THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1937.
ITS
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25323-Speedboat Bill. F.T.
Trees. F.T.
25374-I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby. F.T.
Until The Real Thing Comics Along.
F.T.
25105-Now Or Never.
Darling, Not Without You. F.T.
25448-Litir Old Lady.. F.T.
Now. F..
25481--Whispering. F.T,
Tiger Rag. F.T.
25503-Las Palmeras. Rumba
Inspiration. Tango.
25514-Moonlight And Shadows.
F.T.
Ray Noble's Orchestra.
......."Fats" Waller's Orchestra.
F.T.
Ruby Newman's Orchestra,
Ray Noble's Orchestra.
Benny Goodman's Quartet.
Xavier Custat's Orchestra.
Eddy Duchin's Orchestra.
Love Is Good For Anything That Alls You. F.T.
You're Laughing At Mc. F.T.
25530-I Can't Break The Habit Of You. FT. "Fats" Waller's Orchestra. „Paul Whilemia's Orchestra.
.Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.
25552-Shall We Dance. F.T.
For You. F.T.
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Will the sky give
us food...
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
bombs?
By FRANK
OWEN
PACH conquest
that
Man makes ho creates new problems in its place. Now the Russians have got to feed their pioneers,
So to the Arctic go the scien- tists devising how they may grow there, on the edge of the work, 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 chests.
charred body of his child; an Siberian railway has been no through the ice field. For days hot-houses to grow cucumbers
They have built themselves lettuces, heated by elec- airplane drones nway into the
more than a goat-path through n and weeks the ship would pound and blue distance.
wilderness, barely enough to her way through the floes only tricity which is generated by. And the farmer curses the day and the power that brought this serve the scanty population al- to find herself up against a solid windmilla. "When the Arctic wind blows it grows green veget- wall of them miles deep.. ready there.
ables," say the Russians, bloody engine of death into the
The only way to get the timber.
They have annexed the sea up world.
the way and by radio as far as the Pole, a more profit- course of the ice- able empire than Mussolini grab-
I see
to the
NOW the airplane scouts off was in lumber jams down the fisherman standing up in his skin coracle six hundred Krent rivera that flow miles north of the Arctic Circle, north-the Yenisei, the Lena, charts the a fur-clad, yellow, slit-eyed Mon- the Kbatanga. And then when breaker through the frozen seas. bed in Abyssinia, for besides the gol. On shore the smoke of the the logs arrived at the sen the ice Eskimo hut fires drifts up into closed them in. the dry, Polar air.
conquered the
Hongkong Telegraph. air," that brings him food and fighly and a score of Eliza- planes provision and relieve the anything.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1937.
WAGING WAR ON
CHOLERA
Whilst it has not assumed
it
In the wake of the ice-breaker treasures that we know are comes the cargo convoy, bring- buried in the Arctic there are ing food to the Arctic, taking secrets of Nature that may help NOW the Russians have home timber, minerals, fish and us to change our own world. In An airplane is vanishing over
sea, 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
Western work gives to its old devil Weather about which Mark Twain said everybody waves Godspeed to the wonder through the ice,
The legendary north-east pas- women. ful iron reindeer that trends the
Besides the piloting the air talks so much and nobody does sage to India that brave Wil-
There are no germs up there goods and takes away to market beth's captains died to discover scores of radio stations that the his fish and sealskins.
on the in the Arctic. Nobody suffers has been won at last. One hon. Russians have erected dred and sixty ships went world's latest coast. They have from asthma along the dry Polar THE airplane: Is
through the Polar seas last year, established a hundred airplanes coasts. One day we may see a good or bad? We
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 શ At Nordvyk, at the mouth of rating sufferers whom all our to allow it to abolish us?
When Bleriot flew the Channel young reporter, H. P. Smolka, the Khatanga, they have planted present medicine and science n town of 10,000 people almost cannot ease from pain down in
at our damp midearth belt. It means the opening up of over-night. There is oil dangerous dimensions, the cho-twenty-seven years ago General It is an epic.
Foch, as he then was, said, "That 6,000 miles of coast, the exploit- Nordvyk. That port is schedul
THE Russians plan to fera epidemic which the Colony is good sport, but the airplane is g of the vast hinterland of ed to be the second fuelling sta
fly actually over the about a tenth of the entire hand tion of the Red Arctic Navy.
Pole as a regular route from is at present experiencing is no use for war."
Nansen, the great Polar - surface of the world.
Then again the airplanes are New York to Shanghai. sufficiently serious to warrant
plorer, said. "Now the road is
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 Aretic."
going to become one of the great observers have learned ip calcu- will not girdle the earth at the 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 strenk neross the roof, over the tracting the disense. The
For a long sparin 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 a The airmen act as forest you'd be surprised to hear that 25564-There's A Lull In My Life. F.T....... Kay Thompson's Orchestra. by the provision of facilities 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). 25566-The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed. F.T. ‚‚Guy Lombardo's Orchestra, i inoculation und have now added 1 Cape of Good Hope to Indin and blockade her on the west and the a safety belt.
It is all just another piece of Christopher Coluinbus to Ame- Japanese on the cast.
Those crnck pilots are highly Russian boosting and boasting? 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 £140) is what they draw a measurable time? Is the air- and opened up the place. stupendous extent, for the air is down, which is about twice the plane going to bring us blessinga
Now it is the airplane that is the key to the whole vast design, pay of a Red Commissar. They after all?
It is the airplanes which Nan- are highly honoured.
If it is only a dream that the going to conquer for us the last
There is the title "Hero of the Russians see it is a better thing and leaves no unpleasant after uninhabited lands on earth-the sen cheered that have defeated
Polar wastes.
Union," and the ice. For from the top of the Soviet
Young for a man to have in his heart 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
all the colonisations only. about twenty miles and Jack Doyle.
home ip the Bisenyan fields.. 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.
25553-Turn Off The Moon. F.T.
Jammin'. FT.
25561-A Love Song Of Long Ago. Waliz
Ji's No Secret I Love You, F.T. 25662-You Can't Run Away From Love To-night.
25507--I lum A Wallr. Waltz
F.T.
Bunne Bergan Orchestra.
'Cause My Baby Says It's So. F.T.
Carelessly. F.T.
for
I Know Now. F.T.
Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.
"Fats" Waller's Orchestra.
Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.
a further centre to those ready established, this being most convenient of access, in the business part of the city. Inasmuch as inoculation is free
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rica.
Hold Me Tight, Waltz,
25569--Let's Call The Whole Thing Of. F.T.....Eddy Duchin's Orchestra.
Without Your Love. F.T.
25671-I've Got A New Lease On Love. F.T.
Sweet Heartache. F.T.
25573-Wake Up And Live. F.T.
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ially to preventing the spread of the disease. Some alarm was caused on Wednesday when the daily returns showed nearly
Here is a territory twenty-five times the size of France, with a population of less than half that. of France.
the
Inventions Cause Crimes
will probably surprise some table citizens turned into criminals Since 1910, the car-criminal has people to read that 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 cuming
"mechanically propelled vehicle") the automobile.
nowadays, was made possible by the Chiengo The professional criminal was, of coming of the motor car. subsequently explained that the on earth for a thousand years. some two thousand criminal offences
course, quick to grasp the possibili-gangsters invented a new car crime, the Innocent-sounding increase was due to a misunder-There is more gold than any have been created
Motorists, and those engaged in ties of the new invention. The first known by where else in the world.
motor car business, are liable to motor bandlis to create a European title of "taking for a ride." standing with regard to regis-
But it was reserved for an English- There is, besides, silver, plati-cornmit any of these. In one year sensation appeared in France in 1910.
They bailed the French police for inan, Arthur Rouse, to invent a tration of cases at Kennedy num, nickel, tin, lead, ore, man- (1930), for indulging in motoring Town Hospital. Actually, the ganese and oil. It is the untap- offences, 358,325 motorists were fined some time by their mobility. They unique type of crime, when he tried an aggregate of £441,159, and 415 committed Burglaries and highway to stoge disappearance for reasons ped treasury of the world.
robberies galore, and in a very short of his own. gaoled without the. option." What is this little trouble in
These figures apply only to Great time were leagues away from the Fleet-street at present about the Britain. If the totals for the United scene of their crime.
is on similar lines were added, the price of newsprint and the alleg. States and Europe-where legislation ed shortage of timber for that result would stagger humanity. purpose? The forests of Siberia would cover the whole of Europe. They have a growth of 50,000,-) 000 trees annually.
Thousands of law-abiding, respec-
At long last they were rounded up the leader shot dead in a revolver battle with the police, and the gun dispersed,
BULLS AND INNERS
According to the evidence, he pick- ed up some unknown derelict on the road, killed him, then poured petrol over corpse and car and lit it, with the notion that the charred and un-
when recognisable body,
found, would be taken for his own.
Slot Machine Thefts
cases were an accumulation over a period of seven days. One consequence of the publication of the somewhat alarming figure was to increase the number of applications for inoculation, but that was, actually, all to the
Siberiu could provide the total 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
The useful and familiar, slot- tinues. In particular, uncooked timber be transported from its
machine had no sooner been placed vegetables, whether in the form Asiatic fastnesses to the indus-
on the streets than criminals got trial hives of Europe and Ame-
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for busy making worthless discs of salads or otherwise, should be rica?
Workers in Poland have stag-causing the machines to yield up avoided, as also should peeled
Now that sampan folk have ed a strike for lower pay. The treasures from their insides.
This has row become a major in- Up to now the answer has been crept into the social columus, movement, however, has yet
and the owners dustry,
of slut- fruit. Housewives should also No! The single-track Trane- our gossip-writers mustn't overspread to Hongkong Civil Ser-machines lose thousands of pounds make a point of seeing that all
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From the Office Butts
The object of traffic regula-1
"Weather Not So Hot," says
We'll say it isn't."
tions is that pedestrians should headlines. be seen, but not hurt.
口
look the ricksha coolics' Homes." They're perfectly
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Nobody hus 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 its trai.
a year.
Up to the present no aure vants.
way has been found of defenting the slot-machine robbers, as obviously The latest fashion decree is the police cannot be taken off their
In use.
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'vel of metal diaes, and selling his plun- noticed that about some of these der to traders who did not "ask
questions," snappy young stenographers.
...
kitchen utensils are kept in a scrupulously clean condition, Chinese districts and by whole-sweet, so we've heard. whilst it is wise also just now salo distribution of simply- We see from a contemporary that women must dress to match other duties to keep special watch pamphlets stressing that a "bride" was under water their dogs. Of interest to Pekes on the many thousands of machines to boil all water before use. The worded menace from flies needs also to elementary precautions which for some time during the recent and Penkites. be carefully watched, as the dis- should be taken. School talks floods in the New Territories value. On Immersed in thought, no doubt. ense is often fly-borne. If pre-would also have a
☐ ☐ Strange as it may seem, these cautions along these lines are general principles, we should
Bet the Government sit-down strikers contend they taken, and consistently observed, like to the danger of the disease sprend- engage in much greater health are only standing up for their ing will be lessened. Excellent propaganda amongst the massca.| rights. AN are the steps which the This would need to be continu-
It was stated during a Court shown that some people who plane," we exclaim na the machine
tain of the criminal classes and it authorities have already taken, ous, all the year round. An
n motor accident was suffering ed become clearer-headed. There useful as well as wonderful inven- more might possibly be done by opportunity now presents itself case at home that the victim of have parts of their brain remov. ront's across the sky, Yes, and cer
(Continued on Page 11:) atrect of making a start in this direc-from "dyedindokokinesia." Must seems scope for a few major tion, not only for making a quick means of employing
have been hit by a foreign car, operations in Hongkong. lecturers to give talks in the tion.
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So far from enusing any men- tal defects, experiments have
Smuggling By Air
"Wonderful Invention--the nero-
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