FRIDAY, JANUARY 21,
1938.
THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
JAPANESE MARINES LANDING IN N. CHINA:
A PICTURE OF WHAT MIGHT COME
TO KWANGTUNG AND THE SOUTH
-TRANSPORT; PROM TROO ~MAND
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'HIDDEN MEN' TO TRICK THE FOREIGN SPY RINGS
Three Continents Were Part of the Land of the South Pole
Washington,
Dr. W. W. Watts, British geologist. has offered scientific ovidoneo which he belloves shows that South Africa, South America and Australia were at one time parts of a great continent close to the south polo.
His findings, revealed in the annual report of the Smith- sonian Institution, gave credence to the old concept of a hypothe tical continent of Gondwanaland around the south pole.
Chlef evidence of the southern contlneni was scratches of glacial drift over rocks in these parts of the southern hemisphere and glacial.de- posits of gravel.
MAORI CLAIMS
He said that some geologists be lieve that the glaciated lands formed part of a single land mass more than 200,000
years
ngo.
This
Auckland.
Now fonted like a raft across the south Zealand, slates that the Government pole regions.
Mr. Savage,
of Premier
JAPANESE marines are still activo in South China and attempted landings have been reported from Macao and Hainan Island. Crack Chinese troops, equipped with modern weapons, are lining the coast to try to chock any large scale land- ings. These remarkable pictures show Japanese troops making a landing in small boats from transport ship during recent operations further north.
£500 PEARLS FOR 72d.
Miss Patricia Ryan, a radio singer,
went into a New York shop to buy
a
7d. string of imitation pearls, Te-
moved her £500 string to see if the
two matched, picked up the wrong string:
But her pearls were not at the shop: they had probably been sold' for 74d.
PAPERS FOR THE KING'S PROCTOR
DECREE FOR NAVAL OFFICER'S WIFE
JUDGE AND HUSBAND'S HOTEL VISIT
The papers in a case before Mr. Yard a Justlee Buckmill in the Divorce Court In a room at Scotland handful of men in shirt-sleeves sat, recently were ordered to be sent to beneath green-shaded lamps-work- the King's Proctor. Ing out puzzles that would keep you. He grunted a decree nisl, with guessing a lifetime.
costs, to Mrs. Shirley Tod, of Bury- road, Alverstoke, Hampshire, on the Every day they are there. They ground of the adultery of her hus- never cease puzzling.
Their Job is to decode messages sent by foreign Powers and spy rings to agents in this country.
LETTERS OPENED
Most foreign sples in Britain are known to the 1tome Offer. All their letters are checked, secretly opened And The Men Who Puzzle solve their
contents.
They probe, too, into those inno- cent letters and postcards sent out of this country by suspected allens. They seldom fail..
band, Lt. Cmdr. David Tod. The care was undefended and Mrs. Tod was given the custody of the two children.
Lt.-Cindr. and Mrs. Tod were married at Atverstoke in 1920 and, according to the case for the wife. they were extremely unhappy, and separated. Mrs. Tod found that in October, 1938, her husband stayed at 11 Portsmouth hotel with another
woma
Mr. Justice Buckn!!! sold that, he accepted Mrs. Tod's although evidence as being given in good faith,
he considered that, from the corres- pondence and the other evidence, TWENTY LANGUAGES
proof of the adultery (alled. thelr Adultery was a serious offence, he Every known code is at finger-tips. Each of them can speak sald, especially in the case of a man Tod. from 10 to 20 languages and dialects, in the position of Lt.-Cmdr.
The evidence showed that he went Messages with vital secrets con- to the hotel at Portsmouth-where cerning armaments, defence men- he was known-with the class of for the express surés, navy and Bghting strength are' woman described. often held back or altered. Harinless purpose of providing his wife with
is sent evidence for divorce. or Inaccurate information
The instead.
circumstances, added Justice Buckmill, removed the prima will hear the Maarl land compenza-
These men work in close contact fncie inference that Lt.-Cmdr. Tod tion claims in 1930. An effort will
a settlement of theory fitted in with the hypothesis with the Home Office, and no mes- went to
the h
hotel be made to reach
to commit miscon various claims, including that of the of continent drift advanced by the sages are intercepted till an official duel. He thought that where there Ngaltasu tribes for £3,000,000,
German selentist Alfred Wegener, approval is obtained.
were innocent and guilty alterna- In 1840 when organised colonisa-Under this theory, the present re-
lives, the court ought to infer Inno- cence. He was bound, however, by tica in New Zealand began tho Maori owned all the land in the glons of South Africa, southern
an Appeal Court decision. Aus- country.
South America, Madagascar, Iralia, New Zealand and Tasmania Antarctica broke apart and
FAMOUS BULLFROG DIES
St. Louis.
and
Dr. Waits explained that
ihi
HIFTOPOTAMUS KILLS LION
Nairobi.
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Lilith, the world's most photograph-ocean. ed bullfrog, has croaked for the last
Mr.
BLUE INK BOUNCES BACK
Bristow, Okla. Because blue will not photograph
time. St. Louis zoo oMetals sald Fragments of the supposed con- merged, probably was mistaken by plainly, 400 Bristow motorists who Lilith, an albino, had been their tinent can be fitted together in fair the lion for a wild plg.: The hippo algned applications for state drivers atellar attraction. for three years. Aly good fashion considering the dates potamus gored the len many times ilcences with the blue jak furnished. 9. th10:5 applications--this fizike using, skin discaso akin to dropsy was said of severance, Dr. Waits salt. United with is great tusks, inflicung mortal by the licence office here must resign 'to be the cause of death, deya dresu..
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