1936-12-17 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

A Million Will See the

King Go By

HUGE POLICE FORCE TO CONTROL CROWDS

OVER & in pop core alone to ceston 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 Ofice to provincial forces asking them to supplement the London police by drafts of selected ́men.

Major G. I. 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 is as follows:*

Over the procession route of six- and-n-half miles people 12 deep on either side of the road pecount for approximately 250,000,

Stands will hold 250,000.

On Roof Tops

Another 300,000 will be in win- dows, on roof tops, trees and other vantage points.

Plans are being made to utilise the special constables attached to the City of London during the week before the crowning ceremony.

Shot Man

Was Love

Intrigue Victim

The crypt under the Galldhall Police Change Theory

will be turned into a sleeping place

for 200 specials, who will each be

Kiven maitress.

They will obtuin food from canteen.

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Orders for 250,000 copies of the Coronation programme have already been placed throughout Britain, six

months before the event is due to take place.

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

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EXPLANATIONS

OF WORLD WAR

West, Hartford, Conn., Dec. 4. A curious reporter on a weekly paper stopped 28 school children, whose ages ranged from 0 to 15 years, and asked: "What Caused the World War?"

Here are a few of the replies: J. M., age 12 There are about million answers to that. Conditions had been so bad there for a long time when somebody shot the Archduke of Austria. That set thein

off

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

B. T., aged 13-Germany was at war and probably got all the others in. They would fight with one coun- try and bomb n ship of another country. That country would get angry and start to fight.

R-A-age-13-Who did they fight against?-United Press.

Los Angeles, Dec. B.

Captain Clyde Plummer.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1936.

SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY

Celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the University of Bhanghal, nearly 500 graduates marched across the beautiful Riverside campus into the auditorium, where speeches were delivered by Mr. 8. C. Wang, Minister of Education. Mayor Wa Te-chen, and Dr. John R. Sampey, among other promin- ent guests, Exercises were part of a three-day programme of celebration which concluded with a special thanksgiving service in the chapel. Our plcture shows part of the procession of alumuni, faculty and director marching into the auditorium.

Man Learning

Plans a Trip

(By A Special Correspondent)

to Fly

to

the

at at 74 Cape

up, and the pilot made the thing look iment and experience, and I feel sure to learn.

IN BAD WEATHER

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. I've given up all idea that he fly and is hoping that soon he will be

A 74-year-old man is learning too easy that I decided I should like I shall soon perfect this. committed suicide."

able to take off from Heston Airport The authorities. first thought on a solo fight to the Cape. that. Russell, a car salesman, He is Mr. Henry Ebbage, a consul- died by his own hand. Theyting optician of Kingston-on-Thames, hoping to fly solo soon. Ireopened the case only at the

Surrey. insistence of Russell's mother..

For several weeks experienced Baid he is pilots have been watching his pro- Captain Plummer scarching for information about Bress.

NEVER TOO OLD

Russell's love affairs. Russell was believed to be unmarried. but Mr. Ebbage said to-day that he there are now reports that he once does not think that the education of al spoke of an estranged wife and man is complete until he can pliot 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 n

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 tań old..

Detectives 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 a quest held.

Dip? 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: Reason, none."-United Press.

"I, George_Q._Gee, address none, this day,-I-commit suicide.

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but my progress has been slow be 'phoned me up one day and said the "I had lessons early in September, "I have no fear. My Instructor cause of my business. I have done weather conditions were not suitable about hours flying time and am for me to take my lesson, but sald I might ay if I wanted to. I agreed "I have learned to land and take and was not sorry. of. 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 too Mr. Ebbage said that he had been Aust, but it is all a matter of judg-driving a motorcar since 1915.

Ruxton Prosecutor

Writes Murder Play

M

R. G. PALING, prosecutor in the Ruxton murder trial, and Dr. Sidney Depree, a doctor who formerly practised in Blackpool, have written a murder play which is based on a real-life incident.

Mr. Paling writes under the pen-name "John Bennett." The play which has been entitled "Sentence of Death," deals with an ingeniously-devised episode in the life of a doctor.

The two authors have used their professional knowledge to the atmosphere of the drama. and experience to produce the authentic "local colour" essential

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

IL.

Dr. Depree sold:

"There have been suggestions that

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.

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Berlin, Dec. 10. The German army has greatly Mrs. Mason has moved into a new Mr. Kemp said: "I am convinced for messenger service. Canines promoted the efficiency of dogs home, built entirely by neighbours that it has great possibilities so trained after the new German 2305 And with materials donated by In-much so that I hope to produce it method can carry messages be- dividuals and firms in the city, after myself in Blackpool." spending more than 12 years in an old shack.

tween two points without having 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 know what the announcement was. the message is to be delivered to In addition the point to which

the small bungalow in the evenings

after finishing their regular day's

work

After the death of her husband

less, so sympathetic neighbours de-

last July, Mrs. Musin was left perint- GRAND DUCHESS cided 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. Each of the two "messenger dog"

at a strongly smelling liquid is spill-

soldiers assigned to a dog is equipped with a small can from which a drop

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 the two soldiers are some distance spart, The Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of one to the other by sticking to this the dog can deliver his message from the late Tear of Russla, is leaving scent.

Frogmore Cottage in the grounds of The new method is claimed to be

Windsor Castle, where she has lived for superior to those bitherto em- for many years.

ployed. The popular belict that HENRY JOHN LUSH died recently Before his abdication King Edward dogs follow the scent of their master at the age of 76, after nearly 50 be provided for the Grand Duchess experts. All dogs do is to follow a arranged that accommodation shall, is a myth, it is declared by German [years' confinement at Broadmoor.

general "man-acent" If dogs meet Lush WIS tried at Winchester at Hampton Court Palace.

a trail going in the same general Assizes, on January 6, 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 fake ginally been put-on, but then goes off He was found to be insane and was place next month. admitted to Broadmoor on February

at a tangent, they are just as likely No explanation for the change is trail. In fact they are more likely to to follow the right as the wrong

follow the wrong trail if the latter is more recent. Thorough experiments have proved the correctness of this contention; it is claimed.

10, 1037,

Some years ago he made a clever given in official 'circles. attempt to escape. With O small

grounds.g.

cutter (allowed to those who work) KING GEORGE'S GIFT he managed to cut through the floor King George V placed Frogmore boards under his bed In his cell on Cottage at the disposal of the Grand Another method was to let the dog 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 af 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. ::.

just between the two points. If the Although he was visited many times in the night Lush was always house.

Frogmore Cottage is a fairly large supposed receiver of their message. in bed when the night watch went including six large bedrooms and two yards to right or left, the dogs rarely A few years ago a new wing, changed his position by che-hundred his rounds:

Once under the floor ho encoun

The new method has obviated all tered great difficulties. He had to The Grand Duchess often enter these disadvantages. Now the dog cut his way through an air fue and tained members of her family al is not following his master's scent, at least three feet of soild brick Frogmore Cottage. Princess Yourso nor is it galloping over a stretch it work. After months of hard work upout, her daughter, was a frequent is accustomed to by habit. Now it he succeeded. Then he had only 10 visitor. So also were Prince Andrew races wherever its leader wants it to undermine the earth outside to get of Russia Prince Nikita of Russia, go always Anding its ways guided by: Hi liberty. But he burrowed the and Prince Dmitri of Russia, her the peculiar amell from the little

earth too near the surface. It fell sons, and their wives and children. “irop:cants

bathrooms, was added,

found him

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