1936-10-16 — Page 3

If Your Food Frightens You

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1936.

Mr. WELLS HAS A

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INTERVIEWERS

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Congratulatory messages on his seventieth birthday are already reaching him at his new house in Regent's Park, and it seems reasonable to ask him to say something

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But Mr. Wells no longer gives interviews. "They always make me say something I don't quite say," he complains. I rang him up and made the utmost use of several acquaintances we have in common. Even a word on the telephone is next to im- possible to secure with him,

He has two numbers in the telephone book, but one is his secretary's and the other

his housekeeper's. His own ivory

|SPAIN'S PLIGHT

TRACED TO 1812

Berkeley, Cal., Oct. 10. The civil war in Spain will not precipitate a general European Gen. David Maj. впув Prescott Barrows, professor of political science at the University

war,

enamelled telephone has no dial

and its number is known only

Lo one or two people.

"Are you there, Mrs. Southgole?"

the famous light-weight voice went

ол

rlac

Occasional with its

into boyish high notes. (Mrs, Southgate;

"And you ΣΙΓΟ secratory.) is his

Very good." listening in?

A QUESTION FOR PREACHERS

"So you want to interview me and ask, I suppose, how I feel at the greut age of 70 and what brand of tooth-

of California and former prepuste I've used to arrive at that ripe sident of that institution.

Dr. Barrows, an authority on European tendencies, discredita the idea that the Spanish struggle cannot be localised and must provoke a general Euro- [pean conflict.

ge, and no on. No? What were you going to ask, then?"

"You are largely responsible for the thinking young woman of to- day. Mr. Wells. Are you pleased with her? "That's

a question for divines and

preachers, popular

and Lady Rhondda and the lenders af woman- "This cornes," he says, "from an hind. 1's difficult to find out what 13 like. generation exaggerated and unwarranted view the

39

younger

uf Uit internationalism which. What were your other questions?“ tenches that a war anywhere

"About the fighting chances of everybody's wor.

Liberalism. your attitude on Spain, and whether you think the English speaking democracies can hold out

dictatorshipa?"

"Dread of a ted Spain is behind the present rebellion but the group

that in bathing the government prob- ago compleated malters

bly is not Fascist in the Italian or made German sense. Instead, 11 is

Mil.

requiring a lot of thought to answer up of many elements which have no adequately. You'd like me to, pro- a perfect epigram or two on common political philosophy, but ore duce merely held together by the one each on the spur of the moment. I

can't

donc. be common dread of a Red Spain."

suppose.

I'd Jike course

to

you Rive that would do' me you credit, but that's not Why

SHARP SWING TO LEFT

Dr. Barrows emphasizes that this something has come about because the govern- and ment in

in

קן

interview.

in Spain of to-day has passed possible from conservative hands to a group not give up the iden, In spite of the comprised of Socialists, Syndicalista fort that we both know So and So? if I have anything to say I can and Cominunists.

always write it."

"It's tendency," he says, "has been to swing more and more toward an THEY GO ROUnd and around extreme revolutionary position, ever

"Haphazard statements made in since

coming into power in 1931. "However, the present struggle has Interviews go round the world and

a deep, historical background and is are quoted against one

eternally.

II. Q. WELLS

BIRTHDAY

"Can He Really Be 70?"

LABOUR'S

PLAN TO END THE LORDS

SINGLE-CHAMBER GOVERNMENT

By A Labour Correspondent

For the first time in constitutional history 134 official Opposition is about to adopt the question of the abolition of the House of Lords, and the establishment of a single-chom- ber Government, as a feature of its

programme.

A report presented at the Social. ist Party Conference in Edinburgh, makes clear the intentions of thei leaders in this respect.

This report, which was drawn up by the Constitutional Sub-Committee of the Policy Committee, has been adopted by the National Executive Committee It, therefore, hins the backing of all the principal Socialist leaders,

THE KING'S GIFT TO EXILED DUCHESS

A NEW home at Hampton Court has been placed by King Edward at the disposal of the Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of the Into Czar of Russia.

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Since 1917, when she' escaped from the Bolshevik terror, this shy, white-haired woman of 62 has been living at Fromore Cottage, Windsor Great Park.

Often bedridden with illness sho found. great happiness In the. friendship of King George, who lent her the coltage, and his sister, Princess Victoria.

King

Edward, sharing his father's feelings for the exiled duchess, has now made arrangements for her to be moved to a new house where she may forget the bereavements she bas suffered.

SCENE OF REUNIONS Frogmore Cottage in the past few years has been the scene of many reunions when her sons and daughter and winer Russian nobies come to visit her.

Princess Youssoupoft and Prince Andrew were' niwaya near her. princess runs a perfume

shop

ne In

| Mayfair and Prince Andrew a bag and fancy goods business in the samDE quarter.

Prince Nikita, too, is within taxl distance, working in a big Wes. End store.

The others are Prince Theodore, who works in Paris; Prince Dimitri, in Amertea with a stockbroker's firm; Prince Rostislav, in a business of m18 wn in Chicago; Prince Vanail runs

bar at Hollywood.

DIVORCE COLONY

IN DUDE RANCH

AREA VISIONED

Beulaht, Wyn, Oct. 10. The dude ranch aren around Sand There is little doubt that the Con- ference will pass It, and thereby tle Creek, fambus fshing stream in the the Parliamentary Party to accep-western edge of the Black Hills, may Innre and furtherance of the prin- become a second Reno, if the plans ciples laid down.

of the Walpole' Land Co., Inc., materialize.

HONOURS

Since Wyoming has a divorce law requiring only 60 days residence, it has become popular as a divorce cen- re

One passage which appears under the sub-hending, "Honours," rends:

"So long as the House of Lords

Mrs. Grace Vanderbilt Davis and continues to exist, the Labour case must

presented Mrs Sylvia Conway Robertson, both be competently there. Moreover, it Ex terally of New York, recently won divorces necessary for a certain number of after spending two months on dude Secretaries and Under Secretaries ranches.

of State to be members of the The plan of the land company is Upper House. Further, the creato erect a hotel, casino and numerous tion of Peers in large numbers may modern cottages, on Sand Creek, not prove to be the only possible way for from the famous Moe Annenberg to abolish the House of Lords." estate, Sundance, Wyd. a county seat town, is only a short distance It is realised that no full-blooded way. There, it is said, divorces will

publicity and

fanfare. creational facilities, fishing, hunting, The Sand Creek district offers re- horseback riding, mountain climbing and other outdoor sports.

not merely a rebellion by irresponsi- The right and considered things I've Socialist programme is likely to be be obtained without accompanying

casual sald in my books, without never get quoted."

ble

factions. It is

between

not a forces

relatively speaking.

of our circle of friends.

struggle bet

If you take that stand, I must principle or without sense of their respect it," I admitted. historical position but rather

"Besides, it's not being just to sent day phase of warfar conflicting elements of society that our public to give you an Interview began at least with the overthrow of because King Ferdinand VII and the Con-Or fair to other journalists. If I give you an interview they won't like it. stitution of Cadiz in 1812."

Being a journalist myself, I know how they feel. It can't be done."

"Could you bring yourself to say you think is the significance what

war in Spain?" I asked. we cannot And In

your

the one

the

of

"This books."

"Do you know anything about

Sun-

attained within the lifetime of one Parliament, so long as two-Chamber government continues. The demand for the abolitluri of the House of Lords is thus for the first time given official colouring.

Delegates at the conference will be reminded that:

Labour members, on appointment TOM THUMB RADIO

to the Cabinet, must accept member- ship of the Privy Council.

The conferment of honours is a method of establishing status in the Civil Service.

Certain honours are conferred upon persons of distinction as recognition of merit and service.

The class of titles used in local government confers responsibility as well as distinction.

SETS

VALVE NO BIGGER THAN AN ACORN

'From A Radio Correspondent

than a cigarette-case, are likely to be Tom Thumb wireless sets, no bigger

ONE PARTY UNCHANGED According to Dr. Gorrows, permanent, unchanging element in the last century and a quarter of Spanish conflict is the Conservative party, embracing the monarchy with its inherited preference for autocratic nower: the nobility, owning must of the land and long monopolizing the anarchist syndicalism? Have you

on the market soon as a result of the opportunities of life; and finally the read Sender's "Seven, Red Spanish Church, renetionary, and daya That seems to ine the most

The report adds:. "It would be development of a new midget valve. long the basis of a complete hold on the present situation I have seen. luminating and essential book on

impossible for the Labour Move- Known as the “Acorn" valve, be- the consciences and minds of literate and benighted people.

It's been admirably translated by Sir ment to lay down a binding rule, cause of the similarity of He shape

Itead R.

which would bar Individuals from and size to the seed of the oak, il hus "It is largely against this strongly Peter Chalmers Mitchell.

accepting honours. A ruling of this been produced by the Marconiphone entrenched conservative

"May I one day, not as a journalist

kind could only be enforced by ex- Company for micro-wave work. soclety," says Dr. Barrows, "that a but as a private person, come to pay

pulsion from the Party, and if any It is extremely robust, and, al- century of rebellion has been waged my respects to you?"

honours are to be recognised at all, though primarily for handling wave- you there, Mrs. Southgate? bath in Spain and in its lost colonial what trave 1 on for the afternoon?"

the Movement would be called upon lengths of the order of one metre, I possessions.

to differentiate between the honours is equally efficient And so it came about that yester-

on ordinary The d

driving out of King Alphonso day Mr. Wells talked to me about.

which could and could not be ac- broadcasting wavelengths, cented-a task which would not be 'rebellion of 1931 plneed this

At the moment its use is likely to without serious difficulties." Conservative group on the defensive, things to-day and things to come.

be limited owing to the price-50s..

in

the

core

to be joined in the present crisis by all those who are fearing the coming.

of a Red Spain."-United Press,

"BIGGER & |BRAINIER

MEN"

Paris, Oct. 10,

Arc

HIS NEW HOUSE

He talked frankly, brilliantly, wisely, droll phrases illuminating his mare philosophical points. But, alas, { I may not quote him,

FILS energy

curiosity and cheerful- ness are inexhaustible Can he real-·

ly be 70? There isn't a grey hair in) : his

head, his

his well-tanned skin has

few wrinkles, and his eyes are as bright blue and 1 sharp as a boy's.

The new house, the first he has owned in London, he took over from Mr. Alfred Noyes, the poet. It is one of Nash's gracious Regency houses, and it faces ano strelch of the Park.

SCIENTISTS and surgeons here were intensely interested in the announcement by Dr. Serge SHAW PLUS WELLS-VOLTAIRE Plain Ivory paint and simple period Voronoff, the rejuvenation ex-furnishing bring out its classic lines, pert, to-day of his greatest plan and Mr. Wells has had the layers of -"to create a race of supermen paint stripped from all the doors to

disclose the original by the injection of monkey gland

pinc: There is a bronze bust of Voliaire into ten-year-old boys."

in the dining rooma present from "The mother who entrusts her Alexander Korda, by the by--and a child to

me may perhaps become second bust in the Spanish-looking the founder of a new and great loggia Mr. Wells has evolved of the human type." Dr. Voronoff declared. end of his bright garden. And on the The consensus of opinion to-bookshelves upstairs I noted seventy- night

that the building of odd volumes or more of Voltaire's physical and mental plants on the complete works. Iines e Voranoff envisages-alzonid Mr. Wells has n capacity for affec- ire feasible.

tionate admiration. "It Shaw and I It is

is recalled that at the Colonial were mixed up and clarified by being Exhibition he exhibited shean which strained through the French langu- had been grafted with glands from age, I think you might get something young rams at the French Govern- rather like Voltaire,” he said. "This ment's experimental form in Algeria, home is haunted by Voltaire. Alfred The grafted animals weighed "con-Noyer, my predecessor, Is writing a siderably more than the ungrafted study of him from the Catholle point ones and their wool was thicker and of view that I shall be very interest- longer.

Jed to read."

PRESIDENT LINER HALTS

500 MILES AT SEA

-To Shatter Horatio Alger Story

Yokohama, Oct. 10.

ما

Weboat transferred Yoshiwa to the Japan-bound ship.

A lifebont bobbed about on tho choppy waters 500 miles off the The seas were so rough that the coast of Japan. In the boat sat transfer required two hours. 18-year-old Japanese ** boy. folled "I never ate such delicious meals in his efforts to reach America by as they gave me Yoshiwa said after the atowaway route.

"I'm going to being brought here. Young Yoshiwa Ito get as for save my money and be a passenger 13 the third grade in school when us soon as I can."

Seventeen Chinese coolles who his parents died. He attached him-

themselves into self to a man who set him up as a tried to smuggle

In the streets. He Japan after atowing away on the made 18 cents a day, at it. The British freighter. Benrowards

were arrested by the man deserted the lud, whereupon Shanghal, Yoshiwn continued to shinu stioca water police at Osaka on the same and listen to stories of how fartunes day--Ünited Press, are made in America

shiner of

After saving about a dollar, which

be, Invested in a shirt trousers and

at

two days' supply, of bread, Yoshiwa Empress of Abyssinia

slipped aboard tho pasenger liner President Jackson before it sailed for the United States and hid in the steer- nge quarters,

for England

Ho was discovered the next day by The Empress of Abyssinia has left a member of the crew. The ship Port Salid for Marseilles en route for was already at sen, hut it was due to England. In the French steamer Com- pass the President Grant, en route toplogne.

Yokohama from San Francisco, the The Empress of Abyssinia has been next day. When the Jackson and Kving In Jerusalem since she left the Grant, met, they stood by while a| Addis Ababa in May-Router,

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