DONALD DUCK
M. P.'s Told Of China Affairs
London, Feb. 7.
Dr. Chang Peng-chun to-day ad- dressed a largely-attended meeting of the China Sub-Committee of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Conservative Party in the House of Commona
Dr. Chang dealt fully with the prospects of China In the new phase of the war, which he said, was about to begin.
He added that hitherto, China hud been fighting on the defensive: The Japanese had falled everywhere to round up and exterminate the Chin- -ese armies, and China now had far more men under arms than at the beginning of the war. They had also, been tempered by fighting.
Describing the character of the offensive planned in the coming months. Dr. Chang dealt with the international position, und pointed out that Japan had lost in
force, rother than gained by entering Chion,
Dr. Chung's speech appeared to make a deep impression, and he was. warmly applauded at the conclusion, -Renter.
Disgruntled Railway Workers' Sabotage
Lipe by War Dianey Legalis
News is Knowledge
Q-The Dutch nation's wedding gift to Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard was officially presented last month, two years after their marriage. Why the delay?
A-Because the gift took the form of rebuilding and furnich- ing a wing of the Royal cou- ple's
palace
Soestdyk. at Among new Installations paid for by the Duteli people are a elnema, a gymnasium, tennis courts and a swimming pool.
Q. How mants people were
killed in Palestine in 1938? A.--According to statistics com- piled by the foent. British news- paper, "Palestine Post," 1.997- An increase of 1,000 over the figure for 1037,
Guerillas Stop Rail Traffic
Railway
Peiping. Feb. 7. traffe between Peiping and Tientsin has been interrupted by the blowing-up of a bridge near the "cene of a train-wreck which occurred
New York, Feb. 7. A group of railway workers, faced last month.
with discharge, threw one of the
Damage is reported to be serious,
elty's underground systems in com- and it may be necessary to build a plete chaos at the height of the loopline round the break.Reuter. morning rush to-day.
The men lied communication
cords, prevented giving the all-clear
signals, and abandoned loaded trains
at the stations,
1-9
Wednesday,
·HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
ON MAIDEN VOYAGE
Hulda Maersk Duc Here On Sunday
The Hulda Maersk, Intest vessel to Join the fleet of the Mnerskline (A. P. Moller), Copenhagen, will reach Hongkong on her maiden voyage on Sunday. She In a token that this company is taking its part in the widespread production of faster and more comfortable cargo vessels.
The Maerskline has of present the motor vessels Laura Maersk and Lexa Maersk under construction, and In June this year avili institute a regular fortnightly service from the Philip- via Hongkong, Shanchal, and pines Japan to Los Angeles, and vin the Panama Canal direct to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore. Nor- folk, and Savannah,
The Hulda Maersk was built last year at Odense, Denmark, at the Maerskline's own shipyard. She is bulk for a speed, fully leaded, of
15 Knoly, and her
accommodation ncludes six double passenger cabins, each with attached bathroom. Her specifications uire as follows:
Overall length 480, feet; breadth 57 feet; gross tonnage 5,000; deadweight cadeny of 8,000 tons at 25 feet 53% enes; capacity of cargo holds. 13.350 tons of 40 cubic feel; deep hunks for bulk oil cargues, 2,875 tons; refrigerated
space, 30 tons at 12 degrees centigrade, especially for Hongkong requirements.
The machinery consists of one D-vylinder diesel englue of Bur- meister & Wains four-cycle, single- sicung type, 1.1.P. 5,800,
bullt
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Points of view by travellers from Elrick and Illa Swing Music Makers; the Dominions and Colonics. 12.30_Dvorak-Quartet In A Flat Tango
Tangos-Sc Lo Llevaron;
8.55 New Light Symphony Or- la....Orquesta Tiples Fran- String cisco
chestra. Canaro; Fox-Trois-Sixty Seconds Gat Together; Goodbye To Danse Des
(Cuthbert Apaches Gibbons Summer....Carroll
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Salut Accordion) and Ilis Six Swingers.
D'Amour (Elgar); Parade Meet The Boys-Fox-Trot; Sammy Orchestra
Henry King and His Hotel Pierre Of The Tin Soldiers (Jessel); Police-
with Vocal Saxophone Fox-Trot...Scott Wood Jalousic.
Refrain; man's Holiday (Ewing). Xavier Cugat and His and His Six Swingers with Vocal Hotel Waldorf-Astora
9.15 Ducts by Dora Labbelts (8o- Orchestra Chorus: Stars Over Devon (Egan); Fox Trots Goodnight To You Aprano) and Hubert Elsdeli (Tenor). Speak To Me Of Love (Lenoir).... The Trouble With Me Is You (alm George
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Closing local Stock Quota- Plano; Moon-Enchanted (Dowdon and tions.
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Swingers; In A Little Gypsy Tea 6.45 London Relay 'Ghosts of (Bingham and Melley)....with J. H. Room (Burke); Lulu's Back In Town London'.
Squire Celeste Octet. (htm Broadway Gondolier').... George
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A new series of musical mernorics Wood assisted by written
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1.30 Reuter
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7.40 London Relay To Talk of New Mayfair Orchestra with Vo-
calists. Many Things". 1.40 London Palladium Orchestra
Permitting by Robert with Jean
Sharks Cross (Soprano)
10.0 London Relay-The Kentucky and Gibbings.
Minstrels. Raymond Newell (Baritone). an ac-
u.o Local Time Signal, Weather Les Sylphides (Cussans, arr. Lot- Report and Announcements ter); Moontime (Collins)....The 8.03 Dohnany)---Wedding Waltz, vised and produced by Harry S. Pep- Auw Flt Sear's Trading Co. Ltd. London Palladium Orchestra cond.
Berlin State Opera Orchestra con- per; Bancs, Tambourines, Camer by Richard Crean; Say
That You
Men, Crack Banjo Team, Stump! ducted by Professor H. Abendroth. Will Not Forget (Alm 'Forget me 8.10 Studio-Recital by Eva Tarn- Speech, Old and New Metodics; not')....Joan Cross (Soprano) with er (Soprano) with Lindsay A. Lafford Among the artists taking part will be IT'S GIVE AND TAKE Orchestra: Dreaming Waltz (Joyce); at the Plano.
Scott and Whaley, and Harry S. Pep- The Druid's Prayer Waltz (Davson)
1. Chide me, if thou will ("Den per and Doris Arnold will be at the The London Palladium Orches-
Glovanni"-Mozart); 2. Grant Oh Planos: The BBC Variety Orchestra tra cond, by William E. Pethers;
what I
Leslie Woodgate; Orchestral and Turbridge); Here's To Life
am ("Marriage ofments by Wally Wallond; Music ar- collected $74 too much. However, as
arrange (Talbot and Atkinson).
Figaro
-Mozart)....Eva Turner ac- ....Raymond by Lindsay A. Lafford; 4. ranged by. Doris Arnold; Books writ- there was a deflelt last year and he Newell (Baritone) with Orchestra; Piano Interlude. in-
Mandalay (Kipling and Willeby) for Mozart); 6. Saper Vorreste
Lindray A, Laf- ten and remembered by C. Denier made up the difference out of his ford; 5. Voi che Sapete ("Marriage of
Warren. Raymond Newell (Baritone)
11.0 Close down.
Thousands of suburban travellers Reporting Progress: by Ritchie Caldor]|ments.
going to work were delayed by the
demonstration.
In one instance, several uniformed A PIECE of telephone cord, CASHIERS
who "doctor"
employees "kidnapped" an empty severed by a burglar to count book have little hope of train and drove across the points at prevent his victims from call-avoiding detection nowadays. an important junction, blocking all
Figures, skilfully erased, reappear frame-Reuter.
jing the police, was sent to the cleary under ultra-violet light.
G-Blen laboratory at Washing- Another invisible ray, . Infra-red, ton.
can see through ink.
Public Safety Act
For Eire?
Dubilu, Feb. 7.
A poison-pen addict who wrote With it was a pocket-knife, abuse on school notepaper with the found on a suspect.
address blacked out was convicted by infra-red. It showed the original address as legibly as though it had never been touched.
The scientists of the Federal Mr. Eamon De Valern to-day an- Bureau of Investigation found on the nounced to the Senate that the Minis-, blade of the knife, under the micro- ter of Justice in the Dall would to- scope, a tiny brown stain.
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CHERLOCK HOLMES uncanny morrow introduce Bills to provide They placed it under the spectro- stinct for recognising the ori powers necessary to the Government scope, and found it consisted of vop-ginal of dust on a suspect's shoes to maintain its position of authority. per and tin, identical with the wire is now reduced to a matter-of-fact
understood that far-reaching of the cord.
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science.
them "seven-league glasses"-enable the detective to identify dust from places half a continent away.
powers will be sought to deal with Result: Five years' imprisonment, Special microscopes-Hoover calls extremist elementa,
This is one of the many instances Probably the Public Safety Act wil which Edgar Hoover, capital G-mon, be resurrected. and the milltary who might be called the Dean of the tribunal restored.-Reuter.
Faculty of Selentiße Detection, gives in a learned article in "The Review of Scientifle Instruments."
marked
Henshaw On Return A BLACKMAILER
Flight From Cape left by painting a rock white.
Capetown, Feb. 7.
Alex Henshaw, who took off from
ANOTHER advance is “comparison. A microscopes." With these the jexpert studies the ball, the enrtridge- theeze and the rifte-bore of a gun.
By adjustment, the microscope fis the Identical ridges, one to another,
a way no jury can question, A trapper was murdered in Alas- Two neighbours had Identien) guns enpable of having fired the fatal Dutlet.
Was
spot where the money was to be
In the home of a suspect found a pol of white paint. In this case the
spectroscope came to the tiny difference, undetectable by
constitution of the two paints,
Gravesend on Sunday in on attempt] rewup.
to fly to Capetown and back in four!,
A
days, left at 10 p.m. GMT, to-daviany other method, was found in the laboratory, thousands of miles away,
on the return flight to England.
But a telegram of the G-man's
released him and convicted
the
Public men in America are nerv-other. Henshaw necomplished the outward ous about mysterious packages. Su Aight in 39% tours, which was are the
For the comparison-microscope police to whom hours quicker than the previous handed. They might contain bombs. run which had fired the shot. Tests they are hard shown that it was the other's record set by Flying Officer Clouston Now they X-ray all doubtful par- of the suspect's clothes proved the and Mrs. Kirby Green.-Reuter, ccls.
stalns to be reindeer blood.
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Hollister, Cat. Chief of Police Fred A. Earle, who is also tax collector, did that latter
Let Me Love You Te-night (Wallerove ('Marriage of Figaro"-Mozart); and Male Volce Chorus conducled by job so thoroughly this year that ho
own
pocket, he probably will be allowed to keep the excessive collec- tion of the current year.
Commencing TO-DAY (Advanced from Thursday the previously
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"MAYBE THERE ARE MEN LIKE YOU.
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