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B-3636--- Moment Musical (2) Scherzo in B Flat (Sekubert
Spin of the Dance Baring
Played by Edward O'Henry on the Organ of Madame Tussaud's Canemn, London,
B-3746-Wien I survey the Wondrous Cruss (Millar )
The Church's One Foundation (Wesley)
Choir of St. Margare ́s. Wedminster
B-3763-Veneration of the Cross, Op 37. No 19
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A Spotless Rose ( Howells i
Westminster Abbey Special Choir
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Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, APRI1, 28, 1931.
averago residents of the Colony, who go to make up the great body
or ratepayers and taxpayers,
Bhould be brought to the notice of
the Currency, Commission. As tho
пля
ita main object.
.
DAY BY DAY
CHARITY IS THE PERFECTION AND ORNAMENT OF RELIGION.-Addison.
One case of typhoid, and one of cerebro-spinal meningitis were report. ed to the health authoritica yesterday.
AIR LINERS TO SPAN TWO
OCEANS.
By DOROTHEA KAHN.
The many friends of Mr. J. H. Taggart will be pleased to learn that TT sounds like a Jules Vernojder, is completed,
17.
cases
the
company
itself
recent Census figures showed, more and more people are making Hongkong their permanent home. It is well, therefore, that in a matter of this kind, which affecta the whole standard of living. consideration should be given to
he is progressing satisfactorily after fantasy but in Akron, Ohio, will have the experience and stair their particular viewpolat just as an operation for appendicitis at the it is regardled simply na the sober necessary to go ahead on a com much
to any other section Penk Hospital on Sunday morning.
plan of a well-established busi-merelal basis, its executives de
claro. Moreover, it has helped ness, all ready for launching.
the of the community. For this rea-
company to take a big step in H.E. the Governor of the Straits
Ships the length of un oceanle
solving certain technical problems, non, we have welcomed the move-Settlements, Sir Cecil Clementi, is re-
to Dr. Karl Arnstein, ment which has this purpose as turning to Malaya by the Rawalpindi liner are to take to the air, make according
which is due to arrive at Singapore on weekly Bights across both oceans, chief engineer and vice-president
Cot June 13. His Excellency and Lady not for adventure but for actor of the Goodyear Zeppelin Of one thing the Colony,nnyClement went home on leave on Oct. taking the full responsibility of
carrying passengers and the Uniporation. Because it is
nearly twice as large as the globe- rest assured, namely, that it wil
ted States mails,
encircling Graf Zeppelin, il has receive a square deal from the
The return of notifiable disenses for Romantic as the plan appears, bridged the way to the design of
five showa Commission, the members of which last werk
of some of the larger industries and still larger ships which will be commercial deaths), two of long established financial con- needed to make the diphtheria (two are not likely to be swayed by small-pox
like lines pay. (ane death) And two fcerns of the United States, special pleading on the one side typhoid fever (une leath). There Goodyear of Akron and the Na
The Ship of the Future. from tinnal City Company of New York, were also forty-five deaths or the other. The Commission has pulmonary tuberculosis.
are behind the venture and are
The first commercial ship, the nade known its willingness to
two companies Goodyear represented fa
Zeppelin executives for consider both written and oral Domestic troubles are saht to have which have been organized
figure, will have a bellum capacity about 1,000,000 cuble feet statements from anyone who feelsed To Ngan-mui (22), a married trans-oceanic airship service.
womna Hving n 47, Reclamation
Their carefully reckoned plans disposed to put forward lia views. Street, Ynumnti, to make an attempt
now in the dock here. The Nothing could be fairer than that.
un her life by swallowing opium. open up fascinating possibilities enter than that of the Goliath future. A French length of its frame, holding the She was discovered in an unconselous in the near The investigators, shrewd men as
condition yesterday and taken to the diplomat in Washington, deciding lifting was chambera, would be a Kwang Wah Hospital.
to talk things over with the home little greater than that of the they are reputed to he, will have
Kovernment, may speed by taxi to Mauretanin or the lle de France. Le dimeulty in sifting the wheat
Chan Shing was ordered to meclve the nearest inland dock climb And that is big! The Akron is from the chaff. They are fully twelve strokes of the cane by Mr. a ladder to a moored dirigible and so vast in its duralumin bulk that the Hamilton at Kowldon this morning, two evenings later find himself; 100 men working on it seem lost for having stolen are pounds of comfortably seated in his favourite in the nuaze of airy metal work, the Liliputious worming reomomies of the case, and at butter from the 4 Company, Argyll Paris restaurants presenting his like
OVIT Aover Gulliver. und Sutherland Highlanders' mens at problems to his chief Hankow Barracks. The accused had biftek chateaubriand." been employed there as a mess. "hey" for three months.
competent
deat
with
least one of them has had exper- dence in currency stabilisation elsewhere. Many of the argu- ments to come before them will no doubt bear a familia ring; we must trust the Commissioners to assess these at their true worth. There will, of course, be special points affecting the peculiar posi- tion of the Colony, but even these fahould yield to considerations of basic principles: Those who seek to make a joke of the problem are So much has been sald and doing the Colony a disservice, are written about the Colony's cur-contributing nothing worth while reney problem that we hesitate to to the discussion, and are certainly pot helping the Commission in its arduous task.
THE CURRENCY CONTROVERSY.
comment further on the subject. Indred, but far the importance of the issue at stake, we shout re- frain from so doing. There has, however, been such a spate of subiliation enrrespondence on latterly that 2 few thoughts arising therefrom may not be altogether out of Season Un fortunately, the tendency on the part of correspondents to intldige in personalities, which is so often manifested in local controversies, has marked some of the effusions seat to the newspapers on this dollar question. a eircumstance which cannot but be regretted by
those who wish to see the issue
.
4
Just where to put the limit in Ch Cosmopolitan Indy may size of the merchant airship of the choose to. it over to a week-end future is not known even to Dr. party in London, racing hack in 'Arnstein. He said the merchant Chan Young is being searched for two and a half days, to keep a ship might easily be double the by the police in conrequenes of alcunert engagement in Philadel size of the Akrot, for, unlike air- A California business man pinnes, airships gain in effeiency complaint laid by Yu San, living at phia. No. . Pottinger Street that Chan may decide to take a week off to as their size increases, up to a' Yeung had wrongfully withheld a sum “wing" over the Pacife, for a day (point which has not yet been de- of $105 entrusted with which to him in Honolulu and be back at worktermined. to buy steamship tickets to Singapore the next Monday morning. upon his representing that he was a fiki of a bearding house and was in a position to obinia a rebate.
Plon in Practient Stage.
storms
who
Thu merchant Zeppellu will have cabin space for 80 passen- gers and some 25,000 pounds of Anyone who likes to ride over mail and express. There will be instead of glassed-in promenades; deck win- The two new "p" Class submarines, or and
appreciates down will swing out in a V shape Pandora and Proteus, which wers through them. damaged whilst coming out from having transportation time cut in from the tower sill, so passengers Home, are due to arrive here on May half, and who has $1,000 or so to jean look down upon the billows
a ticket, in prospective pas-below,
Sketches have been made of the the Paseiden and the Perseus, which senger for the air lines, the gom, 1. They left England together with buy have been in Hongkong for sometime, any bread believes. So convinced staterooms and saloong which hint but they collided off Gibraltar where is Paul W. Litchfield, Akron rub-of aerial luxuries. While the din- they have had to undergo repairs.
Jike any H.M.S. Vindictive, bringing naval ber manufacturer, of the feasibilling room looks much
ty of transoceanic passenger ser- other, this one may have furniture. reliefs, arrived over the week-end. vice by dirigible that he has taken of aluminium to keep from adding a leading part In the organiza-weight. And if furniture, per- A splendid concert in aid of the 51;tion of two companies, one to baps aluminium "silverware" and
Mr. H. G. Anniss,
London in the Future. Glimpses into the future never dohn Ambulance Brigle is to be held handle the Atlantic service, in co-paper tablecloths. fail to attract attention and at King's College on Saturday night.
Zep. The engines, as in the Akron, Besides farce entitled "Rinck operation with the German
Dr. will be built within the bull. It interest, whether the picture is Magic," there will be vocal and in- pelin Company, hended by drawn by an imaginative novelist strumental items, those contributing Hugo Eckener: the other an all-is expected. Catwalks, protected called the with ropes like those of a suspen- for an architect of advanced ideas. including the Male Voice Choir of the American company,
South Wales Borderers, the Beethoven Pacific Zeppelin Transport Com-sion bridge, will enable the crow Much that
was fascinating, for String Quartette, Mrs. Sanger, Mrs. pany, Ltd., designed to link seri- to visit the eight engines and instance. Wit contained in a Valentine, Dick Barty, Messrs, Winally the west coast with Honolulu, every vital part of the ship for skotch which we published re- ram and True, Mr. Li Chor-chi and the Philippines and the Orient. fregular inspection. There will be Speaking as head of these com- lying machine shop at hand for eently, revealing Some of the!
panies Mr. Litchfield promises to repairs. strange wonders to be expected Inj
Six Chinese were charged before have passenger airships Aging in
More Nimble Than Steamship. London of the future. Mr. Ber- Mr. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magin-three years after the Unitd States
As for actual performance, the nard, the designer, an architect fracy this morning, with having slow-Government gives its "Ready, get
ed itway on "tim 1.H. Creiner from set, go."
o." This starting signal is airship of to-morrow will be fur of considerable note, expressed a
Singapore. The first Ave pleaded not in the nature of a merchant air more nimble than the steamship, helief, in the accompanying article, guilty and said they had tiekets, but craft act, which the companies ex, the designers explain. A tilting that the great metropolis will be ware convicted after the Second
pect to see
In the Passed
propeller has been perfected Officer had said that they did not largely re-planned in the next 25
were fiha Akron which enables the vast possess tickets when searched. Each session of Cimgress. Bills height
com-ship not only to was sentenced to two months' hard Kiven thorough study by
backward and go forward, but to rise or drop ver labor. The sixth man received six mittees in both houses
session just closed.
tically under control at a 45-mile weeks' imprisonment.
A visit to Akron assures one of speed. The normal traveling rate, the nearuers of aerial transporta-fof the commercial ship is estima- tion across the two seas. Thefted to be from 80 to 90 miles an largest airship ever built, a navy hour.
MAPPIN & WEBB, Ltd. fought out ougits merits. Equally years, that the standard
HERE'S THE ORGANISATION BEHIND
PRINCE'S
PLATE
THE ONLY LASTING SUBSTITUTE STERLING
FOR
SILVER.
The Life of Prince's Plate has yet to be ascer tained. Specimens that were sold over 30 years ago are still in daily use without the slightest
deterioration.
In Fact "PRINCE'S PLATE" is a Standard by which Standards are Set.
Lane, Crawford,
Silverware Dept.
Ltd.
Photo 28161.
fuilt.
in
awny
to be depinged are the efforts made † får buildings will be 500 fort. to pour ridicule en vonerete pro- instead of the present maximum posals put forward in all good of eighty feel, that double-deck roads will appear, the upper decks. In a matter of this kind, all the for pedestrians only, and that thirty per cent. of the city area wisdom is not an one side; a re-will be devoted to thoroughfares cognition of this fact should suffice and other open spaces. All the to restrain those who, in place of elements of the fantastic were reasoned argument, employ the present in Mr. Bernard's dream of mediums of scorn and sarcasm. It the future, yet his ideas gain an the may be that mongst the schemes unexpected Bupport from | put forward with a view to stabili. Greater London Regional Planning Committee, which has just issued sation of ear currency there are
interim report. The an
Com- some which will not stand the text mitice does not consent to the of critical analysis. The object sweeping
of famous of the commentator on such pro- monuments of past ages, such as posals shoukl be to attempt to St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster prove their impracticability, and
Abbey, and the Houses of Parlia nat merely to poke fun at the meat, but on the essential charac- teristics of the city of the future. suggestions. The subject
Mr. Bernard and the Committee worthier of more sincere treat are in close agreement. They ment than that. If we are to have agree that it will be a lighter and eriticism, let it be of the construe-brighter place; that overcrowding tive order. What is more, let the will have censed; that industries crities, both on the one side and i will be removed to more con- the other, give those who differ venient sites; that g satellite from them credit for sincerity of towns will be constructed, far from Those who assert that the City Judged by present tran- the advocates of stabillantion are in twenty or thirty minutes of the aport standards, but brought with- animated by instincts of self-centre of the new London by the interest should realise that they trafic arrangements of the future; employing double-eslged and that great stretches of open
weapon.
They lay themselves country will break up the gloom It exlata to-day. open to a counter-charge.of the of London as
character, all the more to These are the ideas of people who when so many of them stand to building of the London-to-be,, and will piny an Important part in the gala by a policy of non-interfer- the actuality, therefore, may not ence with the Colony'a fickle curbe so far off as la generally rency. Accusing others of selfish ness, they cannot complain if they are given tit for tal. As we have The Mahomedan Festival of Id-ux. auid before, It is right and proper Zuba is being observed to-morrow. that the case for the general com- and firms are naked to grant a holiday Heads of Government departments
munity, by which we mean the io their Mahomedan employees.
motive.
l'e
Hame
supposed.
WEATHER REPONT,
of
next
on
order, is nearing completion here, A single ship costs "something Although intended for military more than $4,000,000, to say no- The Royal Observatory reports purposes, the U.S.S. Akron is ac: thing of docks, heilum gas for that the Chinese depression bas tually an important step toward inflation, gasoline for propulsion, moved into the Sea of Japan. The realization of the first merchant running expense and things like Indo-China depression is station-airship. When it is finished and that which push the cost of
the second navy ship, now on or-Jane-ship line up to about 39,250,-
ary.
FAZA LEZWES AND
"Oh, let's forget it, Dad-It's a darn nice present any-
how, and I'll probably get used to the colour."
000.
A
An enormous amount of testing has been done. Members of the stall talk as if transoceanie flights had already been mado many times by their dreamed of mer- chant fleet. Even the weather has been taken out of the realm of guesswork in this company's preparation for transoceanic busi- ness. So as not to be taken on- awares, meteorological experts
of the Goodyear company made 620 "theoretical crossings of the At- inntle," They studiod the actual weather conditions as reported on 620 days. government maps for charted a coured for a dirigible to avoid storms and take advantage of winds on each day and came to the conclusion that three-fourths of the time the ships would come through on schedule or ahead.
Too Tame, Old-timer Bays.
So much of the hazard has been taken out of airship flying, no- cording to W. T. Van Orman, world champion balloonist, now chief meteorologist of the pany, that it hardly attracts the aportsman.
com-
Mr. Van Orman, expinining the safety of Zeppelin travel, cannot realat n sigh for the old days of the free balloon, when you got into your basket with no asoŭr- ance at all of what country you would land in." He used to fly that way. On one of his flights his balloon
light- was struck ning and exploded, but ho invent- ed a lightning arrester so it wouldn't happen again. On other trip in a free balloon race. (Continued on Page 2):
an-