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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1936.

Mechanisation Plans For Maginot Line

FRENCH CALL FOR MOTORISED ARMY

NEW VOLUNTEER FORCE LIKELY

Paris, April 20.

ONE of the first measures which the new French Parlia- ment will discuss when it meets in May will, it is believed, be a law for the enrolment of a body of volunteers serving for five years, and entrusted with the formation of highly developed mechanised units of tanks, motorised artillery, and infantry.

Writing in the Revue Hebdomadaire, a military critic de- clare that the army is not properly equipped to man the Maginot Line of fortifications on the eastern frontier.

MYSTERY GUN

He boints out that not only would arise should the Maginol have the forts to be manned, Line be pierced. but the gaps between the forts must be filled with field works occupied with infantry and artillery!

A mystery gun capable of firing an

inch shell more than 30 miles is |believed to have been produced re- cently by German technical experts, The Erh đe Paris urges that according to tho Patia Excelsior. stops should be taken to build upi French authorities, it is stated, be

professional [lieve that the German divisional soldiers capable of manoeuvring artillery will soon be equipped with with great rapidity and therefore able to deal with the altuntion that

An army rps of

LOVE FEUD SHOOTING; TWO DEAD

"THE HAND WITH A REVOLVER"

Paris, Apr. 20. Tenso passions of a primitive

uns of a range more than 10 miles. in excess of the French divisions,

The German infantry are stated to be equipped with:

Air-cooled machine-guns capable of 100

roundin

a minute and of armoured

penetrating lin. thick plate at 1,000 yards.

Anti-tank guns, firing 15 shells o minute, which can be taken over every type at ground.

The construction of an enormous mould 50 yards leng at the great Krupps munition worn, ie belleved to indicate that guns of 22in, are to be produced and that several guns 16in. calibre have been made.

people; a Corsican love-feed: He Lived

the shooting of a five-year-old boy in the arms of his mother in a Montmarto underworld cafe; the murder of a man-these are 'the themes of a story told in court here.to-day.

In the dock stood a small, wizened, dour man, Paul Ste Lani, who replied to all ques- tions with strange, flerce indifference.

A

It was alleged by the prosecution that two Corsicans, Angelin Foata

رده

"Tich" Proctor is the new Royal

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he is with

On Desert Island

WORLD'S champion hobo, Mr. Eric Muspratt has just returned to

Britain from another adventure.

With two friends he left Gibraltar last October to cross the Atlantic in a 60-year-old 20-ton cutter.”

The journey was completed in eight days, and on the voy- age across the Atlantic the three adventurers lived on flying fish which came aboard out of the sea.

Stiffer Test for King's Cup Pilots

"OLD CROCKS" WILL HAVE LITTLE CHANCE

REGULATIONS governing the

King's Cup Air Race, to be flown from Hatfield airdrome, Herts, on July 10 and 11, have now been completed.

No pilot will be allowed to take part who bas not gathered a minimum of 100 hours solo flying experience before the race.

On Friday, July 10, there will be an eliminating contest covering this course of 612 miles:

Indield-Norwich: 91 miles. Turning point.

COUNT MCCORMACK IS RETIRING-

What Can I Do With Him?

Sighs Wife

JOHN COUNT MCCOR-

MACK, has announced his coming retirement. The golden harvest has been reaped.

Nearly thirty years ago he came to London, a handsome Irish boy with nothing but a voice of the finest texture and n shrewd brain to serve him.

For a while he earned shillings. Then he sang at Covent Garden, The purity of that voice-for ho was no actor-brought the house to its feet.

From that day-October 15, 1907-until to-day, he has walk- ed knee deep amid on over ripening harvest. No earthly voice han over earned tribute NO rich. Millions have been paid to hear the voice of the peasant boy.

He went to America with Caruso. He conquered New York in a night.

Hia wealth grew to be ener- mous No singer has ever ninesed a fortune so grent. The Honours fell upon him. Legion of Honour. The Pope conferred on him the title of Papal Count.

ADOPTED FAMILY

He made £100,000 with one film. He bought the most beautiful home in California.

When a relative was drown- ed, leaving a widow and soven children, he adopted them all. He has two children, but his adopted family is enormous. There will be scenes of emotion Nottingham-Bristol: 121 miles:when he sings at the Albert Hall

Norwich--Nottingham: 183 miles, Turning point,

Control,

on Sunday.

Bristol-High Post (Wilts): 40 I apoke to his tiny wife recently, miles. Turning point.

writes a correspondent. She smil- High Post-Shorcham: 69 miles,ed at me in a puzzled way. "What

Control.

Shoreham-Coventry: 120 miles, Turning point,

Coventry-Hatfield: 68 miles. Control al end of first clrcuit.

Competitors have to complete two circuits of this course and will thus be flying over 1,200 miles in the one day.

is one to do with a man of his awful energy, still young. when he retires?

"With all his work during has had these years he still vitality enough to exhnust us all. What will it be like now, In retirement? He will be ton much for me to manage.**

AVOIDING THE SEA The course has been selected to

The clear golden voice of the avoid crossing the Pennines or the harvester rang across the room. On a desert lale, Mr. Muspratt | shorts and a singlet. Many of my sea, since it is

considered in-

"And is this the thanks I get? and his lover, Madeleine Keusch,liyed for 16 days and ate nothing neighbours wore nothing at all.

advisable to encourage lights in † When I did it all for the love of who had their child in her arms, but octopus,

"Now I suppose I'll stay in Eng-single-engined machines racing ye?" were in a cate called "The Dond

"Here." Mr. Muspratt said, "I land for a few months before I full out" over big stretches of experienced the only real hard-set off to some other part of the water, ship.

world-where. heaven "I discarded every stitch of knows." clothing, and I was faced with

Rat."

OATH IN HOSPITAL Then, it was pswried the door opened, and “a hand wit a revol- ver appeared." Shots are fred.

The child was killed Madeleine and Foata were seria wounded. -After- chare Stefans-arrested by a policeman, who stated to have been an eye-withess of the shooting.

the prospect of catching and ENGLISH BANKS cooking my food by whatever means. I-could dovise.--. - -

"I remembered that the octopus was a very delicate dish and set out to catch one with my hands.

TREATED AS KING

only

He grabbed my arm.

"She'll perfect a technique of gentle bullying as effective as that she has used during the Inst thirty years."

This was tried last year when one competitor was forced to come down in the Irish Sea through engine trouble. Fortunately a I left them as I first saw them steamer was at hand to save him. years ago-like children having a

Thoro aro-three-classes-of-en-"let's-pretend”- squabble. trants for this eliminating contest, Class A will comprise the light airplanes whose horse power is under 150,

TO USE ROBOT

DEPOSIT CLERK

London, Apr. 28. In hospital Fouta was heard talk-

"Incassomat" is the name of the ing excitedly in Carsiean to a friend, who, before quitting the bedside, "I became quite expert at catch-new robot bank clerk, invented by raised his hand for the "Corsienning the young ones, but had to Fritz Knubbe, a Swiss, and shortly oath" and kissed Foata fervently.takp the greatest care in avoiding to be introduced experimentally into power.

banks in Britain. An hour later Stefani's brother their parents.

martre bar.

Stefani to-day denied that first shooting, and alleged that it was the act of his brother..

Faithful to the unwritten law or and Corsican vendetta. Foata. Madeleine refused to disclose their aggressor's identity.

Incassomat puts Д bank re

Class B will consist of single- engined machines of greater horse

MULTI-ENGINED 'PLANES There is also a class with multi-

The latter

was found shot dead in a Mont- "I was glad to get back to the ceiving clerk at the disposal of the engined machines with no restric

luxury of our yawl some miles public at any time of the day or tion on horse power.

night. Each user has a key, which "way off the coast of Grenada.

"Soon after, I struck Inland and when partially inserted in a lock machines can also be entered in

the reception of either clasa A or B. stayed with a tribe of natives who opens troys for

banknotes nnd "even copper, silver, treated me as a king.

On July 11 the final will be flown registored lettera. Every deposit is on a course round Hatfield сеп- "lived in a disused hut in photographed, and in the case of resisting, like last year, of several their village and wore a pair of gistered letters, weighed.

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That force is applied in the Auto- giro, an established type used for many purposes, but in the "duroto- fin", "it is adapted in a different way. At the twelfth; hole Cotton's tee shot came to rest on

Vertical Ascont a spectator's mackintosh, which was lying the The machine is not an autogiro, ground near the green. Collon ask for the rotating members-there are ed the spectator to remove the gar-two, rotating in opposite directions- ment, which he did, at the same time are driven by the engine, picking up the ball and replacing it. "The "durolofln" has no ordinary Cotton then played the shot,

airscrew, but "depends for all move- The question arose: Had Cottonments upon the horizontally-rotating incurred a penalty?

built-up rotors, the six biplane blades of which deflect automatically, and under control.

The pilot's controls are the normal Joystick, or wheel, foot pedals for rudder, motor controls, and a speed lever.

The rule on the point states clearly that a ball lying on clothes,may be dropped or placed by the player, noi nearer the hole, without penalty.

By allowing the spectator to per- form the set Cotton, strictly speak ing, committed a breach of the rules,

if the inventar's claims are just- involving a penalty of two strokes.fed in tesis this machine should be From the point of view of equity the the most completely automalle flying committee, quito rightly I think, machine' ever designed. decided that Cotton had incurred nó penalty,

It would ascend vertically, and Cotton's round of 75, which put at a preguverned height remain him out of the running, was full of jhovering until the fuel was exhaust- Incidents. On more than one ocented, when I would descend, and. sion, in obvious annoyance at miss-heading into wind, land safely. ing a short putt, he banged the ball Mr. Billing was n designer of aero- on the green.

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