THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1936,
300 YEARS TO PAY GREAT BRITAIN'S DEBT "Patriotism Pool" Started by Handful of People
STATE OUTLAWS RENO DIVORCEES
Chicago, Feb. 20. HUNDREDS of the most pro-
minent people in Amerien who were divorced in Reno and have remarried cannot live in the State of Illinois with their present spouses.
Courta in New York and in other states have sometimes refused to recognise the validity of Nevnda divorces on the ground that resi- dence of only six weeks for the Hole purpose of getting a divorce does not confer jurisdicilon Nevada courts.
Sweeping Results
on
For the first time, however, a judge has stopped outside the specific case under review to issue aaweeping ruling outlawing all Buch divorcen Rad subsequent marringes.
If, as expected, other State courts follow the judge's Jend. countless bigamy, legitimacy and inheritance suits will result, with wholesale mix-ups involving multi- millionaires and their millions.
107-And
Wants
Wife!
Jenkins, Ken., Mar. 6.
"UNCLE" JERRY COMBS, 107-year-old resident of Kentucky, wants a wife..
Although he is 107 years old "Uncle" Jerry specifies that any
woman applying for the honour of being Mrs. Jerry Combs must be "plump, handsome, young, and a hard worker." In return the weman is promised a happy, comfortable life.
Already there have been a number of applications for the position. "Uncles Jerry's first wife died a few years ago at the age of 97,-f ́nited Press.
CLEANING STREAMLINED
GIANTS
Cleaners at work at King's Cross on Quickallver. Sülver Fox, and Blver Jubilee, the streamlined tocomotives which häul the Silver Jubilee expresses, This im the first time these engines have been seen together ulnee they were put into service.
Midget 'Planes
"FLYING FLEA
,,
FINDS
A NEW RIVAL
Amsterdam, Mar. 1. The Netherlands reply to France's "Pou du Cie!" and England's "Flying Flex" is the "River Scheldt Sparrow," midget airplane which recently took the air successfully.
It is an entirely new type of plane, differing. It is claimed, from any other type of plane, big or small, the famous "Flying Flea included.
One of the chief points of the "Sparrow." constructed by T. E. Slot of the Royal Borks at Vlissingen. is the three-wheeld undercarriage, which simplifies landing.
"ENOUGHTOLAUNCH A THOUSAND SHIPS LIKE THE RODNEY"
London, Mar. 1.
A mere handful of conscientious Britons who believe that integrity is the soul of their empire are trying to pay off Great Britain's huge national debt, including a billion dollars due the United States.
Their contributions, dribbled into what has come to be known as "the patriotism pool," amount to £514,320. after eight years. Many of these donations are anony mous, as was the check for £1,200 sent at Christmas time. But their efforts are like trying to bail out the Atlantic Ocean with a bucket.
The trustees of the National Debt Redemption Fund, Messra, Daring Brothers and Company, Ltd., estimate that it will be 300 years or more before the national dubt of close to £8,000,000,000 can be wiped out by such voluntary gifts.
Without any further gifts and depending upon five per cent, enm- pound interest to double the money every 15 year only £64,000,000 would be available in 100 ydare whereas the war debt to the United States is more than triple that | Agure.
Nevertheless the donationa
trickle in at the trustees' offices at Bishopsgate. Every year since ∙1927 a. Miss K. M. Black has sent a one-pound note. Her last con- tribution was received Doe, 9. An- other man sends two pounds'every six or eight months
The cockpit is right-in front of the machine. The wings and the engine ure behind the back of the pilet. One wheel is placed right ander the nose of the airplane.
Fund Started In 1927 The other two wheels are at the
The fund was started on Ar- rear where they can almorb the mistic Day, 1927, with a nest egg shock in case the pilot fands with of £599,390, the bulk of which too great apes nad with "nose me from the estate of the late
"The front wheel prevents
p.
Lord Dalziel,
Most of the In-
-Conclusive
Paris, Mar. I.
M. Albert Lecoeur, a thirty- seven-year-old Civil servant, stood in the witness box of the Sixth Court of Appeal in Paris to-day. He was claim. ing a State pension for heart trouble.
Said the State lawyer: "We deny that there is anything with M. Lecoeur's heart."
A few seconds Inter M. Lecoeur collapsed in the box and died. A doctor examined him. "Heart failure," he unid.
Said the judge: "The evi- dence of M. Lecoeur's death is conclusive. The pension is granted. It will be paid to the dependantą,"
Footnote: The name Lecoeur means, literally, the heart.
the machine from somersaulting.crease since that time has been S. Africa
FR is made revolving and is steered counted for by interest, for the donations have been small and by fit pedals,
scattered.
Landing Simplified
The trusters of the Nationali According to Mr.
Slide-Slipping Avoided Stot glitter
Debt Redemption Fund are em plots should be able to learn dying on the "Scheldt Sparrow front wheel
During starling and landing the į powered to use their discretion to without much special training, avoid side-slipping. This under-las and when they may choose. can be secured, to pay off bits of the national debt in order to obtain such a safe and carriage of new design, it is said. They also can hold all the money simple plane, It was necessary to makes it also impossible for the until they are able--or their suc- simplify starting and landing pilot to take off with less than the Cessors 320 years hence are able the utmost. Out of 16 flying lessons, a pupil usually has mistake of the beginner, the cause
hminimum speed. So that a grave to pay the £8,000,000,000 off in to spend 10 hours on learning how of "stalling," is thereby elimin to land safely. As landing has been simplified for the "Scheldt Sparrow," learning to fly in this machine has become considerably cheaper, it is claimed.
ALIEN 'SEAMEN' TRICK
Discharge · Papers That Can
Be Bought
ANY undesirables are entering Britain by forging MA
mercantile marine certificates of discharge, issued by the Board of Trade to every British seaman. when he is signed off for the first time.
several
The method, one of which Scotland-yard is trying to check in its effort to "clean out" alien criminals, is said to be simpler and involve less risk of discovery than other means,
A seaman's certificate which has his name and description, written in ordinary ink, on the first two pages, and his record on succeeding pages, can be hought by an accomplice in the East End for a price which, usually ranges between £8 and: £25.
The accomplice sends it to his friend waiting in a foreign part. The new owner crases and subs- titutes whatever details of des- cription he deems neccssary.
He then becomes a member of the crew of a ship bound for Britain and enters the
country with no more formality than An ordinary Customs search.
•
The seaman who has perled with his certificato can easily obtain another by stathing that he has lost
ji.
SWORDFISH
WORTH £2,000,000 A YEAR
CRIME
Punishment to fit their crime has just been mcted out to three motor-car thieves at San Antonio, Texas.
They were caught by de- tectives in the act of dis- mantling a stolen car.
Police compelled them to push the car ten miles into town when it ran out of petrol.
Earth Best Place In
The Universe
uted.
Propeller Pushes Craft
one swoop.
Lacks The School Tie Spirit
NEWSPAPER'S
MOAN
South African schools and This national debt is enough colleges are completely lacking in to launch a thousand ships like the "old school tie" spirit accord. Britain's Rodney ar Nelson.ing to an editorial in the Man- enough to bring in £400,000,000 | chester Gordian. dollars a year in interest. The debt, if divided per capita, would school colours in other countries
The unauthorised wearing amount to £165 for every man, has generally merely been frowned woman and child in Great Bri- tain.
oľ
(on by the authorities as no suitable Old Debts Carried
{form of public "retribution" could The great part of this £8,000,-several gentlemon conceived the be devised. But in South Afrien 009,900—-like the £200,000,000 was borrowed to wage wara borrowed from the United States forbid
idea that they might profitably.
the wearing of school
accessary
The effectiveness of this device was shown the other day when a test pilot had to make an emer geney landing after having lost his propeller. He had to land on the most unfavourable place one could possibly imagine, namely a railway track. If there had not been a front wheel, the machine | would probably have turned over, But it landed safety and was only Money was borrowed in an effort colours by any persons other than slightly damaged.
to keep the 13 American colonies the genuine products of the from breaking away in 1776. The
institutions.
of metal, the wings are of wood. Funds were borrowed to gain con- first step was to
debt is still on the books, although They decided to legislate for The body of the machine is built it has been refunded several times. this purpose and the The complete machine has unly a trol of South Africa in 1899, on authorised school colours register- huve all the weight of 185 kilograms, or about December to fight the Russians in ed. The charge for registration 108 pounds, the 30-horsepower en-1853 and to subdue India in 1857. was to be $25 for each combination gine weighing 65 kilograms in- The debt is an internal one, of colours. This arrangement was eluded. It can carry 100 kilo with the exception of the United made and the Art solemnly passed. grams, pilot, gas and luggage Sates war debt.
The sponsors sat back to await included.
When William of Orange came results.
year has
passed The propeller "pusties" the ma
to the British throne 250 years and as yet no school, college, or chine forward, thus avoiding loss
ago the national debt was only other educational institution 1108- of energy. Moreover the air is
£85,000, the government having sessing colours has taken the blown away unhindered and flows
borrowed on the strength of an trouble to register them. Ono freely to the tall, so that under
ticipated French import duties. school which possesses twenty-six all angles the tail is under con- United States cost Great Britain pay $675 to register them.
The Revolutionary War in the combinations would have had staat "blow" pressure. This is £120,000,000 and the Napoleonte The sponsors claim the Act has declared to account for the good wants cost another £600,000 and not yet had time to function pro- stability of the plane. For that in 1817 the debt had amounted to perly but the Manchester Guardian reason the body has no hind part. £848,000,000 or ten thousand times sums it up thus "There is quite The connection with the rudder its size in 130 years. It has grown enough an the World's Statute consists only of four metal tubes. ten times greater in the last 120Books as it is without putting
It is claimed that stalling is {years-United Prras.
neckwear on them."-Duited Press, eliminated through the applleation Rod Fighting Forces of "Handley l'age slots" installed
at the front of the wings. These are additional wings which open automatically when the machine loses too much speed. As soon as the machine regains speed, these "slots" fold up again against the front of the wings.
A
SOVIET TO BUILD LARGE
SEA DEFENCE
FLEET
to
The Soviet Government is preparing to build a powerful fleet of destroyers and capital ships, Mikhail Tukachevsky, Vice- Commissar of Defence, informed the Central Executivo Com- mittee of the Soviet Union recently.
ago
"What would happen if an in- habitant of Jupiter or of the
Range Of 200 Miles moon were all of a sudden on a
The "Scheldt Sparrow" has a spring morning to arrive in a range of nearly 200 miles. It has London garden?" asked the, a cruising speed of over 60 miles Mr. Tukachevsky omphasised the during 1935, whereas a year Bishop of London in a sermon at per hour and the pilot can thus Soviet's recent progress in naval only one fourth was thus organised. Ealing recently.
remain in the air three houra construction, declaring the submarine Military forces are therefore prepared "He would say that you inhabit-without refueling. The
fleat had been swiftly expanded during to take the field at a moment's notice, fying 1035. The Government is now plan- ants of the earth ought to be the expenses are a florins or $3.30 perning to build a navy commensurate as the official press points out-to Russia is accordingly in position-- happiest people in the universe. hour. The maximum speed is 180 with the military strength. Mr. face attack castward or westward p. h.). The Tukachevsky added. A substantial whether or not assistance is forth- Australia is beginning to awaken Jupiter is so clouded that you can-kilometers (80 m. to the value of its swordfish. It not see the sun, and on the moon dashboard has been equipped with portion of the unprecedented 1828 coming from such allies at France. estimates it at £2,000,000 a year there is no atmosphere to breathe. all normal instruments
military budget is to be devoted to Convinced of tho nocassity of naval construction. according to the Secretary of tho
The price which originally was "Thousands of us take all this
maintaining increasing military forces New South Wales Rod Fishers' loveliness for granted. We think put at 1,500 florins ($1,000) has not The Vice-Commissar revealed that at full war strength, Mr. Tukachavsky Society who bases his figure on the only of catastrophes like earth- yet been definitely fixed. I will the Red Army during 1935 had at declared the Soviets have constructed amount New Zealand makes from quakes, and suffering.
depend on how the public responda defending Soviet borders, with or manout army. Thirteen specialised tained a war footing capable of powerful foundations for a per- the quest of the fish, and he is try- "As for the suffering and hard to the machine. Very cheap pro-without military allianoce. The stand-military academics and six war ing to make the authorities toll the ship, if there were none of this, duction is only possible through ing army, he said, had been increased colleges are now preparing 10,000 world more about it.
what self-satisfied prigs we should mass production, it is pointed out.by 300,000 men during 1905, bringing students for leadership. Courser have be,"
and been extended to five years. | The "Scheldt Sparrow is intended the present total to 1,800,000 In soven recent months 78 were:
With almost one-fifth of the na- The Bishop said that he spoke to be put on the market in the further increases are being made caught off the New South Wales not as a scientist to scientists, or spring. It has been claimed that day.
tional income appropriated for do- coast with only a few bonte operate a philosopher to philosophers, one can bulld a "Pou du Ciel" for three fourths of the army divisions achieve unmatched permanent armed More important than numbere,fence during 1930, Russia expects to ing--Austral News:
but as a plain man to plain man. | £75, or buy one for £150,
were brought to full war strength forces during the year,
In every country of the world, people
of discerning taste acknowledge the
pre-eminence of
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