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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1937.

New Year's Honours Forecast--

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For Lady Duff Cooper

COMMUNICATIONS

Awards For

Nurses

And Teachers

are now passing between Buckingham] Palace and Downing-street with regard to the New Year's Honours List, which will be announced in February.

It will be a short list-much shorter than usual-for the majority of names are being reserved for the Special List that 'will be issued at the Coronation,

There will be at least three new peers in the list, and they are pected to be;

one

X-

of the

Lord Hugh Crell, Conservative M.P'. for Oxford University, lending social reformers of the last two generations and now Provost of Eton College.

General Gough, the commander of the Fifth Army during the war, res cently vindicated by Mr. Lloyd George, who now expuses him from all reponsibility for the 1918 retreat.

MODEL EMPLOYER

Mr. Malcolm Stewart, who recently retired from the position of Chief Commissioner for the Special Arcas. Mr. Stewart is also the head of the biggest brick and cement companies in the country, model employer.

and a philanthropist.

There will be a long list of awards.

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Would Canada. Fight?

Montreal, Dec. 25. Resolutions adopted by the United Farmers of Ontario sug- Rest that at next year's Imperial Conference the Canadian repre- sentatives should, urge:

(1) That declaration oľ war by another part of the Empire should not constitute an act of war by Canada; and

(2) That war against an- other part of the Empire should not be regarded as on outbreak of hostilities against Canada.

Any actual question Canadian participation in war is for the Dominion Parliament to decide.

The Montreal Dally Star, commenting editorially on the resolutions, maya that "if any combination of power-drunk bullies" ever try to destroy the Empire, Canada w fight for "Ifila vital Canadian Interest.”

WITCH BY

starlight by one billion billion DAY: GIRL

times and may take over thei work of guiding huge telescopes for astronomicra was described recently to the National Academy of Sciences, which held its Autumn meeting at the University of Chicago.

educational services, and it is kely During the conference 04

that Lady Diana Duff Cooper may

papers were read on abstruse

BY NIGHT

"SKIN CHANGING" IS -

NOT SO EASY

London, Dec. 28.

be honoured with the Dame Grand subjects relating to the physical BY day a terrifying old witch

Cross of the British Empire,

on

More Light

Abyssinian War

and biological sciences,

The telescope guide, still in an

experimental stage, was develop-

tory Wisconsin.

with a patch over опс сус, by night an exquisite girl.

This is not a fairy tale, it is the the day's work for Edith Evans at Old Vic..

ed by A. E. Whitford and G. E. Krou of the Washburn Observa-

of the University.

When I of

saw her she was Just Edith Evans, says a London Curres- Its base is the pondent. She had been, rehearsing “A CHILD NATION DONE ful in detecting imperfections ton," the

photo-electric cell, already use all day for "The Witch of Edmon- famous Elizabethan ́play BRUTALLY TO DEATH"

Futile Heroism

The Italo-Abyssinian

and

in machine products and per-which opens on Tuesday next. forming mechanical tasks.

Her costume is a bundle of grey and black ings, wig of drab-coloured Its applications to astronomy as feathers, and black gloves which an observatory assistant resulted make her hands look deformed.

and Kron became when Whitton) War

TRANSFORMATION the reasons for the crushing defeat provoked at the tedious task, during of the Ethiopian Empire are subjects photographic exposures, dich have, often been discussed, but never his at fuller account of the former or a better explanation of the

latter been written than in a

book

published last month ("Caesar in

Abyssinia."

12s. 8.).

Hodder and Stoughton.

donc

of

Then she changes to play the part

keeping an eye fixed at the telescope's of Rosalind in a Watteau period pro- eye-piece in order to keep the duction of "As You Like It." Her Instrument centred exacity on the "girl" costume is made of niry stellar object being photographed.

flounces of the priest scushed pink The automatle guide now takes over talletas. the work by splitting the light of a stor

on a reflecting knife edge. The portions of the divided light beam are mute to shine alternately un the light-sensitive surface of a photo- electric

tente ce

centre the

"It's anything but easy to change one's skin twice a day," she told me.

FOLLOWING HER INSTINCT

Her season at the Old Vic means

harder work, longer hours and loss of salary,

"But it's worth it," she declared.

Miss Evans has made no plans for the future beyond refusing to go to New York.

"I always go by my instinct,

sho said, "and it tells me I should stay in England."

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The author, Mr. G. L. Steer, was the correspondent of the Times in Abyssinia during the war, and it is

If the star is not perfectly centred a strange story he has to sell-a history of unexampled heroism com-r the knife edge, one portion of the bined with muddling futility, of beam will be brighter than the other feudal Generals asing mediaeval and produce a flickering intensity. "When you go back to the West End - tretics-nggainst-a-vost-modern-war Amplified by electronic tubes, the you feel you have stretcher_yourself.

machine.

flicker controls a mater which makes

a bit, the correction required "I have sen," ne writes, "a child star's light on the knife edge and nation, ruled by a

was reluce the flicker to zero, man who both ruble and inteligent,

Since the star's light must be am- urutally to death almost before it plined 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 times had begun to breathe."

"gesininess" of the electricity result Man for man, the auther main-and the original photo-electric cur tains, the Abyssinians were as good rent becomes, not a steady stream. as the Itallions; they lacked only the but a procession of irregularly spaced organisation and the weapons. But electrons. Despite thers were outstanding exceptions successful preliminary tests have been Evans's Rosalind last night.

this serious Bmitation,close-trimmed hair came to see Miss SUN. notably Gerazmaleh Afewerk,

who

MON. "It was an enchantment to listen ate his food with a knife made from made of the device on the 60-isch a bromu to increase the morale of his clescope of Mt. Wilson Observatory, to Shakespeare's words coming from TUES.

using stars down to the eighth magniher Bps," he told men and defended Gorahat, In

me. " hardly tude, invisible to the eye-United breathed for fear I should break the Ogaden, to the end. Mortally wound-

Press. ed, he fired his one anti-aircraft wound gua for two days until the began to gangrene und he

fainted. When he died all his army broke into uncontrollable weeping.

the

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Mr. Steer makes the grave'ne- cusation that the Italians deliberate- ly bombed Red Cross units in Lun effort to destroy independent evidence that they were using gas, Of the bombing of the British Red Cross, for instance, he writes:

Dn

"Like the bombardment of the Swedish Red Cross near Dolo and of the Ethiopian Red Cross Amba Aradam and at Daggubbur, the bombardment of the British Red Cross was cold-blooded and deli- berate. It had the same object. It was intended to drive away the Red Crosses from, the front while the Halians

were employing Illegal methods of warfare. They now be- gan to weave a web of gns all over Lake Ashangi and the plain Korem

of

Steer, who was in Abyssinia from the beginning to the end of the campaign, who was present al the declaration of war and at the

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