THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 11, 1936.
HONGKONG CORONATION
CELEBRATIONS:
WEEK FOR PUBLIC REJOICING
BIG DELEGATION
WILL TRAVEL
TO LONDON
Local Arrangements To be In Hands of Big Committee: Jubilee as Precedent
"Telegraph" Special Representative ALTHOUGH no official arrangements have as yet been
made in Hongkong for the local celebration of the Coronation of King Edward the Eighth a year hence, I was informed by a highly placed official this morning that the arrangements will probably follow those made for the Coronation in May, 1912, of King George V.
It is believed that the actual Coronation will take place in Westminster Abbey either on Thursday, May 201 or Thursday, May 27.
Hongkong's celebrations will last a week and will be on an unprecedented scale.
As soon as the actual date is known, the Hongkong Govern- ment will appoint a Coronation committee which, like the Silver Jubilee Committee last year, wil be fully representative of the entire population of the Colony.
It is most Hkely that this Committee will take the Silver Jubilee celebrations as a pre-
(early next year. Many residents who would ordinarily have taken their long service leave this, year; 1937, in order to be in London for have postponed their holidays until the Coronation.
London hotels and residentinis already report heavy bookings and in many instances they are pletely looked out a year ahend.
com-
It is anfe to state that the record crowds that witnessed the Silver
r.
cedent. For instance, it is prac-Jublice celebrations Inst year will be tically certain that the Chinese easily exceeded in London next community of Hongkong will be invited to hold dragon and
The same should apply in Hong- lantern processions through the kong. During last year's Silver Jubilee celebrations the Kowloon street, as on May 6 last year.
It is interesting to recall that the Canton Railway handled over 10,000 Hongkong celebrations, connec-Passengers on one day from Canton tion with the Coronation of King alone. It Is computed that river George V In 1911 Insted for three steamers exceeded this number, days. For the Coronation of King Edward VIII, Hongkong will prob- ably fall into line with London and extend the celebrations over แ period of a week.
WHAT MAY HAPPEN
MAGICIAN BURIED
Among the suggestions that will ALIVE IN
be brought forward for local cele- brations will be:
Plans Ter erection of Statue of H.M. the King.
Distribution of special Coronation mugs and tea and refreshments to Hongkong children.
to
Distriation of Coronation medals local citizens.
Chinese dragon and instera pro- cessions.
Children's sporta at the Happy Valley Race Course,
Dinner and reception at Govern
ment House.
SINGAPORE
BELL SIGNAL FROM
HIS GRAVE
An listarie photograph taken in Queen's Road, Hongkong, during the Coronation celebrations in May, 1911, In the background is the old Clock Tower, which was at the junction of Queen's Road and Fedder Street..
AN EARTHQUAKE A DAY FOR TEN YEARS
RECORDED IN HONGKONG
During the last ten years there has been an earthquake in Hongkong every day, according to the Annual Reports of the Director of the Royal Observatory,
Seismographical records are 4. part of the work of the Hongkong weather bureau.
During Inst your more 'quakes were recorded inan in any other year during the past decade. One of the 475 recorded shocks-an average of almost ten a week- was the 'quake that completely wrecked Quetta.
Looking at the statistics com- piled by the local Royal Obser vatory since January 1, 1925, there seems to be a tendency for number of 'quakes to
the
increase.
In 1925 only 150 were recorded. With one exception the figures for each year have gradually crept up September is said to be the mouth in which most of the world's until they reached the record of tremors occur. Sometimes daya 475 for last year. pass without one being recorded; then a series of shocks complete the exple.
JAPANESE
LAST week 30 people in Singa
pore watched the inanimate GOODWILL body of an unconscious Indian lifted out of a grave in which he FLIGHT had been buried alive for nine minutes.
.The
Fireworks and illuminations. Hongkong will be represented ofcially at the actual Coronation
Indian was Professor K. #maglelan from Bombay ceremony in London, although who Trivedi, will be chosen has not yet been de who is touring Malaya giving per- cided. At the Coronation of Kingformances in aid of charity. The George V in 1911 ten officers and roup, who watched him buried alive. non-commissioned officers of the comprised members of the Materi Madie Circle before whom he had Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, given demonstration of Indiana led by Lt. Col. Chapman, V.C., the
magic. Commandant, were chosen to repre-
This is believed to be the first time sent Hongkong in London.
It is possible that, if the same in Malaya that any person has been procedure is adhered to next year,buried alive in the cause of magic. the Government will see that the representation costs the Colony as little as possible by asking officers of the H.K.V.D.C. and H.K.N.V.. who ordinarily are going home on leave to act as representatives.
BIGGER SPLASH?
buried for eight to ten minutes.
Professor Trivedi undertook to be
HIS demonstration was given Jn the grounds of the Metropole Hotel where the Malayan Magic Circle have their Circle-house,
A grave six feel by 25 feet deep had been dug. A thin mattress was laid at the bottom.
onc
Professor Trivedi, thin ami tall, and On the other hand Hongkeng may dressed in amber-coloured material, decide to make a much bigger splash enshrouded himself as he lay face of the occasion, as was done, for downwards in the grave. In instance, for the Coronation, of hand he clutched the rubber bulb of King Edward VII. On that ocea- jan uir bell placed on a table near the sion the Colony contingent number-ruve.
ed 20 representatives of the Volun
Over his body was laid a quilt, and Leer Defence Corps, detachments of then a sheet of canvas.
the Police, various Indian Butta liona stationed in the Colony and details from
forces.
Three members of the Circle timed the feat.
R
Earth was shovelled into the grave. other vernaculare audience wolted in suspense.
was filled and levelled.
It is almost certain that the de- They were waiting for the Unkie of parture of the China Squadron of the bell-the sign for the grave to be the Royal Navy, which usually takes reopened.
Suddenly, the bell went. The pro-
place in April, will be postponed fessor's assistants worked hastily with until after the Coronation of His shovels. No time had to be lost as, Majesty, in order that the Senior apparently, the professor was uncon- Service may be enabled to parti-scious. He had pressed the bulb as cipate in the Hongkong celebrations, he sank into a coma. The Royal Air Force contingent in Hongkong will also be at much greater strength than heretofore and the combined Services Review for the Coronation will be on a magnificent scale.
PRIVATE PARTIES Quite apart from the official con- tingents, several private parties will go to London for the Coronation ceremonien. One of these will be party of Riflemen, members of the Hongkong Rifle Association, who will participate in the Coronation Bleley meeting in July.
STUDENT OF YOGA
To hasten the work, two assistants and members of the Circle heaved
the canvas off the ground.
The cloth around the head of the maglelan was uncovered.
The unconscious man was lifted out, An assistant fanned him with a hand- kerchief.
His head moved, then his right leg, and in a few moments Professor Trivedi stood up.
He was later presented with the emblem of the Malayan Magic Circle,
alive on several occasions, once for
Professor Trivedi has been buried
as long as half an hour.
He has been a maglelan for 18 years, and has been studying the cult
A record crowd of Hongkong residents are also certain to make their departure for the Homeland of yoga.
TO HONGKONG
Shanghai, May 11. THE Air Ministry of Japan is reported to have proposed sending a goodwill air corps to China, Hongkong, the Philip pines and the South Sens.
A prominent member of the Naval Ministry and the heads of
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The largest 'quake recorded by the Hongkong observatory was not, As is popularly supposed, either the Tokyo or Quetta disas iters, but a submarine 'quake that joueurred-in-the-Pacifie-Ocean-in tener will be bromtraat from Zeeson as
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A particularly big earthquake shock, which was felt in Hong-0074 metres) and DJN (11.45 metres), kong, was recorded by the Obser-i vatory last month. The epicentre was in Kwangsi, and over 200 people were killed. Little was reported of the disaster, due to
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H.K. GIRL INSPIRES
NEW LONDON PLAY
Mr. S. I. Hsiung, author of "Lady Precious Stream," the Chinese play which is nearing its 500th performance at the Little, Theatre, has arrived in London' with his wife.
The author of "Lady Precious Stream" and his wife.
He told a reporter that his wife, who was born in Hong kong, is the, "Lady Precious 'Stream" of his imagination, and that she inspired him to dramatiso the 1,000-year-old legend.
Even in the atolld Hampstead house where the reporter saw them the flowing black silk robes of Mr. Hsiung and the tight- fitting national costume of his wife seemed to bring something of the atmosphere of a Chinese fairy tale.
Mr. Hinng's next play is to bo oven more genuinely Chinese than "Lady Precious Stream"--for the entiró cast is to bo Chinese;
"It in entitled "The Western Cham- ber. and originates from a short atory dating from the 8th century," ho said.
"I shall produce it in Shanghat with Chinese actors, playing in Eng- Hah and Chinese on alternate nights, and then bring the entire cast to London."
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