1938-05-18 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18,

Hitler Counts on 3,000,000 Germans TO SUPPORT NAZI EXPANSION

Vital Interest In The Affairs Of Czecho-Slovakia

PRAGUE.

NE REASON WHY HITLER INSISTS THE REICH HAS A VITAL

ARE 3,231,688 : GERMANS LIVING IN THIS LAND-LOCKED, 10-YEAR-OLD REPUBLIC, HITLER HOPES, TOO, THAT THIS GERMAN POPULATION WILL SERVE HIM AS “LEVERAGE" IN GERMANY'S EXPANSION IN CENTRAL EUROPE,

This minority group, the largest of German origin outalde Ger- many, is the second largest racial unit in Czecho-Slovakin. Only-the Czechs, numbering 9,756,604, are total population is 14,729,636.

more numerou9.

HAPPINESS IS

ELUSIVE

APPINESS is

HCHE

An clusive 03 Mrs. Maud Gascon, of Long Lac, Ontario, has discovered.

Fifteen years ago' she went to the mining country of Ontario her two children to set up busi- ners as a shopkeeper. She had.

£30 then,

To-day she atens and operates a luxury hotel and several mi- ing claims,

"I have done well and made about £20,000,” she says.

"But I

was happier fifteen years ago when I was cooking menis for railway construction workers."

The country's U.S. Impatient

Germans in Czechoslovakia are generally spoken of an the For Air Mail

Sudeten Germans because the majority of them live in the shadow of the Sudeten Mountain range between Germany and

Bohemia.

Bohemia is the largest province in Czechoslovakia Over Atlantic

Smaller German groups live in the provinces of Moravia and Slovakia.

The republic was carved out of the old Austro-Hungarian Em- pire, of which it was the north- west portion, after the World War. Ever since, the German minority has been a political sore apot. The Germans complain they are the victims of police persecution and of political, cultural and economic discri- mination.

The Sudeten region along the agrthwestern and northeastern frontiers of Bohemia is preponder- untly industrial. The chief industries Are ignite mining centred al Aussig, texÜle manufacturing ant Reichenberg and cont mining at Dux.

Formerly prosperous, the region was hard hit by the depression and the result is unemployment.

The Sudeten Germans belong to various political parties, the most important of which is Konrad Henlein's Sudeten German party. In the election of May, 1935, this .party polled 1,240,497 votes, than two-thirds of all German votes cast and the largest number polled by any party in the Czechoslovakia parliament.

Henlein's chief demand

more

Marble Tower 330ft. High

Rome, Apr. 20. Next Monday, the birthday of Marconi, has been decreed by Mussalini to be a day of public celebration In Italy.

A huge wireless tower of marble, 330ft. Tilgh, is to be creeted on

outskirts of the Itome, near the site of the 1942 World Exhibit

RESTORED

HIS LIFE. MEMORY

Delay On British Side Alleged

New York. American flying companies are im- patient to start carrying muli between The United States and Europe this summer, whether Imperial Airways Is prepared to do so or not.

The

question is frankly discussed by the well-informed aviation cor- respondent of the New York Times. Pan-American Airways, he states, feels that the expense of last year's experimental Aghts might have been reduced by taking small mail loads, But the Anglo-American agreement covering airport rights and other navigation facilities provided that neither the American nor the British neither company should start until both were ready.

and

that

On these survey flights, the writer

learned asserts, "the British their Empire boats, for which so much was claimed, did not have the range for the 1,900-mile jump be tween Newfoundland

Ireland with n load."

3, ᎠᏫᎩ Whatever the possibilities of the One of the greatest miracles of Furgery

performed revealed comparatively obsolete clippers used recently--not only saved the life of by Pan-American Always for these flights the company will soon have Rabbi Ezekiel Bornateln, but enabled at its disposal the new Boeing clippers him to speak English, says a Corres designed for 4,000-mile flights with a pondent.

The Rabbi was

dying from a pay load of four tons.

A newcomer to trans-oceanle fly-

ever

Four Children Burned

To Death

London, April 13. Four children were burned to death at Gravesend just before mid-night when are destroyed a house in Eden- place, near the Central Railway Sta- tion, and threatened other buildings.

FRADIO

SUMMER

BROADCAST GOLF KIT

B.B.C. Recording of West End Cabaret

A PIANO REČITAL Radio Programme'. Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a Frequency of B45 k.c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. per and 8-11 p.m. on 0.52 m.c's, sccand.

H.K.T. (ML).

12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service

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

12.30 Songs by (Bass)..

Norman Alila

(Graves, art. O'Flynn Father Villiera Stanford); Rocked in The Cradle Of The Deep (Willard and Knight): Drink To Me Only With

(Words: Ben Jonson Thine Eyes

Batten) Anon, Musle

and Pur- Passing By (Herwick cell)....Quartette: Hubert Eisdell, Heddle Nash, Dennis Noble and Nor- man Allin.

arr,

12.43 Light Orchestral Selections. Old Friends-Potpourri (Arr, Her- man Fincic)....Tom Jones And His Orchestra; Drury Lane Memories.... beRegal Cinema Orchestra cond, by

Emanuel Starkey.

In attempting to rescue them, the Chief Constable, Mr. Keith Webster, was severely burned and cut on the face and hands and was taken to hospital. The children were Iris (8), Patsy (6), Bite (4), and Kenneth (2), longing to Mr. and Mrs. Sparks, an unemployed man and his wife, of No. 7, Eden-place.

Mr. and Mrs. Sparks and a th child were visiting friends when their home "went up in a flash-like an in- ferno," as an eye-witness cald,

HUNT FOR LADDERS Eden-place is a narrow alley with no room for vehicles to pass. Conse-, quently the fire engines had to be parked round the corner, and the fre- men were severely handicapped.

Ordinary household steps and to be fetched from ladders hind neighbours. Mrs. Humphrey, wife of a taxicab driver, of Albert-cottages, within a short distance of Eden-place, told a band was driving home he noticed Daily Mall reporter: dames coming from a bedroom win-

dow.

"As my hus-

immediately telephoned the fire brigade and afterwards rushed down the street to Eden-place,

1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.

1.03 Musical Somedy.. "Chu Chin Chow" Selection (Norton)....The London Palladium Orchestra cond. by Richard Crean; The Beggar Student (Millocker-- Zell-Gence) .....Hano Fidesser (Tenor) with Orchestra of the Ger man State Opera. Conductor: Prof. Robert Heger; Lily

Of Killarney" Vocal Gems (Benedict) .....I

..Light Opera Company, and Orchestra; The Damask Rose Selection (Chopin themas, adapted G. H. Clutsam) Court Symphony Orchestra,

Rugby 1.30 Reuter and

and Weather Forecast mnents.

Press, Announce-

1.40 Variety. Brass Bands Jerome Kern 'Melo- dies. Grand Massed Brass Bands at the Leicester Brass Band Festival cond. by C. A. Anderson, Leicester; Vocal-Once In A While (Green and Edwards); Don't Ever Change (From "The whole house was alight. Rhythm in the Clouds .Los and when the fire brigade arrived

Allen

with

Orchestra; Orchestra-Me It was almost impossible for them

And My Girl Selection chorus

.Debroy to do anything but provent the Somers Band with vocal

by flames from spreading to other The Rhythm Bros. Humorous houses on either side.

Sandy's Happy Home (Powell- The

Powell and Com- police woke up people in ad- Thomson)...Sandy Bo joining houses and told them to leave. The Bremen made repeated attempts to get into the burning place, but the smoke was so dense and the flames so flerce that they were driven back."

"RISKED LIFE"

pany (Comedy Sketch); Vocal-She's The Wealthiest Woman On Earth (3. Godfrey): Stardust Dovered Bundle (M. Hodges)....Kitty Masters with Orchestra; Orchestra-Hot Pic, Quick Step; Hot Pic, Slok Fox-Trot Scott Wood and His Six Swingers.

2.15 Close Down,

G.00 Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Honr kong Hotel.

cognition of "racial principles" as the the Hospital for Nervous Discuses.ing, the American Export Air Lines: effort to hack his way with an axe Roberta-Film Selection; Dixon Hits

LB re- tumour on the brain. Surgeons in

Maida Vale, W

basla for political organization of the State-In other words, autonomy for the German-spenlang regions,

"The Chief Constable risked his life in trying to rescue them, but he like the Bremen, found conditions im- possible and had to give up. “

"One fireman broke his arm fall- |

7.00 Reginald Dixon at the Organ. ing from the roof in a desperate

Sweet Music-Film Selection; to the bacic bedroom where No. 2; "Chorus Gentlemen, Please." through with

the children were."

Other rescuers to

Closing local Stock Quota- York

ment in hospital were Follee-Con- tions.

7.17 Schumann-Symphony No. 1 (cut arm and burns). Imms (cut bands), and John Showler in B Flat Major, Op. 38.

Played by Chlengo Symphony Or- chestra, conducted by Fredericks Stock.

receive

treat-

a subsidiary of American Export Lines, is also pushing ahead

a trans-Atlantie service. Removed the top half of his skull; plans for a Bolled it in a special preparation;' According

New to the Then regrafted it back so per-Times, "If the British insist on the fectly that only the faintest signe American ang line

yeur or two until ying another stable Smith (arm burns), William

Airways of the operation remained.

perfects its planes, before the open- ing of a New York-Southampton ser- vice, the Post Omee Department, it

Spain

"I WAS AMAZED"

The other German parties_lost heavily in the 1935 elections. They Include the German Social De mocratie party led by Minister of Public Health Ludwig Czech, the German Christian Socialist party When I saw him at his home in St. and the German Agrarian League, headed by Pranz Spinn, minister without portfolio.

These three smaller parties have temple. been cooperating with ibe

govern-

is understood, is willing to ask for NEW ACT

and

Kildin's road, N., he said:

"Look! You can hardly see the bids on air mail to ports of Con scars now," he said, pointing to his tinental Europe, with

Portugal in mind especially.

The

hus Department right, I could not sce

already ment.

mall The German agrarians, how-them untu I peered closely.

£400,000 avaliable for alr ever, recently endorsed an autonomy was very ill when I went to subsidles. Government officials are

·programme similar to Henicln's. hospital," he added. "They perform-anxious that no time should be lost

He was

One of the outstanding German They took off the top of my head.

ed a wonderful operation on me. In establishing the United States as

complaints In the allered "persecution" by police of Ger- mans who display sympathy with Nazisms. The Hitler salute and display of the kwastika aro baimed.

hion

one of the leading countries was well enough to get gaged in flying the Atlantic.

an I found I could speak English better than I ever could before. always speak Yiddish, never Eng- Jish.

"Yet I found I could pronounce

fairly easily. I words

The Sudeten Germans also object the

to the administration of the frontier amazed," regions which they inhabit by milltary authorities empowered to

WAS

supervise virtually all phases of ARE YOU A MUMBLER? private and economie life.

Another charge is that there are fewer Germans in public office than the proportionate size of man population warrants.

the

Wells Autobiography

I

en-

FAMOUS LINERS. TO BE BROKEN UP

Ship's Five Escapes

Two famous P. and O. liners have Those vocal "chords" by which been sold out of the service to be we speak are not chords at all. They broken up. They are the Kalsar-I- are miniature sir-valves working like Hind (11.000 tons) and the Moldavia

(10,500 tons).

STOPPED SECOND ROMANCE

if

at

7.15

Et

7.48 Yehudi Menuhin (Violin). Turkish Murch-(Scherzo-Beetho- ven-T

„Auer); La Chasse-(Caprice- Cartier-Kreisler); Sicilienne Rigaudon (Francoeur. Kreisler); Guitarre (Moszkowski-Sarasate).

8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report und Announcements.

8.03 Studlo-A Plano Recital by Doreen Ma

1. The Man I Love; 2. Once In A While; 3. Moon Over Monakoora; 4. Song Of Indio; 5. On The Sunny Side Of The Street.

8.20

Elimi'.

London Relay-The Golden

A chronicle of

Drake's circum- navigation of the Globe. When Drake sailed West in 1577 bis aim was mere-

Law straightened out a mar- ringe tanglo and upset another romance,

related WAS Croydon court. Mrs. Emily Gardner, South Croy-ly to harry the Spaniards in their pri don, claimed from her husband, vate ocean of the Pacific. The dis- Harold Gardner, a cinema employee, covery of the Horn was an accident, the circumnavigation an after- of Clapham Junction, £04 178. d. thought. But the entire voyage was arrears under an order made under

a series of adventures as strange and the Guardianship of Infants Acts fantastic as ony in the whole history September, words the support

1035, for the payment of of romance, 1 weekly lov his two children.

£i

of

Written by D. F. Altken-Produced Miss Billson, solicitor, for the hus- by John Richmond.

8.50 Quentin Maclean band, said that the parties were mor-

the

of

at

the

syrena.

Selence has just discovered thut,

American The former is now on parsoge and Dr. Wilford Grace, throat specialist, says that the old from the Far East to London, walle idea that folds of membrane worked the latter has been laid up in the

Organ like vibrating strings bowed by the Thames since December.

The Kalsar-I-Hind, which ried in 1922, the wife being

was

It Was So Beautiful (Freed and Confiscated By Police breath is rubbish.

as air valves built at Greenock in 1914, has been widow of her husband's uncle. He pictures them

Not having taken legal advice, they Burris); King Of Jazz-Selection.... the Hughes-Bolchow

was Regal Cinema Orchestra cond. by The Warsaw police inve confls-emitting explosive puffs of breath at bought by

valid, bu

but seven years later it was Emanuel Starkey with Quentin M. ented 20,000 coples of Mr. H. G. five-hundredth of a second Interval Shipbreaking Co., of Blyth, for about considered that the marriage

£28,500.

9.00 Light Orchestral Programme Wells's book "Experiment in Auto- when talking.

sofuly Dr. Grace's own voice 1s

John Cashmore Ltd., of Newport, found to be invalid through coming Maclean at the Organ. blography," which had been trans-spoken but very clear.

with Walter Glynno (Tenor). Mon., are stated to have paid £38, within the unprohibited degree

relationship.

Parade

Tin which was

Of The

Soldiere Inted into Polish.

"Knowing about the syrens 000 for the Moldavia,

**Policeman's Hollday enabled me to fix that," he said. "I built at Birkenhoud 16 years ago.

(Jessel); (Ewing) ....New Light Symphony used to be a mumbler, but never During the war the Kaisar-I-Hind

Of Paradise earned the reputation of a lucky and he formed a friendship with Orchestra; A Dream knew why."

ship, because of the number of times another woman with the intention (Gray and Littleton); Oki Rustic a perfectly honourable marriage, said Bridge By The Mill (Skelly) ato she escaped from German submarine

Billson.

Walter Glynne with Organ and She

five Misa wna attacked attacks.

Occasion Lord In 1032, when he went to

Chorus; Phantom Brigade (Myddle- times. On

ton): Aisha (Lindsay) ....

The Lon- Chelmsford, then Viceroy of India, Register Office, he found that

marriage had been validated by the don Palladium Orchestra conducted. was on board.

Act passed in 1931. Therefore he was not in position then to undertake by Richard Crean; The Valley Where

Wishca Come True (Eatherley the contemplated marriage, and had

The bench

The grounds for the seizure, says United Press, are that the book in sulted the Catholic religion."

Heiress, Aged 8, Not Told Of £500,000 Fortune

Baildon (Yorkshire), Apr. 12. Eight-year-old Ruth Reddihough, daughter of a Brad- ford wool magnate, Mr. Frank Reddihough, has inherited most of her father's £1,176,813 and does not know about it. Her mother told callers yesterday that she had no intention of telling Ruth of her inheritance till she is old enough to appreciate the news.

Ruth appears to be satisfied with her dolls and dolls' prom.

one

On her maiden voyage to the East, the Kalsar-1-Hind broke the record for the Plymouth-Bombay run.

The pair parted,' and the Inusband! made an allowance for the children,

the

hia

The Moldavia was a replacement not marries reduced the order to Glyne "The Gay Ninelles"-Wallz

of an earlier P. and O. liner of that sume. The first Moldavia was tor-10s, weekly. The arrears, by con pened in the English Channel, near sent, were cancelled on the husband's Brighton, in May, 1918, with a loss promise to endeavour regularly to

pay the new amount, of 58 lives.

ACCIDENT SAVES TRAIN

London,

Elliott); I Walk Beside You (Lock- Murray) ton-Alan

Walter Melley....New Mayfair Orchestra with vocal refrain.

3.30 London Relay-The News, 0.50 B.B.C. Recording "West End Cabaret"

With-Eille Atherton, May, June FUNERAL TO NE REHEANSED and Julie, The Mystery Singer, The Two Charladies; Madge Stephens and Kingston, Tenn. Bush Brenzeale hopes to hear his

enio Leone Clifford Stanton, and Edward Cooper June 25, Madge Mullen at the Plano, Piping funeral here on

Massic

Pallo Breazeole wanted to ace for himself by Ex-Pipe Major near what his funeral would be like, end

own

16 n

Mr. Frank Reddihough, who had A derailed wagon, dragged along been generous to local charities, died after a train had broken it in two, in January, aged 67. His widow gets fouled the signal wires and so saved

Wade Taxi-driver, Ord Hamilton from disaster annulty of £4,000 during wid an express owhood, or a life annully of £2,000 Qughbridge, Yorkshire. The signals requested Rov. Charles E. Jagicson, and hits 20th Century Band and Inter- she remarries Death duties am- were accidentally set at danger, and former Rockwood, Tenn., paator and rupilons by Leonard Henry as the mistress, Mrs. Nicholsun, la wonderounting to £359,690 have 'bean paid." the express hnd nearly stopped be now In charge at the First Christian Visitor: Devised and Produced by

She returns to-morrow to her kan dergarten in a cottage half a mile

away from home, and her school

ing if the secret can still be kept

It is understood that Ruth's fortune fore it touched another wagon lying Church at Parla, 111, to preach at the Cecil Madden Mer

11.00 Close Downl.1. across the track. will be more than half a million.

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