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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1936.

Queen Mary's Maiden Voyage To-morrow

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Sir Charlee gham, noted British author and publicist, han arrived in New York, on the iner Washington for a visit in the United States. It was Sir Hig ham who organised England's Arat battalion of volunteers at the artbreak of the world war.

U.S. CLAIMS SOUTH SEAS ISLE

BECAUSE SKIPPER WEDDED CHIEF'S

DAUGHTER Washington, Mar. 10.

THE romance

of an

MASTERPIECE OF SEA London Seer

TO LEAVE CLYDE

"Glasgow, Mar. 22.

The bed of the River Clyde, rich in the lore of great ships that have slipped down to the sea, has been entirely changed for the maiden voyage on Tuesday of the 80,000- ton liner Queen Mary.

A corps of navigation experts have arranged for the safety of the Masterpiece of the Seas when she makes her way slowly down the Clyde to the broad Firth under con- ditions which the Clydebank shipyards never have had to cope with before.

of the chain

Predicts Next War

-IT'S ALL DONE

BY NUMBERS

war

will

THE next break out in 1937, accord-

Because of the $10,000,000 derricks. Each link in the chains ling to Petu liner's immenso bulk the river has has a circumference of 15 inches, lengro, the fa had to he dredged and blasted at The total weight several points. There is a bend of stowed in the ship's hows is 150 mous the river at Dalmuir, for instance, tons. which will give the propellors a clearance of only a few, feet. This od, point had to be made deeper.

being taken by the Queen Maryel gives

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seer.

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Now that she

complet each

week

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Boer War

No visitors are allowed in the newspaper of

(3 years)

the

Another danger point is bear buildera to prevent unauthorised forecast Greenock, halfway down the persons rem straying 'bout the a London twenty mile river where the Queen, ship, Mary must make a shur turn.}

the

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Great Way

(4 years)

is also an His

Once this point is passed it should engine rooms or near the control what be clear sailing down into the boards. They may gaze cen the stars foretell. North Channel, around the Isle of wonders of the cabins, the salons! Mun. into the Irish sea, past and

The present Land's End and

promenades bọt al. up to the

new mechanient portions of the vessel prophecy King George V dry dock at South-Jare elonely guarded.

hases Jampton.

An involved system d permits u merology. There she will rest until her god for the work, each of which he first transatlantle voyage to New man being confined to the parti- York on May 27,

cular part of the ship where he is] In addition to the Clyde river employed. If he strays he is chat expert. hed the navigation experts are used by one of a hundret or calculations anxious about the wind. A brisk mort plain clothes detectives, are shown in wind might spring up while the Every safeguard has be taken the table on Queen Stary is nosing her way against sabotage,Cited Press. the right. down the river and breause of her! balk and slow speed-she will bel traveling at only three or four [knots--might. make her

manageable,

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The Clyde is ready for the departure of the great vessel. A protective hours placed across American whaling cap-the fitting-eat basin in which th tain in the Southern Pacific liner rests has been moved. half a century ago, has it is About 4,000 of the 7,000

who have been at svork on the shipl claimed by the American remain on the job, mostly interior State Department, ensured fitters, America the right to build SISTER SHIP SOON? an air-station on a little hopeful that they will have an- island that may be part of other big job" soon as result of the British Empire.

Swain's Island, is the name of a little strip of territory lying 200 miles north of the American Samoan group.

Many of these workers are

intimations by the Cunard-White lay down the lord of a sister ship Star company that it intends to to the Queen Mary.

The second ship; closely follow- jing the features of the Queen

The island is only 800 neres'in Mary, probably will be called the extent, but it straddles the Import-King George or King George V.

ant

shipping lane between Wellington, Now, Zealand, and the Panama canal.

When the Queen Mary makes; her maiden

VOVLEC eross ti Atlantic with 2,660 passengers and a crew of 1,400 she will ON BORDER-LINE

average 34 knots nearly 40 miles Although it is on the border-line nn hour) and will have the highest between the American Samoat speed ever attained by a passen- group and British mandated ger. vessel, her experts claim. Samoa, the United States Nuvy On her trial runs-over the considera it

American famous measured mite at the mouth of the Clyde-it is expected Recent rumours, however, that that she will easily break the America is planning to par-speed record of her French rival chase the island from Britain the Normandie, now empress of have led to the belief in naval the Atlantic. quarters in Washington that the Although capable of an average British might be contemplating speed of 34 knots the Queen Mary a claim to sovereignty over has only to travel at 32 knots to Swain's Island.

best the Normandie. When she

possession.

an

Naval officials have persuaded has done this. and wrested the the State Department to contest blue riband from her rival the kny such claim, and plans aro go-Queen Mary's regular Atlantic ing ahead to make the island an speed probably will be reduced to Intermediate landing station for 20 knots.

Next War

Forecast

SHE DESERVED BETTER

OF HER HUSBAND

RADIO BROADCAST

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Dance. Orchestra

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From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 165 Metres (846 kilocycles):

5-7 p.m. Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra.

7-7.50 p.m. "Symphony No. G in E Minor, Op. 64" (Tschiakovsky).

7.50-8 p.m. "Welsh Memories" (arr. EVATA),

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

805-11 p.m. A Relny from the Po 1881 Hing Theatre (Chinese).

1899)

Pro-

11 p.m. Clone Down, 8,05-10 p.m.

European gramme From ZE.K. on a Fre- quency Of 640 kilacycles.

8.05-8.45 p.m. A Variety Pro-

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Piano Sole-My Heart stood Still, 1 Edythe Daker; Sång-Dinner for one lenne, James, Turner Layton. (Tenor): Organ Solos-With Sword 2 and Lance-March; Blaze Away-- March, Heginald Dixon; Song--A 1914 Little Dash of Dublin, Anna Nengle 4] (Soprano); Saxophone Soto-Some # these days, Coleman Hawkins; 2018 Vocal-Moop for Sale: Mine Alone,

1des Allen Bud his Canadian Bache

lors: Xylophone Solo-The Squirrel 1 Bance, Rudy Starila: Vocal

Whispering, Comedy Harmonist; Laugh |--Medle Film Waltz Songs--fed- 1937 ley. Gracle Fields; Orchestra-The

Big Brondenst of 1936--Selection.

8.45-9

p.m. Selections from Muscial Comedy.

Up

Viktorin and her Hussar--(Abra- han);Tell her the Truth: Out of the Bottle.

in.

9-9.15 p.m. Daventry News Bullet-

London

9.15-9,30

p.n. The

Lighting Switch (Alford); Wadded

Palladium Orchestra. short-whimsies (Arr. Alford).

BELOW is charming Mm. Blanche Romagne. Filing an applica

tion for separation or divorce, she listed the following comings on part of husband. She declared that he:-

1. Klased other women.

2. Snored at night.

3. Deliberately smashed all the clocks In the house because she said he was late,

9.30-10 p.m. Dance Music. 10 p.m.. Big Ben: Clase Down,"

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4. Got up in the early hours of the morning and started playing a tin whistle, making her dance barefoot to his music.

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7. Tried to push her into the Seine.

6. Tried to choke her.

8. Tried to throw her out of a third-

storey window.

9. Flipped her with

'

wet towel when she was having a bath. 10. Clapped a sticky fly-paper on her

hair.

11. Dislocated her "floating rik." 12 Got shot at by another woman's)

hushand.

"Shameless Young People Of To-day"

BISHOP'S BIRTHDAY SPEECH ON MORALS

Melbourne, Mar. 10.

IRTH control has made free love, and is the curse of

the younger generation.

the air route between America THREE YEARS TO BUILD

and Australia.

During the three years that] The island is owned by a native 7,000 men Inboured to build the whose grandfather was an Ameri-huge palace of the Atlantic can whaling cnptain.

people all over the world heart More than fifty years ago the about her luxuriousness-about a Such is the burden of a fighting speech against the captain visited the island and promenade dock nearly +2 hair "Shamelessness" of the girls of to-day by which one of married the daughter of a local mile

electric power Polynesian chief.

station big enough to supply a the three oldest bishops in the Roman Catholic Church has The captain's name was Jen. city of 166,000 people, a ship with celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday. nings, and the present ruler proud-10,000,000 rivets and 4,000 ̊ miles)

long,

ly calls himself by the same name. of electric light wires.

America's Oldest

Women's College

Marks Centennial South Hadley, Mass, Mar. 6.

But the best iden of her: enormity obtained when the rudder was put in place. It weigh- ed 140 tons. The anchor chains, the largest ever forged, were holsted on board by means of large]

TO-DAY is the 100th anniver- LONSDALE STORY

sary of the incorporation of America's first women's college, Mount Holyoke.

It was on March 6, 1836, that the Massachusetts legislature passed a law that "William Bow- doin, John Todd, Joseph D, Condit, David Chonto and Samuel Wilis- ton, their associates and succes

"People nowadays take the

Votes For All oath of marriage intendi & to

In Soviet Russia

(G.S/N

Transmission 1

0.8.D.. G.S.B.)

2.15 p.m. Big Ben. A Programme of New

Ciramophone Recorda.

2.4% p.m. Sports Talk,

1 p.m.

A Tebalkeraky Programme. 3.C. Empire Orchestra.

Greenwich Time Signal at 3.15 p.m.

1.1.

The News.

4,20 p.m. Clom down,

Transmission 2

(G.B.J., G.S.G.)

7.15 pm, Maleat

The

Ben Tomietkine,st the Geran of the Plais Cinema.

Extremten." Haydn Heard and bla Band. Greenwich Time Bignal at A p.m. 2.p.m. "Excoping for A LIVINE." by

Marsay the Australian Sincap logist). Introduced by J. C. Cannell.

.16 p.m. A Recital of Grieg's Bongs by Mally de Guant (Australian

Soprano).

6.30 p.m. Hie Walford Darten: "Music and

D.m.

the Ordinary

Listener: What About the Tune?" "Threw from Afar."

The News,

9.50 p.m. A Programme of Gramophone

Verords.

0.45 p.. Class down.

.

Transmission 3

10.8.0, 0.8.2)

10 p.m.

Ble den, "Empire Cocktail." 10.40 .. 'ross Reading.

Light Music.

11 p.m.

m. A Sonata Reeltaf.

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Greenwich Time Bigasd at 11.30 am. 12.30 . The New 11.50 am. Dance Moale,

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HONGKONG MANOEUVRES

indulge in free love because birth control has maxic that socially possible," declared Irish- PERSISTENT ATTACKS man Archbishop Kelly, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney.

"I do not like the shamelessness

FROM THE AIR

during the past few days came to The combined manoeuvres held FOR NEXT FILM The London Daily Herald ex- of the modern style of keeping an end with a

vigorous lank attack by the defending Redland pects that a new Soviet constitu- company," he declared,

roserves on the invading Blueland tion will be ready for ratification | "Victims, Not Agents" forces which had penetrated with this year. It will substitute the

In three miles of Kowloon City. Parliamentary system on western "The girl should have more The offensive was launched at 11 Films, has announced that the pro-

Alexander Korda, of London models for the 1918 constitution. sense of privacy than she seems o'clock yesterday morning. and

to have to-day. In this, as in with "cease fire at 1 p.m., duction of "Cyrano de Bergerac,"

The Daily Herald states that

defenders had victory in their bands.

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sors, be and are hereby incorporat for which Charles Laughton was universal franchise will abolish the other relationships of the sexes, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary'

young people are influenced by The manoeuvres proved con- in South Hadley in the county of Krew a moustache has not been The new constitution will provide easy access to knowledge of birth clusively, according to an ometal Hampshire, with power to hold abandoned but has been postponed, for a secret ballot and give direct control methods."

statement, that the fixed de- real and personal estate not ex-

It is understood that the film representation of the people in an

fences and mobile garrison But the archbishop feels the Hongkong are in

of ceeding in value $100,000 to be may be made at Denham, London all-union Parliament; and other

an improved devoted exclusively to the pureed to be ready in a month's time.

Filma new home, which is expect-Parliaments for each Repubile. "younger generation" is not en state of efficiency. The new poses, of education.”

The Daily Herald quotes the pre-women to-day with looser morals aircraft guna and searchlights, tirely to blame. "Young men and equipment, especially the anti- Gov. Edward Everett aflixed his Laughton will first of all makesident of the council of the People's are the victims, not the agents, in were thoroughly and satisfactorily signature the following day and a film about an hotel which be Commissars (M. Molotov) as say the decline of morality," he went tosted. It was also proved, how the charter was granted.

comes very successful through the ing: "We are going. to try to adopt on. Meantime Mary Lyon, founder importation of a troupe of dancing the best elements of the Parlia-

over, that the Colony is in grave of the college, and her associaten wirls.

mentary system. even though Iti

danger if subjected to prolong Hong Kong & China Gas Co., Ltd. "Our schools and universities were canvassing the state for con- Laughton began in the hotel may Cause Bome

air attacks for tributions. She was forced to business himself. Production on abroad."

amusement are vitiating society and under and ferocious it is understood that it mining philosophy itself. Profes- Inficted on the Blueland air force, despite numerous "casualties" overcome strong prejudice against the new film, the story of which is intended to place the peasants sors (of philosophy) are not four bag "bomba" scored higher edukention for young

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