1936-12-23 — Page 9

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

BARKED-AND

Seventy Prisoners of War Meet Again in London

Seventy men sat down to dinner in a West End hotel one night this month and talked of when they went with.. out bite or sup for days on end,

They are members of the Officers' Prisoners of War Club. Only those men are eligible for membership who were captured by the Germans between 1914 and 1918. Specially favoured are those who escaped-or attempted

to escape.

The nucleus of the club was formed by the men who were gacled. at Holzminden. A group of them spent ten months tunnelling under the walls. The tunnel was 50 yards long. It could admit only one man at a time, lying prone-and even then the "ceiling" pressed on his back.

The tunnel was driven with just

two tool trowel and a cold chisel,

The earth was stored in odd corners THE

in the camp-In the rafters, behind

match boarding partitions between

beams, and enves.

BISCUIT-TIN BELLOWS

KING'S

CORONATION

The air where the work was carried GOLDEN SPURS

on was so foul that a candle would not ' remain · alight. Bellows were Improvised out of a biscuit-tin and a fying-jacket to feed the flame with oxygen.

Banrds on which the diggers of their friends slept were sacrificed to shore up the cruinbiing watts. Straw mattresses were filled with the inst loads of earth.

Twenty-nine men passed through the tunnel-and ten of them got away. They travelled the 15 milles to the Dutch frontler and were shipped back to Britalo.

The other 19 were brought before German court martial on a charge of conspiracy and sentenced to six

Claims to Carry Them Proved EVIDENCE FROM

1066 TO 1936

By A Special Representative A lawyer in black gown and full- bottomed wig handed a large sheet table in the Counell Chamber of the of paper to seven men seated at a Privy Council in London recently.

It was n

months in a fortress. The sentence about three ...Pedigree" containing

was never carried out-the Armistice intervened.

The epic escape of Holzminden in- volved fantastic adventures. The officers dinging the tunnel had to dress up as orderlies because the orderly quarters were nearer walin thun any other building. Al- though every prisoner knew the plan not one gaye the gume away.

BARKED LIKE DOG

names, and had

an irregular line in red Ink to trace a family tree from 1936 back to the time of the Norman Conquest, And

submitted Was

conclusive evidence that Hastings was entitled to be included the present Lord

WEDNESDAY,

SO SAVED

DECEMBER 23,

HIS LIFE

Cameramen Pick Them As Best Bets for Stardom

A new jury of teminine beauty, the Dallywood Press Photographers, pleted these screeh youngsters as hav- ing the best chances for screen stardom. They are, from left, upper: Cecilla Parker, Helen Burgess, Janice Jarrett, Kay Hughes, Joan Perry, Lower: Mary Francis Gifford, Rosina Lowrence, Barbara Pepper, Helen Wood June Travis,

Disney's New Film

MR. WALT DISNEY, creator of Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphonies, is half-way through his first full-length feature film, which will run for 75 to 90 minutes.

The film, which is called "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," will take another year to finish; about 200,000 drawings will be needed; the cost of production is estimated at £200,000, about £1 a drawing.

ERADIO BROADCAST

A Talk on "London At Christmas Time" 'CELLO RECITAL

2. B. W. on a wavelength of 355 Radio Programme Broadcast by

(9.52 megacycles).

Music has been composed for the film, and a new camera has ing that have never before been possible. been built which is capable of producing effects in the way of light-metres (843 k.c's.). 31.40 metres

A Woman Yawns Marble Block

For 80 Hours

New York, Dec. 20. -

Size Of

the among there from when the King AGNES KAPP, aged 27. Westminster

The diggers-only one man could work at a time-had to plerce con- crete as well as earth. The orderlies kept watch and had to drown the 110lse the huinmering and digging made.

In the

may choose the bearer of the Golden Spurs at his Coronation.

in

The men who listened intently to the lawyer's prolonged and involved arguments, or studied documents in! Norman French and records in mediaeval English, were the mem- bera of the Court of Claims, ap- pointed by the King to consider the petitions of those who, by virtue of dinner on office, hereditary right, or tenure of Friday will be Air-Commodore Rath-land, have the privilege of perform- bone,

commander of Holzminden in some personal service Camp, who escaped through the King during his Coronation. tunnel,

on.

chair at the

'The

The

to the

of Rochester, New York. yawned continuously for 80 hours.

Then her doctor gave her a sleeping draught, which sent her into a deep sleep.

When she awoke the yawning had

stopped Reuter.

Abbey

A

12.30 p.m. A Variety Concert,

p.m. Time and Weather. 1.03 p.m. Military Band Music. 1.30 pm. Reuter Rugby Press. Weather.

1.40 p.m. Recital by Malcolm Mc- Eachern and the Angelus Octet.

2 p.. London Palladium Orches- tra.

.

2.15 p.m. Close Down. 4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.

7 p.m. Marek Weber and His Orchestra.

Salut d'Amour (Elgar); I kiss your fips (Rudolphe); "L Belle Helene"- Selection (Offenbach),

Carrara (Italy), Dec. 20.

MILLION-TON block marble slightly larger than Westminster poser.

of

7.13 p.m. From the Studio. A old Scott, Played by the Com- Programme of Compositions by

Four New Interludes.

Abbey was to-day blasted Performed for the First Time. out of the famous Carrara (a) "Pastorale" in A dat; (b) marble quarries. *

Ave strips of

Lulling": "Song of the Sussex Road.".

1,30 p.m. Stock Quotations.

7.35

Reader and Chorus; Instrumental.

p.m. Variety. Vocal-Gang Show of 1036. Ralph

Chicken Reel: If you were the only and girl in the world: Piano Duet ex-Transatlantic Thythm......Irving

The Court has assembled before Odd Australian Town

"Pastorate" in G minor (Quasi neli- Another member of the club is a

the crowning of every King of Eng-

Eloso); (c) "Pastorale" Keltic; (d) man who escaped and swam in dark land during the last 000 years, and

An enormous "bed" had beenThe Tinkling Sheep Bells"; "Sca "Pastorale" In & sharp minor; 2. ness across the River Ems-wide,

Has No Laws, No Taxes there were numerous claims on this

prepared to receive the block. swift-flowing, ley, closely guarded.casion.

While he was swimming a sentinel circle, with

Sydney, Dec. 15, Commissioners formed a half-

A series of tunnels had been cut The town of Collarenebri, 455 until the block was attached to the on the bank challenged him and Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of Eng- comforts of home and fewer of the marble, which were destroyed to-day

the President, Lord, miles from here, claims more of the mountain by only levelled his rille. awimmer land, in the centre. On his right municipal discomforts than any other by explosives. barked like a dog through his chatter were Lord Thankerton, a Lord of town in the world. Ing teeth and the sentinel marched.

Appeal in Ordinary: the Duke of

Twenty tons of explosives Norfolk.

As for the lack of municipal dis-more Earl Marshal, wearing a

than two tons of high comforts, it has

no mayor, na alder-plosives were used, distributed in 130 Caesar and Ray Henderson: Orches scarlet uniform; and the Earl of melt cat, no brick building, no un-lot marble-Reuter.........

no property rates, no fire de inlles round the base of the block tra-A Gypsy Lament: Flor Gitana. Cromer, Lord. On thei Talls, the Earl of Onslow, and Lord umployment, no crime and no" golf."] Normund, Lord President of the of home, the population prides itself Court of Session, all in Court dress, on its modern hospital equipment in- with words and medals.

cluding "SERVICES TO BE PERFORMED" pumping station and its electric light

X-rays, its river Facing each other before the semi-, and

power

plants, without the circular table were King's Counsel necessity of any local body to control and their juniors, fully robed, and these things. The population plays

Chinese

Bandits Perturb

The Vatican

left were Lord

Master of the

As to the real municipal comforts

water

in the centre, facing the President, tennis instead of golf. Was a rostrum, from which the claims were to be made. The re-trol of the state works department

The town operates under the con-

Japanese Crucifixes And Statues

mainder of the large, book-lined which makes unnecessary any coun-[ Sold By Jews

room was crowded with members of cil, city ordinances or levies the public.

Sir Claud Schuster. Clerk of the

worry about United Press,

served establish

to

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

8.03 p.m. The British Symphony Orchestra.

Sylvin Bullet (Delibes); A thou- sand and one nights-Waliz: (Johann Strauss).

A

8.30 p.m. From the Studio. Violincello Recital by Susan Joach, A.R.C.M.

1. Sonata in B dot major... Vatican City, Dec. 15.

Thones Ame; Poco Largo-Gavotta; 2. "Five Irish Folk Tunes"The Persistent reports of plunder-

Green Bushes, A Hush-a-bye... ing and sacking of Catholic mis- Crown, leaning over the President's more about the Twelfth, Thirteenth London Universe reports that a Howells.

|IN IRISH FREE STATE! Howard Ferguson; 3. "Lambert's Clavichord"-De la Mare's Bavane; The Dublin correspondent of the Sir Hugh's aionary stations by Chinese com-shoulder, defined the duties of the and Fourteenth Centuries than did complaint that Jewish import agents

Galliard......Herbert munisti in Western China are

Commissioners: causing grave concern in the services

the intervening To hear and determine claims of we have been able, by the survey of are sending travellers to the Irish Time," a talk by S. R. Littlewood.

centuries, because i

8.45 p.m. "London at Christmas- Vatican.

to be performed Ensuing Coronation and of fees to

at the the records which have been pre-Free State to sell religious statues p.m. News and Announcements, A detailed account of recent be received for the same,"

made and are now collected, to and crucifixes made

xes made in Japan is

9.20. p.m. A Christmas Over- sacking and killing of innocent claim, that of the Dean and Chapter through whom we all claim.""

Sir Claud himself read the first title of that Sir John de Hastings, Traders' Association of Ireland by the Symphony Orchestra,

ocyond doubt what was the a statement issued by the secret- ture, (Coleridge-Taylor), played

ary of the Religious Goods Wholesale inhabitants has been received by of Westminaler to instruct the King the Holy Congregation for the in the rites and ceremonies and to the "pedigree" to the Commissioners up the production of Catholic. re-

It is pointed

Hymns "Hark! The Herald Angels Mr. Simmonds handed coples of Propagation of the Faith from and to retain the robes and orna- claiment back to John Marshal, who assist the Archbishop of Canterbury and traced the ancestry of the

the Sing": "Christians, awake."....The irst time Japans that this is that

Arms have taken Radio Choir, the Apostolic Vicarinte of Lan-ments of the Coronation.

9.30 p.m ligious

emblems, and that this has

From the Studio--The chow, in charge of missionary "The order will be the same as on of Edward L. and showed that the English-Jewish importers

carried the Spurs at the Coronation been made possible fathers of the Divine Word.

through the Fourth of a series of talks on "The

sendlog

Early Days of Cricket,” by R. Abbit. According to this

9.45 p.m. Organ Music pronounced privilege was granted to the heirs samples of various statues, to Japan

Evening Song (Bairstow); La Nult of another line of the same family to be copied in plaster and metal. and at the Coronation of King George

The association appeals to Catho- (Elert). Harry Goss-Custard; Melody made religious objects, which can be Jocelyn (Godard). Edward O'Henry The Reds have occupied the greater

detected by the Japanese national Medley of Old Time Songs (Part 1 part of the vicariate including the

English, Part 2 Scottish)....Sydney the chrysanthemum Gustard. capital Tainchow. Almost all

or by the words "Made in stations have been sacked that Court

Hewart said it was not a matter for Coronation of Henry IV, and sug help by the prohibition of such goods Rapture)...by Ivor Novello, Dorothy

10 p.m. Big Ben, The clergy are asked to give their Scene (A bit of Opera). (Careless 10.10 p.m. Descriptive Studio German chapuchins is at a complete

GENEALOGICAL PROBLEM

gested, "without any offence," that standstill.

So far, the Court's business had Ruthyns usurped

through the centuries the Grey de en mission stalls. these missionssen more or less formal

the title of the have succeeded in reaching safety in straightforward, but Lord Hastings'

and Barony of Hastings.

ONE WORD IN 3 principal stations of Tien-Petition soon occupied them with an Queen Victoria, the Ruthyn family "Right away down to the reign of

IN COLLEGE USE abstruse problem of genealogy and were calling themselves Lord de

MISPRONOUNCED] DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

report the

the former the President.

Other claims

occasion,"

were heard

Vienriate of Tsinchow in the Kansu orders "as on the former occasion". because they were able to estalics to refrain from buying pagan-in F (Rubinstein); Berceuse de

province has suffered grave material were made, although when Mr. blish their right to it. damage owing to the sudden advance Frank S. Dymoke petitioned to bear;

of Communist hordes.

the

missed and the work of the

and

The members of The

the

two

chul

to

6. "The Reds:

which

Hon

Beck

tire

aro

Champion by the Standard of England as King's

HENRY IV.S CORONATION

the Manory virtue of the tenure of Grey Lord de Hustings and Ruthyn Japan.

He lien related how Reginald trade mark,

claimed to carry the Spurs at the

pri

alu.

and Tsingshul. Four fathers the rival claims of two noble fami- Hastings," he added. and two sisters however have beenles to carry the Golden Spurs at the The Court retired to consider the forced

refuge in the neighbouring apostolic vicariate of 600 years.

Coronation which had existed for matter, and on returning, announced Hanchunfu in the province of Shenal.

New Concord, Dec, 20. Direct quotations from the Lan- for the honour--that of Lord Host-

There were three separate claims Ulished a claim.

that each of the cinimants had esta. A revolutionary speech-recording machine Installed in the specchi chow report state:

Other claims decided by the Court department of Muskingum College ings; another by Lord Churston; and were: rapidly advancing in of thousands. The roads over Loudoun, Viscountess St. Davids, Newcastle-under-Lyme: To perform pronounced,

thows that one-third of the words Joint claim by the Countess of they pass

The executors of the late Duke of in the English language are mis- hundreds of corpses of innocent In Mr. J. L. W. Butler-Bowden, and the services of providing a glove for the

marked by Lady Flora Anne Rawdon-Hastings, by deputy (the Earl of Lincoln), the are in common usage,

and

05 per cent of there habitants whom they have cilessly massacred.

mer-Hon. Dame Lelgarde Harry Florence King's right hand,

The machine, according to

Prof. "Arriving in villages they sum-

Bellingham

and supporting W. H. Ewing, records on mon the richest people and, threaten- appeared for Lord Hastings, suld he

Mr. Gavin Simmonds, K.C., who holding his Sceptre.

His Majesty's right arm while he is minium disc. It has its own ampli- ing to brand them with red hot Irons would seeks to prove that his lordship white wand as a symbol of his office

fying system and a soundproof studio The Earl of Shrewsbury: To carry a is being built. compel them to hand over all their was one of those money and then slaughter them volved the dignity, service or office invited by His Majesty to be present

The most common upon whom de-of Lord High Steward of Ireland, If cording to Ewing, are:

mistakes, ac- of carrying the Golden Spurs by in that capacity. women and children of the virtuo

Making long "a's" out. of short red bandits are enrolled in special Marahal family.

of his descent from the

"CA" The Lord Mayor of London: To "measure."

such

Da "may-sure" for regiments. Each red division has a "The facts I am able to put before and bear the crystal mace.

attend the King at the Coronation Pronouncing long "u's" as "oo," ́as special detachment of Amazons you for the first time," he added This 600-year old Court, with its They are not formed however for "really illustrate what is now a unique procedure qud; fascinating "T" as "fecsh" for "Ah,” stoo-dent" for, student.". fighting purposes, but for amuse- truism, that we in the Twentieth reminders of the past, was then de-

Making long "c's" out of short meat.

Century probably know very much tarod closed.

B

All incoming students are required to take the test-United Prass

Dickson and Olive Gilbert; Song- Why is there ever good-bye ("Care- less Rapture").

10.18 p.m. Dance Music. 11 p... Close Down.

pothe Bla Dan. *Empire Magaciss," 4.45_p..__“Impertal Affairs."

5 pm. The D.B.C. Empire Orchestra, 5.40 pm The News and Announcements. ? p.. Ble "Ben. 'Imperial Affair. 7.17 p.m. The D.D.G. Weick Orchestra. 3.1 P. Chaletman Variety. *0.45pm London at Christmas „Timer," # D.3. The News and Announcement. 9.20 p.m. The Birmingham Hippodr

Orebosten

10 m. in. Strest Show," 10,30 p.m. Brass Band Concert,

11,30-p.m.

The Policeman'a Lat.'

11.45 p.m. 12.20 R.PL. The News and Announcementa. 11.40 m. The John MacArthur. Quintet. 1.15 m. W ten. Food for Thought." 1.37 The BBC. Danes Orchestra. 2. The News and Announcements. 2.30 am. Kuglich, Scala, and Irish Filk-

Empire Magazina.“ No. 19.

2.40 am. The B.C. Mary Band. 2.19 km, "Beft Lights and Sweet Music." 3.21 m 'Londen, at Christman_Time." 3.63_8.m. JAY, Wilker and his Dand, “I am, 1) The 13.3.C. Orchestra. (Baction D).`

* SENT BUM, SThe Nawn and. Annanurimento,

The D.D.C. Theatre Orchestra. Talks - "Belaniħata at Work 4.30 2.3.), Dance Maio.....

Kama

1936.

I said the

same as. has year

pop into

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