THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH
M
1938.
DO WE
LEAD OR LAG BEHIND?
Lesson Of The Ensign: Almost Obsolete
England's two lee-skating champlons, Cecilia Colledge (ut teft) and Megan Taylor. Megan recently wrested the world's title from Cecilia after a strenuous fight at the Stockholm championships.
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From A Special Correspondent
THEN Parliament reopens the anxiety of the country regarding Britain's air pre- paredness will be reflected in an important debate, to which the Prime Ministor himself will reply.
It is already being stated, more or less officially, that the Prime Minister is ready with figures to demolish the critics, and that in case his figures fail to be completely impressive, it has been decided to re- gard any vote on the matter as a vote of censure on the Government.
This would mean, of course, the resignation of the Government if the vote were carried. In the circumstances the defeat of the Government is extremely unlikely.
But, although the critics may not be prepared to push their case to the extent of voting against the Government, there is nevertheless a widespread and growing dissatisfac- tion with many things concerning the air arming of Britain. And the anxiety goes even civil market with such success that further. Many knowledgeable they sold British planes in quan- people take the view that the ties throughout the world. same system which is, in their FROM OUTSIDE opinion, hampering the growth of the Air Force is also pre- judicing the growth of civil avia- tion.
The main charges made by the critles are two:
of
new
RADIO BROADCAST
2nd Bn. the Royal Scots
Light Orchestra
LONDON RELAYS
Radio Programme
Broadcast by ZBW on Frequencies of 45 k.e's; 0.52 m.e's. per second.
H.K.T.
12.0-12.20 p.an. Relay of Service of Intercession from SL. John's Cathedral.
12.30 Do Groot & His Orchestra. The
Gypsy Princess Selection (Kulman); Albumblatt (Wagner, arr. Mulder); Liebestruume (Liszt); Zinetta (Gecht); When The Great Red Dawn Is Shining (Sharpe); "The Merry Widow--Selection (Lchar).
1.0 Time and Weather. 1.03 Light Opera Selections. The Land Of Smites--Selection (Lehar)....London Theatre
Orch.
(Monckton);
The
conducted by Ernest Irvin *The Arcadians Arcady
Ever Pines Of Pun.. Winnle Melville. (Soprano); 'Monsicur Beaucaire' -Selection (Rose," arr. Bucalussi)
„New Light Symphony Dhestra) The
Beggar Student' (Millocker- Zell-Gence); Ich hab' kein Gold, bin | vogelfrel'; Ich knupite manchie żarte
Bande....Huns Fidesser (Tenor).
1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press; Wea- ther and Announcernents.
1.40 Rotary Tlfin Specch relay- "મ from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel. Speaker: Dr. D. Y. Lin, Director, Kwangtung Rural Co- operative Commission, and Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry, Canton. Subject: What Is Kwangtung doing to conserve her food supply?"
2.15 Close down."
ter
6.0-7.0 Chinese Programme. 7.0 Dance Music.
Quickstep--I'll Write A Love Song (from It's in the Bag'); Slow Fox- Trot--My Secret Love Affairs (film Lovely to Look at. Victor Silves- ter and Ilis Ballroom
am Orchestra. Rumbas-Green Eyes (Mendendez); Maria, My Own... Victor Silvester and His Ballroom Orchestra. Fox- December Trois-Old Pal Of Mine; Roses In Billy Thorburn and His Music. Silvery Moon And Gold- On The Cross-Eyed Horse. en Sands; The Cross-Eyed Cowboy Roy Fox & His Orchestra.
In critical and quickly changing days like these the air Industry can ouly remain abreast of the times If it han a continuous flow Ideas. Crilles maintain that the approved group, safely sheltered from competition, has very natural tendency to exclude new blood both in management | People-5. and designing and that the new A New Zealander's experiences In Ideas come from the firms outside. canvassing for a newspaper in Lanca- developments in design being carnir plight is the case of the elvil
A significant example of Britain's shire by Nesbitt Sellers. ried into effect.
I. That the Government, by re-. sirleting its air dealings more or less exclusively to a limited circle of firms, seriously obstructs new
7.25 Closing local Stock Quotations. 1.30 London Relay-All Kinds of
7,45 Studio ... — "International Wo-
2. That owing to production de-plane Ensign, the largest niplane men's Day'; a talk by Tri-Ds! Irene lays many airplanes are obsolete in the world, which came into the Ho. compared with the planes of other open only last week with great countries-before they are de-
livered.
How
How did this situation arise? did this small circle with power al- most unique in the history of Britain, eume to control the situation?
It began in this way. Back in the years 1920-32 the Air Ministry de
elded to restrict the manufacture of
flourish of official trumpets.
1
8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements. Orchestra of
8.03 Studio-Concert by the Light Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment).
HMS. 2nd Bn. The
By G. E. Hall, M.C., and omcers.
kind permission of Lt. Col.
1. Demoiselles Chic (Fletcher);
Actually she is twenty months Jate in delivery, several years old In design, and almost out of date before she begins her service. Her maximum cruising speed is 165 ph, which is totally inadequate
compete, with the best machines 2, Saschinka (Schirmann); 3, Liebe- (Friml): 6, After all these years of America and Germany.
Thirteen similar craft are
stled (Kreisler); 4, Tales of Hoffman: on Barcarolle (Offenbach); 5, Sympathy
(Nichols).
Durban 272 police dogs for use in will be opened by Walt Dis-milltary aircraft to certain murder at a cost of about £50,000 each, Dobermann Fincher breed, famous ney's latest Mickey Mouse-The heme known as the "ap
Palestine. They are the well-known
for their tracking.
Disney
Use of dogs has been an outstark-"The Sorcerer's Apprentice." ing fenture of the police measures taken to deal with the present dis-
cominissioned Leopold turbances. They were employed to Stokowski. former leader of the follow a trail from the spot at which Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra J. L. Starkey, the British and once organist at St. James's, archaeologist, was murdered on Mon- Picend!lly, London, to write the
musical score.
Mr.
day
Hoy last.
Navy Week Success-Navy Week, at Simon's Town, which opened on Saturday, is proving a great success Every night a scorehlight tattoo is presented to
to "packed houses."
Car Over Clf-BF. P. 1. Pendle- bury,
24, private secretary to the Mayor of Cape Town, was killed yes terday when the war he was driving crashed 400 feet down a cliff side near Simon's Town,
A FULL PERFORMANCE
his orchestra through full-dress per
The white-hatred maestro has led formance for Mickey's sound track.
Je
vasily excited by the possi-
proved firms,"
A few of them have since ceased to manufacture and have dropped) out of the list, but the list to-day remains practically the same. The
vital thing is that no new firms have been added to it. BOUGHT ABROAD
was
In the years that followed practi-1 cally all Air Ministry orders went to these firms. The Air Ministry to all designs would be accepted from any intents and purposes agreed that no firm outside the charmed circle.
Between 1928 and 1935
there bilities of this experiment, and a gradual re-equipment of the
of the RAF. partly because he sees In It with chance for Jobs In future for some AL the saine time it became appar
ent that there was a growing lack of performance and military charuc- teristics in British airplanes, with the result that foreign Powers who
Thousands of unemployed music- lans.
1
Motor Rucing Complaint.-Earl Howe, the British racing motorist Stokowski explained in an inter- and winner of the Grosvenor Grandview at Hollyword to-day in the Prix on Saturday, has, together with new apparatus needs a musician to other overseas drivers, complained control it. that the handicapping, has favoured
the small cars in the recent big South in a few cinemas which have so African motor races. He said that far listalled this new equipment," he the only way a strong team of inter- janid, "there is a musician who sits national drivers could be attracted to in the auditorium, listens to the South Africa cach year was by dis- nusle, and works a sound control carding the present type of race and device. He plays on amplifiers as going over to an event starting all he would on an organ. drivers together.---Reuter.
India
FORMER MINISTER
UNSEATED
Calcutta.
WALT'S ENTHUSIASM "Once you have heard this new amplifying all others sound like iml- tations.
new types of machines.
more progressive industries abroad.
heavily subsidised by the Govern- itvered they will be hopelessly out inent. By the time they are de of date. The new American machine comparable with Ensign cruises ut 220 m.p.l.
THE GIRL FROM TIENTSIN
A young Russian woman
8.33. Schuman---Papilions, Op. 2.- Played by Alfred Cortot (Piano). 8.46 Songs by Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano),
Music of the Soheres (Knepler-J. Strauss, arr. F. Mittler); The Shepherd on the Rock (Chezy- Schubert),
B.
Military Band Concert.
'Poel And Peasant'Overture (Suppe, arr. Retford)..... The Band Or H. M. Coldstream
Guards
cond.
by Lieut. R. G. Evans; Dance Of The Flowers-Valse (from 'Le Carsalre Ballet-Delibes); Slavonic Dance No. 5 (Dvorak-Op. 72/5-urr. WII- llam) Band cond. by B. Walton The B.B.C. Wireless Military Onel!; Sex Songs Medley (arr. Williams); Ship Ahoy March (arr. MacKenzie)
The Royal by G. C. Keen; The Changing Of The Guard
Mass
Bands
hind hitherto purchased their plants who made the long journey here began to place orders with the from China to England to Marine
Marines cond.
cond man she claimed to Ceremony Regimental Band flying as fast as the more advanced have married in Tientsin, Major George Milter. types of purely civil air liuers pro-described in court in London duced in America and Germany.
In 1934 there were no machines see 1. In service in the R.A.F. capable of
It is only recently that the RAF what happened when she adopted the monoplane, All the other great Powers adopted it years knocked at the door of his
ago.
The situation was remedied to home at Nuneaton.
some extent only after firms on the approved list bad gent members of
of H. M. Grenadier Guards cond. by
9,30 London Relay-The News 0.50 Variety
and Dance Pro- gramme.
Dance Orch.--Foggy Day In Lon- Distress'): Nice Work If You Can don-Fox-Trot ( 'Damsel in Get It-Fox-Tro: (Alm 'Damsel in Distress)..... Jack Harris and His Orchestra: Humorous John Henry's John Henry assisted Night Out.... by Gladys Horridge; Orchestra- Waltzes Of The WorldPotpourri (arr. Robrecht). Orchestra Mas- cutte; Vocal-Aren't Women Won- She asked him what he was do-adn't Up Till Yesterday (Wright, derful? (Shop/ro and Scott): He Ing there.
their design and technical depart- Speaking in broken Eng ments to America to study the ad-lish, the "There are 18,000
woman, Pauline cinemas
in vance Sir K. G. M.Faroqui, a Moslem America, and I am
made
there. Immediately Barlow, said her husband convinced that afterwards member of the Bengal Legislative
now British milltary Assembly for the North Tipperah diseture long they will all have to machines with improved perform opened the door. trlet, and a former Minister of the instal proper equipment with proper ances began to appear. Bengal Government, has been found musien! staff."
years,
SLOW PRODUCTION
He replied: "I am married."
Itsines, Tucker and Meskit)..... Tucker; Dance Orch-Trum-
A young woman appeared at the Fox-Trot; Goose Pimples--
Re-door and asked: "Who is this?" 1105 He replied: "My first wife."
gulity of corrupt practices at the This new picture is not yet finish- At the same time production was general election. He has been dis-ed, though Stokowski and the so slow that at times as long as five qualified from sitting in the House of orchesten have done their part.
years clopsed between the issue of a taking part in an election for six Disney is as enthusiastic as Sto-specification and the new type of
kowski. There are hundreds ormachine going into service. Mr. Justice Edgley presided over the election tribunal which heard the musical works which tell stories," he placement of heavy bombers
What says.
we hope to do in to pic-taken us long as nine years. case, two Commissionerd sitting with ture
the ear bears."
Ine Brewster Stokowski, who divorced 'Leopold Stokowski in Nevada in December, on grounds of mental cruelty, married this morn ing Prince Alexis Znlstemzalessky,
him Allegations were made by are then go that the eye can see
tion"
rival candidate of illegal "gratifica- Evangeline
io and attempts by agents terrorise voters.
Mr. Bore's
Campaign. The
Bengal Government is ignoring the campaign
in London of Mr. Subhas Chandra of Russia, at Phoenix, Arizona.
own
Jazz Speeds Postal Work
The seriousness of the situation
The outcome was that the man, Edward Barlow, a miner, was re- cently committed for trial charged with bigamously marrying Louise Cotton at Nuneaton Register Olen on Christmas Eve,
Is evident when it is remembered that at the present moment any type of airplane becomes absolete In five years. In America obso- lescento reckoned in three years. Even at the moment the Air Force The woman from the East said she Is equipped
with
approximately married Bartow at Tientsin on Octo- thirty different types of nircraft, ber 17, 1030. He was then a private which in the main nce obsolete, in the Worcestershire Regiment. judged by the modern achievements) She was first married in 1922 at abroad, as is illustrated by Italian Archangel when 16 years of age. and German products.
Her husband was killed in the re- volution.
Now what has happened in recent years outside the list of "approved irma"?
Bose, the 30-year-old Congress lender, except to contradict statements re- ported to have been made by him re- garding the release of political pri soners. It is denied that only those interned in their
bames villages were released, and it is re-
Barlow, on returning to. England, iterated that 150 political prisoners |
London.
she said. promised to send her money Avere freed from prisons and camps. The sortera at Folkstone, Kent, From 1920 onwards there de- to join him.
Chundernagore Memorial-Inhabi-postoffice do their mall rorting to veloped a considerable world demand
Then the Government authorities tants of Chandernagore, the amall music. "One of the staff offered to for civil airplanes. With the excep- at Tientsin asked her, if she would French colony near Calcutta, have lend and install a radio set," the ton of about four firma the "ap like to go to England to see her subscribed to a memorial tablet to postmaster explaing, "and I saw no proved firms" did not go into the husband. the Inte Commissioner of Palice, M. objection. So since then our 70 elvál market.
She said she would, Calestin Jules Quin, who was assorters have had light music
A number of new firms arose, with от
Barlow Bald in court that ho sassinated by terrorists on March 10, while they work. I find it seems technical staffs. composed of pro- thought his marriago in China was] 1883, at Chendernagore,
to speed them up.”---
gregaive young men, who entered the illegal.
Fox-Trot. .... Bix Beiderbecke and Ila Orch.: Vocal-The Wedding Of A Gigolo (Pola, Nesbiti and Walker); Want To Be A Nudist..... Eddle Pola; Dance Orch.-Must You Say Goodbye?-Waltz. (Alm
*Burg- theater); Where The World Ends Fox-Trol....Eugen Wolf and His Orchestra; Vocal Covered Wagon (Freeman and Leonard); The The Trail Of The
Lonesome Pino (from the film).
The Hill silles; Plano-On Your Tots --- Medley (Hart and Rodgers)., .... Vivian Ellis,
10.45 London Relay-Arry Liza in Cockney Cameos,
11.0 Close down.
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