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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER

2,

1937.

POST OFFICE PREPARES TO SERVE A NEW BRITAIN

'Phones Must Follow As Industry Moves

In a little over two years the Post Office will know more about the British Isles of the future than any other authority in the Kingdom.

It will know where the next generation is going to live, work and play; what sort of houses it will have, in what sort of places; where the big new factories and mills are going to be.

Two hundred officials in the Tele- phone Development Department, with the help of 700 telephone zales- men, are in the midst of * Krent national survey designed_to_show] where the new telephone traffic is going to come from.

In

The Lalesmen ure making quiries in all parts of the country. In March last Britain was tele- phoning at the rute 2,000,000,000 calls a year, and was paying for them

£900,000,000 a year,

In 1927 there were 1.100,000,000 calls a year; in 1010 unly 700,000,000,

THE THIRD MILLION

The Post Office had to work from 1870 to 1922 to get its first million subscribers. Nine years Inter the second million were connected.

The third million wili almost cer- tainly be completed before the end of this year.

How fast will the development of the service continue?

TURKEY'S NEW

ORDER

War Training

For Girls

So marked In recent Umes has been the process of equalising both sexes that very litle atten- tion has been aroused in Turkey by the news that all purtis In intermediate and high schools for girls, as well as all glei students at the University, will henceforth be given lessons in military science, says the Con- stantinople correspondent of the Observer.

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The same regulation applies The Post Office, faced with the need of "placing" exchunges to cope professional schools of equivalent A circular has already been is degree. with the coming new traile, searching out the towns that are de-set by the Board of Education to all

chools concerned. veloping and those that are decuy- ink.

Information is being collected from estate agents, builders, surveyors, manufacturers, colllery proprietors, town planning and education author.- ties, and scores of others who know what the next building moves will be.

CALLS ANALYSED

Telephone users are being studied carefully so that the Post Office will

their have foreknowledge of

ten- dencies.

In the first course the girls will be aught the elements of conscription and mobilisation, military discipline, and martial law; they will be trained the use of arms and maps,

defence, in military inti-aircraft vork, and in the giving of military uformation. They will also be given

asons in military history,

Once A Tango Champion

Sir Bamuel Hoare. Home Secretary, speaking at a luncheon given by King George's Jubileo Trust at the Savoy Hotel, said:— "On one occasion I won a Lange competition at a casino on the Continent. It is now many years ago, and since then I have been a reformed charac.

"When I returned home I said to Mr. Baldwin, Well, I have done something during the re erss, and he asked, 'What is It?' I repiled I have won a fance competition. Mr. Baldwin ex- claimed. Thank God my Cabinet has done one good thing!" "

BEDTIME CURFEW

Headmistress Wants

New Law

Liverpool

Miss Jesale Crosbiey a headmistress, wants children to be put to bed carly by Act of Purliament.

"I want a curfew bell to be rung, or a En lo be fired, or a syren sounded at 8 p.m. In the. winter and 9 o'clock on suminer nights as a signal for chlidren to be home and put to bed," she Bald.

be decrced by "1 want this to Parliament ns an addition to the Chlidren's and Young People's Act.

"We don't allow juveniles to "neke, films, yet we allow them to see the ar go into publie houser, or Lee Lertain wrongdoing in the streets at night at

time when they themselves are ired and susceptible to templation,

"Canada sends her children to bed

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The second year programme in- by syren." fudes the use of machine-guns, the Miss Crosbie is planning a mass tudy of thells and artillery, topo-meeting at Laverpool to raphy, lessons in strategy and fac- For example, 37,000 calls pul, lies, and instruction qualifying for campaign. through a manual exchange were service behind the front. analysed recently. Operators Werd instructed to note the sex of the the cailer, the number asked for, time the cull came through.

From these data oficials discover- ed that women were making one- third of the total number of calls, and were nearly all ringing

up

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UFS

Demolish:d by shells in the heart of the World War's West- ern Front, Reims Cathedral in Franes has again been celally opened after extensiv, restoration. Finds were provided by the public, with John D. Rockefel!», Jr., nf New York, the most ken:rous contributor. Here is the restored nave, where Joan of Are saw Charles VII crowned.

WANTED TO GET CAR FOR

HIS BRIDE

were married. Most of our friends have cars."

Months ago the young couple ba gan buying furniture for their little home not far from his parents' house. They had been sweethearts two years. Now the new house-and the

Doth garage—are

tynazo:tled, George's bride is staying with his parents rather than live alone with her weddine preseris, They wapo married last Saturday at Lewisham while George was on bail.

George Henry Sution, twenty- three years old, wanted Millicent This bride, to have a shiny new home, prelty furniture, a garden and es- pecially a car for the honeymoon.

"We wanted Millicent to put off Recently Mrs. Sutton's brown cyer the wedding," George's father said. filled with tears when her husband "But she wouldo'l. She's a brick." In court the man from whom

11. George Loiselle, who received was sentenced to four months' hard

£100 in the savings bank. He - "Khops--between 0 a.m. and noon.! enterprising realtor selling an A.B. degree from Union College, labour at Bromley, Kent, for obtain-George obtained the car sald he had promised a deposit of £30. Later Another analysis-lo nad peak lakefront lots, cffered an abandoned in June, has been appointed teachering the car by false pretences

At the home of his parents in "business calla" hours-howed that trolley car free with euch enle, Asin the pubile school of Puerto Rico.

account. residents The appointment was made by Dr. Sidcup che satd: "I have faith in he was found to have no banking

bad a an average of 31,000 calls are put result a number of lake

of him. He Gallardo, commissioner

good job. He

A detective said that in 1935 Sut- through from 10 to 11 p.m. on the have made over the ears into com-Jose

meant to pay for the car after weton was bound over for two years for education of the island, London, City and Central exchanges. fortable summer homes.

pavillon-breaking and having house- breaking Implements at night: The time of his provation expired while he was in custody on the present

charge..

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How I Became Golf Champion

-Henry Cotton-

Henry Cotton, Open Golf Champion, speaking at Foyles Luncheon at Grosvenor House recently:

When I started to play seriously all the best players were Americans.

In my desire to become champion, I thought the best thing to do was to imitato them.

So I bought a pair of black and white shoes and a very bright pull-over

very

failed quite a number of times. As a last resort, I thought,

I could becomo a naturalised American.

Finally, I managed to win and, since then, everything British looks botter

Any success that I have had was inspired by the Ameri- cans who sat the standard.

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