THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1936.
Mechanisation Plans For Maginot Line
FRENCH CALL FOR MOTORISED ARMY
NEW VOLUNTEER
·FORCE LIKELY
Paris, April 20.
ONE of the first measures which the new French Parlia
ment will discuss when it meets in May will, it is believed, be a law for the enrolment of a body of volunteers serving for five years, and entrusted with the formation of highly developed mechanised units of tanks, motorised artillery, and infantry.
Writing in the Revuo Hebdomadaire, a military critic de man the clares that the army is not properly equipped to Maginot Line of fortifications on the eastern frontier.
MYSTERY CUN
He points out that not only would arise should the Maginet have the forts to be manned, Line be pierced. but the gaps between the forts must be filled with field works occupied with infantry and artillery.
A mystery gun capable of firing an inch shell more than 30 miles in believed to have been produced re-į centy by German technical
experts, urges that according to the Paris Excelsior. The Echo de Paris
French authorities, it is stated, be steps ahould be taken to build upi an army corps of professional leve that the German divisional be equipped with soldiers capable of manoeuvring artillery will soon with great rapidity and therefore guns of a zunge more able to deal with the situation that in excess of the French divisions.
LOVE FEUD
SHOOTING; TWO DEAD
"THE HAND WITH A REVOLVER"
Paris, Apr. 20. Tense passions of a primitive people; a Corsican love-feud; the shooting of a five-year-old boy in the arms of his mother in a Montmarte underworld cafe;
the murder of a man-these are
Then
10 miles
The German infantry are stated to be equipped with:
Air-cooled mas
of machine-guns capable rounds a minute and of penetrating lin.-thick · armoured
plate at 1,600 yards.
Anti-tank guns, firing 16 shells o minute, which can be taken over:
of ground. overy
enormone
The competion of An
mould 50 yards long at the great Krupps munition works, ie believed to indiente that guns of 22in, are to be produced and that several guns of 15in. calibre have, been made.
He
Marines bugler on IT.M.S. Sussex, "Tich" Proctor is the new Royal
now at Alexandrin, Height 4 ft. 41, weight 751b. Here he fu inspecting the uns
will assistance.
Lived Alone
On Desert Island
the themes of a story told in WORLD'S champion hobo, Mr. Eric Muspratt has just returned to court here to-day.
In the dock stood a small, wizened, dour man, Paul Ste fani, who replied to all ques- tions with a strange, fierce, indifference.
It was alleged by the prosecution; that two Corsicans, Angelin Foata and his lover, Madeleine Keusch, who had their child in her arma, were in a cafe called "The Dead Rat."
OATH IN HOSPITAL Then, it was asserted, the door opened, and "a hand with a revol ver appeared." Shots were fired.
The child was killed. Madeleine and Fonta were seriously wounded.
After chase Stefani was arrested! by a policeman, who is stated to an eye-witness of the have been shooting.
In hospital Fonta was heard talk- ing excitedly in Corsican to a friend, who, before quitting the bedside, raised his hand for the "Corsican
martre bar, Stefani
to-day
denied that first shooting, and alleged that It was the act of his brother.
Faithful to the unwrition law of Corsican vendetta, Foota and Madeleine refused to disclose their)
Britain from another adventure.
With two friends he left Gibraltar last October to cross the Atlantic in a 50-year-old 20-ton cutter.
The journey was completed in eight days, and on the voy- age across the Atlantic the three adventurers lived on flying fish which came aboard out of the sea.
Stiffer Test for King's Cup Pilots
"OLD CROCKS" WILL HAVE LITTLE CHANCE
REGULATIONS governing the
King's Cup Air Race, to be flow from Hatfield airdrome, Herts, on July 10 and 11, have now been completed.
No pilot will be allowed to take part who has not gathered a minimum of 100 hours sold flying experience before the race."
91 miles.
On Friday, July 10, there will be an eliminating contest covering this course of 612 miles: Hatileld-Norwich: Turning point.
Norwich--Nottingham: 103 miles, Turning point.
Nottingham--Bristol: 121 miles;
Control.
COUNT McCORMACK IS RETIRING--
What Can I Do With Him? Sighs Wife
JOHN COUNT McCOR-
MACK, has announced
his coming retirement. Tho golden. harvest has been reaped.
Nearly thirty years ago he camo to London, a handsomo Irish boy with ́ nothing but a voice of tho finest texture and a shrewd brain to serve him.
For a while he earned shillings. Then he sang at Covent Garden. The purity of that voice-for he was no actor-brought the house to its feet..
From that day-October 15, 1907-until to-day, he has walk- ed knee deep amid дл over ripening harvest. No earthly voice has ever earned tributo 80 rich Millions have been puid to hear the voice of the pensant boy.
over
Ho went to Amerlen with Caruso, fle conquered New York in a night.
His wealth grew to be enor mous. No singer has nmassed a fortune so great. Honours fell upon him. The Legion of Honour. The Pope conferred on him the title of Papal Count.
ADOPTED FAMILY
He made £100,000 with one film. He bought the most beautiful homo in California,
When a relative was drown- ed, leaving a widow and seven children, he adopted them all. He has two children, but his adopted family is enormous.
There will be scenes of emotion when ho singa at the Albert Hall on Sunday.
Bristol-High Post (Wilts): 40
I spoke to his tiny wife recently, miles. Turning point.
writes a correspondent. She smil High Post-Shoreham: 69 miles.ed at me in a puzzled way, "What Control.
is one to do with a man of his awful energy, still young, when he retires?
Shoreham-Coventry: 120 miles. Turning point..
Coventry-Hatfield: 68 miles. Control nt end of first circuit.
Competitors have to complete two circuits of this course and will thus be flying over 1,200-miles in the one day..
"With all his work during these years ho still has had vitality enough to exhaust us all, What will it be like now, in retirement? He will be too much for me to manage.”
AVOIDING THE SEA The course has been selected to
The clear golden voice of the avoid crossing the Peanines or the harvester rang across the room. On a desert isle, Mr. Mispratt shorts and a singlet: Many of my sea, since it is considered in- "And is this the thanks I get? lved for 16 days and ate nothing neighbours wore nothing at all. advisable to encourage flights in When I did It all for the love of but octopus.
"Now I suppose I'll stay in Eng-single-engined machines racing ye?" "Here," Mr. Muspratt said, "land for a few months before I full out" over big stretches of experienced the only real hard set off to some other part of the water. ship.
world--where, heaven only
"I discarded every stitch of knows." clothing, and I was faced with
the prospect of catching and ENGLISH BANKS -cooking-my-food--by-whatever
means I could devise.
"I remembered that the octopus j was a very delicate dish and set out to catch one with my hands.
TREATED AS KING
TO USE ROBOT
DEPOSIT
CLERK London, Apr. 28.
"Incassomat" is the name of the
He grabbed my arm.
"She'll perfect a technique of gentle bullying as effective as that who has used during the last thirty years."
This was tried last year when one competitor was forced to come down in the Irish Sea through engine trouble. Fortunately a I left them as I first saw them steamer was at hand to save him, years ago-like children having_u.
There are three classes of en-"let's pretend" squabble. trants for this eliminating contest. Class A will comprise the light airplanes whose horse power is under 150.
"I became quite expert at catch-new robot bank clerk, invented by Class B will consist of single- ing the young ones, but had to Fritz Knubbe, a Swiss, and shortly engined machines of greater horse
to be introduced experimentally atopower.
MULTI-ENGINED 'PLANES "Incassomat” puts a bank re
take the greatest care in avoiding banks in Britain. their parents.
usor on horse
The latter
oath" and klased Foata fervently.
An hour later Stefani's brother was found shot dead in a Mont- "I was glad to get back to the ceiving clerk at the disposal of the There is also a class with multi- luxury of our yawl some miles public at any time of the day or engined machines with no restric-
night away off the coast of Grenada.
Each or basa koy, which machines can also be entered in "Soon after, 1 struck inland and when stayed with a tribe of natives who apens trays for the reception of either clasa A or B.
copper,
Ailver, banknotes and oven On July 11 the Anal will be flown treated me as a king.
registered letters. Every deposit is on a course round Hatfield "I lived in a disused but in photographed, and in the case of resisting, like last year, of several con their village and wore a pair of gistered letters, wolghed,
laps of about 50 miles cach to make up a total race of 350 miles. GOLF BALL
A
aggressor's identity.
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"Hover Fly" Flight
INVENTOR'S CLAIMS
FOR HELICOPTER
A direct-lift flying machine which is to have the same flight- built in London. powers as the "hover fly" is being,
insect which, poised motionless in the Everybody has seen that curious
air, suddenly darts forward, or with
darts celerity ON A equal
astern. Its movements are so swift as, to defy analysis,
MACKINTOSH
Discussing his - Invention with Mr. N. Pemberton Billing, the designer
what
I have called the "hover-fly" machine, but which he
COTTON IN A DISPUTE of
Float, Apr. 20, names the "durotofn," I learned that Henry Cotton, British Open he had not been inspired by observa- Champion two years ago, and one tion of the insect, writes a corres-
of the leading figures in the world pondent.
The machine includes remarkable of golf, was involved in a curious mechanical innovations, and incident, which caused contro-application of centrifugal force.. versy, in the £2,000 tournament That force is applied in the Auto-
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on the Bramshot course here to giro, an established type used for day.
many purposes, but in the "duroto- fin" it is adapted in a different way. At the twelfth hole Cotton's tee A PRODUCT shot came to rest on a spectator's
Vertical Ascent mackintosh, which was lying on the The machine is not an autogiro, ground near the green. Cotion ask for the rotating members-there are ed the spectator to remove the gar-two, rotating in opposite directions- |mont, which he did, at the same time are driven by the engine.
pleking up the ball and replacing it. "The "durotolin" has no ordinary Cotton then played the shot.
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By allowing the spectator to per- form the act Colton, strictly speak ing, committed a breach of the rules, "If the Inventor's claims are justi- involving a penalty of two strokes, fled In tests this machine should be From
the point of view of equity the the most completely, automatic flying committee, quilte rightly I think, machine ever designed. decided that Cation had Incurred no. Without a pilot it could be started ipontity.
up. It would ascend vertically, and Cotton's round of 75, which put at a pregoverned height remain him out of the running, was full of hovering until the fuel was exhaust- incidents, Om-more-than-one-occa--fed,-when-it-would-descend, --and," slon, in obvious annoyance at miss heading into wind, land safely. ing a short putt, he banged, the ball Mr. Elling was a designer of aero- on the green.
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