EUROPE'S
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER · 21,- 1936.
AIR STRENGTH: THE
FACTS
Five Leading Powers Have Put 8,000 Planes in Commission
Vera Lovo's Festive Follies
Wearing file famous grin.
Warner.
Baxter, flim netor, arrives fo Hollywood
after an elk Bunting trip in Utah that
ended dis-
astrously for hunter and hunted. Just after Baxter' downed a 300-pound
bull elk he fell, frac-
turing his arkle in two places and spraining his
leg. He
rode three
hours horse-
back and drove his auto 40 hours
for reaching medieni aid.
Gripps Show Was Huge Success Saturday
RUSSIAN GIRLS MAKE BIG APPEAL By "FIRST NIGHT"
AN exceptionally large crowd, augmented after midnight by members of the cast and audience of the Philharmonic produc- tion of "Maid of the Mountains" vociferously welcomed Vera Lovo
RUSSIA'S GREAT
FORCE
OF
3,100 MACHINES
By McSCOTCH (famous war-time pilot)
From authentic sources on the Continent. I have just completed a census of the relative air strengths of the great Powers.
Some figures which I have obtained do not agree with those which had been published elsewhere.
But I am satisfied-and I have gone to the precaution of double-checking my information from abruad-that my figures are the most accurate survey of the European situation obtainable to-day.
The latest details disclose that in all three are nearly 8,000 - ighting planes already in commission in Europe:
Of these 6,000 are bombers capable of dropping from 250lb, to Two luns of bombs at places 500 to 800 miles distant from their bass.
Here are details of the comparative air strengths of the European Powers:
Ruslans 3,100 planes, Britain has 1417-but only 992 are on home stilous-Italy has 1,350 ma- chlors, France has 1.000, and Ger- many has between 950 and 1.000, in ist of the European forces the establishments are being main- tained in 4 state in which they could be ready for attack or defence within ifteen minutes.
bir-
FAST FIGHTERS Russia, with 3,100 first-line craft, ts by for the most formidable forte in Europe.
1,пор of her Approximately machines are fighters capable of speeds between 230 and 250 miles an bour.
Thr Iemainder arr heavy bombers, which can be used nя transport for dropping troops and Ught artery by parachute at dis- distance tances up to 150 miles from the base.
Manufacture and training in Russin is organised on such a seale!
that within two years the strength may be as great is 12.000 planes.
GERMANY'S SPEED UP Although is generally admitted
and her Ten Festive Follies in the Grill Room of the Hongkong that the German machines Hotel on Saturday night.
The eleven Russian girls, who come; here from a 21⁄21⁄2 year season at the Paramount Ballroom in Shanghai provide, by sheer weight of numbers. a type of entertainment of a entibre seldom witnessed in this part of the world.
They gave three numbers on Satur- day night and each was superb. Thei Onal number- Caucasing Dance, probably the best cabaret item scra in Hongkong this deende.
slow
The other two numbers rhythmatic flower dance and a Mili- tary Tap were almost on a par, and were responsible for incessant ap- plause that did not subside unit the girls had given iwo or three encores.
Socialist Names For
LC
Bre
Coronation Honours
MR. BALDWIN will shorty invite the Socialist Party executive
and the General Council of the TU.C. to submit names of prominent members of Coronation honours.
King George VI is anxious that
his Coronation all party City Inoculates politics shall be eliminated from
the celebrations. Already there 10,000 Children:
Even unde from Vera Love and the much speculation on the ten girls, the cabaret items provided į by the Management of the Hongkong honours to be bestowed and on Hotel on Saturday night was of the the names of those who will highest order. Eula Haff anel Bob Burnett, who have established them receive them.
selves as the firinest favourites in the i
One of the rumours is that Sir
hearts of local socialites since the Walter Citrine, general secretory of days of Sands and Dawn, were te-the Trades, Union Congress, has called no less than five times after agreed to accept a peerage. their Anal number, Even then their
audience were foth to let them ko. Sir Walter has decided views on Burnell being forced to appeal for the matter. le said: "You can deny "a breathing spell."
Because they are under contract to that I will accept a peerage.
commence a season at Raffles Hotel in Singapore early next month, the Hongkong season of these two stars!
is, unhappily, drawing to n close. They will, however, be seen at both
"I would not go to the House of have Lords, even if invited. I already refused the honour twice.
"It is too early to discuss what they
the Gripps and. Peninsula Hoteli oficial attitude of the T.U.C, will be during the Festive and New Year to the invitation of the Prime Minis-
ter to submit names."
seasons.
The new Gripps' orchestra under of Norman Brooks is the baton already one of the most popular In town.
Hongkong Hotel's arrangements for
Mr. Ernest Devin, chairman of the General Council of the Trade Union. Congress, was invited to accept an honour before King George's Jubilee.
|Mothers Queue
Berlin, Dec. 20,
Forty doctors and scores
of nurses are working night and day inoculating 10,000 children In an attempt to stem a wlnh: theria epidemic at Halberstadi.
In the hartz mountains.
Eight children have died, more - than 100 hospital.
Panic-stricken mothers queue up for hours at the clinic where their children are inoculated at the rate of 150 an hour.
All doctors in the elty, have been mobilised to battle with the epidemic. They work in two- hour relays.
Christmas and New Year are as He declined. There is no evidence Philharmonic Society
follows:
Christmas Eve: 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. In both Gripps and Roof Garden.
Boxing Night: 9 pm. to 2 a.m. Roof Garden.
New Year's Eve: 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. Gripps and Roof Garden,
that he has changed his mind.
In the meantime, local branches of the trade unions will discuss the subject. Mony will pass resolutions condenning the acceptance of han- ours from the National Government.
Norman Brooks and. His Band willi be in the Gripps, and Art Carneiro's Boys, with Bob and Bertie Hellman, 61
will provide the music in the Roof 'Flying Curate'
Garden.
Bookings, according to the Manage- ment, are particularly heavy for every night of the season.
Covadonga's
Next Cuban Wife
New York, Dec: 18.
Trapped In Blazing Plane
The
methods
slightly inferior to our own, my information, which I on shortly to have the opportunity of condeming is that
production
to such an improved have now extent that before 1933 the Germans may have a total strength of nearly 4.000 first-line aeroplanes manned by pilots whose training is probably the most rigorous in Europe."
Bell France and Italy have many planes less serviceable than our advanced training machines. France's total strength early In 1937 will be 1,500, according to v recent speech by General Denatn.
Early next year Italy will have If their factories 1,600 machines keep up the present 60-hour
week schedule.
BIG FILM DEAL SURPRISE
New York, Dec. 15.
RADIO BROADCAST
London Talk: "A Policeman's Lot"
DANCE MUSIC
Radio Programme Broadenst by 355 Z.D.W.
wavelength of on a
metres. metres. (845 k.c.'s) 31.49 (9.52 megacycles), *
12.30 p.m. Concert Items.
1 p.m. Time and Weather. 1.30 pm. Ragamuffins.
Reuter Prens, Wenther
1.20 p.m. Frances Langford in three Longa
1.30 p.m. Reuter Press; Weather Announcements and time,
1.40 p.m. Variety and Dance Music. 2.15 p.m. Close Down.
5 p.m. Dance music from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel.
0.30 p.m. Welsh Musle. 6.50 p.m. Marek Weber and his Orchestra.
7.20 p.m. Three Songs by John McCormack (Tenor),
Lot."
1.30 p.m. Stock Quotations. 7.33 p.m. "The Policeman's A talk by a Sergeant of the long- kong Police Force.
7.47 p.m. Primo Scala's Accor- deon Band.
8 p.m. Time, Weather, and An- nouncements.
8.03 p.m. Ko (Chinese).
Shing Theatre
11 p.m. Close Down.
8.05-11 gramme
p.m. European Pro- from Z.E.K, on a fre- quency of 640 kilocycles.
8.05 p.m. Charlie Kunz plano- forte medleys.
8.25 p.m. Jesulen Dragonette (soprano) and Turner Layton (tenor).
Blue Gown;
Soprano Alice Through the Doorway of Dreams; TenurThe Star and the Rose; West Wind; Soprano-Se Tu M'am! (Will you love me7): Plaisir D'amour (Love's Joy): Tenor-Alone át table for two; Riding the range in the sky,
8.50 p.m. "Cavalcade" Sulte by Noel Coward and the New Mayfair
p.. News and Announcements. 0.20
p.m. The Second Cricket Test Match: Australia v England. An ne- count of the third day's play by Alan Kippax, from Sydney.
WHEN Mr. Isidore Ostrer, of Orchestra,
Gaumont-British Pictures, arrived at New York on the Nor- mandie to-day for further talks in connection with the Gaumont-
9.35 p.m. A Selection of Christmas British-20th Century-M.G.M. filmi Carola by the New Sanctuary Quar deal he expressed surpise at Lord Beaverbrook's hasty round trip to the United States.
Mr. Ostrer said he had expected a conference about the proposed deal! to be held in Florida with Lord Beaverbrook, A. C. 'Blumenthol, Sidney
Keni
and Joseph Schenck. [Lord Beaverbrook arrived in New York in the Bremen on Fri- day. He planned to go to Arizona to cure his asthma, but said he found the voyage, so beneficial that he slayed on board, and is now on his way home.]
"IN LAP OF GODS"
Mr.
denied that Mr. John Ostrer Maxwell, of British International Pictures, had a controlling interest, in Gaumont-British; he was merely a
or with no stock-holder,
more rights than the ordinary holder.
Stating that he would confer with after Mr. Schenck in Hollywood talks in New York, Mr. Ostrer said:
"What will be is in the lap of the gods. The whole deal is more vague than has been made out, and will not end in the terms the public ex- pects."
He promised a statement on the negotiations when he returned to England in three weeks.
"Maid of the Mountains" Ended On High Note SATURDAY NIGHT WAS SPLENDID
By "FIRST NIGHT"
WHEN the Philharmonic Society's season of "Maid of the Moun
tains" concluded on Saturday night, and the artistes had taken their bows, the stage was a mass of flowers sent up by one of the most appreciative audiences in years. A crowd that packed the The Rev. Harold Fercival Low, 27- Queen's Theatre to overflowing was obviously there to enjoy itself year-old curato son of Archdeacon and, responding to the psychological effect of a sympathetic audi- Low, of Nairobi, was killed to-day ence, the actors on the stage threw themselves body and soul into within a quarter of an hour of com- their work.
Nairobi, Dec. 20.
MARTA ROCAFORT, the ploting a refresher course neces
lovely Cuban model, and Count. Covadonga, ex-heir to the Spanish throne, revealed the secret of their romance here to-day,
The machine hurst into flames, and Mr. Low was burned to death,
.
tette.
9.40 p.m., Charles Prentice and His Orchestra.
10 p.m. Big Ven. Dance musle. 11 p.m. Close Down.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES To-day's Broadcasting From Six Transmissions
7.m. Big Don.Brahma Bonintax-for-
Violin and 'lenofarted, 7.30. A Shers Religion Service. 7.46
of Central and ..m. The
Ifajraty Royal Aly Fore Greenwich Time Algal at Adk_a.m.
itecital by 10.01.m. A Vielin
H
Iran
Folgnet 11.10 a.m. and Loom Weaving. 11.5 m
A Recital by Scantry Fope. Greenwich Time Binal at 12.46 a.m.
4. p. The Second Cricket Tea Maichi- 4.45 p.m. The B.LC. Empire Orchestra. 6.10 p.m. unic and the Ordinary Listener -7. A talk by Bir
Walford
Davies.
3.40 p.m. The News and Announcementu.
Gremwith Time Bignal at 5.43 pm.
7,32 p.m. The Policeman's 101. A talk by sergeant of the longkong Police Farer,
7.47 m. Haydn Heard and his Dead. 8.13 p.m. The D.9.C. Dance Orchestra. p.n. The News and Announcements, Greenwich Time Signal at 1.16 p.m. 9.28 pm. The Second Cricket Test Match 9.35 p.m. Eave).
10.11 p.m. Dance Mnale,
10.30 p.m. A Ballad Concert.
11 p. Brass Band Monte,
11.30 p.m. The Harp Trias-
11.5 p.m. The Second Cricket Test Hatchi 12 .. A Bonata Recital. 13.10. The Nawn and Announcemerla. - Greenwich Time Banal at 17.41 m. 12.10 m. The Intel Victoria Orchesten 1.37 m. The Alchas, presented by Frank
Bawert.
Greenwich Time Bignal at 2.m 21.m. The News and Announcements, 2.20 m. Kentucky Minstrel 3.20 .m. Orchestral Maxir,
3.30 a.m. A Programmp of Welsh Carola.
'Street Show... 4.30 am. The Second Cricket Tent Helcht Bm the News and Announcementa.
Greenwich Time Signal at:5.15 am. 6.23 m. Taiki World Affairs." 5.35 m. The B.NC. Orchestru, 6.25 .. Dance Musfe.
HILL-CLIMBING RACE TAIMOSHÁN "ATTACKED" BY ATHLETES EN MASSE
In the A. sporting event unique Colony took place yesterday in the
of form
41 mountain-climbing marathon, which entailed the con- Táimoshan, 3,124 feet above sea level. quering, en masse, of
There was no comparison between success of "Maft of the Mountains." sary to qualify for a Kenya pilot's Saturday night's performance
Mr. Yule, who is with the 2nd Br and Heence,
those on previous nights.
the East Lancashire Regiment, is de- Defects which I hnd noted in parting from Hongkong on January All but three of the 103 Chinese in Mr. Low was flying solo in an atte
Philharmonic, whose newly all walks of life who entered the plano which formerly belonged to Saturday's lasun of the Telegraph" 12. Atlantic filer Mrs. Beryl Markham, were entirely absent, and it is safe formed subsidiary has started with race, reached the flag, planted on the A 20-year-old factory. to say that few, if any, of the large such excellent promise, will be hard summit. The Count, who was with a when it crashed in a gains preserve crowd of people who had booked out put to it to find a worthy successor.
seven miles from Nairobi airport.
hand, Lal Siu-tun, was the first to party of friends in a restau
the theatre came away without n Owing to indisposition W. H. reach the Ang, completing the uscent rant, when questioned about
feeling thut the Philharmonic has Currie, who played Zacchi (one of the in 49.2/5 minutes. He was followed given its most superb presentation in bandits), was unable to participate in by Yeung Wah-rang, in 51 mins. 28 his plans to marry Marta as
many years.
the Malinee of "Maid of the Moun- seconds, Man Kwong-lam finished soon as he is divorced from his
Mr. Low WILS born at Crow-
It would be unfair to the other tains" on Saturday afternoon. His third in 53 minutes, present Cuban wife, replied: borough, Bussex. He came to Kenya members of the cast to pick out for part was taken by Dr. D. J. Valentine,
were Two Indies
among the Philharmonic "Do you want
from England three years ago, in individual mention any of the players. President of the to spoil the
tended to use-au airplane to visit delightful, but 20 was every person chce were aware of the change.
on Saturday night. Anne Winter was Society, and few people in the audi- climbers, Misa Ng Yum-kwal, a 25- whole thing?
year-oldteacher, and Mlas Chow "scattered" stillements" in connection
with his work for the Mombasa, fies on the stage.
As anticipated the Rev. Cyril Kit-hing, a drill Instructor, aged 20. sion.
More than usual significance was Brown, producer. of
year's attached to the valedictory panegyrics success, referred to the possiblity of at the conclusion of the show for they Philharmonic producing another play. The ascent was commenced at 10 included two presentations to Mr. In the spring. The Committee of the am, from a point on the main motor- A. B. Yule, who, as Conductor of the Society, however, has not yet made road at Taun Wan, and followed o Orchestra, did, much to assure the a Onal decision on the subject- course marked by red paint, and
"Oh, why not tall it," in- torjected Marta. "They all know I'm going to marry the Count as soon
as he is divorced.".
He received flying training with the Cambridge University Air Squa dron, and qualifled in England for. pilot's licener.
The Ascent
I. said the
Darre
ao
las year
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AUTOMATIC COOKING.
A DEMONSTRATION UNDER LOCK AND KEY.
On Tuesday, December 8th, a full three course meal was prepared and placed in a "Regulo" Controlled Gas Cooker, which was then chained and padlocked. The food was left to cook in the correct "Regulo" way, and on completion it was found to be perfectly, done.
THE COST OF COOKING THIS MEAL WAS '20 CENTS.
This demonstration will be repeated. from time to time during the next few weeks at the Cookery Classes which are now being held daily at Room 5, 1st floor. Cloucester Building.
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flags, though it won left to the com- Brigade were posted at intervals petitors to make short cuts on the along the route, but the only call to way should they so wish. A heavy render assistance, was when a com- mist concealed the summit of Tal-petitor collapsed from exhaustion.
Cups for Brst, second and third moshan at the start though it clear- cd later in the day. The weather places were donated respectively by wal ideal for the climb
Mr. Chan King wu, Chairman of the The event was organized by the Chin Woo Association, the Wing On Chin
WOO
Athletic
Association, Company, and the China Emporiun, which also arranged for transport Limited. Those, with the badges and refreshments for over 200 other for the 100 who finished the climb, Chinese who went as spectators. were presented by Mr. Chan Keng- Members of the St. John Ambulance wa at the conclusion of the event.