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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1932.
AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.
AIR-CRAFT TRANSPORTS.
145 MEN FROM CAIRO TO BAGDAD.
Last week's transfer of four com- panies of infantrymen in troop carrying aeroplanes from Egypt to
various aeroplanes. On board, too,! is twenty-four hours' supply of food and water for every man, sufficient to sustain, the company in the event of a forced landing in the desert,
Aerial movement of troops plays ever a more and more important part in the control and policing of countries like Iraq and India. A.
CIVIL AEROPLANES
IN WAR.
WARNING BY MR. HANDLEY PAGE.
The possible use of commercial
MOLLISON'S
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ATTEMPT IN SPECIAL MACHINE.
A Two famous Byers, Mr. J. Mollison and Mia Amy Johnson, (whose marriage was announced a few days ago) recently paid a visit to Manchester, to fulfil two days' engagements in the city. They ar rived at Barton airport nearly an hour before they were expected, hav.
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FROM PTOLEMY TO OUR DAY.
THE ART OF MAP MAKING.
Royal Commission as the basis of a new Divorce Act, Mr. Fellows gives a hint of several original ways in which reform might be
1 p.m. Local time and, weather report. A relay of the Hong Kong Hotel
Orchestra THR MAP OF ENGLAND.. By Col, Sir, achieved. courtesy of the management.
Charles Close. (Davies, s.) (During the intervals recorded
At no period in the history of the music will bo broadcast from world have maps played so import- the Studio).
ant a part in the daily life of man as at the present moment.
The ranks of the old peregrina- tor have been swelled to enormous proportions by the nover-ending in- flux of hikers, cyclists, motorists. and airmen, to all of whom a map Victor records. L'Arlesieune " (Bizet).-Royal is a necessary part of their equip. Opera Orchestra, Convent Garment, and there are few men better qualified to write on such a subject den.-0112/0113.
than Sir Charles Close, who was of "One Hour With You" from sometime Director-General of the the King's Theatre by courtesy Ordnance Survey and has person ally surveyed large portions of the of the management.
15 to 9 p.m. (approx.).—A relay
Bagdad again provides notable evi ¡lew months ago "Victoria" crattireraft for military, purposes-ing flown from Hull in the Puss dence of the mobility conferred by few men from Cairo to Cyprus to point of topical interest because of Moth which Mr. Mollison dew to
restrain the rioters there. But the activities of the Disarmament Con-the Cape. On the nose of this ma-1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press now's, ete. the use of heavy transport" nir
to ference at Geneva-was emphasis chine there is now proudly inscrib. 2.15 p.m.-Close down. "Victoria" outstanding exploit credited craft. Nine Vickers
ed by Mr. Haudley Page in his ed England-Capetown, 4 days 17 to 7 p.m.-Chinese programme. biplanes carried the first contingent these troop carriers is the evacua
7 to 10.30 p.m.-Europeni pro- tion of six hundred refugees, re- speech to shareholders at
the hours." of 145 officers and men to the Iraqi presenting eleven different nationaal general meeting of his com-
gramme. Both Mr. Mollison and Miss city-800 miles from Cairo-in one
pany. He declared that the largo Johnson were dressed as they might 7.03 10 7.10 p.m.-A programme of day, the other companies following slities, from the capital, of Afghan. on successive days. Altogether somistan during the civil war of 1025 Handley Page Type 42 biplanes have been for a motor ride, for their
20. Though the big machines were constructed for Imperial Airways-aeroplane was a cabin one. twenty anroplanes wore employed to
the biggest passenger-carrying In an interview with a meet the emergency created by the flown daily over some of the most threatened desertion of disaffected dangerous flying terrain in the landplanes in commission in the chester Guardian" reporter, Mr. world-could be easily transformed Mollison said that his solo fight to carry a load of four tons of
across the Atlantic and back would bomba at a maximum speed of 135 definitely take place this summer. miles an hour a distance of 300 I hope it will be in August," be miles. If the bomb foad were re-said. "I shall fly back to London duced and increased petrol car on Monday to see about the machine | ried the range of action of there which is being specially built for big machines would be proportion- me. It is being designed expressly ately augmented.
for this trip of mise, and will pro- He was doubifu! about the posbably be a single-seater machine, in Bibility of preventing this potential order to allow for the heavy load employment of commercial air-
of petrol which I must carry. craft by internationalising civil "Miss Johnson wants to come aviation, pointing out that Great with me, but I think you may say Cello Solo"Die Meistersinger Britain plainly could not consentit is very unlikely she will. On a
(Wagner-Wil- to the civil aviation subsidies paid fight like this, you see, the ques in this country being put into an
Assyrian levies which were recently incorporated with the Iraqi army.
Each of these big 'planes has ne. commodation for twenty-three in fantrymen, their rifles and ammuni tion, sun and steel helmets, gas masks and kit. The eight machine guns with which each company 18 equipped are divided among the
warld-the grim mountain ranges of the North West Frontier-there Was no serious incident and not a single refugee was hurt. And the achievement speaks emphatiently of the supreme mobility of the aero- plane. In less than two dnya the big planes were flown 2,800 miles from Iraq to Peshawar, and they began their errand of mercy on the third day.
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Mr., Handley Page uttered warning of the danger that uncon- sidered reduction of our already
point in having a spare pilot.",
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SINGAPORE.
HEIFETZ VISIT ECHO.
VIOLINIST WHO WILL NOT
THERE.
PLAY
Once again Singapore has been
"The disproportion between our snubbed by a musician, says the Air Force," he added, "and the
first-line fleet of other nations is Straits Times.
still greater than these figures in- dicate if the commitinents and
For some years we have been
policing responsibilities of the living under the stigma of not be H.A.F. in three continents be taken ing a music-loving town. This has into account."
GLASGOW TO BELFAST BY AIR.
British Flying Boats, Ltd., regis- tered in Edinburgh on June 23, has lost no time in getting to work. It
bec
recognised, more in sorrow than in anger, by a section of our own music-loving populace, and poor attendances brought the les- son home in more direct manner to occasional visiting artistes, but it was Heifetz who blazoned the fact
is announced from Belfast that the all over the East when his visit company has been granted anchor here a few months ago failed to age facilities in Belfast Lough for draw the huge crowds he expected. an experimental flight service be- tween the Clyde and Northern Ireland. We understand that the experiment will be carried out dur. ing a week in August, and that the latest type of amphibians will be Singapore on July 14 from Hong the N.Y.K. Hakusan used. The flying boats will anchor Kong on
And now the latest to castigate is Madame Renee Chemet, the famous violinist, who arrived in
at a buoy to be placed in White Maru. With her is Mr. W. F. house roads, and passengers will be
conveyed to the city by speed boat. Schutz, who, besides acting as her A successful experiment would pro-manager, is also the director of the bably mean a permanent service Bureau International de Concerts next year. This would not be con fined to human freight. Maila nnd and a director of the International light packages would also be car Sound Film Corporation.. ried.
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THE LAST HALF-CENTURY.
FIFTY YEARS, 1992-1032. Foreword
by G. M. Trevelyan, · OM, (Thornton Butterworth) *The old order changeth." In this anecdotal volume by twenty- , Beven
parsons distinguished in various fields of activity, 4'E glimpse England in transition.
A panorama of English life dur-
the last half-century which will stir the memories of the old is pre- sented with animation,
One particular merit of the book is its note of personal reminiscence. If in cases the facts recalled, the stories told, any seem somewhat
The title of his new book. "The Map of England," fails to do justies to the scope of this attrae slight, the realisation that hero is tive and reliable little book. He actual recollection of past time en- Piano Solo-"Impromptu in Anot only deals with the Ordnancesures continuous readability,
Surveys of his native country, but It is, then, as a supplement to the Flat" (Schubert).
takes us among strange lands and formal histories of the later Victori, Piano Solo Sarabande" (Bach)
peoples and gives us a fascinating am Age that the work makes its Sergei Rachmaninoff,―0621,
insight into the gradual growth of mark. These papers on so many cartography the world ove varied topics have appeared in the
-Prize Song " helmj). 'Cello Solo--" Tannhauser The Evening Star" (Wagner), Pablo Casals-0620,
The average man in the street, Times There are chapters on poli- however well equipped in other tics. society, the music-halls, the subjects, would find it difficult to universities, sport, the countryside say who drew the world's first re-every sphere of life, in work and liable map, and would be surprised play; and the illustrations are Piano Solo "Ballade in G to discover that it dates as far back | numerous and delightful. We are
Minor (Chopin, Op. 23).—ns Ptolemy.
reminded of things now gone for Alfred Cortot.—8012,
Sir Charles Close describes this ever. Which is gain and which loss "Liebesfreud" and others of the world's great every reader must decids for him- (Love's Joy) (Kreisler),
maps with meticulous accuracy, and self.
Violin Solo
Violin Solo "Liebenleid" (Love's traces the impetus given to map-
Sorrow) (Kreisler). Kreisler.-6008.
9.36 to 10.10 p.m.-
Operatio.
Fritz making by the great Mercator.
The first part of the book is devoted
to the old maps of England during
Song Pagliacci Ye Birda With out Number" (Leoncavallo). Song Thais "Meditation" (Mas senet)-Mary Lewis (Scprano)
RECENT NOVELS.
McNeill.
By F. Marian
The scene of "The Road Home"
the times of the Romans; through THE ROAD HOME, the Middle Ages and the spacious reign of Elizabeth, during the miseries of the Great Rebellion; opens in the manse of one of the and finally the author gives us the smaller islands in the Orkneys, the history of the Ordnance Survey it- atmosphere of which the author has self, all of which are illustrated by caught with engaging sympaty: We Orchestral "The Valkyrie "reproductions of the original drafts. follow the fortunes of Morng, the (Wagner) "Fire Music."-Sym- Not the least fascinating chapter daughter of the manse, on a more or Icas sentimental journey which is that which deals with the place winds through college days to the phony Orchestra.-9006.
road of peace of heart.
- 0578.
DIVORCE REFORM.
Song Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) names of England, which should "No! Punchinello No More!" prove invaluable to the hiker on his Song Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) earnest pilgrimages.
"On With the Play."-Giovanni Martinelli (Tenor).-6754. Orchestra The Twilight of the Gods-Siegfried's Journey to the Rhine" (Wagner)-Sym- phony Orchestra,-9007. 10.10. to 10.30 p.m.-
Variety.
Orchestral" As Time Goes By." Orchestral-"Begging for Love."
Rudy Valleo and his Connec ticut Yankees.-22773. Organ Solo" Siboney." Organ Solo" Maria My Own"
-Jesse Crawford.-22748. Song- Beautiful Love."
One likes Morag in all her phasee. and among all her companions; she makes everything palatable from such heights as: "If John Strang was a theorist, Jock Gourlay was a THE CASE AGAINST THE ENGLISH realist," to such depths as: "My DIVORCE LAW. By Alfred Fellipealve! Damn it all, what have I done with my lip-salve?" Morag's
jcwB.
By widespread agreement, ex-admirers, though, are very much pressed not only in a teeming paler, and Gilian, seemingly cast literature, hut in judicial obiter for the jeune premier, is certainly dicta, the English divorce law is study in perplexity for the reader full of inconsistencies, absurdities, as well as for the heroine. and injustices. Mr. Alfred Follows, THE FEILDINGE OF STARTFORTH. By
Catherine I. Dodd. · whose articles on many subjects in..
This is a record of family history The Daily Telegraph have attracted much attention, makes it part of rather than an historical novel. his design to explain how these de- The author of such a work is always fects have come about, and in par- unduly tempted either to draw the Song "By the River Sainte ticular how they have been aggra-hora out of perspective or to dwarf Maric."-Lewis James (Tenor)vated by the emancipation of wo-him through the tumult of his men. This striking sentence em- period. Miss Dodd, in presenting her ancestral hero, William Feild. Pressphasises the intter point:
"The emancipation of women ing, has preserved an admirable by the present law practically mean between these two extremics. encourage selfish women to cheat She gives the sap and savour of their husbands and play for the seventeenth century England, alimony, and works injustice while novor allowing William to re- "pious Eneas," when the husband cannot obtain mains inere divorce if his wife deserts him or drifting tranquilly through blood refuses to perform her marriage and tears. obligations."
-22030.
"I was told that Singapore is 10.30 p.m.-Rugby mid-day always a financial failure for world-touring artists. I discussed 10.35 p.m.-Close down.
news.
the matter with 31. Strok, Huifetz's All records in the above European Buuger, aud Heifetz nimelf, and programmes are supplied by Messrs. they stated that Heifetz's recitals Teang Fook Piano Co. were assuredly not a financial suc cess. That is one of the reasons why Madame Chemet will not ap- reason is that it is pretty late in pear here."
the season for at. We also want to Mr. Schulz continued, “'It is u pity that Singapore does not have get back to France as soon as pos---In-a-different manner, the author.
a musical association as in Jaya, sible" which can arrange for recitals and Faithful English Audiences. give at least a certain guarantee lo
Madame Chemet, who is accom artistes and their managers. Sin-
panied by her pianist Madame gapore lies on our way from Japan and as we have to play in Java wa Anna Seidlova Edwards, apcke en can always manage to stop here and thusiastically of her Far East tour, give one or two recitals.
PYJAMAS FOR DRUSILLA. By Eliza
beth Watte
Take a beautiful and life-seeking indicates that under the present divorce law, and under what is country maid of independent means. pleasingly called sex equality, and views; plant lier with a rush guilty wife is much better off than in circle of the Bright Young n guilty husband, for while both Things of London; mix rapidly, obtain their freedom, the wife does and you have a piquant diais. so without paying for it (the hus--Miss Elizabeth Watt knowę : mo- band, being responsible for har dorn young people, and she makes "We had intended that Madame saying that she had met with good costs), and she may be awarded an as much of her theme as Drusilla's Chemet should give a recital in receptions at every town she visit-annual allowance, amounting, to as ultimate innocence permits. The heroine is so captivating a charac Singapore, but someone in Shang-
The value of the book lica not so ter that one is glad to find her proof much in its exposure of well appre against the exotic atmosphere which
, and the story moves. cinted defects in the divorce law, as for a time attracts her. Her adven- in its constructive part, which is fures are many, bound to
hai connected largely with musical ed. Members of the Imperial Fa matters told map would not have mily of Japan attended practically a chance of even paying our ex- Page
peuses. Added to this was what all her concerts. She was also given Strok and Heifetz had told us and
the outcome is that we did hot a great welcome in Shanghai and think it would be worth while giv Hong Kong and was sorry she was ing a recital here. The second.
Vtinued at foot of nail columaj not going to play in Singapore,
much as £400....
come under strong on at a dashing pace from Drusilla'a criticium. While broadly suggest first cocktail to her rebound to ing the recommendations of the sanity?