THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1937.
Every Policeman on the Phone Always right on the Spot-
TINY FORCE WITH
LATEST WIRELESS
HOW RUTLAND'S · 18 SPREAD
1
THEIR NET
Oakham (Rutland), Feb. 21.
RUTLAND Constabulary, which serves the smallest
county in England and is composed of only 18 men, including the Chief Constable, is supplied with the latest device for fighting crime-wireless telegraphy and tele- phony.
Scotland Yard, with the greatest metropolis in the world to cover, is not equipped more efficiently than this force which controls an area of only 97,243 agricultural
acres.
Rutland, which has the lowest
crime record in the Kingdom TEN BEST
does not need radio to catch its own criminals, but far-sighted policy has led to an important link up with the City of Notting- ham, 29 miles away.
ONE OF THE PIONEERS The story of this development was told by Rutland's Chief Constable,
Mr. F. W. Golder.
VILLAINS
NOW
TOW that Joseph Calleia has given theatre audi- ences his last sneer and has turned film hero, he feels Captain Popkess, Chief Constable of that he can put his years of Nottingham, we decided to instal Wireless," he said. "Captain Pop-
"After a series of conferences with
villainous actions" to ser-
hess, one of the pioneers in introduc-vice by giving his list of the Ing this method of crime detection. "ten best villains" in Holly- has always been anxious to extend the system so that big police centres will be in radio contract,
wood,
*****Calleia, who has turned hero "Rutland is practically crime free, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Man
but 12 miles of the Great North Road Of The People," picks the fol-
is in our area and this may frequently lowing for his list:
be a highway of flight for criminals.
"Mr. H. B. Old (decorated in the
1. Boris Karloff, because he scares
portrayals,
recent Honours List for his services most folks to death with hls to the polles), who designed Notting- ham's wireless system, Installed a short wave transmitting and receiv ing set here.
THROUGH A LOUDSPEAKER "Nottingham is our centre and is the result of intensive experiments we now receive messages from the pollee of that city by wireless telephony. The voice of the man at the other end comes through a loudspeaker. We reply in morse, but it is hoped that in
3. Douglas Dumbrile, because he
Scripturo.
For Young Nazis
Berlin, Feb. 21. "How can we train our children to be honest and straightforward, when in their Scripture classes such Jewish gangsters ás the swindler Jacob or the corn- thief Joseph are put forward as examples and they thus become impregnated with the Jewish spirit and with Jewish feelings ?"
This is an extract from the current issue of "National Socialistic Education." organ of Berlin school teachers which, not content with attacking the Old, describes many parts of the New Tes tament as 'almost unsuit- able" to teach children,
The alternative offered is biology, which affords an opportunity to "strengthen the child's pride in its Aryan blood stream. “-Reuter.
M.P. SUGGESTS--
Put The Abdication
Document On Show
London, Feb. 15.
MR. R. W. PORKITT. M.P. (Cons.. 2, Bela Lugosi, because he gets Lancaster. Heywood and Rad- any folks that Karloff might miss, cliffe), will ask the Prime Minister, in the House of Commons next week. where the original of the instrument of abdication, executed by King Edward VIII, has been placed,
is the most poised villain.
4. Porter Hall, because he causes more sleepless nights than the rest of his "tribe."
5. Basil Rathbone, because he is the meanest villain.
9. Jack La Rue, because everyone
Covering The Madrid Front-
Ziffren's Uncensored Story
BY LESTER ZIFFREN
London, Feb. 28,
Foreign newspapermen covering the Spanish civil war are undergoing the greatest continued personal danger in journalistic history.,
Reporters, who have seen both the World War and the Ethiopian War, agree that more privations and threats of personal injury occur in this war than in either of others.
One well known news photographer, who enjoyed wide success taking pictures during the Ethiopian war left Spain saying, "Ethiopia was easy but Spain is hell." Two of the Madrid United Press staff have 'felt the rigours of the war the same as did the Spaniards. They as well as the other foreign newspapermen suffered, and are suffering, the hardships and extreme discomfort, as well as the risks undergone by persons directly concerned in this terrible warfare in bloodstrewn Spain.
When the war broke out, we con- verted our office, located a few steps from the congress building, into veritable barracks, manned by a full Cols stuff twenty four hours a day. were brought in and food supplies Kerosene lafd in for emergencies. lamps and candles were purchased, and water nupplies established. Be fore
became scarce, provisions
restaurant served ments at nearby the office. None enjoyed a day off. During my five months of this racking odyssey, I lost track of days anti dates, because every day was the same tense grind of fourteen or six- teen hours or more. We ate, worked, and dreamt war. Sometimes I had to net as a reassuring "big brother" to some finicky reporters who feared trouble, because al one time or another they had stuck their fingers in politics.
was
political aspect of the civil war was one of the greatest tragedies. There was no posilbility for a Spaniard to Either he joined remain neutral. the leftists or opposed them. The virtually meant signing his tatter own death sentence, with the same true on Franco's side of the line for the rightists:
DANGER IN CITY
Most correspondents agree that the danger is greater in the cities, since there is no danger in the country from falling bricks, cornices torn loose by whistling shells, and high explosive bombs. When the air-raids began, our office became the home of several staffers who had seen their homes blown to bits by rebel bombs,
Since it was impossible to tele- phone abroad except from a central telophone better known as the "tele- fonica"
we decided to
to transfer our Our staff consisted of
activities to that building fcw
Ales foreigners mostly 'Spaniards and
packed
and removed thr wan represented by all political ideologies,
to the Unlied States Embassy which Several were absent from Madrid was one black from the Ministry of When the show began and were too warm, and so we converted an
War.
The situation was found to be able to return. As war pressure be- | 100 be-too came greater, right wingers had to apartment in the so called neutral go into hiding. When it appeared zone Into a new and in the Toledo
Into a new headquarters.
war was When wan
that Franco might enter Madrid last
1 were the only working staffers. This
Ile will ask for it to be preserved in the Palace of Westminster and November, some leftwingers lost and Talavera sectors we left in the made accessible to the public ke confidence and also took refuge. At morning. and returned in the after- other historical parliamentary docu- one time, the Brilon, Jan Yindrich and front because there was no fighting.
never spent
the noon. We
nights at
We used Ministry militia man bear- Ing a rifle, er our own car provided by the newly formed transport com- mittee in charge of the seizure of all private automobiles. There were no taxis,
the near future two-way speech will in the audience feels that he'd like ments. be possible.
lo put them on the "spot."
7. Monroe Owsley, because he "Nine of my 17 men are now expert - operators, having been trained at scares men as well as women." Nottingham.
8. John Millan, because he does "Every officer in the Rutland away with his victims with a laugh. 9. Q. Henry Gordon, because he Force is on the telephone at his home, so that if a radio message is seems to delight in doing dastardly received from Nottingham it can be deeds.
sent all over our county in a few moments,
10. Humphrey Bogart, he's an all-round villain.
because
"Isolated villages with their seven- "And now I suppose the rest - of teenth century thatched cottages are the villains will haunt me in my thus inked with each other, their sleep for not putting them on the county capital, and the big city in our list." says Callela. neighbouring county by a most highly efficient radio and telephone system.
ONE MAN TO 5,000 ACRES "When you consider that we have only-18-men, Including myself. to cover 52 villages you will realise how valuable such rapid communication would be, in emergency. There 19 one officer, including myself, to 066 Rutland people, and each man hus over 5,000 acres under his care.
CHEMISTRY
GUNS FÓR
SLY GERMS
Minneapolis Feb. 28. Medleel science to-day seems near
chemienl
"This equipment is extremely use- ful in dealing with motoring cases. realization of another of its greatest hus left the city a wireless message compound which, injected into the Is flushed to us and my mobile men blood stream, will kill the germs of on the Great North Road, the most blood poisoning. likely avenue of escape in this The two germs against which direction, are immediately the laboratory armies have aimed their lock-out with a detailed description artillery are streptococcus and of the vehicle.
staphylococcus.
Each germ appears "Similarly we can seek the help of in several forms. Each has taken Nottingham, which in turn can enlist thousands of lives despite medicine's police assistance farther afield. Vej desperate efforts. ávork with a special code.'
If a car is stolen in Nottinghan and dreams-discovery of
"JOE IS GONE!”
on
American Precedent Establishes The Size
Of World's Battleships
By Henry Wood.
V HORRORS OF WAR
staffers were arrested on several occasions for
no reason what- ever. Each arrest meant hectic string-pulling to secure the man's release. Police augmented this dis- comfort with the irritating policy of trying to obtain details of harmless letters
by the opened by
the censor whose imaginative mind crested the most
When
When President Roosevelt instructed Naval authori-tents were not For
formidable monsters
ties recently to lay the keels for two new 35,000 ton battle-ample--it was necessary for me to ships with 16-inch guns, he established for at least a decade to come the size and gun power of the capital ships of all of the navies of the world.
the con-
CX
visit__the... police because my in- surance company wrote me a letter extreme example of silliness was n asking for my signature. An visit to inquire who a certain "Luis",
plained that it probably referred to was in a letter addressed to me which had not received. When 1 ex-
the famous socialist painter Luis Quintanilla, the
With his decision came also the death of the English campaign which has been made for almost a decade to have capital ships limited to 25,000 tons and armed with end who quintanilla WAS, 14-inch guns.
having never beard of him.
1
me
police+
Later when I saw the painter in As a consequence, the naval race that started off on January 1, Paris and related the incident, he 1937, with the expiration of the Washington Naval treaties, will almost exploded with rage. He told
the letter asked
to rescue have as its koynote the building of 35,000 ton battleships.
some pictures and engravings from A fow of the nations that According to their naval experts fortunately. I was unable to meet the his apartment in the war zone. Un- would have preferred to accept the development of coast defences Countless research experts, follow the English thesis for a 25,000 the 35,000 ton battleship with 18- permitted delivery of the letter so request because the censor had not having reached such n state that even ing in the footsteps of Dr. Paul ton limitation for capital ships inch guns was no longer adequate for I had no knowledge of the contents. Ehrlich, German scientist who, after
It is most probable that the paint- years
of experimentation, discovered are Germany, France, Italy and such a task, there remained no other Wife Certain Of
a compound of arsenic which killed Japan. As a matter of fact, reason for building them except to ings are lost forever by now.
germ, have been search most of those have such ships sequence if all of the nations would one drended
fight each other, and that as a con-
NECESSARIES UNĀBTAINABLE Husband's Fateling for a chemical to klu blood
Our foreign staff members are now poisoning germs.
already under construction, but agree to build instead 25,000 tons staying at their respective embassies, the necessity of basing their battleships with 14-inch guns they as are other foreign newspapermen. Sydney, Feb. 21.
THREE APPROACHES MADE William Joseph Hudson, a fettler. of Brown's Hill, Chatham, near Taree, discloses that
Modern Medicine, published here, naval programme on capital would have the same chance in Misery loves company. There is no
fighting each other as 35,000 has been ships of that size lay in the fact battleships with 16-inch guns. In They go to work under risk of air
ton coal, matches, eggs, milk or hot!
milk or hotwater. N.S.W., was killed when the Kempsey achieved three different lines. that the United States felt it could the meantime mall crashed into his rail trolley,
One che compound, a coaltar not give up battleships
the taxpayer would raids and shells. Many times they of that profit Immensely. When she heard the train roar by derivative called prontosil and pron tonnage and the final announcement
return home in pitch darkness be- Mrs. Hudson knew that her husband tyin, was used successfully in treat of President Roosevelt to be the special reasons for wanting to build One by one the correspondents are cause there are no street lights and But the United States had two street cars are withdrawn early. would be run down.
ing Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., in As Hudson set off along the line, Boston, while Dr. Edward LeCogg in replacement of such shining the the 35,000 ton battleships with 10- being forced to leave the
atrendy nearing he and his wife believed that both Seattle has discovered anothery that are
old-age
inch guns. limit, confirms the fact that divisions of the mall had passed, and derivative arsente which he used the 35,000 ton battleship will continue that he would be safe on the tracks. to save three of four persons who to be the queen of the seas for at was the fact that the United States The first and only really sound one The trains were running late, and, were expected hemical, a "bile acid' nroach of the age limit of the new as a consequence it is necessary for normal in the early days of the war,
a decade to come when the ap- possesses very few naval bases and least soon after Hudson, left, Mrs. Hudson Still another heard the roar of the second division. product" is being used with amazing vessels now to be constructed may her capital ships to be bib fuel and phone calls to London and Paris
to the
success
•
1/1 the
wreckage
.
and horror of what once was one of capitals. the most delightful of the European
When cable communications were
"Joe is gone!" she said to her success in Germany. In 19 cases of give England, Japan and other coun- carry all of the
enough to they were used extensively, with daughter.
severe sepile polsoning all but three
munitions, She knew that her husband, slight-women were saved, while in 53 cases tries a chance, to revive agitation for other requisites to a possible battle supplementing the cables. Later
smaller unit. ly deaf, would not hear the noise of of infection which threatened serious
thousands of miles away, fight the cocie lines were badly crippled. The English had rather unique enemy, and still have suficient fuel One development all were checked. the train above that of his trolley,
line transmitting from Bilbao She ran out and waved desperately MANY DANGERS FACED: reasons for arguing that capital ships and other supplies for returning to was cut off from Madrid. All cables
should be decreased from 85,000 to her base in home waters.
rodlo had to be transmitted through a driver, who waved in reply, Search
for germ-killing machine 25,000 tons. They insisted that such believing it to be a cheerful gesture guns" in the form of chemienl com- vessels at the time they were
The reason for the 10-inch guns messages since all offelal, diplomatic, concern causing great delays in press customary In the country. Half a pounds which will kill germs in the structed, could only serve
con- was largely more or in other words and
two mlic from his home, Hudson was blood but leave the corpuscles un- possible purposes. The first of these was felt that they were big and given preference
ordinary rate messages were found against a fence, many yards harmed, goes on in the presence of was for the reduction of coast de powerful enough to scare any smaller notwithstanding
over press cables, from where his trolley had
the stipulations of been dangers as horrible as success may fence and the other was for fighting necessity of firing them: Hence the garding their receiving equal treat
enemy into fix without even the the international telegraphic code re- struck.
be glorious.
United States has clung to the ment. larger types of battleships and by so doing has forced the rest
This caused newspapermen to use world to accept that as the regulation
of the phone calls abroad almost exclusive- type and size for capital shilps.
ly. Phone lines were already jam- med by governmental and diplomatic As a consequence the naval race calls, and many times four or five of 1937 starta off with the following hours were lost while I waited to get entries and programmes for the major all my messages transmitted to Lon- powers in the constructions of 35,000 don or Parts. Even the ave hour ton battleships,
BRISK & BRACING
each other.
FORMAZONE
GIVES LIFE A SPARKLE
A WATSON'S PRODUCT.
BRIGHT
BUBBLING
The United States will construct two to replace ships of a similar size that are now near the age limit.
Italy already has two such under construction, the keels for which were laid in 1034...
delay on the phone was - faster than rudia which sometimes had twelve hour. transralssion delays.
The war itself is an Interesting and exetting spectacle but after going to the front, dodging bullets, hiding in shellholes, and lying on your belly. while bombs fail around, all emotion England has announced the-im- is removed by wasting hours waiting mediate laying down of keels for two for the telephone to clear in order new 35,000 ton ahlps but will
bably stick to the 14-inch guns.
pro- to transmit the story you've risked.
your life to go
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