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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5,

1936.

M.P.s Urged To Legalise

Rockets To Moon

NO RISKS? PROMISE

PARLIAMENT my shortly

devote its time to a debate about the moon.

Under the present law it is an offence to sund a rocket to the moon, as liquid oxygen-petrol in contravention of the Explosives Act of 1875-would have to be used. |

So moon, rocket enthusiasts members of the Inter-Planetary Sockety

Britain—have of Great

moved their headquarters from Liverpool to London. hoping thereby to arouse the Interest of influential M.P.N and Ret the government to approve experiments.

Secrets

· Of The

Yard

LONDON'S

C. I. D. CRITICISED

"TOO MUCH SAFETY FIRST PROCEDURE”

Severe criticism of the present their methods of the Criminal

In-

At the moment the object of the vestigation Department of Scot- society is to send liquid fire rockets land Yard, and the suggestion into the upper atmosphere to gain that. In certain cases, the coroner knowledge which will make it possi- ble provide long-distance weather should be repizeed by an official forests, at the mate aim wil 'similar to the Scottish Procura- be to establish contact with the tor Fiscal are made in a book published in London. ("Secrets "NO SILLY NISKS" The society recently wrote to the of Scotland Yard," Home Office for formial upproval of Head, 12s, 6.). its tests,

The author, Mr, Edwin T, Wouti- huli, is an ex-member of the Criminal

пинат.

Waving a copy of Dr. Lin Yu-tang'e books, "My Country and My People," Mr. Roy Howard, famous American newspaperman, is shown at left above as he arrived in Shanghai from Hongkong on the inst leg of his direct fight from New York in 11 days actual elupsed time, Hë was the first trans-Pacific by nir passenger' arrive in Shanghai. Also shown in the picture are Mr. Roberi Horiguchi, of Domel news agency, and Mr. John R. Morris, of United Press.

The Clock Went Wrong

When

Mystic Died

New York. Oct. 30.

When Cheiro, the famous mystic and psychic, died in Holly-

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Bitter cold in Central Europe has prevented the swallows to fly to the South. The helpless birds have been gathered by the Society for Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals and sent by, airplane to the Southern

The Home Offler replied that even countries, The picture shows their liquid oxygen-petrol were not swallows in packages being loaded in in the ing of the rocket would Investigation Department and claims thaves tarice place on premises to have an intimate knowledge of an airplane at Munich for Venice.

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that, apart from procedure, is obvious Tegislation, the Government is de- ! termined al la encourage our ex-!

"It must be admitted." he writes,

periments because of the danger," that the past five years constitute Mr. P. E. Cleator, of Wallasey, un » black spot in the history of the til recently president of the society, CLD

It is a deplorable fact that in

London

sand. "But this is a society of men five years over 20 murders who know what they are doing and, have ren committed. In mo

which have Scotland Yard got their i would take on silly risks.

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"I agree that axygen and petrol mats, San Francisco, Cet 25 would farm an explosive mixture,

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that as the city

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states that the design of the rocket: When he remember the publie outery business-designed to show it knows

would have to be guaranteed sound,; in more than one big case against how to take care of the stranger, the

But since the whole purpose of our the questioning of intertal witness, lonely and the wallflower,

experiments is to test our designs, when it has even been hinted that

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Scotland Yard on ovenspiim resort to durd-degree methods,

announced Victor H. Bule has establishment of the Pacifle Escort Services, with offers in downtown Son Francisco,

Escorts will be provided-for a price for everything from helping aged women across dangerous street crossings to a round of the eity's night clubs.

started interviewing Bute 'prospective employees. Most of the n are from the Employment Bureaux of Stanford University and the Unf- versity of California. A few generat escorts for the male qualifications have been outlined by Bule. They include an ability to talk intelligent- ly, dance, play bridge and drink in moderation. They will be carefully instructed. They must know nothing more of a client than the client's nurde. namic. They must ask no personal questions.

Beyond this point, escorts will be picked for their specialties. They will be filed under height, weight, age. complexion, nationality, reli gion, rearing and accomplishments. A client can ask for a fall, blonde athlete with special dancing ability, or a short brunette with a Phi Beta Kappa key and a knowledge of the lost tribes of the Incns.

Rates will be $10 a night for an escort to night clubs or shows or $12 If the escort is wanted-after mid- night,

Bule bns made it plain that no escort must ever step beyond the lobby of a hotel.

Young women will be on call, too, for gulding shopping lours at $2 an hour, but their duties must end at sundown.

To keep his charges in line. Bule will organize a system of spies, or "operators," na he preters to call them. They will take escorts out

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Mrs. Phelan was at his death-béd, When she was enlled in four days be- fore Cheiro died she did not know the identity of her patient. She said:

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Cheleo was Count Louis Hamon, born in Wicklow, Ireland, und he spent 58 out of his 70 years in study- ing the oreult.

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Continuing Mr. Woodhall su- gests that the "antiquafed" procedure of the coroner's court should overhauled.

he

"In place of the coroner, wise office, though of civie utility, is an "Have I got a beer coming?" ask- anachronism in the case of unsolved ed Judge Hedding.

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Cairo, Oct. 28. recently in connection with an TWO performing monkeys, arrested

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MENTAL DEFECTIVES Further, Mr. Woodhall advocates that all former mental defectives dis- charged as cured should be watched and, as soon as their actions become suspect should be again put under proper control.

With such a system at work," he states, "I guarantee that the 'un

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GERMAŃ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' PROTEST

UNJUST INSULTS

Berlin, Oct. 21. The contribution of the clergy to the welfare of the community was defended sturdilly In a pastoral letter which was read to-day in most Roman Catholic churches in the country.

The letter was composed by the Bishops in conference at Fulda last month. It began by maintaining that the Roman Catholic teachers Waldbreitbach who were involved recently in an unsavoury criminal were not members of the

case

of

Franciscan Order-03 jubilantly

maintained by Nazi newspapers— bul laymen of pn association founded in 1802.

"But even if they are counted as belonging to an Order," the Bishop: stated, "more than 90 per cent of the members of our the

Orders stand guiltless and in full honour. They, too, have a right to truth and honour and van demand that they shall nat be attacked and insulted unjustly"" The Bishops recalled how Roman Catholic priests died for Germany during the War. "Unfortunately," the Bishops continue, there many, people in these diMcult times with nothing more important to do than promote a war against the Church and Christianity. While they pretend to be fighting disunion they are magnifying it beyond estimation."

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