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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1936,

PUZZLE OF CORONATION MILLIONS

NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR

Procession Route Must

Be Longest Ever

t

NEW PLAN FOR CITY AND SOUTH LONDON PAGEANT FOR the Coronation Procession of King Edward VIII. next year the route will have to be, the longest in modern times.

The great event will draw the largest crowd that London has ever seen, and unless that crowd is spread over a long processional; route there will be seenes of chaos.

This is the considered opinion of transport experts who are already making plans for the day.

Street,

Piccadilly,

YOUNG PRINCESS

They have learned an important, Mansion House,

Victoria Hyde Park Corner lesson from the funeral proccasion Queen

Constitution Hill. of the late King. It is that pro- CeRsional routes

Transport authorities are of the must be long enough to touch the maximum opinion that the Home Secretary number of underground stations, should immediately summon to dls- bus and tram points, to bring and cuss the problem a special commit!

Princess Maria of Savoy, daughter remove crowds without confusion, tee, on which there should be repre-

sentatives of London Transport, the to the Crown Prince of Italy and main line railways, the police and Princess Mario Jore, is seen picking the Office of Works.

flowers in the garden to tho Villa Rosebery near Naples.

A 2,000,000 "RIOT" For this purpose the route the Coronation of King George V., fs, in the opinion of the transport world, hopelessly inadequate.

The outward journey from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey was slightly under a mile. and a half. The return journey! was just over two miles.

This was all very well for the Just Coronation, when a mere 200,000| people came to town.

'Stork Marathon' Kidnap Attempt

Toronto, April 20.

But shout 2,000.000 people will KIDNAPPERS attempted last night to carry off a child of Mrs. Matthew Kenny, wife of an unemployed

want to see the Coronation

next

year, and-say the transport ex. perts such a crowd, poured into labourer, who is likely winner of Toronto's £100,000 "Stork such a confined area, would mean Marathon."

ittle short of a riol.

There will be no excuse for lack!

of co-operation at the coming

Mr. S. Y. Shii, newly-appointed Chinese Amlinssador to Japan, who Coronation.

recently presented his credentials to the Throne.

MOURNING ENDS ON THURSDAY

QUEEN MARY'S

WISH

Queen Mary has expressed the

All-India

Who May Miss England Tour

Cricketers

Lahore. Apr. 18.

Only a route at least as long na

that taken by the Jubilee Day pro-

cession-five miles-will, according to the transport authorities, suffice to decentralise the crowds sufficient- ly to avoid confusion.

A proposed solution is that the ceremonial drive through the City, which usually takes place on the day following thr Coronation, i should next year he included in the Coronation Day procession, and sol for Mohammed Nissar, the Indian Test give ample pavement space hawler, and Baru Jileni, an excel-millions to are the King. Ient afi-rounder, may not be able

PROPOSED ROUTE to go to England with the Indian

mean that the King) cricket team this summer. Hoth players are doubtful whether they would drive direct from Bucking- The Mall and can obtain leave from their work ham Paince, via was a member of the All-India sirie Coronation, but that after the toured England in 1932-ceremony he would make a wide which

detour through South London and Renter

the City on his way back to the Palace.

It would

wish that all those, not immeln order to make the trip. Nissar Whitehall, to the Abbey for the!

diately connected with the Court shall go out of mourning for King George at the end of April. Relaxation of mourning will

therefore take place as from New Nova

Thursday.

Walden through

onc

WAN

Discovered By Experts

·

This would merely be reversingi the greater part of the processionoj route taken by King George when

The prize will be awarded next October to the mother. who has had the most children in the last ten years. Mrs. Kenny has had eleven children since 1926 and has a one-baby lead over all other contenders for the prize.

QUARTER-INCH BOOK SOLD

FOR £20

FOOMY,

A book a quarter of an inch long by three-sixteenths wide was sold recently for £20. It was bought," complete with magnifying glass, by n firm of London booksellers at Hodgson's auction Chancery-lane, W.C.

The book contains E. F. Thompson's rendering of selected verses of the "Rubai- yat" of Omar Khayyam." Printed in ink from copper plates, it weighs one grain and a quarter.

BASE

Capetown, Apr. 12.

A decision has been made to intensively fortify Robben Island, as part of a scheme to make Table Bay a second Singapore.

The Queen's message

he visited the City on the day after SECOND SINGAPORE his Coronation in 1911, as follows: given to Lady Howard

of her

Westminster

Canion Street, Abbes, St Paul's Church Majesty's Ladles-in-Waiting!

Parliament

SL Lady Howard made the an

Pasadena, Calif. Apr. 18.

Square. Fard, of Westminster A new super-Nova, one

Ludgate Hill, nouncement at Seaford House,

Bridge, Fleet Street, Belgrave Square, at this first

Westminster Strand, meeting of the committee sup- Astronomy's brilliant "mystery Queen stars" has just been discovered

Bridge Road, ninth porting the

Dunenunda Street Charlotte's Birthday Ball for by Dr. Edwin P. Hubble, direc-

High Trafalgar Square

(N. side), debutantes, which is to be held for of the Mt. Wilson Observa- tory, and Glen Moore, his assis-

Pall Mall East,. on May 18.

Pall Mall, St. James's Street, Nearly 200 mothers of de-1, Only two of the super-Novi have butantes attended the meeting. been seen in the last 300 years and only 13 previously had been recorded Queen Charlotte's Ball, within all astronomical history. The star, its beautiful cake ceremony, will which is expected to fare so brightly be the first, big social event of that it may be visible with the naked

Innt.

in

Borough Road, Borough

Street. London Bridge, King

William

Streek,

Samuel Insul Starting New Business

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eye if it acts like the last super- the season, at which debutantes novia, is in the constellation of Virgo and their mothers will be seen of the Northern hemisphere.

The last super-nova seen was Nova- | In other colours than black,!

Persel

WIS discovered white and pastel.

by 1001

mer T. D. Anderson, Those who normally wouldWithin two days after its discovery, have been presented in 1936 will, Novn-Persei reached a magnitude of HAS OFFICES IN OPERA. as maids of honour, bring in the zero, making its brilliant light visible

cake with its 193 candles.

Convict Freed With Key

to

10 the

naked eye in broad daylight. A few days later it faded from view.

Astronomera

explained

that

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Table Bay works, which are being developed, to cost £10,000,- 000 will enable vessels of the heaviest tonnage to dock.

Five-year-old Mary Kenny

was walking home from school

when a large black

pulled up beside her.

motor-car

A man got out, leaving two other men and a woman in

enr.

the

"I was more frightened of the woman than of the men," Mary- told me.

"The woman opened the door and said to me: 'You're the half-million-dollar kid.' Gel into the car or we will kill you.'

"I began to run away. Sha But I ducked and got

snatched at me and tore a button joff my cout.

away.

"The man who was out of the car then tried to catch me. I ran up a lane and shouted. Then I cried.

Presently I told a big police. man about it and he wrote it all down in a book."

"KEEP OUR

NAMES SECRET"

It is believed the intention of PENSIONERS GIVE

the Government to proceed with a big equipment scheme by which Table Bay will supersede Simonstown as a naval port. Robben Island, formerly a leperi settlement, has since been un- occupied except by lighthouse keepers.

HOSPITAL £80

Gloucester, Apr. 20.

TWO old-age pensioners,

who wish their names to remain secret, have sacri- ficed most of their life trembling figure who spent dinies for Savings to help Gloucester- bus fare while a Federal Court heard shire Royal Infirmary.

HOUSE HE BUILT

Chicago, Apr. 20. charges that he was responsible for

So it was revealed at a meeting Samuci Insull, heavy-jowled, the crash of a utilities empire and the loss of millions to investors. He super-nova in a star which ordinarily scowling, has started a new busi-was acquitted.

of the infirmary committee to- is so distant that it cannot be seen

Pink-checked, energetic, carefully day. with the strongest telescope until itness life.

£100 IN NOTES Behind heavy glass doors-groomed, he ordered a typewritten undergoes some change which causes

the word president across them distributed to newspapermen.

lemmt explaining the new venture it to flare up for a short time.

The The couple have bequeathed One school of astronomers believe in neat black letters-he sat at statement said:

the cottage in which they live to that the bright light is causal by two

"With the completion of our station the infirmary, and wanted to stars colliding, while the more accept glass-topped desk and in- internally.

middlewestern radio chain would concluded. We now have outlets for

well. our broadcasts and can devote all of In pointing out the importance of become a reality by May 15It will our energien to the main job of build- the present discovery, an asstronomer Who refused to allow his name to be operate under the name of the ing a schedule that will bring to the THE key of a sardine tin sex, because no oficial announce. Afiliated Broadcasting Company malware of entertainment ful

nient had been made by the Carnegie His office, 40 floors above the tion, designed especially for mild- has, for the time being, Institute, said that one of the great street, is in the Civic Opera westerners. saved Marcel Henri, gang-ronomical discoveries of the House which he built when at The new network, whosu omeinin ster, aged twenty-eight,neration was that of Nova Herculis from going to Devil's Island for the rest of his life.

Of Sardine Tinal theory is that the star explodes nounced that his dream of a tineup the first part of our task in give all their savings-£100-a9

Paris, Apr. 20.

Henri used a sardine-tin key to open the window of, his cell in the

a

educa-

They sent for the secretary, Mr. F. J. Synions, und handled him the £100 In notes, saying, "We shall never need it." We. can live comfortably on our pensions."

1

I

hope eventually to serve 35 stations, the height of his career its 1934.

will reach out in three directions, it He pointed out that trouble or Nova Herculis compares to a super-utilities ezar.

was explained-northward through nova like the earth to the sun for

"Come in!" was his stentorian wel- Wisconsin to Minneapolis; southeast illness might come and prevailed Super-novi are distant suns that are come.

through Indiana to Evansville, and on them to keep £20 as a nest- Insult looked fit for his comeback. southwest through Illinois to St.legg. many times larger than our sun, the astronomer said.

Gone was thó broken old man who Louis. Individual programmes may The one condition the couple A super-nova had not been seen for faltered down a ship's gangplank two bo broadcast in each of tho throo huge van which was taking him 297 years prior to the discovery of years ago on his reluctant return areas or one programms may serve made was that their identity

Fentoverault Prison, where, Nova-persel in 1901, Keplera nova from exile in Greece. Gone was the all three.

should not be revealed. other convicts, he was top was sighted in 1604. It lasted for 16

the next voyage of the months and was visible for a short s French convict ship. La Martin-time in daylight.

to

with

await

lore, to the prison settlement in In 1672, Wolfgang Schuler discover French Guiana.

ed a super-nova which was called Tycho's Star. It lasted for threo While the van was speeding along weeks and was of the first magnitudo the road Henri, despite the chains for 16 days. on his innds and feet, succeeded in

Astronomers

sak that before worming his way through the half-Schuler made his discovery, legends |and semi-historical record led them to open window.

Then, as the van alowed down to hellove that 10 other super-novi wore take

a corner, he dropped on the visible. From

Biblical accounts, astronomers are inclined to think that grass by the roadside."

Henri like a former Devil's Island the Star of Bethlehem was a super. convict. Armand Spiller. who ca-nova of either zero or the first magni- caped from the Sante Prison a week tude as it was reported visiblo in

broad daylight-United_Proes. ago, has not yet been captured.

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