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FEMININE STARS OUTNUMBER MEN IN POPULAR VOTE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1936.

Hollywood, Calif., March 7. Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone and Victor McLaglen were nominated last night for the best actor's per- formance for the eighth annual awards of merit of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Actresses nominated were Elisabeth Bergner, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Morle Oberon, Katharine Hepburn and Miriam Hopkins. -

Britain Rescues Its

Monuments

Covering performances and pro- ductions released during 1935, thei nominations will be voted upon by the academy membership during the coming month, the final winners to be announced at the annual academy banquet March 5..

Pictures nominated for the "beat production" wero Alice Adams,

CRACK ENGLISH

AIRMAN ST

Twentieth-century citizenship RKO-Radio studios; Broadway is rescuing Britain's great Molody of 1936, MGM; Captain heritage of, ancient monuments Blood, Warner Brothers: David from neglect and vandalism, Copperfield, MGM; The Informer, according to Mr. William G. A.RKO-Radio; Les Miserables, Twen- Ormsby-Gore,- First Commis-tieth Century-Fox; Lives of a Den-

Licut Tommy Boso who defeated sioner of Works, in an address Lancer, Paramount: Midsum the record set by Amy Mollison for

mer Night's Dream, Warner Broth-the London Capetown and to the Congress of Archaeologi-ers; Mutiny on the Bounty, MGM; fight by more than 12 hours, A cal Societies which met in Lon- Naughty Marietta, MGM; Ruggles brother lives in Hongkang. don recently.

of Red Gap, Paramount; and Top Government action in this field Hat, RKO-Radio,

began with the passing of the An-

cient Monuments (Consolidation) Act

Three directors were nominated

return

of 1913. Since then 4,000 monuments for the award of merit; John Ford, British Jobless

but

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have been granted state protection, for "The Informer"; Henry Hatha- 400 are under the direct way for “Lives of a Bengal Lan- only ownership, custody or guardianship of cer; and Frank Lloyd, for "Mutiny the State Office of Works. Remark on the Bounty."--Anunciated Press, able progress has, in Mr. Ormsby Gore's opinion, been made in

thin year period in connection with many of the country's greater monuments. "Restoration" has been carried out with care and conservatism and new work has only been introduced to en sure the stability of ancient struc-

tures.

now

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FUTURE PLANES

GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE Or Britain's mysterious stone eir cles, thin government department| bax charge of Stonehenge, Stanton-Drew-in Somerset;--Arbor Low in Derbyshire, the Hurlers in Cornwall and Callerndish in the The airplane of the future, designed, Island of Lewis. Long Meg and her to eliminate most of the hazards en- daughters, near Penrith, and Ave-countered in landing, will permit the bury, regarded as the most important average adult to fly after brief in- of all, are not yet under its guardian- struction. ship. These stone megalithic circles aro se special a feature of Britain's prehistoric remains that their pre- Pervation in of firat importance, Mr. Ormsby Gore asserted.

Get Employment In Archaeology

Chester, Mar. 10. Excavations on the ancient en- campment of Maiden Castle at Bickerton near here are not only assisting in unravelling the strands of Britain's history, but have also been providing work for jobless in pleasant surroundings..

The work has been carried out by the Bickerton Camp Scheme and in continuation of trial ex- cavations in 1934 by Mr. W. J. School of Geography. It was Mr. Varley of the Liverpool University Varley who saw that it might be possible to add to the archaeologi- cal value of the excavation work

Three Camps Arranged The plan went ahoad and late

Fred E. Weick, senior engineer of the That was the prediction of Mr. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, in a paper read at the Romains of Saxon shore fortresses convention of the Society of Automo- Portchester, Pevensey, Richborough tive Engineers in Detroit recently. and Burgh Castle-and relics of

"Learning to fly is largely a matter by giving a number of unemploy Roman Britain, notably the Amphi- theatre at Caerleon, the town walls of of learning to land," Mr. Welck said, ed men a working holiday in open-

explaining that airplanes in experi- air conditions. Caerwent and the Roman road at mental use now give strong reason Goathland in Yorkshire are also pro- for hope that the plane "for every tected by the Office of Works, Mrman" a rapidly nearing realization. Ormsby-Gore declared.

Ruins of the great monastic build. This plane probably will belast year three camps of a fort- ings and castles of the Middle Ages equipped with a stable, three-wheel night each were arranged for 20 have, up to the present, received the landing gear with one wheel ahead

men. Each man was asked to pay bulk of the Office of Works' expen of the two which carry the lond, he diture and care..

said. This will do much to prevent with boots and shorts.

ent 75. a week. They were provided MANY IN YORKSHIRE

plano nosing over or ground the In Yorkshire alone 10 abbeys and looping, eliminate bouncing, and per- priories and seven castles have been mit. Jundings to be made "alinost taken over. Castles in North Wales, regardless wind direction, the air dating from the time of Edward speed at contact, or the manner in are also in the hands of this de- which the airplane is guided to the partment, with the exception of ground," he added. Conway, which is maintained by the

By means of improved wing con- municipality. Scotland's historic ab- beys are nearly all under the detrol, freedom from danger of stalling partment's protection, including was obtained in an experimental Melrose, Dryburgh, Jeiburgh, Kelso, plane built by Mr. Welck and two Dunfermline, inchcolm and Sweet fellow engineers, he said. Glide heart.

control fa proved "very helpful in Aotion to preserve Britain's me enabling an unskilled pilot to land disaval bridges is also taken by the with greater accuracy than a good Office of Works. Modern rond de-pilot, in a conventional plane." velopment often

threatens

theas

brklges, Mr. Ormsby-Gore declared,.

and special vigilance is exercised for Elephant Commemorated their preservation: "It would be a

tragedy," he said, "if auch bridges an

East Farleigh over the Medway, the Davil's Bridge at Kirby Lonsdale,

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As Wrecker of Train

Bingapore, Mar. 6.

Leaves From

An Ethiopian Note Book

A vivid picture of the whip as a legal method of punishment is given in the following despatch, first of a series written by H. R. Ekins, United Press correspondent with Emperor Haile Selassic's army near Harar during the early months of the Ethiopian. war. Ekins, a veteran war correspon- dent who covered the Chinese army during the campaigns, in Manchuria and around Shanghai and Peiping, spent two months in the jungle interior of Ethiopia.

By H. R. Ekina United Press Staff Correspon- dont (Copyright 1936 by United Press)

Harar, Mar. 1.. Swish, Hisa, Crack! .. The long lashes of rhinoceros hide curl cruelly through the dazzling sunshine and explode on the bare backs of the black men with flesh-ripping fury.

Twelve Somali tribesmen are spread-eagled on the stinking earth of the court-yard, trussed like mad dogs, then hauled up by rawhide thongs tied to their bound hands and pegged to trees

RADIO BROADCAST

Light Violin Recital

From the Studio ́ ́

Z.E.K. PROGRAMME

From Z.B.W: on a wavelength of 366 metres (845 kilocycles);

5-6 pm. Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra.

cert

6.6.30 p.m. Children's Studio Con- 0.30-7 p.m. Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra."

7-7.25 pm. "Suite No. 2 in B Minor for Flutes and Strings" (Bach) play- ed by Willem. Mengelberg and his Concertgebouw Orchestra.

7.25-7.45 p.m. Vocal Items. Waltz Song from "Merrie England" ..Helena Esserman (50- (German) prano): Lover Come back to

"New Moon") (Romberg); Wanting You ("The New Moon") (Romberg)

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,Lawrenco Tibbett (Baritone); Say the Word and it's yours...... Jessio Matthews; The Shepherd's Song ("Holen"); If I am Dreaming (The Dubarry'")....Heddle Nakh (Tenor).

7.45-8 p.m. From the Studio,

A Light Violin Recital by Gregory Jamona accompanied by Dereen Ma.

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8 p.m. Time and Weather Report; Stock Quotations.

8.05-11 p.m. Chinese Studio Con- cert.

11 p.m. Cloto Down. - 8.05-11

p.m. European Pro- terror. They are accused of aid-grimme from ZEK. on a fre

quency of 640 kilocycles,

where they quiver in anticipatory ing the Italians.

Two glant blacks, wielding raw rhinoceros hide whips six feet long allorante In executing denth sen- tences pronounced by the Fitourari Tessame Bante, new deputy gover⚫ nor of Harar Province (a Fitour ari is a lesser chief commanding a personal army of about 2,000 inen.)

8.05-8.30 p.m.. Light Orchestral Music.

Spring Song (Mendelssohn); Idillo (Lack);

Dawn (Matt); Sunset (Matt); itisland Laddle (Carruthers); Blauer Pavillon (Armandola); Traumende Glocken (Krome).

lay.

8.30-9 p.m. va

Variety Items. Plano Solos--Slow Fox-Trot Med- Gerry Moore; Song-Me and My Dog ("Public Nuisance No. 1), ances Day; Orchestra-Out of ("Public Nuisance, No. 1" Rag Bag; Songs and Tap Dancing

the Pretty. Girls alone, Med ....Len

Bermon; Orchestra- Dance of the Teicies.

9-9.15 Bulletin.

9.15-9.32 p.m.

It is a gory sight-so literally bloody and cruel that I feel the crowd below me is not human betha cause it is not 'shuddering. It is my first experience with Ethiopian justice."

A hushed, but otherwise un- moved group, looks on stoically at n aight which makes my blood run cold.

The Fitourari, a grim tonserva- tive, plg-oyed, goat bearded Ethio- plan of the old school, arrives with his retainers-slaves and bearers who press rank upon rank about him.

Forty lashes are administered to each prisoner. Often I lost count and wonder if the cracking of the flails will ever cease. For about the first four lashes I can hear the prisoners groan... After that they are silent. The human frame can take only so much. I find myself wondering under what lash this or that man died. Was It the 30th or perhaps the 34th. I never find out. Nobody knows. All we see is that one by one the bodies carried out-we know not where-when the course of justice is run: suby-

Box Seat

The men were drawn from the service clubs of Liverpool and neighbouring towns. The camp equipment was also made by men of these clubs. As far as the men were concerned the camps were an

and unqualified success cribers to the scheme_can_feel that it was well justified.

The archaeological results seem to have been a success. also Maiden Castle, Mr. Varley says, was undoubtedly a fortified hill settlement belonging to the pre- Roman Iron Age.

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Elaborate Defences

Its defences, which must have taken years to build, vero elaborate that the site was evident- ly intended for extended use and not merely for temporary refuge. Though the name slaiden Castle is. the Bame as that of the famous eamp at Dorchester and also of

the Warkworth Bridge over the The quip that "an elephant never Coquet were touched or allowed to forgets" has been reversed in the fall into disrepair."

Mr. Ormsby-Gore considers 'It for. Federated Malay States, for an ele tunate, on the whole, that the new plant that derailed a train is being Commemorated in connection with the policy of government action for the 30th anniversary of the F.M.S. rail- preservation of Britain's antiquities ald not begin before 1013. "I have a

One of the earliest trains was run- feeling, he declared, "that the stand- ards of archaeological

a herd of In coast of Malaya, when connection with all too many of our elephants crossed the line. cathedrals, parish churches, and in The rest of the story is told in the habited castles during the nine words of an inscription erected by the oncampment to people from the teenth century might have led us Government near the spot: "There Into grave and irreparable errors buried here a wild elephant who, in errors which happily we have now defence of his herd, charged and helped to set a standard in avold- derailed a train: Sept. 1894.United

and Donnolence which prevalego ning near Telok Anson, on the west other sites, they are quite indepen-

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Charley Went Down To

in

The Sea In A Sleep

IN a Ceylon village, a native mother and father are mourning

the loss of an only son, Charley. He went down to his work as a tally-clerk on the wharves in Colombo one day--and they have never heard of him since.

But the crew of the Appledore,, He jumped to his fect and howled. know just what happened to Just at that moment, a seaman, Charley, and they know that Char- who had imbibed too freely during ley is quite safe--for Charley Is the day, passed the heap of coal." naw a member of tho crew of the Appledore.

Ho was not signed on in Ceylon.. Oh, no; Charley is by way of being what you might call a stowaway,

To his dazed mind, Charley, with his windswept hair, his sarong, and, worse than all, his howl, could only be one thing-a ghost.

dent of one another.

Expert opinion attributes the

adjacent continental shores three or four centuries before the ad- vent of the Romans. From the southwest of England they spread. northward, and the present ex- cavations show that they reached Cheshire before the Romans built their fortress at Chester.

Crudo Pottery Found Thia Maiden Castle also hitherto unrecorded posBORSOR features. The innor rampart made up of a sand and timber core lying between two stone walla re- presents an unknown rampart con- struction, though possibly related to the timber-bonded walls of the .bill forts of continental Gaul. The crude pottery, too, recalls that made at the end of the Bronzo Age, though hore they wero un- doubtedly associated with a know- ledge of iron.

The seaman 'howled, too, and Not that he actually deliberately out on deck tunabled the crow.

Mr. Varloy anys that it must bo stowed away; far from it. But There the poor, frightened little inforred that, being far distant the day was very hot in Colombo "ghost" was laid, and forthwith from the shores to which the in- that day they wore loading the adopted as an assistant steward. vaders first came, Cheshire had to Appledore, and Charloy-ho is It will probably be some time wait a long time for the new ideas only 16 years old, mind you-was before Charley Bees his home and very tired. He lay down on the parents again. He is not allowed coal which was plied on the deck, to bo landed in Australia, and the and in a fow moments was fast Appledore is not going back to aaleop.

Gaylon, but sometime, somehow, Howling Ghost

Charloy knows he will ace his That night the Appledore sail parents again. “ ed, and when Charley woke up, the. So he is not worrying, and his vespel was miles to sea, with the grin, which seems to stretch from blackness of the night all around. enr to sir, fe as large is ever It

Charley was very ` frightened. | was before he took his siesta.

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which they brought. Thus, when they did arrive," they had to be adapted to older ways already established, and the Maiden Castle rampart is a modification of a building method originally invent ed "somewhere elso. The same reasoning applies to the pottery found, which looks like a survival of Bronze Age typos into the Iron- Ago.

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Mine is a box seat for this par- ticular flogging. The Fitourari chooses the radio station compound for his first public appearance – at the flogging-after becoming deputy governor,

Determined to know why the radio station, is closed to me when I want to file a despatch I go to the balcony of an adjacent Greek Inn. It overlooks the radio station compound and from there I see what I am tell- ing you.

The mediaeval brand of justice in meted cut with ceremony after, a clerk has read what my interpreter says is the sentence of the 12 men to 40 lashes each.

When all is over and the crowd- melts away, the radio station reopens for business.

Ethiopian Justice, which Em- peror Halle Selassie promises the League of Nations he will reform, has had its day. En- lightened oficials surrounding the enlightened Emperor are an. xious to reform the code. based on the Mosaic Code-on eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It is literally that, If a man stones another to death he must die the same way.

It is

Band.

p.m. Daventry News

Debroy Somers

Glamorous Night-Selection; Words and Music-Selection.

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9.32.10.15 p.m. Dance Music,

10 p.m. Big Ben

10.16-11 p.m. Daventry,

A Relay from

"With and Without Prejudice."

Gala Programme.

11 p.m. Close Down.

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Transmission 1

(G.S.NU.B.D., 4.8.D.) 2.1. Big Ben, Russian

Composers."

The B.B.C. Empire Orchestra. Greenwich_Zms Signal at 3:15 pm. 1.13 p.m. Talk: "Prem the Woman's Peint

of View," 1.36 p.

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€ 1.0.

Harry Loader and his hand, with Leslie Westen (Comedian), la a programme af dance muyle and ' tomly.

The News. 4.5 p.m. Close down,

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Transmission 2

(0.8J, G.BG.).

7. p.. Big Ben. Thy A.B.C.

Orchestra,

4

Dance

1.39 pm. An Organ Rectal by Albert

Taylor Greenwich Time Signal at 8 pm.

**Agricnllare in the Bričkah Yalmer Its Social and. Kronomic Aspecta. 1:16 pm. A Revue: “Oh! Those Delle1"

.. The News. 6.1... "Harp Tire T. Bonifacia (a) Barry Drien (Plate); Gelbyn Wykeham-Georgs (Visloni cello).

1:45 pm. Close down.

Transmission 3

(0.9.4, 0.8.E.)

19 p.m. Big Ben. The Pavilion Thesize Or

chestra. 10.15 p.3. "With and Without Prejudica"

(Cala Programma).

I p.m. The Band of His Majesty's Royal

Marinu, Plymouth - Division. 12 a.m.

Talk. “From the Woman's Peint af View.**** 12.18 km. A Recital by Confiance · Falpla

{Centralia), Greenwich Time Bignal at 12.30 .. 13.30 .. The News. 12.46 am. Dança Masle,

Close down.

BANK'S DIVIDEND

FINAL OF SIX PER CENT. BY MERCANTILE BANK

A classic story of Ethiopia is told of the late Emperor Menelik. He was called upon to approve the death sentence on a man who had fallen from a tree, killing his neighbour who was sitting beneath The Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd., it. Menelik ordored that a relative have received a telegram from their of the victim should fall out of a head office in London advising that tree and on to the prisoner. That at the annual general meeting of time the sentence was not executed, shareholders a final dividend of 8% We see much of Ethioplan justice, on the "A", "B" and "C" shares will ba recommended (making 12% for There are floggings on other days. the year less Income Tax): £10,000 But rarely are 40 lashes adminis- written off Landed and House pro tered Crimes ranging from rob-perty; £5,000 Contingency a/c., and to failure to perform military, 2174,000 carried forward to 1936 ac. service. Punishment ranges from count. 15 to 80 lashes.

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At times the method. varies.. Sometimes the bound prisonera are people fear it more than any form taid prostrate over a jet of water of punishment. Sentences to Jail which gushes up into their faces leave them unmoved and unrepent- to keep them conscious longer under ant. They can be fined only if the cruel curling of the cracking allowed to wander through the whip which rips strips of flesh from streets and beg the sum of their their backspakkaudes hlines. The whip is an essential Ethiopians tell me it is difficult feature of East African justice and to abolish fogging because their "discipline. So are Irons."

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