THE HONGKONG.
TELEGRAPH.
RESTING-PLACE
FOR
TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1937.
PHARAOHS
CAVE
MUMMIES TO BE
HIDDEN IN ROCKY
GRAVE FOR EVER
THE
HE Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt are to lie once again between the Pyramids, that were their triumph, and the Nile, that was the greatest of their gods.
Shrunken, stuffed with spices, wrapped in cerements, painted with kohl on the sightless eyes, tinted with henna on the shrivelled nails, they will be borne in solemn pro- cession from modern Cairo back to the ageless.desert from which they sprang.
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The mummies of these proud rulers, who created the earliest, of recorded civilisations thousands of years before the Birth of Christ, have been taken from their tombs in defiance of the curses their pricats laid on the sacrilegious band that should disturb them.
They have lain în a munici- | pal museum, drawing the gaze | and the baksheesh of curious foreigners.
They had been translated to the mausoleum of a modern Egyptian hero, Zaghiul Pasha, the Nutkimallst leader, who died by 1928.
INVULNERABLE
They have gone back 10 the intiseun, where now they may not
be seen by the public.
But the Egyptian Gavernment is i
Anti-Gas
Uniforms
For
Girls
to build at Gizeh, place of the Telephone (grls are to become gas
Pyramids, a new mausoleum,
cavern of rock, and there the royal bones will He-Invulnerable alike
protection instructresses,
Operatora in Manchester and Sal-
against the archaeologist who would į ford exchanges have been invited to
undergo instruction.
steal their secrets and the robter
ho wants their Jewels. Those kings were great men in their day:
Thottunes 31., The Imperialist who extended the Egyptian sway beyond Nubia und traded with Abyssirda before the Queen of Sheba was even dreamed of:
8:0
that
WAR
Rameses it, who stamped his own image everywhere,
most people believe he built all ancient Egypt.
Merneptah, when hourt hurdened and whose hand was bravy on Isruel;
A PACIFIST Hatchepsut, the Egyptian Queen Elizabeth;
Akhnaton, the pacifat, who refused to
send his armies 1 hold his threatened provinces and lost them with B
smile; who has been defined as "the first individual in history."
He was the first of the plito- supher kings, conceiving instead of the 2,000 howk-headed, dog-fneed, intermarrying, overlapping gods of Egyptian mythology a single delty to be worshipped under the symbol of the sun...
ern-
¡
her central exclatges and ulti- The experiment will be tried out in
mately it is hoped to have all opern- tors efficient in anti-gas warfare.
. "In time of emergency," an official told the "News Chronicle" recently, telephon services must las 1102 circumstances be paralysed.
Som operators will have to be trained to do their work in gas-proof uniforms which the State is providing.
Already some girls from Man- chester and Salford have underyanc the necessary proliminary medical examination.
They will be Laughat the uses of the various anti-gas apparatus at present being manufactured, put through the drills which will enable them to incer the emergency of an air raid with the minimum of time and the maximum of efficiency, given an, education in as ambulance work and nursing. taught the constituents of principal war gases, shown how to wear gas protection suits and finally pul through the gas-filled chamber.
And that little-known Pharaoli The standard of physique among who was atain in battle and balmed exactly as he fell, so that the girls is high. All of them under. his eye is still crushed by the death-medical examination before enter blow of the mace, and his hair still tangled with blood gone pale brown with the centuries.
Borne they will be on the shoul ders of their subjects' descendants, many of whom still believe that when
the great river floods the banks with fertility Isis, the goddess, by weeping for her husband
and
Osiris.
Honoured by the strangers 10 whom they are still realitics, these strange relics of majesty will go to their lost resting place, a cavem! barred and sealed so that no profane intruder may again disturb their
peace.
LOVER WHO
WOULD
· BE
NOT
DENIED
CHAINED HIMSELF
TO RADIATOR
the telephone service, but the the operators are being graded care- new tests are doubly stringent and fully and docketed by the Home office and the Air Raid Precautions Department..
10 YEARS IN
A
CHAINS
- St. Quentin, March 1. WOMAN who had been chained to a bed in a locked room for ten years and has lost the use of her voice was released to-day by an anonymous letter.
Following the receipt of the letter, police rushed to the house of a black- smith at Beaurevoir and broke their way in.
In a dimly-lit room they found a figure bound to a camp bed-Mar- guerite' Bocquet, the blacksmith's
PROPOSED 100 TIMES daughter. In rags and almost a
New York, Feb. 25.*
In olden days when a man proposed marriage to a girl he waited on bended knee until she whispered either "Yes" or "No." But times have changed, says London journal,
iz
To-morrow on the radio from New York Florence Hurlbut, of Excelsior
Springs, Missouri, will give her answer to a proposal of marriage by Harold Hulen, known as the "sit- down strike löver.”
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She will receive £200, with all ex- penses puld, for doing so, And Hulen, a music-hall artist, will get a great
deal, of valuable publicity-free.
Hulen called the nation's attention to his romance by chaining himself to a radiator In the house where Miss Kuribut lived,
PURSUIT
He had then, he said, proposed | marriage to her a hundred times, and planned to stay where he was until she said "Yes."
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She left home during the night and went to her uncle's home a mile. away. He pursued her, still carrying
chalas.
his
While he languished' outside, the uncle's apartment, again chained to a radiator, Miss Hurlbut left by a win- dow, and motored to Kansas City, where she caught an airplane to New York.
When she arrived at Newark (New Jersey) airport she revealed that she had accepted an offer to go on the radio to-morrow night: "All I have to do is to give my decision on Mr. Hulen's proposal," she said.";
Meanwhile Hulen went home, per- haps to hatch other novel-and profit- able ways of calling attention to his. love-sickness,
skeleton, she could not utter a sound,
Neighbours had not seen her for ten years and believed that the was dead.
The woman is 38 years of age, and for these ten terrible years had lived fetiered in this room, receiving only the minimum of food from her father. The blacksmith was at once arrest- ed and is now in prison.
Last Ot
As a large part of the population in India is unable to read or write, the illiterate voters are being Helped during the elections by ballot boxes with symbols for the different parties, as the scent above from Cal.
utty shraws,
DOCTOR KEPT RÁDIO
GIRL IN COOP
Billy Bunter-In III-treated
The Flesh
Bitty Bunter, the fainous fat bay of Greyfriars School fiction, who do- Hghts all the schoolboys, is to come to life...in films.
The boy who may play the role is Bille
Barton, Barion, of Earl's Northants, 14-year-old-and 1751- who hopes to realise Ils ambition to take up Blm work.
He has had a test for the role.
Devil's Isle Fugitive To Die
Paris, Mar. 1.
18 Months
But Fell Love
In
Jerusalem, Feb. 24.
ENTAL specialist Dr.
ME
Abraham Litvak was
BROADCAST
Resume of Colony's Billiards
Championship
VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL
Radle Programme Broudensi by Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 31.40 metres netres (845 (0,52 m.e's.).
II.K.T.
k.co.).
12.30 The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra.
1 p.m. Time and Weather
1.03 Richard Crooks (tenor) and the Angelus Octet.
1.30
Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather, Time and Announcements. 1.40 A Variety Programme. 2.15 p.m. Close Down,
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7 p.m. Grand Opera. sentenced to-day to a year's overture; "Norma" (Dellini)-Casta
"Die Meistersinger (Wagner)
Heaven). Ina
B).....
Phil-
imprisonment for detaining
twenty-two-year-old Jewess Mozi
harmonic
nic Orchestra;
cavallo)-On with the
Rosenkavalier"
moticy Aureliune Fertile (Tenor); "Der (R. Strauss-Herr Kavalier. Alexander Kigis (bass) and E. Ruziczka (Mezzo-Soprano).
7.30 Stock Quotations and Ex- change Market.
Diva (Queen of Souez (Soprano); " Seraglio" (Mozart) Overture.... Vienna by Haya Rubin in a chicken Clemens Krauss, "I Pagliacci" (Leon- coop for eight months.
His eighty-two-year old ARMAND JEAN SPILERS, father-in-law, Henry Feldman,
Franco's King of Gaol an Australian Jew, was sentene breakers, who twice broke free ed to three months in the second from Devil's Island, was sen-division for aiding him. tenced to death at Pau to-day for shooting a policeman.
"Throughout the trial-armed-war-- ders kept guard over him. knew his amazing record.
In 1925, disguised as a warder, he walked out of Loos prison, Belgium. The following year he was sent to Devil's Island. In 1020 he escaped, but was recaptured.
They
Three years later, with five others, he escaped again, reaching the South American coast in a small bout. With another man he arrived in Venezuela; the others died on the way.
Amassing a fortune in Venezuela he returned to France as M, Dupony and became a horse owner. He ired of that and was about to retire when he quarrelled with a man. Again Ke was arrested and his real identity disclosed.
SCALED WALLS ·
They put him in the Sante Prison in Paris. He climbed over the high walls and was free again,
Then a series of burglaries on the
Basque coast puzzled the authorities. A policeman surprised two thleves at St. Jean de Luz.
Luz. One was Spilers. He shot the
n
He was imprison.
at Bayonne, but sawed through the bars, clum- bered along a ledge to waiting motor-cycle and freedom.
Finally he was recaptured. This time he was given no chance. He was kept under a heavy guard- chained and manacled.
Singapore's "Merchant Princes"
London, Feb. 24.
THE last of Singapore's "merchant princes of the old days Mr. Stamford Raffles Robinson has left a personal estate of £157,833. One of the leading figures in the mercantile history of the Colony and for more than 10 years proprietor and partner in Robinson and Co., he died in Edinburgh in November last year.
Mr. Robinson was 03 at the time of) Malnya In 1821. He was the son of his death and had been living in Mr. Philip Robinson who founded the Scotland since his retirement from [firm In Singapore in 1850 and ho
succeeded to the proprietorship In 1881.
Drivers Organize
"Kick Me" Society
To Boost Safety Portland, Ore., Feb. 28. Motorists here organized a "Kick
Me" club here after group of pro- minent business men had discussed the mounting death toll in traffic
accidents.
Any one of the members scen breaking 'a city trame regulation by A club brother will be subject to ·2 robust kick by all members of the order.
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In 1804 he took Mr.-A. W. Bean into partnership and when the firm be- came a limited liability company in 1020 the two partners retired. Mr.
Bean. I st
still living.
Mr. "robinson was a staunch-"op- ponent of proposals to introduce In- come tax into the Colony, and in 1011 addressed various pubile meetings called to discuss the question.
He was also an active worker for the Nonconformist Church and was ** associated with several philanthropic institutions in Singapore.
7.35 p.m. Alfredo Campoli and British Judge Shaw refused the His Concert Orchestra, police reqiest to revoke Dr. Litvak's
Your heart called mine (Edgar licence-Both the accused are to
Vienna In Lewinnek Hayon); appeal. The trial lasted fourteen Springtime (Harry Leon-Dominic days at Tel-aviv.
Pelosi); Mouse In the clock (Hunt); Teddy Bears Plenic (Bration); Wed- ding Dance Waltz (Lincke); Penny in the slot (Ashworth-Hope); Knave of Diamonds (Steele); Love idleness (MacBeth).
LEFT £2,000
in
The prosecution ense was that Haya, who is mentally deflelent, was brought to Palestine by her Ameri- con purents, who died leaving £2,000 8 p.m. Time, Weather, and An- for her keep. Dr. Litvak sald he could cure her and make her sane. She disappeared.
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nouncements.
8.03 New Dance Tunes. Fox Trot-Who loves you?; Fox Eight months later the police und Trot-Let me dream of Havana; Fox Mrs. Friedman, a sixty-five-year-old Trot-Tain't no use; Fox Trot To Jewess, who had promised Mrs. you, sweetheart; Me and the moon; Rubin she found her care for the girl. Fox Trot Did you mean it?: Waltz
half-clad, half-starved, in-Have you forgotten so soon?, tiny chicken
coop on Dr. Litvak's
Theodore Chatiapine 8.25 p.m. farm in a Jewish village
on the (Bass). Mediterranean.
Midnight Review (Glinka); Song She had
been given scraps of of the needy Pilgrim (Nekrassoff- food and
bottle of water, every Nevatrucff-Manikin); Arise, Red Sun second day, had been beaten and (Russian Folk Song). It-treated
and had developed 8.35 p.m. epileptio fits.
From the Studie. A Recital by Prue Lewis (Violin) and Maurice Barton (Pianoforte). McEwen's 'Little Sonata' for Vio- lin and Piano.
During the hearing she was de barred from giving evidence, but had to sit in court, Mrs. Friedman by her side. She kept her eyes fixed on Dr. Litvak, occasionally gesticulating towards him-she had fallen in love nouncements. with him during her "Imprisonment."
Paderewski
Is Stark Naked"!
SIR IAN HAMILTON TELLS A FUNNY STORY
Sir Ian Hamilton told British Legion veterans recently an amusing story of his efforts to ace Paderewski, who 12 years ago gave the proceeds of a series of concerts to the Legion. Recently, said Sir Ian, he went to went to a party to hear Paderewski play and resolved to shake him by the hand.
Paderewski went into a room and Sir Ian had difficulty in 'gaining
As he hesitated proached with two beautifu! Indies. "I have not become a general for nothing, so I thought hard," related Sir Ian. "Clearly she was going to present the ladies. She half-opened the.
that!'
8.55 p.m. London News and An-
9.15 p.m. Liebestraume (Liszt), Played by De Groot and The Plc- cadilly Orchestra.
9.20 p.m. From the Studio. A talk by Dr. G. A. C. Herklota: "Winter and Spring Colours of Flowers and Foliage."
9.40 pm
His Orchestra.
Albert Sandler and
Eventide (Eric Bird Songs at Coates); Gipsy Moon (Borganoff); Le Chaland ul passe (BIxio); Love's lost word (Cremieux); You will remem- her Vienna (Romberg); I bring a love song (Romberg).
10 pm. Big Ben. A Programme of New Gramophone Records.
10.25 p.m. World Affairs." talk by H. V. Hodson..
A
10.40 p.m. Variety, with The Four Crotchets in synocopated Comedy. (Electrical recording),
11 p.m. From the Studio. A Resume of the Final of the Colony's Billiard Championship, by Frank V. Read.
11.10 p.m. Close Down.
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
The following wavelengths and frequencios are used by Daventry.
Blen Frequency Wavelength
6,500 k.. $0.5 metros 9,510 k.. 31.65 matron 81.10 metres meiros 25.8 metres 19.83 mere
11.750 ..
25.52
GRA
GBB
USQ
1,685 k...
80
I celod.
What do you mean?' she asked. "Paderewski's stark naked,"
'You can't do
GAF
11.845 k.a
GAY
15,140
k.c.
Osa
11,700 kr.
GSI
21.420 k.c.
· 13.07
Ost
15,200 k.e.
GAJ
21.840 ko
GRI,
080
-SP
I said; he hasn't got a silich of clothing on..
With three suppressed shricks, the Indies fell back while I slipped in and saw Paderewski."
4,110 km.
10.84
10.40
metres
metree
19.64. meirea
wires
metro
40.10 16.180
10.70 k.c. 15,810 k.o. -19.80 Transmission 1 (G.AB., G.RO., (RG)
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ASHEN TOTEM POLE
HONGKONG SEA SCOUTS WIN ANNUAL CONTEST
.
A very successful rally of the $1,038.35 Hongkong Wall Cubs was held on Saturday at the Volunteer Head- quarters competing for the Ashen 80.00 Totem Pole. The Ist. Hongkong Sea
5.00
2.00
5.00
Scouts: Pock was successful in win- ning the trophy, which was present-
'
10 them by Mr. C. Champkin, 5.00 Deputy Commissioner of the Boy 10.00 Scouts Association of Hongkong, 'at 10.00 the end of the meeting.
$1,130.35
Among those present who asslated with the Rally, arrangements were Expenditure 1030/1937 Season end- Mrs. D. Booker, Mrs, D. A. Brown,
ing March $030.60.
0. 1037, amounts
4.2 p.m.
to
Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Y. Goyos, Miss F. Wong, Miss I. Woolley, Mr. D. A Pockson, Mr. R. Dormer, Mr. E. Davies, Mr. S. B. Smith, Mr. F. Bowden, Mr. T. Waterworth, Mr. M. G, Lenz, Mr. H. H. Stevenson, Mr. D. Edmonston, Mr. H. Wilde, Mr. w. Campbell, Mr. T. Taylor' and Mr. V. the Lamour.
of
annual
Merriment Aboard 103.8. George Hook by Mango Dewar *Empire
Exchange..I'alte
travellers from vieve bry Dominions and the Colonies. 4.17 in A Sonata Recital by Hidegani
ani The Rally, which is Arnali (Violoncello) and Lucy ovent, is comprised of, various com Bellek (Pianoforte).
pelitions, including knotting, signal- log, memory test, ball throwing, compass rending, skipping and others. The Items are Included in the train- ing which the Cubs receive in the Boy Scout movement,
4.40 pin, 17e News and Announcements
"Greenwich Time Signal at 4.40 p.m.
Transmission 2
(G.B... 0.5.0.. 6.8.15.) 7 p.m.
Belfast.
Dig fien, Leslie Simpson, at the Organ of the Clamio Cinema,
The concluding item of the after- 1.20 p.m. Seeled Orders,' 'South Stafford noon was the forming of a circle by shire Contrast, by Kenneth the Cubs and the giving of their famous. "Grand Howl" after which Mr. Champkin.presented the Tolem Pole.
Adam.
7.50 pan. The B.I.C. Empire Orchorira, 8,50 p.m. Musicni Interlude.
8.85 .. The News and Amouncements,
Greenwich Time Bignal at 0.15 p.m.,
as
9.18 m. Dance Ausle. Popular number follows: let. H.K. Sea Scouts 177,
uf recent years.
Transmission 3
(0.8.D., 0.8.F.. .I.).
10 p.m. 1hr Bot. A Programme of New
Gramophone. Recorda, 10.25 p.m.___"World___ Affalin? A calle by
H. V. Hodaan,
10.40 p.m. Variety, with The Pour Crotchefs
In syncopated comedy Yvetto | Darnne entertaining you at the planos and Harry Hemsley, whose two little children wi)) tell you stories about themselves and the others.
11 pm. The Torquay Monletpal Orchestra 11.46 p.m. Proper Mül,""
Indin. A talk by the Rt. Hon Viscount Halifax..
12.15 3.2.
12.30 am The Naws and Announcements.
Greenwich Time Bignal at 12.45.m 12.30 am. Dance Music.
The Anal point results were
1st. HK St. Joseph's 161, 4 Kowloon Garrison 159, 1st. Kowloon St. Andrew's 151, 13th. Kowloon St. Theresa's 145, 12th. Kowloon Tong Church 105.
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