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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1936,

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IN BLUE General's "We Dare Not Touch the Kilt"

SIXTY thousand troops, Regulars and Territorials, who will take part in the Coronation ceremony in London will all be equipped, at Government expense, with the smart blue patrol uniform which has been used for walking out.

This announcement was made by Mr. Duff Cooper, War Minister, at a Press conference at the War Offee.

Ile stated that the new uniforms would cost £3 each, and would be for ceremonial wear and walking out only. Khaki would still be used for active service and ordinary work.

Instead of puttees the uniform had trousers, and bore the regimental badges,

Scottish units would keep the kilt for the Coronation, and the rifle regiments would wear their green.

commented

"Nobody is going to touch the| kilt; we daren't," General Sir Harry Kusx. The Adjulani-General, · Earlier in the day at a recruiting luncheon Mr. Duff Cooper stated:

"It is intended that every unit of] the Territorial Army shall be re- presented.

Khuki Associations

"There is no doubt that the kinki uniform fi neliher pleasing|

New Head' For

Westminster Is

First Layman

*Mr. John Trail Christie, hend

M. Avenol, the Secretary General of the League of Nations, recently received honorary degrees at Ox- ford University. The picture shows him (right) with Mr. Robert Bing- hum (left), the American Am- bossador, to London, who also re- relved this distinction.

man

to be appointed "head" at Westminster.

While he was at Repton he abolish- West-ed the traditional Eton jacket, which,

to the eye nor connected with master of Repton School. has been pleasant associations.

appointed headmaster of

Costley-White.

"I believe the solution of the probminster School, in succession to Dr. lem lies in granting to the men, of both Regular and Territorial armies. the smart blog uniforto, which some; of them now purchase on the own account and are allowed to wear for

LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY walking out."

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Invented by Exasperated American Undertaker.

Do you know how and when auto- matte telephones were first invented? The explanation was given by Mr. 5. Horrox, Superintendent, Edin- burgh Central Telephone Exc

Exchange. in a lecture to members of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, this month in the Society's house at 16 Royal

Hurne, sugh. Professor A. R.

eupled the chair.

of the Society, oc-

Mr.

Automatic telephones, said Horrox, were invented, in 1980 by Strowger, an un

undertaker and tele- plione subscriber in Kansas City, who was driven to inspiration because of his exasperating experiences in

being connected with wrong numbers under the old manual system.

Strowger's invention had developed matic systems employed to-day, and and speedy nuto- Into the accurate

16 principles formed the basis of the present standard system used by the British Post Office.

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Already more than 40 per cent, of British telephone subscribers were on the automatic system, and dis- placement of old manual excialges by automatic ones was proceeding rapidly.

Similar strides had been made in the method of distributing telephone Hines, and overhead systems were gradually being replaced almost en- tirely by underground cables.

FIRST SWITCHBOARD Mr. Horrox said that Alexander Graham Bell's experiment into the possibility of speech over electrically charged wires gave successful results on June 2, 1875, and within 24 hours the first electrical speaking telephone had been constructed. Naturally, much remained to be done before the instrument was suitable for practical use, and a patent was not registered until February 1876.

The first telephone switchboard In the

world was opened for eight mub. acribers, at New Haven, Connecticut. U.S.A., in January 1870, the first in Britain being opened in August 1878 From the elementary single wire

arose the magneto system, A whereby subscribers called the ex-. change by turning the handle of a small generator. Impching

systems were generally and a great advance was made with the introduction of the central battery system, whereby the subscriber automatically called the exchange by lifting the receiver. The first exchange of this' type "was. Introduced, at Bristol in 1900,

Duels Ruin A Beauty's Nerves

HER HUSBAND SENT NINE CHALLENGES Budapest, Dec. 20.

Dr. Franz Sargas, who took up the sword in defence of his wife's honour, will only have to fight, three: or four ducis, not nine,

He settled the other disputes to-day- by amicable means.

Excitement and the strain of walling have caused Mira. Surgi to have nervous breakdown. " She is a beautiful Budapest woman, formerly Fraulein. Magda Marko, granddaughter of the General-Direc tor of the Hungarian National Bank.

Dr. and Mrs. Barga eloped and were

He

married last January and he chal rested for kidnapping, lenged men' because" of "slatements they made about the affair.

he said, resembles what the ser vlees call 'monkey jackets, and they may sult monkeys, but not human

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