1937-01-21 — Page 7

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937.

English Princess (Of Borneo) Talks Of

Land She May Rule RICH CROPS

ROMANTIC?

YES, BUT I PREFER PARIS

THE Dayang Muda of Sarawak, willowy fifty-year-old English princess- daughter of the late biscuit king, Sir Walter Palmer-has returned to London.

After showing me her lately snapped collection of j photos of the Acropolls (taken by moonlight, sold she). | the princess of the little State in Borneo nave me af ve-minute recitation of what it feels he to be it Mohammedan for five years,

Yes, a Mohammedan. For on her last sweeping, exit from London, the Dayang Muda soared 5,000 feet above the Channel and, in the cabin of an airplane, repounced Christianity and became a Moslem,

"After five years as a Moslem I can say my conver- sion ban bern a great success," she said.

Then

The Dayang Muda_started life as a Quaker. breame a Protestant. Then a Roman Catholic. Now a Mohammedan,

"Naturally, don't follow all the

Moslem customs," he said.

THEY CALL HER—

Such a rritantie life has its come plexities. Not the Beast is to kerg:

Jeg nantes traight,

Makten hare, tiladys alter, ales, Bertram

Married name,

Brooke. Moslem name. Khair-1. Nissa which means

"Fair

of

Women," Tille. Dayang

Muda

may

tranire-apparent) of Sarawak. One day the Dayang Musi rule with her husband over 4utiou tune miles peopleet by hi

111

ar pried Barrita

white cadres and headhunters,

Har mrried thirty-taru gears ago into the Famous Broker folly of Sarawak,

Brooke, her

Captain Bertram husband, is hrother and successor to the present Rajah Sir Charles Vyurr Brooke of Sarawak, the only white rajah In the world.

She said:---

Rajah! │

if my husband becomes that means I will be Itane, and I suppose I will have to go back to Sarawak and take up my position.

"But really 1 like Paris better, I've lived there for years."

The Dayang Muda is spending her London holiday at the Park Lane Hotel. She will probably return to Paris for Christmas... except that there is no Christmas for a Moslem Princess,

THEY DON'T LIKE MOSCOW ANY MORE

Warsaw, Jan. 10.

TWO Soviet scientists, Chichi- habin, and Ypapier, who were sent to the United States

Errol

Flynn,

thoge recent interinge to Litu Damla has ended

In a separation,

The Girl Who

Was Always

A Bridesmaid

a

New York, Jan. 1. LJONE MORGAN, socialite and F1 brilliant

psychology student, arrested. at Lansing (Michigan) week ago for shanting her best friend, was in-day found in her cell hangel with her slik stockings, and dressed in s pyjamas.

Hope's friend.

Elizabeth Giltner, was sending out invitations lo her wedding at the time of the killing. Itope was helping. Suddenly she stol her friend dead.

She told Allenists that she fired | because of an "overwhelming urge to

kill somebody, anybody."

Some were

to study chemistry, have refused mathelmsticks, some

Spanish

Bride In British

Warship

A

of

POSSIBLE IN THE DESERT Sir F. Petrie's Plea for Palestine CITIES OF 2,000 2.3.w

YEARS AGO

Lange areas in and around Pales- tine, which were cultivated in Roman times and are now desert, could again be made prosperous, according to Sir Flinders Petrie, the 83-year-old archaeologist, who, from his head quarters in Southern Palestine, hng issued

an appeal for "the revival"

E RADIO BROADCAST

Ferture: "John Londoner At Home" B.B.C. THEATRE ORCHESTRA Radio Programme Broadenst by Wavelength of 353 metres metres (45 k.e's). 31.40 (0.52 megacycles).

ILK.T. p. 12.30 The London Theatre Orches tra,

on

IL

1 Time and Weather.

1.03 A Recital by Derek Oldham (tenor) and Lily Pons (soprano).

1.30 Reuter und Rugby Press; Weather, Time and Announcements. 1.40 The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

2.15 Close Down.

5 A Relay of Dance Music from

of the country.

On a desolate hillton, south of the Gaza of the Bible story, he claims to the Hoof-Garden of the Hongkong

have proved his case. Merely by plugging up the surface," Sir F- ders elniins to have recovered the full cultivable area of former Umes and to have raized rich crops.

Hotel.

6 From the Studio.

A Children's Programme. 6.30 Charlie Kunz at the pluno. 6.59 Albert Sandler and His Tito Schipa Marta Eggerth

(soprano).

with and

An to be believes that there in Orchestra roum for both Jew and Arab-If only (tenor) both will be content to go bruck 2,000 | İyears und adopt the technique of Orchestra-Down in the forest, water conservation used in former (Sir Landon Ronald): Tenor Solos-- tirnes.

"Rigoletto" (Verdi) The one is as fair as the other: "Don Pasquale” love;

The digging of deep wells and the Terracing of hillsides are other (Donizetti)-Fond dream of methods which, he points out, could Soprano Solos Lave's Melody be used to bring back lond into cultivation.

ROMAN ERA PROSPERITY

Look and lovey Orchest Mdo's

(Lehar-Rameau)---Love's

a little (Tardelot); A tle love, a ་་་ ་

nor Solo-Farewell. "The productiveness of the land at klas (Siles); Tenor | present," Str Flinders urt,

my

Cronada (Calleja-Barrera); Frently under-rated. In Homan Orchestra-Masqueradis (Loeb): 50- times the whole south region down prano Sulos Was it

it your smile to Ziklag (Asturi and beyond was (Alexander-Stollberg);

cupled by a wealthy people with Melody"-Before I found you (Istvar: fie stone buildings. The eastern-Itamenu); Orchestra - Yvonne Nicholls); Trouble 11 region kinwn in Moab, down to Petra, (Horatio was well cultivated,

Paratie Wever, Ager and Schwartz).

To the north or that, Transjordan: had another wealthy population with | .30 Stark Quotations.

other 7.33 fine buildings in Jerash and cilles.

"Those who have been over these desolate regions agree that there is rainfall. no evidence of lessened

"Love's

"Juhn Londoner at Home." No. 3. An evening with some of his many and various acquaintances. Presented by Pascoe Thornton.

and An- Time, Weather

8.03 From the Studio,

A Chinese Concert.

B

p.m.

On land south of Gaza, now wilder-nouncements. ness, there is enough rala for full crops, yet little or no attempt is mude to save it."

As

means to hnproved cultivation,

11 p.m. Close Down. 8.05-11

p.m. 'Europenh

Pro-

and also to goodwill, Sir Flinders gramme from Z.E.K. on A fre- suggests an organised exchange of

labour between the Jew and Arabquency of 610 kilocycles.

8.05 p.m. "The Rio Grande" (Sacheverell Sitwell and Constant

communities.

TWO DEFINITE NEEDS

In common business there is peace Lambert). For Chorus, Orchestra and goodwill-in spite of the "political and Planoforte; Played by The aims of higher influences"-und the Halle Orchestra with the St. main needs are improved cultivation Michael's Singers. Solo Piano- and a definite REMARKABLE story antween the land settlement as beforte, Sir Hamilton Harty. Con-

peoples.

ducted by the Composer. alleged marringe in Spain and "If there were Kuronice at the 8.22 A Pianoforte Recital by The truth-that Hope was tired of the bridal pair's return to England Jewish holding of land should never Willem Backhaus.

(a) Prelude and Study in C Major: lain and the south respec- being revealed in messages in a British warship, was told to the be allowed to exceed one-half of the

Epsom magistrates recently.

hills, the plain she left in her cell to-day.

John Ainsworth Christion, aged 40, tively, the Arab could not fene the (0) Grote Study in A minor written with burned described as a managing director, future, for the equivalent amount of (Chopin); Soiree de Vienne, No.

(Schubert-Liszt); Military March In remand with fu- land would leave him space, when Flat (Schuberi, arr. Backhaus); was charged on with a stub of

curring a £21 debt with Ada May properly cultivated, for many times "Iberia" (Albeniz)-Triann. to return to their country, ac-penell, one with her fingernail.

Wickeus of Leatherhead, by fraud, the

"Aldershot 8.38

Command Sunt populations. cording to the Moscow news-

On a magazine cover she wrote: obtaintm; E1 10s. from Mrs. Wickens paper_Pravda,

"alay_Heaven_Corgive me. I thought Bess was going to have happiness T could never have."

Another note said: " merely got

I could

The mixed up.

nol stand being the only one left Pravda alleges that Chichibab thought stole a secret treatise on Russia's Sald a third: "I did what I did be chemical defence measures, which int cause I thought I would never attain piles that should he fall into their that happiness." hands he might be sentenced to death. Miss Giltner was the last member As a reprisal both men have been of Hope Morgan's set to marry. llope excluded from the membership of the had been a bridesmaid for all her Moscow Academy of Science,

It appears that their reason is that they found good jobs in the United States and would not enjoy living In Russia any more.

friends in turn.

1,000 TRY TO LYNCH

MAN WHO JILTED

Belgrade, Jan. 10.

a limitation should be bind-

by false pretences, ond bigamy withing for this generation, say for 30 Searchlight Tattoo, 1935" played Senorita Rosita Rivero on-August-25-years. Beyond that, the next by The Massed Bunds of the

settle Its own Aldershot Command. The proseculing solicitor said that generation must

101032

In matters.

8.35 London News and Announce- Christian was married in

The

training of a fixed population ments. Yorkshire. He told his wife he was

rif Arabs on Jewish farms would also 9.15 Variety. editor of a Barcelona newspaper.

MARRIED NEAR BARCELONA

be a great gain, so as to enable them could not live with her husband any of things which is coming,"

In April 1933 the wife decided she to hold their own in the new order longer.

The blganious wife was a Sponlard In August he whom he met in 1930. went to Spain with the intention of marrying her.

He arrived on August 14. There were difficulties owing to the clyll

WHAT but eventually they were

married on August 25 Just outside

Eureciona

After seeing the British Consul they left in a British gunbent the day after

they were married and returned to England.

WIFE SUES

RADIO STAR

New York, Jan. 9.

Vocal Deep Shadows....Francis Langford; Vocal-This is no sin.... Leslie Hutchinson; Hawalian-An old 1nwalian Guitar...

Len Fillis: Vocal Home on the Range....The Billies: Banjo Solo-Doll Dance........ Ken Harvey; Humorous-Marksman

Sam Holloway: Vocal

Just a

little tune....Gracie Fleids: Instrumental-Evergreens of Jazz (No. 1). Scott Wood and his Swingers; Trio--Looking for you;

Si

An old violin. ..Albert Sandler (violin). Olive Groves (soprano) and Jean Melville (piano); Vocal-i feel a song coming on; Whenever I think of you....Leslie Hutchinson; Vocal Gracie Fields,

They went abroad again, and on FD. Wymm, a comedian, who-Why did I have to meet you?....

return Christian was arrested carris £1,000 a performance

their

on another charge. The documents then found on him.

A crowd of 1,000 furious men and women to-night tried to lating to his marrluge in Spain were for broadcasting, is being sued lynch Bata Stoyanovitch, thirty-five-year-old Belgrade socialite, who is lying seriously wounded in a Belgrade hospital, because he jilted pretty nineteen-year-old Mila Dimitrievitch and drove her to suicide last week.

for separation by his wife Hilda A solicitor who defended on the in the Supreme Court to-morrow. first charge asked for legal airl

To keep an enth' of vengeance sworn over the grave of his daughter,

Dr. Zhika Dimitrievitch, a post onlee CLAIMS TO

official, yesterday burst into the

court where Stoyanovitch was being

tried for "moral responsibility in MAKE "GOLD"

Mila's suicide, fired five shots at him, and then turned. the pistol on him- self.

To-day he was buried. A crowd of 20,000 collected in the cemetery to do honour to the man who had died to avenge his daughter's death. Several people made speeches at the graveside demanding that Sloyano- vitch should be killed.

Tokyo, Jan. 10. Professor Tsutomo Kase, of the Imperial University at Sendui, claims to have succeeded in manufacturing imitation "gold" at one-thousandlis the price of real gold.

He says it is just us beautiful and useful as the genuine metal

The professor also claims the in- vention of a new alloy of copper and A woman who was suspected of aluminium. The Ministry of Com- being a relation of the Stoyanovitch merce and Industry has made cuff family was attacked by the mob. buttons, spoons, forks and buckles of the new alloy as an experiment.--

After the burial a lynching party Reuter, sct out for the hospital where Stoyanovitch lles and were driven back only by reinforced police.

Others stormed the Stoyanovitch home in Belgrade's most fashionable district before mounted police inter vened.

Pickwick in Poland

Warsaw, Jan. 10.

Tlu: Polish Theatre in Warsaw, the most important cultural Institution of this sort in Poland, is giving a splen- did presentation of a dramatisation Charles Dickens's "Pickwick Papers" under the title "Plekwick Club."

or

It is the big event of the drumatle season in a city famous for the excel-

DOMINIONS EAGER FOR TOUR

Melbourne, Jan. 1.. The suggestion that the King and ence of its stage. The theatre is Queen should make a tour of the Em-ailed night after night and the play, pire after the Coronation is welcomed full of delicious fun, promises to have by the Sun newspaper. The ap long run. pearance of the King and Queen would be an occasion for rejoicing in every. Dominion.-Reuter,

Good English and American plays and readily appreciative audiences in Warsaw.

HS

questions of International law would

involved,

be

Ile cross-examined Mrs. Christian about her life in Buenos Aires and

Mrs. Wynn states: "My hus- band became friendly with Frieda Mierce, who appeared in several of his shows and was 'Miss Amerien in 1927.00

stated that the defence was that Mrs. She claims E700 a week alimony, Christian deserted her husband, in 1933 and that under the Spanish law of the "Soviet regime set up in

March this year the husband was Paying For Bridge

entitled to marry again provided that he could prove a Spanish domicile.

Senorin Rivero Kave evidence through an interpreter,

The business in which Christian was interested in Spain was confls- cated when the civil war broke out,

slie said.

Winifred Denyer, secretary to the Spanish Embassy in London, sald the marriage certificate was the usua Spanish document and was valid.

Chrislian was remunded in custody.

With

Onions

Cairo, Jan, 10,

The German firm of Krupp has been awarded the contract for the construction of a bridge over the Nile at Samanoud.

The amount is £145,572, and of this Egypt will pay to the extent of.

£35,000 in onions.

For

Thirty Women Among Applicants Places In Crew Of Girl Pat

Georgetown, British Guiana, Jan. 1. THE Grimsby trawler Girl Pat, which ended an illicit cruise half-way around the world in Georgetown last June, is soon

to be sailed back to England by Commander R. W. Lawrence, war-time submarine navigator, It was learned to-day.

From 500 applicants, including thirty women, a new crew. and slate of officers has been chosen. Lady Houston, before her death, announced plans to give the trawler to Captain George Osborne and the fishermen who accompanied him when the vessel disappeared from the North Sea fishing fleet and fled down the coasts of Europe and Africa, across the Atlantic to South Americn. She purchased the vessel after its remarkable South Atlantic trip.

10 p.m. Big Ben.

The B.B.C. Theatre Organ. 10.30 Dance Music.

11 p.. Close Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wave-length and frequencies are used by Daventry.

Frequency Wavelength

40.69 metres 31.66 mel 0,585 .. B1.80 metres

GHA

GS0

4,500 k.. D.A10 k.C.

GBC

nsp

11,750 k.c. 25.62 motres

G52

11,800 k.c. 25.24 metre

BRP

GsG

GRI

18,240 k.. 10.82 metres

10.90 17,700 k.c.

metrom 21,470 k.c. 11.07 metres

GS1

18,200 k.e.

10.00 metrom

BSJ

31,540 k.c.

10.00 metres

GSL.

NO

GGP

15,180 k.c. 18,310

19.70 matres 19.60 k.c.

metres

Transmission

(G.8.8), GR.D., GBP), 4 p.m.

4310 k.c. 10.10 metres

?

Programita

of

1 Ben. A Marches. 4.30 p.m. Willie Kend (in Hamoroas Seota Bonn) and Dalton Beat tin Scola Character Sketches).

..

Foot for Thought

6.20 km Dance Musle, 5,40 p.m. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signs) at 5.45 p.m.

1.B.C.

Dasca

Transmission & (G.B... 8.G., 1.8.11.) 7. Bi Ben. The

Orchestra. 740 jum. John Londoner at Home-1. RA_Programme of Operatio Musle 2.6 p., The News and Announcements. Greenwich h Time Signal at 9.16 p.m. 8.15 p.m. Biraus Waltzes.

9.23 j.m. Food for Thought."

The

Transmission 3 (.5.1, 6.8.F., 02.K) 10 p. it Den.

U.D.C. Theatra Organ 10.10 p.m. Geottish Dance Munte. 10.50 p.m. Dramatle Readings Drinkwater's

*Abraham Lincoln,

11.15 pm The

Central Band of s Maiesty's flayal Air Force.

I am. A Planoforte Recital, 12.80 a.m. The News and Announcement.

Greenwich Time Siena) at 12.45 am, 12.50. Dance Music.

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Others present at the meeting in- cluded Messrs. Ho Wing. Lau King- sing. Ko Chung-nam, Chiu Chit- fan, Philip Geckchin, Chan Kom-po, Cheung Lan-chow, Lul Yam-shuen, At the monthly meeting of the Chou Sing-chl and others. Chinese Chamber of Commerce held yesterday afternoon, the Chairman, Mr. Li Sing-kul, said that the Chin-

Acknowledgment of Cable-

Acknowledgment was received in ese community heard with great re-Hongkong yesterday of the cable sent gret of the imminent departure of to London by several public bodies His Excellency the Andrew Caldecott, on his promotion teney

Governor, Sir

#0

Purging the retention of His Excel-

Caldecott Sir Andrew to Ceylon. Mr. Li said that although Governor of Hongkong.

the Governor had been here for the

The cable was forwarded to the short

over period of a little

onc China Association, London, and the your, he had

that steps mode himself most acknowledgment stated popular with all the people, la par-I would be taken to bring the repre- tlcular the whole of the Chinese sentations before the Secretary community. His close contact with State for the Colonies,

of

the subjects of his rule and his vast accomplishments for Hongkong dur- ing the short period of his adminis-

At the monthly meeting of the tration had made him the most be- Chinese Chamber of Commerce yes- loved Governor for many years, terday afternoon the Secretary, Mr. Mr. Li said that the Chinese Cham-H. Y. Tso announced that he felt it his ber of Commerce and the Chinese duty to propose a vote of thanks to community, therefore, felt it impera- Mr. Yung Koon-man, a member of executive Committee, for the tive that the Chamber should

Write

Mr.

to the Chinese Unofficial members energetic monner in which Mr. Yung the Legislative and Executive recently helped the Chamber in Councils, asking the

of

to members

various matters, including the enlist-

write on behalf of the Chinese coming of over 20 new members, munity a petition to the Colonial Omeo in Londan requesting that Sir Andrew be allowed to continue his for a longer work in Hongkang

sugges-

period.

The Chairman's popular tion was unanimously passed. Mr. L! Sing-kui was supported by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. J. M. Wong, the Hon. Legal Adviser, the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Auj

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