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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1987.

Princess Elizabeth Talks of Life,

Lessons, Her "Grandpapa," Dogs

CONSCRIPTION

HAS TO COME TO ENGLAND

-LADY HAIG

"I bravely say that conscription is the very best thing for Britain, fór unless coriscription is Introduced now in peace time Britain will never bring her recruitment up to the level at which she is alming and will be unable to prevent war In Europe."

These views were expressed by Countess Haig, widow of Earl Haig, in a special interview with a Straits Times representative in Singapore. Coun- toss Halg was in Singapore on her way to Australin by Imperial Airways.

"There is nothing like it," said the widow of the famous British soldier as she talked of conscription.

NO SENSE OF DUTY

The British public has no sense of duty at present, and the spirit prevalling is unhealthy. Too many think only of staying up all night, and there is too much money grabbing" continued the Countess

"With conscription the youth of the country would be trained to think of

PRINCESS ELIZABETH

their country and service. Like the LORD DAWSON'S FIRST BROADCAST

ex-Servicemen they would be the

inst to want war.

Limc.

"They would be trained to give of their best to the country in peace Above all they would mean that Britain WIS at last strong enough to defend herself adequately and ensure that there is peace. Only in absolute security les peace.

"I know the Continent and I think Hitler and Mussolin! are working on the right lines. Germany does not want war and could not afford n wor.

LORD ROBERTS' WORK "The British public would take well to conscription in the same way as they did in the inst war. Roberts

after the ption in Britain hard for South African war, and my husband trled as hard to get conscription in peoce time. He formed the Ter-

that without; ritorials, and knew conscription the Territorials would never be properly up to strength."

Bandit Beauty Of 19 Jailed

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IN INTIMATE CHAT TO A

SCULPTOR

PRINCESS ELIZABETH the 10-year-old heir-presumptive to the British Throne, has for the first time opened her heart to some. one outside Royal circles.

To Kisfaludi Srobl, a Hungarian sculptor who hus just completed a portrait bust of the Princess, she talked intimately, telling him of her ideas of life. "Must I sit still or may I move about?" was the Princess's first question on arriving at the studio in Kensingten.

When she was told that she might move about her relief was that of any nomal little girl who finds herself in such a fascinating place as a sculptor's studio.

She arrived at the studio with her governess, Miss Crawford..one Saturday afternoon in November last weur- ing a simply cut grey cont, a plaid skirt and grey jumper, and a pair of well-worn comfortable brown shoes,

And once she had learned that posing was not to be in ordeal, she was at case, self-possessed, and very amusing.

"I have to work very hard at my lessons," she said once to the sculptor when she saw he was very busy with the modelling clay, "but if I do my hamework very well I get an extra half hour on the pony which my grandpapa gave me."

George V. Had Been Failing for 2 Years

·ORD DAWSON OF PENN,, his people, dear to King George's

who was Physician-Extra-heart. ordinary to 'King George V., made his first broadcast last month on the anniversary of the nation's bereavement, and revealed that King George's strength had been declining for the two previous years.

In appealing for

the National Memorial Fund. Lard Dawson, who a year ago had signed the final bulletins, recalled the one whose poignant words have remained fixed in the memory of millions.

"At this hour, a year ago," he said, "the King's lite was moving peace- fully towards its close. No new illness had beset him. His strength, not his performance, had been declining for two years.

"Hls work had become a greater effort, but his interest and concern for his peoples showed no slackening. "STAYED THE COURSE”

"In the autumn of 1935, the ebbing of his strengit became pronounced yet the King stayed the course.

There was the usual broadcast on

Christmas Day; during last January

"King George felt that the future of the country lay with youth; that youth for their own training needed well-equipped open spaces, where they could gain sirength of lung and fimb, strive in friendly rivalry, and learn how to play the game.

"This, the Arst anniversary of King George's farewell to his people, is the closing day of the national appeal. Please, then, in memory of a beloved King give one and all what you can."

It is hoped that the sum raised by the scheme to transfer the odd shil- lings and pence in banking accounts will bring the Memorial Fund to

£1,000,000,

Although the appeal is now closed, money can still be sent in, and it will not be too late even to-morrow to "Tell Your Banker."

Royal Wreaths

TELESCOPE GREETINGS

Riding is her favourite pastime, apparently, and history her favourite subject.

And, she said, she had been very fond of her "grandpapa" the late King George V.

RADIO BROADCAST

Tschaikowsky's "Casse

Noisette" Suite RECORDED PROGRAMMES

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. an n wavelength of 355 metres (845 kcs.), 31.49 metres (9.52 mega- cycles).

ILK.T.

12.30 Dance Music.

1 Time and Weather. 1.03 Inn Souez (Soprano) Renee Chemet (Violin).

and

1.30 Reuter Press, Rugby Press; Weather, Time and Announcements. - 1.40 Military

Band Music with Alfred Piccnver (Tenor).

2.15 Close Down.

7

and

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.

p.m. Tunes of Not-So-Long- Ago,

"Show Boat"-or Mán River; Make Believe....Henry King and His Orchestra: Waltz Medley Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins: The

Coburn Continental....Jolly Fils Orchestra; "Rose Marie" Indian c....Roy Fox Love Call; Rose Marie.... and Ilia Orchestra; Soon.....Guy Lombardo und His Royal Canadians; "Roberto"-Film Selection....Re- ginald Dixon (Organ); Alice Blue Gown-Waltz ....Henry Jacques and His Orchestra.

7.30 Closing local Stock Quota- tions and Hongkong Exchange Mar- ket Report.

7.35 The London Palladium Orchestra.

The Phantom Melody (Kelelbey); Moontime (Collins); Charm of the Vaise (arr. Winter); Wedded Whim- sies (arr. Alford).

8 p.m.

m. Time, Weather and An-. nouncements.

803 Hawaiian Music.

Beautiful Woman...William Ewa-

"Every morning I used to look through a telescopo from Pleca- dilly at Buckingham Palace, andiko with Royal Hawaiion Glee Club: my grandpapa used to Jook through his telescope at me. That Lion .....Masters Hawaiians; ita; Hawaiian Stars are glearning Einn

was the way we used to say 'Good Oh! Rosalian Milford and lis

morning,'" said the Princess.

Once she asked the artist what nationally he was. He told her, and then asked her what her nationality

was.

With a suggestion, of a whimsical laugh at the corners of her mouth she replied: "English and Scotch-a splendid mixture."

"That was at the last sitting early in December," said the sculptor in an interview in his studio in Budapest.

Hawalian Players: Smiling Eyes.... King Nowall's Hawaiians.

8.18 The Mills Brothers. Long about midnight: My hend- nche; Shoe Shine Boy: Sleepy Head. 8.30 "Casse Nolsette Suite- (Tschaikowsky), played by the B.B.C. Wireless Symphony Orches- tra, Conducted by Percy Pitt.

8.55 p.m. London News and Aṇ- nouncements.

9.15 Variety. Humorous-Gracie's and Sandy's "When she came to see me again Party....Gracle Fields and Sandy on the she was still ingenuously childlike Powell; Vocal-Rainbow and charming, and she brought me a River.....Bobby Breen, (Boy-So- copy of a book 'Our Princesses and rano); Orchestra-"Over She Goes their dogs, In which, in her own-Selection,...Saville Theatre Or- childish handwriting she had written chestra with Adele Dixon; Sketch-

·her-frat-dedication:

Stars The German Com- algae Scope.Lesile Henson and Fred Fal-When the Poppies bloom again; I

world

I Warner to love you le Layton; Vocal-Three

Pigs... Orchestra Timotion.....

...Geraldo

"She talked to me for a long time whole

Wreaths from every member1 LOVE DOGS" of the Royal Family including one from the Duke of Windsor, were placed on the coffin of about her pet dogs. the King still thought and worked for King George V. In the royal tomb the Empire, and on the last day of beneath the Albert Memorial Chapel his life gathered up his strength to sen-hold a meeting of the Privy Council, of his death.

"This was the sunset glow of his faithfulness and friendship amid the lengthening shadown,"

Susanne Wood, a girl not yet twenty, one of a family of thirteen, has been tenced with two men at the Old Bailey to twenty- two months' hard labour for robbery with violence.

"His tany was Give me le so long as I can bring service and hap- Her real name is Alice piness, and then pence. And with the end of his road cùme sleep, and never Susan Jones, and though was the welcome to the good and her age was given as twenty-faithful servant more nobly eamed.

That is Dookie and that is Lady Silly, and His

at Windsor Castle on the anniversary to pictures in the book. I know

that they understand every word

The King and Queen's wreath was any to them. I love dogs, don't you. of carnation and Queen Mary's of Mr. Srobl?"" roses. The Duke of Windsor, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent all sent carnations..

Other wreaths which arrived were placed in

Memorial Albert Chapel.

the

"Of course, Princess-1 have dogs of my own," the arilat replied.

The sculptor has now finished -his plaster cast which he hopes to present to their Majesties in a few weeks' time--"as a memento of one of the most charming sitters it has

my studio."

To understand the greatness of No service was held in St. George's ever been my privilege to have In two, her birth certificate dis- King George's achievements, recall Chapel. closes that she will not be his reign succession of big and anxious events from beginuing to twenty until June 9.

end-political and social changes--- War-the return of the European vast numbers of men to civil life- the ragedy of unemployment-the of 1931—and, despite these crisis. storms, King and country stood firm upon the rock of courage and mutual

Sentenced with her were Evan Daniel Rowlands, aged twenty-eight,. seaman, and George Edward Burns, aged twenty-eight, chef,

Visit To Flat

It had been stated that Mr. Joseph Crowley, of Bromley, met Wood and another girl after he had received £40 as compensation. They went to Wood's flat. Later, Mr. Crowley was attacked and his money taken.

street lower

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Tragedy

Who Sniped

Officer U-Boats

when she went to call him she found him lying dead on the bed with the room filled with gas.

"And, in the midst of it all, that

Harrow, Feb, 10. grave Illness of 1928, his home organised

TRAGIC widow is to-day mourn hospital ward A with its team of doctors. and

ing for her husband, a retired nurses; and reasoned resource on the captain of the Navy, famous for his

Now all she could say was! "All the staunchness of war-time exploits when he "sniped one hand, and himself and his great Queen on the submarines" with the Dover patrol, this terrible trouble, this terrible other hand, brought him through, and so the Empire was blessed with He was Captain Evelyn Boothby, D.S.O., R.N., aged 30 of Greenway,

The girl's moth her husband six more years of his leadership.

seller, who lives and children in a basement in Ex- The Memorial which it is my Kenton, near here. He had been mouth-street, Hampstead-road, St. privilege to commend to you sets Pancras, said: "Sudde Was ttu forth a plan for the well-being of feeling ill, and yesterday afternoon prettiest girl who ever lived in these streets. Her beauty has been a trial to us.

"We were

all happy together Spinach Year Forecast for Nation

until last February. Then there was some trouble about a ring and Susie was put on probation. .."She came home and lived quietly with us until October. One night she went out and never came back. Dad and I hunted London for her. We called everywhere, spent nights searching the streets, but it was no' use."

Ocean Jaywalkers Off

ed

Nantucket Are Warned

Boston, Feb, 10. Sea "Jaywalkers" have been warn-

to watch their step.

Fishing boats, the pedestrians' of sea traffic, have been advised against Indulging in nautical jay-walking in transatlantic steamship lanes, parti- cularly in the vicinity of the Nan- tucket

The ship bureau of the

US Navy department, called at- tention of dahing schooner skippare to hazards of geiting in the path of ocdan, greyhounds.

As Asparagus Crop Will Be Short

Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 10:

* During 1937, at least, people of the United States will have to eat more spinach and case up a bit on asparagus, according to agricultural experts of the University of California.

trouble."

"For the last few months Captain Boothby had periods of depression," a neighbour said, "and at those times he, often relived his exploits In the war.

"He commanded 2 flotilla of Dover patrol drifters, and on one occasion he left his flotilla to 'salpe' German submarines off the South Goodwins, ramming and sinking one.

Captain Boothby, who came, of a well-known naval family, was twice

This state which since 1020 has produced all of the domestic canned married. His first wife, Esme, -asparagus-and-approximately 45 per cent of the fresh supply_Is_Idaughter of Sir Edward Beauchamp, scheduled for a slight slump this year, experts find. After that they hope | Bart, whom he married in 1005, that anyone who does not like spinach can fall back on a full supply of died in 1813. In 1924 he married asparagus,

Mrs. Lucy Margaret Amy Gardiner, The average asparagus yield in California in 1937, it is estimated, widow of Captain F. T. Gardiner, will fall short of that in 1930 although larger than in 1035, However, heavier plantings in California during the past two years indicate that after 1037, asparagus will be plentiful unless many of the older beda pra removed.

Preliminary estimates for California place the 1937 acreage at 38,- 000 acres while heavy plantings in the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta during the past two years indicate that the state's asparagus bearing acreage whil Increase Immensely during the next two years. It is ex- pected that 14,000 more neres will be planted in 1937, and the same amount" the year after, thus nesuring the country all It can consume.

During 1938 the supply of California's canned asparagus was the largent in the history of the state, about 40,000 crates being handled.

Highland Light Infantry..

The captain was one of the three "Boothby Brothers of the Channel.".

The others are Commander Hubert Basil Boothby, a life governor of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, who was awarded the D.50, for ser- vico in minesweepers;" and Captain Francis Stewart, Evelyn Boothby, of | Abbey-road, St. John's Wood, N.W.

the

at the Milk Bar....Nellie Wallace, tra: Humorous-Let's have a fiddley

10 p.m. Big Ben, Dance Music. 11 p.m. Close Down,

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wavelengths and frequencies are used by Daventry,

Bign

Wavelengths Frequency

4,500 .c. 40.19 metres 9.510 k.. 31.65 metres

GBA

ORD

G30

9,585 k...

$1.80 metres

QSD

11,758 k.e.

GSE

21,865 k..

36.52 Intran 28.28 meixen

QSF

15,140 ..

19.82 matzen

G8G

17.700 k..

0911

GRI

21,470 k.c. 15,260 k.c.

GBY

21,540 Lo

19.66

GSL

6.110 k.e.

46.10

690

СЗР

16.84 metres 13.07 metres 18.46 meirea

metres mwi.com

18,190 k.. 10.26 mete

18,310 k.. 10.60 mettes

Transmission 1

(0.8.D., G.80., G.8.G.),

Da Bas. The Table under the

Tree." Written by Wilfrid Booke L03.

4.45 p.m. World Affairs. A talk by

5 p.m.

II. V. Hodson.

The D.J.C. Empire Orchestra. 5.40 p.m. The News and Annonnomments.

- Greenwich Time Signal at 6.48 pas.

Transmission 2

(0.9.D., .G.8.0, 0.8.1.)

.m.

Big Ben. Worte Affairs. A talk

by II. V. Ledson. *7.17 p.m. A Short Pianoforia Beclia? by

Margareta Harvey-Samuel.

7.80 p.m. The New Victoria Cinema ON

cheaten. Bp.m.

Mahe Vagabond Lover, presented by Max Kester,

8.20 p.m. A Talk on the British Industries

Fair.

5.30 p.m. Frank Walker and his Oztet. 8.55 p.m. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at, 9.15 p.b. 0.15 p. The Birmingha82 Hippodrome

Orchestre.

Transwalesion 3

(0.8.3. 0.8... GAIL)

in Kaz 10 p.m. Big Hen. Mendalsenan

sington The Barrington Quartet, 10.31 p.m. We There's 'Belilah Columbia at the Opening of the Century, A talk by A. J. I. Tarior. 10.50 p.m. The Metropolitan Police Band. 21.10. Wyde Park. A minlacent narrative, telting the Alary of -Tandon's—myst—famous—PING-

space. 13 ..

A Studio Concert, 11.10 am. The News and AnnODDOROWOLE, Greenwich Time Dignal at 12.46 am. 19.00 M., Dance Music.

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POLICE TORTURES and Kanagawa prefectures, when

ALLEGATIONS IN JAPANESE DIET

sensation House of Peers

the

police extracted confessions from personu alleged to have in- fringed the election laxa

Mr. Kokubo declared that water torture to the nostrils, hanging froth the feet, branding with hot irons Tokyo, Feb, 10. and severe kicking, with heavy boots was caused in the were some of the methods used by

to-day when Mr. the police.

Kishichi Kokubo, the Selyukai poll- He alleged that the members of tician, questioned the Minister for the Hirota Home Affairs, Mr. Kaklchil

cabinet had been in- Ka-different to such inhuman proceed-

ings.. on tie subject of the en-

Mr. Kawarada replied that the

warnunt on human rights he polles and government officials res- :

Mr.. Kokubo declared that

incidents had

spoke from personal experience and ponsible for these gave a graphie description of third been punished and the Government degree and other incidents Instintends to eliminate such procedure year in the Omori, Kagoshima, Iwate in future-Reuter,