1936-12-07 — Page 19

TURKEY TAKES A RIDE

Geneva, Nov. 24.

A long train and boat ride. lies ahead of a Kansas Christmas turkey if the Topeka Chamber of Commerce keeps its word,

The turkey has been promis. ed, anyway, to David Vange, Norwegian chief of the Safety Service of the International La- bour Office here, who travelled all the way from Geneva · to Topeka to represent the I.L.O. at the Convention of. Accidents Boards and Commissions.. That nefted him the prizes offered by the Chamber for the delegrate coming the greatest distance.

Vaage admits the Chamber of Commerce probably forgot, when they made the offer, that foreign countries would be represented. į However, he says he has received; assurances that the turkey will be delivered here-dead or alive- on December 25.

Meanwhile, he is sharpening up. hls bent carving-knife.

13 SURVIVE 586 MILES TREK

FIFTY ex-Bervica

men left

Edinburgh some weeks ago to petition the Government for reorganisation of pensiona. Seven were hurt on Yorkshire roads, four were left in Whitby, and five, in full hospitals, Others gave up owing to war wounds,

The rest marched Into London. Only 13 had survived the 588. miles trek.

AUSTRALIAN BAN ON

ENGLISHWOMAN

TO "FIGHT THE ISSUE" Sydney, Nov. 24. Mrs. M. M. Freer, the English woman who yesterday was refused permission by the Australian immi- gration authorities to land from the

, and O. liner Maloja, declared to day that she was determined to "git the issue." She had, she added, o British pussport enabling her to land in any British Dominion.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1936.

New

Picture shows entrance to No. 110, with openings to new ore bodles at the east side of thy stream on the Hongkong Mincs, Ltd., property close to the British-Chinese frontier in the Territories.

'Father Bans

MISS

Lipstick'

PERRY,

MARY GLORIA ayed 18, in a Court petition: directed against her parents at Dak- land, California, complained that her father beat her because she used face powder and rouged her lips.

She also complained that she had never been allowed to go out with a boy friend.

She asked that a married trom friend be appointed her puardian, 2

£2,500,000 ORDER FOR BRITAIN NEW EGYPT BARRAGE

Cairo. Nov, 24.

The British firm of Macdonald, Gibbs and Co. Ltd. has officially been awarded the big contract for bulld- ing a new delta barrage. The firm had submitted a tender of £2,187,000.

Tenders were submitted by eight other British firms, two French Brms and one German company, They ranged from £2,380,000 to £2,050,- 000. The successful tender was the lowest but one.

The present della barrage, which

whole of Lower Egypt, was built more than 100 years ago by a French firm.

Reuter,

Mrs. Freer, who is the wife of unregulates the supply of water for the Indian Army officer, and niece by marriage of the late Viscount Cave, once Lord Chancellor of England, has cabled to Countess Cave, asking her to appeal to the Governor- Geriera!

Australia, Lard of South Cowrie atkal tals, sho ̈haz asked." Lady Cave to approach the British i Government.

POLICE

RESERVE

The Commonwealth Government ORDERS FOR CURRENT

has not yet disclosed its reasons fnr refusing Mrs. Freer permission 10

land after giving her a language test

in Italian.

Mrs. Freer

nut WIS

WEEK

Orders by the Hon Mr. T. II. King, allowed to leave the Maloja to-day. Inspector General of Police state:

Mr. W. M. Hughes, the war-time Prime Minister of Australia, to-day

General

Here is seen open cutting about 600 feet in on Adit No. G of

the Hongkong Mines, Ltd., property in the New Territories, Altogether there are 7,000 feet of workings with rails,

Mr. Pemberton-Billing

Is Planning A

New Flying Surprise

stated-that-he-know-of-no-previous The results-of-Hw-Itevolver-Match TVERYBODY-knew-lots-about-Mr-Noel-Pemberton-

case of a British subjest not being fired at the Kennedy Road Range un allowed to land, except on political Friday. December 4, was as follows: grounds, which did not arise here. Chinese Company, 833 points; Mrs. Freer says that the whole affair European is a domestic concern.

Police 780 paints,

THE "SCHARNHORST" The N.D.L. express steamer Scharnhorst will arrive to-morrow morning at 3 a.m. from Manila and will sail for Shanghai and Japan at 3 p.m.

Hongkong Contingent.

Emergency Unit Reserve Riot Drill-A Riot Drill will be corried out by members of the Emergency Unit Reserve on Friday, December 11th. All members will parade outside Queen's Pler at 17.20 hours,

C. CHAMPKIN,

D. S, P. (R}

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF YOUNG MEN THINK OLD MEN FOOLA, The 8th Destroyer Flotilla left AND OLD MEN KNOW YOUNG MEN TO BE harbour at 8 am. to-day on routine 80-Dr. Metcalf.

:

At to-morrow's meeting of the H. K. Rotary Club the speaker will be Mr. P. L. Collisson, who will talk on "Oddities of Audit."

Wong Chan, of 47 Sai Young Chol Street, Kowloon, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday suffer- ing from injuries received when he fell off a ladder at his home. His -condition is serious. -

A man named Ng Lak was taken to the Government Clvil Hospital yesterday suffering from a stob wound on the face. The wound was said to have been caused by another man who has been arrested.

The forthcoming wedding is 23- nounced of Mr. Antonia Maria Xavier clerk, of the P. and O. Banking Cor- poration, residing at 8 Tung Cheong Building, first floor, and. Miss Augusta Maria Yvanovich Noronha, of 27 Ashley Road,

exerciser.

Billing before, and during, the Great War, as an inventor, pioneer aviator, and member of Parliament who had more than a touch of audacity in all his works. Mr. Pemberton-Billing is still as busy as ever-on everything but politics. Here is the story of some of his activities, told.

By J. D. S. ALAN

Mr. Pemberton-Bliling has col- lected some of the best brains in the engineering industry round him, perfecting revolutionary designs affecting flying over land and sea.

P.-B. says it can be reproduced in hundreds ut unheard-of cheapness,

NEW FLYING GAME He has also invented a game which reproduces all flying conditions. Some of this flying will be very ex- It consists of maps marked with air pensive, and some may probably pro-routes round the world, distances, and vido the cheapest type of aviating aerodromes. ever devised.

olá

People who knew P.-B. in the On Tuesday, December 8, the Police

days are expecting something Branch of the Ministering League will really staggering.

One of his minor brain "pets" is a hold their monthly Whist and Mah Jongg Drive at the Police Recreation two-seater 'plane of exceptional sim Club commencing at 3 p.m. Admission is working in secret, but I ran

strength, and cheapness. $1 each.

to earth in his up-Thames him to

While riding a bicycle along Kwal retreat. Ching Road, Chung Wan Hill, Kow- I persuaded him to show me his boon, an 18-year-old youth. Yee Yuk-cheap two-seater. sun, fell and was later taken to the Kowloon Hospital to receive treal- ment to his injuries.

-It-is-made-of-steel-cycle tubos, mostly welded in triangles. The kingle main plane is metal cover- ed. There are no bracing wires. There are only two controls instead

A woman, Chan So, of 881 Canton Rond, was admitted to the Govern- of the usual three. ment Civli Hospital yesterday suffer Ing from the effects of immersion. She attempted to commit suicide by Jumping off the steamer Man Sang into the harbour while the boat was underway.

Chau Wab, 45, the earth-carrying coolie charged with complicity in the Customs Pass robbery on September 27 when Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Peacock

Women

In

The game is played with a rotary slide rule and model aeroplanes.

This game is probably the first of its kind in the world to go into the third dimension, for the 'planes can "climb" to 10,000ft. on a graded scale and move in

in any direction.

The rotary rule, which is more fascinating than a roulette wheel, gives players a chance of climb- Ing or advancing, or combining both. It gives ons of eight points _of_the_compass, the strength_of "the wind, and such hazards as for-

or engine failure.

The game is enthralling, many pilots, because the one making the soundest decisions usually wins.

Beat Men Fitness Race

Before Mr. K. Keen at the Central made unother appearance before Mr.

were held up by two armed men. TE young men of Great Britain are still Ingging far behind

women in the matter of physical fitness, Magistracy this morning, Chung Hak, Himsworth, at the Kowloon Magla- This was revealed to a London reporter recently by the or 18, was sentenced to two months' im-fracy this morning. He was re-ganising secretary of the Central Council of Physical Training, prisonment for having returned from manded for a further 48 hours, on banishment before the expired time. the application of Detective Inspector which has just issued its first annual report. Defendant was banished from the Elston. Colony on May 26, 1934, for 10 years

The national health campaign has made little appeal to the young men of the country.

and was arrested here four days ago. A fino of 8000, with the alternative Miss Colson, the secretary, gave the three reasons why the

at the

RADIO BROADCAST

-414

Football Tulk By

Lee Wai-tong.

CRICKET TEST MATCH.

Radio Programme Broudcnet by Z.B.W. on n wavelength of 355 metres (845 k.c.'s), 31.40 metres (9.52 megacycles).

5 p. Dance Music from the Roof-Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel.

4.39 pm. Layton and Johnstone Memories.

0.43

p.in.. The Band of 11.M. Grenadier Guards.

7.10 p.m. Carroll Gibbona and His Boy Friends.

7.30

7.35

p.m. Stock Quotations.

(Tenor).

p.m. Charles Rulļman

7.45 p.m. A Talk on Football by. Lee Wal Tong, Captain of the Chinese Olymple Football Team.

8 pm Time, Weather and An- nouncements.

8.03 p.m. Relay from Tai Ping Theatre (Chinese).

11 p.m. Close Down.

8.03-11 p.m. European Pro- #ramme-from-7 R IS on aika quency of 640 kilocycles.

Pro-

igramme,

1

8.05 p.m. A Variety

Song-Melody from the sky...... Frances Langford; Banjo Solos-La Vivandlere; Joy Dance......Ernest Jones SongsWe were dancing: Parision Pierrot......Noel Coward; Piano Duets-King of Burlesque Medley: Three 1-Medley, Jack Wilson

Leach; and Jimmy Vocal Duels Cheer up; You can'i pull the wool over my cyes...... Curtis and Ames; Song-I'm a fool for loving you......Dinah Miller; Hawatian Samoan Love Song: Nohen I Muolau Lani... Andy

long and His Islanders; Songs--You look so sweet, Madame; Tainga Doodle-Day. the Tchaikovsky Maurice Chevalier, 8.50 .m.

Fountain"—Fantasia (Urbach).

0 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements.

9.20 p.1. The First Cricket Test Match: Australia v. Eng- Innd.

An account of the third day's play by Alon Kippax, From irisbane |(Electrient recording).

0.33 p.m. Gitla Alpar (soprano) and Fritz Kreisler (violin).

10

London p.m. The

Accordeon Band.

Piano-

10.30 p.m. Jimmy d'Orsay and 1ts Orchestra..

11 p.m. Close Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wave-length and frequencies

Prequency Wavilengib

are observed by Daventry.

Sign

49.59 metres

CHA

GRIL

0,500 k

518

31.55 matrem

むむ

9.485

BEJD motren

GSD

11,75% c.

26,52 stre

OFF

11,283 ke

25.28 metres

GNU

17.700 4

|| 6.56||"metrEA

21.170 k.c.

*G5) ***** 13,260 ..

GSJ

vist

21.440 k.e.

6,110

melzen

13.57 matzen 30.68 19.66 mitre (1.30

Transmission 1

(0.8.3., 6.8.D.)

J. p.m.

metres

gen. “A Thieves" Klichen." 4.50 p.m. The First Cricket Teel Hatchi

Abstralia v. England.

4.4 p.. The D.0.C. Empire Orchestra. 5.20 p.m. - *Maxle and the Girdinary Listener'

~* 5,48” pin." The News" and "Annsunciineils, Greenwich Time Signal at 5.5 p.m. (0.9.1)., G.$.F., GSJ()

Transmission Z

(G.B.F., G.9.G. (1.8.3.)

7 p.m. Big Den. The House Faizy. 1.22 p.m. "The Pollesman'a Lot' 7.47 p.m. Jaydn Heard and hử Band.. 8.15 pm The Western Brother: Kenneth

and Georg

1.25 pm. The BEC

p.m.

Orchestes,

Northern Ireland

The News and Announcements. Ureenwich Time dignal at 9.15 pæn.

1.20 p.m. The First Cricket Test Matchi Anatralla v. England.

Dance Xasle. Transmission 3

9.33, p.m.

10 p.m. Die llen. Variety.

11.31 p.m. The H.D.C. Midland Orchestra. 11.35 p.m. The Fimi Cricket Test Match:

Australia v. England. 11.5 p.m. Tommy Tane's Tours'—1. 12.10.m. Denald Thore, ai the Özgen af

the Granada. Tosting. 17.30 am. The News and AnwenacesTEČA Growtwich Time Signal at 12.13 m.m. 12.60. Violin Swim by Oxigvil

Girl Vows

Silence As Love Ends

Sofia, Nov.-30. DEAUTIFFUL Bealljka Fanischev, D disappointed In love, has scaled her lips. She has not' spoken for six maniha.

The girl, daughter of a ledding Botla Industrialist, fell in love with a young, poor chemist, Milorad Dan- kulov, six months ago.

Two days after their meeting, the girl asked her father for permis- sion to marry the chemist. Her father declared that he would never_givo consent.

The girl, therefore, took a solemn path never to speak again. Dan- kulov left Sofia

Despite the pleas of her parents, the girl cannot be induced to break her oath of silence.

A serious accident occurred in posed by Mr, J. A. Fraser

of six months' hard labour, was ime young men hang back. Hennessy Road, Wanchal, yesterday, Central Magistracy this morning on

"There is the fear of militarism, momories of the dismal when car No, 178, driven by a man Chan Wal-nam, 44, unemployed, who routines they had to endure at school in the name of FT. and named Toa Yee, knocked down an) was charged with the possession of the fact that young men are much more self-conscious than the £10,000 London-Johannesburg.

unknown Chinese who died soon after 34 laels of raw oplum. Defendant

to

his admission the Government was arrested on board the Hell women," she said."

All forms of sporting activities are Clubs and similar

Civil Hospital. Another man, Leung Yuen on Saturday, following the dis-

also admitted to the same covery as a result of an accident of plura in the false included in the Caunell's scheme,

suitcase, by Constable

organisations

Air Race Widows.

To Get £2,000 Each

Mr. I. W. Schlesinger, who inspired

air race, has usled the Royal Aero Club to pay on his behalf £2,000 each to the widows of the two fiers, Captain Max. Findlay and Mr. A. H

in Rhodesia during the race.

Sau, wan Hospital Farm lorry in Des Voeux Road Cen-that he was asked by a friend to fencing, as well na gymnastics and fral. His condition is not serious,

take the oplum to Swatow..

He was knocked down by a Dalry C626. Defendant told his Worship/including boxing, swimming and vedy, which is prepared to offer help-Morgan, who crashed-and-were-killed...

athlètics.

have been amillated to this central and advice to any district. Th

But more instructors are urgently needed,

He has placed another £2,000. In trust for Captain Findlay's child fee

Summic

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