1938-05-16 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, MAY 16, 1938.

RUSSIA DEVELOPS

DEVELOPS AMAZING AIR

TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

"Parachuting” Soldiers

The New Technique

(Editor's Note:-Soviet Russia, with the greatest reserve of manpower of any European nation, has built up a formidable army and air force, Norman B.. Deuel, Moscow Bureau Manager of the United Press, writes in the following dispatch. Her "parachute troops" represent the most startling development in military tactics since the World War.

United Press Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW.

FHOEVER FIGHTS SOVIET RUSSIA IN THE NEXT WAR MUST

W DEFEND HERSELF AGAINST "AN ARMY MARCHING ON

CLOUDS," THE FORMIDABLE PARACHUTE TROOPS WHO WILL DROP OUT OF THE SKIES CARRYING MACHINE GUNS, CAN. NON AND TANKS,,

Great Britain takes K for

will civilians

be granted that bombed in the next war, and be lieves retallation against enemy cities

one of the best defences for her home folk. For that rea- son the Royal Air Force, which has about 4,500 effective machines, has twice as many bombing squadrons as it has fighting squadrons.

The Home Ofce has just issued an "alt raid precaution" handbook which eventually will be used to justruct the public what to do in case of air raids. The head of each household is to consider himself "the captain of the ship" and nee that the follow- ing instructions are followed;

Prepare and equip u refuge room, Have everything ready for darkening windows, the house at night; skylights, Lan-lights and glass doors Clear the attic must be obscured. of inflammable material to lessen risk of

bombs. fire from incendiary Assemble Are-fighting equipment. In large towns send invalids, children and aged people to the country. Don't sinoke, don't light fires, don't eat food that has come in contact with gaa Pass the time reading, writing, sewing, playing cards or quiet games,

wireless the or listening to gramophone. Fit gas mosite for all members of the family there are three sizes for adults, a "baby's bag" and an intermediate size for children from two to five years of age.

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The government is studying the question of commandeering all forma for possible transportation of evacuation of large cities, but actual plans have not been perfected. Fire. fighling patrols have been organized, nearly 3,000 are pumps are being free receive built and civilians instruction in constructing bomb- proof shelters and gas-proof rooms, Subways probably will be closed during air raids because of the Dr water danger of bursting gas mains.

Great Britain could produce anly

'1s.-A-TIME DOCTOR' TREATED POOR FREE, LEFT £11,800 Dr. For twenty-five year, Thomas Merler's surgery in Ki- burn-lane. W. was full of the poor people of the district.

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He never charged a patient more than a shiling, and if they did not have shilling, then Now the money did not matter.

Dr. Meyler surgery scrupis. is dead,

His will published recently, showed that he left all his Muriel £11.860 estate to Miss

Alico Tilles, of Chevening-read, Brondesbury. N.W., where he lived. Miss Tilley is a relative of his wife, who died six years

ago.

Belgium Fears

“Deserter”

Is Nazi Spy

Belgium's military authorities are worried about the young German N.C.O. who aped at 80 miles an hour across the French border in an armoured car and told the Customs officers who arrested him that he was just a descrier.

The Belgian General Staff have good reason to believe that this "deserter" is, in fact, a bold and daring German patriot, cables Chronicle Brussels the News correspondent.

FOR PEACE in this Country For Thise in the WORLD

SELL ARMS Spanish Government

the the

Hear The PLEADING VOICE OF SPAIN Lift the EMBARGO

FOR TROOPS

Three thousand American women, representing 220,000 mem- bers of the United Committees of Spanish Women in America, Here marched to the State Department in Washington to urge that the arms embargo against the Spanish government be lifted, is the delegation who saw Assistani Secretary of State Messer- smith. Left to right: Mme. Ernestina Gonzales, serretary of the Spanish Women; Mrs. Jerry O'Connell, wife of Rep. O'Connell of Montana; Mme. Carmen Coucha do, delegate; and Rep. John T. Bernard of Minnesota.

LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI

IS GRETA GARBO'S IDEAL MAN

By ANDREW KIDD

RADIO BROADCAST

"In Town To-night" And Other London Relays

HOTEL ORCHESTRA Radle Programmo Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 345 k.c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 and 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's. per second.

H.K.T. (CB).

12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service St. John's of Intercession from Cathedral,

(Bass-Barl- 12.30 Peter Dawson tone) and B.B.C. Wireless Military Band.

The Caliph Of Bagdad-Overture (Boieldieu)....B.B.C. Wireless Mili- Inry Band conducted by H. Walton O'Donnell; Our River Thames (Hen

Heritage nessy); Young Briton's (Hennessy)....Peter B.B.C. Wire- Dawson; Silver Jubilce (R. Letts) conducted by B.

less Military Band

La (Roch

Walter O'Donnell; There's A Bridle Hanging On The Wall (Carson

Dawson; .Peter Robison)...... Tarantelle

Belphegor De Albert). .B.B.C. Wireless Military Band cond. by B. Walton O'Donnell; Vanity FairOverture (Percy E. Fletcher)....B.B.C. Wireless Military Band cond. by B. Walton O'Donnell. and 1.0

Signal Local Thine Weather Report.

1.03 Now Mayfair Orchestra and Winnie Melvlile (Soprano).

From Erik Charell's "White Horse Inn" (Stolz and Benatzky)... New Mayfair Orchestra.; Trot flere And There (Donkey Duet "Veronique"- Messager); The Swing Song "Ver- Winnie Mel- onique Messager) ....V ville with Derek Oldham.; "Out Of The Bottle" Selection (Levant, Grey and Ellis)..New Mayfair Orchestra: On ("Helen" Offenbach, Sleep

Winnie Melville; arr. Korngold), "Hide And Seck Selection (Vivian Ellis) (Lerner, Goodhart, Hoffman and Ellis)....New Mayfair Orches-

tra.

130 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

140 Cèsar Franck-Violla Plano Sonata In A Major.

und

Played by Alfred Cortot (Piano)

and Jacques Thibaud (Violin).

2.15 Close Down.

6.0 Relay of the Danes Orchestra Keng Hotel.

This is the true story of Greta Garbo's love for from the Roof Garden of the Hong Leopold Stokowski,

Leopold Stokowski, 65-year-old orchestra conductor, is Garbo's ideat man.

For her he represents "a com- bination of all the men that I have loved and admired."

"He sums up in himself the Mauritz wisdom of mature Stiller, the magnetism of John Gilbert, the virility of George

His plan, they think, was to find Brent, and the vivid personality

25 to 36 per cent of the food she out whether the famous needs in war-time, but she would line, the steel and concrete forlin-

LIS

Maginot of Reuben Mamoulian.”

London,

clrcles

the "lifebelt France," could be penetrated.

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CLOSED FRONTIER

of

week in

while

Last In the sunshine of Italy, I talked to the only man in the world who knows the secrets of their love affair. He is Clarence Brown, the film

STALIN STARTS TO SHOOT WIVES

THE wives

(a)

to

Mama, That Moon's here again; (b) I told Santa Claus bring you; (c) Bel Mir Bist Du Schoen; (d) I've hitched my Wagon to a Star.

0.14 Record-With All My Heart (Fram 'Her Master's Voice'); When April Comes Again....Jack Payne And His Band.

6.21 (a) Two dreams got together, (b) Dipsy Doodle; (e) Yours mine; (d) Bob White.

and

The

0.35 Record:-Dancing Firelight-Waltz;

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In Found A Rosary -Fox-Trot....Henry Jacques (Bri- tain's Champion Dancer of 1934-30) Danco Tempo Correct with His Orchestra; Record: Oh, Mr. Man In The Moon-Waltz....Henry Jacques of Dancer Champion (Britain's of eleven 1034-30) with His Correct Dance former high Soviet Tempo Orchestra.

0.44 (a) It's the Natural Thing; eyes; (d) (b) All you want to do is Dance; (c) the Moon got into my The girl with the dreamy cyrs.

7.0 For The Children. Uncle Peter's Nursery Sing Song Uncle Peter (Bass-Baritone); A

rely on her control of the seas to cations which are described in mill-Stokowski and Garbo were revelling bring in supplies. It is understood tary plans already have been made for Immediate rationing of food on the outbreak of war as well as country- Locat wide distribution to prevent shortages.

Young men now are in control of the British army, and it is being moblic mechanized, tumed into n fighting force. Counting reserves and territorials, the nation has about 448,000 effectives, 30,000 of whom are stationed abroad. In addition, there is a permanent establishment of India ond 55,000 British troops in Burma.

Belgian military experts, concern director, who has worked with Garbo ed over the defence of their own for 15 years and knows her better officials have been shot eastern frontier, are puzzled by such than anyone in Hollywood.

doubt Great is ittle There Britain would resort ja conscrip- tion within a week after the out- break of a major war. She pro- bably could put 1,000,000 men in and the field within six months ultimately 8,000,000.

Catching Crooks By Toothprints

OOTHPRINTS as a means of Identitying criminals are being experimented with by

Scotland Yard.

An American innovation, a method has been devised, of recording toothmarks based on the same principle as figerprints. A cast is made of the indi- vidual's mouth from which an inle-print on paper is obtained. This la recorded on a white chart with a dark backgound so that missing teeth can be recorded.

100,000

Already in America people have had records of their teeth made on one of the standardised charts.

Inels as these:

could thia 1-llow

German N.C.O, steal an armoured car from a barracks without the alarm being given at once?

2-How could he drive for 50 miles in Germany, without being detected?

3-How could he pass Lic Ger- man frontier, which, since Hitler's! purge last month, has been prac- tically closed?

SECRET PASSAGES

He explained Stokowski's fas- cination for Garbo, told how he combined the attractions of the men aho admired in the pastk "At different Garbo has been fascinated by cach of these men," he told me.

times in her life

TURNED HIM DOWN "Mauritz Stiller

coverer.

was

recently on suspicion of espionage, according to a message received in Berlin from the German Official News Agency in Riga.

The victims include:-

The wite of the vanished ex- Staff of the Red Army, dia-Chief of her

Yegorov;

The wife of Bubnov, ex-Commissar of Public Instruction: and

Mme. Resengolz, wife of the Com-i

story Read from the Studio.

"More Very Young" Songs (Poems by A. A. Milne-Music by H. Fraser- Simon) Spring Morning; The End; Nursery Chairs; Waiting at the Win- Teddy Bears' Picnic ---- dow....George Baker are

Bratton); Novelty Kennedy Hush Hush Hush, Here Comes The

and

Dance Orchestra directed by Henry Hall with vocal chorus.

7.30 Closing local Stock Quota- tions.

7.32 Variety.

"Then there was John Gilbert. I Mme. Budenny, whose husband Bogey Man ("Variety" Novelty directed them together in 'Flesh and was formerly Inspector of Cavalry Lowton and Benson)....The B.B.C. The self-confessed deserter ap- the Devil,

"Gilbert fell madly in love with in the Red Army; pears to have known secret passages between the net of barbed wire and Garbo. And it seemed at first that vertical steel posts which cover the she was attracted to him.

"Gilbert wanted to marry her... "No Man's Land" between the front- ler line and the Maginot wall, for but she turned him down. And they missar for Foreign Trade, who was he was compelled to use them to drifted apart...

"Later, Garbo was Interested in shot after the recent purgo was one break through the line itself.

sheviks-I.N.S. Officers of the Belgian General George Brent and Reuben Memou-of the twenty-one Old Guard Bol- Staff have been discussing the mat- liun, the French director. ter and they agree on the theory that this German N.C.O is not a deserter.

TWO FEW BRITISH MEN

London. There is a great short-

"Now they say that sho is going to marry Stokowak). I think that Stokowsk represents her ideal man. He has all the qualifica that the other men in her life have bail.

"There is one thing that all these

age of husbands in Great Britain, men have had in 'common... they The Registrar-General's latest re- have all been older than 'Garbo," port shows that although record numbers of couples are getting married, there are 1,045,000 women In England and Wales who will go through life without mater because there are not enough men around.

to

Co

FITNESS!

xinstla a OVCI,

Vocal-1 Still Love To Kiss You Second (From 'Fifty Goodnight Carlisle; Orchestra and Piano.-Have Street'); Little Old Lady....Elsle You Got Any Castles, Baby? (From Varsity Show); I Double Dare You Carroll Gibbons (Piano) and His Boy Friends; Orchestra-The Grund Duchess-Galop (Offenbach); Tritsch, Grandmother Sprinter at 61 Tralsch-Polka (J. Strauss)...... Orchestra Raymonde cond. by G. Waiter; Vocal Jack Hyllon Throws leading woman sprinter before! A Party; Guests: Tommy Handley, the war, Mrs. Flora Drennan, Hilda Mundy, Billy Caryl, Peggy of Pennant illis, near Sydney, and Dell, Tom Webster, Jack Barty, now 81 years old, is wi31 an active Nelson Keys, Freddie Fox, The participant in athletics and an enthu- Swingtette and Jack Hylton's Boys.

8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather £300 Ransom Asked

Less than three years ago, Mrs. Forecast und Announcements.

8.03 Songs by John McCormack For Boy

Drennan, who is a grandmother, won Sydney. a woman's scratch race of 75 yards, (Tenor).

Love's Secret (Blake-Bantock); Police ofBeers here are puzzled by in which she defeated her morried what is described as Australia's first daughter. She claims to be the arst Gathering Clouds (Arr. Bain): woman to run in spliced shoes, at any Candle Light (Cadman-Lee Ship- Sacred Lullaby. *Old TEA REDUCES ENNONS

case of kidnapping.

After three-years-old Phillip Pow-rate in Australla. She has won 81 pey); CORVALLIS, Ore-Every after-

8.15

London Relay_'Cricket"—— noon at 4 o'clock workers in the les lud been abducted from his trophies and nine gold medals, says (Corner, arr, Liddle). registrar's office at Oregon State falber's car in a Sydney suburb, a Austral News. In 1008, she won the

A commentary during the second and 160 yards, and in 1014 her last College slip into a back room for a mystory voice on the talephone de- New South Wales title for 75, 100 ML.C.C. v. The Australians.

day's play by P. G. H. Fender from ex-manded. 2800 ransom. cup of tea and cookies. It was

the The voice declared that no horm Australian championship medal,

Lord's Cricket Ground, London,

6.30 London Relay--Enalro Ex- Rich and eccentric furs helped ehle plained that the ten increases

change'. Parisiennes to brave the north-efficiency during the last hour when would come to the child if the ran-

som was paid-Exchange.

Points of view by travellers from easterly winds which swept the most mistakes are made.

Full-

the Dominions and Colonies. Autoull racecourse to-day.

8.45 A French Progratzm0- length fur coats of silver fox, for

(Orchestral and Vocal). which at least two dozen pells must

When always traffic officials noted. Les Saltimbanques Ouverture have been used, looked luxurious but theatrical

two odd names on a passenger list (Louis Ganne)...Orchestre Sym- for a flight to Havana, they question phonique Du Lutetia Wagram sous ed the men with the peculiar names is direction de Fernand Hourlour; Clifford W. Ham of Chicago and La Fille Aux Matelots (From "Bola') Roland Egger of Charlottesville, Var Tu No Sals Pas Almer, Waltz (From The conversation developed that the Sola')..Daming with Orchestra men were business partners Ham cond. by Pierre Chamenu burs and Egger.

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The hats were as interesting as they were varied. Bomo of Chinese In- spiration were flat and looked some- uning like the top part of a Chinese #lantern. These were invariably with veils tied in a knot at. with the edge softening the

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