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THE HONGKONG

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1938,

Britain Prepares Planes For Record

SINGAPORE MAY BE ONLY

STOP ON FLIGHT TO

AUSTRALIA ·

GIVEN suitable conditions, the acroplanes, which are to attempt to regain the world's long distance record for Britain, should easily reach Singapore from. England after a journey of about 50 hours, going by way of the "Imperial" route of 7,300 miles. A second non-stop stage of approximately 4,500 miles, would bring the aircraft to Sydney, says the United Services Review.

EMPIRE NEWS

BRITISH MIGRANTS FROM AUSTRALIA

Sydney.

The callcers and airmen pilots chosen for the experiments are al- ready practised in lying the Welles- ley. which

of the armament several Service squadrons, Powered with a

Dristal Pegasus two-speed supercharger engine, the Wellesley reaches maximum level speed of 228 m.ph, and has a range, with bomb- lout, at typ to 2,270 miles. The three "long-range" craft had been stripped of armament and filled with extra fuel tanks.

of

the

The attempt on the record will involve loading them four or five The Federal Government is con- thousand pounds beyond their nor

mal maximum service weight cerned at the latest population figures. 12,500 lb. This "overland"

condi These show that despite the prevail-tion and the need to take off along ing prosperity, emigration of persons a prescribed fight path, as delimited of British origin in the nine months by the runway at Cranwell, calls ended December 31 exceeded British for intensive practice and further Immigration by 4,142.

training. Take-off speed with big load will be augmented to about There had been a net loss of 25,000 90 m.p.h., which should be nearly persons of British blood in the pre-reached by the time the aircraft vious seven years, and the Cabinet reach the end of the macadamized

section of the runway. sub-committee dealing with the mat- ter proposes not to walt for the co- operation of the State Governments in the encouragement of British Immigration.

The following types are required: Boys for form schools; domestics; persons nominated by residents who

Federal Governments.

TRAINING BEGUN

Eight commisaloned and four non- commissioned officers of the Royal Air Force have begun training for the long experimental fights

FACES GUN, DOESN'T FLINCH-Grasping his trustyum- brella, here is the Hon. L. Hlore-Bellshn, Minister for War, as ho looks unflinchingly down the bore of a huge new gun in process ut the Woolwich Arsenal in England. Great Britain is bringing her defence armament up to the minute with all speed possible.

Queen Mary To Honour Marie Tempest

RADIO

A firm

stance is

BROADCAST assured by

wearing

Talk by Colonel Irwin On- The "Black-Out"

ITEMS FROM THE STUDIO

Broadcast by

Radlo Programme ZBW on Frequencies of 840 k.c's.; 9.52

m.c's. per second,

Jolin's

1.20-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. Cathedral.

12.30 Songs by Tino Rossi (Tenor). Un Violon Dans La Nuli (Bisio, Varna, Marc-Cab); La Serenade A Lena (Scotto, Varna, Marc-Cab); O Corse Ile D'Amour (Koger-Scolio),

12.40 Orchestre Raymonde.

Delibes In Vienna (arr. Walter); Only A Rose (from The Vagabond. King'); Song Of The Vagabonds (from. The Vagabond King'); The Dancing Clock (Ewing); Poupeo Val- sunte (Poldini),

1.0 Time and Weather.

1.03 Lalo-Symphonie Espagnolo For Violin And Orchestra, Op. 21.

Huberman. Played by Bronislaw (Violin) and the Vienna Philhar- manic Orchestra conducted by Georg Szeli.

1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press; Wea- ther and Announcernents.

1.40 Sea Shanticn

Sung by the Portsmouth Royal Noval Singers conducted by C. T. Lee, D.S.C., R.N.

1.50 Webster, Booth (Tenor) and

UEEN MARY is to be present at the Haymarket Faces Day (Soprano). townrd Qu Australia which will be made within Theatre on Wednesday, when Dame Marie Tempest the next few months by n formation of specially-equipped "geodetic" will appear in the first night of the play. "Mary Goes To bombers,

HE KNOWS

are prepared to guarantee them jobs; | The newly-formed long-range de- Sec." and certain skilled workers granted velopment. Alght is assembled for

This is one of the greatest honours asslated passages, the cost of which preliminary training at Upper Hey ever paid to an actor or actress in will be shared by the British and the ford, Oxfordshire, under the com-

modern times. mand of Wing-Com. O. R. Gayford, Mr. Alec Rea, who is presenting Stock Exchange Prices-The Aus- who made the world record fight of the play, which is by Rosemary

5,300 miles from England to South- tralian Stock Exchange after the holidays with a good tone

pool tone West Africa in 1933, Soon.it will Casey and B. Iden Payne, and Mr.

Stuart Watson of the Haymarket HE WILL move to Cranwell, Lincolnshire, and a small turnover. Contrary to which will be Its main training baso).Theatre, are handing over the whole

of the British-Australian Wool Real-

pation Association, and his will states

It will be recalled that King George V and Queen Mary attended the Marie Tempest Jubilée matinee

DIE SOON.

Akron, Ohio, Feb. 15. Thomas Lloyd, his body so

at Drury Lane Theatre, on May 28, frail that a sudden turn 1935. On that occasion they re-

A MODERN COMEDY-

market, which I look

Gullan.

fracture, said he

clan.

would

'Home And Beauty' (C. B. Coch- ran's Coronation Revue)....Webster Booth with Magda Neeld and Janet Lind; Stay With Me For Ever ('Gluditta-Lehar); Vienna; City Of Webster My Dreams (Sieczynski). Booth; Me And My Dog (film 'Publie Nuisance No. 1'--Ellis): Swing (film Publie Nulsance No. 1-Ellis)........ Frances Day.

2.15 Close down.

0.0-7.0 Chinese Programme.

7,0 Dance Music. Fox-Tro-Toodie-00,

Throwing

Peanuts To The Moon....Brian Law- rance & His Lansdowne Orchestra; Tangos-Fireflowers; Moonlight On The Rio Grande....Heinz Huppertz & His Orchestra; Fox-Trots-Cora- van; I'm Feelin' Like a Million (Alm

Broadway Melody of 1938')....

..Nat Gonella & His Georgians; Waltz-If You Only Know (from 'Crest of the Wave'); Quick-stop-Why Isn't It You? (from 'Crest of the Wave').... Henry Jacques and His Correct Dance Tempo Orchestra: Fox-Trot So Rare ....Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

tions.

7.25 Closing local Stock Quota-

7.30 London Relay. Food. for Thought'.

of Three short talks on matters toplent interest.

750 Studio Colonel Irwin, 0.25,

G.S.D, 1; a talk on 'Black Out, 8.0 Time, Weather and Announce- ments.

8.03 Studio-Recital by Elvie Yuen (Boprano) with The Very Bev Father Rigant at the Plano,

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expectations prices did not yield to and is the probable starting-point of such charities as Her Majesty may proceeds of the Arst performance to overseas weakness and easier wool the long flights, one of which may select. The seats will be at ordinary prices. Base metal stocks were ́de-

sot up a new record for distance West End prices. initely weaker despite the announced! increase of from 5, to 20s, per ton inflown non-stop from point to point.

RUNWAY IMPROVED local steel prices.

Improvements are being made to Bank Clearances.-There was a re-the take-off runway at Cranwell, markable reflection of prosperity in which is one of the largest acro- the Sydney Bank clearances. The dromes in this country. It has celved Dame Marie and recalled might cause a multiple boue Agures for 1937 were £100,500,000 grass runway 3,000 yards long, of some of the plays in which they had above these for 1936, which were the which the Best 250 yards in macada-seen her act. highest since 1920. Other States be-mised. This treated portion of the sides New South Wales also show in-run is now being extended to nearly

When Dame Marie gave the"fight it out" when his creases in bank clearances. Unem- one

one mile in length, at the end of ployment now stands at a record low which the long-range aircraft, even, Daily Telegraph the news she sald figure.

she was overwhelmed with pleasure Physician told him that a when carrying an overload of fuel, at the great honour that Queen Mary rare bone disease would take Infanille Paralysis-A Royal Com-should be largely airborne.

was paying her. "It Is delightful The world record, credited at that it should occur at the Hay- his life within three years. mission of five doctorn appointed by the Queensland Government to in-present to the Soviet Union for vestigate the method of treating-in-fight of 6,300 miles from Moscow-to spiritant-home-she said my “I'm-too-young-to die, 1-can't famille paralysis evolved by Sister California, may be surpassed in the

"Mary Goes to See" is a modern give up. ' fight this to the Elizabeth Kenny's method was tried course of a flight to Australia with comedy. After a prologue in Eng-end," Lloyd, 35-year-old father by the L.G.C. in July, and she was one Intermediate halt, which may be land, the scene is an old country invited in December to visit Victoria, made at Singapore, er possibly at house in Connecticut.

of three sons, told Dr. G. M. Ste- where there are now over 1,400 coses. Calro. Carrying two pilots, emer- Dame Marle plays Mary, who venson, who said there was no -Exchange.

Kency rations and drinking water, goes an a visit to her brother, mar-known cure for the bone-rotting und permissible overload of fuel, the Fied to an American woman.

1. Son Pochl Flori ('L'Amico Dame Enid Lyons, wife of the Vickers Wellesley "goodkic" bom- important parts in the play are be-

Other disease from which he suffers.

Fritz-Mascagni); 2. On Wings of Federal Prime Minister, has been left

Gladys £2,500 by Sir John Higgins, who, three of which make up the ing token by Barry Jones.

Lloyd, an electrician in a large Song (Mendelssohn); 3. The L HEAR AND SEE THE SEVEN NEW WONDERS

Flower (Schumann) died at Melbourne in October. From equipment of the flight, may fly up Hanson, Mary Hinton and Campbell rubber plant was stricken eight

.Elvie Yuen; 1021 to 1920 Sir John was chairman to 0,000 miles non-stop in still air.

weeks ago while he and his family Blumenstuck, Op. 10 (Schumann) attended a performance by a mogl-Father Riganti; 6. In quelle trine morbide (Manon Lescaul-Puccial); 0. Ebben? Ne andro lontana (La By strange coincidence, the first WallyCatalani)....Elle Yuen. symptom followed by only a few 8.25 Russian Programme

with IN 1837 they were dreams -- To-day Mullard have discovered the minutes an act in which the magi-Ruih Litvin (Plano) from the Studio. seven wonders of the radio world and brought them to you for the clan looked with an x-ray apparatus. Doubinushka (arr. Rimsky-Korsa- first time on a new range of 1038 Mullard Explorers. through a woman's body, explaining kov); Polovtsi March ('Prince Igor'-

Borodin)....London Symphony Or-simplicity of these instruments built specially for Overscan listeners. the different bones.

Each of these wonders adds something to the clarity, selectivity and As the family group left the show chestra cond. by Albert Coates; Song You've never heard Daventry or Buenos Aires to clearly before. The

of Prince suddenly (Lloyd

stopped. "That H Gallitoky (Prince Igor Borodin): In The

zeven wonders of the radio world give you stablo, unbelievably quiet The Town Of Kasun show must be affecting me," he prod

reception. We believe that the 1938 Mullard Empire Explorers are a said. "My right foot goes sideways Theodore Challapine (Bass); The

(Boris Godounov-Moussorgsky)... forecast of what all receivers may be like in years to come. Complete Instead of straight."

range of new models due March 1st, Lark

(Glinka-Balakireff); Serenade (Borodine); Doumka-Russian rustic scene (Tchaikovsky), Ruth Litvin from the Studio; Islamey-Oriental Fantasy (Balakireff, arr. Casella).... Several days later, his right eye New Symphony Orchestra conducted did not focus properly. Then his by Eugene Goossens; Musical Box right hand and arm refused to obey (Liado): Polichinelle (Rachmani- He tried to raise his hand to his mouth, but he could get only as far off)....Ruth Litvin from the Studio. Prince Улог (Borodin)Pensant's As the shoulder.

Chorus: Russian Cheruble Hymn Dr. Stevenson told Lloyd that lie (Vorotnikoff), Sorokin Russian had contracted the rarest of bone Choir; Four Russian Folk Dances diseases-multiple myelomataan (Lindow); 1. Religious Chant; 2. afiction which slowly destroys the Christmas Carol; 3. Plaintive Melody: marrow of the bone, leaving the 4. Humorous Song--The Buzzing and outer shell to grow soft and finally Biting of the Goat.........Leopold Stokowaki and the Philadelphia Or- homeless but the was not pen- "There is no

the

father. "The less. She had a fortune of £612, told

0.30 London Belay-Tho News disense acls like a cancer. A cure 0.50 Beethoven-Concerto In D for cancer probably would result in Major, Op. 61. a cure for it, however,"

that the bequest is made in appte-;

ciation of Mr. Lyons's "eminent ser- vice to Australia.”—Reuter.

INDIA

UNITED PROVINCES

Wife Refuses To Name Source Of £2,000-A-Year

PROHIBITION IN THE BLONDE Mrs. J. W. Cochrane half-lifted the veil which hung from her fashionable black hat and rapped out at the London Bankruptcy Court:

Calcutta, Warned by the prohibition dim- culties of Mudras, such as smuggling and loss of revenue, the United Pro- vinces Government is approuching

She was answering her husband who, while undergoing the problem wartly. At the outset there will be State control only, in-public examination in bankruptcy, had asked her to disclose the toxicants being sold in scaled bottles, name of a person from whom she had been receiving an income by Government agents. Total prohl- of about £2,000 a year. bition was introduced in the Salem district of Madras Inst July,

"I am honour bound. I flatly refuse to give you or anyone else the information."

For an hour and a half her huse band had been questioned about the

Cyclone Loss of Life. A com-source of this income by Mr. C. T. munique, announcing røllef measures Newman (Assistant Omcial Re- following the cyclone which struck |celver). Bengal on October 15, states that 30 lives were lost.

SOUTH AFRICA

PETROL FOR CASH ONLY

Capetown.

He repeated time and again that he did not know, although for some 10 years his wife had supported him owing to his ill health and in- ability to work,

Homeless

· Woman Left £612,470

'

He walked ahead so his wife could watch. He could not seem to make the foot go straight,

MISS Winifred de La Chere was to dissolve altogether.

"It was my wife's personal, In- he said. timato private affair," "Nellher myself nor my wife 470. would involve an Innocent party. You are treading on very danger ous ground, sir.

The number of new motor-cars -llcensed in South Africa during October-the last month for which figures are available--averaged 140 a "I am only repeating a warning day.

given by Mrs. Cochrane that an Pietersburg motor traders have de-nocent party might be involved- very elded in future to sell petrol for cach perhaps n whole family in only. This practice In Ilkely to Algir

position."

he was asked by Mr. D.

When

bew the physician chestra.

When she died, nged eighty-seven, on Boxing Day she had been without

Played by Fritz Kreisler (Violin) If the discuse went to its ultimate and The London Philharmonic Or- a home for years, had lived in one hotel after another, in the South of conclusion, according to Dr. Steven-chestra conducted by John Barbirolli. France, In Paris, in London. Finally, son, the bones literally would vanishi 10.35 SURE by Herbert Janssen the Hans Crescent Hotel, Knights from the lady.

(Baritone). bridge.

"But," he added, "the victims don't

Widmung 'Du Meine Secle' Until 2013 she had neled an hos-tast that long."-United Press.

The Lotus Flower (Heine-Schumann); All Soula tess in the Carlton Gardens mansion of her uncle, the late Lord Llandaff,

Day: Op. 10, No. (van Glim-R. Strauss)....Plano accomp. by Gerald Moote.

spread, for, with a proft limited to 2d, a gallon, traders are finding it un-Karnell (on behalf of the trustee) who, ru: Henry Matthewn was Home economical to sell petrol on credit. about his wife's income, Mr. Co-Secretary, in the 'eighties.

said she used to leave the Unexpected Snow-After a hote New Year week-end, the weather has house at intervals to see the rela

chrane

Live.

turned wintry. Snow has fallen in the. Hex River mountains-on un-

Did she say where she was going? heard of occurrence at this time of Had she a nicknamo for this rela- tive7-Sometimes she said she was toinit to see Santa Claus to get 'some money.

the year.

STADIUM TO BEAT 495.000

Berlin..

(Ruckert-Schumann);

Where Fat Men Fail. When he died the bulls of his

10.45 Military Band Music, £100,000 fortune went to her--and "The trouble with many a fal man Marche Lorraine (Gunno): Bel- she said goodbye to household wor- Als dally doesn't" says a comic phegor, Quick March (repsant); ries for good, says the Daily Ex-aper. Undoubtedly the daily dozen Marching WI Sousa....Regimental press. Her fortune piled up; her help to keep down fat, but it bothers Band of II. M. Grenadier Guards quiet hotel fe meant that the nany people to do them. To all cond. by Capt. George Miller.

uch. Pinkettes are a blessing. An could not spend it: had no desire to

11:00 London Relay America do so.

gently na nature they establish regu- Speaks'-- She bequeathed it away Instead, larity of the dally inbit so essential A series of talks broadcast from To her aleter. Mrs. Allee Homyold, if you are to feel it, fresh and cheery U.S.A. to the British Empire.

The intention of the talks is to of Egerton-crescent, Kensington, W., to meet the day. Ito agreed that his wife was rather the left an annuity of £1,800; to her Are you liverish or billous, are you live in broad outline plcture of Within five years Germany profecretive regarding her affairs. The nephew. Mr. Henry Hornyold-Strick-endachy datulent,

constipated, the developing problems of America ably will have the fargeal stadium in income stopped fast year, and his innd.. High Sherife of Westmorland. lum? Pinkettes are the friend you and of the solutions to them which the world, with a capacity of 405,000 wife, explained the "drying up" by sums fatsiline F.100.000 on trust.. need. They purify bad breath, clear are being tried and proposed, prople. It will be the Deutsches anying there had been heavy losses

strply akin, relieve plies, restore to Well-known Agures in the publie Gladium at Nuremberg, for which on the Stock Exchange and Wallber with liabilities of £12,200 ngminst the faundiced age the clear bright life of the United States are being STINer- bid this cornerstone – during Street,

Resets of £3,503, 1015 wxaminationes afhonlih. Zinkastes - is, the invited to lako part, 1120 Clone down, the recent Nazi conforenen,

Mr. Cochrane failed Inst. Novens, was adjoined, until March 2. nams From chantsleverywhere,

Is that the only name you know him by? I cannot remember any other except "Our Friend."

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