obtained. Exact- ne months after the wedding, -gave birth to a hter, Amma, who likewise mar- at the age of fourteen and just given birth to her first
Trans Ocean.
German Cultists Fined For Baptismal Rites
Frankfort-Am-Main.
of Seventh Day adven- fined by a special court
"There seems to be an assump- tion in the minds of many religious people," he said, "that so long as Samen and women can be brought to
at sing hymns, they will be tray the better for the la taking melody
words will serve the This weird creature, known as "Thousands of people Asso, has most of the physical qua-to witness a football match The Washington Manor House, lities of the ape-narrow sloping sing with ardour Abide with Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, has forehead, heavy arches to the eyes, All this means little or nothing. just added to its collection of Wash-large pouting lips, receding chin, ington relics a letter, hitherto un-short neck, wide chest, and abnor- preaching. There is a real spiritual youngsters underwent complete im- publish, written by George Wash-mally long arms. But his body is danger in using words without any mersion, while the officiating cleric ington to his nephew George An-hairless like a human.
secure connection with their mean- simultaneously plunged a skull in- ings."
to the water with them.Havas
tus Washington.
The letter was written at Philade- He has no powers of speech be- phia of September 2, 1787, and deals yond a gibberish chattering, which with various domestic, matters, seldom employs except when an
such as the crops and the weather,
gered.
the payment of school bills, the The Berbers of Skoura- exactions of his tailor, the provision Asso can travel over sixty
of blankets for certain dependants day as quickly
in his household, and the inquities fatigue than a of a painter whose decoration of can-climb date palms his houses had not come up to ex-agility of an ape. pectations.
The letter is to be placed on exhibition with other Washington relics of Surlgave Manor.
that
swear
that at night time he wanders into
here yesterday for having baptised River Nidda in accordance with a number of children in the little "It is with singing as with the rites peculiar to that sect. The
the desert, where he runs with the THE GLOUCESTER HOTEL
herds of gazelle and hunts with the jackals.
At a
party given at the
All that civilisation has taught Manor House by Earl Spencer Asso is the value of money. He and other members of the Sulgrave waiting with outstretched arm Manor Board, a copy of the letter for people to dismount from the was presented to Mr R W. Bing rickety, native buses which, visit ham, the America Ambassador, Skou The money so gained goes
photograph of it has been an old Berber wo
made for preservation at Washing adopted Asso, and has found him ton in the Library of Congress. very profitable.
DINNER DANCE
EVERY NIGHT (EXCEPT SUNDAY)
MUSIC BY
ANDRE & HIS ENSEMBLE.