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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1936.

A Million Will See the

King Go By

HUGE POLICE FORCE TO CONTROL CROWDS

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VER a million people are expected to fill London's streets

on the day of the Coronation procession next year. As the 20,000 police and 12,000 "specials" will be unable to cope with the crowds, an invitation will be sent from the Home Office to provincial forces asking them to supplement the London police by drafis of selected men."

Major G. IL B. de Chair, who has just been appointed| Deputy Organiser of Police for Ceremonial Occasions, is already busy making his plans to deal with the traffic.

The Coronation crowds will be controlled by the largest force} of police ever seen in London,

The estimate of the distribution

of the crowds in as follows:

Over the procesalon route of six- and-a-half miles people 12 deep on elther aide of the road nccount for approximately 250,000.

Stands will hold 250,000.

On Roof Tops

Another 600,000 will, be in win- dows, on roof tops, trees and other vantage points.

Plana are being made to utilise the special constables attached 10

the City of London during the week before the crowning ceremony.

The crypt under the Guildhall

will be turned into a sleeping place for 200 sperisis, who will each be -given a maitress.

'canteen.

1

Orders for 230,000 copies of the Coronation programme have already been placed throughout Britain, six months before the event is due to Lake place.

The programme, which is being prepared by King George's Jubilee Trust, will contain a special message from the King.

Shot Man

Was Love

Intrigue Victim

Police Change Theory

Los Angeles, Dec. 8.

Captain Clyde Plummer

SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY

Celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the University of Shanghai, nearly 500 gradusies marched across the beautiful Riverside campus into the auditorium, where speeches were delivered by Mr. S. C. Wang, Minister of Education, Mayor Wu Te-chen, and Dr. John R. Samper, among other promin- ent' quests. Exercises were part of a three-day programme of celebration which concluded with a special thanksgiving service in the chapel. Our pleture shows part of the procession of alummi, faculty and directors marching into the auditorium.

Man Learning

Plans a Trip

(By A Special Correspondent)

to Fly

to

the

at at 74 Cape

They will obtain food from chief investigator into the Russell on writer Gouver- mysterious shooting of Reid

neur Morris's Los Angeles estate, said to-day: "I've come to the conclusion that his death was a love murder.

up, and the pilot made the thing look ment and experiènec, and I feel surc A 14-year-old man is learning to to learn.

so easy that I decided I should like I shall soon perfect this. I've given up all idea that heny and is hoping that soon he will be

IN BAD WEATHER committed suicide.”

"I had lessons early in September, able to take off from Heston Airpori but my progress has been slow be-phoned me up one day and said the "I have no tear. My instructor The authorities first thought on a solo flight to the Cape.

cause of my business. I have done weather conditions were not suitable that Russell, a car salesman, He is Mr. Henry Ebbage, a consul-about a hours flying time and am for me to take my lesson, but said I died by his own hand. They ting optician of Kingston-on-Thames,

hoplug to fly solo

soon.

might fly if I wanted to.. I agreed reopened the case only at the Surrey,

"I have learned to land and take and was not sorry. off. I have been in three spins and now know how to correct them.

"I am learning navigation. That is essential if one wants to be a real "My difficulty is in landing. I pilot." sometimes come down a little ton Mr. Ebbage said that he had been fast, but it is all a matter of judg-driving a motorcar since 1915.

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R. S., age 10 Germany started it The Kaiser did it. The Kaiser sank a ship. Don't ask me why he did it. H. M., nge 12-Somebody got kill- ed. Some country got angry and the other country butted In. They dragged in everybody else.

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insistence of Russell's mother. For several weeks experienced Captain Plummer said he is plots have been watching his pro- searching for information

about

gress. Russell's love affairs. Russell was

NEVER TOO OLD believed to be unmarried, but Mr. Ebbage said to-day that he there ate now reports that he once does not think that the education of a spoke of an estranged wife and a man is complete until he can plot child in Texas,

an airplane.

Gun experts to-day revealed that the gun found In Russell's hands when his body was found in a lawn swing had not been fired for more than a year.

"I want to show the young men of to-day," he said, "that as one is never too young to learn, neither is a man- loo old.

Delectives, indicated that this in- "It was while at Heston Airport on formation would mean that Russell's Empire Air Day that I had the urge. body would be exhumed and an in-One of the pilots said 'What about af quest held.

flip? Why not, I thought. I went

SHORT

STORY

San Francisco, Nov, 21.

George Q. Gee would qualify as a short story writer-very short if he were living to-day.'

Beside his body on the Skyline boulevard, police found this note: “L......George. Q... Gee, -address-none, this day, I-commit suicide: Renson, none."-United Press.

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Mr. Jack Kemp, ploneer of the stare movement in Blackpool, a prominent theatre critic, has predicted "great possibilities”, for

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"JACKS" BUILT it was based upon the Ruxton trial. Woburn, Mass., Dec. 1, It is not. The play was finished Mrs. J. E. Mason lives in a house long before the trial began." that "Jacks" built

German Army Goes To The Dogs

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Rose Marlo.- Song Indian Love Call

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Berlin, Dec. 10. The German army has greatly promoted the efficiency of dogs Mrs. Mason has hoved into a new Mr. Kemp said: "I am convinced for messenger service. Canines horne, built entirely by neighbours that it has great possibillies-so trained after the and with materials donated by in-much so that I hope to produce it method can carry messages be-

new German 2305 dividuals and firms in the city, after myself in Blackpool." spending more than 12 years in an

tween two points without having old shack.

The chairman (Mr. W. W. Wright) to be led over the trail before. Carpenters, plumbers, bricklayers, said the committee would like electricians and truckmen completed

to In addition the point to which

The small bungalow in the evenings know what the announcement was. the message is to be delivered after finishing their regular day's

work..

After the death of her husband

last July, Mrs. Mason was left penni- GRAND DUCHESS

less, so sympathetic neighbours de-

elded to erect a new home adjacent to XENIA TO MOVE

her old shack-United Press.

DEATH AFTER

50 YEARS IN BROADMOOR Once Nearly Dug His Way Out

FROM FROGMORE Apartments at Hampton Court Palace

may be moved at will, a thing which often becomes necessary

under fighting conditions.

A little "drop can" does the trick. Ench of the two "messenger dog"

soldiers assigned to a dog is equipped

with a small con from which a drop

of a strongly smelling liquid is spill-

ed every

few yards. The scent of the liquid is peculiar and does not exist in nature. Dogs can easily be trained

to follow that scent. Thus when tho two soldiers are some distance spart, the dog can deliver his message from The Grand Duchess Xenla, sister of one to the other by sticking to this Frogmore Cottage in the grounds of the late Tsar of Russia, is leaving scene new method is claimed to be

The Windsor Castic, where she has lived far superior to those Bitherto em- for many years.

ployed. The popular bellet that dogs follow the scent of their master Before his abdication King Edward

is a myth, it is declared by German at the age of 16, after nearly 80 arranged that accommodation shall experts. All dogs do is to follow a |years' confinement at Broadmoor. be provided for the Grand Duchess general "man-scent". If

dogs meet

HENRY JOHN LUSH died recently

Lush waa

tried at Winchester at Hampton Court Palace,

a trail going in the same general Assizes on January 8, 1887, for No date has been fixed for the re-direction as the one they have ori- shooting a man dead in the street, moval, but it is expected to take ginally been put-on, but then goes off He was found to be insane and was place next month. admitted to Broadmoor on February

15. 1887.

No explanation for the change Some years ago he made a clever given in official circles.,

attempt to escape. With a small

culter (allowed to those who work)

KING GEORGE'S GIFT

at a tangent, they are just as likely to follow the right as the wrong in trail. In fact they are more likely to follow the wrong trail if the latter is

| more recent. Thorough experimenta have proved the correctness of this King George V placed Frogmore contention, it claimed, boards under his bed in his cell on Cottage at the disposal of the Grand Another method was to let the dog

he managed to cut through the floor-

the ground floor. It must have taken Duchess, his first cousin, When the travel over a given stretch which it him many, weeks to make a hole big Court was at Windsor the Grand had travelled at least once before. enough to get through, but he used Duchess was often seen walking with But then, it is declared, even the to sweep his own room out, so his the King and Queen in the castle most intelligent, dogs would travel plan was not discovered.

grounds.

Just between the two points. If the Although he was visited many times in the night Lush was always Frogmore Cottage is a fairly large supposed receiver of their message

changed his in bed when the night watch went including six large bedrooms and two found him.

A few years ago a new. wing yards to

position by one-hundred house.

right or left, the dogs rarely his rounds.

Once under the floor he encoun

bathrooms, was added.

The new method has obvinted all tered great dificulties. He had to The Grand Duchess often enter these disadvantages. Now the dog cal his way through an air flus and tained members of her family at is not following his master's scent, at least three feet of solid brick-Fragmore Cottage. Princess Yousso-nor is it galloping over a strelch it work. After months of hard work, upoff, her daughter, was a frequent is accustomed to, by habit. Now it he succeeded. Then be had only to visitor. - So also were Prince Andrew inces wherever its leader wants it to undermine the earth outäide to get of Russia, Prince Nikita of Russia, go always finding its way guided by his liberly. But he burrowed the and Prince Dmitri of Russia, her the pecullor, smell from the little

earth too near the surface. It fell sons, and their wives and children. "drop can".

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