1936-12-08 — Page 7

Blankets And Food

At Court Door

THRILL SEEKERS IN

SENSATIONAL

TOKYO CASE

Tokyo, Nov. 25. Thousands of thrill-seek- ers to-day gave the usually- deserted approaches to the Tokyo District Court the ap- pearance of the neighbour- hood of a theatre. The attraction was, the trial of Sada Abe, 32-year-old demi- mondaine, for the murder and mutilation of her lover.

From as early as noon yester- day, the vanguard of those seek- ing admission to the court room bogan settling down for a long

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1936.

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

New Names

Mrs. Edwin Belvin, chairman of the "Women of Washington," shown presiding over a mana meeting of the group at Beaitis protesting what they termed "racketeering" in the state. The group denounced Mayor Dore of Beattle' and 'Gov. Martin, accusing the former of "insulting the womanhood of this state because of their protest against unthink. able conditions,"

wait. They came equipped with MUTINY THREAT

food, drink, blankets and straw mats and prepared to weather a wintry night in the open.

For the first time in its history, the Tokyo District Court opened ni five o'clock in the morning, this to admit the 150 persons who had walt- ed longest on the ever-lengthening queue.

The others were turned away by reinforced police detalls, but, ly eight o'clock, new reserves had to be called out to drive away thousands of others who expected to get in.

Soda Abe was

was catapulted into the beadlines of the Japanese press fol- towing

the discovery, on May 18, of the slain body of Kichizo Ishida, a restaurant owner, who was inund lying strangled with I belt In blond-sodden bed at the Maski, a rond house in Ogu, Arakawa wheel, Tokyo, where he had beru staying with the womam fer one week.

GRUESOME DISCOVERY

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Besides mudflations the road-house waltress who made the gruesome discovery found the Chinese charac- ter for Sada carved on the man's right arm and the characters, "Sada, Kichi, we two" written in bland.

On the bedclothes near by, she in blood found another Inscription reading "Sada, Kichl, Just us two," while the character for horse had also been traced in gore on a paper writing tablet,

Police investigators immediately ascertained that the woman who had been seen in Ishida's company was Sada Abe, a waitress at his restaur- ann May 21, a police search party investigating guests-at--hotel-11- Shinagawa found Seda, who had registered there under an assumed the name. With her, they found mutilated she had carries of Ishida, which

about far four days. "I knew we could never lye hap-.{ plly together," she told police, re- marking that Ishida was married and

CONVICT

IN

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A

Plots In Sign Language

MACHINE-GUN

QUELL

THREAT TO

UNREST

London Nov. 29.

For British Warships

"FULL LIST OF 1936

PROGRAMME

The following names are to be Riven to the ships of the 1936 naval construction programme:

Battleships King George V. Prince of Walca.

Aircraft Cartlers-Illustrious, Vic- torious,

Cruisers (0.000 ton improved Southampton class)-Belfast, Edin- burgh.

Cruisers (new 5,000 ton class) - Dlito, Euryalus, Naiad, Phoebe, Siri.

Flotilla Leader.---Jervis.

DestroyersJnektai, Ingunr, Jamai- ca, Jenus, Javelin, Jersey, Jubilant, Jupiter.

Destroyers (Tribal class).—Ashin- ti, Bedouin, Eskimo, Mashona, Matabele, Punjabi, Sikh, Somali, Wartar

Minelaying Submarine (Porpoise class). Sral,

Submarines (Triton closs).Thetla, Triumph, Trident, Tribune.

Submarines (new small type). Undine, Unity, Ursula.

Sloop Minesweepers

(Halcyon

class)Eloxamer,-Leda, Seagull.

Convoy Escorts (Bittern class) Egret, lieron.

Coastal Sloop (Kingfisher class) Widgeon.

Surveying Ships.--Franklin, Jason (minesweeper type).

River Gunboat.--Scorpion. Special Service Vessels. Lassoo (tender to anti-submarine school). Linnet (tender to H.M.S. Vernon, torpedo school).

Trawlers.Mastiff, Mascot.

Tugs '(new type)-Brigand. Buc-

cancer,

As the name Jason has been ap- propriated for one of the surveying ships, the tug at Chatham bearing that name is being renamed Rival.

CONTRACTS PLACED

Contracts for the above have been placed, with the exception of the two aircraft carriers, the flye

RECENT disturbances at Parkhurst Prison,' news of which has leaked out in spite of official secrecy, are believed locally to indicate a state of unrest that may lead to organised mutiny. Motorists driving along the main road outside Parkhurst recently saw the gesticulating figure of a convict, armed with a garden fork, on the roof of the administrative block. MEY wałciwd while the convict, liberty, with the certainty of punish-class, three of the four

walked up to the clock tower, smashed the clock, and tore slates off the roof to hurl at warders below,

T

A few days ago a simlar thing

happened. A convict risked his life climbing a slack-pipe to reach the roof of another block. Flo Chrew a few slafes, but finally clambered back on the stack-pipe and slid down to give himself up.

is said that these esenpades me deliberately staged by convicts to de- monstrate to the outside word that all is not well ni Parkhurst.

By climbing on the roof a conviet cannot get more, than a brief spell of

had children. "I intended to kill A him and then kill myself. m sorry I caused so much trouble, but I don't feel I did anything wrong? I am sure Ishida is

happy. to die on the gallows smiling."

Sanity tests having proven th.. slit Vis sane, she was held charges of murder and desecration of the dead.-Domel.

HOW NOT TO CATCH A COLD-

90 per cent. Due To Infection DOCTOR PRAISES

PORRIDGE

ment at the end.

MACHINE-GUN THREAT

Vessels

RADIO BROADCAST

Hawaiian Music by Moana Beach Boys

TEST CRICKÉT RELAY

Radio Programme Broadcast by 2. D. W. on Wavelength of 355 31.40 metres metres (845_k.c.'s.), (9.52 megacycles).

12.30-2.10 p.m. European Pro- gramme,

12.30 p.m. Orchestral Music.

I p.m. Time Signal and Weather Report.

1.03 p.m. Jan Klepura (Tenor) with Albert Sandler and His Orches

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1.25 p.m. Reuter Press, Rugby | Press, Local: Weather Forecast, Time

and Announcements.

1.40 p.m. A Relay of the Notary Club Tima Speech from the Roof- Garden of the Hongkong Hotel,

Mr.

P. L. Collisson on: "Oddities of Audit."

2.10 p.m. Close Down.

4-7 pm. Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m. European Programme, 7 p.m. Light Orchestral Con- cort.

Liebestraum. Nocturne No. 3 (Liszt); Pelle Suite de Concert (Coleridge-Taylor); Saschinka (Pot- Dances). (Schirmann). pourri of Russian Gypsy Songs and

7.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.

7.35 pm. Les Allen (Baritone) and Gracie. Fields (Comedienne). Les Allen-Seein' is bellovin' Re- hearsing a lullaby: Gracle Fields

Erbert Enery Epplethwaite; You and the night and the music; Les Allen-Mine alone: Moon for sale: Gracie Fields-Film Waltz Songs- Medley; Loop up and laugh--Medley.

8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wen- ther Report and Announcements.

8.03 p.m. Primo Scala's Accor. deon Band.

"On with the Show" Selection; Slx

Hits of the Day-You can't pull the wool over my eyes; When the Riding the Range in the sky; In a swallows nest again; The Duck Song:

Gypsy Caravan,

cruisers of the new 5,000 ton e the flotilla Jender Jervis and the eight destroyers of the "Jovelin"

elin "Triton" class 8.30 p.m. Scottish Music, submarines, the three submarines, ‹

. of Orchestra Foursome; Soprano the new amall type, the two convoy Solo-Wee Willie Winkle (Robertson) escorts, the coastal sloop, the river....Boyd Steven: Band-Medley of two special service Scottish Airs: Tenor Solo-An Eris- Some of the leading figures of the unboal, the

kny Love Lili (Kennedy-Fraser). Dartmoor mutiny are now-nt Park-Vessels, and one of the trawlers.

The trawler Mascot is not to be a Joseph Hislop: Eand-Highland hurst, and rumours of unrest have

A trawler named Aston Scottische: Eightsome Reel: Tenor new ship, prevalled ever since their arrival.

Vill has been purchased and is Solo-Bonnie

Thing....John being re-named Moscot.

Edington. There are many

9 p.m. London News and names, in the above list which have not previously nouncements. been found in the Navy List, and 9.20 p.m. The First Cricket Test there are many which have been Match: Australla Y. England. An associated during this century with account of the fourth day's play by types of ships very different from Alun Kippax, from Brisbane (Elec- the new vessels which are to bear trieal Recording). 152

the names.

The climax was reached when one evening the military at the adjoining Infantry barracka wero ordered stand by. What went on in Parkhurst that night the out- side world may never know, but It was såld that matiers were serious that a machine-gun trained on the prison yard.

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The names of both the battleships have been borne by heavy ships in the Navy during the last thirty years. The last King George V, was one of a class of seven battleships com-

A search was made and certain imake-shift weapons were discovered with ende messages of thin paper rol led into tie balls.

The weapons included steel-ctaws-pleted-In-1912- made out of thick wire, with filed tips, bent to fit round the middle finger of the hund.

Parkhurst village is teeming with rumours of impending muliny.

The county, police force totals no more than 72 men--and there are 550

convicts in the prison.

Wee

An-

9.35 p.m. From the Studio. Hawaiian-Monna Beach Boys.

1. I want to learn 10 speak Howallan; 2. Kalua; The Nano- kali Hula; 4. Hestion Pandiner Aloha means I love you: . Then I'll be gnting home to you.

10 p.m...London Big Ben. A Talk: "Imperial Affairs" by H. V. Hodson.

10.16 p.m. Dance Musle. 11 p.an. Close Down..

The other ships of this class were Orlon, Conqueror, Monarch, Thunderer, Ajax, and Centurion. ten 13.5 inch guns-the same as the They carried main armament of

class. Of these ships the Centurion main armament of the Iron Duke is the only one still in existence. DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES She is the wirelessly controlled tar-

et ship of the Navy.

The following ware-length and frequeneles

The military are always close at -hand-in the event-of- Buch-n-culus-The last Price of Wales was comðarrved-by-Datenity--- retrophe. At the moment they num-pleted in 1904 at Chatham. She

It ber some 300,

carried four 12-inch guns and twelve 6-inch guns.

"There I want

is nothing herole in

cold. maining at work with n may, in fact, be a stupid and even very dangerous proceeding, for the sufferer or for someone else."

World's Only

Anointed King

DISTINCTION OF BRITAIN'S MONARCH

in these words Dr. Alan Moncrieff, Physician to Children's Department, Middlesex Hospital, summed up his lecture upon the vexed topic of the

the Institute cold to

common

Di Hygiene.

the Dr. Moncrieff investigated sources and origins of the "culd," its cure and its effects with special re- ference to the prevention of cold among children in winter.

"I think it would be agreed," he said. "that about 00 cent. of

per said, "that, 7000 colds arc

caught from another

TALES OF VIOLENCE The nearest available police rein- forvements are at Portsmouth, but even with the aid of a specially chur- tered bout these could not be on the scene in much less than an hour.

There is much speculation as to why the authorities are building 12 ( wall of solid concrete where the prison land fronts on the main rond.

A number of new punishment cells have also been completed. The con- victs refused to build them, so the work had to be done by Borstal boys from the neighbouring institution it

Hill.

AIRCRAFT CARRIERS The Jast ships to bear the names allocated to the new aircraft carriers were second-class battleships, similar to the last Prince of in armament completed in 1898 and the last Vic- Wales, The last Illustrious Was torious in the previous year. Both

nese ships were built at Chatham.

In the choice of names for the new "ous" which has become associated aircraft carriers the termination with aircraft Glorious, Courageous,

carriers through the is being continued.

and, Furlous,

Of the numes for the two new When King Edward VIII, iscent, are apparently home-grown."

cruisers of the 9,000-ton "improved anointed at the Coronation he

class,' Belfast is a tween "catching a cold" and "catch" story of violence leaks out. will be the only anointed King in

to the Navy List. ing colds,"

The convicts have built up their "Edinburgh," The former, he sug

on the other hand, the world,

gested, was a problem of epidemio- own system of communication-a siga dates from 1707. The first ship of language which can be carried on in the name belonged to the Scots the presence of warders without the Navy and was launched on the day latter being aware of it. So cleverly of the Union with England. has this been conceived that three or then the name, although at one time Since

may convey two or three sentences. four apparently quite normal actions it became Duke of Edinburgh, has been borne by Ave ships. The last four-funnelled cruiser built at

In 1904,

The anointing which will be per- formed by the Archbishop of Canter- bury, is of Scriptural origin. As part of a coronation ceremony it dates and from

earliest times, the symbolises the King's active relation ship with the Church as "Defender of The Faith."

sufferer and the remaining ten per spite of the veil of secrecy

drawn round the prison, siory after Southampton He thereupon, made distinction be-

logy.

"TINKERING" ~

From this thesis he proceeded lo an analysis of the various means of only prevention. Inoculation was

tinkering with the problem.” “I do not see," he went on, "how this enn

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name new

Was

It has undergone various modifien-·}***@marcet - My world--at-inrgs: ispe and the food question appear to sinni eruisers are new to the Navy

lons, but the three fold unction, which will be administered at King

•Edward's Coronation, was restored in

1802, and with cach anointing u separate formula will be used. The pure olive oil will have been con- secrated previously by the Arch- blaltop. The "christ" used for Edward VII. was consecrated before the ceremony, and King George V. was anointed with the chris" of that consecration.

THE TSAR

The Tsar of Russia was anointed to signify his alliance with the Eastern Church, but after his tragje-death in 1010, King George V. was the only remaining andinled sövereign' in the world.

survived

it

Pembroke The innumerable restrictions of red - None of the names for the five List. The new Euryalus will be the fifth ship of the name, and the new Dido will be the sixth ship to bear the naine,

since so many possible strains of the be the cause of the trouble. There virus or microbe, or whatever it may have been many instances where food be, are at work, and it is unlikely has been thrown at the warders who that resistance to all possible sources serve it, and where convicts, in help of infection can be achieved in the less rage, have lost control of them- Ilfetime of a single individual."

selves and smashed everything within reach.

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Effective preventive measures, in estimation, were the maintenance of resistance by sumcient food; the avoldance of excessive fatigue and "chilling"; rapid changing of wet elulbes,

donning of "sweaters" after exercise, use of overcoals when going

The Inst Dido was a two-funnelled eruiser which was launched at Glos- gow in 1996. Accident uttended her Meanwhile, the whole islund is ask-launch, for the ground. fell away ing what is really happening inside. from under the shipways, so that the People fear that big trouble is brew-ship was thrown Ing.

of the cradles and severely damaged, She lay holf In and half out of the water for ihree days before she was finally

out in the open air, and "bardening" "GERMANY WON THE floated, processes such as cold baths-pro- vided that they were carried on throughout the year.

Dr. Moncrieff emphasised strongly that sufferers from a cold should be isointed.

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I p.m.

nigen, Carrall (ibbons and

The Savey Hotel Orpheana,, 434 p.m. The Firat Cricket Test Match:

Australia v. England.

4.45 pm A Programme of Marches. 4.55 pm. The Policeman's Lot.

5.10 p.m. Beethoven's Bonata for Vinlin

and Plensforto=4. 5.10 p.m. The News and Announcements.

Greenwich Time Signal at 5.45 p.m. Transmission 2

(6.8, 0.8.0 6.5.11)

I p.m. Bl Ned. *Empire

No. 17.

Marucior,"

7.12 p.m. The B.B.C. Welsh Orchesten. 8.30 pm. Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy

Total Orpheusa.

p.. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 9.15 p.m. $20 p.m. The first Cricket Test Match:

Australia v. England. 5.35 p.m. Light, Munk,

Transmission 3.

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10 p.m. Big Ben, “Imperial Affairs,"

talk by . V. Hadson. 10.14 pm. Musical Comedy Balections, 10.45 p.m. Empire Bookshelf," Poems by Canadian authors, chosen..... by

11 p.m. Oxford v. Cambridge. Stugby, 11.30 p.m. Light Sentes. 12 m. The Fire Cricket Test Matchs

Australia . England. 12.15 am. Dance Maske. 17.30 am. The News and Annatincements.

Greenwich Time Alzne? at 12.48 mM, 12.50 a.m. The Philip Whiteway Ensemble,

War

borne by destroyers built under the programmes. The emergency names of the new class of small sub- marines were also those of war- time, destroyers.

It

noteworthy that one of the

new "Triton class" submarines is to

be named Thetis. The lust Thetis

Of the destroyers, Jamaica, Jave- was on old cruiser used as a block-

in, and Jubliant are now

NATACE,

Яung,

STREICHER'S, REASONING

ship of the raid on Zeebrugge to while Jupiter in a very old name, prevent the use of that port by Ger- Berlin, Dec. 1. last associated The Rev. C. E. 'Douglas told

with a heavy ship.

man submarines. The last Triumph Herr Streicher, leader of the Ger- The first Jupiter was London

Dutch ship was a second-class battleship com- newspaper representative

mun unti-Jewish campaign, speaking captured at the battle of Schooneveld pleted in 1804, and carrying four 10- that the ceremony. of anointing Very young babies, he continued, at Cologne, said: "The question of on May 28, 1673. Her service in the inch guns and fourtcen 7.6-inch was now confined to the Church of might catch a simple cold from an who won the war has long been de British Navy was short, for she was England. No Protestant country, hr. adult who was slightly affectedcided in Germany's favour. pointed out had had the ritual, but with fatal consequences. As regards country like France, where strikes day.

Arecaptured by the Dutch the same the ceremony at Coronations in Eng-chlidren, the timing of the dally continually occur and new land had

from carlier observance.

He stated that Kingz Ferdinand of Bulgaria abdicated before the death of the Tear, and the King of Italy was not anointed because of the quarrel with the Pope, although it was probable that his successor would be ex-King Alfonso of Spain was ad not anointed..

'fronts'

The second Jupiter was also a are always cropping up, and a prize, being a French privateer cap- country like Britain, whose Fascists tured in 1762. The last Jupiter was and patriotic citizens are attacked by misled compatriots, could never have 1897, and almilar to the last Prince a second-class battleship built in won the war. Nor could America, of Wales, filustrious, and Victorious. where strikes are also the order of The new destroyer will be the ninth the day.

Jupiter to have served in the Navy. The names of all the "Tribal cina" destroyers are new except Sikh and Tarlar. Both these

nime# were

outing to coincide with the sunniest hours of the day; the taking of the outing in any conditions except fog; the changing of damp footwear at school-all might aid in prevention. And the speaker concluded with a eulogy of the dally pinte of porridge.

"I; personally," he said, "deprecato "First, the Jews won the war, and the attack on cereals which appears then Germany won it, because she to be the scientific tendency to-day." broke the Jewish rule,"

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