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HONG KONG, APRIL 13, 1937,
DEFENCE IN THE PACIFIC
It does not look as though the final form of the "two-hemisphere Farmers Novel Method To Navy," which Sir Samuel Hoare
Guard Crops
envisaged in his recent speech in the House of Commons, were to be seriously affected by the deci sion of the Japanese Government not to limit the guns of capital slips to 14-inch. The decision has still to be officially announced, but it seems improbable that it will be automatically followed by
"Spooking the baboon" is the latest method employed by Bush- vell farmers in the North Water- berg district of the Transvaal to guard their crops and land from being ravaged by these mammals.
At the first demonstration, a
A
ments.
BE VACATED
Imperial Airways
Decision
Imperial Airways propose to leave Croydon airport for an aerodrome which is being constructed. at Lullingstone, Kent. Other air ser vice firms now using Croydon may follow their example,
The new aerodrome is close to the junction of the Southern Rail- way's East Kent line and the Sevenoaks branch, and in a district which is less subject to fog than Croydon. The journey to Charing Cross by fast trains takes less than half an hour.
Croydon Airport is becoming more and more unpopular with air- craft operators, as it suffers from two serious, disabilities. It is ap- proached from the Continent over difficult country where visibility is frequently bad, and it is trade- quately served by rail and road.
Owing to the increase in traffic the time taken to get from Croydon to Victoria has also increased, and there seems to be no prospect of the airport being connected with Central London by express motor road as was originally pro- posed.
an
TOO MANY HOUSES The aerodrome has been almost surrounded with houses, and con- sequently there is a shortage of forced landing grounds in the vicinity. The landing area itself is sufficiently large for present re- quirements, and there is "much elaborate and expensive equipment
It is a Government nirport, and
large sums of money will be wasted if it becomes obsolete; consequent- ly it is probable that every effort will be made to induce as many
operating companies as possible to keep to it. In any event, it is like
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4 Gossip We Must
(BY PRUDENCE)
I went to a very gay cocktail-
party at Peak Mansions the other evening. where my host instantly bore down upon me with a glass of a harmless looking fluid which Cooked like water, but which turn- ed out to be vodka instead. Iâm
afraid of always, a bit
strange drinks, so I only just sipped it and found it very nice, and was laughed at by everyone, and told it forms the base of many cock- talks, and that I must have had. it lots of times without knowing.
One of the first people I saw was Mrs. David Strellett, looking most charming in a dress of black taffeta with start little puffed sleeves, and a V. neck, finished with a daxiask- rose.. Mrs. Van Wylick was there also in a lovely dress of pale sea-blue satin which suited her fair skin, and golden hair. and Mrs. Hance in graceful gown of delicate flowered chizon.
A very
I saw Miss Newsholme, (wearing a very pretty shade of blue) and heard from her of the recent suc- cess of her two ex-pupils Molly Wynne-Jones and June Ralston. Both have won scholarships at..
I the same school. forgot the name but know it is that big one at Malvern. Bravo the Peak Schoo, where both had all their early training!
A
Bathers enjoying a spot of lunch at Repulse-Bay yesterday when" this picture was taken.
Mrs. J. Thomas was looking very. pretty in a flowered dress and told me she and her husband have just exchanged Kowloon for the Peak and like it immensely. Don't
mind the fogs a bit
A glint of bronze curls under a
On the other hand I was talking tamp proved to be Mrs. Gillespie, to Mrs. Lammert (1 mean Mrs. (who looked in on her way to Lammert, junior, wife of Alfred another party), and not far away Lammert of the Sun Life As- I spled Mrs. Bryden in an attrac-
aurance Co., of Canada). They tive dress with a cool-looking have just changed to Humphrey's blouse of dazzle-spotted muslin Building, Kowloon, and they too white and blue). Mrs. V. R. like it just as much. and think so near the sea has done dress of dark velvet with trans- wonders for their small son parent sleeves with narrow lines Michael, who has developed rosy of steel embroidery.
and
Mrs. cheeks already. Collis had a fascinating frock of black relieved with white red.
baboon which had been captured
Gordon wore a charming cocktail-being 5200 was sprayed with white paint. When sunset came tribe of baboons entered the mealie felds intent upon damage. The white member of the family was set free and on seeing them. let out a cry and ran towards them.
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But the rest of the tribe terror- stricken at this ghost-like ap parition, turned and ran for their lives. They were soon out of sight and up to the present have not returned to this particular
HE CURES WITH A. LOOK
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Yogi's Strange Healing Powers
An 80-year-old yogi named Sardar Khan Singh, who lives near 5202 Banares, is said to cure the sick merely by gazing into his patients
The Fourth Extra Race Meeting will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Satur· day, 24th April, 1937, commenc› ing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 19th April, 1937,
5201
"In the goods of Robert Buchanan Mauchan formerly
of Shanghai in the Republic. of China and lately of Ardshealach, Helensburgh in
What counts first with Japan in this and cognate matters is prestige.
u race for bigger naval arma-y to be used by many of the air
taxi firms for a long time.
Recently the Air Ministry had no statement to make about the future of Croydon, and on Inquiry at Im- perial Airways it was said that the company might not move all thelt and that in any event the move land plane services from Croydon, would depend on the facilities
"It was prestige that caused Japan to scrap the Washington Naval Treaty, although its ratios
of tonnage were far from un-offered by Lullingstone when it favourable to her, considering was finished.. her limited naval horizon. It is prestige that now makes her insist, as though the Washington Treaty bad been denounced by Britain and the United States, that qualitative limitation is valueless" without quantitative Imitation,
airport linked to a railway. A sub- At present, Gatwick is the only way connects the aerodrome build- ings with the station, and passen- gets can pass under cover all the London trains. A similar plan is in view for Lullingstone.
way from the aeroplanes to the
The chief foreign aircraft opera- tors who use Croydon have not for moving from made plans
Croydon.
Bat prestige is a costly busi- ness. Japan cannot afford to start building capital ships of TEA "CULTIVATION IN 60,000 tons with 16-inch guns. For seven hours a day he treats she can afford on the North She has already spent more than
cyes.
hundreds
of patients and never.
charges a tee. It is said that peo-China adventure, and her politi- ple are visiting him for treatment cal parties, bebind whom are the at the rate of over 3,000 a week.
Cases of fever, head-ache' and
other minor allments are stated to from the old yogi, be cured by a two-minute look
business men, bave come as near to open revolt as Japanese tradi- tion and the domination of the
And Army permit.
even if has to gaze into his patients' eyes naval monsters, it would still For more serious ailments, he Japan could afford to build these
lor longer periods. Sometimes a sufferer has to attend for a "gaze" hardly be worth her while.
The predominant argument in
every day for several weeks.
manent.
PREMATURE
REPORT"
!!
U.S.S.R.
Plantations Show Great Increase
in 1936.
and
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"ON THE TILES" There was a huge crowd at the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel on Saturday night to wel- core two marvellous and specta- cular dancers Salta and Ants who thrilled the audience with their
The Rev. Cyril Brown and his wife were there. receiving con- gratulations on the success, of his Production. "The Street Singer," and Mrs. Douglas Valentine drop-daring performance of dangerous ped in on her way to take part in it. She has made a huge success at the Queen's Theatre in the part of Violette. Mrs. Dovey was there, In a very chaste little dress of
sage green with angel sleeves or
lace the same colour, Mrs. R. M.
Richards looked very smart in
navy-blue with a very modern hat with a quaint twist in front, and Mrs. Stuart-Smith was charming in clear blue.
MACHINE TO TEST "BOILED" SHIRTS
acrobatics. Major Cox had a large party for the occasion, and Mr. Mackenzie, and "Mr. J Lee. Mr," Brutton had a big party too, and Mr.
Gilmour another, and the place was packed when the Phil
harmonic Show ended and all the performers came up to end their successful run by a general fare- well on the "Illes."
One of the first people I noticed was Mrs. Campbell looking atmply,
REDUCING
ICE RISKS
IN FLYING
Danger Warnings To
Be Broadcast
MINISTRY'S PLAN
Is a woman's hat a true match for her frock? How much dust is there in the air or a coal mine? How good a light have you at your office..desk? Why should one steel bar break, and not another?
Instruments which will answer of other these, and hundreds questions of interest to industry and commerce, will be on view at an exhibition, to be opened at Birmingham University, in connec tion with an industrial physics conference, organised by the In-in Great Britain and Northern A plan to protect aircraft aying.
Ireland against the dangers caused by Ice accretion on the wings and control surfaces has been adopted by the Air Ministry.
Other instruments will test the
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beautiful in a white dress with long wings of white, floating from the shoulders Miss Pestanji - toa looked lovely in white with orchid in her dark hair, and Mrs. Felton was all white, gold," and peach (the white being her dress, the gold her hair and the peach her complexion).
Mrs. Ross was very distinguish- ed in black and silver sequins, and Mlas Edith Hersey floated pasti an exquisite dress of biscuit colour with a shoulder cape turn-
ח!
ed
back with very pale blue, caught at the throat with a diamond buckle.
Mrs. Geoghan was there in wine. red,, and Mrs. Bishop in very, be- coming black, and Mrs. Shannon in autumn-leat colours, and Mrs. C. W. Richards, very smart with a charming dress of linen, cut on graceful lines and rust-browa
with a touch of bright jade green here and there. Mrs. Douglas Valentine came on from her Last- Night triumph. at the Queen's, and looked very gay and not the least bit weary, in a charming blue dress which surely must have come from "Madame Violette" while Mrs. Alexander in blue, and Mrs. Branson tri graceful oyster satin, and Miss Kent and Miss Boulton and lots of other Street Singer-ites ware all dancing gaily with members of the cast.
Į NAVAL REARMAMENT
Paris, April 17, Naval rearmament and protec
tion against air raids formed the two main subjects which were dis- cussed at to-day's session of the
permanent National Defence Coun-
cil, presided over by the Minister for Defence, M. Edouard Daladier.
The Council also approved a # number of measures affecting workers, in the armaments indis- try and kindred works. Transhezan News Service.
height of the base of the cloud in
known.
It 15
GOERING TO MEET MUSSOLINI
General Charing
will go to
an illness.----- Transocean News Service.
Considerable attention is being devoted to tea cultivation in the USSR. Tea plantations have in- creased from 25,700 hectares nye years ago to 38,600 hectares in 1938 and to 45,000 hectares in 1937. In 1932. the average yield of tea-leaves per hectare constituted 701 kilogrammes, whereas in 1936 it reached 1,830 kilogrammes. Many All cures, it is claimed, are per-favour of the bigger capital ship collective farms gathered over 4,
is that it can operate at long 000 kilogrammes, while Stakhano-stitute of Physics. Hindu system of mediation and .. A yogl is a devotee of yoga, the distances from its base, and the Vite brigades collected 5,000 to 6,000
kilogrammes per hectare.
sweetness of jam, measure the ascetic life by which it is attempted need for that does not arise so In accordance with the plan, the strain set up in glass as it cools, to unite the soul of the individual long as Japan is interested only collective farms are to gather this or sort metal caps according to with the universal spirit.
All Royal Air Force pilots who
now definitedly learned in the Pacific..
year no
whether they have, or have not less than 1,800 kilo-
the Reich Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare told the grammes of tea-leaves per hectare got cork discs inside. Still an encounter ice-forming conditions that
and the State farms, 2,000 kilo-
other machine will tell its owner are required to notify their com- General Hermann Goering.. will. House of Commons that the grammes. This will give the Soviet Whether a "bolled" shirt is up to manding officer immediately by confer with Signor Mussolin! some present building programme of tea factories 24,500 tons of tea- the requisite standard of glas- wireless. giving the locality, time, time this month
which ice formation occurred and Italy following the visit there of the British Navy did not contem-leaves, or nfteen times more than siness.
In a special section of the ex- plate capital ships larger than in 1932, and 5,000 tons more than hibition, visitors may try their the thickness of the cloud, if it is his wife, who is suffering from Paris, April 17.
85,000 tons and guns bigger than The report of the cancellation
The use of mineral fertilizers is hand at a "pseudoscope", als~
The commanding officer then the County of Dumbarton, of the international air race from 14-inch. Only if another Power being extended and cultivation me- torting instrument which presents' Scotland, Naval Architect, Parts to New York, to be held inbuilt ships and guns of such thods improved in order to raise to either eye what the other nor-transmits the information to the
August, was declared to be prema proportions would British policy the tea harvest.
mally sees-and inspect what is Meteorological Omes at the Air deceased.
ture, as it is a question of post-have to be reconsidered..
described in the catalogue as a Ministry, and it is subsequently broadcast by radio-telephony from ponement rather than
"fairy rabbit," cancella. tion. The French planes prepar-
seems unlikely that Japan willing of the Pacific. If the British- The subject of the conference, Borough Hill, Daventry. ing for the race will be used as the give the impetus to such com- Navy is to be capable of that to be attended by more than 300 With the increasing amount of trial machines for the proposed petition. Japan's reasons for task it must be co-ordinated with physicists from all parts of the cloud aying that is now going on leaving herself free to do some the existing Dominion naval recountry, will be "Optical Devices ice accretion has become of much thing she really does not want to sources and supplemented by do are largely psychological. more regular Dominion ebaidies. The tonnage and armaments At present there is an Austra of capital ships are, however, alian Navy of sorts and a rudi- technical matter. Of much more mentary Indian Navy, which, interest is Sir Samuel Hoare's were a useful enough supplement Belgrade, April 17. insistence that the Navy shall be to a small British fleet so long For the first time in history efficient in both hemispheres. s. the Pacific was governed Turkish warships will call at ú
But it cannot reach such either by the Anglo-Japanese Des Voeux, window of Sir Frede- Dated the 12th day of April, Yugo-Slay port when on Sunday
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several units of the Turkish fleet efficiency unless there is co-Treaty or by its successor, the arrive at Cattaro, on the Yugo-operation between Britain and Washington Naval Treaty, Blay Adriatic coast.
the Dominions Australia and That time is past, and the At the same time, the Turkish New Zealand are immediately question of defence in the Pacific Premier and Foreign Minister will.
interested, Canada and Indis demands discussion at the forth visit the port, 6184 Transocean News Service.
more remotely so, in the watch coming Imperial Conference.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has by virtue of the provisions of Section 58 of Or, dinance No. 2 of 1897 made an order limiting the time for credi tors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 5th day of May, 1937.
"All Creditors and others are ac- cordingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned en or before that date.
1937.
GEO. K. HALL BRUTTON & co.. Solicitors for the Executors,
North Atlantic air route.- Reuter's Bulletin Service.
Turkish Ships To Call Ai Cartaro
It
in Research and Industry."
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Sir Evelyn Wrench And Lady Des Voeux
The engagement is announced between Sir Evelyn Wrench, only surviving son of the late Mr. and brack, County Dublin, and Lady Mrs. Frederick Wrench, of Bally
rick Des Voeux and only surviving daughter of the late Bir Victor Colebrooke," County Brooke, of Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The wedding will take place quietly at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, on Tuesday, the 18th of May,
greater importance, and the Air Ministry scheme is to be used 'not only to protect aeroplanes against being caught unawares, but also to collect data to enable predictions about conditions to be made.....
The
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in time, can evade them by alter- ing height. Bomber pilots during tactical exercises may wish to re- main within clouds. Consequently the problem is of more importance in relation to Service machines,
Many American air lines have their aeroplanes equipped with 'de-
DE-ICER EXPERIMENTS Meanwhile the Air Ministry's new
quire that the machines shall be icers on the wings and ice-slingers bomber aircraft specifications re
capable of being Atted with de- on the airscrews; but in Europe icers, and Imperial Airways, on the Ice-forming conditions are not so civil side, is experimenting with de Trequently encountered as they are. icers wth the object of fitting its in America. Nevertheless, several scroplanes with them if a satisfac-bad crashes which have occurred tory type is found.
during the past two or three years Commercial pilots, provided they bave been attributed to fce accre- know of the ice-forming conditions tion.