1936-12-11 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER

11, 1936,

Pearl King Enshrines The Souls

An Austrian

Of 50,000,000 Oysters

big-game húnter Messany has constructed this camera- fun to use in an expedition to Conoda, The apparatus

com-

poned of a telescope-camera mounted

on a gun.

63 BRIDES AGED 15

22 DIVORCED BEFORE 19

Berlin, Dec. 1.

girls married at the ages of fifteen to sixteen in Ger- many last year was sixty. three, twice as many as મ. year before, one bride being under fifteen.

THE number of

Marriages of girls aged sixteen to seventeen numbered 1,128, and of those aged seventeen to eighteen 4383, one being a widow * at seven- teen.

Twenty-two marriages of women under nineteen were dissolved.

There

were three cases .of quadruplels.-Central News,

CONFIDED

TO THE CARE OF BUDDHA

Isle of Pearls

(Japan); Dec. 1. HE souls of 50,000,000). THE

oysters that have served to turn a macaroni maker

into the pearl king of the Orient went to the bosom of Buddha on the Isle of Pearls to-day.

Kokichi Mikimoto bogan pearl culture many years ago, and

Fifty New Two Japanese

Sleuths

for Britain's

O.G.P.U.

FIFTY of the cleverest young politan Police Force have been

detectives In the Metro-

transferred Branch

to

the

Special

This section deals exclusively with spies and political agitators, and pro-

vides the personal guards for mem- bers of the Royal Family and states- men.

This marks a decision by the Gov- ernment to pay more serious atten- tion in future to this branch of the work,

WATCH ON ALIENS

Admirals See War Possible

Do

Preparations Along Yangtze Mean Threat To Japan? SITUATION IS TENSE BUT QUIET"

Outlook Is Described As Uncertain As Weather To-morrow

Nogoankl, Dec. 8. Two, Japanese Admirals to-day saw in alleged feverish. Chinese pre- parations for war along the Yangtze |

possibility that the Nanking Gov- crnment might challenge Japan to a fight,

"While on the one hand, the Non-

The Spanish civil war has been dimmed by the constitutional crials at Home, but this photograph serves a grim reminder that it is still rnging violently.

as

700,000 May

See "Quins"

Next Year

A number of the new men will be allocated to the duty of guarding the now

owns the most extensive distinguished visitors who are com king Government is pretending that oyster beds in the world. He is Ing from the Continent for the now 79 years old, and he believes Coronation. Others wil watch the it wishes to settle all issues with of suspected Japan peacefully, on the other, it is ports for the arrival

defences near strengthening land in the tradition that everything characters. that does good should be re- They do not concern themselves Shanghai, Nanking and along the. vered.

with ordinary criminal work but are Yangtze," they said.

The speakers were Rear-Admirat

Collander, Ontario, Dec. 1. the equivalent of the Out Eijiro Kondo, retiring commander of Russia, without, of course,

the Japanese Special Naval Land-plets home town are soaring es DEAL estafe values at the quintu- body's tyrannical methods,

Ing Party In Shanghai, and Reax- Admiral Seljiro Iwamura, chief of preparations are being made

700,000 visitors next staff of the Third Fleet, stationed in commodate

season, 200,000 more than last sum- Chinese waters.

tner.

Already in Japan cats that give

their skins for musical Instruments, dogs that served their masters well, and horses are enshrined and their¦. souls confided to Buddha,

which have

Oysicra

produced! pearls have certainly done good to: Kokichi Mikimoto, so he conceived: the idea of the ceremony whereby the routs of those that have made

millionaire should receive duel

honour.

At his family shrine gathered Mikimoto's relatives. friends. em- * Cins, priests and musicians. And while the ceremony was carried out the

ployees, appraisers of

Arst pearl an oyster ever made for

Mikimoto lay on the altar,

'ANT 25'-- REDS' NEW

'PLANE

that

Moscow, Dec. 1. ANT 25-a Soviet plane with balloon floats, whose range is claimed to be 7,500 miles, took

In

TENSE BUT QUIET Speaking, alternately, the officers, who have been transferred for duty at the Yokosuka Naval Base after serving for more than a year in China,

described the situation Shanghal as "tense, but quiet."

Commenting on the outlook of Sino-Japanese relations, one of the Admirals said "it is like to-morrow's weather. You don't know what may happen."

CHINESE "EXCITED"

ac-

Mr. Reeve Keeling, chairman of the local couneli, jubilantly declares that the village will be able to house 2,500 visitors daily next year.

A Toronto frm is negotiating for the purchase of property near Wisa- win Falls, South Callander, to con- struct a large hotel, golf course, ski traits, and so on.

"Motor-car parking is our biggest problem," said Mr. Keeling. "We As early as 1717 cultured pearls

are buying more land to accommo- . had been produced by the scientist

The nttitude of the Chinese, he

date cors and erecting signposts in- Reamur, but it was Mikimoto who off here to-day for Paria.

hard added, was to understand, dienting the direction of Callander. work. He really put oysters to

It will be shown at the 15th In-They seem to be as excited now as abandoned his macaroni shop and ternational Aviation Exhibition.

they were at the time of the Shang-1 In 1894 produced his first pearl,

Though it was not perfect, it was placed in the shrine, and to-day it is

The machine is being piloted by hai hostilities in 1932 and wild Carved New Set Chkalov and Baidukoy, with Beinkov

rumours are flying thick." as navigation ofleer. They piloted "Wo sincerely hope for peace," he

non-continued remarking that close-cont

the soul of souls" for the oyster the 'plane in a recent 5,85 made operation existed among the Japan-i

family.

By 1918 perfect pearls were being produced in abundance, and by 1930; four million oysters were being bred annually in the beds of the Miye prefecture.

stop fight for which They "Heroes of the Soviet Union."

run

The engine is, claimed efficiently for 100 hours, for which period the wing tanks store enough petrol-Reuter.

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