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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, MARCH 8,
1937.
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14 TRIED 5 YEARS
AFTER MURDER
'Berlin, Feb. 28.
FOURTEEN former Com-
munists were charged before a Berlin court'to-day, nearly five years after the murder of a Nazi storm trooper in the Nazi Zur Linde Inn, in Lichtenberg, suburb of Berlin.
Four of the men, Fritz Lei- bich, twenty-eight years old, Erich Kreuger, aged twenty-six, Paul Groch, nged thirty-five, Walter Garbang, aged twenty- five, are charged with murder, the other ten as accomplices.
Convicts' Evidence
Two others, condemned to die in the 1933 for being concerned in murder, but later sentenced to life brought from imprisonment, were
their cells to give evidence.
The prosecution claims that the four men entered the inn. killed ono Nazi, wounded three others and the wife of one of them. ten accomplices helped escape and get rid of the weapons.'
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Fifteen witnesses and two medieni experts will be called during the trial, which is expected to last three weeks.
First of the accused to be cross- questioned was Fritz Lebleh,
He said: I was introduced to on
Communists Inn used by autumn of 1931 by "Karl'
asked
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Interested motorists in large numbers visited Messrs. Wallace Harper and Company's showrooms dur-
ing the week-end, when the latest models of Ford cars were on display. Pleture shows a corner of the show-
(Photo: King's, Studio).
Tooth.
NEW
BATTLESHIPS SACRIFICE
SPEED FOR GUNS
AND
ARMOUR
Washington, Feb. 21.
The two new $50,000,000 U. S. battleships on which construction will begin this summer have been conceived as giant floating fortresses with the heaviest batteries and armour known in naval construction, Secretary of Navy Claude Swanson has disclosed.
CONVICTS FACE DEVIL'S ISLAND RULE AT HOME
France Will Abandon Penal Colony But Will Keep Stern Discipline
Since the objective of the United States Navy is national defence instead of offence, the naval designers world's last transporation colony of
the sacrificed speed in the interest of heavier guns and arma-
ment.
The prosecutor
sharply: "Who is thi Karl? We cannot do anything with Chrisilan names," Two of the accused snfled when Leibich replied, "I only knew him by his Christian name."
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them, The prosecutor turned warned them: "There is nothing to laugh about. This is a matter which concerns your heads."
British Inventor Of Malted Milk
FOUND-FORTUNE IN--
COFFEE-POT
In the back-parlour of his Gloucestershire village home, a young man frowned over an old copper collee-pot, fitted with a hand-pump.
Inside, was a mixture of milk, malted barley and whent. The young man was trying to dry the mixture into a powder by exhausting the air in the pot.
He succeeded. He wrote down the formula on a piece of paper, put it
in his pocket and packed his bags for America.
His brother had already emigrated
to the United States. They met at
New York in the year 1871.
James Horlick was the young ma
As a result the ships will probably have a speed of 27 knots as compared with the 30 knots sought by the new capital ships in foreign navies. Naval engineers and tacticians believe that for the purposes of the United States the sacrifice of speed in favour of heavier armament does not represent a disadvantage.
Honour-With The Sabre
EVE
Munich, Feb, 21. university VERY German
man defend must henceforth honour by nabre duels.
his
Dr. Scheel. Hitler appointed fuhrer of all students, issued the duel decree here-to-day?-
Paris, Feb. 28. When France abolishes forever the
Devil's Island, as it is expected to do in the spring parliamentary ses- sion, it will be faced with many pro blems concerning the criminals. But
problem will the
muin
be in
RÁDIO BROADCAST
Light Hungarian Melodies By Albert Eddy
LONDON BROADCASTS
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 k.o's.), 31.40 metres (0.52 m.c's).
1.K.T.
12.30-2.10
gramme.
BAL. European Pro-
12.30 The London Palladium Orchestra.
1 p.m. Local: Time Signal and Weather Report.
1,03 Dance Music and Variety. 1.30 Reuter Press; Local: Wen- ther Forecast, Time and Announce- ments.
1.40 p.m. Charlie Kunz at the Plano.
p.m. Vocal Gems,
2.10 p.m. Close Down.
p.m. A Relay of Dance Music from the Roof-Garden of the Hong-. kong Hotel,
6.30 p.m. The R.B.C. Wireless Singers,
Morning Papers-Vocal Waltz (Craig & Strauss); It was a lover and his lass (Shakespeare & Morley, arr. Bridge); (a) Where the Bee,sucks (Shakespeure & Arne, arr. Show); (b) Come let us join the roundelay (Benic).
6.43 p.m. The Boston Promenade Orchestra.
Largo;
"Xerxes" (Handel) "Caucasian Sketches" (Ippolitow- Iwanow)--Procession of the Sardar. Entry of the
Buyards March (Halvorson); Jealousy-Tango Tzi̟- Kane (Jacob Gade).
7 pm Light Concert Itema, Cello Solos Serenade, (Gluzounow, 20, No. 2); Apres an (G. Faure Pablo Casals)..... Maurice Marechal.
(Dalleri,
reve
Tenor Solos Te revoir d'Angelys & Pareri); Les fleurs c'est de l'amour (Montier & Tillymoon)..
Tino Rossi.
Violin Solos--La fille aux cheveux de lin (Debussy); Hungarian Dance No. 1 (Brahms-Joachim)....Grisha Goluboff.
Soprano Solos-When a woman Industrial one.
smiles (Vivian Ellis); Goodbye, Hitle With the passage of the new law dream, goodbye (Cole Porter) ............. France will have 6,000 hardened life Yvonne Printemps: priso
Duet-Joshua its hands. They will
AL de battle ob prisoners on
be housed, clothed. fed. Jericho (arr. Brown)....Paul Rob- have to guarded and kept busy. The reform son & Lawrence Brown. Engineers are still undecided whe-will cost a large sum in the first 7.30 p.m. Closing local Stock ther to mm the new ships with 14- inch or 16-inch guns. There will be years, as siles must be bought nad Quotations and Hongkong Exchange four 14-Inch guns of three 16-inch prisons built, but in the end the cost Market Report.
of keeping the prisoners will be less guns in each of three turrets. Use of than half of the Devil's Island, 10-inch guns would give them the regime. The priginal cost has been heaviest battery power afloat.
estimated at nearly $1,000,000, bud- Reduction of the number of turrets geted over a 10-year period. to three will permit maintenance of
UPKEEP TO COST LESS the total weight of the ships, without 1ons. sacrificing armour, nt 35,000
Prisoners in the Devil's Island foreign battleships have Some
as
they colony were a full waste, for many as six turrets,
While details of the armour are be-produced nothing and cost the state the about 66 cents a day, all expenses ing guarded, it is understood
In France they will cust amour on the hull will be as heavy included.
as any of the older ships carry, while only from 20 to 25 cents, for they deck armour has been designed to will be put to work and thus partly guard against the increasing efficiency repay their cost. It is estimated that of aerial bombardmeRY
To enable the
7.35 pm The Hill Billies, Alabama; Old Faithful
Jump on the Wagon; Susanna from
7.45 p.m. From the Studio. Light Hungarian Melodies by Albert Eddy (Pianoforte).
8 p.m., Local: Time Signal, Wea- ther Report and Announcements.
8,03 A Relay from the Po Hing Theatre (Chinese).
11 p..
Close Down. 8.05-11 p.m. European Program. me from ZE.K., on A Frequency of $10 Kilocycles.
8.05 p.m. Orchestre Raymonde. A Musical smut box (Lindow); Chanson d'amour (Suk); By the sleepy lagoon
The new law, which comes before (Helmbur Dates); Electric girl_{
$150,000 will be saved each year in lo withstand the cost of keeping these hardened the heaviest sort of shelling, they will criminals, be divided in more numerous com
then partments usunt in older vessels, Parliament at its next session, calls so that the effect of a direct hit will for complete change of regime for
to F smaller
formerly sent to French area, the lifers forbidden be confined
Tuzor-
"An affair of honour" may deal with love, money, and reputation of self, family, or Fatherland. The sabre is art long ̄with a
tip, quarter-inch rounded sharp.
Duels under the regime.
were
entirely
-
old German Republic Separate units for maintaining opera- | Guiana. They will be kept in France to in colonies of between two and three tion will permit the warships continue in an engagement with one hundred scattered throughout the or two batteries in case of partial country. disability.
WASP-LIKE WAISTS FOR MILADY
Paris, Mar. 1; With return of the bird-like
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The regime they undergo will not The ships will require four years be too pleasant., For the first period,
obilete, which conforms with the whose maximum la three years, they of the navy of bringing the will be kept in solitary confinement flect up to "treaty strength" by that without sceing or speaking to anyone
outside, the year, although the treaty has become from
The next obsolete.
ten or fifteen years Rive It is planned that one battleship will be spent at hard labour in prison will be built by the Navy, and the shops where absolute silence will be sails-maintained. Finally, if the prisoner ather in a private yard if а factory bid can be obtained, Other-shows signs of improvement, he gradually will be trained for release wise the Navy may build both.
and reabsorption in elvil life.“
In fulfilment of its construction programme the Navy announced 12 new warships will be launched in the next year.
The schedule
launchings
of
with the Iden. His brother was called waists will come ornate hats, William
They built a factory at Racine, Wis-looking like the centre-piece in follows:
a florist's window. Many hats March 1-Destroyer Somers, 1,850 consin, to make the dried food on a
America.
big scale. They called Horlick's have the appearance of open-tons, Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Malted Milk, and its fame swept work straw baskets heaped with
James Horlick came home to Eng-lowers. land and bull a factory in 1890. Horlick's Malled Milk climbed to
fame there, too.
was 'created'
James Horlick baronet. He died in 10217
PASSENGER IN FIRST FLYING MACHINE
Rose Eight Inches From Ground
Other headpieces in the Schiaparelli collection are shaped like cox''s heads, with gilt horns.
other hand,
Re,
WAVCE
A night on Koski-
Wenna (arr.
the mua); Delibes in Walter); Berceuse (Jarnefelt).
8.30 p.m. Musical Comedy Gems.
"Miss Hook of Holland"....Light Opera Company; "Wild Violets"........ Maria Elaner and Martin Kraemer (Duet) "Mercenary Mary"....Colum bla Vocal Gem Chorus.
8.55 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements.
9.15
A Recital by Luigi p.m. Fort (Tenor).
The Pearl Fishers (Zanardini- Bizel); Faust (Lauzieres-Gounod).
Mignon" Ay, Ay, ny (Perez & Freire);
Music.
again.
་ ་ ་
(Thomas) Farewell,
Mignon.
9.30 p.m. Variety and Dance
SITES FAVOURED AND OPPOSED Organ Solo-Medley of serenades..
"Already government headquarters.Al Bollington.
Fox-Trot-The Fleet's in Forl has begun to receive messages from some departments of the country re-
Songs-Have you forgotten so soon? fusing to permit any prison to be Talking through my heart....Sam constructed there, lest the good name Browne. Co., Kearny, NJ.
May
Warrington, of the community be lost. On the -Destroyer
Fox-Trot-Dld I remember? 1,850 tons, Federal Shipbuilding & such prisons have existed in the past, music, lost my man....Dinah Miller. several districts where Song-Lost my rhythm, lost my Drydock Co., Kearny, NJ.
Fax-Trots-Darktown Strutters' May-Destroyer Patterson, 1,300 particularly Saint-Martin-de tons, Puget Sound Navy Yard, where
criminnis were kept before Ball; A broken doll....Darktown being embarked for Devil's Island, Strutters. Bremerton, Wash.
June 1-Cruiser Savannah, 10,000 have pleaded that prisons be kept
Humorous-A surrealist alphabet Ankle-high kid shoes with heals like stills are anoiker innovation, tetons, New York Shipbuilding Corp, going there or local industry will co
Clupham and Dwyer. Camden, NJ.
lapse.
Fox-Trois-When the poppies calling the "gay nineties."
June 13-Submarine salmon, The biggest problem is finding re-bloom again; Serenade in the night. Violin Solo-Melody at dusk.... strictly Electric Boat Company, Groton, Conn. muncrative work for the convicts. But beach clothes are modern in their scantiness. Many Aug. 25-Submarine Scol, Electrie The Popular Front government has ...Albert Sandler,
decided that in the future no prisons Fox-Trots-You: A pretty girl is senside outils are of cotton with Boat Company, Groton, Conn..
Sept 1-Destroyer Benham, 1,500 are to be allowed to sell their pro-like a melody. quilted shorts and blouses printed with life-size red lobsters, Some are tons, Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock ducts because of
Song With all my heart....Elsie of competition with workers and producers. The state, Carlisle, worn with loose jackets or woven Co.. Kearny, N.J. string. Many beach hots are of Oct. 1-Cruiser Nashville, 10,000 particularly the army, will be the Band Ship ahoy march; Sea
songs medley. raffia with fringed brims covering the tons, New York Shipbuilding Corp., buyers for whom the lifers will work
Camden, NJ.
Already the state belleves Song-"Show Boat"-Dan't help lovin' dat man....Marie Burke and Nov. 1-Destroyer Ellet, 1,500 tons,it will save much money while it is Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., making honest men out of criminal
out-casts. 22--Submarine Skipjack,
Company, Groton, knocked down by a messenger on a
push bicycle. Feb. (1936) Cruiser Phoenix, 10,000 tons, New York Shipbuilding Corps, Camden, N.J.
entire face.
Necklines for daytime costumes Sp
George Court, 69-years-old tinsmith, of Rayford Close, mostly are high and trimmed.! Dartford, claims to have been a Jackets and conts have passenger in the first flying pockets. machine.
enormous
One navy blue straw suitor In the He helped Hiram Maxim to carry collection Is trimmed with three out experiments in Baldwin's Park, dags--French, American and British Dartford Heath, from 1880 to 1894-flying from tiny flagpoles on the with a 'machine which weighed three tons, and was 130 feet long. The wing span was 20 feet and the engines
front of the crown.
Another hat has a stiff crown which
weighed 2201b. each. I was steam opens, revealing a powder box and
driven, and the propellers wure triangular in shape.
mirror.
Prints for beach wear, afternoon and evening are ali elaborately
Conn.
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS SEVERAL PERSONS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
In futuro.
the Mississippi Sextette.
Haunting
10 p.m. London--Blg Ben. 10.32
p.m. London Harmonies by Michael Cole and Bert
Morland.
Mr. C. Lauritsen reported to the Police on Saturday that while he was driving his car in Hennessy Road he knocked down a Chinese named Yuen Chi. Yuen was taken to the Govern ment Civil Hospital for treatment of slight injuries received, but was not DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES detained.
for your Book List".-5. A Talk by 10.45 p.m. London—"Suggestions
William Plomer (Electrical Record- ing)..
11 p.m. Close Down.
NATHAN ROÁD MISHAF' Mr. L.
L. Gardner of the Far East The machine ran on ralis, and
Several Chinese were sent to the Motors reported to the Police yester
day that while driving car No. 3272 there was a hitching “apparatus
coloured with various-alzed birds, Government Civil Hospital on Satur that-it-should-not rise too far.
along Nathan Road, near Granville bees and butterfles on silks, lines day as a result of trame accidents. Maxim was trying to prove that a and saline. One printed' dress at Leo Kuen, aged 29, of 31 Third Road, he met with an accident, heavier-than-air machine could leave. Schiaparelli's
Owing to the slippery state of the fractured collari mulli-coloured Street, suffered a has the ground.
squirrels on a dark background, an-bone when he was knocked down in road the car skidded and collided
with a tree. Mr. Court
A lady passenger, Mra Maxim at the controls when it rose eight inches..
The extreme novellies in prints are.
the head and was taken to the Kow- White Greek statues on 'black hack- Sung Yuen-sai; foreman with the loon Hospital for treatment, but not ground and vari-coloured autographs Hongkong Telephone Company, suf- detained. The car was out for de- on motion picture stars on pale pinks. | fered a fractured leg when he
wasmonstration purposes.
was in the machine with other has the dags of all nations. Argyle Street by public car No Chui, Shu-sunn, received injuries to
Mr. Court is still employed by Crayford at Vickers Works, of which Maxim was a partner.
2070.
The following wave-lengths and frequencies are used by Daventry.
Frequency Wavelength
8,600
49,30 metres 9,510 k.c. $1.35 matrei 9,458 k.c.—~ 11:00-metres 11,200
* 28,83' matins
26.25 metres 19.81 matres - 10.ks
Bigh
GRA
CSB
аяс GSD
CSE
$1.866 ke.
GSP
15,140 k.c.
c9c
GAI
17,790 k.o. 21.438 kt.
G81
CBJ
13,200.c. 21,610 ke G8L6,119 k.. GBU... 15,180 „ka..
(Continued on Pégo 4.)
metres .13.97 metres
19.04 metres *** 10.08 metres 49.10 metres. ..10.14.metres
10,50 metre
Ton
Black
Suodo
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