1934-09-20 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY,

Vatican Physicians Rejoice When Pope

HARDEST WORKER OF WORLD'S LEADERS

BY MILTON BRONNER

The hardest-working of the world's elder leaders at last is taking a history-making vacation that his physic- ians have urged upon him for many years.

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He is 77-year-old Pope Pius XI. His vacation spot is lovely Castel Gandolfo, 15 miles from Rome. And his vacation in historic in that he is the first Pontiff since 1870

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NATIONAL EXHIBIT AT OLYMPIA

The National Radio Exhibition

to step outside the Holy See to spend a prolonged holiday at Olympli haa broken all re- at a point removed from it.

Probably not until the middle of September will he

cords.

The £26,000,000 worth of busi-

return to Vatican City and resume the always-arduousness done at Olympin last year tasks that await him there.

The Pope, besides being the tem-

poral sovereign

of

the Vaticari } ~* State, is the spiritual head of the strongest Christian community- scattered in 330,000,000 persona evory country and corner of world.

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Being the Supreme Pontiff, not only must all knotty religious questions in the church come to him for final settlement, but the political problema which arise are endless. Since his advent to the Papacy. 12 years ago, there have been liflcult wars between Church and state in Mexico and Spain, the question of a concordat with Nazi Germany and many others only slightly less complicated.

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LONGEST WORKING DAY. The result is that the Pope's day is probably the longest of any man of world-wide fame: It begins shortly after dawn and often enda only at 2 the next morning. It starts with prayer and ends with prayer. Between times, there are all the multifarious papers dealing with church matters, the audiences to cardinals, priests and laymen from all over the globe, the great St. Peters, stately ceremonies in

with only brief brenks for the simplest of meals, a walk in his lovely gardens and a snatched hour for reading, and resting..

In the past 60 years there have been scholar Popes and peasant Popes, but none exactly like the present one-the selon of a silk family, educated for

manufact. In the days before

the

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One of the largest tunny fish Janded at Scarborough,

his vaatest responsibility he became famous R8 ibrarian, linguist, ever

and climber mountain writer,

was dwarfed this year declared an official of the Radio Manufac-,' | turers' Association.

"The full extent of the trade: cannot be computed, because in thousands of instances individual; lateners who see n set they like are referred by the manufac- turer to their local dealer."

At least £1,000,000 worth of). orders could be traced, in thei

SEPTEMBER 20,

1934.

Takes Vacation

Pope

Takes

Baron Janssen Belgian Special Ambassador, pictured as he was received by Mr. Jam: Sen, Chairman of the National Government, Left to right: Baroni Jansson, Mr. Lin Sen and Mr. Wang Ching-wai,

President of the Executive Yuan.

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first three days of the exhibition. Fast Passenger and

to various displays.

Record business is reported by Aerodyne Radio,

who Late..

specialise in altra-modern recely-

Mail Service

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A day in late August saw the ing sets ranging in price between official inauguration of five and twelve guineas. So many Britain's first network of air mail orders have been taken at Olympia services between London and the that the company is rapidly ex-

provinces. panding and it has been decided

to increase the staff of the London

ANCIENT CASTLE EXCAVATED

Remarkable Finds In Britain

By A Correspondent

High upon a hill overlooking Salisbury's tapering spire, I was privileged to see some of the most Business men in London will be interesting excavations made in factory 80 that well over 1,000 in closer touch with Birmingham, Great Britain for a considerable highly-skilled workers will be kept Manchester, Liverpool, Belfast, time-those at Clarendon Palace. Busy. Aerodyne claim to have Glasgow, the Isle of Man, South- I glanced at the remains of one been the only big radio firm that ampton, Cardiff. Plymouth, Bristol, of the greatest royal palaces of has not had to reduce prices from and the Isle of Wight as a result our land, whose foundations are time to time during the last 18

Alternatively, of course, the in-thought to cover about six acres. months.

habitants of the latter centres will benefit from their new link with London.

This corner of England was onto Thanks to Radiolympia, a large

Four hundred years ago the palace number of young natives on the

the centre of our government, Gold Coast will soon be taught

went to sleep. The roots of ash English by wireless.

Letters weighing two ounces or trees mingled with the crumbling Ofori Atta, the under will be carried at the stones. Clarendon was forgotten. Nana Sir Omanhene of Akyem, bought a ordinary charge of 1%, but, for G.E.C. "Overseas Seven" when he every ounce over two, the extra visited the exhibition and explain-

ed that his object was to let the rate will be 1d. young people of his country learn English by listening to the B.B.C. Empire station,

A FAT LADY AT THE POLLS

weighing 756 lbs., was caught by NAZI EFFORTS WITH A

CRANE church diplomat. As Legate in Lieut. A. H. Terry, R.N., of Fal Poland, he witnessed the scenes of mouth. terror in Warsaw when the Bol- shevik armies came near capturing the capital and was one of the few diplomats who did not desert the threatened city.

During that time the funny got under the nets of a Dutch herring drifter, but eventually cleared them,

Many of the trees have now been cleared away, and the excavators, under the leadership of Dr. Ton- A preliminary service was begun cred Borenius, Professor of the two months ago between Inverness History of Art, University College, and the Orkney Islands. More have laid bare the foundations and than 3,000 letters have been car-parts of the walls of the great hall, of two Wast kitchens, and ried by it every day.

many state apartments.

The palace, which is on private After to-day a letter posted in

will land. belonging to Mr. S. R. Manchester before 11 am. reach London at 1:30 pm, and Christie-Miller, was a frequent should be delivered the same residence of English kings, and evening. A reply cail thus be sent was visited by Queen Elizabeth. to Manchester the same night, and be delivered by the first post.

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Diana class, four-engined liners Henry II. (1154-1189) 'assom- Berlin, Aug. 24. He was flahing 30 miles north-1 Remarkable energy and resolu-of a type used on Imperial air bled a parilament there, which shown last Sunday in routes, will ay on the Glasgow-enacted the celebrated "Constitu- u! London service. The machines tions of Clarendon," to restrain east of Scarborough when he hook-tion were

voters to the poll, ed the fish, but it was an hour later bringing when he landed it.

striking and authentic instance can carry about 300lbs. of mails the encroachments of the Court

of Rome. of and ton passengers,

bodies. Mr. J. Charlton, of the Office of being that of the fat lady

On the arrival of the first aero- :DISPUTE--WITH-KINGS.......

Reinickendorf, a Berlin suburb.

This voter, who weighed over plane at Belfast from Glasgow Works, who has taken part in im- The outstanding ovont of his

19st., and lived in a Httler summer-Sir Crawford McCullagh, the Lard portant excavation work in several career, so far, has been the signing

house colony, where a special gate Mayor, received special letters parts of the country, told me that thero had been several interesting of the Lateran Treaty with Mus-

The fish is 42lbs. less than the had been made for her, could not be from Scotland. soitni five years ago. This ended

Sir Harold Hartley, vice-prestands, and that when the state an intense bloodless war which had record tunny caught by Colonel carried by the normal Nazi motor- been existing between the Vatican E. T. Peel, president of the British car service for invalid voters. The and the Quirinal, the palace of the Tunny Club, in August, 1932. Nazi organizers promptly supplied dent of the LMS, the official apartments had been completely site in years gone by are now in Italian Kings, since 1870. When This record is hold under condi. lorry with a small crane, of the bearer of the mails, continued in explored there would be many

Salisbury Musoum the Italian armies entered Rame tions laid down by the British type used for removing the remains the machine to London with con- more. Several relics found on the

of motor-car smashes. The voter gratulatory messages.

It is understood, that there will

Eating and drinking vessels, and made that city the capital of Tunny Club.

Mr. L. Mitchell-Henry, however, sat on a garden seat and this was the kingdom, depriving the Pope of

hoisted on to the lorry. At the be one service a day in each direc- the then Pontif made himself a year weighing more than 850lbs. his standing as a temporal ruler, landed a tanny off Whitby lastolling station another culty tion on the Glasgow and London glazed tiles, pleces of ornamental Lieut. Terry will be unable to presented itself. The curtained route. The mail will leave Glas- stained glass, decorated lend open voluntary prisoner in the Vatican.

voters made their gow at 9.15 am, and arrive in work, 13th century sculpture work, All official relations between him claim a Britial tunny certificate alcove where and the King ceased. Every Pope, because his rod seat in the small crosses was not nearly inrge enough London at 1.30 p.m. The de- and ancient coins have been dia-

tha for this voter, and one had hastily parture time from Croydon will be covered. away during

3.10

p.m., Glasgow who came after, followed the same boat broke

struggle, and he landed the fish to be improvised from tables and at line of conduct.

renched at 7.30 p.m. with a hand line.

Pope Pius XI and Mussolini, by the Lateran Treaty, ended all that. The territory around the Vatican the and St. Peter's was made Vatican State. The Pope is its tumporal ruler. It has its own flag, postage stamps and coins. Papal territory also is the Castel Gandol- fo, fifteen miles away, where the Pope is taking his rest.

He has made history by being tho firat Pontiff to do a great many up-to-date things.

SOME PAPAL FIRSTS.

He is the frat Pope, who saw London from the top of a bus this occurring when ho was a simple Monsignor doing library research work in London, as well as at Oxford and Manchester.

He is the first Pope to own his special railway train which runs from his own railway station on his own little railway track within the Vatican state.

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Ho is the first Pope to make use of a private automobile which is

his own property.

He is the first Pope with his own 'broadcasting station from which he has spoken to all the world.

He is the first Pope even to have given a reception to all the repre sentativos of the press "covering" Rome and the Vatican for the news- papora of the whole world.

And he is the first Pope evor "to have invited the diplomata, repre- sonting all the modern world, to a luncheon party. Ho, of course, did. not sit with them at meal, as he cats alone, but ho mingled with his

cuesta afterwards

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being

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Of great interest to the Hongkong and Shanghai Portuguesa community was the wedding in Shanghai of Miss Thelma Collaco and Mr. Humbert Collaco, wall known in tennis circles. They won the Shanghai,

"We have not nearly completed our excavations yet," said Mr. Charlton, "and we hope to find, among other things, the source of the water supply.".

FACTORY IDLERS ON TRIAL

FELLOW-WORKERS

AS TRIBUNAL

Idlers in a new Leicester boot factory are to be tried" by a tribunal of their fellow-workers, who will decide whether or not they shall be dismissed.

This provision is contained in the prospectus of a company which is being formed on a copartnership basia with the workers as share- holders.

The prospectus has just been Issued by Mr. Frodorick Thompson Hunt, a Bon of the late Mr. T. G. Hunt, who was head of a large boot manufacturing firm. It states:

"Should it be reported that one employee la idling away his time, or depriving his fellow-workers of their share of profils, an explana- tion will be called for, and unless it can be satisfactorily explained a committee of Inspection compos ed of employees will be formed to decide whether the Idler shall be dismissed br given another chance of being placed on probation."

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