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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

I EXPLORE THE

ELIZABETH

Greatest Ship is

in Her

Her Cradle

(By A Special Correspondent)

Clydebank.

Secrets of the greatest shipbuilding enterprise of all time of the giant new Cunard-White Stur liner Queen Elizabeth, which is to be named and launched by the Queen this month-were revealed to me to-day when I toured the vast hull now nearing completion.

I saw the Queen Mary four years ago when she was at about the same stage of her construction at Messrs. John Brown's yard, and the first impression was the same as with the Queen Elizabeth-to-be-of vastness im- possible to visualise afloat...

The fact that the Queen Elizabeth will be nearly 4,000 tons in excess of the Queen Mary and 12ft. longer merely heightens this impression, but striking differences in design and layout of the two liners become apparent on closer inspection.

In the year which have elapsed the Queen will operate by pressing since the Queen Mary was design an electric button on a platform ed, naval architecture and marine 1,000ft. away. engineering have made rapid pro- gress.

TWO FUNNELS

As an example the colossal sizej

of the liner, it took me 45 seconds! by electric lift to get from ground Hevel to the promenade deck-and

In the old days the motive power there are still three decks to be of the Transatlantic glants neces-installed.

four funnels

hus

the

sitated veteran Aquitania. In the Quecu Mary the number was reduced to The new ner will have only two-allowing increased space

and Kames, promenade, accommodation.

three.

Visualise her

Gross tonnage, 85,000; Length. 1,030ft.

(promenade

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,

QUEEN

Half Lion, Half Tiger

This strange hybrid animal was recently presented to the Cen- The rare tral Park Zoo, New York City, by an anonymous donor. beast was born four years ago to an African lioness that had mated with a Siberian tiger. The glon, as it is called, has the body of a lion, but the head resembles that of a tiger. In winter, when the pelt is thick, tiger stripes may be seen.

NAZI ACTIVITY

IN U.S.: AVOIDING

deck 724ft-twice the height of for

the Monument);

passenger

The new abip will have a "flush" maldeck-doing away with the usun break in the hull forward from

traditional the

well-deck-while another Improvement In "line" is the greater rake of the bow introduced to

permit of an additional anchor installed for docking to fall clear,

over 2.400 passengers-300 more

Number of decks 14 (compared with the Queen Mary's 12);

Breadth 11871.;

Four propellers

tous rachi:

weighing

32 i

A power station which could "feed" a city of 200,000 people.

Jost in

1914 "MISTAKES"

Washington.

To-day you can wander for hours Giving, evidence before the Congressional Commit- without retracing your #strelbound world, dwarfed like tee investigating “un-American activities" a witness said Gulliver in Brobdignag by huge are the principal objects of the German-American Bund balls whese crude signs identify them

us bathing pool, sun lounge, bali-were: room vegetable-preparing room.

To-day the Queen Elizabeth is a

The Queen Elizabelli will carry than the Queen Mary-in cond flons of luxury and comfort un- known in pecan travel recently.

of Striking features

the cabin hell of noise. accommodation include Verandah grill on the sun-deck and theatre and gardens on the promenade deck. But

It is in the greatly improved fael- lities for tourists and third-class | passengers that she will really estab

ish a new era.

Those travelling tourist will have gymnasium and swimming pool. and those third-class a gymnasium, In addition to the sports deck for all classes, and hot and cold running water in every room.

25ft. WHALE KILLED IN

TRENT

A 25ft. long battle-nosed

whate

mud

near

1938.

Machine All

But Spends VICHY-CELESTINS

The Money

A new machine installed at the New head oflee of the Bank of South Wales at Sydney, for sorting. counting, and testing, coins is the first of its kind in the world.

It is the invention of Mr. J. former Lytle, of Sydney, whose

machines coin-lesting

have been used by the bank for seven years. The new machine, which is elec- trically driven, automatically sorts. counts, tests, and bags the coins at the rate of £1,000 worth an hour.

From a heaped-up tray, the coins) are brushed into a hopper. Withi amazing rapidity they pass through the sorting mechanism, each deno- mination being tested in transit to the bags.

The time taken for the testing) of each coin is one-fifteenth of a second. Beglsters show the total In each bag.

It is the only machine in the world that will sort the copper from silver,) and at the same time count and fest ench denomination,

WORK OF FIVE MEN Another machine, also invented by Mr. Lyttle, counts and wraps £500 in pennies a day.

This represents that work of five bank officers under the old system of hand counting and wrapping.

The machine "crimps" each pack- age in such a way that it is impossi- ble to extract a coin without break- ing the container.

The silver coins tested by the

Bank of New South Wales each year totals £7,000,000.

The total of rejected spurious coins average £100 a year.

Spurious coins are returned to the depositors,

JEWISH REFUGEES

U.S. May Allow 27,000 To Enter

The establishment of a vast spy network in the meeting in London, are making pro- |United States; and

The development of an efficient sabotage organisation for use in war time.

The Bund, or "German-American Settlement League," is a Nazi organisation maintaining a camp on Long Island.

Was

The witness

John Metcalfe, a newspaper reporter who joined the Bund under an assumed name as an investigator for the committee.

BEFORE 1916

be

The public rooms will cover four Weighing over three tons, which be

stranded in the decks and include sun lounge, winter came

Mr. Metcalfe said: "It must and the River Trent at Kendby, garden,

Scunthorpe, recently, was shot and borne in mind that in 1916, prior to smoking-room.

the entry of the United States into Picking my

5,000 brought ashore. workers still engaged amid the laby-

walls,

cinema.

Jounge.

way mich

The whale was obviously lost and the Great War, Germany had prae- rinth of passages and the vast bare was trying to find its way out totally no espionage organisation or away, otage machine in this country. -it seemed impossible that the sen again, nearly 50 miles

for when it was trapped by the receding 1 is to avoid duplication of this hull would ever be ready

that the Bund 27-let tide.

became launching on September alone that the Biner would be equip-| It was seen splashing in the mud take

active.

Mr. Metcalfe, who estimated the ped, furnished, and decorated with and shallow water by men working

in Bund's membership at 15,000, said all her promised luxury in time for on a wharf. A party rowed

that while a member of the Bund he her malden voyage in 1940,

had found many members who com- plained of the lack of co-operation by German Consulates, particularly in the matter of obtaining Storm Troopers uniforms.

boat towards it and one man fired 18 shots from a 12-hore gun before he succeeded in killing it.

The whale was then towed over to the wharf by a dredger and lifted from the river by erane.

"CONSULS WILL GO"

'Drunk With A

Baby" Charge

Д

Rocked In the arms of a policewomati, 12-months-old baby slept peacefully In Hendon court recently While Juseply Irogan, aged 36, no permanent home, was accused of belag in charge of it while drunk.

A constable sald he had to elect Brogan from a bus when He was carrying the baby.

Brogan said, in answer to the charge," was not drunk exact- iy. The child was given to me three weeks ago.

He was remanded until the next day. Police said they uld not know whose child 1 was.

Constable Victim Of

AHEAD OF SCHEDULE Yet I was told that the work is!

of schedule. ahend

Stunds are already being constructed beside the towering hull In readiness for the

FIRST IN 35 YEARS Taunching. The forest of uprights It is the first while to be seen in supporting the liner on her cradle is the Juver

He reported this to Mr. Fritz Kuhn, Trent for over 35 years. being dismantled.

The place where it was caught is the leader, who replied: "What's the In the murky catacombs beneath about six miles from the junction of matter with them? I have removed. the great bull I saw the triggers the Rivers Trent and Ouse.

Hans Luther. These Consuls will be

will and holding back the sliding ways which

Brantford, Ont. Mr. Thomas Hepworth, of Kendby, removed

we said: "I have lived here more than Consuls we want."

There is a bicycle thief here who 00 years and only known a whole Herr Hans Luther was for a longplays no favourites. Constable Fred come up the Trent once before. time German Ambassador to Wash-W. Cooper parked his wheel behind That was more than 30 years ago, bgton. He was replaced Inst year by a tree in a park here, and the thief

took it. when one was benched near hero,"err in Dieckhoff-Reuter.

SHE'S SIMPLY

Gorgeous

"SHE" enterz. All eyes are upon her. On every lip the question "wha Is SMET"

Immaculate from head to foot-m? styled to the minute-looking s if she had just come from the hair. drasser.

And then the secret is out SHE Daly goes occasionally to the hair- dresser to have her wave zet-her califure modernized↑ A friend tells hew particular she is to shampoo-- regularly at home.

And there's really no trick to it. Discriminating women know that Mulsified leaves the hair soft and easy to manage--pre-

serves the wave-

makes it sparkle with

new life, gloss and Jastre.

· Women whoknawwii

tell you that the nat- wal olis in Mulsifed nourish the Sc prevent its drying out, Kose of harsh alkali Matsified is safe even for baby's tender scalp.

Mulsified

DAHUT DEL SHAMPOO

At

get

the

Maizee's

Special

Thief

Clearing SALE

on all remaining

Summer Merchandise

No Returns,

ONE DAY ONLY

Friday, Sept. 16th

• No Exchanges

Cash Only

ALEXANDRA BLDG.

Des Voeux Rd. C.

Delegates of 30 Governments, now

gress with pinns to find homes for thousands of Jewish would-be refu- Rees from Germany and Austria,

This is largely due to the initia-1 tive of President Roosevelt.

It is believed that as a result of | the pressure

of the British, and

French lique 5, Germany will !

eventually

involuntary Immi- grants" to leave the country with a partion of their capital.

The United States may allow about 27,000 refugees to enter the country yearly for about five years.

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