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RAMSAY MACDONALD. INTIMATE GLIMPSES OF NEW PREMIER.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JULY 20th, 1929.

Here are intimate glimpses of Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's new Premier who has 'just returned to' power after one of the most remarkable careers In England's history, le is shown enjoying his favourite game-golf, in action as a speaker and at his desk at 10 Downing Street,

tish Empire were thought to have been revealed. The Conservatives swept the country, and for four years Baldwin was in power..

QUEER CUSTOMS OF THE ALEUTS.

WH JE OUTSIDERS MÁY NOT LAND.

reporta "of Interesting

Lho American Museum of Natural History disclose conditions of life in the Aleutian Islands, especially the Pribiloffa, from) which the best fur seal comes.

The Aleutians are a chain of islands in Alaska territory, divid Ing the Bering Sen from the Pacifle Ocean.

The total population has fallen! from 30,000 to a little over 1,000, due mainly to the acts of Russian hunters fa decimating the sea mammals, which were their prin- cipal source of food.

On the Pribiloff Islands sealing Is carried on under the United States Government. The islanders are regarded iL5 Government- labourers and no outsider may land there without a special permit. This restriction also applies to the crews of revenue cutters cruising round the islands during the summer. Leave of absence is reluctantly granted to the Aleuts, and none arc allowed to return after a year's | absence or more.

the

All the adult take part in killing Real. Almost every day during the summer the fur seals are cut off from their escape to the aca and are driven inland from their rookeries. About half a mile from the shore, the herd is examined. Females. old males and pupples are "ent out" and between two and five years old are driven to the killing places. The animals are clubbed senseless blows from long sticks, after which their throats are cut and

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.

CAN FLY STRAIGHT UP ! BRITISH PLANE NOW BEING TESTED.

Here is the new "helteogyro" now being tested by the British Air Ministry. The diagram at the left shows how the plane can ascend vertically and then fly horizontally. A the right is a diagram showing how each of the four. huge vance bears its own motor to push it around.

An entirely new kind of air- Next enme Signor Isncce, anjeould rise from a very small air plane, built for the British Air Italian engineer, with his hell-field, and thus opens up big pos- This had horizontally sibilities for private owners of Ministry, is having the finishing copter. touches put upon it and if, when rotating airscrews operated by an small aircraft. The big advan actual lying tests are mado, all engine in the fuselage. Some tage in war time is that hellen- that is hoped from it comes truc, helicopters were built by Isacce tyres could hover in the air high it will do the two unique things for the French government and up and perform all the services that air engineers have been seek actually raised their pilots into now done by captive balloons, very vulnerable and the air. But there were difficulties which are ing to attain for many years;

First-Il will ascend practically about the equilibrium of the quite helpless when hostile air-

sion on the vertical and descend in the machine and about the transmis-planes comme along.

of power from engine to rotating wings, Then Signor same nuuner.

Second-It will be able to see decided to combine the over motionless in the air for qualities of the autogyre and the indefinite periods.

helicopter and It is from this that The community is credited with

British Air Ministry oflcials he got the name hellcogyre, He two dollars for each seal killed.

neither the American government

As in the autogyre, there is an Each bead of family has any that so far as they knew sold his plans to England. count with the Government store, where he may obtain ready-made or any American airplane.com- clothing, imported food, tools and panies have anything like it. The upright hollow metal pillar t-

? Once more the wheel of fortunej grew convinced that only socialism which dark plots against the Bri-sent back to the const. The malos has turned and Ramsay Mac-afforded any hope for the British Donald, one of the greatest politi Jabouring man-for the farmers of cal come-backs in history, is again his desolate Scottish village, the bead of the Government of the clerks of the monatonaus London far-flung British Empire with its ulice, 463,000,000 souls.

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MacDonald, through these years, Thus MacDonald switched to the This "fighting pacifist who was Labour party. It was then a mere was leader of the opposition. He hooted, jeered and driven from infant, divided in its infancy Into kept busy. He purged the Labour public life because of his anti- two opposing camps, one made up party of its Communistic elements, programme that war attitude a dęgade" ago, who ce-a labour, union organizers and formulated a

land's brand of democracy,

MacDonald was born the son of

was

he began to be a force to be reck-and thus MacDonald returned to

ned, with in British politles. In power. 1996 he was elected to Parliament from the city of Leicester.

Wife Died in 1911.*

Is Still Poor Man.

MacDonald has never

they are skinned.

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TELEVISION

GERMANY.

FOR

STATE AID FOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS. -

A strong organiantion has beet

Baird Television system.

His work with the Labour party much money. In private life hehoused. Ench family has a nice bore above the fuselage four enor-that they will enable to rise tached in television circles, sug-

lives very simply.

turned to power in 1924 as Bril-j workers and the other of theorists emuld be presented without arous-other needed commodities, as well French government made a flached to the top of the fuselage,

vanes. Signor Isacco, has built tormed In Germany-under the was overthrown by a Holshevik the great political revolution that and sided his time. The Baldwin the year the hunter receives hister. # the machine successfully into each of these vines a tiny kindly eye of the Government- ain's first Labour premler and who who could talk about nothing bulling the stald Britons to hysteria, as luxuries, Taward the end of experiments, but dropped the mat- which bears on a shaft four luxe

passes all the severe tests that "scare" a year later, is again at they intended to spring upon an

Government's handling of the balance in money. the helm of the Empire and appar- unsuspecting Empire just as soon

Large families receive mere will be made, a similar one will Bristol Cherub engine with air- general strike gained Labour many than small ones, regardless of the be built aid sent to. the United crews attached to them. Each promote the development of the

engine starts with 20 horsepower, ently stronger than ever.

as they were able..

It constitutes the first official MacDonald sought to harnumizį/ recruits; sa, loo, did its handling janmber of hunters; widows and States to compele in the. GuggenThe motion Imparted by each of

of the waval situation with regard (orphins of men who died in the heim safely competition. Rose From Humble Birth,

the small airscrews rotaten its pur-move in Europe to provide a re- service to the The life story of MacDonald, these two groups, and he

Combines Two Types. ticular vano around the verticalgular television share. is one of those stories that Ameri- amazingly successful. In 1900 Lete the United States. At the last Government servien receive their

-The sealing in profitable. It is called a "hélicogyre," and shaft. The speed of the four en-public, and places Germany in a in the four vanca is position of Considerable advan- cans like to call "typically Ameri- was made secretary of the Labour election, accordingly, Lahour paß.

Lage. can." It is a testimonial to, Eng-| party, and from that moment oned the greatest vote in its history statisties for 1927, the latest year is an extension of the theories Rines

for which they are available, show

upon which autogyres and heli-synchronized. that 21,302 scal-skins were and copters were built. There have When the vanes get going at The co-operation of the Baird. realising £149,100; 728 blue foxes,

bean numbers of autogyres. In top speed in their horizontal mo. Company with the firms of Bosch,.. which abound on the islands, were a poverty-stricken farm labourer

thene a pillar of hollow melul,tion they give the desired lift to Loewe and Zeiss, to whose optieul. made sold for £7,746. in the oiture Scottish fishing vil

The Aleuta are comfortably either on the slant or vertical,the whole machine. It is expected research much importance is at- lage of Lossiemouth, 12 years ago. He worked on the farm as a boy,

cottage, and receives stoves, coal, mans blades called vines. The practically straight up in the air gests that notable developments got a mengreschooling in. lisad brought him in contact with..

The Labour leader's personal and electricity, and in general original method of starting those without any preliminary taxiingay follow upon the experiments vanes going was rather cruile. The machine is provided with the which Germany has already made. spare moments, educated himself Miss Margaret Ethel Gladstone,

While they have capitulated to rope was called around the shaft. ordinary engine and propellers in

These have included the sue- by means of books; went to Lonkinswoman of the famous Prime tastes are almost Spartan, Ile is is well provided for.

especially since This was uncoiled rapidly by be-front that an airplane has. Its

cessful transmission of tele- don in his 'terns and fought his Minister, highly intellectual a teetotaller, seldom smokes; and

eats only the plainest of food. Christianity,

vixion between Berlin and way up in polities from the bottom young woman who was deeply Golf is one of his favourite diver- America bought Alaska from the ing tugged at by a gang of men. function is to provide the hori

London at regular intervals rang of the ladder and, emerged, terested in socialism; and after asions, and he spends most of his Russians, many ancient marriage This turned the axle shaft and zontal motion in the air, the vanes

customs aurvive, such as the hus-started the vanes going at about giving the vertical motion. eventually, as first man in the brief courtship the

band living with all his wife's 60 revolutions per minute,

during the past two months, Can Hover Over Cities, British Empire, distinguished, married. Until Mrs, MacDonald's evenings in his (Hbrary,

His oldest daughter, Ishbol, sisters and the wife living with as

Negotiations en similar lines to among other ways, by the fart that death in 1911 theirs was perhaps

wavy many of the husband's brothers as

By means of his ordinary air-those successfully completed in he was the poorest man ever to the happiest union in all of Eng-who is 25, pretty, with

The islands have Amertens when the machine lifted into the plane engine the pilot could, for Germany are, it is understood, pro- held the office of Prime Minister, land, MacDonald has repeatedly brown hair, is the mistress of his she can keep house for.

household. There are two, other emphasized his debt to his wie,

daughters, Joan, 19, and Sheila, schools, and the young Aleut is bo-air the circulation of air acceler-instance, fly horizontally from A "Fighting Pacilist." MeDonald's story is more than By the time the World War 17, the "baby" of the family. Of coming proficient in English. ated the runes to 120 revolutions New York to Philadelphia. Then ceeding with the United States, A special delegation, headed by an epic of British demaerney, how- broke out Ramsay MacDonald was the two sons, the eldest, Alister, lentextic animals. All the settle per minute. Senor de la Cierva he could check his regular en- It is the story of a fighteria powerful figure... His conduct is an architect, while the other, ments being near the shore, com- actually made flights in his auto-ine and, being supported by his

fessor Tierney is leaving shortly --a-fighter who, oddly enough, during the war, however, seemed Malegim, won ciretion to Parliamunication is by means of skin- gyres. A British company has vanes, could hover right over the Lord Angus Kennedy and Pro-

who at the time like nothing on earth must from Bassetlaw in the roats. The bow is still used in Just concluded an agreement by city.

The main advantage in civil to demonstrate television before was also a pacifist, a 32347

cent election. Malcolm, it goes hunting the bear and the reindeer, which the machines will be pro-

duced in the United States, aviation in that such a machine scientiste in South Africa, once cried out, I come from but political suicide.

While England was swept by a without saying, ran as a Labourite. They are not allowed frearms, people as ready in use their dirks! as their tongues," and who spoke wave of "my country, right urf-

ever.

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1W0 were

of his ventures into the political wrong," MacDonald steadfastly field as "going forth to smile and opposed the war and demanded be smitter"

ja peace by negotiation. He lost Although a fighter, he is not of his seat,in Parliament, was howled the fire-rating type. He is elo-dawn in public meetings, was as- ruined his quent and occasionally impassion-sailed by the press,

ed, but he nevertheless won the health and finally, after the arinis-j title of "Gentleman Mac" from tice, left England and went on an other men in Parliament,

extended tour of the Empire to re-

It was in 1867 that MacDonald cuperate. Apparently his políti was born, one of a number of chileal career was ended.

But it wasn't,

Becomes Prime Minister,

Jn 1922 he was re-elected to Pur-!

dren who toddled about a barren "Scottish village where hardly one family had any resources to tide it uver a few weeks' unemployment.Į He followed the plough before he liament. Shortly thereafter he was in his 'terns, got his schooling was made leader of the Labour from the village dominie, read party, which by this time had -be- | every book he could lay his hands come the

, and at an early age decided House

second parly in the

of Commons. And in

that he must become educated and 1924, when the Conservative Gov-

ye to London, where opportunities ernment fell, he became Prime were greater.

Minister.

His first term, as Prime Minister To London he went, al 19, to land on the high stool of an lavolee was not a long one; nor was he' clerk in a commercial house; His able to put into effect many of his fellow clerks regarded him as a Socialist doctrines. Heading a queer fish-shy, unsociable, e minority party, he could keep his' spent his nights at night school Government in power only with and was seldom seen by his asso- Liberal support, and his p eintes outside of the office.

gramme thus had to meet with the approval of Asquith and Lloyd George, Liberal leaders.

Turns to Polities,

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I did not take MacDonald long! His Government fell in a year, 'to discover that he was not cat eat foll when the Liberals tíred afj for a clerk's life; so he cast him the role they were playing-and self adrift from his old job and be- Stanley Baldwin, Conservative, be- came a free-lance newspaper and come Premior. A generál election magazine contributor. Then poll-followed. The Labour purly was ties drew his attention,

hit a body blow by a great Rolshe-

Fortunately, he came to the no- vik "scare" that swept England;] tice of Mr. T. Lough, a Liberal scare occasioned by the dis- member of Parliament, and was covery of a letter, which may or appointed his accretary. He soon may not have been forged, in

The Aleuts have no dogs or other

At the same time the engine

of the airplane was started and

France and Belgium. ·

Architects' sketch of the proposed new Europe Hotel in Singapore, to be erected on the site of the present bullding. Altogether, there will be over 350 rooms, and the ballroom will have accommodation for 400 couples. The building is estimated to cost five million dollars. The similarity, in architectural features, to the Peninsula Hotel at Kowloon will be observed. "Mesare. Bwan and Maciurea are the

architects. (Block by courtesy of the Straits Times Prens, Ltd.).

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