1936-07-10 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

World's Richest Ruler

To Celebrate

NIZAM OF HYDERABAD

PREPARES

FOR PAGEANTRY

London, July 1.

Jubilee

FRIDAY, JULY 10,

W. C. Fields Wisecracks "At Portals Of Grave"

HOLLYWOOD was raving last week over "Poppy,"

a pieture made by the red-nosed W. C. Fields, after the film colony had given him up for dead.

Fields is one of Hollywood's heroes, occupying the niche that was once held by Will Rogers,

After the picture had brea Mr. Fielda delivered a Postponed for state reasons from December, 1934, to shown,

spench in the pseudo-pompous February, 1935, and then again owing to the death of King George V., the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of them that has made him famous. Nizam of Hyderabad will be held late in 1936 or carly in '1937.

.

No definité date has as yet been set, according to the India Office in Whitehall, nor lins the question of what form British participation in the Jubilee will take been worked out, but it is expected that the Viceroy of India will attend.

He said: "1 came back from the very portals of the grave, O ye of 1 fouled the cliuria- itle Talth. lands who masqueraded t༥ t {ic- guostinians."

Today, he is again before "the portals of the grave" with pneu- monia, fighting for his life in 'n

According to reports from india, plans for the mammoth gen tent, Jubilee celebration continue to be made on the most lavish sente, ! On the opening day the Nizam in a state rouch of pure gok,querades drawn by ten white izumses, will ride in the theen-tuile procession from the palace to the Durbar Bail.

For tennis, Tough death

MAKING UP ON BED The "harlalands who MS-

as diagnosticlans" de clare that anything my happen..?

Mr. Fields's long lines began

right months he For the first time the world will see him wearing some of its when he injured a muselo plasing was reparted once costliest jewels and rows of pearls, not a single piece whereof is insured. He will also wear the Divine Shawl once worn by Prophet have lost the battle,

He was indignant: defled all his Mohamed himself.

vendors and doctors: returned to the studio, how bargain with sweetsndal ww.nying Elephants with

He went there daily in a motor- amar ansation to dinner on the dal, heavy with gold trappingleton portion of paper torn from the trailer tilted as

an ambulance, camet Tronger and envatry, will be bottom of old terng and that he even gagged about that. He 112

in mioval spectas his obt suits med shoes before | adar promjen

The Nizam himself will say are diseaded to new if they can vostume.

"Every man, so it is salt, has a bo in dazzling garments, foregoiny; be repaired and worn again. On the

30 Commemorate the flod-given right to apend one-third for once his babit of wearing old juber band.

Lubelen he is presenting, communal of his lifetime in bed. My unfors clothes and going about simply,

sets to every village 12 hitunate youth deprived me of much! A palate of twentyone guns from; i main and erecting threw powerful of that percentage.

to make up my full quota." batteries of solid silver canton wallopadeasting stations to supply them bored. Five hundred guest Frem with knowledge and information at a Great Britain, the Dominions and rust of $500,000. Brodernt will be sewhere with assembled at the in Urdu, the official languape, Mahratt,

that end ko 19,000 Telugo, Kanaise, ant Eagleh Burlar

Hall

the f

They

Will

**

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Ban

He is regarded as the leader of 's entire suite of goi

* Flambe India. C'eruminal troubles in I gald Furniture, At the banquet This State

care though ninety! 11. follow, the Nizari, according per cent, of his subjects are Hindus, family tradition will preside personali The standard of administration in ly. The Nizam rules the set | Hyderabad is regarded na esquil for ung Bicent Moslem court in the world of the Indian States.

to-day,

4all:

I am at now

DICTATOR'S DAUGHTER

Countess Edda Cinno deft), Signor Mussolini's daughter, is shown con- ratulating Leni Riefensthal nt a re- He is making up some of that ception as the Italian Emmasy in Berlin, at which the latter was pre- sented with a gold cup for the work in quota" today,

the nim "The Triumph of the Will," awarded at the International Filin Congress in Venice.

Illicit Drug Menace

His general attitude of mine ! AMERICAN REPORT Fach day of the week the festivis | thriental. In his harem are thirty-five] Il consort sh ties continue, the Nizam in a silver senior begums."

in the bazaars.

TO GENEVA

IN CHINA 90 PER CENT. OF WORLD'S OPIUM

landau will ride through the postulan Begum Siheln, an accomplish- quarters of the city, settering ned posters, an expert weaver in silk. FACTORIES

Over $5,000,000 will with a hobby of cultivating roses, he spent on festivities throughout the

The chief delight of the Nizam is State. There will be free immucts - for thousands and altogether 50,000 renting and writing books in Urdu,

sheep and 10,000 xen will la needed Persian, and English.

to feed the 50,000 persons who reposer of verse expected

will be spent.

information as posible in regard to abe elanitesting manufacture in the

Hories under Chinese control,

The representative of the Unite Stores ermunicater to the commuttee the results of an inquiry undertake on Chinese territory by Aurritan anthallies in every province of China north nnit south of the Great

Wall.

The total production of opium, sabl the repart, as a miniatum estimate has ben valculated to be 12.261 metric tons, or over 90 per cent. of the total world production. In this edirection. the American representative furnished information to the effect that in cer tain provinces cultivation was not only. aged by the rural authucitles,

"TERRIFYING"

He is a rends and tins hnd a

Geneva, June 25, to eat as guests of the oleme published in Persian.

The report of the League superb, gold-embossed translation info! Nizam. On Breworks alone, $250,000 English will be published on Jubilee Advisory Committee, on the traf Day. He wrote an Ode on Nativity on The full title of the premier prince (the necazon of Christmas 1994, die in opium and other dangerous of India is Lieutenant tieneral 3 sent bejewelled copy of it to the drugs will probably be issijet-lama-naintained but even encqpr= Exnited Highness Asaf Jah, Muzaf- Pope. far-ul-Mulk, Wal Mumilak, Nizam- ul-mulk, Nizam-ud-Daula,

Nawab, Mr Sir. Usman All Khan Bahadır. Watch Jung, Faithful Ally of the British Government. He is a lieuten- ant-general in the British army and henes the Faithful Ally title becua the State of Hyderabad remained loyal to the British, during the Indian Mutiny.

PRICELESS JEWELS

in 1935.

TIGER-SKIN GIFTS

The draft re. here to-morrow. port hus. been under discussion-

All

The maximum figure given by the American inquiry was 18,000 metric

In Manchuria and Jchol moreover

One of the gifts the Nizam will since yesterday morning. rise on the version of the Jubilee the States members of the Com-tons. will be thirty-five tiger skins from hist oldest sous and heir up parent, Binjaimittee were represented except fieneral Shabebzadu Nawab Azmin dah. Italy and Uruguay. The absence production was said to be increasing by six per cent. punually and little Bahadur, known as Prince Azam Jah of Italy is particularly regretted or no effective menstures were being who bagged the tigers in thirty-three days hanting in his father's cousins, as it is felt that Italy has done taken to limit or suppress it. The much good work in recent years situation in regard to clandestine described as "terrifying." more par- Prince Azam Jah in 1971 warried towards the suppression of the manufacture of opium derivatives was

ticularly in Manchuria and Jehol. Dhar-i-Shaiyag-clark-haired, grey-traffic.

The United States representative He is reputed the richest mun injoyed, and clear-skinned daughter of As regards the question of clandes the world. His fortune is estimated Abdul Meijid, ex-Caliph of Turkey.ine manufacture, the Committee takes suggested, and the commilce agreed. at $1,400,000,000 but the exact amount Their child and grandson of the Nizam serious view of the present position. that a concentrated effort should be is probably unknown to the Nizain is now almost three years of age. The market of illicit drugs is, it says, mande to check the smuggling of drugs himself is annual income is extile

lawled upon by pious now largely supplied by clandestine from Japan and Formosa, the im- mated at $50,000.000. The jewels Mohamedans all over the world 43 manufacture. No fewer than 54 clan-portation of Persian opium into China, his vaults are estimated to be worth the child in whose person the Caliphate destine factories were discovered and and the excessive production of plun $150,000,000, He owns the almost may be restored some day.

suppressed during the years 1929- within the country Itself.

Summarising these serious state- legendury gold mines of Golconda and Nizam has kept his co-religionists in 1836. Of these factories 10 were lts-

ments, the advisory committee adopt- ed a resolution appealing to the Gov- ernments of China and Japan to in- tensify their efforts to bring the traf- fié to an end.

The

is reputed to have $250,000.000 worth mind and at a cost of 50,000 rupees covered in 1934 and 13 in 1935. in goll burs stored Civil List of $6,000 day. He has a installed electric lighting

in the

Prophet's tomb at Melina.

..

The Jewels and gold accumulated

NO ACCESS TO SEA

by his family for generations

is

They were distributed as follows: Shanghai, 21; Tientsin, ave; Dairen, six; Hankow, one: Turkey, 13: Tail- garia, one; France, four: Greece, two:

The Committee also slates that it most U.S.A., one. important of the Indinu States, it is SECRET MANUFACTURE bas reason to suspect that there is considered is a good example of a Seizures made in the illicit traflejan extensive traille in cocaine and State that could never became point to the existence of clandestine other drugs from Japan to the North nation. It has no access to the sea, factories in Chinese territory, and In-American Continent, India, and other although the present Nizam was keen formation has in recent years been Far Eastern territories.

on obtaining one and, it was reported, given as to the existence of specific The Committee has agreed on a one wanted to trade his support for establishments. The advisory corn-questionnaire to Governments on the Britain plans for a federated India mittee earnestly hopes that the Chi-question of drug addicts and their

return for the seaport of

nese Government will supply as full treatment. Masulipatani,

said to be hidden beneath a ruined While Hyderabad is the temple guarded by a priest and two nssistants, sworn poverty, who alune know the secret of the labyrin thine enverns. Without their aid, it said, the Nizam himself could not penetrate the glittering sturthouse.

It is related the two daughters of the

Nizam, when about to be married, were led blindfold into the treasure caves to choose jewels for their wed- dings. They were then made swear that the gems would be sent back to the enves after their deaths since it is a tradition that the fortune should never be dispersed. The princesses were then biladfolded again before being fed away.

50 YEARS OLD ;

in

!

th

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

Another sore paint between the Nizam and the British has been the question of the Berar district extend- ing over 18,000 square miles with a

Mrs. Alan G. Bishop, wife of Wing BELIEVE ME, THERE 18, A SPECIAL, I population of 3,500,000, and which was SING ON BEING LIBERAL TO THE Commander Bishop, is saillug by the once a part of Hyderabad but was assigned to and held in trust by the POOR AND ON THE FAMILY OF THOSE P. and O. liner Corfu for Singapore British Government to meet certain WHO HAVE REks so-IV, Wilberforce, en route for the Cameron Highlands for a holiday. She will probably be obligations of the Hyderabad govern-i

away for two months.

nient. In 1902, the late Lord Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours The Nizam is fifty years of a Curzen, then

then Viceroy, induced the late ending at 16. n.m. to-day was 0.06. and a direct descendant of the last Nizam

the province per-inch. The tutal since January 1st is

of the old Mogul viceroys. He came manently in return for certain pay--28.99 inches, agalust an average of to the throne August 10, 1011, Hements. The present Nizam has at-

inches,

the

When St. Davis searched steamer Hai Yang on July 2, he found 220 boxes of matches; unclaimed and unmanifested. At the Central Magis

has never visited England, although tempted to reopen the claim to Berar his sons have. He is small in stature on the ground that Lord Curzon used Wong Wang-yan, residing at 29 | tracy to-day Mr. C. H. Burgess made and customarily dresses in n

undue pressure on the late Nizam who Lockhart Road, was admitted to the an order for their confiscation. native cont with high, tight collar, was "of shy and nervous dis- Government Civil Hospital yesterday riding breeches, and the traditional position."United Preas. turban of a Mohamedan gentleman.

He owns fifty luxurious

automobiles

but travels in n Reen If War Comes It Is

this

of

He can be

old.

in car

in

the market-place

Hyderabad. He has six palucca but The End"-Air Chief

lives in the smallest, more like a

bungalow than a palace. It is related

that a doorkeeper once refased hiat

•

morning suffering from serious in- A fine of $100, in default, two juries received when he fell from the months' hard labour, was imposed by roof of his house in an attempt to Ir. W. Schofield, at the Cenital Magistrney this morning, on Yeung Pan, unemployed, charged with Cheltenham centenary of college, the oldest of the irrent ponton Rond. By herein pills at Victorian Public Schools, takes place Johnston Rond.

escupen ferocious dog.

The

Viscount Swinton, Secretary for in 1941. 1 in desired to compile a list or of all Old Cheltonians serving,

for

the

Arrested by an Indian constable entry because in the almost shabby Air, at Locko Park, near Derby resident, in China, so that they may yesterday with. 20 packets of his possession, Cheng person who presented himself he said: "If war should come again be kept in touch with the arrange cigarettes in

it will be the end, whoever wins. ments failed to recognize the Nizam

celebration. Old Fai, 20, stall foki, said he had bought are asked to notify them from a steamer at West Point, At the Central Magistracy to-day Mr. "Isolation is an impossibility; Cheltonians

to Major-General F.3.C. C. B. Burgess fined him $20, in default College, Living a life of Spartan simplicity, regional pacta would strengthen their names, addresses, and period at he is by some regarded as parsimoni. the general moral-force and power Piggott,D.5.0. British Embassy, two weeks in prison, for not hrying

paid duty. our. It is related of him that ho will of the Longue."

SPARTAN LIFE

Tokyo.

1936.

RADIO BROADCAST

Dance Music by Eddie Harkness Orchestra RECITAL FROM THE STUDIO From Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocgeles):

4-7 pm Chineno Programme. 7 -

."Concerto in A Minor" (Schumann) played by Alfred Cortat (Pianoforte) and the London Sym- phony Orchestra.

7.33 p.m. Songs by Malcolm McEachern (Bass).

1.

וווין

Chu

("Son and Reamer Stranger") (Mendelssohn); 2. Chin Chow-"The Cobbler's Song" (Asche); 3. Danny Deever (Dam- rarch): 4. The Witch of Bowden (Smith).

7.50 p.m. "Dance of the Hours" ("La Giocondan") (Porchiali) pinyed by the New Light Symphony Or chestra.

8 p.m. Time, Weather, Stock Qun- tntions and Announcements,

8.05 Medley."

Fields'

"Gracie p.nr.

8.15 p.m. From the Studio, A Jazz Recital by Lee Wonk (Vocal) and Doreen Ma (Plane).

8.45 p.m. The London Palladium Orchestra.

Selection The Mahl of the Moun- 1nins (Fraser-Simson).

In the Moonlight (Ketelbey).

3 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin arel Announcements,

9.20 p.m. From the Studio.

A Pianoforte Recital by Luba Shafta.

Progranicie,

1. Papillons......Schumann;

Romance....Brahims

....Chopin.

2.

il. Mazurka

9.40 p.m. Vocal Gema; Maritana: Chocolat Soldier: Helen.

10 p.m. Die Ben from Daventry.

10 p.m. From the Stullo,

Dance Music by Eddie Harkness and his Orchestra.

11 p.m. Close Down.

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5 p.m. Popular Musics PrograREAT. 6.10 p.m. News and Review in English. 3.15 .. Hulio, girls and bupal

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9.15 m. News and Review in Germais, 9.10 p.m.

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10.15 p.m. Today in Germany. 10.50 1me Travel Year." 10.46 p.m. Miary Concert.,

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1.15 p.m. Callender's Benier hand. 2.10 p.m. The News and Announcement. Greenwich Time Bignal at 2.15 p.m.

Transmission 2

(6.9.6., 8.5.11.)

7 pm. Big Ben, & Recital of Works. 7.13 p.m. Talks Feature.

7.30 p.m. The JB.C, Danes Orchestra.

8,15 p.m. "Cupil Pina Two,"

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Greenwich Time Senol at 9 p.m.

pm.

The News anil Announesienia.

1.20 p.m. The R.1.C. Theatre Orchestra.

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10 p.m. Rix Ben. "Spanish Landscape.* 19.30 p.m. Al and Bob Harvey in syncopated

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10.49 pm Musical Interbade.

10.13 рот. "Almespppricя.".

11 mm. & Hymphony Callreri. 11.45pm. The Nawa and Announcementa. Arsenwith Times Bignal at 12 8.0. 13.15 am.

Alfreda Campoli and his Dr. chestra.

WATER LEVELS

·STATE OF RIVERS IN KWANGTUNG

The following returns have licen Issued by the River Conservancy Commission for Kwangtung Province, showing the water levels in English feet at the places of observation named:

Illghant Lowes!

, 60

reced record July 8 July

-4.79,6 2.7, 22.7

-Want Itfver..Mİ....

Weat tiver at

Woebow West. Eriver at

+41.0 0 Shlubing North River at

0 120.0 Thingyuen North Hver, mi Suz

Shambul -+-27.05

Abeklub

27.1

10.6

13.0

0,0

D.A

4.5

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+15.6

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