1936-03-30 — Page 7

TELEGRAPH. THE HONGKONG

MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1936.

CHOCOLATE RATIONS FOR ARMY

Sweets Replace Bully Beef: Steam Navvies for Trenches

HUNDREDS

TANKS

MORE.

S A FIRST INSTALMENT, IN THE WORK OF BRINGING THE

ASAFIRST INSTA ME TO DATE, FOR WHICH AN EXTRA

£5,000,000 IS TO BE VOTED IN THE WAR OFFICE ESTIMATES THIS YEAR, THE FOLLOWING REFORMS ARE TO TAKE PLACE:-

• Hundreds of new tanks to be built.

Royal Engineers to be provided with steam navvies instead of picks and shovels for trench digging and gun emplacement construction.

Iron rations of bully beef and biscuits to be replaced by specially nourishing chocolate carried in airtight tins.

During the list few months several Royal Engineer officers have been attached to civil engineering firms to learn how steam navvies should be used.

The changes in the constitution

of the Army which are to be put

into operation Immediately, also include:-

Infantry battalions to

have bat

Ex-Trumpeter Sends First

different weapons. Three New Version

talions in each brigade to be light

Infantry, or shock troops,

carry-

ing lesa equipment than at

sent and armed mainly with light Of "Stables"

machine-guns instead of rifles.

TRUMPETER, what are

be

The fourth lattalion to move on

you sounding now? Soon the question will the rear of the others and be arm- ed with heavy machine-guns,

all seriousness by i trench martars, and noti-tank guns asked in which fire armour-piercing bullets, visitors to the Cavalry Brigate Six regiments of envalry to Headquarters at Aldershot, for have their horses replaced by horses and stables will be no armoured

tanks

cars

FRENCH PRESIDENT; NEW PHOTOGRAPH

M. Albert Lebrun, president of France, photographed after a recent Cabinet Meeting

Papyri Finds

and whippet more. In their place will be At Jerusalem

mechanised monsters and gar-

More motor-cycles to be provid-age ed for advance guard troops

MECHANISATION

Colonel A. E. Davidson, Royal Engineers, has been appointed Director of Mechanisation for the Army, with hendquarters at the War Offer. He is to be promoted Major-General, and will prest up the mechanisation programme, which at present has been tackled only on a small sente.

What is to take the place of that familiar trumpet call which follows "Reveille" and sends troopers hur-! rying to their maunts for the first

day?

pit and polish" parade of the When "statles" is sounded in mechanised days the notes will be the same but obviously the words must change.

j

TRAGIC HISTORY OF QUEEN'S RESIDENCE

London, Mar. 15. Marlborough House, gaunt old palace along Pall Mall where Queen Mary will take up re- sidence soon with her ladies-in- waiting, has had 200 years of tragic history.

Unused these inst 10 years since King Edward, then Prince of Wales, said flatly. "not for me" when it was proposed that he move there, the 200-room place has been known as "The House of Sorrow." Sarah, Duchess of Mariborough built the house In 1710 and her eccentricities have left their mark upon the place. Before her death in 1744, when crude decorations of her own making were found to have been plastered over costly frescoes of the artist Laguerre, the Duchess' life was full of bitterness,

Queen Alexandra

She used her vast wealth to ex- press her resentment against the Crown, which made a hero of her husband and raised him to peerage only to drive him into exile ¡later.

the

When the duchess died her un- tidy habits and eccentric nature had reduced the extravagant interior

PIECE DATING FROM Marlborough House to a deplorn-

565 A.D.

ble state.

RADIO BROADCAST

Music and the Ordinary Listener

Z.E.K. PROGRAMME

From 2.3.W. on a wave length of 365 metres (846 kilocycles):

5-8 p.m. European ProgrAININE, 6-7 p.m. A Relay of the Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra.

7-7.28 p.m. Master

Milza Korjus Menuhin (Violin), (Soprano).

Yehudi

1. Violin Solo"Tzar's Bride"

of

(Rimsky- Song

the Bride

Campanella,

OP

7 Korsakov); (Paganini) 2. Song Variations (Proch); 3. Violin Solon-Sicilienno et ignudon. (Kreisler), Guitarre (Sarmanto); 4. Songn-Thousand and One Nghts Waltz (Birauss), La Villanelle. (The Acqua).

Swallow), (Delt

7.28-8

Viennese Memories. p.m. Hail Vienna. (Dostal): Viennese Memories of Lohar (urr, Henry Hall); Vienna by Night (Komzak); Waltzes from Vienna.

8 p.m. Time and Weather Report; 8,05-11 p.m. A Relay from the Ko Shing Theatre (Chinese).

Pro-

11 p.m. Close Down. 8.05-10 p. European gramme From Z.E.K. On A Fre- quency of 640 kilocycles..

8.05-8.30 p.m. Song Memorics. Vocal Sweat Genevieve (Tucker); At Trinity Church (Gilbert), Honey- suckle and the Bee (Fitz), If you Want to know the time ask 'n Police- man (Rogers); What's Next? (arr. Herman Finck); Form Four-War Songs Medley: Once Upon

A Time- Selection.

8.30-9.15 p.m. A Relay from Deventry.

8.30 p.m. Sir Walford Davies: Ordinary Listener" "Music and the What about the Tune: 7 Tunes na characters in a play."

9 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin (Copyright by Reuter).

9.15-9.32 p.m. Songs By Richard Crooks (Tenor).

The last occupant was Queen Alexandra, who died there in 1925. The discovery of papyri at Her last years were spent in vir Auja Al-Hafir by the Colt Ex-tual seclusion and after her death pedition of the British School of the vast palace was completely

1. Nirvana (Adams); 2. Good-Bye Archaeology in Jerusalem, has modelled inside. A central heating

were modernized and the rooma (Tosti); 3. Killarney (Falconer); 4. gained in importance since the system was Installed, the kitchens first announcement.

were decorated in the hope that Love Everlasting (Friml). Altogether, nine rolls in reason the Prince of Wales would move 9.32-10 p.m. 'MECHANISED MOKES'

De Groot and the found condition were

into it from nearby York House. | Piccadilly Orchestra, Lewisham,ably good James J. Will, af

I refus was prompt and] Les Millions D'Arlequin (Drigo); It wa too large and Old Spanish Song (Aubert); Till 1 Colonel A. G. Dawney, former Landen. S.E.13, an ex-trumpeter in the southern church, which has

Wake ("Four Indian Love Lyrics") Deputy Chief of the BBC has the 44th Battery, Royal Field now been completely cleared; and

The Temple Others who lived at Mariborough Woodforde-Finden); been appointed Army InstructorArtillery, suggests the following: work in a range of rooms opening rambling, too foreboding.

"Come down to the garage and

Lyrics") muck at the carriage.

House included, Queen Adelaide, Bells ("Four Indian Love

The Waltz. (0. Dream--Selection

Strauss); Get nap with oil-rap and span

widow of William the Fourth, and Woodforde-Finden); Edward the Seventh when he was Indian Love Call '("Rare-Marie", ner, my boys,

Prince of Wales.

(Friml); Unt! (Sanderson); Vienna Mood-Waltz (Strauss).

at the Imperial Defence College, to train officers from all parts of the Empire In matters enn- cerned with the co-ordination of the Empire defences as in whole.

Fifty thousand Territorial, are to be transferred to anti-aircraft -defence work. They will be equip

ped with the latest anti-ircraft guns capable of firing 200 shells: a minute.

Increased pay is to be offered to Territorials to atimulate ruerait-! ing. At present there is a short- age of 30,000 men.

For when we had horses, The

Best in the Forers,

vit the south aide of the northern church has brought the total up to thirty-seven, with great num bera of fragments, many of them large.

Most of them are

We alwap were proud of our Greek, but some are in Arabic and some appear to have both Arabic fourfooted joys,

terse.

written in

are

to

But none that we've tanks and j and Greek versions of the same

mechanised mokes,

the

text.

Oll away, grease away, all round

the #pokea,

If you don't do it, by gad you

will rue it.

A few days in "rlink, with other

bad blokes."

No Paradise in Garden of Eden.

Woman Reveals "Eden' Experiment That Failed

"CALLERS".

Small Tombstones Momentoea of Queen Alexandra be found throughout five- large house and its nere garden. In a secluded corner burial the garden is the

of her pets. Hidden by the lawn arc shrubbery from nine small tombstones, ench with its carved inscription.

plot

One is for Togo and reads; "My Darling little Togo, given me

the of At present it seems that earliest piece in the collection is that which was previously report- el as containing the name of the Emperor Justin II. This is now seen to be dated to the first year of his reign (A.D. 565), while the latest so far recognised is one in by the Empress of Japan, my con- Arabic which is ascribed by Pro- stant companion for 12 years, the fessor L. A. Meyer, of the Hebrew Jay and pleasure of my life. Died University in Jerusalem, on May 25, 1914, palægraphical grounds to the later part of the Eighth Century.

EARLY ARABIC

Tangled Grass

The house was in such deplora- blc state after the Duche96 of Marlborough died in 1744 that no attempt was made for some time Professor Mayer has also made to make it inhabitable. The once a preliminary examination of two beautiful lawns were tangled grass other documents, which are im- and

the staircases were littered portant as being the carllest with bottles and refuse. More specimens of Arabic writing so far than 70 years later, in 1817, it was known in Palestine. They are tenanted by Prince Leopold, after dated to the fifty-fifth year of the ward Leopold I of the Belgians. Hijra (A.D. 675) and relate to a

Only once since 1925 has there monthly allowance of wheat made

been

any sign of life about the to one Ibn Said by Saud In place. That was when the present King lent the garden for an annual) A third is an order by a certain children's charity fetc. The King, Harith Ibn 'Id to the people of (then Prince of Wales), himself Nusar (or possibly "the Chrls- stepped across the street from tlans" of the district of Ghuzza). Eaint James' Palace, hatiess and The Greek documents include a with collar open, to join in the fun. number which seem to be more or History says that the Eccentric less similar in nature, and there Duchess built the great house in are several finely written pages, order that it might dwarf the an- perhaps from a religious work, (cient Saint James' Palace of Queen with marginal notos in a different Anne, from whose court she had hand. Apart from the 37 rools been expelled. there are a dozen pages of a

Mailk.

SPY SENSATION

Latin-Greek vocabulary which bas GERMAN FRONTIER been recognised by the Chief inspector of Antiquities, Mr. R. W. Hamilton, as relating to the fourth book of Virgil's Aenoid.

yet been dug, and this, too, may

Copenhagen, Mar. 10.

10 p.m. Big Ben: Close Down

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following ware-laurila and frequencies are observed by Daventry.

Call Sign Frequency

GBA

4.050 k.

GRB

#,510 1.c.

CSC

1,685 1.4.

Gan

11,700 ks.

CSX

11.5 ke.

GAP

12.148

G80

17,790 4.

CBN

11.470.

CHI

15.260 k..

GBJ

21,540 ..

CSL

6,115 K

Wavelength

45.59 Kavires zistree JLAR metres 23.53 metres > 20.20 metres

· 19.83 metres

16.50 metros metree

11.07

13.66 metres 11.11

49.10 meira

Transmission 1

1.N., G...

2.15 pm. Tig Ben, British Dance lianda. 2.40 pund." Talk: "The Spice of Life", 3 p.m. The B.B.C. Empire Orchestra, Greenwich Time Signs! et 3.15 p.rs. 4 p.m. The New 4.20 p.m. Clow down.

Transmission 2

(0.8.J., G.A.4.)

i p.m.

1-10

Dig lien. A Rocila) of Songs and

Allwom Doets by France

19- prano) and Philip Warde

Baritone).

F.. "The Killarney Dhragin,“ 7.46 pm. An Orren Beritai by Arnold

Me Blutda,

Greenwich Time Digna) ut B p.35. 8,30 p.m. Bir Wallard Davie "Hale and the Ordinary Listeners What about the Tane?"-7: "Tante ma Characters in a Play."

▼ p.m.

The News,

1.20 p.m. A Programme of Gramophone

Records,

E p.m. Cloes down.

Transmission 3

(0.8.0., 0.8.E.)

10 p.m.

10.23 pm,

Han. Arther Belisbury and hla Orehair.

The Balvation of Shallo." Being No. 3 in the series of adventures of Jack and Jill.

11 p.m. Talk: "Orman Travel as it wazz Windjammer and Trump Biesmer,"

by Joey Nunn.

11:45 p.m. A Rectal by Lucy Bellick

(Pianoforte).

11.45 p.m. Organ Solo, 12. juni. Dallad Concert.

Groomwich_Ting Signst at 12:20 mm. 13.30. The New

1'.. Cleat down.

THE KING CONSENTS TO WEDDING

NE of the first letters written

THE moral of this story is: Do not look for the Garden of Eden in the Galapagos Islands; and, if you want

A WAITER ALLEGED There is still one room in, the to live a quiet life don't do things that interest the public. northern church which has TO BE RINGLEADER

not Dr. Ritter fell in love with his patient, Dora Strauch, and There were only half a dozen produco papyri; but it is being An alleged spying organisation at they set off together to find the other settlers, and most of them left as it is until the documents Flensburg, on the German-Danish Garden of Eden on Floreana came and went. But there was no already found have been given the frontier, has been unveiled by the Island, in the Galapagos, off the secrecy. Somebody let the story treatment necessary before they German police. Sixty arrests are

reported to have been made. Pacific coast of Ecuador, South out in Berlin, and it spread all can be examined in detail.

over the world.

The Colt Archeological Expedi- A man named Stockmann is said America.

by King Edward after his Then people began calling, [tion, which has made the finds, is to be the ringleader. He worked Before they left for the Garden journalists arrived. Up came an jan Anglo-American Expedition or as a waiter in the Schuetzenhof accession will be added to the of Eden Dora · persuaded her American broadcaster. Parties ganised and directed by Mr. H. Restaurant, where many German heirlooms in the family of the husband, a Berlin schoolmaster, came to lead the simple life. They Dunscombe Colt. It is working sailors from the Moervig naval Earl of Shrewsbury. that it would be a good idea if Dr. found it was not simple. They under the auspices of the British base took their meals. Ritter's wife kept house for him. had to import most of their food, School of Archeology in Jerusa So she introduced Mrs. Ritter to and nearly everything else they lem. her husband, und Mra. Ritter was quite willing to take on the house- keeping. Schoolmaster kissed wife good-bye and told her not to return.

on

wanted.

Only a few days after his neces- It is suspected that he was em sion, the King sent through the ployed by French secret agents and Lord Chamberlain n letter to say sent on to Paris Information about that it was by his wish that the German naval secrets gained in his marriage between the young carl And then there was the baroness. She was not a real She set up a sort of bungalow talks with the sailors.

Stockmana was a soldier in the and Mas Nadine Crofton-Atkins baroness, but she said she was, she called "Hacienda Paradise."

The Earl of Shrewsbury la u and site had a retinue of She said she was going to be Em- German army during the Great should take place as arranged,

War. and for some time wha

agodson of Queen Mary and of King Dr. Frederick Ritter and Dorn gentlemen-in-waiting-three or press of the Galapagos.

George, and when King George died Strauch Hyed for three years four of them, who were favour- She had the temper of a wild prisoner in France.

About 50 marines are stated to all arrangements for his wedding. Floreana but she confesses that it' was not the Eden they sought, Dura soon discovered that the In the end, one of the baroness's have been arrested,, as well as an feed for February 24 at St. Mar-

murdered officer. There was a plague of rats.baroness was sex-mad. She set gentlemen-in-waiting There were pin-head fleas that out to capture every man she came her and her temporary husband burrowed in the feet and laid eggs across, She tried to capture Dr. A little later Dr. Ritter fell ill and died, and Dora Strauch left there. There were miles of lava, Ritter.

with the the Garden of Eden alone, the

name; She has now written the full to ribbons and went through woo-baronesa, who used den solos like a kniffe through Wagner,

said she was story: Satan Came to Eden" (Jarrolds, 183.).

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Trouble arrived

butter.-

and

Austrian.

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