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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936. ́
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COLONEL CYRIL FOLEY
DEAD:
LIEUT COLONEL
CYRIL P.
FOLEY, author, soldier, sporta- man and explorer, died last month in Dorset, aged 67.
His adventures included taking part in the Jameson Rald and ac- companying a party which In 1909 scarched unsuccessfully on the site of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem for the Ark of the Covenant,
He was the son of General Sir St. George Foley, and was the heir- presumptive to his grand-nephew, the 12-year-old Lord Foley.
He played cricket for Eton and Cambridge, and later earned his place in the Middlesex county team, "MADE YOU FEEL SMALL"
In South Africa, Colonel Foley made the acquaintance of Cecil Rhodes and took part in the Jame- son raid. Of Rhodes he once said: "I do not remember meeting any one who made you feel so amall, phyaleally and mentally na Cecil
Rhodes did."
Colonel Foley claimed last year in his book, "Autumn' Follage" that he was a Monto Carle gambler who Invariably won. His yearly capital, he said, was £200, and at the end of 15 years he had made a profit of £11,000.
In March 1935 Colonel Foley was chosen out of 1,000 applicants to be manager for the Auto-cycle Union Speedway Control Board.
100-Ton 'Planes To Fly Atlantic
Havre, Apr. 5.
weighing
AIRPLANES
from sixty to 100 tons are to be used for flying the Atlantic soon.
MIGRATORY WORKERS FACE STARVATION
The
Approximately 1,000 field workers and their families drove to Nipomo, California in their rattle-trap motor-cars, set up lean-to dwellings, and prepared to harvest the pea crop. Rains set in. pen crop was destroyed by hlight. The migrants worked only two days in six weeks. They were near starvation when relief workers found them, and rushed in food. Photo shows one of the workers' wives with her two children,
U.S. EXPEDITION
TO GO TO RUSSIA TO STUDY ECLIPSE
New York, Apr. 6.
A joint expedition to observe the next total eclipse of the sun, scheduled for June 19, 1936, will be sent to Soviet Russia by Georgetown University and the National Geographic Society, it was announced here.
EVEREST PORTERS way around the earth
SELECTED
MANY "OLD HANDS"
Calcutta, Mar. 31.
Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, leader of this year's attempt to climb Mount
The expedition will travel half- to make observations during the brief two and one-half minutes when the moon will come between the earth and the sun and temporarily turn day into night. Even so brief an observation of the sun is consi dered well worth while by astro- nomers because it gives them an
The scheme for floating islands midway for landing and refuelling has been abandoned.
This was announced to-night by M. de la Grange, a member of the Everest, has made the final selec- opportunity to study the sun's French Air Commission, on his tion of 60 Sherpa and Bhutia por corona-a halo of light extending return from the United States, terk to assist in the enterprise. hundreds of thousands of miles where he reached un agreement
The other porters needed' will join outward from the sun but visible with Pan-American Airways to make plans for a regular Trans- the expedition at the base camp-only during an eclipse when the atlantic air service.-Reuter. which is situated at a height of rest of the sun's light is cut off.
16,800ft-direct from their homes.
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The man selected by Mr. Kutt- clues to the make-up of the sun, LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY• ledge were members, of a large whose heat and `energy make life party_chosen_provisionally by possible on earth. This in turn EAST LANCASHIRES AT Major C. J. Morris, the expedi- may aid in better understanding
THE PENINSULA tlon's chief transport officer.
of the nuture of the more distant They are exceptionally well suit- stars.
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. A. C. Marsh and Onlcers the Bonded for the purpose. Young men
By kind permission of Lieut. Col.
Dr. Paul A. McNally, director of the 2nd Battalion, The East Lan-predominate, but among them is of the Georgetown College Obser- cashire Regiment, will provide a band concert at the Peninsula Hotel on good leavening of trusted old handsvatory, will lend the expedition, Sunday, April 10, commencing at 0.00 who have been appointed commau-accompanied by five others to be p.m., when the following programme ders of parties.
chosen from the staffs of the uni of music will be played.
MEN..thundered for his head! WOMEN..cried for his arms!
BENNETT
Fredric
MARCH
The AFFAIRS of CELLINI
with FAY WRAY • FRANK MORGAN
Directed by GREGORY LA CAVA
Released the UNITED ARTISTS
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a DARRYL F. ZANUCK production Added Attraction: "GIANTLAND" Mickey Mouse Cartoon
TO-MORROW AND SATURDAY
JAMES CAGNEY and JOAN BLONDELL
TOGETHER AGAIN IN THEIR BIGGEST DRAMATIC HIT!
“HE WAS HER MAN”
A Warner Bros. Picture.
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERGY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 9, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hoogkong.
Jemadar Lachiman Singh Sahi veraity and the Society. They 1. March Fantasis, "Colonel Bogey and two N.C.O.'s of the 3rd Gurk-will leave some time in April and
on Parade," (Alfred). 2. Overture. "The Flying Dutch has have joined na assistanta to return in July.
man," (Wagner). Major Morris, Valse,....
"Gold und Siber,"
(Lehur).
.D.
4. Selection, "The Gondoliers,"
(Sullivan). 5. Post Horn Solo, "Tally Ho,"
(Barsattl), Soloists:Bandsman P. White.
4. Tone Poem, "Finlandia,"
.8.
Interval
STOPPED TRAINS FOR A KISS
SIGNALS SET AT DANGER
Paris, Mar. 31.
7. Excerpts from the Opera, "Cavalieria Rusticana," (Mascagni,) }
Cornet Solo. "None but
weary heart," (Tschaikowsky). THE amorous girl-wife of an Solebat:--Bandsman W. Foster.
the
D. Excerpts from the Sulte, "Sea
Pieces,"
1. To the Sea"
2. "Starlight"
3. "In mid-ocean"
10. Selection
Merry
Observations will be made from
a point near Orenburg, Soviet Russia, because past weather records show that this region offers one of the best promises of clear weather along the whole path of the eclipse.
London.
Headquarters of the expedition will be established near Oren- burg, probably at the village of Sara, which is very near the line along which the centre of the moon's shadow will travel during the eclipse. Orenburg is about elderly level-crossing keeper 775 miles southeast of Moscow, (MacDowell), on a local railway line near Cler-north of the Caspian Sea and the mont Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome, stoppes of the Ural Mountains, has just appeared in the Riom and in about the same latitude as Police Court on a charge of from "The
"deteriorating the company's Russia and Japan have extended The governments of both Soviet Widow" Lehar. Consisting "Polonaise", from Opening Chorus.rolling stock."
cordial invitations to the scientific Song "Villa"-"A'dutiful wife" Valse from Finale, and many other very
organizations to the world to send well known melodies.
expeditions to their territories for observation of the eclipse, the first sined that of February, 1984. In both countries extensive sur- voys have been made of weather conditions and the results' have been communicated to all organi- zations likely to take part in the observationa.
Pretty, and with a ready smille, she drew the loving glances of drivers and 11. A Phantasy. "The Three Bears," guards, and even grimy-faced fromen on the trains that passed her little cottage,
(Coates). (Regimental Marches:-The Attack, Lancashire Lad).
Sho rewarded her favourites with wave of her hand, and they would God Save The King
shut off steam and slow down to let their gaze linger. Then they began Conductor: Mr. A. B. Yule, to throw out notes and blow kisses, It will be fresh in the memories
One day a train stopped acar the of the considerable gathering who
Photographs taken during the were
function cottage with the signala gana eclipse, timed with great exact- at a similar short while
Pen and ftor that nearly every day the ELS Insula Hotel that a very excellent train stopped there but not always ness, will give astronomers a tite samo train. The young wife of chance to "hold a stop-watch" on range of musical pieces was given by the crossing-kooper was always there the movements of the solar this popular Band, and, anticipating to indulge in love-making, and in system and see if it is "running full house on this occasion the mysterious manner the signals would on schedule." Movements of the Management of the Hotel is arrang-ho put right afterwards.
sun, moon and planets in relation
a
ago
nt
ing for capacity scaling accommoda-
Д
tion. It will be desirable, therefore, A watch was kept and it was found to one another are predicted with for those intending to be present, that the girl manipulated the signals extreme accuracy by astronomers, to be in their places before the time by tamparing with them when a train but the predictions can be checked of commencement. A very pleasant carrying one of her favourite drivers only when two heavenly bodies evening's entertainment is assured, came in night.
The court lot hor off with a sutall Pass each other, as in the case of to which there is to be no admission
One and a warning.
ja total eclipse.-United Press.
charge.
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Who's Got the Whole World Woozie? You tell 'em, Gracie I
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