THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, APRIL
1988.
Short Service Pilots For Fleet
Arm To Be Recruited
NEW SCHEME IS ANNOUNCED BY ADMIRALTY
By CAPTAIN NORMAN MacMILLAN
AN important scheme to recruit short-service officers for the Flest
Air Arm is announced to day by the Admiralty.
The first entry into the new short-service branch will be made next April.
Candidates will have to attend before an Admiralty Selection Committee for interview; they will also have to undergo a strict medical examination by the Medical Director-General of the Navy.
The required minimum educationn standard is that of a School Certif-
FLYING DUTIES
ITALIAN ENVOY ente
WAS PLEASED
COUNT GRANDI, the Italian walking- to the Ambassador,
Foreign Office for a conference during the recent crisis.
Countess Will
Share Throne WHEN Countcas
Geraldine
Apponyi marries King Zog of Albania this spring she will step from the twentieth century atmosphere of Budapest, Vienna and Paris to the primitive condi- `tions of the Albanian capital.
of
A
Officers of the Air Branch will be employed on flying duties in the Fleet Air Arm, both at sea and on shore. Their duties will be similar to those of naval
the officer of executive branch in the course of his Fleet Air Arm work, and can in- clude the command of Fleet Air Arm units, but not the command of sea- going vessels.
The transfer of the Fleet Air Arm to Admiralty control and its rapid expansion necessitate the training of a large number of nuval officers, both to replace the R.A.F. personnel, and to pilot the increasing number machines which are being brought
into use.
of
The supply of officers will be met partly by the new short-service branch, and partly by executive oûl- cers of the Royal Navy and officera of the Royal Marines specialising in
WHEN IRISH
EYES SMILE
Air
RADIO BROADCAST
"At the Black Dog" And Other London Relays
CHILDREN'S HOUR
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Frequencies of.849 k.c.'s., 9.52 m.c.'s. per second.
H.K.T.
12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe dral.
12.30 Songs by Les Allen (Bar)- tano).
and
(Adams Secin' Is Believin' Ager); Rehearsing A Lullaby (Sig- ler, Goodhart and Hoffraan).....
Gibbons Les Allen with Carroll (Piano) and His Boy Friends; Musi- cal Comedy Requests .... Les Alien and His Canadian Bachelors with Orchestra,
Silvester
12.40 Victor Ballroom Orchestra.
and s
Moonlight Quickstep: Dear Love, My Love--Waltz; Hypnotized-Slow Fax-Trot; Three Minutes Of Heaven Let's Sing Again-Slow From the Film); When You're
Someone- In Love With Wallz; Kisses Are Dewdrops-Quick-
MIL. DE VALERA gave one of his rare smiles as he chatted with Air.step. Dulnaty. High Commissioner for Eire, in London, after the conference.
Letters To Nazi Agents
In Colonies Intercepted
Durban (Natal).
air work for a portion of their career. EVIDENCE of Nazi activities in South-West Africa (the former German colony) including letters, intercepted between Grey- shirt (Nazi) agents and a German organisation in Hamburg, are to be published by the Union Government.
Candidates must be British subfeels, between 1734 arud 23 years old on January 1 in the year In which they are entered, and must be unmarried. Accepted candidates will have to serve with the Royal Navy for air duties for seven years, the first two of which will be spent in training.
TRANSFERRED
on the active
After seven years list, all offcers (except those retain- ed for a further eight years) will be transferred to an emergency list for right yours.
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Officers on the emergency list will be required to keep themselves in
to and flying practice,
undergu periodical training.
From the emergency list, om- cers will be transferred to the retired list of the Royal Navy, but will be able to be called out for service in war er emer- женсу.
After seven years on the active 1st officers are eligible for a gratuity of £600, and, after 15 years, a gratuity of £1,000. If retained be- yond 15 years, they are eligible for additions not exceeding £100 for each subsequent yours Further details of pay, gratuities. and pensions, coples of the Regula- tions, and Application Forms, can be obtained from the Secretary of the Admiralty (C.W. Branch/Air).
Empire 2nd In Civil Aviation
Short Short Story
San Francisco, Jan. 15 "Chinese noodics, please," ordered Warren Brauer, 37.
He was at the Eagle Cafe, a Japanese restaurant,
in the ensuing affray with the restaurant proprietor, Brauer tuffered cuts and bralkes over both eyes.
Ogpu Strikes
In Paris
TAXIMAN - GENERAL WROTE 'MY KILLER IS-J
Paris. dreaded
The malled Ast of the Soviet Oppu has again struck at the While Russian colony in Paris.
Recently the French police came to the conclusion that Alexis Tchimering the in cx-general -50-year-old The list just issued by the Air Army of the Czar and latterly a Paris body Tax taxicab driver-whose Ministry shows that the total num- ber of civil aircraft in the British taken from the Seine, was strangled by Russian agents and flung Into the river. Empire has increased by 127 during the pust three months.
1.0 Time and Weather.
1.03 Albert Sandler, Maria Eggerin (Soprano) and Orchestra.
17.
ankt
Sandler Minuets; Intro: Mozart Minuet in E flat; Bizet Minuet from "L'Arlesienne"; Boscherin! Minuet; Handel 'Berenice' Minuet: Beethoven Minuet in G; Mozart Minuct Trlo Divertimento No. Sandler and His Orchestra; An Old Violin (H. Taylor and H. Fisher); Looking For You (H. Taylor and W. Sanderson)..... San
Sandler (Violin) Jean
Melville (Plano)
ucce
uccomp. by
and Olive Groves (Soprano); Heart- less; Gipsy, Sing For Me (Melsci). Sandler und His Orchestra; Lovely Like The Dawn Of Spring. Secret documents gathered by the (From "The Blond Carmen'); My (From recent Commission of Inquiry have Heart Is Yours Spanish Song been read by the leaders of all poll-The Blond Carmen').
Marta
Press,
Loa
tical parties in South Africa, and Eggerth with Orchestra.
the 130 Heuter
Rugby and they express indignation at
趨 from methods adopted
letter Weather and Announcements. written by a German omcial to the 1.40 Hawallan Selections. South-West African Greyshirt leader,
South Sen Island Medley..... The Major Welgal:-
Twilight Serenaders; Mauna "It is absolutely necessary to show (Alex. Dale); Alotta Beloved (R. backbone against mandatory govern- foward-A, Long-R. Canfield), ment. The fight will be hard, but Kanui and Lula; Slippery Fingers our compatriots in South-West Africa (Smeck): Serenade In The Night can be assured that everything is (Bixio Cherubini - Kennedy). being done to strengthen their backs." The Keatea Howallan Players with
A letter sent to
to Hamburg sald
vocal chorus.
Mine.
"It is expected that the coming 1.58 Latest Dance Musle. election will be hard.. .It possible
Fox-Trot-Put Me Behind Bars; to make use of the dissatisfaction of Slow Fox-Trot Roses in December the farmers with their leaders, arising (From Life Of The Party) out of the depression in South-West Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Africa, and spilt up Nichou's party,
Orpheans with vocal chorus; Waltz "If the Greyshirt movement, which Dance The Moonlight Waltz With is molding rapid strides in South Africa, lakes a footing the discon- Me; Slow Fox-Trot-Old Pal Of Mantovani and His lented elements, particularly among r
Orchestra with vocal chorus; Woltz the farmers, should combine unter Glannina Mla (From 'Firefly'). powerful leaders.
South-West Africa, now under Victor Silvester and His Ball- Union
canroom Orch. has a European mandate, population of
of 30,077, of whom 0,032 Bre German-speaking. Last year General Hertzog, Premier of the Union, banned foreign political or- Kanisations in South-West Africa and excluded all non-Britons from taking part in public affairs.
Ran 1⁄2Mile In
He had been missing from his home The British Empire occupies second place in the number of civil aircraft, for more than a month.
Among papers found in his pockels while the United Kingdom alone is third, coming after the United States was a sealed letter addressed to the A
Metropolitan Eulogios and France.
a
to No
"A CREAT SECRET"
(a Russian
The felter was duted
con
n
Here is an extract from the list January 17. In his letter he
countries In relative
His Sleep
2.15 Close Down. 8.03-11.0 Chinese Programme. 5.0 Relay of the Dance Orchestra From the Itoof Garden of the Hong- Kong Hotel.
(a) I've got my love to keep me on Park warm: (b) Slumming Avenue; e) You're Laughing At (d) He Ain't got Rhythm,
Dance 3.15 Interval of recorded Music from Z.B.W.
Me
5.20 (a) Under the spell of a Voodoo Drum; (b) I'm Nuts about Screwy; (e) Blues in 'E' Flat; (d) Christopher Columbus.
3.35 Interval of recorded Music from Z.B.W.
Dance
Boy (Sen Shanty)-(Arr.
She will share the newest throne
pool to recover from strain In Europe and rule over a country
STUDENT staying at Black-
5.45 (a) It must be love; (b) The of a million people, hundreds
"For the first time the total number priest), in which meeting was due to overwork left his bed in love bug will bite you; (e) Where is whom are divided by blood feuds
of civil aircraft in the United States arranged for January 18 with the his sleep jumped in his pyjamas the sun; (d) How could you?
6.0 StudioThe Children's Ilour. which have lasted for generations.
exceeds 10,000,
present head of the White Russians,
20ft. to the street, and, still
7.0 John Goss (Baritone) and The has no Albania
equivalent in The disclosed number of civil nir- M. Erbely, and General Dentkin.
Cathedral Quartet. confined
asloep, ran half a mile before is
Gone Europe. There are no railways; few craft in Germany
Blow The Man Down; Tom's waking up. good roads; communication is still public transport types only.
stood To Hilo (Arr. Terry); Lowlands; the number of According to the letter, Tchimerine
People on the promenade
Laddic (Arr. chiefly by mule track, and, despite figure is given for
Taylor ran Highland and training was to reveal to them "great in amazement
n
as the student King Zog's attempts to modernise his private, instructional,
past, his eyes staring straight ahead. Harris); Hlo Grande (Sea Shonty); secret." mountainous kingdom, only faint aeroplanes.
Two motorists began to chase him; Billy traces of Western influence are to be found in the cities of Tirana, Durazzo showing the
tinued:
policeman spread his arms to stop Terry). order: and Scular).
"Confidentially at the underground him, but, still staring, he swerved stallon Ternes (in Paris) you will by. drive the car because I fear some- Eventually he was caught running frem Topping-street into Church- thing will happen."
On a card in the dead man's poc-street-more than half a mile front
ran into the sea front. He ket was written:
policemen and collapsed.
They put him in an ambulance, drove to the police station, lald him
on a bench, and after a few moments he awakened, bewil- dered. He was taken back to his apart- still unable to belleve ments, and that he had not just dreamed it all he went to bed again.
women
Total Transport Civil
Aircraft Aircraft
10,582 477 3.133
The capital, Tirana, largest town in the country, has a population of only 30,000.
U.S.A.... are safe any-British Empire Although
Torely Franco where in Albania, they are seen in the streets, and most of them United Kingdom 105
Germany velled. They cook for their husbands and for
their husbands
Kaly guests, but they do not eat at the
The British Empire operates theme. some table.
largest world total of transport nero-shell leave a note indicating that my
aro
Countess Geraldine is the grand-pinnes. daughter of the former Marshal at the Court of the Emperor Franz Josef Count Ludwig Apponyi-and is the daughter of Count Jullus wealthy. Apponyl, who married American.
TOM MIX ON BUS TOUR
Sweetwater, Tex.
Tom Mix is touring the nation in $50,000 bus. Mix appeared here in the 10,000-pound bus..
177
153
2,007 1,735 ?
sury
112
512
"I am going to work. It is neces- over my cor. I should look Perhaps a trap is being prepared for
In any case when I return
room has been searched during my absence. But no one has called. is very mysterious."
It
Z MURDERS
KEY LOST AT VERÐUN RECOVERED
According to the police, it would Atherton, Cal. take a month for Tchimerine's body A Phi Beta Kappa pln has just to float down the Seine from Paris been returned to Holbrook Romney to the Sevres Bridge, where it was! after lying on the battlefield of Ver-found.
S. Africa Wants Her Own Anthem
two
Capetown. dun in France for the past 20 years, It is thought that Tehimerine's
General Hertzog, Union Premier, The pin was found by George W. death is connected with the recent Hartzell of Philadelphia, who was kidnapping of General Miller, former sald in the Assembly to-day that he
the Inscription able from
on the head of the White Russian colony hoped "Die Stem van Suid Afrika" office and (Afrikaans for "The Voice of South back to return it to its owner.
who vanished from his whose body is believed to have been Africa") would be recognised by sent in a packing-cose in a Soviet Britain as the Union Nailonal An
Exnetly 7 years them. ship to Moscow. previously General Koutlevon, head of the White Russians before Generol Miller, disappeared similarly.
UNIVERSITY GIRLS WANT SEX LIBERTY
Boulder, Colo..
Two-thirds of the sociology studenta ́at the University of Colorado were in favour of "some sex liberly before marriage.”, a survey conducted by Dr. William. Bernsid, skaistant professor of sociology, revealed,
The results of the survey, published in the Silver and. Gold, stadent newspaper, emphasized, however, that those who favoured greater sex Uberty did so with the provision that extremes de avoided and more latitude be allowed ritar beiraihalUnited Press,
General Herizor was asked why "Die Stem" had been played at the opening of Parliament. He replied that "God Save the King" had nover been recognised as a national anthera by the Cape Dutch, but would con- King'a tinue to be played when San Francisco.
Port of "Die Stem" runa Mike, a South American monkey representative was present..
EDUCATED MONKEY "KNOWS HIS STUFF
at the local zoo, has learned to smoke From the depths of southern occone, From the blue of our skies above, and will put his footprints on any
From the heights of endless moun- contract calling for his photo and a
talnej caption reading: "I find a brand) relaxes TYČẦ**
(namo
Comes the call of the land we love.
7.10 Closing local Stock Quota- tions
7.13 Violin and Piano Solos. Preludes, Op. 28 (Chopin); Waltz In A Flat Major, Op. 42. (Chopin). .... Moriz Rosenthal (Plano); Intro- duction Et Rondo Capricclose, Op. 20 (Saint-Saens)..... Renee Chemet (Violin) accomp. by Haroid Craxton (Piano)
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Programme for Sunday, April 10 1 p.m. — 2.30 p.m. PROGRAMME
1. The Calif of Bagdad, Ouverture.
2. Brunelte or Blonde? Waltz,
Boieldieu.
Waldteufel.
3. Je me souviens de Naples...Boninconto. 4. The Lost Chord.
5. Faust. Selection.
.Sullivan.
..Gounod. ...Translateur. ..Sulte Contes,
G. Was Blumen Tracumen, Gang
7. London Again.
*John Martinson Takes A Hand'. A radio serial adapted by Jack In- from the novel The Gang glis Smasher by Hugh Clevely. Produc- tion by John Cheattle.
Richard Crooks 7.50 Songs by (Tenor),
Hills of Ireland (Shields Del Riega); Bird Songs At Eventide (Barrie Coates); Good- Bye (Whyte-Melville-Tosti).
The Green
ments, Concert.
0.0 Time, Weather and Announce-
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