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PEACE DEADLOCK IN SHANGHAI.

CAR WITHOUT GEARS.

JAPANESE BUILDING |REMARKABLE BRITISH

..DEFENCES.

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Shanchal, Mar. 20. Tho Pence Conference met aguin to-day at the British Con- mulate but no progress was made. It is understand that the Con- forcace was alace rained -the question of the line to which the Japanese are to withdraw.

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It was stated yesterday that the Japanese demanded that they fine ex- be allowed to hold the tending from

Chenju

the Szetseling Forts and along the Yangtze from

to Yanghang Tachang. The Chinese Delegates refused to accede to this demand and the meeting almost met with disaster.

INVENTION.

Yesterday writer a London cor- respondent, saw the advent of a car that has no genr-box, yet hus an infinite variety of rear axle drives from a high ratio of 5 to 1 to the lowest of 30 to 1,

I was a passenger in the first trip of this car, which will be available to the public next year, when a famous manufacturer will put it on the market an his 1923 "enny-to-drive" mudel.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 28. 1932.

IF HOGARTH CAME BACK.

THE SILENT FILM

were en-

would

AS MEDIUM. Themes for the genius of Wil- Ham Hogarth, the great English painter and pictorial satirist, had he been alive to-day,

umerated by Mr, Hesketh lab bard. In a lectura at the Roval Society of Arts.

"Instead of The Lottery," Mr. Hubbard remarked, "he paint The Irish Sweepstake, Wo men making up in Publick would take the place of Strolling Aut- Gear changing in abolished as resses Dressing in a Barn,* *Mar- regards the old-fashioned method | riage a in Mode' would become of sliding gears. After the en-Divorce A la Mode.' The dole gine in started the driver has unly would offer him another Industry to move a small lever on the steer-and Idleness'; instead of The Stage ing wheel and the car gildes away Coach' he would depict the depar- from rest whether it be on level ture

For of motor-coach.

A ground or an uphill gradient of 1 Beer -street' and 'Gln-lane' read

Cocktail Court. False Ferspee tive Exemplified would, without alteration, summarise netion to modernistic art. In the frame of "The Cock Pit would be The Dirt Track' or 'Dog Racing.,

Jas 3.

The Neutral Delegate fually secured another meeting this morning, which, however, failed

This new device, which is the to surmount the hurdle, but it appointed a Sub-Committee con-invention of a British englucer, sisting of Chinese and Japanese Mr. Robertaun, of Tank fame, Military Officers who will discuss given a direct drive so flexible that one can crawl at a speed of 1% the matter, and it is hoped that this will inellitate the work of miles an hour; travel at 60 miten thic Conference when L meets

an hour on the level, and ascend freak bills which no ordinary car again on Monday.

can climb.

Meanwhile, the Chinese and Japanese Delegates have referred to their respective Governments for further instruellons-Reuter,

Ancillary Units Being Withdrawn.

Tokyo, Mar. 26. Imperial sanction was obtained this afternoon to carry out the second withdrawal of troops from Shanghal to Japan, and Air. Shirakawa has been instructed accordingly.

Details were not obtainable, but the withdrawn)

comprise the Engineering.

The secret is a hydraulic-con- trulled friction clutch drive which allows the driver to select the ratio suitable for the ocension hy moving the lever on the steering wheel up or down. The lever con- trols the action of a tiny oil pump hydraulic Film, which acts us engaging on the clutch flywheel, No clutch pedal is required.

The new device gave the 8 h.. car tested all the acceleration and

limbing JOWIT 02 A

star rating, its TORP times We romped up difficult bills with

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"He would have let himself go over another 'Election' series. Mr. Gandhi. Steve Donoghue, 'Dars." Dean inge, and Charlie Chaplin would occupy the throne in his studio."

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AN EXCLUSIVE PROFESSION.

TOASTMASTERS BORN

NOT MADE.

my

"Your Royal Highness, lords, ladies and gentlemen, pray silence for...

With urma outspread or raised according to taste, with mellow tones surging over the chattering" throng, the scarlet cont brilliant among the black and white which Is the motif of the gathering, the toastmaster impols overy eye, stilis every voice.

How does he do it? Is there a school for training toustmasters?

Do they take degrees?

RADIO BROADCAST

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME OF RECORDED MUSIC.

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 355

(846 K.C.). metros.

5.00-7.00 p.m. 7.00-10.30 p.m. European Pro gramme of Victor and Columbia Re- car

Chinese Programmo.

7.00 p.m. Mall Notice, etc. 7.03-7.12 p.m. Orchestral. Apache Dance (Offenbach), La Golondrina (The Swallow)

(Serradell),

Victor Salon Orchestra. 21055 Viċ. Are there text books on the sub.. 7.12-8.00 p.m. Variety.

Negro Spiritual-Run, Mary, Run. tect and examinations?

None of these things-toast-Negro Spiritual-Nobody Knows de mastors are born, not made.

Trouble I Sod.

Edna Thomax (Soprano). Col. 5194. Song-in my Young Days.

England. Song-The Nut Brown Ale of

That is the considered verdici of the handful of London toast, masters whose ranks have recently been depleted by the death of the

Col. 5042, doyen of them all. Mr. Knight-Instrumental-Hilo-Hawallan March.

Instrumental-Drowsy Waters.

Kane's Hawaiians. Vic, 20702. smith.

Song-Because No Power on Earth Cant

Pull it Down. Song-Tha Barrets in the

Won

Years ago, tradition has it, the first toastinnster graduated from where his railway station, sonorous renderings of station names

him the coveted rostrum at Lloyd's. A taic is told of the member who heard his name being shouted as he wan emerg ing from Mansion House atation and by means of u hansom on the floor of Lloyd's before the last syllable had echoed itself to a standstill.

WHB

This is probably apocrypha), but there is no doubt that the ex parter made a stir in the City.

To-day, with nearly every other business and profession duldrums, the toastmaster of London admit that they have more work to do than they can manage, Tact and Patience.

In the

Celluloid for Canvas, "Could he have kept away from Elstree? Mr. Hubbard uskerl With his sense of the theatre hellove celluloid would have taken

wished, he wrote, compose the place of canvas with him. pictures similar representa

I have tons on the stage. endeavoured to treat my subjet dramatic, writer: my pic tores as my stage, and men and whn. by my players. women means of certain actiona und ges- are to exhibit IL dumb

The silent hlm.

not the have would

beva

The "complent toastmaster" Hariot's Progress,' A must have personality, good le- Rake's Progress, Marriage & sportment, a good appearance, Mode, are not these the plots of good voire, experience of

of the cedure. infinite tact, more than 75 per cont.

than man's usual share of putt Alms we see to-day ?**

IN bølleved to"] cases jumped from slow to Fast

Com- spreds in a few seconds, while the tur missariat and other special units driver simply kept his foot down

originally despatched

Troops-Reuter.

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Japanese Digging

Themselves Ja.

Army on the accelerator pedal and mov- et the hydraulic control lever to the position giving the desired speed and therefore gear ratio) to suit the occasion.

Shanghai, Mar. 27.

A visit to the areas west of Kinngwan bear out Nanking's persistent reports that the Japn ese are building extra

defences

and digging themselves in.

Near Chenju Japanese troops are busy digging trenches and laying barbed wire entanglements, --Renter Special.

The Commission.

EXPLOSION IN A PILL-BOX.

PROFESSOR BADLY INJURED.

Bristol, Feb. 27.

WAR DEBTS.

| APPEAL BY CHURCHES AND PUBLIC MEN. Professors, leading Churchmen Nanking, Mar. 27, Dr. W. E. Garner, Professor of and business men have given their to A declaration The city was gay with flags and Physical Chemistry at Bristol Uni-signatures the streets lined with people to versity, was severely injured by urging- welcome the Lord Lytton Com-an explosion of chemicals in

cellar at the University to-day, mission this morning.

His condition is stated to be serious.

The party were officially met aboard the Tuckwo by Mr. Lo Wen-kan, the Foreign Minister. They then motored through the atrcata escorted by officers of the

H

The rancellation of war indemni- ties and reparations.

The lightening of the crushing burden of taxation due to exenasive armaments and

at the The towering ur removal of tariff

barriers.

Dr. Garner had arranged to give A lecture on explosives Royal Institution in London and he went to the cellar where chemi-

for experiment.

"With lack of natural pro-

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pro- and more

Small wonder, then, that there are few toastmasters in London.

Now that Mr. Knightsmith is dead it is likely that his son will Some years ago he succeed him, nasisted his father in the work, but left it for a prosperous garage business. Now he will almost certainly return to the scarlet coat and white gloves.

Poynter Poynter,

The other "leaders" of the pro- feanion are Mr. E. W and Mr. Tinslay. Mr. who emerged from the war with an M.C. and the rank of Captai ;, graduated to the ranks of toast- masters through being a guest.

On many occasions as he was smith. he wondered what it was like to be a toastmaster.

He made up his mind to find out many functions an and went to he end to study the technique. Then he "ried it on the dog"--the oriety of which he was a member.

Moral Endeavour Society, wherculs are stored to obtain a supply ducks or manufactured goods every called to his feet by Mr. Knight-

they are quartering.

Mr. Wang Ching-wel is enter- taining them to lunch to-morrow

--Reuter.

In A Pill Box.

where, the whole world is threaten el with bankruptcy," states the declaration, which is published

dence of Nations."

merce.

and a full programute has been He was carrying aix mill-under the title of "The Interdepen fixed for the four days the Com-grammes, equal to about, half a mission is expected to remain here. dozen pinheads, in a pill box, and

it was this which exploded. Striet Rule Broken.

Dr. Garner staggered from the gellar into a passage. 3d WAS Shanghai, Mar. 27,

found there with his hand badly As Indienting the Chinese an injured, his face burned, and suf- thorities' intention to show everyfering from shock. possible courtesy to the Lytton

An ambulance officer who was Commission, the very strict rule in the huikling gave first-aid, and against smoking and drinking on the premises of the officers of the the professor wits inter removed to the Royal Infirmary in a motor-

were

FAN

car,

"No one would deny that the eir- culation of goods in the lifeblood of national and international com- We therefore, affirm that the only way to renewed prosperity is the removal of all hindrances to the free flow of goods and com- modities and to unhampered in tercourse between the nations....

The Signatories, Among the signatures to the de- claration are those of:

M. F. Aubrey secretary, Baptist Union of Great Britain and re- land), the Rev. Dr. Berry (secret

Congregational Union of Eng- and and Wales), Sir William

Flushed with success he offered his services elsewhere and gradu- ally founded his present extensive practice.

Most nights of the week during the dining-out season he has to employ deputies to take his place,

"Some years ago," he suld, official "practically only lurge gatherings engaged a toastmaster. Smaller gatherings used to rely on a walter with lamentable results. Gradually people began to see that apart from announcing the toasts the toustmaster hud A way of

Society Mural Endeavour broken in their favour. Hitherto

A Safe Explosive. even military commanders hd Government leaders

"Such an explosion has never not

occurred here before," said an offi- granted such liberty.

the University. These There is a possibility that the cial at Commission will proceed to Han-things do happen occasionally, kow after concluding their quiry in Nanking-Reuter Specini, Washington Riot.

Washington, Mar. 27. Several people were injured in occurred outside a clash which the Japanese Embassy when the police broke up a radical demon- stration in which banners were carried denouncing Japanese im- perialism in China.-Reuters Am- crican Service.

en For some unknown reason, whateveridge (director, London School | making the whole function

BISHOP INDISPOSED.

FAREWELL SERMON AT ST. JOHN'S ON SUNDAY,

Hia Lordship, the Right Rev. C.

R. Duppuy, Bishop of Victoria,

is a perfectly safe explosive our of under the most unexpected con- ditions. It will probably never happen again. Dr. Garner very careful experimenter and worked at Woolwich during the war."

Dr. Garner has been Professor Physical Chemistry at the Uni- versity since 1927. Born in 1889. he was a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Birmingham in

f

1910.

WORK FOR 3,000.

PATRIOTIC OFFER BY JERSEY FARMES. The farmers of Jersey, who find ready market in England for

THE DEPRESSION IN SWEDEN.

of Economics), the Rev. Carey smoothly. So our business grew," Bonner (president, Baptist Union). the Bishop of Ripon, Lord Cowdray, the Rev. C. Jackson (president. United Methodist designate. Church), the Rev. Dr. J. Scott Lidgett (Vice-Chancellor, London University), the Right Rev. R. G. Parsons, Binho of Middleton, Lord Major II. L. Nathan, M.P., Rhayader, Lord Rochale, Dr. Maude Royden, the Archbishop of York. the Bishop of Manchester and the Rev. K. Harrop White (presidnet, General Assembly of the Uniturian and Free Christian Churches).

DARTMOOR ATTACK.

INJURY TO CONVICT WHO

ECONOMIC BLIZZARD

WEATHERING.

con-

After lengthy negotiations new wage agreements have been cluded between the employers and the trade unions in three of Sweden's most important branches of industry. the machine works, the fron works and the wood in- dustry. Negotiations for an agree ment in the woodpulp industry are at present being carried on.

The three agreements resulted in machine

who is severing his connexion with their early produce, are making a WAS LOYAL BURING MUTINY.a wage redaction for the

the Colony, in indisposed and has patriotic gesture which aliould as

well sermon at St. John's Cath with the oarly potato nnā tomato man attacked was taken to leaving an unused note reserve"" of i

crops in the Island. Previously the

The

Walworth Road.

Norman Long. Col. DB202. Doveriptive Ballad-The Village

Blacksmith. Columbia Dramatic Players, Col. 5880, Saxophone Solo-Merlyn, Saxophone Solo-Saxema.

Rudy Wiedoeft. Vic. 21152. Song-Mighty Lak' a Rose. Song-Kentucky Babe,

Vaughn De Leath (Soprano). Vic, 20004 Song-If You Can't Have the Girl

of Your Dreams, Song A Big Bouquet for You

Charles Lawman (Tenor). Col. DB350, 8.00 p.m. Local Time and Wen- ther Report.

8.04-8.20 p.m.

Sonata Appassionats (In F Minor)

(Beethoven, Op. 57).

Harold Bauer (Pianist).

1st Movement-Allegro nasal, 2nd Movement-Andante con mota, 3rd Movement-Allegro ma non

troppo. Vic, 0097-0098. 8.20-8.38 p.m. Ballet Egyptien Suite (Luigini).

Played by the Concert Orchestra. Col. 85704-35796. 8.38-9.00 p.m. Operatic. Song-Tosca-Love and Muste (Pucciul).

You Know, Good Mother Song-Cavalleria Rusticann-Well

(Mascagni),

Marka Jeritza. Vic. 1840, Band-Aida-Introduction and Moorish

Ballet (Verdi).

(Verd!). Band-Alda-Grand March and Finale

Creatore's Band. Vlc. 85780. Song-La Sonnambula-As 1 Vlow these

Scenes (Bellini). Song-Moistofele-Hall, Sovereign

Lord (Bolto).

Froder Challapin (Base). Vic. 1200,

9.00-9.20 p.m. Musical Comedy and Talkie Tunes.

A Warm Corner-Laughter Record.

Leslie Henson, Heather Thatcher, Austin Connie Ediss. Kim Pancock, Melford, and Prince's Theatre, Lon- Col. DB146. Whoopee-Film Songs Medley. don Company.

Ally Cotton and His Band. Col. DE382. Nippy-While We're in Love,

Arthur Riscoe and Betty Shate, Nippy-A Couple of Fine Old

Schools.

Clifford Mollison and Arthur Iiscoe, Col. DB351.

9.20-3.50 p.m. Instrumental. Piano Solo-Minstrels (Debussy),

William Murdoch. Col. 5107. Violoncello Solo-Goyescns-Intermezzo

(Granados).. Violoncello Solo-Adagio (Bach-

Silati-Canals).

Pablo Caanis. Vic. 8636. Quartet-Minuet-Transcription (From

Sonata in C) (Schubert). Lener String Quartet. Col. DB200, Piano Solo-Variations in C Minor

(Beethoven).

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vic. 8844, Violin Solo-Caprice Viennois

(Kreisler).

Nagum Binder, Col. DX7, 9.50-10.30 p.m. Gilbert and Sullivan Vocal Gems, The Yeomen of the Guard.

Columbia Ligist Opera Company, Col. 0654. Patience.

Columbia Light Opera Company. Col. DX89. The Gondollers.

Columbia Light Opera Company. Col. 9565. Iolanthe.

Columbia Light Opera Company, Col. DX17. The-Miknila.

Columbia Light Opera Company. Col. 0581, 10.30 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Press News

10.35 p.m. Close Down. All records in the above European programmes are kindly supplied by

"Co. and Anderson Music Thang Fook Plano Co,

WE ARE NOT BAD LINGUISTS 1

4 and fron works of to 6% and for the sawmill industry of 6 to 8%. been confined to bed suffering ist in relieving to an extent the reported recently to have been re- Two Dartmoor convieta ware

The latest Riksbank report shows from faver.

The Bishop of Victoria is due unemployment problem.

Some 3,000 agricultural workers moved to the punishment cella foi continued improvement of the post- to leave Hongkong for Home:

lowing

on another tion of the bank through a further an attack

12 million groner to 469 millions, shortly and is to preach his fore with be required in May to deal prisoner who remained loyal dur-roduction of the note circulation by

the mutiny, dral on Bunday next. Special ar inbour has been imported from hospital with a broken jaw.

$175 million gronor. At the same rangements are being made by

Chief Inspector Hambrook and time the foreign currency reserva other churches to permit their con- Brittany, but this year efforts are to be made to absorb surplus In- gregations to listen to the atom bour, from Great Britain...

Sergt. Bell, the Scotland Yard de registered another increase.by

Fronor. which will also be broadcast. The

tectives who have been making in- millions to 80 million

The latest general report of the you weren't, a good many of you. UBUAL

morning service Peter's Church has been cancelled Passages will be provided both nexion with the mutiny, attended total improvement of the foreign count the number of "lines" to allow worshippers to attend the ways. The Farmers' Union of conferences at the offices of

the balance of payments by 24 million bestowed upon you in order to in Cathedral, whilst the parishioners Jersey will send to selected centres Director of Public Prosecutions non, leaving a net surplus of duce you to learn French to Ger of St. Andrew's Church hope to re-In England a deputation

at the Home foreign claimeof: 611 million man prep, a little more thoroughly next time. And yet your collected terview prospective worksra. colve the sermon by radio.

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