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·HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1935.

MASTER

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Sorial women are represented in all branches of work, The girl who is seen above holding the sextant is Captain aboard the Russian ship "Kalinin".

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They'll Be Back SATURDAY !

These Blaricut, Gold Digger Oirial 13 Starsi 3 Hr Songit

GOLD DIGGERS 1935

At the QUEEN'S

holder of a civil pilot's licence- rejected by the Royal Air Force --has taken out French naturalisation

papers,

and has joined the French Air Force.

The young man, Clifford Dace, hul to pass tests in which there were 1,400 competitors for 300. posts.

. His father is British ex- civil servant. He has another son, now serving in the British Army.

"I am surprised at the treat- ment we received from the British Air Ministry," he said.

-Lived-In-Fṛance---

"I served In the Army through lived in and have the war, France permanently since then. My son obtained: his civil licence

last June--he was the youngest air pilot in France-and wished to take up flying as a career, so I came to England to enlist him in the Air Force.

"I spent a whole day between Whitehall and the Air Ministry, and after being referred from

GLOBE ENCIRCLED IN A FORTNIGHT

H. K. AS INPORTANT HUB

A

NGLO-AMERICAN enterprise will, before next Christmas, have flung a chain of airways castwards from Britain to Newfoundland and southwards to Hong. kong.

Next year Britain will send a pioneer air liner across the North Atlantic. That flight will re- present the forging of the last vital, link in a round-the-world chain of airways.

You will be able to circle the globe in a fortnight, 'travelling in luxury air liners manned the whole way by English-speaking

· crows.

Imperial Airways in less than a fortnight begin experimental services between Penang, and Hongkong.

Before January America will have inaugurated the California. China airline across the Pacific. 8 completing the chain,

This line has alrendy been pioneered as far as Guam by the giant "Oriental Clipper" which leaves this when on another

light, to Hongkong.

Early in 1936 the new British "pick-a-back" composite air- plane will make its test flights across the North Atlantic with heavy mail loads.

The airplane that will arike the actual flight, will be taken into thei air an the back of a second ma-) chine, which will launch her in mid- air with her full lead of petrol.

Siam Divorce Laws

Make Husband Boss

Bangkok, Sept. G.

New 'marriage inws which come into force in Slam on October 1, provide, among other things, that the husband is to be considered The head of the household and that marriages, to be legal, must be registered. Divores

is made much ansier. It may be effected by mutual con sent or by court order.

Infidelity on the part of the wife entitles the husband to a divorce, but the same does not apply when a husbaqd is unfaith- ful.

Once a divorce is registered tho husband is entitled to remarry at any time but the wife has to wait 316 dnya.

Royal Air Force Bring boats Dramatic have already blazed the trait of the new British airway- from the Murder (Maky Peninsula to Hongkong.

Hongkong In Week

the

Beatles connecting with Americans, this line will mean high-sperd acress for Europe's business men to the vast and still undeveloped markejs of China..

Inside two yrs Hongkong will be well within a week's luxurious travelling of Piccadil. ly.

At present it takes right ani aļ half days to fly to London from Singapore and four to five days to travel by steamer from Hongkong to Singapore. The Empire air speed-up timed to begin in 1997. will eat that by half.

. The short Company at Rochester!

fast are already building

new giant flying boats to the order of Imperial Airways.

One of the types under can- struction will carry twenty four passengers at a speed of a little less than 200 m.p.h. Your time-table round the world! as soon as the last three gaps in the airway systent are filled should

be something like this!-

days: Hongkong-London, 81⁄2 Hongkong-Californi, 4 days; Cali- fornia-New York, 1 day: New! York-Britain, 1 days. Total 12% days.

one office to another was finally "MAKE ME YOUR informed that the civil pilot's certificate was not a qualifica- tion.

"I returned to France extremely disappointed. Finding it was im-. possible to turn the boy from his ident decided to let him take French naturalisation.

"My boy has done sixty hours' solo flying without the slightest accident, and recently took a prize for message-dropping against ex- perienced pilots."

An official at the Air Ministry stated:

were apparently "There reasons for refusing the applica- tlon. Because the lad held a civil pilot's licence is no reason why he should be taken into the Royal Air Forec,"

SALESMAN SAM

POLICE CHIEF"

SAYS RANDIT. TO A KING

Bucharest, Sept. 1. Roumania's Robin Hood, George Coroiu, who gave himself up last week, has addressed; a petition from his prison cell to

King Carol, asking the king

To pardon him.

the

To give him an audience. To put him in charge of Transylvania gendarmerie, ffe points out that with his knowledge of banditry he could keep Transylvania free of ban- dits for ever.

Coroiu has

escaped from prison twenty times.

Trial In Nice

'I HAVE LIVED WITH MADMEN FOR

23 YEARS'

Nice, Aug. 20. "For twenty-three years I have lived with madmen. My hus- band and my son who hated me. His terrible eyes drove despair."

me to

A sobbing woman spoke these words in Nice Criminal Court to-day. She was acquitted by the jury, most of whom were in ears, of killing-her-thirty-nine. year-old son.

She admitted that she fired two at him in the kitchen of shots

their home. "Why I did it I do not know," she told the court.

Her son's lost words, spoken in delirium, were: "I hate my mother. I want to kill her." The mother was Mme. ROBO- werki, a widow of fifty-nine.

Suicide Throats,

She told how she had, in November last year, removed her | Hon, Serge, from a lunatic naylum. The authorities had stopped him playing the plano, and Serge was threatening to hang himself.

"At first," she said, "he was his gradually grateful. But madness made him hate me.

"Again and again he cried, 'I shall kill my mother to punish hor for having brought me into the world.""

The prosecuting attorney, him- self deeply moved, withdrew the charges.

When the judge announced the sequittal, Mme. Rosowecki fainted in the arms of Serge's younger

brother.

EXCLUSIVE PARLOPHONE RECORDINGS

BY

RONALD FRANKAU

THE "ACE OF HUMORISTS"

2025. My Secretary.

If I Wore Dictator.

1814. Pros and Cont.

What To Do With It.

1910. Shootin', Huntin' and Fishin'.

'Way Out in the Blue.

1961. Ten Little Houses.

My intentions Were Absolutely Pure. 1754, If They Dug. Up The Bones..

Julius Caesar

1613. A Protest.

Don't Pretend To Be Innocent.

1547. London,

When You've Fellows Like Me In The Force.

1515. Let's Go Wild.

The Preparatory School, The Public School And the Varsity. 1450. The Queen And The Porter.'

Sho Hit Him On The Head With A Hammer. 1315. A Good Man's No Good to Anyone. Let's Keep The Party Clean.

682. Riots, Strikes and Revolutions.

Oh Dear Dear.

553. Macbeth.

496. In a Littio Garage.

In a Perfectly Lovely Park.

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16 A lover kicks his heels in the air

and begins to turn round. 17 Sitting on the fence.

20 A mariner will tell you it often

belies its name.

22 What any chum will give you.

23 Very hard and very white.

24 South Sea istands.

27 Therein (Anagram),

28 It's brave to make an insect sore.

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3 Irregular verbs in Old English.

See?

4 The sort of drink that appeals to

creditors.

5 When one ball is equivalent to

dofcat.'

6 To do with morals,

7 A song in the merman's heart

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13 The boy to worry,

14 Turn out.

18 "Lay not that flattering-to your

Houl"

("Hamlet");

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fouling.

21 The Baltic port it might have

visited is inside it.

26 Tobacco.

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