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* HONGKONG.

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1937.

MILLIONS OF POUNDS BEING SPENT

ABROAD FOR BRITAIN'S MUNITIONS

Nazi Get U.K. Arms Orders

-M.P. Protest

MILLIONS of pounds worth of orders

for Britain's rearmament are being placed abroad.

Indignant members of Parliament are to draw attention to this scandal in the House of Commons.

They will question Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, about the big armament orders placed with German and other foreign firms.

Since the beginning of the year the War Office, Admiralty, and Air Ministry have placed: £62,000 worth of contracts direct with German firms.

Germany has also been given orders worth £168,000 in connection with the equipment of the shadow factories being set up by the Air Ministry.

Shells From Sweden

A Swedish firm is now negotiating a contract to supply Britain with £1,000,000 worth of shells.

In addition more than £800,000 worth of munition and equipment, orders were placed abroad just be-} fore Christmas, when the rearmament} programme was lagging behind

schedule.

These direct orders, say the M... do not represent the full extent of the scandal,

British factories engaged in the rearmament plan are subcontracting

work in. furelgn firms, because the Government has not. insisted that all products must be made

Britain.

M.Ps, anxious to ensure thint British taxpayers' money shall bei spent in this country, are demand- ing that the defence departments should be forbidden to buy foreign goods urzel that

subcontracts ΠΟ should be given abroad without special Cabinet perinlssion.

Light From Star Takes

192 Years To Reach Earth

WASHINGTON, JUNE 10.

KNEEL-DOWN STRIKERS.-Members of the little Catholic church at Nogales, Mexico, across the border from Arizona, went on a kncel- down strike and won the opening of their church, closed for three years by government. decree. Cry ing "Viva Cristo!" and "va Cardenas!" they resumed services after the keys were turned over

to them. Here is their first service.

SIX SAVED FROM

BURNING YACHT

London, June 8.

NOTHING RADIO BUT THE

TRUTH

By W. H. Bolton

United Press Stuff, Correspondent

San Francisco. Ht-or-miss views of the news, os seen through the News-O-Scope, re-i veals

oddities have many

been happening here and abroad. F'rin- stanec

into

When New York pollee crashed apartment on a supposed nareotle rald they found Misa Agnes Murray,

burlesque strip-tease in her pyjamas. "Get

dancer one of the raiders told her.

Miss Murray asked the police to leave her bedroom until she could comply. Ileing an expert on undress it took Miss Murray but 53 (fifty-three) minutes to dress,

-

SIGNS OF THE TIMES The last frontier of rugged Indivi- dualism in the Old West passed into history recently in Cheyenne, (Wyo).. when the nation's top cowhands nounced-of all things Cowboys' Union-The Cowboys' Turle Associa tion. Membership costs about $200,; and if a waddle is kicked out it costs him $500 to get back.

COLLITCH COLLOQUIALS Princeton University boys have re- vised their vocabulary to include:

"Gassed to the Antlers"-Very

drunk.

"Definitely

popular.

Ax" -- Anyone

"Fire"-A beautiful girl:

un-

BROADCAST

A Request Variety Programme

HOTEL DANCE ORCHESTRA

Radio Programme Broudenst by Z.B.W. on wavelengths of 355 metres (045 .c'.), 31.49 mctres (9.52 m.c's.

ILK.T.

12.30 p.m. The Ballyhooligans, Kans make whoopee; Fox-Trol Bugle call rog; Fox-Trot-Tiger rag; Quickstep Canadian Capers; Quick- step-Raggin' the seale.

12.40 p.m. Albert Sandler (Via- lin),

"Algerian Scene; The Phantom

Melody (Benatzky),

(Ketelbey);

Grinzing

1 p.m. Time and Weather. 1.03 p.m. Songs by Lucienne Buyer (Soprano).

The

The

This is the kiss of romance; I found a bit of Parls in the heart of Old New York; Ballade; Landerirette.

1.15 p.m. Light Orchestral.

ended Gong is

(Berlin); .Carroli Serenade (Moszkowski) Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Or- ! plicans; Free and Easy (Forsch- munn); Gipsy Wine (Riter)..... Barnalias Von Geezy and his Or- chestra.

1.30 p.m. Reuter Press; Rugby Pressi

Local: Weather Forecast, Time und Announcements.

1.40 p.m. Programme.

A Variety and Dance

of Hearts- Orchestra-Queen March; We'll rest at the end of the trail....Sydney Kyte and the Pic- cadilly Hotel Bond; Plano Selection

"Home And Beauty.".

"Smoke An attractive but not Brodsky; Vocal "Lilac beautiful girl.

"Ashes" a homely girl. "Quogged"-Moderately drunk.

PASSING PARADE

Joseph Condy, of Plymouth, (Eng.) who loves dogs so much he habitually sleeps with 12 of them, has been

forced to seek a new home. Neigh

bours didn't think Candy complied with the sanitary code.

WHEN a yacht with a party of six on board caught fire and sank off Langstone Harbour yesterday the party, who had taken to their dinghy, were picked up by a sail-robbing Clifford Handley, blind broom ing vessel appropriately named The Escape.

Police caught a man suspected of peddler of Salt Lake City, (Utah). Without waiting to hear voices of the suspects in police "line-up.", Handley The yacht, an auxiliary yawl named Wyvern, belong-walked up to Mark Dartnel and said: I can tell by the ing to Mr. Henry Lummus, of Chichester, was returning "That's the man.

smell."

Simon Sarnoff was ordered by from Cowes.

New York Supreme court to pay $10 While Mr. Lummus was making tea a paraffin stove burst inton week until he has satisfled a judg- Ex- flames. Attempts to smother them with a mattress failed and cur- ment of $83,319 against him.

perts declare Sacnoff will be 100 tains, cushions and other inflam-1

years older than he is now before he mable material

caught soon

agent to the Goodwood Estate, wit-makes the final payment-if he lives

that long. alight.

nessed the burning of the yacht.

Frank Rodney King, Fresno. In

were One

highschool of the party on board

unemployed the (Calif.), yacht was Mr. H. Fisher, Captain graduate, told police, after being arrested, how he had made several Hubbard's assistant.

unsuccessful

to wreck attempts Bauce Othera In the party were Mr. passenger trains. His excuse! Mark Hughes, the West Sussex "Aw, nothing ever happens around County treasurer, and Mr. Bert El-here. So I tried to wreck a train for ilot, of Littlehampton.

the fun of it." Some fun!

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The Escape the party DISCOVERY OF NEW FEA-taken to Hayling Isind, where

TURES IN THE SPECTRUM Peed-bont was obtained and Mr. T. F. Lummus, one the party, was OF THE GIANT STAR BETEL- ; taken

to Portsmouth Hospital sui- GEUSE, A BALL OF GLOWING)fering from severe burns. GAS 215,000,000 MILES

PLANE WITNESSES DIAMETER, WAS ANNOUNCED

The Duke of Richmond and Gor-

IN

·

TO-DAY BY THE MT. WILSON don, flying over the Salent with Mr. OBSERVATORY OF THE CAR-Hubbard, son of Captain Hubbard, NECIE INSTITUTION OF

WASHINGTON.

Using the 100-inch telescope

to bridge 1,152,000,000,000,000 (CQ) miles of space, director Walter S. Adams found that; most of the star's reddish light comes from deep inside of its in- terior rather than from the sur- face.

This harmonizes with the belief: that giant stars, in emtrast with the solid earth, are vast bubbles of rarified gas, 1,000 times more

BRAKE TEST

NEW CAR REGULATION

DR.

R. Leslie Burgin, Minister of Transport, defeated recently

on Regulation 95 of the Motoring

DEATH SENTENCE ON MAN OF 70

A white-haired man with a small beard stood very erect in the dock at Somerset Assizes at Wells recently facing sentence of death for murdering his wife.

tion.

eauty....Nikolaus Domino" Waltz Song; My heart will be dancing June Knight (Soprano); Cinema Organ SolosThe Mikado" Selec- Foort: Vocal-Gypsy Reginald love; Vienna bonbons Waltz Song.. Joseph Schmidt (Tenor); Orchestra

-Busin Street

Blues; Nobody's sweetheart-Fox-Trot

...Billy Cot- ton and bis Colton Pickers.

2.15

p.n. Close Down. 4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7 p.m. Benno Molscivitch (Plano- forte) and Yehudi Menuhin (Vlo

lin).

Violin Solos-La Fille aux cheveux de lin (Debussy, arz

Hartmann); Songs my mother taught me (Dvorak,

Pianoforte Solos arr. Persinger); Rondo (Hummel); Isoldens Liebested (Liszt); Violin Solos-Moto Perpetuo Luuns (Paganini); La Ronde des (Buzzini); Pianoforte Solos Rhup- Body in E Flat (Brahms); Jeux d'eau (Ravel).

7.30 p.m. Stock Exchange Sum- mary and Exchange Market.

7.35 pm. Marek Weber and His Orchestra.

Manon Fantasiu (Massenet. arr. Tavan); Suite Orientale (Popy); Columbine's rendezvous (Heykcens);; Song of Paradise (King).

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

A Request Variely Fro

p.m.

8.03 gramme.

Fox-Tro-Fres....Ambrose and his Orchestra; Some other time.... Maurice Minnick and his Orchestra; Drop in next time you're passing..

Jack Hylton and his Orchestra; Rumba--Cuban Pete....Joc LOBS and his Orchestra; Fox-Trot-May I Ambrose have the next romance?.... Am and his Orchestra; Instrumental--- Six hits' of the day. ..Primo Scala's Accordeon Band; Vocal-You are

free....Nelson Eddy (Baritone);

Seventy-year-old William Rendell showed no emotion Regulations, has put forward as sentence was being passed. He had pleaded not guilty la Violin fresh proposals under which to the murder of Lily Rendell, his wife, in the little hamlet notice of a brake, silencer or of Lottisham Green on April 23. Astronomers concluded that the outer regions of the big star are too steering-gear test will be given

nobulous than air Itself.

hazy to create much light. Most of to the car owner. the starlight is believed to come from the denser core millions of miles be- neath the surface.

A draft amendment states:

Mr. John Maude, for the prosecu- workhouse as he had a dog's life at tion, described the case as "n sordid i home. He lived with his wife for story of a man in a temper murdering only a fortnight when they were his wife."

married as he could not get on with: her.

"Notice shall be given to the owner of the vehicle personally or left at his address not less than 24 hours before to

Rendell, when arrested, was alleged have deseed how he had live

"From time to time I went back. but she nagged me awful," he said.

Vocal-Gracie's and Sandy's Party ....Gracie Fields and Sandy Powell: Vocal-Take ma boots off when an dies....The Hu! Billes; Vocal- Plantation Songs....Paul Robeson (Bass); Vocal, Violin and Piano-An Albert Sandler. Olive Groves and Jean Melville; Vocal Tralee (from film "Evensong").... Walter Glynne (Tenor); Vocal Duet Moon-Enchanted.....Dora Labette and Hubert Elsdell, with the J. H. Squire Celeste Octet; Vocal Cance Song (from "Sanders of the River')

....Paul Robeson (Bast); Orchestra.

(Continued on Page 5.)

Hongkong's credit when it was dis-

Replying His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. N. L. Smith, said that as a voting member of the Board of Education, Mr. Sargent would have opportunity of voicing his grievances.

Betelgeuse, a bright twinkle above Orion's beit, is the third largest glar in the of of his covered how low the standard was.

its centre and the earth | Inspection, or shall be sent not less until March last, when he went to wife would not give him food.

placed in would have plenty of room to swing in its normal orbit, 100 million miles away, with the millions of miles to

sparc.

than 72 hours before that time by j registered post to him at his address."

It adds;

live with his wife.

Rendell said that at the time he The alleged statement went on to did not know what he was doing. say how he spoke to his wife about His wife had told him nine years nga "The provisions as to notlee shalt "carrying on" with other men, how that other men were visiting her. Dr. Adems used a powerful spec-

During the war, he added, he re-i she "nagged" him, telling him to ro tograph to analyze the light from not apply in the case of a test and back to the workhouse and how he ceived a shrapnel wound in his end a and very often he was light-headed. the star. Betelgeuse is so far away inspection made within 48 hours of an attacked her with a hatchet and that is light took 192 years to reach accident, to which Section 22 of the razor. the telescope and light travels fast Road Trame Act, 1930, applies, in enough to circle the earth seven times which the vehicle has been involved." in one second,

The draft amendment has been!

The spectrograph, shows, according circulated to representative associa

to the observatory's announcement, ions. that:

Many

of the dark spectral lines produced by absorption of light in passing through the star's atmosphere appear double. A narrow bright line: at the middle of the relatively wide- absorption line causes the apparent doubling, which occurs only when the number of atoms along the path traversed by the very great."

These atoms, the astronomers con-

The jury recommended him to mercy.

DOG'S LIFE AT HOME Rendell, giving evidence, said It was more pleasant to live in thei

"DEVILS FIGHT ME

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New York, June 10.

star's light is FOR eight hours today Miss Maric Mendres, aged thirty-three, sat writing 100 letters in her hotel at Ellzabeth (New Jersey). cluded, encountered by the light on They were about sinua, an illness which attacks thousands of the way from hot core of the star to Americans yearly.

→ the surface, before breaking out in-

the earth.

HEADMASTER CRITICAL

The prizes were distributed by Mrs. N. L. Smith, and those present on the platform in a crowded hall were Holl the Rt. Rev. Bishop R. O. (Chairman of the Council) and Mrs. Hall, Hon. Sir Honry and Lady Pollock, Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall,) Hoz, Mr. M. K. Lo, Rev. H. W. Baines, Rev. N. . Halward, Rev. J.

LEAVING CERTIFICATE. Higgs, Messrs. E. J. Edwards, H.

SYSTEM

Criticisms of the School Leaving Certificate examination system were mode by the Rev. C. B. R. Sargent. Headmaster, at the annual speech Boys' School

day of the Diocesan

yesterday.

Mr. Sargent said that under the present system, it was possible for two boys to take exactly the same nubjects and gel exactly the same marks in every paper, yet for one to pass with honours and the other to wisdom of the title, ho It fall. The The was

sold, was also open to question as

doubtful whether very factory finishing point of a secondary education. The certificates would presented in other parts of China or clsewhere, and it would not be

to space and beginning its fourney to A typical note read: "I can't stand it. This sinus has taken Dr. Adams also found that a con-away my sense of hearing and my smeß. I feel as if every nerve alderable number of the lines are is being hammered by a thousand devils. It's terrible." shifted from their normal position in last letter sealed, Miss Mendres leaped to her death from n standard really constituted a satis the spectrum or show other - pecu- Hlarities in agreement with the window." turbulent conditions to be expected with enormously thick atmosphere of glant stårs-United Proza.

Sinus is an infection of the air-containing cavities connected with the therefore be very misleading when nore, · It umtally follows influenza.

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B. L. Dowbiggin, C. Blaker, Peter H. Sin, J. leming and George She, Sir William Hornell was also present.

His Excellency and Mrs. Smith, who were accompanied by Capt. G. P. Rickcord, A.D.C., were met on ar- rival by Bishop, Hall and Mr. Sar-

The total Expenditure up to October, 1937, on gent, and a guard of honour

was behalf of slek and destituto children is estimated provided by the Scouts (8th Kow-nt $25,000, against which the Income to date La loon) of the School..

$20,000. The band of the Royal Ulster Rifles, played under Mr. H. Alfred Hole, selections during tea.

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June 25, 1937.