THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
A NAVY WILL GO TO THE SCRAPHEAP
BRITAIN TO
SCRAP
ITS FLEET
BUT A NEW ONE WILL
TAKE ITS PLACE
London, Aug. 29. The British Government. have submitted to Japan, America, France, Germany and Italy the approximate figures of the proposed naval building programme for 1936-'42, concerning which they conferred with the Em- pire Prime Ministers.
The figures do not constitute a rigid programme, but merely a tentative basis in connection with the world naval conference at the end of the year.
Official quarters emphasise that no definite plan exists. It is understood the seven years programme, which has been drafted in readiness for the ex- piration of the Washington and London treaties, especially in the
THE DIONNE quintuplets, who are now 15 months old, are making their first efforts to walk. From left to right are photographs of Annette, Cecillo, Yvonne, Emilie, and Marie. BELOW.—“Jubilee," the baby chimpanzee at the London Zoo, also learning to walk, receives a helping hand from the keeper.
MUI-TSAI
light of Japan's denunciation of EVIL
the Washington Treaty, en-
visages a total of 12 new capital DECREASING
ships, 33 cruisers and 63 des-. troyers, mostly replacing over- age ships, made up as follow:-
Years.
1936
1937
1938
1030
1040
1941
1942
*SO Capital ships.
CHOMONO Aircraft Carriers.
#soocoo Destroyers. *** tatap Submarines. angasse Cruisers.
6 9 3
0
The cost is estimated to ex-
NUMBER CUT IN
HALF IN FIVE
• YEARS SLOWLY but surely, the
mui-tsai evil is ending in
Hongkong.
Child-slavery, which until
recently was a blot on the
name
of the Colony, is]
1935.
"JUBILEE" AND THE "QUINS”.
FÖRBUNDSUNNAMED FINDE 3:03M
almost a thing of the past. Two Routes For Atlantic FOUR-YEAR-OLD
Since December, 1929, when
coed £100,000,000, over twice the present annual expenditure. the Female Domestic Service Influential quarters urge portion Ordinance prohibited the unlaw- of the expenditure should be deful detention of any child by frayed by means of a naval de-
Air Mail Services
100-PASSENGER BRITISH PLANES
fence loan, but the financial ar- persons other than its parents, ANOTHER big step forward has been taken to
rangements have not been deter-the number of registered mul- mined.
tsal-children who are
volun-
bring a regular transatlantic air service into
Likewise, there is no definite tarily indentured--has steadily existence. decision regarding the limit of decreased. capital ships. The British con- tinue to urge a 25,000 tons limit,
which is only possible by inter: national agreement, on which all
phases of the programme are do- pendent.
Fliers Plan To To Land In Lost "World"
SECRET OF ANDES
HIDDEN away in the depths
When the Ordinance WRS
The first report of the proposed routes, which brought into force, a total of have been thoroughly surveyed, has been present- 4,290 mui-tsais were registered. ed to the Air Ministry by Irish Transatlantic Cor-
At the end of last year poration Limited. this figure has been reduced to 2,263, a reduction during 1934OUNGHETASUN KATZENTRAZOJMOVISTAS ZEI of 463.
|NOISE BECOMES
"This reduction," says the MORE FASHIONABLE Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, in bis Annual Report to Government,
"is mainly accounted for by H. K. CHINESE REVERT
Alternative routes have been planned-one starting at Lon- Scotia, as its penultimate and donderry with Sydney, Nova
New York as its ultimate stage, Galway and ending at Botwood, and the other starting from
permanent departures from the TO CRACKER FIRING Newfoundland-by Mr. Maxwell | Colony, restoration to parents
and other relatives, and marri- !
age."
The Secretariat for Chinese
4
Cracker firing, which lost Ayrton, F.R.LB.A., who has pre- much of its popularity with pared the report. Chinese people when the Re It is estimated that the bases public came into existence, is returning to favour again at surveyed could be adapted and least in Hongkong.
established at a cost of '£25,000. Ten years ago only 412 per-A second report being prepared
LIKES HIS CIGAR
SO, SMOKED FOUR FOR HIS BIRTHDAY West Paterson, Aug. 30. Charles (Mickey) Norman celebrated his fourth birth- day by smoking four cigars.
The infant-amoker, whose parents have been the par- ticular target of anti-tobacco leagues throughout
the country, smoked cach cigar only half way.
His mother, explained that Mickey has been smoking less the last two years, and of late sometimes goes two or three days without a cigar. He has developed a liking for beer, and prefers
it to tobacco.-Unitra Press.
German Princess In
PREFERS A FLAT TO PALACE IN
NETHERLANDS
of a forest of brambles on Affairs is jealous of the welfare the shore of a crystal-clear lake of the children who elect to re- high up among the northern main as mui-tsai, and
during spurs of the Andes is a "Lost 1994 no less thun 3,076 visits mits were issued by the Police by Mr. Ayrton in collaboration Revolt World" village.
were made by the Lady Inspec-Department for this form of with a leading aeronautical, The mysterious village was tors of the Department to the celebration. Last year the total expert will be submitted to the recently sighted by Captain Hans homes of Registered mui-tsais, was 2,767, the highest for Air Ministry this month. Hoffman, chlef pilot of the Scadta in addition
to their ordinary several years. (Colombian-German air transport
Mr. C. H. Clendining, a director! The majority of the fire of the Irish Transatlantic Cor- company) while flying an air liner work with the male Inspector
investigating numerous
cracker celebrations were for poration, Limited, has just return- between Barranquilla and Bogoti,
Captain Hoffman has since made concerning Registered and Un-weddings. 1,844 of the total ed from a visit another light over the village ar-gistered mui-tsal.
permita being for this purpose. States and Canada in connection companied by General Carlos Cortes
The remainder were for birth with this epoch-making scheme. A Vargas.
Numerous visits were also days, shop-openings, etc. The general states that he and paid during the year to ex-mui- Captain Hoffman are agreed that tsai who have obtained employ-. they have discovered traces of a ment as domestic servants, tribo which has been lost to civilina-} tion for many centuries.
No Civilisation
Venezuela frontier.
cases
ARE YOU SURE?
to the United
The Hague, Aug. 28. VIVACIOUS, dark - eyed He has had a splendid re-
twenty-year-old German ception and the promise of co-princess-cousin of Queen Wil- operation from distinguished helmina-prefers a two-roomed officials of the United States flat, where she will stay us Miss Government.
Schonberg, to the hospitality of the royal palace at The Hague.
Soon she hopes.to be earning her own living independently as a bookbinder.
"It is noteworthy," says the Report, "that at the end of the
At Baltimore he saw the The houses comprising the year 115 Registered 'mui-taal Here are a few more brain-Oriental Clipper, just after it village, which is situated between were attending school."
teasers for the idle hour. had completed its successful the Nochi and Magdalena_rivers,
Answers are on Page 12. are, according to General Vargas, During 1984, fifty-seven pro- 1. Han Abyssinia ever clashed, flight to Midway Island. similar to those inhabited by the accutions were brought under with Italy before? If so,
in what The machine is capable of Motilones Indians of the Colombia-the Ordinance, and alxty-three circumstances and with what result 7
2. What convictions were secured, The the records of the world have carrying 46 passengers, a crew "All indications show that there charges
being the hottest and of six and mails on the trans- on which convictions coldest places in the world 7 Is no civilisation in the villago,'
atlantic service. obtained were
3. The healthiest country in the included 83 Baye General Vargas,
The houses appear lost in the charges of keeping unregistered world, according to statistics, Ir:
United States Britain middle of the forest, and are mada mui-tsal, an offence heavily Now Zealand Australia inaccessible by tangled thickets of frowned upon in Hongkong, four
Danmark brambles. They are, not built in charges of failing to pay wages straight lines, as is, the case in to registered mui-tsal and one civilised Indian villages, but in in charge of assaulting a mui-tsal Irregular zigzag formation.
J
"Moreover, the houses are -identical in-shape-and-size, which disproves the hypothesis put for- ward that the village is merely an abandoned mining camp."
Plan To Land
It is the opinion of General Vargas that he and Captain
Hoffman câu land a hydroplane on
France
..
of Nations owe its existence?
4. To what move does the League
G.. What artist painted the famous picture, Mons, Time? Where is that plcturo now?
Po Loung' Kuk
d. What is the biggest Hving thing In the world? Valuable work was done dur- 7. Who was it in mythology whom ing 1934 by the Po Leung Kuk Minerva, the goddess wisdom, Society, founded in 1878 to aid turned into a "pider?
of
Princesa Helene zu Erbach Schonberg-to give her full title would have been welcome as a permanent guest at the Dutch royal residence. But, with an independence which won the ad. miration of the Queen and her daughter, Princess Juliana, she Mr. Clendining was received
preferred to work for her living. For a time, she was a proba-· by Igor Sikosky, who assured tioner nurse at one of the big- him that they had machines on
100 Passengers?
the Sikosky plant at Connecti- gest nursing homes at The cut-quile capable of operating Hague; but after a brief trial, on a transatlantic service, and the Princess decided that she he saw no reason why machines had no vocation for this work. could not be constructed cap- able of carrying 100 passengers.
8. What were the origin of the "Everything I saw and did in the detection and suppres- Olympic Games? At what period convinced me that the main sion of kidnapping, especially were they held? Who abollshed them difficulties in the way of an of girls and women.
Atlantic service have been over-
and when?
9. Who, first determined horse- During the year 568 women, the lake alongside which the village girls and children were admitted power, and what basis was used for come," said Mr. Clendining.
such calculations ?.
Cloyer. Worker
Nothing daunted, she applied herself to her favourite hobby. of bookbinding in real earnest.
There seems little doubt that, in the near futude. Miss Schon berg" will be able to earn a comfortable lucome ́at this work. Princess Julians, who is now to this institution, 29 of whom 10. What are the
"In connection with the pro-with: her mother in Scotland, They are planning to make a wore lost children and 70 maid-assenger ships afloat in the world? posed aerodromo at Sydney, assisted Princess Helene to closer study of the characteristics servants or mui-tsal who had largest ship that has visited Hong-R. H. Mulock, D.5.0, has been rooms, bathroom and kitchen. 11. What is the name of the Nova Scotia, Air-Commander choose her little flat-two of the mysterious people who, for left.
12. What is the name of the de- Instructed by the Irish Trons- Princess Helone will live there centuries, have remained outside the left their employera.
leaving the Kuk 226 per-structive Insect which eats its way atlantic Corporation, Ltd., to alone when she returns from a whose village may constituto a new 80s were restored to husbands through wood:
prepare a report for the Air brief visit to relatives in Eng- lady bug and other relatives,
termite El Dorado-United Press.
Ministry."
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