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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY
19, 1988.
CZECH ARMY BUILDING
FOREST FORTS
DANGER
BORDER
IS CALM
(By Sefton Delmer)
Bratislava.
You may hellove this German Czecho-Blovakian crisis in all over. But whatever they think about that here in Czecho-Slovakia thero has not been the slightest slackerung In the watch on the German frontler.
No troops have been withdrawn. Only in a few exceptional eases have reservists been allowed to go home
to help with their farms. The mass' of the mobilised army remains where
it was put recently.
They are still mamming the Czech "Maginot Ilne" of dugouts and pill- boxes running through the moun- tains, meadows and cornfields Bohemin, guarding bridges and bar-
rleades on the main roads.
NO GUARDS HERE
of
And even the optimists don't think that the Sudeten Germans' nation- ality question will be settled before ! the summer is over at the earliest.
One strange thing I have found. The lost excited district of all is that, which has always been reckoned to be the most threatened in this crisis. the country behind what used to be the froutler between Czecho-Slovaltta and Austria,
It has been called the Achilles heel, because the Czech general staff. confident in the pucffle Intentions of: the former Austrian Governmunt, hadi not devoted the same attention to fortifying it as had been given to the frontier districts abutting on Poland, Germany and Hungary
And now overnight Hitler's seizure | f Austrin has made this compara tively defenceless frustier a Germinne! Czech frontier.
I have just arrived in Bratislava after moloring alt along 1: 1 Wps not stopped more than once, and Li did
not meet more than one road barricade.
NOW * number of
bridges which had apparently no guards.
Was
In Prague, by way of contrast, a friend of
mine
theatrically arrested by a spy-conscious medical major because he took a barmless picture of me while I was waiting outside the War Ministry building.
I was late myself for a milltary demonstration to which I had been invited because twenty miles outside
show my papers.
that
$11 that
General Milas Astray, founder of the Foreign Legna of In- surgent Spain, as he arrived in Rome to take part in Italy's "Day of Solidarity With
Insurgent
Spain" The General has seen heavy fighting, during which he tost bis left arm and right cyc
Two wives-one 19, another 22-
reveal wrecked
romances
HER CONFESSION DISBELIEVED
Divorce jury clear doctor
The confession of a nineteen-year-old wife, given in evidence in support of her husband's divorce suit against her, was rejected recently by Sir Boyd Merriman, Presi- dent of the Divorce Court, and a special jury.
Air. George Gordon Perry, chauf- feur, of Westbourne Park-villas, W., alleged that his wife, Mrs. Gwendo- line Perry, had committed nilscon- duet with amareled Maltese doctor, Salvatore Glovanni Paolo Clapparn, of Holland-road, W.
CHARGES DENIED
Mr. Perry claimed damages against Dr. Cluppara, who denied misconduct with Mrs. Perry and contested the ease.
Mrs. Perry did not defend the sult.
misconduct with him at his surgery,
Mrs. Perry was one of the wit nesses called to give evidence In sup- port of her husband's
case. Dr. Cluppara denied the charges in his evidence,
FIVE-DAY HEARING
RADIO BROADCAST
Eduard. Napravnik Trio From the Studio LONDON RELAYS
Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 045 k.e's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.16 p.m.
0.52 and 3-11 p.m. on m.c's. per
second.
Noon-12.20 p.m. Relny of Ser- vice of Intercession from St. John's Cathedral,
Bobby
12.30 Musical Comedy. Princess Charming Selection
and
Waller).... (Sirmay, Ruby Paince Theatre Orchestra conducted When the evidence was concluded by Percy E. Fletcher; Plense Teacher recently after a five-day hearing the
Waller and Tun- (Weston, Lec, bridge) jury, after retiring, returned a ver- Through the Window: You
Whispering Trees; Looking diet that they were unanimously agreed that there had been no mis- Ideas..... Winifred Izard,
Treble with the conduct between Dr. Clapparn and
Howes and Sephia Mrs. Perry.
London Hippodrome Orchestra con- Mr. and Mrs. Perry were Sir Boyd Merriman said; "enducted by Joseph Tunbridge; Daly's nurried in 1935 when he was thirty-tirely agree with the jury's verdiet. The Merry Widow: The Cingalee:
Theatre Wallz Memories; Intro: seven and she was sixteen.
and I should certainly not and con- trary to them. There was no other The Count of Luxembourg.. Charles Prentice and His Orchestra; Stand course the jury could have taken
Sing-Selection
(Furber, Mr. Perry's petition
his Up And against wife was thinninged, Dr. Ciappara Ellis and Cherig); Intro:-Stand Up that she had been assoelating with was dismissed from the salt with; and Slog: It's Not You; I Would If
I Could,
smiling: There's Al- Keep ways To-morrow: Take It or Leave It; Nobody to Take Care of Me.... Ray Starlia and Ila Band with vocal chorus.
Mr. Perry's case was that his wife made the acqastntance of Dr. Clap- para as a patient, and he alleged that in February 1037 she confessed
Dr. Clappara and
bad committed costs aguinat Mr. Perry.
SAID GOOD BYE
AFTER
QUADS ARE WEDDING
BORN IN
15 MINUTES
At 29 Mrs. Esther Taylor, of Liverpool, is the mother of quadruplets.
BANQUET
Mrs.
suit.
1.00 p.m. Local Time Signal and Weather Report.
1.03 Rale da Costa (Piano) And 1.03
Margie Quickstep; Avalon-Fox-
the popular young un-about-lown, Harry Roy and His Orchestra. sipping a cocktall in the Dorchester Club, Mayfair. A red carnation was Trot.
the buttonhole of his smart grey tra from The Muy Fair Hotel with
Harry Roy and His Orches vocal refrain; Everyone Says "I Love He said: "In my teens 1
spent You" (From 'Horse Feathers'); But- money recklessly, I stayed at the terflies In The Rain (Reaves and most expensive West End hotels and Myers)...Raie da Costa (Plano); frequently entertained large partics. Spanish Jake-Rumba (From Trans- To-day I am penniless.
Allantic Rhythm)....
Harry
Roy "My extravagance and foolishness and His Orchestra with vocal re- are something I want to forget.
Gonna Have Smooth frain; We're was young and had been brought up Sailing-Fox-Trot; He Wooed Her, In luxury.
And Wooed Her, And Wooed Her- and Comedy Waltz....Harry
Orchestra from The May Fair
LOVED ACTRESS
Roy
Anne Mitchell, twenty-two-year-old heiress, Self administered twilight who revealed her marriage she was swell. We hit all the high-The Duy, Intro: "Twilight Waltz
spots together. Money meant nothing....Rale da Costa (Plano). as supplied by the troubles
Marylebone until I inevitably fell heavily into at
130
Reuter and Rugby Press, debt.
Weather Forecast and Announce-
"I first met Anne at a dinner party Hotel with voent refrain; Sweet And at the Berkeley Hotel, I thought Lovely: Many Happy Returns Of
the
Last night her husband, Paul Mil- Mayfair playboy, told me that he and his wife parted Immediately after the wedding breakfast, that the mar- rage was one of convenience, says ja correspondent,
£35,000. Wel-chell, handsome twenty-one-year-old
benefit
Beethoven-Symphony
Prague, on one of the main ronds sleep, north, sentry insisted on making mo go to the local coinmundant to Minnitt apparatus, which was Police Court, recently in- used by Mrs. Taylor-her babies
"I told Anne of my troubles und ments. all arrived in fifteen minutes formed the magistrate that my debis. We discussed our faces 1.40 Gershwin-Concerte In F 'ONE PEOPLE...
and mutually agreed to marry,
Major For Plano And Orchestra, The odd thing is
costs only 2s. 6d. for the mix-she did not wish to go on
"Anne was
enabled That was with the case.
Played by Paul Whiteman and His ture of gas and air. northern part of Czecho-Slovakta,
under her grandfather's will, which Orchestra, Roy Bargy at the Piano. where they have at these anxious the average cost in 1,500 ex-
left her a marriage settlement of 2,05 Orchestral,
Oud preparations, the mountains furm afperimental cases at
Friends--Potpourri (Arr. magnificent natural defence line.
house Hospital, Barnet, Herts.
"The wedding took place at Caxton Herman Finck)....Tom Jones and Hall register office in April 1930. We His Orchestra. But if the Germans invaded the country their big drive would prob- The simple analgesia, perfected in
had a grand wedding breakfast at 2.15 Close Down. nbly be directed simultaneously from 1933 by Dr. Robert Pohn Minnitt, of
the Ritz, attended by several well-
G.00 p.m. Silesia and Austria to push an iron Liverpool, is now widely used. The
known people in the younger May- No. 4 In II Flat, Op. 50.
Played Inir sot.
by The London Philhar- wedge across from Ratibor in Silesia mother does not lose consciousness; to Nikolsburg on the Czecho-German the effect is one of numbness with u
Weingartner, monic Orchestra' conducted by Felix frontier. This would cut Czceho pleasant sensation of well-being. Slovakia in half, just as Government
The mother holds the soft- Spain has been cut in half.
lined
herself. An face-plece
prevents the flow
of gas until she inhales.
Intervals She uses it at
and breathes the mixture of nitrous oxide in air only as long as she feels it necessary.
It can't be that the reason for the comparative absence of burricades along here la that there are no Ger- mans among the population. There are, and
many of them, though not in the most exposed patch between Nikolsburg and Bratislava,
automatic valve
The summonses taken out by Mr. Mitchell were dismissed and Mr. Mitchell was awarded five guineus cosla.
PENNILESS NOW
Mrs. Mitchell, who lives in Suther- land-avenue, Malda Vale, W., had alleged persistent cruelty, desertion and neglect to provide reasonable maintenance. All the allegations
announced,
When Mrs. Mitchell's decision was her husband's solicitor submitted that, although she was not in court, he was entitled to recall rebutting evidence thut she had been guilty of misconduct and to ask the court for an order of separation on that ground.
In the other purts I kept running
Of the 1,588 mothers at Barnet 873 were denied, inta Nazi slogans painted an the cot- said they felt no pain. 611 ex- tage wolls. "One people,
one perienced "grent relief," only sixteen Fuhrer. Vote for Conrad Henlein,"
they said.
were "disappointed.” Ominously similar to the "One Starting from July 1 gas-vans will people, one Relch, one Fuhrer" cover every town in Britain and will slogan under which Austrin was supply ras for one normal confine joined up to the German Reich. ment for 3s. 2d.
Don't run away with the iden that
The apparatus, available through what I am trying to say is that this doctors, is small enough to be carried frontier is without defences, The on the back of a bicycle. troops are there all right, and masses
of them, but they are not in such;
evidence as in the northern district.
LYING IN DITCH Left £20 By
They are hidden
away
In
the
forests that run along the flat moun- Father, Inherits
tainous border helping the workmen who are busy building trenches, forts and dugouts.
In one lonely forest road I found
a machine-gun company lying in a
£1,000,000
New York.
dlich. At another as Elisha of the
I
Mr. Ivan Soel! (the magistrate) replied that he saw nothing in the Act that evidence could be put for
"The and my wife removed her wedding party over, we said good-bye, ring. Three weeks later she sent me a cheque for 1,500 to help pay my debts.
6.30 Arthur Rubinstein (Plano) And Natan Milstein (Violin).
Sonata In A Major (Vivaldi-Arr. "All this time I was madly in love David)...Natan Milstein (Violin) with pretty Mary Carlisle, the Alm with Leopold Mittmann at the Plano; actress. To me she was the most Polonaise No. 1 In C Sharp Minor, marvellous girl, and the only one Op. 20, No. 1
No. 1 (Chopin)....Arthur Rubinstein;;
Romance (Second Move- who meant anything to me
ment from "Concerto No. 2"-Wie- Milstein
NO HONEYMOON
niawski, Op. 22)... Natan "One day I hope to be in a post- with Leopold Mittmann at the Piano: tion to go to Hollywood to ask Mary Polonaise Brillante In Major
In D to marry me
Op. 4)...Natan Mils- (Wieniawaki, Mr. Mitchelf straightened his 'sik tein with Leopold Mittmann at the fic.
Piano; Capriccio In D Minor, Op. 76 "No, there was no honeymoon. We (Brahms)....Arthur Rubinstein. parted the same day and I did not ste Anne for four months.
"I went to New York and Cuba and later to Hollywood, where I was the guest of Mary Carlisle's mother.
"On my return I saw my wife
Just good friends.
0.50 Closing Local Stock Queta- tions.
7.00 pan. Military Band Music. Minstrel Memories No. 2 (W. Rimmer): Intro: Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground; Camptown Races; My Old Kentucky Home.... ..Grand
ward in the absence of the other occasionally at the Ritz. We were Lily Dale Marching Thro' Georgia
party.
"I have turned my back on my Massed Brass Bands at the Leicester
Mr. Mitchell told the story of former life now. I want to work Brass Band his loveless marriage, as be sat, slili } hard and earn a decent living."
PERFECT SOLDIER COULDN'T Bands of the Aldershot and Eastern
was passing a bridge, a platoon cume millionaire fountain pen family, who SPEAK A WORD OF ENGLISH
lus worked as dishwasher, salesman,
out of a forest. Officers dashed by and waiter, has been told by his bro in cars and un occasional motor- cyclist despatch rider passed us on ther. Frank D. Waterman, jun., that the road,
the family would not dispute his
The keynote of this dunger district claim to a £1,000,000 trust fund, re-in is undoubtedly peace. My maia im- ported in a recent issue of The Sun- pression is of the red and blue skirts day Times,
WHIPPED HIM
"To what do you attribute your great success?”
by C. A. 1038 conducted Leicester; Me- chanized Infantry Quick March (McBain); Fanfare: The Minstrel Boy: The Watch Tower....Massed Commands conducted by Leslie Sey- mour: Tidworth Tattoo; Tidworth March; Coburg March.....Massed Bands Of The Southern Command.
7.15 London Relay-Paul Revere, An episode of the American War of Independence. Written by D. F.
"Instead of going courting with girls at night I have stayed Aitken. Produced by Pascoe Thorn barracks, studying.”
So replied George Hammerton, nineteen-year-old ex-French butcher of the pensant women bent over their
boy, after he had been presented at Hounslow Barracks recently with the work, gleaming in the sun umid the Ellsha, left only £20 by his father, | Royal Fusillers' "squad medal" for being the best recruit in his squad of green fields.
Frank D. Waterman, senior, was thirty men. Not until we Kot 10 Bratislava preparing to fight for the money in itself did we get back into the Prague the courts.
spirit. The policeman wouldn't let Waterman, inventor of the Waterman most
. His great-uncle, Lewis
That was not because of the Ger- mans, he said. That was because Dr. Krofia, the Foreign Minister, was due to arrive four hours later.
ton.
8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8,03 Chorusca,
We
|yer Tickli o' Sandy McNab; Slop
..
Sir Harry Louder Songs-Vocal Gems (Lauder, Grafton, Beafon and Harper); Intro:-Roomin' 'In the He was also presented with a "Ilis- the rest of the squad and demons- Glonmin': Fou the 'Noo; Tobermory: Edson tory of the Regiment" for being the trate all ride and drill movements It's Nice to get up in the Mornin me leave my car outside the hotel
educationally progressive and could never say a word to him. The Softest o' the Family; She is while I went in to see whether they fountain pen, left the income from recruit.
Nobody in the barracks could speak ma Dalsy; I Love a Lassie; hind a room for mo.
£1,000,000 to Elisha's father, with the He could not speak a word of Eng-Fronck."
Parted on the Shore; Killiecrankle; provision that the money went to linh when he joined the Royal Fuel-
Tho Elisha when he died,
Hlers, less than six months ago.
Jock. The Border Elisha, though flabbergasted by the "I always promised my father that
Singers with Orchestra; Form Fours news,
still talked of suing for other I would carry out a family tradi- Spiders In Jelly Exported-War Songs Medley (Arr. L monies in his father's estate,
tlon, and become a good British They had not spoken for 14 years, soldier," he told the Daily Mirror, after Elisha married a Canadian girl, "My father was a British soldier, who fought in the war. Ho remained She once vislied her father-in-law's in Tranec, married my mother, a WILLOUGHBY, O. 'olce in New York and horse-whip- Frenchwoman, and has lived there Ammy
cnt, broadened her ped him. She died from an overdoso ever since. motherly Instincts, to include, a lone- [of verona).
George's sound sergeant admit- ly and inotherless chiclc.. She not Frank D. Waterman's will provided
ted that Hammerton was the only only allowed the chick to anuggle up that after his widow dled about man he had nover been able to to her two baby kittens but also £500,000 should go to Audrey, the
"tell off." "Ho maldi gove it a catly tongue bath.
daughter of Elisha and Evelyn Allen.
Cat Mothers Chick
*
Evelyn Allen..
“I have had to take him aside from
Giraud); Intro:-If you want to find. the
Sergeant; Leap Frog; Mop It Down; Mary Had a Little Lamb; Last British chemists are trying to find Long Mile: Rotten Song; Bully and
to
London.
a method of preserving spiders in jelly Staw; And When I Die, Old Muc-. for export the East. Many dougal had a Farm; I want to go. Eastern
racci believe that by Hoine, Rolling Home; Because we're swallowing spiders they can be cured here. The Big Four (Vocal Quar- of ague, malaria and other diseases. tette) with Orchestra. They are, particularly impressed by 8.20 Studio-Eduard Napravnik species of spiders with which thoy Trio, Op. 12, in D Minor, Prus Lewis are unfamiliar.
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