1937-08-02 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST

1937.

DEMOCRACY'S

NEED TO

CENTENARIANS SEEK MEDAL

Whose Birth Was First On Register?

By Louise Morgan

Four centenarians have written to the Registrar-General, Sir Sylvanus Vivian, each claiming to be "the first properly re- gistered baby."

All four are women and their birth. dates are said to be July 2, 8, 28 and 30, 1837.

"No one has claimed to have been born on July 1, 1837, the actual day when the Registration Act became law," Sir Sylvanus told me recently, "and the present claims are not fully documented. "We intend to investigate them and to award the Centenary Medal which the Royal Mint has struck for the occasion to the one whose birthi date is the nearest to July 1, 1937.”

The original register books of the scandalous "marriage shops" which pre-dated registration are on view for the first time nt centenary exhibition which opens at Somerset House to-day.

"BISHOP OF HELL"

In these "marriage shops" drunken and bankrupt parsons, among them Galham, known as the "Bishop of Hell," performed Meit wedding cere- monies wholesale. One parson "mar- ried" 40,000 couples in 27 years.

A contemporary writer described Gainham as "a squalid and profi- Fate figure clad in a titered plak! nightgown, with a Bery face, and ready to cample you for a dram of ain or roll of tobacco."

In yellowed volumes of nit sizes. from ¿ "pocket-book" to huge ledgers, you may discover the details of these infamous proceedings.

"It is like reading sernes out of Beggar's Opera."" 51 511

The

Sylvanus.

Almost all the marriages took place

in low taverns and brandy shops or

in rigged-up "chapels" in private houses. A favourite resort was "Mra,

Silver's Brandy Shoppe, the Harrow and Dunghill.

*PLEASE WALK IN"

It was a common custom for mur- riage touts to accost people with “Sir (or Madam), will you plense, walk in and be married?"

The Promler Mr. Neville Chamber-

being photographed. He hid his face when the photographer surprised him at his favourite sport during a visit to Hertfordshire.

LET

FOUR TEMPLES OF 1386 B.C. DISCOVERED

Earliest Crypt In The World

L

SHRINE FOR SUN WORSHIP

Another city of Tutankhamen, at Sesobe, far south in Nubin, near the third cataract on the Nile has been excavated by the .Egypt Exploration Society.

Many of the fads, of which no pre- vious indication has been given, will be shown in a special exhibition whice will be opened at the Society's London headquarters to-day.

The city, a

Press representative was FORMER BOXING CHAMPS MEET — An interesting informed, contained no fewer than

four temples, all founded meeting at the Louis-Braddock Bght in Chicago was the one pletured here. All is Jack Dempsey sink-

by

KEEP COOL

LORD HALIFAX'S WARNING

DEMOCRACY'S need to exer.

cise restraint where inter- national relations were con- cerned was emphasised by Viscount Halifax, when he in- augurated a conference on "The Challenge to Democracy." which is being held by the Association for Education and Citizenship at Ashridge College, Berkhamsted.

for some nisgiving as to the capacity "To-day," he said, "there is enuse of Democracy to handle delicate problems of international relations. The tendency, of which there are Judgments on the issues of foreign signs to-day, to import into polley our likes and dislikes of forms of Government elsewhere, is full of danger.

our

making peace difficulT difficulties that can be created for "It is not necessary to stress the

ing hunds with Jess Willard, bolli former heavyweight benaten, father-in-law of Tutank the best Foreign Secretory by in-

Judicious questions in Parilament, er

and creator of the monotheistic by well-intentioned but ill-informed

司公空航亜歐

SAFETY

SPEED

COMFORT

Aft LANCHOW✪

AIR

NA

BUTYLAM

+SING

KÄLTI

*

NARCHUMO

•HANICOS

PASSENGER

MAIL

EXPRESS

MANY.OND

ANTİHAR

KUNNING

RA FCANTON

SONG LON

champions. Dempsey won the title when he knocked religion which threw all Egypt into ttempts to cut knots that it is often] EURASIA AVIATION CORPORATION

out Willard at Toledo, on July 4, 1919. Willard fail- confusion. ed to answer the bell in the fourth round.

SPAIN

BUY ARMS FOR

DEFENCE

ITS

-Labour's Demand London, July 12. GREAT crowd that overflowed Trafalgar Square A

yesterday passed with cheers a resolution demanding that there should be no recognition for General Franco and that the Spanish Government should be allowed to buy arms for its defence wherever it could.

The demonstration was organised by the London Trades Council and the London Labour Party.

the business untle.

Three of these temples were built

of statesmanship to in a single block in 1386 B.C., the fourth year of Aichenaten's reign

"In nothing will Democracy be when he was still worshipping an ability to exercise the restraint that more, severely tested than by its gods. One of them contales want is essential if a country is to exercise believed to be the carliest crypt in the its full influence abroad by present- world, and in it were found walling in that field a united front." rellets showing. Akhenaten and his Queen with, representatives of the READY-MADE OPINIONS

older pantheon.

The fourth appears to have been originally a simple shrine, designed for the pure worship of the sun, and converted into an orthodox Egyptian temple after Tutankhamen's recan- tation had put an end to the new religion."

ART "FINDS"

Viscount Halifax also crophasised the value of education, and said that the domestic side the vital

for necessity

the Democracy was that it should learn well-being of to distinguish the genuine from the counterfel: in the wares submitted

approval.

for its

He spoke of politicians who made promises, and sald that if citizens The new art of the period-gener- were to supply a corrective to the ally regarded as the greatest flowering weaknesses of politicians they must of Egyptian creativeness is repre- themselves resist the temptation to sented by two magnificent negro heads take too much of their thinking in low relief.

ready-made from others.

The imprint of a child's foot, baked

in clay, and found in ore of tite

houses of the city, may, it is believed, tell the story of an accident or injury

suggested that the "foot" was intend- ed as a votive offering to secure the

Other finds include a caricature of

more than 3,000 years ago. It is

159 OFFENCES MOTORISTS CAN COMMIT à letter in which he wrote:

"It is clear that the Fascist States have never had any inten-Akhenaten and his Queca Neue Special Handbook To

Help Police tion of carrying out their obligations under the Non-Intervention the form of two monkeys cm- bracing The Introduction of the new agreement, but are actually engaged in what amounts to aggres-religion, it was explained, had made ELEVENTH EDITION! sive action.

them highly unpopular with many of "We demand that the so-called volunteers (really foreign their people. By contrast, two Motorists and motor-cars are Government) should be allowed to obtain the means of defending Akhenaten scarabs bear the resound subject to so many different

line itself against the rebels. We demand that the so-called volunteers titles--"Amenhotep (Akhenaten's

original name) God Ruler of Thebes" regulations that a police officer (really foreign armies) should be withdrawn.

and "Beautiful are the

to report a motorist for a sum- sungod). There is also a fine portrait head mons might well be in doubt as which, it is suggested, may represent to which regulation to choose. Princess Hatshepshut, bellaved. 10) have been the princess who rescued To help him Police Sergeant J. Hopker has compiled a new edition of This hund-book, "Summons Headings useful to Police" (Police Review Publishing Company. Dd.). which deals with all the latest motoring regulations.

Mr. C. R. Attlee, leader of the Opposition in Parliament, sent recovery of the victim.

"Whatever may have been the arguments in favour of real (Re was the original arms of Re" who believes it to be his duty i

non-intervention in order to prevent the spreading of the Spanish conflict. there is nothing to be said for a one-sided system which is making the peoples of the democratic countries accessories to the murder and starvation of women and children."

ELLEN WILKINSON

HITS OUT

Miss

Wilkinson, M.P..

ว

The Win Raiders

Ellen

vivid figure in green

hai

with a black

on her red hair, stashed the

Foreign OMee. -

"We keep

very

expensive

Foreign Office," she said. "We keep very expensive Intelligence Ser- vice. But when the Foreign Minis- a question in the House

ter

is asked

about events in Spain, he is sorry that he has no information."

"When Guernica was bombed the

Foreign

Offee bad

no information

Buried

CARACTACUS STONE

but when Franco's hand was UPROOTED

on the iron ore mines, upon which

rearmament partly relics, they had

und cared for the infunt Moses.

Search For Treasure

the information the same evening." NO light job is the control

While she spoke, on another side

of the plinth of the Nelson Colume

and management of well

Mr. Ben Tillett spoke with youthful over 60,000 acres of land and

many

out

the fights for iberty that

liberty is no life at all." he shouted in a peroration that left him exhausted.

"ORGANISED ARMIES"

SENT TO HELP FRANCO

that

at dead of night had uprooted the stone and searched under it for the treasure,

Whether they found it or not remains in doubt: the generul jopinion is that they did not.

What is not in doubt is that

the stone must now be replaced at the expense of the Trust. Another problem; the Calf of Man.

given to the Trust.

Sergeant Hopker lists 150 summons headings under "Motor Vehicles and Cycles.

One heading has 40 sub- headings

In this book the police officer can readily

find the exact wording for a summons when a motorist

Sounds his horn when the car is stationery, or between 11.30 pm. and 17 a.m.;

Falls to sound his horn; Goes too fast; Goes too slowly: Stops;

Fails to stop: Reverses;

Goes forward; and

Gets out and does not stop the

TO SING OR NOT TO SING

the

凸

the small island at the southern end action of the machinery." Bre, despite his 77 years, of the hundreds of thousands of of the Isle of Man, has just been

If being "a person on

Public Jain, likes to go fishing more than Square has witnessed. "Life with pounds worth of property It is proposed to maintain it as a couch, public vehicle, brake, scattered all over Britain. bird sanctuary. But there exists on waggonette, or other vehicle hired or the island a colony of wild cats, res used for the conveyance of pleasure The National Trust, guar-fies of domestle cats imported at one parties and the like"-one ads one- The cuts elf, as one reads this book, falling dian of historic and beautiful time to keep down mice.

into [prey on the birds.

correct phraseology-one Selsteld landmarks, has this job, and

"combined with any person or persons Common (Sussex) was to make a loud singing or outery Some marriages took place in the chapel of the Fleet Prison, being per- j"The Fascist Powers claim that they

Mr. Herbert Morrison. M.P., said: the annual report, issued set on fire mysteriously. A trap for

vermin WILF stolen from Selsdon while passing through a borough, formed by parsons in prison for debt, have not sent volunteers to Spalu recently, reveals some of rel (200 of which were shot last formula under which one may be

Wood (Surrey), One of these, Edward Ashwell, is since the agreement not to do so was its worries and problems.

where grey squirtown, village, or hamlet," the correct

represented by five fat registers. He reached. I accept this denial, but I

summoned is here discoverable." (year) are doing great damage. takes his revenge on the rogues who substitute the counter-charge

There seems to be nothing against One of them, on Winsford Hillbanks of the Royal Military Canal at studies these Summons Headings one Rabbits were undermining the made use of him by annotating their they have sent organised equipped (Somerset), is a stone standing Appledore (Kent), three miles of does not feel like singing.

singing in private car, but when one entries with appropriate remarks,

armies to conduct war against the such ла "Rude people," Abusive." "Most notoriously V people of a land which is fighting three feet out of the ground which belongs to the Trust.

On the contrary, one feels more like to protect its liberties and political with an inscription bearing the

£800 FOR BILL

having the car broken up, but even Behav'd."

The Trust owns inns, windmills, that seems to be dangerous. Parn- "I do not accept the bona fides of name of Caractacus, one of the ruined abbeys, castles, country man- graph 250 of Sergeant Hopker's book the British Government," he con-ost gallant of the British slens, a whole village or two, head-says: "Being the registered owner of tinued.

"They imposed an embargo chieftains defeated and taken lands, stretches of const, lakes, moors a vehicle, viz.: did fail to notify the and feas, It is continually receiving-Council with whom the vehicle on arms a long time before the prisoner by the invading Ro-more land and more property. Fascist Powers officially agreed to mans in the first century,

was registered that the said

vehicle do so, and even then the Fascist

It has just spent £000 on a Porila was

broken

up or destroyed power to hold

I am told that within a few weeks "It then repeated, the same pro-bourhood

endowment land not necessarily of the issue of the Regulations under cedure on volunteers, for it, pre-buried under the stone hundrede ting a scheme to, secure Government than 1,000 copies of this handbook

of natural beauty, and it is

is promo- the Road. Traffe Act, 1830, no

fewer veated volunteers from going to of years ago.

relief for the owners of mansions were sold dally, and in all 110,000 Spain a long time before the Fascist: The Trust, owners of the who are prepared to share the beau-have been sold. This is the eleventh Powers entered into undertakings on moor-clad Winsford Hill, have ties of their homes with the publle, edition, and Lord Byng, who wrote been told recently that unknown its properties in the last year, and praised the book as a "convenient It spent £21,214 on the upkeep of the preface to the sixth edition, raidors who drove up in a lorry £42,073 on buying new properties, guide" for serving police officers.

LOSE YOUR FAT

Vile

freedom.

The Safe Way I did! Powers broke their agreement. There is a legend in the neigh-mentary Blil to give it

I was 40 pounds over. weight. Tried several redes. ing methods" without satis faction. I seemed doomed to be PAT, forever. But the er, một Doa Kore. tre medî got tid of li qulek and may health is better than

Women wywhere have

experiences, like this. Why don't you try Bonkurs? Got a bir bottle now and zil Journel! of your exten« sive weight is a please ent way without starvation diet, tizing -exercises and dangeri

ous drugs, Thousands of women (have thanked us for the wonderful res

| sufta obtained from the use of Don-

• Koer. At your

chemin.

this, subject.

¡OPPOSE ANY

PARTITION Of Spain Mr. Alfred Wall, secretary of the London Trades Council, said: "The British Government should let it be known that neither Italy nor Ger- many will be allowed to proft by their intervention.

ог

"The Labour movement must op- pose any attempt at mediation terms of armistice which assumes a military stalemate and divides Spanish territory between the legal of the country and the vernment The reaolution which was adopted asked that "Great Britain should no longer net na the ignominious Instru mont of the dictatorship States In preventing the Spanish Government from crushing rebellion."

repor

that

treasure wns

A

WATSON'S

.20

PER

LIME JUICE CORDIAL $1.

GOOD FOR GIMLETS. GOOD FOR YOU.

H.K. OFFICE: KING'S BLDG., 4th Flr. Tel. 25552.

SHEET MUSIC FROM

"SHALL WE DANCE

FRED ASTAIRE & GINGER ROGERS

latest Film Tuncs.

I've Got Beginner's Luck.

Let's Call The Whole Thing Off.

They Can't Take That Away From Mo.

They All Laughed.

Slap That Bass.

Shall We Danco.

Piano Selection.

Also in stock.

Francis & Day's 62nd. Album,

Campbell Connelly's 26th. Album. Music From The Movies No. 6.

TSANG

Album,

FOOK PIANO COMPANY Marina House, 19 Queen's Road C. Tel. 24648.

AT THE

WEDNESDAY KING'S

"GIVE ME A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN!...

and I will make mon worship and gazo upon her forever!"...Thus cried this ganius, in whose heart surged the power to give eternal life to the women he lovedi

ALEXANDER KORDA

Charles

FALSENTA

LAUGHTON REMBRANDT

Diadat by ALEXANDER KORDĄ.

ELSA LANCHESTER CERTRUDE LAWRENCE EDWARD CHLAPMAN

LONDON FILM Probation

KILLAINS TEKU UNITED ARTISTS

THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;

& SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;

HOTELS

LIMITED.

the Grand Hotels