1937-01-15 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY.

JANUARY 15, 1937.

Zero Hour In Britain's Gibraltar Of The East.

Bombers, Warships Will

Beware the Snow-man

FOOTPRINTS ON THE

HIMALAYAS

"LIKE ELEPHANT'S PADS"

Calcutta, Jan. 1.

Once again the legendary "abominable snow-man" has loft his tracks on the Himalayas,

The outcast giants of Tibetan folklore, whose tracks have been reported by previous climbing expeditions, left strange im- prints in the snow, seen by Mr. Eric Shipton, the Everest climb-

Or,

now on his way home to England after an expedition to the Himalayas alone.

On his return to Ranikhet Mr. Shipton said the two Sherpas with him swear the tracks were the foot- prints of a "angw-man." Mr. Ship- ton was at a loss to account for these 'impressions, and says they more re- sembled an elephant's pad than a

man's tread. They were very large and roundish; the stretch between cach Impression showing a long reach for a biped.

The Sherpas they saw them, and told Mr. Shipton it was most unlucky, especially if they were to catch a sight of the "snow. man," for, though they find

were terrified when

never

sren him, they had come aerose re- mains of their friends who had been devoured by the creature, near their

£20,000,000 Fortress

BATTLE' TO TEST

VITAL DEFENCES

MIDNIGHT on a day towards the end of January- the exact date is not yet fixed-will be zero-hour at Singapore, Britain's £20,000,000 fortress carved out of jungle and swamp at the foot of the Malay Peninsula, guarding the sea roads to Australia, New Zealand, China, Hongkong, and all Empire possessions cast of Suez.

When zero-hour strikes, great combined Army, Navy and Air Force "exer- cises" staged by the British forces in the East will begin. About 20,000 officers and men of all arms will be engaged in mock battle.

Warships of the China Fleet, under Admiral Sir Charles Little, will

"attack" the Singapore Base. Bombing squadrons and the fastest fighter planes in the world-nearly 100 of them, in-

CIVIL

LORD AND SINGAPORE BASE "There Was Hesitation"

the

homes In Sherpaland, in the vicinity chiding the famous Singapore | arrived here by air on his way to

of Evercot.

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NO MARKS OF STICKS Mr. Shipton had never seen im- pressions like these, and was much intrigued by them. There are villaites near the spot, the Kuram Toll; and though there may have been surveyors up there, he did not think they had been to that particular place. The footprints traversed the whole akle of the ridge, and on there were no marks of sticks, such as are

used by porters to help them along with their loads, it is difficult to imagine|. what they could be.

One solution may be likely that a surveyor had been up the ridge, and the hot sun melting the edges of the footprints made them larger each day, and formed a sort of cup, which re- sembled the pad of an elephant.

Colonel Howard Bury, leader of thei first Everest Expedition, found the Imprint of a naked fool 20,000 feet. above sea level. Hic, too, was unable to explalt it.

THIS

TREE WOULD GIVE YOU A PAIN

IN

THE

NECK

The Empire's tallent

tree is 3014

feet high

It is in the Cumberland Valley, Victoria, Australia, where Klant Eucalypts grow, and its height has Just been checked by forest officers. It has a girth, four feet three from the ground, of 2014 feel, and con- tains £400 to £500 worth of timber. It weighs about 100 tons and would bud five or six wooden cottages. says Austral News,

Seven other trees in the same "bush" range from 262 feet to 285 feet. All are Eucalypts which shed: bark but not leaf and are among the world's oldest and most beautiful Пога.

Parson Is Handcuff King

Earl's Barton, Northamptonshire, Dec. 24. PEOPLE of Earl's Barton are proud of their vicar, Rev., L.A. Ewart-Britain's most versatile vicar.

For the Rev. Ewart, friend of Houdini and student of the famous cscapologist's methods, can:-

Escape from police handcuffs. Put on a good show as ventrilo- qubt.

Free himself from ropes and three pairs of handcuffs.

Perform baffling conjuring tricks. He recently mystifled his parish- loners by escaping from handcuffs as used by the Wellingborough and Northampton police force.

"ARRESTED" POLICE CHIEF And once after he had

from

escaped

across

flying-bonts-will the sky.

On the ground the fortress guns, anti-aircraft detachments, and the mechanised Army will aid the air arm in beating off the lack. The whole garrison will take part.

Singapore, Jan. 1. MR. Kenneth Lindsay, Civil Lord

Admiralty, who Australia, where he will attend the South Australia centenary celebra- tions as a delegate of the Empire Parliamentary Association, referred in

Interview an

o-day to Lord Rothermere's comments on the Sin- gapore Naval Base.

In a statement to newspaper re- This "war" of machines, in`a temperature of 90 in the shade at presentatives in Singapore on Octo- A time when it is winter Engber 28, Lord Rothermere, remarking land, planned to answer the that the Singapore base was an riddir: "Is the Singapore base example of the ebb.und flow of

pregnable?"

Opinion has been expressed that

increased without greatly

orma- ments, and especially more planes, A white Singapore would prove elephant in emergency.

the

A year ago operations by

Fleet air arm, and opposed by de- fence squadrona stationed at Singa- pore, proved to the satisfaction of the authorities that no hostile air- craft carrier could approach within 100 miles of the fortress before be- Ing blown out of the water.

HE GOES SILENT

The man whose responsibility it is to prove, that the "Gibrallor of the East" is ready for all emergen- eles is Major-General W. G. S. Dobbie, General Omeer Commanding, of the Malaya Command of the British Army.

101

Raid

THE MAN IN

COMMAND

ADMIRAL LITTLE Enemy No. 1,

FROM FINGER

policy, said: " "I looked for some TO TOE

monthn os if

In

If the Government London meant business. Then there seemed to be hesitation and doubl, with the result that what was originally intended to be Britain's stronghold in the For Enst is to-day

little value for war on a big

DOMINIONS AND DEFENCE Mr. Lindsay said to-day that it was true that in the post there had been some hesitation about the size and speed of construction of the base, but at the moment there was no hesitation.

The base is a tangible symbol of a democracy which must be prepared to defend Its principles," he said,

"Nobody wants anything aggres- sive in the base, for it is only for defensive purposes, and I am sure it

enough

STEEL SPLINTER'S 18 YEARS' JOURNEY

Eighteen years ago A. J. Morris of Lithgow, New South Wales, who was working a blast furnace, was struck on the hand by a fragment of steel which pierced the skin and entered the second finger of his right

land.

ERADIO

BROADCAST SCARVES

Light Saxophone Recital

By L. Palapo TALK: "THIS IS ENGLAND"

Radlo Programme Broadcast by Z.U.W. on Wavelength of 355 metres (845 k.e's), 31.49 metres (9.52 megacycles).

H.K.T. p.m.

12.30 Concert Items..

I Time and Weather.

1.03 Dance Music.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather Forecast, Time and An nouncementa.

1.40 Sydney Gustard (Cinema Organ).

2

m. Sohus by Turner Layton

p.m.

(tenor).

2.13 Close Down,

1-7 pm. Chinese Programme.

7 A Classical Concert, Handel "Samson"Let the Bright (80-

Seraphim....Elsie Suddaby

prano); Mozart Concerto No. 3 In G Major, K. 210....Yehudi Menuhin and the Paris Symphony Orchestra; lat. Movement Allegro; 2nd, Move- men!-Adagio; 3rd. Movement Rondo,

7.30 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.

7.35 A Classical Concert (con. tinued),

del

Gluck "Paride ed Elena" mio dolce ardor....Beniamino Gigil, (tenor); Gluck--"Orphee et Eurydice Ballet... .Orchestre Symphonique (de Pa

Paris): Lisz"Hungarian Rhap- sndy" No. 12....The Halle Orchestra, Conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty: Listi-Isoldens llobestod"....Benno Molscivitch, (planoforte).

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

6.03 Four Light Songs by John McCormack (Tenor).

1. An Old Sacred Lullaby (Corner, arr, Liddie); 2. Jennie with the light brown hair (Foster); 3. Sweetly she sleeps, my Alice fair, (Foster); 4. In sweet content (Maedermaid-Sonder- san).

8.15 This is England"-Talks by representative English people; (2) The Hon. Charles Lyttleton, of Worcestershire, heir to an old estate. Introduced by Anthony, Weymouth. (Electrical Recording).

8.30 The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra. Directed by Henry Hall.

8.55 News and Announcements. 9.10 p.m. From the Studio. A Light Saxophone Recital by L. Palopo.

2.

1. Valse Vanite....Rudy Wiedoelt; Simple Aveu....F. Thome; 3. The Duchess Valse Caprice....R. Duke Rehl.

0.30 Homage March (Haydn Wood)....Light Symphony Orches

tra.

9.35 From the Studio.

A Violoncello Recital by Made- moiselle Adele Clement,

1. Le Cygne....Saint-Saens; 2. Since then he has occasionally felt Menuet....Valensin; 3. Rigauden pain in his arm and back, but even-Forqueray; 4. Vito...Popper. inally he forgot the incident,

2.50 At Mother's Knee" (Some

It has, however, just been recalled favourite Lullabies)....Essle, Ack- to lim in no uncertain manner, says land, (Contralto). Austral News While in his bath he WOR astonished to discover

the fragment emerging from his foot.

General Dobbie, a genial Scot, gocs will be strong to defent He Found

"hush, hush" when asked Inconveni-Britain's interests in the Far East. ent questions.

"Australia and New Zealand have But when he learned I had made contributions Lowords the travelled to Singapore in the hope cost, but I am not prepared to say of discussing the

Treasure

ONE

forthcoming whint the Governments in Australia In A Fish manoeuvres with him, the general and New Zealand should do and sent word that he would see me at should not do. Fort Canulug, his headquarters. There, in the room which hears more secrets than any other bar rack room in the Empire, with thei Malayan sunshine outside, and fans und ice-water to remind me that I only fly miles from Vos

Britain's most important equator,

the

"I would, however, say this: Every part of the Empire must, share In the defence of democracy, and every part must Join in defending principles if attacked."

its

defender in the East told me as much DEATH WOUND IN

as could be sald for publication about his fortress.

He assured me that the Singapore defences are now approaching com- piction

PALESTINE

and that the programme FATHER SAYS SOLDIER

WAS LEFT IN HUT

designed to enable the base to take its part in the scheme of Imperial defence with or without revision Awill be faithfully executed.

SMALL GARRISON

In view of the responsibilities of the fortress, the garrison is at pre- sent surprisingly small

General Dobble informed me that the total Army strength at Singa porc, when an additional infantry battalion (Gordon Highlanders)

arrives next spring, will be only 6,000 era and men, excluding the Navy

and Air Force.

REFERRED TO WAR

OFFICE

Complaint that a soldier wounded in Palestine.was left unattended for seven days was made at a Stepney Inquest recently.

A verdict that "death was due to

gheny pellon' was recorded on Re-

.

ginald Muskelyne Howell, 24, a cor- This figure disposes of any sug- poral in the Royal Army Service Festion that the Singapore base is Corps. He died in the in "offensive weapon" aimed at any Hospital on Tuesday. other Power.

London

Sydney Howell, of Sandringham-

General Dobble denied suggestions road, Finchley, stated that his son that the Dutch Government had left for Palestine with his company made proposals to Britain for a de-In October, 1835. On August 10 fensive alliance covering the Dutch this year he received cable that Enst Indies, Borneo and Malaya.

Talking Himself to

Death

Memphis (Tennesse), Jan. 1.

A four-year-old boy who is talking himself to death is buffling doctors at

th

his son had been wounded by shrapnel by a bomb which blew up a lorry and killed on officer.

Later his son cabled that he had been in a hut at Nablus for seven dinys without receiving any medical nitentian

the

He arrived in England on October and was subsequently removed to

London Hospital.

Asked by the coroner, Dr. R. L. Memphis.

Guthrie, If he was satisfied with the a rusty pair of handcuffs which

The boy is Emmie Wilson. He hospital treatment in this country ich a police inspector brought cannot stop talking. Ever since he Mr. Howell said that he had nothing

them the inspector. all refused to reveal my method was, talised day and it was wrong to leave a mon grie

was taken to hospital, nearly two but praise for it, but he thought that opening them." said the vicar

vously wounded for so long. night. with a chuckle, "and as the la- He talks of

anything-of his Dr. R. Ripley, of the London

·spector hadn't got a key he had to mother, of his home, or of childish Hospital, stated that Howell -- Wor return to the station, where he sat things. Sometimes he is conscious, operated upon on November 10 and for many hours with a constable but more often he is in a coma. n small piece of metal was taken who was aawing them off with a

Only strong sedatives enn stop him. from the left cnf. He died from small saw

The child now weighs only 20m meningitis due to a piece of bomb 8 oz. Ils strength is slowly cbbing in the skull."

Doctors at first thought that he had meningitis, but they are how at: loss to explain the strange case.

I know Houdini, the famous escapologist, and his methods," said the Vicar, My, methods ure not quite the same, but are on the same principle."

Reuter

The coroner said that the father would have to take up with the War Ofice the matter of delayed treat

ment för-his-sönzé

NE day not long ago Abu visited the Kuala Lumpur market for his daily supply of fish and bought a fairly large- sized Ikan Merah. He took it home and when it was cut and cleaned in its narrow guliet was discovered a shiny object, reports the Malay Mail.

10 p.m. Big Ben. Dance Music. Forly minutes of the popular dance tunes of to-day.

10.10 Vocal Gems from Musical Comedies.

"The Desert Song" The Desert Song.Edith Day and Robert Nay- lor; "Please Teacher"-Selection.... Bobble Howes, Wylie Watson, Sepha Treble and Winifred Izard, with The London Hippodrome Chorus Orchestra.

32 p.m. Close Down.

und

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wave-lengths and frequencles are bed by Daventry,

Frequency Wavelength 6,600 k.c. 49.80 0,510 .c. 81.55 metres

metres

31,30 metres

Bien

GSA

GRB

USO

9,685 k.c.

GSD

13,700

k.c.

20.52 metres ·

GSE

The news spread in the kom- pong and there was a large crowd. of brothers, sisters, uneics and aunts, and a whofe liost of friends

QSP

GEG

11.855 k.o. 28.28 metres 18,340 ke. 10.82 metres 17,700 k.c. 16.80 metres

GBH

GS1

OBJ

21,470 k.ċ. 13.07 'metres 15.250 .. 19,60 moires 21,640 k.e. 10.60 therea

GSL

6,110

40.10 metro

GSO

15,180 K.C.

19.70 metre

CAP

15,310 ..

to see this strange object, which Alnu had found inside a common Ash. The object happened to be a ring set with a blueish stone. The ring fits Abu's finger exactly and there he is determined it shall remain.

REBEL TO

BE CHASED BY 3,000

THE

HE clusive Fakir of Ipl, trouble- some leader of two troublesome tribes of Waziristan, on the North- Weat Frontier of India, is to have his *Answer" from Britain this month, when.

operations against him 'are due to start.

A striking force of about 3,000- troops-apart from line of. com- munication forces, with armour- ed cars, cavalry, and R.A.F. machines, are to begin an ad- Him" In his vance and "chase territory.

S

The troops are Indian except for

39.60 series

Transmission 1.

(G.9.B., 0.8.0., 0.83.)

4. p.m. Big Ben. John Londoner

Home-2.

at

6 p.m. Deetberen String Quartets-1. Lp.m. "Tales of the Bea21 The Irice

of th

5.45 pm. The 1.0.0. Dance Orchestra. 6.49 p.m. The News and Announcvrsenia. Greenwich Timo Signal at .46 p.m.

Transmission 2

4.8.D., G.8.0., G,B.II.)

7 p.m. Big Don. “Cue" for Adventure."

7.33 p.m. Colaratura. Sopranos,

7.45 p.m. An Organ Recital,

B.I p.m. "This Engianal."

8.30 p.m. The .U.C. Danco Orchesten, -

8.55 p.m. The News and Announcementa. Greenwich Time Signal e 9.16 p.m. 0.15 p.m. Friday Midday Concert,

Transmission 3

(0.8.3, 0.8.F.. 0.8.11.)

10 p.m. Big Bon. Dance Husle, 19.10 p.m. A Welsh Notebook”-8,

18.50 p.m. Dance Music,

11,66 pm. Musleni interludes ...

11 1.0. 'Ben Prult.*

12.10 am. The News and Announcements.

Greenwich "Time Bignal st· 12.45 nom. 17.50 .. Danes Muske Through the

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K.R.A. ACTIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE

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a battalion of Northamptonshires and some Royal Artillery companies. because the The trouble began. Fakir of Ipl lcd sections of the tribes to become openly hostile to the The monthly meeting of the Gen-' Government, British

native cral Committee of the Kowloon, Re..

took place on forces suffered casualties while aldems Association marching through to offer support to Monday evening at St. Andrew's the attitude of the pro-Government Church Hall, Kowloon. tribesmen.

and

Those present were; Mr. B. Wylie (President), Mr. F. C. Mow Fung (Vice-President), Mr. R. P. Phillips The Royal Army Medical Corps (Hon. Treasurer), Mr. R. Baldwin Association will held their fortnight (Hon. Secretary), Messrs. L. d'Al- ly dance on Saturday, at the Penin meda e Castro, Jnr., T. B. Bulu Hotel, commencing 8.30 pm. Lam Ming-fan, W. C. Fals Wilson, The Band of the 1st Bn. the Royal E. Terry, J. M. Alves, R. Pestonil, Uister Rifles will, by kind permis-1.. N. Murray and Dr. Ip Kom-wahi aion of Lt. Col. R. M. Rodwell and Apologies for absence were receiv Omcers, provide the muste.

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Mesurs. Li Chor-chi, H. Gittins, D. the former course, and it was agreed W. Munton, F. H. Loseby, C. M.to inform the Travel Association of

this decision. E Manners and Rev. J. R. Higgs.

The Sub-Committee appointed to Correspondence was read and op" | deal with the matter of Leprosy in proved concerning the local celebra-Kowloon submitted a Ictier and tion of the Coronation of His questionnaire which they felt would Majesty the King, Bus Routes in assist the Association, in obtaining Kowloon, the proposed Guide Book, more definite information on the Drainage and Seeltation at Kow-subject. It was agreed to have this loon City, and Leprosy Kowloon. letter and questionnaire printed and A letter was rend from a mem-circulated to medical men and others ber drawing the attention of the who had 'experience of work with Committee to the advisability of ap- lepersa.'-. proaching Government in the mat-

ter of removing boulders in Shon A letter from the Superintendent' Tung Street. It was agreed to of Police, Kowloon, was read, ash- write to the Public Works Depart=|Ing for the Association's viewa: on ment on the subject.

the now demonstration gar lamps, in Jordan Road. A special sub- committee was appointed to deal with the matter,

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Proposed Guide Book With reference to the publication of a Guldo Hook of Kowloon and/

Compiniala greffarding postal fac- the New Territories, tiscussion onites were considered, and it was? this subject (deferred from the last agreed that the President should in meeting) na 10 whether the Aso-terview the Postmates (oral Spe elation should continue with the the subject. project alone, or should uasiat the prog

Hongkong Travel Amociation fo The date of the Annual General. produce such a book,?":resulted: In | Meeting was provisionally Axed for the decision bellig made to adopt Thursday, March 47