1936-01-21 — Page 24

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1936.

WORLD'S LARGEST AIRSHIP READY New Zeppelin Floating Hotel With Dance Floors, Cocktail

A picture from the Alexander plata

in Berlin, where foresters are selling hares, shot during the batturs for the benefit of the "Winter--help" See'ely,

More Babies Campaign In Italy

Rome, Dec. 22

While reiterating that there is no elbow room for Italy's 42,000,000 i habitants within her present confines the. Italian Government resolutely en- it campaign for the pursues

The couragement of lig families. nation is invited to count among its most practical patriots such wives as can give birth to a series of children aa rapidly as nature can allow and as long as the mother's physique can bear the strain.

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Competition in this race for the prolific is organised locally in each of the 95 provinces of Italy, yesterday Signor Mussolini received the 95 prizewinners, rewards

to those who marries after December 10, 1925 of living have the largest number children to date.

The 9 women honouret by the Dace and given birth to 16 imbles in less than ten years of married life.

At the end of the ceremony at the Palazzo Venezia the mothers wounded}

ver their wedding rings for

common cause.

Tay Bridge Tragedy

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THE largest aircraft ever built waits in a long, high | building at Friedrichshafen, on the shores of Lake Constance, Germany, for its first journey across the world.

It is still known as the Zeppelin LZ129.

The Sunday Express is nhle to revent that it will be called Adolf Hitler.

It will be ready for its first flights in a few days.

Half a million cuble foot of was is being pumped into it-the Inst process in its two years of con- struction.

They will sleep in luxuriously appointed staterooms,

Only a faint humming sound will Them the great sky-Ener tell is being driven by powerful, roar- In a ing engines, each housed gondola outside the hull.

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Even if they fly at heights where the

born. aloet and snow are

through the driving clouds of ice crystals four miles above earth the travellern will be warm,

the

This great hangar has seen its birth from a design on a drawing board to the mighty skeleton, dwarfing the workmen who swarm-kept at an even temperature by ed among the maze of girders,

central heating and air condition- ing.

For the past few weeks men and women have been busy stitching the great silver envelope."

Smoking Allowed

The 839-feet-long."ship of the air" will carry eighty passengers and a large crew. It will be driven by four mighty oil-burning engines at more than eighty miles an hour,

Passenger will not be accommo- dated in cramped compartments. Long promonade decks, glass-win- dowed, will Hive them views of the lands and sens thousands of feet

below.

They will eat in extensive dining saloons, served by stewards, with food prepared by first-class chefs,

There will be smart cocktail bars and dancing Hoors. Pas- seigers will be able to smake the hellum gas is non-inflam- mable.

MAN WHO FORECAST A GREAT DISASTER.

Dundee, Dec. 22.

In this town is an aged man who has tried in vain for fifty- six years to banish from his mind the memory of a tragedy.

In 1879 Mr. Alexander Kennedy, hour gale, of Nethergate, Dundee,

was a

forcman cleaner, and sometimes

houses.

acted as fireman on trains cross-

ing the famous Tay Bridge.

Three days after Christmas Day

und slates

and chimney pots were blown from engine ཙནཎཱི

was working ns cleaner that night when a painis- man rushed to tell us that com-

in that year the bridge collapsed.munication between both ends of

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More than eighty people lost their

when lives

train through it into the river.

"I told my father and friends a fortnight before that the bridge would collapse," he said to me, "but they laughed at me.

"I was acting as fireman on a pilot engine between Leuchars and Dundee. A gale was blowing, and certain that the bridge I was shook as we passed over it."

On the night before the disas ter an engine-driver called at the home of Mr. Kennedy. He scoff- ed at the young fireman's warn Ing.

Next night he was drowned in the Tay when his engine foll through the bridge.

"On the Sunday night that the tragedy took place a storm rose,"

Mr. Kennedy went on.

"There was a seventy-miles-an-

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the bridge was broken.

"I began getting a pilot engine rendy to cross the bridge to make investigations, but two men, who crawled on their hands and knees over part of the bridge, found that the centre girders had collapsed.

"If the discovery had not been made I would have driven my pilot engine into the Tay.

"The lights of a train seen on the bridge had suddenly dis- appeared.

The new Graf Zeppelin

If the maklen voyage is to New York, passengers will do the TABITHA STATES HERCASE Journey in less than three days. If it is to Brazil, across the South Atlantic, they will halve the time taken by the fastest ship.

Every cabin is booked for the maiden voyage.

Hugo Eckener, voleran of the airship lines, will command her.

Among his officers will be men who bombed London from the Zeppelins in 1916.

CURIOUS EXPORT TRAFFIC

Christchurch, N., Z.

NEA

WHITEHALL'S WAR ON

THE SHIP'S CAT

Cat-o'-nine-tails retired from the sea many years ago.

Now the ordinary nomad cats of commerce are being forced off the sea.

Nine lives are no good to them. They would need 999 to stand a chane of getting through the narrow meshes of the rogulations,

I interviewed one of the last of she added spitefully. There was no the old sen-ents last evening. I doubt that she was savourlag: re- Tabitha, she told me her name was.miniscences of victory. and she claimed howling acquaint- ance with Polaris and the Southern Cross.

told me her story,

"It was the Ministry of Agri- culture and Fisheries," she said, and

A strange traffic has grown up

The fact that it was a wet night between New Zealand and Ger may have contributed to Tabitha's many in the eye-teeth of deer. Appearance, but, as she sat on her Several months ago an inquiry was bollard thoughtfully licking her received and a consignment of chops, it took no student of feline several hundred teeth WILS for-psychology to realise that here was warded to a German firm at the the product of a hard life. She price of 1/6d a pair. A further 200 pairs has just been despatched. The keenest demand is for dis- culoured teeth, probably because eminent Behaviorist abould snill at that is a proof that the teeth are

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"They solemnly "Shipping companies tried in from aduit deer. It is believed that they may be used in the maklumped us in with dogs and said ing of some kind of ceremonial that we carried rabies. They insignia. As deer are being wide-brought out regulations. ty culled owing to their deprada-

"Whenever our ships were in a tions on farm produce, the demand British port we were to be shut up. can easily be supplied.

Of course, that did not laat long,"

she sniffed at the. title as

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N March 23 Miss Eva M. Horton of Mansfield, Notts, and Mr. Leslie Fran- cis Kitching, of Colin- crescent, Colindale, N.W., "That was all. The passengers stood before the pastor in were trapped, and although it is West Hendon Baptist known that at least eighty-three Ilves were lost, the exact number Church.

has never been discovered."

Early the next morning a man

Their marriage had then twice stood among the crowd. lle fook-licen postponed.

ed at the shattered bridge, and "Wilt thou have this woman to tears came into his eyes.

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"I cannot say that," replied the bridegroom.

The bride's mother collapsed, and the wedding was stopped. "I cannot go on," Kitching told the pastor in the vestry.

Protest Meetings [carry out the regulations. They issued supplementary regulations. We were not to be replaced as we Some did die, but died off. I'm still here."

"And kittens!" She cut short my murmur of congratulation. to be destroyed 'Im- "They were mediately.

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"We had our champions, of course. People said we must be al- lowed to live on board ship to keep down the rala. Meetings were held. Requests for amendments in the were sent to the regulations Ministry, but they were adamant.

The Marine Superintendent's Committee reported that it was im- possible to keep cats under efficient We control on board ships.. scored a fine victory thera, ..."

Tabitha's few remaining whiskers came in for a self-satisfled lick.

"And, mark you," she continued with a ring of triumph in her crack- ed volce, "they said there are no eflective measures that can be taken to prevent cats leaving ships while in a British port!"

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At that moment a fish supper bar, 100 yards along the dockside, open- ed its doors for the evening. Tabitha was transformed into dingy comet, and I was left alone, reflecting that the Marine Superin- tendents had spoken no more than the bare truth.

The wedding was abandoned, and Miss Horton returned to Mansfeld with her wedding cake. Read This

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This month the couple. again stood before. a minister, Mansfield Parish Church.

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Girls Who Are Seeing Evening

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The women of Russia are taking an interest in clothes again. Mmo. Schiaparelli, the dress designer, who has just returned to London from Moscow, said. "I was besieged with questions about how the women in the great outor world are dressing.”

Mme. Schiaparelli designed a dress for the Russian working. woman-black wool, with a washable collar, very simple"-and a red cost of heavier wool. It can be worn at business and at home, by day or In the evening.

"Dressing for dinnor is just beginning over there," she says. "But it is spreading rapidly. Many of the younger women have never seen evening dresses before..

"The women aro generally healthy, good looking, and intelli- gent. Their babies, which are the healthiest I have aver scen, are looked after in creches all day and reclaimed in the evenings when their mothers come home from work."

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