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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 25, 1939.

IS YOUR NAME ON THIS B.B.C. LIST? "Top of my head

Book That Makes Pronunciation Easy

TO PROTECT announcers from criticism the B.B.C. recently published a list of more than 2,000 “recommenda- tions regarding the pronunciation of some British family names and titles."

Henceforth every announcer will have this book be- side him when he is preparing an announcement or News Bulletin. It may also be bought at B.B.C. offices by any listener, price 18. 6d.

Professor A. Lloyd James collected all the pronunciation in- formation for the B.B.C.'s Advisory Committee on Spoken Eng- lish.

People with odd names were invited to co-operate. Actually overy one of the names in the book has been checked up with the people concerned so as to ensure

accuracy.

Here are a few examples taken 3 Sisters Marry

from the book.

5

Abergavenny (Mar- quis of Abber- penny. D'Acti-Day!h.

Auchinleck-

Ochinleck.

veil of Auchin-

OV

Borwel

Baari

Aruy-am.

Farawn.

hall-

銀

Kogzawi.

doin-Kaborn. Colquhoun-

Kohman. Conyngham (Biar- Kunning-

ham.

Caughtrey Kaw-

try, Kawiry, 1000- try,

Koltry,

Kotry or

Dalzell-Dee-el.

Death-Deth, Deeth.

Dee-ath or Dee- Bath.

Decles-Deesheer.

De, Valera

De Vallaien.

Faux-Fawks,

Folkes Fokes

(like folks), Foulis-Fowls,

Geo-Jee.

Geoghegan Gay,

gan.

Greenhough--

Greenoit, Green-

hort. Greentio.

On Same Day

CHIPPENHAM

Greenhow, Green MR. JOHN SUMMERS, farm

Hallo-Kallay.

Henesge-Henne).

Hytch-Itch (1) an

In night,

Icke-Ickl

Knollys-Nolz.

worker, of Cocklebury Farm Cottages, Chippenham, recently escorted up the aisle of St. Paul's Church, Chippenham, three of

Loughto, Luft or his daughters to give them away

Loch,

at a triple marriage ceremony. McGaughey

Three more daughters were brides- Magoy. maids, one attending each bride, und Marjorilank

Marchbanks. n seventh daughter was present and Menzies Ming-les, lent her wedding vell.

Australla) Menziz.

Meng-in, but (in The brides, Laura, Aline and MII- Meux Mewz.dred, are the third, fourth and Afth Mews, Mew. daughters, their bridegrooms being Ougls-O (as in no). Mr. William Whule, Mr. Bert Gold- Ouln-O-in (as ining and Mr. Oliver Baker,

no).

Pugin-Pewjin.

Ruthven Elther

Rivves or Rooth Cousins.

ven.

Whale and Mr. Baker

arc

All three brides were in white hale

st, Leger Sant headdresses. Mr. Summers escorted Leller but the Laura, the eldest, Aling and Mildred Yorkshire branch walked together behind, followed by

In Sellinjer.

Tangye-Tang-Ry. Tinne Tinny. Tyrwhitt-Tirrit. Wayal-Waw. Won,

Woth.

the three bridesmaids, Buy I

Pekky Summers, und a brother, Mr. Charles Summers, who was one of the best men.

President Roosevelt is assured of getting into Washington baseball games this summer—free. President Ford Frick of the National League and President Clark Griffith of the, Washington Senators present the President a season pass.

Dog Team Aids

Hitch Hiker

Pate and grim and heavily guarded by police, here in Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh as he arrived in New York, wearing a gray hat, a dark blue suit and no overcoat. He would "noi “make any sialement to reporters.

Treasure

"" Hunt Was

Stealing: Clubs Warned

ORGANISERS of "treasure" or "scavenger" hunts were warned by a Sussex Bench recently when a motor-cyclist was bound over for stealing a door-knocker.

It was stated that Leonard Quick, aircraft engineer, of Toot- ing, S.W., had taken part in a "scavenger" hunt organised by the Cygnet Motor Cycle Club, Tooting.

Farthing Damages For Libel

Each rider was asked by a nute given him at different points to pur- cbuse or acquire articles which in- luded: A cabbit skin, turnip, clothes peg and a duer-knocker.

EMPIRE NEWS

SIR EARLE PAGE. CRITICISED

SYDNEY.

Shrewd judges think that the days of Sir Earle Page as political leader in Austraila are virtually ended. Hia own followers in the Country party recognise the unanimity of the con demnation of his attack on Mr. Men- zies, the new. Prime Minister...

They are already afraid of the losses they would suffer if they go to the country under Sir Earle Page's leadership and force an election at

the present critical time.

Members of the Country party in State Parliaments are everywhere condemning Sir Earle Page for with- holding support from Mr. Menzies.

It is now belleved that Sir Earle will resign the party leadership. If he does a renewal of the Coalition with the United Australia party is re- garded as assured.

Naval Depot at Darwin-The build- ing of the administrative offices for the new naval depot at Darwin under the accelerated defence programme will begin shortly. In preparation

for the work, the naval authorities have taken a large area of privately- owned land in the business centre of the town.

NEW ZEALAND

WOOL GROWERS AND STATE CONTROL

WELLINGTON.

While the Poverty Buy and East Coast Sheepowners' Union was oppos ed to the principle of Government control in the marketing of wool, it was suggested at the annual meeting that wool growers might find it ex- pedient to ask for some control by the State.

sume

The reason given in support of this was that all primary products, except meat and wool, were given mensure of subsidy or were controlled to some extent by the Government, and that producers of wool and meat were suffering as a result. SOUTHERN RHODESIA REGISTRATION OF ALL NON-NATIVES

SALISBURY,

A draft bill was published in re- cent "Gazette" providing for the com-

Quick, who was before the Hor-pulsory registration of all non-native A farthing damages against the sham magistrates, admitted that he males between the ages of 18 and 01, proprietors of "John Bull" was thetnek his knucker from an allhouse and females between 10 and 51. New award of a special Jury in the King's which was under reconstruction at arrivals must register within 30 days Bench Division recently Mr. Sinfeld. He did not realise the was of entry.

Addressing a Salisbury meeting of Richard Aitken Qunek, of Kempshott- stealing. road, Strentham, S.W., who complain- Supt. Heritage said that clubs the Women's National Service League, ed that he had been belled in an organising these hunts came into the Mr. G. M. Huggins, the Prime Minis

ter, said the bill would be Introduced arlicie in "John Bull" on March 24, country feeling they could breaker In May. It would not at first 1938.

houses and take things.

.be Several

applied to women. He urged that Mr. Neville Laski, R.c.. said that other knockers were missing. Mr. Quack and three other men were The chairman, Mr. E. J. MacAn- women should register voluntarily found guilty at Margate in July, 1937, drew, said it was "most disgraceful" and help to organise the continuation of fraudulently attempting to evade that clubs should arrange such com- of the country's industries in time of Customs

war, replacing men leaving for more duty on brandy and peiltions, iqueurs. The three other men were "The next time-that-an-instance active work. sent to prison and Mr. Quack was comes before us it will be dealt with INDIA bound over.

more severely," he said. In the article complained of the three other men and Quack were stated to have received sentences varying from six to three months."

Mr. Valentine Holmes, for the de- fendunty, said It would not be right attempting to swindle the revenue for the jury to encourge such actions, The jury might think the action ought which were rather like "Heads I win; never to have been brought.

the

plaintif

In addition to being bound over for 12 months, Quick was ordered to pay

£2, 18s. Od. costs.

HALF-TIME WORK IN COTTON MILLS

CALCUTTA,

The Cawnpore cotton market has been so badly hit by the textile trade depression that the biggest mills in the district, the New Victoria Cotton Mills, employing about 4,000 workers, have decided that they will work only three days in the week.

tails you lose." Mr. Quack had not Judgment was entered for the suffered a pennyworth of damage. plaintiff for a farthing, and when Mr In his summing-up Mr. Justice Valentine Holmes stated that the de- to hitch a ride by way of dog team. When Car! and Ruby Schubert, Charles said that in bringing the fendants had paid £1 into court the Mounting stocks and falling prices brothers living in northern Manitoba, action

had, Blmply judge said there would be judgment have contributed towards this deci mushed

un 85-day trip to brought before the world once more for the plaintiff without costs, the de-ion. -THE PAS, Man. Chicagoy encountered Henry C. the fact that he was a dishonest man fendants to have costs from the date A wealthy Chicago business man Schmidt. Schmidt used his thumb who had been found gulity of of payment in. en lay claim to the fact that he is jand managed to get a lift on the sled the only United States citizen everfdriven by the brothers,

NEW PARLOPHONE RECORDS.

N2642. Volces of Spring Waltz.

Autumn Murmure. Waltz.

R2032. Goin' Pinces. Rhythm Style.

Doln Things. ...

R2030, Kisses In The Dark, Serenade.

Kiss Serenade.

R2625. Futuristic Rhythm, Rhythm Style..

Get Hoppy. ... R2020. Third Waltz Medicy. (Robrecht.) R2020. My Dream Tango. Tanga.

Czech Woman Disliked Nazi Uniform, Arrested

PRAGUE,

was

Oxford Blue Killed

In Air Crash FLYING OFFICER BERNARD JOHN SCIORTINO (24), RAF. Volunteer Reserve, a

doing was to tear up the main former President of Oxford Uni- Orchestra Mascotte.

versity Boat Club, who rowed ARRESTS in Bohemia and Moravia streets.

the Nazi occupation are

against Cambridge in 1935 and General Homolka, who Joe Venuti & Ed. Lang.

now estimated at 18,000, They are Commander-in-Chief of the Czech 1936, was killed in Kent recently mostly Communists whose „Frederic Hippmann & His Orch. appeared in election lists.

names forces in Bratislava, has arrived in while flying solo,

Prague. He received a bullet wound i His plane hit a tree at Romney Frankle Trambauer & His Orch. sieged by refugees. A Secret Police the Slovak-Moravia border in his Inge and Farmingham, and burst into 'The British Legation is still be in the head when he dashed across Street Farm, between Shoreham Vil- .......Orchestra Mascotte, photographer is taking photographs cor through

a cordon of Hlinka flames. Oncer Sciortino had flown of every person who pastes through Guards. George Boulanger & His Orel the doors.

Large numbers of troops arc A woman was arrested in o Prague leaving Prague apparently to garrison .....Philip Green & His Orch.tromear recently for announcing that outlying parts of Bohemia

she thought German uniforms were Moravia. „Victor Silvenler's Harmony Maste, slovenly. F1388. Park Pitade. Sequence Dance. (with Dance Instruction.) F1300.

By The Black Sea. Tango.

F1380. March of the Herald.

Sons of the Brave.

F1387. Jolly Brothers.

Baby's Sweetheart,

Veleta.

Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orch. St. Bernard Waltz, F1380. Tutti Frutti......Joe Daniels & His Hot Shots In "Drumnasticks".

Mutiny In The Nursery.C.FT.

ETC., ETC., ETC.

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from Gravesend airport, in company with another plane, and it is sinted that he was performing evolutions when his machine seemed to go into a zido slip. Another woman was arrested in a Beroun, 20 miles from Prague, is Mr. F. P. Elcombe, the farmer, cafe for saying that the thought still unoccupied by Germen troops. stated that the machine and the tree Germans had come to the city to It has a garrison of 15,000 Czech became a mass of fames and it was improve it, whereas all they were soldier.

impossible to get near.

Dame Laura Joins

The Gipsies

Dane Laura Knight has left the

Two Boys

Leave Home

For Long Cycle Tour

circus to join the gipsles The selec- WITH a joint capital of £70, food and lodging... as tion from her paintings recently on show at the Leicester Galleries, Eric Wiseman, aged 19, badours." Leicester Square, is dominated by of Madeira Road, Streatham,

trou-

They plan to go through

gipsies old and young, at home and S.W., and Kenneth Raper (18); France, Germany and Italy,

at the races healthy and sick.

But although the weather-beaten

of Farm Avenue, Streatham, cross to Tunis, and work along faces, the threat of being moved on, Left England recently on a five-

and the hardness of the life are all year cycle tour round the world. North Africa to Egypt. present and correct, there is some. They are 30s,-a-week, junior In Persia-they-hopa to earn thing missing.

clerks who are "fed up with money in temporary jobs: suf). Laura Knight's colour harmontes catching the same old bus ovary cient to take them on to India, been fascinated by gipsy gaudiness, morning and doing the same un-Australia and America, but tamed it a little before allowing important, monotonous jobs that

ure somehow too smooth. She has

It into her neat convases, to lead nowhere.”.

Mr. and Mrs. Wiseman and Raper's widowed mother sald SALES COMPANY more successful because the hot organ snid Konneth, so that left for Newhaven. "I admire Perhaps her circus pictures were I am taking my mouth good bye to the boys when they lights often forced her into a healthy if funds run out we can earn their pluck, said Mr. Wiseman. vulgar violence of colour...

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THE

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"THE MESSIAH"

in St. John's Cathedral, at 9.20 p.m. on Friday, May 26th 1939.

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