THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY JULY: 8, " 1937.
CRICKET IN A CHURCH YARD
Bus Strike Secrets Out: PADRE PLAYS
Bevin Says Leaders Scorned Support
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(By TREVOR EVANS)
ERNEST BEVIN, on behalf of the executive of
tributed a "secret" statement to London busmen giving the inside story of the bus strike.
It is now'ndmitted for the first time by the union leaders that the re- presentatives of London's tramwaymen and trolleybusmen were prepared to join the strike in its early stages on condition that they, too, would be: granted a 74-hour working day if the strike succeeded.
Members of the Central Bus Commitice refused to agree to this sugges-: tion and insisted on striking for a 24-hour day for busmen only. The Guamen's leaders thought they could win the 7-hour day and win it for themselves.
"Therefore," comments Mr, Bevin, "any question of common action was ruled out, and we desire to make this perfecily clear, beeatise very ugly words have been used in connection with the tramwaymen and troller burmen, and it ought to be understood by every one that the di- 'pute was entered into by the busmen's representatives with their eyes
орел,"
On the day before the strike started, Mr. Bevin discloses, he advised the delegate conference to postpone their strike for n werk, but no one supported! his suggestion, and the strike decision was unanimous.
The fact that 25,000 London busmen were given no lend throughout most of the strike was the fault of the Central Bus Committee,, to whom, plenary powers had been given.
The document makes it clear that the executive eventually stepped in and relieved that Central Bus Committee of their plenary powers because the executive were "led up" with the constant and belated attempts to drag the tramwaymen, trolleybusmen and Underground workers into the dispute. Mr. Bevin's final word is a warning to busmen against "artificial ogitation."
WHERE DOES
LIFE BEGIN?
Virus as Chemical
DR. J. D. BERNAL'S DISCOVERY
The old question "Where does life
begin, where does chemistry end?"
King
My word-If it isn't the King's chaplain, Rev. Willlom Patrick McCormick, vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, taking his turn at cricket! This was in a recent partsh game in the church-
yard at Trafalgar Square..
Dances
Fox Trot with The Queen
Just as the King and Queen entered the ballroom at
Is corried a stage further in a report County Hall, Westminster, one night last month, the band
by Dr. J. D. Bernal, of the Crystallo- graphic Laboratory, Cambridge, on the nature of four discose-producing viruses he has been studying.
began to play a fox-trot.
The King, with a charming gesture, motioned to the Queen to join him on the floor.
The Queen smilingly agreed. The tune was "Pennics from Heaven."
As the King and Queen began to donce they were followed by the other royal couples. Then the whole company began to dance.
Dr. Bernal has lately been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work on the borderline between life and crystal structure. With him, in his latest work, is associated Dr. I. Fankuchen, of the same laboratory.
Sir William Brogg recently told how Dr. Bernal and his collaborators Queen walked out on to the terrace After several dances the King and
that had been able to prove
to see the floodlit buildlog and the disease-producing virus affecting the river traffic. tobacco plant-according to con- ventional Ideap 1 living thing-
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could be extracted from the leaves
QUEEN IN BLUE
dress
with the Order of the Garter, and
The King was in evening
of the plant as a mere chemical. the Queen wore a gown of pale blue This werk Sir William stoted, was shot silver lame studied with likely to prove "of very great im-diamante. portance."
In
# recent issue of Nature, Dr. Bernal reports that he has been able, not merely to study the virus As a chemical, but to establish the arrangement" of the stoms of which bullt op, and to measure the shape and dimensions of the units into which they are bullt
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X-RAY ANALYSIS
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The general form, he states, is Ufat
Village that Vanished
GREAT COUNTRY HOUSE FOUND IN RUINS
Unsolved Mysteries
The fate of a "lost" medieval vill- age and the reason why a great Her jewels were diamonds, sap country house fell mysteriously into
phires and rubles.
ruins during the 18th Century-two the queries which have troubled York-
many усагл
The Duchess of Gloucester, Duchess of Kent and the Princess shire historians for Royal all wore the pink ribbon and are dealt with in an interesting book miniaturo of the private Order of the King--the Order which the which has just been published. King has given toʻall members of bis family.
the lady
The King. replying to an address
of welcome by Lord Snell (chairman of the Council), sald:
"We are glad to think that one of of a needle of hexagonal cross-sec-bur first visits after our Coronation tion, which is thickest in the middle should be to this famous centre and tapers to a point at either end. municipal government.
The
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about needles thousandths of an inch long.
They are not to be thought of as possessing the full degree of rigidity
nrc Fourteen hundred of an ordinary needle. They what are called "liquid crystals"— present.
they combine the re- that is to say gularity of form associated with normal solid crystals with some de- gree of fluidity.
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Knowledge of their shape has been obtained, like that of solid crystals, by means of X-ray analysis, method of examination which was first perfected by Sir William Brogg.
Dr. Bernal has now studied three different forms of tabacco virus, as
the cucumber plant. In each
case
guests
of
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MR. GEORGE T. DA-
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RADIO BROADCAST Mme. Butterfly: Intermezzo
And Act II
CHILDREN'S CONCERT
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Schubert Songs.
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Planoforte Solos--Sarabande (Had- del), Orientale (Cul); Tenor Solos "Othello" (Verdi)-Cruel is he (Cre do), "Marriage of Figaro"-Now your days of philandering are over; Pianoforte Solos-(a) Pastoralo; (b) Reel (Cyril Scott), Adagio (Marcello, arr. Salmon); Tenor Salos-lybrios, The Cretan (Elilolt), I fear no for (Pinsuti).
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1.40 p.m. A Varlety Programme. Slow Fox-Trot-What will I tell my heart?; Fox-Trot-On the trail where the sun hangs low....Roy Fox and his Orchestra; Waltz
Coronation Waltz: Tango-Questa Questa Notte Ti Diro.... Mantovani and lis Orchestra; Humorous-The Lanca- shire Toreador, The window
cleaner (No. 2).. George Formby and his Ukulele: Fox
Fox-TralsI stumbled over When my
dream boat comes
love,
home....Roy Fox and his Orchestra; Plano Solos-Dubbling over, Moon- beams dance....Carroll Gibbons: Fox-Trots-What have you done to my heart?; Thru the courtesy
of love....George Elliott and his sweet music makers.
2.15 p.m. Close Down
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A Children's Concert.
The holder of one of those units is Mr. Davies, New Zealand born, who came to England recently as adver- tising manager of Aspro. He married, has eight children, all at
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is
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0.45 p.m. Pianoforte Solos. Sonata in F Sharp Major, Op. 78
Egon Petrl. (Beethoven).
1st. Movement Adagio cantabile;
ment Allegro
vivance. Paganini Etude In E Flat Major (Paganini, arr. Liszt and Buson!).... Vladimir Horowizt; Children's Cor- ner
Sulte
(Debussy)....Vladimir Horowitz,
Allegro ma non troppo; 2nd Move-
0.57 p.m. Intermezzo and Act II "Madame Butterfly" (Puccini). of "N Played by Members, Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Opera Company, Mulan.
p.m. Closing local Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report,
The house was Tankersley Hall, near Sheffold, originally owned by Sir Thomas Wentworth, Best Earl of Stradford, in, the days of Charles I. A
7.30 The result of my deductions has survey completed in 1723 showed the borne fruit. I chose Mid-day S great building in perfect condition as one of the eleven favourites in my and the extensive park well kept, Kystem,” with a large herd of deer running in
Nothing further is known of
the
"We look forward to meeting lo- night in the happlest of circumstances those in whose hands the well-being history of Tankersley Hall for nearly of the people of London so largely 60 years. A survey made in 1772, the however, indicates the site of rests."
and a were house as "ruin of old hall,"
sketch accompanying it reveals that there was Ultle of it left standing.
"Suggestions have from time to time been made," writes the compiler of the book, Mr. T. Walter Hall, "to account for the decay or demolition
Union Sued
By Members
It Expelled
of this and old country seat within
the
was
Cathedral Guild "Heresy"
Expulsions
Д
7.35 pm. Dance Music. Fox-Trot-Log Cabin Lullaby: Fox-Trot-Looking forward to look- ing after you; Fox-Trut--Breakfast in Harlem; Fox-Trot-I heard song in a taxi; Rumbo---La Cucarn- cha; Tango-—A media luz; Waltz- Midnight, Waltz-Neapolitan nights. p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wes- ther Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m. From the Studio.
A Chiese Concert. 11 p.m. Close Dawn.
European
XPULSION of two leading of laymen from the Guild
8.05-11
p.m.
Pro
gramme from ZE.K. on a frequency of 840 kilocycles.
8.03 p.m. Variety. Plano-Accordion
Solos Lulu's
back in town, In a little Gipsy tea-
.George Scott-Wood;
room....
Or-
a period of less than 50 years; some St. Gregory, Westminster chestra-Bell Medley....Anton and have attributed it to the battle of Cathedral, on charges of hold-Humorous--The young Laird's Toast the Paramount Theatre Orchestra; Tankersley Moor, when the Earl of ing heretical opinions concerning of Robert Burns.... William McCul- Newcastle defeated 2,000 of
certain services, may cause a loch; Piano Medley-No. 1.22. this suggestion
Charlie Kunz; Banjo Solo-La VI- enemy; bu! evidently made without knowledge storm in Roman Catholic circles. vandiere. Ernest Jones, Orchestra of the lease to Sir Richard Fanshawe The two men, Mr. C. A. Bennett and Basin Street Blues, E Flat Blues during the Commonwealth..
It Mr. P. A. Gethen, deny the charges. Nat Gonella and his Georgians.
8.30 p.m. London, The Open Golf Championship. A commentary the play from Carnoustie, Scotland, 8.40 p.m. Gracie Fields (Vocal), Your dog's come home again; If all the world were mine; You and the night and the music; "Erbert Enery 'Epplethwalte; When the Ro- bin sings his song again.
well as a fourth virus which affecis THE Electrical Trades Union, with a membership of 25 he has found small but significant 000, is faced with a split in its dimeult to believe that ruin so and allege that they have not been differences in the physical pattern
own ranks which has already complete could have been the result given a chance to defend themselves. of the virus.
resulted in legal action.
of natural decay in less than half a century.
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As a result, be suggests that may prove possible to build up new system of classifying viruses, according to their shapes and physical dimensions.
A strike of electricians employed by contractors on the new Earl's Court exhibition buildings took place last January against the advice of the Union, executive committee which The present tendency, in inter-declined to recognise the strike. preting Dr. Bernal's experiments, is
FUTURE RESEARCH
It received, however, the sup- port of certain members of the union's London District Comml1- living
to refuse to make any hard-and-fast 'distinction between what is
and not living. Some viruses,
least, it has been shown, can
tee. ot be
SACRIFICED
Mr. Walter Hall suggests that the owners deliberately let the house go to ruin and parually demolished it In order to work coal and ironstone pits on the estate,
The fate of the "lost" medieval village of Siwardthrop, has never 18 now been discovered. There
An appeal to Dr. Ilinsley, Archbishop of Westminster, is not out of the question.
►
Mr. Bennett had been a member of the guild for 22 years. Mr. Gethen, member for five years and the Archbishop's train-bearer, has now been removed from this post.
DISQUALIFIED Expulsion means that Mr. Bennett no trace of the village, writes Mr. and Mr. Gethen are disqualined from treated as purely chemical in their the union executive, and it is under- Domesday Book. The reason for its dral functions by the guild, which
These members were expelled by Hall, and it was not mentioned in sharing in duties performed in an honorary capacity at principal cathe- nature. There is a continuous grada-stood that some of them are taking disappearance is likely to remain a composed of Catholic laymen. ilon up from them, through the legal action to challenge the right of mystery. visible bacteria, to the higher, forma the executive to expel them.
This fascinating books is the 19th A statement made on behalf of Mr. It is being left to future research James Rowan, general secretary of volume of Shemeld records to
these compiled by Mr. Hall. It contains a the
members have taken legal descriptive catalogue of the charters reinting to WAY. life
develops the peculiar action against the executive. A writ and manorial records power of directed activity which on their behalf has been served on us, lands in Tankeraley, Fanshawe Gate, They were instructed to write to seema characteristic of it. A virus, and service has been accepted.
Dinnington, Longshaw, and other the lay president of the guild explain. in its natural surroundings, has the We can make no further state-places, together with Illustrations, Ing their case, power of self-reproduction. In all ment for the lime being. We do not genealogies and notes. The book is other respects its behaviour suggests know when the case is likely to come published by Messrs. J. W. Northend,
of Sheffield, prigo 10. that of any other complex chemical. before the court."
of life.
to decide at what point, and in what (expez suya: "Some of
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be
The charges against theas were that they held, heretical opinions concerning the services of Bane- diction and Exposition and certain devotions.
They refused to resign, but wrote denying the charges.
on
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