THE HONGKONG® TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936.
"AIR RAID TERROR CAN BE CHECKED" Professor, ex-R.A.F. Pilot, Claims He Has Perfect Defence Plan
A Moscow street has been provided
with this box which leaves no doubt
as to its contents.
Schoolgirl
HAS GAMES, BOY FRIENDS
Peggy Anne
SAYS GOODBYE TO ALL THAT.
New York, Aug. 15. SCHOOLGIRL flapper, ac- custormed 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
Alf Landon, big business candidate in the presidential fight against America's New Deal.
MISSING GLAMOUR Republicans are very satisfied with their choice of a candidate, but they freely admit there is nothing about him to excite the youth of the nullon. True, he rides, fishes, likes football, but he is essentially an old. school politician. He has none of the Aashiness and glamour of Mr. Roose velt,
Hopefully the Republican organ-
isers went to Mrs. Landon to pro- vide some light-hearted relief to dry, hard fucts. She refused to have any- thing to do with the campaleo.
Then
some one
one had an inspiration.
Why not Peggy Anne?
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ROBOT PLANES
TO CRASH BOMBERS
Oxford, Aug. 10.
REAT interest has been aroused here by
GR
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.
Ife will stand as National Government Conservative, and he is basing his election appeal on his "Knowledge and experience of aeronautical matters."
In a circular letter to the 22,000,
University efectors, he states:
"To-day, when aerial bom-
bardment threatens
national existence,
our very
I belleve
ery real contribution
I have a very
to bring to our councils,
"I have alone
maintained that it
This
In
how
Hongkong saw the
coniet last week.
It has now receded
BUY our
out of sight,
should be possible to defend our coastline and to prevent. by other
than mere. reprisals. enemy planes from bombing cities.
means
RADIO CRASHERS
"To develop
some form of
delence on these lines is my main objective.”
From Inquiries made it is under-
Professor stood.
the
that
working on the following principles:
wire "unare A chala aprons," suspended, from bal- loons in the cloul 30,000 feet up: Squadrons of Queen Bee piolless, radio-controlled acro- planca
to fly head-on at raldleg planes.
Thus the coastline could be adequately defended by a chain balloons supporting wiro aprons and squadrons of Queen Bees patrolling in front of the aprons and controlled by radio from the balloons.
of
Travelling at 250 m.p.h., the Queen Bees would be sent head-on at raiding planes.
The slightest touch of one of these machines would be sufficient com- pletely to demolish the wings of a comber eight times its size.
OIL DRILLS
HOW WE SAW THE COMET
PIT OWNERS' COUNSEL
ALLEGES PERJURY
Mr. Hartley Shawcross in his concluding speech for the 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 as "concerted perjury."
"A lie is w lle, and this seems to have been a perfectly de- liberato and concocted lio 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 and parcel of a malicious attempt to east discredit upon the owners," de- clared Mr. Shaweros.
Mr. Hall: You will prove that, 1
Mr.
hope. Shawcross said that unfortu nately, at this stuge, it was not possi- ble to prove with certainty where the explosion did occur, although one could establish with reasonable cer- tainty certain places where it could have occurred.
OWNER'S THEORIES
The Commissioner (Sir Henry
APPROACH THE Walker) said he appreciated the
KING'S RANCH
Bo Peggy Anne has been plucked SEARCH FOR HUGE
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 Jock- Ing. with large dark eyes that make hier look much more scrious than her years,
Miss Landon's fart has on Oriental cast similar to that of film actress Merle Oberon, She mukes a govi picture, and is already getting used to seeing herself in the newspapers,
SHE IS WEARY But alrendy Pency is weary. The resson is that she cannot have her boy friends.
She went to the Republican con- vention in Cleveland with the lightest hopes: excitedly Blie Imagined all the dates she was going to have, but the duennas of the Republican Party sald "no" firmly. "No dates for Miss Landon, she must be impartial," Her fan mail grew overnight from nit to hundreds. There were "crush" notes from impressionable young college boys who would like to buy her lee-cream cones at college hops.
Every day she gets more and more such letters, but her secretary —yes, she has a secretary now- writes prim little refusals to all the Invitations that Perry Anne would Just love to accept."
and
RESERVOIR
BELIEVED TO BE ON
HIS PROPERTY SOLE RIGHTS HELD BY HIS MAJESTY
Calgary (Alberta), Aug. 15. In quest of a great reservoir of olt, drillers have bored within a quarter of a mile of King Edward's "E. P. ranch," 00 miles from here.
into
The diamond drills, biting deeply the limestone, soaked with naphtha gas, are expected to strike at any moment.
theories put forward by Mr. Shaw- cross as to the cause of the disaster..
"Whether I will be able to deal
I with those theories do not know," he said. "My present opinion is that I am disinclined to do so."
Sir Henry and his assess
their report. now.prepare
Despite the formidable mass
assessors will
of
evidence, all of which has had to be
taken down by omeint shorthand re- porters and transcribed, it is believed: that the cost of the Inquiry will not prove u any way comparable to the many protracted litigations in
courts.
Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., who the for appeared
· Mineworkers) Federation and atiended upon more than 25 days of the inquiry gave his services for nothing and paid all his own expenses.
Tigers Besiege Chinese
Village
weapons
Shanghai, Aug. 16.
In a single month over 60 Chl- nese have been devoured by Ugers who make dally ralds upon Isu- wenhsien, a village in Kwangtung.
Owing
to a lack of adequate with which to defend the inhabitants lock themselves, themselves behind strongly-barred the doors each afternoon between hours of one and five, which is the "feeding time" for the wild beasts, The district government has offered a $50 reward for each tiger killed, but most of the villagers have become so accustomed to barricading themselves in their homes during the animals' visiting hours that no lomes to the local treasury have been reported. United Press.
Gift of Roman
He was assisted by two Juniors, Mr. Camp To Nation
Geoffrey Wilson and Mr. Arthur Henderson.
The cost of the court itself will bo borne by the Government, each side!
for the As reported in The Daily Telegraph bearing its own expenses last month, it is believed that the remainder. main field of rich oil lies under the northern area of the King's 3,000- acre estate. His Majesty has sole all and mineral rights on the ranch, which he holds on a special 99-years tense.
The lease was obtained by the King, then Prince of Wales, from the Alberta Government by an Order In Council five years ago. No contracts for drilling or exploration can be sub-let.
4 Watchers & 2 Ladders
'Fantastic' Divorce
B.M.A. TO STOP DOCTORS "RACKET"
THE British Medical Assocía- 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 draws n commission, or a share of the special- ist's fee, as a reward for introducing the client.
There is a grave suspleton that numerous doctors have working arrangements with specialists, whereby they obtain a "rake- off" for every patient sent along. In the language of the profession, this practice is known as dichotomy. and the D.M.A. has informed doctors that it is not only unclhical but illegal. "Any practitioner who is convicted before the courts of this offence," it says, "will inevitably come within the penal jurisdiction of the council. CLEAR HINT
That is a clear hint that he will be struck off the medical register and debarred from future practice.
The association points out that under the Prevention of Corrup Lion Act, dichotomy is a mis- demeanour punishable with two years' imprisonnient or a fine 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 to be punished.
Why Should
I Not Be Irish?
-Aɛks G.B.S. George Bernard Shaw, who was 89 last month, confided on his birthday why ho has just register- ed himself and his wife, Charlotte Frances Shaw, as citizens of the Irish Free State.
1 "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 opportunity of taking our eluizenship, why shouldn't we do 117 "I only recently heard about the Nationality Act"
OW
"Would it be a good thing if Scols could do the same? No, I cannot say that, for, after all, they are not a self-government people."
TO EDUCATE LONDON
G. B. 8. first went to London in 1870 and lived in a street in St. Pan- cras; for six years he was vestryman and sat on the Borough Council for St. Pancras,
10 After he had been weat London a few years, he is reported to have said: "My destiny was to educate London, but I had 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
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 History at Cambridge, stated in open- THE problem of a wife, who married in England, and ing the Roman Wall Museum at Housesteads, Northumberland, to-wished to divorce her husband. day, that the whole of the House-who had adopted the United atenda Camp site und the adjoining portion of the Roman Wall is to be States as his permanent home; preserved for the nation.
was discussed by Mr. Justice The land is Professor Trevelyan's Bucknill in a reserved judgment
property, and he announced that he recently.
had entered into a covenant with the National Trust, binding himself and
He held, that the Divorce Court had
future owners of the site to prono jurisdiction to make a decree of
dissolution of the marriage. building or tree-planting.
The Museum has been þuilt by the
In a petition of November, 1934, Housesteads Management Committee Mrs. May Herd, of Loughton, Essex, asked for the dissolution of her at a cost of £800 from stone usonian marriage to Albert William Herd on wall, and dug up by excavators in the ground of his alleged adultery.
NEW YORK DOMICILE
the.
former years.
actual building of the
It stands on wild moors, almost
Methods
Miss Landon is not quito a season-
Birmingham, Aug. 12. ed politician yet. In one of her first Any operations would have to be
vent mass interviews with reporters she carried out by his Majesty or his POINTED comments with re- opened with! just can't imagine managera. The prospect of such I gard to observation kept on my father in White House," and under enterprises being undertaken has
house were made by Mr. her arm she carried a copy of "It never been discussed by the King, it a -can't happen here," But now, she is is authoritatively stated bere. No Justice Swift in a divorce case getting used to being deprived of her' person other than the King or his at Birmingham Assizes to-day. love affairs, sitting on platforms,
In March, 1923, Mr. Herd left his A decree nisl was granted to Mr.. agents may drill within 000ft. of tho posing for photographers. That's all boundaries of the estate. Frederick Houghton, of Hall Green, midway, between the North Sea and wife and went to the United States. The Solicitor-General (Sir Terence she will do between now
Unless, therefore, the main olifield Birmingham, who alleged that his the Solway. Hadrian's Wail touches November.
18 struck before this limit is reached wife had lived with the co-respon- the northern side of the camp, and O'Connor, K.C.) for the King's Proctor, contended that Mr. Herd had the operators of the present boring dont, Stanley Hardy at a house at the site, combines historie interest acquired a domicile in New York, will have failed in their chief object. Selly Park, Birmingham.
and natural. beauty
He wrote in 1934: "I have no Professor Trovelyan said that the When it was stated that observation The search for the great oilfeld believed by experts 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."
Mr, Herd became an American neighbourhood follows
oil and the two ladders were used, Mar met past many people to of 900 barrels a day crude oil Justice Swift remarked: "A regular see the past glories of Rome. The citizen in December, 1930, and ad- well
in the Turner Valley last month scaling party."
number of visitors
to the campmitted living with a woman as his This is
about five miles from the Later he said: “I should have (15,000 last year) was now sufficient wife in New York. He lind adopted northern boundary of the Royal thought it
it was so simple to have to enable it to pay its way
the
United States as his permanent Professor. R. G. Collingwood, proved this couple were living to
of home. ranch.
gether without going all through Oxford, the authority on Roman Mr. Justice Bucknil held that, at this fantasile business of putting up Britain, said that in his opinion this the tune the petition was filed, the Indders to people's windows at country | Was grossly "under husband was domicled in the United three o'clock in the morning"
modern buildings. He origin in England,
SAVED BY
MONTH IN
OXYGEN TENT
tén-year-old Annie
Little
This strike, one of the richest in Elverson, of Westminster, has recent years, has been followed by made remarkable recovery others. Scores of other big pro- after a major lung operation per-ducers have dotted' the Turner Valley formed in Westminster Hospital, field with naphtha gas flows.
Pekisko 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 producing formation, and # real these in the house and those outside. mall buildings should be made domicile of the husband was tho strike is
Mr. Finnemore '(for" "Mr." Hough- available, expected shortly. Only o quarter of a mile away from the ton): With respect, I don't thinks Hourcatends Committee, said the dismissed.
domicile of the wife.. Mr. Erle Birley, Serotary of the The petition would accordingly' Le King's ranch other big wells are my lordre refused, Mr. Justice Committee was aiming at something nearing production stage,
A strike at any one will lead to the Swift stating that he thoroughly dis-on the lines of the little museums appealed to landowners with
tions of the Wall on their property to rapid development of the area ad- approved of Mr. Houghton and his strung alone the Rhinelande Joining the ranch.
Mr.PS: Simpson, an excavator, offer the Wall to the National
He added: "There, seems to have laid! It was direult to get Stales, and had lost his domicile of
where she has been a patient for 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 can oxygen tent for a month.
She left hospital recently,
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