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London Air-Mail Letter

When Berengaria Talks To Land: Our Sailor King: Roosevelt On Opera Stage Believe It Or Not: Busy Days For Lords: Lord Riddell

(Special Air-Mall 'Service)'

London, November 22. TALKING TO THE BERENGARIA. Following on the conversation which a representative of "The Daily Telegraph" has with an omicer of the Berengaria during her vain search for the Saxilby's boats, my curiosity was aroused as to how such a conversation was made possible.

Yesterday I visited the room at Carter-lane, E.C., where all long- distance calls concentrate. This room was the hub of Wednesday night's talk with the liner.

How is a ship at sea rung up? Carter-lane sends a telegram to the Wireless Service Control Room in the Central Telegraph Office, but 100 yards away.

was met with laughter from the audience. Turning round sudden ly, he saw Franklin Roosevelt prodding the restive charger with

his spear.

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CONFIDENCE VOTE PASSED Budget Proposals Accepted

Paris, December" 10712 The 15-day old French Cabinet passed its first vital test yesterday, when the Right amendment, re- ducing the yield of article 12 of the Finanes Bill by 150,000,000. fra, was rejected by the. Chamber of Deputies by 301 votes to 245, after the Premier, Mr. Camille Chau- temps, had made it a matter of confidence.

The Finance Bill which was responsible for the fall of the Daladier and the Barraut Govern- At the end of the act the spearements, imposes cuts in the salaries men were dismissed on the spot.

of civil servants. The defeat of the latter Cabinet followed a mo- tion from the Right Wing for the suppression of the Article imposing the cuts, *

HE “SCOOPED " YALE G Franklin Roosevelt's "Harvard days were, in fact, lively ones Among his feats was the securing of a journalistic scoop" over Yale in 1902, a g

In that year the Harvard and Yale football match was played on the Yale ground, Roosevelt, then editor of the Harvard rimson.” produced a match edition, of his paper on the ground half an hour before the Yale "News" made its appearance.

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The Socialist Party, on Thursday last "decided to abstain from voting on the entire Finance Bill, thus practically assuring a majority for the Ohautemps Government- Reuter.

Paris, December 11. Sitting until nearly dawn to-day the Chamber adopted by 200 votes to 176 the complete Budget pro- He had hired a shop in Newposals, M. Chautemps thus achiev- four Prime Haven. Yale's home town, and set Ministers and Finance Ministers

ing a task which up a small printing press for the have been trying to accomplish, occasion.

on and off for the last year.

GETTING INTO TOUCH From the Central Telegraph Once there runs a direct line to Portishead. Portishead wirelesses to the ship "making an appoint- ment, and telling who is wanted, and the wave-length to use. The ship turns on her wireless tele- Not phone power.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT.

the "Belleve. It Ripley,

Or cartoonist, who was the guest at yesterday's "Sunday" Br- Meanwhile Rugby has been told press " luncheon, has been, in turn,

M Chautemps made the "final vote on the Billa question of conndence-Reuter.

to switch on its wireless phone baseball player, cinema tor, DIARY OF LOCAL

power. Connection is aften estab-writer, lecturer, sparring partner ished in about two minutes.

for Jack Dempsey, tennis cham- pion and scratch, golfer. He has The service to ships t sea generally censes at eight p.m., but been drawing cartoonk sin he Carter lane tetains enough staff 19urteen. Todart-big" Bes throughout the twenty-four hours lieve It Or Not" series, hinga hum

in an income of £40,000 7-year. to cope with emergencies.

"On Wednesday"" night atmos pherics held things. up from about nine to 11.30, and after two a.m. conditions became impossible.

There are only a dozen British, American; German and Italian ships that can telephone. None of the French liners has this ser- VICE.

THE SAILOR KING. "

A few days ago I mentioned in these notes the King's fondness for reading and the proportion of his time given to tales of the sea.

We are accustomed to think of his Majesty as "Our Sallor King." But I am not so sure that the present generation realises the full justification for that bonour

able term.

I am reminded of the fact by an article which caught my eye in a recent issue of the "Nautical Magazine." The writer recalls how Prince Albert Victor and Prince George the latter under Uttle re straint so far as avoidable risks were concerned-qualified as mid- shipmen under sall in the Bac- chante.

Bacchante had an engine and could proceed under steam at six knots. But the instructions were to use sail on all possible occasions. The King went aloft with the rest. -MUSSOLINT'S NEW PLAY,

He

EVENTS

TODAY

(December-12)"; _.. -(X Moon, 26th Day) Meetings-Creditors, Laung Hol Bank, Ltd., 53, Bonham Strand

Ripley Is" of English stock van both sides. His mother, who was & Miss Cromwell, was born in a covered wagon in the West. himself was brought up in Call-East, 11 8.m.; Shiu Yuen Yarn Co., Ltd., 67, Jervois Street, (1st tornia.

floor), noon. MILLION LETTERS A YEAR.

Lectures-Vocational Talk, Mr. Ripley travels round the world | F. 8, Louie on "Engineering", Chi- collecting material for his car- ese Y.M.C.A., 8 pm.

He has been in 167 coun- Social Functions,Mah Jong tries. He has been in his office and Bridge Tea, Women's Inter- only three times in five years.

national Club, 8.30 to 7.30 pm. ⠀

Miscellaneous.--Prize

toons.

Ripley has a bigger mall than any cinema star. It is never less than 1,000,000 letters a year. It is dealt with by a staff of twenty-six secretaries in New York.

Distribu tion by Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, at mullis Kadoorie School," "11" ali¦ Rotary Club Tintin: Kowloon Chess Club Annual Dinner and He is still under forty, likes to Presentation of Trophies" by Mr. work with the wireless playing G. Franklin Nightingale, President, softly beside him, and is himself Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 7.30 one of the most popular broad- casters in the States.

SOLICITOR-GENERAL'S DEBUT.

Sir Donald. Somervell made his oficial debut as Solleitor-General in the House of Commons yester- day." He had to answer a ques- tion.

A warm and unusually prolong- ed welcome was given the new Law Officer as he made his way from the end of the Treasury Bench to the despatch-box.

By tradition lawyers are doubt- ful starters as Parliamentarians. Sir Donald gave the impression on Signor Mussolini's new play his first appearance that he would "Julius Caesar," which he began be a department from tradition in to write after Mis Napoleonic this respect. drama" of the Hundred Days, is

Anished,

It is to have its world's first night not in Rome but in Vienna where it is to be produced in the Burgtheatre at the beginning of the New Year.

The title part will be played by Werner Krauss, who was seen in London recently in" Before Sun- set,"

INCIDENTS IN THE LORDS. The last two weeks of the session have been busy ones for the Peers, and there have been some unusual incidents

Their insistence on a dividon last week on one of Lord Danes- fort's road accident measures re- sulted in their virtually courting themselves out. Fewer than thirty voted and the debate was conse- quently adjourned automatically

p.m.

Theatres

King's: The Masquerader" Queen's: "Kongo"

Central: Hell's Holiday" Oriental (My Lips Betray'?⠀ World: MGM.'s. Variety

Programme" "Majestic: King Kong”

Star: The-Wedding

Inward Changte.

Rehearsal Principal Mails

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Sports Contract Bridge-First Round Open Tournament (Sports Club),

8 p.m.

Gold-Royal Hongkong. Goli Club, Ladies' Section. Medal Cont petition (New Course).

Miscellaneous-Kowloon Chess Club and Presentation of Prizes Lane, Crawford's Restaurant), 7.30 p.m. \

Sunrise 6.53 a.m. Bürset.-5.40 p.m.

Tides-High at 3.05 and 17.28 Low at 10.49.

Krauss is Mussolini's favourite actor. He played Napoleon in the

By contrast, Viscount Hailsham Duce's Hundred Days." He was not chosen for the part of Caesar and Viscount Ceel of Chelwood without a test. He went to Rome became so interested in a point of and played a scene from Shake-procedure at the end of Wednes

in the day's sitting that the Leader of

the House forgot to move the ad- · Goddes

Julie Caesar

wide-awake hat, was led into the room to take her bow," following an impromptu Apache dance, an

"Bir Hamar Greenwood gave an exhibition of step dancing to the tune of Solomon Levi Auckland delivered, with much solemnity, some quaint Scottish The Lord Chancellor waited a sermons. little while for him to do so and then solved the problem by putting-AND EVERYBODY SANG. the question himself.

speare's Palazzo Venezia.

The modern Caesar was satis-journment an fed.

ROOSEVELT IN OPERA. Mussolini is,. I think, the only head of State who writes plays. President Roosevelt, however, has appeared in opera.

The

whole party sang, with more or less discord, a number of WHEN A.B.” DANCED Lord Riddell has so many good popular songs. One item in the His appearance was for one stories to tell in his book of re- programme consisted of half the night only, but it was on a world-miniscences that it is difficult to company trying to sing the other. famous stage:-

pick and choose among them. half down, LIG. and.” A.J.B. In 1000 he was engaged with a But I confess I like extremely his joined in the contest with much group pf other Harward under- description of an evening, re- vigour." graduates as a "super" by the ferred to later by A. J. Balfour Lady Astor, it is recorded, vigor Boston Opera Company, as the most eccentric, of his 12 ously reproached Bonar Law for

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ruining her husband's chances in Tannhäuser," and the Harvard The entertainment, we are told, the House of Commons by making. supers,” arrayed as medieval consisted of dancing. AJB him a peer. You were a mean spearsmen, tool their stand just himself danced in Uttle in a High- creature," she said.

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