THE
TUESDAY, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
·APRIL 19, · 1938.
SIX NEW LINERS FOR H. K. SERVICE WHITE HATS
International Rivalry For Blue Riband of Europe-Orient Route
P.&O.'s CANTON DUE
IN HONGKONG EARLY NOVEMBER
AS two large new passenger liners for the Europe -Asia service near completion, plans are being completed on drawing boards for four other luxury liners for the same service.
First of the new ships to reach Hongkong will be the P. & O. Line's 15,500-tons Canton, which is expected to leave Southampton on her maiden voyage on Oct. 7 and reach Hongkong about Nov. 10. She replaces the 24- year-old Kaisar-I-Hind, recently withdrawn for break-
ing up.
The Canton will be followed half way through next year by a 21,000-tons luxury liner being built in Holland for the Nederland Line. The new Nederland ship at pre- sent is known as "No. 270."
Ships still on the drawing board, but on which work should start shortly, are a 16,500-tons vessel for the Lloyd Triestino Line and three vessels of the same tonnage for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line.
EMPIRE NEWS
INDIAN CONGRESS
DECISION
Bombay.
The Working Committee of the Indian National Congress, which is now holding its 51st session at Hari- pura, near here, has decided not to of Madras, call on the ministries Bombay, Orissa, Central
LTHOUGH she is nearly
AL
ready for service particu-
lars of the new P. and O. ship
SPANISH CIVIL WAR “VETERANS" HONOUR
AN AMERICAN STATESMAN
have not been announced. It CIVIL WAR VETERANS In the Spanish Loyalist Army marching by the Lincoln Menorial in Washington to
is understood she is a sister! ship, with various modifica- tions and improvements, of the Carthage and other P. & 0. "C" liners.
will
have
The Canton probably considerably more deck space than the other "C" ships and it is likely that her interior furnishing wil approach in some degree the standard of luxury of the P. & O. Line's fine "Strath" ships, operating on the England-Australia service.
honour the great emancipator.
Lord Dawson Tries To Save Mothers From The Black Cap
LORD DAWSON OF PENN, famous Royal doctor, fought in the House of Lords recently to save tragic mothers in Britain from the Black
Provinces, The ships provided by P. and O. and the North-West Frontier pro- for Australians are of a vastly higher Cap.
standard than those on the Far East- ern route.
vince to resign.
These five provinces, together with Bihar
The new Nederland Line ship will the United Provinces, and constitute the seven in which the be built on the lines of the comfort- Congress Party holds oflee. The able and popular Marnix van Sint van Olden- Bihor and United Provinces ininis-Aldegonde and Johan
irles resigned last Tuesday, following barnevelt,, although her length will
Mix. be 030 feet. 20 feet longer than the the refusal
the Governor of Bihar Sir Maurice Hallett, acting on in- structions from the Viceroy, the Mar- quess of Linlithgow, in his capucity | to sanction the us Governor-General, release of 28 poiltimi prisoners..
Working Committee The present resolution states that "Congress docs
not
wish to precipitate a crisis which may involve hon-co-operation.
It
DUTCH SHIP'S 21 KNOTS
Ier service speed of 21 knots will enable her to equal the Lloyd Triestino time of 15 days for the Singapore-Genoa run,
The English and Dutch lines are the only major companies on this route
sidley.
invites the Governor-General to re-operating without substantial sub- consider his decision.
The political situation is considez- ably easier. An important factor ini the improvement appears to have: been the vigorous protests at Con- gress Party headquarters by various provincial Congress particularly
and Madras,
governments, Bombay und against osals that they be called
proposals on for sympathetic "strikes"
The protagonists of the working
committee have found themselves in
The largest ship in the Europe- Singapore run is the 24.110-tons Conte Blancamano, owned by heavily-subsidised Lloyd Trics- The most luxurious ship
tine,
In the run, the 13,000-tons Victorin, also is a Lloyd' Triestino unit. Bath these vessels are run at 23 knots.
The luxurious and fast liners of
Maritimes. Lines also nre them by the Press heavily-subsidised by the German attack on the Viceroy, the Marquess and French Governments respec- of Linlithgow, by the Marquess of tively. Lothian,
some difficulty, and it is not surprise the North German Lloyd and Messa- Ing that they have concentrated on reries the lead given
Lord Lothian, who recently slayed with Mr. Gandhi, went a long way
in showing his sympathy with Con-
gress views during his recent visit
to India. He openly shared their criticisms of the new constitution.
Mr. Bose's Address.The opening
of the Congress session
Tast
night
:
U. S. Woman Aiding China
was an impressive affair. There was Communist Writer Playing
a crowd estimated to number about!
200,000. Determined opposition to
Federation
un formed the keynote of Subhna Bose's presidential
Mr.
Conspicuous Part
Hankow,
in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of Chinese temporary
address. He emphasised the neces lankow. sity of resisting Federation by all legitimate and peaceful-not merely constitutional-means,
the
capital which has seen foreign avia- tors, diplomats and scientists, one foreigner has played a conspicuous "The opening of the Congress part bi alding China to resist the session last night was an impressive Japanese invaders. affair.
There was a crowd
She is Miss Ames Smedley, Am- mated to number about 200,000 crican woman Communist writer, with Determined opposition to Federation who spent considerable time
of Mr. Bose's the Elithth Route Army in North formed the keynote presidential address. He emphasised China.
the
of resisting
esti-
Federation
Now in Hankow, Miss Smedley by all legitimate and peaceful-not keeps busy dully collecting clollies, merely constitutional-means.
shoes, goggles, stockings and other
be
e necessitate The British Empire, he said, must equipment which is subsequently
province to transform itself into a federation of shipped to Shansi
nations, and this would only used by Chinese guerilla warriors. be possible if Britain
д became She spends much time in propa- Socialist State.
Kanda work, addressing dozens of literary and patriotic meetings which are now very numerous.
free
Prisoners Released.--The Madras Government has released 67 prisoners from Salem prison-Exchange. .- Canada
SOCIAL CREDIT RIFT
Toronto.
PRINCESSES GROW TALLER,Showing strong resemblance to the Windsor family features, here are Britain's princesses, Prin- cess Elizabeth, right, and Princess Margaret Hose, in the process of reaching childhood'o stringy stage. Eltzabeth in nearly 12 and Margaret Roso is 1. They are shown as they arrived at Royal Agricultural Hall, London, to visit the national pony show.
He wants to ensure that a woman who, while still suffer- ing from the effects of child- birth, kills her child under the age of one
sitt not witness the dread spectacle of the judge putting on the Black Cap ant sentencing her to death.
Existing low to this effect operates, suld Lord Dawson, in the case of a "newly-born" child, but he explained that there is no definition (either legal or medical) of what that means, although the accepted custom is to regard a newly-born us under a month old.
He was moving the second reading of a Bill to amend the law; and he told a grim story of a case in which he was called as an expert witness.
"A GOOD MOTHER"
A woman, he said, had given birth to her second child. In ordinary circumstances she was sane. She was' happily married and was a good mother.
When the child was three weeks old the nurse appeared one morning, put it to the breast and left the room. She came back In about ten minutes and found that both the mother and the baby had disappeared.
There was a hunt. The infant and the mother were found with throat injuries.
The woman was put up at the Old Bulley for infanticide. It was asked whether the child was newly-born, In the absence af definition the woman was tried for murder.
But when the Judge summed up, suld Lord Dawson, he expressed the hope that some amendment of the Act might take place, and suggested to the jury that if they thought the Woman
not responsible they should bring in a verdict saying that she did the net, but that owing to lness, she was not responsible and so was not guilty.
พคร
HIS ARGUMENT
So the was found guilty without the necessity of sentencing her to
RAISED 20 CHILDREN ON death.
CHEESE AND CIDER
His governing argument was that
illuess i when
is the cause of the offence the law should go farther than it does now and that, so far as is compatible with the administra- tion of justice the machinery of crime should be avoided.
Weston-Super-Mare.
ese military uniform when she ar-
W
rived in Hankow several weeks ago,
Although she was wearing a Chi-! WHEN Mrs. Bert Fisher, of Myrtle Farm, in
Somerset village of Brent Knoll, presented her
the
boy
He attacked the familiar verdict of "Guilty but insane" as being "fundu- mentally unsound," Surely he said, and therefore it should be "Insane not guilty."
she now wears western dress, includ-husband with their fifth child, he named the baby Ing American silk stockings. She
still wears her heavy army shoes, "Thomas Lot," says a correspondent. '
It is rumoured in Edmonton that] however.
In spare moments she le prepar-1
a further break in the ranks of Social: Credit appears to be Imminent. Re Ing a book about the Chinese "Red
ports are current that Mr. Aberhart, Army,"
the Premier of Alberta, will ask for
the resignation of two members of
his Cabinet-Mr. W. A. Fallow, weeks'
""That's the lot," said Bert Fisher. But he was wrong. Thomas Lot was born. 25 years ago and to-day he's 'got 18 brothers and sisters.
Lord Snell gave general support to the Bill, but intimated that Labour would put down amendments affect- Ing the treatment of women on re- mand.
The Bill
given a second
Mr. and Mrs. Fisher claim to have the biggest family in the truce is declared. during country. Mr. Fisher took me to his antique oak bureau and reading. Minister of Public Works, and Mr. which drivers receive an advance of produced a sheaf of papers. They were birth certificates, D. B. Mullan, Minister of Agricul-1740, an hour, and the price of coni
is advanced 15 d. a ton.
WDS
had grand stuff for bringing up a family. "Have to look 'em up sometimes In Mrs., Fisher..."I alwAJS
The farm hus produced everything ture.
he one in my min Mr. Abarhart is sald to bo dis A Gold "Strike."-Reports of a to remember all their names,"
to feed them, and-" he stretched satisfied with the administration of new gold strike at Seballos, situated confided. "Twenty children
"But for the whole 20 years I went out his arms and showed his work- the road funds and the failure. of in an isolated part of Vancouver had and 19 are İlving.
on making the cheese for market. hardened polms-"this pair of hands the Ministry of Agriculture to remedy Island, to-day drew prospectors by
thankful to say that all the has earned everything, to keep them. the situation following the drought, scores. The ore was arst discovered
Never - Strike. Sokled.--The strike of 1,000 by fisherman, and more than 1,000 and we've lived in this farm since children have been healthy. coal-handlers which was called on claims have been stoked and five the day we were married in 1905, the doctor to one of them." Friday, and which yesterday, theen-miner opened. The population, Victor, our eldest, was born in 1909
azo constried dened to spread to milk, bread, and which less than a year ago department store delivery men, was of a few fishermen, now: more Amicably settled-to-day. A five than 600.
We've
"I'm only 55 and the wife's 50.
I'm
had
CHEESE AND CIDER
"Ah."
The family is still growing. We have ten grandchildren already."
He. flicked over the plie of birth: "And after that I had a baby
murmured Mr. Eisher, certificates. "Must be the largest every year for 20 years,” shipped "Somerset cheese and elder are family, don't you think?"
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