THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,
World's Luckiest
CADBURY'S Consul Dies:
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CADBURYS
DAIRY
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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN The Society asks for
¿ $25,000
in 1936 to continue its work for
sick and destitute children.
Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A..
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co.,
P. GO. Building.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,
Hongkong.
THE
MADE IN
THE
GARDEN
VILLAGE
OF
BOURNVILLE,
Won Rand Riches
Said a Central News Johannesburg cable recently:
Sir George Albu, consul for Denmark and chairman and managing director of the General Mining and Finance Corporation, Ltd., in Johannesburg, has died here at the age of seventy-eight,
"History of the Rand" says much more about Sir George Albu, who was born in Berlin and educated there, and was naturalised as a British subject in 1887.
His story really begins with that of a wandering carpenter, George Honeyball, who was working on the Rand fifty years ago when he discovered the Leader Gold Reef.
"Do you think It is the real stuff?” he asked an expert.
“Man alive?" was the reply, "It is almost pure gold."
That was the beginning of the great rush to the thousand million pound goldfield of the Rand. Mud Cottage Home
George Honeyball did not prosper—was found
ENGLAND in 1930 living in à mud cottage--but many of the
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pioneers of the gold rush prospered. Among them George Albu.
Fear Of War
of
When his Meyer and Chariton mine closed down about two years
had produced revenue nya it £12,000,000.
Sir George as he became in 1912–married in 1888 a daugh- Ler of Max Rosendorff, and his eldest son and heir, Mr. George Werner Albu, who is aged thirty, is sub-manager of the General Mining and Finance") Corporation.
"MIRACLE" BRIDGE HAND, TWO IN SIX WEEKS
Twice within six weeks in Australia has happened that miracle of bridge, a drat when cach of the four players re- ceives 13 cards of a suit. The first, says Austral News, was in a, private home in Melbourne and the second, at the Warra- dale Institute, Adelaide when thirty people, vouched for its authenticity. Mathematicians calculate that the odds against
single player being dealt 13 at a suit are 158,000,000 to mict
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FEBRUARY 1, 1936.
SHE TENDS THE LIGHT
In the Baltic Haff there is a lighthouse which is kept by a woman. She took over this port after her husband died.
MEDITERRANEAN CRUISES BY P.&.O.
HOLIDAY TRIPS TO U.S.
TRASTIC alterations are being made in cruising programmes for 1936. This is due to the situation in the Mediterranean and the withdrawal of three large Cunard-White Star liners from this form of service.
The P. and O. Company has f The Blue Star Line is limiting decided to avoid Italian ports its cruising calls to Italy to two.
Both will be made at Venice. entirely this season. Other com- An official of the Cunard-White panies are restricting the num- Star said: "In 1935 we
FAR 30 ber of calls, and may decide to cruises. This year we have ar- omit them altogether.
ranged only 11 and only one liner, 0.the Lancastria, will be available,
sailing from Liverpool.
An official of the P. and Company in London said:
"We feel that Britishers will not wish to run the risk of inhospitable treatment. Possibly the Italians would.welcome cruising passengers, but we are not at all confident that we should receive full bookings for these routes.
"We are running 20 cruises in 1936, compared with 25 last year."
DEAD AVIATRIX HOLDS FOUR WORLD RECORDS
Paris, Jan. 18.
:
is 2,076.910 kilometers unbeaten
Instead of cruises the Cunard- White Star and other companies are selling out to popularise holiday tours to New York- there and luck in three weeks. costing from about £55. The round trip in the Queen Mary, including the time in New York, will
cost from about £40 (third class) to about 100 guineas. Now is a good time to buy a
Floating palaces that cost any- thing from £1,000,000 to £3,000,000 lean be picked up for a comparative
song.
New bailing programmes are
For the second successive year the official records of women's being planned, inspired partly by aviation marks published by the International Aeronautic Federa-the turning of the trade tide and tion are tribute to the late Helene Boucher, young French girl who partly by the impending appear- ance on the North Atlantic of the was killed in a banal test flight in December, 1934.
Queen Mary. Of the twelve world's records flyer, holds the straight line dis brought France another world's for women officially recognized by tance mark for light planes, which record last September when she the federation, Mile, Boucher still holda four. Amelia Earhart and Helen MacCloskey are the only re- presentatives of the United States, While France holda seven of the twelve records and Italy three. The Marquise Carina Negrone ac- counts for all' of her country's records.
Amelia Earhart's distance re- cord of 3,939 kilometers establish- ed in 1932 remains unchallenged. During the year the Marquise
Negrone set up a new altitude
mirk of 12,043 meters, and held
Just Received.
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HONG KONG
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
起
18
1 The plaintiff makes a grumble
about one particular article
8 One more and you get something
you can enll a sésre!.
9 Surely not Instruction to very old soldier to be polite?
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11 Gives us a small number; that's.
only scuse.
12 Dined inside, subsequently. 13 Poetry, two minor ingredients and this can make a wilderness a paradise. 18 Warlike sineus,
17 What idiots do. (Two words,
3.).
10
Counter-change.
21 The hunting man's efflorescence, 23 She took part in a cool game. 24 Quadrupe never seen without a
*20
mask.
Good shape for a cricket en-
28 Not a friendly spirit.
thusiast
since 1931, and Maryse Hilszet the light plane altitude mark | 29 An extra word or two about.
Russian Hollywood
A
of 7.338 meters.
GREAT SOVIET CINEMA PROJECT UNDER WAY
►
Moscow, Jan. 18. SOVIET Hollywood, or "Gollivood," as the name is pronounced here, is to be built immeditely on the Black Sea coast. It will the high Caucasian ranges.
be either in the Crimes or further south-east, under the shelter of
72
1935
her Class C altitude mark of 5,554 meters and her Benplane altitude 'record which was established in
Both districts have about 209, Ave times as much as the the same flight.
sunny days a year, the finest State credit for cinemas.. Helene Boucher still holds the scenery imaginable, composed of "An All-Union Congress of Film world's triangular base speed re-sea, mountain and valley, and the Workers, now sitting in Moscow, cord, and the 100 kilometer and great wheat-growing Steppes close has convinced the Government of 1,000 kilometer marka of 446.028 at hand.
the necessity of this enormony kilometers, 412.371 kilometers and About 500 of the best film actors, sacrifice by emphasising the "tech- 409.184 respectively, und her110 producers, 55 photographic nical backwardness" of the Soviet light plane 1,000 kilometer speed managers,
camoramen, 66 cinema as judged by American mark of 250.086 kilometera.net sound-registering experts, 40 scone standarde, despite its huge im with Mme. Becker in July. 1934 painters with over 100 assistants, portance for influencing foreign 140 laboratory workers and an army opinion. "We can, and shail, Helen MacCloskey gives the of supers and handymen will surpass the technique of America, United States the 100 kilometer occupy 10 big studios with a total and in a Tew years' time we shall ilght plane mark of 268.169 kilo-area of 3,300,000 square feet, and have the most powerful and per- meters, which she established at another 11,000,000 square feet for fect cinema Industry In the whole Minml last January. The Woman's outdoor sets.
world," this congrees proclaims. light plane nititude record is held, by Mme. Madeleine Charaux and Mlle. Clark at 6,116 meters,
Maryse Bastle, another French
still stands.
SALESMAN SAM
in
To Beat U.Ş. Technique ¡ "The great Socialist Power,” it This is described as a niere be-is declared, "must come first ginning. But it will cost Russia arts of every kind, including the '£6,000,000 in 1936 wlone, or nearly cinema."
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3 Pull up fish in the way the wind
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for this.
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of Europe,
21 Get ready to trim round the
dress material.
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laugh?
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