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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY,

CONVICTS BUY TOBACCO WITH

FIRST WAGES

"My Lady Nicotine" Proves Too Strong For Them

THREE HUNDRED convicts in Dartmoor prison have just received their first payment under the new system of wages for men undergoing penal servitude.

To avoid traffic in old coins which might be taken in- to the jail, the men were paid in 1937 pennies.

Many of them were handling | 70 per cent. of them will receive less money for the first time since their Imprisonment. Some broke down and wept, says the Daily Expres.

A provision van, packed with the little luxuries the convicts are allow- ed to buy, arrived in the outer courtyard.

250 PIPES SOLD

When the convicts' orders were opened it was found that nearly ninety per cent, of them had asked for tobacco and pipes.

than 6d. a week they will have to make their wolmeco "go it font way" -even though they buy it at the re- duced price of 7d, an ounce.

The few convicts who did not buy tobacco bought small quantities of jam, butter and other provisions not on the ordinary prison diet,

7. A WEEK

When the prison governok, Major' C. T. Pannell, made his round during the morning he was cheered wildly by groups of convicts, despite war- Sa 250 cherrywood pipes andders attempts to restrain them. several pounds of twist tobacco und shag were delivered, and soon the smeli of tobacco led the men's rolls.

The rates of payment to the men are: During the Ars! eighteen months 355d, or 7d. n week pecord- ing to their occupation; during the Within An hour of receiving following year an increase of 2d. aj their pipes half the ronvicts were seek. und during the following 11. The strong tobacco was too eighteen months an increase of Id. a much for them.'

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week: and for the remainder of their Men can now stroke anywhere in rentence an addition of ld. a week. the prison except chapel and one of The wages system has been intro- two other prohibited areas. Bul as duced no part of new prison reforms.

ANTHONY EDEN SAVED

COMRADE IN WAR

Dragged Wounded Man' To Safety Under Fire

HOW Mr. Anthony Eden, with face blackened for a

trench raid, rescued a wounded English soldier under German fire and dragged him to safety at Ypres has just been described.

The story was told by the rescued soldier, Mr. W. H. Harrop, now a director of a Sheffield works, founder and chairman of the Sheffield branch of the Old Con- temptibles' Association.

-Ever since the day of the reseve in 1918 he and Mr. Eden have kept up a correspondence.

Mr. Eden wys a subaltern in the King's Royal Rifles, and Mr., Harrop was no N.C.D.

Mr.

Describing the adventure, Harrop said that a surprise raid had been ordered on the enemy trenches. only 70 yards away to bring back prisoners.

TWO YEARS IN HOSPITAL The spot was known to the soldiers as the "Birdcage, Plub-street Wood." Mr. Eden was the officer in charge of the party.

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faces, They blacked cir was the custom in, ralds of that 'kind. He

dug-out and rubbed black over his face in readiness for the rald.

went bits Mr. Eden's

Kay Stammers Says "No" To Hollywood

SAM GOLDWYN and Darryl

Zanuck are trying to per- suade Kay Stammers, vivacious British tennis star, now playing' at Los Angeles, to take a film lest and seek screen stardom.

Her mother, Mrs. H. C. Stammers, of St. Albans, revealed to a Sunday Dispatch reporter that other produ cors have made similar offera during her, present valt to America.

She was also appranched by film magnates during her American vialt last year.

Kay is "not parilcularly enthusias- tic," says Hollywood.

Her mother is not keen, either.. "She is not an actress," said Mrs. Stammers. "I would not particular- ly care for her to go in for a screen career, and I do not think she is ikely to do so."

They went over the top, armed with bombs and revolvers, but were spotted by the Germans, who opened fire. All the party returned safely except Mr. Harrop, who lay helpless with a wound in the left thigh.

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As soon as Mr. Eden found that Mr. Harrop had not 'returned be Act off with two three of the men. Mr. Harrop was saved. | hut his wound was so severe that ho was in hospital for two years and has had thirty-three opera-| Wons. The wound 'still troubles him.

Mr. Haxrop received many sympa thetic letters from Mr. Eden while! he was in hospital, says the Sun- day Express.

"I was es fearless as an officer Mr. she is now us a statesman." Harrop sold. "Everybody, liked him He was popularly known as "The. Boy...

FLOUR MILL GUTTED BY FIRE

An enormous conflagration, following heavy bombing of the. vicinity, completely destroyed the Tsoong Hua Flour Mill. sliunted in Chapel about 750 yards north-west of the chang

Rond Fire Station, ncross the Soochow Creek. Grent anxiety for the safety of an oil mill near the site of the flour mill was felt by the officers of the Sixth Murines, occupying the sector on the Settlement side, with the result that Settlement Gremen rendered assistance in preventing the fire from spreading. Above two ple- tures give an idea of the fire and the damage done.

INVENTOR MAKES BIBLES

INTO ARMAMENTS

A FORTUNE is being made by a man of 77 who, after 16 years of self imposed poverty, living on £2 a week, invented and pa- tented a method of turning old Bibles into gun-cotton, artificial silk, cellulose, and expensive note paper.

His machinery has already been 11pm was to turn it into pulp and to Installed at a Cardiff factory and at get rid of the ink... eight others in various parts of the country where armaments are being made from ancient Testaments.

The inventor in Mr. Edward H. Al- Partington, Surbiton, Surrey. ready ho ke muking 175 a week. The old Bibles are bought for 159. a ton.

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"I got a job at £20 a week bul lives on £2, spending the rest on my experiments. For sixteen years I worked at it without success.

"Then, when 1 was seventy-five. The simple method I succeeded. of removing the colour from old Duper suddenly came to me two years ago.

When war broke out in 1914 Mr. Ger-

"Next Christmas my wife and I are Partington was employed in many at a calary of £10,000 a year. going for a world cruise. We've been years, and only He lost his job and his money at the married afty-two age of fifty-four. Now, in his older courage has kept me going." age, he is getting it back again.

Grey-haired Mr. Partington told

his story to a Daily Express reporter. "When I lost my job," he said. "I came back to Manchester my home.

In Germany I had realised the possibilities of old paper. The prob-

LOVE

IN AUTUMN

SHE'S been a widow now for *

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Mr. Harney Davis's old Dutch. Both live in the town of

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And she says, "When you've

reached my time of life You feel that you need a mate,

W. T. K.

WAR VICTIM WITH. LEG IN CAST

One of the plliful sights to be seen along the streets of the Central districts is the unfortunate Chinese war victim with his -left foot in a plaster cast, spending his days and nights in front of a barriended shop along Szechuen Road, not far from the bridge, patiently bluing his time when he will be able to take off the plaster of Parls and perhaps be able to walk price again;

GABLE NOT

ENOUGH

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OCTOBER 21, 1937.

E RADIO BROADCAST

Relay of the Hongkong Hotel Orchestra

CHILDREN'S CONCERT

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.BW. on Wavelengths of 355 metres (84 kc's) 31.49 metres (0.52 m.c's),

UK.T

12-12.30 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.

12.30 Three, Bongs by George Thill (Tenor),

Nuit D'Espagne (Massenet): Ouvre Ton Coeur (Bizel); Ehlovement (S. Bordese and C. Levado).

1:40 New Light Symphony Or chestra.

Dance Of The Hours ('La Gio- conda-Ponchicl); Salut. D'Amour (Elgar); Serenade (Plerne); Prelude (Haydn Wood); Serenade Maurezque, Op. 10, No. 2 (Elgar).

1. Time and Weather.

1,03 Reginald Foort (Cinema Organ)

Poem (Fibich); An Autumn Seren- ade (Bècce); Medley Of Daly's Favouries: Intro: A bachelor gay (Maid of the Mountains); Vilia (The Merry Widow); Bohemia (The Happy Day); Leander (Katcha the Dancer); Under the Deodar (The Country Girl); You're in love (Gipsy Love).

116 Musical Comedy,

The

Parade'-Selection Love (Schertzinger)....Jack Payne and His B.B.C. Dance Orchestra; Musical Comedy Marches....Light Opern Company.

1:30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements.

140 The BBC. Dance Orchestra. Quick Step There's No Time Like The Present (alm 'Music Hath Charms'); Tange-Marilou; Waltz- Give Me Your Hand; Fox-Trots- Saddle Your Blues To A Wild Must- Started Me Dreaming: ang. You Comedy Fox-Trots-I'm Nuts On Screwy Music, 1 Laughted. So Hard I Nearly Died; Fox-Trots--Mine's A Hopeless Case (from Over She Gors'), I Breathe On Windows (from 'Over She Goes'); Waltz-Lovely Lady (film 'King of Burlesque'); Fox- Tro-Alone At A Table For Two.

2.15 Close Down.

8-11 p.m. Chinese Programme 5 Relay of the Danco Orchestra from the Roof-Garden of the Hong- Kong Hotel,

1. How could you?; 2. Carelessly; 3. Fifty Million Robins; 4. Onli littlo Bamboo Bridge. ·

5.15 Interval of recorded danes music from Z.B.W.

0.29 5. Someone to care for me; 8. That certain Foolish Feeling; Where are you?;:8. RIMn' at the Rliz.

6.35 Interval of recordeet dance music from Z.B.W.

5.45 9. It looks like rain; 10. Love is good for anything: 1. There's a lull in my life; 12. Wake up and live.

Bludio-Children's Concert,

0.45 Gubert and Sullivan Selee. tions,

"The Mikado-Overture....The Light Opera Orchestra; The Pirates Of Penzance'-Ah, Leave Me Not To Pine!....Elsie Grimn

and Derek Oldham

H.M.5. Pinafore-Vocal Gems....Columbia Light Орега Company; Patience; The Soldiers of Our Queen; If You Want a Receipt for That Popular Mystery....Darell Fancourt and Chorus of Dragoons; Still Breeding On Their Mad Infatua tion; I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be... W. Lauson-N. Brierclufe

M. Eyre and Chorus of Girls. 7.15 London Relay-Can you Beal t73: The Supernatural Intervenes A talk by William Martin-Hurst. 130 Stock Quotations and Hong-

There's a first-class troversy in the R.A.F. You can hear the Air Marshals keng Exchange Maricot. mutter: "Demme, sir, who is this Clark Gable?"

THE trouble is Clark Gable isn't English enough for the Air Ministry..

It happened this way! FILMING THE RAF.

7.25 Variety.

Vocal-Happy Swiss Memories (am. G. Betz)....Swiss Ensemble conductor: G. Betz; Plano--Piono Medley No. R. 18....Charlle Kunz; Duet Vocal and Piano-Looking For

A Little Bit Of Blue; What A Little Moonlight Can Do (alm 'Road Houre')....Layton and Johnstone; Band Music-The Whistling Farmer Boy (Fillmore); The Whistler And His Dog (Pryor)....Silver Stars

Some time ago the Air Minis- Band.

1.03 Chinese Programme-Studio Concert

11 Close Down."

try decided it would be a good & Time. Weather and Announce thing to have a first-class filmments. dealing with life in the R.A.F. Mr. Michael Balcon, British producer for Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, submitted a story called "Shadow of the Wing," and eventually it was decided base the film on this.

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After that came the real 'trou- ble.

The "hero" was to be a British Air, Force officer, and M.-G.-M. sug gest Clark Gable or Spencer Tracy. Air Ministry officials demurred, suggesting that would be better not to have an American to take the lead, though it was suggested that Clark Gable would be the biggest box-office drew. Many discussions

followed.

NOT REJECTED-YET

Mr. Balcon told a reporter: "There is a feeling at the Air Ministry that it would be more in keeping with the character of the film for an English- man to take the stor part.

"It is true, that Clark Gablò has

·been suggested, but there is no ques- tion yet cf the idea..being turned down.

"There are to be further meetings between offelals of the Air Ministry and M.G.M. In a week or two, at while it will be decided who is to star in the film."

M-G-M. RIVAL PLÄN

New York. je · An executive of .M.-G.-M.

Cx- pressing his personal view sald: “My understanding is that Clark Gable may not play In 'Shadow of the Wing, as the studio bere has plans All set for him to star in "Test Pilot' within a few months, and two nir pictures together would be bad business,"

8.01-11 p.m. European Programme

from ZEK. On a Frequency of die

Kooycles.

8.03 Brahms Bonata. In F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1.

Played by Lionel Tertia (Violin) and

Harriet Cohen (Plano). 820 Two Brahms Songs by Maria Oinowska (Contralto).

Die Mainacht; Sapphische Ode. 8.35 Light Orchestral Concert. Reminiscences of Grieg (arr. rincha)....Marek Weber and His Orchestra: Vienna By Night (Kom- zak)... Marek Weber and His Or- chestra; Neapolitan Melodies, Med- ley....Columbia Concert Orchestra; What's Next? (A Potpourri of popu lar tunes of the last half Century (arr. H. Finck)....Herman Finck and Ils Orchestra.

0.10 London Relay-Food for Thought'.

Three short talks on topical interest.

matters of

8.10 London Relay-The News and Aunouncements,

9.50 Two Songs þy Gilta. Alpar (Soprano).

I Give My Heart (Am I give my. head'); The Dubarry (film 'I give my heart").

9.06. Primo Band.

Scalla's Accordeon

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