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FAR AWAY FROM WAR

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER

TWENTY FIVE MEN ARE RULERS

John and Charles Martin, sons of the Ethiopian minister to London, England, are seen as they set out to attend school for the first time in the English metropolis.

They Hate His Singing

New York, Nov. 5.

NEW YORK opera lovers pay £2 a

seat to hear

Lawrence Tibbett, the famous baritone, sing, but neighbours at his New York home would willingly pay more than that to stop him from singing.

They even threaten to take action to stop him.

KISSING

A WEDDING RING

Mr. Charles Cass, treasurer of an important paper company. said, "Tibbett's voice makes the whole building shiver.

"I don't know whether he sings in his bath," he said, "but the noise is worse in the morning, and when he is work- jine un an opera our whole home

vibrates."

M'sa McMillen, 'another neighbour. called the Golden of American Opera Voice "Terrible, really terrible."

She added: What we have to go through is awful.":

REWARDED WITH 100 DAYS' INDULGENCE BY POPE Grant us, oh Lord, that loving Thee we may love each other and live according to the Holy Law--* MARRIED. Roman Catholic A couples in the Archdiocese of Westminster who kiss the Mr. Tibbett, who likes to sing wife's wedding ring and recite at home, has sound-proofed his the above prayer have been whole apartment, but still his granted-by-the-Rope-an-indul-neighbours-are-incensed- gence of 100 days, to be gained

once a day...

Archbishop Hinsley announced this at a meeting of the West- minster branch of the Catholle Women's Lole and the Unton tholic Mothers. He said he oped this act of devotion would be adopted by all his people who had entered the married statt.

The Intention of the indulgence stress the sanctity of

was to

marriage.

It May Bo Extended

"So fur," it was explained, "the Indulgence has ben promulgated only in the Westminster diocese. It is possible that the question di ito

other being extended to dioceses ΟΙ "England" may be raised at a meeting of the bishops. The "Catholic EncyclopaedIn" explains that an indulgence of 30 many days means that it "cancels an amount of purgatorial punish- ment equivalent to that which would have been remitted, in the eight of God, by the performance of so many days of the nacient canonical ponance."

In the Roman Catholic marriage service the wedding ring is blessed

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OF THE WORLD

"LORDS AND MASTERS" OF OUR PLANET

AMERICAN WRITER CHOOSES SIX BRITONS AS WORLD-SHAKERS

New York, Nov. 1,

Twenty-five men rule the world, twice as many of them come from England as any other nation, and, although the world is arming to the teeth, only four. military men now figure as world-shakers, according to "Our Lords and Masters" by "The Unofficial Observer," just published.

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1935.

HOW ROME HEARS

SPECIAL PRE-WINTER

GERMIN

RADIO

In all the thoroughfarea and atrests

The author holds that the world is "rushing headlong to the brink of catastrophe and from now until 1950 it will be nip and tuck whether in Rome and other itallan towna big civilisation can be preserved at all, let alone the loud speakers, have been placed in present state of affairs." This race between civi-position so that the population can lisation and catastrophe is "controlled by our Lords and Masters," he says, and only by studying the men who really run the world we live in has the mass of humanity any hope of guiding its destiny.

30 MILES UP-AND 1,000 M.P.H.

BRITAIN. WILL TRY

Britain has entered the con- test to produce the first 1,000- m.p.h. airplane. A stratusphere machine is now being built at Bristol

Fantastic speed ringes will be the prize of the first nation to send its airplanes of com- merce and war into the strato- sphere.

The journey from London to New York will be done comfor-

bly in three hours.

Briston engines have already carred three p.lots to world altitude records. The Bristol Aeroplane Company hopes that its experiments may result, by 1936, in stratosphere trips thirty miles above the earth.

If wil be impossible in the stratosphere unless aircraft are hermetically sealed and warmed. In war, the fighting airpluc 1 bullet that can rat send through its enemy's airtight shell will w,n,

WILLIS ISLAND.

Voluntary Robinson

Crusoes Of The South Seas

before it is placed upon the bride's ISLAND HERMITS WATCH FOR CYCLONES

finger by the priest. It is re- garded as a symbol of the Sacra- ment of Matrimony.

FILM BAN ON "QUINS"

that Australia may be warned of the advent of So

cyclones, the two radio operators on Willis Island, 30 acre strip of sand 312 miles from the Queensland coast on the edge of the Coral sea, have been asked to send the Commonwealth Government complete weather reports every day of the year.

MARY PICKFORD'S

The details they supply of tem-, Willis Island, the birthplace of OFFER REFUSED

peratures, humidity, cloud, sea:yelones, is also believed to be the Callender, Ont., Nov. 10. und wind velocity and direction "ome of more birds than any other Mr. David A Croll, Ontario's will thus

enable the various piece of earth. It warms with Minister of Public Welfare. has

In the nesting season rejected Mary Pickford's off of meteorological officials to advise mutton birds, sooty terns and

gannets £5,000 for the first nopearance of air transport companies of the the ground is covered with birds the D'orna mi'n'uole's in a film. weather they may expect over the who leave their nests only when

Miss Pickford's offer which Commonwealth airways.

a cyclone rages. In 1930, when 74 mile hurricane swept the extended to £7.000 for a second film and £10.000 for a third- During the non-cyclonic period, island and ten inches of rain foll followed Mr. Harold Lloyd's offer April to October, alates Austrai in three hours, the birds fled to of $5,000 for the appearence of News, these modern hermits, who sea, returning in three days to

have been chosen partly for their find their chicks dead,

The mutton birds nest in bur- rows, d'gging to the depth of a foot and burrowing for three to six feet.

the quintuplets in his new come interest in natural science and dy "The Milky Way."

meteorology, will spend their time: Mr. Croll stated: "It is hard painting the wireless station, over- to have to refuse Mary. She Hauling gear. and divging the.r was very persuasive, but I could vegetable garden, which grows in not consider a film contract for soil carr.ed from Australia by the Dionne babies until Dr. bags and mixed with the Island Dofoe, their physician and guar-sand.. dian, is satisfied that such a venture will not harm them."

rummor -flying of little gas. balloona which "The quintuplets are now near- tell them what they want to know. ly 16 months old.

about the wound.

Their big interest in life is the

Every form of coral and mar'ne life is rlao-frund on the islend. One hundred turtles coma ashore every night in the end. three months "late" nearly three quarters of a mill'en eggs are deposited on the land.

Inceive the latest war nowa from the Front in East Africa.

Romantic

World rulers reign through Bandit

five spheres, "Observer" says the sphere of social behaviour,

in which five men are supreme; the political sphere, with eight "big shots," the military sphere, with only four super-men, and the economic sphere, with eight

czars.

These men master the con- sciences of the mass of humanity:

King George V. of England, the link that binds together Britain's far-flung empire of many races.

Pope Pius XI, the supreme moral authority of the world's 1300 000,00o Carnolics.

Leon Trotsky, most eloquent advocate of social justice for the working classes.

Emperor Hirohito of Japan, piritual and temporal ruler of 70,000,000 Japanese, who belleve he is divine.

Mahatma Ghandi, the moral presentative of India's tacming millions

for in demand

In- dependence.

No American is placed in this class.fication, and only one in the next, that of politics. Slan ey Baldwin, epitome of British conservation and "mud- dling through" by which Britain Fulés a fourth of the world.

May Go Free

Madrid, Oct. 30.

If appeals now being made on his behalf are successful, the prison gates of San Miguel do los Reyes, in Valencia, will soon open to restore h's long- lost freedom to a Span.sh Robin Hood.

Pedro Ceballos Gonzalez other- wise "Pepino Chico" ("Little Cucumber) robbed rich Peter to pay poor Paul, and was senten- ced to 154 years in prison, of which he has served thirty.

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Many a peasant-farmer paid FUR COLLARS

his rent with the money "Pepino Chico" had taken from the pockets of his landlord. Meanwhile charges began to p.lo up against him in the court archives of half a dozen pro-

vinces.

The

Manuela Rueda, of Rute.

bandit loved a maid,

Ped: o

had the banns read on three cox- ecutive Sundays, though the time and place of the marrings

were not stated.

cere-

The place was a little chapel in Sir Samuel Hoare, England's the depths of the Sierra de Cabra, "most capable foreign secretary, visited on one day in the year by since the war." -

many pilgrims, but other ise left Andro-Tardieu, political hench to the bandits. All the members- man of French high Anance and of Pedro's band were there. big Industry."

The Civil Guards were not sup Joseph Stalin, most powerful posed to know anything about it,. poruc an in the Soviet Union." but they were there 19 They Benito Mussolini, Italy's Duce waited until they Judged the erre- and Europe's "cloverest and least meny would be ver thy they scrupulous diplomat."

close began to

in round the

Pedro, for the first time in his 1.fc, fled from them, taking other his bride, while the bandits covered his retreat, They left one of their number dead on the field; one guard was carried back to Rute with a gunshot wound.

Alot Ht.e., rmany'a Reichs-crupol. uchrer who has made his coun- ry "reat power" again.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, pres sident of the world's potentially strongest country.

-Mustapha Kemni, Turkish dicta- tor, first and abl:st of the post-war dictators.

The four milltary men ranked

A child was born to Manuela, as world rulers, a German,-a-

and the happy event unded" rapanese a Russian and a Chinese, Pedro's freedom. She had gone to hor parents' house in Bute, and Gen. Werner Von Blomberg,her husband braved every kind of German d:fence minister and com danger to visit irr. mander of "the world's most

are:

officient military machine."

Gen. Saduo Arak, strongest ad- he door.. Pedro hlmscif opened vocate of Japanese military pansion in Asia.

One night there was a knock on

ex-

.L,

He found four rifles pointing at his chest.

ARRESTED THIEF

Gen, K:ementi Veroshikov, com- mander of the Red Army's 1,000,- 000 men.

Gen. Chiang Kal-aħek, comman- der of the army of China.

Eight economic potentates have more power to influence and deter- REMEMBERED THE mine events than all the generals and politicians, "Observer" says, and he lists two Americans in this

In

POLICE IN HIS WILL The Amurtness of the French group:

police in handling a theft mystery Montagu Norman, Governor of is remembered in the will of M. the Bank of England, which in-Lucien Piorre Arbol, of 103, cidentally le a private institution. Avenue Henri-Martin, Paris, and Lord Reading, British chairman of Villa Ste. Marie, Jardins Selim, of the board of imperial Chamicais | Tunis, ironmaster, who died Industries, in which the Du Pont July 1984.

He left estato In England valued interests in America are partners.

Baron James de Rothschild, at £325. French head of Europe's greatest He made the following legacies in view of his having been robbed banking family.

Eugene Schneider, French "key-of 400,000 francs and a sum of man" in the European munitions between 6,000 and 8,000 francs: industry..

10,000 francs to M. Pascal, Divisional Commissioner of Police; Dr. Hilmar Schacht, Germany's

5.000 to M. Jeangirard. CommiR- economic dictator.

sioner of Police for the Third JP. Morgan, whose firm "con-District, as a token of gratitude trols over one quart:e of America's for the very active assistance which organized wealth."

they gave men in order to discover John D. Rockefeller, Jr., ad the culprit and arrest him."

The will reads: "I remember ministrator of the largest personal fortune of America.

with emotion my parents, my Sir Henry Deterding. Britain's friends and all my formor col- dutch-born one-man super-trust in leagues, managers, engincera, elerks

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