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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1935.

WHEN AUSTRALIA AND CHINA MEET

During their stay in, Hongkong, the 34 feminine members of the Young Australia League were entertained at the Repulse Bay Lido by the Youth Section of the League of Nations" Union. Occi- dental and Oriental blend in the photograph below to make a charming foreground for the natural beauty of Repulse Bay. One of the Australian visitors, in bathing suit, is seen with a Chinese girl and Mr. Arthur Shepherdson (Staff Officer of the Y.A.L) on the left.

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Year Always To Begin On a Sunday

AND END ON A NEW DAY, DECEMBER Y

MISS

ELISABETH AC-

HELIS, of New York, hus just, arrived in London.

Miss Achelis has a

mission.

She wants us always to have our j birthdays on a Monday.

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Of course, our birthdays incidental to Miss Achells's mis-! sion, which is a thing of much greater scope. She wants every- body to have their birthdays on the same day of the week every yeņr. She wants Christmas Day always to come on a Monday, an excellent idea involving a long holiday, and Guy Fawkes Day always to be on Sunday, and Easter always on

wants a fixed calendar.

April 8. In fact, Miss Achelis £40,000 Theft

Nature Is Obstinate Of Jewels

She has been working solidly for it now for five years. Every visits all the com- Aummer, she

mittees she has established In Europe, and every winter she organises the American end. By

In Car Crash

1939 she hopes to have the fixed MDIVANI DISASTER calendar in operation alf over the principal countries of the world.

Barcelona, Sept. 1.

The difficulty of the present The total value of jewels stolen calendar, as Miss Achelis ex- from Baroness de Thyssen, who plained, is that Nature was gravely injured in the fatal obstinately refuses to have a car crash when Prince Alexis) nice round number of days Mdivani was killed, is 2.895,425 every year.

franes (about £10,000).

Instead of there bring 52 weeks in a year there are 52 weeks and one day, or, rather, one day and-a quarter.

Julius Caesar thought he had got over that when he had his idea about Leap Year, but unfortunate- ly there are not exactly one and a quarter extra days a year, but one) day five hours 48 minutes and 49 seconds (approximately). So that Caesar's calendar passed through the century the sun gol later and later, and after a while! spring began to occur in the depth

of winter.

This was disclosed to-day when a list of the missing jewels handed to the authorities was made public

The jewels include:

Seven diamond bracelels, valued at 50-1,000 francs:

valued at $175,000 francs:

Two platinum diamond coltare,

A diamond pearl collar, valued at 200,000 francs:

Pearl diamond earrings valuedį at 260,000 franes;

Seven diamond emerald rings. valued at 700,000 francs;

Eight diamond bronches, valued] at 228,000 franes; and

A platinum wristwatch, valued at 108,000 franes.

The next man to have a try at putting things right was Pope Gregory, in the sixteenth century,

The baroness was visited by the who wipe out 10 days, started the police yesterday, but was unaide year on January 1 and made com- to say, whether the jewels were in pleated arrangements about her possession at the time of the

Easter and the moon.

Jaccident.

By the time England adopted Her injuries received in the ne- Pope Gregory's ideas, 170 cident are so serious that it is years later, we were already a feared she may lose her power of day out, and Lord Chesterfield, speech and her sight-Reader

to the indignation of the people.

omitted 11 days in September

to put that right.

Five years ago Miss Acheils got

so dissatisfied with things that she i decided to devote her whole lite

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to calendar reform. She viewed all the suggested systems, rejecting the one which would divide the year into 13 equal months

mathematical, nol superstitious grounds, and 2011- centrated on a year of 12 months, divided into four equal quarters.

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Henpecked

Husbands:

Weeping Wives

DESERVE YOUR PITY

London, Aug. 30.

If you know a hemperked hus-

"By my system" she pointed band don't pity him-blame him. out, "the year would" begin with Sunday, January 1, and thu hempecks her husband don't If you know an hysterical wife would proceed to Saturday; blame her-pity her. December 30. That would

Dr. G. Gichim, a leading Berlin leave one extra day over. would give that day a specia! elaborate test with thirty such psychologist, has just conducted an name, either December Y (Y

couples, and he now has no sym- for year) or New Year's Eve, paths whatsoever for hempecked and it would come between hangbands. Saturday, December 30, and Sunday, January 1. December Y, of course, would be a public holiday.

This is what he discovered: women patients Dr. Glehm exam- In dealing with thirty hysterical

ined their husbands. His analysis was as follows:-

"Weak" husbands whose help. lessness was probably caused by wives' hysterics Normal husbands

Ruihloss, energetic "he men" Nourasthenic mon Alcoholic addicts

FRANCE'S MIGHTY MILITARY WALL

IMPREGNABLE CHAIN OF

FRONTIER FORTS

VAST WORK COMBLEDED

Paris, Sept. 10.

The mightiest military wall mankind has known, France's "Maginot Line" of three hundred bristling death turrets" buried in the bowels of the earth, is at pleted, all ready for the next war.

last com-

The Great Wall of China, the mighty Hadrian's fortifications which the Romans erected against Scotland, the impregnable Hindenburg line of the World War are amateur's work compared with the military and engineer- ing skill in France's £30,000,000 steel chain facing Ger-

many.

H

TIDDEN from the view of 41 even the most inquisitive wanderer roving along the French side of the Rhineland frontier, the forts have been rushed through by an army of unseen, underground workers since the first "national defenc«" ! credits were voted for the work in 1928.

To-day, along a front of 150 miles, France's young conscripts go through part of their two years' compulsory military ser vice learning the technical operation of the forts, which are now continuously, manned in order to keep a thorough watch on the German frontier.

Some of the forts

ting

machine gun nests capable of hold General Dabonay-the brains of ing only a handful of expert gun-the French army since the death ners; others are gigantic arsenals, filled with all the grimmest materini of Foch-for the plans for the of war that human invention has forts, which were due to be com- devised up to now, all kept secret pleted in 1934.

H.K. HONEYMOON ENDS IN COURT

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FORMER FOLLIES GIRL, Miss Nina Plerson, has obtained Mexican divorce from Mr. Paul E.; | Leviton, a millionaire business man, says a message from Los Angeles. They have Just returned from their honymoon in Hongkong and Shang- bai. Couple are pictured here after their wedding in London a year ago.

all enclosed within the protection of a natural mountain.

Giant's Trenches

The "Glaut's Trenches" is the French soldier's name for the Hoewald fort, to the north of Strasbourg, which, unlike most of the others, is on the surface. It cost £1,000,000 to build, required five years for the two hundred and fifty acres of ground to be dug out and the vast mechanism installed.

To-day, as in all the other forts, the guns are primed, the men

from the light of day until tho The work has been prolonged trained and at their posts as part call to action. Some have vast and additional credits required be- of France's preparedness in view systems of transport by steam and cause as the work advanced new of the unsettled condition" of

necessary, Europe to-day. electric railways stretching for improvements

were

All the young soldiers who, miles Into the earth, linking main while gaps which were loft, such bases far behind the lines with tho as the stretch of frontier facing taken, from civilian life to learn advanced forts.

the Saar while it was under con- the art of war in those modern turrets," return home to Without ever appearing on the trol of the League of Nations, "death surface, these trains being up have had to be filled with new speak with awe of the miracles giant guns, fresh supplies of sections of military works to com-of scientific. destruction revealed shells and other war stocks right plete the vast stretch of forts be- to- their gaze in the underground One and all declare to the front, to keep the forts in inning on the Belgian Frontier warrens. netfon.

and stretching to the Swiss that, once the chain of criss-cross harder...

fire from all the foris is put into action no human being could pass the line.

Impregnable By Land

Military experts say that the

Forts Bancath Rhine

Plans have been discussed for a

chain is so scientifically perfect Some of the forts are immersed long time to extend the "Maginot" E that no army could pass through in the Rhine itself, only the con- wall right to the English Chunnel 8 It by land. The only means of jerete "casements" sticking

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UP | and this will probably be done. At cracking it, therefore, in a future above the muddy banka. Migh-present, France places her secur battle would be by smashing it by tiest of the forts is the lincken-ity in the combination of the 3 air, although even that is probberg system, which defends Metz, French and Belgian systems. The lematical because of the depth of but of which hardly a single trace French forts extend from Swit- the forts plugged into the ground is visible on the surface, as Azerland to the point where the and the tremendous thickness of United Press correspondent whe Belgian frontler touches France. the cement and steel linings.

recently toured this area testified. To prevent another invasion of

Another Extra Day "Then on Loup Year 1 would have another extra day, between Saturday, June 30, and Sunday,; July 1, which would be called June L(L for Leap Year.), and June L, of course, would be a public! holiday.

Typical hengecked husbands .. 10 "Then the now calendar would! And those ten hempecked hus- be permanent, too. It could be bands, says Dr. Giehm, were very printed on bronze, or carved on sensitive, Innctive, soft, over-care. stone, and it would last for over. ful, wavering men who covered up No need to change it every year. their weakness by pretending to You could have the calendar en-be "kind and gentle" sympathisers graved on the back of your watch-¦ with thoir wives' malndy, case, and it would be as perma- And men like that deserve nent as the watch."

to be henpecked. .

The steel wall which France has Underground, however, is n her territory, Belgium is rushing built against au invasion across tooming marvel .of military. through a series of forts which will the Rhine is named after the lato. mechanics, with electric cables, complete the French chain; with Minister of War, Andre Maginot, water systems, roadways, giant which It will become linked in the who was responsible, with Marshall guns and machine guns, bombs, neighbourhood of Luxembourg. Potnin, General Woygand and shells and vast stocks of cartridges United Presa.

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