THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1936,
PUZZLE OF CORONATION MILLIONS
NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR
Mr. S. Y. Shil, newly-appointed Chimie Ambassador in „kápán, at ho
recently presented his erodenials to the Throne.
MOURNING ENDS ON THURSDAY
QUEEN MARY'S
WISH
Procession Route Must
Be Longest Ever
NEW PLAN FOR CITY AND SOUTH LONDON PAGEANT
NOR the Coronation Procession of King Edward VIII. next year the route will have to be the longest in modern times.
The great event will draw the largest crowd that London has over seen, and unless that crowd is spread over a long processional | route there will be scenes of chnos.
This is the considered opinion of transport experts who are already making plans for the day.
Piccadilly,
Constitution Hill,
YOUNG PRINCESS
They have learned an important, Mansión House, lesson from the funeral procession Queen Victoria Hyde Park Corner of the late King. It is that pro- | Street, cessional routes must be long Transport authorities are of the enempel to touch the maximum opinion that the Home Secretary number of underground stations, should immediately summon to dis- bas anil tram points, to bring and cuss the problem a special commit- remove crowds without confusion.
itec, on which there should be repre- Princess Marin of Savoy, laughter sentatives of London Transport, the to the Crown Prince of Italy and main line railways, the polien and Princess Marie Jose, is seen picking the Office of Works.
flowers in the garden to the
Rosebery near Naples.
A 2,000,000 "RIQT"
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For this purpose the route the Coronation of King George V. Is in the opinion of the transport world, hopelessly inadequate,
The outavard. Journey from Buckingham Pakre to Westminsteri Abby was slightly under a mile and a half. The return journey. was just over two,miles,
This was all very well for the last Coronation, when
200,000;
tegh came to Town,,
Hut al ut 2,000,000 people will want to the Coronation mest
jyear and any the transport ex- Sportsch
'Stork Marathon'
Kidnap
Attempt
Villn
Toronto, April 20.
IDNAPPERS attempted last night to carry off a child of Mrs. Matthew Kenny, wife of an, unemployed Arrow, poured into labourer, who is likely winner of Toronto's £100,000 "Stork Psych a confined area, would mean | Marathon.” [lifthe short of a riot.
There will be no excuse for lack
co-operation
tonation.
Zk
1b
Only a rule at fast as a
The prize will be awarded next October to the mother coming who has had the most children in the last ten years. Mrs. Kenny has had eleven children since 1926 and has a one-baby lear over all other contenders for the prize.
Five-year-old Mary Kenny was walking home Trom school
¡pulled up beside her.
That taken by the Juláře Day pro- rsion five mile will, pe erding to the transport authoriti, mulie
All-India Cricketers, decentrale the crest autem QUARTER-INCH when a large black motor-eny
Who May Miss England Tour
Lahore, Apr. 1
ły to actold womanin,
A propo. vd solution is that the remonial drive through the City, ¦ which re-undly takes place son the day fell wing
Curúsati me, should next year to includert in die, | Coronation Day processdan,, and pi
Moltened Nissor, the Indian Test give ample pavement spa Dowler, at Burga Jilant, an excel-millions to see the King. lent all-rounder, my nut be alles
to go to England with the Indian cricket learn this
PROPOSED ROUTE mean that the
It would summer. Both
King i players are doubtful whether they would drive direct from Bucking Queen Mary has expressed the obtain leave from their work ham Palare, via The Mall nad wish that all those not imme-wise to mile the trip. Nissar Whitehall, to the Abbey for the
a member of the All-Indin side! Coronation. diately connected with the Court which shall go out of mourning for Weater. King George at the end of April.
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Relaxation of mourning will
toured England
therefore take place as from New Nova
Thursday.
The Queen's messige was Discovered
de!
given to Lady Howard Walden through one of her. Majesty's Lilies-in-Waiting.
Lady Howard made the an- nouncement at Seaford House, Belgrave Square, at the first meeting of the committee sup- porting the ninth Queen Charlotte's Birthday Balf for debutantes, which is to be held on May 18.
Nearly 200 mothers of de butantes attended the meeting.
By Experts
but that after th
In 1932-ceremony he would make a wide!
detour through South London and on his way back to thei
of
the City Palace.
This would merely be reversingi
the greater part of the processional! route taken by King George when
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"The man who was out of the car then tried to catch me. I ratll up a lane and shouted. Then jcried.
he visited the City on the day after SECOND SINGAPORE "Presently told a big police-
his Coronation in 1911, as follows: Westminster
Abbey, Parliament Pasadena, Calif. Apr. 18.
Square, A new zuper-Nova,
Westminster" one
Bridge, Astronomy's brilliant "mystery
Westminster Stars" has just been discovered
Bridge Road, by Dr. Edwin P. Hubble, diree
High tor of the Mt. Wilson Observa- tory, and Glen Moore, his assis- Street,
London Bridge, tant.
King William
Street,
Only two of the super-Navl have been seen in the last 300 years and only 13 previously had been recorded Queen Charlotte's Ball, within all astronomical history. The star, its heautiful cake ceremony, will which is expected to flare so brightly be the first big social event of that it may be visible with the naked
eye If it nels like the last super-
the season, at which dehulantes novia, is in the constellation of Virgo and their mothers will be seen in other colours than black. white and pastel..
Those who normally would have been presented in 1936 will, as maids of honour, bring in the cake with its 193 candles,
Convict Freed With Key
of the Northern hemisphere.
The last super-nova seen was Novn- Persel
which
Borough Road, Borough
Cannon Street,
St. Paul's Church
yard, Ludgate 11, Fleet Street, Strand,
Duncannon Street | Trafalgar Square!
(N. side), Pall Mall Eust, Pall Mall,
St. James's Street,
Samuel Insul
BASE
Capetown, Apr. 12.
man about it and be wrote it all down in a book.!!
“KEEP OUR
A decision has been made to 66 intensively fortify Robben Island, as part of a scheme to make Table] Bay a second Singapore.
Table Bay works, which are Theing developed, to cost £10,000,- | 000 will enable vessels of the heaviest tonnage lo dock.
NAMES SECRET"
It is believed the intention of PENSIONERS GIVE
the Government to proceed with
big equipment scheme by which Table Bay will supersede
HOSPITAL £80
Gloucester, Apr. 20.
as a naval port. Starting New Robben Island, formerly a leper TWO old-age pensioners,
was discovered in Business
1001 by Astronomer T. D. Anderson, Within two days after its discovery;
to the
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Of Sardine Tine theory in while the more accept glass-topped desk and an-
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jsettlement, has since been un- who wish their names to occupied except by lighthouse remain secret, have sacri- keepers.
ficed most of their life Nova-Persei reached a magnitude of HAS OFFICES IN OPERA:
trembling figure who spent dimes for savings to help Gloucester- HOUSE HE BUILT rating its brilliant light visible eye in brond daylight. A
bus fare while a Federal Court heard shire Royal Infirmary. few days later it faded from view.
Chicago, Apr. 20. charges that he “was responsible for Astronomers explained that Samuel Insul, heavy-jewled,
the crash of a utilities "empire and So it was revealed at a meeting the loss of millions to investors. le super-nova is n star which ordinarily
scowling, has started a new busi-was naquitted.
of the infirmary committee to-- distant that it cannot NO
armot be seen with tho
Pink-checked, energetic, carefully day. strongest telescope until itness life. undergoes some change which causes Behind heavy glass doors-groomed, he ordered a typewritten
£100 IN NOTES it to finre up for a short time,
the word president across them distributed 10
statement explaining the new venturo
newspapermen. The The couple have bequeathed Que school of astronomers believe that the bright light is caused by two neat black letters he sat at statement said:
the coltage in which they live to With the completion of our station the infirmary, and wanted to is that the ear explodes nounced that his dream of a fine-up the first part of our task is give all their savings £100-as internally
middlewestern radio chain would our broadensis and can devote all of well.
concluded. We now have outlets for In pointing out the importance of become a reality by May 1. It will our energies to the unain job of build- the present discovery, an asstronomer Paris, Apr. 20.
who refused to allow his name to be operate under the name of the ing a schedule that will bring to the
official announce Affiliated Broadcasting Company gramme of entertainment and educa
midwestern aydioncs a full pro- THE key of a sardine tin used, because no
nient had been made by the Carnegie His office, 40 floors above the ion designed especially for mid- has, for the time being, Institute, said that one of the great street, is in the Civic Opera westerners." saved Marcel Henri, gang-astronomical discoveries of the past House which he built when at The now network, whose officials'
generation was that of Nova Berculis ster, aged twenty-eight, in 1934.
the height of his career as
hope eventually to serve 36 stations, Nova Ilurculis compares to a super utilities czar.
will
reach out in three directions, it from going to Devil's Island
nova like the earth to the sun for for the rest of his life.
Wisconsin Super-novi are distant suns that are come.
Minneapolis; southeast through Indian to Evansville, and on them to keep £20 as a nest- the many-times larger than our sun,
Insull looked fit for his comeback southwest through Illinois to St. egg. astronomer said,
Gone was the broken old man who Louis. Individual programmes may 207 years prior to the discovery of years
A supernova had not been seen for faltered down a ship's gangplank two be broadcast in each of the three made was that their identity The one condition the couple ago on his reluctant return areas or one programino may serve
should not be revealed.
Henri used a sardine-tin key to open the window of his cell in the huge van which was taking him
a
They sent for the secretary. Mr. F. J. Symons, and handed -him the £100 in notes, saying, "We shall never need it.' We can live comfortably on pensions."
He pointed out that trouble or
"Come in!" was his stentorian wel. explained-northward through jitness might come and prevailed
to Fonteverault Prison, where, Nova-porsel in 1901. Kepler's nova from exile in Greece. Gone was the all three. with other convicts, he was to was sighted in 1604. It lasted for 15 `await the next voyage of the months and was visible for a short Fronch convict ship. La Martin-time in daylight,
on his hands and feet, succeeded in
lere, to the prison settlement ined a super-nova which was called In 1672, Wolfgang Schuler discover* French Guiana.
Tycho's Star. It lasted for three While the van was speeding along weeks and was of the first magnitude the road Henri, despite the chains for 15 days.
Astronomors sald that before worming his way through the half-Schuler made his discovery, legends open window.
and semi-historical record led them to Then, as the van slowed down to believe that 10 other super-novi were take a corner, he dropped on the visible. From Biblical accounts, grass by the roadside.
astronomers are inclined to think that Henri, like a former Devil's Ieland the Star of Bethlehem was a supor convict, Armand Spiller, who es-nova of either zoro or the first magni- caped from the Sonte Prison a week tudo as it was reported visible in ago, has not yet been captured, broad daylight-United Press.
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