THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1936.
BRITAIN TO HAVE AIR MAIL STAMP Proposal that will Develop the Flying Post
The Bookself. CHINA IS FAVOURITE THEME OF AUTHORS
REDS: ECONOMICS IN "China's Millions," (Messrs. Victor Gollancz, Ltd., London; lūs, net), Anna Louise Strong tells her experiences in China during the Revolution and res action of 1927, and, in អព epilogue, brings the story up to 1935. The maturess was actunky In Chinn for only a few months, and abe spent the greater part of that time amongst revolutionary vaders and organisations, Accordingly, the book is permeated with sympathy for the extreme elements. Part of thes volume treats of the transformation of the revolutionary Government of Wuhan into a reactionary military dietaturship; Part II tolls of the trek of the retiring advisera across North- West China at Mongolia back into Russia, while Pant III deuls with the j mbc of the Chinear Rel distrinta,
Ily
far The mort Interesting section of the book is that which tells in detail of the journeying of the deponed Russian advisers, bended | by M. Borodin, the authors being one of the party arvonipanying thoơn, To particular, thr derer.ption of conditions in Mourolin is most cas ronsing. Here we have some ex cellent deseriptive writing Item
frelle pen. But the major theme of)
the book the domination
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Kuomintang by foreign limperialists, And the alleged, wer of foreign money, guns, and -ñeroplanes for The pression of the Chinese Soviets,
be considered as statement of 1hr fact,
Evi movements of foreign worships t trial rens, for he obvious pur ps of ensuring protection to for eign lives and property, a inter preted as backing for the Chinos reactionaries. The United States described as the Hunneier of Chinese internal slaughter an {1+ "El
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RED RIOTS IN SPAIN
Ruins of Church Bred by rioting Comments during VOLEN din turbance in Spain, which culminated in rosienation of President Znavar,
SCHOOL A "TORTURE HOUSE"
SCHOOLBOY HUNG HIMSELF "HE called the school a tor- ture house and hated it," anid Edith Parsons at the Bur. wood Coroner's Court (Sydney) last month when the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) held an inquest into the death of her son, Harold strongest and greatest imperialist in James Parsons, 14, of Coventry
the world." One's renctions. after reading the book, are 1 hat It |- spoiled by a one-aldet outlook. Har it been confined a narrative of the experiences of the authoreas, intenyin ly interesting as they are. it would deserve a high place annet
The literature dealing with this particular period of Chinese unrest.
s.
ANOTHER BOOK ON CHINA
Another book en China. from totally different angle, is "Key Econo- mic Areas in Chinese History, as Re- vealed in the Development of Public Works for Water-Control," by Chaos į ting Chi, Ph. D. Messrs. beorge Allen and Unwin, Ltd.. London; dd, net). The author, who is use of China's most promising students of cronomies, atTers the 'Conception the dynamics of Key Economic Areas, as an aid to the understanding of Chinese economic history. By tur ing the development of the Key Economic Area through a historical study of the construction of Irviga. and flood-control works and transport canals, the book aims to ahow the function of auch Area as an instrument of control of sub- ordinate areas and as a weapon of political struggle, to indicate how it shifts, to reveal its dynamic relation to the problem of unity and division In Chinese history, and to give, on the basis of this approach, a concrete historical-descriptive analysis of one phase of the economie development of China.
tiún
The
conclusion is reached that the geographical outline of the new re gional situation still coincides rough; ly with the old divisions, marked chiefly by topographical conditions, but the cronomic basis and meaning of the new regionalisation are entire ly different from the old. The book reveals the author as a serious student of an important question and bears ample evidence of painstaking search.
"THE
re-
street, Homebush, who hanged himself at Flemington.
to
George Brown, unemployed sen- man, said he was carrying his swag on March 5. He had slept in bed near the Flemington saleyards, and had gone get breakfast. When he returned to the shed at 8.45 n.m.. he saw a boy, apparently standing Jehind a door, and peering through a crack. Wit- mess asked the bay where he could get water, but received no reply.
THE KING'S APPROVAL
TO BE SOUGHT
BRITAIN is likely to have its
first real air mail stamp soon. Steps have already been, taken, to introduce a stump that will do Justice to the Increasing truflle on the air mail routes, and at the same time recognise the interest which | King. Edward has always shown in (commercial fiying.
A number of suggestions have been put forward, and these will probably be considered by a gem- ber of the College of Heralds now attached to the Ale Ministry.
Before any decision is taken, however, the King will be con Multed..
BEHIND THE TIMES Britain has so far ben buck- ward in providing a special stamp for air mails. While most other countries, with the exception of the British Colonies, have produced exceptionally fine examples of vary
Sordinary postage stamps, with a
ETHIOPIAN CHIEF IS MISSING
RAS SEYOUM Feurs are ruteriaided" for "ufety of Rás Segoum, one of 1 hlaplu's: ablest Tenders, where farges in South have ben nnnihilated.
ing values, Britains hos relied on Lindberghs' small bine inhel bearing the word Servant Dies
"By Air Mail.“
The only air mail stamp issued in
Britain was that produced in Grieving For
₫ 1912, when The late Gustave Hamelj Allow with a small mall-but from
| Hendon Windsor.
Philatelists are now paying £5 for the specimens, but some of the earliest air mail stamps pro dured in America realise as much
14 £20,
DISTANCE FLIGHTS
Their Baby
RADIO BROADCAST
New Fox-Trots by The Harmony Boys
ZEK. PROGRAMME From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 365 metres (846 kilocyclon)1,
5-7 p.m. Hongkong Hotel, Dance Orchestra.
7 p.m. Mavis Bennett (Soprana), Yehudi Menuhin (Vin- In).
1. Violin Solos-Hungarian Dance No. 6 in B flat Major (Brahma); Romanza Andaluza (Spanish: Dance) (Op. 22) (Sarasate); 2. Songa-The Doll's Song "Tales of Hoffmann") (Ofenbach): Wine, Women and Song (Strauss); Violin Solo-La Ronde des (Strauss); 3. Violin Bolo-La Rondo des Lutine (Danes of the Goblins) (Bazzini); 4. Songs--The Lass with the delicate Air (Arne); By the Waters of Minnetonka (Lieurance). 7.30 p.m. From the Studio,
Now Fox-Tents pinyed by The Harmany Boys."
A p.m. Timme Signal, Weather Re- port and Announcements.
8.0 p.m. A Theatre (Chinese)..
Relay from the Lee
11 p.in. Clone down. 8.05-10 p.m. European gramme from ZEK. quency of 440 kilncycles.
Pro-
on a fre
9.03 p.m. De Gront and his Orch. Tracine (Wagner); Autumn (Cha-
ninale); The Gypsy Princess-Selve- Lite (Kalman: The Song of Songs (usa); In Violetern (Padilla); Other Days (arr. Finck).
8.32 p.m. A Concert
Cello Solo--Gavotte Tendre (1- |lemacher), Pablo Casals; Song-Lol Here the Gentle Lark (Bishop), Lily Pons (Soprano); Planoforte Solo..- Capriccio in I Minor
Horowitz:
Via-Uimir Birmingham, Mar. 31.
A two-indnths-old secret was far from the Land (Lambert), rould only tell ther (Cape); She revealed to-night with the newsleter Dawson (Baas-Baritone); "Collo that Mrs. Phoche Mary Whate. | Solo--Apres un Reve (Psure), Pablo ("Paritan ley, former servant of the Lind-Carals; Songs-Always
Lullaby); Love, I give you my all Letters and parcels are now Bownberghs, and a vital witness in the ("Luna"), Inu Souez (Soprano),
9 Daventry News Bulletin. regularis from London to the fur- trial of Bruno Hauptmann, died
here on January 9. the-most parts of the warki.
p.m. Richard Tauber Frequently the cargo from South Mrs. Whateley was a Birming-Į (Tenor). Africa and Egypt is so heavy that ham woman, and died at the home. a special triple-engined Blanc has of her sister, Mrs. G. A. Ward, to be used to bring it to the London Balden-road, Harborne. Terminal Air Port at Croydon.
Regular dispatches go from the Far East, Australia and South America,
Airmen and business people are eonvinced flint an attractive stamp would add to the prestige of British commerce aliroad; and lead to a big' increase in air mail traffic.
She was the widow of Mr. Olly Whateley, butler in the Lindbergh home at the time of the kidnapping,
Mrs. Ward said that the worry of the trial, combined with the death of her husband, and sorrow at the loss of the Lindbergh baby undoubtedly contributed to her death.
KEPT ALIVE
BY BELLOWS
Witness then saw that the Ind had a thin cord round his neck, the ends being fastened to padlock high up on
AFTER being kept alive for nearly four years by a foot- the door. The boy apparently was dead.
ball bladder breathing device and similar apparatus, said that the boy had used a thin rey, has died at his home, aged sixty-five.
Sergeant Alfred Luxton Burgess Mr. S. Crosby Halahan, of Little Croft, Chiddingfold, Sur- wireless cord to hang himself,
Inoping it into a running noose.
The muscles of Mr. Halahan's
At the school witness learned body became atrophied some that, though the boy had been ab years ago. In June 1932 arti- sent several days, he was a well-ficial respiration had to be ad- behaved, reserved, determined lad, ministered day and night.' He was difficult to understand at thues, but always particularly friendly towards his teachers.
four
Fretted For Friend Albert Edward Parsons, forc- pian at the State Abattoirs, said his son was not keen about school, and wanted to get a job. He was a pupil at the Granville Junior Teehnient School. About months ago a 21-year-old friend, to whom his son was greatly attach ed, was drowned at Wallacia. The boy visited the cemetery regular- ly, attended the grave, and put flowers on it. He fretted greatly. Edith Parsons said that her son
Sir William
£100,000 Estate
Bragg, the In America
seientist, who is a friend of the family, devised an apparatus in which two football bladders were connected with a wide rubber Lube. One bladder was ban- daged tightly to Mr. Halahan's chest and the other was placed between two hinged boards so that it could be worked by the feet like bellows.
CLAIM BY A 91-YEAR- OLD BROMPTON WOMAN
Northallerton. Apr. 1. In a little cottage at Brompton, Northallerton, doing her own house- hold tasks at 91 years of age is The apparatus succeeded beyond Miss Ann Crawford, who claims to all expectations,
be heiress to an estate of £100,000, in America. Mr. H. Peacock, Bromp Later, at Sir William's request, ton, a nephew, ls prosecuting his left to go to school, as usual, on a hydraulic apparatas to be work-aunt's claim with r. J. J. Dwyer, In "The Beggars Brotherhood," March 5. "A note had come ed off the water supply, was 40, Wall Street, New York.
BEGGARS' BROTHER-
HOOD
(Messrs. George Allen and Ronald Ltd., London; 10x. d. net), Fuller traces the growth and decline of those twin brotherhoods of beg gars and knaves which occupied the alarmi attention of Englishmen from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. le scrutinizes the savoury details of
lives custonia of these TOTUER und illustrates by contemporary quota- tions their varlous methods of prey-i ing on the innocent and the unwary. The second part of the book deals disappearance of the brother-
the
un-
with the gars and the coming of
Jood of the Highwaymen, the Body-Snatchers and the organised gangs of rufians controlled by Jonathan Wik... The volume contains a notable gallery of villians, enlivened here and there with snatches of genial balladry, and it in freely illustrated from all prints, A most ongrossing. book.
IF MISS DIETRICH
WALKS OUT- MERLE OBERON WILL STAR IN NEW FILM Hollywood, April 4.
If M'ye Dietrich walks, out of "I Loved a Soldier," Miss Merle Oberon is expected to take her place.
Mas Dietrich has a contract with Paramount for another picture which she will make here, probably this autumn, returning to Hollywood after completing her Alm for Mr. Kordn.
asking for an explanation for his instrument maker. through the post from the school, designed by a London scientific
down.
showed him the note, and he just non-attendance." said witness. "I smiled and looked
ODDITIES IN THE NEWS
1. Rose Marie--"O Rose Marie 1 love you" (Priml); 2. Rose Marie- "Indian Love Cill" (Friml); 3. Night love you to-night (Waller). and. Day (Cole Porter); 4. Lettine
9.30 p.m. Dance Music, 10 p.m. Big Ben: Close down.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
are observed by Daventry,
The following wavelengths and frequenclie
Call Sign Prequency Wavelength
1,050 k..
49.59
metres
·8,310 1.5. 31,55 metres $,585 k.c. 31.20 metren 11,730 k.. 25,53 metres 11.848 k.. 21.31 metron 19,81 melyes
GSA
GND
GSC
GSE
CAP..
G8C
GSK
12,040 k.c. 17.790 k.c 21.470
k.c.
13. T metres
GRI
15.240 k.c.
15.62 tetrte
CAJ
21,510 ke. 13.99 se! rem
GSL
4,110 k.. 49.18 petree
14.00 metres
Transmission 1
(G.S.N., G.R.D.)
1.13 p.m. 1 Ben. "April Fally."
1,45 p.m. "Soaks to Read."
3pm. The B.D.C. Empire Orchestra.
Greenwich Time Slanal at 2.15 D.m. 3. The" Nawai
3.20 p.m. Close down.
Transmission 2
(G.S.J., G.5.G., G.B.D.)
7 p.m.
1.15 1.4.
Digen. Reginald Porter-Brown,
at the Organ of the Regal Cinema, Torquay.
A Recital by Cleely Hoy (Bo- prano and Planoforte).
7.15pm. April Folly."
Greenwich Time Signal at 1 Dəm
8.15 p.m. Medvede's Balalaika Urchestra
.10 p.m. "All About the Roundabouts."
$ p.m. The News.
$30 pm. Dance Music,
BAG D..
Clors down.
Transmission 3
G.B.G, G.B.F., G.S.E) 10 p.m.
le Ben. Arthur Balisbury And
ki Orchestra.
10.15 m. Variety.
10.33 p.
A fecital by Glades Corlett Violoncello).
11 p.m. Talk: "Conquest of the Air”nd, 11.30 p.m. "Eight fala,"
Greenwich Time Dignal at 11.50 m.m 12.10 .m. The Naws. 12,50 am Orchestral Marie.
1 .. Close down.
INDIAN CONGRESS
EXTREMIST PROPOSAL
DEFEATED
had taken up his aunt's claim having
Mr. Peacock Baid to-day that hep regard to an advertisement, which appeared in a London newspaper for This apparatus was used until heirs to a sum of £100,000 left by 3. Halahan died.
Mr. Thomas Walsh, who married Ann Crawford, of Manchester, in 1836, und
Lucknow, April 12, went to America before 1845,
The new Indian Constitution Thomas Walsh was born in King's described AS T "new churter County, Ireland, and his wife was slavery" designed to strengthen the believed to have been born in bonds of Imperiallat domination, by Northern Ireland or in Scotland. the President, Jawaharlal Neliru, Miss Ann Crawford, of Brompton, addressing the plenary session of the la piece of the late Mrs. Walah, All-India
UNITED PRESS PERISCOPE
ON WORLD TIT-BITS
San Francisco.
The first scene, unveiled by the News Periscope, reveals a traffic court in Los Angeles. The prisoner, charged with driving with a defective windshield has been asked his name by Municipal Judge C. Newell. Carns.
"Safety First," replied the defendant.
"Say," exploded Hizzoner," Are you trying to kid me?" "Honest Judge," the defendant insisted, "My name's Safety First."
Anme
Congress attended
by
and, in her possession, are a birth Gandhi. certificate and other documents which would appear to substantiate her Nehru advised members of Con- contention that she is the nonrest gress to a take advantage of the new surviving heir to the fortune. She constitution to capture the legisla remembers as a litle girl being pre-tures and use them as platforms 10 sent at a faruwell party before the further their economic programune couple, left for the United States, and create polliient deudlocks. They had no famly when they left and, since their departure, no further The speech was robbed of much nows had been heard of Mr. and Mrs.interest by the decision of the Con- heirs to the estate appeared. Walsh until the advertisement for gress Subjects Committee yesterday Misa to postpone the decision on the pe- Ann Crawford, in her younger days, ceptance of office by memberont was a seamstress, and, for several Congress under the new Constitu-
was at Leeds, coming to tion.
Beaton 40 years ago.
Mr. First received a suspended sentenco after being admonished to live up to his name.
Mr. Firat received a suspended, Harding's truck stalled he tried the sentence after being admonished to procedure. It is thought ho
The Socialist groups proposal to live up to his name,
will recover; but the noise of the Sheriff Herbert Ross, of Tonin, pledge members of Congress against explosion practically ruined his car (Mich), slugged recently when three the acceptance of responsibility, and drums.
convicts escaped, received nn to tactics designed to wreek the new anonymous birthday present shortly constitution, was defeated by 44 thereafter. It was a steel trench voles to 23--Reuter, helmet.
Next scene, Seattle. Howard Dow, a taxidriver, han warned dog owners to keep their pets away from him, Recently a dog in apparent health, bit Dow. Two hours later it died. Dow was not seriously hurt.
good! Chicago
Detroit, Mich., had driver trouble, too. Before Eldridge Harding bo camo a truck driver, ho was a mule driver. When a mulo stalled, he'd build a fire under it. So when
A one-man anti-nolao campaign in ended with a bang. Miss Gertruds Newhouse thought John G. Stanton, who employed her to take care of his young son, was fooling when he told her to switch off the radio, that he wanted quietanted to sleep. "I know ho meant it, though, when he punched me in the nose," she said later as she wore out a warrant for assault and battery.
But getting back closer home for the final periscopic peer, we find an Oakland woman seeking, divorce- ment. Mrs. Mary Parker asked a divorce from Joseph Lee Parker, because he was "unkind, inconsider- ato, sullen, mean, irritable, morbld, disagrecablo, nasty, gruesome, cool,
hitter, jealous, heckling, picayunish, loathsome, insulting, brazen, miser- ly, gluttonish, conceited, tempera- mental, selfish, uncivil, nagging. and besidem never took
any place." The judge must have thought that sufficient-ako "granted the divorce.
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JAPAN-GERMANY
FURTHER REPORTS OF UNDERSTANDING
"Paris, April 12.
Japan all claim to the former Geritag possessions, the Karsball And Starianna Islanda,
Pointed comment is made in Genuva, contrasting the German attitude In this matter with the demand for the return of
ex-German possessions- of the held by. England France.
In connection with this it is re- A secret Japanese-German under called that the rumours of a Japanese- standing was vir the year, tornant a dortending for co-opera the beginning of the year, asserts tion in the event of war with Madame Tabouls in L Oeuvre,"
have been Madame Tabouls says that freah Tokyo and Berlin, but it is belleved strenuously dented : in information with regard to this has that the Intensiva preparations of the Soviet during the past two years aro It is reported that in the alleged due to fears of such a combined ab agreement Germany-surrendered to tackRouter,
reached Gehova.