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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Saturday, August 14, 1937.
ITS
QUALITY
NEVER
VARIES
DEWAR'S
"WHITE LABEL"
Sole Agents:
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
NEW VICTOR
RECORDS
DANCE
25323-Speedboat Bill. F.T.
Trees. F.T.
25374-I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby. F.T.
Until The Real Thing Comes 'Along.
25405-Now Or Never. F.T. ......
25448-Little Old Lady. F.T.
Now, F.T.
Darling, Not Without You, F.T.
25481-Whispering. F.T.
Tiger Rar. F.T.
25503-Las Palmeras. Rumba
Inspiration. Tango.
25514-Moonlight And Shadows. FT.
..Roy Noble's Orchestra.
....."Fats" Waller's Orchestra. F.T.
Ruby Newman's Orchestra.
Ray Noble's Orchestra.
.Benny Goodman's Quartet.
Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.
..........Eddy_Duchin's Orchestra.
Love Is Good For Anything That Alls You.
F.T.
25530-I Can't Break The Habit Of You. F.T. . ."Fats" Waller's Orchestra.
You're Laughing At Me. F.T.
25552--Shall We Dance, F.T.
For You. F.T.
25553---Turn Of The Moon, F.T........
Jammin'. F.T.
Paul Whiteman's Orchestra,
Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.
It's No Secret 1 Love You. FT. 25502-You Can't Run Away From Love To-night. FT.
'Cause My Baby Says It's So. F.T. 23504 There's A Lull In My Lile. F.T.
Carelessly. F.T.
Dunne Berlgan Orchestra.
THE
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SIX
CLUB SEDAN
FOR FIVE PASSENGERS
IS HERE
"A TOP-QUALITY CAR" LARGE AND ROOMY MODERATELY PRICED
Inspection and Trial Invited
Hongkong Hotel
Garage
SHOWROOM
Will the sky give
us food..
bombs?
or
SEE a farmer standing
in his Biscayan fields with his eyes lifted up
to heaven.
Behind him there is the black- ened ruin of his home and the
By, FRANK
to the
OWEN
FACH conquest
that
Man makes he creates new problems in its place. Now the Russians have got to feed their pioneers.
So to the Arctic go the scion- tlats devising how thuy may grow there, on the edge of the world, corn, vegetables, potatoes, apples, pears, and even peaches.
They have found how to grow crops quick in the short Arctic summer (it's twice as long as it seems, because the sun shines all night!)
They have discovered how to put ripened plants to sleep for a few months in carbon monoxide cheats.
arc
They have built themselves charred body of his child; an siberian railway has been no through the ice field. For days hot-houses to grow cucumbers airplane drones away into the
more than a goat-path through a and weeks the ship would pound and lettuces, heated by elec- blue distance.
And the farmer curses the day wilderness, barely enough to her way through the floes only tricity which is generated by and the power that brought this serve the scanty population ul to find herself up against a solid windmills. "When the Arctic
ready there.
wall of them miles deep.
wind blows it grows green veget- bloody engine of death into the
ables," say the Russians. The only way to get the timber world.
They have annexed the sea up off was in lumber jams down the NOW the airplane scouts I see a fisherman standing up
the way and by radio as far as the Pole, a more profit- in his skin coracle six hundred great rivers that flow miles north of the Arctic Circle, Borth-the Yenisei, the Lena, charts the course of the ice- able empire than Mussolini grab- a fur-clad, yellow, slit-eyed Mon- the Khatanga. And then when breaker through the frozen seas. bed in Abyssinia, for besides the
In the wake of the ice-breaker treasures that we know gol. On shore the smoke of the the logs arrived at the sen the ice
comes the cargo convoy, bring- buried in the Arctic, there are Stubbs Rd, Phone 27778.9 Eskimo hut fires drifts up into closed them in.
ing food to the Arctic, taking secrets of Nature that may help the dry, Polar air.
NOW the Russians have home timber, minerals, fish and us to change our own world. In An airplane is vanishing over
conquered the sca. the "Siberian soft gold"-the the Arctic the moods of the the southern horizon of the grey They have found the way priceless furs and sables that the climate itself are created, that
the tundra.. And
fisherman
to Western world gives its old devil Weather about which through the ice.
Mark Twain said everybody waves Godspeed to the wonder-
The legendary north-east pas- women. Cul "iron reindeer that trends the
India that brave Wil- Besides the piloting the air- talks so much and nobody does Hongkong Telegraph. air," that brings him food and loughby and a score of Eliza- planes provision and relieve the anything.
goods and takes away to market beth's captains died to discover scores of radio stations that the There are no germs up there has been won at last. One hun- Russians have erected on the in the Arctic. Nobody suffers dred and sixty ships went world's latest coast. They have from asthma along the dry Polar THE airplane: Is it
through the Polar seas last year. established n hundred airplanes consts. One day we may see a bad? good or
The story is told in the book on a permanent Arctic empire chain of real "health" resorts can't abolish it whichever it is. "Forty Thousand Against the route 10,000 miles in length. there, revitalising and reinvigo- The question is:-Are we going Arctic" (Hutchinson), by
The
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, ID37.
WAGING WAR ON
CHOLERA
Whilst it has not assumed
his fish and sealskins.
to allow it to abolish us?
We
nil our
At Nordvyk, at the mouth of rating sufferers whom When Bleriot flew the Channel Young reporter, H. P. Smolka. the Khatanga, they have planted present medicine and science
It is an epic.
a town of 40,000 people almost cannot case from pain down in dangerous dimensions, the cho-Foch, as he then was, said, "That 6,000 miles of coast, the exploit- Nordvyk.
twenty-seven years ago Generul It means the opening up of over-night. There is oil at our damp midearth belt.
That port is schedul- lera epidemic which the Colony is good sport, but the airplane is ing of the vast hinterland of ed to be the second fuelling sta-
THE Russians plan to fly actually over the Do use for war." is at present experiencing is
about a tenth of the entire land tion of the Red Arctic Navy.
Pole as a regular route from Nansen, the great Polar ex-
Then again the airplanes are New York to Shanghai. sufficiently serious to warrant plorer, said, "Now the road is surface of the world.
It means that Red Russia is used to survey the forests. The Future London-Tokyo flights the taking of all possible in- open for shipping in the Arctic."
going to become one of the great observers have learned to calcu will not girdle the earth at the 25501-A Love Sons Of Long Ago. Waltz... Xavier Cugat's Orchestra,dividual precautions against con- Unfortunately, It was only Nan- naval Powers, for now she has late the height of the trees by fattest part of its belly, but will
sen who was right.
both an alternative route (to the the length of the shadow that streak across the roof, over the tracting the disease. The
For a long span in man's story overland railways) to her Far they cast in the northern sun. Arctic (high above the Pole authorities are doing their part the ship was the greatest colo- Eastern provinces and also n The airmen act 019 forest
you'd be surprised to hear thaf by the provision of facilities for niser. It was a stout ship that wide northern door to the rest of wardens, putting out fires by the air is warm and dry, no fear bore Vasco da Gama round the the world if the Germans should dropping smoke bombs to create of ice-formation on your wings). inoculation and have now added Cape of Good Hope to India and blockade her on the west end the a safety belt.
those al Christopher Columbus to Ame- Japanese on the east.
It is all just another piece of a further centre to
Those crack pilots are highly Russian boosting and boasting? ready established, this being
It means that Russia is going paid-3,000 roubles a month (at Will it, can it come true within Then the railway engine came, to develop her air power to a par E140) is what they draw a measurable time? Is the air- most convenient of access, in and opened up the place. stupendous extent, for the air is down, which is about twice the plane going to bring us blessings
Now it is the airplane that is the key to the whole vast design. pay of a Red Commissar. They after all? the business part of the city.
It is the airplanes which Nan- are highly honoured. uninhabited lands on earth-the sen cheered that have defeated
If it is only a dream that the There is the title "Hero of the Russians see it is a better thing Inasmuch as inoculation is free going to conquer for us the last und leaves no unpleasant after- Polar wastes.
the ice. For from the top of the Soviet Union," and Young for a man to have in his heart the effects, it is the duty of
tallest mast the look-out man on Russia thinks of them with the than that nightmare of the THE most astonishing of the old ice-breakers could see reverence we give to Jack Hobbs farmer standing by his broken the public to co-operate with
all the colonisations only about twenty 'miles and Jack Doyle.
home in the Biscayan flelds. .
Kay Thompson's, Orchestra. 25566 Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed, FT...Guy Lombardo's Orchestra.
I Know Now. F.T.
25567-I Elum A Wallz. Waliz
Hold Me Tight, Waltz,
Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.
25560-Let's Call The Whole Thing Off. F.T.. Eddy Duchin's Orchestra.
Without Your Love. FT. 25571-I've Got A New Lease On Love, F.T....."Fals" Waller's Orchestra.
Sweet Heartache. F.T. 25573-Wake Up And Live. F.T.............Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.
Sleep, F.T.
Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.
YORK BUILDING
rica.
CHATER ROAD. | Government in these measures, that the world has seen is now which should contribute mater-hurrying forward in the Arctic
lands of Siberia.
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COMMENCING TO-MORROW
at the
ALHAMBRA
Here is a territory twenty-five times the size of France, with a population of less than half that of France.
Inventions Cause
ed
up
Crimes
ially to preventing the spread of the disease. Some alarm was caused on Wednesday when the
surprise T will probably
some table citizens turned into criminals, Since 1910, the car-criminal has daily returns showed nearly
pouple to read thut since the and gaol-birds in the course of mak- become a commonplace. The smash- In Siberia there is enough coal
of the motor car (or ing use, of that convenient invention, and-grab raid, unhappily so frequent sixty additional cases, but it was
to supply the needs of every one coming
"mechanically - propelled vehlele") | the automobile.
nowadays, was made possible by the subsequently explained that the on earth for a thousand years. some two thousand criminal offences The professional criminal was, of coming of the motor car. Chicago course, quick to grasp the possibili- gangsters Invented new car crime, increase was due to a misunder- There is more gold than any-have been created
Motorists, and thuse engaged in ties of the new Invention. The first known
innocent-sounding where else in the world.
by the the motor car business, are liable to motor bandits to create a European title of "taking for a ride.” standing with regard to regis
There is, besides, silver, plati- commit any of these. In one year sensation appeared in France in 1910. But It was reserved for an English- tration of cases at Kennedy num, nickel, tin, lead, ore, man- (1936), for indulging in motoring They baffted the French police for man, Arthur Rouse, to invent a Town Hospital. Actually, the i ganese and oil. It is the untap- offences, 358,325 motorisis were fined some time by their mobilly. They unique type of crime, when he tried an aggregate of £441,459, and 415 committed burglaries and highway to stage a disappearance for reasons gaoled "without the option."
robberies galore, and in a very short of his own. cases were an accumulation over ped treasury of the world.
What is this little trouble in These Bgures apply only to Great time were leagues away from the According to the evidence, he pick- a period of seven days. One Fleet-street at present about the Britain. If the totals for the United scene of their crime.
At long last they were rounded up States and Europe-where legislation consequence of the publication price of newsprint and the alleg is on similar lines were added, the the lender shot dead in a revolver battle with the police, and the gang of the somewhat alarming figureed shortage of timber for that result would stagger humanity.
purpose? The forests of Siberia! was to increase the number of would cover the whole of Europe. applications for inoculation, but They have a growth of 50,000,- that was, actually, all to the 000 trees annually.
Siberia could provide the totalj good. Apart from inoculation,requirement of the world timber there are many other precau- market for newsprint, building, tions which the individual can cellulose silk stockings, turpen- tine and explosives. The only take whilst the epidemic con-question has been: Can the tinues. In particular, uncooked timber be transported from its
The object of traffic reguln- | vegetables, whether in the form Asiatic fastnesses to the indus- tions is that pedestrians should headlines. of salads or otherwise, should be trial hives of Europe and Ame- be seen, but not hurt. avoided, as also should peeled fruit. Housewives should also
rica?
Thousands of law-abiding, respec-dispersed.
BULLS AND INNERS
O O
From the
the Office Butts
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road, killed him, then petrol some unknown derelict on the over, corse and, the poured o the notion that the charred and un- recognisable body, when found, would be taken for his own.
Slot Machine Thefts
Nobody has yet imitated this car crime; but the "mechanically-pro- pelled vehicle" has been used for kidnappings, abductions, and rob- beries galore. It seems as if every convenient Invention brings crime in Ito train.
The useful and familiar slot- machine hnd no sooner been placed on the streets than criminals got. busy making worthless discs for causing the machines to yield up treasures from their insides.
This has row become a major in- dustry, and the owners of slot-
"Weather Not So Hot," says
We'll say it isn't."
O O Workers in Poland have stag- Now that sampan folk have ed a strike for lower pay. The Up to now the answer has been crept into the social columns, movement, however, has yet make a point of seeing that all No! The single-track Trans-our gossip-writers mustn't over spread to Hongkong Civil Ser-machines lose thousands of pounds
о ៗ
vants.
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口
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in usa,
look the ricksha coolies' "At
year. Up to the present no sure kitchen utensils are kept in a
Homes." They're perfectly
way has been found of defeating the scrupulously
slot-machine robbers, as obviously clean condition,Chinese districts and by whole-sweet, so we've heard.
The latest fashion decree is the police cannot be taken off their whilst it is wise also just now | sale distribution of simply- We see from a contemporary that women must dress to match other duties to keep special watch to boil all water before use. The worded pamphlets stressing that a "bride" was under water their dogs. Of interest to Pekes on the many thousands of machines menace from flies needs also to elementary precautions which for some time during the recent and Peakites. be carefully watched, as the dis-should be taken. School talks floods in the New Territories. value. On Immersed in thought, no doubt.
D. O ease is often fly-borne. If pre- would also have a
should cautions along these lines are general principles, we
Strange as it may seem, these taken, and consistently observed, like to see the Government sit-down strikers contend they the danger of the disease spread-ongago in much greater health are only standing up for their ing will be lessened. Excellent propaganda amongst the masses. rights.
口 as are the steps which the This would need to be continu- authorities have already taken, ous, all the year round.
Only the other day a man was found whose trade was depleting slot A psychologist says women machines of their contents by means dream more than men.
We've of meial discs, and selling his plun- noticed that about some of these der to traders who did not "ask
questions." snappy young stenographers..
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Smuggling By Air So far from causing any men- tal defects, experiments have] "Wonderful invention the асто- shown that some people who plane," we exclaim as the machine roars across the sky. Yes, and cer- ed become clearer-headed. There useful as well as wonderful inven- seems scope for a few major tlon, not only for making a quick operations In Hongkong.
more might possibly be done by opportunity now presents itself/Case at home that the victim of have parts of their brain remotain of the criminal classes find it a
means
It was stated during a Court
An
a motor accident was suffering
have been hit by a foreign car.
of employing street of making a start in this direc-from "dyadladokokinesia." Must lecturers to give talks in the tion.
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