1937-10-20 — Page 17

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

OCTOBER 20,

1937.

20-TON AIRLINERS FOR H.K. Imporial Airways

Service Extension

13 Days Around

The World

Imperial Airways, has {1}- nounce, that giant 20-ton 24- passenger flying boats will be usell OB fie Alexandria- Singapore Hongkong service carly next your.

It was originally intended to use these flying boats on the Singapore Austruma service. Owing to delrys

DUKE OF WINDSOR

MAY VISIT H.K. IF SITUATION ALLOWS

By Staff Correspondent

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor will visit Hongkong next February or March, if the political situation in the Far Bist will permit them to do so.

It is possible that they may remain in this Colony for some considerable time.

the

Royal Family On Tour

Princos Visit West Counties, Wales

King and Queen Lunch in Hull

London, Oct. 10.

The Duke and Duchess of Glouces- ter, who are touring the West Coun- les, were given a warm welcome at Plymouth today,

They drove across the immours. to Tavistock, from where they will be the Duely of Cornwall's eslute.

..

Receptions are being arranged for them niong the route of their tour,

Both have previously visited Hong | Mrs. Bedaux, close personal friends

Duchess. Mr. and Mrsailing kang, the Duke when, as Prince of of Wales, he passed through hers on his Bedaux are the owners of the famous visit to Japan in 1922, and the Chouteau de Cande, Monts, where the Duchess when her first husband was Duchess remained until she became Anttoned with the U.S. Navy In the wife of the former ruler of Great Eastern waters.

Britain. Mr. and Mrs. Beaux, who are now in the United States, an- nounced recently that they were visiting the Far East, but it is possible that they may alter their plans in view of the present crisis.

· Information that the

Duke and

AVOIDING PUBLICITY

Berlin, Oct. 10.

igning the agreement with the Austration Commonwealth, and the conscaut delay in construction of seaplane basea in Australia, will Duchess contemplate visiting the Far not now passible to commence East has been released by M the service to Australia until 1930. Randolph Churchill who, Jikes Singapore and Hongkong already father, Mr. Winston Churchill, is a hove seaplane airports and, peading close personal friend of the Duke. completion of bases In Australly, Mr. Randolph Churchill says that deelded Hongkong will be made the terminal the Duke of Windsor has for the service.

never to return to England. He will The Duke of Windsor to-day issued Until Australia is ready for the shortly visit the United States, re-a stetement about his proposed visit scaplanes, land planes will remain in maining there until February. From to America. uso on the service from Singapore America the Duke and Duchess will to Darwin. It will be necessary for proceed to Honolulu, and will return acoplane bases to be constructed at to Europe via the Far East. Darwin, Normanton, Thursday Island, The Dulce, and Duchess will make Bowen, Brithane and Sydney, none) of which at present has adequate an as yet unspecified Europeen coun- facilities, before the scaplane service try their permanent home, but they will spend a considerable portion of can be extended to the Antipodes.

When these bases are completed, each verr travelling. They may visit for the Sydney Requi- the Imperial Airways service will Australia

centenial celebrations in 1938, Mr.' be extended to New Zealand, Jinicing

Churchill says. up there with the proposed Pan-

The Duke and Duchess may be American service to Suva, Pago Pago, Honolulu and San Francisco, preceded to the Far East by Mr. and The two proposed Eervices complete an aerial chain around the

Pacific Occan, with Hagkong as the started In December, the accelerated Far Eastern terminus for both Pan-service to this Colony will make it American Airways and Imperial possible for a Hongkong traveller to Airways.

tour around the world by air in 13 days, at a cost of only £500.

will take-

It

Extension of the flying boat servien to Hongkong will reduce the transit time to London to five days. It is possible that Hongkong will see the Gret of the seaplanes on an experl- One day from London to New mental Wight before the end of the

year,

When the new trans-Atlantic ser- vice, run jointly by Imperial Always and Pan-American Airways,

Is

Five days from Hongkong to London;

York;

One day from New York 10 Son Francisco; and

Five days from San Francisco to Hongkong. ·

He said the velit will be a purely private und unofficial affair, and added that the Duchess and himself did not wish to be the subject of pubilelty.

The couple attended A banquet yesterday given in their honour in Dresden by the Governor of Saxony.

To-day they visited a porcelain factory at Melssen, after 'which they proceeded to Nuremberg-Reuter.

TYPHOON REPORT

re-

The following telegram was celved by the US. Consulate General here from the Manila Observatory at 030 a.m. to-day:

8.45 a.m

1 degrees east and lailtude degrees north moving northwest.

(2) Typhoon in about longitude 140 degrees east and Intitude degrees north almost stationary.

The Duke and Duchess of Kent are visiting South Wales, and to-day the Duke laid the foundation stone to the extendon of Trinity College, Cardi. Later the Duke and Duchess went to Swansel, where the Duke was installed as Chancellor of the received University of Wales, and the freedom of the city.

The King and Queen, who are visiting Yorkshire, had luncheon to- day with the Lord Mayor of Hull, where they arrived this morning by train from London. In the afternoon they proceeded to York, where they were met by the Earl of Harewood and the Princess Royal, with whem Their Majestics are staying during their tour of Yorkshire.

Princess Elizabelh

andi

Princess Margaret Rose returned to London from their Scottish holiday. They.j had been staying with their grand- parents after the return of the King and Queen to London from Balmoral. -Reuter.

WARM WELCOME

London, Oct, 10, After spending several hours at Hull this morning and funebing at the Guildhall, the King and Queen Icft for York where on arrival,

mel by they

the Princess were (1) Typhoon in about longitude Royal and Lord Harewood, who is Lord Lieutenant of West Riding. Large -crowds-gave Their Majesties an enthusiastle welcome. After a visit to a factory on the outskiria of the city where they anw the differ- ent processes of the manufacture of chocolates, the King and Queen had tea with the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House, and subsequently left by car for Harewood House where they are slaying to-night with the Princess Royal and Lord Hare- wood.-British · Wireless.

Just another 5 minutes wish I didn't always wake so tired. Those wretched directors are meeting this moming too!

All their

happiness depended on him.

Oh, Mr. Martin! I had to send that report into the directors meeting without- you seeing it. Sorry couldn't)

wait.

But I checked

it carefully!

THINKS

Very efficient

but not Your job,

young man

MEANWHILE IN THE DIRECTORS" MEETING:

But, my dear sir, Martin looks half asleep all day. If the younger man can do the job better, Martin must take the consequences. I'll talk to Martin

THAT NIGHT

THINKSA

Their hoppiness depends on my job..! The directors are right, I am half askep. I'll simply have to see a doctor about this inetched

tiredness

THE DOCTOR SAYS: It's this waking bied that's holding you back! Even during sleep, Heartbeats and other automatic actions, go on using up energy. Unters energy's replaced during sleep, of course you wake tired-light Starved advise

Horlicks..

Dading! Remember In getting a rise this month. I hate to see you slaving and doing all the

housework yourself.

Let's get a daily help in

| 3 MONTHS LATER

Does your husband

wake tired?

GRRA

he does, ben to it that he Horlicks

I regularly, capful every night. He'll get the

right kind of sleep, and wake refreshed. Ho'll be able to concentrats better, he won't be handi- capryl any longer at his work by that deadening seedryin

HORLICKS

guards against Night Starvation.

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RUSSIANS, JAPANESE SKIRMISH

Siberia-Manchukuo' -Border Tension-

4

Shanghai, Oct. 20. Skirmishies between Soviet and Japanese troops have occurred on the Siberian - Manchukuo border. about 80 miles south-east of Chinese territory according to reports pub- lished by Chinese- evenlng-papers- to-night."

The Japanese Kwantung Command Ins urdered ily troops nol τα aggravate the situation owing to the uares to Manchuria and the activi- tics of the volunteers. The borde. forces are instructed, however, tu take every precaution against Sovic. Incursions.

Liberal Japanese statesmen, accord- Ing to vernacular papers, recognize that the Soviet nelivities are due to the heavy concentration of Japanese troops in China proper.

The Tai Kung Pao, Influential Chinese paper, quoled foreign sourets in Pelping as saying that two divisions of Japanese troops in North China had been sent back to Manchuria. This is due ta the uprising of the Ineguiars and mutiny

of some Munchukua troops, who allegedly killed their Japanese officers.

Somo Japanese, army untis In Tientsin are beingspatched, to Manchurin. The Japanese_version la that the war in North China is about to end and that, there is no necessity for such a vast army there..

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