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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th, 1928.

WORK OF POLICE. TWO NATIONS HUT.

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THE ROYAL COMMISSION. OVER THE FRONTIER FOR

INTERROGATION

WITNESSES,

WATER.

ITALIANS AUSTRIAN

LANDLORE

VIENNA.

The most interesting spot on the Brenher frontier, between Austria and Italy, is the Landshuter Hut, nearly 10,000ft. above sea level, the highest refuge, in the Zillertal Alpi, for the frontier is, drawn right through it. ~in

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VOICE TRAINING.

THE USE OF ELEVEN VOWEL -SOUNDS.

NO CUT-AND-DRIED METHODS:

OxToza, August 14th..

A lighted match held almost in the month while the vowel sound

WILL OF VISCOUNT HAMBLEDEN.

UNSETTL

ESTATE VALUED

GIFT OF £5,000. TŐ · ETON. COLLEGE.

Viscount Hambledon, of Gros-

A recently announced by cable the Royal Commission appointed to consider the general powers and

"ah was sung was one of the venor Place, London, S.W., Green duties of police in England and

illustrations used by Mr. F. Cands, Heploy-on-Thames, and The Wales in the investigation of crimes

Field-Hyde, voice trainer and Manor House, North Bovey, Devon, and offences is composed d'a follows:

lecturer at Regent's Park, Homers who was head of the firm of pines | Mr W. H. Smith and San; the The Right Hon. Viscount Lee of

tony" and "New College, lecturing

newspaper distributors, etc., and a Fareham, G.C.S.I. G.B.E, KORThe larger part of the building is today to the students attending the partner in Coutts and Co., bankers, Itallin, but the front, and the summer school in music teaching at.. (chairman).

left unsettled estate of the value principal guest room, are Austrian. Oxford. It was used to prove that

of £3,500,000. Lord Ebbisham, G.B.E.

The only water supply is on the Sir Howard Frank, Bt., G.B.Estrian side. As the Italians the idea of a vowel sound being K.C.B.

would otherwise have to bring all carried on the breath, as is fre- their water up from the nearest well on their side, about 3,000 feet quently taught, is wrong. For below, they are allowed to come to several seconds Mr. Field-Eyde the Austrian well daily, and con- continued to sing "ah" loudly, yet sequently there is a fraternising social atmosphers up there scarcely

Dame Meriel Talbot. D.B.E.

Sir Reginald Ward Edward Lane

Poole.

Mr. James Thomas Brownlie, C.B.E.

Miss Margaret Beavan, Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Mr. Frank Pick.

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to be found at any other frontier point.

The terms of reference of theThe path to the hut on the Aur- Royal Commission are

trian aide passes so close to the

To consider the general powers and duties of Police in England and Wales in the investigation of crimes and offences, including the functions of the Director of Public Prosecut tians and the Police respectively to inquire into the practice follow ed in interrogating, or taking state ments from, persons interviewed in the course of the investigation of crime and to report whether in their opinion such powers and duties are properly exercised and discharged, with due regard to the rights and liberties of the subject, the interests of justice, and the observance of the Judges' Rules both in the letter and the spirit; and to make any recommendations necessary in respect of such powers and duties and their proper exercise and discharge.

the flame of the match hardly Bickered. "This proves that sound

on it," he said: "If the reverse were is carried through the air and not

frontier towards the summit that the case you would have been by wayfarers can easily step careless. this time blown to smithereens, for ly across it, and this for Austrians I should have raised a tornado may at any time tave very serious by the mere, singing of ah." consequences. Bus unless very stringent

special orders have lately been received, and there are periods of rigid severity, the Ital ians allow Austrian and German tourists even to make excursions to summits on the Italian side from the hut without any special vija The Italian soldiers are frequently to be seen enjoying the comfort of the Italian rooms of the hut, whose landlord is Austrian.

(Laughter.)

Training In Artistic, There can be no cut-and-dried methods for any teacher or pupil, he continued. Some voices are so sensitive that it is possible to do a great deal of harm by a perfectly good method in a comparatively

house in Grosvenor Place, or an He left £2,000, the use of his additional £3,000 on her ceasing to reside there and £8,000 a year, to his wife. Other bequests include: £5,000 to Eton College; £3,000 to King's College Hospital; and 1,000 to his secretary, Arthur E.

J. Legge..

The whole of his share and in terest in Mesari. W E. Smith and Son is to be offered to his sons at

valuation. The portraits of Mr. Balfour by Aims Tadema, of Lord Knutsford and Lord St. Aldwyn, by Cope, and an oil painting of two dogs by Landseer, are to de- volvo as heirlooms with the settled estate.

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get-splendid results from the same method. This means that methods must be adjusted to suit every in There are only three points" at dividual pupil. "Training voices Mr. E. E Bridges, of the Trea- which tourists with visas

ou a scientific basis is anathema to sury, has been appointed Secretary legitimately cross the frontier, me. Singing is an artistic thing, of the Royal Commission, and Mr. Brenner, Innichen, and Reschens and the main point of training is G. D. Kirwan, of the Eome Office, chiedeck, and any person seeking artistic, and not scientific or me has been appointed Assistant Seto cross at other points is an object chanical. Therefore voice trainers cretary. Any communications in suspicion. British subjects do should remember that the work of tended for the Royal Commission not require a visa for Italy, so to voice training is an art, and not a should be addressed until further a certain extent they can cross science. In the beginning, too......

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Careers Of Members... This is the third Royal Commis sion over which Lord Lee of Fare ham has presided in the last few years. He was Chairman of the Boyal Commission on Thames Bridges, on whose recent report is based the chemo for the new Char- ing Cross Bridge, and of the Royal Commission on the Public Servires?! in India in 1923 The Committee- on Police Pay and Pensions also But under his guidance in 1925. Lord Lee at as Conservative mem- ber of Parliament for the South or Fareham Division of Hampshire from 1900 to 1918 and entered the Cabinet in 1919 as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. He held office as First Lord of the Ad- miralty from February, 1921, to November, 1999. He was a mem- ber of the Imperial Cabinet in 19d1 and delegate to the Wash ington Conference in the same year. The beautiful house and estate of Chequers (Bucks) were presented to the nation by Lord Les as a resid. chce for Prime Ministers of Eng-evolutions. land

Lord Ebbisham was Sir George

Rowland Blades, and held office as Lord Mayor of London in 1927. At present he is president of the Fede: ration of British Industries and head of the firm of Blades, East, nud Blades, the City printers. During his Lord Mayoralty he paid official visits to Paris, Ghent, and Rome. From 1918 he represented the Epsom Division of Surrey in Parliament.

Sir Howard Frank is head of Knight, Frank and Rutley, the estate agents, and a director of severál other companies. He was chairman of the Disposal and Liquidation Commission (1921-24); and before that Director-General of Lands. During the War he served at the War Office, the Ministry of Munitions, and the Air Ministry

Dame Meriel Talbot is Intellig ence Officer of the Overaega Bettiő-· ment Department and a member of

ture...

AEROFLANE'S CRASH DUR

ING" STUNTS."

An inquest was held by Dr. Cohen at Stanmore, Middlesex, on Lieut. E. L D. Moore, R.N., a pilot attached to the aircraft car rier Furious, and a member of the London Aeroplane Club. He crash- ed in an aeroplane at Edgware in view of crowds who had been perform serial watching him

Mr. Charles Walker, director of De Havilland Aircraft Company, said that Lient. Moore was flying a Moth machine.

that his brother had made 30 selo Lieut. Commander Moore "mid. fights in Moth machines.

masters.

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Another thing which is being preached in these days is that to "be a good slager it is imperative to have a wide general culture. But all the culture in the world will not give a person a voice, and some of our greatest singers have had në general culture. Masters are sup posed to make singers, but in some casca it is singers who make their There have been many names and fortunes made on the strength of a few highly gifted chers with big reputations have also H.K. Lanis pupils. That is why so many tea. H.K., & Helsh ...... 131 sel. many failures to their account. Shanghai Lands.11. 138 bay A teacher must have intuition. Hamphreys Estates.............$14.80 buy.

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Dr. Cohen said the wing was found some distance away frota the rest of the machine after the crash.

"Pilot's Soft Touch.

when the maximum strain caused.

In these eleven sounds there is a potentiality of ruining voices un- less the teacher realises how to make singers use them."

"No one, declared Mr. Field- Hyde, knows what their voice sounds like." To prove this he asked the audience to plug their ears with their fingers and shout a

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Mr. V. H. Baker, chief instruc- sentence. in order that they might B'que. Indus. G. Bonds...64% bay. the Government Overseas Settle tor of the London Aero Club, mid hear for themselves the infernal Hak, Gort, Loans ment Committee. She travelled ex- Lieut. Moore was very capable row" they made. For a few baby #61-

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reigned, tensively in the Colonics as a sécre.rols. The machine was built to everyone holding their ears and tary of the Victoria League, înd during the War was Director of the Allow a large margin of safety shouting against each other.

Moder Grade Harmonies. Women's Branch of the Food by a loop or a roll was placed pu

Major J. T. Bayin, director of Production Department, Board of it. Agriculture, later becoming Woman Police-Constable W. Wixon said the Lducation Department of the Adviser to the Ministry of Agricul the aeroplane was apparently tries, continuing his lectures on the Federation of British Music Indus- Bir Reginald Poole is head of the 2,000 and 3,000 feet.

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had | harmonies which modern composera District, London Electric, City and He said the Air South London, and the Central asked him to say that it would he use make us shiver sometimes, while London Railway Companies and the of considerable advantage to them their music is difficult to read be London General Omnibus Company. in the technical inquiry which cause of the inusual chords.Let He is 49 years of age,

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