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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
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During their stay in Hongkong, the 34 feminine members of the Young Australia League were entertained at the Repulse Bay Lido by the Youth Section of the League of Nations Union. Occi- dental and Oriental blend in the photograph below to make a charming foreground for the natural beauty of Repulse Bay. One of the Australian visitors, in bathing suit, is seen with a Chinese girl and Mr. Arthur Shepherdson (Staff Officer of the Y.AL.) on the loft:-
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Year Always To Begin On a Sunday
AND END ON A NEW DAY, DECEMBER Y
MISS
ELISABETH AC-
mission.
HELIS, of New York, has just arrived in London,
Mias Achelis has a She wants us always to have our birthdays on a Monday.
Of course, our birthdays are incidental to Miss Achells'a min- ! sian, which is a thing of much) greater scope. She wants every-1 body to have their birthdays on the! same day of the week every year. She wants Christmas Day always to come on a Monday, an excellent iden involving a long hoilday, and Guy Fawkes Day always to be on a Sunday and Easter always 01
April 8. In fact, Miss Achells £40,000 Theft
wants a fixed calendar.
Nature Is Obstinate
She has been working solidly
Of Jewels
for it now for five years. Every In Car Crash
summer she visits all the com-.
mittees site' has established In
Europe, and every winter she
organises the American end. By
1989 she hopes to have the fixed MDIVÁNI DISASTER
calendar in operation all over the
principal countries of the world.
Barcelonih, Sept. 1.
The difficulty of the present The total value of jewels stolen calendar, as Miss Achelis ex-from Baroness de Thyssen, who plained, is that
FRANCE'S MIGHTY
MILITARY WALL'
IMPREGNABLE CHAIN OF FRONTIER FORTS:
Nature was gravely injured in the fatal VAST WORK COMPLETED
obatinately refuses to have a car crash when Prince Alexis nice round number of days Mdivani. was killed, is 2,896,425 overy year,
francs (about £40,000).
Instead of there being 62 weeks in a year there are 52 weeks and one day, or, rather, one day and a quarter-
Julius Cacaur thought he had got over that when he had his idea about Leap Year, but unfortunate- ly there are not exactly one and a quarter extra days a year, but one day five hours 48 minutes and 49 seconds (approximately). So that as Caesar's calendar passed through the century the sun got later and later, and after a while spring began to occur in the depth of winter,
This was disclosed to-day when a list of the missing jewels handed
to the authorities was.mude.public.
The jewels include:
at 604,000 francs;
Seven diamond bracelets, valued)
valued at 475,000 fennes:
Two platinum diamond collars,
A diamond pearl collar, valued) at 200,000 francs;
Pearl diamond earrings valued
at 250,000 francs;
Seven diamond emerald rings. valued at 700,000 francs:
alued at 700,000 franes: valued
at 223,000 francs; and The next man to have a try t putting things right was Pope at 108,000 franes.
A platinum wrist-watch, valued Gregory, in the sixteenth century,
The baroness was visited by the who wiped out 10 days, started the police yesterday, but was unable year on January 1 and made com- to say whether the jewels were in pllcnted
arrangements about her possession at the time of the Easter and the moon.
By the time England adopted
Her injuries received in the ae- Pope Gregory's ideas, 170 cident are so serious that it is years later, we were already a feared she may lose her power of day out, and Lord Chesterfield, speech and her sight.--Reuter to the indignation of the people,
omitted 11 days in September
to put that right.
accident.
Five years ago Miss Acholis got Henpecked
No dissatisfied with things that she
'decided to dovete her whole time
to calendar reform.
She
re-
viewed all the suggested systems, rejecting the one which would
divide the year into 18' equal months OB. mathematical, not
Husbands:
Weeping Wives
superstitious grounds, and con- DESERVE YOUR PITY
centrated on a year of 12 months,!
divided into four equal quarters.
"By my system" she pointed out, "the year would begin
London, Aug. 30.
band don't pity him-blame him.
If you know a kenpecked hus-
If you know an hysterical wife
Paris, Sept. 10.
The mightiest military wall mankind has known, France's "Maginot Line" of three hundred bristling death turrets" buried in the bowels of the earth, is at last com- pleted, all ready for the next war.
The Great Wall of China, the mighty Hadrian's fortifications which the Romans erected against Scotland, the impregnable Hindenburg line of the World War are amateur's work compared with the military and engineer- ing skill in France's £30,000,000 steel chain facing Ger- many.
ȚIDDEN from the of
Hover the most invisitive wanderer roving along the French side of the Rhineland. frontier, the forts have been rushed through by an army of unseen, underground workers since the first "national defence" credits were voted for the work in 1928.
To-day, along a front of 150 miles, France's young conscripts go through part of their two years' compulsory military ser vice learning the technical operation of the forts, which are now continuously manned in order to keep a thorough watch on the -German Frontier.
Some of the
are tiny
forta
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Paydanı annammava
dant (perkyyhky LABORAN
machine gun nests capable of hold- General Daboilay the brains of ing only a handful of export gun the French army since the death ners; others are gigantic arsenals, filled with all the grimmest material of Foch-for the plans for the of war that human invention has forts, which were due to be com- devised up to now, all kept secret pleted in 1934.
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H.K. HONEYMOON ENDS IN COURT
FORMER FOLLIES GIRL, Mias Nina Pierson, has obtained a | Mexican divorce from Mr. Paul E. |Leviton; a millionaire business man, ¡sayk a message from Los Angeles. They have just returned from their tonymoon in Hongkong and Shang- hai, Couple are pictured here after their wedding in London a year ago.
all enclosed within the protection of a natural mountain.
Giant's Tronches
The "Glant's Trenches" is the French soldier's name for the Hocwald fort, to the north of | Strasbourg, which, unlike most of the others, is on the surface. It cost £1,000,000 to build, required five years for the two hundred and fifty acres of ground to be dug out and the vast mechanism installed.
To-day, as in all the other forts,
the guns are primed, the men trained and at their posts as part of France's preparedness in view
Europe to-day.
with Sunday, January '1, and who henpecks her husband don't systems of transport by steam and cause as the work advanced new of the unsettled condition
of.
from the light of day until the The work has been prolonged call to netion. Some have vast and additional credits required be would proceed to Saturday blame her-pity her. December
were electric railways atretching for- Improvements 30. That would
necessary, ''All Dr. G. Gichm, a leading Berlin miles into the earth, linking main while gaps which were left, such
the young soldiers who, leave one extra day over. psychologist, has just conducted an would give that day a special olaborate test with thirty such advanced forts.
bases far behind the lines with the as the stretch of frontier facing taken from civilian life to learn name, either December Y (Y couples, and he now has no sym-
the Saar, while it was under con- the art of war in these modern "death turrets" return home to Without ever appearing on the trol of the League of Nations, for year) or New Year's Eve, pathy whatsoover for henpecked surface, these trains bring up have had to be filled with new speak with awe of the miracles giant guns, fresh supplies of sections of military works to com- of scientific destruction revealed shells and other war stocks right plete the vast stretch of forte be- to their gaze in the underground to the front, to keep the forts in ginning on the Belgian frontier Warrens. One and all declare
and stretching to the border.
This is what he discovered:
and it would come between husbands. Saturday, December 30, and Sunday, January 1, December Y, of course, would be a public holiday.
women patients. Dr. Glohm exam In dealing with thirty hysterical
ined their husbands. His analysis was as follows:----
"Weak husbands whosa hulp- lessness was probably caused by wives' hystories Normal husbande
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action.
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that, once the chain of criss-cross Are from all the forte is put Into action no human being could pass the line,
Plans have been discussed for a
Impregnable By Land'
Forts Beneath Rhine- Military experts say that the chain is so scientifically perfect Some of the forts are immersed long time to extend the "Maginot" that no army could pass through in the Rhine itself, only the con- wall right to the English Channol It by land. The only means of crete "casements" aticking up and this will probably be done. At cracking it, therefore, in a future above the muddy banks. Migh present, France places her secur- 4 battle would be by smashing it by tiest of the forts is the Hacken-ity in the combination of the air, although even that la prob- berg system, which defends Metz, French and Belgian systems. The lematical because of the depth of but of which hardly a single trance French forts, extend from Swit- the forts plugged into the ground is viable on the surface, as a zerland to the point where the and the tremendous thickness of United Press correspondent who Belgian frontier Louches France.. the cement and stoel lininga.,
recently toured this urea testified. To prevent another invasion of The steel wall which Franco has Underground, however, is 'n hor territory, Belgium is rushing built against an invasion nèross tooming the Rhine is named after the late mechanice, with electric cables, complete the French chain, with marvel of: military through a series of forts which will
who was responsible, with Marshall guns and machine guns, bombe, neighbourhood of Luxembourg Minister of War, Andre-Maginat, water systems, roadways, glant which it will become linked in the
Pétain, General Weygand and shells and vast stocks of cartridges United Press.
Another Extra Day "Then on Leap Year I would: have another extra day, between, Saturday, June 30, and Sunday.) July 1, which would-be called June! Ruthless, energetia "he men" LCL for Leap Year.), and June L, Neurasthenic men of course, would be a public Alcobolic addicts holiday.
Typical honpacked husbands.. "Then the new calendar would And those ten henpecked hus- be permanent, too. It could be bands, says Dr. Giehm, were very printed on bronze, or carved on consitive, inactive, soft, over-care- stone, and it would last for ever,ful, wavering men, who covered up No need to change it every year, their weakness by protending to You could have the ontendar en- bo "kind and gentle sympathisers graved on the back of your watch with their wives' malady. case, and it would be as perma- And men like that deserve nent as the watch."
to be henpecked.
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