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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

APRIL 29, 1936.

LIFE RESTORED AFTER OVER 3,000 YEARS

Soviet

Scientist's Experiments

.NATURE'S

PRESERVES

REFRIGERATOR

INSECTS

Moscow, April 20. THE possibility of the revival of organisms buried for more than 3,000 years at a depth ranging from ten to fifteen feet in the regions of eternal frost in Siberia has been definitely established by the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Professor P. N. Kapterev, who has carried on experi- ments for the past two years, announces that he has successfully revived insects and a small variety of lobsters born 1000 years B.C.

Eggs and crawfish dating from the same period have been hatched and ten normal generations of crawfish, consisting of 100 of them, have been reproduced. Specimens, when removed from frozen soil below the thawing zone, were placed in a jar of distilled water and when the soll thawed, embryos of the various organisms discovered were revived,

OF TREMENDOUS SIGNIFICANCE

These successful experiments are said to be of tremendous scientifle significance, bearing the possibility of practical application.

"Imagine for a moment that the frozen bedy of the famous South Pole explorer, Amundsen, who was lost in the Arctic in 1928, might be dis covered," an enthusiastic

research

A

3,500 Miles In Open Boat

TASKS OF NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITION

The charting of about 500

TO HOLLYWOOD

The newest charmer from Japan to crash Hollywood's gales i Mias Sachike Chiba, populer Japanese film noiress, shown as she left Tokio en route for the American Bim capital,

Favourite Hymns Of

worker at the Academy of Selenco

"We might miles of unknown coast, the The Famous

remarked to me to-day

bring him back to life." fixing of the present position of actressor f. 1. Sumgin, chairman the North Magnetic Pole, and the

the

The

of a commission of the Academy of elucidation of the origin of the

use, charged with the study of Science,

favourite hymns of Soviet

Union's permanently Eskimo are among the objects frozen zones, announced his readiness of the British Canadian Arctic famous men and women would to undertake an examination of deeper layers of soll in an attempt to Expedition, four members of make an interesting catalogue." which will sail from Southamp- discover other organisms ante-dating by thousands of years those recently ton to-morrow to spend three revived.

"Abide With Me" was King

Vancouver City's Jubilee

·TWO MONTHS OF CELEBRATION

Vancouver, Apr, 28.-

The city of Vancouver is making preparations to celebrate

RADIO BROADCAST

Recital by Gaston D'Aquino

From Studio

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

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.

p.m. A Relay from Daventry. A talk by the Chief Engineer of

B.B.C.

this year the fiftieth anniver-Z.B.W. DANCE ORCHESTRA sary of its birth. The history of Burrard Inlet, on which Vancouver is situated, goes back to June 13, 1792, when Captain George Vancouver, not long be- fore his circumnavigation of Vancouver Island, entered the Inlet in his ship's boats.

tho

7.15 p.m. The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra.

(Suppe); Overture--Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolal).

Alda Grand March (Verdi) Aida But it was not until April 4, 1886, Selection (Verdi): Overture--Light that letters of incorporation were issued to the city, thereafter to be known as Vancouver. As the now city was to be the terminus of the Transcontinental railway, there was an immediate influx of population. Clearing began and numbers of wooden buildings were ergatod.

7.40 p.m. Hawaiian Music.

The Rosella;

Winter Waltz; Hawaiian Love-Walls; A ekok!; Ohi Roralita; Hawaiian Stars are gleam. ing.

8 p.m. Time Signal, Weather Re- port and Announcements.

8.08 p.m. From the Studio. A recital of Landon Ronald.com- positions by Gaston d'Aquino (Tenor) accompanied by Elisio Cunidi.

THE GREAT FIRE

Then, on

Sunday, June 13, fires used in clearing operations got out of control and, driven by a brisk wind, soon spread to the timber and

now buildings on the town-site. Almost

1. Film **** of the Moment; Z. everything was awept away, only the I hate myself; 3. Love In Bloem. Hastings sawmill and two or three 8.38 p.m.

The J. H. Squire buildings remaining. *

8.26 p.m. Sydney Torch at the Organ

Celeste Octet.

This baptism of flame, idealised Avo Maria (Schubert, arr, Wi- somewhat no doubt, is known in Van-loughby); Spring Song (Mendelssohn, couver's story as "The Great Fire" arr. Willoughby); Andante Cantabile The citizens are very proud of it, (Tschaikovsky); Melody in F (Rubin- proud that it stimulated rather than stein, arr. Scar); O Sole Mlo (di checked the young elty's growth and Capua); La Paloma-Spanish Sern- that it was found possible for the nade (Yradier). City Council, on the day following 9 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin. 9.15 p.m. A Variety Concert, the fire, to meet in a tent pitched on

Piano Solo-Sophiscated Lady...r the cooling ashes on the town-aite:

Tarner Layton; Song-My shadow's That fire was fifty years ago, and where my sweetheart used to be.... George's first choice, and was this year Vancouver, celebrating its Sam Browne; Accordeon Solo-The the only one sung at his funeral. ftieth anniversary, is looking both Whistler and his Dog....George

backward and forward. It feels it Sealt-Wood; Songs My first northern end Between the

music

(Sho shall Hudson Bay and the extreme north of especially esteemed. For the nationals come a good distance. The little ("She shall have

100,000 have

Clyde; Piano music" Baffen Island the expedition expects to tinksgiving service for his restorn- 215,000 people, with another 18ty of Clyde: Ds the runaround six travel at least open to

the area immediately adjacent. Solas-Charlo Kunz Medley; Vocal

Dancing ("Tonight n feet and more, Prosessor Sumgin re-i whale boat and 8,000 to 12,000 miles 1028 the late King chose "Alt People The raw railway terminus, has become We were Goyard; Instrumental Dwell" and one of the great Empire ports, the The Ballyhooligans make Whoopce Soul, the King of most important wheat, port on

years in the Canadian Arctic.

of

There are some others which hợp

that

Do

LIFE TO FROZEN AREAS Forty-seven per cent, of the im-

health after his lness in mense sren of the Soviet Union is eternally frozen lo a depth of

On Earth Problems of housing.

ine by dog team. cently stated. excavation and

The leader of the 'expedition is Mr.Praise, My rond-building, neces sary for the exploitation of these now T. H. Manning. Already he has dis-eaven." sparsely inhabited regions, are still covered hitherto unknown stone build- ings, erected by former generations of unsolved, and some within the scope kime, on Southampton Island. It of Professor Sumpin's commission.

is by the excavation of these and Heretofore buildings constructel

to shed because the other remains that he hopes to over frozen soll sank. heat within them softened the ground new light on the origin of

other problem which, it is hoped. In view of the natural resources of will be solved is that of the thousands

"blue" Деско

beneath.

tho Continent. So there is to be a cele His partiality for "Abide With Mebration, beginning on July 1 and was shared by Nurse Cavell and by running on to a climax in the first Lord Oxford. Gladstone's favourite week of September. was "Praise to the Hollest in Height," and it was sung ut funeral.

"Neurer, My God, to Thee" is the

which hymn to

the body of

tho hls

GENERAL REJOICING

'Light and music, it is intendai, will to the keynotes of the celebration. Stanley Park the forest-clad penin-

The

Ballyhooligans; Orchestra-

In a Vienna Beer Garden.

10 p.m. Big Bon:

10 pm. From the Studlo. "The Z.B.W. Danco Orchestra." 11 p... Close Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wave-lengths and frequencies

the frazon soil areas, which are known of miles' migration of "snow" and more than one President has been sula at the harbour entrance, noted are oberved by Daventry, to possess gold, platinum, con and breeding grounds to an ores, Russians are deeply interested

in the solution of the problem of the aren round the Miss Wally Hmited ton for the lying-in-state.

construction of cities, factories and highways in these regions.

TENNIS PRINCESS

Amsterdam, Apr. 25.

from limited Arctic borne into the Capitol at Washing- It, too, was the hymn sung by her passengers when the Titanic went down.

NONE SINCE AMUNDSEN The last visitor to the North Magnetic Pole was Amundsen In

Probably Isune Watts's magni- 1903-6. The last explorer of the un- known west coast of Baffin Land was ficent "Our God, Our Help in Ages the German, Bernhard Adolph Han-Past" takes as high a place as any tzsch, who in 1911 lost his life nour in general English favour. It may be the river which bears his name. recalled that it was chosen for Further north, no party has yet ex- HOLLAND'S cycling, camp-plored for a stretch of 500 miles the ing, skating Princess Juliana longest uncharted coastline in the is going into serious training Here, during the summer months, as a tennis player to-morrow. the expedition will meet the unusual Attendance at international, combination of mud ice and mas matches and the enthusiasm of quitoes.

The

northern hemisphere.

King Gustav of Sweden, a crack which has the support of the Royal average age of the expedition, tennis player, have whetted her, Geographical Society, is only 24 interest in the game.

years. The members, who will sail to-morrow, are: Mr. G. W. Rowley, Mr. R. J. O. Bray, Mr. P. Baird, and Dr. R. Keeling.

She has formed her own team and booked one of the junior courts at The Hague for two afternoons a week.

The court is surrounded by ten others, but the princess hopes

The leader has already left to superintend the construction of bonts at Fort Churchill in Hudson Bay. Two others will join the party later, Each man, for three years' entertain-

people will pay no particular at-nient, is allowed 10lb, weight of books *tention to her efforts at the and a share in the communal gramo

phone.

start.

BERGNER THE GIRL EVERY ONE LOVES ELISABETH BERGNER,

now lying in a London nursing home, will not re- turn to the stage until the autumn at the earliest.

She is lucky to be alive at all A perforated appendix almost robbed the theatre of her, genius. After appearing in only one play in Britain, "Escape Mo Never," she has drawn to her a group of people to whom she is more than just an actress. These are the people with whom she has worked

Foremost among them is Mr. C.

B. Cochran.

MENTAL AGONY

"All of us who have met her Jove her," he said. "To meet and talk to hor is to fall under tho spell of her personality.

"I know no other actress 50 completely absorbed in her pro- fession. Her day is a nerve- racking preliminary to the per-. formance in the evening.

"All of us who love her know the mental agony through which she must be passing. She

loves The Boy David," which

Barrie has created for her.

"But her bitter disappointment

at its inevitable postponement is.

ELISABETH DEŔGNER ..

great mass meeting in London after the outbreak of war.

Itwas--nise-sung-with-moving effect at the Coronation of King George and Queen Mary,

by

Captain Vancouver, and still natural forest in great part--is to bo flooded with light and made available for large assemblages. There are to bo pageants and dramatic spectacles and exhibitions and tattoos.

and

Warships will visit the fabour, number of national and in- ternational conventions will be held. streets and on a great floor to be laid There is to be open-air dancing in the in the park. Indian, Hawaiian, Japanese and Chinese villages are to Le established. Athletics will also play a large part, and there is to be a carnival late in the summer. Ar- rangements have been made for 800 | hours of netivity in the two months, Patna, Apr. 207 Sixteen warders of Muzaffarpur has promised to be present and ba Ills Excellency Lord Tweedsmuir Jail have been suspended for open the annual Vancouver. Exhibi- breach of discipline. They built ation, which will have special features temple in the jail compound con- this year and fill the final wock of trary to jail rules.-Renter.

TEMPLE IN JAIL,

the celebration.

•1624-1936.

Somebody at Sotheby's last month paid £60 for the dairy of Sir George Downing, BL, born in 1624. Two hundred and fifty or so years ago they gave his name to the little street that to-day is the centre of British Government. Fle hardly deserved the honour: the "Encyclopaedia Britan nica" describes his character as marked by "treachery, A servility, and ingratitude."

One of the pioneers of "collective security," he was sent to The Hague' to form a union of the Protestant European Powers, and to mediate between those at war.

Political historians may like to draw their own moral from the fact that he had eventually to flee back to England, "in fear of the fury of the mob.".

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Transmission 1

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1.4 p.m. Life Den. "Spring Cleaning.“- A.

"domestic "revue,"m

Jone

7.45 p.m. Talk "Imperial Affairs.“ 2 p.m. A Renain Recital by

Shadwick (Violin) and Wh Parry (Pianoforte). Gromwich Time Bignal až 2.15 p.m. 1.35 p.m. Sprech by Bie Murray Andersen, XC GX, V, Newfound- land.

2.55 p.m. The News and Announcements. 3.16 p.m. Close down.

Transmission 2 G.S.J., 6.6.0 0.8.0.)

..Be Ben. A Talk by the Chief Roghner of the British Broad- culine Corporation.

1.16 p.m. The B.B.C. Empire Orcžexits.

Greenwich Time Bignal at ě pomo 8.15 p.m. Wind in the Rigging." A selec- tion of poetry and muale in praise of the men.

8.40 p.m. Piping and Fidding. 13.m. The News and Announcementa. 1.24 p.z. Operatic Munis.

esp.

Clone down.

Transmission 3

(0.8.0.0.9.E.)

10 p.m. Big Ben, "The Faithful Pair."" 10.16 p.m. The Bournemouth Municipal

Orchestr

11.45 p.m. Osborne and Perryer, în comedy

chareler eumeos.

11.45 pm. The News and Announcements. 12.15 . The BJLC. Danes. Orchestra, Greenwich Time Bignal st 1200 sun. 12.45 km. Tilk: "Down to the Bea Er Ships-en Communications; (2) Fort to Port." 12.50 m. The BBC. Dante Orchest

"tront'd).

Clone down.

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