THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
"Hidden Hand" Arabs Plot
Murder Of British
THREE RULERS
ASKED TO JOIN
Jerusalem, Feb. 15.
MOSLEMS of Palestine, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq
are planning to create a federation of Arabian States, cach pledged to help the others against European domina- tion.
To achieve self-government in Palestine, which is the only one of the four countries still under foreign rule, a small group of extremists have just formed "The Hidden Hand" Society.
Its object is to kill all "Arab traitors, British deceivers, Jowish criminals."
Headquarters are at Jerusalem, branches have been started secretly at Jaffa and Haifa. All members are skilled marksmen or practised bomb- throwers. Last Friday an unsuccess- ful attempt was made on the H of the Mayor of Haifa,
WAR OF TERROR
By waging a secret war of terror these Moslem extremists hope 10 gain the goal of a united Holy Land for Arabs, which would eventually become part of a Near East feiteration of States,
con-
Powerful King Ibn Saud of the Hedjaz would be invited to join, although the rulers of Iray and Transfordon
his hereditary are enemies.
Origin of the
Pygmies
EXPLORER'S VISIT TO THE
CONGO FORESTS
"Our legs are so short because we rove about among the forest EQ much."
This naive reply was given to M. he asked a Bambuti pygmy of the Paul Schiebeste," an explorer, when}
Congo forests why his people were
small--the inference being that in down in the course of time! the process their legs had got worn
M. Schebesta relates the incident
In
Egypt will have nothing to do with (ut Pygmy Hosta": this league of Arab nations. The Egyptians say they are not Arabs, and they use a different dialect.
INFLUENZA
INOCULATION
FROM
EGGS
RESEARCH WORK ADVANCE
Council
18s.), and regards it s valuable clue to the mystery of their origin. Owing to the fact that racially and culturally
they have
| nothinst in common with the negroes, this has tony; been an Interesting question.
are
"Could
the pygmies, as we see them to-day, have at any period in former times lived in the open plain, or were they originally forest- dwellers?" the author asks. "The answer is pretty obvious. They were forest-dwellers from the very outset. Exhaustive investigations among both grown-ups and children prove beyond yen or nay that the Bambuti different people from the negroes, and cannot possibly be a degenerate offshoot of the black- An important bacteriological dis- ruce,' covery is announced in a report issued
"PYGMY CULTURE” by the Medical Research
There is, indeed, n. "pygmy cul- (Special Report Serics No, 220 turg" which, he asserts, is so much Sationery Office, 19.) concerning the in keeping with the virgin forest, so use of eggs as a culture medium for | thoroughly adapted to it, that its viruses,
existence outside its verge would be Hitherto, the study of these ultra-impossible. This "culture" furnishes microscopical agents hins been handl-more positive proof that the pygmies enpped by the fact that, unlike are the primitive aborigines of the visible bacteria, viruses will not grow | forest.
artificial culture
M. Schebesta medin. The
declares that the developing egg, however, has been question from what stock the found to serve
this purpose,
sprung, can be and pygmies originally viruses can be inoculated into eggs, answered only by surmise and sug- and recovered later in a pure form. gestion. But it can be stated with This affords a method of purifying confidence that the pygmies are not and identifying viruses of great im survivals of early man as he was; portance, and the strength of a although they are probably the most particular virus cari be readily ancient of the existing races of man- "We perhaps come nearest to the A further development reported truth," he remarks, "In the assump- is that when the virus of niuenza len that a branch of the dawn men, grown in an egr it loses its power who had evolved no systematic form of producing the disease while re- of culture, was driven back into the taining its property of increasing virgin forest, where, favoured by the resistance when it is injected into tropical climate, it developed a form likely sufferers.
of culture which became so adapted This is analogous to the fact that to environment that it was able to the virus of smallpox chonges
itschy
enjoy a life of peace and content- character, and becomes relatively ment. harmless when grown in the tissucs of the cow or caif, und this is the basis for the well-known use of "calf Jymph" for vaccination against small-
on
estimated from cultures grown in kind. . fertile eggs,
poxi
рож
It
On the other hand, there is no- thing to prevent us from assuming that primitive men lived from the very beginning of time in the tropi- cal forest, which affords less harsh
t has been found, Incidentally, that conditions of life for nomadic aborl- egg culture also affords ready
G method of producing a similar vaccine ines than regions not so favourably
this
attunted..
.....
NOVEL STREET SIGN AT HOME
to
"Please Put Out Headlights."-This somewhat unusual admonition motorists travelling at night appears at the entrance to a specially illa- minated strelch of the Liverpool section of the East Lanes road.
ABBEY'S GREAT CARPET FOR
CORONATION
BLU
LUE and gold set off by heraldic designs and priceless tapestries will be the motif of the interior decora- tions of Westminster Abbey for the Coronation of King George the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth on May 12.
A grand processional way 17 ft. wide will lead from the West door of the Abbey through the centre of the nave and past the choir stalls to the raised Coronation Theatre.
This path will be paved with 173 feet of plain blue chenille Axminster carpet, which has been manufactured without seam în a single piece,
FEBRUARY 25, 1937.
E RADIO BROADCAST
A Talk on the Fifth Cricket Test Match CHILDREN'S CONCERT
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a Wavelength of 355 metres (845 k.c's), 31.49 metres (9.52 m.c's).
H.K.T.
.12,30-2.15 ра European Pro- gramme.
12.80 Songs by Grace Moore (Soprano) and the Orchestre Ray- monde.
1 p.m. Local: Time Signal and Weather Report.
1.03 Dance Music.
1.80 Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Timo and Announcements.
1.40 The Light Opera Company. 2 D.m. Plano Memories by Len Green.
2.15 Close Down.
5-8 p.m. European Programme. G.p.m A Relay of Dance Music from the Roof-Garden of the Hong- Kong Hotel.
6 p.m. From the Studio,
A Children's Concert, 6.30 A Light Concert.
Jordins
bert Solo-Cradle Song (Schu- Elsie Suddaby; Baritone Solo-
-Bright is the ring of words (Vaughan Williams)...
....Stuart No- bertson; Pianoforte Solos-Hark! Hark! The lark (Schubert); Jor BOUS la plufe (Debussy)....Mark Hambourg Contralto Solo-Sinks, red (Coleridge and del Riego).... Muriel Brunskill; Violin Algerian Scene (Ketelbey), The Melody (Ketelbey).... Albert Sandler; Tenor Solu-A fairy story by the fire (Merikanto).... Orchestra Simple
Phantom
Salos-
John McCo... Marek Weber and |
Aveu
His Orchestra,
7.p.m. London, Big Ben, faunt- ing Harmonies in Syncopation by George Posford and Bill Williamson.
7.20 Grucle Fields (Come-
dienne).
Gracie's Request Record; Did your mother come from Ireland?
7.30 Closing Local Stock Quota- lons and Hongkong Exchange Mar- ket Repori,
7.35 De Groot und His Orches- tru.
Waldteufel Memories (arr. Finck); "The Waltz Dream"Selection (O Straus).
7.45 From the Studio.
A talk on,
just this week
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8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wea-
ther Report and Announcements.
8.03 From the Studio.
A Chinese Concert.
11 p.m. Close Down. 8.05-11 12.2. European gramme from Z.E.K. on quency of 640 kilocycles.
Pro-
17. fre-
8.05 p.m. Concertstuck in F Minor (Weber), played by Robert: Casadesus (Pianoforte) and the Orchestre Symphonique do Paris.
8.22
p.m. Songs by Miliza Korjus (Soprano) and Richard
Crooks, (Tenor).
Hap-
Miliza Korjus-Nocturne, Op. 37, No. 1 (Chopin)-Ah, let me weep; piness (Lockton-Wood); Miliza Kor Richard Crooks-Garden of
Delibes); Jus-Oriental Prayer ("Laltme"), Richard Crooks The green hills of Ireland (Shields-Del Rlego).
8.38 Stenka Razine Suite (Gla- zounow), played by the Orchestra of the Brussels Royal Conserva-
fauw.
By the carpet will stand frontals covered with blue and gold-toire. Conducted by Desire De- threaded and gold-fringed brocatele bearing a design of Imperial Crowns, Tudor roses, oak leaves and fleurs-de-lis.
To right and left of the proces- Į and a complete system of sound en stools covered with blue velour sional way the congregation will sit amplification is being installed. decorated with gold braid; PADDED
HAND RAILS
As an innovation-and a spécial concession to comfort-padded hand rails are to be erected to form backs
from the smallpox virus, and
"But as no outalde influence was method could be used in an emer- ever brought to hear On them, to the stools. Reney It a large quantity of such
01
pygmy culture made no progress vaccine was required,
throughout the ages, and pygmies Peers and Pecresses will be more influenza developed into a delnite type of comfortable in the South and North vaccine can be grown in the egg is humanity--the type which we see Transepts on blue and gold chairs obviously of great importance, Al- to-day."
each embroidered with the royal, ready the method has been used with
cyphers.
The possibility that an
success for producing a vaccine for a
sort of influenzn in fowls with com- 10,000 JEWELS
plete protection. Caution Is still necessary, since It is
is not yet certain that a harmless strain of influenza virus will always remain harmless.
The fertile egg offers a cheap method of
of producing virus vaccine; it requires a minimum of attention. and avoids most of the difficulties and possible fallacies attendant upon animal inoculation, the only method of growing viruses hitherto available.
BONES OF BAYARD BELIEVED FOUND
DISCOVERY IN VAULT
Grenoble, Feb. 10, DONES claimed to be those of
.
Curiains of silk resembling cloth of gold will divide the sanctuary and Edward the Confessor's Chapel, which with the Corona- tion Theatre will be carpeted In the palest gold.
GO INTO IDOL'S
ALL-GOLD CROWN
Madras, Feb. 10. Thousands of precious stones will be used in the new crown which
For the first part of the ceremony authorities of the famous temple at the King and Queen will be seated Tirupati, Madras Presidency, India, on chairs of a modified seventh- have announced their intention of century design at the south of the making for their idol.
Sanctuary.
gems.
A temporary annexe is to be bullt at the west end of the Abbey, in which the Coronation procession will be marshalled;
The Great Hall, the royal entrance hall, the Peers' and Peeresses' entrance hall and the royal retiring rooms will all be hung with tapes
tries.
British Film's U.S. Triumph
WINGS OF THE MORNING' IN TECHNICOLOUR By A Film Correspondent
Wings of the Morning' is really a achievement," Mr. Francis
great
8.55 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements.
9.15 Old and New.
(A Potpourri of Popular Melodies), (are. Harmon Finck).
9.32 Marek Weber and His Orchestra.
I kiss your lips (Rudolphe); Solut d'Amour (Elgar); Old Vienna (Gems from Lanner's Waltzes), (Lanner, arr. Kremser); The Rosary (Nevin, (Nevin); Dreams of the occan arr. Altendorf); Mighty lak' a rose
Waltz. (Gung'); The music comes (0. Straus);" Hċe first dance (Hey--| kens).
10 p.m. London-Big Ben. Plano Ducts by Ivor Morton and Dave Kaye.
Dolls Medley; Fox-Trot Medley; Fox-Trot Medley: Quickstep Medley. 10.20 p.m. Three Songs by Frances Day (Soprano).
on.
"Dreams come true-Love's Me- lody. So must our love remain.
The
Great Ziegfeld" pretty girl is like a melody.
10.30 Dance Music.
Trot-Ev'ntide: Fox-Trot Swing that Fox-Trol-Lyin' to myself; Fox- music;
Fox-Trot Thankful; Slow Fox-Trot-Raindrops; Slow Fox-Trot Your heart and mine; Fox-Trot-- Dixieland Shuffle; Fox-Trot-Musk- rat Ramble; Slow Fox-Trot-Did I remember? Wallz-The dance goes
11 b.m. Close Down.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES The following wave-lengths and frequoneleg
Blign Frequency Wavelength
6,600, ke. 45.59 metres 9,810. k.. 31.55 metres 11.79 metres 11,700 K..
26.32 metre 11,865.c. 25,20 metres 18.140 ke. 19.82 meźTOS 17,790 k.c 10.80 bortree 21,470 k.e. 13.07 metres 10,200 16. 19,50 metres £1,540 1.4. 19.56 metres
0.110 k. 40.10 metr (Continued on Page 4.)
In view of the present difference of opinion between producers in this country as to the advisability of The crown will be made of solid gold half an inch thick, and will be and Queen will occupy thrones up- the international market, this warm For the act of coronation the King attempting to make "big"" films for 2 feet 4 inches high and 3 feet 7 holstered in crimson and enriched reception of another Brilish" film is Inches in circumference at the base. The gems to be used will include with the Royal Coats of Arms.
by tassels, fringes and embroidered significant. 2,400 dat cut diamonds, 3,000 rubles, 2,400 emeralds, 375 sapphires, 200 The design of the thrones is based, cut diamonds and hundreds of other as at the last Coronation, on the early Horley, managing director of Fox
Stuart chair now at Knole Park, Films, the American Sevenoaks, belonging to Lord Sack-in a statement. It is one of the company, sald
are used by Daventry. finest flims we have over scen mode
GEA Lighting of the Abbey is being in England, and represents easily the reinforced by lights close to the roof, best colour film to date. It should be an outstanding success, all over the world."
The film has not yet shown publicly in Londen, but was shown to the trade recently. In the cast are Henry Fondo, Leslie Banks, Anna- bella, Irene Vanburgh, John Mc- Cormack, and Stove Donoghue. It was produced by Robert Kune," and directed by Harold Schuster.
B the Chevalier Bayard, "the to respond to vows made in times of
Knight without. Fear and with- out Reprouch," who died in 1524, have been found in the vault of the chapel of the monastery Des Minimes de la Plaine, near here.
The discovery wou made by. M. Rousset, of Grenoble, who persuaded the French Government to send two inspectors from the Ministry of Fine Arts and a platoon of sappers to help
the excavations.
The clue to the search was a will, made
In 1016, by a certain Claudo de Bourchenu, who directed that on his death the remains of Bayard should be placed beside those of himself and. of his father. Excavations led to the discovery of three coffins placed side by alde.
The Tirupati god is famous over India for its wealth. It Is believed ville. domestic distress-United Press,
Threepenny-Bit of Twelve Sides
to Be Struck This Year
Londen, Feb.-19. -
NEW threepenny-piece boias to be struck at the Mint shortly
will have twelve sides, with round corners. :
A. dodecahedral (twelve-sided) coin is something new from: the Mint. The last time a now coin was introduced was in 1897, when the short-lived double, florin Was introduced,
Three penny bits were first struck In 1845, though before that they had been issued 'as. Maundy money. In recent years about ||0,000,000 have been minted. The Mint-Intends to make the "nów coln aasily distinguished from silver, ones, but have not yet (an- nouriced, what fla:metal wilt be..
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Shooting took place in Ireland, and the story concerns a gypsy who marries an Irish poer, and her grand- [daughter." There are scenes from the Derby, with Steve Donoghtte riding the horse, "Wings of the Morning." The picture was made at Denham in. the new studios,
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