1939-05-02 — Page 3

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 2, 19395

CUP OF MAJESTY FOR THE U.S. EMPIRE

Silver Treasures For World's Fair

FIFTY HISTORIC silverware pieces, so precious. that plaster casts, engravings, rubbings and other records have been made of them for purposes of duplication 'should they be lost, are leaving Britain shortly for the

first time.

Taken from the vaults of the Government, they will be shown in the British Pavilion in the New York World's Fair, together with 35 examples of the best work of mo- dern silversmiths.

The King is lending the mansive sculptured Cup of Majesty presented to the Crown to commemorate the Coronation and pre- served for the nation at the palace of Holyroodhouse.

Transport and safeguarding have been arranged for with the Co- operation of the Government.

PEPY5'9 Parting GIFT

Most valuable piece ly a foot-high ewer elaborately chased in heraldle patterns, which was the parting gift of Pepys, the diarist, to the Cloth- 'workers' Company when be retired as their Muster in 1877,

It has never been outside the Cloth-workers' Hall before, and has been seen enly by the few lucky people who have dined in slate Ruests of the company ot thelr ancient hall in Mincing Larte.

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Records of the inside as well ILS the outside wero mado during the] past weeks, so that it could be duplicated in thickness at every point. Even a scratch und a dent inade over 100 years nge could be exactly reproduced.

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An eighteenth century French re- fugee, Paul Lamerle, one of greatest silversmiths on record, mude the second most important piece-rrib spectacular ulli ewer covered in high relief with human and fantastic Agures, the handle itself a bearded god.

It is dated 1741 and belongs to the 'Goldsmiths' Company,

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Rhapsody In Blue Wedding March

MISS PAMELA PHILLI MORE, iwenly one years-old heiress, was recently married at St. James's Church, Spanish- place W., to Mr. Gilbert Allatair Cockburn, who is twenty-four,

Only forty guests were at thơ wedding. It was intended that 500 should attend, but four days before printed cards were sent to friends saying that the marriage,

· fixed for March 14, was cancelled "owing to the sudden indispoel- tion of the bride's aunt."

The wedding, it was added, would take place very quietly al some future dale,”

Miss Phillimore was award In Chancery unill she came of are recently. She then gave a party to announce the date of her marriage to Mr. Cockburn- her third flance.

After an earlier engagement had been broken, she said she would never inatry.

She wore a loose white Greek gown and headdress for her wed- ding, and carried a Prayer-book. She had long, heavy earrings. The organist played Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" as she en- tered the church,

Grocers' Company as a gift in 1881 Is going in its stead.

All the antique silver is older than the earlicht American silver-most of it by over 200 years.

The Lelgli Cup. dated 1490, Jear's before Columbus discovered A 20-in. sliver gilt rosewater dish America, was at the last moment weighing 112oz, is io be presented to considered too fragile to remove from the City of New York by the Car- the vaults of the Mercers' Company, poration and 12 chief Livery Com and a replica made by them for the panies of London.

OFFICE BOY WHO

MADE A FORTUNE

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- Mexico City's "Red Square" jammed with peasants and union members in a mass demonstration of loyalty to President Cardenas, on the first anniversary of the oil expropriations. Banners read: "Not One Step Backword in the Ol Expropriation,' halling "economic independence."

PEER'S RELATIVE

TO RUN LAUNDRY

Joins The "Firm" By Marriage

UNKNOWN TO HER FATHER, BANKER EDMUND HENRY BEVAN, OF HILSTON,

WALES. MILSH WINEFREDA DEVAN, GRAND-DAUGHTER

OF LOID GRANTLEY, WAS MARRIED RECENTLY BY DECLARATION, ACCORDING TO SCOTTISH LAW, IN. JED- BURGH, ROXBURGHSHIRE,

Bridegroom was Wilhelm Otto von Stanz, 36-years-old son DI Baron von Stanz. He is British subject.

Beam-Radio For Yard

A MICRO-WAVE transmitter operating a beam service to [police headquarters on the Em- bankment has been installed at Scotland Yard's broadcasting station near West Wickham, Kent.

If every telephone, exchange in London were put out of action by bombs the beam, which employs n wave-length of between four and five metres, could maintain an uninter- After a motoring honeymoon in rupted and secret channel of com- Scotland they will return to Jed-munication with little risk of Inter- burgh.

There they will work to- ception or jamming. Rether to build up hand laundry business which Mr. von · Stanz is Ordinary Post Office lines not

carry the morse messages tapped out West Wickham, where two trans- Miss Bevan met Mr. Stanz some in the Yard's information room to mitters (three on important occasions like the Coronation) flash the coded warnings and crime news to patrol- ing Flying Squad cars day and night.

A MAN who started work as an office-boy, and be starting in Jedburgh. cause he hated the drudgery of copying letters, revolu-months ago, but had never been to tionised office work with an invention which brought him a fortune, has died at Nice, aged 85.

Jedburgh until her wedding day.

ONE DAY'S NOTICE Arrangements for the wedding were made when Mr. Stanz called to see Jedburgh-collellor.---He--- brought-Thus in the event "of war four proof of 21 days' residence in Scat-separate transmitters could be put on the air at a moment's notice. The A petition was drawn up and sub-beam" is intended to operate a tele- mitted to Hon. Sheriff Substitute phone service not morse.

He was Hungarian-born David Gestetner, inventor of the famous duplicating machine which bears his name.

"Gestetner's first invention, patented in 1880, was a cyclostyle

In the next year he began to make his duplicating-machines land. in small premises in Cross Street, E.C.

pen

To-day the Gestetner Company has He found that

It was because Anderson, who granted a warrant an authorised capital of a millon papers were short-fibred that they that the marriage should be re- pounds, hundreds of branches and made bad stenell papers and

dis-gistered. depots all over the world, employs covered a long-fibred one now known about 5,000 men and women, and has us Japanese stencil paper. a large factory at Tottenham.

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The Home Once has already made plans to link up radio-equipped forces in the provinces with this ser- vice to form a national network of unbroken communication.

So carefully were their plans guarded that "Mr. Slanz's landlady, Miss Briggs, of Ellerway House, Jed- An early discovery by Gestetner Mr. Gestetner started in a very burgh, did not know he was not com- went a long way to perfect his in-small way in 1881, but as early vention.

1900 he had taken the works at Toting home as usual to lurich, The efficiency of a duplicator de-tenham where Gestetners are made. November, and took over the pre- Mr. Stanz went to Jedburgh last pends upon the use of a good stencil) "He never retired and worked un-mises now being changed into nplan will be the Hon, Arthur Howard, paper, which Gestetner found dimeult last Christmas, when he went to laundry.

to procure.

Nice."

Ship That Can Sideways

Move

SOUTHAMPTON.

THE ship that can move sideways-the new "Red Funnel" 1,300 h.p. motor-ship Vecta, recently made trial runs in the Solent. Propellers of the Voith-Schneider type enable her not only to turn practically within her own length, but also to dispense with a rudder. She steers as readily at low speeds as at a normal rate, ahead or astern.

Sho will carry passengers, and anotor-cors daily between Southamp-. ton and the Isle of Wight. Over the measured mile to-day she averaged 15.6 knots

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LONDON'S CHIEF WARDEN

under the new regional civil defence London's Chief Air Raid Worden

brother of Lord Strathcona and son- He plans "something new in laun-in-law of Lord Baldwin. dries to cater for the big house of the district"

Mr. Howard, who is 43, was Mayor of Westminster in 1937 and has been Chief Air Raid Warden of West-

served with the Scots

NEWS

TRADE OPTIMISM IN SOUTH AFRICA

Cape Town.

The oficial Journal of the State Department of Commerce and In- dustries is, quietly: optunistic about trado prospects in 1939. It considers that trade in. 1039, although lower than that of the peak year of 1937, and possibly slightly lower than that of logt

will maintain усит

the more moderate 1930 lovel.

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emphasises that the undiminish- ed prosperity of the gold mining in- dustry will continue to act as o stabilising Influence in the future as in the past.

per

cent.

The article takes the view that the downward trend of employment in secondary industry seems to have spent much of its force. It has been falling steadily since February, 1030, and last August was 2.7 below the 1937 average, but still 5.7 per cent, above the 1936 average,

Premier and Racialism The "Cape Times” says that the

Weiter

of Gen. Hertzog, the Prime Minster re- jecting the suggestion of his son, Dr. Albert Hertzog for a political al- liance with the Malamites on racial

lincs, is

logical statement for which | English-speaking South Africa will be sincerely grateful.

Shortage

of Nurses-An acute) scarcity of trained nurses in at pre- sent being experienced in Cape Town. The Cape Hospital Board has already Imported 40 trained nurser from Britain and Canada: AUSTRALIA

LOANS FOR HOME BUILDING

Sydney. Investigations Into building Bocletics' schemes in England and Scotland have convinced the New

South Wales Treasurer, Mr. Male, that the facilities afforded to home- seckers in New South Wales compare favourably with the British and Scottish schemes.

He admits that the Commonwealth Loan operations have affected the market to a certain extent, but he

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CORRUPTION PROVED IN BIHAR

Calcutta. Corruption in the Bihar public services has been proved by evidence before the committee of inquiry,

The committee states that such practices are not confined to the Ministerial and other subordinate staff, but that some members of the Provincial and even of the all-India services, had descended to taking bribes,

BRITISH GUIANA

CAUSE OF LABOUR DISPUTES

Georgetown. The Royal Commission on labour conditions-in-the-West-Indies- took evidence recently from the Churches and the Salvation Army.

Sir Walter Citrine asked 'whether It was true, as suggested, that labour disputes in the Colony were caused by Communist propaganda rather thon by working conditions,

Nine witnesses strongly denied thei suggestion

The Church delegates roundly con- demned the system of unpaid volun- teer work in urban centres, which: they described as "fairly. general."

CANADA

VISIT OF BRITISH TIMBER TRADE

VANCOUVER,

Egg 8.1/2 Inches minster for several months: During lumbia Minister of Trade and Indus-

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It may have been a matter of pride. with Karl C. Kullo's hen, but the day after a Groton hen laid an eas ference and 64 Inches long, the local hen produced one 844 by 7 inches.

measuring 8 inches in

Mr. Norman

war he Guards,

His job will be to co-ordinate the work of wardens in London.

A scheme for closer co-operation between local authorlties and the chairman of Traffic Commissioners in ARP services in war time is pro- circum- the earmarking of goods vehicles for

vided in a circular issued by the ARP. Department.

Cannot

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Mr. W. J. Azscistine, British Co-

try, announces that members of the British timber trades delegation which came to Canada last summer were so impressed by their visit that they intended to repeat the trip next year.

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A delegation of 40 British and Continental timber merchants toured British

Columbia last August as guests of the Provincial Government.

It was indicated that next delegation will be much larger, and year the will include representatives pi the building industry and architects. British Columbia has sent moat of its The announcement that the Gov timber exports during the past few ernment has sanctioned the construc-years to the United Kingdom. Con- tion of a three-mille A.RP. tunnelsiderable Importance Ja therefore round Ramsgate has brought a flood attached to the proposed tour. of applications for house accommo- dation

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The suggestion has even been made that the Council should consider the. construction of a rubterranean town with permanent underground dwelt easy, watch yourself, and don't If you want to live to be 100, take speeches then, seldom exceed one engineers say that this would be Nable, of Cleveland, should know→→→ lings, schools and hospitals. Local burn the candie at both ends." Jacob hundred words. To hear them it

feasible. Is necessary to ba a, shareholder — and Bank of England shares cost man A. B. C. Kempe) told the "News

The Mayor of Ramsstate (Alder having been born 103 years ago.. Chronicle" recently: "The Council

MR. MONTAGU NORMAN, head of the Bank of England.

"the place where they keep all the gold" (old song) -broadcast recently about banknotes. STEERED LIKE A CAR

He said that one of the duties of The ship has been built by John the Bank, as agents for the Govern- 1. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., at their ment, was "to keep clean and tidy" Woolston shipyard, Southampton, circulation of about 500,000,000 -and engined by the English Electric notes.

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And he added, "I cannot abide a dirty note myself."

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Mr. Norman's broadcast was rather have not had the matter before them like an indulgent unclo telling yet, but if anyone made an applica- The BBC made Mr. Norman late bedtime story, He is a fine speaker, tion for permission to construct an The propellers consist of two for an appointment for the first time with a confiding, easy slyle, groups of six vertical blades in the in his life that night.

resonant, almost theatrient voice. underground dwelling Wo should stern. "Each blade revolves around Millions at home, in the Empire His English is so meticulous that have to give it very serious -a drum housed within the hull. Dur- and the United States listened in he leaves you wondering: "Is Mr.sideration."

Ing motion the pitch and angle of because it was the first broadcast of Norman a foreigner?". these blades can be'ultered at will the world's No. 1. banker. But he

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Canberra, Australla,

with accommodation for 24,000 people, Oll prospecting conducted with and will first-ald and decontamina- Normally it costs a lot of money new rotary drilling plants, just im-on stations at an estimated cost of to hear Mr. Norman speak. His ported from the United States, is

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only publie utterances are when under way in West Australia. The Part di the scheme would include he presides at the half-yearly Federal government has appropriated two trac tunnels linking up lingy court of the Bank of England. His $07,000 for the quest,

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