1938-04-19 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1938.

SIX NEW LINERS FOR H. K. SERVICE WHITE HATS

International Rivalry For Blue Riband of Europe-Orient Route

P.&O.'s CANTON DUE

IN HONGKONG EARLY NOVEMBER

AS two large new passenger liners for the Europe --Asia service near completion, plans are being completed on drawing boards for four other luxury liners for the same service.

First of the new ships to reach Hongkong will be the P. & O. Line's 15,500-tons Canton, which is expected to leave Southampton on her maiden voyage on Oct. 7 and reach Hongkong about Nov. 10. She replaces the 24- year-old Kaisar-1-Hind, recently withdrawn for break- ing up.

The Canton will be followed half way through next year by a 21,000——tons luxury liner being built in Holland for the Nederland Line. The new Nederland ship at pre- sent is known as "No. 270."

Ships still on the drawing board, but on which work should start shortly, are a 16,500-tons vessel for the Lloyd Triestino Line and three vessels of the same tonnage for the Nippon Yusen Knisha Line.

EMPIRE NEWS

INDIAN CONGRESS

DECISION

Humbay.

The Working Committee of the Indian National Congress, which is now holding its 51st session at Hari- pura, near here, has decided not to call on the ministries of Madras, Burnbay, Orissa, Central Provinces,: and the North-West Frontier pro- vince to resign.

These five provinces, together with Hilar and the United Pravinces, constitute the seven

ALTHOUGH she is nearly

rendy for service particu

lars of the new P, and O. ship

SPANISH CIVIL WAR "VETERANS”

HONOUR

AN AMERICAN STATESMAN

have not been announced. IL CIVIL WAR VETERANS in the Spanish Loyalist Army marching by the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to

is understood she is a sister: ship, with various modifica- tions and improvements, of thei Carthage and other P. & 0. "C" liners.

The Canton probably will have considerably more deck space than the other "C" ships and its likely that her interior furnishing willi approach in some degree the standard of luxury of the P. & D. Line's fine "Struth"

ships, operating ON the England-Australia service.

hoasar the gerat entancipator.

Save

Lord Dawson Tries To Mothers From The Black Cap

LORD DAWSON OF PENN, Tamous Royal doctor, fought in the House of Lords recently to save tragic mothers in Britain from the Black

The ships provided by P. and 0. for Australians are of a vastly higher Cap.

standard then those on the Far East- ern route.

The new Nederland Line ship will in which the be built on the lines of the comfort- Congress Party holds oflee. The able and popular Marnix van Sint Bihar and Unlied Provinces minis-Aldegonde and Johan van Olden- tries resigned lust Tuesday, following barnevelt, although her length will the refusal of the Governor of Bibar. 30 feet, 29 feet longer than the

Marnix. Sir Maurice Hallett, acting on in- structions from the Viceroy, the Mur- quess of Linlithgow, in his capacity Governor-General, to sanetion the

20 political prisoners. release of

The present Working Committee resolution states that "Congress does not wish to precipitate a crisis which may involve non-co-operation, Italy

as

DUTCH SIP'S 21 KNOTS

Her service speed of 21 knots) will enable her to equal the Lloyd Triesting time of 15 days for the Singapore-Genoa run.

The Entfish and Dutch lines are thre

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invites the Governor-General to re-img withou 0 twin and consider his decision,

The political situation is consider- ably easier. An important factor in the

to barve. improvement appears

been the vigorous protests at Con- gress Party headquarters by various provincial Congress governments, and Madras particginely Boitabny against

proposals that they be called on for sympathetic "strikes."

The protagonists of the working committee have found themselves m some difficulty, and it is not surpris-

ing that they have concentrated on

.....

The largest ship by the Europe- Singapore, uno.n The 24.110-tom Crate Bisnesmo. nwned heavily -allisiin sel

Trie Lines,

winxarous

În ile run the 135,000-tans, Victoria,

also is a Lloyd Triestino

Both these vessels are run at 3 linois,

This an int panel fal fingerin

Altam

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the lead given thein by the Press inovalg- minded dan niet attack on the Viceroy, the Marquesa! and Pressb Governments

of Linlithgow, by the Marquess of i tively.

Lothian

Lurd Lothian, who recently stayed with Mr. Gandhi, went a long way

in showing his syropathy with Con- Dviews during his recent visit to India. He openly shared their' criticisms of the new constitution.

Mr. Hose's Address.The opening

of the Congres session bust night

U. S. Woman Aiding China

was an impressive affair. There was Communist Writer Playing

about number

3 crowd estimated to nur

200,000. Determined opposition

Federation formed the keymute of

Conspicuous Part.

Hanit.ow.

tempor as

Mr. Subhas Buse's presidential In the cosmopolitan atmosqinczny. address. He emphasised the neces-kow, the Chinese sity of resisting Federation by all capital which has seen foreign av.. legitimate and peaceful--not nierely tors, diplomats and scientists, constitutional-means.

foreigner has played a conspicuo.! "The opening of the Congress part in aiding China in resit The session last night was an impressive Japanese Invaders. affair. There was a crowd esti- She is Miss Agnes Smedley. Am-¡ mated

to number about 200,000. | crican Woman Communist writer, Determined opposition to Federation who spent considerable time

with! formed the keynote of Mr. Buse's the Eighth Route Army in North presidential address. He emphasised China.

the necessity of resisting

and

Federation

Now in Hankow, Miss Smedley

by All legitimate peaceful-not keeps busy daily collecting clothes, merely constitutional-means. shues, goggles, stockings and other

The British Empire, he sald, must equipment which is subsequently transform itself into a federation of shipped to Shansi province £0 be free nations, and this would only used by Chinese guerilla warriors.

be possible if Britnin became Socialist State. -

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She spends much time in propa-)

gunda work, addressing dozens of

Prisoners Released-The Madras iiterary and patriotic meetings which! Government has released 67 prisoners from Salem pelson.—Exchange,

Canada

SOCIAL CREDIT RIFT

Toronto.

are now very numerous.

PRINCESSES GROW TALLER-Showing strong resemblance to the Windsor family features, here are Britain's princesses, Prin- cess Elizabeth, right, and Princess Mamtaret Rose. In the process of reaching childhood's stringy stage. Elizabeth is nearly 12 and Margaret Rose is 7. They are shown as they arrived at Royal Auricultural Hall, London, to visit the national pony show.

He wants to ensure that # woman who, while still suffer- ing from the effects of child- birth, kills her child under the: age of one

shull not witness the drcad spectacle of the judge putting on the Black Cap and sentencing her to death.

Existing Bow to this effect operates, sald Lord Dawson, in the tase of a "newly-bom" child, but he ,explained that there is no definition (either legal or medical) of what that means, although the accepted custom is to regard a newly-born as under a month old.

He was moving the second reading of a Bill to amend the we, and by I told a grim story of a case in whiris The was called as an expert witness,

"A GOOD MOTHER"

A woman, he said, had given birth to her second child. In circum tuners she won th wa kuppily married and won fawred mindher

When the child was the blad old the nurse appeared one metal put it to the berast and left die from. She came back in abow ten manng at and that both the meditRA! tire caby had disappered.

There was a hunt. The infant and i the andher were found with thraas injur sa

vontan was put up at the Okd for infantivide. It was askerl de the chlid was newly-born. ab nee of definition

W: 1.4

Lied for nurder.

at whin the Judge summed up. mai bend in woon, he expeased the

one amemtiment of the take place, and suggested (to the jury that if they thought the

woman

not responsible they.

| stimuld bring in a verdict saying that ¦ she did the net, but that owing to Illness, she was not responsible and |ɛo was not quilty..

HIS ARGUMENT

So she was found gully without the necessity of sentencing her to

RAISED 20 CHILDREN ON death.

Although she was wearing a Chi-) W

nese military uniform when she ar rived in Hankow several weeks ago,;

It is rumoured in Edmonton that however.

CHEESE AND CIDER

Weston-Super-Mare.

THEN Mrs. Bert Fisher, of Myrtle Farm, in the Somerset village of Brent Knoll, presented her

she now wears western dress, includ-husband with their fifth child, he named the baby boy Ing American silk stockings. She still wears her heavy army shoes. Thomas Lot," says a correspondent.

"That's the lot," said Bert Fisher.. But he was wrong. Thomas Lot was born 25 years ago and to-day he's got 18 brothers and sisters.

a further break in the ranks of Social In spare moments she is prepar- Credit appears to be imminent. Re-ing a book about the Chinese "Red ports are current that Mr. Aberhart, Army."

the Premier of Alberto, will ask for

the resignation of two members of

Mr. and Mrs. Fisher claim to have the biggest family in the

His governing argument was that when illness is the cause of the offence the law should go farther than it does now and that, so far as is compatible with the administra- tion of justice the machinery of crime should be avoided.

Ile attacked the familiar verdict of

"Guilty but insane" as being "fundi- mentally unsound." Surely he said, it should be "Insane and therefore not guilty."

Lord Snell gave general support to the Bill, but intimated that Labour would put down amendments affect. Ing the treatment of women on re- mand.

The Bill Was given a second

hie Cabinet-Mr. W. A. Fallow, weeks' truce is declared, during country. Mr. Fisher took me to his antique oak bureau and reading. Minister of Public Works, and Mr. which drivers receive on advance of produced a sheaf of papers. They were birth certificates. D. B. Mullan, Minister of Agricul-¡7d, an hour, and the price of coni

ture

ture:

1s advanced 151. a ton. Mr. Abochart is said to be dis- A Gold "Strike.”....

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antisfied with the administration of new gold "strlin" lieporta

"Inve to look 'em up sometimes of a to remember all their names," he at Seballos, situated connded. "Twenty children we've the road funds and the failure of in an isolated part of Vancouver had and 10 are living.

to-day drew prospectors by The ore, was first discovered scores.

the

the Ministry of Agriculture remedy Island,

to

"I'm only 65 and the wito's 50, situation following the drought Bleiko Settled.The strike of 1,500 by a Asherman, and more than 1,000 and we've lived in this farm since coul-handièra which was called on claims have been staked and. Ave the day we were married in 1905. Friday, and which yesterday threa- mines opened. The

Victor, our eldest, was born in 1908 population, tened to spread to milk, bread, and which less than a year ago consisted department store delivery men, wis of u fów, fishermen, la now more amicably. settled to-day, A fivel than 600,-

in Men. Fisher....."I always one in my Momis...

had grand stuff for bringing up a family. The farm hos produced everything to feed them, and-" he stretched "But for the whole 20 years I went out his arms and showed his work- on making the cheese for market. hardened palms-"this pair of hands I'm

the has earned everything to keep them. thankful to say that all

Never children have been healthy.

"The family is still growing. We had the doctor to one of them.

have ten grandchildren already.". CHEESE AND CIDER

He Bicked over the plie of birth murmured. Mr. Fisher, certificates, "Must be the largest

cheese and cider are family, don't you think?"

to "And after that I had a baby

every year for 20 years,” chipped "Somerset

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