17 Peers
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
Barred
From
The Coronation Ceremony
Thirty-four years of driving-during which time she covered morg than 650,000 miles-without an aceldent or a traffic violation is thò hviablo record set by Mrs. Nell A. Leavitt, Ban Francisco. She was picked as California's safest driver to represent the state in a "safe driver" convention in New York.
BRITAIN AND JAPAN'S NEW DRIVE IN THE
FAR EAST
ROBBED BY AGE
OF HONOUR
SEVENTEEN peers of the realm will not take their places in Westminster Abbey on May 12 to pay homage and swear allegiance to King
Edward VIII.
They are barred from taking part in this stirring ceremony because they are minors.
:
Unluckiest of all these young peers who will miss the glory. and pageantry.of the Coronation is the Marquess of Townshend,
As he was born on May 13, 1916, he will be one day short of his majority on Coronation Day, May 12, 1937—a few hours rob him of the opportunity of stand-
SEPTEMBER 22, 1936.
RADIO BROADCAST
The New Z. B. W. Dance Orchestra from 'Studio RECITAL BY DOREEN MA
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 Klocycles):
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1. Songa: Sirs! your Teast (Torca- dor Song) ("Carmen") (Blzet); Room for the Factotum ("Barber 01
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Violin Solo- Tzigane-hapsodic Qu Concert Joy's Song (Pepper); A Song for you (Itavel):
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7.33 p.m.
From the Studio. "The New Z..W. Dance Orches-
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Programine
1. Rhythm; 2. I found a dream; 3. Rhythm saved the World; 4. It's been, so long; B. Get thee behind me Satan;
ing with his peers to cheer the | WOMAN PREPARES & I'm putting all my cgga in new King.
On the other hand, the Earl of Oxford and Asquith will be 21 just 20 days before the cere. mony, and so earns his place.
This young peer is grandson of Mr. Asquith, whom he auegeeded in 1928 shortly after erention of the title.
HER FUNERAL
WIFE OF MASTER OF
SCIENCE
HANGING IN FLAMES
FROM TREE
The police have solved the mystery MISSED BY A YEAR
of the entity of woman whe Another of the unlucky peers is earlier in the day was discovered by the Earl of Craven who, at 20, misses two boys enveloped in flames and the ceremony by a year. A runner-hanging from a tree in Little Heath up is Earl Haig, ent of the great Woods, Selsdon, Surrey. Field Marshal, Who is 19--born in Armistice Year.
And here are some other peers | tort
Tokyo, Sept. 21. Japan is pushing her trade expansion plans to the South-who are ton going to attend ward, inviting the risk of a collision with Great Britain's in- terests in the Far Ens1.
Japanese ships and Japanese merchants are swarming into the Islands South-east of the Asiatic continent, into Siam, French Indo-Chins and even further west.
byement, assertio
Britain meanwhile is Improving, Nakano, leader of the Pan-Ashutic its Simaporn base, speeding the completion of wharves, stores and į equipment for provisioning warships, It is keeping on alert eye on its de- fences in the South Sens, the Malay
Australia
New aurel peninsulo, Zealand.
One if the reported Japanese pro- jects towards the South is a proposed canal from the Gulf of Siam into the upper indian Occan, providing much shorter route for ships which now must go around to the south- ward by way of Singapore.
"The foremost a of Britain is! to frustrate Japan's ascendancy in Asin"
Samme quas tera
Japanese thought look to Germany for friend- The Bight of the prevalling International situation," remarks the pee ppier Hocky; editorially, "Japan and Germany
are almost destined to ente nearer."
HAIL GERMANY
"It was Germany that
sympa-
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to
She was Mrs. Connor, of Bywayn, Woodbury-close, Addiscombe, nene
the wife of Mr. 1. 11 Connor, a Master of Science. the Comor Connor
was
100 upset Coronation:
speak to anyone. Their home The Earl of Gainsborough is a about two miles, from the scene of 13-year-old schoolboy.
the tragedy. Lord Harrington. head of three' vast estates.
The Earl of Wilton is 16. The Earl of Cathcart is 18. Lord Foley is 14, and at school. Lord Krayon misses the Caroua-husband at Byways, Woodbury.elosa, tion by 12 montha.
15-year-old
The police believe that Mrs. Con- nor. stond On a tree-stump, placed
the rope round her neck, and then prepared her funeral pyre,
She is said to have lived with her
for the last two years,
A neighbour stated week Just [I
before the pers Connor was interestedi sather in splendour at Westminster
for work. friends wil be wishing Abbey, Viscount Cross many happy returns of his seventeenth Birthday. joins the unlucky minors.
THE LUCKY PAGE
that
In
Mrs. wel-
Every morning she would take her dog out for a run," she added. So he saw her leave the house this
morning with the dog and retur later. 1 did not see her leave. tha house again."
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Cinderella-A Phaninsy (Eric Contes); The Jester at the Wedding (Eric Contes); London Bridge March (Erie Conles); Summer After- noon-Idyll. (Eric Coutes),
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Peel
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9.10 p.m. From the Studio.
A Jazz Pinto Recital by Dorcen Ma,
Programme
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5. I'm fool for lovin' you.
10 p.m.
A Relay from London. Big Ben Talk: "Foreign Affairs" by Sir Frederick Whyte, ......
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11 p.m. Close Down.
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Other too-young peers who may not attend Include: Lord Swansen,
The boys, who discovered the at the ripe øk age of 12: Lord Savile, aged 19, and Lord St. John tragedy are Herbert Adderley, nged 10, and his brother Douglas, aged 8. uf Bletsoe, who is a your older; Lord alomlagu of Bentliet, a veteran of They are Canadians, staying for a
three
with works holiday 10; Lord Monk Bretton, aged 13.
Adlerley, grandmother. Mrs. Onc 13-year-old peer is more || Addington-road, Selsdon,
of his
They saw, smoke and Anmer and. fortunate them mort temporaries who are atitled by thinking it was a bonfire, ran to the from spat rank, but delarred by age,"
witnessing the ceremony,
11. Gemau-Maovchukizo POWERS OPPOSE
Bagrement was greeted as partial ve- of the new Manchurian Other powers, particularly Britain, cognition
I would give · regling, are opposing the plan.
be no wonder if the "It 'ould Japan an advantage comparable in:
fester degree to that of the United great appreciation on the part of Ger- States with its Panama Canal. Japan; many toward Japan (for the latter's is saying little about its intention, but break with the League of Nations)
may possibly extend to an alliance, its active trade enterprises, with eco-
There they found Arn, Connor nomic mission, busy in Siam, Per-says a writer in the New Youth"
swinging from a branch and Beream- sia and India, show a pressing desire magazine.
He is Lord Herschell, who willing amid the flames, which rose 2011. -to-open that territory to increased sales of Japanese manufactured pro- Müzed most or all others with e-as-of-The King's Pages of into the tree.
in scarlet coat Japan's stand when the Manchurinn Honour. Dressed
Terrified, they watched for a few ducts,
the out."
article jabot, ruffles of lace, white Satin vends and then turned and ran to "Japan is now experiencing a reac- incllent broke
breeches, he will remain close to the where, some distance away, they had tion from the visit earlier this sum- continues.
Frederick Leith-Russ.! It is also Germany who has shown King throughout the long Corona-seen workmen constructing a kiosk. mer of Si
v ritual the most positive attitude toward re-kon cronomale adviser to the British gov- ernment whe come over from China cognizing Manchukuo nnd concluding for a well publicized series of con- a commercial treaty with her. It is versations with Japanese statesmen, i undeniable that such factors have
Sir Frederick's discussions reported only in well qualified gen eralities but the consensus was that view that he presented the British
were strengthened the friendship between SWINBURNE'S
Japan and Germans."
Japan should give only economic aid
WATCH OTHER NATIONS Largely because of Japan's feel-
GRAVE
to China and should not concern it as of lation since Its withdrawal FORGOTTEN
self with political matters.
יי
SPLIT WITH BRITISH
Discussing the. Leith-Ross visit,
Yu Nakayama, of the
intelligence
from the
the League, its statesmen have
felt it necessary to keep in extremely POET'S RESTING PLACE IN close touch with developments
in
other nations. Japan participated!
in the
the Dardanelles conference at Montreux and all Japanese am-
bureau of the foreign office, asserted | bassadors in Europe have been asked
and Great Britain apart.
bitter experience
discussion.
most
ISLE OF WIGHT
Bunchurch (Isle of Wight).
Sept. 15.
England,
beautiful
11
men hurried to the seene, but were unable to save the woman's fire.
By the time they arrived the rope from which she had been banging bad barned through.
FLAMES BEAT BACK RESCUER Mr. William Allon, one of the worfenen, who la employed by Lon- dan
Electricity Supply Company at
fc:
Purley, boys
"The
came running to me
they had seen the
when ricken, and guided, me to
wontun. She was on the ground. Apparently the flames burned through the rene that developments are driving Japan to meel in Paris soon for a general The churchyard here is one of the one end of which was led to the The tree and the other to her neck. The situation is not encouraging," The revolution in Spain delayed perched us it is on the hillside above body was terribly charred."
It is well kept, with its "I took hold of one of her legs, but he wrote in a current magizine, the projected conference and the the sea.
back, "Great Britain, though it received Interim is being used for the prep- stones and rambler roses
white head-the terrifle heat best me close cropped gruss,
growing called to my mates and one of them in the Italo-aration of careful reports.
came with a bucket of water. Ethiopian dispute, is gradually re- Instructions asking the Japanese here and there. There is only one
exception to this scene of tidiness was not long before the tire was out. gaining its supremacy in European ambassadors to stay at their 15-
Algernon and order-the grave of
"The woman's clothes had been signments and conduct thorough
the burned off, and 1 found three pieces "Its diplomatic demarche hus al-investigations regarding general
of charred rupe a few feet from the ready resulted in a rapprochement conditions have been dispatched by
body. A two-gation petrol in was with the Soviet union better than at the foreign offler.~United Press:
about 12 feet away. The whole of any time since 1917, and their naval
the ground surrounding the tree wan agreement granted the Soviet's free
saturated with petrol," naval building rights in Vladivostok. The British scheme for a greater economic bloc, embracing its do- minlons and possessions has caused the Australian government to ex- clude Japanese merchandise.
polities.
ISOLATE · JAPAN
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CORRESPONDENCE
Christian Science
Charles Swinburne,
one
greatest poets of recent times.
of
It es, with other graves of the Swinburne family, beside the path leading to the main door and in full view of anyone about to enter the church.
all Which makes it
the more curlous that shrubbery should have been ollowed to encroach on it and that leaves and twigs should rest on its simple, white stone.
buay
The
There were no rings on her hands, but near the spot there were found pair of white gloves and n hund- bag containing letters and money,
WOMAN CARRYING A TIN A woman visitor the district said that she had seen a woman, aged between 30 and 35, walking in the wood curly in the day and carry-
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KOWLOON TIGER
KILLS FIVE BUFFALOES
AT SAI KUNG
The partly devoured carenses of five buffaloes were found to the Sal Kung district of the New Territories last week, leaving little doubt of the existence of at least one tiger in the of the dis- Shatin Valley. Newa ravery
was not received by the. police until yesterday, when a farmer at Yeung Shu Au village reported
the matter.
According to his story, at 10 am. on Monday of last week he sent a small boy to take the animals to To the Editor of the "Telegraph"
Even the metal name-plate placed
graze on a hillside above the village. "The general situation is thus
beside it to emphasise its presence
The boy returned for his evening tending to antagonize euch nation Sir, In your Issue of Saturday, to visitors is becoming rusty. A coring atin.
meal about 3 p.m., leaving the buff- another, against
-but,
speaking September 19, a clergyman, in un respondent inquired the reason of this When I was near her," she said,
loes grazing, but when he returned. "the woman took off her cont and
to the hillside at 5 p.m. comparatively, Great Britain is fast address, refers to Christian Science neglect from the Rector.
he could adding to its influence while Japan as "a kind of psychotherapy" and "The relatives of a large number placed it over the tin. Her manner
find no sign of them. is being forced into a position of conneels it with Couc-ism, auto of the people buried here," he said, seemed rather strange and she dis-
Villagers formed search parties Isolation."
suggestion and the miracles of have left small funds to be spent appeared quickly through the wood." the next day, and found the partly After stating that
devoured carcases on a hill about Britain as Lourdes. May I be allowed space on keeping the graves tidy. Whether
. Two two miles, from the village. amastcel, an enormous concentration in your paper to correct this state the Swinburne family have done so. of wealth in China to the detriment ment?
I do not know. Nevertheless I wil
were close together, but the others were about a mile apart. ve is tidied and of Japan, the writer continues in Christian Science Is a demon- see that grave is aggressive veint.
According to the farmer, the ear- The stmble religion "designed to com- strubbery cut back.
this summer, that memorate the word and works off has been very
cases were severely mauled and the "What can Japan advance
marks of claws were clearly dis- will upset the British advantage, our Master, which should reinstate you know, showing visitors round
tinguishable The pu narica It can offer hardly anything more Pri
primitive Christianity and its lost the old Church of St. Boniface, and
healing."
(Church he has not been able to spend as
a huge animal of the feline tribe ot than force of arms and the over- Clement
were also found in the vicinity, whelming wilt of the nallon. ·
Manual, Page 17), and thousands of much time perhaps ns he would
It is quite nossible that the buf- Christian Scientists can testify with have liked on the parish churcli-
Salt Lake City, Sept. 9.
faloen were killed by the same tiger gratitude of its healing and regen- yard."
Eight women and one man are the whose tracks were found by a party "Culture, Binance
military
power. crating
The Norman church of St. Boni-only survivors of the band of Mor: ¦ from Mongkuk police station during force have something common 013 Jesus said: "Wherefore, by their face, built in. 1070, is one of the mon pioneers who heard Brighom the week. Instruments of national policy, fruits ye shall know them. That "slow pieces" of the Isle of Wight. Young sny, "This is the place," when Great Britain has employed the most these fruits are being acknowledged, As I passed in down the hill towards they entered the Great Salt
notice exhorting valley in 1847. advantageous of them, and Japan can be proved by the continuous Ventnor I saw a may use those which are serviceable growth of the Church of Christ, visitors. "not to miss it, and below Four who were able to attend for its purpose. The FINAL problem Scientist, in all parts of the civilised it a sign: The Verger is now at the Covered Wagon Days celebration
Old Church."
were feted at a luncheon in their is that of whether or not Japan's World,
The last testing place of an honour during Salt Lake City's English poet is not less to be commemorating the event.-I/nited revered than bricka and mortar. Prest.
NATIONAL POLICY
and
strength In all these factors exceeds,
that of its competitor."
In another magazine article, Sciro
A. JOANE CREWDOON, Committee on Publication for
Canton and Hongkong.
Loke
of
The Sal Kung district is in the eastern portion of the Shatin Valley, about five miles from where the police, made their discoveries along the big catchwater emptying Into Kowloon reservolt. An reported then, the tracks measured six inches across, quito largo enough to have. been made by a tiger.
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