1937-06-21 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 21, 1937.

AMELIA IN RACE WITH AIR LINERS

Singapore, To-day.

Amelia Earhart won a friendly $5 bet when she landed here from Bangkok on her round-the- world flight ten minutes ahead of the Royal Dutch Airways plane.

Airliners belonging to both the K.L.M. and Imperial Airways left Bangkok at the same time as Miss Earhart, who had a wager with the commercial pilots that she would arrive at Singapore first.

The aviatrix gleefully took a photograph of the K.L.M. plane as ît landed.-Reuter.

OFF AGAIN

Miss Earhart hopped off for Ban-|

The Japanese cruiser, Ashigara, in the military harbour at Kiel, during her visit to Germany, following the Coronation Review at Portsmouth. The Ashigara, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Sono- suke Kobayashi, is due to arrive in Hong Kong on July 3 for a two- day visit.

doeng at 10.57 (G.M.T.) yesterday REFUSED TO

morning-Reuter.

ARRIVES AT BANDOENG

Bandoeng (Java), To-day. Amelia Earhart arrived here from Singapore at 10.47 (local time).- Reuter.

LONG-ABSENT

COMET

TO RETURN

First In 300,000 Years

UNVEIL HIS WIFE

AND WAS SHOT

DEAD

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A famous Albanian chieftain has dead the leader of a police shot patrol who tried to make him unveil his wife, according to a report from the Albanian-Yugoslav fron- tier.

WHERE ARE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?

BRITISH ADVERT IN HOLY LAND

STRIKE RIOT CASUALTIES AT TRINIDAD

Port of Spain, Trinidad, To-day." An English police inspector, Wil- liam Bradburn, and a local corporal. were killed, and several civilians- wounded, in a seven-hour battle be tween police and striking oilfield. workers at the village of Fyzabad. yesterday.

The Governor has wirelessed for a British warship which is expected. to arrive at any moment.

The strikers were attempting a sit-down movement on the British- Lease- owned Apex and Trinidad holds oilfields.

The situation is tense.-Reuter-

GERMANY'S NEW TANKS

Lessons Of Civil War

are

On the strength of what has hap- pened in the Spanish civil war the German military authorities giving special attention to the fur- ther development of the tank. The Advertisements, seeking for clues production of medium-sized tanks. as to the whereabouts of the lost and of caterpillar tractors is being sacred Ark of the Covenant, which hastened. Two new series of cater contains the tablets on which are pillar tractors, the types L VII and written the Ten Commandments, I VIII. have been ordered recently, have been inserted in the verna-500 of each type. They show an cular press of the Holy Land by important technical - In accordance with the law re-two members of a London religious compared

improvement with earlier tractors. cently passed by the High Coun-

society, the "True Law Party." A comet, now near the tail of the cil of the Moslem Community of Al-

While the former type had four The two men, Mr. Davis Ham-wheels on each side, the new traç- Great Bear, is paying its first visit bania, the Government prohibited to the neighbourhood of the earth veiled dress for women, and police shere and Mr. J. Collins Crawford, tor has seven, thus considerably in- since the earliest days of prehis-officers were sent out to enforce it. are endeavouring to find the Ark of creasing the tractive power of the

the Covenant on Mount Ebal.

100-h.p. motor. The new tractor is toric man, according to Dr. Martin Beg Ajdar Shaban, the chieftain, Davidson, president of the British is said to have refused to allow his

They have been searching for much more expensive than the old. Astronomical Association.

time without success. An- The artillery observation detach- wife to go unveiled, and when a po- Dr. Davidson demonstrated a mo-lice officer came up as they were

to the advertisements they ments are also being quickly deve- del of the comet at a meeting of leaving the village of Pishkopeja

have now inserted in the

loped. Every division is supposed the Association in London, showing and ordered her to take off her veil,

to have a special artillery observa- its course in relation to earth and she would not do so.

tion detachment, composed of a surveying section, a sound-raging section, and a flash-spotting sec-

sun.

His calculations indicate that it returns about every 300,000

3

The officer advanced to tear it off,

years. This is roughly the same and her husband is reported to have to shot him dead. He is now under age as anthropologists assign the Pekin man, the earliest of the arrest, together with his wife. 'known races of mankind.

some

swers

news-

papers will, they hope, provide new clues to assist their search.

The "True

Law Party," which they are representing in the Holy Land, aims at placing the Mosaic Law, of which the Ten Command- ments are a part, one the Statute Numerous similar incidents are Book of Great Britain. The society The comet will not return again sald to have taken place all over considers the 613 laws which form easier than for the sound-ranging. for a like period. By that time the south and centre of Algania, the Mosaic Law are political according to Professor Charles B. where Moslem influence is strong-meaning as well as religious. Davenport, of the Carnegie Institu-est and it is reported that some men tion the human race may be ex-have even sent their wives over the tinct, the victim of excessive con- Yugoslav frontier to present them sued a statement in Palestine urg-locating fourteen batteries out of from having to appear in public un. Jing a settlement of racial strife and fifteen in two hours. In the opinion

centration on brain development.

The 300,000-year comet is known veiled. as Whipple's comet, after the American astronomer who discov-. ered it. The majority of the obser-

Of the three methods (surveying, flash-spotting, and sound-ranging) the artillery command favours flash-spotting, as the calculation is

In manoeuvres which took place a Mr. Hamshere has, therefore, istion detachments

short time ago one of these observa-

· succeeded in'

in

the land question between Arabs of those directing the manoeuvres and Jews on the basis of one of thie these batteries could undoubtedly most important of the Mosaic Laws. have been silenced. The average This is the law relating to the time taken in locating a battery

provisions, the soil is allowed to In some cases it has been done in remain fallow for one year in the four minutes. cycle of seven,

vations which Dr. Davidson used WOMEN HYSTERICAI "Seventh Year Release." Under its from the time it fires is ten minutes. for his calculations, however, have AS SNAKE

Steavenson

and ESCAPES

been made by two English astrono- mers, Dr. W. H. Mr. Mr. Will Hay, who is better! known as a comedian.

Terror stalks in Brooklyn, New The comet is now 124 million York. Many women have fled the miles from the earth, and visible district. Others, stricken by hys- only through a telescope. Its near-teria, are being tended by doctors. est approach will be on June 20, They refuse to be calmed. when it will be 119 million miles Somewhere in the streets there away. The greatest distance to lurks a six-foot boa constrictor): which it recedes is estimated nearly a million miles.

at :

It escaped from a naturalist's bag, and is now being hunted by hundreds of police and civilians.

It is useless for the naturalist to insist his pet is harmless.

The women won't believe him. They have worked themselves up into such a frenzy that they are shrieking at their own

Practical application of the law, says Mr. Hamshere, would end the in present- terrible rural poverty day Palestine and bring about peace "with the authority of the Lord God."

Stevedore's £1,856,657

More Visitors To Britain

More visitors came to Britain in 1936, than in any year since the War, Foreign visitors on holiday and tourists number 267,305, and

those on business totalled 102-369. The previous highest totals were 245-865 tourist in 1930, and 93,013 business visitors in 1929. Tourists from America rose by 15,573 to total of 76,235.

Nearly £2,000,000, it is revealed, was left by Mr. Frederic Scrutton, of Woolpits, Nutfield, Surrey, late of Scruttons, Ltd., stevedores, of Fen- church-avenue, London, E.C.

He died in April, aged seventy-

Home Office statistics issued of seven, and gross estate so far as at alien passengers who entered and present can .be

ascertained, is left the United Kingdom in 1939 in- £1,856,657, with net personalty dicate that almost all the prin- cipal nationalities contributed. The number of Italian tourists, how

Two Children Born In Three Months

Coloured woman farm worker on the property of Mr. Piet Dewet, of

windows Hartebeeste, South Africa, has of their homes-refuse to venture £1,811,923. given birth to two children within outside. three months.

Some have sealed up thows.

And somewhere in hiding--no A dozen vans and motor-cycles of ever, decreased from 5,780 to 8,195, The first child, a girl, was born doubt trembling itselfis six-

the Post Office Engineering Dept, were and Italian business visitors were in February, but died. The second, foot fugitive, cause of all the among 50 vehicles, destroyed or dam-fewer by 482 than in the previous

aged in a fire at an Aldershot garage, a boy, born recently, is alive.

which was burnt out.

trouble.

year.