THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1936.
CHILD'S QUESTION CAUSES TOUGH FATHER ΤΟ LOSE £50,000
"Daddy, Are You
Going To Start
Another War?"
"DANGS of conscience caused Mr. Leo Chertok, 'America's playboy of finance, to relinquish all claims to his alleged 15,000-square-mile mineral concession in Walaga Province, Western Abyssinia.
In conference at the Savoy Hotel, the dapper, cigar- smoking money-man said recently:--
"I'm stepping out of the whole picture. It's going to east n a lot of money. Anyway, I'm through. I don't want to havel any wars on my conscience.
"Abysslula can have the coners- sion.
Italy can have it. I'm warh-E
1 lose £50,000 tanda ing my
Two Englishmen personally. one other Americans who were 18- entved with me will lose the bidire.. about
The must exact tine-ke-per, which danie knows 415 The ሸነኸዲኑሄ -1 」 electron-watch, ran me ure dater-T ence in time with me rixiy madanth secund, or the time ray of light ཎྜrc{N
reach half-u-qiile,
pleture shown the watch aral the t- ventor. Manfred von Ardenne
Epicures Of Ten Thousand Years Ago
Washington, Nov. 17.
After years of shovelling in a lot of plaers, scienen unbinded its back recently aud minounced triumphant- ly the digging up of positive proof that Americans were scorching their gullets and getting gravy in their cars at barb cue plenies 19,000
years ago.
t.1
runtessiun
250.000,"
US
QUICK CHANGE
Chertek's het in This was air timation that his fianela; netolatk
In Abyssinio, Winch eyed etral Lade du for 15 months, are over
W... Some for Musolini's blew me on adum 10 de vela" Aty in with
ti
90 g of Anrettean copilad
kle Chang he "Why the
**Cala te perpen," Me Chetak radioi
Asian People Are Fastest Populators
Berkeley, Calif., Nov. 20. Evidence that increasing Asian population exceeds that of Oc- idental countries does not mean that Western civilization towering the white man's ability
is
"In my business you've got to the tough. And I am tough. Bul when my little son said, “Daddy, атр you polug to start angler war that was, quits, I decided
to step clean oul.
the
*** Inform the Abyssinian Legation and the Hallan Embassy that they can have the concession."
nelmilted that Mr Chertels USA. Government had put pressure
10 to relinquit his claim, Tri anilted that his "company" pud fur the equcersion by zapplyhost Abyanda with thundies from South
from the Cho America fett over war.
TO DODGE EMBARGO
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For the present, this ends the saga of yout man who made headd
his !!!:' ' , for uver
year with schemes for torrang Wertern Aby
ita tito a monstown vazute of det thatartani, and alv:
Glasgow
One mag was killed and damage counted in excess of one million doj- lars after a fire raged for two hours and threatened an entire block in the San Diego, Calif. busincas sectioli, Photo shows the fire at ita height, raging through one of the city's Inrge department stores..
Defence Value Of Islands
Claimed For Britain WARSHIP'S
Institute of Parthe Relations, Instant ade4 of Paesthe depoetstencies, whib atlantir the following:
Australia.--Paput, aurl
EXPEDITION Prisoners To
to reproduce his race, E. F. Pen- Receive Home
rose, University of California
It goes to show that, after economics fecturer believca,
Penrose believes this Asiatic' 10,000 years of experience with! balky olive botties and hungry increase is due more to a fall, anis, the citizens of this nation in the death rate than to any still are suckers for fresco increase in Asiatic fertility. Hej dining. Ten thousand years, points out that since the intr
medical of modera and they haven't learned a thing, duetion
th: rate of infant The discovery of the preldstone service, barbecue was made by fir. Frans mortality in Asia is falling and many 11. Ruberta, Je, Smithsonian Institue dresses which one clained thou tion archeologist, wins has been pok-sands of Vietins annually are beint ing around underground in the west brought under control. these many years, trying to And the
rave
of
the not too distant future.
Comforts
IN PACIFIC
Terray of New Games,
Mandatest
reat Britain-Brith Malaya. Buen Borio, ton, Kaart, Soundt islunds. Fil Gille
Elter and
BECAUSE they are consideredia, Tua, Thorns group au
ather sexstered islands, Fitearn:
Japan-1 ntal Persidores,
(Mariaca,
of great value in the defence of the Pacific, the formal claim-Suth Sagmidien, Ryukyu and other Marshall ing by the New Zealand warship ouliving isunds, Mandated Territory Leith on behalf of Great Britain islands). London. Nov. 15. Friruners awaiting trial in Glasgow of several islands in the Phoenix ure to receive home comforts, That Group (as first reported in the is to be the rule henceforth in the "Telegraph" last month) has prisons in the Glasgow area, as mem- created great interest. Lers of the Police Committee were authorised by the City Council to furnish all cells.
prarance.
Improve
!.
Caroline
United States.--Philippine Islands, Territory of Hawail, Territory of New Zealand.Cook, Manihki, Alaska, Guam and American Samoa, Tokelau and Mlue Islands: Mandate
The groin is in the vicinity of the of Western Samoa. Jarvis, flawland and Baker Islands which were claimed recently by the United States,
and Samoa.
RADIO BROADCAST
Dance Music from The Hongkong Hotel
The articles to be provided include: |
In view of claims which have re-
made by Thus the Introduction of westernį Table, Chatr, mattress bed, piliown,
Japan and bones of on etunt Folsom inan, civilization into Asia has actually mirror, safety razor, brush and comb, ently been
America in the Pacific, it is expected It was at Folsom. N.M.. years ago bern the greatest fartor contributing and clothes brush. The
behalf of are being made following re that further clams on he said, when a fellow scientist first to the increase in population, mommendation by the late Sir God-Britain will be made at uninhabited discovered evidence that there once the most westernized of the Ariatic
however, shows the same frey-Collins, Secretary for Scotland, islands between the Phoenix Group
• strance: flourished on this continent
countries, lived and
western countries three months ago. people. They
trend as most
In London the
AREA OF 16 SQ, M. ordinary police- loved and had their barbecues thou- where experts say the population
Generally, the Phoenix section has before sands of years
that eve ale
been regarded as British since the apple, For convenience sake, the will begin to decline at some time in station cell presents a very bicak op-
It has a wooden door, with a peep-main islands in the group were an- experts named them "Folsom" men
The University population expert and ever since have been trying to explains that this is no sign that the hole, and contains a wooden bench nexed by order-in-council in 1803. d up one of their skulls, or even
Japanese are losing their fertility, and a radiator, but no other furni- About 1,200 miles north-east of Fiji,
however, rarely the eight main islands in the Phoenix TALK ON SAFETY FIRST shin bone, to get some idea of how father it is evidence that, Japan is ture. A prisoner,
urea of 16 square becoming thoroughly westernized and spends a night in the cells, except in group have an
are surrounded by they looked.
Radio Programme Broadcast by control and economie the case of a person charged with miles. They They never had any luck, prin- that birth
Wavelength of 355 31.40 metres, elpally because this country is so big. Insecurity which is reflected in late being druck. Other persons await- dozens of small strips of land and Z.B.W., on it
This summer Dr. Roberts wasmarriage are becogning factors. Thus ing trials are usually taken to Brix- coral reefs.
where every sultabic Prior to the recent international metres, (45 kc's),
(0.52 megacycles). Colorado, Japan mirrors the situation in western ton Prison,
12.30
Music digging in Northeastern
Dance
by disputes on a number of islands, the!
p.m. comfort is provided. shoveling nibout 10 feet deep in countries.--United Press.
Maurice Winnick and His Orchestra. place where traces of the Folsom
I p.m. Time and Weather. man previously had been discovered,
1.03 p.m. Vocal Variety Items. und sitting carefully the dirt as he
1.30 p.m. Reuter Press, Weather, went down, when he came across a
Time and Announcements. lot of bones.
the Unfortunately they were not bones of Folzam men. They were bones of the ancient beasts the folsom men had eaten at what Dr. Roberts called one of their lut- tonous feasts. CAS 15.
There were two large piles of these bones, some split, and some charred. Careful examination show- ed them to be the remains of an extinct
CHARGES ON THE SCREEN
"LIGHT BRIGADE” PRUSSIAN VETERAN TELLS SECRET,
HE WON IRON CROSS FOR PLAYING POKER IN DUGOUT WITH TOMMIES
Cincinnati, Nov. 10.
Folsomriety of Bison, which the Brigade" has finally
modern
cold these 19,000 years.
barbecue.
find became
.
140 pan. A Jazz Piano Medley by Ruie du Costa.
2 pm. The London Piano-Accor- deon Band.
2.15 p.m. Close Down.
5-7 p.m. A Relay of Dance Musie from the Roof-Garden of the long- Kong Hotel.
and
GREAT SPECTACLE FOR NEW YORK
Lothar W. Schurgast, Cincinnati engineer and a spy hunter in the German army during the World War, believes he is the
7 p.m. A Light Orchestral Con- New York, Nov. 15.
cert only man ever to receive the Iron Cross for playing poker with The historic "Charge of the Light
a detail of British Tommies,
Praeludium (Jarnefelt); Berceuse reached the
of the men barbecued instead of
rercen in a film of that name just
Schurgast, a native German who "Not if you don't, was the Eng-(Jarnetelt); Song "Songs
Hebrides"-In Hebrid Seas; Kish- pork, because there were no hogs.
completed by Warner Brothers, the
mul's Galley
(Kennedy-Fraser). One of the bone piles were about preview of which took place to-day. rved with his country's army, and lish answer.
"It turned out that a squad of 30 feet square, indicating ancient Although the circumstances in which then established a residence in the
States
a British Tommies were stationed on Muriel Brunisk (Contralto); Orchie-
(Nelson picnlckers were no more careful about the charge was made appear to have aturalized citizen, laughs merrily the other side of a barricade on the strught) Soliloquy ( disposing of their trash than their been goinewhat distorted by the
same mission ny ours. It also turned Knight): (Murray); Song- descendants. Nearby Dr.author to fit his plot,
when praised for his bravery. the Retual
have reason to believe that out that they had two decks of cards The Mounties (iarbuch, Friml)..... Roberts found traces of a bonfire: spectacle is magnificently presented. some of the decisions we have to und no cigarettes. We made a deal. Nelson Eddy (Maritone); Orchestra
Horses gallop, cannon thunder.
take since our men had plenty of smokes. 50 Years of Song.
7.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock Scattered among the bones, helances flush and riders in full night make in ordinary daily life
PLAYED ALL NIGHT
Quotations and Hongkong Exchange located an assortment of tools, with topple stricken from their crashing much more courage than any net
Market Report. which the ancients prepared their steeds. So graphic is the action that of valour performed in battle," the
his own "All that night two card games
7.36 p.m. Piano Syncopations by one wonders whether painful injury engineer says. He cited
were going on, with a man from each There was a plentiful assortment) can have been avoided among the case as an example service in the force on each side of the barricade | Billy Mayerl
Minintures; 1. Six of stone knives, spouts, crapers, and actors and horses.
2. Nimble Schurgast started owls. Some of the spearheads were
German army as a private and later to see that everything stayed on the
Fingered Gentleman; 3. Mistictoc; 4. The greater part of the film takes
secret agent of the level. charred, as if they had been im- place along the North-West Frontler was made a
Не service. espionage
"When I got back to our forces at Have you forgotten? pedded in the sides of Blson during
7.45 p.m. From the Studio. of India against a background counter the cooking process.
it was a tremendously dangerous post! Dr. Roberts looked carefully for strikingly reminiscent of scones in worked directly under the German dawn I reported to my superior that
"The Lives of o Bengal Lancer," General Staff.
and that I did not believe any one the remains of a Folsom man, but Brish military life in mid-Victorian OUT IN NO MAN'S LAND
unfamiliar with the situation should le found nary a one. This was o
days is depicted with a lavish CX- disappointment, but he sold all signs.
The Cincinnati engineer recalled be assigned to it."
Schurgast said. the squad occupied point to such a discovery and he travagance of costume and scene and
the whole effect is
how he was assigned to putrol duty magnificent.
after a terrific battle. He was in the "hazardous" position for eight Skilfully interwoven
nights, constantly 8.05-11 p.m. European program- exelting Incidents such as a leopard charge of a squad on the lookout for consecutive hunt in which mon ls dragged any unexpected troop movements of guard--for hidden neen,
Soon after the detail moved from me from 7.E.K. on a frequency of
610 kilocycles. screaming along the ground by an the enemy. Their base of operations
the
8.05 p.m. Variety. was a ruined village half way across their poker-playing base, Schurgast elephant, a tribal attack on a British
Hald. an article appeared In
love no man's land..
SungsIt's
coin; Tony's fort with a subsequent massacre of
"It topic us Beveral hours of crawl- German army paper describing, at
Town. ....Jessic Mattliews the entire garrison as they lay down Johannesburg, Nov. 5.
their arms in surrender, and the ing on our stomachs to get near the length, the bravery of the rquad of in
...Reginald Foart; Songs- For the first time on record no driving. of a herd of wild horses village," Schuurgest said, "Sudden- eight men who had held the nost (Soprano); Organ-Reminiscences of
Lights. Who goes there?” Cataract of the Victoria Falls, People remounts for the British Army in the
"I thought a moment, and then, due time I was saluted by a Leslie Hutchinson; Song-The Little .Jessle Matthews A German moustached general, who pinned the Silkworm. are bathing in pools on the lip of the Clinea. precipice where the cataract usually Errol Flynn is romantically dashing in English, answered:
as the hero of the pleture, with patrol Then after a few seconds Iron Cross on my breast." the Ger- (Soprano); Song-As I alt here.
de Haviland
of quiet I continued: "Are you going man war veteran concluded.-United Leslie Hutchinson; Organ-The King
(Continued on Page 5.) តុង a.com-
Presi. The main cataract is also unusually Olivia
to shoot?! petently feminine foil. low.
intends to keep On trying- United Press.
VICTORIA FALLS
DROUGHT
are many
on
A Talk: on "Safety First" by P. A. Hodgson.
8
pm. Time, Weather and An- nouncements,
8.05 p.m. Chinese Studio Concert. 11 p.m. Close Down.
water is flowing over the Eastern, through Arabia to Port Baloum as y a volee in English rang out: "Hall! dangerous post on the front for eight Frim! These Foolish Things..
flows.
days.
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