1936-12-07 — Page 7

WOMAN'S GREENLAND ADVENTURE

ELLA MAILLART, only white woman to to penetrate the mysterious frozen plateaux north of the Himalayas, is planning a new exị pedition-into the wastes of Greenland.

She wants to be a "eltizen of the world," she said recently; to know what is happening in every corner of the carth, and to understand the people of every trive and nation.

"At first my motive was merely a passion for travel, but now I want to see for myself the things that Be behind what politicians and rulers and newspapers' nay,” she added.

INTERLUDE"

Meanwhile, she has packed away her corduroy trousers and sheepskin verta with her compass, brass cooking-pots and revolver, and la thoroughly, enjoying an "Interlude of civilisation", in London.

"There is no joy like that of travelling alone in undiscovered, wild country, and seeing something new

she said..

every dayllart has cooked in the open ni 00 degrees |

Ella

of frost and faced capture by pirates, Communists, or Chinese rebels" as being all in the day's work,

But she admitted that after n 3,500-mile trek of seven months from Pelping across Central Asia to India it was thrill-to-culike goatskin_nnd sacking off her | fect, take a hot buth and put on salin shoes,

WORLD OF UNREST

What has struck her most during her travels is the unhappiness and unrest she ands everywhere.

Nomad traders of the "silk roada"

of Tartary are affected as well as dwellers in great cities.

"The whole world is ruled by Im- perialism," she said. "The nations are not thinking of peace but of mak-

themselves stronger.

ing

"One hears exactly the same words among Japanese and Western high officials alike. They both speak of doing good by extending their own power. And that invarinbly means more machine guns and bombers."

In every nailon Miss Maillart has found "a few free-thinking indivi- dunla," but they are only voices In the wilderness.

TURKEY TAKES

A RIDE

Geneva, Nov. 24.

THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH A MONDAY,⠀⠀⠀ DECEMBER 7, 1986.

P. Tracy Brig. Gen. Joseph soon will become commanding general of the Ninth Corps Artillery District, comprising oll of the US Army's defence,forti-

Bentions on the Pacife Coast, He is a world authority, on fixed fortifications and harbour de

FORGOT

FIRST

TWO

HIS

BRIDES

Capetown, Nov. 24.

N ex-soldier who declared that he had

a subsequent

marriage has been sentenced for bigamy at Capetown.

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RADIO BROADCAST

Football Talk By

Lee Wai-tong

CRICKET TEST MATCH

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on i wavelength of 353

netres (845 k.c.'s), 31.49 (9.52 megacycles).

metres

12.30 p.m. The Mills Brothers and

p.m. Timo and Weather. 1.03 p.m.

The legal marringe took place at Hook, near Nat Gonella and His Georgiane. Surbiton (Surrey), in February, 1917, and the secon ceremony at Port Elizabeth (South Africa).

The "forgetful" husband, Terence Desmond Ernest Ashbourner, pleaded guilty to three counts of bigamy.

Lions.

+

Light Orchestral Selec-

1.30 p.m. Reuter Press. Weather, Time and Announcements.

1.40 p.m. Variety.

2 p.m. Viennese Valtzes, 2.15 p. Close Down.

the

pm. Dance Music from

of the Hong Kong

He was sentenced to 12 months, the sentence being suspended for three years on condition that he con- | Roof-Garden tinued to live with and support a woman whom he had "married" in Preturin and also supported her son..

Ashbourner gave evidence that he had been dis- charged from the Army tes medically unfit.

While in England on leave, after being wounded, it ppegred from documents that he had married woman in Surbiton.

"I have no recollection of that marriage or of Taving met the worshilsaik'Ashbourner..

Mr. Pemberton-Billing

Is Planning A

New Flying Surprise

EV

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

By J. D. S. ALAN

Mr. Pemberton-Billing has col-1 persuaded him to show me his Jected some of the best brains in cheap two-senter. the engineering Industry round him, perfecting

A long train and boat ride

revolutionary designs lies ahead of a Kansas Christmas frecung Gying over land and sen. turkey if the Topeka Chamber of

Some of tids flying will be very ex- Commerce keeps its word. pensive, and some may probably pre- vide the cheapest type of aviating The turkey has been promis-ever devised.

People to David Vango,

ple who knew P.-B. in the ed, anyway,

old da

days are expecting something Norwegian chief of the Safety |

ally staggering. really Service of the International La- One of his minor brain "pets" is a bour Office here, who travelled two-seater plane of exceptional-sim- all-the-way-from-Geneva toplicity strength, and cheapness.

He is working in secrel, but I ran Topeka to represent the I.L.O. at

him to earth in his up-Thames the Convention of Accidents retreat.

Boards and Commissions. That netted 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. However, ho-saya he has received -assurances-that-the-turkey-will be delivered here--dead or alive- on December 25,

Beanwhile, he is sharpening up his best carving-knife.

13 SURVIVE 586

MILES TREK

IAFTY ... ex-Bervice

me

left

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

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

580-

AUSTRALIAN BAN ON

Girl Vows Silence As. Love Ends

Sofia, Nov. 30. QEAUTIFFUL Besiljka Pantachev, disappolated in love, has sealed She has not spoken for six

her lips. montha The girl, daughter of a leading Solin 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. Iler would father declared that he never give his consent. The girl, therefore, took a solemn oath never to speak again. Dan- kulov left Sofa.

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

Air Race Widows

J

"Then 1 came back to

South Africn, but I do not remember woman in Port having married a Elizabeth.'

Ashbourner morrled in Potchef- stroom and served eight months for bigamy, after which he remarried hride who left hie Potchefstroom him in 1922.

He was, he said, legally advised that he was free to marry again,

The woman with whom Ash- bourner was living gave evidence that he had been "wonderful

father."

'Father Bans Lipstick?

MISS

0

MISS MARY GLORIA PERRY, aged 18, fr court petition directed against her parents at Oak- land, California, complained that her father beat her because she used face powder and rouged her lips.

Hotel.

6:30p.m. Layton and Johnstone Memories.

0.43 p.m. The Band of H.M. Grenadier Guarda.

7.10 p.m. Carroll Gibbons and His Boy Friends,

7.30 p.m. Stock Quotations. 7.85

(Tenor):"

p.m. Charles Kullmun 745_p_m A Talk an Football by Lee Wai Tong, Captain of the Chinese Olympic Football Team.

8 p.m. Time, Weather, and An- nouncements.

8.05 p.m. Relay from Tel Ping Theatre (Chinese).

11 p.m. Close Down.

8.05-11 p.m. European Pro- gramme from Z. E. K. on a fre- quency of 640 kilocycles.

8.05 gramme.

p.m, A Variety Pro-

Song-Melody from the sky...... Frances Langford; Banjo Solos-La Vivandiere: Jay Dance......Ernest Jones; Songs--We were dancing; Parisian Pierrot......Noel Coward; Plano Ducis-King of Burlesque→→ Medley: Three Hit-Medley, Jack Wilson and

Jimmy

Lench; Vocal Duets Cheer up;

can't pull the wool over my суса...... Curtis and Ames; Song-I'm n

fool for loving you......Dinah Miller; Hawalan Samoan

Love Song: Nohen 1 Muolau Lan!..............Andy Iona and His Islanders; Songs You sweet, Madame; Tzinga look

Maurice Chevaller. Doodle-Day. 8:50 p.m.

"Af the Tchaikovsky Fountain"Fantasia (Urbach).

p.m. London-News and An- nouticements.

9.20 p.m. The First Cricket She also complained that she hadTest Match: Australia

. Eng- never been allowed to go out with a

land. boy friend.

It is made of steel cycle tubes, mostly welded in triangles. The single main plane is meial cover- ed. There are no bracing wires. 'There are only two controls instead | friend be appointed her guardian. of the usual three.

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

NEW FLYING GAME

He has also invented a game which reproduces nil flying conditions.

It consists of maps marked with air router round the world, distances, und nerodromes.

slide

The gome

played with a rotary rule and model acroplanes. This game

tame is probably the first of Its kind in the world to go into the third

elimension, for the 'planes can

and

to 10,000ft. on a graded scale

move in any direction.

The rotary rule, which is more fancluating than a a roulette wheel, players a „chance. of climb.. ing of advancing, or combining both. It rives one of eight points of the compass, the strength of the wind, and such hazards as for or engine fallure,

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

ATOMS BY

She asked that a married woman

£2,500,000 ORDER

FOR BRITAIN

NEW EGYPT BARRAGE

Cairo, Nov. 24. The British Arm of Macdonaldi, Gibbs and Co. Ltd. has officially been awarded the big contract for build- ing a new della barrage. The firm luid submitted a tender of £2,487,000,

Tenders were ‘submitted by eight other British firms, two French firms -and--one- German--- company:-They ranged from £2,380,000 to £2,950- 000. The successful tender was the lowest but one.

The present delta_barrage, which regulates the supply of water for the whole of Lower Egypt, was built more than 100 years ago by a French firm.

Reuter

PHOTOGRAPHED

SCIENTISTS

"WHAT you are looking at in the camera," said the

professor, "is a fraction of one facet of a sapphire magnified fifty million times."

At the Imperial College of Science, South Kensing- ton, is a camera that photographs atoms.

As a result of the pictures taken by fit. It is now possible to make perfect sapphires, it may be possible for ships

and airplanes to carry much greater

weight, writes Constance Waller in the London Sunday Express.

To Get £2,000 Each Mr. I. W. Schlesinger, who inspired the £10,000 London-Johannesburg air race, has asked the Royal Aero Everything in the world is compos- Club to pay on his behalf £2,000 ed of atoms. In each substance the cach to the widows of the two fillers, atome-this camera has discovered Captain Max Findlay and Mr. A: H. are in regular patterns. On the Morgan, who crashed and were killed photographs they look like constella- in Rhodesla during the race.

ilons.

Why?

ENGLISHWOMAN TO"FIGHT THE ISSUE"

Syılnéy, Nov. 24. Mrs. M. M. Freer, the English woman who yesterday, was refused He has placed another £2,000 in Chromium will not "take" on iron, permission by the Austratlan immi- | trust for Captain Findlay's child, gration authorities to land from the P. and O. liner Maloja, declared_to- day that she was determined to "ight the issue." She had, she added, a British passport enabling her to land in any British Dominion.

Mrs. Freer, who is the wife of an Indian Army officer, ond 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- General of South Australia, Lord

Gowrie. If that fails, she has asked Lady Cave to approach the British Government.

in Italian. Mrs. Freer

Wns not

Women

Beat Men

In Fitness Race

HE young men of Great Britain are still lagging far behind THE The fatter of physical sess.

This was revealed to a London reporter, recently by the or- ganfsing secretary of the Central Council of Physical Training, which has just issued its first annual report.

The national health campaign has made little appeal to the

EXPERIMENTS

Because the atom pattern of chro-

mlum does not fit the atom pattern of

iron.

So they experimented until they found a third, metal whose pattern is different from both but will Et In with both. A

strip of this is put over the fron before the chromium is put in, Then all is well.

An account of the third day's play by Alan Kippax, From Brisbane (Electrical recording),

9.35 p.m. Gitta Alpar (soprano) and Fritz Kreisler (violin).

10

London p.m. The

Accordeon Band,

Piano-

10.30 p.m. Jimmy d'Orsay and His Orchestra.

11 p.m. Close Down,

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following ware-length and frequencies are observed by Daventry.

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5.683. ke 11,754° 12. 11,885 .

15,140

25.28 15.823

14.

· 13.91 ~-matres

Sign

Frequency

Wavelength,

GRA

6.500 k... 45.59

#519 k.c.

31.35

metres

CAC

31.20 metron

GSD

75.4% mutred

GHE

metres

GBF

CBG

- 17.790 k.c.

stres

GAI

21,470-25

CSI

14,260 k.c.

19.46 matres

C8J

21,610 h.c.

19.46 metres

GKL

6.110 k.. 49.10 metred Transmission” I

4.

Ben. 'A Thieves" Kilchen." 4.39 p.m. The Pist Cricket Test Hatekt

Australia v. England.

4.46 pan. The B.B.C. Empire Orchestra. 1.20 p.m. Maxle and the Ordinary Listener

3.40 p.m. The News and Announcementa. Greenwich Time Bignal at 45 pan. (G.B... d.F., CAN.)

Transmission 2

(G.A.F. 0.80 GBH,1

1. Big Ben, "The House Fairy." 7.22 p.m. The Policeman'a Lot. 7.47 p.m. Haydn Heard and his Band, 1.15 pm. The Western Brothers: Kenneth

Rad Gears

1.28 p.m. The C. Northern Ireland

Orchestra.

The_News_und Announcements,

- Greenwich Time Signal at 1.13 p.6,

1.20 p.m. The Pit Cricket Teal Matchr Australia v. England. 135 păm.' Dance Musle,

Transmission 3

10 p.m. Die Ben. Variety.

11.35 5.m. The BBC. Midland Orchestra, 11.35 p.. The First Cricket Test Match: Australia. England, 11.50 p.m. Tommy Tang's Thurs-1. 12.16. Donald Thore, at the Organ of the Grenade, Tooting. 12.49 um. The News and Arvernersamula, Greenwich Time Bignal at 22.45 am. 12.60 .m. Vialin Kalan by Ralgeti,

Z.B.W. PROGRAMMES

Engines will take only a certain MONTHLY REPORT ANALYSES amount of weight. Why?

to

The

ENTERTAINMENT

Because the oil that is used grease them is made of nioms which stand straight up in rows. Too great November states actual hours of

weight bends them over, and $0

destroys the nature of the oil.

What they are trying to find now is some substance to put in the all whose atom-pattern will fit the oil atoms in such a way that I will lock them in their upright positions

IN CHILD'S TOOTH "We shall do that quite easily" said Professor Finch,

Then he will lote all interest in the

matter.

Z.D.W. for

report from transmission totalled 207.75 of which 178.76 were devoted to European Programmes and 89 to Chinese Pr Europcart granimes, as follows:

transmission Including Morning commercial news and church relays, 117

61 evening transcy Chinese, 2%, and 16%

percentages were, The monthly European, 56.70; and Chinese, 33.24. During the month the following items were broadcast: Dance pro- grammes, 32; European

studio concerts, 18

con-

While *airplane

manufacturers, steamship companies, and Govern ments may be having to revise their certs, 17; Chinese studio 20; Running buliding programmes because of his European local ropean Daventry studying the atoms in the enamel of relays discovery, he will be contentedly commentaries, 4; Europ

rel (including news), 40; Chinesc a child's tooth.

Duetan, lectures, 10;. "We are interested only in the sure children's concerts, 4: Chinopean face of things," sald Professor. Finch.

The Commonwealth Government young men of the country, has not yet disclosed its reasons for Miss Colson, the secretary, gave the three reasons why the rofusing Mrs. Freer permission to land after giving her a language test young men hang back.

There is the fear of militarism, memories of the dismal allowed to leave the Maloja to-day. routines they had to endure at school in the name of 'F.T. and "That is the value of our camera. An Mr. W M. Hughes, the war-Ume the fact that young men are much more self-conscious than xX-ray can show you the inside but

wit was not possible before to Prime Minister of Australia, to-day women," she said.

judy stated that he lendw of no previous

Clubs and similar organisations the surface thoroughly. All forms of sporting activities:ore).

This camera photographs to case of a British subjest, not being included in the Council's scheme, have, which is prepared to offer help depth of only one-millionth of a cen-

been affiliated to this central allowed to land, except on political

Limetre. grounds, which did not arise here, including boxing, swimming, and and advice to any district.

That is enough. Wo know Mr Frees says that the whole affair fencing, as well as gymnastics and But more, Instructors are urgently that the 'stom pattern is the same all 'is a 'domestic concern.

{through,"**" riceded.'

athletles.

Chinese dren's concerts, d

11;

CHL-

Now licences issued during Novem

1036, totalled 172, bor,

In addition to the programmes broadcast by Z.B.W., 48 broadcast, by Z.E.K. on a frequency European and Chinese programmes were of 640 kilocycles as follows: Euro- penn; 27 hours; Chinese, BB. hours,

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