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THE "HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1936.

EUROPE'S AIR STRENGTH: THE FACTS Five Leading Powers Have Put 8,000 Planes in Commission

Vera Love's Festive Follies

. Still

wearing his famous grin,

Warner

Baxter, film actor, arrives in Hollywood after an elk hunting trip In Utah that ended dis-

astrously for hunter and hunted. Just after Baxter downed a 300-pound bull elk be

fall, frac turing his

ankie in two places and spraining his

leg. Ho rodo threo

hours horse- back and drova his auto 40 bours

for reaching medical ald.

Gripps Show Was Huge Success Saturday

3,000

RUSSIA'S GREAT

FORCE OF

3,100 MACHINES

By McSCOTCH (famous war-time pilot)

From authentic sources on the Continent I have just completed a census of the relative air strengths of the great Powers,

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Some figures which I have obtained do not agree with those which had been published elsewhere.

But I am satisfied and I have gone to the precaution of double-checking my information from abroad-that my figures are the inost accurate survey of the European, situation obtainable to-day.

The latest details disclose that in, all there are nearly 8,000 lighting planes already in commission in Europe.

Of these 5,000 are bombers capable of dropping from 250lb. to two tons of bombs at places 500 to 800 miles distant from their Bases.

Here are details of the comparative air strengths of the European Powers:

Nussia has 3,100 planes, Britain has 1,417-but only 902 are on

slightly inferior to our own, my information, which I am shortly to. of confirming, improved to such an

home stations-Italy has 1,350 ma- have the option methods

elines, France has 1,000, and Ger.) is that the many has between 950 and 1,000, have now In most of the European forces extent that before 1033 the Germans the establishments are being main-may have a total strength of nearly tained. In a state in which they

4.000 first-line acroplanes manned could be ready for attack or defence by pilots whose training is probably within fifteen minutes,

the most rigorous in Europe.

Both France and italy have many planes less serviceable than our advanced training machines. France's total strength early in 1037 will be 1,500, according to a recent speech by General Denain,

Early next year Italy will have 1,000 inchines if their factories keep up the present 00-hour week) The remalmler

are heavy schedule. bombers, which can be used dn transport for dropping troops and

FAST FIGHTERS Thussia, with 3,100, Arst-line Bir- craft, is by far the most formidable force in Europe.

Approximately 1,000 of her machines are Aghters capable of speeds between 230 und 250 miles an hour..

RUSSIAN GIRLS MAKE BIG APPEAL artery by parachute at dis-

By "FIRST NIGHT”

AN exceptionally large crowd, augmented after midnight by members of the cast and audience of the Philharmonic produc- -tion of "Maid of the Mountains" vociferously welcomed Vera Love and her Ten Festive Follies in the Grill Room of the Hongkong Hotel on Saturday night.

The eleven Russian girls, who come here from a 21⁄2 year season at the Paramount Ballroom in Shanghai provide, by sheer weight of numbers, Į

type of entertainment of a calibre seldom witnessed In this part of the world.

They gave three numbers on Satur-

day night and ench was superb. The i

tances up to 150 miles from the base.

Bistance

Manufacture and training in Russia is organised on such a scale

that within two years the strength may be as great as 12,000 planes.

GERMANY'S SPEED-UP Although it is generally admitted that the German machines

Socialist Names For

Bre

Coronation Honours

final number-n Caucasian Dance, I: MR. BALDWIN will shorty invite the Socialist Party executive

probably the best cabaret item sten!

in Hongkong this decade.

The other two numbers-a

slow

rhythmatic flower dance and a Mill,

tary Tap were almost

par, and

and the General Council of the T.U.C. to submit names of prominent members of Coronation honours. King George VI is anxious that

were responsible for Incessant apat his Coronation all party plause that did not subside until the politics shall be eliminated from City Inoculates

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giris hnd given two or three encores. the celebrations. Already there 10,000 Children: ten girls, the cabaret items provided is much speculation

Even aside from Vera Love and the į

оп the

-by-the-Management of the liongkong-honours to be bestowed and on Hotel on Saturday night was of the the names of those who will highest order. Euls Hot and Bob receive them. Burnett, who have established them- selves as the firmest favourites in the F hearts of local socinilies since the days of Sands and Dawn, were re called no less than five times after

their final number. Even then their audience were loth to let them go. Burnelt being forced to appeal for En breathing spell.”

Because they are under contract to commence a season at Raffles Hotel in Singapore early next month, the Hongkong season of these two storu is, unhappily, drawing to a close. They will, however, be seen at both the Gripps and Peninsula Hotel during the Festive and New Year

seasons.

One of the rumours

is that Sir

Walter Citrine, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, has agreed to accept a peerage.

Sir Walter has decided views on the matter. He said: "You can deny that I will accept a peerage.

"I would not go to the House of Lords, even if Invited. I have already refused the honour twice.

"It is too early to discuss what the official attitude of the T.U.C. will be to the invitation of the Prime Minis- ter to submit_names,"

Mr. Ernest Beyin, chairman of the

The new Gripps' orchestra under the baton of Norman Brooks is already one of the most popular in General Council of the Trade Union town...

Congress, was invited to accept an

Hongkong Hotel's arrangements for honour before King George's Jubilee. Christmas and New Year are follows:

Mothers Queue____

Berlin. Dec. 20.

Forty doctors and scares of nurses are working night ́and day inoculating 10,000 children in an attempt to stem a dipl. theris epidemie at Halberstadt,' In the Hariz mountains.

· Eight children have died, more than 100 are in hospital.

Panic-stricken mothers queue up for hours at the clinio where their children are inoculated at the rate of 150 an hour.

All doctors in the city have been mobilised to battle with the epidemic. They work in two- hour relays.

as He declined. There is no evidence Philharmonic Society

Christmas Eve: 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. in bath Grippa and Roof Garden.

that he has changed his mind.

In the meantime, local branches of the trade unions will discuss the

Boxing Night: 9 p.m. to 2 m.ubject. Many will pass resolutions Roof Garden.

New Year's Eve: 0 p.m. to 4 a.m.ours from the National Government. Gripps and Rost Garden.

condemning the acceptance, at hon-

Norman Brooks and His Band will

be in the Gripps, and Art Carneiro's Boys, with Bob and Bertie Hellman, will provide the music in the Roof Garden.

TYPHOON WARNING

Bookings, according to the Manage-

The Manila Observatory reports ment, are particularly heavy for that there is a typhoon in. ·ubout every night of the season.

Long. 123. Lat. 6, moving west.

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF ONE OF THE BEST RULES IN CON- The P. and O. liner Ranpura is dus VERSATION. IB, NEVER TO BAY A THING here from Singapore at 7 a.m. on WHICH ANY OF THE COMPANY CAN Thursday, REASONABLY WISH WE HAD RATHER LEFT UNSAID-Swift..

Lane, Crawford, Li..., have ́issued·

At the meeting of the Rotary Club their usual handy desk calendar for to-morrow, Bishop Hall will speak on 1937.. "The Boys'

BIG FILM DEAL SURPRISE

New York, Dec. 15.

WHEN Mr. Isidore Ostrer, of Gaumont-British Pictures, arrived at New York on the Noë- mandie to-day for further talica inf connection with the Gaumont- British-20th Century-M.G.M. film deal he expressed surpise at Lord Beaverbrook's hasty round trip to the United States.

RADIO BROADCAST

London Talk: "A Policeman's Lot"

DANCE MUSIC

of 335

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a wavelength metres. (845 it.c.'s), 31,40 (D.52 megacycles).

metres.

5 p.m. Dance music from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel

6.30 pm. Welsh Music,

0.50 p.m. Marek Weber and his Oreliestro.

7.20 p.m. Three Songs by John McCormack (Tenor).

7.30

p.m. Stock Quotations.

1.32 p.m. "The Foileeman's Lot," A talk by a Sergeant of the Hong- kung Police Force.

7.17 p.m. Prime Scala's Accor-` deon Band.

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

9.03 p.m. Ko Shing · Theatre (Chinese).

11 p.m.-Close Down.

8.05-11 gramme

p.m. European Pro- from ZEK. on a fre- quency of 640 kilocycles.

8.05. p.m. Charlie Kunz plano- forte medleys.

8.25 p.m. Jessica Dragonette (soprano) and Turner Layton (tenor).

Soprano Allee Blue Gown; Through the Doorway of Dreams; Tenor The Star and the Rose; West Wind; Soprano-Se Tu M'ami (Win you love me?); Plaisir, D'amour (Love'n Joy); Tenor-Alone at a table for two; Riding the range in the sky.

8.50 p.m. "Covalcade" ·Suite by Noel Coward and the New Mayfair Orchestra.

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9 p.m. News. and Announcements. 9.20 p.m. The Second Cricket Test Match: Australia'v England. An ac count of the third day's play by Alan Kippax, from Sydney.

9.35 p.m. A Selection of Christmas Carols by the New Sanctuary Quar- tette.

9.40 p.m. Charles Prentice and His Orchestra,

10 p.m. Big Ben. Dance music, 11 p.m. Close Down..

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"I think this ense displays many Mr. Ostrer said he had expected a of the worst features of conference about the proposed deal mul-tsai system," declared Mr. to be held in Florida with Lord Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis- Beaverbrook, A. C. Blumenthal, tracy this morning when Li 'So-lan, Sidney Kent and Joseph Schenck. 33, married woman was charged be- (Lord Beaverbrook arrived in fore him with keeping un un- New York in the Bremen on Fri-registered mul-teat, Pun Ying, 10, at -day.-Ho-planned to-go-to-Arizona - 178-Aplíu-Street, ground-floor,--De-- to cure his asthma, but said he]-tendunt plended that she had just found the voyage so beneficial that | come down from the country and he stayed on board, and is now on had not known the regulations. his way home.]

IN LAP OF GODS"

Mr. H. W. Fraser, Inspector of Mr. Ostrer denied that Mr. John Mul Tsai, said that on December 19, Maxwell, of British International the girl who was in a filthy condition Pictures, had a controlling interest reported to the Mongkok Police in Gaumont-British; he was merely a Station that she was an unregistered slock-holder, with no

more rights mui-teas and bad run away because than the ordinary holder.

her mistress had threatened to take Stoting that he would confer with her back to the country and sell her. Mr. Schenck in Hollywood after talks in New York, Mr. Ostrer said:

When the girl was 10 years old, What will be is in the lap of the in the country

her parents had sold her to a family gods. The whole deal is more vague

for $80 (Conton than has been made out, and will currency), and two years later sho

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He promised a statement. on the

Since being with defendant, she negotiations when he returned to swept and scrubbed floors, washed England in three weeks.

clothes, cooked, looked after children, etc: Though she took her meals with the family, she had to lay, and clear the table, and if she ate too much she was scolded. She slept under the table, and in hot weather had to fan, her mistress during meals.

'Maid of the Mountains" Ended On High Note

SATURDAY NIGHT WAS SPLENDID

By "FIRST NIGHT""

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Defendant was not legally married woman, and had been de serted in the country by her man. She had a young son and three young daughters, and snid that she was go- ing to sell the girl to raise money to support her own family,

Remarking that she had not trent- ed the girl as a human being, His Worship fined defendant $200, or six.

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WHEN the Philharmonic Society's season of "Maid of the Moun- months hard Inbour.

tains" concluded on Saturday night, and the artistes had taken their bows, the stage was a mass of flowers sent up by one of the most appreciative audiences in years. A crowd that packed the Queen's Theatre to overflowing was obviously there to enjoy itself and, responding to the psychological effect of a sympathetic audi- ence, the actors on the stage threw themselves body and soul into

their work.

There was, no comparison between success of "Maid of the Mountains." Saturday night's performance and Mr. Yule, who is with the 2nd Bn., those on previous nights.

the East Lancashire Regiment, is de Defects which "1" had noted in parting from Hongkong on January An Indian,

an, Khan Sald, 32, un-

Saturday's Issue of the Telegraph" | 12. Philharmonic, whose newly employed, appeared before Mr. K. K. A 20-year-old unemployed man, were entirely absent, and it is safe formed subsidiary has started with Keen at the Central Magistracy this Chan Ngan-wong, was brought be to say that few, if any, of the large such excellent promise, will be hard

To "Telegraph") morning, charged with having enter- fore Mr. K. Keca at the Central crowd of people who had booked out put to it to find a worthy successor. ed the Colony on or about December Magistracy this morning on a charge feeling that the Philharmonic has Currie, who played Zacchi (one of the the theatre came away without s Owing to Indisposition --- W...), H.

Moscow, Dec. 20. 18 without a valid passport, Det. of having stolen brown leather

Some 1,500 wives of Red Army. Sergeant Loughlin asked for an ex-handbag containing $8.21 in long-given its most superb presentation. In bandits), was unable to participate in officers will participate in their Brat pulsion order, which was granted,

many years. kong

the Motince of "Mold of the Aoun national congress, opening at the and a gold Anger ring money from Miss Okuda, of Macdonnell members of the east to pick out for part was taken by Dr, D. J. Valentine, sidency of M. fossef Stalin, Russin's It would be unfair to the other talns" on Saturday afternoon. His Kremlin to-night, under the pre- The St. Andrew's Fellowship of Road, at Upper Albert Road yester-individual mention any of the players President. Youth, comprising young men and day Det.-Sergeant Bentley sald de- on Saturday night. Anne Winter was Society, and few people in the audi formation of a women's auxiliary to of the Philharmonic Dictator. They will discuss the women who devote their spare time fendant came behind complainant delightful, but so was every person ence were aware of the change. to assisting poor Chinese children, while she was on some steps leading on the sluge. organised a very happy Christmas to the Government Offices, and More than usual significance was Brown, producer of this year's It is reported that among these

As anticipated the Rev. Cyril the vast Red Army, affair at Tokawan yesterday. A large snatched her bag from under her attached to the valedictory panegyrics success, referred to the possibility of officers wives are 25,000 trained number of youngsters received pre- right arm. Defendant ran away and at the conclusion of the now for they pulihtronic producing srother play military nurses, 13,000, trained in the USA sents and enjoyed a party, a feature was finally arrested In Garden Rond. Included two presentations to Me in the spring The Committee of the use of the rifle, 0,000 experts in anti- of which was a magnificent Christ- Accused was remanded for 24 hours A: B, Yule, who, se Conductor of the Society, however, has not yet made gas defence, and 1,000 cavalry-

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