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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 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 matiem relating to Commonwealth Treaty procedure and international status of members of the British Common- wealth and channels of communica- Lion between them."

SHIPPING AND AIR

"

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

(1) General review of progress and questions of Empire trade arising therefrom.

(2) A review of the work of the Imperial Economic Committee and other organisations in the economic sphere.

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 chlidren is described in the current issue of the British Medical Journal,

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

(3) General questions arising in connection with shipping policy, Including review of the work of the Imperial Shipping Committee

(0) Civil air communication, It had been generally agreed by His Majesty's Governments that any question arising out of the Ottawa One of the most interesting investi Agreement could best be dealt with gations was concerned with diet and us occasion arose in separate dis- storage. A certain group of boys be- cussion between individual Govern- fore arriving at the seaside, went to

ments conterand and apart from the a special diet clinic in Hamburg

Imperial Conference.

It was hoped there would be op- portunity during the course of the Imperial Conference for an exchange of views on the subject of migration within the Empire.

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 the crowning, and forming guard of honour at the west entrance to Westminster Abbey, where the King and Queen will!

enter.

The men to guard the priceless jewels will be 11 in number, the

and gaoler

10 yeomen ward- ers, whose picturesque flat-topped, straight-brimmed velvet hats and short capes are familiar 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 cop- able of coping with any emergency threatening the crown jewels Or persons of Their Majestics.

the

on

The gunners at the tower are looking forward to a big day May

12 when they will fire no less than 248 salutes. At dawn there will be a salvo of 62 guns, another 62 will announce the departure of King George and Queen Elizabeth from Buckingham Palace, a further 02 will boom, when they arrive at the abboy and a final 62 will be fired to announce the actual crown- Ing.

ROYAL SALUTES

The group of 02-is divided: 21 for the royal salute; 21 for the tower, which technically is a royal palace

studied

where their chemistry was while on a special diet. Then they went to the reuside with the same nurse and on the same dies as in the town. Yet, now it was found that they were retaining in the system large quantities of essential roadstuffs for body-building purposes and up went their weight, t

QUICKER PROCESSES Studles 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 Juicer upon the same children in town and at the seaside 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 influence of sun-

in

chine but under the influence of fresh air alone; indeed, sunlight appears to play a comparatively minor part the changes here mentioned and some authorities consider that the best re- sults for convalescent children at the enside are obisined in the winter.

Two Billion Years

As Age of Earth

Five young Catholic priests who were recently Ordained in Hongkong by Mgr. Valtorta, the Bis- hop of the Catholle Diocese.

-Green Fire

Engines-in Germany Michael, Born In 1813,

Berlin, Apr. 1.

Everything is changing its

colour in Germany.

Fire engines, which hitherto

Gets 7s. 6d. And Talks

were red. are to be painted Of George The First

green by order of

chief of the German Police, and of the Hitler Guards.-

Exchange.

GOLF GIRL

FOUND DRUGGED

New York, Apr. 1.

By A SPECIAL 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 bil, Michael," said the chaleman, Councillor Cathcart, and Ac-

sent for the pension records, ·Swim Suits

cording to some of them Michnel was well over 110, anyway.

The

gazed at him with quite

right," croaked the ngrokej DEATRICE GOTTLIEB, who played in his long white beard. D golf with the Duke of Windsor No one there was able to, contra- when he was Prince of Wales, was diet him. 'So they gave Michael an found unconscious, in silk pyjamas, extra 7s. Od. 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 Carey Phelan, former prize-fighter, alleging crimal assault.

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

the

Are Made Of Metal Now

CORONATION year fashions de- mand a lavish use of gold and silver tissue.

TALES OF NAPOLEON Michael walked back 10 hit Swim suits of cloth of gold and lodgings In Gaylor-street, a quarter cloth of silver are being turned out of a mile away, twirled its sticks, at the Lancashire factory at Poulton- smiled now and then-perhaps re-le-Fylde.

By calling funny stories his father had 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, To-night he showed me that stick and fit the figure to perfection.

It is woven with lastex yarn to of his. It is very short "Ever since

he said, ensure the fi a centenarian," becume "I've cut a bit off cuch year.

ALASOREM Iron Duke.

Man Who

"Had One"

With Dickens

Latest Reckoning ONE of the last personal links

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

..

now "yardstick" created by recently discovered radio-active substances, Kirtley F. Mather, Harvard geology professor, es- timates that the earth is about 2,000,000,000 years old. 6

"Although for more than a century geologists have DOS- Bessed a very satisfactory technique for determining the relative age of various events in the history of the earth," he saya, "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 Prcas.

SOVIET REGIMENT

..

OF BOYS

Helsingfors, Apr. 1 The Soviet Government's decision

and fortress, and 20 for the City of to militarice 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. 1ts 400

400th anniversary this summer. toxcavations

at the entrance of the

od to hava shown,, considerable,

The colonel is a sixteen-year-old are being rushed to completion youth named Romanoff, who is claim before the food of coronation visitors promise, at the rife butts and an arrives, and will change the extraordinary aptitude for military pearance of the old landmark for

strategy. those who

before. The

bave seen it

the

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

at

near

Mr. Vining recalled his first meeting with Dickens. Calling one day the "Sir John Folstoire" inn Gadds H, in 1885, he was asked by a man in the bar to "have one."

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

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

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

| 1

"I don't care what I do. trawler hand once.

too. And bootbluck.

A

I:

will

wear Indefinitely, keeping

I was its brilliance. Water cannot rust it. shuemaker These cloth of gold and silver swim And a night suits are made simply. Their own

watchman. But that was a goodish gorgeous material requires no trim- time ago."

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

"It was a George,” said Michael.

"I forget which. I expect it was George the First,

"But I ня know."

young then, you

Strikers' Barrage

Of Hoses

of

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 hoses on the quays from three liners specially of the feeble-minded, is harmful in that indirectly it presses to paralyse all activity in the port.

The men had

the liners on all classes. I cannot think it right occupied Meknes (0,127 tons), Cap Padaran to keep alive individuals whom doc- (8,000 tons), and Braza (10,183 tons) tors know to be doomed from birth and the offers were forced to leave. to a sub-human existence. A falso The Prefect has ordered the sailors humanitarianism is at the present He created a sensation when he de- to be brought before the tribunal for time a drag on social progress. manded "Mr. Dickens" in person, but this action while

claims are their Dickens came out, found him a good under arbitration. box seat, and saw that he had Yesterday, the strikers placed 12 enjoyable evening. Mr. Vining was Gironde, thus preventing a number of ships across the channel in the | openins ·

After this

an

from leaving

a regular attendant at all Dickons other vessels, including five British, readings, though perhaps the fact that the novelist took him to bis club after the show was also some inducement,

Among the British vessels were the Corncrake (1,171 tons), Grebe (880 tons), and Conselt (1,368 tons)..

To-day the blockade was called off

"It is well to emphasise that the lower-middle and artisan: classes are the most valuable population- reservoir of the country. They re- plenish the weslihler classes which constantly tend to disappear; and from them comes, at an interval of a generation or two, nation's leaders, many of the "But it must also be said that in the lowest social stratum there is

End

Mr. Vining recalled Dickens as ahall fellow well mot? type, al- and the strikers ships moved away, unduly high incidence of mental de- ways ready to stand a round of as part of the men's demands have flelency, Insanity, epilepsy, tubercu drinks, and was especially inter- been met. ested in travellers, maken ges Another link with those leisure days was Mr. Vining's business of the the old "Churchwarden" pipes...

They have secured an 11 per cent. increase in wages, but as their claim to a 40-hours week is still under con-

sideration the strike continues.

Loneliest Islanders Say

Make

Us

British

wego Capetown, Apr. 1.

plan is to expose, emains of markable regiment, the first of its of the Both officers and "men" of this re- sights of the tower, the remains the Edon tower, the Lion Gate and kind in history are awarded

causeway with the drawbridge same ranks as in the regular army, ruke inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha, the world's loneliest lain, want that was in ancient times the con They also have a "political com- their home.recognised as an exisblished unit of the British Empire,

TUKE necting link, with the Middle tower. missor and their own band.

according to a radio message from the visiting cruiser Carlisle, These outer defences, built during and the reign of Henry III 600 years ago were partially demolished and have been buried since 1853 2

in

Other Juvenile regiments are course of formation in different parts Damnoen for the country, 6/

losis, and other physical disorders. STERILISATION

"We need to know much more of. the mode of transmission of these scourges and no effective means of eliminating them will be possible un U medical progress enables their Intent existence to

to be discovered

Since

those showing such defects, always transmit them to their they ought to be childless. discreditable to us as o ́na- tion that the recommendations of the Brook Committee on voluntary sterl

salon have so far been ignored by ine

Government.

” and Prudent parents will not, a

with They are also anxious to make it plain that stories that Trisian is facing should not, bring children into the starvation and is infested with rata fare: mytham The Carlisic found the world if they are to be ill-yed and

fil-housed/"/VGA islanders in perfost health-Resitar.;

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