THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 18,
THE WATCH ON THE MERSEY.
BIG
By GORDON BECKLES
SHIPS LOSE
Mersey Prefers Kipling's
ROLLING DOWN
TO MANDALAY-
AND RECOVERY
By GORDON BECKLES
Liverpool, April 8.
They watch no longer on the Mersey for the big ships.
The Queen Mary leaves them just a little cold; and they look rather knowing when you wonder "whether the -new Cunarder will make a lot of money."
Then they delve into files and produce statistical pacans in praise of small ships-eight thousand tonners, with a profer-
ence
for Singapore. Port of Spain, Valparaiso and any of the rolling roads to Mandalay.
For Britain's greatest export harbour front pins its faith in prosperity to the cargo ship of whose virtues and mission Kipling
once sang:---
"Wa are going to fetch you your
bread and your butter, "Your, beef, pork, mutton, eggs, apples and checae."
LIKE A TOY SHOP
I have spent to-day down on that seven-mile harbour front, whose dock walls and sheds enn ennewal ten miles of shipping berths,
There are still just over 100,- 000 workers forced to belie their Rame. The passing of a year has seen only a 4,000 drop in the numbers of the jobless.
Talk to them, as I have this
evening, and you get a different picture.
They necuse the masters of lack of enterprise, talk of potentates with one foot in the grave and the other foot wedged in the door of progress, and of hoary veterans whù put a premium on youth,
THE MENACE
Did I say, by the way, that Birkenhead, on the opposite bank. is talking about one of the new battleships for Cammell Laird's alrendy busy yard?
Or that there is even a wide spread belief that Cammell Laird in in the running for the
New
From the eleventh storey of the Royal Liver building, the Queen Mary keel, in which event docks looked rather like a toy :—I suppose-- Liverpool would be shop at Christmas, each vessel prepared to revise her apinions of nently packed in its dock in big ships for a couple of years? long lines.
But the real watch that Once.
these sky- Britain must keep on the Mersey of course, scrapers-tallest buildings in All Is the watch that must be kept Britain-had floating rivals along- on all British docks on the side at the Prince's landing stage. menace of subsilised foreign
But now?
skipping--and on the shame of undermanned British ships. Nearly half your dread and your butter, beef, pork, mutton, eggs, apples and cheese came to you in formgn ships last year.
Well, it seems that Americans with money to spend preferred to get to Paris as quickly as turbines and vast tonnage could take them, and as Cherbourg and Have wouldn't mix with Liverpool, the Mersey was "given a miss."
So you have to be discreet here
in talking about big ships, for thei
Merseyside is sensitive.
But small ships?. Ah!
270 A MONTH
Reven
For the past
montha Mersey Docks have been dealing. with them at the rate of about 270 a month-almost exactly the figure -of-those-pre-war_days._which re- trospection so often makes rosy even in the minds of hard-headed business men-men who ought to know better.
"Not so bad, the Merseyside sur
gests.
And they point out with pride. that there has been an interesting
change in the direction of the port's trade.
Thirty years ago 43 per cent. of dues on ships and cargoes was derived from trade in the United States.
FAVOUR
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RADIO BROADCAST
Relay of Hongkong
Cargo-Carriers Hotel Dance Orchestra
HAZEL JENKIŃ IN LONDON
HAPPY girl of nineteen, auburn haired, attractive, walked ashore from the Japanese Iner Yusakuni Maru in the Royal Victoria Docks London, one day last month. She was home from Hongkong. looking forward eagerly to a holiday in the homeland.
An hour later she was in bed at her parents' home in Hnrohlsleigh- avenue, Crownhillt, Plymouth, ill with grief.
Hazel Mills Junkin was the adopted daughter of Mr. Francis Charles John Cragne Jenkin, K.C., who was found shot dead at his Peak residence on March 10%
Miss Mills Jenkin was already at ken when the tragedy occurred, When she landed in England she ilid not know that her benefactor was
dead.
Her mother and her fifteen-year-old brother met her at the ducks. In the train to Plymouth, she remarked of her adopted father, "I wonder what he is doing now."
Mother and brather said nothing. The task of breaking the news was left to her father, n tullor at the Crownhill barracks,
He said: "We met the Jenkin family in Hongkong in 1920. I wi in the Somerset Light Infantry,
"We met Mr. Jenkin quite casually. lic grew fond of Hazel-then twelve years of age-and she adored him. When he asked me if he could adopt her, I consented. lazel worshipped him."
Forger Aged 15 Allowed
'Fiancee' £I A Week
CONFESSION by a fifteen-year-old boy at Lambeth Juvenile
Court:
"I forged the cheques (for nearly £200) to help my father and mother. Father is an invalid-out of work."
Another confession alleged to have been made by the bay w708_ that he "allowed his fiancee one pound a week."
He was accused of having obtained £85 10s, with a forged cheque. He was sent to a reformatory school for three years. stamped a cheque with the firm's rubber stamp and withdrew Evidence showed that when the boy got a job with a firm he
£50.
Next, he secured twenty-five uncrossed cheques from a bank in the name of his employer, having previously had made a rubber stamp similar to that used by the firm.
Two cheques totalling £195 10s. were presented at the bank and honoured.
When he presented a further cheque for £104 108, it was To-day that perceninge has recognised as a forgery, dropped to below 15 per cent, the difference having been made;
up by increased trade with the Dominions und Colonics.
Serge Mdivani
When they add that the port Leaves
handled for the
Inst recorded
twolve months £115,000,000 worth of exports, you get some idea of what is going on in those sheds that stretch all the way from Sea- forth to Toxteth Park,
CITY OF SOOT Almost one-third of all the United Kingdom's exporia go down to the sea on the Mersey tides.
And about one-seventh of
£300,000
HALF FOR BRIDE
OF A MONTH
Los Angeles, Apr. 4. Estate of Prince Serge
British tonnage is owned here- Mdivani, eldest of the three little matter of some 3,600,000 tons.
Unemployment, of course, is not Georgian brothers, who W18 such a happy business in this killed in a polo accident in straggling great city of tall and Florida last month win amount massive buildings, Irishmen, ser- pentine streets, shawled women, to approximately £300,000. more Irishmen, and soot,
Coronation Style.
May, Revive Fad
For Long Tresses
London, Apr. 15. London hair-dressers are anti- cipating a now fad. for long hair, palleularly. among young pecreases who will attend the Coronation of King Edward VIII In Westminster Hall next year.
The farewell to bobbed hair will be more of a necessity than now fashion conformity with
modo, they explain, for the cor. encts which must be worn at the crowning of a new monarch are not adapted to bobbed hair.
The coronets, costing $18 and $20 rent on top of colled-up hair.
If worn with Lobbed hair they're likely to fall out of place and tumble' down over the wearer's eyes-United Press.
Half of it will go to his bride
of a month, Louiso Van Allen, ex-wife of his brother, Prince Alexis, if the document drawn
up before their marriage is al-'minlater M. Flandin follows with lowed to stand,
It Was learned to-day from
The wils of the French Foreign
great interest her husband's work during the electoral campaign. Pic- ture above shows Mrs. Flandin on her way to a political meeting where
the lawyers who handled Prince her husband has to make his speech.
Serge's affairs that hla last
will wen drawn up last August Big Yorkshire City
shortly after
the death of his
brother Alexis, who was killed in
a motor-car neefdent in Spain.
In this will Prince Serge disposes. of the bequests he received under the will of Prince Alexis. It was his in- tention that half of his estate should go to his wife if he were married at | the time of his death, and that the] rest should be equally divided among his serviving brother, Prince David. and his two sisters.
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Once Rated at £7
Leeds, Apr. 15. The rateable value of Leeds, largest city in Yorkshire, which to-day approaches £9,500,000, was at the time of the Domesday, survey (1086) only £7.
This was revealed in an ex hibition of books and documents organized by the Leeds publio libraries in order to stimulate public Interest in the libraries of the elly,
MEAL FOR
TWO-£8
High Cost Of
Being A Star Hollywood, Apr. 10.' PETTE DAVIS, the film star who won the award for the best performance by a woman
VARIETY CONCERT
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 366 Metres (845 kilocyles):
4-7 p.m. Chineso Programme, 6.30 p.m. Chineso Dance Music.
7 p.m. Light Opern Selections. The Land of Smiles (Lebar): Tho Beggar Student—(Millöcker); Chu Chin Chow (Norton);
7.25 p.m. The Four Bright Sparks.
White's
Nasty Man ("George Scandals"); The Grasshopper and the Ants; Givo mo liberty, or give me love: Melody in Spring.
7.38 p.m. The J. H. Squire Celcate Octet.
Humoreske
Paraphrase for
Strings only (Dvorak): Traumerei for Strings only (Schumann); Good Company Medley (arr. Willoughby); Salut d'Amour (Elgar): Barcarolle "Tales of Hoffmann" (Offenbach),
8 p.m. Time
Weather RC- port and Anno
8.03 p.m. Renara at
at the Piano. 1. Glamorous Night-Waltz Med- ley 2. Zing! went the Strings of my heart 3. Sweet Adeling-Med- Icy 4. Two for To-night-Medley.
8.22 p.m. A Variety Concert.
for
Organ Solo-My Song goes round the Work....Frederic Bayco: Song -100
Salo....Robert Ashley Instrumental Sweet Sue, you....Nat,
Nat Gonella and his Trumpet; Song-Don't you ever fall in love:
Alleen Stanley; Rags...
Just
Hend
.The Mills
Vocal-Sleepy Her Brothers; Humorous-Digging Hol Flanagan and Allen: Organ Salos-Parade of Parades .... .Quentin M. Maclean; Vocal-When that harvest moon is shining ..The Billies: Instrumental-Sweet Hawailan.
Underneath Dream Girl;
Blue Hawalinn Skies
The Hawaiian Marimba Players: Song-Kiss me goodnight; Anna Neagle (Sopra no). Band Ballroom Memories,
Military Band Music.
9.15 p.m.
A Princess of Kensington-Selec- tion (German); El Abanico-March (arr. Hume); Under the Banner of Victory-M March (Von Blon).
9.30 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin. 9.45 p.m. Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra.
10 m. Big Ben from Daventry. 12 midnight. Close Down.
Note: There will be a Ohinese re- corded Programme from Z.E.K, on
a frequency of '040 kilocycles from 8-10.30 p.m.
SUNDAY'S BROADCAST
Band of the Royal Ulster Rifles
VIOLIN AND PIANO RECITAL 10.30-11.30 m.m. Morning Service from the Union Church.
11.30 a.m. Morning Service from the Hop Yat Church (Chinese).
12.15 p.m. "Quartet in A Minor" 51) played by the (Brahms) (Op Lener String Quartet.
Mannin Veen" (Dear 12.50 p.m. Isle of Man) (Haydn Wood).
р.т.
Time Signal and Weather
“Report”
A Recital by Richard
1.03 p.m. Tauber (Tenor)
1. Loveliest of Women (Lebar);
in 1936, says fame is too expen-2, My every thought, my one desire (Lehar); 3. Over Night (Wolf); 4. sive.
Woodlands Far (Mendelssohn). 1.18 p.m. Violin Solos by Albert Sandler,
"I Am tired of paying prices," she said.
star
Her husband, Harmon Nelson, the band leader, and she were charged £8 for refreshments and Hollywood a glass of wine at a night club.
1: L'Heure Exquise (Haha); 2. The Violin Song ("Tina") (Rubena); Pale Moon (arr. Kreisler): 4. Allegro (Fiocco).
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1.30 p.m. Reuter Pross Bulletins. 1.35 p.m.
from Vocal Genus Light Opera.
Maritana (Wallace); Lily of Kil- "We are just soaked because we larney (Benedict),
1.50 p.m. are known," she explained.
Music.
"Even small shops in Los me con- Angeles have charged siderably moro for a dress than it was worth. Once a small shop owner tried to double the price of a dress I had seen in the window." -United Press.
Light Orchestral
With the Classics; Tangoland; Neapolitan Melodies Medley: En- trance of the Little Fauns (arr. Mouton): Bolero (Kavel): A Life on the Ocean (Binding).
2.30 p.m. Close Down.
p.m.
Chinese Programme, 7 p.m. "Octet in E flat Major," Op. 20 (Mendelssohn) played by In- ternational String Octet,
1.7
7.33 p.m. Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano). Peter Dawson (Bass-
Baldwin Is. Silent Baritone). On Monroe Doctrine
London, Apr. 12.
Prime Minister Baldwin yester- day answered in the negative when he was questioned in the House of Commone as to whether Great Britain would mok the United States if it was bound to defend Canada and British possessions of America from foreign attack.
William Leach (Labour) asked tho Prime Minister whether he would ask the United States for assurance that by their Inter- pretation of the Monroe Doctrine they will hold themselves bound to intervene to defend Canada, Brush Guiana, and the Falkland Islands from armed attack by any power or group of powers?'
Mr. Baldwin answered: "No, sir..
Mr. Leach then inquired whether Mr. Baldwin would "re- consider his answer in view of the beneficial results a' · favour- ablo reply might have on defenze proposals?"
To this question Mr. Baldwin did not reply.—Aurcoiated Press.
1. Resit: Image, I melt, I burn. the cherry Aria: O Ruddier than Ilandel: Honour and Arms...Handel. ....Peter Dawson; 2. In Abendroth; Die Vogel (Schubert).....Elisabeth Schumann; J. The Lube Player
Dawson; (Allitaen) .Poter Stanchen, Op. 17. No. 2 (Strauss); Morgen. On. 27, No. 4 (Strauss).... Elisabeth Schumann.
4.
8 p.m. Time Signal, Weather Re- port and Announcementa.
8.03 p.m. From the Studio. "Grieg Sonata in C Minor" Violin an
and Pianoforte played by Vic-
for
tor Derezovsky and Luba Shaftain
p.m.
{ Boro
8.5 Grand Opes.
Overturo"Prince
din);
I might, perhaps, have been of a falso find the pray ("Carmon") (Diet); Speak to me of my Mother Carman (Bitot)... Heldy (So and Ansseau (Tenor); The Floren
you flung to me ("Carmen") (Bizet). Fernand Anascau (Tenor); (Bizot) I am Escamillo ("Carmen")
Anmonu (Tenor) and Journet
(Bass),
9 p.m. Reuter Prers Bulletin. 9.05 D.m. From the Studio, The Band of the 1st Battni. The Royal Ulster Rifles.. (By kind por mission of Lieut-Colonel R. M. Rod- woll and Ofcera).
Conductor-. Alfred Hale, A.E.C.C. -Bandmaster.
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Programime.
1. Overture "Riens!"....Wagner; Excerpts from "The Student Prince"
Waltz- Romberg; 3.
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