1936-03-31 — Page 17

THEYRE COLLEGE-MAID MEN!

... Hurrah for dear old Siwash, whose colors are blonds and brunettel

....It'

strictly a girls'

college... but the boys run it and how they love their homework!

Adolph Zukor provenit.

PENNER OAKII

NED

SPARKS LANGFORD

BETTY GRABLE

QUEEN'S

TO-MORROW

SHARE PRICES

The following is the list of local ahare quotations issued this morning.

Banka.

II. K. Banka, $1550 n. H. R. Banks {Lon.

£1011⁄2 n.

Reg.).

Chartered Bank, £14% n. ex, div,

Mercantile. Bank, A. and B.

31 n.

Mercantile Bank C., £14 n. East Asia Bank, $78 n.

taurantes.

Canton In.. $270 n..

Union In., $501 a.

Ching Underwriters, $1.00 b.

Chini Free, Sint

H. K. Fire In., $230%1⁄2 n. Internat'l Assce., Sh. -

Shipping.

Douglas, $36 n.

H.K. Steamboats; $51⁄2 n. Indo-Chinas, (ret.), $30 n. Indo-Chinas (Def.), $20 0. Shell (Bearer), 90/- n. Union Waterboals, $13 n.

Mining. Autamoks, $2.15 n.. Balatoca, $21 n. Bagulo Gold, 28 cts. b. and 84. Benguet Consolidated, $18 n. Benguet Exp., 24 eta, s. and sa. Big Wedgo, 26 cts. n.

Demonstration, G6 cts, n.

Gold Creek, 16 ets. B. Gold River, 7 cts, n.

Itogons, $1.05 b.

I. X. L. $1.50 b.

Salacot, 14 eta, xa.

Kailan, 11/8 n.

Langkats (Single), $10 n.

Masbate, 73 cts. b.

Rauhs, $114 n.

San Maurico, $1.04 b.

:

S'hai Explorations, Sh.-34% 0. S'hai Loans, Sh. 34 n. United Paracalo 64 cts b. Venz: Goldfield' 33% n.

Docks etc. H.K. Wharves (old), $92 n. H.K. & W. Docks $9 n. Providents (old), $1.10 h. Providonts (new), 20 eta. n. Hongkow (old), Sh. $190 n.. New Engineerings. Sh. $4 n. Shanghai Docks, Sh. $90 n.

Kotton MD- Ewo Cottona Sh. $8% b.

S'hai Cottons (old). Sh. $70 n. S'hal Cottons (new), Sh. $40 n. Zong Slaga, $12 n. Wing On Textiles, Sh. $25 n.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

Hi, and S. Hotels, $4.40 n. II.K. Lands, $30 bi `li.N. Lands, 4% Deben.

$100 b.

S'hai' Lands, Sh. $18 n. Metropolitan Lande, Sh. $10 D. Humphries, $9 n.

JL.K. Reaitics, $5 n. Chinese Estates, $84 n. China Realtics, Sh. $4 n. Chinn Debentures Sh. $50 n.

Puhile Utilities,

H.K. Tramways, $10.40 sa. Peak Trams, (old), $7 n.. Peak Trams, (new), $3 n. Star Ferries, $84 n. Yaumati Ferries, (old) $19 China Lights, $10.50 n. China Lights, (new), $7.25 n.

H.K. Electric, $53 s.

Macao Electric, $29 n. Sundakan Lights, $8.30.n. Telephone (old), $25.15 8a. Telephone (new), 89 n. China Buses, Sh. $11% n. Singapore Tractions, 21/- n. Singapore Pref 267- n.

Industriale

Mulabon Sugurs, $8.40 n.

Cald: Macg. (old), Sh. $19

n.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1936:

Dr. Eckener Will Fly Over London

ZEPPELIN ARRIVES IN APRIL

TOLD THAT VISIT. WILL BE PERMITTED

· Friedrichshafen, Mar. 20. ERMANY'S new Zeppelin,

LZ129, will fly over London sometime in the next two weeks.. To-day Dr. Hugo Eckener, the

IT PAYS To Advertise

The Lord Mayor of London' (Sir Stephen Killick) recited the following ditty to prove that advertising pays:-

The codfish lays ten thousand egon The homely hon lays one; The codfish never cockica

To tell you what she's done.

"And so we acorn the codfish;

And the homely hon we prizes, Which demonstrates to you and me That it pays to’advertise."

famous pilot, was informed that BEATTY'S

the authorities in England would

not

impose any restrictions

except those dealing with naval STORY OF

and military zones,

"In that event" said Dr. Eckener, "it is otrtain that I shall fly the now airship over Loudon because I have many friends In Britain who are interested in it.

"I know they are nħxious to 90% it, and it ja probable that I shall Ry over England on a trial, trip,

NO MOORING MAST

JUTLAND

STOLEN LETTER HOW an astonishing" letter from the late Earl Beatty

"I am writing to the British Air was stolen was revealed in Lon- Ministry for formal permission loidon this month by the Dean of make this light and I do not know Windsor. |whether a landing will be made in

England.

"Bently, who was one of my "If I decide to make a landing greatest friends, wrote the letter to shall notify the Air Ministry in me immediately after the Battle of good time for arrangements to be Jutland," the Dean said. made.

"The new airship does not need a mooring mast.

"I think the experts will be surprised when they see how easily it can be handled by a amtill ground statT."

"To my mind, it fa the most beautiful craft we have designed, and I should like England to see it before it goes on regular service. "We estimate its cruising spred to be over 80 miles an hour and it can make a non-stop voyage of about 10,000 miles.

THE HINDENBURG "There are Lo he three trial flights over the inke and a fourth over a renter distance. It may by that this fourth flight will in-

lude England.

"Herr Hitler has taken a keen personal interest in the building of the alrahip, but I have not yet heard whether he intendis to be a passenger on one of the trial flights.

"This new airship will show the world how much advanced are the methods of construction and fight In this e of craft.”

The new Zeppelin is to be named the Hindenbury. It is believed to be ten miles an hour faster than the Graf Zeppelin

It is driven by four Diesel engines hauser in gondolus on the Banks.

མ་

Woman Drives

To An Execution Dressed As A Man

Cald: Macg. (Pref.), Sh, $16 n. Draguignan (France), Mar. 25.

Canton Ices, $1.

Cernent, $8.20 m..

11. K. Ropes. $1

Stores, &c.

n.

Dairy Farm, $19%. D.

Watson, $44 8.

Lane Crawfords, 26% n. Mackintoshs, $5 n. Sinceres, $211.

Wym. Powells, 70 cts. n.. Wing On (11.K.), $55 1.

Altxcelinneous.

H.K. Entertainments, $4.70 1. S. C. Enterprise $1.35 0. Macao "Greyhounds." $2 n. Constructions (old), $1% n. Constructions. (new), 50 cts. n. Vibro Piling, $i n.

Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 G. $ Bond,

94% .

II. K. Govt. 4% Loan 4%

prm..

H.K. Govt. 34% Loan par, 11 Wallace Harpers, $4 n.

Robart Young, Barbara Stanwyck and Cilff Edwards find that life in an auto trailer has its drawbacks in "Red Salute, the Reliance comedy rolanned througs United Artists and. Phowing on Wednesday, at "th King's Thiabré,

"It was a remarkable document, 10 to 12 pages fu length, and of an extremely personal nature.

"FRIGHTFULLY UPSET"

WAS HE FIRST MAN AT NORTH POLE?

Frederick Cook, whose clalis 30 years ngn that he was the dest men to reach the North Pole was discredit- ed,lis making new efforts to provu that he actually did beat Perry,

DEBABELISE

BASIC ENGLISH WAY TO PROGRESS

NEW WORLD SPEECH

In all leading countries to- day, groups of clever people are working out the idea that the best way to push the world ahead is to put it back to where it was before the Tower of Babel.

one an

common

In other words, "Debabelisa- oil of scam of a man very full of "It was the spontaneous Jetting-

tion" seems to thlukers of to-day his subject and at the moment

the best means of getting the frightfully upset by the loss of his nations to understand

'need a other. They friends.

language.

For Basic English, the Intest attempt to provide one, the pros- pects (seem specially good.

"He described the battle, his feelings, the tragic loss of his friends everything. in fact, that was passing through his mind.

"It was so intimate a letter that I did not show it even to my wife,

"I was at Coventry at the time. I put the letter away carefully in a cupboard.

"A couple of months later, when looked for it, the letter had vanished.

"I cannot have any doubts but that it was stolen.

it

"Somebody must have seen jand taken it, but who this person was or how it happened I have never been able to think.

-NEVER TOLD

Living Language

A new common language for all the nations of the earth comes up for attention. Unlike Esperanto

other and the many

unnatural systems of talk which the inven- tion of man has put forward in the past, it is a ready-made and Ilving language. It is, in fact, English; and while not quite the English of the library, being much simpler, it is still true English and clear enough for any purpose,

"Basic English" is the name its friends give it. They have gone through the word-book

with a small-tooth comb, taking out great masses of words as unimportant and unnecessary. They have kept *850 ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄words” only"You"may~~put

"I did not even tell anyone that them all on a page of notepaper. I had received.it.

"It was not the sort of letter anyone would dare to publish. H whoever has it returns it to me I shall hand it over to Beatty's family.

"It might be used in future years as a most interesting his torical document. I am revealing A woman dressed in man's the circumstances of Its loss In clothing was found to be driving case it ever does come to light." The lorry containing the execu-

The Dean explained that tioner's equipment for the exccu-young men, he and Beatty became tion of a man named Sasia, Arm friends. known ns the "Killer of Shepherds," outside the prison

jat Draguignan, to-day,”

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They had long talks and rides together.

She had to wear man's clothing Bently used to sign himself because women are not allowed | "David 'B." in his ktters. cffelally to be witness of an execu- He has a number of other per- tion. Sho Was recognised and sonal lettera from him, but they removed.-United Press.

are of purely private interests.

NURSES AND DOCTOR GASSED IN OPERATION

OPERATING ROOM FILLED WITH 'CARBON MONOXIDE DURING BIRTH OF BABY

Woburn, Mass., Mar. 20. Gas, felled two nurses, partly overcame a third, and rendered the attending physician almost unconscious during the birth of a baby in the operating room of a Woburn hospital last night.

A nurse flung open the doors and staggered out to tell others that two nurses were unconscious on the floor inside and Dr. Thomas F. Halpin was on the verge of collapse. ..

sharp pain in the chest.

.

This selection gives us a lánguage which takes only a short time in the learning and in the narrow limits of which it is possible to put across any everyday thought that may come to mind.

Before you read any further. take a backward glance at the last two paragraphs. They are in Basic English, which in them ex- plains Itself.

In Many Lands

A selection of 850 words which have the power of covering the greater part of the range of man's Interests has been worked out by Mr. C. K. Ogden, of the Ortholo- gical Institute, Cambridge Univer sity. These, together with certain rules, make up a remarkably prac tleable language, which is being used by groups in lands as far apart as Japan. Mexico, Iceland and Czechoslovakia.

"We find fully 1500 languages Acting as barriers to world un- derstanding," says Mr. Ogden. "India alone has 200 languages; the Sovint Republic has 20."

The outstanding advantage of Basic English is that it is not an artificial construction, like Esper- anto, Ido, Volapuk and others. It is a simplification of a living speech, and that speech is itsolf in a unique position to-day, being the natural language or the lan- guage of government for more than 500,000,000 people,

English is the language of com- merce, It is displacing French as the language of diplomacy. Every important scientific work has to be put into English, and the motion pleture is Impelling thousands in

the language of the films they.

love.

The fresh blast of air from the, couldn't breathe because of foreign-speaking countries to learn open doors helped revive Dr. Hal- pin. Another doctor hurried to his aid, but before, he arrived Dr. Halpin struggled through the de- livery. Neither mother nor child. apparently suffered any lasting li effecta,

Dr. Halpin. still ill 'to-day after His experience, said he believed the room had been filled with car- bon monoxide gas, bat ventured no opinion no to its origin.

"I turned to one of the nurses, I was going to ask her to get mo a chair. As was trying to speak to her she fell to the floor.

"Just then the nurse on the other side of the operating table collapsed.

"The third nurse staggered out

Books In "Basic English”

A simplified form of It seems destined to be the common sprech of mankind: Basic English is so skilfully worked out that in Eng-

·land · Ïteolf · books · have“ been published in it without readers,

of the room. She was near col-being aware of it. A lapse horself. She pushed open "Twentieth Century Houses,” an the large doors into the operating:|· Illustrated: book on architecture, is a notable example, It is a book

He and the operating room hat room. There was a blast of fresh been closed and that engineers nie. It felt gront.

of 80.000 words, and it uses only would · study the room and its "I was partly overcome. She got the 850 words of Basic Engliab, of the fumes. cantement to discover the 'sours more help and more nurses camo, ·and the compounde it easily pru- frat became aware of a severe And then- completed the designed," from "design," one of the and they sent for anothedoctor, vides—such · na "designer," "da-

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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE

· PROTECTION-OF-CHILDREN-

The Society asks for $25,000

in 1936 to continue its work for sick and destitute children. Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.,

c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co..

P. O, Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine, ·

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