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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY

Unsealing Gresford Pit EXPLOSION

ACTION URGED TO

FIND CAUSE OF

EXPLOSION

Wrexham, Mar. 1.

OFFICIALS of miners' organisations in North Wales

are dissatisfied with the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Gresford colliery disaster.

Admitting that the report contains valuable sugges- tions for obviating future disasters they point out that none of the three authorities who conducted the inquiry has been able definitely to state where or how the ex- plosion occurred.

For this reason

many of them

be

will press for Ute reopening of the scaled-off roads in the pit no that Orst-hand investigation may mada throughout the districts which were involved.

Many of the bereaved families aro also pressing for reopening so that the 254 bodles still underground may be brought up and buried.

Government officials and repre- sentatives of the proprietors and of the men are to meet at the pit on March 6 for a conference on the re- port and these suggestions will then be put forward.

TELEPHONE THEORY

Vatican

And The

Broken

Concordat

DETAILED LIST OF BREACHES

Rome, Mar. 1.

Every member of the council of the Miners' Association has been supplied with a copy of the report-and-the-

In "Vatican" quarters it is-sorrow-- council will meet shortly-probably fully admitted that all agreements this week-to discuss the findings. between the Holy See and the Nazi It was learned to-day that miners Reich have been persistently and working in the Gresford pit dis-systematically violated in letter and credit the suggestion of Mr. John in spirit by the National Socialists. Brass, one of the assessors at the inquiry, that the explosion was caused by ignition of gases through a faulty telephonie connection, "The pit is fitted with the most up- to-date telephonic communication," one official stated, "and it was in operation at the time of the dienster."

The general impression is that' there was faulty shot-aring some- where between the 29 and 14 dis-

tricts.

The fate of the Roman Catholic schools in Germany and in Bevoria particularly is awaited with deep pessimism. Their closure by the German authoritles would, however, only make another breach in the al- realy tattered remains of Germany's solemn undertakings.

These undertakings are clearly de- fined in no fewer than four Con- the free cordats which guarantee exercise of the Roman Catholic reli- Mr. Edward Jones, the Northgion, with due recognition of the Wales miners' agent, is also making a place of religion and religieus teach- careful study of the official reporting in scholastic and social affairs. and of the observations of the asses- These are the Bavarian Concordat sors. He will fater issue his own of 1924; the Prussian Concordat of 1920; the Baden Concordal of 1932; vlewa.

and the inclusive all-Germany Con- cordat negotiated by the Reich, sign- Papen in July, 1933, and confirmed with an exchange of ratifications on September 10 of the same year.

He will probably be nominated to ventilate to the employers the desire of the miners that the sealed-off dis-ed by Cardinal Pacelli and Herr Von tricts shall be reopened.

"There is a strong opinion through- out the North Wales coalfields that the bodies of the 254 remaining vic- tims must be recovered," he said.

FINED IF THEY

TALK TO GIRL

TLFRACOMBE's new Bahelors" Club held its first meeting recently when it was decided that any member seen talking to a girl would be fined,

For a third "offence" the mem-

Hablo. for Der le

#uspension, Applicants for membership will = "third degree" be subjected about their private lives.

Girla In the town have deelded to wreck the club, and may It will not last longer than a month.

Raid On Club · Where Stars Lost £20,000 A Night

Hollywood, Mar. 1. THE Clover Club, Hollywood's night-club Juxtury - exclɑsivo

gambling resort, frequented by stars and Alm chiefs, must remain closed indefinitely after a police rald when numerous gambling devices were seized.:

There were more than 100 prosent at the time, including many dim "naraes, but none was detained.

Before Judge, Ceell D. Holland, of Beverly Hills, Court, dealers and crouplers were charged with operat- ing gambling contrivances contrary to the law and fined £20 each..

JUDGE.PROTESTS

Judge Holland made a protest that the deputy police sheriffs presenting the case in his court were not too helpful.

The West Hollywood law enforce ment agencies are preparing a case to place before the newly constituted Grand Jury at Los Angeles charged with inquiring into gambling and vice conditions in the county. ⠀⠀

This jury will be asked to ex": amine. the clroumstances under which the Clover Club and prob ably some other famous night spots operated: behind locked doors for a rich flm star cilentelė which often gambled away huge fortunes in a night, ph

Famous urcen people have played roulette at the Cloyer, losing or win- ning up to £20,000 in a session, ***Drinking, dancing, and "gambling have taken place almost alightly there ullave a.m, often leading to unpleasant scenes involving many pubile-favouriter,

VIOLATED ARTICLES

IN SHANGHAI

One of the three boilers, which was hurled through an almost one-fcot thick concrete wall, in the Shanghai Bank Building at the intersection of Ningpo and Klung so Roads recently, is shown lying on top of debris in the alleyway. One boiler room asalstant nud a garbage coolle were killed in the explosion. Tenants of the upartment building were left without heat or hot water.-Ah Fong.

If This is Youth,

God Help Us"

By H. W. SEAMAN

"Do not despair of youth to-day," says the

Bishop of London to the Church Assembly. Thank you, your Lordship. I was about to despair, for the third or fourth time this week, in spite of a New Year resolution to let modern youth alone.

..

For I had just heard about Miss Barbara Blair, who, in her own words, has gone "plumb:crazy over neroplanes."

Miss lair, rich, blonde, 24, and beautiful, has come here from America via Switzerland. Somewhere in her travels she was struck by

MARCH 11,

1937.

RADIO BROADCAST

A Children's Concert From the. Studio

ZEK.

PROGRAMME

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on Wavelength of 355 metres (043 k.c.'s), 31.40 metres (0.02 m.c.'s),

12.30 An Orchestral Concert. 1.p.m. Time and Weather. 1.03

Variety.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather, Time and Announcements.

1.40 Planoforte recital by Benno Moiselvitch,

1.55 p.m. De Groot and the Pic- cadilly Orchestra.

2.15 Clase Down.

5 p.m. A Relay of Dance Music

from the Roof-Garden of the Hang- kong Hotel.

6 p.m. From the Studio.

A Children's Concert. 6.30 p.m. The New Light Symphony Orchestra with Albert Sandler (Violin).

+

Orchestra-Serenade Mauresque, Op. 10, No. 2 (Elgar); Violin Solo- An old violin (Taylor and Fisher): Bridge March Orchestra-London (Erle Coutes); Violin Solo-Remem- brance (Marlo, Melf); Orchestra- Prelude Haydn

Wood); Violin Solos

The child and his dancing doll (Heykene); Spanish Serenade (Hey- kens); Orchestra-Danse des Apaches (Clarke); Romance in E Flat, Op. 44, No. 1 (Bubinstein); Violin Solomo sole mio (Di Capun); Orchestra-The Mill in the forest (Ellenberg); Monas- tery bells (Wely).

7.10 p.m. Old Musical Comedy Hits.

"Music in the Air-The song is you; I've told ev'ry little star.... Layton and Johnstone; "My songs from the shows". Mario Burkt: "The New Moon"Wanting you.... Lawrence Tibbell.

7.30 p.m. Stock Quotations and Exchange Market.

7.35 p.m. Carroll Gibbons at the Piano,

Judy: Sinrs fell on Alabama; You never looked so beautiful...

7.45 p.m. Songs of the Sea..

Deep Sea Mariner (McCall).... Peter Dawson (Buss-Barlone); Sea Shanties....Geraldo and His Accor doon Band, and Male Chorus: The Admiral's Broom (Bevan)....Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone).

8 p.m. Time, Weather and An-

nouncements.

8.03 From the Studio,

A Chinese Concert

Pro-

11 p.m. Close Down. 8.05-11 p.m. European gramme from Z.E.K. on a fre quency of 610 kilocycles.

8.05 p.m. Symphony No. 2 fr D Major, Op. 36 (Beethoven), played by the Vienna Philharmonie Orchestra, Conducted by Clemens Krauss.

8.38 p.m. Septet, Op. 65 (Saint- Saens), played by Foveau (Trum pet), Cantrelle (1st. Violin), Bel- langer (2nd. Violin),~ Vieux

Well informed Vatican eireles here confirm the general breach of the Reich Concordat. Discussing the Reich Concordat with experts Vatican affairs, I have been inform- nine more young women, all rich, in a flying club.

an idou which the now proposes to inflict on her British contemporaries..(Viola), Marne (Cello), Nanny

of its and

In

She and a German frlenda bareness-are out to

ed that as well as the general breach "Boy, it'll be fun," she says. "We can have week-end parties, and the follow- we can ali go by plane, and we can have cule flying togs and a little theme ing obligations are considered to have song lilie Follow the Swallow Back Home, been violated by Germany:

*In case of war we could pitch in Blair has come to the ripe age of 24. Article

21, wh

for the which provides

proposal would not have been alarm- teaching of the Catholic religion in uke the men, could carry them if she had been only 18 her gay

into the front. It would be fun:" elementary, professional, secondary and higher schools, and

that arranges "the programme of religious teaching and the choice of school books for and instruction will be fixed in religious agreement with the higher elesiastical authorities,

BC-

(Double-Bass) and Faure (Plano). 8.55 pm London News and An- nouncements."

9.15 p.m. The Jolly Robbers”. -Overture (Suppe), played by the BBC. Wireless Military Band.. 9.23 p.m. "Food for Thought." Three, short

on matters of topical interest. (Electrical Record- 9.45 p. A Song Recital in French by Lys Gauty.

If this fairly represents-the mening. tality of the present crop of 24-year- But when an apparently adulting). olds, God help us all. It will take woman starts talking about war as more than the Bishop of London's fun somebody ought to invite her to 'reassuring words to keep us

shut..up.

I hereby nominate mysel despairing.

Kor that ungallant task. GROWING PAINS

1.

from

Article 23, which states, "The pre- CURE FOR YOUTH servation

ervation

and direction of new Catholic schools is guaranteed."

Article, 24, which says that only masters belonging to the Catholic Church will be employed in the elementary schools in keeping with the special contingencica of, the Catholic Confessional schools.

If I were asked to send forth a message to the young men and wo- men of to-day, this is what I should send:

au-

Article 25, by which the religious orders and congregations are thorised to found and manage private schools.

of

"For heaven's sake grow up."

Growing up is the cure for the maladies of youth, the reckless- ness, the Irresponsibility, the rage against the world as they And it. Fortunately Nature at- tends to that in time; but the process now takes longer than it used to take.

"Stay young as long as you can," sny the oldsters, and I think they are wrong.

It is dimeult to realise that Miss

At the same time I extend to her and all other, superannuated young. sters a cordial invitation to join the grown-ups. We are not bad com- pany, and there is really little to be afraid of.

The pleasures of youth are greatly under-rated Growing pains are by no means limited to the arms and legs. Most of the intelligent young- sterk of my acquaintance suffer terribly when they contemplate the dreadful state of the world.

The more they look at it with their billons eyes the worse they fect. And the most intelligent of them are the hardest hit by the discovery that all la Kot sweet, pink, and lovely here be- low,

which Article 31,

approves Catholic Action activities in spiritusi affairs. In this article the Relch undertakes that bil existing youth organisations in Germany will be en- couraged in their religious duties and "that they

will not be obliged to do things Incompatible with their con- victions and

with their religious

with any concordat, is giving the duties or morals."

The final Article of the Concordut Church much concern. It is said that is hopelessly ignored. It provides an espionagic, aystem

That, boys and girls, is what your for a friendly solution" of all dif- amongst German schoolchildren. The can stick out your tongue at us now, la organised Youth Movement amounts to. You

ferences which may arise on the Bavarian episcopate over a month, and "Blah, blah!! at use until you interpretation or obligations of the ago denounced and deplored "the are blue in the face, but in a little Concordnt.

anti-religious espionage in the while you will be on our side.. schools among the scholars who are formed into 'cells' for the purpose." YOUNG SWAGGERERS

·

I am told that National Socialist activity, in complete contradiction

Storm

Over Harry

Lauder's Fee

CONTROVERSY is raging in Australia over a 1500 fee said.

to have been paid to Sir Harry Lauder for a single broad- cast there.

There is no doubt," says' one newspaper, "that in Sir Harry Lauder the Australian Broadcasting Commission has one of the most popular artists, it has engaged for some fine, but it would be very difficult to justify such an enormous feo for a comic song or two, no matter how. Zamous or brilliant the

comedians been visiting his brother, Mr. Jock Lauder, of Newcastio,

SIF

Harry has

New South Wales.

Ho agreed to broadenst and negotiations regarding the fee were conducted

at Mr. Jock Laudor'i hame.

The contract, providing for the largest fet for a single radio per- formance ever paid in Australia,

the Sedis and those of Scottish do- scent in the autback of Australia hent again, the voice of Scotland in

mmy

was signed in the kitchen of Mustralia is full of Scottish reltiors,

Jock Lauder's home while › Mrs.

"I know because of the hundreds

Hitler, Mussolini, and all the other tyrants have shown the wisdom of дго catching recruits when they young and crazy,

•

In their countries it is the young- sters who swagger about in uniforms, pushing their batters off the tool path.

It is the older generallon that fills the concentration camps and the Siberian prisons, suffer- ∙ing for the sake of freedom.

It is not youth self so much as the indecent prolonging of youth that endangers the world to-day.

I say that a man or woman ought to be grown up at 21, ought by that time to have served an appreniceship to a trade or otherwise have become equipped to do the work of a man or woman, ought to have realised that he or she cannot get the moon, by crying for it.

Sudden Death

New York, Feb, 27...

A person meets sudden death up-

- Lauder peeled the overBir of letters bavo had asking, mo, lo Inwfully: every 45 :: minutes::: this

"Commenting on this Harry shidi ANNUA

broadcasting not

sing: "Hamin' in the Gloamin" and.

If not der money I Love a Lassie British United I've got enough but just to let Prden.

U. 8. 'A PONAKAN

This

is the statement-made. In a publication on crime here recently, “

talks

J'Attends un Navire; A Selection.

Song

10 p.m. Big Ben Dance Music. Waltz-Secret rendezvous. 11 p.m. Close Down.

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Teunamlusion 1 (6.6.2. 640, 03.0.).

The B.B.C. Theatre p.m. ilg

Organ. 3.30 p.m. Food for Thought" Three shert taške on maiter of · topical Interest

3.40 pm Chamber Music. A concert of works by Australian composers. 4.40 pan. The News and Announcemente Greenwich Time Signal at 4.45 pm,

Transmission 2

(G.B.D., 0.8.0 (1.8.11.) 7p.m.

7.46. # p.m.

Die Ben. Selections from the Light Opera: 1.13 Dum. John Londoner at. Itome-10. An evening with some of his many and various acquafitancre

Frank Olsen, at the Organ of the New Cinema, Glasgow, "The Old Forks as Horns. programme in which we hope to bring back memoria of popular melodies of yesterday.” 1.80 p.m. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 9.15 p.m. 9.10 pm. A Mitary Band Brogramme. 9.23 p.m. Food for Thought. Three short talks on matter of topical Interdat.

(0.5.D., 10 p.

Transmission 3-

0.3.3., U,B.IL.) •.

Balen, Tom Jenkins, at the Organ of the FiasaCinema,

Swansea.

10,20 m A Recital of Sex Songs. Wilfred Easer (Dass-baritose), 10.45 p.m. Besied Ordera. Baath Blat. fordshire Contessa, by Kenneth Adam.

11.15 p.m. The Bournemouth Municipal

Orchestra.

12.30. The News and Announcementa. Greenwich Time: Bignal at 12.45 0. 11.80 Dance Monio.

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HONGKONG, SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The total Expenditure in 1037 on behalf. sick and destitute children is estimated - ht $23,000, against which the. Income to date la $5,250 only.

The Society asks for the balance of

$19,750

Hon, Treasurers: :*

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Mr. KWOK GILANA

c/o Banque de L'Indo-Chine,

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February 8, 1937,~~~