THE
PACIFIC BLUE
DAINTY DISH LONDON
FOR DAINTY'S
PAPER
ENVISAGES
DUO OF CUBS NEW RACE
IT was past their mealtime
when the "Telegraph" NOW that
Staff Photographer visited|
the R.M.S. Queen Mary has re-
these cubs who were more gained the Blue Riband of interested in their food than the Atlantic, British ship-
the camera.
"Belay there, messmates! What about some grub!
Oh, there you are. It's about time, too....
keeping us waiting
like this for our chow?"
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*
THESE two Able Bodied lion cubs shown above had their
owners
should make. a
supreme bid to regain the Blue Riband of the Suez and the Pacific.
This suggestion was made recently in an Editorial in the London Daily Mail.
The record for the Suez and Hongkong route to Shanghai is at present held by the Lloyd Triestino line.
Pacific
The record for the (from the American const to apan) is held by the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Japan. ¡
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1936.
RIBAND
WERE THEY ON THE WINNER?
Messrs A. Stevenson and P. 5. Cassidy were discussing a good thing
them with his lens.
at the races on Saturday when "Telegraph" Staff Photographer caught
Trooping Season
How quickly the Blue Riband THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS
of the Pacifle is regained," said the Daily Mail, "rests solely with the Government, which has de- layed a subsidy to British lines in the Pacific far too long.
arc
TO PASS THROUGH H.K.
URGED
RADIO
BROADCAST
The New Z.B.W. Dance Orchestra
RECITAL BY E.
WARNER
From Z.D.W. on n wavelength of
355 metres (845 llacycles):
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.
7-11 p.m. European Programme.
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7 p.m. Grand Opera.
Orchestral "Aida"-Grand March (Verdi); Aria-"La Bolieme"-Yes, call me Mimi (Puccini).... Rosetta Pampanini (Soprano): Aria "La Boheme-Your tiny hand is frozen (Puccini) Luigi Marini (Tenor); Orchestral "La Gloconda" Dance of the hours. (Ponchielll); Aria-Barber of Seville"-Largo si facletum (Rossini)
Riccardo Stracciari (Baritone): Band-"Mefis- tofele"-Prologue (Boito).
7.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quotations.
7.33 p.m. Welsh Music,
****
Song The frailty of life (Nant- Klyn) William Edwards (Tenor); Song-My little Welsh home ("Songs of the Welsh Mountains") (Williams) Lelin Megane (Contralto) Chorus Y Delyn Aur. Gypsy laugh- ing chorus (Bell)
Rhondda unada Welsh Glee Singers: Band Songs of Wales. The Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards- Song- Dear Wales (Roberts) .... Lejla Megane (Contralto); Song-In praise of Wales (Wwlyd) .......... The Gypsy William Edwards
(Crwys)
THOUSANDS of British troops will pass through Hongkong
during the 1936-37 trooping season, which will be an extreme-(Tenor), off
"Heavily subsidised competitors
driving British vessels nucient trade routes. The strug gle dally grows more hopeless.
"We sull possess splendid ships. The mercantile fleet of the Canadian Pacific 19 as magnificent as afloat.
but even the energy
any
and
drive of Sir Edward Beutly thend
ly busy.
of the Canadian Pacific Railway), (9,543 ions) will make altogether known to be one of the most force between Europe and the Far East.
Empire, business-men in the
Brainst
cannot make shipping pay
Impossible odds."
The north Pacific "Blue Riband"
8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wea- ther Report and Announcements.
8.03 p.m.
From the Studio. "The New Z.B.W. Dance chestra:"
Programme.
-10
The newest British sen transport, the 11,000-ton Dilwara which was completed early this year by the British India Co. for His Majesty's Forces with a capacity for 1,150 troop ratings, and the
1. Rhythm is our business; 2. Be- (9,645 tons) and Lancashiretween two fires; 3. On the beach at six calls here while travelling Ball Ball; 4. Waltz-Song of the Bibby Line steamers Dorsetshire
Islands; 5. 6. You'll have time I look at your swing itRhythm on the Range"; 7. Blue Sunset; 8. Waltz-I adore you-Fatal Lady": D. I can't escape from you"Rhythm on, the Range": 10. She shall have music (From the Film "She shall have music"); 11. Business in F.; 12. Mama don't allow it.
8.45 P.M. Songs of oldi.
was captured by the Canadian - YOU CAN BE
fe linen Empress of Japan in April,
1931, when, with the King of Stam SCALED BY
Aboard, she crossed from Yokoimma
to Victorin in seven days, twenty hours and Bixteen minutes. On that passage the liner was manded by Captolo Samuel Robin-
son.
cm-
SOME SCALES ·
Foreign scales in Hongkong
Returning on Oct. 21, she will take away military and RAF. details for the United Kingdom.
to
SEAFORTHS FOR HONGKONG The Diwara will arrive on her out- ward voyage on November 3 with the 2nd Loyals on board for Shang- hai and military and R.A.F. draftsments from London. for Hongkong.
The Empress of Japan also holds that give incorrect weights are ing further military and
the records between Yokohama and greater offenders than Chinese Honolulu, and between Honolulu scales, statistics compiled by the and Victoria, B.C.
Police Department reveal..
Soviet Rule Indicted In Powerful Book
A POWERFUL indictment of
Soviet rule is contained in "Human Life in Russia," by the late Dr. Ewald Ammende (George Allen and Unwin, Ltd, London; 10s. 6d. net)..
Returning on Nov. 21, she will R.A.F. details for the United King- dom.
B
D.m. News and Announce-
9.20 p.m. From the Studio. hope Martin), Sung by Edgar Warner Four "Songs of the fair," (East~
(Tenor).
0.35 p.m. Selection from "The Damask Rose" (Chopin),
9.45 p.m.
On January 6 the Lancashire will arrive with the 1st Seaforths from Last year, 14 foreign scales, out of Palestine for Hongkong. This fam-Whitehead. 541 examined, were found to be giv-ous Battalion will be stationed in ing incorrect weights. Of the 2,297 Hongkong.
Chinese scales examined, only 33 were found incorrect.
Yesterday, "Telegraph" repre- sentative, armed with ten-cent coins, endeavoured to find a public scales giving incorrect weights. His quest, however, was unsuccessful. Each of the eight nutomatic scales tested gave
exactly the same weight,
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Subsequent inquiries revealed tha! these scales are tested. each day.
Three of the 87 Yard measures examined by the Police last year were found to be incorrect, as were two of the 112 Chinese fool measures.
fificen
111s] .For
years prior to
Police Department secured 20 con- recent death, the author was Hon. Secretary
Inter- victions, with ẞnès totalling $748, for of the Vienna
and conferstonal and International Re- offences under the Weights lief Committee for the starving Mensurea Ordinance In 1935. people of the Soviet Union, and he
ind worked in season and out
season to bring to public notice the tention that the famine is deliber- position
people,
ately
of millions of Innocent There in the Ukraine and other
through
designed by Russia's rulers. is, indeed, a tendency right the volume to condemn undertaken by the
ain districts, who have been dis everything Brain in large numbers since the collec- Soviet, its industrial no less than tivisation of agriculture began. The
regulation rations delayed an im hour to enable our camera man truth known so that adequate relief less, the story told, based on what
to snap them at their meals.
Two pets of H.M.S. Dainty,
they were handed over to Lieut. Cmdr. Cartwright when the ship was returning from the Mediter-
rancan three months ago,
•
On her return trip on Jan. 13 the Lancashire will carry intermediate station details from Hongkong for Colombo.
From the Studio,
A Saxaphone Recital by A, W.
Programme.
Beeck-
1. Concertino Militaire.... man; 2. The sleeping beauty Tschaikowsky; 3. Gypsy Dance Phillips.
10 p.m. Big Ben from London.
Variety Programme The Dilwara will make a special Songs-For me, for you. Darling, trip to Singapore and Hongkong je vous aime beaucoup.... Hlide- on March 5 to bring out large mill-garde; Plano Solos--Two for to- tary and R.A.F. drafts from Home night-Medley.... Renara; Songs- and take away details for return.
The season will close with a second Admiralty voyage by the Dorsetshire which will call here on March 17 with smaller military drafts and take away again smaller detalls for Home.
Unlls at Hongkong are already preparing nominal rolis of ait per- sonnel due for transfer, so that the War Ofice can make allotment of accommodation for them.
1.1/2 Per Cent
Of Colony's
of this book is to make the is agricultural policies. Neverthe- Population
may be rendered.
oppears to be unassailable docu-. mentary cyldence, is one which it is.
It is contended that the catns- impossible to read without feeling
trophe is not the result of an act of that there must be terrible misery WAS DEALT WITH BY
God, but is the direct consequence and suffering.
of Stalin's agricultural experiment,
and it is suggested that by taking
favour
ΟΙ
are
"CHILDREN'S DRESS"
Under
of Children's
Cinc
When my Mammy smiles. I feel like Turner feather in the breeze Layton; Orchestra-Heart's Desire-
Studio Orchestra; Selection Select Song-Thirty Thirsty Throats Anona Winn (Soprano); Instrumental
-Broken Doll. Alexander's
Rag Time Band... Brian Lawrence and the Lansdowne House Sextet; Vocal Duet-All because of you.... Browning and Starr; Instrumental Kohala March Fronk Ferera and John Paalull; Vocal-Rolling down the Hilly-Billy Trail Hi Billies; Plano Solos-Gershwin Medley... Renara; Song-Heart of Gold....
Turner Layton; Orchestra Waltz Medley Harry Chop- man (Harp), and his Music Lovers.
11 p.m. Close Down.
The
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
The following ware-lengths and frequencies
are observed by Daventry,
Wavelength
€9.50 metres 31.5metrom $1,30 weirdE
Birs
Frequency
GBA
GAD
0,514 ..
GBC
CBD
11,750 2.
25.51 meiren
CSK
11,84% k.
GBF
(5.140 kr.
34.25 matren -30.22 mito
finger-prints filed away in
GRH
13,700 4. 21,470 k.
GSI
15,260
19,66 motren
CSJ
11,549 k.
CSL
These finger-prints, which mainly of Chinese people residing in the Colony, are of tremendous Im- |portance.
arc
IB.37
malzem
matrem
19.08 metree
6,110 ke (9.10 metrem Transmission 1
(0.6.D., G.B.2.)
2.16 p...g Best Chamber Atusic.
1 p.m. "Imperial Affair.”.
1.15 pm.. New Dance Tunes,
1.24 p.m. "Empire Maguzine," No, f. 1.55 p.m. The News and Announcementa.
- Greenwich Time Bignal at å p.m.
Transmission 2
(0.8.0, 0.8.3)
4
1 p.m. Big Ben, "Imperial Affairs” 7.17 p.m. Paul tobesan.
Around the Countles-No. 15. 7.20 3.0L 1. p.m. The Birmingham Slippodrome Or.
chesten.
843 pm. Fishing Industry Programme. 8.15 p.. Handel Interlude,
DEPORTATION OFFICE the title of "What They HONGKONG now has 140,470 the grain supplies from the AWAY districts affected by the famine the Wore: A History aim
is completely to eliminate the Dress," Margaret Jackson und collu- the Finger Print Department of
of the various auto-borators have produced a most en-the Police. nationalities
Under grossing little volume, published by nomous States in the west. The cubs were then three what is described as a system of Messrs. George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.,
organised
the author London, at 48. Ed. net. weeks old. They were found in organ
Kataine,
ofi claims that privileged categories
The volume, which should appeal the lair of two man-eaters, shot people are given a sufficiency
food, whilst the State is totally equally to parents and children, to
These were responsible last year by Mr. Holland Smith, of the
Indifferent to the others, Discri- schools and school dramalle societies, Tanganyika Forestry Depart- mination, it is alleged, is applied in and to all who like to take history in for detecting 770 persons who fact of the supporters of the small and palatable doses,-gives a returned to the Colony from banish- ment, at the request of terrified Soviet regime as against those who most entertaining account of chil-ment,
dren's dress from the Stone Age
They helped materially in solving villagers.
are not particularly useful o
the
comparatively rational many crimes and in bringing the positively harmful to the regime, to
fashions of to-day. Margaret Jack criminals to justice. Thus, it is claimed, two or The male reported sick a fort-lon "State cupporters" live in an son describes persons and customs,.
Over 8,000 new records were added contributes light and night ago and though liberally island of plenty, surrounded by an sayings and doings; L. N. Jackson
charming to the Bureau during the year.
In addition to local finger-prints, veracy with much insight into the dosed with brandy and other can of hunger and misery.
child's opinion; and O, H. Lister the Bureau has the prints of many sailor-like delights, his `cold re-been
As to the reason why little has tells the story in a series of vivid of the world's leading criminals.
these done for
starving drawings of children at play through Finger-prints are sometimes cx- fused to yield to treatment until millions, the
changed with other centres. the all the ages. Thus, the volume author advances explanation that, co far as the not slavishly concerned with Lion Tamer Wallis got
A total of 10,346 persons, repre- som Powers generally concerned,
are
senting 14 per cent, of the entire Scott's Emulsion.
population of the Colony, were political considerations are permit-children wore, but attempts also to
dealt with by the Deportation led' to over-ride the dictates of hu- give a picture of what they were.
In the chapter on the history of Office during the year. see the cubs in the manity, and a plen is made that the
Three and a half thousand people League of Nations should send the shoe there is this remark: "It: pink of condition and happy at commission to Russia to Investigate is curious to reflect that, whereas in were Hongkong deportees, 1,727 were our dress on the whole, we have persons deported after being dis- the thought of being paid off in the real state of affairs.
more is an introduction to the become
rational and are charged from gaol, and 54 persons a few weeks when they set sail volume by the Right Hon. Lord gradually tending towards the sims were sent away by order of the for Whipsnade on board the Dickenson, and the book is freely plicity, the early days of history, Courts.
Illustrated with grim famine pic- we still suffer our feet to be distor
The remainder were deportees from ed, and without murmur submit
MR. F. C. HENRY, OF MANILA homeward bound Dainty,
an ad- AND MISS K. MACLEAN wok provided 007," (with The earnestness of the author is a process of deliberato moulding difother, centres, Singapore and Sarn- beyond
Two people who arrived in Hong- question, but the impres-fering only in degree from the cus-ditional nine vagrants from Singu- tom of foot-binding which we de- pare), the Dutch East Indies 055,
the first time—this slon is left, after reading the book, tore when practised by the Chi- Rangoon 64, Mauriuus two, Sandakan kengono A whist drive and tombola will be that the submissions would carry nese."
Ave, Occan Island 32, Hongkong week, should always remember this held in the R. A. (Stn.) Sergeants more conviction were they based on
Mendicants 054 and ex-soldiers of the British Colony.
One, the man, arrived a few days the breakdown of the Soviet agric- Altogether a most illuminating 10th Route Army 40. Mess, Gun Club Hill, Kowloon, on ultural system purely from econo- and Informative little book, of wide-
ago from Manila. The other, the girl, arrived yesterday from Los Sunday, October 4, at 0,30 pm. mic causes rather than in the con- spread general Interest,;.
Here we
There
turcs.
13
What
There was, however, a general de- crease of 3,871 compared with 1934.
Greenwich Time Blana) at 9 pan ⚫p.m. The News and Announcement. 929 p.m. A Recits) of Stanford's Songs.
Transmission 3
(0.8.G., 0.8.F., D.B.JL.)
10 p.m. Big Ben, Bram Band Concert. 18.20 p.m. Talk.
10.45. p.m. The John MacArthur Quintet. 11 pam. “Alabamy Bound," No. 3. 11.81 p2u. A Bieltul by Vari Moore (New
Zealand Pasifat). 1135 p.m. The Nawa and Announcements.
Greenwich Time Signal at 23 m.. 12.18 m. The B.I.C. Dance Orchestra.
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Mr. Floyd Clifford American Vico-Consul, and Mr. B. Henry, representativo for Paramount Proulx, répresentative for Paramount. Films in Manila, and Miss Katherine Films in Hongkong. Byran MacLean, formerly of,000 The honeymoon is being spent at South Hudson, Los Angeles.
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