THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. - WEDNESDAY," FEBRUARY 19, 1936.
LONDON TO CHINA Here's How Lava Flow Appears to Camera Closeup
IN A WEEK
AROUND
WORLD IN 13 DAYS
And All For Only £500
"ROUND the world in thirteen
days: To China in a week" will be the travel agents' most
attractive offer in future.
day
the
near
SOLDIER SLAYER'S REPRIEVE
FIRST ACT OF CLEMENCY
IN NEW KING'S
REIGN.
The 27-year-old soldier, Lance- Corporal Arthur Charles Mortimer, who was sentenced to death at Win-
on Apelen for murdering a young woman cyclist by purposely running into her with a motor-car is to be evil be the first act of clemency
This will
under the new King.
The Home Secretary (Sir John Simon) has made the recommendation with a view to the sentence being coni muled to penal servitude for life.
Slooping car air liners, guided by radio beacons, will fly by night and
with brief halls for refuelling. The round ticket will cost £500. Main stages in the journey are al-the ready taking shapa.
It WOS announced that under Criminal Lunatics Act of 1884 Sir John caused a medical in- Imperial Airways and Pan Ameriquiry to be held into Mortimer's stato can Airways will open up the North of mind, and the recommendation to Atlantic route between London and respite the capital sentence followed, New York jointly under the agree ment recently completed.
United Air Lines, the largest Ame rloan internal air service, fly direct from New York to San Francisco.
Pan American Airways are flying the world's greatest ocean air route from San Francisco to Hongkong vin Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam, Man!
Manila,
From Hongkong passengers will be able to get a connecting service to Singapore, and then the Imperial Air- main trunk service back to
ways London.
Mr. H. B. Longfellow; of United Air Lines, has arrived in London to arrange for co-operation with Imperial Airways.
The prisoner will be removed to n canylet prison where he will be kept under medical observation.
Mortimer was in the 1st Battn. Welch Regiment, and he has a wife and baby.
Crushing everything in its patti, molten lava from the Mauna Los volenho outbreak in the Hawalian Is- lands moves in an irresistible path. An Intrepid news photographer crawled close to snap this unusual photo after Army planes had dropped 800-pound bombs on the flow in an effort to check its progresa,
SIX MEN PREPARE
FOR
SECRET TRIAL
Cambridge.
FIRST MURDER OF ITS KIND BRITAIN'S most secret court of justice will hold
Plan £2,000,000 3-Deck Bridge At Bosphorus
The murder for which he was a session at Cambridge within the next fort- EUROPE may soon be directly
sentenced was the first of its kind in history.
When dismissing Mortimer's appeal in the Court of Criminal Appeal Lord Hewart (the Lord Chief Justice) sald the man had the evidence showed "run amok,"
prosecution's case at the trial was that Mortimer atole a motor-car at Aldershot on August 7 last year.
The
night.
Six distinguished scholars of Cambridge University, wearing their mortar-boards and aca- demic robes, will meet in a room
*£5-A-Month'
at one of the Cambridge col- Premier
leges. The same evening ho knocked two
women off their bicycles.
"The final link for the flight round
Next morning in the same car he the world from London is the North Atlantic passenger service," he said. fellowed two girls who were cycling ninng a lane and deliberately knocked
which she died,
They will "sport the oak," or close the heavy double doors. The court of "Sex Vit" or six mon constituted under the univeralty
Pan-American Airways are ready as Phyllis Oakes (ngol 21) down statutes of 1858, will then be in to fly the Atlantic now, but they arwith the car, causing injuries from sliting. working in close co-operation with Imperial
who Airways,
extremely aro
It is empowered to try graduates reticent about their plans."
At the polleo court proceedings pre-accused of offences against the On rough reckoning it will take-ceding the trial a further case was university or of grave misconduct.
One day from
at was stolen London to New mentioned. A car York;
Farnborough, and less than an hour
One day from New York to Banater a Miss Harwood, who had been
Francisco;
Five days from San Francisco Hongkong;
One day from Singapore; and
Hongkong to
cycling near Woking, was found near to her bicycle with Injuries consistent with her having been run into from behind.
Near Guldford a police car drew level with the stolen car-which was being driven by Mortimer-but he escaped by driving on to the pave ment.
Four to five days from Singapore to London. Imperial Airways have great plans maturing for the North Atlantic service, for which largo flying-bot are being built.
Finally there was a collision, and Miss Harwood's handbag was found
A terminal building is to be built in the car. over Victoria Station. Lifts will take
passengers down to a private railway ARTIST'S
platform beneath.
Solving Russia's
Food Problem
"AIM NOT PROFITS
BUT PRODUCTION”
CAREER
RUINED
-£4,000-FOR-ROAD-
·CRASH VICTIM
Mr. Maurice Denton Welch, 20, of: Moscow. Sloane Avenue-triansions, Chelsea, Russia's food problem, which in was awarded £4,000 agreed the past was one of the greatest damages la the King's Bench difficulties facing the country, has Division now been solved, declares M. received when he was knocked off Mikoyan, the Food Commissar, in his bicycle by a motor-car,
a roport published recently.
17 large ment-production
trcs,
8
bacon factories,
10
sugar refinorles,
41 large canning plants,
37 refrigerating plants,
11 ice factories,
recently for Injuries
Graduato Accused
Is Worried
Istanbul, Jan. 25.
connected by road and rail with Asia Minor ́and India.
A suspension bridge linking both banks of the Bosphorus forms part of a plan elaborated by the istanbul municipality.
aro
The design and estimates of an
concern Anglo-American especially favoured. According to these the bridge would be of similar type to that at New York which
connects Brooklyn with Manhattan.
The bridge will have more than
one lovel. One will be reserved for rail transport, another for
Calgary, Feb. 8. PREMIER ABER- HART of Alberta is facing his first legisla- The judges will include the tive session Masters of Calus and St. John's Colleges. The Vice-Chancellor of distinctly hostile Oppo-lined the University, Mr. G. H. A. WI- son, the Master of Clare, will sition in the House and
..
preside.
The charge has not been!
road traffic, including a tramway with a pedestrians only. The pedes-
service, and a third will be for
of
The defendant is a graduate. a growing wave divulged. The proceedings will unrest. and criticism in be in secret. Even the findings the country.
of the six Just men may never
be promulgated.
trians' part of the bridge will be
with shops, cafes,
taurants, and so on.
rcs-
The total length of the bridge, according to Turkish newspapers, will be over a mile and a half.
The contral part will be suspend-
ed over the Bosphorus for a dis- tance of nearly half a mile, and
Mr. Aberhart in broadcast and will be high enough to allow the Unless the defendant is deprived linterviews, constantly warna the largest liner in the world to pass of his degrees or office, even the people that it is impossible to underneath it. punishment may be a seerst one
if he is found guilty.
initiate social credit legislation The approaches will rest on 18 The six judges do not yet know during this session of the Alberta arches, nine at each end. when or where the court will sit. Assembly, which opens on Febrn-
The Sex Viri is a court boundary 6. The latest intimation is
The next step will be for the by no rules of evidence. State that the payment of £ a month £2,000,000 to build the bridge.— municipality to raise about ments may be taken on oath or dividends may have to be delayed Reuter. without oath as the court directs. until nearly two years after the The Sex Viri met last about election instead of the eighteen
nine years ago to hear charges months mentioned after he took ing that income tax and other of immorality against a gradu-office.
ate, following his appearance as co-respondent in a divorce suit.
Long-Range Disputo
The chairman of the Sex Viri, To-day the Premier is carrying Professor H. C. Gutteridge, of on a long-range dispute with Trinity Hall, said:
Major Douglas in London. He,
The defendants were Mrs. Annio, "The case is not one of public admits it would be impossible for
don, owner of the car,
The accident occurred on the
London-Reigate rond, near Horley. BILL OF
It was stated that Mr. Welch's fi
juries were so serious that his
career as a commercial artist, for STAVISKY
levies will have to be advanced long before any purchasing certi- ficates can be distributed.
New Levias
Already heavier taxes have been
In the past eight years, he says, Hutley, of Woodyales-road, S.E.. interest. It is quito out of the Major Douglas to draft any gocial imposed, the latest being the the Soviet has established or em- who was driving the car, and Mr. question to reveal the nature of credit legislation for the House doubling of fees for motor-drivers, barked on the following:
William George Falconer, transport the charge or the name of the de-at this late date, but threatens together with higher imposts on cen-contractor, of Silwood-street, Lon- fendant.
that he will not wait long for the liquor sales. The new levies are father of social credit.
expected to produce an additional "I am determined that Major £70,000 annual revenue... Douglas must come here after the session is over," said Mr.
Highway, building, and mainten- Aberbari. "If he does not 1 anco funds are to be reduced, and will undertake the job myself, public services generally cut The but he is the man to do it. He latest threat is that municipalities started this social credit thing: will have to carry a bigger load of I have taken my ideas from relief costs, which will bring him."
virtual revolt by civic councila.
Meanwhile the financial affairs So tangled is the social credit of the province are becoming more skein becoming that predictions grave, and the Premier, who pro-are now freely being made that mised lower taxes and monthly Mr. Aberhart cannot remain in basic dividends, is openly admitt-power more than two years,
48 dairy produce and
garine plants,
178 mechanised bakeries,
22 tea factories.
mar
which he was being trained, was practically ruined,
from that abroad, where industry is run for the sake of profit, M.
£500,000
The food industry plan for 1916 Mikoyan remarks: The principle MUST BE
provides for a production of twice of the Sociallat system consists that of 1932,
Saying that the problem of pro- goods for consumption. Our aim in supplying the country with duction in the U.S.S.R. ia different is not profits but production."
VIC
PAID BY NINE MEN
Paris, -Over £500,000 in damages,
McLAGLEN TRAINING compensation and costs will be PRIVATE
paid by the nine men sentenced
ARMY
Not For Films, Either
New York.
To Victor McLaglen I apologise most humbly. It is not a moro troop of light horse of which he is commander-in-chief, as stated in
my dispatch to the News Chronicle
from information impart ed at McLaglen's sports centre out Hollywood way; writes the News Chronicle correspondent: In York:
Now
It la an army. Victor, telephoning from the capital of Movieland, got mo out of bed at midnight to give me the "lowdown" concerning it.
"How do you train your army?" I asked. "How do you stage their battles for the eine any London
mature
Victor
exploded.
A corps of motor-cyclists,
A drum and bugle corps.of 62 members.
A military band of 84 pieces. 260 leading horsewomen trbo aro training for the Red Cross,
in the Stavisky trial.
Under the judgment in the civil proceedings, which has now been passed, they have to repay;"
£480,000 lost by. seven insur- ance companies and two private persons,
£2,600 damages, and
WILSON'S SECRET VIEWS
ON U-BOATS
"Washington, Feb. 1.. Disclosures made to-day about President Wilson's attitude to £18,000 which the case has | the U-boat menace rather spoil the bankers' argument that not cost.
they, but German submarines, led America into the war,
In addition, there are the various 690 mounted men, trained by Re taxes and fiscal additions, which servo oficers of the, United will vastly increase the sum. States Army, and made up
Pessages, hitherto suppressed, be sunk without warning, and that from Colonel House's diary were merchantman shall have the right read hofore the Senate Munitions to arm." DE PARA Committee.
"Federal Reserve Imbroglio"
of professional and business Blow To Companies men of the highest stand- This judgment will come 28′′R
The quotations show that, in "The Federal Reserve Im- organisation is self-
severe blow to the three Insurance 1916, at any rate, the submarine broglio," a phrase used by Wilson supporting on the proceeds companies of the "Confiance," of menace provoked no warlike sent. In a letter to Colonel House, was {quated in support of the argument from matches at my stadium which Guobin, one of the condom- ments from Wilson.
Diffored From Balfour that the bankers avanted "war to seats 15,000 people."ned men, was a director, "But what is the purpose?
They have been made civilly ro The matter of armed merchant-protect their loans. ONLA Does it perform any civid sponsible for his part, as it was mon is less aimple than Dalfour James A. Farloy, President duties?
Roosevelt's queried, duly he who is supposed to have helped would make It." Wilson said.
Postmaster-General, awod but somewhat puzzled. to push worthicas Stavisky bonds
Huh, no, Victor admit on the Bayonne municipal pawn "Does it stand ready, to deal with have to pay several million franca shop. They will consequently the revolution of the Red proletariat?"
on his behalf. TARRAR
.
"It is hardly fair to ask a sub-pouling at a Democratic Party marine commander to give warn dinner in New York, thundered he is to be fired on." the banker and big business gang ing U, when he approaches near, the slogan "Keep Roosevelt in and
Colonel House had just had 'ajout”
paper Bays my organisation. We are a patriotia body, ready at Those decisions are not quite private conversation with the labs Thereby ho Indicated the line of connected with the Alma I'll sue it all times for an emergency and to the end of the Stavisky case. Lord Reading, who was then Lord Democratic attack in the coming toibel. I am going to be in London dof and the liberties and principles There are still ten persons into Chief Justice of England, and Presidential campaign, which, as
started it two years in upon when the live ende whose activities investigations are wrote to President Wilson on chairman of the Democratich wa plendid high-class organisation, founded, and don't let any London being made. Defending counsel, Dec. 2, 1915
tional Committee he will direct. ~-. inTolberingwith; be said, "there is a paper insinuste tase this organisation however, hope that those inquiries The British Government dostres. He characterised the representa
Also, there has the femptent connection with the will lead eventually to a dropping that we should demand from Ger- tives af, banking and big business
Ku
ing
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