1936-09-24 — Page 3

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER

24, 1936.

RED PLAN TO SEIZE FRANCE COATS & MILLINERY

Called Off By Moscow At Eleventh Hour

LEADING IN £100,000 BABIES RACE

MRS. MATTHEW KENNY, who, by giving birth to twelve children since October 31. 1928, Is now the leading contestant for the £100,000 prize left by cecentric bachelor lawyer Charles Vance Mlllar to the Toronte mather with most children born between that date and October 3) next.

Wife "Murdered By Post"

Paris, September 15.

A GRIM story of "murder-by-post" is believed to lie behind the sudden death by poisoning of pretty Mme. Roger Fauveau, aged 27, wife of an officer in the Paris fire brigade, while convalescing after an illness at a village near Limoges.

Last night, the police say, Mme. Fauveau reveived a, parcel of medicine from her husband and a note which read:

"Darling, here are, the medicines I promised you. You will see there are soveral different things, but I think the blue powder will suit you best.. Take as per instructiona given by Michel. My love to you.

She took the powder with a glass

of water, suddenly called for help,

and was dead before anyone could rench her. Her body turned a violet colour.

CERTAIN CURES

The powder consisted of copper nitrate and strychnine.

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Mothers' Self-sacrifice

"STAY YOUR HAND

UNTIL AUTUMN

STRIKE THEN"

AMAZING revelations of how France was saved from

Red revolution and civil war two months ago were published recently in the London Sunday Dispatch from, according to that newspaper, reliable source.

The evening of June 11 had been chosen for the Communist coup that was to be the prelude to the establishment of a Red dictatorship.

At the eleventh hour the French Communist leaders received urgent instructions from Moscow. Reports received by the Komintern from its agents in France raised doubts as to the outcome of the revolution, and Moscow counselled delay till the autumn.

How It Feels To Be Televised

LIKE INSECT UNDER

MICROSCOPE

COMPLEX APPARATUS OF £100,000 STATION By L. MARSLAND 'GANDER

Nicholas Schwerni, matinger of the International of Red Syndicates, re- ported to Moscow headquarters the following adverse factors:

The French army was too well dizelplined and time was needed for Balshevist propaganda to spread.

Army officers would generally be obeyed by their men.

The Provinces had not been adequately canvassed by Red emissories, and ogricultural workers were mostly distrustful of them.

SCENES

I was televised recently at the

After feverish meetings in secret. B.B.C.'s new Alexandra Palace sta- tion. As I sat in the glare of a the French Communist leaders grud- battery of lights, which beat on me | Kingly agreed to stay their hand, but like the tropical sun, my face was they resolved to intensify their pro-

room to an-Press and arch for the propio

transmitted from one

other.

1

recess, moment to make their stroke in the

Television doubles the terrors of nutunın.

the sound studio. The sitter feels like an insert under a mjerosrópe. | He has no idea whether his pleture is being received, and, if so, what Impression it is crenting.

The television camera points al? him silently and remorselessly.

This experience occurred during a tour of the first station in the world built to give a public television ser vice. It is more

nd thru twier powerful as any other television sta- Lion and is destined to be four times. us powerful. The cost is estimated

£100,000.

On the ground floor are two large transmitting halls, one equipped with Baird and the other with Marconi- EM.I. apparatus, Above are dupli- cate ronins used as studios for each

Leads To Disease.

Dr. F. Lawrence Smith, in a repost to Merton and Marden Courell, says

"In the poorer homes, if econonties Arrested in Parls, the husband de- have to be made, it is the mother nied that he had deliberately sent his who does without, and it would nut wife poison, saying, "I had the be surprising to find that in many powder recommended to me by a man gases the mother's self-sacrifier is named Michel," who was "Just a cafe Fesponsible for dental disease. Requaintance.

"I sent her the sachets of powder for centres say that they have beengineers are being trained by the

for steeplessness, and other medicines for her bad circulation. They were described to me as being certain cures."

An exhaustive search is being made for "Michel" among quack doctors in Paris.

"Ofen women ruming to the clinie

waiting for a long time to have dental treatment, but could not afford it."

Apart from charitable organisations or public assistance, says Dr. Smith, most mothers have no facilities for securing attention to their teeth at fees which they can afford.

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The complexity of the equipment enormous. Few understand its inner mysteries, and the B.B.C, en- expert staff of the two companies.

1 Frey

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silver panels. In the Marconi-E.M.I: transmitting hall there is a sinister-looking piece of equipment in a black cage, railed mercury nee rectifier. The inside is like a cave suffused with violet light and when the apparatus is switched on and of a strange moan is heard through the hall.

Signals from the studio overhoud AL are magnified a million times. together 562 valves are used for the Marconi system alone.

Elaborate water-cooling plant for the valves is a fenture of the Baird system. When the temperature rises above danger point there is a system which automatically shuts down the

station.

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News of the Reds' intention to seize power reached members of the Bum Government when the stay-in strikes were at their worst, and there were dramatic scenes in the salons of the Ministries.

M. Lebas, Minister of Labour, who was one of the first to learn of the

Tragedy Told

The tragic story of an East-West, - "never the twain shall meet" TO- mance was told in a Los Angeles court where Ray Johnson, above, faces charges of slaying his pretty Japanese sweetheart, Midl Taka- ota.

EUROPE TO JAVA BY CANOE

BOAT SUNK IN ARABIAN SEA

THE Dutch brothers Gerrit and

Nicolas Entrop, of Haarlem, have arrived at Allahabad by canoe en route to Sourabaya.

They are following the Dutch air mail route as nearly as pos- sible and hope to establish a re cord.

Similar attempts have been made com- Red plot, urged the Premier to take

before but ng traveller has prompt steps to foil the Communists. It is said he even threatened to in-pleted the journey. form the Army High Command him- self.

The way for the Red revolution had been skilfully prepared by Moscow's paid agitators,

DEFYING THE PREMIER Hopes of success ran so high in the Red camp that on the night of June

meeting of 30,000 followers in the Palais des Sports, Maurice Thorez, leader of the French Communists boasted that his party would soon be in power.

M. Blum, thio Premier, was on the platform, yet Thorez de- clared: "Although we support the new Popular Front Govern- ment we have nothing in common with it, and soon we shall be die · masters of the country."

Ills words were hailed with frenzy, Men screamed their approval, and women wept with joy.

Turks To Ban

Gangster Films

A German after three years' voyag- ing gave up the attempt Inst year, after having reached the coast of Bengal.

The brothers visit, each airport, meeting the Dutch aeroplanes when lever possible.

FIERCE MONSOON

and hope to complete the journey in They left Haarlem, in April, 1935, ten months, taking just over two years. Unfortunately a part of the voyage was accomplished by steamer and train owing to refusal of per- mission to allow them to travel by son from Constantinople, down the.coast of Asia Minor. Also because of the bad weather in the Arabian Sea and fierce monsoon condition along the west coast of India.

The brothers started from Haarlem.. travelling up the Rhine, down the Danube through the Black Sea to Constantinople, then by steamer te Beirut and overland to Baghdad, canoeing down the Tigris to the Persian Gulf.

ALL EQUIPMENT LOST

A misfortune overtook them in the Arabian Sea. The canoe capsized one night in a storm, and all équip- ment was los1. Swimming two miles to the shore, the men landed near Chahbar from where they touit steamer for Karachi. At Karachi

and # equipment

10-It

The collapsible canoe was bought. Journey

Was then continued. Political and religious propa- Travelling down the Jumnn, they ganda filmas "likely to inculcate have arrived at Allahabad, prejudice about a country, nation, or race."

Angora, Sept. 10. TURKISH censors. are to ban:-xew

Gangster films "kely to have a bad effect on youth," and

The brothers spent all day at the aerodrome awalling the Dutch air mall. They will shortly leave by the In addition, military films will be Gunges for Calcutta from where scrutinised by n member of the their route lies along the Arakani- Turkish General Staff-Router. Malayan coast to Singapore and Javu.

cinematograph She Knew 1870– Clemenceau

studio. Here the person to be tele- vised sits in semi-darkness. A spol of light traces 6,000 lines over every part of the subject in one second.

BROADCAST OF FILMS

Apart from direct televising, both nystems Will broadcast aims,

there in a miniature' cinema theatre for the use of the producers.

Pictures demonstrated to me re- cently on viewing panels, which will

Invited Her to See

Versailles Signing

Paris, Sept. 20. special offeiul car to take her to MME. JULIETTE LAMBERT Versailles and witness with him the

ADAM died this morning at signing of the Peace Treaty. the Chateau de Lagnelles, aged 100.

HER LITERARY FRIENDS, Julletic Lambert was brought up in Patroness of French poets and a world which exists no longer save were most impressive. They were

the Comtesse d'Agoult she was on even more distinct than those I have ist herself, she attained the rare terms of Intimney with such men as been receiving at home, which have

be used by the control engineers. novelists, and a notable journal. In the written word. In the salon of

already been described exclusively distinction of having a Paris the poet Lamartine, with Sainte- Beuve, Prosper Merimee, and Renat, street named after her during with Taine, the lilstorian, and Berlož, of her lifetime.

the composer.

not,

in The Daily Telegraph.

pictures were course, broadcast but were merely To-day the tuo Juliette Lambert, She was acquainted, with Wagner; relayed from one room to another. as it is called, commemorates a great and heard him play fragments from Seen in this way, even a picturesque French patriot who saw, and felt with his earliest operas. outdoor view of the Palace grounds, extreme bitterness, the Franco- In the course of time Juliette Lam- faintly blurred on my home screen, Prussian war of 1870 and yet was Bert herself founded a salon. Married outstanding was clear-cut. A close-up picture spared to see retribution in the down to Edmond Adam, an

figure in finance and pollies, she from the spotlight studio of Miss fall of Germany in 1918. Rita Grant was particularly effective.

The happiest day in her full life collected round her a coteris of people July 2010, who managed to keep its glamour The station is complete with was, perhaps, in offices, dressing-rooms, a restaurant, Clemenceau, remembering 1870, reright through the century, and this and a concreto

arena outside for membered that Mme. Adam had in spite of political and other up- open-air broadcasts.»

known It, too, and accordingly sent a beavals-Reuter,

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