FEARED GOVT. JOB
He Wouldn't
Come To
Hongkong
HOW LOCAL A.D.C.
LOST ITS BEST
PLAYER
HONGKONG or Holly-
wood?
A well-known actor, now a famous film star, once had to to choose between the two.
He is Boris Karloff, fam- ous for his role in "Franken- stein" and other similar thrillers.
His real name is James Pratt, and his father was in the Civil Service in India.
Karloff told the story of how
he chose between Hongkong į and Hollywood in a recent inter.
view in the flm centré.
to!
Ils father wanted him follow an offleint career. and educated him
Merchant
ni
Taylor's School, at Uppingham. and at King's College, London, - with this end in view,
"But I couldn't get interested in the work," says Karloff. "I ♫ pour scholar in
WAS sequence.
Coil-
"My last year in college was devoted to a stuity of Chinese, and finally passed all my ex- aminations.
"Then I received an appoint- ment as Cadet in the Hongkong Civil Service.
Pick-and-Shovel
"But 1 didn't want to go,
begged my father for a chance ¦
to do something else-anything as long as it wasn't work that kept me tied to a Government stool.
THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. ›
GIANT
AERIAL
BATTLESHIP
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1935.
PREPARING FOR WAR
Designed to meet U. S. Army specification for a giant serial battleship, Boeing's new bombing plans is shown at the hangari at Seattle, Wash., waiting tests. Four 800-horsepower moters drive its 15-ton grocs weight at a top speed of 250 miles per hour with a cruising radius of 2.500 miles. Five me chine gun turvata, protected by unbreakable glass, jut from the the aluminium fuselage. The plane is 70
feet long, has a 195-feet wingspres d, and will enery six tons of bombs.
"I went to Canada, and got Gold
work as a farmhand. Then I went to Bauff, but jobs were At Vancouver I got a scurce, pick-and-shovel job, then tried salesmanship-and went back to the pick a shovel when my j money ran out.
Then Karloff tells how he drifted to Hollywood and finally broke into pictures.
would
Probably, had he carried out his father's wishes, be have been a taipan official, in Hongkong in-day and, had he dabbled in A,D.C, work, inbelled a "fair" member,
been
From
Dirty Bathwater
MODERN SCIENCE FINDS FORTUNE
But, although Hollywood has brought him more downs than 600,000,000 hoard. ups until recently, he has never regretted the step that led him to the film Colony instead of the
other Colony.
FILMED ANTARCTIC
Ponting's Remarkable Camera Record
SCOTTS EXPEDITION
London, Aug. 30.
Undesirable Companions Of The Bath
FEW
JELLYFISH SEASON IS HERE AGAIN
seas are so free from undesirable companions of the bath as are those around the China coast but the average seabather seldom appreciates the peculiar im- munity from harm which he enjoys when disporting him- self in Hongkong waters.
IN REFUSE Washington, Aug. 28. Uncle Sam is recovering gold from dirty bath water OCCASIONAL weather visitors whose scientific interest is rind smoke to add to his $9,-sektom appreciated by the bather
encountering them are the elec
The Irie ray and sling ry, Nellie Taylor Russ, former former is a flat rounded fish Wyoming Governor and now dis whose flabby body is literally a rector of the mint, explained
mass of miniature electric bat- frow modern science bad made itteries, and these may administer possible to reclaim approximate-
a shock varying in seriousness. ly 885,000 in gold and $4,000 in according to the size of the fish. silver during the past year,
The electric ray is a rarity in Almost
every conreivable (our seas, but often swarms on the. method is used, she said. Cloth-coast of Europe, where the fish ing to which gold particles stick, notify their prosence to the bathers sweepings from the floor and for waders unprotected by rubber- walls, smoke to which specks of soled shoes. in a very dramatic gold could attach and even the fashion.
HERBERT G. PONTING.all these researched for ste is a much more frequent
who died in February
season.
(water which the workers bathe The stingray, another sen gang-
visitor, Its the previous bits of metal.
tail long whip-lash curries
two-edged
summer serrated of the Sweepings from the floors and stiletto, and is sanch to be avoided. at the age of 64, has left, as walls, newspapers, wearing ap
name is self-explanatory.
Worse Than The Shark No creature perhaps has given his own memorial, perhaps|parel are all burned and the rise to more universal terror than the most remarkable collée- ashes treated for gold.—Buited|ike octopus. With its 1,200 or
tion of photographs ever made by one man.
These are on exhibition in his flat at 44, Oxford Man- sions, London.
Press.
HITLER UNIQUE
AMONG RULERS
automatically attach itself to the bather.
Their
Calise
Mid-European Nations
Arm Millions
BIG INCREASE NOTED SINCE GERMANY QUIT LEAGUE
Vienna, Aug. 28.
The Little Entente, the "polier dog" of French policy in central and south-eastern Europe, has increased its armies by
more
than 15 per cent., since Germany left the League of Nations and the world disarmament confer- ence collapsed, it is revealed,
To-day the three members of the Entente have 702,000 men under arms to wee that the territorial nrrangements of the peace-treatles are not disturbed.
This is an increase of approxi- mately 111,000 men over the figure returned to the League of Nations about the time Gerinany left the Longue and Europe started pre- paring for war inslend of disarm- ing for pence,
Strong Air Force Included
The soldiers of the Little Entente (Czecho Slovakin, Yugo Slavia and Boumania! are backed by 1,913 aeroplanes and other equipment denied to their neighbours (Aus- tria, Hungary and Bulgaria) who emerged defented from the World War.
In addition these three nations have millions of trained reserves who can be rushed to the colours in the event of war. Official stn- tisties place the war-time strength of the Little Entente at around. 5,000,000 men.
Dominant Force
Even to the camtal observer it is obvious the Little Entente is the dominant force in central and Bouth-eastern Europe. Together with its associate, the Balkan En- tente, it commands n "peace-time" army of about 950.000 soldiers and a war-time force of around 7,200,000 men.
War Losers Vastly Weaker Against this united force of the sintus-quo group of the nations who were defented in the world war have a combined standing army of approximately 100,000 men with scarcely any regular trained reserves.
Even if there three nations have secretly larger armies that allow-
ed them in the peace treaties the totul could hardly pass 200,000 or considerably less than one-third of the Little Entente strength.
These Ogures are interesting be Cause they show how suicidul would be a war between any mem- ber of the Little Entente and any member of the defeated powers.
Two-Nation War Doubtful
A war in this part of the world is almost out of the question un Jess it is a part of a bigger Euro- pean war. A regional war is al most unthinkable..
Hungary, the chief revisionist agilator of the defented group of powers, realises this and is doing Feverything to destroy the unity of the Little Entente and to get free from the military restrie-
tions of its peace treaty. Austria and Bulgaria, although revisionist and enger to rearm, are not sharp in their demands.-United Press,
HE WASN'T DEAD
CORPSE' DEMANDED
MONEY BACK
A formidable relative of the jelly-fish is the Portuguese Man more suckers an octopus spanning War, a very occasional visitor, four feet across the arms can exert fortunately, to Hongkong, and at a very appreciable pull upon any once recognised by an inflated float thing with which it comes into con- having a vividly tinted crest apon thet, and a specinien may quile its top which serves as a sail to
Vienna, Aug. 30. catch the wind.
Velico Karakamott, of Sofa. Long, azure-blue tendrils trail-for the two days, but he did object | didn't mind being "offleinlly" dend RECEIVES NO SALARY The danger from any octopus infing beneath the float can The exhibition contains
Berlin, Aug. 30. - Hongkong waters is, however, more severe pain to luckless bathers, and to paying for it. very fine examples of this The German Relch's Fuehrer psychic than physical, and a firm in some seas the "Man of War" ie which the Wiener Tag carries from work in India, China and and Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, prob. Krip need only be averted on the oven more dreaded by native divers
Its Sofia correspondent. Japan as well as the Polarly is the only head of state in creature's head and body to induce than is the shark.
large specimen to at once,
Karakamoff, according to the Tan. the world who does not receive even
Sharks have very occasionally was a rich wine merchant whose regions.
any salary.
been seen in Hongkong, and If life Was made hateful by a He received many honours, in- His chancellor's anary of 20,000-
Those Jollyfish
anyone has been taken by one, it stomach disease. The doctor ad- cluding the King George V. Polar marks a year in being turned over A bathing companion with a must have been in the "dim days vised an operation, and Karakamoff Medal and the Royal Geographi- to a special trust fund, and his justly lurid reputation is the jelly-beyond recall." cal Society's medal for "Antarc-Presidential salary of 60,000 marks fish. Numerous species invade our
* ༩༠* relax Its hold.
n year, upon his order, is being weather, but the stinging varieties shores Cu mużne during hot withheld by the treasury.
The Reich pays Hitler merely are only two in numbor.
effected
庚
WERE YOU RIGHT?
This is the story, at any rate,
consented.
The doctor visited his patient one night after the operation. Karaka- moff was dead, he thought, and ho wrote out a death certificate.
Aneeze
and
tic Exploration."
Captain Scott described him in his diary as "an artist in love the president's "entertainment The netual process of stinging is Answers to Brain-Teasers with his work."
fund" of 120,000 marks a year, cells, each one of which contains
by innumerable minate!
The next day "Widow" Karalu- Ponting is chiefly known as This fund is destined to cover the what is virtually a
Printed on Page 2.
moff bought an expensive cofn, paid all burial expenses in advance, and the photographer of the Antare-expenses of the receptions of harpoon. These cells being touch- mininture
1.-Archimedes. tic. He was chosen by Captain foreign diplomats and other off-ed, the harpoons are released by a
2. An oil obtained from trees grow-husband's wine shop,
engaged a new manager for her ing in the Philippines. Scott out of more than one clal functions..
3-Red, white and green.
On the second day, just as the "spring trigger" contrivance, and Hitler, of course, le able to fore- the well-known stinging, sensations Louise Caroline Alberta, daughter of Karakamoff let hundred applicants to be the
4-In honour of H... Princess coffin was being closed permanently, loose a hearty official photographer of his Ex- his salary because he earns sesult
Queen Victoria. large personal income as author! pedition. He will be remember of the best-seller "My Struggle" abundant stinging cells of these to write
sat
wife up. Hi Curiously enough, although the
Latin Mantier hand, and scribere, fainted and Was
taken tur the ed for his lecture-film "With and as co-proprietor of the Nazi animals can inflict severe inflamma.
hospital. 6-Euclid's Elements of Geometry. Scott in the Antarctic," which he party's publishing company.
Once out of the coffin Karakamoff 7-Lachrymose. tion-best allayed with some alka-, How large this income. is has line solution-many small fishes 1934). gave over a thousand times in the Philharmonic Hall. But this never been disclosed. Many peo-habitually shelter beneath them, in-Cherry Red,
-Broncho-pneumonia. (15.78% in sued the doctor for £100.
"That's what his error cost me", was only part of an adventurous ple in and outside Germany wen-this-manner enjoying immunity
he told the court in no uncertain life which began as a bank clerk,dered whether it was large enough from both fish focs and attacks England to Australia. The Australian
10. The aeroplane travelling from words.” and Ponting's travels carried him to enable Hitler to make a gift of from son birds soaring overhead.
The court rojected his action and coastline is longer by about 1,500 Karakamol is still trying to Ball & and his camera over most of the the victims of the recont explosion fish are the minute jelly-fish which ably have radio sets there too).
100,000 marks to the families of Irritating rolations of the Jolly- mlies. globe.
11-Mediterranean (but they prob-good second-hand coffin. He re- at Reinadorf.-United Press,
fuses to pay the doctor-United infest our waters towards the end 12-India (North-west Frontier).
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