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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
AUGUST 10, 1936.
GERMANY BUYS BACK HER ALHAMBRA
· REPTILES FIGURE IN TRIAL
Speciators and witnesses shuddered when two deadly diamond- buck rattlesnakes, assertedly used by Robert James to murder, his seventh wife, were brought into a Los Angeles courtroom where James in on trist. Photo shows John (Snake Jor) Houtenbrink, who assertedly sold the reptiles to Charles Hope, on the witness stand, At his right is Round Kirby, defence witness. Loft, Eugene Williams, deputy district attorney, and Detective Jack Southard.
THE TRIAL OF THE
GERMAN · "MONKS”
With reference to the reports published some weeks ago of a sensational trial at Coblenz in Germany, in which a large number of "Franciscan monks" were stated to have been charged with most horrible crimes, the London Universe of July 3, states that the persons concerned in this were not monks but hymen, a few being members of what is known as a "Tertiary Order" of laymen.
SCUTTLED
FLEET
Rosyth, Aug. 1. THE German battleships sur- rendered after the war at Scapa Flow are going back to Germany-as-part of their mo- dern Navy.
This strange fact 'was explain- ed to-day by Mr. M. Wilkin son, who is in control of the great shipbreaking yard of Metal Industries, Ltd. The ex planation is this:
In a re-urming world trade in old battleships is brisk. The sunken German vessels are still being raised and towed to Rosyth.
Their steel
plates and stung, are of scrup cut into sultable lengths metal. Germany is
the biggest
buyer of this, and her demands have lately become intense.
The scrap metal is taken to the German steel works and there re- smelted into ships plates for war- ships.
MAY NEVER BE RAISED
Ever since 1924 the work of raising and breaking up the warships sunk n1 Scapa Flow has been going on and will continue for some time yet. The Koenig Albert Is now being broken up here,
or
The Kaiserin has beep raised and in ready to be towed to Rosyth. The Priedrich Grosser will be the next to rone to the surface, and others to follow include the Crosser Kurfurst and the Dermånger.
Three
four
Germna other Dreadnoughts are still lying on the bottom at awkward ugles, and it incidentally. many of the sirel may be impossible to raise them.
plates of the Cunard-White Star were forged iner Queen Mary
the from the resmelted steel of
battleships, and German
some sirel on board her also came from the Mauretania.
the
It appears, according to The Universe, that one of the THE MAURETANIA
The last f
Mauretania is members of this lay order, who had been dismissed for bad com-! duct, took his revenge by accusations of widespread immoral con- in the yard here to-day. She has cases of misconduct been beached, and only a few feet duct. There were in fact a few isolated on the part of certain of the Catholic laymen: one confessed and of hull remain above the keel, was sentenced, and sentence was later passed on others,
On this foundation, states The Universe, a huge, and indeed incredible, mass of accusation has been made against Catholic monks,
Gracie Allen · As President!
Hollywood, July 20. The national political situation has threatened to
Two Stone Age Men Arrive In Singapore
WA!
In less than a month the oxy- neetylene tames will have cut out the last pieces, and thus the end of the one year from the time she great ship will come almost exactly towed here from Southampton.
that there M5. Wilkinson said have been thousands of letters from all over the world the United States particularly asking for the relles of the Mauretania. The most popular menenes are office rulers made out of the turbine blades.
British "Tommies"
TWO Stone Age men have Unearth
arrived in Singapore.
They are covered in 15 coats of
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JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain
become somewhat complicat- ed with the addition of Gracie Allen, squeak-voiced radio star, as a candidate for president.
Miss Allen tossed her beret in- to the ring "ho straighten out this terrible political situation" and presumably to acquire some publicity for herself and her stooge husband, George Burns.
Miss Allen made her announce ment over the telephone and in vited anyone who wanted to hear the rest of it come up and have a highball. Your correspondent! could hardly wait,
reddish-broWIY original "cave earth" in which they
were
buried some 5,000 years ago.
The skeletons will go into airtight glass cases, and be exhibited in the new Pre-History section Railes Museum.
of tre
Finds
WHILE LEVELLING "SOCCER" PITCH'
MOST IMPORTANT FIND These remains are the most im- portant prehistoric find yet made in the Peninsula. They are two of
Alexandria, Aug. 1. several skeletons uncovered in the
Important archaeological dis- Phin Soon rock shelter at Sungei Siput, by Mr. H. D. Noone, the Field coveries have been brought to Ethnographer of the Perak Museum,light by British soldiers engaged in making a football pitch near Taiping.
fans confirms the belief that even their barracks in an Alexandria yet he suburb. inger ancient finds may made. A third coflin, containing Negrito
The unearthing of further skele-
Miss Allen passed out a 10-point advocates, among platform which other things, government ownership, elimination of the budget, a plan for dwarf is also on its way to Singa-levelling collecting war debts and repeal of pore. prohibition.
il
R
While the "Tommies" were waste patch of ground a corporal suddenly stumbled on
beautifully LIVED IN 3,000 B.C.
men fresco of The transport of the remains pre-coloured Miss Allen was told prohibition had
sented difheult problem, Mr. prancing horses, with been repealed three years ago.
"Well, really?" she exclaimed. "Noone dug out the block of earth in standing beside them. can hardly wait for brother to sober which Skeleton lay, and placed each up so I can tell him about it."
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on
Women
The "find" was immediately re- skeleton and mould in specially con-
ported to the Antiquities Depart- Miss Allen explained her campaxstructed boxer.
Each section of bone uncovered wasment and, in the meantime. o British was supported by the housewives unlon of which she is founder ut once painted withakohol, and meer covered the fresco with sack- organizer, president and apparently given as many as 15 coats of shellacing to guard it from the Berce rays the member.
to preserve it.
of the sun.
Systematic
the top in
excavations
were
'Que slogan is, 'One for all-and all
The skeletons found nt once! Don't you think that is layer of the earth, Mr. Noone exting-started at once, with the result that lived round Hellenic necropolis, containing ates, were men who relty
Somehow the conversation
about the date of the birth of Christ. examples of the purest Dorie Style around to war debts. Miss Allen These found deeper down date back of architecture, was unearthed. said it was easy.
to 3,000 B.C.
will marry "All our members
when Frenchmen. Then at night they're asleep we'll just go through their pants and get the money the same way this country got it so we could lend it to France in the first place."
She said she was against reducing the budget. "Let's eliminate it allo- gether." she suggested. "Besides, think if we're going to reduce, it]- would be sinarter to do it where it shows more."
"Tribal Laws Void"
Claims Tshekedi
Lobatsi (Bechuanaland);
10 most
A number of mausoleums, duting from about the 3rd century, which comprise the necropolis, are note- worthy in that they are completely Greek in style, contrary other Alexandrian remains.
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VANCOUVER JUBILEE feft this morning on an official visit to Vancouver, British Columbia, lo bo present at Jubilee celebrations of that city.
contains a fight of steps lending the entrance, a large open court- yard, a small cell enclosing the sar- July 28.
cophagus, several subsidiary cham- An action challenging the legality bers and altars, wells, and fountains.
In each caso the sarcophagus Your correspondent began to feu of two proclamations issued by the like a stooge, and suggested Mr. Bechuanaland High Commissioner for
on which it was the custom to ex- Burns asic the questions, but it de- the governing of the Bamangwate carved from the rock, and is a re- veloped Mr. Burns had gone around tribe, of whom Tahekodi Khama presentation of the actual death bed, the corner to get a high ball, Miss acting chief, opened in Lobatsi to-day bit the body before burial.
been Only one inscription has before Supreme Court Justles Water- Allen having neglected to pour.
found by the excavators.
Sheriffs, meyer.
The
included Party Before it was over she had de-
Tshekodi says that one proclame- Engraved on a doorway, it consists clared herself on government owner-tion is vold because it takes away of a list of persons, probably refer-
Mayors, the Mace Bearer, the Sword ship and the soldier's bonus,
London, Aug. 8. Bearer and the City Marshal. They thought the bonus was wonder-powers of jurisdiction granted to ring either to those buried there or
visitors to the tomb.
Vancouver a ful," she sighed. "Brother got $5,000 native chiefa in 1886,-Reuter
A stronger link with the past was
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir are taking with them and will pro
sent to the City of out of it."
excavators catablished when the found, on two of the altars, the re- Percy Vincent, accompanied by Lady Mince which is almost an exact copy mains of the Inst sacrifices offered Vincent, and a doputation from the of the City of London Mace-British up on behalf of the inmates of the Corporation of the City of London, Wireless, he mausoleum.
For 23 centuries the few ashes and
Your correspondent observed that "brother" must be quite a veteran.
"No," Gracie sald. He's a crap! - shooter."
Tshekedi was suspended in 1933 for sentencing a European to be flogged; was later reinstated,
LORD MAYOR OF LONDON LEAVES WITH DEPUTATION
1
She was about to divulge her, views about government ownersålp,"
Printed and Published for the Proprietora by FREDERICK PERGY en government ownership, when Mr. said, "s through her old man. The
the govemment doesn't exactly own him, remains of calcinated bones had lain Burns got back from around
untouched, exactly as they FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria corner to announce his candidacy for bul they've been holding him in there.
Leavenworth as security. He mature had been left by the relatives and! Hongkong. the vice presidency.
friends of the dead Router. The only thing Gracle knows in 20 years."—United Press:~