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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1936.

Bishop Made Will 400 Years Ago:

Now Service Is To Be Held

Great fashion shows are often arranged in San Francisco's "China- town". On such occasions charming Chinese girls display rich and colourful samples from their home-

model A country.

beautiful shown above,

New Stamps For The Philippines

is

Manila, Sept. 10. Officials of the 33rd Inter- national Eucharistie Congress to

Worthing, Sept. 1.

TN accordance with his will, pub-

lshed 400 years ago, the anniver sary of the death of Robert. Sher- burne, who was Bishop of Culchester from 1508 to 1530, is to bo com- memorated in Chichester Cathedral on Thursday.

Bishop

Sherburne expressed the desire that his death should be com- memorated every year, but owing to the Reformation this was lapsed. TWELVE PENNIES FOR DINNER Now, for the first time for more than 350 years it has been decided to carry it out.

Part of the, will, written in Latin.. read:

"We ordain that there shall be a sermon in the nave of, the cathed

Fal. in which the

thall preacher

arge the people to mutual charity. and the avoidance of detraction, and avoid murmuring against God, That

the choir shall sing duthenis

at my tomb, and pray for my soul there. That the Dean shail invite all the canons to dinner after the moraing

and shall receive service, 12 penates from cack canon to- wards the expense of the dinner." A requiem is to be held in the cathedral in the morning, and a com- memoration sermon will be preached' by Rev. Adam Fox, Dean of Divinily

Oxford. at Magdalen College,

FOUR CANONRIES Bishop Sherburne, who was at one time secretary to Henry VII, founded four canonries in the

in the cathedral, and laid down that these were always to of Winchester be held by

members College and New College, Oxford.

In the cathedral is a painting of the Bishop with Henry VII. and his four

At the commemoration canons. service the wardens of these two colleges will be represented.

Bishop Sherburne was one of the last to be appointed to the See by the Pope. He was a favourite of Henry VII. He was sent on many occasions by the King to Rome, where he bulli the first English hospital.

be held here in February, 1987, Flying-Boats of

have been notified by the post- office department at Washington that a special series of stamps in honour of the occasion will be

issued.

Plates are being engraved now and the stamps are to be issued in six denominations and in a corres-s ponding number of colours.

Ali will bear the same motif, consisting of a chalice surrounded by a crus3- shaped halo. On the left side of the stamp face appears wining grapevine, and on the right, a del- teately

wheat, arranged sheat of both silhouetted in the background. These symbolize the bread and wine of the Blessed Sacrament.

Over the top of the stamps

United States the tiles, "The America"

"Commonwealth and the Philippines." In the lower left denomination. corner appears the

are

of

"I

Across the bottom, extending from the denomination corner, is a panel in solid colour on which appears,

XXXIII

International Eucharis

tie Congress, February 3-7, 1037." Under the chalice

wurd the "Postage."

The stamps are to be issued in -the-following-denominations:........twu centavos, green, six centavos. brown; 16 centavo, blue; 20 centavos, orange; 36 centavos, purple, and 50 centavos. red.

Scientists from Chicago have un covered at Persepolis, Iran, a monu- mental wall relief, a section of which is seen above. Durius the Great is shown.seated on a throne and be hind him stands Xerxes, heir to the throne. Both hold in their hund a Lotus Blossom with two buds, the symbol of royalty."

FLIGHT AROUND WORLD IN TWO .

DAYS FORESEEN

Johannesburg, Aug. 35. Predictions that it would be pos- fly from sible for un airplane to Croydon to Cape Town in one day at a speed of 500 miles an hour, und to go around the world in two days, made by Selig Brodetsky, pro- were fessor of applied mathematter al Leeds University, England, in an address nt University here,

acro- Brodetaky, an: a organization

nautics, and proper

and

night flying, would be essential to a Might round the wrold in two days. Ho alluded to the possibility of

200 Tons

ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE

PREDICTION

The Duke and Duchess of York recently visited the Glamis pit of the Kibblesworth Colliery, Durham. The pleture shows the Duchess, wearing a shawl walking from the pithead after the descent.

Yap Island

Coin That

Weighs A Ton!

Honolulu, Sept. D.

Two "colns" weighing Bevernl hundred pounds each have become the property of the Bishop Museum. About two feel high, with u hole through the middle, the coins came from the island of Yap, where they were obtained by Yoshio Kondo, young collector of the museum,

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Kondo found one elrcular "coln," hewn from stone and commonly used feet high and weighing almost 10 tons.

Speed of 300 m.p.h. In by natives of the island, about

Three Years

Flying-boats weighing 200 tons, with a 'speed of 200 miles an hour, on Transatlantic air servlees within three years are visualised by Major Douglas Hallam, the Canadian air- man, who had the unique disting during the War of being a "one-man" air squadron defending London. Kallam is Major

returning Canada after a six weeks' visit to Canadian London 45 adviser lextile industry questions. He gave up flying at the end of the war, but continues to take a keen interest in aeronautical developments.

"I D

prophesied 200 ton flying-boals 18 years ago," he stated. Towards charge of in the end of the war I was the Seaplane Experimental Station ut Felixstowe, and flew the Felixstowe Fury, the biggest flying boat then built, in which an attempt on the Atlantic crossing was to be made. 1 found confirmation for my beliefs When I

pertally inspected the Ima

great new dying-boat Canopus at Rochester.

120 PASSENGERS ་

"I am convinced that the perfect design, has now been evolved," he continued. "and there is no reason why this 17-ton type should not be developed to at least 200 tons except for the problem of engine power. Boal construction is now ahead of engines.

"Such a flying-bout would require ongines

of 30,000 horse power-the same power as a destroyer...but I am sure that British engineers will over- come this difficulty. The boat will

10 probably be feel long, and carry about 120 passengers on the long hop across the Atlantic.

"ONE-MAN" SQUADRON

The one-man air squadron In- cident occurred in 1915, when Major Hallam was First Lieutenant of thr Royal Naval Air Service at Hendon. "There were no.machines there at the time," he stated, "but one evening at dusk a lorry arrived with a small aeroplane of a most elementary type, and I received orders that it must be prepared for action, to stand-by untit further orders. It

had

rotary engine and could climb to 5,000

only feet. Its floating-tail construction meant that the joystick could not be released even for a second, and its gun was so placed that the pilot hud to stand up to fire it--abandoning the controls.

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"I carried out the orders, but I was quite determined that nothing would Induce me to fly in this suicidat machine. The next day I learned that the cause of all the pother was an embarrassing question in the House of Commons, to which the reply was given that a complete night flying squadron was ready to take off at an instant's notice from Hendon. I was the 'complete aqun-: dron' for three nights":

following the sun so as to have per-

mouent day in certain latitudes.

in the future, he said, it would be possible

to fly from England to the Cope in a day at 500 miles an hour. This

prediction was not as foolish as It might seem, he added.

A speed of 400 miles an hour had been reached in the Schneider Cup race, he pointed out. The obstacle in the way of increasing airplane speeds Indefinitely, ho said, was that the span of the wings had to remain finita. The greatest speed it seemed possible to achieve, unless something fundamental were changed; something about 500 miles an hour- United Press.

This coin chuld purchase almost a complete village, he cald. The smaller coins were said to be worth about one Japanese yen each, and at would present rates of exchange purchase a half dozen chickens.

As a member of a Japanese sci- Jected some 50,000 land whells in the Caroline Islands, The collection will be added to others now under In the Bishop Museum.---- study United Press.

This gigantle magnet, weighing 12 tons, will be completed at the University in Chiengo. It will bu used in the study of cosmic rays.

ROYAL POSTMAN RETIRES Served In Four Reigns

Mr. Ernest Samuel Hatton, who had been the postman at Windsor Castle during four reigns, retired last month on pension after 16 years in the. Post Office service.

On joining the staff at Windsor G.P.O. he was given the Windsor Forest and Great Park. delivery. which meant that he had a 32-mile cycle ride daily..

One day he was sent to the Custle with documents for the Tsar ef Ruzsin. To the Grand Corridor of the Castle he heard that Queen Victorla was. upproaching, and thought he would go into a room unter Malesly had passed.

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He entered the nearest door and found he was in the private retiring- room of the ladies of the Court. Princess Christian came to his rescue. however, saying, "All right, my little man: stay here and you will be quite all right."

Mr. Hatton during the South African War Joined the Princess Charlotte of Wales' Royal Berkshire. Volunteers. He was wounded several

Imes the Great War. throughout which he served, both in France and Italy, Anishing a C.S.M. In the 174 Royal Berkshire Regiment. Besides the Territorial Elciency Medal, he holds the Meritorious Service Medal. Hongkong.

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