1937-05-06 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, MAY 26: 1937.

138 Warships For Coronation Review RADIO

STARLET - One of the recent visitors to Atlantic City, N. J.. sometimes called the Nation's Playground, was Deanna Dur- bin, young singing star of the screen. She is seen above na sho strolled on the boardwalk.

THE

Coronation Curiosities

By Harold H. Corbin

ST. EDWARD'S CHAIN THERE will be two chairs of state for the King and Queen at the Coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey next Wednesday. But it will be the ancient St. Edward's chair in which King George VI will sit when he is anointed and crowned.

KING TO INSPECT LATEST CRUISER

By A Naval Correspondent

A total of 138 British war- ships will assemble at Spithead for the Coronation Naval Review on May 20.

Of these, 45 will be from the Home Fleet, 32 from the Medi- terranean, 26 from the Reserve Fleet, 32 representing constal commands of the Nore, Ports- mouth, and Devonport and four |representing the Dominions and the Royal Indian Navy. No arrangements have yet been made for a ship of the Royal Australian Navy to be present.

the

It is interesting to note how proportion of small ships to large ships has increased since pre-war days. At the Review of 1914, there wore 59 capital ships and 55 cruisera nt Spithead.

AT BROTHER'S FUNERAL-Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lady Chamberlain, as they attended the funeral at St. Margaret's Church, London, of Sir Austen Cham- berlain, Neville's half brother. Neville is expected to be Britain's Prime Minster after the Coronation.

}

DREYFUS'S MEMOIRS OF

HIS FAMOUS

Memories of one of the most cele- At the Coronation Review, thore

brated treason trials in history will will be 11 capital ships of the fighing be recalled with the publication of a fieets, the old demilitarised battleship blography of Lieutenant-Colonel Iron Duke, and 16 cruisers, including Dreyfus, written by his son, Pierre, Leander and Frobisher, The Intter

and Letters." has been acting as cadet training ("Dreyfus: His Life

Hutchinson 188). cruiser, and has hund her mato arm- ament guns removed in obedience to Incorporated in the volume is a

portion of the hitherlo unpublished- Treaty obligations.

Dreyfus dealing with memoirs of

fight for vindleation from the time of his second condemnation at tennes in 1800 to his Anal acquittal ir 1900.

Of the remaining cruisers, eight are old ships, the majority of which have been, or are to be, converted Into "floating anti-alreraft batteries." There will be 59 destroyers Includ- Ing the two vessels of

The latter are particularly interest- The Royal Canadian Navy, and 22 submarines ing both for the light they throw on seven of which are vessels of war-Dreyfus's character-his composure time design and construction, Four and apparent coldness in the face of aircraft carriers will be present, and friends and enemies alike sometimes the remainder of the ships wit be alienated his own supporters-and they contain his own sloops, minesweepers, netlagers, and because

upinions of many of the principle The names of the foreign warships actors in the drama. which will attend are not available, but it is known that Japan will be) represented by the large crufser

so on.

HIS "COLDNESS"

Of his "coldness," which was ad- during the Astigara. and that Turkey. will sendversely commented on

the battle cruiser Yavuz-which was Rennés court-martial, he writes: the German battle cruiser Goeben.

The Mediterranean Fleet will take up their posllions on May 13, and the Home Fleet on the following day: The Reserve Fleet will arrive on May 19.

The Review will take place on May 20, and on the following day the King will visit the flagships and the

The Fleets will disperse on that!

!

TRIAL

cxelte pity if one is quilty 1s natural enough, for in certain cases the heart excuses many errors.

But in my case they were deal- Ing with an innocent man. Yet they were surprised that this Innocent inn did not try to play on the emotions of his judges. General Mereler, War Minister at the time of the condemnation in 1804, Dreyfus describes us "the Arch- criminal, while of Cavaignac, War Minister in the Buisson Cabinet of 1808, he writes:

A tool in the hands of the un- scrupulous men who hatched the plot against justice in the offices of the Intelligence Department, Cavaignac completely lost his head in the acclamatioins from the anti Semite and Nationalist mob which rung round him in 1808,

From that time forward he shut

• his ralnd against all reason and good sense, took up the battle against truth, and broke himself against her.

Finally, the last triumph when, I have since discovered that they

violent next door to the court in which he expected large gestures, outbursts. In a word, they ex-had been disgraced twelve years pected me to be theatrical, Instead previously, he was decorated wills the of examining mercilessly, coldly, Legion of Honour, Dreyfus depicte stop by step, the great mass of as

So moving that no words of facts, important and unimportant.

mine

can

describe it. Anatole that had been heaped up against

That one should seek to France came up and said: "I am

very happy and very moved. cannot find words strong enough to praise the constancy you have

face of so

me.

It is made of oak, construeled new cruiser Southampton. by order of Edward 1 in 1300 at al cost of 100 shillings. Its feel rest day, and there will be no exercises, į 6£. on four carved Hans, and it is be-s was the case at the Jubilee Review,

St. Edward's Chair, with the

་

Stone of Scone lieved to have originally been gilded and covered in some parts with glass mosaic,

when King George V. led his navy to

sea.

The following ships will take part

HOME FLEET

Battleships-Nelson, Rodney, Royal -Oak,.- Resolution, Ramillies,__Roya!!

Sovereign, Revenge.

Cairo.

Destroyers-Kempenfelt,

Depot ship-Lucio.

Netlayer-Guardian.

Escort vessel--Fleetwood.

ham.

MEDITERRANEAN FLEET

·

"Slacks For Office Girls," Say Stylists

rich

الله

Natty coats and trousers were in worsteds, gabardines and

shown in the suffering.".

LETTERS TO WIFE

BROADCAST

Children's Concert From

The Studio

Z.E.K. PROGRAMME

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z..W. on Wavelengths of 355 metres (045 k.c's), 31.40 metres (9.32 m.c's).

H.K.T.

12.30 p.m. A Variety Programme. 1 p.m. Time and Weather. 1.03 p.m. The New Light Sym-

phony Orchestra.

1.30 p.m. Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather, Time and Announce ments.

1,40 p.m. Joseph Histop (Tenor), Amelita Golli-Curel (Soprano) and Maurice Marechal (Cello).

2.15 p.m. Close Down.

6 p.m.

A Relay of Dance Music

from the Roof-Garden of the Hong-

kong Hotel,

G p.m. From the Studio.

A Children's Programme.

6.30 p.m. Variety.

Piano Solo-Have you forgotten? ...Billy Mayerl; Vocal-The Sunset Trail.. The Hill Billies; Hawalian Loa....Kanul and Lula; Mauna Orchestra-Love me, or leave me

Benny

Goodman and his Orches- trn; Vocal--1 never realized....Bing Crosby; Orchestra-La Paloma.... Magyari Imre and His Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra; Band-Back in those old Kentucky days....London. Plano-Accordeon Band; Vocal-When did you leave heaven?....Les Allen; Vocal La chanson des rues....Jean Sablon (in French).

7 p.m. Joseph Muscant and The Troxy Broadcasting Orches

fra.

March of the Caucasian Chlef The Juggler (Ippolitov-Ivanov);

Απ (Grollzsch);

hour

with you (Elsele); Fairies in the Moon-In- termezzo entr'acte (Ewing).

(Ibert), 7.13 p.m. "Escales" played by Orchestre des Concerts Straram. Hongkong Exchange Market Report.

7.35 p.m.

Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) and Mischa Levitzki (Pianoforte).

7.30 pm. Stock Quotations

and

Pianoforte Solo-La Campanella Paganini, arr. Liszt): Soprano Solos at the Spinning Wheel (Schubert); Fisher-Ways (Schu- bert); Pianoforte Solor--Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5 (Rachman- inoff): Marche Militaire (Schubert. arr, Tausig): Soprano Solos The Bird in the Forest (Taubert-Alwin); What I have (Carl Bohm).

8 p.m. Time, Weather and An- nouncements.

8.03 p.m. From the Studio.

A Chinese Concert.

11 p.m. Dance Music.. Fox-Trot-Bye, Bye, Baby; Fox- Trot-Until to-day; Fox-Trot-The Martins and the Coys; Fox-Trot- When a Lady meets a Gentleman South: Fox-Trot-The old down oaken

Fox-Trot There's bucket; something in the wind; Fox-Trot Just dance; Waltz--Dandelion, Dalsy and Daffodil; Fox

Fox-Trot-Old

Sallor: Fox-Trot-Nun-Yuff and Sun-Yuff

Aloha, Marim-

time I look at bal

Fox-Trot-It's

been so long: Fox-Trot The scene changes; Fax-

much Tango Every

The Biography, apart, from Colonel Trot I'm a learner in love; Fox- Dreyfus's own memoirs, deals, button your

Trot So do I; Fox-Trot One, two, Fox-Trot-Magno-

Morgan, the book will be of interest to all students of this period of French history.

JEW'S RIGHT TO HIDE RACE

£20,000

your heart.

of

tional Broadcasting Company of New York, this talk over Z.B.W. will be linked up with the wireless network. of the United States of America).

12.15 a.m. Close Down.

8.05-11 p.m. European Pro- gramme from Z.E.K. on a Fre quency of 640 kilocycles,

8.05 p.m. Vocal Gems. "Monsieur Beaucaire"....Light Opera Company: "The Cut and the Fiddle"

Opera Company: "C. B. Cochran's 1930 Revue".... Light Opera Company.

8.39 p..

London-Behind the Scenes at the Coronation'.-1. Three talks in which representatives of those whose names are not in the newspapers, but who are carrying on behind the scenes the essentful work of preparation, will describe their Jobs. Embroidering Her Majesty's Train' by one of the Embroideresses from the Royal School of Needle- work. (Electrical Recording).

Reliable. RAINCOATS

The weather hag a knack of 'deceiving even the weather

prophets, so have a Raincoat hands one of our good looking, well out coats. Ught to wear, light to carry and thoroughly waterproof.

Prices range fom $19.50 Leas 10% cash discount.

Mackintosh's Ltd.

MEN'S WEAR SPECIALISTS

PRE-EMINENT

IN EVERY COUNTRY OF

THE WORLD

STATE EXPRESS 555

CIGARETTES ·

MADE IN ENGLAND

$1.20 for 50

naturally enough, mainly with the twelve years which the affair Insted.

lias in the moonlight; Waltz-Follow

Chicago, Apr. 21-

Written with the authority of a 12.05 a.m. A Special Broadcast Stacks, which made Marlene Diet-son who has access to all his father's by the National Broadcasting Com

New York's Broadcast Cruisers-Southampton, Newcastle,

ago: papers, it contains many copies and pany

(By sensation some time Basilisk, soon will be seen in every office and facsimiles of letters to Dreyfus writ. Writer, Mr. Carlton Morse.

together with a selection of the cor- Boreas. Bondices, Bulldog. Blanche, home, if fashion designers have their ten by famous people of the day, special arrangement with the Na-

Dreyfus and Brilliant, Bruzen. Beagle, Exmouth, way,

Slacks as trim and tailored as the respondence between Electra, Escort, Express. Est, Echo, Eclipse, Escapade, Encounter, Faulk-boss's smartest suit, featured a pre-his wife while he was in prison.

Admirably translated by Dr. Belty ter. Feuriess, Foxhound, Fame, Fore- view of spring fashions singed for buyers from all over the West and sight, Crusader, Stronghold.

Aircraft

carriers Courageous, Middle West. Furious.

Submurines-Porpoise, Narwhal, Bannels,

cottons. Swordfish, Seahorse, Starfish.

The idea of slack's for the business woman and the businesslike house- wife originated in Hollywood, newcomer designers said, where a sometimes is

is hard put to distinguish Battleships-Queen Elizabeth, Bar-men from women on the streets.

suit

of herringbone SCIENTIST'S SUIT FOR Ary slack weave, gabardine, smartly tailored Buttle cruisers-Hood, Repulse.

and trimmed in navy blue buttons, Aircraft carrier-Glorious. Cruisers London. Devonshire, was modelled for the inspiration and

New York, Apr. 25. guidance of the well dressed steno Shropshire, Galatea,

very distant The right of Doctor Karl Land- Garland, grapher of the not Destroyers-Grenville,

and she may wear a steiner, eminent pathologist Gipsy, Grafton, Gallant, Greyhound, future. With it

bacteriologist, and 1030 Nobel Prize A double-breasted Eleanor blue winner, to conceal his Jewish ances Glowworm, Grenade, Grimin, Cod-tailored blue linen shirt. rington, Antelope, Comet, as many

duintier lines but try for the sake of his son, aget

8.50 p.m. Symphony in D (No. class destroyers as are available, flannel suit of

strictly mannish in tailoring details, nineteen, is being disputed in the (probably two).

2), (Beethoven), played by The was designed for home wear, shop- New York State Supreme Court.

dark

London Symphony Orchestra, Con- afternoon calls. A ping or blue flannel blouse was worn under the Rockefeller Institute of Medical

Dr. Landsteiner, now attached to ducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.

Part 1-(a) Adaglo; Part 2.- Ties and studs completed the out-Research, is suing to prevent the In- Allegro con brio; Part 3-Larghetto: So far no designer has thought clusion of his portrait and biography Part 4-Scherzo; Part 6-Allegro

in the forthcoming volume of "Who's molto. RESERVE FLEET:

to add vests and suspenders.

the 9.24

String p.m. Virtuoso For women who must be feminine, Who in American Jewry" Cruises Durban, Curacon, Cardiff,

grounds that it would cause "ir-Quartet.

Gavotte ("Mignon"), (Thomas); Carlisle Colombo, Coventry, Curlew, even in slacks, designers showed a

He aslts for Woolston, pink creation, trousers and a lounge reparable injury to my private life Destroyers Broke,

Orientale (Glazounov).

9.30 a.m. London-News and An- Walpole, Vanquisher Wolfhound, coat of heavy, synthetlo material and my profession." head when he beheld the vision of vidette, Viscount, Wishart, Wren, Sleeves were loote and graceful and £20,000 damages.

flattering. wide and Wrestler, lapels Winchester. nscending and descending angels at Wonderer,

Dr. Landsteiner, now 69 years of nouncements.

9.55

da Rafe p.nl.

Costa

- Bethel.

Acheron, Amazon, Verity, Whitstied, Just the things, stylists pointed out, age, was born in Austria of Jewish

Memories. for tea, or dinner at home. Winchelsea, Wild Swan.

parents, became a Roman Catholic in

Viktorin and Her Hussar"-Med- For the office giri or busy house 1800, and married a Catholic wife. Edward I defeated the Scots in

wife in a playful mood designers stone üs # 1296 and took the

erested a "play suit" of gaudy vel. His counsel argues that "for nearly ley: "Say it with music"Medley;

150 years he has had a complete "Words and Musle"-Medigy" symbol of their subjugation. It was

10.16 p.m. London-Big Ben. low chintz covered with designs of Christian

has environment und

Dance Music. then placed in the Abbey and hus

ships, maps, boots and mountains, never been removed except for the

Under this she wears a sunsult of sought to conceal his ancient reiigi-

Waltz-Vienna, City of my dreams; Installation of Olivar, Cromwell as

bright red play sult" of

ous connections. The right to pri vacy exists and should be protected Slow Fox-Trot-Poor Butterfly; Fox Lord Protector, in Westminster Hail

Another

Trot-Crying my heart out for you; FoxTM in 1057.

Fox-Trot-Until to-morrow; a. coat by the courts." Use of a stone at coronations go 1.25, H.49, Seawolf, Sturgeon, which quickly turns the outfit into Dr. Landsteiner's complaint says, Trot Poor Dinah; Fox-Trot-Sugar L.27. H.43, H.34, H.50. a hostess costume. The long cont; "My son is now nineteen, and has no Rose; Fox-Trot-I don't want to back to Anglo-Saxon times when Spearfishy rotection Vessels, and with puffy siceves and flowing skirt suspicion that any of his ancestors make history; Fox-Trot--There isn't every king, from Edward the Elder| Fishery

1 p.m. Lupin, was made of black and white figured were Jewish. I know for a positive any limit to my love: Fox-Trot-It's to Ethelred, was crowned on stone Minesweepers Harebell;

fact that if he sees the book about been so long; Fox-Trot Goody- at Kingston-on-Thames, which still Halcyon, Skipjack, Harrier, Hussar, material in a wild, floral design.

Dresses, when designers conde to be published it would shock him Goody; Waltz Espana; stands in the market place of that Speedwell, Niger, Salamander, Pumin,

scend to

to show them, had all kinds of and might subject him to humilia- Throw open wide your window; Fox- town on the Surrey bank,

gadgety trimmings, from small corks tion. His Christian friends

Trot-Sing something in the may which bob up and down as buttons shun him and say things which hurt ning; Wallz-No more,

blue linen outfit, to enormous his feelings." cable cords which brought together

Depot ships Cyclops. Woolwich. Under its seat is the famed Stone

Netlayer Protector. Escort vessel-Aberdeen. of Scone, a rough block of red sand-j

Submarines-Thames, Severn, Cly-the trim coat. stone used for untold generations at the coronations of Scottish kings at de, Rorqual, Grampus.

Scone, in northern Scotland. It ly also called the "Stone of Destiny," and legend says it was the original Jacob rested his pillow on which

St. Edward's chair has been scarred by generations of sightseers who have enrved their Initials in it.

Among the necessaries for the coronation of Charles II in 1680 is mentioned: "St. Edward's Chuyre xichly furnished placed in the middst against the Altar towards the Throne, wherein he was Crowned."

-

ATTACHED TO COASTAL COMMANDS:

Battleship-Iron Duke,

Training Cruiser-Frobisher. Alrcraft Carrier-Hermes.

fit.

were

Depot Ship-Titanin.

Submarlaes Oberon, Oxley, L.54, weave, yellow

Mallard, Kittiwake, PC.74.

Surveying Vessels Flinders, Kellet.

Royal Fleet Auxiliary-Bramble-on leaf.

DOMINIONS AND ROYAL INDIAN NAVY 1.

cotton had

waffle

on

the collar of a natural-colour home- The publishers reply that the sptin frock. A simple blue ince volume is a "dignifled historical frock had tiny peasant figures dang- work," and that the facts of the Cruiser-Leander (New Zealand).ling from the belt. A white linen plaintiff's life are public property, and their inclusion would not violate Skeena sult was buttoned with a row

hia civil rights. lipsticks.

Destroyers Saguenay, (Canada),

Sicop Indus (India).

of

11 p.m. Close Down.

Waltz

mor-

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES The following wave-lengths and frequencie are ned by Daventry:

Frequency

6,500. 2.0. GSA

GaB 2,519 ..

“Wavelength

49.50 metres

$1.80 metre

De Luxe FORD

"There is no Comparison” WALLACE - HARPER & CO., LTD. 223, Nathan Road,

Ford

Kowloon.

2,585 ko 31.30 metres

បផង

11,750.

16.5% metr

GSF

11,865 k.n

#5.28

QSF

16,140 k..

19.82

metron metres

17,700 k..

16.35

matres

QSI

21,470 k.. 38.07 matrem

091

18.240

ko. 19.68 metrap

(18J

21,540 k.c.

19.56 metrek

QBL

40.10

080

GOP

(0.5, 0.80 0.89)

A

1.40 p.m.

0,110 k..

moires

10.10.. 19.76 metres

16,810 .. 19.00 matran Transmission 1

Big Ben, Trish Light Music," The BBC Expire Orchestra.

Willow the King. A cricket laceliany, with schoon from the Village Green, the County Ground, and even froos Elysian Fields, 2. p.m. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Algnal at 2.30 p.m. 248 p.m. Syngated Hoslo. 2.65 p.m.

Behind the Scenes at the Corona- tlot-1.

Transmission 2

(4.8.1. 0.8.5, 0.3,11) 6.45 pm

Be Det. Th the Bolawalda,“

A programme from Hirmingham, of Datewold showing variety interests and activities.

Ford

2.16 p.m. The Trocadero Cinema Orchestra. 7.10 0. John Londoner at Homo-18. ap.m

Beethoven Planoforte Sonalas-5. Vera Moore (New Zealand

Pianist).

4.30 p.m. Behind the Scenes (Coronation"——).

30 p.m. Variety.

9 D..

..

the

"The Glena of Antelm. A pro- gramme about sore famŁOCIS Glenemen of past generations,

9.50 p.m. The News and Announommetila.

Greenwich Time Bignal at 9.45_y_m./ (Continued on Page 4.).

TYPEWRITING' AND COPYING

OFFICE

Gestetner

· PHONE 29358A, NAN