1938-12-22 — Page 42

Thursday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 22, 1938.

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"TELEGRAPHS" everywhere

Shakespeare Starts A Problem SCRAWLED EPITAPH MAY BE

A PRICELESS TREASURE

DISCOVERY of a manuscript, believed by ex-

ports to have been written by Shakespeare, was revealed. recently.

It consists of fragments of scrawling handwriting found buried away between the musty leaves of a copy of Michael Drayton's "Barrons Wars," published in 1603. THE BARD'S EPITAPH?

On the flyleaf is an epitaph believed to be in the hand of the Bard of Avon.

A number of distinguished students of ancient manuscripts have examined the writing and state that there is the closest resemblance to the known handwriting of Shakespeare. There are only five copies of his signature in existence.

The romantic story of how Dray- ton's book left this country in the early 17th century, remained hidden in Italy for three centuries, was told by its owner, Mr. Alan Keen, Edgware, Middlesex,

bought it three years ago from

$1 North London dealer for L0," he said. "It did not occur to me at first that the writing on one of the pages) might be anything out of ordinary.

EXPERTS AGREE

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Then I begin to study it fully. Something in it recalled what} 1 had already seen from the signa- tures of Shakespeare.

"Eventually i submitted the MSS. to certain experts for Ink tests, and finally felt that I could put the whole matter before world experts in band- writing. found that two of them agreed.

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"The writing in my book is in the form of an epitaph to Michael Dray- ton. According to the authorities, however, the writing is not by Dray-

nor is it his style."

GREAT LITERARY FIND

ton himself. It is not like his work to discuss plans for international circuits for relaying television

A hundred radio telephony experts met in London recently HANDS: between Britain, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Holland and Rumania. While your left hand Sir George Lee, engineer-in-chief focusses, your right fore- to the G.P.O., "met these 100 delegates at Burlington-gardens, Piccadilly.

Representatives of Chili, Mexico, the U.S.A., Cuba, Uruguay, Argentina and Japan were there too.

"All the papers connected with this maller were shown to me a little time ago by Mr. Keen," Sir

John Squire sald. ", spent three days studying the details of the manu- script, and I now believe that Mr. Keen has made cut a very strong

case.

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on it, there is no doubt that it is the

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Industry

Still Comes

South

A member of the firm of Messrs. Industry's continued drift to the Quaritch, famous London booksellers South and large scale transfers of and dealers in rare MSS., said: "workers to industries connected with certainly is a discovery which de-

tion."

The method of relaying and inter- changing programmes will be carried out by enble and radio linkups.

FIRST FOR USE Cables running between Parls and Bardeaux and Berlin and Munich

be used for this purpose.

serves to be given the closest atten-/the defence programme are revealed will in all probability be the first to In the annual census of the insured population issued by the Ministry of Labour.

'I Remember-

Day In Cutty Sark

Difficulties that would be experi- enced by the use of submarine cables transmission-- and

particularly across the Channel the North Sen--will be overcome by a system of radio relay links.

This shows that there are now for this Lyne 15,742,850 insured people in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, includ- ing, for the first time, agricultural workers and 241,270

persona in domestic employments.

FOUR captains were among the craft.

Countries will be able to tranmit and exchange programmes for the nominal cost of hire of the cable and radio links.

Some significant increases in the number of insured people are: Air-

This means that the B.B.C. will be 36.000; general engineering, able to give its viewers the best of 14 guests, all one-time mem-23,000; explosives, 7,000; public

foreign programme matter at a frac bers of the crew of the Cuttyworks, 34,000, and National Govern- tion of what it would cost to bring Sark, who recently lunched in ment Service, 14,000.

the small saloon of the famous There are declines in cotton of old China clipper, now moored in neat workers), 17,000; coal mining, 18,000; railway service (non-perma- the Thames off Greenhithe.

10,000: woollens, 10,000.

Sixteen people attended the lunch, the 14 guests and the Captain-Super- intendent and the First Officer of the training ship Worcester.

SOUTH'S SI PER CENT. Changes in geographical distribu-

the artists to this country.

purpose of bringing about a speedler During the conference ideas will be pooled by the experts for the

development of nationally.

television Inter-

tion of insured persons again show South has now 51.1 per cent. of the First Ofeer Jackson of the Wor-that London and the South are at whole insured population ns com- ester sak: "The saloon of the Cutty tracting large numbers. London pared with 40 per cent, in 1929 and Sark is small. It seats 12 comfort-heads the list with an Increase of 45.7 per cent, in 1923, ably.

32,550, though this is only one-third The number of persons employed "The lunch was a very good one of the increase, reported for the year in agriculture in Great Britain and and not at alt ke the hard tack of before.

Northern Ireland is. 750,350, an in- the old sailing ships. It is to be It would appear that the drift to crease of 6,730 over last year or 9 cooked aboard the Worcester."

London is slackening, although the

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