THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1936.
ZEPPELIN CHALLE NGES BIG LINERS
The 1930 auction will be the most*
himself on arrival in Seattle for con-
'Hindenburg' Will Cross In 40 Hours Launching To Coincide With First Passage Of The Queen Mary
Friedrichshafen (Lake Constance, Germany), Mar. 31.
ON May 27 Britain's giant liner Queen Mary sets out into
the Atlantic on her maiden voyage. On the same day, almost at the same hour, France's giant Normandie leaves New York.
The world's eyes will be on the Atlantic as these two modern monsters, both being driven at topspeed, cleave her waters. Five days later the world's eyes will be on the sky above the Atlantic.
For there will fly another world monster, cigar kurportant election in 75 yes" shaped, aluminium coloured; an airship filled with seven Thun did Herbert Hoover declare million cubic feet of gas, clipping through the clouds at ferences with Pacific Northwest party nearly three times the speed of the fastest liner. Jaders, The former president was On board Afty women passengers | On the opposite side the same space a principal sponker in a Lincoln Day will be klling, dining, drinking, dane- la divided into lounge,
with bridge nidress before Oregon Republicans.ing, bathing, sleeping, smoking, play tables, divans and starboard promen- Ing bridge-pleasantly filling the | thirty-five of forty hours from
Frankfort to New York. Germany's hundred and twenty-ninth Zeppelin will be in the air.
HIGHER DUTIES IMPOSED
ON LIQUORS AND
TOBACCO
PREFERENCE
FOR EMPIRE
tund
A new tariff on liquors tobacco is published in a Gazette Extraordinary issued this morning.
An official communique states that the tariff has a twofold significance.
In the first place a managed currency has enabled the abolition of the "conventional dollar" of 1s 8 as a basis for the computation of duty, It is believed that trade interests will welcome the elimination of a variable factor in its nesciement.
Hangars Dominate Town
Is being completed. In the other
muster ship will be built later,
12
Mrs. Grace Sandel of Bremerton. Lawson Burton of murdering her ex Wash., above necuses her brother, husband, Adolph Sandell, and Barton accused his slater of the burning his body. At the mme time
crime.
BRITAIN A NATION OF
ade, and a combined bar und amok- “DINERS-OUT”
ing-room.
Here, for the first time in a diri gible, passengers may amoke, But, though it is planned to use helium, no chances are taken. The bar in cut off from the rest of the ship by
ช
It with a warning.
AIR-CONDITIONED
In the centre and on the deck be
London, Mar. 29.
RADIO BROADCAST
A Talk by Chief Engineer Of B.B.C.
STUDIO VOCAL RECITAL
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles):
4-7 p.m. Chincee Programme. 6-6.30 p.m. Children's Studio Con cort.
7-7.30 p.m. The London Sym- phony Orchestra.
Carnoval-Overture (Dvorak); May Night Overture (Rimsky-Korsakov); Triumphal March ("Carartacus" (Op. 3b) (Elgar); Pomp and Circum- stanco March No
& (Elgar). 7.30-7.45 p.m. Vocal Gems from Musical Comedy
If Love were all ("Bitter Sweet") (Coward)....Ivy St. Helier (50- (Coward)....Peggy Wood (Soprano)! prano); Zigeuner ("Bitter Sweet"]
Viktoris and her Hussar (Abraham).
7.45-8 p.m. A. Relay from
Daventry.
A Talk by the Chief Engineer of the B.B.C.
8 p.m. Time and Weather Report. 8.03-8.20 p.m. From the Studio. A Recital by Li Chor Chi (Tenor) accompanied by Norah Flint.
Programme.
1. In the Dusk....Arthur Tate; The Hour with you....Arthur Tate: 2. Lolita....Peccis: 1 Pescatore Canta....Toati: J. Printemps Nou. venu....Vidal; Pensse d'Autumn.. Massenet.
8.29-8.33 p.m. Cinema Organ
at March of a Marlenetie Britain is rapidly becoming a (Gounod): Noln....Sydney Gustard It was this Zeppelin, her tests, now two turnstiles, vacuum type, half re-nation of "diners-out", according Mississippi--Selection; Naughty Ma under way, that correspondents came volring doors. Lent a forgetful pasto the Earl of Dudley, in his pre-rictto-Selection... Reginald Dixon. to Friederichshafen in *ee. Two Nenger should wander out with a hangurs lower abave the little snow-glowing cigarette
8.33-9 p.m. The Boswell Sisters. steward will sidential address to the Joint Gas overed town, in one the new ship stand constantly at the harrier rendy Conference at the British Indus Rudy Starita (Xylophone).
1. Voen-Fare thee well Annabelle: tries Fair, Castle Bromwich, Bir-Lullaby of Broadway; 2. Xylophonn The frame of the new Zeppelin Is
mingham.
Solos Dancing Butterfly: The Wo- of triangular girders of maze
"The last
Vocal-Rock/ decade," said Lord men in the Shoe; 3.
If I had a Million Dollar duraluminium, lightest and strongest low are the twenty-five window-less Dudley, "has seen a great change and mrtal known. It is eight hundred two-berth cabins, Lightness and
4. Xylophone Solos-The Punch Fund seven feet long, veis compactness rule here as everywhere in the mode of life of the people,
been stretched the outer envelope in the ship Celluloki, basins with Cheap and frequent transport
9-9.15 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin. lines below, where it gets some wear, hot and cold water tip out of the and the ubiquitous cinema have
9.15-9.30 p.m. Marek Weber out fine medium weight colton above. wall and fold
way between them altered the nature and his Orchestra, of the not in use. There in similar envelope lies when
of the home which, in many, Menuett No. 1 (Paderewski); Cocue against the frame to protect the deep curtnined 'wardrobe for clothes dexen "gns cells." arranged com- and luggage, and a writing shelf that cases, has become little more than Brise (Gillet): Potpourri of Waltzes
a pince for sleep and occasional (Robrecht), partment-wine along the length of lets down from the wall,
9.30-10 p.m.
A Variety Pro- The whole of the passengers' quar-hurried meals. the ship. Ten coats of aluminiam-
Moreover, the nature of these gramme. coloured airplane dope have gone lers are air-conditioned. All walls on the outer cover-each coat done are of cotton or silk meticulously meals has changed, and the Piano Solos-Show Memories. by hand in a single day to get an sown into place by hand. On them, amount of cooking carried out in Turner Layton; Songs Everything's even silver effect. Actually
the in the public rooms, hang oil paint- Zeppelin could fly without this outings depicting men's conquest of the the average household is to-day in Rhythm with my heart; The Little materially less than in years gone Silkworm....Jessie Matthews; Guitar er envelope; its importance lies in air. passing the wind smoothly Aver the The ship bristles with new fen-by. The provision of food and Stari Mt Regiment qui Passo...
Maccaferrl; Songs-Roll
Moon; Red Salls in the Sunset Bowlly: Instrumental-On the
Vocal-Rall Along, Covered Walsh and Barker: Or
Inside a
frame.
tures. Among them
The diameter Is 135 feet; the wheels
instead of cushioned gon-come the province of the restau- weight, empty, 100 tons, Passen dolas. But the great secret is the rant and places of amusement.” gers, crew, water ballast, mail and power plant,
There was, however, overy ren-1 freight bring the total flying weight For the first time the engines of! son to believe that in course of to 200 tons. Four single propellor an airship will burn' vil. They are engines on opposite sides under the Diesels, 1,100 horsepower each, their time the public would come to has centre and after part of the ship sixteen cylinders lighter than any insist upon achieving in their will drive it at a top speed of eighty- thing hitherte conceived for their de-own homes the same standard of five miles an hour, a cruising speed livered power. Made in the suburbs comfort with which the cinema of eighty miles an hour, and for of Stuttgart by, Daimler Benz, they and restaurant had made them. 9,000 miles without refuelling
are landing warmth has, in large measure, he- " Moana Shore South Sea
In the second place occasion been taken to impose the following increases over and above the rates obtaining for the first quarter:-
40.40 per fall
Howrklog
wine
Iqueurs.
nd
Empire be Other branding, whisky and
2.14 0.5л
"
Port, aberry and madeira Other wine.. + 1.22 J Tleer, clder and herty
0.00% 44
UNMANUFACTURED TOBACCO
Unstripped (1) Containing 10 ths.
are now being installed. Some parts familiar are still shrouded in canvas against even the curious eyes of the Zep. pelin workmen,
The only parts breaking the line of the bag are the steering gear aft, the gondolan of the four engines, and the control cabin forward. All Dr. Hugo Eckener, who has built crew and passenger accommodation a hundred Zeppelins, was the inspira-
Peopletion behind the now ship. Is inside a new feature.
con
CORRESPONDENCE
Shanghai Volunteer Manoeuvres
(To The Editor.
Hongkong Telegraph.)
will book their passages as in an Much speculation has been_made;
about a name for this giant that is Atlantic liner: one way,, £75.
Their quarters are as luxurlons as to astonish the earth. Dr., Eckener or more moisture per 100 lbs: (1) Em- pire Origin, 10 cents per pound; (ii) then.
make told a correspondent: "Its name will experience and money, Other Origin, 22 cents per pound.
Front easy chairs they will be Hindenburg-just that one simple (b)
watch the clouds swirl by, or," lean-{ word. A name that in respected ‚all. Containing less moisture than Above: (1) Empire Origin, 9 cents per pound;ing on the rail, luck at land and sea-over the world."
The Hindenburg is to be the first Sir- enclose a cutting of a (11) Other Origin, 19 cents per pound.turb them, for they are a third of of a vast fleet that will encircle the picture which appeared in "Photo-
scapes far below. No nolar will dis- Stripped. (a) Containing 10 lbs. the way back from the bow, a hun- globe. Plans are now ready for two news" of the Hongkong Telograph or more moisture per 100 lbs: (i) Emdred and thirty feet ahend of the sister ships; envisioned are fifty. of 80th showing the Shanghai pire Origin, 9 cents per pound; (i) forward engines.
And this is bus the beginning of Volunteer Corps at exercises. Other Origin, 19 cents per pound. On the part side of the main deck new Atlantic rivalry. (b) Containing less moisture than the dining-room-separated by a
How long will it be before Euru-
The caption states “Upper pic- (b) Containing less raoisture then low railing from the promenade: pean travel-bureaux have this slogan:ture shows Lewis Gun Section of above (1) Empire Origin, 0 cents per
American Company in action." pound; (ii) Other Origin,. 18 cents space, about fifty feet by twenty. "Overnight to New York' per pound.
MANUFACTUred tobacco
Cigars (1) Empire Manufacture,
03 cents per pound;
(I) Foreign | Manufacture, 08 cents per pound.
LOVE op
BEAUTY.
Lai Yu, 38, widow, was fined $30 or I three weeks imprisonment by Mr. Tobaccos and snuffs: (1) Empire Balfour at the Central Police Court origin and manufacture, 30 cents per this morning for keeping a sly brathai pound; (11) Empire manufacture only, on the first floor of 21, Sai Street 47 cents per pound; (i) Chinese Sub-Inspector, T. K. Whelan prosecut tobaccos, 67 cents per pound; (v) ed. Other foreign tobaeens, 54 cents per pound.
Yu Sik-yu, 18, banished
for ten
T.
A Sukiyaki dinner will be held at the European Y.M.CA.. West Lounge this evening for members and their friends.
seas on
chestra-Wedding Dance Waltz..... Alfredo and his Orchestra.
10 p.m. Big Ben:
10-11 p.m. From the Studio. "The Z.B.W. Dance Orchestra." 11 p.m. Close Down.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
The following wavelengths and frequencim at oberved by Daventry,
Call Blen Pregnancy Wavelength
4,650 kr. 49,59 metron 3,316 .. 31.35 metres 0.533 .c. $1.39 stres 11,250 k.. 26.39 metres 11,821 ka. 26.2 metron
GBA
сав
CBC
GAD
CF#
CBP
11.148 ke
14 meir
GBC
11,70 ke.
сял
CBI
CBJ
15,26 ke 21,040 k..
GBL
11. 49.19
23.470 ke
16.45 metres 21.01 18.46 metra
13.42 metres
Transmission 1
(6.8.N., G.B.D.)
3.15 p.m. gen. Quentin Maclean, at the Organ of the Trocadero Cinema, Elephant and Castle.
2.45 pm, Talk: "Conquest of_the_Air"-"y, 3.3 p.m. The BJKC. Danes Orchestra. Greenwich Time Signal at 3.15 p.m. 3.4 p.m. Len Allen and Hla. Canadian.
Bachelora. p.m. #.15 0.
The News.
Close down.
Transmission 2
(G.S.J., G.B.G.)
* p.m.
Пет. The Composar at the Plesofert Frank Bridge. A recital of Frank Bridge's songs. 7.25 p.m. Quentin Maclean, ai the Organ of the Trocadero Cinema, Elephant and Castin
7.45 p.m. A Talk by the Chief Engineer
of the Brlich Broadcasting Cor peration, Greenwich Time Signal at 8 p.m. p.m.
The RD.C. Empire Orchestra.
* p.m. The News,
9.5 p.m. The BN.C. Dance Grchestra, BAS p.m. Clone down.
Transmission 3
16.8.0, 0.8.2)
10 p.m. Fig Bon. “Parish” A play by
August Strindberg. 10.30 p.m. Hualcal Interlude.
10.2% p.m. The Composer at the Pianoforte -81 Itamilten Hariy. A recital af Hemtion Harty's songs" II p.m. A Reading from emniac nev
of an Iris IM,” 11.15 pm The Bournemouth
Meakipal Orchestra Greenwich Time Signal at 12:30 Km. 1230 am. The News, 13.43. Brass Band Concert. Iam. Close down..
If that is a Lewis Gun, the guns on Mt. Davis are 18 pounders. But that is no doubt a mistake of the DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
Press, and one any layman may The P. and O. liner Ranchi is due make and it la pardonable; what is SOME THOUGHTS ALWAYS FIND US
SUCH here from Shanghai at 6 a.m. on Fri-not pardonable is the position of YOUNG, AND KEEP U8 80.
the various gun members, the lack 18 THE
THE day. Cigarettes: (i) Empire origin and THOUGHT
of a Condenser Can, the absence of manufacture, 30 cents per pound; (ii) UNIVERSAL AND ETERNAL
a belt of cartridges and the belt box, Empire manufacture only, 47 cents Enterso11.
the tangent alght down, and the per found; (1) Foreign, 54 cents per found,
careless manner in which the case of the Barr and Stroud Range-1 Ander is thrown on the ground. Among latest transfers in the There is only one man in the Hongkong Police Force is that of whole pleture who, appears in a Sergeant R.F.G. White from Upper correct position and that is the man Levels to Yaumati Police Station. lying down on the extreme right of the picture. The mos In the Four Chinese seanien of the foreground are in. a very danger- As a result of "rounding off" the years from June last, was sentence steamer Corneville were admitted to ous position if they only knew it Ogures there is a very alight diminue to twelve months' hard labour by Mr the Kowloon Hospital yesterday suf- but perhaps the Shanghai Volun- tion of the duty on Japanese and Balfour at the Central Police Court fering from injuries received on board tears don't care about danger-or Chinese liquors, but the Colony's pro- this morning for disobeying the order; the vessel during heavy duction of the latter is protected by Six months' hard labour was inflicted March 30. The Comneville was at sea may be they knew the gun was not
unemployed, on when she ran into bad weather.
loaded and that a picture was being a 25 cents per gallen preference.over on Mok Woon, 25,
takon. the imported article. There is similar. similar charge. Sub-Inspector A.
No. 1 on the gun is far from Ty a slight decrease of 2 cents per lb. Sabey was for the prosecution.. Yu Kam, 23, unemployed, wILS In the duty payable on cigars of
charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Macted comfortable and could not retain Empire origin and manufacture. Convicted on charges of keeping the yon at the Kowloon Magistracy this that position much longer than it men appear to be doing and I feel third floor of 30 D'Aguilar Street as morning with the possession of 250 took to take the photograph. that if a competition were arranged a. gaving house and possesion of 141 counterfeit Hongkong ten-cent pieces There is no No. 2. No. 3 could not between the S.V.C. M.G.'s and the As a result of the new duties, the po-pin lottery tickets, a married of mixed metal, knowing them to be be seen in the photograph if he H.K.V.D.C. M.G.'s there would be retail prices of both products will be woman, Lam Sze, 12, with two pre-counterfeit, with intent to ubter, On were in his proper place, so I am only one result, Hongkong would Increased, and enquiries from local vious convictions for similar offences, the application of Detective-Sergeant wondering if the two nonchalant win, merchants elicited the following was and $60, with thb alternative of D. Davies, defendant was remanded gentlemen standing up behind the Ask G.S.0. 1-Colonel Harrison
three weeks' hard labour by Mr. Hal- for 72 hours, four at the Central Police Court this
gun are missing numbers of the about the show put up by No. 1 Cigars-Empire manufacture, $2-morning. Detective Sergeant Ꭲ.
team. (Nos. 4 and 5 are. much (Capt. Harry Owen-Hughes) Com- A summons against Mrs. Vera M. further back according to S.A.T. pany at Deepwater Bay last Satur 30 per pound, as against $1.80; Cashman conducted the mid, foreign manufacture, $2.60 as agelnat
Pearce, of the Hennessy Cafo, 7 Vol. 111). Hennessy Road, for falling to keep,
day week; ask him his opinion of I do not wish to be unfair to Hongkong's (first line of defenco) Restitution having been made, Marks. Alsatian dog under proper control
an Tobacco and Cigarettes-Empire Yu-she, alias, Mark Siu-un, alfus was mentioned before Mr. Balfour at the S.V.C. Machine Gunners; yet Machine Gunners. They are taught and manufacture, $1.40 per Allen Y.S. Mark, was released by Mr. the Central Police Court this morning, would venture to suggest that if and can touch the first rudiments pound, us against 80 cents; Empire Balfour at the Central Magistracy Inspector Stewart Logan prosecuted this picture portrays them in ac- of a soldier in action-concealment manufacture, only $1.60 against 00 this morning when he appeared on a and the summons was adjourned for tion, they have a lot to learn, and as well as how to keep the gun cenis: foreign, $1.80 as against $1.00. charge of the embezzlement of $700 one week as the defendant was absent. this could be taught them by any, in action.
As regards liquor, the
Wong firm, Queen's
MACHINE GUNNEIL prices of whisky, brandy rum, in from the Wank Nam feruerul Sing, a coolle employed by Mesars, member of the Machine Gun and cocktails will be approximately dant pleaded guilty. Mr. LA Jawson that on March 6 last while putting the members of the youngest terested, we again reproduce, on [For the benefit of those In- Battalion of the H.K.V.D.C. Even 12 per cent.; beer and stout, approxi- was the complainant and agreed to sorated waters tá ho ice box at the Machine Gun Company in the Page 11 of this issue, the picture mately 3 per cent; port, sherry and the release after the defendant'e wife Honnesay Cafe he was bitten in the other wines, approximately 10 per had pleaded. Detective Inspector M.log by the Alsatian which came from H.K.V.D.C-No. 8 Company to which the correspondent refers
Murphy appeared for the prosecutioni beind. The dog was not mussled, would not expose themselves as these ~~Ed. H.K.T.];
facts:
$2.
origin
the
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LEAP"
15 p.m. on March. 8 he was proceeding to the Railway, Plor when he saw the '8.8.^ Asosan Mari tying ut: buoy “No. A2 being loaded with cargo on the port side. He did not visit the ship then, but at 8 pm, he went aboard and saw that cargo was still being worked. They had a'permit to work Carro
between 6
6 p.m. and midnight, but not at 5 p.m.
Mr. Nagatomi, described
Mr. Sanderson pointed out to his manager of the Mitsui Bussen Worship that the summons described Kaisha, Prince's Building, was sum- defendant na the manager of the moned before Mr. Macfailyen at the firm, but that was not quite correct. Kowloon Magistracy this morning Defendant was the chief person in for allowing cargo to be loaded at charge of cargo. He held that defend- -5 p.m. on
on March 8, on board the ant had no personal
5.3. Asosan Maru without'a, permit..
theresse. A MUNN "Puikibulty" in:
Mr. G. E. 1., Sanderson"appeared |- His Worship agroed ard in with for the defendant and entered a plen drawing the summons informed the prosecution that they could fake Sorgeant "Roso stated, that about! action against the firm.
of not guiltyT