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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY,

APRIL 16,

1937.

130 WATCH 600-MILE FRONTIER -Portuguese Wonder How Britons Will Do It SHANGHAISTEAMER

WORK

BEFORE PARTIES

A

-says Chief

By A Correspondent

Lisbon, Apr. 10. ROOM in the palatial Hotel Aviz, near Lis- bon, has been set aside as -headquarters of Captain Malcolm MacDonald, chief of the British observers in Portugal.

When the rest of the 130 Britons chosen to pulice the Portuguese frontler arrive they will be able to go to their stations within a few dinys.

THEY WONDER.

Lisbon people are wondering how on earth 130 men are going to watch nearly 000 miles of frontier to pre- vent the passage of arms and volun- teers into Spain.

That is going to be MacDonald's little worry.

"The British will be stationed at nine widely separated posta," this young-faced, grey-haired ex-naval officer told me.

"knew wasn't going to be a plente when I took on the job-and a quick look round has told me I 'was right. It will be at least a fortnight before we can get to work properly."

Meanwhile MacDonald and his clerical staff have administrative problems to tackle. Well-to-do Por- tuguese people are calling hourly aftering their hospitality, but so far no "dales" have been, made, "Work in the Arst, parties afterwards,

it's Jolly "skipper's" motto. "But decent of them to ask us," he told

mne.

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THRILL

OF

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*Brada žiurk

FOUR-MILES DROP

FROM THE CLOUDS

BOURNEMOUTH, APR. 10.

FOR MONTHS NOW.A YOUNG SALESMAN-CLERK HERE

HAS BEEN SAVING HIS PAY TO BUY A PARACHUTE TO MAKE AN ATTEMPT ON THE WORLD'S RECORD DESCENT.

Now everything is ready, and on a fine spring morning! shortly Us mun, Gwynne Johns, will leap from

an acroplane four miles above Salis- bury Plain In his third attempt 10 beat the delayed drop record of the Inte John Tranum-17,086 12

Mr. Johns said that he plans to fall for ninety seconds before pulling the rip-cord-a sheer drop of 18,000 ft. I have been saving up my pay to the buy my parachute, special clothes and breathing apparatus I shall wear," he added. " launder my own linen to save money. I have hobby of parachute jumping made a for five years."

On the wall on his little sitting- room hang a pair of crutches, a grim reminder of the occasion when he

broke his leg in three places during

une fall.

A TRAGEDY OF HOLLYWOOD

FORMER FILM-STAR'S 108. THEFT

New York, Apr. 10 One of Hollywood's many trage dies-obscured by the huge salaries, bright lights, and glamour of the tim capitalis revealed by the trial of the Marchesa Theodorn Marcone for theft.

It was not really a trial since the Marchesa, once the toast of Broad way and one of the first women to make a name for herself in aviation. pleaded guilty to stealing 24 dollars (10s.) worth of merchandise from a Los Angeles shop. She threw her- self on the mere

mercy of the Court, nsk- ing for probation.

Blondes,

Brunettes,

Red-Heads

A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE

London, Apr, 10.

The frequently-expressed theory

ON FIRE AT SEA

An aerial view, showing the gutted bridge, of the blazing Shanghai steamer Marie Moller, of Holyhead. Bound for Liverpool with a cargo of peanuts from Vizagapatam, Madras, the vessel was only 30 miles from the end of her voyage when fire, followed by terrific explosions, broke out in No. 3, hold, The crew of 72 officers and men were rescued within sight of shore.

FOR

To-day's Tallest

Paris, Apr. 10.

a year constables throughout France have been trying to arrest Lonis Andre Barbut, a twenty- nine-year-old commercial traveller, for alleged non-delivery of paid-for Foudis.

The police state that more than 200 provincial wireless dealers have registered complaints against him.

To-day he was captured in Paris.

"How did you get him?" asked an admiring police commissaire.

20,000 MADCHEN GO INTO

UNIFORM

Berlin, Apr. 5.

· THOUSAND TWENTY

Berlin girls, all aged ten,, are about to go into

that there is no greater difference modestly, "not many people are red enrolled-for-the-League-of-

"Well," guid the subordinate uniform. They are being

| between blonde, brunette and red-haired and 0ft. 7ins, tall."

haired women than between three automobites of the sume model paint-

ed in different colours has been dis-

proved by British scientists.

The three types, scientists declare,

JAPANESE SEER

German Girls, feminine section of the Hitler Youth.

movement.

The girls are examined as ther-

are us distinct from each other is SURVEYS WORLD y as Army recruits.

three human races, and there ample evidence that they have been distinct races before humanity be-]·

up by came so thoroughly mixed emigration and "intermarriage.

Women doctors text blood- pressure. Tokyo, Apr. 10.

lung-power, eyesight, and A robust

hearing in order to find out if they United States, are it to become future mothers. "moving forward like rolling Blondes skins ate not really white, thunder in the sky," and a nor .BIC brunettes skins really

Great Britain with ebbing in- ! each contain large brown. They

of

'SWEAR-IN' DAY

On April 20, Hiller's birthday, the

the Hitler Youth.

quantities of red, orange, yellow, fluence have been predicted by girls will be "worn-in" as members Freen, blue indigo

and violet. A Donsho Kodama, Japan's fore blonde has more yellow in her skin than a brunette, a brunette bas less most soothsayer. green cr green blue than a blonde. and "redheads" have a more equal

lending of all the colours.

ed

Afterwards they will have an even more detailed examination. Results will be entered in the "Racial Passport," which it is in- tended that they shall carry for the rest of their lives, forming a record of their health and deve- lopment.

For his own country Kodama saw storms and earthquakes but a com- paratively tranquil political outlook. WHEN BLONDES GO GREEN

Other Kodama forecasts: turn green

France will have no great change A blonde really can Judge Leroy Dawson heard her

in the Immediate future.

Entrance to the Hitler Youth is sympathetically, but discovered that when the blood leaves her checks as

Germany is coming out of the she had no means of support, and so a result of a sudden shock or nau-

nominally voluntary for girls (com- ruled she must go to the county sen, because the extra green pig- night into the sunrise,

that

pulsory for boys), but girls who do Italy,

vigorous now, appears poor farm, unless 15 dollars (£3)ment in her skin then becomes more weekly can be provided to place her prominent, the, scientists explained. headed for a great loss and a check-not go into the movement are un-

advance.

| likely to obtain good positions Inter. in a rehabilitation home. She is be- Blondes and "red hends" are sus-

The Soviet Union enjoys good Ing

kept

Employers are compelled to give In gaol while attempts are ceptible to skin affections. A real

prospects.

who have being

preference to candidates to Interest welfare wor- brunette virtually is immune. Bru- made to

Dictators and near-dictators will done "party service."--Reuter; kers in her case,

over the Before her marriage to an Italian cites seldom suffer from. Infantile continue their influence nobleman Theo Carew, as she was paralysis and diseases of the nervous next decade.

system. Blondes are martyrs to the hen known, had been

leading common cold, Influenze, and diseases. The most important nations in lady for John Drew and won tame in of the lungs. Brunettes usually international politics during 1937 the early days of

films. She had have the best teeth. Blondes and will be the United States, Germany, been a frlend

of David Belasco, "redheads" дге often victims of the Soviet Union, Japan and Italy. Henry Wallhail, Mae Marsh, and, the rheumatism and rheumatic fever.

ITALY'S ECLIPSE SEEN Gish sisters.

After a happy marriage to an Brunettes are sadder and

likely to A very important person." pre- Italian nobleman she settled in Italy. soulful. They are more where on the outbreak of the war commit sufelde than to use physical sumably Premier Mussolini, will die vor husband entered the Flying Ser-violence toward others. Blondes are and the nation fama predicted,

calculating, will cease its vice and she the Ambulance Corps. cold, unemotional and

B

more

ous advance. Until then Italy will

After his death she took to the air, Brunettes arc excltable, generous ko forward steadily.

becoming Italy's first woman war and often and. Redhaired flyer. After the war.she partielpat-are flery and easily angered, women in Paris. She is now 51, seldom nurse resentment.

women

3

but He anticipated general Im-

ed in one of the first air races for their anger soon cools and they provement in foreign trade through In General Demand!.

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