THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
MARCH 7, - 1988.
THE KAISER WAS VICTORIA'S 'SWEET WILLIAM'
A VIVID Queen Victoria emerges from the most recent addition to her published letters, material for which has been drawn from the Prussian archives.
Included in "Further Letters of Queen Victoria,” edited by Hector Bolitho (Thornton Butterworth, 15s. net), are many to her "dear darling Augusta," later to be Empress of Germany.
ROBOT TO WATCH -UNIVERSE
STUDY DOUBLE STAR, LARGEST KNOWN
Williams Bay, Wisconsin. Scientists at Yerkes Observa- tory are perfecting a specially designed electric recording device with which they hope to "seo" a huge double star whose presence so far is known only by mathematical calculation.
Dr. Otto Struve, director of the observatory, and Profs. G. P. Kuiper) and Bengt Stromgren are credited with discovery of the new star, Epsilon Aurigad, which already has been determined to be the largest yet discovered.
Il has a diameter 3,000 lines larger than that of the sun, and a radius of almost 3,000 million miles. It is calculated to be about 3,000 light years from the Earth.
The period covers the years. 1841-80, and in the midst of the Franco Prussian War, the writes:
"This frightful bloodshed is really too horrible for Europe In the nine- teenth century. With the weapons of to-day it is really too ghastly.... The peoples will become extinct?"
. NOT WANTED Victorin does not mince her words. She tells her "dear cousins" and "dear brothers," who occupy high | places, that they cannot come to England because feeling (in 1800, when Prussia hud seizeri Schleswig from Denmark) was running too high.
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"Willy-later to be Kaiser Wilhelm I., and later still to be the wood- cutter of Doorn-makes his due op- pearance in the letters.
Nurses in
Pyjamas
At Bottle Party
In 1854. when the princeling was 5. sh writes:
Gatheshead-on-Tyne. "Dear Ittle
and attempted to put her in the William, arrived yesterday at 4.30, THE frst official account of the bath. Unfortunately part of her safe and sound and quite happy, happenings in the High Teams clothing get wet. and feeling 'qulte at home'; he is Hospital here on Christmas Eve "EXAGGERATED" a dear,
sweet child,
events which led to, the Ko "affec-
sion "Apparently the remaining nurses suspension tionale" towards me, and remem-from duty for a week of three nurses continued the eclebrationis for a bering his beloved grandfathers." and, four sisters, who have since short while. The nurse whose Periodically, the royal foot would been reinstated-was given here re- pyjamas had been dampened had no come down with a robus, thump. The cently following the meeting of the spare pair available at the hospital, Germans wanted the Princess Royal Inquiry commitice appointed by the to marry the German Crown Prince Public Assistance Committee.
In Berlin.
Mary, the famous Brown bear at Whipsnade Zoo with her newly born cub which she refuses to leave oven for a moment. After having háð a drink at the pool Mary is carrying her baby back to her home.
E RADIO BROADCAST
Palace of Varieties And Other London Relays
MOZART CONCERTO
H.K.T.
so decided to wrap herself round in Radio Programme Broadcast by a rug before retiring to bed, having Z.B.W. on, Frequencies of 845 k.c.'s., Their report, Issued Jointly on hung her behalf of the committee and of the tore amp clothes on a radia- 9.52 m.c.'s. per second.
dry." representatives. nurses'
discloses
The committee found "that this how some 20 members of the hospi- was an innocent unofficial party the tal staff attended a bottle purty accounts of which have been grossly wearing their pyjamas and dressing exaggerated."
gowns..
"THE QUESTION 15 CLOSED" The discoverers explained that it Victoria thought otherwise and really is a pair of giant suns. The said so: "The assumption of ita smaller component, hottest of the two, being too much for a Prince Roynt of was known as early as 1809 when it Prussia to come over to marry the was studied by Dr. Edwin Brent Princess Rojial of Great Britain in Frost, late director of Yerkes. This England is too absurd.
Whatever component gives off most of the stur's may be the usual practice of Prus-
sin Princes, it is not every day that drinks they took, visible light.
one marries the eldest daughter of girls, clad in pyjamas, was partly the Queen of England. The question immersed in a bath of water. therefore must be considered as WHISKY "JOKE" settled and closed."
The larger component is "cool" with a temperature of 1,000 degrees centigrade, and is invisible because of the infra-red quality of ita radia tion. This latter quality, Dr. Struve explained, makes it impossible to see) even through the most powerful tele- scope or even to photograph.
"One of the most startling results of the discovery was the detection of a shell of ionised gas in the outermost atmosphere surrounding the star,” hel said,
TO PROVE CALCULATIONS
"This gas revolves around the star Just as the atmosphere of the Earth rotates with it. Thic infra-red stellar
atmosphere is illuminated by the light of the other component. We ob- served the opacity of this stellar atmosphere
through Yerkes telescope.
serveu
Two of the girls, it is stated, admitted that they had been slightly overcome by the potency of some
and one of thei
rooms."
12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe-.
dral,
12.30 Reginald Foort af the Organ. The Lost Chord (Sullivan); Clois-
Back To Me ('New Moon'--Ram-
They place on record their opinion that in future "such parties should
in the nurses' brd- ter Shadows (Hope); Lover, Come not be held
"We
are satisfied," the committee add, "that throughout the chairman berg); One Kiss ('New Moon' (Ald. Ryan) was actuated by a de- sire to settle the whole question It is explained that there were no amicably without any
offelul in quiry."
The King of Itunover. In 1843, men present. claimed precedence over Albert: "One of the two, unbeknown to and Albert wrote: "It almost came the other, thought it would be a Lo a fight with the King, I was good joke," the report states, "to forced to give him a strong push,
obtain a small quantity of whisky ...He would not allow me to sign to mix with the sherry. She pur- the register with Victoria. He laid
chased
18. 4d. worth, and after ex- his fist on the book...."
tracting the equivalent from the sherry bottle, added the whisky."
"Him."
of inebriation.
Romberg),
12.42 Gilbert and Sullivan Ex- ecrpts.
The Yeomeif Of The Guard": Oh! A Private Buffoon Is A Light- Hearted Loon, ... George Baker; Hereupon We're Both Agreed, George Baker and Leo Sheffield; Free From Is Felters Grim,
Oldham; "The Miisado"; Alone, And Yet Alive. Bertha Lewis: On A Tree..... Henry A.
Is Beauty. Lytton; There Lewis and H. A. Lytton; For He's Gone And Married Yum-Yum.
EXPANSION IN R.A.F. AHEAD OF Derck
SCHEDULE.
After Albert's death, Victorin not only canonised him, but even wrote The sisters state that when they of him with a capital H for "He" and left, before 1 o'clock, there was no 1,542 'PLANES FOR
HOME DEFENCE .
STRENGTH NEARLY
TRIPLED
Isign,
Of the "bath episode." the com- But her children occupied a. differ-mittee states that two of the nurses ent place in her heart. She writes thought it would be a good idea to frankly: "I find no especial pleasure pretend to put one of the sisters in
in the company of the elder the water. 40-inch children the
"They carried the idea into effect. Only very exception- ally do I find the rather intimate The sister retaliated, and, overlook- Dr. Struve said they hoped to intercourse with them either agreeing the fact that the tap was run- 150 PER CENT MORE
the star through use of a new able or easy
|ning, got hold of one of the nurses servatory, "The thermo-couple will pick up a small electric current generated by the star's radiation und thus prove our carlier calculations correct."
tortele perfected in the ob-
Spectrum lines of the white com- ponents, he explained, indicated to astronomers the presence of a second component. Periodic fading of in- tensity of the light indicated it was an "eclipsing binary."
"To account for the observed facts. Dr. Struve sald, "Stromgren develop- ed the theary which explained the eclipses on the basis of the white star passing behind a
red component which had an ionized atmosphere.
"Had it not been for the setlon of
ionised the infra-red
red component's layer there would have been no ap- preciable dimming, for the normal
"KISSING WHEN SHOT DEAD"
New York.
"I WANTED to destroy the vision of that girl on the
piano kissing that man, and he her."
This alleged statement, said to be part of the confession of Paul Wright, a Los Angeles airport chief, accused of the murder of his wife and best friend, John B. Kimmel, closed the prosecu tion's case at Los Angeles-to-day,
Mr. Art La Vove, a friend of
unionised atmosphere of the infra-Wright, said that when visiting red star is practically transparent,” him in gaol six hours after the
Dr. Struve said he regarded the discovery of the double star as among the most important contributions of the Yerkes Observatory in its 40 years of existence.
CRIPPLE GIRL WANTED
A PEN-FRIEND
So She Wrote To A Prime
Minister
"I know you are a big man and I
much love from a little English
༤
Such, was the plea Australia's
shooting Wright stated that he found his wife and Kimmel in an embrace.
Officer's "I Am Ashamed
""
IN BOMBERS.
B.
A. Davies, H. A. Lytion, D. Oldham, E. Grifin, B. Elburn, L. Sheffield, G. Baker and Chorus.
1.0 Local Time Signal and Weather Report.
1.03 Herbert Groh Orchestre Raymonde,
(Tenor) and
Chanson D'Amour (Suk). Orchestre; By The Sleepy Lagoon (Eric Coates)..... Orchestre; Thou- sand Stars Are Shining (Fr. W. Official figures now available The Tiger (La Rocca).... Orche
Rust). Herbert Groh; Taming Orches- show that the rate of Royal Air tre; Orient Express (G. Mohr)..... Force expansion is ahead of Orchestre; Moonlight In Venice (G. Herbert M. Curci H. Hauser). schedule.
Groh; Loveliest Woman Of Vienna Only just over 200 first-line aircraft (August Pepock-Bruno Hard!-
planes in squadron use-are now Warden.
Herbert Groh; A Night needed to bring up the strength of the On The Waves (Finnish Waltz)--* force avaliable for home defence to (Koskiman); Electric Girl (Helm-
.... Orchestre, next year.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, The total first-line strength of the Weather Forecast and Announce- R.A.F., including the Fleet Air Arm ments. and overseas units, is 2,031 machines. This is rather more than double the pre-expansion total.
the 1,750 total promised by March 31 burgh--Holmes).....
the
Elleen Joyce-Plano
***
1.40 Spanish Music. La Habanera, (Lucena); Carnaval, (Lucena).
Cordoba Philhar- The strength available for home inonic Orchestra: Granada (Cuenca Cadiz (Cuenca and 1,5-2 nearly three times and Albeniz); defence
Albeniz). pre-expansion figure.
Mezzo-Soprano Salo First-line bombers stationed at by Conchita Velazquez with Orch; home number 840, an increase of La Maja Y El Ruisenor (Granados).
General re- more than 150 per cent.
Solo; De Tierra; Aragon (Albeniz). by Puerta connaissance aircraft, made up
Orquesta Sevilla; Spanish Dance seven land 'plane squadrons and cer-
New Light 1 (Granados). tain dying boat units, account for 162, No.
There were no general recon- Symphony Orchestra. naissance land planes before the ex- 2.15 Close Down.
"Anson"
the type, pansion, but the
5.0-8.02 European Programme. har 8.03-11.0 Chinese Programme. been supplied in large numbers, BUILDING UP RESERVES These
Hotel. figures do not include re- serves, which are steadily being bulit a) It's The Natural Thing To Do; up. The bulk of the present produc- by Double or Nothing; e) That's tion goes to reserve, for there is a How Dixie Was Born; d) For Only Osprey, which was read at a margin, which is increasing, over and You. The prosecution argued that this Chatham court-martial. proved that Wright was standing over
Asited what he meant, Wright re- plled, "Well, it was an embrace; for the sale of my baby let's leave it at that,"
Dr. Wagner, who performed post- "I am deeply and utterly first of this class to be adopted, mortems, said that Mrs. Wright's brain showed that she had drunk con- ashamed of myself," said a siderably, but Kimmel had taken only statement by Lieutenant John a slight amount of alcohol. Three
bullets passed through the wife's head Barrington Jefferies, of H.M.S. und neck and
and killed Kimmel by wounds in the body..
Its wife and fred shots into her back.
5.0 Relay of Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong
above tho requirements of new 5.15 Interval of Record Dance squadrons and normal replacements. Musle from Z.BW.
The actual progress of equipment 6.20 a) Spooky Takes A Holiday:
Lieut. Jefferies, who is attached toth the latest types is only partially) Boo Hoo; c) Let's Have Another Wright is also alleged to have said the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, revealed. Information revealing that Cigarette; d) Hoses In December am a little girl, but I know you were
In confession, describing how he
8.35 Interval of recorded dance will be able to find me a pen friend and smiled, laughed, and kissed each college and behaving with contempt released for publication until a con- once a little boy, and so I hope you found the couple: "They looked up pleaded guilty to being drunk at the any particular squadron is equipped
with a
a given type of aircraft is not music from ZB.W.
5.40 a) I and forgive me writing to you. With other again."
Told Santa Claus To to Commander John Campbell An- aiderable period has elapsed, and Bring Me, You; b) Nice work if you girl"
nealey,..s.o.
there are more units to-day equipped enn get it; e) Old King Cole; d) May with the aeroplanes mentioned than I have the next romance with you. He was sentenced to farfelt 12
are Included in the present list.
5.65 Interval of recorded dance months' seniority as a lieutenant, and It now appears that the first squa-music from Z.B.W.
dron to receive the Vickers 0.00
An a) Let's Have
Old "Wellesley" medlum bomber-the Fashioned Chrisimas; b) The Tat- type to be used by the long-ranged tooed Lady; c) Speak to me of Love. 8.15 interval of recorded dance experimental unit which may shortly attempt a record-brealding feat-whs music from Z.D.W.
Prime Minister Mr. J. A. Lyons found
on his desk, recently, from little Junc
Porter, 1 patient in Lord Mayor
MANILA SHARES
Trelaor's Cripples Hospital, Hayling The following business done quota- to be severely reprimanded. Ysland, where she has been on her tions were received after the close of back for nearly 10 years, because of
In the circumstantial letter it was the morning session by Swan, Cul- who we wanted a boy or girl bertson & Fritz from their Manila stated that Commander Annesley saw Llout. Jefferies, who was obviously drunk, with two civilians, who hud
would correspond with her and
office:
exchange stamps,
Mr. Lyons, ELYS
Austral News
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marks on a previous occasion, had made him angry." He resisted an attempt by another officer to lead
him to his cabin.
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