LONDON AIR-MAIL
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY JUNE 29, 1934.
LETTER
Award To Sir F. G. Hopkins: The Hawthornden Prize: Judge Crawford's Wish: "Experts On Hay Fever" The "Post Office"
Mauritius Stamps: Carnera
London, June 14.
Four of the famous Post Office Mauritius stamps were offered for sale at Mr. H. R. Harmer's auction room
New Bond-street, W., In
One, which realised yesterday,
£5.000, set up a record price for an English stamp auction.
The room was crowded, and af- ter a few lots had, been quickly
· disposed of "No. 257" was,an- nounced. This was the famous let- ter the only one known in the the **Post world, bearing both Office" stamps, for which the late Mr. Arthur Hind, the millionaire plush manufacturer, of New York! is said to have paid more than had ever before been paid for a single stamp item.
The letter was posted in Port Louis, Mauritius, on Oct. 4, 1847, and by means of the postmarks it is possible to trace it to Plymouth where it was postmarked "Ship-
the letter," and thence across Channel to Boulogne. Paris, and finally Bordeaux, where it reached its destination on Dec. 28, just over seven weeks after it was posted.
The bidding for this letter start- ed at £3,000 and rose steadily to £5.000. at which price it was
knocked down to a German dealer. The next two lots were the id. ↓ crange unused and the 2d. deep blue, also unused. The Arst of these stamps was purchased by Mr. de Silva, a bank director, of
Effects Seized In U. S..
A.: 200 Debutantes
In Third Court
(Special Air Mail Service)
4.
bring only moderate comfort.
| Judge Crawford.
to
The string band of the Royal Horse Guards played whtie the The G.W.R.. however, still has presentations were being made,
guests the world's fastest steam-train in and afterwards the
took the Cheltenham Flyer.
And I have heard that in the archives at Paddington is an ac- count of a trial run by one of the King" class of locomotive in which it attained, 127 miles, per
hour.
"BUNDLES'
"
A Friend who was standing near a 'bus stop in one of the main. thoroughfares was astonished to hear a bus conductor refuse ad- mission to a Blackshirt in uniform.
"We don't want no bundles 'ere." He "remarked, and pressed the starting-bell: The Blackshirt was left standing among a crowd whic obviously, did not relish his pre-
sence.
My friend thought that a new slang word derived from the Fas- cist emblem had come trito use.
He was later informed that "bundle" 18 Laed in Cockrieg vernacular to mean "ight," and that the conductor was afraid that the Blackshirt might cause.. brawl on the 'bus.
PRUDENCE
The "experts on hay fever" who are to hold their congress on Helgoland because that island has little grass show admirable pru- dence.
י,
...
Columbo for £2,500, and the If they are "experts" in the
second was knocked down for rense of being sufferers who, have
£1.500 to an unnamed buyer.
sreezed and shuffled and watered at the eyes more than ordinary mortals,
that they realise business could be done at all in a grass-grown spot.
A mint block of four of the id.
"Post orange
Fald " Mauritius stamps, with enormous margins all round, was purchased by Mr. A. Caspary, a New York collector, for
£4.700.
Many other stamps fetched several hundred pounds each, and the total of £33,000 realised for the collection established another auction-room record.
MEDAL FOR VITAMINS
: DISCOVERER
The council of the Royal Society of Arts have awarded the Albert Medal for 1934 to Sir Frederick Cowland Hopkins "for. his re- searches, in bio-chemistry and the constituents of foods."
a
Sir Frederick is famous as the "discoverer, with Dr. Eljkman.
Dutch professor. of vitamins.
He is president of the Royal Society, and has been Professor of Bio-chemistry at Cambridge since
1814.
A SURPRISING OMISSION
no
If they are specialists in the cause of this devastating malady' they have been equally prudent. A single sneeze might work havoc with their reputations."
Most hay-fever sufferers have come to the pessimistic conclusion' that neither cure nor climate is likely to make much difference' Nor apparently does height. Two airmen on the Waziristan frontier recently caught violent hay fever from a pollinated.cloud at a height of 7,000 feet,
CARNERA'S EFFECTS SEIZED IN U.S.A. The Supreme Court has ordered the effects of Primo, Carners, the world heavyweight champion who to fight Max Baer on Thurs- day, to be sequestered. The order includes the preceeds of the fight
with Baer.
the
It is held by the Cours that As I predicted, the Hawthornden Carnera defaulted by 15.000 dol- prize has been. awarded to Mr." lars £3,000) when he failed to James Hilton's novel," "Lost Hori-appear in connection with zon." Yesterday's ceremony, over breach of promise action brought which Lord Winterton presided. against him by Miss Emella Ter- was amusingly informal-even to sini. the London waitress. the prize-winner not being at hand at the moment he was expected to step on to the platform,
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Carnera has finished training for his fight. He ipped the scales Fat 18st 61b, two pounds under his
normal fighting weight.-B.U.P.
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supper in the long picture gallery and the other state rooms, which masses of were decorated with
and other flowers
and guarded by members
the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen- at Arms and the Yeomen of the Guard
of
CHURCH SET
ON FIRE
Priest Fires
Bandits
Shanghai, June 28. An attempt to destroy the Roman Catholic church at Zose, in the Shanghai Hills, on June 20, was revealed to-day.
FEMALE
George Brent Upsets
A Canoe!
George Brent gave Ruth Chat-- terton a ducking during the pro- duction of the First National picture, Female" which is show- ing to-day at the Queen's Theatre. And it was not in the seript:
̈4 FRIGHTENED
PEOPLE
Stranded In A
Jungle:
A predecent was set in dim loca- tions when 'Ceel DeMille took five of the biggest screen person- It all happened in a scene in akties of Hollywood into the fun- which Miss Chatterton invites gles on the filand of Hawall for Brent, one of her handsome young the filming of his latest Para- employees, for she is a big bust-mount picture, "Four Frightened ness owner, to a public party of People," now playing at the King's two, in order to make him fall for Theatre.
her charms. Brent, one of the
The players who, made the 2,000
strong, outdoor types, is only im-mile ocean trip for the sake of
pressed by women who are femin ine the kind he can protect.
In order to impress him with her helplessness, sh steps. into a canoe rather awkwardly, making It rock dangerously. The actor is supposed to steady the caneo. But when Brent laid hold of the canoe, rocking on an artificial lake at the North Hollywood studios, he made it rock the more instead of steadying it."
The result was that Miss Chatterton lost her balance and was thrown into the lake,
The water was only two feet deep at the spot and Brent leap ed in and helped Miss Chatterton to shore. suffering nothing but a wetting
the picture were Claudette Col- bert. Herbert Marshall, Mary Bo- land. William Organ and Leg Cartilo.
The 'film's story opens with the first four principals escaping from a Dutch steamer, which is stricken with
bubonic plague. Mäxing, their way to a wild, spot on, the coast of the Malay Peninsula, half-caste native they hire a guide to conduct them through the jungle to the next seaport
Instead of the, three-day trek they ha expected, the party loses its way and wanders through dense The veneer jungle for months.
of civilization: is stripped from them and from ladies, and gentle- men, they revert, to primitive, men and women
"Female" is a somewhat start- ling story in which Miss Chatter ton..plays, the part of a super woman, who takes her loves with-
Claudette Colbert, who starts out out, regard, to conventions. Others
as a prim, homely school teacher In the cast include: Lois Wilson, beneath the notice of the two Ruth Donnelly, Ferdinand, Gotts- men in the party, blossoms into a chalk and; Johnny Mack Brown. beautiful creature of the jungle The picture was directed by WU- | for: whom the two men Eght" llam Dieterle, from a: screen play "by Gene Markey and Kathryn
scola..
The screen story was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by E. Arnot-Robertson and adapted for the screen by Barlett Cormak and Lencre Coffee. Karl
Father Savio who was alone in STUDY OF CHINA Struss, who was responsible for the
his residence near the church was aroused by the barking of dogs and noticed., shortly after. that the church was afre.
With a revolver in his hand he attempted to beat out the blaze and was fired on by one of three bandits. He returned the fire and the bandits fled. A fox terrier joined him in the chase after who the bandits was slightly wounded.
-Reuter.
German Interest
Special to the *Hong Kong Dally
Press (Copyright.)]
Berlin, June 27 The "Society for the study of China" held an assembly here un- der the chairmanship of ex- Admiral Dr. Retzmann at which the bank director Dr. Schippel out-
PRIVATE NAVALned the Society's work and alms
TALKS
Britain and America
Exchange Views
in the main speech of the evening before a distinguished audience of diplomatic and commercial lead- ers of both nations, including the Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Liu, and Dr. Yu Chien, the representative
of the Chinese industrial societies. Dr. Retzmann described his satisfaction in noting that the London, June 21. Interest in China for the institu- Inconnection with the bilateral tions of National-Socialist - Ger--
by the many was growing rapidly, paint- conversations initiated British. Government between the ing out that already, two Chinese made lengthy chief naval powers for preliminary commissions had exchanges of views in preparation visits to the Third Reich to ac- for next year's Naval Conference.quaint themselves thoroughly with a full meeting was held at the the Hitler Gavernment's innova- Prime Minister's room in the tions.
EXCITEMENT. OVER NAVAL VISIT
House of " Commons betweea After the Prussian Councillor, British and United States repre- | Lindemann has spoken on the building up of Sino-German ship- sentatives yesterday.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, theping services, Consul-General Wag- Prime Minister, was accompanied ner who is enjoying leave of ab- by Mr. Stanley Baldwin; Bir John sence from his post in China Simon, Sir Bolton Eyres Monsell, briefly sketched the recent deve- Vice-Admiral Little, and Mr. R. Lopment in Canton The Consal's Craigie, The United States repre- observations were specially inter- sentatives were Ambassador Robert esting in his descriptions of the ex- Bingham, Mr. Norman Davis, ecution of great technical projects Rear-Admiral Leigh, and Mr. R. there by the co-operation of Ger- man industries. Transocean Ko Atherton
A further meeting will be held. | Min. but the date for the continuation of the discussions was not fixed.
Other Powers To Join" Mr. Stanley Baldwin, replying to the request in the Commons for a statement on the general position. 18pecial, to the "Bong Kong. Dally said that he was not prepared to
Press" (Copyright.)] = give any information as to the
Rome, June 27.. course of the discussions, which were confidential.
The intense, excitement aroused in French political circles by the. corsage, He said that the Governments of Miss Warrender is the most sat beside the King ол twin France, Japan and Italy bad also yist paid by the Italian warships modest of benefactors, fact thrones- at Buckingham Palace agreed to participate in the bila to the Albanian seaport, Durazzo, which may account for the sur last night when their Majesties teral conversations, and added that has caused a semi-official, state- prising discovery I made some held the Third Court the no decision had yet been taken as ment to be issued here in which
to time ago, that all but a small season.
where the 1035 conference it stressed, that the naval visit to Durazzo was by no meana meant minority of Hawthornden prize- The King
wore the scarlet would be held. winners have neglected to present full-dress uniform of Colonel-in-
A question was also asked whe-24 a. political demonstration. bat her with a copy of their successful Chief of the Coldstream Guards. ther definite demands for parity had been planned for some time,
Gold lamé was the basis of the had been put forward by the with the full approval of the Al Queen's gown. It was ornament Japanese Government, and Mr. banden Government. It is, however ed with crystals and diamanté. Baldwin replied that no such de- added that the telegram notify- Her train was of Irish lace over mand had been received.-British ing the Albanian authorities of gold lamé and she wore across Wireless.
Miss
Alice Warrender. who founded the prize, was making her fteenth appearance as fairy god- mother of authors under 41. She' announced that arrangements have been made to entinue her annual award is appropriate in days.
work.
"
these.
that
SPEEDING ON THE RAILWAY Judge Crawford's wish trains would go as fast as motor cars is not as utoplan as some of his obiter dicta..
miles an hour.
In April last year a King's Bench Court jury awarded Miss Tersin1 £4.200 damages for breach of promise.
THE THIRD COURT The Queen; in a gown of gold with diamonds in her
of
her breast the blue riband of the
Order of the Garter. The Koh-i-,
the impending arrival of the Italy
Jan warships had been delayed by a technical error and had reached "The Flying Hamburger" has neor diamond was among the "BANKER'S SON ARRESTED the Italian Consulate in Durazzo Just run between Berlin and jewels worn by, the Queen.
only some hours after the arrival Cologne-360 miles at over 83 The royal circle included the
Jersey City, June 27 of the Italian feet, thus creating Prince of Wales, Prince George, Mr. Corliss W. Lamont, 32-year- the regrettable impression that Three weeks ago another stream- Prince and Princess Arthur of old, son of Mr. T. W. Lamont, the the visit was not duly announced. 'According to Pressitéports from lined train this time in the USA. Connaught, Princess Alice Coun-well-known banker, has been ar- -averaged 77 m.p.h, for the 1.016ters of Athlone and Lord Athlone, rested for picketing in front of a Tirana, a communique issued by miles between Denver and Chicago. Princess Helena Victoria, Princess local furniture factory and is the Albanian Government, con--
Compared with this the new Marie Louise, and Lady May charged with disorderly conduct. streamlined expresses that are to Abel-Smith, the Queen's niece. run on the Great Western at an The 800 guests included 200 average speed of 56 m.ph, will debutantes.
firms that, the Italian warships":
Mr. Lamont was released on ball visit was previously agreed upon
of U.S. $1,500 pending the hearing ty the, two Governments.---Trans- of the charge on July 5-Reuter. ocean Kão Min; -
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