THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, ́ ́· 1936.
RED PLAN TO SEIZE FRANCE COATS & MILLINERY
Off By Moscow At Eleventh Hour
Called
LEADING IN £100,000 BABIES RACE
the
MRS. MATTHEW KENNY, who, by giving bleik to twelve children since October 31, 1926, is now the leading contestant for the £100,000 prizo Jeft by eccentric bachelor Jawyer Charles Vance Millar to Toronto mother with most children born between that date and October 31 next
Wife "Murdered By Post"
Paris, September 16.
AGRIM story of "murder-by-post" is believed to lie behind the sudden death by poisoning of pretty Mme. Roger Fauveau, aged 27, wife of an officer in the Paris fire brigade, while convalescing after an illness at a village near Limoges.
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Last night, the police say, 'Mme. Fauveau received a parcel of medicine from her husband and a note which read:
"Darling, here are the medicines I promised you. You will see there are several different, things, but I think the blue powder will suit you best. Take as per instructions given by Michel. My love to you,
She took the powder with a glass
of water, suddenly called for help. Mothers' Self-sacrifice
and was dead before anyone could
reach her. Her body turned a violet .colour.
CERTAIN CURES
Leads To Disease
Dr. F. Lawrence Smith, in a report The powder consisted of copper to Merton and Morden Council, says: -nitrate and strychnine.
"In the poorer homes, if economies Arrested in Parla, the husband de-have to be made, it is the mother. nied that he had deliberately sent his who does without, and it would not wife polson, saying, "I had the be surprising to find that in many powder recommended to me by a man cases the mother's self-sacrifice is -named Michel," who was "Just a cafe responsible for dental disease. nequaintance.
I sent her the sachets of powder for sleeplessness, and other reedicines for her bad circulation. They were described to me as being certain cures."
An exhaustive search is being made for "Michel" among quack doctors in Paris.
Ofen women coming to the clinics or centres say that they have been waiting for a long time to have dental treatment, but could not afford it."
Apart from charitable organisations or public assistance, says Dr. Smith, most mothers have no facilities for securing attention to their teeth at fees which they can afford.
"STAY YOUR HAND UNTIL AUTUMN-
STRIKE THEN?
AMAZING revelations of how France was saved from
Red revolution and civil war two months ago were published recently in the London Sunday Dispatch from, according to that newspaper, reliable source;
The evening of June 11 had been chosen for the Communist coup that was to be the prelude to the establishment of a Red dictatorship.
At the eleventh hour the French Communist leaders received urgent instructions from Moscow. Reports received by the Komintern from its agents in France raised doubts as to the outcome of the revolution, and Moscow counselled delay till the autumn,
How It Feels To Be Televised
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Nicholas Schwernit, mannger of the International of Red Syndicates, re- ported to Moscow headquarters the following adverse factors:
The French army was too well disciplined and time was needed for Bolshevist propoganda to spread.
Army ofeers would be obeyed by their men.
generally
The Provinces had not been adequately canvassed by Red
and emissaries,
agricultural workers were mostly distrustful of them.
SCENES
I was televised recently of the B.I.C.'s new Alexandra Palace sta- After feverish meetings in secret. tion. As I sat in the flat of a tha is more Communist leaders mud- battery of lights, which beat on megugly agreed to slay their hand,
like the tropical sum, my face was they resolved to intensify their pro-
recess, other,
transmitted from one room to an-param, and watch for the propiory
the sound studio. The sitter feels
Television doubles the terrors of autumn" to make their stroke in the! Hike an insect under microscope. the has no idea whether his picture is being received, and, if so, what Impression it is creating.
The television camera points at him silently and remorselessly.
as
This experience occurred during a tour of the first station in the world built to give a public television ser vice, It is more than twice powerful as any other television stu- tlon and is destined to be four times as powerful. The cost is estimated at £100,000.
Tragedy Told
The tragle story of an East-West, "never the twain shall meet" ro- mance was told in a Los Angeles court where Ray Jolinson, abave, faces charges of. slaying his pretty Japanese aweetheart, Midi Taka- ola.
EUROPE TO JAVA BY CANOE
BOAT SUNK IN ARABIAN SEA
THE Dutch brothers Gerrit and Nicolas Entrop, of Haarlem, moment
have arrived at Allahabad by News of the Reds' intention to seize ¦ canos en route to Sourabaya. power reached members of the Blum fiovernment when the stay-in strikes They are following the Dutch were at their worst, and there were air mail route as nearly as pos- dramatic scened in the salons of the sible and hope to establish a re- Ministries.
cord.
M. Lebas, Minister of Labour, who was one of the first to learn of the Red plot, urged the Premier to take
Similar attempts have been made prompt steps to fall the Communists. before but no traveller has com- It is said he even threatened to in-pleted the journey. form the Army High Conunund him-
self.
The way for the Red revolution had been skilfully prepared by Moscow's paid agitators.
9, at a meeting of 30,000 followers in
DEFYING THE PREMIER On the ground floor are two large transmitting halls, one equipped with
Hopes of success ran so high in the Baird and the other with Marconi Red camp that on the night at June E.M.I. apparatus. Above are dupll the Paints des Sports, Maurice Thorez, eate rooma used as studios for cochleader of the French Communists boasted that his party would soon be in power..
system.
The complexity of the equipment is enormous. -Fow-understand. Its inner mysterles, and the B.B.C. en- gineers are being trained by the expert staff of the two television companies.
I
VALVE COOLING PLANT
of
wandered through a maze grey and silver panels. In the Marconi-E.M.I. transmitting hall there is a sinister-looking piece of equipment in a black cage, called a mercury are rectifier. The inside is like a cave suffused with violet light and when the apparatus is switched -A Gambler's "If" on and off a strange moan is heard
through the hall.
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Signals from the studio overhead are magnified a million times. Al- together 502 valves are used for the Marcon! system alone.
Elaborate water-cooling plant for the valves is a feature of the Baird system. When the temperature rises above danger point there is a system Which automatically shuts down the station.
Two 60 kilowatt valves, locked up like valuables in a safe deposit, cori be parted and reassembled in half an hour for the fitting of spare parts.
In oll
trons- the Marconi-E.M.I. missions the Emitron
which camera, picks up the scene direct, will be used. In the Baird studio, however, Intermediate film gear has been Installed. Th method involves
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---- BL Blunt, flie Premler, was on the platform, yet Thorez de- clared: "Although we support the new Popular Front Govern- ment we have nothing in common. with it, and soon we shall be the masters of the country."
His words were halled with frenzy. Men screamed their approval, and women wept with joy.
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Turks To Ban Gangster Films
Angora, Sept. 10. URKISII censors are to ball
Gangster films "likely to have a bad effect on youth," and
Political and religious propa- ganda Gims "ikely to inculcate prejudice about a country, nation,
or race.?
A German ofter three years' voyag- ing gave up the altempt last year, after having reached the count of Bengal.
The brothers visit each airport, meeting the Dutch aeroplanes when- lever possible.
FIERCE MONSOON
and hope to complete the journey 19 They left Haarlem, in April, 1935, ten months, taking just over two years. Unfortunately a part of the voyage was accomplished by steamer- and train owing to refusal of per- mission to allow them to travel by sea from Constantinople, down the coast of Asia Minor. Also because of the bad weather in the Arabian Sea and fierce monsoon condition along the west coast of India,
The brothers started from Haarlem, travelling up the Rhine, down the Danube through the Black Sea to Constantinople, then by steamer 16 Beirut and overland to Baghdad, canoeing down the Tigris to the Persian Gulf.
ALL EQUIPMENT LOST
A misfortune overlook them in the Arablan Sca. The canoe capsized one night in a storm, and all equip- ment was lost. Swinuming two miles to the shore, the men landed near Chahbar from where they tooit steamer for Karachi. At Karachi collapsiblo canoe was bought, The equipment anci Д 16-ft.
journey
continued. Travelling down the Jumna, they have arrived at Allahabad.
rew
was then
The brothers spent all day at the aerodrome awaiting the Dutch fir mail. They will shortly leave by the In addition, military films will be Ganges for Calcutta from where scrutinised by a member of the their route les along the Arakan- Turkish General Stuff-Router. Malayan coast to Singapore and Javn,
of an ordinary cinematograph She Knew 1870- Clemenceau
camera. The Is developed, fix- ed, washed and dried and passed through the transmitter 40sec. later. Bulrd's also have a "spotlight" studio. Here the person o be tele- vised sits in semi-darkness. A spot of light traces 0,000 lines over every part of the subject in one second.
BROADCAST OF FILMS
there is a miniature cinema theatre for the use of the producers.
Invited Her
Her to See
Versailles
Signing
Paris, Sept. 20. special official car to take her to Versailles and witness with him the
ning of the Peace Treaty,
Apart from direct televising, both MME. JULIETTE LAMBERT systems will broadcast films, and ADAM died this morning at the Chateau de Lagnelles, aged. Pictures demonstrated to me ze 100. cently on viewing panels, which will
HER LITERARY FRIENDS) Juliette Lambert was brought up in
be used by the control engineers, Patroness of French poots and a world which exists no longer cave In the written word. In the salon of were most Impressive. They were novelists, and a notable journal- the Comtesse d'Agoult she was on even more distinct than those I have list herself, she attained the rare terms of intimacy with such men a been receiving nt
which have distinction of having a Paris the poet Lamartine, with Sainte- already been described exclusively
street named after her during with Taine, the historian, and Berlioz, | Beuve, Prosper Morimee, and Renon, not, of her lifetime.
the composer. broadcast but were merely
in The Daily Telegrapli.
These pleturer were
tote from. one room to another.
To-day the Rue Julietto Lambert, She was requainted with Wagner, as it is called, commemorates a great and heard him play fragments from,
Seen in thla way, even a a picturesque French patriot who saw, and felt with his earliest operas, outdoor view of the Palace grounds, extreme bitterness, the Franco- In the course of time Jullette Lam- faintly blurred on my home screen, Prussian war of 1876 and yet was bert herself founded a salon. Married was clear-cut,“ · A close-up picture | spared to see retribution in the down-to Edmond Adam, an outstanding from the spotlight studio of Miss fall of Germany in 1018.
figure in finance and politics, she Rita Grant was particularly effective. The happiest day in her full fo collected round her a coleris of people The station is complete with was, perhaps, In.. July 1919, who, managed to keep its glamour offices, dressing-rooms, a restaurant, Clemenceau, remembering 1870, re right through the century, and this find a concrete, arena outside for membered that Mme, "Adam had In spite of political and other up- open-air broadcasts.
Imown it, too, and accordingly sent a heavals-Reuter.
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