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
Chiengo, Feb. 20. HUNDREDS of the most pro- minent people in America who were divorced in Reno and have remarried cannot live in the State of Illinois with their present spouses.
Courts in New York and in other | states have sometimes refused to recognise the validity of Nevada divorces on the ground that real- dence of only six weeks for the sole purpose of getting a divorce does not confor jurisdiction on Novada courts.
Sweeping Results
CLEANING STREAMLINED
GIANTS
Cleaners at work at King's Crom on Quicksilver, Bliver Fox, and Silver Jubilee, the streamlined locomotives which haul the Silver, Jubilee expresses. This fo the first time these engines have been seen together since they were put into
For the first time, however, a Midget 'Planes judge has stopped outside
the
specific case under review to issue sweeping ruling outlawing all divorces and subsequent
auch
marriagea..
If an expected, other State courts follow the judge's lead, 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. "NCLE" 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 "plarop, handsome, young, and a hard worker." In return the woman 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-United Press.
service.
"FLYING FLEA" FINDS
A NEW RIVAL
Amsterdam, Mar. 1.
The Netherlands reply to France's "Pou du Ciel” and England's "Flying Flea" is the "River Scheldt Sparrow," midget airplane which recently took the air successfully.
It is an entirely new type of plane, differing, it 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 Docks at Vlissingen, in the three-wheeled undercarriage, which aimplifies
landing.
Landing Simplified According to Mr. Slot glider pilots should be able to learn flying on the "Scheidt Sparrow" without much special training; In order to obtain such a safe and simple plane, it was necessary to simplify starting and landing to the utmost. Out of 16 hours' flying lessona, a pupil asualty has to spend 10 hours on learning how to Innd safely. As Ianding has! been simplified for the "Scheldt Sparrow," learning to fly in this machine has become considerably cheaper, it is claimed.
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The cockpit is right in front of the machine. The wings and the engine are behind the back of the pilot. One wheel is placed right under the nose of the airplane. The other two wheels are at the
rear where they can absorb the shock in case the pilot lands with too great speed and with "nose up." The front wheel prevents the machine from somersaulting, It is made revolving and is steered by foot pedals.
"ENOUGH TO LAUNCH A THOUSAND SHIPS LIKE THE RODNEY”
London, Mar. 1.
A mere handful of conscientious Britons who believe that integrity 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, Messrs. Baring Brothers and Company. Ltd., estimate that it will be 300 years or more before the national debt of close to £8,000,000,000 can be wiped out by such voluntary gifts.
Without any further gifts and depending upon Avo per cont. com. pound interest to double the money every 15 year only £64,000,000 would be available in 100 youra whereas the war debt to the United States is more than triple that figure.
"Nevertheless the
donations
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 Doc. 9. An-, other man sends two pounds every six or eight months
Fund Started In 1927 The fund was started on Ar- mistic Day, 1927, with a nest egg of £599,300, the bulk of which came from the estate of the late Lord Dalziel. Most of the creo since that time has been donations have been small and accounted for by interest, for the
scattered:
in-
The trustees of the National
“Conclusive'
Paris, Mar. 1.
M. Albert Lecocur, a thirty- Beven-year-old Civil servant, stood in the witness box of the Sixth Court of Appeal in Paris to-day. He was clulm- 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 later M. Lecoeur collapsed in the box and died. A doctor examined him.
he "Heart failure," said.
Sald the Judge: "The evi- dence of M. Lecoeur's death is conclusive. The pension is granted. It will be paid to the dependants.'
Footnote: The anme Lecoeur menns, literally, the heart.
S. Africa
Lacks The
Debt Redemption Fund are em- School Tie
Spirit
Slide-Slipping Avoided During starting and landing the powered to use their discretion to front wheel can be secured, to pay off bits of the national debt avoid side-slipping. This under-as and when they may choose. carriage of new design, it is said, They also can hold all the money makes it also impossible for the until they are able or their aut pilot to take off with less than the ceasora 320 years hence are able NEWSPAPER'S MOAN minimum speed. So that a grave to pay the £8,000,000,000 off in
South African schools and mistake of the beginner, the cause of "stalling," is thereby alimin-
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 or Nelson, ing to an editorial în the Mage enough to bring in £400,000,000 chester Guardian. dollars a year in interest. The The unauthorised wearing debt, if divided per capita, woull school colours in other countries amount to £165 for every man,
ated.
one swoop.
The effectiveness of this device was shown the other day when a test pilot had to make an emer gency landing after having lost his propeller. He had to land on the most unfavourable place one could possibly_imagine, namely aThe great part of this £3,000,
Old Debts Carried rallway track. If there had not
of
woman and child in Great Brl-as generally merely been frowned tain.
on by the authorities as no suitable form of public. "retribution" could several gentlemen conceived the be devised. But in South Africa been a front wheel, the machine. 000,000-like the 200,000,000 idea that they might profitably would probably have turned over. borrowed from the United States forbid the wearing of school -was borrowed to wage wara.
But it landed safely and wna only Money was borrowed in an effort colours by any persons other than
slightly damaged.
MANY undesirables are entering Britain by forging of metal, the wings are of wood. Funds were borrowed to gain con- Arst stop wels
mercantile marine certificates of discharge, issued by the Board of Trade to every British seaman when he is signed off for the first time.
The method, one of several 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 bought by an accomplice, in the which East End for a price usually ranges between £8 and £25.
The accomplice sends it to his friend waiting in a foreign pari. The new owner erases and subs- titutes whatever detalla of des- cription he deems necessary.
He then becomes a member of| the crow of a ship bound for Britain and enters the country with no more formality than Is 1) ordinary Customs search.
it.
· CRIME-
at
Punishment to fit their crime has just been meted out to three motor-car thieves 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
"What would happen if an in- habitant of Jupiter or of the
have all the
to
the genuine products of the to keep the 18 American colonies.
institutions, Propeller Pushes Craft from breaking away in 1776. The
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 Hecessary The complete machine has only a trol of South Africa in 1899, on authorised school colours register. weight of 185 kilograms, or about December to fight the Russians in ed. The charge for registration 408 pounds, the 30-horsepower en- 1863 and to subdue India in 1857. was to be $26 for each combination gine weighing 56 kilograms fa- The dept is an internal one, of colours. This arrangement was cluded. It can carry 100 kilo with the exception of the United made and the Art solemnly passed. grams, pllot, gas and luggage Sates war debt.
The sponsors sat back to await included.
When William of Orange came results. A year, has passed The propeller "pushes" 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 pns- £85,000, the government having sessing colours has taken the of energy: Morcover the air is
borrowed on the strength of an-trouble to register them. One blown away unhindered and flows
ticipated French import duties, school which possesses twenty-six freely to the tall, so that under
The Revolutionary War in the combinations would have had all angles the tail is under con- United Suites cost Great Britain pay $675 to register them. stant "blow" pressure. This is £120,000,000 and the Napoleonic The sponsors claim the Act has declared to account for the good wars 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 porly 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 a size in 130 years. It has grown enough on the World's Statute consists only of four metal tubes, ten times greater in the last 120 Books as it is without putting
It is claimed that stalling yearn-United Frres.
neckwear on them.”—United Press. eliminate through the application of "Handler Page 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.
Red Fighting Forces
SOVIET TO BUILD LARGE-
SEA DEFENCE. FLEET
The Soviet Government is preparing to build a powerful fleet, of destroyers and capital ships, Mikhail Takachovsky, Vice- Commissar, of Defence, informed the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Soviet Union recently.
The seaman who lias parted with
Range Of 200 Miles his certificate can easily obtain moon were all of a sudden on a
The "Scheldt Sparrow" has a another by stating that he has lost 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 1035, whereas a year ago 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. WORTH Ealing recently.
remain in the air three SWORDFISH
hours construction, declaring the submarine Military forces are therefore prepared feat had boon swiftly expanded during to take the field at a moment's notice. "He would say that you Inhabit-without
flying refueling. The
1935. The Government is now plans £2,000,000 A YEAR
Russla is accordingly In position-- ants of the earth ought to be the exponses are 5 fiorina or $3.30 por ning to build a navy commensurate as the official press points out--to happiest people in the universe. hour. The maximum speed is 130 with the military strength. Mr. face attack eastward or westward Australia la beginning to awaken Jupiter is so clouded that you can- kilometers (80 m. p. h.). The Tukachevsky added. A substantial whether or not assistance is forth- to the value of its swordfish. It not see the sun, and on the moon dashboard has been equipped with portion of the unprocedented 1080 coming from auch alles as France.
military budget is to be devoted to
Convinced of the necessity of estimates it at £2,000,000 a year them is no atmosphere to breathe, all normal Instruments.
naval construction.. according to the Secretary of the
maintaining increasing military forces "Thousands of us take all this The price which originally was
The Vice-Commissar revealed that at full war strength, Mr. Takachevsky. New South Wales Rod Fishers' loveliness for granted. We think put at 1,500-forins ($1,000) has not Society who bases his figure on the only of catastrophes like earth- yet been definitely fixed. It will the Red Army during 1935 had at declared the Soviets bave constructed for a per tained a war footing capablo of powerful foundations amount. New Zealand makes from quakes, and suffering,
depend on how the public responds defending Soviet borders, with or manent army. Thirteen specialised "As for the suffering and hard- to the machine. Very cheap pro-without military alliances. The stand-military academíos and - six the quest of the fish, and he is try-
"war ing to make the authorities toll the shit. If there were none of this duction is only possible through Ing army, he said, had bean Increased colleges are now preparing 10,000 world more about Itjen
what self-satisfied prigs we should mase production, it is pointed out. by 300,000 mon during 1035, bringing students for leadership. Courses have be."
The "Scheldt Sparrow is Intended the present: total 40 1,000,000 and been extended to five years.
With almost one-fifth of the no- In seven recent months 78 were The Bishop Paid that he spoke to be put on the market in the further increases are being made
tional incomo appropriated for de- caught off the New South Wales not as a scientist to scientists, or spring. It has been claimed that
More important than numbers, fence during 1080, Russia expects to coast with only a few boats operat-se a philompher to philosophers, ono can build a "Pou du Cle" for three fourths of the army divisions achieve unmatched permanent armed ing,-Austral Nowy.
but as a plala man to plain mon, $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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