THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY. 7, 1936.
TRAGIC KING STILL MOURNS HIS QUEEN
Leopold Haunted by Fatal Crash, "Will Never Drive Again"
UNTOUCHED ROOM
OF MEMORIES
LONE VISITS TO OLD HOME
Brussels, July 1.
THERE is no truth in the rumours that King Leopold,
"tragic King of the Belgians, is to remarry.
It is learned that the King feels too strongly the bitter tragedy which tore his beloved Queen Astrid from his side. The only possibility of his remarriage would be for the sake of his three young children.
Many people visit the chatean of Stuyvenberg where King Leopold and Queen Astrid knew their most lasting hours of happiness.
This beautiful mansion remains exactly as it was when the King and Queen left on that fateful August morning last year for the motor trip which resulted in the death of Queen Astrid.
King Leopold was at the wheel of the car when it was travelling along a narrow road near the popular Swiss Inkeside resort, Kissnacht,
Radio Telephone "Wedding"
STOCKHOLM BRIDE AND NEW YORK GROOM
The story of how a British radio-telephone operator acted as go-between in a "radio wedding" has come to the cars of the Gen- eral Post Office.
The bride was in Stockholm;
The car hit μL stone" parapet, jlunged over au embankment, and Queen Astrid was hurled against a tree and killed,
The King was stunned for a ferv) seconds. Then he saw his Queen, He was blinded with tears.
Since then he
given up motoring, That fatal cross stil haunts him.
The chinten at Stuyvenberg has! been abandoned; the King retu
only very pecagonaBy- and alone
He walks its grounds with bowed heart, pausing occasionally at sune
The poignant official plcture of Queen Astrid lying in state was taken at the request of King Leopold, The distracted King viewed the picture before it was released for publication. "The beautiful pale face of the young Queen," wrote a special correspondent, "was bandaged with white silk...
Lerens symmetry of her youthful beauty."
one BAW only the
PRINCESS ACCUSES SISTER
familiar spot which holds memories AFTER MARRIAGE at happier days.
HEART-BREAK VISITS TO AN ITALIAN
It has been King Leopold's wish that nothing in the Chateng be dis turbed.
Simmy Queen Astrid fleet King
Stuyvenberg.
WAITER
the bridegroom and the officiat-Leupold has mate only three vitt APPEAL TO RETURN ing clergyman were in New York. The business. af operator was to see that the their races and spades in hand
thei
service, and more particularly the responses. "cross" the Atlantic successfully.
them of
TO IRAK
Athens, June 12. Without EFFORTS are being made to break up the marriage of a remarked: "sister of King Ghazi of Irak 10
Solar System
Sun Growing Elderly,
Scientists Say
In the following articlo somo jun's
normally
visible illameter, oxygen bos lately been
of the main problems of solar Here also
identified, and it is known that
astronomy are discussed.
(By A Special Correspondent).
mites up into the sun's all to be found at least 8,000 to 9,000
On the first ocenaton gardeners with
hastened respectfully to welcome him,' but the King smiled so sadly that they hurriedly withdrew saying a single word.
hydrogen, helium, and calcium are
One
atmosphere. Teit angry ป!! the gravel for an Italian waiter.
One of the most important secrets making so much noise under my] The Intest was a charge of The sun is the first source of of the sun remains that of its 11 years heavy shoes. It was so evident that embezzlement brought by the uit our weather. Its changing eyete of changing activity, for it is His Majesty wanted to be alone with
Princess's sister..
sent Europe ice through this that astronomers hope the past."
radiation has She The three children have never
glimpse of the sun's Internal returned to Stuyvenberg.
met the waiter at an hotel on the ages in the past and, millions of due time to be able to obtain a deeper rears hence, will no doubt send economy. It is thin cycle, also, Island of Rhodes. She engaged "MAMMA 15 DEAD"
him as a guide. A week ago they us ice ages again. It gives us which is reflected on the earth In
life and food and, as a minor wireless reception. Josephine Charlotte, Princess of came to Athens.
how nine, Baudouin, Their wedding
civilisation, long- disclosed adjunct to was "Our part was merely to main-, Belgium, is
distance radio reception. tain communications," an official Dule of Brabant, six, and Albert,
Prince of Liege, is beginning his yesterday. Moniing of the G.P.O. told a
The bridegroom' could hear the bride. The bride could hear bride- groom. The clergyman could hear. both. The ether was in kindly no thunderstorm caused in- mood terruption with atmospherlen; and everyone concerned felt that eccle- siastical history was being made.
Then the law stepped in The radio ceremony was declared illegal in both countries.
Posi representative, recently, but, though radio engagementa are common enough, particularly between this country and Ameri- ca, it was certainly a surprise to the operator to be asked to take part in a wedding.
DYING WOMAN'S CALL
second summer.
The death of their mother affected each differently."
When one of the dead Queen's dearest friends tried to prepare Josephine for the sad news by using phrases too childish for her years. she cried: "Don't say any more. know Mammn is dead."
Little Baudouin, seeing his sister in tears, began to weep, too.
Albert of Liege, then only
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The Princess Azzah in 29,
SUN SPOTS
in
The "spots" which give their name to the cycle are great vortlees, usually Even our eyes show the determining large enough to swallow up the earth APPEAL TO MINISTER
Influence of lite sun. They are adapt- with room to spare. Big as they are. Princess Rajihab, the sister, bad ed to see with the ald of precisely the largest of them easily visible to besought the Turkish Minister here those wavelengths in which the sun's the naked eye, they are probably to prevent the marriage, but as their radiation is richest-net, for example, merely symptoms of some mure deep- papers were in order the authorities with ultra-violet rays, infra-red scated activity. could do nothing. Then she charged waves, or X-rays.
Moreover, there is at least a suN- Princess Azzah and her husband And soon or late, so astronomers te-picion that the great hydrogen jels with the embezzlement of £1,500 lieve, the sun will most likely ex- already mentioned, are more directly and £0,000 worl
worth of
plode, as other stars have been seen the cycle which can be observed on Jewellery, The prosecutor examined
the io do, bringing flery death to the the
carth What, then, are the special oppor- couple to-day. Afterwards the law-earth. "Os other occasions long-distance
The sun, therefore, however, reluct-tunitles offered by an eclipse that as- telephone calls have been tragic.months old, was not present at this yer of Princess Azzah said:
"The charge-will-live-to-befant he may be to disclose his internal tronomers should travel half-way Once, for example, we connected a sad scene.
dropped, as the Princess has estab-wconomy, is a personality who cannot round
the world for the sake of dying woman in Marseilles with the
ished that the jewels belonged to be ignored. How much, it is natural 2 minutes of observation? Although children in Australia, whom she was
her and the cheque was made out to ask, do we know for certain about many forms of photographle record on her way to visit when laken ill."
but with no other information but her at her request."
the sun? How much more can we are possible. they all amount to just Here are some of the other un-names and the fact that she had During the examination of the guess? How is our knowledge ob-this-the power to make observations of the composition, movement, and usual incidents in the everyday life travelled in a Dutch ship, the wanted charge the
A total eclipse provides a special, physical state of the sun's upper of Faraday Honse, the centre of the woman was traces, via Edinburgh and their hotel couple were detained in tained? Post Office's radio-telephone services, a golf club, to Aberdeen. On an- The Princess Rajihah again visited and in many ways unique, opportunity atmosphere, which can only be made, which the official was able to men-other occasion Transatlantic call her sister to-day to try and persuade of studying the sun, but it is by no or can best be made, when the main
Rs-disc is momentarily obscured. tion:
was taken in one of the Automobilo her to return to Itak, but she refused means the only way in which Association's rondale telephone and said that she would go with her tronome's can acquire information.. boxes.
husband to Italy.
GREAT HEAT RESERVOIR The sun's temperature, for example, can be taken in two different ways, one depending on estimates of the total energy radiated, the other on the distribution of this energY amank different wavelengths. There is agree. ment that the radiating surface of the sun must be at a temperature of seme 11-12,000 degrees.
An American financier, staying at a London hotel, spent £600 on a two hours' radio conference with his New York.broker.
The King,as Prince of Wales, addressed a radio-telephone operator in Spanish, and was surprised to be Answered fluently in the Aume lan
guage.
rooms.
WRONG MAN SHOT
An English girl, who had just ANTON
MEIER,
Vienna, June 30.
angry husband, watched outside his home
at
learut Japanese for the purpose of Steyer, Austrin, last night, for local lady-killer. A man emerged. the service, had her, first conversa. tion with a native of that country Meler emptied a revolver at him,
over the radio-telephone.
The temperature at the centre of
the sun, by contrast, is estimated to
To gas-bill collector Hans Dick, shot in the leg, came packet of be as high as 50 to 100 million degrees,
This is the sun's heat reservoir, main-
It is also on record that, when a banknotes in hospital to-day from the Jady-killer-"with homage, fortained, as it is now belleved, by the 'call was received from Sydney for a
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From records of other stars it ap- pears that the sun has reached a relatively advanced stage of its evolu tion. It was passed far, if this is the correct interpretation of stellar his from the "diffuse giant" stage sented by the star "Betelgeuse.": On the other hand, It has a long way lo go yet before it can reach the possibly ultimate compactness of "Sirius A," with its astonishing density of two tons weight per matchbox-ful of star.
· LIGHT ANALYSIS
For knowledge of what the sun is made of, astronomters are ugain de- pendent on Bght-analysis. Mostly, it to be made of hydrogen, appears although some 10 out of the 92 differ ent chemical elements known on
earth have been identified in its atmosphere. It is also possible, by taking photo- graphs of the sun in ilght of a slaglo wavelength to watch individual layers of Its atmosphere separately, and to obtain records of violent disturbances which could not otherwise be seen.
Observations of sunspots, coupled with another form of light analysis, enable the sun's speed of rotation to be reduced. At the Equator, the period of rotation is about 24 2-3 days, AL A latitude of 60 degrees, corres ponding with that of the Shetland Islands, it is some 20 per cent, greater. Great jets of hydrogen gas have also been seen shooting outwards i from the sun's surface it,
at, speeds of 1,000 and more miles A second.
During eclipse, It is possible to photograph the changing shape of the sun's corona, the pearly white, phan- tom which sometimes extends to u distance six Umes as great as thei
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