THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1935.
INTRODUCING the Dunedin quadruplets—¡left to right) Kathleen, Bruce, Vera, and Mary.
'QUINS'
MOTHER
SACRIFICES
LOOKS FOR HER SON
HAPPY TO SUFFER FOR HIM
Pyle (Glamorgan).
HAVE
FOUR RIVALS
"Quads" Are
SCIENCE
Thriving In WINS
New Zealand IN AFRICA
THREE GIRLS AND DOCTOR WHO DEALT
W
A BOY
WITH DEATH
New Zealand's Quadruplets, A DOCTOR who want-
lets, are twenty-one weeks old and thriving.
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Three are girls--Mary, Kath- leen, and Vern. The fourth, is
Bruce,
Jittle
Aug. 1. For two years Mrs. William Jellyman, wifehen, of Caversham, a
They were born to Mr. and Mrs, of a miner, who lives in earlier than was expecteil.
On the day after their arrival Collwyn-road, Pyle, has sorrowed over her little they were admitted to the Trub King-Harris Hospital at Dunedin, son. Now her sorrow four wailing little creatures, none has been turned into much over four pounds, gladness thanks mother-love.
to:
The son-Juck-is now four.! When he was two he was knock ed down by a motor-car, Among other injuries his right ear was torn off..
"A Handicap"
That slisfigurement worried his
He
Bruce was the higgest. weighed 4lbs, 1/2oz. Vera was nest, 4lbs; then Kathleen, 3lbs. 11120z; and Mary, 3lbs. 101202.
£20,000,000 HEIR
MAY COME TO HONGKONG TO FOIL KIDNAPPERS
New York, Aug. 1.
MR.
R. John Jacob Astor's £20,000,000 son, born a week ago, will spend most of his days of in- fancy at sea to escape the kidnapping menace.
Ever since the heir to the Astor fortunes, was born his erib at a fashionable New York nursing home has been guarded night and day by armed detec- tives.
. His
father fearS
that the child is in peril of meeting the same fate as the first Linbergh baby. So to-day he gave orders that no more people were to be admitted to the nursing home to see his son.
He also gave orders that the workmen renovating his new yacht were to rush the job through so that he can take his wife and baby on an indefinite cruise out of harm's way.
Mrs. Astor, formerly Miss ed to know whether Ellen Tuck French, has never the dreaded sleeping been to the Far East. But Astor made a hurried trip through the Sickness could be con-Orient, visiting Hongkong en tracted in certain condi- route, after his sensational en- tions allowed himself to pie, his present wife's best gagement to Miss Eileen Gilles- be bitten by tsetse flies. friend, was broken off.
Nothing happened.
himself from a guinea pig to The doctor then inoculated which the disease had already been transmitted.
He contracted sleeping sick- ness, but his life was saved by a drug inoculation,
That is the story of Dr. J. F. Corson, of the Research Labora tory at Tinde, in Tanganyika, ¡Africa.
In revealing it in their report
with care, wrapped in cotton wool. At Brst they hud to be treated kept warm with hot-water bottles, The East Africa Sub-Committee of the Tsetse Fly Committee say: "We would like to congratu- late Dr. Corson on his work and to express our appreciation of his netion."
But now they are well past the f chiffleuft first quarter of their first ! year they are treated as normal babies. They are fed every four; hongs during the day and sleep all
Similar tributes are paid to Mr.
mother terribly. She was afraid night, besides dozing half the day. C. Smith, of the Veterinary De.
that at school other boys would make fun of her son, and that later on it would be a handicap to him,
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the end of three monthspartment, who allowed himself to ruce weighed more than 80s, be bitten by an infected tsetse fly Boze, a pound more than any of his sisters
Visitors besiege the hospital in She made many inquiries, At the hope of catching a glimpse of
last she discovered that a graft-
ing operation was possible
them.
but did not contract the disease), and to an African volunteer, who turing another experiment develop. rd sleeping sickness after being bitten by an infected fly.
If some one could be found will- and Mrs. Jellyman and her son aiderable ing to sacrifice an ear.
have now returned home.
"I am willing," she said.
"Liko Others"
"We feel," state the committee, "that no praise is too high for such services as these rendered at con- risk to the cause of science."
Sleeping sickness--not to be con fused with sleepy sickness ten- the greatest scourges of tropical cephalitis lethargica)—is one of Africa, where it has even compell- ed the complete abandonment of
It is transmitted.from animal
She was told that it might The boy is too young to be mean considerable pain for her. able to say much about what has She did not mind that. As for happened. His mother hopes the disfigurement, she said, "I he will soon forget it altogether. fertile districts. can hide it with my hair. Jacky All she would say of it herself carriers to the blood of man by was: "I am happy. My boy bites of the tsetse fly. Constant will now be as other children."war is being waged on the breed-
It was Mr. Jellyman who tolding places of the fly. most of the story. with the words: "She is wonder- He ended
ful."
.can't."
So arrangements were made. The operation was performed in St. Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill, London, three weeks ago,
BATHING ON THE ROOF IN LONDON
drake have
installed portable bathing paols on the roafs of their piemlive in London,
KUP RAM allow the staff to enjoy a lasak hour a
CONCUBINES
OUTLAWED BUT—
Flaw In Law
WIFE AS JUDGE
Shanghai, Aug. 7. Taking of concubines, a practice sanctioned by olf Chinas Jaw in order to assure the birth of male! offspring, is definitely outlawed in China to-day.
Enforcement of the new criminal code, which applies not only to alf Chinese citizens but to foreigners But enjoying extraterritorial rights. in the country, was expected to sound the death-knell of Chinese multiple marringes. But there is one provision in the code which may set the ban at naught.
The wife of the man who takes a concubine must file a complaint. Otherwise, he is immune from en- forcement of the law.
code
Old Oriental Custom Married men when convicted of marrying more than once, or of committing adultery, will be pua- ished aoverely. But, the provides, such action is only punishable when the wife of the adulteror goes into court and swears out
R warrant. Young Chinese wives nurtured on west- ern doctrines of marital fidelity, may not hesitate to take legal act-1 lon to assert their rights, but tha Chinese woman of the older gen- eration is expected to cling to the old Oriental custom of non-com- plaint.
Under the code, a Chinese who desires to form an alliance out of wedlock, or to patronise a house mfasion of his wife in advance. of I-fame, must obtain the per-
Possibly his first cruise in the palatial yacht in which he will gunrd his heir wit be to the Far East, especially to Hongkong, for which he ex- pressed enthusiastic admiration when he passed through the British colony eighteen months)
ago.
will be given the name of his It is probable that the boy father, and become John Jacob Astor the Fourth.
whole of the Astor fortune of Some day he will inherit the
more than twenty million pounds.
The father has had a curious and eventful life. He was 2
MRS. JOHN J. ASTOR. posthunious NON, his father losing his life in the Titanie ried William
Mr. Astor's mother later mar when returning from a honey-divorced a few years ago.
Dick, whom she atoon with his 19-year-old bride, whose life he saved foreing her cently she created a nation-wide into a boat as the ship went sensation by marrying an Italian down,
boxer named Enzo Fiermonte.
Re-
Wells And G.B.S. Star In
A Film---For £5 Each
PICTURE "HUMANISING" THE B.B.C.
STARS in a film which will be screened in Hong-
soon include-
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George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, David Low, The Rev. "Dick" Sheppard, Henry Hall, Eric Maschwitz, Clapham and Dwyer, and The Voice of Sir John Reith.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Forgetting
Because they are said to give offence to German visi- tors, Broadstairs Council propose to delete the words "Lest we forget" from * notice board drawing atten- tion to a raft from the Lusi- tania which is exhibited as a relic of the war on the jetty.
The film is a six-reel "docu- mentary" entitled "B.B.C.-the Voice of Britain."
1. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and others not on the B.B.C. staff were paid £5 each for their work.
B.B.C. Influence
As the title indicates, the film is about Broadcasting House, its in- mates and influence. It was pro- duced by Stuart. Legg for John Grierson's G.P.O. Fils Unlt.
By far the biggest investment in "documentary" Alms hus been made by
Gaumont-British
the
| Corporation. Their G.-B. Instruc- tionaf and G.-D. Equipments sub- sidlaries have, during the past two years been developing a cinematie Five-Year Plan unparalleled in the industry normally sacred to quick profits.
In the last twenty months nu less than £150,000 has been sink by these two companies in the business of opening up schools, institutes and regular cinemas for "documentary films.
It will be at least another three years before there Is à chance of a return on the investment.
£500 A Wook
Most of the money comes per- sanally from Jaidore Ostrer, preal- dent of Gaumont-British.
Filmus unsuitable for showing [anywhore except in schools and in- stitutes are being made at the rate of one a wook, at an everage cost of £500. Yet there are not at present moro than 100 places in Britain where purely educational films can be marketed-and the average rental paid is us.
So far there are no cinema equipped schools in Hongkong, but some time ago plans were afoot at one private institution. "B.B.C.the Volce of Britain" will, howevor, not await these, plans maturing but will be screened, probably at, the King's Theatre, through Gaumont British.
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DARING YOUNG MAN
A FOX Picture with
JAMES DUNN MAE CLARKE NEIL HAMILTON
Produced by ROBERT T.KANÉ Directed by WILLIAM'A SZÍTER. from a story by Claude Binyon & Sidney Skolsky
TOPPING EVERYTHING FOR THRILLS
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD:
HOW one man led 5,000 convicts in mutiny.
HOW America's "Public Enemy No. 1" sprang the greatest
jail-break in history!
HOW the B.I., D.J.* trailed the "Purple Gang" to their -
hideout !
HOW Washington headquarters solved the "Clue of the
Limping Surgeon !"
a movie theatre
HOW a woman led the Seerot Sorvico to
lobby, and America's most dangerous killer !
* Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
"I'LL
BREAK THIS JOINT APART! And when I start, look out!"; But the tougher they come, the harder they fall for a woman--- that's when the "Secret Serv. ice" takes them! Drama thatwilltie your nerves,
into knots!
DUBLIC HERO
Har
Number
wtih
LIONEL BARRYMORE JLAR ARTHUR CHESTER MORRIS JOSEPH CALLEIA PAUL KELLY+LEWIS STONE Directed by 1. WALTER KUBEN Produced by LUCIEN HUBBARD
QUEEN'S-TO-MORROW