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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936.

"AIR RAID TERROR CAN BE CHECKED"

Professor, ex-R.A.F. Pilot, Claims He Has Perfect Defence

ROBOT PLANES

TO CRASH BOMBERS

Oxford, Aug. 10.

*REAT interest has been aroused here by

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the statement of Professor F. A. Lindemann, experimental R.A.F. pilot in the war, that he has devised the perfect air defence plan.

Professor Lindemann is contesting the| University by-election caused by the im- pending resignation of Lord Hugh Cecil.

He will stand as National Government Conservative, and he is busing his election with this box which leaves no doubt appeal on his "Knowledge and experience of

A Moscow street has been provided

as to its contents.

Schoolgirl

HAS GAMES, BOY FRIENDS

Peggy Anne

SAYS GOODBYE TO ALL THAT

New York, Aug. 15. SCHOOLGIRL flapper, ac. customed only to playing games and indulging in mild flirtations, is destined between now and November to play one of the most important parts in an attempt to dislodge President Franklin Roosevelt from Wash. ington's White House.

Anne

Her name? Peggy Landon, pert nineteen-year-old daughter of Governor

All Landon, big business candidate in the presidential fight against America's New Deal.

MISSING GLAMOUR Republicans ore very satisfied with their cholce of a candidate, but they freely admit there is nothing about him to excite the youth of the nation. True, he rides, fishes, likes football, but he is essentially an old school politician. He has none of the #ashiness and glamour of Mr. Roose vell

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Hopefully the Republican organ- isers went to Mrs. Landon to pro- vide sonie light-hearted relief to dry. hard fucts. She refused to have any- thing to do with the campaign.

Then someone had an inspiration..

Why not Pears Ame?

aeronautical matters."

in a circular letter to the 22,000

University electors, he states:

"To-day, when

bardment

Circalens

acclai bom-

national existence, I

our

very belleve

This SA J10W

I have a very real contribution

bring to our

i have alone

councils.

intained that it:

should be possible to defend our constiine and try prevent

by other

ny than mere reprisals meant chemy planes from bombing our cition,

RADIO CRASHERS

"To develop some form of defence on these lines is my main objective."

is

From inquiries made it is under-

Professor the that stood working on the following principles:

"'anare chain

wire A

of aprons," suspended from bal- toons In the cloud 30,000 feet up; of

Все Quren Squadrons pilotless, radlo-controlled nero- plates

to ty head-on at raiding

planes.

Thus the coastline could be adequately defended by a chain wire of balloons Bupporting aprons and squadrons of Queen Bees patrolling in front of the aprons and controlled by radio from the balloons,

Trovelling at 250 m.p.b., the Queen Bees would be sent head-on at raiding planes.

The slightest touch of one of these

machines would be suffelent com- pletely to demolish the wings of a comber eight times its size.

OIL DRILLS

Hongkong saw the

comet last week.

It has now receded

out of sight.

HOW WE SAW THE COMET

PIT OWNERS' COUNSEL

ALLEGES PERJURY

the

Mr. Hartley Shawcross in his concluding speech for owners at the last day of the Gresford inquiry spoke of the evidence of 13 men with regard to stone-dusting just before an inspector's visit in one of the districts is "concerted perjury."

"A lle is u lic, and this seems to have been a perfectly de- liberate and concocted lie by 13 of the important witnesses called | to give evidence with regard to conditions in the district," he said.

"The suggestion that this disaster had its source and its origin in the bottom end of the pit is simply part jand parcel of a malicious attempt to cast discredit upon the owners," de- clored Mr. Shawcross,

Mr. Hall: You will prove that, 1

Mr.

hope. Shawcross said that unfortu nately, at this stage, it was not possi-i blo-to prove with certainty where the explosion did occur, although one Icould establish with reasonable cer- tainty certain places where it could have occurred.

OWNER'S THEORIES The Commissioner (Sir

APPROACH THE Walker) said he appreciated the

KING'S RANCH

Henry

theories put forward by Mr. Shaw- cross ns to the cause of the disaster.

Whether I will be able to deal with those theories I do not know,"

So Feesy Anne has been plucked SEARCH FOR HUGE he said. "My present opinion is that

from her games, affairs of the heart, and school books to help her father to reach the White House

to provide the sex appeal part of his campaign.

She is well qualified, striking lot k- ing, with large dark eyes that make irer looks much more strious than her years.

Miss Landon's face has an Oriental east similar to that of Alm actress Merle Oberon. She makes a good picture, and is already getting used to seving herself in the newspapers.

SHE IS WEARY

But already Peggy is weary. The reason is that she cannot have her boy friends,

She went to the Republican con- vention in Cleveland with the highest

hapes; excitedly she Imagined all the dates she was roing have, but the duennas 'of the Republican Parly, said "30" firmly. "No dates Miss Landon,

for she must be imparilal." Her fan mall grew overnight from nil to hundreds. There were "crush" notes from impressionable youn college boys who would like to buy her lee-cream cones nt college hops. Every day she gets more and more such letters, but her secretary yes, she has a accretary now writes prim little refusals to all the Invitations that Peggy Anne would Just love to accept.

Miss London is not quite a season- ed politician yet. In one of her first mass interviews with reporters she opened with:

RESERVOIR

BELIEVED TO BE ON HIS PROPERTY

I om disinclined to

to do so." Sir Henry and his

now prepare their repnessors will

mass

the formidable Despite

of evidence, all of which has had to. be taken down by official shorthand re- porters and transcribed, it is belleved that the cost of the inquiry will not

SOLE RIGHTS HELD prove in any way comparable

many protracted ligations in courts, BY HIS MAJESTY

Calgary (Alberta), Aug. 15. In quest of a great reservoir of oil, drillers have bored within quarter

of a mile of King Edward's "E, P. ranch," 60 miles from here.

The diamond drills, blting deeply Into the limestone, soaked with naphtha gas, are expected to strike at any moment.

to

tho

Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., who the Mineworkers appeared for Federation and atiended upon more than 25 days of the inquiry gave his services for nothing and paid all his own expenses.

He was assisted by two juniors, Mr. Geoffrey Wilson and Mr. Arthur Henderson.

The cost of the court itself will be borne by the Government, each side for the As reported in The Daily Telegraph bearing its own expenses

the remainder, last month, it is believed that main field of rich oil ties under the northern area of the King's 3,000-

acre estate. His Majesty has sole oil 4 Watchers &

und mineral rights on the ranch, which he holds on a speelal 00-years

lease.

The lense was obtained by the King, then Prince of Wales, from the Alberta Government by an Order in No contracts Council five years ago. for drilling or exploration can be sub-let.

Any operations would have to be carried out by his Majesty or his of such The prospect enterprises being undertaken has nover been discussed by the King, it is authoritatively stated person other than the King or his agents may drill within 600ft. of the boundaries of the estate.

managers. "I just can't imagine my father in White Ilouse," and under her arm she carried a copy of "It can't happen here." But now she is getting used to being deprived of her love affairs, sitting on platforms. posing for photographers. That's all she will do between now. and November.

SAVED BY MONTH IN OXYGEN TENT:

Unless, therefore, the main oilfield

Р

2 Ladders

'Fantastic' Divorce Methods

Tigers Besiege Chinese

Village

Shanghai, Aug. 10,

Plan

B.M.A. TO STOP DOCTORS'

“RACKET” ·

THE British Medical Associa tion intends to take vigorous measures to stamp out an alleged "racket" by doctors,

It has warned general practi- tioners against the practice of advising patients to call in a specialist where such a consulta. tion is unnecessary.

In such cases, the doctor drown a Cornmission, or a share of the special- ist's fee, as a reward for introducing

the client.

There is a grave suspicion that numerous doctors have working arrangements with specialists, whereby they obtain a "rake off" for every patient sent along.

the language of the profession, this punetice is known as dichotomy, the B.M.A: has Informed doctors that it is not only unethical but illegal. "Any practitioner who is convicted before the courts of this offence," it

"will fays,

inevitably come within the penal jurisdiction of the council. CLEAR HINT

That is a clear hint that he will be struck off the musical register and debarred from future practice.

The association points out that under the Prevention of Corrup tion Act, dichotomy is a mis- demeanour punishable with two years' imprisonment or a line or

£500.or both.

It is added that not only the general practitioner who introduces a patient, but a specialist who gives him a share to the fee are liable, tu be punished.

Why Should

I Not Be Irish?

*

-Aska G.B.S. George Bernard Shaw, who was 80 last month, confided on his birthday why he has just register- ed himself and his wife, Charlotte Frances Shaw, as citizens of the Irish Free State.

"Well, I am Irish, am I not? I mean, I was born in Ireland, I mar- ried an Irish wife and she under- stood she was marrying an Irish husband. Now that we have the own opportunity of taking our citizenship, why shouldn't we do it? "I only recently heard about the Nationality Act

In a single month over CO Chi nese have been devoured by tigers

"Would it be a good thing if Scots who make daily ralds upon Isu- wenhalen, a village in Kwanglung. could do the same? No, I cannot say Owing to a lack of adequate that, for, after all, they are not a

self-government people." weapons with which to defend

TO EDUCATE LONDON themselves, the Inhabitants -lock G. B. 5. Best went to London - in- themselves behind strongly-barred

doors each afternoon between the 1876 and lived in a street in St. Pan- hours of ane and five, which is the cras; for six years he was vestryman ef and sat on the Borough Council for "feeding time" for the wild bensin.

****St. Pancrats. The district government has offered a $50 reward for each siger killed, but most of the villagers have become so accustomed to barrleading themselves in their homes during the animals' visiting hours that no losses to the local

reported.. treasury have been United Presa

Gift of Roman Camp To Nation

MUSEUM BUILT OF STONE FROM HADRIAN'S WALL Newcastle, Aug. 10. Professor George M. Trevelyan, Vice-Chairman of the National Trust, and Regius Professor of Modern

After he had been went to London a few years, he is reported to have said: "My destiny was to educate London, but I hail neither studied my pupil nor related my Ideas properly to the common stock of human knowledge."

Mr. Shaw's Irish registation does not affect his status as a British subject.

DIVORCE

PROBLEM

OF WIFE WITH

ABROAD HUSBAND

Court No Jurisdiction In

Her Petition

History

at Cambridge, stated in open-THE problem of a wife, who married in England, and ing the Roman Wall Museum ut Housesteads, Northumberland,

nation.

recently.

He held that the Divorce Court had

to wished to divorce her husband, day, that the whole of the House-who had adopted the Uniterl steads Camp site and the adjoining portion of the Itoman Wall is to be States as his permanent home, was discussed by Mr. Justice preserved for the-

The land is Professor Trevelyan's Buckmill in a reserved judgment property, and he announced that he had entered into a covenant with the National Trust, binding himself and future owners of the site to pro- no jurisdiction to make a decree, of vent building or tree-planting.

In a petition of November, 1034, The Museum has been built by the Mrs. May Herd, of Loughton, Essex, Housesteads Management Committee

the dissolution of her at a cost of £800 from stone used in asked

marriage to Albert William Herd on Roman the actual building of the wall, and dug up by excavatora, in

the ground

NEW YORK

of his MICILE,

dissolution of the marriage.

for

Birmingham, Aug. 12. POINTED comments with re- gard to observation kept on house were made by Mr. Justice Swift in a divorce case at Birmingham Assizes to-day.

It stands on wild moors, almost A decree nisl was granted to Mr.. Frederick Houghton, of Hall Green, midway between the North Sea and wife and went to the United States Birmingham, who alleged that his the Solway. Hadrian's Wall touches

former year.

1s struck before this limit is reached wife had lived with the co-respon-the northern side of the camp, and

and natural beauty.

adultery.

In March, 1923, Mr. Herd left his

The Solicitor-General (Sir Terence O'Connor, K.C.). for the King's Proctor, contended that Mr. Herd had

the operators of the present boring dent, Stanley Hardy, at a house at the site combines historie interest acquired a domicile in New York. will have falled in their chief object Selly Park, Birmingham.

Professor Trevelyan said that the He wrote in 1934: "I have no . When it was stated that observation The search for the great ollfeld believed by exports to exist in the was kept on the house by four people survival of the Roman Wall in this present intention of returning to

Great Britain." neighbourhood follows the "blowing and that two ladders were used, Mr. motor age enabled many people to

Mr. Herd became an American in" of a 900 barrels a day crude el Justice Swift remarked: "A regular see the past glories of Rome. The

number of visitors well in the Turner Valley last month scaling party."

to the camp citizen in Fecember, 1030, and at- mitted livi with a woman sila Thats 19 about five miles from the Later ho

sald:

"I should have (16,000 last year) was now sufficient wife in New York. He had adopted the Royal thought it was so simple to have to enable it to pay its way northern boundary of

the United States as his permanent Professor R. G. Collingwood, of home. proved this couple were living to- Little ton-year-old Annicance.

This

gether without going all through Oxford, the authority on Roman! Mr. Justice Buelinli held that, al Elverson, of Westminster, has res strike, one of the richest in

years, has been followed by this fantastic business of putting up Britain, said that in his opinion this the time the petition was filed, the made a remarkable recovery others. Scores of other big pro- ladders to, people's windows at country WDS grossly "under husband was domicled in the United three o'clock in the morning.” museumed." It was difficult to get States, and had lost his domicile of after a major lung operation per-ducers have dotted the Turner Valley

He added: "There seems to have large-scale modern buildings. He origin in England. formed in Westminster Hospital, old with naphtha gas flows.

Fekisko Well No. 1 is now in gas-been some sort of collusion between suggested that a large number of The rule of law was that the the where she has been a patient for producing formation, and a real those in the house and those outside," amall buildings should be made domielle of the husband was

strike is expected shortly. Only a Mr. Finnemora (for Mr. Hough-vallable.

domicile of the wife. mile away from the ton); With respect, I don't think so, quarter of

Mr. Erie Birley, Secretary of the

The petition would accordingly Le Housestends Committee, gald the dismissed. King'a ranch other big wells are my lord. nearing production stage.

Costs were refused, Mr. Justice Committee was aiming at something Swift stating that he thoroughly dis-on the lines of, the little museums appealed to landowners with por

tions of the Wall on their property to approved of Mr. Houghton and his strung alone the Rhineland. agent in the case.

Mr. F. S. Blmpson, an excavator, offer the Wall to the National Trust.

five months.

So critical was her condition at one time after the operation, which was of a nature rarely, attempted, that it was necessary to keep her in an oxygen tent for a month..

She left hospital recently,

A strike at any one will lead to the rapid development of the area ad Joining the ranchi

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