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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

U.S.-GERMAN ZEPPELIN

Joint Control for

Airships

New

THE United States is likely

New York, Nov: 21. shortly to enter in an

agreement with Germany for the joint operation of a Transatlantic dirigible service.

An

Tentative terms have been agreed on by Dr. Hugo Eckener and Mr. Roper, United States Secretary of Committee.. American Zoppelin Company will be formed, providing Mr. Roper can arrange to have the matine subsidy, laws extended to cover United States aircraft engaged in foreign commerce. It is thought that this can be arranged easily.

The American company will constract two Zeppelins, while. In the meantime Dr. Eckener will rent the United States firm a new dirigible he is now building.

Eventually a Zeppelin service of two United States and two German airships, operated by the two companies but with a pool- ing of personnel and terminal facilities, is planned..

Women Who Will Tell

Their Ages

New York, Nov. 20.. A "LIFE begins at 35"

club has been organised among women over middle age at Portland, New York State,

The members are pledged to reveal their true ages.

Misa Merle Oberon, the famous British Alm netrees, who is appearing In "These Three" at the King's this week-end, photographed On "Queen Mary" on her recent arrival at Southampton from Hollywood.

the

FLYING

BOATS

Berlin, Nov. 21.

GERMANY'S commercial air

line to North America is to be inaugurated in the autumn of next year.

.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER"

SERVICE

Dragicat fim” about Marco Polo, which is being produced by Douglas Fairbanks, his wife, the former Lady Ashley will-star-for-the-first- time. The picture above shows Mrs. Fairbanks (at right) with Countess Dorothy di Frasso.

CHINA'S

The service will enable, a let- OLDEST

ter posted in Berlin to be de- livered 48 hours later in New York.

At ürst only twò flying-boats, the Zephyr and the Acolus, will be em-

during test flights.

MAN-180

person

'In

ployed, supported by a mid-ocean A MAN who must surely be the supply ship. Both flying-boats have eldest living recently made the return trip twice China has been found in Hainan Island, off the south const of The ten airmen who form the crews are expected in Berlin next China, if a story narrated by a Monday, and they are to be given a traveller who has- just civic reception.

in Shanghai is correct.

The man, according to the travel- ler, is Kuang Tae-chi, who claims to be 100 years old. He was a herb collector until he retired.

"Could Reach

The Moon"

LI. GEORGE QUESTIONS ARMS EXPENDITURE

"Immense Scale Not Justified"

POWER OF FRENCH RESERVES

1936

PLANNED

Mr. Lloyd George, in a speech at Manchester recently, questioned the need of the expenditure on the huge re-armament now being undertaken for defence.

RADIO BROADCAST

London-First Cricket Test

Match Relay

B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA

Radio Programme Broadcast_by Z. B. W. on a Wavelength of 355 meires (845 kc.), 3149. metres (9.52_megacycles).

18.30 pm. London Symphony Or- chestra.

1 p.. Tinto and Weather.

1.03 pm. Light Concert Items. 1.20 p.m Reuter Press, Rugby Press, Weather, Time and Atinowice- ments.

140 p.m. New Mayfair Orchestra, (Bass-Baritone).

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4-7 D. Chinese Programine.

7 p.m. Grace Moore (Soprano)_ with Eric Coates and Symphony Orchestra

He said that the situation was worse than it had been since the Great War. "Somebody will say to me," he added, "does not that situa-: tion Justitv a programme of reny mament on our part?

It certainly "does not justify the finmense scale

upon which we are embarking."

Arias "La Boheme" They call What was the armaments-positioni me Mimi; Farewell.... (Puccini).... Those in favour of rearmament sug-Orchestra-By the sleepy lagoon gested that there was an immense (Coates); Songe--"The King Steps German army which could OVCT- cut"What shall remain? The end whelm Russia and France and at the begins... (Kreisler, Fields); Orches soine time lay our cliles in ushes. tra-Summer afternoon-Idyll; Lon- "What are the facts?" asked Mr. Song-The King Stepe Out" Learn don Bridge-March, .(Eric Coates); Lloyd George. "Incomparably the to.

how

(Kreisler, Fields). two most powerful armies in the world to-day are the French and Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Russian, in numbers, in training, in Market Report

equipment.

7.30 9.3. Closing Local

7.35 p.ra. Bong Memorien.

8.03 p.m Variety.

Stock

"Does anyone realise that the 8 pan Time, Weather and An- French Army to-day: with its re-nouncements. serves, has five millions of trained men available? I am quoting that from an official document, and 1 challenge anyone in the House of Commons to say it is inaccurate."

NOT HELPLESS

Mr. Lloyd George asked, "Do you think the Germans don't know that? It will take them years and years and years to build up an army in arrived--equipment, training, and officers that

will approach the French Army.

"And now I am on the question of me. There is time to do something else that is better than arming.

According to Kuang's, own story, reported by the Star Daily News, Squadron Leader F. R. D. when he was about 70 years old, he found a strange cluster of grass in Swain, who recently broke the the hills. He tried the strange herb, tb, -world's-acroplane -- altitude and, immediately after eating it, fell record, said recently at a lun- "younger." From that time on, his cheon at the Press Club, Lon-health improved and he regained his don, to him and Mr. Charles strength. Scott and Mr. Giles Guthrie, winners of the Johannesburg

He lives a regular life, rising air race, that the special suit early and retiring at 9 o'clock every he wore would enable a pilot night. He has two meals a day, and to reach the moon, if he could his diet consists of milk, eggs, beet ten, plenty of fruit and vegetables. get there quick enough.

He exercises every day and takes a two-hour slesta in the afternoon.

"But it would have to be very fast 'plane."

REGULAR LIFE

a His wife and concubine died many years ago, but Kuang has many grand-children und great-children

"BLOODY HAND" HAUNTS

A PUBLIC SCHOOL-

Ghost Of Old Tragedy

BOY WHO KILLED BROTHER

BY MISTAKE

Winchester, Nov. 24. CENTURIES ago a ́schoolboy at Winchester College killed his brother by mistake. Periodically since then, the college annals say, a hand dripping with blood appears on the walls of

"seventh chamber," one of the five studles on the ground floor.

This is what Mr. R. L. G. Irving, a| Mr. Irving said: "The 'bloody housemaster, formerly himself a hand' is well known to us, though it echolar nt Winchester, disclosed is true I have not seen it, nor heard to-day, following a speech by the any one else say he'd seen it, head, Mr. Spencer Leeson, yesterday,

Mr. Leeson said: "I believe most "The "bloody hand' is one of the strongly in ghosts. Ghosts inhabit first things you hear about when you quite

of schools. Many come to college," a number are full of them.

Winchester's former headmaster)

"You cannot re into one of the was Dr. A. T. P. Williams, now Dean ancient foundations--I am speak of Christ Church, Oxford. When Ing with some experience-with- asked about the ghost he said, out being conscious of being sur darkly: "I have no statement to rounded by a 'great crowd of whi- make." Hesses.* **

At the bursar's office it was sold: "Mr. Spencer Leeson

was also 1 scholar of the college. He must eer-) tainly have heard the legend of the 'bloody hand.'.

"About 18 boys, aged from 12 to 17, uso 'seventh chamber as a study to-day. We have not heard of any of them having seen the bloody ‚hand.'"

Pope Honours British Professors

Vatican City, Nov. 24. Reforming the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Pius:to-day named members. Including soventy new three English, six American, and a Norwegian professor.

The Engilsh professors are: Lord Rutherford, Professor of Physics, Cambridge University; Mr. Carl Sherrligion, Professor of Physiology, Oxford; and Mr. Edmund Whitaker. Professor of Mathematics, Edinburgh

alive in Hainan,

The second oldest person in China, is for as, is known, is a 'Mr. Lee, aged 128, who won the old-age competition held in Canton Jast year; "While the third oldest, also as far os" is known, is Mr. Chang Kun-Jen, of Szechuen, aged 118, who won competition at Shanghal some time Kuang stated that he intended ago.

take part in the Canton und Shanghai competitions, but, because of a sprained ankle, was unable to make the trip.

to

TALE ABOUT

TAILS

ROADSIDE sign in Normandy

horse

reads: "Pasture your here. Short-tailed horses, 2d. a day; long-talled horses, id. a day.”

Local peasant, asked to

to explain the distinction, answered: short-tailed horse is bothered all the time by fics. To shake them -Be has to use-his-head, and while doing that he can't eat. long-tailed hurse can handle the altuation with his tail without reis- ing his mouth from the grass. The

of

1710#

A

of Normandy would never pay as much for grazing a short- talled horse as a long-talled one."

She Performed a Miracle

TWO American women, well known in England, one blind, denf and dumb-inseparable in life as · David and Jonathan-are parted.

Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, "liberator" and companion for 49 years of Dr. Helen Keller, the remarkable woman she taught to read, write and speak in several languagés, despite her pupil's immense handicaps, died last month, aged 70.

It is said that the awakening of Helen Keller's sleeping intelll gence is the greatest feat of individual teaching ever achieved.

Mrs. Macy, with fasight that long preceded modern educational theories, transformed seven-year-old Helen Keller, into an articulate woman of high scholarship.

She herself became blind five years ago."',

Then Helen Keller, in her turn, became the teacher and come municated the world-to her..

After operations, Mrs. Macy's night returned 'a little. ... The two of them wore to have received soon from President Roosevelt medals awarded for

"Co-operative achievement of an herole character and far reaching significance the release and development of Imprisoned personality".

8.30 p.m. The B.B.C. Dance Or. chestra.

9 p.m. News and Announcements. 8.20 p.m. The First Cricket Teat Match: Australia v. England, An account of the opening day's play by Alan Kippax from Brisbane.

9.40 pm. The Music of Elgar, 10.30 p.m. Light Orchestral

Music.

11 p.m. Close Down.

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"If the Italians and the Germans at this moment had overwhelming forces to press France, Ruasin

and ourselves and "we were helpless, there would have been a different case, But it is exactly the opposite.

"What is the second point?

The most powerful fleets in Europe at 03L the present moment are possessed by Britain and France."

Turning to one side and looking in the direction of Mr. A. V. Alexan- der, Mr. Lloyd George sald, "I am speaking in the presence of an ex- First Lord of the Admirally, and I have no hesitation in saying that the] British Fleet alono could hold its own ngainst the navies of Europe at the present moment.

THE MEDITERRANEAN "But, at any rate, the fects. of Italy and Germany, separate and

In combination, are absolutely im- potent against the tremendous Lot- illas which we alone could put in.) certainly against the terrifle naval power which France and ourselves could put in.

"There has been a lot of nonsense talked about a great many things, but there was"nover" more nonsense talked than about our peril in the Mediterranean."

"I mel many sailors in the Mediterranean. I cannot tell you what their indignation was at the idea that their great Fleet could not stand up to the Italians had there been trouble, had Mussolini attacked tiss

"Never was there the slightest danger. Mussolini is a very able man, a very intelligent man-no fool. And he never had the slightest in- tention of committing that folly in. the Mediterranean."

PREPONDERANCE IN AIR

Russia and France together, with- out counting Britain, had a definite preponderance in the air.

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Hix . 'Under 'Big Ben, 4.19 p.m. Gange the Pingefarta by

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450 p.m. The girat Cricket Teet Matchi Australia v. England.

4.10 p.m. The 8.0.C. Empire Orchestra, 1-40 put. The News and Announcements, Greenwich Time Bigned 12 646 320.

Transmission 2

(0.5.F., 0,8.XI.) tp. Bly Den. Variety. 7.17 p.m. Under Big Ben,"

7.12 p. The Rutland Square and New

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1.50 .. "Temmy Tuna's Thara'--3. 8.10 p.m. A Visioncello Recital. 8,10 p.m. The ILD.C. Dance Orchestra.

p.. The Nows and Announcement. Urvonwich Time Signal at 8.35 p.m. 9.10 p.m. The First Cricket To Matcht

Australia v England. 1.10 p.m. Envel

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10.4 p.m. Talli "Belentists at Work'und), 11.5 pm Violin Selee by Kroller. 11.20 PM. "Twisted Tanes."

11.40 p.m. The First Cricket Test Matcht

Australia v England.

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