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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 28, 1939. Uburg Suprame

Ten Nations Discuss

ANY musician would tell you

that the symbol in the head- line above means a crotchet A in the treble clef. But ask half a dozen singers of different nation- alities to sing it to you, and each might strike n slightly different

note.

Ten nations met at a conference at Broadresting: House recently to try to end this strange state of affairs. -At the invitation of the British Stan- dards Institution they discussed an international agreement on concert pitch.

It is an old problem. Fifty years ago muskeluns were complaining Ant they had to change the pitch of their Instruments according to the country. And the difficulty, still exista

An orchestra tunes on the note A of the treble clef. But the note A lus That is where no absolute menning. "pitch" comes in.

The only absolute way of fixing the -pitch of a note is by its "frequency." If you make a violin string vibrate 509 times a second it will always give out the same note, and it will be the same note as that of an organ pipe in which the air is vibrating 500 times second, or of a singer who is making the air in is vocal passages vibrate 500 imes a second.

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At present the standard A of dif- ferent countries varies from 435 to 442 cycles per second.

An officint of the British Standards Institution said: "The varying de- grees of concert pitch have caused chaos in the musical world for years," "British Interests are agreed to a standard of 440 cycles, but we woni to make it an international standard."

WORLD'S ART DICTATOR DEAD

Six factories and 30 houses off Yu Yuen Road, opposite Jess- feld Park, Shanghai, went up in flames recently. The combined strength of 11 fire engines was not sufficient to prevent the total destruction of these premises. Upper pleture shows the fire in progress with the Blames and smoke against the skyline. picture shows the remains of one of the housen.

Lower

Bank Clerks Demand

Japanese Occupation Right To Own Lives

Of Hainan

London.

A further question was asked in the House of Commons recently re- garding the Japanese occupation of Hainan:-

Mr. W. Roberts asked the Prime

Two

VO hundred bank clerks from all parts of England and Wales demanded in Birmingham recently that their private lives should be their own, free from the restrictive influence of bank executives.

Their demand was made at friends are menaced we are going to

Mnister whether he can make a state- the annual conference of the stand by them." ment with regard to the extent

of the occupation by the Japanese of Bank Officers' Guild.

Hainan Island and the Sprotley is-

lands and whether any joint discus-

sions with the

As in 1014, Germany was saying that we were afraid to fight, but our They passed a resolution un-young men to-day were no more de-

than were the men who: promising fullest generate French authorities animously

fought in the last war. kave taken place with regard to it; support to any members whose The conference sanctioned a provi-

liberties

besional agreement for co-operation be- and, if not, whether such discussions civil will be considered in view of the threat to the interests of these two threatened with encroachment tween the British Legion and the countries in the Far East?

by employers,

might

Scottish British Legion. "WAS A BAD BOY"

Two Carpet Bags Laid

Family Fortune

STRONOMY may be said to have linked two famous Britons who died recently-Lord Duveen and Sir Frank Dyson..

Sir Frank, Dyson was the mathematician who, as-he- once said, "drifted into astronomy" and became Astrono- mer Royal in charge of Greenwich Observatory: Lord Duveen was the man who turned art into big business with "astronomical" prices for world-famous pictures.

Lord Duveen died at a London hotel at the age of 69. Sir Frank, who was 71, died while on a voyage from Australia to South Africa.

The fortunes of the Duveen family were laid by one Henry Duveen, who at the age of 12 was sent by his father from their humble home in Holland with

two large carpet bags filled with Delft blue china.

SHOCKS IN FIGURES

Sir Frank Dyson, who retired in 1833 after more than 20 years as

about stora Pletes which had cost 5s. In Hol-Astronomier Royal, was fond of gly-

Ing facts and figures land fetched £5 at Boston.

which, if they had not come from se distinguished a scientist, would not have been belleved.

Joseph, the eldest of 14, was born at Hull and joined the firm at 17. He was later to becoine the first Baron Duveen of Millbank (where the Tate Gallery stands) because of his mag; nificent gills to Uritish muscums and galleries,

Greenwich Observatory in 1931 worked overtime taking photographs of the planet Eros, some 14,000,000 miles from the earth. It was part of Anding out the exact distance of the sun, which is roughly 93,000,000 miles

Standing apart from all auction- room coteries and establishing his away. own "tradition" Duveen became a force which upset all the reckonings of connoisseurs nnd deulera-a virtuni "dictator" In the art world.

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Morning Tea On ARTISTIC, Army Bill Of Fare

HEN Lance-Corporal, Roy Sidney Grenadier Minear, 2nd Batt

He launched the art boom of 1921 when he bought Mrs. Siddons as the for by Reynolds Tragle Muse" £30,000 and pold £170,000 for Gains-Guards, was brought up at a couri borough's "Blue Boy" for America. Other spectacular deals were:

1,000,000 for the Gustave Dreying fus collection (Italian Renaissance). £500,000 for the Benson colleé- tion (Botticelli, Tition, Andrea del Sarto and Lumni).

£235,000 for the Fragonard l'anels.

£175,000 for the Raphael

Madonna,

martial, at Pirbright, Surrey, recently, charged with, striking Guardsman Joruce Patrick Chandler, the follow- story was told by Chandler. "The corporal demanded tea, and I referred him to the master cook. I said it was no use arguing with me. 500 eggs bad to be tried.

Besides presenting pictures to the Tate and National Galleries, Lord Duveen added a new wing to the National Portrait Gallery, provided an extension for modern foreign arian

"He started digging me in the tummy with his finger to emphasise: his words, and said he wanted tel. "I said: "Who are you to tell me to make tea. He then struck me in the face,"

The master cook said early tea was the bill of fure, imd it was

at the Tate, a gallery for the Elgin the cook's duty to prepare whatever Marbles at the British Muscum and wes on it. an early Venetlun gallery t National Gallery.

the The court found Lance-Corporal

Minkar not guilty.

Society Bride Of Negro Driver

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MRS. LAURA STEDMAN GOULD DEES, aged 66, former society woman who had been spurned by her friends since she married her Negro chauffeur 11 months ago, was buried recently near the coloured section of Queen's County, here.

She hanged herself in her modest apartment. Laura Stedman was-a-grand- about juvenile delin- daughter of the millionaire ban- bad boy myself and ker, Edmund Stedman, and her

all schools were

was not unduly

Mr. Buller: According to my The conferencec was private. Al-

Mr. Herbert Collins, of Bath, pre- noble Friend's information the Island terwards Mr. T. G. Edwards, general

of Hend -of-Helnan has been only partially oc-secretary, explained that the resolu- siding at the Harrogate conference of gupled, while it appears that there ton had been thought necessary in the National Association. has been no actual military occupa-view ot restrictions operating in Teachers, sald he tion of the Spratley group by the some banks regarding marriage and perturbed Japanese. His Majesty's Government political activities. are keeping in close and constant touch with the French Government in this mutter.

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THE SINCERE CO., Recently she has spent much

fairly robust and it kind-hearted and of the former United States Pre-QUEEN MARY has become a

trustsident, Grover Cleveland. But The position in England and teachers to administer suitable medl Wales is not se, bad as in Scotland, but clerks under a certain age or cine when necessary, we should hear she had been ignored by her!

less of these Juvenile far earning £200 to £250 a year feel that if they marry without the op-quents."

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conditions in some areas were described at the conference of the National Association of Local Government Officers ut Torquay us "Bank executives want to know all disgraceful and appalling. about their employees both during and after work hours. It is an intru-um ston into their private lives."--

married Milton Decs, her chauffeur and also un amateur poet.

qualified of £225 a year for a fully wealthy background was revealed.

of her time correcting and amending proofs of a book about the Royal Family, "Royal Caval cade," which is to be published this year.

Queen Mary herself has written several interesting passages, includ-: hering narratives about the private lives

of members of her family.

Helping her in the work has been Princess Beatrice, daughter of Queen Victoria.

Police had thought that it was routine ense of suicide, but when they called in Dees to check up on the

woman's A demand was made for a minim-dead

antecedents,

man of 27.

She had been brought up in n Some local authorities were so

In Lawrence Park. small, I wns stated, that it would luxury home

"NOT BEAUTIFUL” a 3d. rate to bring a junior Bronxville, and her first husband A thousand delegates to the British cost

was the noted author arid oculist,

"Her Majesty has been most help- Legion annual conference in London clerk's pay up to the proper scale,

Dr. George Gould, with whom she made it the largest of many Whit-

collaborated on a life of her grand-ful the authoress, Miss Erica Beal, sunside public gatherings,

HAND OF FRIENDSHIP

Major-General Sir Frederick Mau- rice, in his presidential address, said:1 "We are willing to hold out the German and hand ut friendship to Italian ex-Service men, if their Governments will make, it possible.

Milk Saves Auto

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Dees, who is Inconsolable, recently said that the marriage had been "one of minds." Though, earning a living. as a chauffeur, he is a highly edu cated and cultured scholar.

said.

"Queen Mary is a most punctilious reader, and besides revising the book she revised the genealogiesl tables.

"In one passage 1 described King Edward the Seventh's Court, and varlous ladies were mentioned for their beauty.

"But let there be no mistake about: William Driver's automobile is in-

The couple recently completed a "The chapter was returned to me this: If our country is attacked we act, thanks to a five-gallon can of

When the 20,000-miles motor tour before re-with a blue-penell mark through one are going to defend it to the last. It milk he was carrying. our liberties are threatened we are automobile caught fire, Driver ex-turning to live in the coloured sec-name, because, as the Queen said,

tion of Queen's County, going to fight for them. And if our tinguished the flames with the fluid.

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