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THE HONGKONG | TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

MAY

1938.

JAPAN CONTROLS BIG ORE DEPOSITS An Ideal Fabric

WEALTH TAKEN FROM CHINA

THIS WAS TWICKENHAM

By HARRY W, FRANTZ · (United Press Stag Correspondent)

Washington. CENATE investigation of "strategical materials" will arouse widespread in- ternational interest in mag- nesite, important to arma- ment-makers. Japan now controls vast reserves, in! Manchuria, and competes in the American market with Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, and Russia the steel-alloy.

Magnesite not to be con- fused with "manganese"-is a refractory material, of which the major usc is the lining of stool furnaces. Other uses are in heat-insulation equipment, ctments for wallboard and floor- ing; as a chemical accelerator in the manufacture of rubber; and as a binding ngent in chrome brick.

150 PER CENT, RISE Before the world war dead-burned magnesite sold at Pittsburgh

and

nearby sleef-making centres at about $20 per ton but during the steel activities of war time the price rose to $50.

In 1937, due to increase in open- hearth steel making the United States consumption of dead-burned magnesite for, refractory uses in- creased 5 per cent. to a new all-time

Domestic record.

production of

པ་ crude magnesite exponded early in 1037 but stumped during the business recession of luter months, to a tol for the year of 203,437 short tons. Imports Increased over 1930, despite slump in November and December.

The United States Bureau of Mines summarised the American import situation for 1937 as follows;

WORLD'S LARGEST FOLD

"The outstanding feature of the import altuation is the sudden Im- portance of Manchurian magnesite. As recently as 1924, the production of magnesite in to only 10,000 Manchuria amounted tons and most of the

rapid growth in the industry in that

has occurred alnce 1932.

TCB Manchurian

reported, are nong

largest

und the dead

is cheaply produced

deposits, It is

world's product

and of good

quality. The first shipments to the United States were

ites were made late in 1030,

imports amounting to

1,200 short

lans being recorded from Kwantung in that year, but in 1837 the total was 21,303 tons of which the official im-. port statistics

credit

3.421 tons to China and 17,774 tons to Kwantung,

"Austria continued to be the lead-

ing source

··LAST MONTH

for Ladies' & Gents' Garments

Over 70,000 were at Twickenham last month, when this aerial pleture was taken during the Calcutta Cup match in which Scotland beat England

SCIENCE

by 21 points to 16.

AIDS SOVIET

IN

FIGHT

FOR SUPREMACY IN AIR DEFENCE

Parachute Battalions Sold Beard At Are Mighty Weapon

Russia, once dependent only on

her inexhaustible

ource of imported magnesite, manpower, has turned to science to help her fight battles. though by

by a sm

small margin, furnishing 24,271 tons of the dead-burned pro- The parachute troops are the most striking military ducts last year compared with 22,497 development since the World War. There are at least

tons in 1938. Material valued at al-

most $100 a ton, probably periclase. 2,500 of them, and there may be thousands more. The to the amount of 333 tons was import-

ed from Canada, but most of the re-Soviet, forced to guard the longest frontier in Europe, maining imports of dead-burned does not encourage curiosity about her army and air

came from Czecho-Slovaldo

Lons

(8,940

and U. S. S. R. (1,103 tons) force.

the usual,

coustic

calcined

magnesite was imported chiefly from

and

Indio,

Netherlands, Greece, Yugoslavia, in the order named, and India furnished most of the insigni- ficant imports of crude in 1937." United Press,

Chinese Wanted! In Hollywood

A parachute army is the most mobile force known to military science. A favourable terrain is picked and suddenly hundreds

of planes fill the sky. Before the enemy can organize, the air

1s. an Inch

Riga (Latvia). Latvian provincial town has sold his beard by public auction,

The beard measured 38 Inches, and it fetdied 38s.. 18. an inch.

A BARBER in a

Shaving off the beard was per- formed in public, and the town band played solemn musle for the occasion.

The barber's shop is now the most popular in the district.- Renter.

H. K. NAVAL FRAUDS

Subterfuge by a paymaster-com- mander cost the Navy £5,550.

His defaleations are brought to light in the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on naval accounts.

For two years, by rigging the books" in the Hongkong depot-ship, the paymaster was able to bluff the officers, who each month verified the balances of public money in his charge.

Regulations require that bank balance must be checked by a state- ment from the bank The paymaster defeated this by getting a statement three or four days previous to the check, and then made good his de-

is crowded with men---as many as 1,200 have been dropped in Do You Believe ciencies by subsequent transturs

one manoeuvre-dangling on the end of parachutes, Wearing special clothing, the parachute trooper also carries par of a machine gun or nutomatic' rifle. Pieces of tanks also float to earth.

HOLLYWOOD has the most by the fact that she has to divide her

trans-

"Napolcons," Instead, it has con- centrated on efficient organization and a wealth of milliary brains is graduated yearly from the war schools,

Foreigners, in general, seem in- clined to overestimate the bad effect on popular morale of the frequent "purges."

In Ghosts?

Ghost-hunters aro clubbing together. Women are now ad- mitted as members of the Ghost Club, revived after being dead for 15 months.

from the bank.

This subterfuge was not detected by the 13 officers including twa captains and four accountant officers, who verified the balances. A court of enquiry found these officers "per- formed their duty ineffectively."

1500,000 "STOP GAP"

It is not only in paymaster's accounts where financial Incom- petence occurs in the Navy.

No European nation could match; the size of the army Russia can put in the field, but she is handicapped

"One of the reasons why the old forces between the far eastern and

Ghost Club petered out was the ab- cosmopolitan population of western fronts. Nothing links these

sence of women at the meetings."

A training ship for boys was re- any city of its size in the world, two fronts except the double-track

Mr. Harry Price, the chairman, said.

quired for Rosyth as a temporary There are representatives of trans-Siberian railroad, and

"Psychical research is a subject in measure while a barracks was built, which women cun take un equal Alternative-huto at cost of £150,- nearly all races and creeds, and portation stili is the weakest factor in Russin's defense system. The nearly all get their living from nation could muster 11,000,000 men

They would do well to remember share with men," sald Mrs. A. Peel 000-was considered prohibitive. that Russians for 1,008 years have Goldney, the club's new accretary. The old White Star ner Majestic, filmy.

but whether she could equip them is

phlegmatic about political The Ghost Club will discuss E.S.P. then in the hands of a shipbreaking They are registered with the uncertain, The vast distances of bren

defeated, Napoleon arrests.

latest craze lo sweep the U.S.A. It is firm, was selected, and "swop" various studio casting directors Russia, which

after he had won all the battles, also

There might be bitter feeling the name given to extra-sensory per-arranged for an equivalent tonnage

In obsolete destroyers. who can call them up at would handicap mobilization at home.

among individuals, but it

war ception.

The rise in prices of scrap metal minute's notice. But sometimes Russia has been trying to correct that

should be doclared to-morrow

was not considered, and The patriolic onlauslasm probably the demand exceeds the supply, for two years. A road has been built to Khavarovstt.

Admiralty lost on the deal. On evry news-stand there are E. and country recently

would aweep the Samuel from Vindivostok

highways eadlnut from

The contract for converting the private grievances would be for-S. P. cards, which have symbols on

them such as Goldwyn required 700 Chinese Military

a cross, a circle, a Majestic was placed at £326,407 In Moscow to Minsk and Kiev ure

gotten. for scenes in "The Adventures nearly completed.

square or wavy lines.

1030, but by July, 1037, she had rost It is claimed that scores of people £488,000-as compared with the pro- can tell, through telepathy, what the hibitive £150,000. symbols are before the cords are turned up.

18

when

of Marco Polo," starring Gary

Cooper.

PROVED METTLE IN SPAIN

and

DANCERS IN EAST Russin keeps constantly in mind Ilis casting department had only Development of the airplane is the danger of attack from the cast. 298 Chinese men and 312 women Russia's answer to her vast distances

Newspapers have published reports en la books, but they were able 19 and neutral observers are high in make up the deficiency with the their praise of the Soviet air force. of a "Maginot Line" on the border of 87 Koreans and Indo-Chinese listed it has 50,000 men and the planes Manchukuo and there is little doubt has other fortifications have been built be available for extra work. Later that have been developed are good. that thousands of pill boxes in tho pleture the casting depart- One of them, in particular, ment was asked to supply 100

1-16 which is a copy of the Italians. This was easy as there is metile in Spain-the snub- there.

American Boeing fighter. It can do are 738 iksted,

67 between 250 and 200 miles an hour Besides the 000 Chinese, Koreans and 738 Italiana, Holly and the Russian pilots in Spain wood's army of extras includes: 3 apparently have handled it well. Turica, 14 French types; 163 Russians, Thore seems to be an impression 110 Japanese; 107 Araba; Egyptians, Kurds and Armenians; 300 East In-brond that the Soviet army is an unwieldy, leaderless mass now that alans; and 17 American Indians. Morshal Tukhachevsky and seven of According to Goldwyn's casting his most brilliant subordinates have chief there are few Germans and been executed for political offenses. Englishmen regularly on call, as neither of these nationals stay in oxtra work long enough to be per- manently listed.

IN HAUNTED HOUSES

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At club meetings there will be demonstrations by mcdluma who claim psychic powers; per- formances by magicians and canfurers who maintain that the phenomena of the Seito гаст con be produced Ly trickery.

From time to time the Ghost Club will investigate houses reputed to be haunted,

DEATH FOLLOWS WEDDING

This includes £180,000 for muchl- nery, though she is shackled up to Ute dockyard, and not intended to

move.

new

In reply to inquiries, the Ad- miralty states it hopes to use the ship, now H.M.S. Caledonia, for ten years. Yet it is spending £247,000 on a barracks ashore, boys' training for which the Caledonia is only a half a

a million stop-gp, The trawler Vulcan was required a lender to the new motor- torpedo-boats, about which a scandal was raised in the House of Commons.

The intended price for purchase

To man that line of forts Ilusala keeps a Far Eastern army of bo- tween 300,000 and 400,000 on the eastern frontier. Between 800 and 1,000 planes are stationed there. To support that big military estabilaliment the Bavlet kas settled thousands of former woldiers and their families on collective farms. BAKERSFIELD, Cal. Thirty und conversion was £27,000,- But, Russia's navy is inconsequentlul minutes after J. C. Robinson, 62, and on top of the purchase price of £10,- when compared with those of other his bride had taken.

their

nuptial 060, cost of conversion was £27,000. European nations, but she has 00,000 vows till death do we part," both But, on top of the purchase price of

dead. Returning from

cost of conversion the £10,000, Bach is not the case, for the Red sailors available and apparently is were army never subscribed to the planning to build up her flenting marriage ceremony their car crashed £31,600, nearly the price of two

Into a heavy trttek, killing both. trawlors. fhicory of developing a few power.

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