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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1936.

MAIL NEWS FROM HOME

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Here And There

London, Jari. 18.

I utiderstand that the exact sum be received by the National Debt Redemption Fund under the terms of Lord Dalziel's £400,000 will-which was recently published - not yet known, writes a cor- respondent.

It is likely to be at least £200,- 000.

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In any case the Treasury will lose a considerable sum of money, since bequests to the Fund are cot subject to Death Duties. The Fund, of which Messrs. Baring's are the

A chartered accountant of con- sidurable standing tells me that the amount should be about £15,- 000.

ATLANTIC AIR SERVICES

Flying From Europe To The Pacific

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London, Jan. 31.

I hasten to point out that he

If this year's experiments in has fallen into the trap of forget-tying the Aulande with commer ting that golds weighed in troy Dances and men in avoirdupois

ounces.

The weight of a man in fine bar göld at 141 shillings the ounce would be £17,272.

EXAMPLE FOR LONDON?

Of recent years London has trustees, has mounted from £489-grown aware that the name plates 800 in 1927 to £762,000 on March of streets should be artistic, as well 31, 1933.

as merely informative.

RELIEF FOR POSTERITY

It is an unofficial and voluntary instituted in 1927 to

movement lighten the debt burden of poster- ity-not that of the present ge- neration, unless there is an un-

its dreamed-of accession to sources.

Money left to the National Fund has, therefore, the paradoxical efect of laying an extra burdan on taxpayers of this generation.

In many of the metropolitan boroughs the names of streets are now set out in lettering definitely pleasing to the eye.

Madrid has gone one better. Many of the old name plates in its streets, are being replaced by others which, in addition to having a more attractive lettering, bear a topical illustration.

If the Westminster City Council followed this example it would have no difficulty in finding a pic- torial designation for the Strand- London's "beach" in early times

An eccentric multi-millionaire who disliked the Chancellor of the

Piccadilly would be more of a Exchequer could, if he chose, leave his whole fortune to the National problem. A ruff, however, would the Fund and so prevent the Chancel-probably be the chosen design. lor or any of his immediate suc-The usual explanation for cessors from obtaining anything name of the thoroughfare is that

1 derives from the Spanish ple kadils or ruff-worn in the days of the Stuarts.

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JAPANESE GOING HOME The leading members of the Ja- delegation to the Naval panese Conference are leaving for home without delay.

The only house in the street then was a ruff shop.

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FLYING PIANOS

Few successful engineers had more unlucky beginnings than Baron Igor Bikorsky, who designed the flying-boats which are now to be made in England..

Admiral Nagano, I understand, is anxious to return Japan. But Dr. Matsuzo Nagai, who was for- merly Ambassador at Brussels and Berlin, may stay on to watch the

At the age of 21 he built an proceedings now that Japan has aeroplane. At first it refused to withdrawn from the Conference.

leave the ground, and was exhibit- Twenty-six delegates and off-led on wheels, cials came from Tokio, and they will not all return together.

While the majority expect to go by the Indian Ocean, a few will probably travel in the opposite dir-

ection, via the United States. One of two delegates are considering using the Trans-Siberian Railway. Since they reached London the Japanese delegates have been in daily communication with Taklo, Most of their messages went by cable, but on several occasions they used the new London-Tokio telephone service.

DETECTIVE-ARCHAEOLOGIST

Then it flew 8,800 feet in 50 seconds and crashed. His second machine dived into a frozen lake and was lost.

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During the war 'Sikorsky became

between clal aircraft are successful there. may be a mail service London, Canada and New York next year. If the mail service shou'd work satisfactorily there might be a passenger service 1938. When that happens it will be possible to offer passengers transport by air from Lordon to Honolulu. The twp ocean sections have yet to be prepared for pus- senger work, but the land section across the American continent is already in operation. One of the two

companies operating that route has just established In Lon- don a representative whose duty 1s to secure the through traffic for his company.

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·S. E. Levy & Co.

17, KE HOUSE STREET

INFRAŞKENT BAYERIS ↑ BRONSKA

NEW YOLK COTTON BIGHANGE

'COMMODITY EXCHANGE, ING, NAT,

CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE

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CORRESPONDENTA FOR

WHITE, WILD À 00,, NEW YORK

MEMORIAL SERVICE

British In Japan

EARL RUSSELL WEDS

Bride Aged 25

London, Jan. 21. Earl Russell better known as Mr. Bertrand Russell, the writer on social questions, who is sixty-

the Mourn King's Death three, was married for the third

time some days ago at Midhurst register office, Bussex, it was re- vealed yesterday.

Enterprise and optimism may be

attempts said to inform all Crganize forward business, and in this instance they have led

far outrun forecasts which more conservative hopes of British operators, and, challenge even the assurance of the American opera-

Kobe, Feb. 1. Mr. H. B.

His bride was Miss Patricia ing british community of Naga- the United Air ok stured to the full the feeling

Spence, aged twenty-five. tors of oversea routes.

F: .. Lifes, yesterday volunteered the sorrow Longierow, of

and sympathy which his secretary.

The ceremony took place quietly. ∙illness and Only two friends attended—Mr. King & information that "an air service swept over the Empire with tas from London to Honolulu In 48 ws whe

Á meeting was bein at the G. R. Blanco White, a London bar- hours will be available early next each. year." He elaborated that pro-Consulate and it was resolved to rister, and his wife, Mrs. Amber phecy by explaining that Imperial send a message of sympathy to H. Blanco White. They have known Queen Mary, ki, ah, kde ing, Mr. Russell, as he prefers to be Airways, Pan-American Airways,

and the Royal Family, and to hold called, for a number of years, and were specially invited as witnesses.

and Air France "aim to cross the

Atlantio in 18 hours," that another

16 hours would suffice for crocus from New York to San Francisco, and that Pan-American Airways would thence take the passengered

to Honolulu in another 13 hours.

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memorial service.

"The memorial service was held on

Helen

The bridegroom signed the re- gister simply as "Russell," of Tele- Eraph House. Petersfeld, his re-

sidence.

He was described as the divorced

Tuesday afternoon, at four o'clock, Holy Trinity Church, Omura- nachi, the use of which was offer

28 the Church Committee by cuon as the news of the death was known,

as the chapel where the husband of Dora Winifred Russell," English services are held is got | Countess Russell, and the bride's large enough for such an occasion. father as Harry Evelyn Spence, an As at the time of the Silver Jubilee accountant. as May, the other sections of the foreign community of the port were fully represented, while the Governor of Nagasaki-kón and By other officials expressed the

presence. +

The bride signed herself as £ writer, of the same address.

After the ceremony the party returned to Telegraph House,

Mr. Russell and his bride have

since been staying there. Ther

60 HOURS IN THE AIR Fying westwards with the sun will naturally be the more ad- It already vantageous direction. represents an advantage of three hours in the schedules of United Airways, for the eastward journey. across the Atlantic with the y- prominent designer for the Rus-ing-boats which wid begin the ympathy of the Japanese by their

will leave in a fortnight, however, mean services will certainly

A printed, form of service, pre- longer schedule than

16 hours.rared by the R Rev. J. C. Mann, spend the rest of the honey. with friends at Malaga, The flying time, with the Shorts of Bishop in, Kyushu, was read by con Imperial Airways or the Sikorskys Canon A, C Hutchinson and an Spain.

Mrs. Blanco White told the There be met Rachmaninoff. of Pan-American Airways will be address was given by the Bishop,

time who was making his first visit to "Daily Mirror" last night: "Eari Sikorsky is a good pianist, and was at least 23 hours. With a helped by the composer to finance difference of ave hours between Nagaanki after his appointment. Russell and his bride are obviously his first American flying-boat; on English and American clocks this The service was in English through much taken up with each other. Cut, except that the Bishop re I and my husband have known Its trial flight it carried two grand | wil appear as a schedule of 18

Japanese. him for a number of years. peated his address in planos.

hours westbound and 28 hours For all the fainta" and "O God,

"He has recently been working. Similarly Now, as "Mr." Bikorsky, he is eastbound.

the flying

sian Air Force. He ned from the Revolution, and earned a precari- ous living lecturing on astronomy in America.

Mr. Humtry Payne. the director one of the best-known designers hours between New York and San our help in ages past wore the on a new book which will include

of the British School at Athens, in the United States.

DAVIS CCP ZONES

Francisco will be 19, and there to Honolulu 18

from The passenger who. some years longs to a statue of a horseman in Both New Zealand and South ahead, may make this journey is the Acropolis Museum. is fast Africa, I gather, are likely to op-assured of a transcontinental Kiner making an international reputa-pose the creation of a new Eastern to take him co with little delay

Pacifc Zone for the Davis Cup. He

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tion as an archaeologist.

He is now 33 years of age. When sponsored by Mr. Norman, Brookes, ne became director of the Athens the Australian LFA, president. New Zealand would prefer to School Mr. Payne was only 27.

This is his second big discovery challenge in the European Zone, in the past six months. His pre- partly because her chief players vious find was that the Aphrodite are resident in Europe, and partly of Lyons in the Marseilles Museum because they do not relish the is part of a statue in the Acropolis prospect of a biennial bot-weather

Museum..

match in Australia;

Before becaming its Director, Another argument that both Mr. Payne was a student at the South Africa and New Zealand Athens School. He is working now will put forward is the desire that on a book dealing with his dis- their Davis Cup teams should com- coveries.

pete, at Wimbledon

The British School, by the way. receives only £500 a year in Gov ernment grants. This compares unfavourably with what other countries spend.

COLONIAL OFFICE SHIP Discovery II, the Royal research ship, which has come to the rescue of Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth and Mr. Hollick-Kenyon in the Antarctle, 00% is controlled by the Discovery

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This is appointed by the Secret- ary of State for the Colonies. For this reason, Discovery's message announcing that the explorers had been sighted was sent to the Co-

lonial Office.

Discovery I was built to the or ders of the Crown Agents for the Colonies and launched in 1929 She usually carries 15 officers. Blx of these are scientiat. There are 36 petty officers and men.

'the

hymns Rung After the Benedio tion the congregation stood while letters of his father and mother, the Dead March in Saul was play-Viscount and Viscountess Amber- "Miss Spence has been his secre- ed and concluded a most impresles. sive service.

Arrangementa for, the servico Itary since about 1933, and she has were made by a committee headed; been collaborating with him, She by the Consul, Mr. F. C. Greatrex, also assisted him with his last

F. book." have slept

and the lady members-Mrs.

HISTORIC SUIT will find aying-boat, and he

Ringer, Mrs. Russell, and Mrs.

The news of the marriage was reclining chair in the land aero Pardon-prepared the church and plane. He may reach the Pacific the floral decorations. American first broken to Mrs. Dora, Russell, coast on the second day after dies-Miss Ashbaugh and Mise his former wife, by a "Daily teaving England. and there he Curry. of Kwassui Jo Gakko-Mirror" reporter last night.

"It is the first intimation I have might have to wait ave or six days rave great assistance. Miss Ash-

the bangh as organist and Miss Curry had of it," she said. "and I am for the flying-boat across pacific. His 60 flying hours may with the singing.

thus be spread over eight days, or

KORDA PUZZLED

Before coming to Nagasaki, Bir unable to say anything about it." Mrs. Russell, who lives at: Boyes they may be luckily completed in hop Mana "and Canon Hutchinson

ränducted a similar service in Court, Great Warley, is carrying three days. That is the affair of abuse at Fuknoks, where the on the school which was started at the passenger and his flying foreign community held a memorial Telegraph House by herself and stamina. The ordeal, will not be Fervice on Sunday last.-Japan her former husband. possible, for another two years at "hronicle.). It is certain "that" Mr. Brookes

least. Perhaps it would not yet has behind him the support of the have been brought in concrete terms before the notice of the leading players in his own country.

I see, for example, that Mr. J. H. prospective passenger were there Crawford "has expressed doubt

not two companies to compete for. about the expediency of the new his patronage over the soll of the orientation. He thinks that a United States, challenge in the American Zone, without the preliminary of the new zone, would not only be less tiring. but would occupy less time.

BULL-DOG DRUMMOND'S

STREET BA

Half Moon Street, where a block of 10 houses has been sold, is often selected by novelists as a suitable home for the rich bachelors of Action...

GOLDEN JUBILEF OF AGA KHAN

Magnificent Scenes

Mr. Alexander Korda was puzz led. When his fint, "The Private Life of Henry VIII-t going round the world, by the way-- was showing in China, it deeply shocked the populace. And London, Jan. 21 one could discover just why. Deputations of Ismaeli Moham-True, Henry's goings on

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were

it in Islington, Camberwell, step mecans from Perala, Afghanistan, certainly a little odd for a King, ney, and the City.

STALIN'S FRIEND LOCKED UP

Forty years ago it was described as consisting of "respectable houses of the middle class, let out a apartments to Members of Parlia the River Kura. ment and othersTM

and Centre Asia, wearing their but queer things happened in picturesque national costumes, those days.

NEWLY-MINTED COINS

tc-day paid homage to their spiri- Then the truth came to light. I am told that Stalin on a recent tual head, the Aga Khan, when the Chinese man-in-the street visit to his old home in Georgia the celebrations of his Golden thought the historical film was a gave orders that the best friends Jubilee were continued here. They news-reet, that Hely. VILI WAS of his schooldays were to be brought gorgeous gifts.

stil on the throne! toentertainments and feasts are Mr. Korda, now busy at w brought before him.

Among them was one Gogus, an being held on a vast scale, and on "Cyrando de Bergerac, adeo unfrocked priest who, years ago, the splendour of the dresses pro-with CHARLES LAUGHTON, tells rescued Stalin from drowning in duces a dazzling scene. Twelve this amusing story himself.

thousand women followers, clad Great was Gogua's, indignation in sk pyjamas of wonderful This wak a generation before when four smart O.GPU. officers hues. gave a huge tea-party to The Committee's object is the "gapper's" Bull-Dog Drummond, marched into the little shop where their leader. The Begum, the

Shanghai, Feb, 10. scientific regulation of the Antare-looking from the windows of his he worked as a cashier and locked Aga Khan's French wife was a tic whaling industry. Excessive Half Moon-street flat, watched the him up in the local railway station prominent figure, wearing a light Newly-minted subsidiary copper fishing in North Polar regions al sinister figures of Dr. Lakington When Stalin's special train green sari. For the European coins of half-cent and one cent nickel most exterminated whales.

ne steamed in the guards rushed their dinner which followed she wore denomination and also

coins of five, ten and twenty cents 12-STONE MAN'S GOLD VALUE

Outside the pages of novels, the frightened prisoner to the Dicta- a beautiful French gown.

The Aga Khan himself, for some in value, will be placed in circula- In my note on the Aga Khan surect is peaceful enough. Seekers tor's luxurious #aloon.

arrayed tion to-day. Stalin fell upon his old friend's ceremonial occasions, is marking his jubilee by being of adventure would be as disa- weighed against gold, I speculated appointed as the foreigner who neck exclaiming, "Why don't you in a robe of purple, covered with All silver subeldiary cols will on what this would represent in searched London for Sherlock ever write to me, Gogua? What decorations and insignia, and a remain in use for the time-being, nen turban. He is surrounded but will be gradually withdrawn the case of a 12-stone man.

Holmes's "Baker-street Irregulars" can I do for you?”

Gogua's luck had turned. Now by followers wearing the pictures from circulation as the new coins A number of readers have critic- Its odd name is derived from an Ised my calculation. My critics, inn which stood, on the Piccadilly he occupies a comfortable at inque Khoja headdress a golden are circulated thror out the

Beuter. corner. The sign was once a com- Tinis, and is treated with great make round their foreheads, and country however, are by no means umanim. ous regarding the correct gure. mon one. Streets are named after respect by his neighbours.

and his myrmidons.⠀

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