ROMANCE OF
DAUGHTER OF
SUDAN HERO
AIRMAN'S
ORDEAL
Baroness A-M. Slatin FORCED DOWN
Engaged
FAMOUS FATHER WHO SERVED BRITAIN UNDER GORDON
Baroness Anne-Marie Slatin only child of the late Baron Sir
- Rudolf Statin Pasha, famous for
IN THE HEART
OF ABYSSINIA
Suspected Of Being Italian
his exploits in the Sudan, is to be ENGLISHMAN AND WIFE HURT
married
It was recently announced that the Baroness, who lives at Font-
IN SECOND CRASH
Addis Ababa-Capt.
THE CHIMA HALL RESHAL FERKI
SHAKESPEARE'S
PLAYS BOOM IN
UNITED STATES
Proving Profitable To Many Actors
F
LEADING ACTRESS GROSSES £135,000 ON ONE TOUR
To-day's Short-Story -
The Hand Is
Quicker Than
The Eye
By Walter R. Brooks
THERE was a man named face which made him a good as- Tall Douglas who lived, in sistat, but he really thoughs all the east seventies and was not this magic a terrible bare though New York
Jaf any special importance of course he didn't say so. A Shakespeare "boom" is socially. But he had married Well the trouble with Mr. Doo- sweeping America. This revival
out at Fierre's before the de- that the home is not the place forj interest is not merely academic the last debutante who came glas was but extremely profitable to a numpression and had a lot of bonds magic. He was always trying ber of leading actors.
Miss Katherine Cornell has just so he frequently made the But he didn't Charles concluded a tour of the country
society pages. care much about that. street, SW is engaged to Mr. Lloyd, who, with his wife crashed in "Romed and Juliet" with a
What he was really interested Hans Henry Winterstein Gillespie, in their plane at Adda, 50 miles partly English-cast-
a military carrer. be readily acwas suffering from
that he didn't realise
"TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story, will be "- So Much Good." -by Frank H. Shaw.
in was magic. Ever since be of Chester-terrace. Regent's Park from Addis Ababa, on Christmas During this tour Miss Cornell
was in college he had spent a lot Baron Slatin Pasha was born Day, arrived at the latter place by gave 232 performances as Juliet of money on apparatus for doing
Mrs. Lord in 40 cities, travelled 24,000 miles tricks and he had a pretty com-! near Vienna in 1857. Trained for car five days later.
slight cou-across the American continent.
plete outfit even including six]| cepted the offer made in 1878 by tusions but her husband was re land played to a total of $155,000. wands, a levitation
outfit and a. General Gorder to join him in the covering from his injuries.
a single week, at six differ-
cabinet for sawing a woman in "We were making an air tour ent towa Miss. Cornell netted Sudan, where he was made Gover-
two. He was a member of the from the Sudan, to Addis Ababa," nor of Darfur.
"Last Sunday Moines, Iowa,
$6.600. in a town such as Des Society of American Magicians new tricks on his wife and General Capt. Lloyd said. of
over 3,000 people
for Gordon's governors to surrender we were forced down by magneto jammed the auditorium
single performance and to the Mahdi arid when Khartoum
paid fell, the Mahdists carried. Gezer -
£1.615 Baron Slatin Gordon's head in Tasha and tamsted him with it.
He was the last
Slatin Pasha was the only Earo- pear oficer to survive the horrors
of captivity by the Dervishes, and for twelve years endured indes-B ribable hardships and suffering! in Omdurman before managing to escape to Aswan, which he reach-i ed after covering about 800 miles) by camel and on foot.
He then placed his unrivaled knowledge of the Sudan and the Dervishes at the disposal of chener, and this be was able to play a big part in the final sub-) jugation of the Dervishes at the! Battle of Omdurman.
Thereafter he helped in the re- generation of the Sudan, holding of Major- the honorary rank general in the British Army.
As he was an Austrian his connection with the Sudan had to be broken at the outbreak of the; Great Was. but with the retura of peace the King restored to him the British honours and decora-i
beea bestowed tions which had
upon him.
775.
He died in Vienna at the age of
FAMOUS NAMES IN
DIVORCE LIST
YOUNG ENGLISHMAN JOINS
FOREIGN LEGION
French War Minister Asks For
Report From Africa
Paris: The French War Minis- ter has asked the commander of the 1st Regiment of the French Foreign Legion in Algeria for a report on Arthur Conway the 19-year-old Ipswich lad who joined the Legion, although suf- fering from
of the
spize.
The Minister will decide from the report whether Conway shall be released from service.
CETVRTUTE
Arthur Conway, 300 of Mr. S. D. Conway of Valley-road Ipswich, ran away from home last September after failing in an examination and joined the Foreign Legion He had been told by a surgeon. not to do
strenons work
trouble."
ran op.
"A group of natives bringing us water, and began to kiss my wife's feet. Then a crowć
soldiers of Abyssinian
appeared and surrounded
OUT machine, shouting. You are Italiana.“
2
Miss Cornell is about to produce the play in New York, with the English actors Maurice Evans and Ralph Richardson as Romeo and Mercatio respectively.
PROMONTA
THE MOST REMARKABLE TONIC FOOD AND
NERVE RESTORATIVE EVER KNOWN
if you are "Hired out," ailing, or justicecovering from
about of cold- er imigenza, PROMONTA will restore
you to health and vigour, as no other tonic cin if you ake in fair health, PROMONTA will “put you on your toes" for PROMONTA gives tone and power to the nervous system and brain, increases appetite, aids digestion, enriches the blood and invigorates the whole frame. The first drink of PROMONTA is the first step to the enjoyment of vigorous health. Your health means your ability to perform yeir daily duties..
Powder and Tablets.
From all dispensaries and drug stores
Sole Agents:
BORNEMANN & CO.
Prince's Building
Des Voeux Road, Central'
ed was in demand at parties and meat his evenings going over his HONG KONG BENEVOLENT
benefits where he gave one-man
anything sta 2
FEEDER OF KINGS
įrepertoire
or doing exercises to shows that were as puding as keep his fingers supple and after ¡four years of finding rabbits in see on the you could
the toast dish and of cutting cards He had a batler named Fink and of holding little boxes for whom he took along on these oc him to shoot blank cartridges at
Fiak had Mrs. Douglas got sick of it. casions to assist him. lank black hair and an impassive And she said one morning after Modernised Version
he had taken three hard boiled; Other testimony to the popu-
eggs out of her left ear BI think I will go away for a while! larity of Shakespeare is the long run under Theatre Guild auspices
I am about fed up with this stuff. in New York of a modernised
Why Pat said Mr. Douglas who Iversion of "The Taming of the
really loved his wife I thought Great Restaurateur
1you Shrew, adapted and played by
enjoyed it and he absent- Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne,
mindedly passed a saucer through Dies Suddenly of Miss Gladys the appearance
the table Tricks!" said Mrs. think of Cooper in "Othello” and “Macbeth,"
Mr. Reginald Charles Vaughan, Douglas bitterly. You and the forthcoming appearance.
nothing but tricks and I can't! also in New York, of Leslie Ho-chairman of serenteen hotel com-
production of panies, and a director of the Ritz think why you ever married wel ward in his own
in the first place.
But that was no trick said Mr. "Hamlet" and of Walter Huston in and Carlton, died suddenly at une of his own hotels at Brighton last Othello."
He was sixty-one years Douglas and Mrs. Douglas jump
ied
the table and said:
up from
In addition, Miss Cornell is month. planning to revive “"Macbeth" and fold.
Mr. Vaughan at various times furiously O so that's the way you “Antony and Cleopatra” again with her own company and under had served almost every member feel is it all right then. And she wouldn't listen when Mr. Douglas į of the Royal Family. He knew the direction of her husband.
explained that Le hadn't meant. all their epicurean tastes.
BIG SOVIET ARCTIC PLANS
49 Expeditions This
Year
He frequently ministered to the what she thought he meant and
**
the
needs of the late King she ran up and packed her things
Belgians, ex-King Alfonso, King and went to her father's.
Well Mr. Douglas wrote and George of Greece, and the er-Kai-!
not to do any PROTC ser when they visited this coun- promised
tricks except on Sundays_but Mrs.
Was stubborn and Douglas
*
SOCIETY
DONATIONS URGENTLY REQUIRED
FOR
THIS DESERVING CAUSE.
Send Your Contribution to
HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY,
Daily Press Flig. Ice House Street
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE
Chicken
Dock DOTES
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES
POULTRY.
Soon after the war he was 37-
Large pointed controller of the catering wouldn't even talk to him on the Capons, Small "Two policemeri also came up and demanded our passports. We
Leningrad-A great attack on department of the House of Lords, phone unless he would agree to handed these over, saying. We are the Far North will be made by and within a year was asked by stop doing tricks altogether. So Lord Birkenhead to arrange for athen Mr. Douglas said All right I) Ingleze. We were conducted to a Soviet explorers this year.
The All-Unior Arctic Institute dinner to the King in the Royal am not going to humble, myseif, Eggs, Hen (cook- that and offered food and a strawi bed, while the police telephoned to is organising 49 scientific expedi- Gallery the first time for 400 any more Addis Ababa. This necessitated tions at a cost expected to amount years that a King had runners going on a five-hour trek to about £333,000. Extensive geo-est there.
logical surveys and prospecting to the nearest telephone." Many well-known names figure "The smoke from the fire in the will be carried out in the regions in the divorce lists for the Hilary but was stifling, but we were not adjacent to the northern sea route NEW QUINTUPLETS Term, which begins on January 12. 'allowed to go out..
Viscountess Lymington has an undefended suit. for divorce from Viscount Lymington.
Lord de Clifford As Co-respondent
Emperor's Permission "Next day a kindly Armenian
across the top of the world,” ae- cording to the semi-official Tass Agency.
REPORTED
But he was not really very happy. mic performance he took it Pigeons, Canton.
Hen
Feb. 9, Feb. 1336 1918 Cts. Cts.
22
Beef Sirloin
Bullock's Brains
Tongue, fresh
coded
Ib.
Feb. 9, Feb.
1936 1913
Cts.
BUTCHER MEAT.
40 30
48
Parné Cus
"
50 28
Corned
Breast
each 40
Soup Steak
and he set up, all his been a apparatus in the living room and Eggs, Hen (fresh)
spent his evenings at tricks and Fowl, Haina
Canton illusions with the butler. And
Geese every invitation he got to give a
ing)
per doz. 30
Steak Sirloin Sapsages
Th 40
62
32
each 50- 80
Heart Hamp. Salt
Falcow
20
Feet
95
Edneys
75
6%
Tail
Liver
Tripe
2.20
Calves Head.
each 17
Peet
set 15
10
Mutton Chip
2
FRUITS
Shoulder
Sadde Brains
Der set
Pig's Chitlings
each
Th
ช
each
#
Kidneys
Live X
Pork Chop
Persimmons, Large Pumelo, Siam Walnuts Grapes
Artichokes
esch 16
b.
Loin
·Leg Fator: Land Sheep's Fend
Feet
per set
Then one evening he walked Turkeys, Cock into the living room just after
black-bearded man in a white robe Pheasant and turban. Mr. Douglas jumped Quail
Partridge and said Why where did you come on the
Managua (Nicaragua). Special from? but the man got up and just
Almonds Tamy Peninsula.
Government evuriers have been looked at him threateningly. Mr.
Lemons, China One of the largest expeditions ordered to
the mountain Douglas rang for Fink but Fink Bananas (bride's)
Search In Nicaragua dinner and there sat a tall sinister Saipe
For Confirmation
Several expeditions will prospect A wife's suit for the restitution Bew explained to us in Arabic that for coal on the Alozei uplands Ce of conjuzal rights in the same liste could not be allowed to fly to tween the rivers Indigirka and is that filed by the Hon. L Akers Addis Ababa until permission ar Kolyma in Siberia) and Douglas against the Hon. A. Akers rived from the Emperor.
Douglas.
fended, is listed as
Burdett
Lady Carnarvon
arrived
T.
This
Christmas morning.
100
and
servant
husband's divorce suit, unde-We repaired the 'plane and tried will study the White Sea herds of passes in Matagalpa Province to only looked shocked and said he Carambola
to take off, but the ground was Greenland seals. Another is going the remote village of Sabana had not let the man in and he had Cocomats
or Grande to investigate the reported never seen his before: Well that Apples (California) Burdett and Russell (commonly very bumpy, and we failed to rise to the Enisseisk region to
Lessons, American ""The port engine cut out, and ganise the breeding of the musk birth there of quintuplets. is very funny said Mr. Douglas Lichees, Dried ... known as Lord de Clifford).
A travelling mulepack pedlar for the door is locked and the bell Oranges (Canton) Viscountess Tirertos has filed are crashed into an umbrella tree, rat, which is valuable for its fur. the trunk of which pierced the
brought the story to Managua on didn't ring. But the man held up Oranges (Sweet) Viscount suit for divorce from
GERMANY LIMITS WEIGHT Christmas night and ever since his hand and said I это Simon Pears (Canton) Tiverton, which is not contested cabin. I was knocked unconscious and my wife was pinioned in the
the capital of Nicaragua has been Magus the magician. Dismiss your Oranges (American) each OF WEDDING RINGS cabin.
Booded with inquiries from all The Countess of Carnarvon ap
"Natives helped - us
parts of the world, clamouring for Berlin. Tist the ⚫ undefended
The Mr. Douglas smiled and pears in petitioning for a divorce from the rendered most efficient first aid
A limit has been fixed for the news about the rivals of the Dionne
Isaid O. I see. For other magi- My wife wrote a letter to the Bri-
VEGETABLES, ETC. Earl of Carnarvon.
tish Legation. Then she fainted weight of wedding rings in Ger-babies.
Sabana Grande is 30 miles from cians often came to call and dis Lady Orr Lewis has entered a
Berns, Sprout "Thirty-six hours later we set many, and the amount of fine gold
this was some professional who
Long petition for a judicial separation: from Sir J. D. Our Levis. This out for Addis Ababa, myself on a which they may contain, in a Matagalpa on an almost inacces Cuss new ilusions and be supposed
mule and my wife on a stretcher decree issued by the Control Desible plateau, and has no
graphic or telephonic communica had heard of some of his effects Beetroot case is in the defended list.
The reported parents are and wanted to learn how to pro- Binjais, Green In the same list is the petition carried by relays of natives, who partment for precious metals:
The gold thas saved, it is added, tions. for dive brought by Mrs. D. L. had been summoned for the pur- F. Mais ainst Mr. S. P. B. Mais, pose by the trampets of the big can be used for other purposes. Florencio and Timothea Laines duce them. So he dismissed Fink
The trafic in old gold is also poor farming people. chiefs the author and broadcaster.
"The last stage of the journey regulated for the first time.
CHILE LEVIES TAX ON BACHELORS,
Legal Appeal Lodged By Catholic Priest
Santiago (Chile)-Should priest of the Roman Catholic
was made by car. We have noth- ing but admiration and gratitude for the hospitality and kindness of ¡the natives."..
COWN SHOP RAIDED
tele
COAL EXPORT RECORD
FOR BRITISH PORT -
About 6,400,000 tons of
ja swell trick and I wish you'd tell
(Medium) me how you did it. But the man
(Small) scowled and said I do not do tricks O false sarcerer I have come to Carrots warn you Warn met said Mr. Celery, Caninese
Challies, Dried Dougins
and said Well that was certainly Cabbage, Chinese
(Shan Canitower
Bed
each
cozi
A satin wedding gown W28 jamong 525 worth of dresses stolen
Yes said the man for 1 am a real from a shop near Waterloo Sta-were shipped last year from Blyth magician and one of a secret, or- tion, which was raided last month Northumberland 1 record for the ganisation of sorcerers GERMANY PRODUCING MORE for the second time in 14 days.
AND CHEAPER BOOKS
Berlin-The number of.. new
Church be compelled tog the books published during the 11
bachelors tax when he has
the vow of lifelong celibacy
months of 1935 in Germany was
9,762, zs against 9,060 in fine
1
This is the issue to be decided whole of 1934
in the Chile Court of "
which is to hear an action against the Board of LG "-vente by Father -
Bema Ábarzua, an army chaplan
Father Aberzuă declares that
is only logical that prie
be exempt from the back
because -En grazii introduced to
The Revenue Departi fuses to aduit any
The average price per book was
New
port.
Curry Stub, Em Cacumben whose Garlic headquarters is among the peaks Ginger Loung
OLI of the Himalayas and we have de-
Horseradish cided that we can no longer Indian Corn
tricksters like yourself who pass Clas themselves off a magiciangSwell Onion,
Guildford Cathedral tolerate the activities of mere attace
In spite of a certain amount of There has been a good deal of said Mr. Douglas laughing. But I
ition in the diocese, the misunderstanding on the scheme also am a member of an organiza ing of Guildford Cathedral is owing to the fact that the site, on tion the Society of A
There is no do proceed
Hu given by the Earl of Magicians. Tricksters growl
per cent below that of 1934 to and 8 per cent. below that of 1933, the
HORING CATS JOURNEY
great bulk of the bishop
"outside the
is for scowing who know
an area which i
of the real Black Art. 0
Expidly,
Dongles but are you
ake the
oth that there is
Potato,
the
Boot
10.
#
Feet Pry
Head
Heart Kidneys Liver
Sucking Pigs
Order Soet, Beef Soet, Beet
Mutton
Sausages
No.
-FASE
Barbei Canton Presi
Water Fish
Codish
Crabs
Dace
· Cattle Fish-
Féla- Conser
Eels Fresh Water
Eds. Yellow
ཙྩ ཝཾ ॰
Tb.
88858982883899848 8**9*98****888** **** 480890# * **********************888*ANS
488 *******88928|ARASAN" 8X88|10998980(88 8*88 88888|| 2 19889811989UMUUNASAZUWAKKEARNS