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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8,

1935.

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"THREE SWEETHEARTS

HAVE 1.

THE FOOLS!"

Ene

DIETRICH

Har honey mara dutyrking, mara bewitching than over, hi Benguetvéve Cancha, the meeting, levating tart af Spald

'THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN'

with

LIONEL ATWILL • CESAR ROMERO EDWARD EVERETT HORTON AUSON SKIPWORTH DON ALVARADO

Directed by Josef von Sternberg

A Paramount Picture

QUEEN'S

COMING

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Private Cars for Excursions Anywhere.

Caterers etc. in Imperial Airways,

Menlo uro Interchangeable, so extra cost whatever you have your bonekinat, Sincbaon, bon, or dinner,

Rooms of both betala bave private bathrooms and modern sanitation. Ai the Rannymede_unch rpom has its own publle telephone."

The Runarmede Restaurant has undeniably pride of place smong hotels of the East with its culetne, and justly elalent by its association to offer the traveller rock an je met to be found elsewhere,

One of Germany's new 260-ton submarines The "U 9" named after famans, war-time sub- marine which sank the "Cressy,'” “Aboukir," and "Hogne" in the early days of the Great War.

NEW GERMAN SUBMARINES

DEADLIEST

UNDERSEA

CRAFT IN EXISTENCE

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submarines, and the little that is so far known of their perform- ancos, it "wosld -appear that the German designers have achieved the diflicult fent of craming the Intest dévelopments Into a small space with remarkable success,

NAVAL DESIGNERS HAVE NOT these craft have been produced in

THE

LOST WAR-TIME CUNNING

It is well-nigh unbelievable that

under five months, for their de- sign shows that they embody the

fruits of years of research,

don that the German Government It was officially learned In Lon-

THE new German submarines, a photograph of one of

which appears on this page, are acknowledged by Bri-have given orders for the construc tish submarine officers to have a remarkably efficient and workmanlike appearance.

tion of 12 submarines, although it was disclosed some days earlier that German submarine plans were

and

far advanced, and that Germany had been manufacturing

There is no doubt that U-Boat 8 is of considerably more than 250 tons displacement-collecting individual parts of sub-

marines for many months.

When it was learned that Ger- many was to give orders for the building of submarines it was

the displacement credited to the first submarines to be built by Germany. This submarine would, indeed, appear to be slightly larger than our "Hunderstood that the first 12 vessels. Class" boats, or of about 500 tons displacement.

The photograph reveals that the The dome-alimped object just new submarines are built on very abaft the conning tower is merely modern lines, and incorporate many the cover of the engine-room hatch. features which have only been When taking passage on the aur- perfected by other nations in re- face under normal conditions, and cent times after years of exhaus-long wireless range is desired, a Įtelescopie mast is thrust up at the tive experiments,

The submarines are fitted with after end of the conning tower, both bow and stern torpedo tubes,, It is for this reason that the but they do not mount a gun. On"jumping wires" are doable abaft the bows they carry a specially the conning tower, while there is strengthened serrated steel struc-only a single "jumping wire" be-- ture like an immense saw. This fore the bridge. These "jumping designed to cut through the steel wires" are designed to act as a nets with which harbours and nar-skid to take sweep wires clear of row channels are often defended. every protrusion on the submarine

when the vessel is being. hunted,

Small Periscope

Torpedo Loading

---The curious-arrangement-of-bont-----From-the-photograph-it-would | stanchions just before the coming appear that the submarine is fitted tower seems to indicate that the with only one periscope. A second Germans have designed some new may be fitted, however, and have method of loading torpedoes into been completely housed down in their submarines, while the stop the conning tower casing when the like casing immediately before the photograph was taken. conning tower is interpreted by The one periscope, the top of British submarine officers ns which shows in the photograph, is housing for directional hydro- of reat interest because it seems phones-instruments in the design to be of such small diameter. and construction of which the Ger- Obviously, the smaller the dia- mans are known to be remarkably meter of the periscope which a proficient.

submarine shows above water when attacking the less chance there 18 of it being sighted.

at least, would be done only of 250 tons displacement,

SIR JAMES JEANS MARRIED

WOODLAND CHURCH NEAR VIENNA

IN

Vienna, Oct. 22.

a tiny Protestant church in a picturesque woodland suburb of Vienna, the famous British astronomer, Sir James Jeans and his bride, Fraulein Susi Hock, a brilliant young concert organist, were married this morning at 10 o'clock in tho-presence of the bride's parents and four friends of the family.

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The sun was shining brightly, and it was a glorious autumn morn-

ing.

Both bride and bridegroom wore travelling dress; the bride a dark brown Scotch tweed costume and the bridegroom a light brown lounge suit, with a straw hat.

Motored To Mountains

After the wedding breakfast, at which only eight people were pre- sent, they motored to the Semmer- ing Mountains, 60 miles from Vienna, where they will remain a day or two, and-then-probably pro- ceed to Italy,

On the forestle of the conning tower, slightly to starboard of the centre line of the submarine, will For this reason smaliness in be seen a sort of hoop mounted on diameter of the tops of perlscopes post. This hoop is a combined is a most sought-after factor in underwater wireless receiving submarine design. British aub- nerfal and direction finder, and it marine officers who have examined is mounted on a telescopia mast so this photograph are of opinion that that the aerial can be pushed up the diameter of the periscope The Lutheran pastor, Egon to the surface of the sea when the submarine is submerged.

Experiments in this type of wireless for submarines have been carried out by the Royal Navy over many years, and it

shown is considerably less than the diameter of the tops of the peris- copes used in British submarines. If this is true, it shows that Germany has lost none of her skill and cunning in the manufacture of

is only comparatively lately optical instruments for until com- that a satisfactory solution of paratively late in the War the Ger- the difficulties

been man submarine periscopes were achieved. It appears from this acknowledged to be considerably photograph of the German better than those of our own vor submarine that the Germans eels, have profited by our *** perience.

SALESMAN SAM

YEZZUR! I'M GONNA JOIN, TH' RATS BASEBALL TEAM! THASS WHY I CAME TO

SANDY BEACH!

Much in Littla From the appearnnes of the now

TH' RATS? WHY, THEY PLAY AT ROCKÝ BEACH!! THASS 12 MILES SOUTH OF HERE!

SANDY BEACH

Hayek, performed the ceremony, which Insted about half an hour, and terminated with an organ re- cital by a girl friend of the bride.

A great number of telegrams have arrived for Sir James Jeans in Vienna, and a great many more for his brido. Most of those ad-

dressed to the bridegroom were simply addressed Professor Sir James Jeans, Vienna, and the telo- graphic authorities were at first much puzzled.

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7 Bills for diners. 8 Constable probably drew this in

a crowd.

10 "Rude, forefathers of the-." 11 Deep, twice as long.

12 Cure tips as on the screen. 14 You're taken in and done for in

these.

15 Novel character who moved in

her own sets. Gourd. 20 Well, dressed.

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20 Buckbone of trade.

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31 Tom in trap becomes weighty. 32 Belonging to somebody.

ACROSS

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Frequently precedes a sentence. Usually a man's job.

A true blue.

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you've left it in the field,

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defined.

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way.

Yesterday's Solution

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HOBBIES EXHIBITION [ing; C. Large (14) Canadian river

CENTRAL BRITISH SCHOOL GIVE, FINE SHOW

paddle steamer; M. Grant (13) aeroplane models; G. Budden (18) aeroplane models; E. Annesley (9) shells; P. Crookdake (18) doll clothes; D. Freeman (9) doll clothes; J. Gray (18) collection The annual hobby exhibition of model of P. & O. liner Corfu; M. of fabrics: F. Houghton (15)

the Central British School

was Engelbrecht (11) model farm- held on Friday morning last week, house; M. Hill (11) plant collec and was an unqualified success, tion; J. Priday (18) butterfly the number and quality of the collection. exhibits being far superior to those of the previous exhibition. The following, were awarded prizes for their models and collections:

Special mention was mado of the model of the "Sir Charles Or built by the Engelbrecht brothers (ages 10 and 17), who formerly attended the school.

E. Stone (age 14) award for a A special prize of a kynk; J. Odell (14) for stamp stamps was awarded collection; I. Kerr (12) a draw- Booker by J. Odell.

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