THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
The King to Hold
At Spithead
WINTER IN JAPAN
In the Japanese town of Takata, on the North Western coast of Honshu, the average lay of snow in winter-time is over six feet, and 15 feet of snow is no unusual sight. The ploture shows the entrance to the houses being
uncovered.
WANTED: A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR
Who Will Give the First
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Coronation Park?
م
HAT the Coronation should be made the occasion of a special "drive" for the preservation of places of historic interest and national beauty is a sugges- tion made by the National Trust in its quarterly journal.
A list of between 15 and 20 places which would make ideal. "Coronation gifts" to the nation, but which are in districts where an ordinary public appeal for funds would have little chance of success, has been prepared by the Trust.
The Trust is also looking for Public
would. Benefactor who make a gift sufficiently large to finance the preservation of some area of several thousand acres as a first National Park or "Corona- Uon Reserve."
It is pointed out that there are areas of great natural beauty which could be developed by the Trust it a sum of money no bigger than has often been given in a charitable be- quest to other bodies were offered.
MONEY, NEEDED FOR THESE The Trust has recently acquired several areas of land common and cliff, in various parts of the country. These triclude Navax Point and
near Camborne,: Godrevy Point,
of cliff-land- Cornwall; 41 ancres
Foldhu,
Polurrion and
Blackhealth Common, Wood, near Reigate,
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JANUARY 26, 1937.
Great Naval Review After His Coronation INDIAN DURBAR VISIT MAY LAST
TWO MONTHS
►
London, Jan. 15.
in
LONDON paper.' understands that a Naval Review will be held at Spithead May, immediately after the Coronation. At least 150 warships are expected to be present, but this total does not include a contingent which it is hoped will come from the Mediterranean Fleet if the inter- national situation-permits. -
Thus another will be added to the many brilliant ceremonies which will follow the Coronation on May 12, ceremonies which already give
Bu
the
Henry Ford, the auto magnate, signs of attracting an enormous Decorations and celebrations are {number of visitors from abroad. being arranged with greater recently opened a series of electri- cally-equipped homes in Detrol Mr. Ford is seen performing the de Before the year is out it is zest than ever.
passing dication ceremony by Booking for stand seats to old-fashioned oil lamp before expected that the King and Queen will go to India for the see the Coronation procession is magie electric eye to automatically Coronation Durbar at Delhi:heavier than at any time. The
light the building. King Edward VIII. had let it King has not changed the route be known that he would only fixed by his brother, but new spend about five days in Delhi and more elaborate plans for Son to Meet and would then return to the Abbey ceremony are being England.
drawn up.
How many warships will take
Parents He
It is probable now, however, that the King and Queen will stay for some two months and part in the Naval Review must tour the provinces, as King necessarily depend upon the Does Not Know George did after hia Corona international situation, writes tion Durbar.
WORK STARTS IN
THE ABBEY
YEARS OLD
a Naval Correspondent. But PARTED AT 5: NOW 23. it may be regarded as certnin' that Admiral Sir Roger Back- House, Commander-in-Chief of From A Special_Correspondent Bognor Regis, Jun. 16.- the Home Fleet, will be the
Mr. John Snell, a 23-years-old of Hawthorn-road, Bognor Work to prepare Westminster senior officer flying his flag man,
Regis, who has not seen his parents to Abbey for the Coronation cere-afont.
since he was five, left here to-day mony on May 12 began u fow
H.M.S. Nelson, 33,500-ton start on a journey to South Aftleat days ago. In the North aisle flagship of the Home Fleet, will to join them on their orange form. contractors' and draughtsmen's be the Fleet Flagship for the He will not know them when he
them.
em. When he was five sces offices have been built.
Review. She shares with her parents sent him to England for his Staging has to be erected to enable the Abbey to hold 8,000 sister battleship, the Rodney, schooling and intended coming over the distinction of being, the to see him. But times were bad, people. After the services on
afford the Sunday, January 3, the Abbey most powerful fighting ship and during the 18 years they have will be closed to the public till afloat. After the review she not once been able to the latter part of May, when it will probably undergo her first I am longing to get buck to see is likely they will be admitted big refit.
to see the decorations before ILLUMINATIONS these are dismantled.
Plans are already well,in hand to make London. during next May and June the brightest, gayest place in the world.
RAPID RECOVERY
FROM SETBACK Recovery from the temporary setback in the arrangements 'has been remarkably rapid.
Mrs. Laurel & Mrs. Hardy Win Court Battle
Ice-Cap
Ghost
Train
EXPLORER'S ALARMING
EXPERIENCE
Mr. Courtauld's' Lone Vigil
Hollywood. Jan. 1.
ON GRAND SCALE
farc.
his
my parents," Mr. Snell told me to- day. "I have not the slightest Idea what they look like and I have no memory of them. When I was
was five
I came to England with a governess. She died when I was 15 and I spent Following the review there my holidays at school. My mother..
but times were bad on their farm will. be searchlight illuminations and father were to have come over, on a grand scale, and possibly and they could not afford it. My an exercise including target and father had to manage somebody anti-aircraft practice, though else's farm as well as his own In these are details which have order to make a living."
WORKED TO SAVE FARE still to be settled.
When I left school it was my one Every type of ship will be re-ambition to go straight out to them, fare and could not even give me presented-battleships, aircraft but again they could not afford my carriers, heavy and light an allowance. It was accessary for cruisers, destroyers, submarines, me to get started off by selling a job in order keep sloops, torpedo boats and other matches and peanuts in the Strand. light craft,
to
Since then I have had a number of The King is expected to different jobs, including one as a clerk in the city. All the time I embark in the royal yacht have spent as little money as I could Victoria and Albert, while the in order to save up my fare to When I was 21 I obtained a job Board of Admiralty will be ac- Africa. commodated in the convoy sloop 3 a week. Since then I have Enchantress, which serves as lived on, about 25s, a week and saved
rest for my fare. I
do Admiralty yacht.
hearly £200, but It is probable that the num spend all this on my fare, but to
the give the bulk of money to as far ber of ocean liners and other .་ merchant ships which attended parents. I shall try,
робвате a the Silver Jubilee Review in possible, to work my
Africa, For that reason I shall not a liner but shall go on 1985 will be exceeded, in view
travel on Emall cargo boats by a long course."
[THE wives of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, famous film comedians,
wily made headwar in their court battles. Mrs. Hardy was granted £250 in appeal against a separate mainten attorney's fees to fight her husband's orice judgment
Stan Laurel failed in his effort to stop his wife filing an amended com- point necusing him of having:-,
(1) entertained women in his yacht!
spent the night with (2) woman;
(3) showed Mrs. Laurel a ring he intended to give another worinn Last month Oliver Hardy, the fat one, was ordered to pay his wife £200 a month alimony pending the kearing of a suit against him for
a month
onth maintenance. £500
Stan Laurel the mournful one- for Mr. Augustine Courtauld, the ex-is being sued for maintenance by
told. for the first his second wife, and is suing her plorer, recently
month time of his adventures in the five divorce. He has been ordered to Other areas will be preserved-if-months that he spent alone on the continue to pay her £150 a
Greenland ice-cap in 1931. He was maintenance pending the bearing of to the sults, to pay £1,800 fees for her giving
Lecture Christmas further gifts are, forthcoming short- Jy. These include:
children at the Royal Empire Society, lawyers, and outstanding bills total
ling £400. He told them that while there he
Last month "Mrs. Laurel-No.3" was alarmed at a strange phenome stated that she entered into
satisfactorily
"common law marringe with Stan that had never been explained,
One day, while I was at the lee in New York in 1918 and lived with anid. him unt!! November, 1925, for which station, I heard a noise," he
coming reason she is claiming £250 a month "It was like a tube train down a tunnel and getting nearer alimony. United Press. and it ended in a great crash over- Ashridge: head.
of coast
an acre of ground. near Paddock Wood; Pangbourne Mea- dow, Berkshire: 55 acres land at Seahouses, Northumberland; the Dough Fort, Limavady, "County Derry
Malvern Hills; £1,400 still re- quired.
Glastonbury Tor; will be lost unless £050 is ralded by the end of the year.
Wembury Bay:. £3,000 needed.
. Hudnall Common,
£800 required.
To acquire West Runton, Cromer, £65 more is wanted.
Islanders May Ask
still
near
King For New Home
a
"I was very frightened, and could not think of anything that would account for it. The first time I went outside
I found that nothing had That mado It all the more mysterious.
not
fist a case of nerves, because other people have noticed. It Scientists explain it as a settlement of the snow on a very big scale. It was most terrifying."
Mr. Courtauld said that he had to stay at the station alorie. as the ex- The fifty, islanders of Sony, three miles by one and three-quarters offpedition could not get to the station Skye, are considering a pelition to suficient provisions for two owing to the King to be placed on the main-the bad weather. Gradually. the entrance of the house became snowed, under.
land.
They claim titat hopeless transport. and postal facilities and depression In the fishing and, croft Industries have made them destitute.
Recently in severe weather they were isolated for three weeks.
"I had," he said, "to resign myself to keeping Indoors and sit and do nothing"
Mr. Courtauld added that although the relief by seroplane did not arriva until April; he did not really worry, about it, but he was glad to, |s00 11- when it did tuin-up::
Arresting
Reckless Drivers From A Special Correspondent.
New York, Jan; 15. Stringent new Lava were adopted by New York to-dayə hour Including a 25 miles an Imit within the city, in an effort to ameliorate the world's worst traffic tangle. ·
prisoti The code proposed sentences for pedestrians cross- ing against traffic lights, but this has been vetood by Mayor La Guardia, who condemned at
discipline Lempla
10
ollisons.”eng
The police have been given Interpreling wide powers In tão regulation against danger. ous driving, and may KITCHE unskilled or reckless, motorists who have violated no other; law.
of the big influx of visitors.
the
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HENRY VIII's LOVE LETTER TO ANNE BOLEYN "Darlyng, Now I Am Nott A
Lytyll Perplexed"
SHIPBUILDING PROGRESS Highest Figures For 6 Years
London, Jan. 13, The highest total of shipbuilding in Great Britain, and Ireland since September, 1930, was shown in Lloyds returns for the end of 1030 amounting to 933,000 tons-220,600 42.8 tons above the end of 1935
and per cent, of the world's total 2,251,221. tons.
The leading countries abroad were Germany 498465 tons, Japan 203,140 tons Holland 180,850 tons, Sweden 123,796 tons, U.S.A, 110,350 tons und Denmark 75,950 tons.
The Financial Times comments that 145 per cent, of the German building was fog foreign orders, which prob- ably indicates the endeavours of Germany's creditors to liquidate their assels frozen in that country Reuter, "
A LOVE letter that Henry VIII wrote to Anna Boleyn before their secret marriage in 1582 came up for sale in London recently.
Apart from the appalling orthogra phy, spelling and punctuallon, the wording of the missive sounds very unintelligible to-day, and as it stands would make good crossword purtle hartely recomende
Darlyng
me to you assertsynyng now I am nott lyfyll perplexed with siche thynge as your brother, shall on my puri Declare, Unto you to home I pray you syfte fall credence for it were to longe to wryio In my Inst lotters I.wrylie to you that. trusted shortly to so you whycho is better knowne att london than with any flat le: about; me were of I not a lytyll merveil bat take
off Dyscretie handelyng must neden be the cause, thereaft/No more to you at thye tyme but that I trust shortly ours myolngs shall: -moli
olher
menys lyshi Depend, uppon "hant-yllings but uppon your ownel Writion with the hand off hys that Longyth to be yours, HENEY."
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