THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 27, 1936.
EXCURSION TRIPS ACROSS WORLD
SERVICE IS PLANNED FOR 1938
30,000-ton Ships Made In Britain
PLANS for "excursion" trips across
the Atlantic have been revived. In 1938 it may be possible to travel to America in a modern liner for a Fare of £10.
Negotiations are nearing com- pletion between a British group headed by Major Frank Bustard and Messrs. Vickers for the building at Barrow of two liners, each of about 30,000 tons.
The plans of the ships are com- plote. They embody new ideas in!
The design and accommodation.
first koel will be laid within the next few months in readiness for the staff of the new service in two years' time.
There is much secrecy about the details of the operation of the new line, but it is understood that, in the main, they will follow Mayor Bustard's scheme of a year ago,
HOLLYWOOD CRAZE
in Madison
Cinemeetress Katherine Hepburn is taking lessons in skating, she is on the rink of tho Ice Club Square Garden, where shown alarve film stars are now ing the winter "cure".
DYING MAN'S THOUGHTS WERE ONLY FOR OTHERS
A high tributo was paid to the dead driver of the
express, which crashed into five
It was then proposed to buy Penzance-to-London three ships of the Red Star Line, trucks near Shrivenham, Berks., on Jan. 16, when the which was owned in America, but flow the British flag. Single inquest on the two victims of the collision was resumed
trans-Atlantic fares were to belat Swindon. Those killed were: $10, with a "pay-as-you-cat”ar- rangement for meals, and an in- clusive charge to cover all tips.
100,000. Ton
Ships
This scheme fell through because of a Tronairy Order prohibiting the transfer of capital from Britain. The Red Star ships were eventually
Driver Ernest Albert Starr, Mont-boxes with an incomplete train, and with no rear lights, but he did not place. Acton, London.
Mra. Nina Gladys Mary Court-know. ney, 38, wife of a master mariner of Gorran, Cornwall,
The Jury found there was nothing to prove negligence on, the part of the
Twenty-six other persons were in-servants of the railway company. jured in the accident.
The coronar, Mr. A. L. Forrester,! at with a jury, which returned a verdict of accidental death.
Mr. H. H. Greenwood, chief surgeon
purchased by a German group. of the Great Western Railway los
Present single-crossing fares In British ships of the same type ng pital at Swindon, to which the injured were taken, said: "Although Starr!
those proposed vary
£13 68.
from £26 to suffered great aguny, he never utter- ed a word of complalat. His only Another plan for £10 trips be-concern was for others"
Joseph Couzens, of West Acton, and the United States has been evolved by Mr.fireman of the express, said that after
leaving Swindon oa time, they
tween Britain
re- Paul W. Chapman. former pre-ceived a "bell" and saw the distant; sident of the United States Lines.xignal at Shrivenhum down. The train proceeded at its normal speed. applied
It is
a much more ambitious He then saw three tail lights, end, project.Marine architects have although the brakes were designed for him super-liners to immediately the collision occurred. entry 10,000 passengers-ench-
at least 7,000 more thar will be carried by the British
Queen Mary.
glant
Automatic Brakes-
Couzens explained that the, "bell" was an automatic train control which indicated that the signal was down. The Coroner: thought it rung hell the signal were at danger?--
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Henry Chandler, of Chepstow, Mun-
Each ship would have a dla- placement of 100,000 tons (against when it is a danger a buzzer ringa Queen Mary's 73,000 tons), would and the brakes are automatically i carry 10,000 cabin-class passen-applied. gera, would cost £10,000,000, and would cross the Atlantic in four mouthshire, guard of the goods train, said that after proceeding at about clays.
5 m.p.h his train came to a stand, and he saw through the windows what he presumed to be the Shrivenham home signal lle added:
Mr. Chapman suggests that the United States Government should advance the money.
BOTH NO. 1
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New British Invasion Of The Dardanelles
SCENE OF GREAT STRUGGLE BRITAIN'S heroes of the Dardanelles, banding
together again from scattered parts of the Empire, will sail on May 1 on a visit to the scene of their great struggle, the battlefields of Gallipoli.
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DURING THE PILGRIMAGE THE VETERANS WILL HAVE ABOARD A BATTLE-SCARRED REUNION. DRAMATIC
VETERAN OF THE CAMPAIGN—NOW A COAL-GRIMED TRAMP STEAMER.
known дл the
The steamer, Maruja Y Aurorn, is engaged in
the lowly pursuit of trading coal
between Mediterranean porta. But
21 years ago she proudly bore the name of the River Clyde and played ja major part in the landing of the
Oghters at Gallipoli.
At a
her
When the veterans board from the Cunard-White Star liner Mediterranean Lancastria
of port they will see the traces dumage from shell fire. She still carries, beneath the con! grime, a plaque commemorating the part she played at Gallipoli.
Captain Edward Unwin, holder of the Victoria Cross and the old commander of the River Clyde, will join the pilgrimage and will .stand again on the bridge of his old ship where he gave orders while under fire of the. Turks. Field Marshal Sir William Bird- wood, who commanded the Anzacs! -Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli, will lead the veterans. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, another veteran of the campaign, also will go. The pilgrimage will include ex-service- Scotland, from England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Irish Free State and other parts of the Em-1 pire.
mon
The Gallipoli veterans will sail
NIAGARA FALLS
WILL BE TRIED
AGAIN İN BALL
Niagara Falls, Feb. 10. Eight years after he first bounced over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in a rubber ball, Jean A. Lussier will at tempt the same stunt over the American Falls on July 5.
Mindful of the bruises he suffer-] the first trip, Lussier is ed in having a new-type ball built. In this new ball, which is one within another, his position will remain) fixed regardless of the motion of the outer ball.
Aware that the government officials may attempt to stop him, Lussier plans to launch the ball in the river at Grand Island, about fine miles above the falls, in what he terms "neutral waters."-
United Press,
Killed Self
from Liverpool in the Lancastrin To Free
lon May 1 and will return on May, 23. The ship will call at Gibraltar, Malta and Istanbul. A group of British nurses who served in the hospitals and hospital ships in the Mediterranean during the war also! ¡will take part.
At Gallipoll the beaches in the Helles area, Sedd-el-Bahr fort and semeteries and memorials will be visited.-United Press,
£100 FOR A PAIR OF TROUSERS
Sweetheart
„A lotter written by a girl who passed herself because she was under the mistaken impression that her sweetheart was going to leave her for an old love, was reud at the Paddington inquest recently.
The girl was Miss Evelyn Mary Miles aged 28, a factory hand, who was found dead in her room in Portobello-road, Kensington.
John Albert Phipps, a green- Portobello-mews, Ken- grocer, of sington, said: "I had known Misa Miles for about three years. We were very fond of each other. I told her about another girl whom I had loved about four years I had not seen this other go.
Walter Tarrant, a brickyard em- ployee, who contracted dermatitis and was in hospital for 24 days after wearing a new pair of 88. 6d. trousers, Was awarded £100 damages
County at Cambridge Court recently. The wellknown of my
English record The defendants were Norman "I glanced along the side train and discovered that we had driver, Sir Malcolm Campbell, at a Bradley and Co. Ltd., of Cambridge. girl for those four years until r broken away. A second later I look-
ball arranged by actors and artists noA doctor said that Tarrant's illness/ met her on January 1. The charming girl at his side is was consistent with dye infection
"Bliss England."
through wearing the trousors.
Secret Marriage to ed to the rear, and to my horror. I
Adopted Daughter
ap-
Baw the lights of the exPTERS proaching about a mile or more away. "I gathered my flags and detonators and raced to the rear, waving my red handlamp. I was opposite the pas senger train when it crashed."
Chandler added that he ran down the embankment to the rear of the wreckage to protect the opposite rond. The Coroner: You carried out the! regulations 7-Yes.
the Royal Opera House in London.
"NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!!”
A UNITED PRESS SURVEY OF A SMALL WORLD
Los Angeles, Feb. 3. A wealthy oil producer, Mr. James A. Kammerdiner, aged 62. and his 21-year-old adopted daughter, Ruth Marian Kammer diner, left Los Angeles secretly by airplane and were married in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The marriage was not announced
of the goods train, said the first heONE Justice of the Peace, at least, in these United States expects until they returned.
"Ruth has been my daughter for know that some wagons had broken the last 17 years," Mr. Kammer-away was when he was informed by the signalman at Knighton crossing. diner sald when making the an-He agreed that he had passed the Shrivenham and Ashbury signal-
nouncement.-Reuter.
Driver And The Breakaway Gordon Davis, of Swindon, driver
BRITISH AIRMAN'S LEAP FROM SPINNING.'PLANE
Reading, Feb. 15. While testing a new aeroplane. before Air Ministry experts, Wing Cmdr, F. W. Stent made a remarkable parachute escape from death at Twyford, near Reading. He was flying alone in a cabin chairman of the Wokingham magis. monoplane, doing spinning tests. trates, and was completely wrecked, Wing Cmdr. Stent, who resigned At 10,000ft, when he had spun the plane 13 times, he found it was from the Air Force last week to out of control and he could not join a firm at Reading aerodrome, correct the splu
[qnid:
Closed in the cabin, Wing-Cmdr: Although I had never made a Stent had to work desporately. parachute jump before in my 21 He withdrew the bolts securing the years' flying experience, I had re- cabin top, released his safety belt, hearsed it mentally and knew what elimbed on the side of the aero- to do. The only thing was to keep plane and jumped. He landed absolutely cool and I think I man- safely near Ruscombo church. aged that all right.
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The plane crashed into the I think this is the first time grounds of Stanlake Park, the re-anyone has managed to escape aidence of Col. F. G. Barker, the from a cabin machine.
San Francisco, Jan. 30.
to give the girls a break this year. Henry F. Wallenwin,. Justice of the Peace at Waukegan, Illinois, rises to announce that "any girl who successfully proposes marriage to her boy friend can be married free of charge during the 1936 Leap Year." Justice Wallenwin has had lots of practice. He estimates he has married 14,000 couples
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POLICE of Cleveland,
recovered David Siegel's nu- tomobile, but Siegel, a lawyer, couldn't get enthusiastic about it. His lack of enthusinam grow from the fact that officers search- car for identification, Ing the found 27 parking taga..in a dush- board compartment. Now polico insist Siegel must pay
can have his car. dollar for each ticket, before he
couldn't thus
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down and wrecked an automo- bile on a busy 'downtown street. The bont had been riding on an automobile traller, when dis- lodged in one collision, careened down the icy street right into a third auto practically ruining it. And at Quitman, same state, it is claimed Mussolin! and Haile Selassie are living under the same roof in ideal brotherly love.. But then, of course, they're twins,Bons of Judson and Mary Frazier, far-
mers.
The Coroner (Mr. Ingleby Od- die).-After you met your first love, did you change your mind about marrying Miss Miles?-No, but she came to the conclusion that.
I wanted to return to the other girt.
Phipps said that he last saw Miss Miles alive about 7 p.m: on Monday. When he got home he received a letter from her. He went to her. house, but could not get int
FOUND HER DEAD
With the landlady he entered Miss Miles's room next morning and saw her lying dead.
Mr. Ingleby Oddie, summing up. said: "I feel very sorry for this poor girl. She was in love with Phipps. He met an "old flame" of his which seemed to have worried Miss, Miles.
"Sho has written a charming letter to him and to me in which she says: "I am taking my own life, not because I am a coward, but because I am letting my lover go to the girl he loves.
"I only hope that she will realise what this act is costing me besides my lito.
"'"*I don't want my Jack tỏ bạ blamed for my actiona. It is not his fault. I loved him so well, it, is my misfortuno." !!
It is better I should go, ns I- cannot marry him when he loves her.""
-1 persistency is a virtue, as claimed, Herbert Alcyors; present whereabouts unknown,
wins
A ladyblacksmith protests. medal. On July 22, 1984, Myers "The trouble with being Now York quit his job as clerk at the De Anae City' old Indy blacksmith," ac- hotel in San Jose, (Cal) und discording to Mrs. Martha Smith. appeared after embezzling $800 is that you're always wearing out The coroner, recording his ver- On Oct. 5, 1936, he returned to hold your wedding ring from handling dict in accordance with the medical up the hotel clark and obtain $175. n heavy iron hasp." Mrs. Smith evidenco, that Miss Miles diet And more recently, on New Year's learned her trade working for from coal gas poisoning,, said that ove he played a return engagement her father. She married the son)
and escaped with 85
for her father's partner and now works with: her husband dally in Georgia reports two oddities. their shop in downtown Man- In' Atlanta, a motor boat ran hattán,
mind.
he was convinced that she com- mitted suicide while of unsound
"I do not blame Phipps for It at all," he added.
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