THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, ''DECEMBER 4, 1937.
CE
Japan Viewed As Safe From RADIO
Any Blockade
NAVAL THEORISTS BELIEVE WORLD
ALIGNMENT IS PROTECTION
By Gratian McGroarty
United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, business paralysis would soon com-
mence in the island empire.
The Italo-German-Japanese align- ment againat Communism has ups the naval thesis that British and American navies raight jointly sup- port an economic blockade in the Pacifle in event of a future struggle between the white and yellow races, according to naval opinion here.
serve
the
brilliant working possibility to pre- The theory Was regarded a F
the *'status
of quo" Pacifc.
But the Nipponese government's recent close alignment with Faseist | TUE
Italy and Nazi Germany, according to naval experts here, nas mude s The comparatively new alignment possible Anglo-American blockade of the anti-Communistic powers of Japan so risky that neither power against democratic nations
would has
dure to undertake it under caused wide revision of hypotheticnt any circumstances.
In the first place, war projects of all powers. Many
blockade American experts believe that the woukt require such a large part of theoretical "ring of steel" around both the United States and "British) Japan, supported by British and fleets In order to be effective that
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American navies, is no longer it would leave the homeland and tenable theory applicable to a pos-j vitat trade arteries unguarded. alble future war in the Pacifle.
Co-operation between the Three "have not," or dissatisfied powers,
is believed in naval circles to broce
vasily
than more
en~
mere
RESTRICTED DEFENCE
FAVOURED
Meanwhile, American naval and military authorities appear to be concentrating to crush
uti defence of the pact of mutual assistance. the Communistic "red peril." It Is Facile area that lies in the triangle between the Aleutians, Hawall and
in the
of
believed to include a tentative un-te Panama Canal Zone, and follow- derstanding for the pooling
"hands Ing # their economic and military strength to gain "a place in the sun and a remainder of the Pacificy
ma- there is certain to .be renewed
source of much-needed raw terials, by force if ultimately neces-- sary.
In view of the Sino-Japanese war
sgitation at the next session of Con- .gress for construction of a powerful For years naval strategists studled air base either in Alaska or the
Islands, a possible programme of naval co-Aleutian
nearest point In operation between the United States the western hemisphere to Japan. and Britain which conceivably Military authorities are agreed that would have brought Japan to her with the present defences and mill- Клеся да п result economic tary units in Alaska, Japan could strangulation.
capture that territory of
the United States within a few weeks.
Establishment of
base there would provide
HYPOTHETICAL PLAN ANALYZED
الد
desires
There is not much time before Christmas and in Englond feeding of the turkeys the Christmas table lit-bit, is in full swing. In this picture the charming farm workir is demonstrating the right way to carry a live turkey.
Plots To Kill
Two Plots
Stalin Revealed
Terror Trial
At
TWO attempts to assassinate Stalin have just been revealed at the trial of 13 members of the Caucasian hostile power Government of Abkhazia on charge of planning an armed
rebellion,
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ony provid The hypothetical plan envisaged a with a convenient point from which more or less semi-circular chain of to launch a devastating air attack warships stretching from Dutch on the northwestern section of the
The plot was headed by Nostar- Harbour, Alaska, to Singapore. The United States; recently toured by Lakoba, the Abkhazian Premier, who blockade
would have. cut off President Roosevelt.
Is said to have recruited the chief Japanese imports and exports ex- It is understood that the Navy of the leent
Ogpu (secret police), cept those to and from the Asiatic Department
to increase its the
chief of the locul militia, and mainland, and theoretically would facilities in the Hawaiian Islands to two border guards. have operated outside the effective make them the "Gibraltar of thej While Stalin was cruising in the
Pacific." range of the Japanese feet.
Black Sea near Gagri in the summer It generally WILE conceded by There is also some agitation for of 1933 the group fired at his cutter, strategists that the Philippine Islands increased defences around the But the boat was going too fast, and and Guam and other small posses Panama Canal, with possible ac was too far from the shore for the sions of both the United States and quirement of Islands Strategically shots to take effect. Britain wouki fali to Jupun in such located on either end of the canal a possible battle, but It was thought to base submarines und airplanes.
Fire-Walking Act Easy;
Only Confidence Needed
London.
The University of London Council for Psychical Research has conducted a series of fire-walking tests under the direction of Harry Price, its honorary secretary. A native of India, Ahmed Hussain, contended that his faith enabled him to walk on red-hot embers He also said that he could conduct others without being burned. over the embers.
Fire walking is practiced in New An advertisement in the London Times reading "Amateur and pro-Zealand, China and India where the fessional fire walkers or hent resis method is the same, except that hot ters required in series of experiments stones sometimes are substituted for embers. In Bulgaria near the Binck
la test Indian Are-walker. Vo Sea, fire waiking is a part of a re-
teers walk entirely at
own
brought 30 applicants. Of these A ligious ceremony. Th
There the women J. Bould, D. C. Russell, R. Adgock, work themselves up to a frenzied Nell Marshall, H. A. Chesny, A. Spitch for a week and then on June 1 Osborne
and
R. Craige were selected. they dance on hot embers and stones.
In the grounds of a house in Stones do not reach the heat of Carshalton near London, a 12-foot embers and therefore can be endured trench was dug, Benped with logs for a long time.-United Press. und set aftre. The heat of the re- sulling embers was 1,000 degrees Fahrenhelt. The feet of the men to to walk were washed and examined make sure they bad had no special preparation.
Hussain then told the others 40 have faith in him and 10 main- Loin physical contact with each other as they walked. Four men did as Instructed, walking rapidly over the glowing embers after the Indian. They received alight burns, but the other three, walking by themselves, were not burned at all. When the
SMOKEBOMB
AMBUSH PLOT FAILED
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VILLAGE LIFE IN SOUTH CHINA
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Radio Programme Broadcast by 2.B.W. on wavelengths of $35 metres (05 k.e') 31.40 meires (9.52 m.c's.).
H.K.T.
12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.
12.30 Songs by Luclenne Boyer, En Se Regardant (Bayle-Delettre); Chez Mol (Feline-Misraki); Estampe Marocaine (Eddy-Bos)....
12.40 Continental Orchestras, March Heroique (Saint-Saens).... Orchestre Symphonique (of Paris) Cond: F. Rullmann; En La Alham- bra, Serenata (Breton).....Madrid Symphony Orchestra Cond: Enrique F. Arbos: Fire Festival Polka (Josef Strauss-Op. 280)....Johann Strauss and Symphony Orchestra.
1.00 Time and Weather. 1.03 Turner Layton (Vocal and Piano).
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Har- bach and Kern); There's No More You Can Say (Delettre and Carter); Up The Wooden Hill To Bedfordshire (Grey and Connelly).
The
1.13 chiestra
London Palladium Or-
The Leok-Selection (Middleton); The Golden Valse (arr. Winter).
1.30 Reuter und Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements.
1.40 Frank Crumit (Vocal), Whoa, Josephine (Crumit, Burt); There's No One With Endurance (Crumit, Curtis).
1.46 Dance Orchestras. Fox-Trots My Cabin Of Dreams Orchestra; So Fox and His Roy Rare....Roy Fox und His Orchestra; Yours And Mine (film 'Broadway Melody of 1938); I Know Now (nim The Singing Marine')....Roy Fox and His Orchestra: 'Cause My Baby Says It's So; Night Over Shanghai film 'The Singing Marine').... Thorburn and His Husic;
Le Tue Carezze; El Payaso Del Cora- zon Partido. Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orelicstra; Fox-Trois- Throwing Peanuts To The Moon; Toodle-Oo.....Brian Lawrance and His Landsdowne Orchestra,
2.13 Close Down,
4.00-7.00 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7.00 Dance Muslo,
Quickstep My Gal Mezzanine.... Gerry Moore (Plano); Fox-Trots- Fifty Million Robins Can't Be Wrong; Cotton and His Carelessly....Billy Band; Waltz-Moonlight Valley (film 'Secret Service'); Quickstep-A Sall- boat In The Moonlight....Victor
Silvester and His Ballroom Orches- tro.
7.15 London Relay-Gladys Young in "The Lady's Kald,”
From the short story by Katherine Mansfeld adapted by M. H. Allen. Presented by John Richmond.
7.25 Stock Quotations and Hong- one Exchan cong
Markel
wisely as one night imagine, (for a considerable portion of it, is simply squandered in expensive and extra- vagant weddings, feasts and in the Vocal and Gultar-Prairie Homes superstitious practices of religion), (Godfrey-Carlton); There's Only Five the intellectual sphere of the inhabi- Bullets In My Old Six Shooter (Box- It was alleged thai Trotsky, Pla- tants is extremely limited and nar-Cox-Roberts)....Rob Mallin; Organ H. Robin- iakov (Commissar for Heavy Indus- irles,-who-was recently executed}_{_the_countryside, may be saided Covered-Wagon-
row in scope. The amusements of Musical Roll Along.
to be son-Cleaver:
(Kennedy);-
Don't is in jally sparing indeed. There are no mixed Forget (Carr and Shapiro). and Karl Radek (who
Walsi for gatherings
social diversions were all connected with this plot.
A second attempt in 1935 failed whatsoever, and the divertisements and Barker: Humorous Monologut because the conspirators arrived too of the country people are limited to Marksman Sam (Edgar and late at the scene where they 14- the witnessing of an occasional the way)....Stanley Holloway; Novelty tended to ambush the Soviet leader. I trical spectacle presented by strolling-Moonlight On The Prairie #from
According to the prosecution the companies of players, plotters had prepared to set up an thaumaturgic and physical skill independent capitalist Stale under fered by some
roaming chan the protection of an unnamed foreign and, of course,
by the
tertian and quintan market- country
Royal Naval Singers-Sea Songa.. All thirteen have pleaded guilty. her thance of es ping the ring days. This latter is the amusement Shanties.... Portsmouth Royal
par excellence, and
the average Naval Singera conducted squad is extremely remote,
Chinese villager may be truly said Lee, R.N. to be amongst the world's most
8.11 Viennese Music. Irrepressible gossip-mongers; for
Austrian Peasant Dances (arr. Mox every individual in the country dis- Schoncherr)....Symphony Orches- tricts makes it a part of his existence tra cond: Walter Gochr: Vienna to attend the market once or twice a Blood-Selection (Joh. Strauss-Leon- Maria Hester (Soprano), all the
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0.00 Time, Weather fnd An- 8.03 Choru
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Choruses.
by C. T.
week, not only to dispose of his sur-Stein) · Groh (Tenor), Max Schlp- prus seance, but also to hear the oer (Tenor) with chorus and Orches-
sublunary and domestic gossip of
Herbert E.
neighbourhood. Reading in a means tru; Donauwellen, Waltz......Edith of Information and
and diversion is not
not Lorand Orchestra.
much la vogue, and although news- 8.30 London Relay-The Micro- popers are to be had, they rephone At Large. published in the cities and the de- With S. P. B. Mais. A visit to the mand for them is unfortunately Wyre Forest District of Worcester- ac-rather Imited. Some. Indeed, are shire. A programme arranged by
published locally, but these are most- David Gretton.
has
THIS unfortunate wife
not gloried in all her tions of the last two years, much to her credit."
ATTACK SAVES which Lord Manton was cited as co-
SEAMAN
FROM SHARKS
walk was extended to 20 feet, they in the Atlantle to Hussain,
The conclusions
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The sult was not defended so far the charge of misconduct was at concerned, but was contested in re-
gard to damages. and granted a decree nisl.
dropped from seaplane (says council at the end of the tests were Reuter). He told the story of his us announced by Price who said:
when experience
he landed "It is purely a matter of con- Norfolk, Virginia, Adence,
If the subject walks rap- idly without faltering, his feet are Corrie who comes from White- in contact with the embers for only haven,
Mr. Player was awarded £3,000 Mr. and Mrs. Player, were married one-third of a second at Ume. twenty survivors of the crew of the in 1920 and there are no children.
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ly so-called family or clan magazines 9.00 Local Sport Results, devoted to the news of the country- 9.10 Belections from Verdi's ONE MORNING YOU WILL BE SAYING side for the consumption of those Operas who have gone abroad.
re-
La Forza Del Destino-Pace Mio Dio
Muzlo Claudia
(Soprano): Act B.... *Alda-Grand March,
Mr. Justice Langton sald this to a Divorce Court Jury in a case In respondent in a petition by Mr. John Dane Player, of Friars Well, Wart- tinby,
Melton Mowbray, Leicester-SUCH is a cursory presentation of Boston Promenade Orchestra cond: village life in South China, and, Arthur Fiedler; Morir! Si Pura E alire.
moreover, are the normal conditions Bella! La Fatal Pietro....Rosa Pon- DAMAGES FOR WIFE Lord Manton and Mrs. Leila Jonn of daily living throughout the greater selle (Soprano) and Giovanni Mar- part of the Republic. Indeed, the tineill (Tenor); Falstaff-Sul Fil Player were alleged to have com-lives of the people differ but little (Soprano) and Members of La Scala D'Un Somo Elesio....Toll Dal Monte Seaman Joseph Corrie, struggling mitted misconduct in Paris.
It was intimated that Mr. Player from those of their rustle ancestors, escape from!
0.30 London Relay-The News. were all slightly burned, including sharks which were, biting this intended that any damages awarded save that whilst their fathers Orchestra, Milan.
minated their dwellings with rush
9.50 Relay of the Dance Orches- fra from the Grill Room of the Hong- drawn by the ankles; was saved by smoke-bombs him should be settled on his wife wicks dipped in rude earthen saucers
of vegetable fat, their descendants keng Hotel. vauni kerosene lamps, and the lowly
1. Whispers in the Dark; 2. Publie flyc-milon all tin like the democra Melody No. 1; 3, Stop! You're break
everywhere, the cigarette forte teren reing my Heart; 4. Melody in F. Even in the most sequestered
10.10 Interval of recorded dance
Z.U.W. mote hamlet.. Aller ull, Time hra
ann music from not greatly altered the tranquil
10.15 5. Lovely One: 1. Turn on monotony of peasant life, and such That Red Hot Heat; 7. That. Old Hussain had nothing to do with the Greek steamer Tzenny Chandria
It will probably be for many decades Feeling; 8. Blue Danube. successful walks of the volunteers. (5,815 tons), which sank off the U,S.
ugh the nation u Ilo not only failed to conduct four coust recently. Eight allora are
10.39 Interval of recorded dance In his summing up, Mr. Justice to come, and although of
them without being burned, but i believed to have been drowned. Langton said: "Hero is a woman with large is now in the throes of a algan music from Z.B.W. was burned himself over a longer
10.40 0. Init Way to Heaven; 10. Corrie kald:
·walk wh
while those that went alone down with her. I heard her gurgle kind
"The ship took me whom the husband had formed every tie struggle for national existence.
of tle, of companionship and yet it will undoubtably be many Dream of Love: 11. Wouldn't it
valiant
(Continued on Page 5.) received no Injuries."
as she disappeared.
Affection during the past eight years yearn before the effects of her Those who walked on the embern reported that there was no sensation a piece of timber and held on. I was away from him.
"I could not swim, but I grabbed of their lives, and she had been taken realstance will have any perceptible repercussions on the tranquil daily during the walk, but that they had clinging to that bit of wreckage for "It is an BESTRvation of his auffer- lives of the common people. a tingling feeling in their feet short-thirty hours.
Inge that although his wife at times ly after. None of the subjects re
The in this syllable is pro- "Sharks kept brushing against me. [wished to return to him, she has serious burns and it was 16 They hit my ankles. But they went changed her mind and gone away nounced as the ! in the Welsh word celved minutes before any blisters appeared. away when I kicked out.
again with the co-respondens."
"Llewellyn," and is commonly em- Hussain did not train for the feat.
"Finally à senplane spotted me and It was not a case in which to think ployed in the T'ol-shan or Sun-ning Antwas demonstrated, any person began to bomb the sharks with smoke of · extravagant suma, but one in district of Kwantung Province; for
China with confidence and a knowledge of bombs to keep them at a distance which the jury might think a hus- In this section of South how to walk-- can accomplish the It was some time before I was picked band had been badly hurt and de- found the greatest number of these
up.".
served good compensation for it.
agricultural sorte.
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