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ROCHELLE HUDSON

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Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 21,

1936.

BRONZE AGE HILL FOR AUCTION ALHAMBRA

CHANCE TO SAVE IT FOR NATION

Ancient

Britons

Had Homes There EFFORTS

are being made to preserve for the nation Old- bury Hill, a beautiful eminence: in Kent, between Sevenoaks and Ightham.

The hill, which has close as- sociation with English history, is included in an estate that is to be offered for sale next month by Mr. 11. A. Hooker, of Sealchart.

On the aummit of the hill is an ancient fortress, the date of which has been estimated at about 200 B.C. From the stone implements discovered it is believed that cave- dwellers lived on the hill.

For years it has been a rich field for archaeological researchi, evidence of the Bronze Ago md Celtic invaders being found.

Mr. Hooker, who has said that he is not in a position to give the pro Picture perty to the National Trust, offered it to the Trust at the lowest possible price and allowed 25 years for pay inent, but the Trust has not purchased the hill.

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CATHOLICS MARCH ON TYBURN

London, Apr. 27. Some 2,000 Roman Catholics took part this week in a proces- sion from the Old Bailey, once the site of Newgate Prison, toi Marble Arch, where Tyburn Gallows stood.

Along these same strecia,

more than three centuries ago, 100 Catholic martyrs were dragged on hurdles to death on

the gallows, the former usition of which is a marked by small metal triangle in the roadway at Marble Arch.

Many of those in the procession had travelled specially from remote

England, Scolland corners of Ireland,

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FOUGHT FOR HIS HOME AND COUNTRY

Picture shows an Abyssinian saldier who was wounded during the Inst Italian offensive on the northern front. He has just been treated by the Italian Red Cross,

SIX EXTERNAL FORCES PRESS ON TOWARDS CHINA'S ANCIENT CAPITAL

Peiping, May 15.

The advance of 10,000 Communists eastward into the province of Shansi has placed this ancient capital of China in a position so anomalous that residents, were they in any other land-but-China,- would go mad at the complexity of the situation.

Six major external forces are pressing on the city from almost as many geographical points like spokes in a great wagon wheel. They are the Japanese Army in North China from the east, the Kwantung (Japanese) Army from the northeast, Soviet from the northwest, the Chinese Communists from the west and the Central Government of China from the south.

Surmounting these for the moment must be considered a threat to the is the Hopei-Chahar Political Council city ns long as there remains the kended by General Sung Cheh possibility of a Russo-Japanese War, yuan, Japanese endorsed, und actually in which case Peiping would be of in-

calculable strategie importance. the controlling factor, but totally

The Chinese Communists receive lacking in popular support.

Curiously enough, the great mass what little support they

Kel

exclusive.

of the populace is amenable to nonely through the Third Internationale. of these external forces. Inarticulate The newest and, for

the

the

moment, the and advocates only of the belief that snost interesting of the external ast," forces pressing on Peiping, the Chi- "he who governs best, governs least,"

nese Communists have startled ob people as a whole ignore the multiplicity of possibiliting which the servers by demanding only permission future holds for them-either because to pass through and fight the Japan they do not care or cannot understand. ese, insisting that they have no te- On the contrary, the mature basic signs on the Chinese resident in the

of the threatened localities. ness and intellectual people

MYSTERIOUS ATTITUDE city have no unanimity of opinion and

Japanese claim that the possibility are rather divided into cliques which

two worst these, his favour one or more of the external of pitting

718 Com-enemies, against each other, has set a forces. Falacis branded nuunists, the great student populahee buzzing loudly in the bonnet of Kai-shek, head of the tion, largest in China, burns with a Generul Cernment in Nanking.

National white hot patriotism of hate with

Nevertheless, the attitude of the allegiance to nothing, as they despise 51.

the non-resistance policy of the Nan- Central Government towards the is the mast mysterious and king Government as much as they its predictable of the lot. Although detest "Japanese imperialism." The least

Led by a priest benging a cruciûs, they marched, singing hymns, through Halbot, Oxford Street, and Wigmore Street.

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On the way they stopped to pray of Si the churches nutside Etheldreda, Ely Place, St. Anselm and St. Cecilia, Kingsway, and Patrick's Soho,

The procession dispersed after Benediction at the Tybarn Convent, Hyde Park Place, the nearest pince to the netual site of the gallows where a service could conveniently be held.

nothing

students probably express what the held by the Pekingese, as masses would think, if they do think more than "earpet-beggars" from the The influence of Soviet Russin south, the Kuomintang-is-above_all_

but it the recognized government of Ching. for the time being latent;

Reliable reports from Nanking in- dicate that General Chiang, is pre- paring for war; but thus for his plans for "der

remain a mystery. Scarcely a mu

murmur of protest has come from Nanking in the last five months during which a great portion of the Republie has become virtually Independent.

"G MEN" SOLVE BIG

BOND THEFT

HOW SLEUTHS TRIUMPHED

REMAINS MYSTERY.

New York, May 10. One of the most mysterious bond robberies in American la- history has been as mysteriously solved by the celebrated "G men”, (Federal agents) of the Department of Justice Bureau of vestigation.

2,000 Million People On Earth?

Nine, men, led by Charles Hartman, described as "one of the most astute bool thieves in the country," hre under arrest to-day.

The Federal Bureau of Investign- tion states that these arrests clery up the theft of £300,000 worth of Trea sury Certificates from the Bank of Manhattan in January, 1935.

of the £118,000 worth of Treasury bearer bonds stolen from the United States Trust Company, Wall Street, in December, 1934, 460,000 have been re- covered.

"G men" to-day refused to reveal how they had trapped the thieves, but it is admitted that they had "underworld contacts" as well as police co-operation in 20 States of the Union and in the Bahamas. Only the efforts of the gang to pass

London, May 12. Prof. R. Kuczynski, for- mer chief of the German statistical office, said here that almanacs give the world's population as 2,080, the hot bomis established the fact 000,000 persons, but the that there were stolen, for the police

beon baffled by the case. figure may be 200,000 larger.The bonds disappeared from the "The number of the inhabi-bank, although they were left by a clork five feet from the grille. It is tants of the earth is extremely supposed that they were "fished out" vague," Kuczynski said in a with a long wire.

The serial numbers of the certi lecture at London's University flentes recovered were skilfully

altered, but chemical analysis estab "It is generally given as shed the original figures. 2,080,000,000 but my own com-

College.

NORTH OR SOUTH? Whether General Chiang, when and if he goes to war, will attempt to re- cover the northern provinces or con- Que himself to the region south of the Yellow River is a widely disputed latter North China may become an- course,

the question. If he takes the other. Manchoukuo even though Japanese strongly deny this intention. to the It is, therefore, impossible to pre- diet for sure which one of external forces will prevail in the end, but it appears most unlikely that the longer eity of Peiping can much

of un- maintain its present state stable equilibrium pressed. in like the decayed hub of a wagon wheel by the great spokes of external forces. -United Press.

CAT ADOPTS FOX CUB

CUSTARD AND, MILK DIET

Evesham, May 10.

A cat which gave birth to two kittens a fortnight ago has as- sumed new responsibilities in the rearing of a fox cub at Donning- ton a little village near Stow-on- the-Wold.

putation is between 1,875,00,- Inquest Handshake turmer found live newly-born fox

000 und 2,275,000,000.” **

after Race Death

London, May 10.

Some days age a furmer, on enter- ing one of his cattle sheds, heard a rustling sound. Before he could dis- cover the cause, a full-grown vixen ran out of the shed into the fields.

Lying curled up in the straw the cubs. Without a mother, they were condemned to a quick death, but one was spared and introduced by Mr. H. J. Arkell, the owner, of the eat, The cat readily adopted the cub, and fox and kittens now piny to- gether happily. They sleep in a warm felt-lined box, and the cub's foster mother washes it with as inuch care as she washes her kittens. Its diet is custard and milk.

Ile estimated the population of Afrien nt not less than 125,000,000

At the inquest on John Snow-into the domestic circle. and. not more than 165,000,000, That of Asin might bo us low as den, 25, who was killed at Brook- father Saturday, his 960,000,000 and as high as 1,275,- lands on 000,000 while the population of shook hands with the rider into Amorica is somewhere between whom his son came into collision, 250,000,000 and 280,000,000. The saying "I am not blaming you at population of Europe is between all for what has happened".

The tragedy occurred during 620,000,000 and 540,000,000 and Austrainsia about 8,000,000.-the Inter-Club Relay Motor Cycle

Race.

United Pross.

The main difficulty is that the cub

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JOSEPH CALLEIA

STUART ERWIN

Directed by GEORGE B. SEITZ · Produced by LUCIEN HUBBARD Written by Martin Mooney, famous reporter, who went to jail rather than betray the sources of his information about the "numbers" racket!,

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Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY is growing up more quick than the FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, kittens, and its playfulness is becom-Hongkong. ing too robust for its stepbrothers.