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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1932.

OUR LONDON AIR-MAIL LETTER

LONDON LIBRARY TRANSFORMED: NAVAL PRINTS:

GRANDFATHERS' CLUR: NEW UNIFORM FOR ARMY: "NEXT SEASON'S CAR MODELS: SCHOOL IN A CINEMA: CENTENARY OF REAL INVENTOR OF

THE STEAM” “ENGINE"

DOCTOR'S WIFE AS MASTER OF SURGERY

“(SPECTAL AIR-MAIL SERVICE)

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LONDON, Nov. 20. London's Youngect City Company.

Fleet Street is eagerly following i the fortunes of the youngest of the City companies the Newspaper Makers-which has recently been created with an-influential court." It is a matter of surprise, consider ing the power of the newspaper in- dustry and its vast ramifications, that such a unifying central body has not been established before, The achievement of distributing £5,000 in the first year among news. paper benevolent funds and for personal relief, is surely a forer unner bf great things in the future. The Newspaper Makers will work in close touch with the Stationers, who are their blood-brothers. The privy Council has already been ask ed to grant a charter, and in due course the company will apply to the Court of Aldermen for a livery,

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Sleepy Geneva,

RADIUM SOURCE IN CANADA

BELGIAN MONOPOLY.

WILL CEASE **·

(Specia? Air-Mail Service)"

LONDON, NOV 29:

Major Day

The discovery in Canada of a now and rich source of radium, and a mineral ared producing gold Next Season's Car Models.

and silver also, was described by Major Bernard Day to the Insti Those who purchase motor cara tute of Mining and Metallurgy earlier in the year than August 18 which met in the Institution of Me- will not in future be able to claim chanical Engineers. that they own a model of the next predicted that this area in Canada annual season. This is one result would be as valuable as the Katanga of the decision which the car com- ares in the Congo which produces mittee of the Society of Motor the radium supply for the world. Manufacturers and Traders is re- The site is near the Great Bear It is Lake in Northern Canada, some commending for adoption, intended to remove some of the 3 miles south of the Arctic Circle. difficulties which have arisen in re-One of the most frequently, asked cent years owing to individual questions concerning the radium manufacturers anticipating each discovery is the possibility of treat ether in rivalry to be first in the ment and marketing, in view of the field with new season's models, fact that the present marketing of with the result that cars described radium is practically entirely con- a particular year's trolled by the Belgian interests in as being of

"As regards; make are on sale as early as June Katanga," he said, in the preceding year. Another re treatment, a great deal of work sult of the Committee's decisions has been done by the Department will be to ensure a more precies of Mines at Ottawa on the Arst classification of cars that come into batch of pitch-blende ore sent out." the market second-hand.

School in a Cinema,

A plant has been constructed at Port Hope, on Lake Ontario, under the leadership of Dr. Pochon, for It is not surprising to learn that

some years assistant to Mms. Curie, Bir John Simon and M. Paul Bon- A thousand pupils in two of the and it is expected that the plant cour were noticed to be "half as London County Council's schools will have produced its first gramme leep" during Mr. Wellington Koo's

were "taken to-day to the Pic of radium by the end of February outline of the case for China at tures," accompanied by their tea-next year. Indicating that plans Geneva this week, for many people chers and a further 2,000 will have for marketing had already been experience great difficulty in keep-a similar treat. This is an experi- made, Major Day said: “We in ing awake both in the League Coon- ment and it depends on what they Canada fool quite sure that a mar cil and the Assembly. Particular are able to write about what they ket could be profitably developed, ly in the Council Chamber the pecu- have seen whether they will be re- and that the monopoly so long en liar Geneva atmosphere created by gularly taken to the cinema once a joyed by the Belgian interests central heating, cigarette smoke, the month This is the first of three should no longer continue." smell of typed documents, starch trials that are being made by the and black clothes, is singularly | L.C.C. with a view to the exten- oppressive and, in addition, Chinese sion of a film education scheme for questions have a habit of inducing schools throughout the country. I slamber at Geneva. As an instance, is proposed that teachers shall hava once when Sir Austin Chamberlain a say in the choice of subjects so was making an indignant protest that they will coincide with the against the accusations just made stages reached in class syllabuses. by a Chinese delegate in regard to the opium trade, and when Just at the height of Sir Austin's elo quence the Assembly was startled: by a loud noise from the honour able delegate from China, who had fallen asleep and whose head had struck the desk in front of him with embarrassing violence.

The London Library Transformed.

The rebuilding operations just commenced will completely trans form the London Library. Behind it the eighteenth century buildings which workmen are now demolish. ing, will be replaced by storerooms, offices and a large art ball' hous. ing all works of interest to, artists, such as the complete pictorial cata- legues of the Pierpoint-Morgan collection. Also the old reading -room, to which so many Royal personages have been regular visi- tors, it is understood will be at-

most doubled in size..

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Naval Prints,

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Doctor's Wifs a Master of Surgery.

On November 24 'the high medical honour of Master of Surgery was conferred upon Mra Philippa Parry Martin, F.R.C.S, a mother of three children. The conferment was made at the University of Lon- don Foundation Day ceremony at South Kensington. Only six women in England hold this degroe. Mrs. Martin passed the examation for the degree of ERC.S. at her first attempt and again, at her first at tempt, she took the degree which was conferred upon her on 24-a record, no other woman has ever passed both these examinations in surgery at the first sitting. Her husband is a doctor, too, and Mr. and Mrs. Martin are the only cou ple who are Masters of Surgery a well as Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons..

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Nov.

London's First Woman Mus, D. An illustrated booklet on "Rare On the Convocation held in the Prints" has been produced by the University of London on November Parker Gallery, Berkeley Square, 25, the University's degree of Doc- from which for many years collector of Music was for the first time tions of prints have been lent to conferred upon a woman. The re- officers' quarters in ships of the cipient, Miss Edith Bathurst, had Royal Navy, and to barracks and hoped to attain to a doctorate in dockyard muscuma. The suite oc- Durham University. She took the cupied on board H.M.S. Renown degree of Bachelor of Music, and by the Prince of Wales during his then discovered that the University visit to India, China and Japan statutes required an interval of five was also decorated with old prints years before a bachelor could pro- She, from the Parker Gallery.

ceed to the higher degree. therefore, placed herself under Dr. A Grandfathers' Club,

Oldroyd, professor of music at A Grandfathers' club has been Trinity College, Londen, and in formed in London with an initial the remarkably short space of two membership of 50 veterana ranging years she has passed the examina from 70 to 84 years of age. The, tion for the degree of doctor. Her originator is Mr. Frank Briant, a;exercise is s.composition for full bachelor and a Liberal M.P. who orchestra its performance occupies believes that old people are apt forty minutes Miss Bathurst is to become depressed if they stay already a Fellow of the Royal Col too much at their own fireside. He lege of Organista.

has consented to become president

of the club, and a committee of 7 Centenary of the Real Inventor of

septuagenariana has been formed

to draft rules for periodical meet

ings-smoking concerts, discussions,

the Steam Engine, :

Various engineering institutiona

and the exchange of reminiscences, in London are making arrange- An impromptu...” concert" at the mente to celebrate the centenary of formation meeting showed that the steam engine's real inventor, there is no lack of vocal talent who died one hundred years ago among the veterans, but none of next April. Contrary to the popu them can play, any musical instrucų.

Har bellafitanot George Stephenson who first invented the ment,

steam enginetbut Richard Trevi talak, Gorulah, engineer, who, in Hem engida which um Pen-y-darren to

New Uniform for the Army.. Two soldiers oppasret

Abercynonics early as 1700- experimenting with ices for harnessing the power of steam and he forestalled Stephenso some years

Office this week, wearing the new By village eight miles away, now uniforin, and equipment, with which experiment is to be made befo official decisions are reached upon the proposed Array dress reform. Modifications in the existing outfi affect practically every item of the infantryman's - clothing," the most striking, being the substitution of long trousers by a kind of modified

plug fours,lthough perhaps, plate ones would be a more

curate, description. Th

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wide sekts and knees to allow ample offios soon after agility to the athletic skirmisher and when Chinese Minister in Lon that the latest Infantry ning is don he woned and won the Countess seeking to produce. The old tight Houy

necked khaki, tunic "will also die very wealthy Jave, abget -

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THE CECIL RHODES TAPESTRIES

(Special Air-Mail Bervica)

LONDON, Nov. 20. Four panels of Soho tapestry Rhodes will be sold at Christie's which formerly belonged to Cheil in company with twelve ather

panels, some of which were former- ly "the property of a ruling dynasty."

The Cecil Rhodes tapestries, which were sold at Christia's five "years"" "ago""" ""for three thousand-

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