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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY,

FAMOUS AIRPORT SOLD TO AIR MINISTRY: ASTOUNDING GROWTH

FORTUNES MADE BY

YOUNG FOUNDERS

Heston Airport has been sold to the Government.

At the request of the Air Ministry the management of the airport will remain in the hands of Airwork, Ltd., the former owners, for some time to come.

Mr. Nigel Norman and Mr. Alan Muntz (who married Lady Margaret Stewart, daughter of Lord Londonderry, in 1934) were among the founders of Airwork, Ltd., which has owned Heston Airport since 1929.

It rapidly developed into the largest privately owned airport in the world and second only to Croydon in this country.

By 1934 over 3,000 planes a month were taking off and landing there.

Young Indian's Vast Frauds

Up-to-date randio control and land- lag light systems were installed to cope with this traffic.

It also became the fashionable fly- ing school of London and the young men who started Airwork, Ltd.. hat made

The rent roll of fortune.

the company WAS worth at least

£10,000.

In 1930 the Air Ministry purchased Band adjoining the present flying field to save it from the builder.

Plans for a G.W.R. station and u service to Paddington of Diesel-

engined rail-cars, which would bring Heston within 15 minutes of London.

were projected. Dar-es-salaam.

The longest case in the his-

tory of the East African courts

ended to-day when Esmail Hus- More sein Ali Hasmani, 22, à promi- nent Indian merchant, was con- victed on 25 out of 80 charges of forgery and fraud, and was

Specialisation

sentenced to seven years' hard In The Navy

labour.

The case had caused the greatest Jocal Interest. Hasmani lavishly entertained the Aga Khan during his East African tour in February last year.

£200,000,

There is to be more specialisation among officers of the Royal Navy. Orders have been issued by the Ad- miralty directing that all young naval officers of leutenant's and sub-lieu- tenant's rank

10 are

indicate the specialist branches which they prefer

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SWEDEN HONOURS GOVERNOR-During a recent visit to Stockholm, Sweden, Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania was appointed a knight of the Swedish Nordstjarue Order by King Gustaf, who received him in private audience, ps above. Governor Earle is at left, with King Gustaf in centre. At right is the American Minister to Sweden, Fred Morris Dearing.

NO PLACE

IN GAS

LIKE HOME

RAIDS!

-Official

Three recommendations on how to act in the event of a gas attack from the air in war time have just been issued officially. They are: (1) Go indoors;

(2) Arrange for the room to be made as gas proof as

(3) Take into the room the respirator which will be

The charges mentioned at the open-to join. ing of the case were of forging and So far as executive officers of the uttering bills of lading, bills of ex-Royal Navy are concerned the special change and insurance policies for branches available are: gunnery, for- possible; alleged shipping operations. The pedo, signals and wireless, navigation, amount Involved was stated to be: Submarine, anti-submarine duties,

physical and recreational training, issued. The Solleitor-General, Mr. P. Fsurveying, and pilots and observers!

Air Arm, says The The instructions are contained in a fore it was necessary for them to put Branigan, stated at the time that for the Fleet

book produced by the Air Raids Pre- on their respirators. Hasman, at the age of 18 owing to Sunday Times, London,

Ever since specialist officers becautions Department of the Home his father's illness, obtained a power of attorney and carried on his father's Cane necessary owing to the increased Omee. business, transacting deals nounting complications of modern weapons to £1,70,000. The case, he said had the Admiralty have had the right to

no parallel in the annals of crime in East Afrien,

Tests were made with four types conscript" afficers for any specialist of gas chlorine, mustard, tear, and branch which was short of officers, arsenical smoke.

day for }

In another test the collage was surrounded at a distance of 20 yards

was

by shallow trays a few yards in carried on to the unprotected house giving off mustard gas which from whichever way the wind blow.

JANUARY 27. -1988.

RADIO BROADCAST

World Affairs and Other London Relays CHILDREN'S HOUR

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W, an a Frequences of 845 k.c's 19.52 mic's per second.

H.K.T.

12-12.20 p.m.

Relay of a service

of Intercession from St. John's Cathe- dral.

12.30 p.m. Ibert-Excales-Orches- tre Des Concerta Straram Conducted by Walther Straram.

12.47 Light Orchestral Music.

Gounod in Vienna (Arc. G. Walter) ....Orchestre Haymonde; Drury Lane Memories....Regal Cinema Orches-

tra.

1 Time and Weather,

1.03 Hawaiian Musle,

A ekoki-Fox Trot; Hawaiian Love-Waltz (Lizzie Alohikoa)....Nol Lane's Hawaiian Orchestra; Lone- some Without My Baby; Lion Reg ..Mosters Hawalions; Underneath the blue Hawailan Skies-Waltz (Wasserman); Sweet Hawallan Dream Girl-Waltz (Green and Williams), The Hawaiian Marimba Players; Oh! Hawailan Rosalia (Exe and Liossas); Stars are Glemming (Ege and Rosen) ..Lin Milford and his Hawatian Players; Song of the Islands-Waltz (King)....The Moana Serenaders.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements,

1.10 Variety Programme.

Charlie Kunz Plano Medley No. D.0....Charlie Kunz; So must our love remain (Stevier and Lchar), Love's Melody (Slevier and Lehar)

Frances Day: Lily of Waiting at the Church-Barn The Veleta (Morris)....Bllly Merrin and his Commanders; Was It Rain? Hirsch): Handman-Walter (Lou Sweet Heartache (Ned Washington Sam H. Stept)....Frances Lang- ford: Ever so Quiet (More); At the Battle of Waterloo (Le Clerą) .... Bobbie, Comber.

2.15 Close Down.

5 pm. Relay of the dance Orches- tra of the Hongkong Hotel from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel. 1. (0) My heaven on Earth; (b) The Shag; (c) Ebb Tide; (d) Rockin'. the town.

2. (a) Sailboat in the Moonlight; (b) Song of India; (c) Why talk about love; (c) Satan takes a hollday. 3. (a) Everything you said_came true; (b) A foggy day; (c) Things are looking up; (e) Nice work if you can get it.

During the Intervals the following records will be played from Z.B.W.

C Children's Hour from the Studio. 7 Paul Robeson.

You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things (Dyrenforth and Erie Ansell); Lazin' ...(Dyrenforth and Eric Ansell); My Way (Kennedy and Carr).,

7.10 Glibert and Sullivan. "The Yeomen of the Guard"; Alas!

In practice, however, this has seldom-gamekeepers-cottage, which haddition, mustard gas was. I Waver to and fro... Nellie Brier- Mr. Justice Knight-Bruce, in his been necessary, partly because of the not been protected in any way and sprayed on the house from a distance judgment, said that the greatest leni-extra pay carried by specialisation which was sheltered from the wind of ten yards for an hour on the wind- enry had been shown to counsel for twhich varies from 2s. 6d. the defence in the conduct of the gunnery and torpedo offleers of ver- by a bit of trees so that its location ward side. case, but the witnesses for the Crown age seniority to Os a day for sub-was similar to a town house, was sub- had remained unshaken under long marine officers and officers of the ected to a dense cloud of chlorine and arduous cross-examination. They Fleet Air Arm), and partly becauses released from a distance of only had made a clear case.

specialisation has come to be regarded 20 yards for 40 minutes.

The judge deser/bed as a "Terrago of nonsense" the defence that bank managers were party to the frauds. The documents produced to support the allegations had, he said, been proved to be forgeries.

After his crowded hour of ilfe, Hasmani had now ruined himself and disgraced his family,

"But," added the judge, it was no wonder that he lost his head in view of the unjustified trust extended to him by the banks."

Australian Trade With United States

Sydney.

Australia will demand substantial concessions for any change in her relations with the United States in the event of a future Anglo-American trade pacl. 1t is tearned authoritative quarters here.

im

She will, in particular, ask for a

as the royal road to promotion.

TON OF GAS

Although more than a ton of gas was used, human beings in the house found that it was seven minutes be-

MAY BE CONSCRIPTED" The new regime foreshadowed in the orders, however, seems to indicate that a great many more officers will be "conscripted" into the specialist branches of the Navy if they do not 661 volunteer for specialisation.

From time to time there have been periods in which the Royal Navy has undergone a revulsion of feeling when the Painst specialisation;

special-

"Father Can Look After

small number of "salt horses"-that Himself"

is, executive offlcers without

ist qualifications--has led to a

to a bellef that there was too much specialisa tion, and that promotion would in- swing more towards the "anlt Cvitablex

Promotion figures have nol,

PRAAT Justified such a bellet, and

arders prove new

the

it to be wrong, Many naval officers have criticised the extent to which specialization has nirendy gone in the Royal Navy. Such criticisms have usually been based on the belief that a specialist officer be- comes too preoccupled with material, circumstances is compelled by force of to remain in the same groove for the besi

and part of his Service career, is prevented from close contact with the naval personnel or practice in the art of handing ships at sea.

TRAINING COURSES

substantial reduction in the heavy The manner in which appointments United States duty on Australian of naval officers have been arranged wool; and, while anxious to give by the Admiralty in the last two years the assistance possible in the tolka,

goes for to nullify such crlifelsm. As

that

will not agree to serious interference on instance, it may be stated with concessions now enjoyed under both the commanding offleer and the

the Ottawa Agreement,

10

new

Tri-

executive afficer of that great specin- best establishment, the naval gunnery One of the first mutters denit with by the new Federal school at Whale Island, Portsmouth, Parliament will be Australia's trade have until recently been in command diversion policy in relation to the of destroyers carrying out patrol present Anglo-U.S. trade talks and duties off the north coast of Spain.

It is probable that the the Ottawn Agreement.

phasis laid on the need for specialis- diversion The

wasntion among junior naval officers has introduced to divert nome the been found necessary owing to the re-

theduction in the time money spent by Australla

Rpent by young countries United States to

which efflcers in preliminary training seemed likely to buy from Australia, courses. These courses have been

B.U.P.

of

tracle

of in

curtalled so that officers shall become Available for the feet at an

increased manning

earlier

date in

In order to den! with the the fleet due to reats, CE of

training

courses

AUSTRALIA LACKS WOMEN

These were originally Canberra, designed to give every executive There are 84,211 more males than officer in the Navy a thorough ground- females in Australis out of a totaling la nil the specialist subjects, so population of 6,831,303, the blennul that, in emergency, every officer report of the government statiail- would be capable of undertaking olan revealed.

| speciallat duties in a‘aronll'ship,

Observations showed that none of

tard gas. them was seriously hurt by the mus

EVEN ARSENIC FAILED In a further test a house was en- veloped for 20 minutes in dense arsenical smoke.

It was found that this smoke even- tually penetrated the room, but com- plete protection was afforded by the elvilinn type of gas masks.

Searching questions, to

discover whether Britain is ready in the event of war, are to be asked by Mr. G. M. Garro-Jones (Soc., Aberdeen N.), in the House of Commons this week.

cliffe, Walter Glynne, l'eter Dawson; Is Life a Boon?....Derek Oldham How say you, maiden, will you wed ....Arthur Hoskins, Winifred Law- son, George Baker; I've jibe and joke....George Baker; "Tis done! I am a bride....Winifred Lawson."

7.27 Albert Sandler,

Song of Paradise (R. King)... Asst. by J. Byfeld (Plano) and S. Torch (Organ); Always (K. L. Smith) Arst. by J. Bybeld (Piano) and 5. Torch (Organ); Asst. by J. Samehtini (Cello); Looking for you (H. Taylor and W. Sanderson) Olive Groves (Soprano); An old violin (II. Taylor and H. Fisher) Olive Groves (So- prano); (Jean Melville at the Piano).

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7.40 Studio Peter Randolph (Vocal) $1 TIFFINS

and Doreen Ala.

1. Never in a Million Years.... Peter Randal; 2. That Old Feeling ....Doreen Ma; 3. You Can't Run

He asked the Prime Minister. InstAway from Love To-night-(Vocal):

4, Medley (Plano Solo); 5. The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed (Vocal): Whether the form and personnel of the high command are decided. Sophisticated Lady (Piano Solo).

8 Local Time, Weather and An- upon:

nouncements.

-Freddie Bartholomew.month;

New York. TREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW, the English boy film star, in a brief courtroom scene at Holly- wood to-day, looked straight at his father, Mr. Cecil Bartholomew, of Richmond, Surrey, and wald: "I think my father is well able to take care of himself."

Judge Elliot Craig had asked Freddie If he wanted his family to share in his earnings of £19,- 000 a year.

After the boy actor had given his evidence in a shrill, piping Mas valce, the judge granted Mleent Bartholomew, Freddie's "Aunt Cly," complete charge of hla interests and affairs.

Both Mfr. and Mrs. Cecil Bar- tholomew protested' strenuously against this decision. provoking the judge to comment:—-

"The nunt seems to have done pretty well by this young man, 'She was apparently for his succERS,"

responsible

Whether plans for the exercise Nadia Programme Broadcast from and co-ordination of the high com-Z.E.K. on Frequencies of C40 Kilo- mand are specific and complete. cycles.

And Mr. Garro-Jones asked

8.05 Ravel-Bolero (By request).

the Under Secretary for Air Bolero (Ravel)....The Lamoureux whether plans are complete in Orchestra of Paris Conductor Maurice

of the event

Air Ministry com- Ravel. munications being disabled, and whether the delivery of light and heavy bombers is being speeded-up.

Gave Party

To Her Pall Bearers

Camden, NJ.

Mrs. Emma M. Albright, 62- Freddie looked palo and deter-year-old Audubon housewife, put mined when he gave evidence. on the black lace dress in which

would like my aunt to have full control of my estate" he said, he plans to be buried and acted

"My reasons are aplly illus- trated by the fact that while my

munt "had charge of my affairs once before for a year he saved £5,000, but since ollier parties have taken over it has depleted very rapidly."

The Judga smiled at the pom- pous sentences of the : thiricen- year-old boy, and asked: “Do you want your famliy to have a staro In your carninga?"

Freddie paused and, then aid: "I would like to have my sisters provided for so that they may have their • melonking??!!

Kreisler.

Fair Rosemary (Schon Rosmarin) accompanied ....(Kreisler), plano by Carl Lamson; Rondino (On a theme by Beethoven).... (Kreisler), piano accompanied by Cari Lamson; Dance of the Marionette (Winternitz) ....(Krelsler), plano accompanied by Carl Lamson.

8.30 London Relay at the Black Dog.

Mr. Wilkes at home in his own Pascoe bar-parlour presented by Thornton.

D

Vladimir Horowitz. Presto-Passionato..... (Schumann); (a) Pastourel, (b) Tocentn.... (Pou- lene); Etude XI Pour Les Arpeges Composes....(Debussy).

9.15 London Helay-"World

as hostess at a party for the six | Affairs" men and six women

has A talk by the Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm she asked to be pallbearers at her Robertson, C.C.M.a., K.B.E. funeral.

9.30 London Relay-Tho News. 0.50 Alte. Lucienne Boyer and Orchestra Raymond.

"It was not a funeral party," she

Polonaise Militaire (Chopin-Arr. sold. "It was very gay. The pall Walter): Invitation to the Waliz bearers brought me beautiful flower (Weber-Arr. Waller); Son Regard perfumo and other presents, After Parloes de Jaunblan-Musique de they had sung my favourite hymn, Michel Emer): Song of the Vagabonds we sang 'swing' music."

(Intrd, "Huguette's Wallz"), (Friml); Mrs.

Albright has been in poor Only A Rose (Intrd. "Somo: Day") (Frimi); Solitude (Laurent and health for some time,

Everybody should prepare for the Curcel) in French; Vions Danser

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Ronnie Munro and his Orchestra; Chicken Reel-Fox-Trot (Daly). Ronnie, Munro and his Orchestra; Varioty The Donkey Serenade-Fox-Trot...

Ben Frankel and lils Orchestra; If it's the last thing I do-Fox-Trot (Cahn Rumba Chaplin), Ben Frankel and his When Bomba Plays a (Grey-Berglas)....Henry Jacques; Orchestra with local Refrain. The Girl in the handsome Cab 11 Close Down. Comedy Waltz (Kennedy)....Jack Harris and his Orchestra Vocalist Elsoe Carliste; I'm a Little Prairie Flower....Jack Harris and Orches-- tra Voc. E. C.; Afraid to Dream→→→ Fox-Trot....Benny Goodman and his Orchestra (with Vocni-Refrain); Roll' Era-Fox-Trot (Mary Lou Wil Hams)....Denny Goodman and (1) Orchestra Whipers in the Derk (Robin and Hollandor)..Frazices Day: Orchestra Cond. by Ben Fran

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