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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1936.

LONDON TO CHINA Here's How Lava Flow Appears to Camera Closeup

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SOLDIER

SLAYER'S REPRIEVE

FIRST ACT OF CLEMENCY

IN NEW KING'S

REIGN

The 27-year-old soldier, Lance- Corporal Arthur Charles Mortimer, who was sentenced to death at Win- chester Assizes for murdering a young| woman cyclist by purposely running anotor-car is bo into her with reprieved.

This will be the first act of clemency under the new King.

The Home Secretary (Sir John Simon) has made the recommendation with a view to the sentence being con. muted

to penal servitude for life. It was announced that under

Lunatica Criminal

Act of 1884 Sir John caused a medical in

'Sleeping car air liners, guided by radia beacons, will fly by night and day, with brief halte for refuelling.. The round ticket will cost £500. Main stages the journey are al-the

in ready taking shape.

Imperial Airways and Pan Ameriquiry to be held into Mortimer's state can Airways will open up the North of mind, and the recommendation to Atlantic

tle route between London and respite the capital sentence followed. Now York jointly under the ngree- ment recently completed.

United Air Lines, the largest Amo- rican internal air. sorvico, fly direct from New York to San Francisco,

Pan American Airways are flying the world's greatest ocean air route from San Francisco to Hongkong via Honolulu, Midway Island, Wako Island, Guam, Manila,

From Hongkong passengers will be able to get a connecting service to Singapore, and then the Imperial Air ways main trunk service back to London.

Mr. II. B. Longfellow, of United Air Lines, has arrived in London to arrange for co-operation with Imperial Airways.

The prisoner will be removed to n convict prison where he will be kept| under medical observation.

Mortimer was in the 1st Balin. Welch Regiment, and he has a wife! and baby.

FIRST MURDER OF ITS KIND The murder for which he was! sentenced was the first of its kind in history.

Crushing everything in its path, molten lava from the Mauna Loa volcano outbreak in the Hawallan Is- lands moves in an irresistible path. An Intrepid news photographer crawled close to map'this unusual photo after Army planes had dropped 200-pound bombs on the flow in an effort to check lis progresa.

SIX MEN PREPARE Plan £2,000,000

FOR

SECRET

TRIAL Cambridge.

BRITAIN'S most secret court of justice will hold

3-Deck Bridge At Bosphorus

a session at Cambridge within the next fort-EUROPE may soon be directly night.

When dismissing Mortimer's appeal |

Six distinguished scholars of in the Court of Criminal Appeal Lord Ilewart (the Lord Chief Justico) sald Cambridge University, wearing the evidence showed "run amak."

the man had

The prosecution's caso at the trial was that Mortimer stole a moter-car at Aldershot on August 7 last year. The same evening he knocked two

their mortar-boards and aca- demic robes, will meet in a room at one of legen.

£5-A-Month'

the Cambridge col-Premier

They will "sport the oak," or

The final link for the fight roundwormen off their bicycles,ame ear he close the heavy double doors. The Is Worried

Next morning

sitting.

of 1858, will then be in

the world from London is the North Atlantic passenger service," he said. followed two girls who were cycling court of "Sex Viri" or six men, "Pan-American Airways are ready along a late and deliberately knocked constituted under the university to fly the Atlantic now, but they are Miss Phyllis Oakes (aged 21) down statutes working in close co-operation with with the car, causing injuries from Imperial Airways, who are extremely reticent about their plans."

On rough reckoning it will take

One day from London to New York;

One day from New York to San Francisco;

Five days from San Francisco to Hongkong;

One day from Hongkong to Singapore; and

Four to five days from Singapore Imperial Airways have great plans maturing for the North Atlantic service, for which large flying-boats

to London.

are being bullt.

The died

nt

which

At the polles court proceedings pre ceding the trial a further ense was

A car was stolen mentioned. Farnborough, and less than an hour later a Miss Harwood, who had been cycling near Woking, was found near her bicycle with Injuries consistent with her having been run, into from behind.

Near Guildford a police car drow level with the stolen car which was being driven by Mortimer-but he escaped by driving on to the pave- ment.

Miss Harwood's handbag was found Finally there was a collision, and

A terminal building is to be built in the car, over Victoria Station. Lifts will take

passengers down to a private railway ARTIST'S

Platform beneath.

Solving Russia's

-Food-Problem

"AIM NOT PROFITS

BUT PRODUCTION"

CAREER

RUINED

£4,000 FOR ROAD CRASH VICTIM

Mr. Maurice Denton Welch, 20, of Moscow. Sloane Avenue-mansions, Chelsen, Russia's food problem, which in was awarded £4,000 agreed the past was one of the greatest damages in the King's Bench difficulties facing the country, has Division recently for injuries now been solved, declares M. received when he was knocked off Mikoyan, the Food Commissar, in his bicycle by a motor-car. a report published recently.

It is empowered to try graduatts accused of offences against the university or of grave misconduct.

Graduate Accused..

Istanbul, Jan. 25.

connected by road and rail with Asia Minor and India.

A suspension bridge linking both banks of the Bosphorus forms part of a plan elaborated by the Istanbul municipality.

The design and estimates of an Anglo-American concern are especially favoured. According to these the bridge would be of similar type to that at New York which connects Brooklyn with Manhattan. -

Calgary, Feb. 8. PREMIER ABER- The bridgo will have more than HART of Alberta is one level. One will be reserved for rail transport, another for facing his first legisla-rond traffle, including a tramway The judges will include

the tive

service, and a third will be for Masters of Caius and St. John's

session with & pedestrians only. The pedes. Colleges. The Vice-Chancellor of distinctly hostile Oppo-lined

trians' part of the bridge will be with shops, cafes, reg- the University, Mr. G. II. A. WI- sun, the Master of Clare, willsition in the House and taurants, and so on, preside.

The charge has not been

The defendant is a graduate. la growing wave divulged. The proceedings will unrest and criticism be in secret. Even the findings the country..

of the six just men may never be promulgated,

The total length of the bridge,

of according to Turkish newspapers,

in

will be over

The central part will be suspend-

a mile and a half.

ed over the Bosphorus for a dis- Mr. Aberhart In broadcast and will be high enough to allow the tance of nearly half a mile, and Unless the defendant is deprived linterviews, constantly warns the largest liner in the world to pass of his degrees or office, even the people that it is impossible to underneath it. punishment may be a secret one initiate social credit legislation

if he is found guilty.

is

The next step will be for the

municipally to raine about

The approaches will rest on 18 The six judges do not yet know during this session of the Alberta arches, nine at each end. When or where the court will sit Assembly, which opens on Febru The Sex Viri is a court boundary 6. The latest Intimation by no rules of evidence. State that the payment of £5 a month £2,000,000 to build the bridge.— ments may be taken on oath or dividends may have to be delayed Reater. without path as the court directs until nearly two years after the The Sex Viri met last about election instead of the eighteen nine years ago to hear charges months mentioned after he tooking that income tax and of immorality against a gradu-office.

ate, following his appearance as co-respondent in a divorce ́sult.

Long-Range Dispute

other

levies will have to be advanced long before any purchasing certi-

The chairman of the Sex Viri, To-day the Premier is carrying|ficates can be distributed. Professor H. C. Gutteridge, of on a long-range dispute with Trinity Hall, said:

Major Douglas in London. He

The defendants were Mrs. Anniej "The case is not ono of public admits it would be impossible for

Now Lovies

Already heavier taxes have been

In the past eight years, he says, Hutley, of Woodyates-road, S.E., interest. It is quite out of the Major Douglas to draft any social imposed, the latest being the the Soviet has established or em who was driving the car, and Mr. question to reveal the nature of credit legislation for the House doubling of fees for motor-drivers, William George Falconer, transport the charge or the name of the de-nt this late date, but threatens together with higher imposts on cen-contractor, of Silwood-street, Lon-fendant."

that he will not wait long for the liquor sales. The new lovies are father of social credit.

barked on the following:

17 large meat-production

tros,

8 bacon factories,

10

sugar refineries,

41 large canning plants,

B7 refrigerating plants,

11 Ice factories,

48 dairy produce and mar

garine plants,

178 mechanised bakeries,

22. tea factories.

dou, owner of the car,

The accident occurred on the

London-Reigate rond, near Horley. BILL OF

It was stated that Mr. Welch's in-

juries were so serious that his

carcer as a commercial artist, for STAVISKY

which he was being trained, was practically ruined.

from that abroad, where Industry is run for the sake of prodit, M.

£500,000

The food industry plan for 1936 Mikoyan remarks: The principle MUST BE

provides for a production of twice of the Socialist system consists that of 1932,

Saying that the problem of pro-goods for consumption. Our aim in supplying the country with duction in the U.S.S.R. is different is not profits but production."

PAID BY NINE MEN

Paris. Over £500,000 in damages,

VIC McLAGLEN TRAINING compensation and costs will be

PRIVATE

ARMY

Not For Films,

Films, Either

New York...

To Victor McLaglen I apologise | most humbly. It is not a more troop of light horse of which he is commander-in-chief, as stated in

my dispatch to the News Chronicle'

from Information Impart- ed at McLaglen's sports centre out Hollywood way, writes the News Chronicle correspondent in New York

It is an army, a Victor, telephoning from the capital of Movieland, got me out of bed at midnight; to give me the "lowdown" concerning it.

A corps of motor cyclists,

A drum and bugle corps of 62 members.

A military band of 84 places.

260 leading horsewomen who aro

training for the Red Cross.

expected to produce an additional "I am determined that Major £70,000 annual revenue. Douglas must come here after the session is over," said Mr.

Highway, building, and mainten- Aberhart, "If he does not Iance funds are to be reduced, and will undertake the job myself, public services generally cut. The but he is the man to do it. He latest threat is that municipalities started this social credit thing: will have to carry a bigger load of I have taken my ideas from relief costs, which will bring him."

virtual revolt by civic councile.

Meanwhile the financial affairs grave, and the Premier, who pro-are now freely being made that

So tangled in the social credit of the province are becoming more skein becoming that predictions

mised lower taxes and monthly Mr. Aberhart cannot remain basic dividends, is openly admitt-power more than two years.

In

paid by the nine men sentenced WILSON'S SECRET VIEWS

in the Stavisky trial.

Under the judgment in the civil

proceedings, which has now been

passed, they have to repay!

£180,000 lost by seven insur-

ance companies and two privato, persons,

$2,600 damages, and

ON U-BOATS

Washington, Feb. 1.

Disclosures made to-day about President Wilson's attitude to £18,000 which the case has the U-boat, menace rather spoil the bankers' argument that not i cout. In addition, there are the various they, but German submarines, led America into the war,

500 mounted men, trained by Re-taxos and fiscal additions, which Barve officers of the United will vastly increase the num... States Army, and made up

of professional and business

Blow To Companies

Passages, hitherto suppressed, be sunle without warning, and that from Colonel House's diary were merchantmen shall have the right read before the Senate Munitions to arm.” Committee.

"Federal Reserve Imbroglio"`. men of the highest stand- This judgment will come as a The quotations show that, in ing.

The

Federal Reserve Im- severe blow to the three insurance 1915, at any rate, the submarino broglio," a phrase used by Wilson "The organisation is self- supporting on the proceeds companies of the "Confiance," of menace provoked no warlike sorti in a letter to Colonel House, was from matches at my stadium which Guobin, one of the condem- ments from Wilson..

quoted in support of the argument it seats 15,000 people,” ned men, was a director.

Differed From Balfour |that the bankora avanted war to "But what

They have been made civilly re- The matter of armed merchant-protect their loans.. is the purpose?: Does it porform any civic sponsible for his part, as it was men is less simple than Balfour James A. Farloy, President duties? 1 queried, duly he who is supposed to, have helped would make it," Wilson said. | Roosevelt's... Postmaster-Goncrai, awed but somewhat puzzled. to push worthless Stavlsky bonds ...“It is hardly fair to ask a sub- speaking at a Democratic Party

"Huh, no," Victor admit on the Bayonne municipal pawn-

marine commander to give warn- dinner. In New York, thunderod They will consequently ing if, when he approaches near, the slogan "Keop Roosevelt In and shop. "Does it stand ready to deal with have to pay several million francs he is to he fired on

the banker and big busintas gang "any London the revolution of the Red proletariat?" on his behalf. PLA Colonel House had just had in out." anys my organisation Wo are a patriotis body, ready at These declatina, are not quite private conversation with the late Thereby he indicated the line of Bwith the filme tik mestay the end of the Stavlaky case Lars Boddler, who was Chen Lord Democratic attack in the coming Korubel, I am going to be in London defend the liberties and principles There are still ten persons into Chlef Justice of England, and Presidential campaign, which, als

started it two years

on chairman of the Democratic Na o years ago. It's upon which this great Republie pas whose activities favestigations are wrote to President W

tional Committee he will direct. planillä; high-class organisation. founded, and don't let any London being made. Defending counsel, Dec. 2, 1915:

this be said, "there is a paper insinuate that this organimation however, hope that there inquiries The British Government destros He characterised the representa Ašot, Geroplanes. Also, there has the remotest connection with the will lead eventually to a dropping that we should demand from Ger- tives of banking and big business

many that no merchantmen should is subprincipled brigando Koreya de Wend of the case.

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