THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY
5, 1935.
12 MEN FOR ATTACK ON
KING
EDWARD CUTS DOWN ON "FAGS"
THE
London, Jun. 26.
HE new King of England on the side of forty where life is supposed to be just beginning, is cutting down on cigarettes.
Just as he started reducing his daily wine consumption a few yera nga King Edward Is amok. Inir cigarettes that are similar in looks to the American "cubeb" although they haven't undergone any de-nicotinizing process,
I
His cigarettes, made exclu- sively for him but without any cross or other marks of royal distinction which might make them prize trophics for the hero-worshippers, contain only half the usual amount of tobacco. The rest of the cylinder is a cardboard tube. The new type of cigarettes is actually a compromise on the part of the King with his will-power. some of his friends say. For two or three years he has wanted to reduce his cigarette consumption not because it appeared to be injuring his health but because
EVEREST
British Explorer To Lead Daring Adventurers
He Likes Hotel
ac-
Even though Robert C. Myers, former trusted clerk, disappeared from the Hotel De Anza, San Jone, Calif., $850 short in counts, the hotel hasn't seen the last of him. Since his disappear ance last August, he has returned to the hotel twice, police say, and each time held up the night crew and robbed the cash register.
he thought it would be rather n Girl, Asleep
"good idea."
Plays Patience
Often in the privacy of his study 3 Years, May
when
he felt the merge for u
cigarette he would steel himself Awaken
of
against it, obtain a pack of play- ing card and deal a game "patience" which is similar to the American game called "soltaire."
But that was too much trouble
No he decided on the half-filled clarettes. Now he smokes just
tobacco.
Soon
Beautiful Patriciai
ከዛ many cigarettes but less Maguire, attacked by the dread Encephalitis germ and Cigarette smoking in England is almost twice as expensive as the held in a deep sleep for more habit is in the United States than three years, may yet and one frequently hears men and women resolving to swear off awake to the world she left entirely or budget themselves, early in 1932,
package of standard brand el- Successful experiments in pro garettes here costs a shilling-pagation of the sleeping sickness 26 centa-as compared with 15 virus have been reported by two cents in the United States.
bacteriologists of the University of Rochester school of medicine and dentistry and physicians be- lieve their work may eventually lead to the reawakening of the girl known
beauty."
Pipe Smokers Pipe-smoking remains a national Institution of Great Britain with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin the most famous pipe-smoker of all.
He rarely is photographed with."
ፍ "The sleeping
The experiments are described out his pipe as he enters or leaves by Dr. George Packer No. 10 Downing Street and his James T. Syverston in Science, briar-although not under-slung Medical publication.
as characteristic on this side of In 18 months, Dr. Berry report- In living ed, they have grown the Atlantic as that of General Charles G. Dawes or the thin binck cells the virus of human Encep- "eigar of the late "Uncle Joe" halitis, termed the St. Louis type, For the first time, "daily atrain. Cannon.
they said, the germ was developed outside the human body.
A smouldering cigarette is as much a part of the personality if Premier Laval of France as his white necktie.
Hitler doesn't smoke, nor does Gandhi, the little brown man of India. But Mussolini doce, al- though-like Calvin Coolidge, the photographers never catch him at
il.
Cigar Smokers
"Grat
Described as merely i step" the experimenta were con- ducted by obtaining virus from human patients and transferring it into tissue culture made with the tissue of mice.
New Hope For Mother Meanwhile, at her home in suburban Oak Park, her mother for Patricia Lord Lonsdale is regarded as continued her care the best-known cigar-smoker in with renewed hope. Great Britain (medium" grade "She is still the same beautiful cigara cost ndarly 26 conta hare) girl she was before she became and it often has been reported that ill." her mother said. he smokes only an inch or so of his customary seven-inch Havanns and then lights a fresh ono. His supple and firm. She will be friends insist, however, that he's just as liable to make his cigar down a short butt.
"We have worked over her so that we know her muscles are still
her
strong when she awakes."
Some Improvement in daughter's condition has been Occasional- Some inveterato elgar-smokers noted by the mother.
from her are very fussy. They are carefully she seems to slir to pinch the end of a new .cigar lethargy and la able to answer delicately to break the loaf, con- simple questions in arithmetic by tending that to cut or pierce the raising her fingers. She does not tending that to cut or pierce the speak.
NINE HAVE ALREADY
MADE ATTEMPT
The names of the 12 men who, with Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, as their leader, will make the fifth attempt to reach the summit of Mount. Everest carly next year have now been divulged.
Mr. Ruttledge explains below that this party is the strongest that could be got together for the purpose. Of the twelve:
and
Nine have already been to Mount Everest; .. Ten are known to be capable of climbing to at least 23,000 ft; Eight are expected to be capable of going, very 'high. The party has been limited to| 12 to reduce the difficulties of porterage on the glaciers and to simplify the problems of con trol.
The members will be: Hugh Rutledge, leader (as in
1933).
F. S. Smythe, who will be making his fourth expedition to the Himalaya.
E. E. Shipton, a member of the
1933 Expedition and famous for his successful exploration last year, when he and Mr. Tilman were the first to penetrate the Kreat glacier basin of Nanda Devi. Like Mr. Smythe, he will be on his fourth, Himalayan ex-
•pedition, and is probably the best acclimatised man in the party.
nraster
of whom had considerable Alpine | experience.
The result was most illuminat- ing. Three men were found to ne- climatise well; the other two, excellent mountaineers though
and splendid companions in ORY
KIDNAP FEARS
Mrs, Dwight Morrow, Charles Lind-
enterprise, found themselves un-bergh's mother-in-law, has also been able to resist the lack of oxygen obliged to fly from Amteries in order
at altitudes of over 22,000 ft.
Searchlight On London
to find a safer living pince in Europe.
ANNUAL REPORT OF METROPOLITAN COUNTY COUNCIL
MARRIAGES
BOOMED
QEARCHLIGHTS are turned on the life of London's millions and
the way in which her vast sums of public money are spent in an interesting report issued by the London County Council.
P. Wyn Harris, Kenya. Civil Ser-
vice. He has a great climbing| razord and went to about 28,000 feet in 1933. E, G. H. Kempson, a
at Marlborough College. He has had long experience of both The report tells that theevery four London births occurs; summer and winter moun county's population is falling. housing estates which contain taineering in the Alps and was The estimated 1934 population was 316,570 rooms; mental hospitals with Mr. Shipton last year in 4,230,200, a decline of 141,100 on to accommodate 40,000 patients, the Everest region. Dr. C. B. Warren, formerly of St. the 1931 census figures, a drop and a fire brigade to protect pro-
being shown each year.
perty insured at £2,276,000,000. Bartholomew's loapitul. An-
Where do the "genuine" Lon-f Londoners continue to travel other mountaineer of great ex-doners go when they quit the more, the average annual number perience, who was with Arcounty? They migrate into extra of journeys in the latest available Shipton last year. F. H. L. Wigram, medical student, London, which now has almost as returns for each member of the St. Thomas's Hospital. A meni-many inhabitants as the county population being 487. These con- were sist of 120 by rail, 123 by tram and ber of Mr. Shipton's party last itself. During 1934 there year, and has long record in 58,853 live births in the country. 235 by bus and coach,
which, while slight in- The Post Office continues to. im- the Alps. Lieut. J. M. L. Gavin, Royal En-resse on 1933, was much below port, more money into London in gineers. Ilas never been to the the figure for any year extending the form of postal and money
number orders than I exporta. Himalaya, but did extremely back to 1924, when the well in Mr. Smythe's party in the Alps last year. His medical report was so good that there is every hope that he will do well on the mountain. Lieut. P. R. Oliver, South Waziris-
was 85,147.
Marrlages boomed, however. There were 43,165 in 1934, the largest number for 10 years.
ever are
During tha anuncial year 1934- 36 such orders issued totalled 41,756,000, their value being £24,- 985,000; while those pald aggregat- the value of Despite the falling population, ed 92,771,000, to the public services have in- £46,109,000,
While London's child population tan Scouts. First made a nume
creased. The value of the pro-
more children than by taking a small expedition of perty trebled between 1871 and is falling,
attending secondary his own to the Himalaya In 1933, 1935, and the expenditure of schools. Of over 200,000 pupils whon he made the second ascent London local authorities bas in polytechnics and evening in- of Trisul, 23,106 feel Hns also
trebled only since the beginning stitutes, 3,500 were unemployed. considerable experience in the
of the century.
Unemployment in London his Alps and was with Mr. Smythe
The 1996 assessable values on fallen steadily from a maximumi Inst year. Major C. J. Morris, Inte 2/3rd which the precepts of the central of 203,400 in January, 1932,
Gurkha Rifles. Assistant trans-authorities are based total £1,146,620 in January, and 120,072 in port officer on the Mount Eve-330,832, which represents £14 108. September 1935. The numbers of rest Expedition of 1922, and per head of the population. A people killed and injured in the produces £255,645. streets have increased from 41,000 will be chief transport officer penny rate
they to 61,000 in ten years, the latter next year. He knows the ropes, For the additional money
1,448 persona speaks Nepali perfectly and T contribute Londoners have recely-total including betan well, and will devote him- ed municipal hospitals, where one of killed. self exclusively to transport work.
2
of
Dr. Nec Humphreys, who has;
climbed in Switzerland and East Africa, and recently returned after lending an expedition to Ellesmere Land. A man proved enduranes with excep- tional experience of medien! work in out-of-the-way parts of the world. Lieut. W. R. Smijth-Windham, Ro- yal Corps of Signals. One of the two wireless offcors who c companied the 1933 expeditiɔn.: Though not normally a moun- taineer, he reached Camp. IV on that occasion. He will be in
wireless sole charge of munications.
Qualities Required
com-
This is the fifth expedition to
end is a barbarism. But not Lord Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of Lonsdale. He hews a big wedge the Journal of the American Medi- out of the cigar and with a formid-ca! Association, was among those able pocket knife which he carries who held out hope for Patricia's on the end of a silvor vest chain. eventual recovery. He said:
There are supposed to be fow "Miss Maguire's condition re-go out, and with each successive men who can be either smokers mains the same-sleeping. barely effort the difficulty of the selection or non-smokers at will but Sir moving except to ent and breathe. of personnel has perhaps been Malcolm Campbell, the speed No prevention or cure for encep more plainly realised. The quali- driver, is one of them. Another halitis has yet been found. ties necessary to enable a man to is C. B. Cochran, producer of hope this new work may clear the do well on Mount Everest-moun England's biggest musical shows, road for such a -United Press
United Press.
discovery."taineering experience and ability, enduranca, capnelty to acclimatise, equanimity and so on are obvious essentials; but there is no com-
3,000,000 BOTTLES OF WINE LEAVING ADELPHI ARCHES
Three million bottles of wine-half the entire stock housed in
the Adelphi Arches are being moved.
plete test known to science where- faculties by an individual can be
by the possession of all theso
thoroughly tested beforehand, as The problem of very high al- titude mountaineering is so differ- ont from those which arise in ex-
After March 25 housebreakers will start destroying Adelphi terrace to make way for flats. The work of demolition, and con-peditions to lesser ranges and to. ́struction will take three years.
the Polar regions that it requires
Two new streets will be built, that site since 1770. The tem- a special kind of solution.
It will readily be understood one from the Thames Embank norature is ideal under the Arches. ment to the Strand, the other it is a steady 50deg. Fahrenheit. that practical experience on tho parallel to Adelphi-terrace as it Even in the height of summer it spot provides a better test than this reason the now stands,
is never above 66 or 60 degrees. theory. For For some time about 50 work- It is quiet, vibrationicas and Mount Everest Committee sent out mon have been carting away 30 damp, which is most important for last year a small preliminary ex-if your
pedition under the leadership of Mr. B. E. Shipton, whose task was
large van loads of bottles a day. some wines."
ENIENZU
SISTER ACT AT "GRIPPS” ·
A representative of a firm of In addition to the 0,000,000 to try out the mountaineering wine wholesalers gáld:
bottles in the Arches, there is-anbilities, and especially the necli
Dean Bistors, clever members of the de Gaetano team of entertainers "We are sorry to see the last large quantity of fruit, furnituromatising powers, of five men, all at the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel, Their local season concludes
on Saturday. of the Arches. We have been on land other wares.
to
KING'S
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NEXT ATTRACTION!
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See Shirley
singing, danc- ing, laughing...
tear-stains on
har checks, tool
TEMPLE
THE LITTLEST REBEL
TEAMED
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AGAIN
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GIRL IN DANGER
with
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SHIRLEY
GREY
Arthur
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Directed by
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