THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY,
DECEMBER.
Japan Viewed As Safe From RADIO
Any Blockade
NAVAL THEORISTS BELIEVE WORLD
ALIGNMENT IS
PROTECTION
By Grattan McGroarty
United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington. business paralysis would som com-
The Italo-German-Japanese alignmence in the island empire.
ment against Communism has upset The theory was regarded as a the naval thesis that British and brilliant working possibility to pre American navies might jointly superve the "status qua" of the port an econoinic blockade in the Pelde, Paelle in event of a future struggle between the white and yellow races, necording to naval opinion here.
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But the Nippanese government's recent close algument with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, recording to naval experts here,, has made possible. Anglo-American blockute of Japan so risky that neither power would dare to undertake any circamatances.
It under
The comparatively new alignment of the anti-Communistle powers againat democratic nations hus enused wide revision of hypothetical war projects of all powers. Many to the first place, American
21 blockade experis believe that the would require such a large part of theoretical ring of steel" around both the United States and Britis Japan, supported by British and feets in order to be effective that American navies, is no longer at would leave the homelanti and
tenable theory applicable to a pass vital trade arteries unguarded. sible future war in the Pacific.
RESTRICTED DEFENCE
FAVOURED
Meanwhile, American naval and military authorities appear 10 bu
centraling, on
defence of
Co-operation between the three "have not," or dissatisfled powers, is belleved in naval cycles to em-; brace
vastly more than a mere pnet of mutunt assistance to crush the Communistic "red peril."
Pacific area that lies in the triangle believed to include a tentative uns between the Aleutians, Hawaii and derstanding for the
the Patoma Canal Zone, and follow- pooling
of the a "hands fr their economie and military strength
policy in the to gain "a place in the sun" and a remainder of the Pacife. source of much-needed
raw
terials, by force if ultimately neces- there
sary.
In view of the Sino-Japanese war 15 certain to be renewal agitation the
next session of Con- press for
For years naval strategists studied air besaction of a powerful
either In Alaska or the a possible programme of naval co- Aleutian
islands, nearest poln 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 knees as strangulation.
result
HYPOTHETICAL PLAN ANALYZED
basu there
There is not much time before Christmas, and in England feeding of the turkeys the Christmas table tit-bit, is in full swing. In this picture the charming farm worker is demonstrating the right way to carry a live turkey.
Two Plots To Kill Stalin Revealed At
Terror Trial
with the present defences and mil- economic tary units in Alaska, Japan could
capture that territory of the United TWO attempts to assassinate Stalin have just been States within
few weeks.
revealed at the trial of 13 members of the Caucasian Establishment OE would provide
hostile power Government of Abkhazia on charge of planning an armed The hypothetical plan envisaged a with a
any more or less semi-circular chain of to launch a devastating air attack
convenient
point from which
rebellion. worships stretching Iron Dutch on the northwestern stetion of the Harbour, Alaska, to Singapore. The United States,
The plot was headed by Nastor blockade would have
recently tauired by Lakoba, the Abkhazian Premier, who cut off alt President Roosevelt. Japanese imports and exports ex-
is said to have recruited the chief cept
those
It is understood that to and from the Asiatic Department
the Navy of the lorni desires mainland, and theoretically would facilities in the Hawaiian Islands to two horder guards.
Oipu (secret police), to increase its the
chiet of the local militia, and have operated outside the effective make them the "Gibraltar of the range of the Japanese fleet.
While Stalin was cruising in thei Black Sea near Gagri in tite summer some agitation for of 1933 the group fired at his cutter. arexind the But the bont was going too fast, and
shots to take effect. was too far from the shore for the
Pacific."
ac-
It generally Was conceded by There is also strategists that the Philippine Islands increased defences and Guam and other small posses- Panama Causal, with possible sions of both the United States and quirement of islands strategically Britain would fail to Japan in such located on either end of the canal a possible battle, but it was thought to base submurines and 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 without being burned.
He also said that he could conduct others over the embers.
An advertisement in the London Fire walking in practiced In New Times reading "Amateur ntil pro-land, China and India where the 'fessional fire walkers or heat resis-method is the same, except that hot ters required in series of experiments stones sometimes are substituted for to test Indian fire-walker. Volun-embers. In Bulgaria near the Black teers walk
at own risit,' Seit, fire walking is a part of a re- brought
Of these A.gious ceremony. There the women 50 J. Bould, D. C. Russell, it. Adcock,
work themselves up to a frenzled Neil Marshall, H. A. Chesny, A. S. pitch 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 duit. heaped with
logs for a long time-United Press, and set ofre. The heat of the re- sulting embers was 1,090 degrees Fahrenhelt. The feet of the men to walk were washed and examined to make sure they lid hnd no, special Preparation.
Hussain then told the othern to have faith in him and to main- tain physical contnet with each other as they walked. Four men did as Instructed, walking rapidly over the glowing embers after
the
Indian
They received slight burns, but the other three, walking by themselves, were not burned at all. When the
AMBUSH PLOT FAILED
It was alleged that Trotsky, Pia- takov (Commissar for Heavy, Indus-
VILLAGE LIFE IN
FOW in
1937.
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LONDON RELAYS
Itadio Programme Broadcast by Z.D.W. on wavelengths of 335 metres (845 k.e's.) 31.40 metres (9.52 m.c's.).
HI.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. Regardnn! (Bayle-Delettre); Chez Mol (Feline-Misraki); Estampe Marocaine (Eddy-Bos).
12.40 Continental Orchestras, March Herolque (Saint-Saens).... Orchestre Symphonique (of Paris) Cont: F. Ruhlmann; En La Alham- bra, Serenata. (Breton)...........Mndrid Symphony Orchestra Cond: Enrique F. Arbos; Fire Festival Pollen (Josef Strauss-Op. 269)....Johann Strauss and Symphony Orchestra.
1.00 Time and Weather. -1.03 Turnier Layton (Vocal and Plano).
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Hur- unel and Kern); There's No More You Can Say (Delettre and Carter); Up The Wooden Hill To Bedfordshire (Grey and Connelly).
1.13 The London Palladium Or- chestra.
The Leek-Selection (Middleton); The Golden Valse (arr. Winter),
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements,
1.49 Frank Crumit (Vocal). Whoa, Josephine (Crumit, Burt); There's No One With Endurance (Crunit, Curtis).
1.40 Dance Orchestras,
Fox-Trots--My Cabin Of Dreams Roy Fox and fis Orchestra; So Rare....Roy Fox and Its Orchestra; Yours And Mine (flm 'Broadway Melody of 1938'); I Know Now (film The Singing Maring')....Roy Fox and His Orchestra; 'Cause My Baby Says It's So; Night Over Shanghai (im The Singing Marine')....
Le Tue Carezza; El Payaso Del
zon Partido....Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra; Fox-Trols- Throwing Peanuts To The Moun;
Thorburn and His
Musici
Toodle-Oo....Brian Lawrance and His Landsdowne Orch
Orchestra,
2.15 Close Down.
4.00-7.00 p.m. Chinese Programme.
7.00 Dance Music.
Gerry Moore (Piano); Fox-Trots- Quickstep-My Gat Mezzanine.... Fitty Carelessly.
Million Robins Can't Be Wrong; ..Billy Cotton and flis Band; Waltz-Moonlight Valley (film Secret Service'); Quickstep--A Sail- boat In The Moonlight....Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orches-
tru.
7.15 London Relay-Gladys Young In "The Lady's M‡ald.”
From the short story by Katherine Mansfield adapted by M. H.. Allen. Presented by John Richmond,
7.25 Stock Qualations and Hong- kong Exchange Market.
7.30 Varlely.
SOUTH CHINA (Continued from Page 63 wisely as one might Imagine, (for a considerable portion of it, is simply squandered in expensive and extra- vagant weddings, feasts and in the Vocal and Guitar Prairie Romeo superstitious practices of
religion), (Godfrey-Carlton); There's Only Five the intellectual sphere of the inhabi- Bullets In My Old Six Shooter (Box- tants is extremely limited and nar-Cox-Roberta)....Rob Mallin; Organ
ope The
musements of Musical Sweethearts....11. Robin- tries who was recently executed the countryside, may he said to be on Cleaver; Duellist
Duetlist-Roll Along, and Karl Radek (who is in Jall)
sparing indeed. There are no mixed Covered Wagon (Ker
Don't (Kennedy); were all connected with this plot. gatherings for social diversions Forget (Carr and Shapiro).... Walsh A second attempt in 1935 failed whatsoever, and the divertisements and Barker: Humorous Monologue. because the conspirators arrived to of the country people are limited to Marksman Sam (Edger and Heilo- late at the scene. where they in the witnessing of an ncensional the way)....Stanley Holloway; Novelty tended to ambush the Soviet leader.trical spectacle presented by strolling Moonlight On The Prairie (from plotters had prepued to set up an thaumaturgie and physical ski!!
According 10 the prosecution the companies
companies of players, the acts of
the Alm); Home On The Range (arr. independent
prof
of Ted and Ezra}....The Hill Billies. capitalist State, under teret by some roaming
8.00 charlatan,
and Time, Weather the protection of an unnamed foreign and, of course, the pleasure provided nouncements. country.
by the terikin and quintan market- ...8.03 Choruses. Alt thirteen have pleaded guilty, f Their chance of escaping the firing days. This latter is the amusement Royal Naval Singers-Sea Songs..
par excellence, and the squad is extremely remote.
average Naval Singers conducted by C. T. -Sea Shantles....Portsmouth Royal Chinese
villager may be truly said to be amongst irrepressible gossip-mongers; for every individuat in the country dls tricts makes a part of his existence
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Austrian Peasant Dances (arr. Max Symphony Orchies- tra cond: Walter Gochr; Vienna to attend the market once or twice Blood-Selection (Joh. Strauss-Leon- week, not only to dispose of his sur-
Stein). plus produce, but also to hear all the Herbert E. Grol (Tenor), Max Schip- Maria Hester (Soprano), sublunary and domestle gossip of the ner (Tenor) with chorus and Orches- neighbourhood. Reading as a means tra; Donauwellen, Waltz......Edith of information and diversion is not Lorand Orchestra. much in vogue, and although news-
8.30 London Relay The Micro- papers are to be had, they
At Large With S. P. for them inand rather limited. Some, indeed, are shire. A programme arranged by
unfortunately
Wyre Forest District of Worcester- published locally, but these are most- David Gretton.
are
**THIS unfortunate wife has, published in the cities und the de phone. 1. Mais. A visit to the
not gloried in all her ac- tions of the last two years.
SMOKEBOMB much to her credit." ATTACK SAVES
SEAMAN FROM SHARKS
shire,
Mr. Justice Langton said this to a Divorce Court Jury In a case in which Lord Manton was cited as co- respondent in a petition by Mr. John Dane Player, of Frinrs Well, Wart- naby, Melton Mowbray, Leicester
DAMAGES FOR WIFE Lord Monton and Mrs. Leila Joan Player were alleged to have com- walk was extended to 20 feet, they Seaman Joseph Corrie, strugging mitted misconduct in Paris,
the Atlantic to escape frum It was intimated that Mr. Player The conclusions drawn by the ankles, was saved by smoke-bombs him should be settled on his wife,
seaplane (says)
The suit was not defended so for the charge of misconduct was he findet at concerned, but was contested in re-
damages. ard to an awarded £3,500
in
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Зу so-called family or clun magazines 0.00 Local Sport Results. devoted to the news of the country- side for the consumption of those Opera Forza Del: Destino-Pace Mic
Selections from Verdi' ONE MORNING YOU WILL BE SAYING who have gone abroad.
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were all slightly burned, Including \ «hucks which were biting at his intended that any damages awarded save that whilst their fathers illu- Orchestra, Milan.
Hussnin.
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dropped from
experience when
counell at the end of the tests were Reuter). He told the story of his as announced by Price who said:
"It is purely a matter of con-
fidence,
Idly without faltering, his feet are
If the subject walks rap- Norfolk, Virginia,
Corrie-Who comes from White-
Cumberland-was
of
and granted a decree uls).
In 1928 and there are no children.
Mr. and Mrs. Player were married
"DADLY HURT"
I heard her gurgle kind of the of companionship and
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IT'S CHILLY—THINK
SUIT.
Dio....Claudia Muzio (Soprano); Alda-Grand March, Act 2... CUCI is a cursory presentation of Boston Promenade Orchestra cond: ▷ village life in South China, and, Arthur Fiedler; Morir! Si Pura E inoreover, are the normal conditions Bellat La Fatal Pletra....Rusa Pon- of daily living throughout the greater selle (Soprano) and Glovanni Mor- part of the Republic. Indeed, the tinell (Tenor); Falstaff Sul FI'LL WEAR MY TWEED lives of the people differ but Bitle D'Un Somo Elerio. Toll Dal Monte from those of their rustic ancestors, (Soprano) and Members of La Senta minated their dwellings with rush wicks dipped in rude earthen saucers of vegetable fat, their descendanta
dan vaunt kerosene lamps, and the lowly; five-gallon all tin like the demo the cigarette is found everywhere, even in the most sequestered and re- has mote hamlet. After all, Time not greatly altered the tranquil musle from Z.B.W.
10.15 5. Lovely One; d. Turn on manantony
uch That Red Hot Heal; 7. That Old
of peasant life, and such it will probably be for many decades
0.30 London Relay-The News. 0.50 Relay of the Dance Orches tra from the Grill Room of the long- kong Ilatel.
1. Whispers in the Dark; 2. Publle Melody No. 1: 3. Slop! You're break ing my Heart; 4. Melody in F.
10.10 Interval of recorded dance
In his summing up. Mr. Justice to come, and although the nation ut Feeling; 8. Blue Danube.
10.30 Interval of recorded dance large is now in the throes of a gigan-nusle from 2.0.W. tic struggle for national existence.
10.40 D. Half Way to Heaven; 10. yet it will undoubtably be many Dream of Love; 11. Wouldn't it years before the effects of her vallant resistance will have any perceptible
(Continued on Page 5.) repercussions on the tranquil dally lives of the common people.
In contact with the embers for onlylven, one-third of a second ot time. twenty survivors of the crew of the Hussain had nothing to do with the Greek steamer Tzenny Cleandris successful walks of the volunteers. (5,815 tons), which sank off the U.S. He not only failed to conduct four const recently. Eight sailors are of them without being burned, but believed to have been drowned, was burned himself over a longer
Langton anid: "Here is a woman with walk while those that went alone down with her.
Corrio sald:
"The ship took me whom the husband and formed every received no injuries."
Those who walked on, the embers
an she disappeared.
affection during the past eight years 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 Ilves, and she had been taken during the walk, but that they had clinging to that bit of wreckage for a tingling feeling in their feet short-thirty hours.
"“It is an aggravation of his suffer- Ly after.
ings that although his wife at times ceived serious burns and it was 15 They bit my ankles. But they went changed her mind and one Away "Sharks kept brushing against me. I wished to return to him, she has minutes before any bilaters appeared. away when I kicked out.
nounced as the I in the Welsh word "Hussain did not train for the feat.
again with the co-respondent.” "Finally a seaplane spotted me and
"Llewellyn," and is commonly em- As was demonstrated, any person began to bomb the sharks with smoke of extravagant sums,
It was not a case in which to think ployed in the Tol-shan of Sun-nlag with confidence and
knowledge of bombs to keep them at a distanco which the jury might think a hus- In this section of South China
In district of Kwantung Province; for how to walk can accomplists 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 sería, riskera mod
foot.
of the subjects re-
but onc
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