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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931,
GREATER ROME
SCHEME. ~
NEW PARKS, ROADS AND TUBE.
THE "CANALS" ON MARS.
ONLY $1,474,000 MILES AWAY.
London, Jan. 28.
for
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the
WRECKED LINER INQUIRY,
COUNSEL AND ABANDON- MENT SUGGESTION.
Buenos
(2) Was a proper course set from that point of departure?
Jinvo (3) Should use
been made of the wireless direction
finder?
Rome, Jan. 27.
Are there inhabitants on Mars, The Board of Trade inquiry into In fifteen years' time, according or is the engineering ability that the loss of the fighland Hope to official plans now approved by has been attributed to them (14,160 tons) the British motor Signor Mussolini, the face of dream of over-imaginative alenner that was wrecked in a fog on Rome will be transformed.
tlate and authors?
the rocks of the Farilhoes (off The Town Planning,
To-morrow this planet will be at Portugal on November 10 during Commis- alon convened six months ago by its nearest to the earth for marea voyage from London to Signor Mussolini and charged than two years, and regions of it Aires, has opened nt the Law with the task of settling the city's which have not been visible to Courts, The voyage was her fifth expansion problems, has complet- astronomers for 17 years, and will from Europo to South American ed its work, and its proposals, not again be visible
ports. which involve a wholesale recons period, may then be studied at their Mr. G. St. Clair Pilcher, who np- traction of the city's streets, are nearest approach. now ready to be achieved.
"The area round
the Martian Peared, for the Board of Trade, sug- The archaeological area in North
Pole which is at present Restat the following five points for which are encompassed the Forum, turned towards the earth,
Mr. consideration; the
the Aventine, and Robert Barker, a Fellow of Colosseum.
(1) Was a proper departuro taken at Cape Silleiro? Capitoline Hills, remains, of Royal Astronomical Society, ex- course, untouched, but instead of plained yesterday, "is one of the treing inviated
the from
city's least known of the whole planet. modern activities it is to form The distance of Mars will on Tues- centrs from which new arterial day be 61,474,000 miles. In 1939 roads and boulevards will driven to the circumference of the city's walls and beyond. Various "characteristle" beauty spots of historic and picturesque interest are to be preserved, such as the Pjazza di Spagna and the Corso. but otherwise everything is to be awept away to make roam for avenues described as "majestic." Two New Stations. Two new railway stations have to be built, and the plan includes of underground a cross series electric railways.
Parks are to be lald aut within the city, and new suburban areas have been plannett, en that the City of Rome in its new entirely will be ultimately capable of hours | ing 1,000,000 persons at an aver- age ratio of 250 inhabitants every three acres of land.
to
The plans also include the zur- rounding hill towns. and from Tivoli and Frusráti. as well na from Rome itself, new highways and high-speed motor routes will constructed joining these towns and the city with the Tyrr- henian senboard At Ostin. The the enormous
be
estimated cost of
Han is not stuted.
600 MILES OF BREAD.
LONDON'S APPETITE.
Figures now available for 1930 tell the story of London's uppetite.
The weekly brend consumption was 25,000,000 half-quartern loaves.
will be only about half that dis- tance away, but its altitude will then be much lower, and the op- posite and better-known face will he turned towards the earth."
(4) Were proper precautions taken when fog came on (n) by reduction of speed; (b) by haut- ing out away from the land, and (e) by taking soundings?
Since the beginning of December. Mr. Barker has been making re-
(5) Were proper efforts made gular observations at Cheshunt
to save the log books? Another point for the Court to with one of the largest telescopes owned by British astronomers. consider, Mr. Pilcher said would be These observations have confirmed how long before the Highland Hope him in his belief that the famous ran aground some lights were "canals" which lead from the handi-seen on her port bow, Her helm work of "apien: beings,"
was ported in order to give a clear This opinion was ardently ad- berth, to those lights, and shortly
be a the late Professor afterwards-It might vocated by Lowell, the American astronomer.minutes--she was ashore, whose prediction of the planet The lights turned out to be those Pluto has recently teen verified. of some Portuguese trawlers fishing But
majority of British as-off the Farilhoes.
siner abawioned tronomers have the theory.
More "Canals" Visible. "At the beginning of December Mr. Barker nid, "there were very few 'canals", visilde, but a large number have since come into pro- minence, as a result of the melting
has
the frezen cap round the North Pole. This white cap
been gradually disappearing, while the marshy fringe round it has cores pondingly widened,
few
Mr. Pilcher said there had been suggestion that the vessel was i some way prematurely abandoned by her British officers and master. *1 make Do reference to those criticisms," he added, "because at the moment I see no reason to do
Captain Jones, replying to Mr. Pilcher, said that the course which he set on the night in question was not the one he ordinarily set, but was one degree nearer in.
Mr. J. H. Harris (Metropolitan These canals appear to go in Chief Magistrate, before whom the the straightest possible way, to the inquiry was held)-Why did y areas bordering the Martian choose to go nearer the Farilhoes? equator. These arens, which are
Captain Jones-The night was probably covered with vegetation, appear to us blue-green, in marked clear when I left Silleiro, and if I could keep the lights in view, t contrast with the orange-red colour would help me when I got to the of the main desert soil. Vegetation Berlinge, as I have to turn sharp almost certainly implies insect life.round there. It would help me to and insects suggest insect-caters, make the land in the morning, but. possibly birds.
But it is the ques of course, I would not run any risk
If they were all of the "sandwich|tion of the existence of beings auf-if I thought it was a risk.
variety the dally ration placed ficiently intelligent to have con-
lour
on end would stretch for 600 miles,structed the 'casals' that has divid
The supplies which London Im-ed astronomers. ported, according to the Port London Authority, included following:
of "Of all the theories of
1,400.326 tons of wheat.
218,000 tons of flour. 120,000 tons of cheese. 145,000 tons of bacan and 73,000 tons of eggs.
their
the origin, however, this is the only one that has survived. There are
of seven several case!SS
or eight cunals meeting in a singlo' point, and on any theory of chance dis- hams.tribution the odds against this hap-
Įpening are millions to one."
160,000 tons of butter. 660,000 tons of chilled and frozen neat from Australia, New Zealand and South America. 111,000 tons of dried fruit, chiefly sultanas, currants and raisins.
621,000 tons of green fruit and
vegetables, 111,000 tons
KING'S EMPTY TOMB.
CASKET FOUND WHICH MAY
SOLVE MYSTERY.
A discovery regarded as of great historial interest has been made on the site of the old abbey at Shafts-
of canned goods, much of which was fruit. 491,000,000lbs. of tes equivalent bury.
to more than 94,320,000,000
cups.
CHARWOMAN GETS DAMAGES.
LOCKED IN A ROOM.
A story of a charwoman being locked in a room at her employer'a House for five hours while an at- tempt was made to get her to con- fess to an alleged theft was told at Newcastle County Court recently.
The charwoman. Mrs. Elizabeth
of McDonald,
Berwick-street, Gateshead, was awarded £25 damages against Mrs. Marianne Newcombe, Claremont-place, New- castle, and Mra. Margaret. Rose Lambert (Mrs. Newcombe's com- panton).
It was stated that Mrs. Mc.
Donald had been employed by Mra. Newcombe as charwoman for 20 years. Last year two diamond rings were missed, and Mrs. Me- Donald was told that her services would no longer be required.
Mr. J. Wilson-Claridge, an actor whose family. recently acquired the 874,000 tons of sugar.
property, was uncovering part of the With all these purchases, amoun-
walls of the abbey on a recent Satur- ting to nearly 5,000,000 tons, Lan-day when he found a stone slab 2ft. don's house-keeping purse still had below the ground in a corner of the a heavy call upon it for innumer-north transept. able foodstuffs such as coffee, This was removed and under- neath was a shallow lenden.caaket cocoa, riec, sago and honey.
Overseas growers have mich to about 2ft. long by 3in. wide, resting be thankful for to the London mar foundations of the wall and protect- upon the red clay soil close to the ket. Il port serves nearly one third of the overseas requirementsed on all sides by rough stone slabs, drawing-room for five hours while
The casket contained part of a skull she was questioned. and other bones hundreds of years
of the population of England.
HAIG HORSE.
"AWFUL" SAYS LADY HANG.
Lady Haig describes the horse in the second model of the pro-3 posed statue to Earl Halg as "awful."
She considers, however, that the Hkness of the Earl in the second model is better than that in the Arat one.
old,
Six months later she was sent for, and was confronted by Mrs. Lam-
Mrs. McDonald was locked in the bert, who was in police uniform and said she was a private detective.
The judge sald he could not con.
It is believed that the remains ceive why she was suspected. are those of King Edward' the Martyr, who was murdered at Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire, in 979. His tomb was found at the abbey in 1861, but there was no trace of any remains.
Mr. Alfred Hardiman's present position, regarded as that of an artist. is
unenviable one. แก
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New York, Jan. 28... A plan to reduce war debts and Ils first model for the Halyarmaments concurrently, and memorial had to undergo cerrevive trade, was put forward to W. T. Rowley, Intends to continue lain modifications, and, as acen day by Mr. Edward N. Hurley her work as a waitress until she has from the hoproductions of the new former Shipping Controller and heard more news. Hor husband model, amounted to com- member of the Debte Commlosion, had already declared that it was plote revision.
who spoke as president of the his ambition to secure his own farm Mr. Lansbury's View. Manufacturers' Re-export Associa-in Australla, even if he succeeded
to the title before ho Mr. Langbusy, First Commiation.
had done so. sioner of Worka, told the Press Mr. Hurley suggested that Am-
Worked His Passage. Ile wont to Australia several the new model was orica should offer to cut fadebted- unanimously approved by the as-ness 60 per cent, provided the years ago, working his passage in Bessora. The sculptor was also ad debtor nations were willing to make a tramp steamer. He landed in the
their an equivalent reduction in POLAND AND CHINA. reading of the Bill authorising avised by three generals.
with conntry EN.
He spent six months working na Treaty of Commerce and Naviga Imodol, but would really like a fur- should be spread over 30 years, and in gardener at a homestead in the
Mr. Lansbury profers the first military budgets. This reduction THE TREATY OF COMMERCE
tion with Ching, including two ther compromise between the two. Mr. Hurley claimed that it would western district of Victoria, and AND NAVIGATION.
notes relating to protection of The horse's neck, chest and tail and greatly relieve unemployment by announced that he liked the work. mutual culture and religion.-Fen the ground work are to be altered, enabling Europe to resume buying and would remain on the land In
while the base is to be the subject from America.
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of consultation with Bir Herbert "Until our country takes the Baker (one of the principal archi Initative by some constructive in- tects to the War Graves Commie tornational move," he said, "it is sion), although Mr. Rowland Pierce questionable when the world will was supposed to be doing it.
be pulled out of its economic rut,"
The family sent is Summerhill flouse, Enfield, County Meath, Ire land, but the Inte Lord Langford ved at Heath Lodge, Uxbridge, Middlesex.
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