THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1986.
Queen Mary's Maiden Voyage To-morrow
Advertising Genius
Sir Charles Higham, noted British author and publicist, has arrived in New York, on the liner Washington for a visit in the United States. It was Sir Hig- bam who organised England's first battalion of volunteers at.
the outbreak of the world war,
U.S. CLAIMS SOUTH SEAS ISLE
BECAUSE SKIPPER WEDDED CHIEF'S
DAUGHTER Washington, Mar. 10.
of THE romance
an
American whaling cap 'tain in the Southern Pacific half a century ago, has it is claimed by the American State Department, ensured America the right to build an air-station on little island that may be part of the British Empire.
a
Swain's Island is the name of a little strip of territory lying 200 miles north of the American "Samoan group.
The island is only 800 acres in extent, but it straddles the import. ant shipping Jane between Wellington, New Zealand, and the Panama conal.
ON BORDER-LINE Although it is on the border-line between the American Samoan
and British group
mandated Samoa, the United States Navy- considers It ALL possession.
MASTERPIECE OF SEA London Seer
TO LEAVE CLYDE
Glasgow, Mar. 22.
The bed of the River Clyde, rich in the lore of great ships that have slipped down to the sea, has been entirely changed for the maiden voyage on Tuesday of the 80,000- ton liner Queen Mary.
A corps of navigation experts have arranged for the safety of the Masterpiece of the Seas when she makes her way slowly down the Clyde to the broad Firth under con ditions which the Clydebank shipyards never have had to cope with before.
Because
Predicts Next War
-IT'S ALL DONE BY NUMBERS
THE
Crimean
next war will break out in 1937, accord-
of the $40,000,000 (derricks. Each link in the chains Ing to. Petu- liner's immense bulk the river has has a circumference of 15 inches, lengro, the fa-
chain had to be dredged and blasted at The total weight of the Aeveral points.There is a bend of stowed in the ship's bows is 160,mous: the river at Dalmuir, for instance, tons. which will give the propellors a
Zal
gipsy
• seer,
Now that she is complet-eachi
who week
clearance of only a fow feet. This od, extreme precautions ardi gives his
point had to be made deeper. being taken by the Queen Mary'a!
Another danger point in near builders to prevent unauthorized forecast Greenock, halfway down the persons from straying about theja London twenty mile river where the Queen ship.
Mary must make a sharp turn. No visitors are allowed in the newspaper of Onco this point is passed it should engine rooms or near the control, what
the
be clear sailing down into the boards. They may gaze on the stars foretell. North Channel, around the Isle of wonders of the cabins, the 'salous The present Man. into the Irish sea, past and the promenades but all! Land's End and up to the new mechanical portions of the vessel. Prophecy he King George V dry dock at South-are closely guarded.
[b.a.ses on ampton.
An involved system of permits nu merology, There she will reat until her is used for the workmen, each of which he first transatlantic voyage to New man being confined to the part-is also an York on May 27.
cular part of the ship where he is
His expert. In addition to the Clyde river employed. If he strays he is chal-
calculations bed the navigation experts are enged by one of a hundred or anxious about the wind. A brisk more plain clothes detectives are shown in wind might spring up while the Every safeguard has been taken the table on
the right. Queen Mary la nosing her way against sabotage.-United Press. down the river and because of her bulk and slow speed-she will be travelling at only three or four!
| knots-might make her un-
manageable.
The Clyde
ready for the departure of the great vessel. A protective boom placed across the fitting-out basin in which the llner rests has been moved.
About 4.000 of the 7,000 men who have been at awork on the ship remain on the job, mostly interior itters.
SISTER SHIP SOON?
Many of these workers are
hopeful that they will have an other "big job" soon as result of intimations by the Cunard-White Star company that it intends to lay down the keel of a sister ship to the Queen Mary.
The second ship, closely follow- Queen ing the features of the Mary, probably will be called the King George or King George V.
and a
When the Queen Mary makes. her maiden voyage neruss the Atlantic with 2,560. passengers will crew of 1,400 she average 34 knots (nearly 40 miles an hour) and will have the highest speed over attained_by_u_pussen- ger vessel, her experts claim.
On her trial runs-over the the American famous measured mile at
mouth of the Clyde--it is expected Recent rumours, however, that that she will easily break the America is planning to pur-speed record of her French rival chase the island from Britain the Normandie, now
empress of have led to the belief in naval the Atlantic. quarters in Washington that the Although capable of an average British might be contemplating spoed of 84 knots the Queen Mary a claim to sovereignty over has only to travel at 32 knots to best the Normandie. When she Swain's Island.
Naval officials have persuaded has done this and wrested the the State Department to contest blue riband from her rival the any such claim, and plans are go- Queen Mary's regular Atlantie ing aboad to make the island an speed probably will be reduced to intermediate landing staflon for 29 knots.
the air route between America THREE YEARS TO BUILD and Australia.
During the three years that
Atlantic
War 1854-1854
RADIO BROADCAST
Relay of Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra
DÁVENTRY BULLETIN
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 Metres (845 kilocyclos):
5-7 p.m. Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra.
7-7.50 p.m. "Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64" (Tschlakovsky),
7.50-8 p.m. "Welsh Memories"
War...1676 (arr. Evans).
8 p.m. Time and Weather Report; (5 years)
Stock Quotations.
Boer War ..
(3 years)
G
1881
.1899.
:
Great War
8.05-11 p.m. A Relay from the Po Hing Theatro (Chinese).
11 p.m. Close Down.
8.05-10 p.m. European Pro- gramme From Z.EK. on a Fre quency Of 640 kilocycles.
8.05-8.45 p.m. A Variety Pro- a gramme.
Plano Solo-My Heart stood Still, Edythe Daker; Song-Dinner for one please, James, Turner Layton. (Tenor); Organ Solon With Sword 2) und Lance-Marglų" Blaze Away— March, Reginald Dixon: Song-A .1914 Little Dash of Dublin, Anna Neagle (4 years) 4(Soprano); Saxophone Selo-Sumo of these days, Coleman Hawkins; 1918 Vocal--Moon for Sale; Mino Alona,
Les Allen and his Canadian Bache lors: Xylophone Solo---The Dance, Rudy
Next War Forecast
SHE DESERVED BETTER
OF HER HUSBAND.
8 Whispering, Comedy
Up and
Starita; Voca
Harmonists
Laugh Film Waltz Songs-Med- 1097 ley, Gracie Fields: Orchestra-The
Big Broadcast of 1936-Selection.
8.45-9 p.m. Selections from Muscial Comedy.
RELOW charming Mm. Blanche Romagne. Filing an applica- tion for separation or divorce, she listed the following short- comings on part of husband She declared that he:-
1. Kissed other women.
2. Snored at night.
3. Deliberately smashed all the clocks in the house because she said he was late.
Viktoria and her Hussar-(Abra- ham):Tell her the Truth; Out of the Bottle.
in.
9-9.16 p.m. Daventry News Bullot
9.15-9.30
London
p.m. The Palladium Orchestra.
Lighting Switch (Alford); Wadded Whimsies (arr. Alford).
9.30-10 p.m. Dance Music.
10 p.m. Big Ben: Close Down. DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
The following ware-lengths and frequencies are blaarved by Daventry,
Call Bigs
Wavelength
Frequency 4.059 k.. 49.50 cl 0.016 1. 31.35 metres 11.30 metres 11.760 k.c. 25.03 metres 11.ARG .. 25,18 metres 1,140 .c. 10.82
4. Got up in the early hours of the morning and started playing a tin whistle, making her dance barefoot to his music
GBA
G8H
GRC
GAD
GSR
Cay
at
CAO
17,380 ke, 10.88 trea
5. Called her a pest and poured a
GSI
21.470. k..
13.37 metrom
bottle of wine over her.
G81
16.280 k..
79.00 metra
GBJ
21,545 k..
123 metro
6. Tried to choke her.
COL
7. Tried to push her into the Seine.
8. Tried to throw her out of a third-
window.
loped her with
9
д wet towel when she was having a bath.
(0.8.N,
2.15 pon.
10, Clapped a sticky fly-paper on her .. hatr
11. Dislocated her "floating rib."
12. Got shot at by another woman's
husband.-
"Shameless Young People Of To-day"
BISHOP'S BIRTHDAY SPEECH ON MORALS
Melbourne, Mar. 10.
The island is owned by a native 7,000 men laboured to build the BIRTH control has made free love, and is the curse of
the younger generation.
་
4,110 ke 43.10 atrod
Transmission 1
D.A.D., 0.5.B.)
Die Ben. A Programms of New Gramophone Records.
2.45 p.m. Sports Talk,
3 B.M.
A Tchaikovsky Program.
D.B.C. Empire Orchestra. Greenwich The Signal at 3.15. p.m. 4p.to.
The News.
· 4,20 . p.m. – Class, dawn.
Transmission 2
(0.8.J., G.8.0.)
jp.m.
The
B Den Tom Jenkins, at the
Organ of the Piusa Cinemu,' 1.10 p.m. "Malen Extreme
Haydn
by
Heard and his Band. Gewenwich Wane Bizual at, 3 pan. RD. "Ezzying for a Living."
Murray (the Ansirailan Escape- loglet). Introduced by J. G. Cingull.
8.10 p.m. A Recital of Grieg's Bongs by
Melty de Chart (Australian
Boprano).
8.30 p.m. Bir Walford. Davirar "Musie and the Ordinary Listeners What about the Tatte 7": **Tents from Afar."*
1 p.m.
The Naws.
1.20 p.m. A Programme of Gramophone
Recorde
1.45. p.. Class down..
Transmission 3
(0.9.0 0.A.E.)
10 p.m. Big Ben, "Empire Cocktail,"
10.45 pm. Provo Rending,
Il p.m. Light Huile.
13 A Sonata Recital.
whoso grandfather was an Ameri- huge palaeo of the can whaling captain.
people all over the world heard
Such is the burden of a fighting speech against the More than fifty years ago the about her luxuriousness-about a captain visited the island and promenade deck nearly half "Shamelessness" of the girls of to-day by which one of 18.30 m. The New married the daughter of a local mile long, on electric power Polynesian chief.
station big enough to supply the three oldest bishops in the Roman Catholic Church has
celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday.
The captain's name was Jen-city of 150,000 people, a ship with nings, and the present ruler proud-10,000,000 rivets and 4,000 miles ly calls himself by the same name, of electric light wires.
America's Oldest
Women's College
Marks Centennial South Hadley, Mass. Mar: 6.
But the best Iden of her enormity was obtained when the rudder was put in place. It weigh- od 140 tons. The anchor chains, the largest over forged, werd
hoisted on board by means of large
TO-DAY in the 100th anniver- LONSDALE STORY
sary of the incorporation of America's first women's college, FOR NEXT FILM Mount Holyoke,
BY: CHARLES LAUGHTON
the
It was on March 6, 1836, that)
Massachusetts Jegislature
passed a law that "William Bow-
doin, John Todd, Joseph D. Condit,
Votes For All
In Soviet Russia
"People nowadays take the oath of marriage intending to indulge in free love because birth control has made that
Grwanich Time Signal at 18.34 135 17.50... Danes Huile 1.
Close down.
HONGKONG MANOEUVRES
socially possible," declared Irish-PERSISTENT ATTACKS man Archbishop Kelly, Roman | FROM THE AIR (Catholic Archbishop of Sydney.
"1. do not like the shamelessness
clusively, according to an official
The combined manoeuvren held during the past few days came to flank 1 vigorous The London Daily Herald ex- of the modern style of keeping an end with
attack by the defending Redland pects that a new Soviet couslitu-company," he declared.
reserves on the invading Blualand tion will be ready for ratification | "Victims, Not Agents" forces which had penetrated with- in three miles of Kowloon City. this year. It will substitute the
The girl should have more The offensive was launched at 11 Parliamentary system on western Alexander Korda, of London models for the 1918 constitution. sonna of privacy than she seems o'clock yesterday morning, and David Choate and Samuel Wie Films, has announced that the pro-
to have today. In this, as in with "cense firo at 1 p.m., the ton, their associates and succes-duction of "Cyrano de Bergerac,"
defenders had victory in their The Daily Herald states that
hande. sors, bo and are hereby incorporat for which Charles Laughton was universal franchise will abolish the other relationships of the sexes,
The manoeuvres proved con- ed by the name of the Trustees of brought over from Hollywood and existing exclusion of the bourgeois. young people are influenced by Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
statement, that the fixed-de- in South Hadley in the county of grow a moustacho has not been The new constitution will provide easy access to knowledge of birth
fences and mobile garrison Hampshire, with power to hold abandoned but has been postponed. for a secret ballot and give direct control methods." real and personal estate mot ex- It in understood that the film representation of the people in an coeding in value $100,000 to bo may be made at Denham, London all-union Parliament: and other. But the archbishop feels the Hongkong, are in an improved "younger generation" is not en-state of efficiency. The new. devoted exclusively to the pured to be ready in a month's time.
Films now home, which is expect-Parliaments for each Republic.
tirely to blame, "Young men and equipment, especially the anti- The Daily Herald quotes the pre-women to-day with looser morals aircraft guns and searchlights, poses of education."
Gov. Edward Everett afixed his Laughton will first of all make sident of the council of the People's are the victims, not the agents, in were thoroughly and satisfactorily signature the following day and film about an hotel which bo- Commissars (M. Moktov) as say the decline of morality," he went tested. It was also proved, how- the charter was granted.........
comes very successful through the ing: "We are going to try to adopt on Meantime Mary Lyon, founder importation of a troupe of dancing the best elements of the Parlia
danger if subjected to prolonged- mentary avstem, even though it "Our schools and universities and ferocious air attacks for of the college, and her associates girls. ¿were canvassing the state for con- Laughton began in the hotel may cause some amusement are vitiating society and under- despite numerous casualties' tributions. She was forced to business himself. Production on abroad." It is understood that it mining philosophy Itaolf Profes: inflicted on the Blueland air. force, overcome strong prejudice against the now film the story of which is intended to place the peasants sors (of philosophy) are not four bag "bomba" scored ex- higher edication for young will be written by Frederick on an equality with - Industrial really scientists they give effects tensive hits on vulnerable points women-United. Firs
workers
without seeking causes,
on the mainland and leland,
Lonsdale may begin soon..
K Shoes
Lead a
Double Life
K Plus fitting Shoes last about twice as long as you
would expect a pair of shoes to last unless you are already" a K Shoe wearer. Some shoes look cheap from the price ticket, but they always look cheaper still in woor. But, the quality of K Shoes is unmistakable. It's the extra value built into them, that makes them the best bargain In the long run.
Let us show you. K Plus Fitting Shoes, the shoes that are made with the heelparts one fitting narrower than the foreparts (seo. diagram) thus ensuring a perfect fit. Close at the heel, easy across the toes.
MACKINTOSH'S LTD.
K SHOE AGENTS
COLUMBIA
POPULAR DANCE RECORDS
FB1277-1 LIVE FOR LOVE FB1273-TABOU FB1274-IMITATIONS OF YOU
| EB1271-GIPSY VIOLIN
FB1270—LOVE'S SERENADE FB1279-THANKS A MILLION FB1281 GIVE ME YOUR HAND FB1283-A LITTLE BIT INDEPENDENT FB1284-BEAUTIFUL LADY IN BLUE FB1286-I'D LOVE TO TAKE ORDERS FROM YOU
.Fox Trot.
.Rumba.
Fox Trot.
Slow Fox Trot.
The Anderson Music Co., Ltd. Ice House Street.
Tol. 21322
.Fox Trot.
.Soloction.
Woltz.
.Fox Trot.
Watix.
Fox Trot.
SWAN, CULBERTSON & FRITZ.
Investment bankers and brokers in securities and commodities. Daily New York and London Stock Exchange Service. Commodity Futures on the principal American markets, Member of:
New York Cotton Exchange. Chicago Board of Trade.
'Commodity Exchange, Inc.
(Silver, Rubber, Silk, Copper, Hides and Tin).
New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange. Canadian Commodity Exchange Inc. Winnipeg Grain Exchange.
Manila Stock Exchange.
Correspondents for Hayden, Stone & Co.
Telophone: 30246, 30245, 80246. Cable Address: Swanstock. Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Buildings, Suite 119/122.
FOR REALLY GOOD COOKING
USE A REALLY GOOD COOKER
such as the
"NEW WORLD"
FRONT LINE
All-Enamel Gas Cooker with **Regulo" Oven Heat Control.
Supplied in Two Sizes. Cash Prices:
$150 & $170
etter that the Colony is in grave Hong Kong & China Gas
Also on attractive Hire-Purchase terms;
Co., Ltd.
Showrooms-Gloucester Bldg.
·G 246, Nethan Road, Kowloon, Telephone 28|81.