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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1937.

EIGHTY THOUSAND WORDS OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW FOR A SHILLING

ROMANCE IN BOOKS

FOR THE MASS

By LIONEL HALE

May you will be able to buy 11,000 words of new Shaw

IN and 70,000 words of old Shaw for a shilling the pair.

Mr. George Bernard Shaw has entirely rewritten for the "Penguin" series (6d. a volume) his "Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism."

Its title is now changed to "The I.W.G. to Socialism, Capital, Fascism, and Communism." Hence the extra 11,000 words,

This is only part of the expansion scheme which Mr. Allen Lanc has planned for the Penguin series.

These dd. books, which in 10 months have had an enormous suc-

NAVY OF 1911s have now suld 4,750,000 copies.

CORONATION HAS VANISHED EVERY British warship that

was in the lines at the last Coronation review, in 1911, has gone.

Some were lost in the war; many of the others went to the scrapheap after the Wash- ington Limitation Treaty.

There were seventeen foreign wat - ships present. Only Ove of these are still in existence, and one, the italian cruiser San Marco, is now a radios controlled target 'ship,

At this year's Coronation review in Spithead the largest gathering of foreign warships for more. Shari twenty-five years will be brought to- gether. It is possible Japan will represented.

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Each navy will send a ship, one of the latest and best in service.

Germany may be represented by one of her "pocket" battleships. The other Great Powers are likely to sufici 10,000-ton cruisers, as no new bullle- ships have been built for thern for nearly twenty years.

HEAD HUNTER

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BEATING EVEREST

Statislleians have proved that The weight of copies so far sold ercends 800 tons;

.

End on end..copies sold would reach from London to Cologne;

Laid on top of one another, they would be three times as high as Everest

One

One rop

seconds;

sold

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A to and a half of coplra ia shipped every week to outposts of the Empire,

The . you pay on your railway bookstall is located as follows:

Retailer: 2d.

Wholesaler; id.

Authori_ad, (approx),

Paper, Printing and Production:

2346.

→ Publishers Id.

of

(approx), gul which all overheads must be paid.

STARTED ON £100

Mr. Allen Lane, who founded the Penguin Company with a capital of £100 (he still owns all the shares), told me:

"1 m sure that our shles will reach 10,000,000 before the end of the year.

"I got this idea on a trip round the country two years ago from the 24. ibrary.

"I felt sure that we could create

a new book public among the lower Į middle classes,

IS A MENACE And this is borne out by the fact

Missionary Tells of Narrow Escape in Wilds Of Nigeria

Capetown, Feb. 10. A. S. Judd, who has been a missionary in the wildest parts of Nigeria for twenty-five years, told in an interview here how he escaped being killed by head hunters.

The trouble started when some Christian converis unwisely went out of their way to sing hymns in front of a pagan shrine.

"They were punished by the au thorities for their indiscretion." Judd | sald, "but the head hunters and their witch doctors were not satisfied.

different sources

heard

From

threats that the leader of the cult was going to have me killed and the Ohe mission school burned down. night a mission hut was set on fire. but the mission boys in it were awakened by the crackling of the

When flames and escaped.

they found their plan had failed, the savages did not molest us again."

Explaining the origin of the custom of hunting human heads in Nigeria, Judd sald many of the tribes have banded together to fight the Moham- medan slave raiders, and live in the hill country.

"The older men say that the more

be," he

editions.

that the Penguin books have not at all affected the sale of the original

That

public has responded, and we are now going shond with a new series, the Pelican series, of exactly the same size, shape, format and price, but designed for that treat mass of readers who wish to educate themselves.

SHAKESPEARE NEXT

"The first two volumes In this new series will be Bernard Shaw's re- written Intelligent Woman's Guide.

"After that we have planned an

elaborate series of Shakespeare's works, to be freshly edited for this series by Professor G. B. Harrison, of Cambridge.

"Among other Pelican volumes will be:

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ZA

EXPAND

The picture shows signs and placards being piled up after having being used for a huge protest parade by

the WPA workers in New York.

MAH-JONGG FOR THE

BLIND

FIRST BRAILLE SET MADE

After more than 200 hours work the first Braille mah-jongg set | ever made has just been completed by chief petty-officer R. Peel, of the Flinders naval depot, near Melbourne. It has been presented to the Royal Victorian Blind Institute in that city.

In the set, says Austral News, there are 144 tiles made from blue xylonite. They are faced with silver on which the dragon, winds, eireles and bamboos are raised.

1 HUSBAND

-£1,167

JURY SAYS SO

WHAT

worth?

is

a husband

A Sydney jury has just assessed him at £1,167.16s.. and has awarded his widow an extra £20 for a head- stone, as the result of an. action for damages against

A new volume of 70,000 words,

shipping company for specially written for this series by C, D. H. Cole: "Practical negligence. The action was Economics": "The Mysterious Universe." by brought by Catherina Hyland,

Junes Jeans; Sir Jun

the widow, following the death "First and Last. Men," by Olaf of her husband while working

Stapledon; "Essays of a Biologist," by Julianas a wharf labourer on one of

Huxley.

the company's ships. will see that we arc not Actuarial evidence was given, clinging to reprint publishing.'

says Austral News, that "And we have now arranged

basis that the husband WAS 39 enough publications in both the Penguin and the Pelican series to keep us busy for three years."

the fewer raiders there will re Princess

sold. "The young men consider it n

on the

Twins But Three Days Apart

Mrs. W. Bentley, of Creelan Street, Great Lever. Bolton, bas riven birth to a twin boy 72 hours after the birth of the first. Mrs. Bentley and the two boys are doing well,

The frat baby is to be called Brian and the second Bernard.

In July of last year a twin ziri was born to a Walthamstow (Essex) mother four days after the birth of the first twin,

Twins were born three days apart to the wife of a brick- yard worker at Eastringdon. East Yorkshire, Inst March.

MAKING PLANS

FOR EXPEDITION

Thirty-Four British Exolor- ers Sail for Antarctic In March

London, Feb. 10. A band of thirty-four British years old and the wife 36, and explorers are making plans in assuming that the working life of England for the "British a man ended at 65 (with the Antarctic Expedition, 1937," to possibility of his death and his sail from here early next month wife's remarriage) the value of

Royal the husband to the wife would be in Captain Scott's famous old

£605 for each £1 of earnings reship, the Discovery.

sign of manhood to bring in a head Denies Attempt coived by the wife,

from another tribe.. A man who has

chopped off a human held, or tilled To Dissuade Duke

a leopard or a lon, may wear a réd

feather at the tribal beer dances."

Funerals Too Slow, Says Vicar

ANON B.

G. NICHOLAS, the vicar of Spalding {Lines), writes In hila parishi

magazine:

"Why does the funeral pro- cession from the church to the cemetery pass through the town at such a dreadfully «low pace?

"Surely no one wants such a service prolonged, and there is no particular reverence or res- pect in dawdling.

"Thers need be no rush, but ten to Ofteen miles an hour would be less seemly than the present rate of three to four."

German "Aces”

Enzesfeld, Feb. 9. Princess Royal Mary express-

ed surprise at newspaper reports she was attempting to dissuade her elder brother, Prince Edward, from marrying Mrs. Wallis Simpson, it was reported to-day. Commenting on reports of the American divorcee on April 27, when Mrs. Simpson's divorce decree becomes final, she stated:

CAUGHT

WITH HEAD

IN VICE

RADIO BROADCAST

Dance Music From Hongkong Hotel

Z.E.K. PROGRAMME

Radio Programme Broadcast by zuw on a wavelength of 355 metres metres (9.32 (945 kc.'s), 31.49 m.c.'s).

12.30-2.15 D.IN. European Pro- grainme.

12.30 Light Orchestral Music.

p.m. Local: Time Signal and Weather Report.

1.03 Talkie Tunes:

1.30 Reuter Press; Local: Weather Forecast, Time and Announcements, 1.40 Songs by Derek Oldham Tenor).

1.55 p.m. Rale da Costa Memories. 2.15 pm. Close Down.

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5-8 p.m. European Programme,

Musle p.m.

A Relay of Dance from the Roof-Garden of the Hong- kang Hotel.

6.30 Mary Kay (Contralto) and Fritz Kreisler (Violin).

Violin Solos-Liebesfreud (Love's Joy), (Kreisler). Liebesteld (Love's Sorrow), (Kreisler),

Contralto Solos Danny Boy (Weatherley), My, ain folk (Lemon, Mills).

Violin Solos Spanish Serenade (Glazounov), Jota (De Falla).

Contralto Solos-Love's old sweet song (Molloy, Bingham), A Brown Bird singing (Haydn Wood, Barrie). 6.58 The New Light Symphony Orchestra.

Kamennoi-Ostrow (Reve Angell- que), Op. 10, No. 22 (Rubinstein). Liebestraume (Liszt). Romance In a Monastery (Tchaikowsky), Garden (Ketelbey), Hearts and Flowers Intermezzo (Tobani).

7.20 Rudy Starita and Ils

(Myers). The squirrel donce (Smith), Dence of the paper dolls (Tucker, Schuster and Siras).

7.30 Closing local Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.

7.35 Variety.

Xylophone. clown

Jocy the

and

Thoir objective is the Antarctic territory in the Australian sector.

Vocal-Nobody's darlin' but mine Since she came back from the

The Hill Billies. Instrumental Anturelle expedition led by Sir

Chicken Reel.... Brian Lawrance Douglas Mawson in 1931, the Dis- His Lansdowne House Sextet, covery hos Jain in East India Dock,

Yodelling Song-Mountain Melodies London. She is a ship of only 730 tons,

bull! at a cost of £52,00o George Van Dusen. Plano Selos

-Liszt in rhythm, Chopinezza. specially for Captain Scott's first Rawicz and Landauer.

Vocal---I've attempt to reach the South Pole got a pain in my, sawdust

Mac 1901 an objective which eventually Questal, Organ Solo Six Hit Medley cost him his fe. The ship was re- (No. 5) Harry Croudson. Vocal conditioned In 1925 at a cost of

The Four Crot- Yogi-Bogli .... £90,000.

chets. Walker, a young explorer

8 p.m. Local: Time Signol, Weather

8.03 A Relay from the Lee Theatre (Chinese).

new

Duke of Windsor's marriage to the Railway Worker in Durban who took part in the James Bay Report and Announcements.

"For the benefit of readers, news- papers should at least be considerate enough to set the date on' April 1."

The Duke of Windsor has indical-

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Geological Expedition to the Arctic in 1930-31, but who has never been to the Antarctic, is to lead the naw expedition.

11 p.m. Close Down. 8.05-11 p.m. European

Pro-

Instru-

Has Remarkable Escape From Death

We are trying to raise sumelent Durban, Feb. 10, funds to purchase that wonderful Framme from Z.E.K. on a fre- Particulars of the accident to hop Disto

the Discovery," he explained,quency of 640 kilocycles.

will enable us to 8.05 p.m. Peter Dawson (Bass- cd desire to purchase an estate in a shunter named Dekker, who achieve success. We are going to Baritone) with the J. HI, Squire

Australian sector Celeste Öctet. Hungary with hunting and golfing caught his head between the operate in the

Instrumental-Andante Contabilo facilities to which he could move in buffers of two trucks while known as Princess Elizabeth and May, a Vienna realtor disclosed to-

Banzare Land, and our activities will (Tchaikowsky), Songe-Just keepin' shunting at Vryheid in Natal, be of a geological nature. day."

First mention in London of Mrs. show that he had a remarkable

"We hope to discover the const-on (Phillips), Don't let the river run

dry (Haines and Harper). line of the Antarelle- which hitherto mentol--Ave

Maria (Schubert), R.A.F. Officers See Walls Simpson was made during escape from a horrible death.

has evaded explorers who have set Spring Song (Mendelssohn). Songs radio broadcast to-day in * pro- He was attempting to couple up forth on these quests, It will beThere's a bridie hanging on the Aramme called "Masculine Fame on twa 50-ton passenger coaches on

the first expedition of this kind not curved line in the yard when he fell to use sleigh dogs. We have decided wall (Carson Robison), Song of the grateful heart (Ord Ilamilton). In- The programme was interrupted forward just as the coaches slowly that they are much too expensive, and strumental-Souvenir (Drdin, ΔΙΣ.

Phantom by the announcer who later apolo- closed together. The buffer plates of that motor tractors perform the work Willoughby),

Minuet Berlin, Feb. 10.

gized for the incident. Mention was the coaches caught the sides of his

also taking a sca-(Hope), Song-Empty Saddles (HM). The party of Royal Air Force made during a skit in which one of head on the outer ring of the curve/Detter. We are

plane."

8.40 p.m. Regimental Band of the inner officers who are visiting Ger the gingers mentioned Mrs. Simpson while the same plates on

with heavy II. M. Granadier Guards. ring were actually touching.

frantically struggled many at the invitation of Gen. as having "sex

sex uppeal,"

The Smily in the wood (Michae Goering to-day inspected a wing

Later, the announcer said he "musi Another shunter who saw what crow-bars to case the buffer plates

Ils), The Turkish Patrol (Michaella). apologize

for

Waltz (Waldteufel), Acclamations of the famous Richthofen group this rentrerent poor taste happened signalled the engine to stop off the imprisoned man's head.

which

During this agonising experience The Grenadlers Waltz (Waldteufel, did just in time; the merest of fighters at the Military Aerodrome

The Duke of Windsor, accompanied fraction of further movement would Dekker at Doeberitz, and later saw various by the Princess Royal and the Earl have crushed Dekker's skull like an quietly spoke to say when the strain arr. Winterbottom)."

8.55 pm, London-News and An- anti-aircraft guns.

was easing. k Harewood, hold a private visit eggshell. Doeberitz is one of the strongest to-day to Dr. Wilhelm

Miklos,

Released at last, he was found to nouncements. The engine driver dared not re-

9.15 Vocal Gems, Inks in the chain of nerodromes President of Austria, at the Chan-lease the vacuum brakes to pull the be bleeding from both cars, and was

Memories of Lehar; "On the Wings which forms the western defence of cellery in Vienna.

coaches apart for fear that the buffer taken to the hospital, where the dis- Berlin,

Song" Memorics; Plantation The Duke's sister is the first mem-aprings might cause the coaches to covery was made that there was no of In the afternoon the British officers ber of the royal family to see him close together further, so Dekker re- fracture of the skull. After being Songs Paul Robeson (Bass). were taken to Gatow, a training since his abdication. She arrived mained gripped in a 100-ton vlee for detained for twenty-four hours, 9.40 Plano Memories. by Billy.

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