FAR AWAY FROM WAR
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1935.
HOW ROME HEARS
SPECIAL PRE-WINTER
TWENTY FIVE MEN ARE RULERS
John and Charles Martin, rane of the Ethiopian minister to London, England, are seen as they set out to attend school for the first time in the English metropolis.
They Hate His Singing
New York, Nov. 5.
NEW YORK opera lovers pay £2 a seat to hear Lawrence Tibbett, the famous baritone, sing, but neighbours at his New York home would willingly pay more than that to stop him from singing.
They even threaten to take action to stop him.
KISSING
A WEDDING RING
REWARDED WITH 100 DAYS' INDULGENCE BY POPE
Grant us, oh Lord, that inving Thee we may love each other and live according to the Holy Law.
MA
[ARRIED Roman Catholic couples in the Archdiocese
of Westm niter who kiss the wife's wedding ring and recite
Mr. Charles Cass, treasurer of an important paper company, said, "Tibbett's voice makes the whole building shiver,
"I don't know whether he [sings in his bath," he said, "but the noise is worse in the morning, and when he is work- in un an opera our whole home vibrates."
Miss McMillon, another neighbour. called the Golden Voice of American Opera "Terrible, really terrible."
She added: "What we have to go through is awful."
Mr. Tibbett, who likes to sing at home has sound-proofed his
the above prayer have been whole apartment. but still his granted by the Pope an indul- } neighbours are incensed. gence of 100 days, to be gained.
once a day.
Archbishop_insley announced this at a meeting of the West- minster branch of the Catholle Women's Longue and the Union! of Catholle Mother. He said he hoped this act of devotion woaldi be adopted by all his people who had entered the married slakt,
The intention of the indulgence wha to stress the sanctity
marriage,
of:
It May Be Extended "So far," it was expla.ned, "the" indulgence ha be a promitented only in the Westminster diorese.
It is posibl that the queson of
its being extended to, other b dioceses of England may be rais.d at a meeting of the bishops, The "Catholic Encyclopaedia" explains that as mdulgence of av many days means that it "caneels an amount of purgatorial punish ment equivalent to that which
would have been remitted, in the sight of God, by the performance of so many days of the ancient canonical penance."
In the Roman Catholic narriage service wedding ring is blessed
OF THE WORLD
"LORDS AND MASTERS" OF OUR PLANET
AMERICAN WRITER CHOOSES SIX BRITONS AS WORLD-SHAKERS
New York, Nov. 1.
Twenty-five men rule the world, twice as many of them come from England as any other nation, and, although the world is arming to the teeth, only four military men now figure as world-shalers, according te "Our Lords and Masters" by "The Unofficial Observer," just published.
GERMINI
RADIO
in all the thoroughfares and atreute in Rome and other Italian towns big
loud speakers have been placed in
The author holds that the world is "rushing headlong to the brink of catastrophe and from now until 1950 it will be nip and tuck whether civilisation can he preserved at all, let alone the present state of affairs." This race between civisive the latest war news from the lisation and catastrophe is "controlled by our Lords and Masters," he says, and only by studying the men who really run the world we live in has
position so that the population can
front in East Africa,
the mass of humanity any hope of guiding its Romantic
World rulers reign through Bandit
destiny.
30 MILES UP-AND 1,000 M.P.H.
BRITAIN WILL TRY
Britain has entered the con- test to produce the first 1,000- m.p.h. airplane. A stratosphere machine is now being built at Bristol.
-
Fantastic speed mnges will be the prize of the first nation to send its airplanes of Com merge and war into the strato- sphere..
The journey from London to New York will be done comfor- t.bly in three hours.
Bristol engines have already carr.ed three pilots to Woral altitude records. The Bristol Aeroplane Company hopes that its experiments may result, by 1936, in stratosphere tripa thirty miles above the earth.
Lf will be impossible In the stratosphere, unless aircraft are hermetlently sealed and warmed. In war. the fighting airpl.ne that can first send a bullet through its enemy's airtight she will w.n.
WILLIS ISLAND.
Voluntary Robinson
Crusoes Of The South Seas
before it is peace & runs tables ISLAND HERMITS WATCH FOR CYCLONES
finger by the priest. It is
re
garded as a symbol of the Sacra- ment of Matrimony.
FILM BAN ON "QUINS"
MARY PICKFORD'S OFFER REFUSED
So that Australia may be warned of the advent of cyclones, the two radio operators on Willis Island, 30 acre strip of sand 312 miles from the Queensland coast on the edge of the Coral sea, have been asked to send the Commonwealth Government complete weather reports every day of the year.
The details they supply of tem-, peraturos, humidity, cloud, sen
five spheres, "Observer" says
the sphere of social behaviour,
in which five men are supreme; the political sphere, with eight "big shots," the military sphere, with only four super-men, and the economic sphere, with eight
czars.
Thes men master the con- #ciences of the mass of humanity: King George V. of England, the link that binds together Britain's far-flung empire of many races.
Pope Pius XI, the supreme moral authority of the world's 300 000 0 Colies,
Leon Trotsky, most eloquent advozale of social justics for the working classes.
Emperor Ilirohito of Japan, spiritual and temporal ruler of 70,000,000 Japanese, who bellevo he is divine.
Mahatma Ghandi, the moral presentative of India's teeming
for demandi
in- millions dependence.
In
May Go Free
Madrid, Oct. 30.
If appeals now being made on his behalf are successful, the prison gates of San Miguel de los Reyes, in Valencia, will soon open to restore his long- lost freedom to
a Span.sh Robin Hood.
Pedro Ceballos Gonzalez other- Cucumber) robbed rich Peter to wise "Pepino Chico" ("Little
pay poor Paul, and was senten- ced to 164 years in pr.son, of which he has served thirty.
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Many a peasant-farmer paid FUR COLLARS
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money "Pep.no Chico" had taken from the pockets of his landlord. Meanwhile charges began to pic up against him in the court arch.ves of half a dozen pro-
v.nces,
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The bandit loved majci, Manuela Rueda, of Rute. Pet: v hand the banns read on three cur secutive Sundays, though the time.
No American is placed in this class.ficat.cn, and only one in the next, that of pol.t.cs. Stan ey "Bul-swing", epitome of Hritish conservation and mud and place of the marriage cere- dling through" by which Brita.ny were not stated. ru.es a fourth of the world.
The place was ʼn little chápel lu Sir Samuel Hoare, England's he depths of the Serra de Cabra, "most capable foreign secrataryį visited on one day in the year by since the war."-
any pilgrims, but other lett Andre Tardieu, political "hench; to the bandits. All the members man of French-high--finance-and}of-Pedro's-band-were-there. big industry."
The Civil Guarda were not sup- Joseph Stalin, "most powerful po..ed to know anything abast it. onat an in the Soviet Union.”
but they were; there is. They Benito Mussolini, Italy's Duce waited until they judged the cere- and Europe's "elovirest and least meny would be very thi they scrupulous diplomat."
round began to close in
A on Mt.el, many's Reichs-ecupel. uehrer who has made his coun- ry a ment ngwer" awnin.
Franklin Delino Roosevelt, pre- sident of the world's potentially Strongest country,
Mustapha Kemal, Turkish dieta- | tor, first and abl:st of the post-war | dictators.
The four military men
ranked
П
the
Pedro, for the first time in his ite, fled from them, taking hia bride, while the other bandits covered his retreat. They left one of their number dead on the field; one guard was carried back to Rute with a gunshot wound. -
A child was born to Manuela, as world rulers, a German, and
panese a Russian and a Chinese, Pedro's freedom. She had
the happy Cvent ended gonė
are:
danger to visit her.
Gen. Werner Von Blomberg her husband braved every kind of to her parents' house in Rute, and German defence minister and com mander of "the world's most efficient military machine."
Gen. Sadno Araki, strongest ad- vocate of Japanese military CX- He found four rifles pointing
pansion in Asin.
Gen. K.ementi Voroshikov, com. mander, of the Red Army's 1,000,- 000 mei.
Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, comman der of the army of China.
Bight economic potentates havej mine events than all the generals more power to influenes and detor and politicians, "Observer" says, and he lists two Americans in this,
One night there was a knock on he door. Pedro himself opened
at his cheat.
ARRESTED THIEF
REMEMBERED THE
POLICE IN HIS WILL The amartness of the French group:
police in handling a theft mystery Montagu Norman, Governor ofis remembered In the will of M. the Bank of England, which in-Luelen Pierre Arbel, of 103, cidentally la a private institution. Avenue Henri-Martin, Paris, and Lord Reading, British chairman of Villa Sta. Marie, Jardins Solim, of the board of imperial Chomcns | Tunis, ironmaater, who died 111 Industries, in which the Du Pont July 1934.
int rests in America are partners. Ho leit catate in England valued
Baron James de Rothschild, at £325.
Willis Island, the birthplace of Callender, Ont., Nov. 10.
yclones, is also believed to be the Mr. David A. Croll. Ontario's will thus enable the
and wind velocity and direction "ome of more birds than any other Min'ster of Public Welfare. has
various piece of earth. It swarms with rejected Mary Pickford's off of meteorological officials to advise mutton birds, sooty terns and £5,000 for the first appearance of air transport companies of the the ground is covered with birde banking family.
| gannets. In the nesting season French hond of Europe's greatest He made the following legacies the D'ora u'n'uple's in a film, weather they may expect over the who leave their nests only when
in view of his having been robbed . Mies Pickford's offer which Commonwealth airways.
Eugene Schneider, French "key-of 400,000 francs and a sum of extended to £7.000 for a gond
cyclone rages. In 1930, when man" in the European munitions between 6,000 and 8,000 francs: 74 mile hurricane swept the industry.
10,000 francs to M. Pasenud, film and $10:000 for a third- During the non-cyclonic period, island, and tea Inches of rain foll
Divisional Commissioner of Police; followed Mr. Harold Lloyd's offer April to October, states Austral in three hours, the birds fled to
Dr. Halmar Schacht, Germany's
6.000 to M. Jeangirard, Commis of £5.000 for the appearence of News, these modern hermits, who sea, returning in three days to
economic dictator.
sioner of Police for tho Third JP. Morgan, whose firm "con- District, "es a token of gratitude. the quintunlets in his new come-ve been chosen partly for their find their chicks dend.
trols over one quarter of America's for the very active assistance which dy "The Milky Way."
organized wealth."
they gave men in order to discover John D. Rockefeller, Jr., ad- the culprit and arrest him." ministrator of the largest personal į The will renda:. "I remember fortune of America.
with emotion. my parents, Sir Henry Deterding, Britain's friends and
col- all my former dutch-born ono-man super-trust in leagues, managers, engineers, clerks oil..
and workmen. • My "Observer", whose identity lab.tter grief at the end of my life. closely guarded by Simon and is that I was not able to continue Schuster, his publishers, addrossis with them the struggle which I 500 limanlf to the man in the stroot, 1-dillcult in the economic chaos or the traditional old lady invhich overwhelms the world and Dubuquo."--United Press.
our country in:particular.”-
Interest in natural science and Mr. Croll stated: "It is hard painting the wireless station, over. meteorology, will spend their time 'to have to refuse Mary. She lng gear and divging thor was very persuasive, but I could vegetable gardon, which grows in not consider a film contract for soft carred from Australia by the Dionne babies until Dr.bags and mixed with the island Dofoe, their physicion and guar-sand... dian, la entisfied that such a venture will not harm them."
Their ble Intorost in life is tho flying of little gas balloons which
The quintuplets are now near- teli them what they want to know ly 16 months old.
about the wind.
The mutton birds nest in bur rows, digging to the depth of a foot and burrow.ng for three to six feet.
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