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THE HONGKONG * TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1936.

MILLION-A-WEEK WAR SKYSCRAPER

IT COSTS BRITAIN ALL THAT

--AND MORE

HOW much is

the

League of Nations' intervention in the war between Italy and Abys- sinia costing Britain?

This question was raised in the House of Commons when

Parliament resumed on February 4. Members are becoming per- turbed over the presumably heavy expense of the "prepara- tions" the British Government has made to meet any eventuality arising out of the application of sanctions against Italy.

No precise figure is obtain- able, but in a well-informed quarter, was stated that the

cost is "in the neighbourhood of

a million pounds a week."

Il is not anticipated that the 非 Budget

expense will demolish

surplus, but it must considerably reduce it. And it

seems kely'

that the expenditure will continue, for even if the tension were ended immediately it would take some weeks to bring back home the troops, naval forces, and alreraft. from the various points to which 'they have been sent.

"Little Man's Burden

One reason for vast expenditurej was the fact that for months no other sanctions-inking Power moved a single man, airplane, or ship. In other words, the whole cost of defending the League dé cisions to take sanctions against] Italy Tell entirely on the British laxpayer.

NEWSPAPER HEIRESS BECOMES A BRIDE

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Balentine, who were married Jan, 25 at Miramar Ranch, California. The bride, formerly Miss Ellen Brown- ing Scripps, is from Seattle and is heiress to the famous. Scripp

millions. Mr. Balentine is a rosident of Portland, Me.

Prisoner Writes One-step Based

on Gaol Life

Auckland, (N.Z.), Feb. 1. TRIC MAREO, a former Lon-

E

BANDIT

Escapes by Train from Clutches

of 200 Armed Police

New York, Feb. 12.

After cluding all day and all night more than 200 heavily-armed police who occupied the great Woolworthskyscraper, a lone robber-

Walked calmly past men guarding the approaches; Descended to a subway station under the buliding: Escaped by the first train that came along.

He had looted several oflees in the famous

60-storey

skyscraper

when discovered in the morning by an elderly watchmann, whom he shot and badly wounded.

The watchman staggered to a telephone and gave the alarm.

In a few minutes the polien were the krene. From the windswept observation tower 700 feet above Broadway to the subbasement they searched in vain every inch of the 40 acres of loor-space.

Meanwhile, the thief hnd climbed out of a window, dropped to the roof of a seven-storey business building adjoining, and entered the shop of a denler three doors away.

There he hid in the storeroum until the first employee arrived and opened the shop. Whereupon he emerged and went unhurriedly, into the street and the subway.

SOVIET

STAMPS

AID

HOMELESS CHILDREN

Moscow, Feb. 10.

The Soviet Government has decided that the study and collec- tion of postage stamps have an important educational valuc, and has therefore organised the Soviet Philatelic Association under the Commissariat of Education. This association is given a monopoly in the sale of stampa for collection in the Soviet Union and abroad, and its profits are turned over to the Society for Homeless Children.

Stump collecting is regarded na something more than a hobby. The study of stamps is considered one of the best means for imparting the facts of geography and history not only to children but to adults.

BRITAIN EATS AND

SMOKES

MORE

The Soviet Philatelic Association therefore especially encourages the formation of stamp collection. In schools and factory clubs, and jurges individual pupils and factory workers to contribute th such col- lections rather than to make separate personal collections,

Time Payments

Many schools and clubs have ac quired extensive collections, and the Philatelic Association helps or ganisations which wish to begin or

them to pay for purchases over a

period of years.

The extent of the revival in British trade is demon-extend collections by permitting strated afresh by figures given in the "Board of Trade Journal." These show that the ground lost in the depres- sion years since 1931 has been almost entirely recovered,

The association arranger fre-

don musician and compo- while some trades are more prosperous now than in 1930 amps in clubs and schools, and

Another direction in which the war is costing Britain money sor, who is in prison awaiting is in regard to the loss due to trial on a charge of murdering!

the application of sanctions. his wife, apends his time com- This figure has not been esti-posing music to raise funds for) imated, but it is believed to run his defence. into many millions.

The heavy financial drain-both

He has written three pieces-- ; past and prospective is having "Prison Patrol." a one-step based an effect on British Ministers who on prison life, a foxtrot, and a are opposed to taking any further waltz-which have been published j

Those who fa- in Sydney. He is now working part in sanctions. vour the ban on oil, on the other on other compositions.

hand, argue that the application of this extreme sunction would shorten the war, and thus "eut the t IDAses.'

His trial is to start on February

Mareo was prominent in musi- But, whatever the cost, it is cal circles in Auckland, where he understood definitely

the successfully

that

unita until the tension has ended, operak.

produced many

He married Thelma Marco, his and all danger of hostilities in which Britons might be involved second wife, In-Auckland nearly. Government will

withdraw two years ago, and four months

any troops. air forces, or

kas prased.

naval after her death was arrested.--

United Press.

Dug Under River For

Francis Bacon Secret BACONIAN SHAKESPEARIAN drama of twenty-

five years ago-the long, romantic search in the bed of the River Wye at Chepstow, Mon., for hidden manu- scripts that might have dethroned Shakespeare-is re- great excitement called by the £8,614 will, pub-There was

when hard substances was located; lished in London this month, beneath the mud. of Mr. Frederick William Hammond, a Chepstow en- gineer.

It proved to be only the foundations of a Roman bridge. Heaps of iron slag were found, and these, according to the cypher, wore placed there by Bacon, who Chief actor in the drama was brought them from his wire works the noted American Baconian, at Tintern, three miles from the Orville W. Owen, but Mr. Ham- hiding place. mond, ns engineer-surveyor, Digging went on for several played a leading part.

months but the search failed

Dr. Owen claimed that the spot completely, land eventually, In

i

SHOW RAIDED

Inmes Timony,

manager

of

Mae West, Blm star, and 12 mein- bers of the east. of "Ladies by Request," " show which ho managed, are on trial in Los Angeles courty charged with pre- senting an indecent performance.

NEWS-

AT SPEED

OF LIGHT Round The World In Split-Second

Modern

science brought

the

in which Sir Francis Bacon was 1913, Dr. Orville Owen went back hole world to the bier of George belleved to have buried documenta to America,

proving that he was Shakespearo -or, rather, that Shakespeare was

Bacon was revealed in a compli

ITALY SAVING

cated, cunning, cypher Introduced COAL 'NUGGETS'

into the Shakespeare plays.

World-shattering

rovelations

were anticipated by many people) if the documents could be recover-

ii.

They were to prove that Bacon wrote the Shakespeare playe, was the son of Queen Elizabeth, and the author of nearly all the great books of his time..

Dual Of Words

MAY NEED THEM TO MAKE OIL

Rome.

V.

second.

quent exhibits and lectures on prepares articles for newspapers. On the basis of declared values. The children's newspaper, Pionicer British trade figures for 1935 Truth, has a stamp department showed a considerable decline on which has proved very popular with 1930. When allowance is made for its readers. Whenever the Govern- price changes, however, the totalsment issues a new series of stamps, show only a small decline. This is travelling exhibits are prepared also borne out by a comparison of which fully explain the meaning of the volume of trade.

new stamps, and the Philatelic As- Taking 1030 ns 100, the indexsociation notifies those schools and for 1935 exports works out at 01.2, against 84.4 in 1934. In the case of imports, the index is 96.6, against 94.9.

To allow for price changes ex- ports and imports have been re- valued at the average prices for 1930. On this basis they compare as follows:

1030

Imports. £1,044,000,000

clubs which have collections, which are given preference in purchases at reduced prices.

The Soviet Government issues an average of about 10 new series of stamps annually, to commemorate some outstanding event or univer sary. The two most recent issues commemorate the International Exports. Congress of Iranian Art held in £570,800,000 Leningrad and the twenty-fifth 091,000,000. 481,700,000 anniversary-of-Tolstoy's passing. 1,008,000,000 520,800,000 The illustration for the Analysing the changes in various stamp was taken from a Sassanid classes of goods, the "Journal"

plate of the fifth century in the shows that Britain is consuming Termitage Museum at Leningrad. more food, drink and tobacco than

National Organisation in 1930. Imports of dairy produce, fruit and vegetables have all in creased appreciably.

1936

With

Iranian

ment, thousands of individual stamp no particular encourage.

collectors are active in the Soviet also using Union, Manufacturers are

chiefly among school more raw materials from abroad children and industrial workers. than in 1930, purchases of wool, Interest has become so great that cotton and other textiles having the Philatelic Association recently risen by over 100 per cent, in some organised

cases.

The volume of exports of manu- factured goods is now only 8 per cent. below the total for 1930. "Of the 20 groups In this class, nine show increases over that year. In the case of cutlery and hardware, the gain amounted to more than 40 per cent.

bombs.

SAFE FROM ,AIR RAIDS

П national society through which individuals may ob- tain information about stamps and how to care for them.

Before the revolution Russian private collectors owned some of the best collections in the world. The Government has confiscated or purchased many of these collections for museums, but has not taken the collections of individualn who con- formed to the present regime, and some valuable collections still are privately owned.

TIES

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They include FOULARD, MACCLES- FIELD. also SPORT. CLUB and REGIMENTAL STRIPES, etc.

Silk and Wool Tios from $2.75. Washing Ties from $1.50.

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DARK MUNICH BEER

after

Working Among Poasants RUSE TO PROTECT The interest in stamps still is ETHIOPIAN RADIO limited largely to cities in Russia,

Addis Ababa.

but the Philatelic Association is The Ethiopian government has working through collective farmi found one means to counteract the schools to stimulate an intercat When Queen Elizabeth died a effects of that Italian air raid about among the children of peasants. spectal messenger set up an amaz- which the capital has been talking Teachers in these schools report int record by covering the 100 and littering ever since the start of that children learn geography and miles from London to Edinburgh From the on horseback in three days. The chief fears has been that the Italian than from maps. And some adult From the beginning, one of the history more readily from atamps news from Sandringham was constructed radio station, five miles peasants, studying school collec- flashed round the world at the from town, would be wiped out of tions, have become so much inter- speed of light-186,000 miles a existence with the first load of ested that they are beginning to

In one seventh of a second it had If that happened, and with the tele- make collections of their own.

The Philatelic Association re Electrification of state owned rall encircled the globe. Before the graph at best spasmodic, even if it,. mas has effected a daily saving of sentence had been completed by too, were not destroyed, the Ethiopian ports that the United States is the 314 tons of coal, oficial Agures ro-

capital would be left without com- bost purchaser of Soviet stamps. vealed to-day. And from coal of the B.B.C. announcer it was al-munication with the outside world and conversely that United States can be marie.

ready known in Australia, India, and incidentally, the flood of nows stamps are most in demand among The total is expected to be greatly Africa, America, China, Russia and paper cables, which has netted 4,000,- Soviet collectors. An official of the Dr. Owon and Mr. Hammond be augmented shortly since electrica the Arctic wastes.

boo thaters since the war began and gan early in 1911 to dig two hugoition of all lines has been pushed fol

compensated for a now non-existent association suggested as an explan- PICTURES, TOO holes in the bed of the River Wye against Italy, and fear of an all.

atlon that Soviet children and lowing application of sanctions

export trade, would be stopped. Nothing could illustrato mere But the Ethiopians have solved workmen hear so much favourable Day after day during the search embargo.

vividly the progress achieved that. They have now a fully equip about American technique that they Shakespearian and Baconlang Substitution of coal by electricity during the reign of King Georgoped small station, erected in the one acquire a greater interest in any fought a dual of words in news-on trains operating between Florence than this simultaneous world-wide section of town which it is agreed thing American. papers and literary magazines and Naples vin Rome, saved 30,000 announcement.

the Italians would never bomb, a

The sale of Soviet stampa abroad over the genuineness of the cypher tons of coal during the first 80 days, Another modern miracle was the strip 160 feet wide between the and the likelihood of any manu-officials said.

fact that within a few hours of United Prest.

British and Belgian Logations 18 undertaken systematically. The

Philatelic Association sends. speci scripts being found. Dr. Owen of railroads was undertaken in 1926, the proclamation of the new King

Italy's programme of modernisation

¡mers and detailed descriptions of and Mr. Hammond went on "Beauty and comfort," has been the and the journey of his father's radio telephone, and within a few new issues to stamp magazines and digging

government's slogan in developing body to Westminster ifall, people minutes poople in the streets of associations, and prints a complete Not without

considerable the system, which is expected to lure in America and Australia were Hongkong and Melbourne knew catalogue of all Soviet stamps in peril Tiden Bwept

into the an increasing, number of tourists to looking at pictures of the scones In more about events in London than several languages, which is sent on shored-up holes, spolling much this country. One of the nowcat de- their newspapers,

* the inhabitants of villages a fow request. The profits of this busi- of the work accomplished.

velopments is the running of special Telephoto and beam wireless miles. from the English capital... ness constitute a' substantial por- According to Dr. Owen's cyphor motorised coaches to winter sports transmitters brought this marvel-

rosorts. Special excursion - trains

A complete film history of these ton of the funds of the Society for CALDBECK MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd. story Bacon had placed concrete also are scheduled over wok-ends, lous achievement.

royal events has already been re- Homeless Childron, which seeks to over the secret hiding-placo which Those trains offer greatly reduced Journalista apoke "to" editors leased in the farthest corners of rehabilitate the thousands of walls ho had built.

| fares-United Press..

thousands of miles away on the civilisation.

who 'still roam about in Rusela.

The

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MUNICH BEER

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