THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, JANUARY
1937.
LABOUR
SECRET MADRID RECRUITING IN LONDON CONSCRIPTS
HIGHWAY DEATHS INCREASE
6,489 KILLED IN
BRITAIN
SPEED LIMIT VINDICAT. D
London, Dec. 31.
SALARY OF £40 A WEEK
FOR FIGHTER PILOTS
And a Bonus of £500 for Every
Rebel Airplane
By EDWARD GRICE.
A FEW minutes' walk from Baron's
Court Underground station is à flat occupied by a gracious old lady.
A frequent visitor is a man who drives to London from a country house in Kent after hurried visits to Spain.
This dat is an important link in a scheme fostered by the Spanish Gov- Casualties on British roads in 1930ernment to entist British almen for were heavier than in the previous the defence of the Republie. year, according to figures issued by the Ministry of Transport.
In 1930, 0,489 people were killed and 225,089 injured, compared with 6.522 and 218,700 respectively 1035.
in
Hore Mr.
Belihn. Transport Minister, explains, however, that the statistics for 1939 are more complete
The visitor from Kent admitted to me that he is the head of the organi- sation in England and that the Bat near Baron's Court is visited by him for the purpose of collecting corres- pondence and interviewing appiteants who have repiled to advertisements under a box office number.
I talked to him in the sitting-room
than ever before and include minor of the flat when he was busy opening accidents not previously recorded. letters.
He considers that the figures vindicate
Ile is an Englishman, aged about
the imposition of the 30 mile speed-45. He told me that he was an ex limit, because they show that the RAF, oficer who had been wounded accidents are less severe.
in the Great War,
The Increase in injuries is a te over three per cent., wherena the in- crease, in motor vehicles since 1935 la six per cent. The addition to the number of motor vehicles ronda has been at the rate vehicles per day for the years-Reuter Special.
of
"
From one letter he read a sentence: understand that one does not talk about this appointment."
On the le commented: "This man shows 450 sound common sense ut the begin-
1 want." twoning. That is the type
inst
Shipowners' Offer
MEET MASTERS' AND MATES' DEMANDS
When questioned him about the activities of the organisation he said: "I cannot give you my name or address and it is no use going to the Officially, Spanish Embussy for It
they know nothing about me or the organisation.
THE MONEY A SECRET "do not intend to revent where the money comes from, but I admit
I have made several Journeys to Spain, and am going to Madrid next week.
post
"It is quite true that I have taken with me fo several British pilots San Francisco, Jan. 1. indrid and that I have made more few Following meeting of Masters', appointments during the Males' and Marine Engineers' Unions days. with ship-owners, Mr. T. G. Plant.There is nothing illegal in what is President of the Shipowners' Assocla- being done, but you will appreciate
new the need for scerecy." tion, surprisingly announced a
He agreed that he was responsible offer towards immediate peace," yielding to the unions' demands for a far an advertisement in a technical
overtime, union paper: Increase, wage
*Pilot vanted. Good at stunt fly recognition, and non-discrimination.
Thereby they met virtually all of Ing.-Benly, giving types of machines the masters and mates demands, and hours flown."
it to be understood." he with the exception of the preferential
want hiring scheme.
said, "that I have made it plain to appleanta exarlly what they are ex- pected to do.
-
"I
Owners offered to negotiate, firstly, for the amount of the wage increases,
"I have not attempted to disguise and secondly on the minor points of the danger, and the men go to Spain The maximum, foul limit to which knowing that they will be involved they are prepared, to go-United in at Bighting."
Press.
IMPROVEMENT
IN TRADE
BRITISH ECONOMIC
FIGURES
Three groups
published reflect,
London, Dec. 31.
of
angles, the general
statistics just
from different economic im-
Brought Down
The letter sent to men who appent suitable is as follows:
Dear Sir,
Your tipplication for pilal ap- peara to be satisfactory with regard to experience and age.
I am trying to find a few pilots who are prepared to go abroad for nir fighting. The salary is good about £40 a week with all found.
I certainly in not recommend this adventure if you are satisfied with your present employment.
It is only for those who, like myself, want adventure with good pay for possibly only a few months.
if the den appeals to you,
I should like to Inspect your log- book, and will as soon as possible arrange a lying test in London."
BRAVE MEN NEEDED
He showed me a copy of this letter, and continued:
"I think you will agree that it is worded fairly. We are not getting men by false pretences.
"The pay of £40 a week sounds
it is a high, but
risky job. "Our Englishman was Injured in an air combat near Madrid, but he
recruits. was not one of my
"There have been no casunities yet among the men have sent out.
"At the same time, General Franco has a formidable air force, and it needs brave men to oppose this fighters.
in operation Rystem is now which should prove useful to a pilot, "In view of the net that every- thing, even: an unlimited supply of cigarettes, is found for him, he is Pald £20 a week for his services and the remaining £20 is placed to his credit.
He can draw this when he completes his servier service.
IN NORTH
AT THE
The programme of conscripting fariners, villagers and other citizens to labour without charge on pubile improvements -In Chinese territory was commenced at Klaochow recently when oficials of the Shanghai City Government inrned the first spade- fuls of earth towards a project of drainage and dyke building in Our picture shows Mr. Pan Kung-chan, Commissioner of the Bureau of Social Affairs, handling a shovel
the area.
AMERICAN
STRIKES SPREAD
MOTOR INDUSTRY BADLY TIED UP GLOOMY VIEW EXPRESSED
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Recital of Ballads By J.
McNaught Thomson
CRICKET SCORES
seier- 12.30 p.m. Military Band Selec- tions.
1 p.m. Time and Weather. 1.03 p.m. Richard Crooks (tenor), Mavis Bennell (Suprano) and Low-. rence Tibbett (Baritone).
1.30 p.m. Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast,
Time and Announcements.
7
A Programme of Irish
New York, Dec. 31, Nearly a quarter of the 300,000
1.10 p.au. Variety and Dance Music. 2.15 p.m. Close Down. workers employed in the mator in-
the result dustry are idle as
of
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme; strikes in key sections of the indus- Automobile try, organised by the
P.m. "If he brings down an enemy Workers' Union, which is fighting for Music,
Accordion Solo-Ecl in the sink- airplane he is paid £500, and the recognition of collective bargaining
the
land remaining £500 is placed into aby the General Motors Corporation. Irish Heel....Frank Murphy; Tenor
Six factories of the Fisher Body Solos She is far from common fund for the benefit
makes which pilots who may be seriously to Company,
General Hughes), The dear little Shamrock Jured.
Motors bodies, are closed, while fou (Jackson)....Danny Malone; Violin Chevrolet plants and aber ni Solo-Medley of Jigs Sean other organisations are at a stand-, Tenor
Dr
"These pilots will be ussisted from this fund, and the money in hand atm-Reuter. the end of the war will be divided amonit those who have contributed. "There is no stipulation as to length of service.
"The pilot is free to return England if he in eo Inclined."
70.m.
New York, Dee. 31.
A distinctly gloomy view is take in America of the strike situation in
Solos-The Ken Nolan: Dance (molloy), Green 1ste of Erin (Bing- ham-Roeckel). John McCormack: Violin Solo-Medley of Reels...... Sean Malan: Concertina-The green William J. Mullaly, of Erin.
Marck Weber and His Orchestra.
A.
Night in
1o the automobile industry, which is ex- Braves..
The Empress of Canada (from Manila) is due here at
on Wednesday and will berth at Kow- Toon Wharf, which she will leave it 10 am, on the same day for Taikoo Dock for annual overhaul.
Girls' and Boys' Corner
ACROSS
1. Kittle sheep.
d. J'arl of the
foot.
7. An exclama-
tion.
8. A big planl
the
D. Leave them
provement in Great Britain, continuation of which from 1934 and 1935 has been a feature of the year just closing.
11. Firat Intior of the alphabet
WICO.
12. A tap.
Gross traffle receipts of the four
int British railways muln nmounted to £156,334,000, an crease of £5,050,000 over the pre- ceding year.
1936
13. Catalogun,
15. Not down.
in
10. Otherwine.
17. Tive-thirds of
fall of
This your there has been a 404 in the number of bankruptcy fallures, compared with lust year.
The last quarterly statement of in receipt of poor relief in and Wales discloses
pers
ก
smaller total in each week of the quarter than In the corresponding week of 1935, the decrease in the last week of the quarter being 57,409. -Urilish Wireless.
TREASURY'S DEFICIT
ORDINARY REVENUE
INCREASED
London, Dec. 31.
Treasury returns for the first aino
18. Opposite to
yea."
DOWN
1. What lambs
often do
2.... her sheep
had gone.
3. Most of
"band."
4. What Littlo
Bo-Peep lost.
5. What sheep
rat.
d. Do-Peep toet
8.
...ohoop,
And
bring
their behind them."
10. Upon.
13, Pr
"Joast,"
14. Twice five.
months of the financial year disclose Dear Kiddies,
a deficit of £138,000,000, compared
of
NAMA
ADDRESS..
C
I have done this by myself.
1
Lots of you sent in correct results Competition, al- for last week's with £114,000,000 a year ago.
Ordinary revenue for the nine though a few put the wrong hands on some of the aniinals. I had to months totalled £443,000,000, an in-
rease of £7,000,000 compared with rub my eyes when I saw some of the the corresponding period in 1938, but strange-looking creatures; thought expenditure, at £582,000,000, showed must have been dreaming! After. an increase of £32,000,000.-Reuter taking nge and neatness of work in
to account, I find that the best Senior Special
effort was sent in by Nuno Xavier (aged 10), United Terrnce, Homun- iin.
The best Junior entry was that of Jean Grady (aged 9),of China Light and Power Co., Kowloon,
SHENSI CHIEFS
IN NANKING
Nonking, Jan. 1.
Will the winners call at the "Telegraph" Omce for their prizes? Specially commended for good work are Hazel Chang, Hilda Soares,
AGE.........
Competitors are reminded that In all these contests the work must be done by the competitors themselves, without assistance of any kind.
Now, chlidren, this week's contest is about Little Bo-Peep. All of you And know who she was, I am sure. what a crossword puzzle is, so you even the youngest junlor will know can all enter for this Competition.
pected to become worse before get-] ting better.
Workers'
Venice Polpourri This expectation is largely due to irauss, arr. Weninger); Cocur Brise the determination of the
Gillet); Menuett No. 1 (Paderews- Union to press its demands.
Dance (Smith); Meanwhile, there is no canerete de-ki): The Squirrel velopment towards the settlement of Live, Lough and Love (Heymann); In other felds.Reuter "Victoria and Her Hussar"-Selec strikes
tion (Abraham). Sipretal,
8 p.m. Time, Weather, and An- nouncements.
Jay
WON'T INTERVENE
8.0 p.m. A Variely Programme. Washington, Jon. i.
Song-Ring down the curtain.... The United States is threatened Gracie Fields; Plano Solo-Taggin' with very serious labour troubles along with you....Gerry Moore; with over 70,000 striking in Humorous--Little Audrey motar industry, in addition to the Wilbur and his Band; Song-Would shipping: stoppage, in which Pres-you
you...Sam Browne (Baritone); dent Roosevelt-has-refused-to-in Hawaiian-Guitar-Duct-Cielito
Ferera and Paaluhi; Song-When i Trade unionists feel Labour is not grow too old to dream. Irene Dunne getting a
share of returning (Soprano);
Harp-Woltz Medicy, prosperity and the general situation Cocktail...Harry Chapman and his arouses misgivings in Washington.musle lovers; Vocal-I'm an old cow- "Show Reuter.
Bing Crosby: Vocal-s
Burke (So-
tervene.
1
RUBBER
PRICES DECLINE
SPECTACULAR DROP
IN LONDON
Thandaill.
Linds
prano); Ord. Morris'll make you
whistle" Sejection. Louis Levy and his Gaumont British Symphony: Organ Solo-Fifty years of
Terence Casey; Humorous song.
T-H-E
Norman Long: Song- Kiss me goodnight....Anna Neagle, Plano Solos-Crooning Quick-Step; Love me Slow Fox-Trot...."Gerry Moore; Vocal-We'll rest at the end of the trail....The Hill Blics.
9.10 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements.
9.28 p.m. London-The Third Match: Australia v. Cricket Test England. An account of the second day's play by Alan Kippax, from London, Dec. 31,
Melbourne. (Electrical Recording). 101 rubber The spectacular arop
9.15 p.m. From the Studio. A prices in the early hours of to-duy Recital of Ballads by J. McNaught: when the spot quotation dropped to under 10d., subsequently rallying Thomson (Baritone).
Programme. sharply to 10d., is considered by
end 1. A Song of Thanksgiving (Allit- majority opinion to mark the of the recent long period of speculn-sen); 2. The Rocking Chair (Arun- tive profit-taking.
10 p.m. Big Ben.
date): 3. Still wie die Nacht (Bohm); 4. Tommy Lad (Marget- Factors contributing to speculative son); 5. Here's to the Best of Us nervousness were the announcement, (Thayer). hat the New York Commodity Ex- change had decided to increase mar-| tin requirements for rubber futures $600 per contract, and strong rum- ours current here this morning that an emergency meeting of the LRC. for bad been called at Amsterdam to-day.
In connection with the later rumour, Reuter is informed that nuthoritative quarters know nothing meeting being convened-Reuter..
YOUNG MARSHAL IMPRISONED
A Relay of Dance Musle from the Grill-Room of the Hongkong Holel.
12 midnight. Close down. SUNDAY'S PROGRAMME Talk by Peter Simple: Nothing In Particular
FRANCESCA DENIES 0.10 .. A Relay of the Military Parade Service
John's from St. -Cathedral.
10 am. Close down. 11 am. A Relay of the Morning Service from St. John's Cathedral.
12.15-2.30 p.m. European Pro- gramme.
The clues are shown beside the
12.15 p.. The Philadelphin pleture. What you have to do is to All in the words across and down.
Nanking, Jan. 1.
conducted Ink or pencil may be used, but the
Chang Hsueh-liang, the man who Symphony Orchestra, sketch need not be coloured. There will again be two prizes. Now, led the Sianfu revolt, and held by Leopold Stokowski.
Water Music Suite (Handel). kiddies, sec, how many words you Marshal Chiang Kai-shek a captive
a Nanking army Damnation of Faust, Op. 24, (Ber- can get right, and remember that for, days while neatness of work will help you to stormed north to the rescue, to-day lioz); "Samson and Delilah," (Saint-
(Continued on Page 5.) Jacqueline Anderson, Gilbert Kwong, win. Your age will be taken into was taken to the army prison here. It is expected he will remain there account.
until Monday when the Government will consider the recommendation for which Marshal Chlang has put forward.-United Press.
General Shao Li-tze, Governor of Pauline Becit, Ho Shuk-chun, Eva Shens, and other members, of the Grady, Jamalec A. Curreem, Aminn
A Happy New Year to you. all, Shenal Provincial Government, have Curreem, Margle Xavier, Sandra arrived here by train from Shensi, Monti, Elaine Ho, Vida Jan, Myrtle children.
which province all Central Decker. Yolanda Remedios, Such Vids Jan and Margie Xavier clemency from Government officials have also been Mo-tak, Yeung Kit-wn, Graciana Ever so many thanks for your New evacuated.
Ribeiro,
H.
Zuleima Rozario, The withdrawal is significant in Alarakia, among the Seniors; and view of reports of continued untest Ada Ho, H. Dick Gerver, George among Muraizal Chang Hsuch-llang'a Dobrjansky, Neville Ho, Orly Van, and General Yang Hu-chen's troops, and Geraldine. Ribeiro among the
Reuter.
Juntora.
Year cards.
Jacqueline Anderson-Thanks for your good wishes. You nearly won the prize this week; there was only one better entry.
Uncle Eddic.
NO PARDON YET..
Nanking, Jan. 2.. Promulgation of a decree pardon- ing Chang Hsuch-long has been de- ferred until next week-Reuter.
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