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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL

1937.

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE TOPICS

Big Problems That Face

Empire Delegates

The agenda for the Imperial Conference, which opens in London on May 14, were outlined by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons recently.

Mr. Baldwin said the conference would afford an opportunity for discussing matters of common interest to members of the British Commonwealth under the following heads:

(1) Foreign affairs and defence.

(2) Constitutional questions.

(3) Trade, shipping and air communications and allied questions.

"As regards' foreign affairs and defence," said Mr. Baldwin, "the agenda will include the examination of the general situation, together with any relative questions of a less general character that may require consideration.

"As regards constitutional ques- tions, particular subjects proposed for consideration are certain matters relating to Commonwealth Treaty procedure and International status of members of the British Common- wealth and channels of communica- tion between them,"

SHIPPING AND AIR

As regards shipping and air com- munications and allled questions, the Premier went on, the following would be the main headings:

(1) General review of progress of Empire trade

and

questions prising therefrom.

(2) A review of the work of the Imperial Economic Committee and other organisations in the economie

sphere.

(3) General questions arising in connection with shipping policy. including review of the work of

nny

the Imperial Shipping Committee

(4) Civil air communication. It had been generally agreed by His Majesty's Governments

that question arising out of the Ottawa Agreement could best be dealt with as occasion arose in separate dis- cussion between individual Govern- ments concerned and apart from the

HEALTH SECRET OF THE SEASIDE

By A Medical Correspondent

An attempt to study scientifically what makes the seaside such an ex- cellent recovery ground for convale- scent children is described in the current issue of the British Medical Journal.

On an island in the North Sea there are two large and many small convalescent homes belonging to municipal and insurance organisations in Germany, together with a small laboratory where studies could be made.

various

One of the most interesting Investi- gations was concerned with diet and storage, A certain group of boys be fore arriving at the seaside, went to B special diet clinic in Hamburg where their chemistry was studied diet. Then they went to the

Imperial

al Conference. portunity during the course of the Imperial Conference for an exchange of Vidue on the subject of migration within the Empire.

It was hoped there would be up- while the same

They Will Guard The Crown Jewels

ELEVEN MEN HAVE IMPORTANT TASK

London, Apr. 1. Behind the ancient gray walls of the Tower of London the warders are drilling daily for two important coronation duties -guarding the crown jewels during the time they will be away from the tower for the crowning, and, forming the guard of honour at the west entrance to Westminster Abbey, where the King, and Queen will enter.

The men lo guard the priceless Jewels will be 11 in number, the gaoler and 10 yeomen ward- ers, whose pleturesque flat-topped, straight-brimmed velvet hals and short capes are famillar to tourist sightseers.

ANCIENT WEAPONS

All the warders are being drilled in the handling of ancient weapons, which they will carry at the cere mony. This majestic pageantry will! of course, be supplemented by keen- eyed Scotland Yard operatives cap- able of coping with any emergency threatening the crown jewels or the persons of Their Majesties.

The gunners

ners at the tower are a big day on looking forward to May 12 when they will fire no less than 248 salutes. At dawn there will be salvo of 62 guns, another 02 will announce the departure of King George and Queen Elizabeth from Buckingham Palace, a further 02 will boom when they arrive at the abbey and final 62 will bo' fired to announce the actual crown- ing.

ROYAL SALUTES

:

The group of 62 is divided: 21 for the royal salute; 21 for the tower, which technically is a royal palace

nurse and on the same diet as in the town. Yet, now it wong found that. they were retaining in the system large quantities of essential foodstuffs for body-building purposes and up went their weight.

QUICKER PROCESSES Studies of the oxygen consumption of the body at the seaside shows that the whole chemistry and burning up processes are working at higher level, and exact measurements of the gastric jufces upon the same children in town and at the staside shows that there is a marked increase when they under the influence of the sea climate.

are

Other studies have shown that the haemoglobin of the blood increases not only under the infidence of sun- shine but under the influence of fresh air alone; indeed, sunlight appears to the changes here mentioned and some authorities consider that the best re sults for convalescent children at the seaside are obtained in the winter.

Five young

Catholic priests who were recently Ordained in Hongkong by Mgr. Valtorta, the Bis-

hop of the Catholic Diocese,

Green Fire

Engines-in Germany Michael, Born In 1813,

Berlin, Apr, 1. Everything is changing its colour in Germany.

Fire engines, which hitherto were red, are to be painted green by order of Himmler, chief of the German Police, and of the Hitler Guards.-

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By A SPECIÁL CORRESPONDENT

Manchester, Apr. 1.

BELIEVE it or not, but Michael Moore walked into the office of the relief committee here to-day and told them that he was born in 1813 and that his father fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

"Walt a bit, Michael," said thej chairman, Councillor Cathcart, and sent for the pension récords. Ac-! cording to some of them Michael was well over 110, anyway.

The committee gazed at him with

astonishment. "It's

quite New York Apart, corked the patriarch-stroke BEATRICE GOTTLIEB, who played ing his long white beard.

golt with the Duke of Windsor No one there was able to contra-; when he was Prince of Wales, was ufet him. So they gave Michael an found unconscious, in silk pyjamas, extra 7s. 6d. a week "because of sprawled across her bed while jurors great age." It seemed to be were deciding to dismiss her £10,000 least they could do. claim against cafe proprietor Carcy Phelan, former prize-fighter, alleging criminal assault.

Policy, say that a box beside her bed had contained sleeping tablets. She is recovering in hospital.

Man

Who

play a comparatively minor part in "Had One'

Two Billion Years

As Age of Earth

Latest Reckoning

Cambridge, Mass, Apr. 1. TAKING measurements with a

new yardstick" created by recently-discovered radio-setivo substances, Kiriley F. Mather, Harvard geology professor, cs- limates that the earth is about 2,000,000,000 years old.

"Although for more than a century

pos- geologisia have sessed a very satisfactory technique for determining the relative age of various events in the history of the earth," he says, "it is only within the last few years that they have had a satisfactory method for measur- ing the lapse of time."

He said the oldest minerals, the age of which is known, are about 1,800,000,000 years old, and many specimens indicate ages greater than 600,000 years. -United Press,

SOVIET REGIMENT OF BOYS

Helsingfors, Apr. 1. The Soviet Government's decision

and fortress, and 20 for the City of to militarise the youth of Russia has London. The salutes will be fired by a detachment.of the Honourable already led to the formation of a Artillery Company, tower gunners, regiment entirely composed of boys an organization which will celebrate in their teens.

its 400th anniversary this summer.

Excavations at the entrance of the The colonel is a sixteen-year-old. lower are being rushed to completion youth named Romanoff, who is deim- before the Blood of coronation visitors

an

to have shown considerable promise at the rifle butts and arrives, and will change the

extraordinary aptitude for militory pearance of the old landmark The strategy.

the

who

before. Bech plan is to expose, as one of the Both officers and "men" of this re- sights of the tower, the remains of markable regiment, the first of its the Lion lower, the Lion Gate and kind in history, are awarded the causeway with the drawbridge same ranks as in the regular army, Blso have a "political com- that was in ancient times the con- They necting link with the Middle tower. missar" and their own band.

These outer defences, bulit during the reign of Henry III 600 years ago, Other Juvenile regiments are in were partially demolished, and have course of formation in different paris been buried since 1853.

of the country,

With

Dickens

•

ONE of the last personal links

with Charles Dickens has been severed by the death of Mr. C. E. Vining, of .ngston Hill, Surrey, at the age of 91.

Mr. Vining recalled his first meeting with Dickens. Colling one day at the "Sir John Falstaffe" inn near Gadds Hill, in 1865, he was asked by a man in the bar to "have one."

Young Vining said: "Thank you, sir, but I must do my business an a tobacco salesman first; then I'll have | nothing stronger than peppermint."

"You are a good young man to get your business done first,"

Later Dickens invited him to a reading of "All the year round." and told to sak at the lecture hall for Mr. Dickens.

the

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TALES OF NAPOLEON Michael walled back to his Swim suits of cloth of gold and lodgings in Gaylor-street, a quarter cloth of sliver are being turned out of a mile away, twirled his stick,at the Lancashire factory at Poulton- smiled now and then-perhaps re- | le-Fylde.

calling funny stories his father had By a special process, the metal is told him about Napoleon and the made flexible and light. The whole swim-suit weighs only a few. ounces, and fill the figüre to perfection.

Iron Duke.

To-night he showed me that stick of his. It is very short. "Ever since I became a centenarian," he said,

cut a bit off each year. "I don't care what I do, I was trawler hand

once. A shoemaker too. And a bootblack. And a night watchman. But that was a goodish time ago.

I interrupted him to ask who was King when he was born.

"It was a George," sald Michael. "I forget which. I expect it George the First.

was

"But I was young then, you know."

Strikers' Barrage

Of Hoses

It is woven with Justex yarn to ensure the nt.

It will wear indefinitely, keeping Its brilliance. Water cannot rust it. These cloth of gold and silver swim suits are made almply. Their own gorgeous material requires no trim- ming.

WRONG

TO KEEP THE UNFIT

ALIVE

Dr. Barnes

THE Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. E. W, Barnes, preaching before the University of Oxford recently, stated:

Bordeaux, Apr. 1. HERE was a dramatic scene here to-day when hundreds of French

"The cost of social derelicts, and seamen on strike played a barrage of

feeble-minded, is hoses on the quays from three liners specially of the

harmful in that indirectly it presses to paralyse all activity in the port.

The men had occupied the liners on all classes. I cannot think it right Meknes (6,127 tons), Cap Padaran to keep alive individuals whom doc- and Braza (10,193 tons) tors know to bo doomed from birth (0,000 tons).

A false and the officers were forced to leave. to a sub-human existence.

The Prefect has ordered the sailors humanitarianist is at the present to be brought before the tribunal for time a drag on social progress,

his action while their claims ace under arbitration.

He created a sensation when he de- manded "Mr. Dickens" in person, buti Dickens came out, found him a good box seat, and saw that he had An Yesterday the strikers placed 12 ships across the channel in the After this opening Mr. Vining was Gironde, thus preventing a number of a regular attendant at all Dickens' other vessels, including Ave British, readings, though perhaps the fact that from leaving.__

enjoyable evening,

#

the novelist took him to his club Among the British vessels were the after the show was 180 some Cornerake (1,171 tons), Grebe (800 inducement.

tons), and Consett (1,368 tons). Mr. Vining

recalled Dickens as To-day the blockade was called off "ball fellow well met" type, al- and the strikers' ships moved away, ways ready to stand a round of as part of the men's demands have drinks, and was especially inter- been met. ested in travellers,

They have secured an 11 per cent. Another link with those leisure increase in wages, but as their claim days was Mr. Vining's business of the to a 40-hours week is still under con- the old "Churchwarden" pipca.

alderation the strike continues.

Loneliest

Make

Islanders Say Us British

"It is well to emphasise that the -lower-middle and artisan classes

are ike most valuable population- reservoir of the country. They re- plenish the wealthier classes which constantly tend to dimppear; and from them comes, at an interval of s generation or two, many of the nation's leadera.

"But it must also be said that in the lowest social stratum there is an unduly high incidence of mental de- ficiency, Insanity, epilepay, tubercu losis, and other physical disorders,; STERILISATION

"We need to know much more of the mode of transmission of theso scourges and no effective means of elimianting them will be possible un-

medical progress

ress enables their latent existence to be discovered.

"Since those showing mich defects almost always transmit them to their children, they ought to be childless.

'HE'

IS discreditable t

.to sns on- tion that the recommendations of the Capetown, Apr. 1. Brook Committee on voluntary sterl- [UE inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha, the world's loneliest. Isle, want Usation have. AD their home recognised as an established unit of the British Empire, the Government.

far been ignored by

according:de: a radio: messago from: the visiting cruiser Carlisle, deka "Prudent parents will not, and Ther pro also anxious to make it plain that stories that Tristan is facing: should not, bring children Into the starvation and is Infested with rat are mythis. The Carliste found the world if they are to be ill-fed and Islanders in perfoot health-Reuter.

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