THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 'G, 1936.
PLAN TO END "BLACK CAP" RITUAL
IF REPRIEVE
IS LIKELY
M.P.'s Question To Home Secretary MUST the ritual of pronouncing the death sentence always take place, even where the cir- cumstances make it certain that the murderer or murderess will ¿be reprieved?
Public opinion has been deep- ly moved by the bitter, drama at the Old Bailey when Mrs. Carmen Swaun, n woman nirendy facing cerinin death. front drend disense, was sen-, tenced to death for the murder of her eight-years-old daughter.
"No one," said Mr. Justice Hawke, as the black cap was placed on his head, "could fall to be moved by the recital of your misfortunes,
I do not wish to detain you for Dho moment longer than is necessary,"
Her reprieve was granted, in record time. Inter.
USE OF DISCRETION
The Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, was to be usked in the House of Commons on a Monday last month by Mr. E. Thurile. Socialist. M.P. fur Shoreditch, if its at- tention had been called to the case of Mrs. Swann and to Mr. Justice Bawke's remarks, and if he will give consideration to the possibility of in- troducing a modification of the exist bying law which will absolve a judge from the necessity of pronouncing the death sentence, and of going through ritual connected therewith, in cases where such a sentence is re- pugnant to general public feeling."
This little chay thought it high time to smarten up the caravan giving it a coat of paint. The here at his side phlegmatically follows the
little worker's activity.
THE KING WALKED IN
"MAY I USE THE 'PHONE?" HE ASKS ON SURPRISE VISIT TO OXFORD
"MAY I use your telephone?"
The man with the duster looked up, said, "Certainly, sir," and turned to lead the way.. Then he saw his visitor smile-and he realised he was talking to the King.
It is a big day for Mr. Spicker- nell, under-porter at Magdalen College, Oxford. It was the first time he had seen the King. He had never hoped to speak to him, far less to have him stepping into the college lodge from lighthe visit until he returned. street as if he were back in his undergraduate days.
He showed them his old rooms, where he lived as an undergraduate, but the party did not enter,
The King took photographs and left after about 20 minutes.
Nobody at Magdalen expected the visit, The King, with three friends, was motoring through Oxford, when he decided to call at his old college,
After telephoning, the King, who
was accompanied by two ladies and a gentlenian, stond for a few moments in conversation.
Then the King called for his
camera.
TOUR OF GROUNDS
He and his friends set out on a tour The King did not of the college. have to be shown around. He neted as guide, pointing out the Icatures to his guests.
chict
EARTH'S CORE IS NOT A LIQUID
Tulsa, Okla., Apr. 30.
A solid mass of material, many times more rigid than steel and
possibly 4,000 miles thick, forms
the care of the earth, according to the Rev.J. B. MacElwane, pro-
fessor of geology at St. Louis
University.
Undergraduates are not in residence) and the president, Professor. G. S. Gordon, wax out and
not know of
the
The view was taken that the Judge should be allowed to use his discretion in such cases and to defer
passing sentence while the flome Secretary considered a reprieve. It was possible that Mrs. Swann might be granted her freedom if a by her legal advisers was successful. petition which was being presented
CORONATION
ΤΟ BE TELEVISED
The party left in two cars, and
Although the B.B.C. cannot before leaving Oxford called at the yet name a day on which the Mitre Hotel where, on entering the new high-definition television lounge, the King chaited with the service will be inaugurated from
hall porter. Mr. Ernest Davies,
and ather members of the hotel starr, the Alexandra Palace, London, When he deserted the King's visit plans are already being discussed Mr. Davies was boyishly excited.
for televising next year's out- standing events.
"It is
anti!
INVADES BRITAIN
Dolores del Rio, the well-known American film actress, is seen above greeting Britain as she landed at Southampton recently from America. She has gone to England to play the leading role in "Accused" opposite
Douglas Fairbanks, junior.
RADIO BROADCAST
· A Jazz Medley by The Harmony Boys
RECORDED PROGRAMME ·
·
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 365 metres (8-45 kilocycles):
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.
7 p.m. An Orchestral Concert. Eino Kleino Nachtmusik (Mozart); OvertureFingni's Cave" (Mendcis- Bulin, Op. 20); Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C Major (Dvorak); Slavonic Danco No. 2 in E Minor (Dvorak); Perpe- tuum Mobile (J. Strauss).
7.30 p.m. From the Studio.
A Jazz Medley by "The Harmony Boyn."
Programme.
1. Hawaiian Paradise; 2. Wah- Hoo; a. Song of the Island; 4. Tho Treasure Island; 6, Honeymoon Parade; 6. I want to learn to speak Hawalian: 7. I'm Putting my egga in one basket,
8 pm. Time Signal and Weather Report.
8.03 p.m. Russian Music, Polka "Ojra": Romio a la Turka (Mozart) Songs Songs of Prin
(Borodin); Galitsky ("Prince Igor) In the lown of Kasan ("Boria Godounou) (Moussorgsky)
WHOLE TOWN Theodore Challapino (Bass) Pas
SLAUGHTERED
BY NANKING
TROOPS
ANTI-RED CAMPAIGN IN SHANSI
Peiping, May 1. The Shansi provicial campaign against the Communists is more harmful to the villagers and farmers than to the Reds, a pea- sant of the village of Santuan- chien pointed out recently.
D'Espagne-Waltz; Down the Mother Volga: Chauve Sourle-Duct from
Dame
Eugenie Safonova
(Boaky) -
Finaida Er chova; Chauve Souris The Knife Grinder's Daughter (Traditional)..... N. Balieff Chauve Souris
8.30 p.m. Cinema Organ Solos. Take a Chance-Salection; Brond- way thru' a Keyhole-Selection.... Terance Carey; The Blue Danube Waltz... Reginall Foort: Sweet Music
Selection.Reginald Dixon. 8.43 "Burleske"
p.m.
(R. Strauss) played by Elly Ney (Piano) and the Berlin State Opera Orchestra,
9 pm. A Relay of the Daventry News Bulletin
9.20 p.m. Popula by Reuter). Talkie Tunes, Anything Goes Selection....Car- roli Gibbons and the Savoy Hote! Orpheans; "Hooray for Love"I'm The bitter irony of the report
..Patricia in lovo all over again, ndo made to the government: "Com-You're all I need....Connie Boswell.
Rossborough (Piano): "Esca plete destruction of the Com (Vocal): "Rose-Mario"-Indian Love
Call... munist Army 3,000 rebels
Sigmund Krumgold (Organ); "Shohr killed," is revealed to the Reds
shall have music"-Do the Ranaround....June Clyde and its recapture by government "Hands across the Table-The Morn
(Vocal);
Ing After....Leslie Hutchinson. forces.
Before the taking of the town, the villagers had been greatly frightened hy Government anti-Red propoganda which warned them that if the Reds took the town they would all be killed but these warnings were found to be untrue.
The arrival of the Reds in best de-
scribed in the peasants' own words: did not enter the town. They camp "When the Red bandits came they
The King's Arst remark was to
ed outside. They sent delegates to just like the old place that
talk to the villagers. They explained know," said Mr. Davies.
What wo The Coronation will, it is the "He in-
their purpose like this: quired about the smoking-room and
almost certain, be televised.
is to help you fight the Japan the sitting-room
ese, and what we want in food. Wo that were familiar fo Too B.B.C. is anxious not to be too him when his staff stayed here while ambitious, but the occasion is of such silver for what we need.
not rob you. We will pay you in will he was in residence at Magdalen.
We will not historie importance as not to be miɛn-
give you worthless Shansi paper money for what we take.
If permission can be obtained there
"I never dreamed that I should everjed. have the honour of standing so
close to the King and waiting on him per-will also be television relays of next -sonally."-
fyear's Grand National, Cup"Finnland- The visit to the hotel lasted about Derby,
ten rainutes and the King then drove Other big events, such as the Alder-
shot Tattoo, important
oil.
cricket
matches, Wimbledon tennis and the Boat Race may also feature in the
The King was spending the week end at Himley Hall, Dudley, Worces- tershire, as the guest of the Earl of progrummes either by direct television Dudley,
jor by means of televised films.
They Buy by the
Their Beer Tankful
ATR beer in cans-now on sale in South Wales-beer in tanks.
But not at "the lost."
The tanks are being made in Sheffield, and they are used for ending beer to the outposts of Empire.
Hitherto, these "mad fools of Englishmen who work in the Father MacElwane, here to at-mid-day sun" have only been able to get their British beer in
bottles. It could not be sent out in barrels and kept in condition.
But draught hear-bought from the tanks will be in the same per- fect condition as when it left the brewery.
tend the convention of the American Association of Petroleum geologists, sald a study of seismographic records furnished the proof that the earth's core was solld rather than liquid, as some scientists con- tended.
The theory that the mass appro- ximate 4,000 miles through cannot be substantiated, however, with present scientific instruments, Father MacElvane said. The was theory on the solid mass developed, he said, from study of records made of quakes occurring
on the opposite of the globe.
"The records indicate the shocks passed through a solid mass which acted as does a glass lens with sun. light, concentrating the temblor's force and reflecting it in a small spot on the record of the seismograph".
Predicting when earthquakes will occur in mero guesswork, Father
baid,
with although
·MacElwane hundreds of temblors occurring in a year a geologist might make some correct guesses if inclined toward pre- dictions.
"Recent
have
The menace of quakes, however, is being reduced by modern construction methods.
engineering discoveries enabled contractors to erect buildings which are practically 'quake pronf" and in the future if upheavals occur in sections where steps have been taken to construct buildings property damage will be less and loss of life reduced, he said.
The Garthquake which rocked San Francisco in 1998 stands out in the public mind as the worst this country MacElwane aver suffered, Father said, but the nation's worst occurred in 1011 and centred near Now Madrid, Mo.
"The quake was felt from coast to coust and from the gulf to Hudson
Large consignments are being sent out to Shanghai and Hong- kong.
LED ETHIOPIANS
Wahib Pasha, the Turkish general who was chiefly responsible for forc ing the Allies to evacuate Gallipoli in the great war, was fighting a hopeless
Right as leader of the Ethioplanë,
bay," Father MacElwane enld. "The next year there was another great tembler along the same earth fault, virtually as sovara as the preceding.. one.”—United Press,
want is
"In this village there were about 100 familles, while the Red, troops. totalled 500. The Reds unde each family responsible for Ave men. They paid 20 cents for each meat. This reassured the peNKANIA and some of them even made Red flags. After a few days the Reds entered the town and occupied it without any fighting the peasant said. The Reds, according to the in- had intended to proceed to formant,
Fengyang after taking Santuanchien, but on discovering it heavily fortified and well garrisoned, they withdrew into the open
Spen country A few days
later the Government troops approached, sending airplanes ahend to bomb the village. In addi- tion an artillery barrage started.
by the experience of previous occa
Thinking that they were profiting sions when Reds had disguised them- selves.ns villagers, the Government fareer wiped out practically the en- tire population of the town.
The official reports stating that the Government troops had killed 3,000 Communists was therefore a ghastly error, for the victime were exclusively villagers, the Reds having departed several days pre- viously-United Press.
DEAD FLYER LANDS
BY
PARACHUTE
KILLED IN
CRASH
ed by the violence of the crash. "Into Each Other"
מון
This WIL revealed at inquest at Grantham aero- drome, at which n verdict of accidental death was returned on
1,000 FT. UP Acting-Pilot Oficer G. C. B.
COLLISION PULLS
RIP-CORD
George, aged 21, and Lending Aircraftman P. J. Pugh, both of whom were under instruction at the Third Flying Training School, James Huckerby, A foreman platelayer, of Colsterworth, said
A RAILWAY platelayer, the planes banked and seemed to watching two R.A.Fly into each other. He ran
where the first machine crashed planes flying over Grantham and found Pugh dead in the cock- aerodrome, saw them collide pit. in mid-air.
There was an explosion. One of the pilots came down by parachute and made a perfect landing.
But when the platelayer ran to ald him, the flyer was dend.
LEE'S FAREWELL MESAGE
He had been killed before he left the plane and the rip-cord of the parachute had been pull
DUBLIN'S POOR EAT RAW MEAT
London, Apr. 26. Dublin's poor people are eating moat raw because, owing to a strike in the coal trade, they have no means to cook it..
+
The strike, in which carters and other workers in the Dublin coal yards are involved, is in its fourth week and some industrial concerns have had to close owing to short-
9.45 p.m. A Recital by Mavis Bennett (Soprano).
1. Solveig's Song ("Poer Gynt") (Grieg 2 Lo, Here the Gentle Lark (Bishop): 3. The Lass with the delicate air (Arno): 4. By the waters of Minnetonka (Lieurance).
10 p.m. Big Ben: 10 p.m. Dance Music. 11 p.m. Close Down.
ZEESEN PROGRAMMES
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for Far Estern 1steners will be broadcast fram Zeeson an followe:
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DJA
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19.74 m 16,200 kep.m37,50 him,
SOUTH ASIA ZONE
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-4.50 - p.m. Ćall–DID. DIN, DJQ (German
Enalisht.
4.55 p.m. 5 p.m. 5.30 p.m. 5.45 p.m.
German Folk Hong. Groeiings to our {tsieners.
by Richard Strass. **Don Juan.
News and Naview in English. "Celeutes" An Opera by Erich Minch-leelun. 4.45 p.m. News and Iteview in German. 7 p.m.
Concert of. Light Malc. Ap.m. Nowa in English. Bien sa DJB. 8.16 p.m. Concert of light Husle
inued).
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10.30 p.m. German Marches.
14 p.m. Concert of Light Muele,
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
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Transmission 1
(G.B.N.,* 0.3.B.)
1.15 p.m. Big Ben Gramophone Records, 1.45 pm. Talk: Foreign Affairs,” 1 p.m. Chamber Music.
Greenwich Time Bignal of 2.15 pm. 2.15 "Barfight."____ No 11 kargaret Bannerman (the fameos Canadian einger mal sciress); 2.56 p.m. The News and Announcements. d. p.m. Clers' down.
Transmission 2
(G.s.o.. d.o.t.'\
7 p.m. Blg Tan. Talk: "Living in the
Pest." 1.18 p.m. The RNC. Empire Drehastes. Grownwich Time Bigsai at 1 pm.
4.15 1.m. England v. V.B.A. Boxing. 1.45 p.m. A flocital of Northumbebant
Rongs.
9. pim.
The New and Ansodnevnim te 9.10 p.m. Danes Marše, ·
1.45 pm. Close down.
Transmission 2
(G.8.0., 0.6.7., OBE)
10 pm Dig Ben, "Tinns-Atlantic Perry."
11 p.m. Interlude.
11.8 p.m. The Camposar rt the Planofería...
15) Walford Davies.
11.30 p.m. Jan Berenaka and his Orchestra. 1185 p.) The News und 'Announcements. 33.18 sum. The B.BL.C. Dance Orchestra, Greenwich Time, Bizoni në 2020 AM. 12.19 a.m. Tabii "Dawn: le "The
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11.40 4.m. The B.D.C. Danes
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