1938-01-21 — Page 3

THE

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, HONGKONG

JANUARY

21, 1938.

JAPANESE MARINES LANDING IN N. CHINA:

A PICTURE OF WHAT MIGHT COME

TO KWANGTUNG AND THE SOUTH

TRO LANDENG

'HIDDEN MEN' TO TRICK THE FOREIGN SPY RINGS

Three Continents Were Part of the Land of the South Pole.

Washington.

Dr. W. W. Watts. British geologist, has offered scientific evidence which he believes shows that South Africa, South America and Australia were at one time parts of a great continent close to the south polc.

His findings, revealed in the annual report of the Smith- sonian Institution, gave credence to the old concept of a hypothe- tical continent of Gondwanaland around the south pole.

Chlef evidence of the southern continent was scratches of glacial drift over rocks in these parts of the southern hemisphere and glacial de- poslts of gravel,*

MAORI CLAIMS

He said that some geologists be lieve that the glaciated lands formed part of a single land mass more than 200,000 years ago. This

JAPANESE marinos, are stili active in South China and attempted landings have been reported from Macao and Hainan Island. Crack Chinese troops, equipped with modern weapons, are lining the coast to try to check any large scale land- ings. These remarkable pictures show Japanese troops making a landing in small boats from transport ship during recent operations further north.

£500 PEARLS FOR 72d.

.Miss Patricia Ryan, a radio singer, went into a New York shop to buy a7%d, string of imitation pearls, re- moved her £500 string to see if the two matched, picked up the wrong string.

But her pearls were not at the shop; they had probably been, sold for 74d.

PAPERS FOR THE KING'S PROCTOR

DECREE FOR NAVAL OFFICER'S WIFE

JUDGE AND HUSBAND'S HOTEL VISIT

The papers in a euse before Mr. In a 100m at Scotland Yard Justice Buckmill in the, Divorce Court handful of men in shirt-sleeves sat, recently were ordered to be sent to beneath green-shaded lamps-work- the King's Proctor. Ing out puzzles that would keep you He granted a deeree nisi, with guessing a lifetime,

costs, to Mrs. Shirley Tod, of Bury- Every day they are there. They road, Alverstoke, Hampshire, on the

never cease puzzling,

Their job is to decode messages sent by foreign Powers and spy rings to agents in this country,

LETTERS OPENED

31ost foreign spics in Britain are known to the Home Office. All their letters are checked, secretly opened. And The Men Who Puzzle solve their

contents.

They probe, tao, into those inno- cent letters and postcards sent out of this country by suspected aliens. They seldom fall.

code is ut their

Found of the adultery of her hus-1

Lt. Cmdr. David Tod. The case was undefended and Mrs. Tod was given the custody of the two chlidren.

LL-Cmdr. and Mrs. Tod were married ni Alverstoke in 1020 and. ccording to the case for the wife, they were extremely unhappy, and Reparated. Mrs. Tod found that in October, 1936, her husband stayed at Portsmouth hotel with another

toma

Mr. Justice Buckn said that, Tod's although he accepted Mrs. evidence us being given in good faith,

he considered that, from the corres- pondence and the other evidence, proof of the adultery failed.

Adultery was a serious offence, ho

TWENTY LANGUAGES Every known Anger-tips. Each of them can speak sald, especially in the case of a man from 10 to 20 languages and dialects. In the position of Lt.-Cmdr. Tod. The evidence showed that he went Messages with vital secrets con- to the hotel at Portsmouth--where cerning armaments, defence mea- he was

the class of for the express

mass sures, navy and fighting strength are' woman dewith

of New floated like a raft across the south aften held back or altered. Harmless purpose of his wife with 1

or inaccurate instead.

Dr. Watts explained that this

Auckland, Suvogo Mr.

Premier Zealand, states that the Government pole regions. will hear the Maori lund compensa- tion claims in 1930, An effort will various claims, including that of the lot continent drift advanced by the Ngaitaou tribes for £3,000,000, German selentist Alfred Wegener, In 1840 when organised coloniau- Under this theory, the present re- tion in New Zealand began

the glons

of South Africa, southern Maoris owned all the land in the country.

South America, Madagascar, Aus- tralia, New Zealand and Tasmania and Antarctica broke apart and flouted away from each other over,

be made lo reach a settlement of theory fitted in with the hypothesis with the Home Oflee, and no mus went to the hotel to commit miscon

FAMOUS BULLFROG DIES

St. Louis,

information is sent evidence for

The

circumstances, added Mr. Justice Buckal, removed the prima These men work in close contact facie inference that Lt. Cmdr. Tod

sages are intercepted till an offfelol duct. He thought that where there approval is obtained.

were innocent and guilty alterna- lives, the euurt ought to infer Inno- cence. He was bound, however, by en Appeal Court decision.

HIPPOPOTAMUS KILLS LION

Nairobi. hippopotamus fought muddy pool in tha deita of the River Rungi, "Tanganyi kn. The hippopotamus, half, sub-|

Allon and n the curth's crust like leebergs in the to the death in

Lilith, the workid's most photograph-occun.

BLUE INK BOUNCES BACK

Bristow, Okla. Because blue will not photograph Fragments of the supposed con-merged, probably was mistaken by plainly, 400 Bristow motorists who Lilith, ari albino, had been their tinent can be fitted together in fale the lion for a wild pig. The hippo-signed applications for state drivers stellar allraction for three years. A ly good fashion considering the dates potamus gored the lion many Umes lleonces with the blue.inic furnished skin disease akin to dropsy was sald of Roverance, Dr. Watta kald.United with its great tusks, inleting mortal by the licence office here must resign

be the applications thin:/ time

ed bullfrog, has croaked for the last tine, St Louis zoo officials and

“to be the causes of death,"

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