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HONGOKNG TELEGRAPH

FUTURE OF KAI TAK Simple Spellers

(By Our Aviation Correspondent)

Have War

Chest

Are you losing your "yooth" or your "ueth"? Would you rouler malce a "millon" or a "milyon"? Do you keep a "spaniel" or a "spanyol"? Those aru "kwestyuns". - or "kweschlona" which will have to bo answered very soon.

A committee of speech experts, in- cluding two professors of phonetics, is trying to answer them now.

The reason for the hurry is that the Simplified. Spelling Society has just come into £18,200. Mr. Justice Bennett, in the Chancery Division. has held that the society is entitled to that amount under the will of Sir George Burton Hunter, of Newenstle For years the Simplified Spellers have had to dig themselves in. They were not sure whether the £18,200 would come to them. Now that their war chest has been furnished, a simplified spelling offensive will be gin,

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The first simplified spelling dic tionary is being prepared. simplified spelling journal will be published. Lectures will be given, i The learned committee which is preparing the dietionary knows how It wants to simplify most English words. But a few continue to tease. Professor A. Lloyd James, for instance, would like to spell million

"millon."

marine terminal, is of interest. When Imperial. Airways flying boats call planned the Singapore field was at Singapore air times a week on HONGKONG aviation experis nou stated to be the most up-to-date in their way eastward to Australia and "milyon," Mr. L. J. Pitman prefers

engaged in studying the future this part of the world, but already westward to India, Egypt and Eng-. || of the airport Kal Tak and the 'after being only in use for two years land. civil aviation development of the For word is being whispered the future Hongkong at present la served by East will within a few monthis make air development of Singapore will five major air-lines, making a total recommendations to

the Govern-require more facilities, hangars, a of 14 planes arriving and departing ment,

larger field, and the latest repair and every week. The above pleture, the latest to be engineering equipment available on The above picture is reproduced taken of the Singapore land and the spot.

by permission of "Shell.”

Public Schoolboy Was "Thrilled" By Burglary

A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy

at King's School, Rochester, W115 bound over at Tenterden, Kent, re-i cently on charges of:-

prison some one who is hungry and has stolen, and not send this boy?" He decided to bind him over, but sald to Clark, "You have a position.

Having housebreaking Impic-in life many people would envy. You ments by night.

Attempting to break into a post office; and

Breaking into a radlo shop on two occasions.

The boy, Alexander Graham Clark, was said to have won his way to the school by scholarrship, and to be studying to be a doctor.

are in a good school, have a profes- sion in front of you, und money is provided by your mother.

"I am asked not to send you to prison. I don't know whether I am right, but I am not going to do it. You will receive every possible chance.

"But

you ought to be thoroughly ashamed of what you have done. If you have not learned your lesson you can be pretty certain it will be the Just chance you will get."

"LIE-DOWN" STRIKE

SALEM, Mass.

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Seeking A Film Ll. George

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AMONG the characters to be tho Britsk flm "Kitchener of Klartum" will be Mr. Lloyd George.

this

Mr. Herbert Wilcox, who is io direct the picture at Denham summer, sald recently that he may and the actor who will play the role, in Hollywood.

The Tsar Nicholas, Clemenceau and King Edward VII will also sp- pear in the film.

Mr. Lloyd George has never been

portrayed on the screen, although he was on the London stage in Emil Ludwig's play, "Versailles," at Kingsway Theatre in 1032.

the

The actor was Frederick G. Lloyd. The performances were private, as -the Lord Chamberlain did not licence

the play.

He was found at the back of the post office on a Sunday night with a screwdriver, a dagger, pliers, skeleton keys, a hammer, forceps, an electric cycle lamp, and gloves. His mother, it was said, had tried to get him to explain why he had committed the offences, but all he would tell her was that he had done A "le-down" strike on a railroad

Mr. Wilcox is picking his Kitchener it for a thrill. His headmaster was crossing nearly cost Dobbin his life. from among Hollywood's British prepared to keep him at the school Anthany Welsh, with the aid of the Actors. His film will give an

"But this boy is a

crossing attendant, persuaded his authentic account criminal"

of the Field- said the Recorder, Mr. J. F. East- horse to make way for the Boston & Marshal's tragic last hours, compiled wood KC., "without any justifica-Maine's Pine Tree Express, but the from facts in the War Office's possess- tlon whatever. How can I send to wagon was demolished.

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"There are other problems," said Professor Lloyd James, "such society. Is it to be spelled “sosicu'? There may be a danger of people pronouncing i sosyty. So we may have to put a couple of dots over the 'c and make it 'soslët."

Sce? Or don't you?

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April 8, 1939.

Mrs. John R. Mayberry, socicly notable of Beacon Hill, Boston, strolling toward the water at Palm Beach, Fla. She is wear- ing an original bathing creation which combines the "little girl" style and the strapless shoulders.

A.R.P. Gives

Donald

"Swim' Pool

Two-year-old Donald Spong, of Carlsbad-street, Islington,

N., has a new wading pool in his backyard. But it didn't appeal

to him recently as a good place for splashing,

The new pool, deepening from two to three inches with rain, lay dark and cold beneath the Spong family's scalloped steel air raldi shelter. Under the water was vi thick layer of mud.

Originally Islington Council work- men planned to sink the Spongs') shelter walls three feet into their backyard and Mrs. Spong thought) of training vines or roses over it.

Sea Escape Of Woman Scientist

Dr. A. G. Jacques, of the Rocke- But with the mud seeping up feller Institute, U.S.A., was drowned

to within two feet of the backyard and his companion, Dr. Marie Lebour, surface, the workmen gave up hope, sank the walls two feet deep

and let it go at that.

Mrs. Spong doesn't know now just what she will do about the garden. The routine peace and quiet of Islington's side streets has been changed to pandemonium by the shelter-building.

of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Plymouth, England, was rescued when their small boat capsized off the coast of

of Bermuda recently, The scientists had gone out in a small dinghy to dredge for specimens in shallow water, but their boat was caught by a current.

Dr. Lebour, who is in the 'sixties, was brought in by the bridge-keeper two hours later. She was in a alate" Picks clanging on backyard flag of collapse," stones, muddy feet stamping through Dr. Jacques, whose body has not hallways have set the dogs howling, been recovered, was born in Sutton, have sent the cats into fis of tem-Surrey.

perament. And the housewives...

"My nerves are all upset, dear.".

Sophie and the three other hengi

GULF STREAM RESEARCH

Mr. F. S. Russell, naturalist of the

in Arthur Thomas's backyard, of Plymouth station, said.

"Dr. Lebour has been attached to Liverpool-rond, N., have not eaten the Plymouth station since

1010. properly since Monday, when rail-Last year she was granted a year's waymen dumped his shelter on the leave of absence, and, with the help path to the henhouse.

elected to go to Bermuda to undertake a special study in which she was Interested."

They ought to get used to it soon, though," Mr. Thomas sald. "They'll ser it doesn't move, then they won't mind."

of a

British and American scientists are collaborating in the first systematic study of the Gulf Stream. Observa Mr. Thomas has kept chickenstions are being kept by the Brilshy ten yards from the bustle of Liver-expedition in the research vessel pool-road-since he moved into the Culver and by the American Woods house forty-eight years ago.

Hole Oceanographie Institution opern- ting on the American side of

He used to keep thirty at a time, stream. but has let the brood dwindle to Sophie, ♫ Lincolnshire buff, two black leghorns, and a grey of mixed lineage.

These four hens produce a dozen or fifteen eggs a week. "Mr. Thomas sells them to friends at twopence each; to outsiders; pt.twopence half- penny. They bring in tobacco money.

Until they brought the A.R.P. shel- ter he was planning to set his hens on eggs as usual,

"But everything is too uncertain this year," he said. "They would never stay on the cags If I'm going to have men In here tearing up the chicken run to make room for this lin shelter.

"It will be hard enough getting them used to laying in a new place." In Ringcroft-street, around the corner from Mr. Thomas, Mrs, Clara Lucas was having trouble with Tibby and Tobby, her black cat and black; dog.

Since two workmen, a, forèman, and one of the council surveyors ar- rived to measure and dig in her back yard, Tibby had hidden, without cat- ing, on a shelf.

Tobby, rushed out of his custom- nry sleeping place on a hill mat,

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