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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1936.

FRENCH STEAMER MACHINE-GUNNED

Franck C. Ilavenner, New Deal supporter, former newspaperman and San Francisco city official; will oppose Congresswoman Fior- ence Prag Kahn, conservative Re- pitblican, in the November election.

Recent Incident At Pakhoi Made Public For First Time

"Telograph" Staff Correspondent

N AMAZING AND HITHERTO UNDISCLOSED STORY OF A HOW THE MESSAGERIES MARITIMES STEAMER G.G. PAUL DOUMER WAS RAKED BY machine gun FIRE OFF PAKHOI RECENTLY WAS TOLD ME BY MEMBERS OF THE CREW WHEN -I VISITED THE SHIP IN HARBOUR JUST BEFORE ITS DEPARTURE

YESTERDAY.

Evidence of the incident was forthcoming in the num- ber of holes and dents in the upper part of the vessel.

One of the binnacles in the wheel-house was smashed. A machine-gun bullet 'went right through one of the ventilators,

Altogether I counted ten bullet marks, and was in- formed that there were many others,

The incident occurred during the recent tension at Pakhoi be- tween the Japanese and the Chinese,

Rose Olson, 10, victim of an axe slayer in her Seattle, Wasli, home, Authorities say the mother ad- mitted killing her because she didn't want to see the girl raised in poverty.

The G.G. Paul Doumer, under the command of Captain BRITISH

Morganti, was Rying the French Tricolour when the incident de-. curred.

The ship was entering Pakhoj on its regular run. When only a few hundred yards away from Its berth, a

NEW CHINA fusillade of machine-gun fire broke out.

STATION FLAGSHIP

NA

CUMBERLAND DUE NEXT WEEK

TAVAL reliefs, military drafts, including Royal Air Force drafts, and details for Hongkong garrison will arrive in the Colony next Tuesday, by the troopship Lancashire.

Six days later, FL.M.S. Cumber- land, which has been under exten- sive re-fit at Home, will rejoin China Station after an absence of

over a year.

H.M.S. Cumberland, which re- lieves H.M.S. Kent as flagship of the China Squadron, is under the command of Capt. J. C. Leuch, M.V.O.

now on ita

The re-commissioned cruiser, way to Hongkong, leaves Colombo to-day and will ar rive in Singapore on Monday next, week. She will leave for Houkong two days later.

Hongkong residents will notier considerable alterations to the new. flagship. Her prošle has been

altered in a startling manner.

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At first the people aboard, the G.G. Paul Doumer believed that fighting was in progress ashore, Hurricane of Bullets

Then a hurricane of bullets commenced to fall about the ship.

PLANES CANNOT LAND

In an endeavour to show that the vessel was of French nationality. NO RECIPROCAL an additionat Tricolour was run up at the main-mast. "

When, despite this display of nationality, the firing persisted, the Captain decided to turn back. The vessel then went on to Hanoi.

Hanoi.

The incident was reported to the French Consulate here and at It is understood that representations are being made by Hanoi to the Chinese Government regarding the incident. Hongkong yesterday for Pakhol.

The G.G. Paul Doumer, which is a vessel of 734 tons, cleared

THE

WORLD'S WORST HANDWRITING

RIGHTS IN CHINA

RADIO BROADCAST

Children's Concert From

The Studio

Z.E.K.. PROGRAMME

Prom Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 365 metres (845 kilecycles);

5 p.m. Dance Musle from the Hongkong Hotel.

on

the

6.p.m. Children's Studio Concert. 6.30 p.m.. Concert Waltzes. Evening

Rhine-(Willy Richartz); In Dreamy Night—(C. M. Zlehrer); Moonlight on the Alster- (Feiras); Wine, Women and Song-- (Strauss).

6.45 p.m.

Cinema Organ Muste,

Film Hills; I Hate Myself; Paradie of Parades

7.p.m. gramme.

A Light Concert Pro-

Plano Solos-Mazurka in D Major, Op. 33, No. 2. (Chopin); Mazurka mi A Flat Major, Op.50, No. 2 (Chopin).

...Ignace Jan Paderewski; Songs- Gentle Zephyrs (Jensen): The Fairy Tales of Ireland (Eric Coats). Faste Ackland; Song-Only For You (Doelle,

F

nry.

Groh (Tenor):"1erbert

Violin Solos Tarantella

Sarasate); (Pablo de Abendlied (Schumann). Manuei Quiroga; Songs-Tramping Through the Countryside, (P. Allison); The Drums Are on Parade. (Neville)..... Peter Dawson; Instrumental-Lo Paloma (Yradter). ....J. II. Squire Celeste.

7.30 p.m. Closing Loral Stock

7.33 p.m. The Band of HIM. Coldstream Guards.

Martha-Selection (Flotow); War March of the Priests (Mendelssohn);

ALTHOUGH the Hong-Quotations.

kong Government has granted landing facilities at Kai Tak to China National Airways Corporation 'planes, Softly Awukes My HeartSamson it is understood that recipro-and Delilah" (Saint-Saens): Aud- cal rights to land British winterbottom): Old Panuma (Al- 'planes in China have not yet ford). been granted by the Chinese Government.

Underlying the hesitation of the Chinese Government to granti facilities to British or other

G.P.O.'s DAILY BATTLE OF WITS foreiga machines is, it is said, the

(By A Special Correspondent)

Two men working la a room' ati a result, much of the correspondence the London General Post Office are dealt with should not really come daily matching their wits and their here at all. Intuition against the world's worst handwriting and the vaguest superscriptions..

of

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fear that Japan will immediately make use of the precedent to demand rights which China might not care to trant.

sca

digore-Selection (Sullivan, art,

8 p.m. nouncements.

8.05 p.m. Chinese Studio Concert, -'11 pil.

Close Down. 8.05-11 p.m. European program-

broadcast by ZE.. an ni frequency of 640 kilocycles..

8.05 p.m. "Symphony No. 3 in F Major" (Brahms) (Op. 90).

Time, Weather und. An-

me

8.38 p.m. Songs by Georges Thill (Tenor)

Imperial Airways 'planes cannot "The day's problems are always land in any part of China, and cleared up; to allow them to accum-

1. Spanish Serenade (Bizet); 2. most of the route from Singapore Nuit D'Espagne (Massenet); 3. En- muinte would be disastrous, Some- times we are benten by the dialects to Hongkong is at present over the levement (Bordese & Levnde): 4. of the of China and Japan, but the pro- Every day the sorters foreign mal bugs, incoming and out-portion we are unable to clear is re-

Barchetta (Hahn). gol, are unable to understand some maricably small, and we trouble the starts

Until China National Airways

8.50 p.m. "Wagneriana"-Fantasta the contemplated Shanghai on Themes of Wagner (Seldel). of the addresses. These are set Return Letter Department as little Hongkong service, air mail cannot be aside for these two men to tackle in

As possible."

forwarded from Hongkong.

9 p.m. News and Announcements their own peculiar way.

The easiest part of the task is the

from London. When letters arrive for

Commenting on the recent "Tele- Pride of conquest, a general, know-an mall.

-9.20 p.m. A Variety Program-... ledge of many languages, a ja Lloyd George, England, Alex graph"-story-of-the-agreement-be- sense of the improbable, R

Arliss, George tween Hongkong and the China Na- mc. useful Jamas." "George working library, constant contact Robey," and "Tauber," little trouble tional Airways Corporation regarding

facilities at Kai Tuck, the North, Pinno Solos-Love's Romance; The cruiser has a hangar between with Lloyd's Consuls, and the him is experienced. But when the the China Daily News, in a recent issue, Stay Close to me......Fred Stein her funnels in which are housed offices, together with a gift for evitable letter arrives for one of the

Vocal-The Trail of the Lonesome three neroptunes. The gun in her getting into the mind

the 200.000 odd "William Browny," it'said: anti-aircraft battery have been 10-letter writer," enable these two simply has to go back marked, "Ad” "Although Imperial Airways landa Pine.....The Hill Billies; Instru-

redress insumcient."

Hongkong air mail cannot be mental Drifting and Dreaming. posted at Shanghai for transmission Ferera and Pauluhi: Songs-Empty by that route. As the C.N.A.C. 18 The Scene Changes....Lealle

Saddle "Rhythm on the Range"; now to use Hongkong as a base there

Hut- is no reason why air mail for that chinson; Instrumental---Sweet Geor- route should not

gia Brown;, Wabash Blues....Harry be accepted Shanghai.

Iloy'n Tiger-Ragamuffins; Band- There'll never be another You; Song The Pretty Girl is like a Melody

Früncia Brondenst of 1030 Selection: Every Day: Orchestra-Big Night at Eight Selection.-

creased from four to eight, of 4-Inch

ان

not merely, la super-sorters

calibre, mounted in pairs, and greatly tain their sanity, but positively to

add to her nerial dèfence.

In addition, deck protection has heen considerably strengthened i against overhead bombing, while

enjoy the daily round

CHINESE PUZZLE "Chinese puzzles" there are in

along her water he has been implenty, and puzzles from Japan, Ind posed an 8-inch armour belt, extend- and, most countries of the world, ing well below, against submarine while the polyglot populations of

attack by torpedo.

Over £520,000 was spent on the Cumberland while she was in dock

at Chatham. She was built in 1024- under the provisions of

20,

the

New York and other American cities provide a diverse and never-ending

set of problems.

I was binded a pile of problems by

Washington act, her displacement one of the super-sorters and 'Invited

being 10,00 ns and her armament

to assist. Possibly, with one excep-

eight 6-inch guns, mounted on tion, every envelope was "double

Bil

unprotected hull, and with nude quate means of sheltering her single alrcraft.

Dutch to the untutored eye, and the one

superscription in which there was

glimmer of day- light bore for the town of des-

That has been all altered, and the tination the strange device; Schtten-

Posed As Doctor;

Proposed Marriage

ist

BRITISH COMMENT

In

"It only remains for the Ministex of Communications and the Hong- kong authorities to make the neces

arrangements to enable the sary transmission of mails via the Im- perial Airways route if the despatch- er so desires.

"By Hongkong or Hanoi the time to Europe is the same, namely 11 days, and it is hoped that Shanghai will soon be enabled to enjoy, the benefits of this new development which is destined to have such a great influence on the future of air

Canton circles welcome the report]

X-CONVICT WILLIAM communications,"

Cumberland, as a fighting ship is well, hammggos." 11' conveyed little to me, E worth the big sum expended upon but the super-sorter grinned and FAULKNER, 40-year-that the Hengkong Government has Cheltenham. Glos. Now, try this old carpenter, of Camden decided to allow China Aviation

her.

Human Ostrich

14 Keys, 4 Penknives -And "Cashbox”

A PEASANT

Rome, Sept. 21.

said: "Obviously, this is u letter for

one."

superscription fine lines of inert Sq, Camden Town, N.W., and the projected use of the aero-

shorthand,

indifferent

with a passion for comlly we have to return only

name.

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planes to land at Kai Tak Aerodome, dromes us the Far East' terminal medical station for the Trans-Pacific air route of the Pan-American Airways in Canton.

"It comes from India, advertised. in and it might be variation of journal. Hindustant or Bengaleso; or, possi- bly, dialect we have not yet Miss Elsie Martha. Weaver, a

chored.

This

will require asdispenser, replied, and received

NEW INTERNAL SERVICE little time, and if we are beaten we

The aetion of the British Govern- must simply send it back to Bothbay letter from Faulkner, who marked Address insufflelent, orded the letters MRCPS to his ment is generally considered a wise move, making för Hongkong's future like that."

prosperity. It has been suggested He offered her a three-year job that the China Aviation Corporation very small

smail percentage of the fundas dispensér swallow bits of metal, has been reds of queries we deal with every week. Later, he

at £5 akely In the near future to estab- its Persia

lish an airways service in the interior met her in operated upon in a Trieste hospital, week. At present, we are having a Strand, sald be was Dr. Faulkner of China' to connect with Hongkong. Ironmongery removed from his from the United States contains

very busy

time, for nearly every mail had been commissioned by the side. The report would credible were it not for de beton eighty to-150 dutibtful cuses Lengue of Nations to form a hent

An offelal, commenting the service in the East. work of these super-soriers, "usch-ibed its excellent results to # mingling of guess work, wit, and “Intuition.

accepting wagers that he would

and had a fearsome assortment of

assurances,

he

Later he wrote to her:

the

"I am feeling rather a cad about

you.

I will tell you why. For

some time I have been trying to

NEW BRITISH MINISTER

Tid a wife he had interest In-COMING TO H.K.?

sources,

Thirteen smail keys, one front door sardine tin key, one crew, one opener, three cigarette holders, one

WORLD'S CLEARING HOUSE smalt spoon, five fountain pencaps, 13 pleces of pencil, two meļņi pencils, ;

my work in the East and, although Lascars on British'ships," said,

we wont four small penknives, a safety razors all parts of the world, and their

a nurse-dispenser,

Chinese According to wanted. handle bwr needles, à plece of glass, families, set a high proportion of

primarily to meet a girl Hongkong will shortly receive a visit like yourself who was willing to Your wa-lire pieces, one halflica problems. So does that inveterate

from Sir - Huglio... — Knatchbul- piece, and watch chain were taken correspondent, the West African pa.

risks taking a Job like this." Next came a letter in which Faulk-attor to China.

Hugessen, the new British, Ambar- out of the man.

tive.

ve, who is constantly writing to new-asked Milsa Weaver to send.£0. When the patient recovered. con- England for free samples of this and Miss Weaver forwarded. a

Sir Hughe recently preachted his sciousness after the operation, he asks-that, and invoking blessings on the cheque, Inter

credentials to the Nanklang Govern- it. stopped ed if the eight and a half tire had head of his benefactor.

**Such was the story told by Mr.ment. been found, On hearing that the. "We trace many of the lettera 19 Morgan at Clerkenwell Police Court Chinese sources report-thai ke-will moncy was once more available, he ships, and tiero we have the excellent when Faulkner pleaded guilty to eb- stinetly fly to Canton, and from there exclaimed. "Then buy wine and let našistance of Lloyd's. London has taining a cheque for LG with intent will entrain to Hongkong, where he us drink to the health of the doctors come to be regarded as the letter to defraud.

will confer with the Governor, Sir who have opened my sofe."

Sentence; six months' jail,

Andrew Caldecott,

clearing-house of the world, and, Па

£0

10 p.m. Big Ben from London. Danco Musle, amm

II p.m. Clost Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wavelengths and frequencies are observed by Daventry.

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— Frequency ・・ ОНА •~@500 kr.

9,510

CBD

ERIK..

Wavelength

- 49,60

metres tires 3145 metera

GAC

GAD

11,750 k.. 25.4

GBB

CHF

15,740 k..

ERG

17.790 k.. 16.86 meires

25.38 .19.22 meiren.

tires

CAR

G91

21,470 kr. 1.07 moires 15,140 k... 1948

(S) GBL

21,500 k..

metres 1,48 metres 110 k.c. 47.10 metres Transmission 1

(0.8.0.0.5.B.)

1.15 p.m. in. Frederic arco, at

the Organ of the -Dominion

·Theatre," "Töltenham Court Road, London.

3.13 p.m. "Food for Thought."

Gromwich Time Signal at å p.m.

4.5 p.m. Yehudi Menuhin (Viola), 4.15 p.m. "Bula Matari"-the Breaker of

Rocks.

1

155 pm The News and Announcements Transmission 2

(G.S.G., G.8.1.)

7 p.m. 1.50 p.m.

Big Ben, "Standing on a Corner,"

Aliam Kennedy, at the Orga of the Regal Cinema, Glasgow,

a. p.m. "Food for Though."

8$5 p. The D.B.G. Bingers · (11),.

firenwiel Time Bienal si p.m.

1 p.m. The News and Annmincements, 0.20 p.m. A lecital hy Dorothy

("innoforte),

Transmission 3.

(0.8.G... 0.5.F. C.R.IN)"

to p.m. x Ben. A Recital el

Ciramisphona Rscards,

Home

New

10.6 p.m. The .LC. Empire Orchestra. 11.30 pm Under De Tian." 11.4. The Hand of His

itajesty's

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