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DOCTOR
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H. K., CUBA..
CENSORS ARE
UNANIMOUS
They Don't Like
Gangsters
Havana, Jan. 9.
Gangster and crime films will henceforth be barred from ezhibition in Cuba.
The ban will fall on any film featuring or depicting the activities of mangsters, racke teers or profesional criminals In any form,
Representatives in Havanı of United States and vllier film producing companies, at a recent meeting with officials of the Department of Interior, were advised of the new rule, In order to work no hardship
the film companies, all gangster filma now in circula- tion or on exhibition in Cuba will be permitted to continue their runa, but new importa- tions of such films is now taboo, -United Pream
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1936.
LIVES REVEALS
"TAKE MY PICTURE, PLEASE ?"
The photographer shown in this picture ran into difficulties. when he tried to take a picture in Trafalgar Square in London, and
excited the carlosity of the pigeons.
WHEN THE KING USED OFFICER'S BACK AS WRITING-TABLE
On an occasion during the war when the late King George V and Queen Mary were visiting a munitions plant near Leicester, an American army officer had asked permission to be present.
After ho had been presented, the officer asked King George for his signature to show the people of America whose forebears had boon English,
The King replied that he had no The American pro- pen or table. duced a fountain pen and stam- morod that the King might use his back as a table.
This was
done. Meanwhile, the Queen had sent for a table and added her signature. As 'he turned away,, King George smiled at the Queen and said: "I've never seen a broader back."
This is one of the many new stories of King George V, the Queen, King Edward VIII and other momberg of the Royal Family told by Mr. Herbert T. Fitch, formerly the King's detec tive and member of the Special Branch of Scotland-yard, in his "Momoira of a Royal Detective," published recently (Hurst and Blackett, 188.). Mr. Fitch has died since writing the book.
"What Mon !"
Detective Inspector Fitch was for some years in close attendance whenever King George appeared in public. He was there the day King George presented the V.C. to many war horces in Ifyde Park.
"When it was all over," says | Mr. Fitch, "the King turned to one of his staff officers. For a moment or two he was too affected- to speak.
"What men! he exclaimed at Tust, In Д low voice. · What doods! How can I help being proud of my people!'"
•
Queen Mary, driving through the slums, saw an old woman try- Ing to get up from her chair on a balcony. The Queon stopped hor carriage, sent a message up to the old woman, tolling her to sit still and that the Queen would come up to see her. The Queen went up the dark, dingy stairs and out on to the balcony, where she art and talked to the tottery old dime.
Played
"Played the little 'un the little un!" roared the crowd an a fair-haired had raced down the fold, with the ball at his toos, and ahot n plase to the centro forward,. who scored the winning goal just before time. Oxford University were playing Oxford City Polles; the "little un" was King Edward. VIII.
Tha electric light failed while King George was in the royal box at the Royal: Court. Theatre, Blonné aquaro.: Bonto one switch- ed on a torch and the King stood up, in the ray of light, molting an example of calm to the audience, who were inclined to be alabmod. * It was just after the bomb bed been thrown at Queen Ena in
came face to face with the King.
"I suppose you're looking for me," said the King. "You fel- lows don't leave me alone very long. I've just been under the stage to see them repair the breakdown to the lighting."
IDEAL MODEL
Miss Allco Shaughnessy, who by 32,000 beauty exporta was declared to be America's perfect model.
Shoe Polish Blows Up:
OF
HIS
Wrecks Room
TIN of shoe polish blew up in a house near Leo-, minster, Herefordshire, Inst month, injured a woman, and partly wrecked a room.
Mrs. Norris, of Harp-yard, Kingston, was sitting by her fire when the tin, which had fallen into it, exploded with a loud report.
Her furniture was damaged, and the window was blown out.
The heat of the fire, apparently caused the polish to expand, the lid which fitted tightly, then blowing off.
The Queen Mary
THE QUINS:
SECRETS
A Flood of Advice From Whole World
Concert
By kind permission
of Capt. Siomont
and Officers
The Band of the German Cruiser
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BIG CLAIMS FOR PURE RYE KARLSRUHE"
WHISKY AND SOW'S MILK
Throughout his arduous battle for the lives of the Dionne quintuplets, wonder babies of the world, Dr. A. R. Dafoe, their old-fashioned Canadian country doctor, has been overwhelmed by unsolicited advice from all over the globe.
One correspondent actually suggested a diet of "pure
rye whisky," another recommended the milk of a York-
shire sow; others claimed "spectacular results" from the use of horsetail plant, knotweed, blackberry root and water-melon juice,
These facts, together with the treatment actually adopted, are revealed in a report by Dr. Dafoe in the January issue of the "Journal of the Canadian Medical Association."
The rye whisky letter is quoted as follows:
"Dear Sir, I notice by the evening paper that you' aro waiting on a lady who is mother of five girl babies. You sure have your hands full.
"Get pure rye whiskey and pour one teaspoon into Q saucer. Take a clear pine silver and set it on fire until it goes out.
one
"The dose for a medium 1 baby (5-0 lbs.) would be drop, every two hours. There nin't no polson in pure rye whiskey after It is burnt and I am anxious to sce you pull through with them all. That is why I am putting you onto this cure....
Despite the avalanche of amazing "cure-alls" from Great Britain, Indin, Germany, France, Mexico,
the Australia, Philippines and from all over Canada and the United States, Dr. Dafoe followed his own prescriptions.
clare that the five sisters are up to the normal standard.of men- tal development for their age. The two biggest are slightly above the normal,
Dr. Dafoe's report tells of the "flaccid muscles and spider-like limbs with which the Httle girls were born.
"For days," he writes, "It secin- ed impossible that the tiny spark of life in each body would prove sumclent to produce a continuous functioning...
Oxygen Aperitifs
"At times the breathing would almost stop, then pick up and race along above the normal rate.
babies were watched
Mentality Normal When the "quins were born, in believed that May, 1934, no one
Last month they could survive. Dr. Dafoe described them as "a (every minute and had to be stimu rare collection of smiling, healthylated frequently,
bables."
Moreover, they have been tested by psychologists, who de
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"Within the first week cylind- jera containing oxygen 95 per cent., carbon dioxide 6 per cent., and fitted with a reducing valve and ordinary Inhalator were obtain- ed."
RATE WAR THREAT RESULTS aperitif a few minutes before
FROM CLASSIFICATION
Liverpool, Jan. 15.
A FARE-CUTTING war may arise from a disagreement among shipping companies forming the North Atlantic Passenger Conference over the proposed classification of the Queen Mary as a cabin ship.
It was stated in shipping circles here to-day that the Cunard-White Star Line had given notice to withdraw from the conference at the end of the month because a number of American and foreign shipping companies are not agreeable. to the proposed classification.
"UNJUSTIFIED"
Officials of the line would neither confirm nor deny the report, The other companies, it is understood, contend there is no justification for placing the Queen Mary in the same class as ships that average one-third of her size.
It is maintained that the liner is a first-class vessel and that her fares should be fixed accordingly. If she offers superior accommodation at cabin rates it is probable that the fares of rival liners will be reduced below the present agreed schedule.
It is pointed out, however, that proposed fares officially announced show only a slight variation from those of the giant French liner Normandie.
DESERT RAIDERS SWOOP
ON LEGIONNAIRES
SOLDIERS SHOT DOWN IN CAFE
HORSEMEN IN NIGHT CHASE Paris, Jan. 20.
THREE soldiers of the Foreign Legion have
been shot dead in a drama of the desert that reads like a tragedy from the pages of "Beau Geste."
They were sitting at a crowded native cafe at Tinghir, on the confines of the Sahara, laughing and having a parting drink on the eve of going on leave. Their backs were to the door, and none of them noticed it open noiselessly, t
they
Others in the cafe saw and under cover of the night shadowy figures in the darkness vanished into their impregnable outside, and a moment later strongholds, safe from pursuit. thero was a rattle of rifle fire,
The three soldiers threw up Thieves Show Contempt, their hands and rolled to the! floor dend, riddled with bullets.
The kasallanta were members
of a tribe living in the hills of
Steal Burglar Alarm Pittafeld, Mass. Jan. 28. Thieves atole a part of D. F.
Southern Morocco and known Kelly's gasoline station burglar
to Europeans in the region as alarm.
the "gangsters of the desert." Kally
up system in-
A chase was organised and yolving a water diled garden hose. horetmen were soon galloping into laid in a square just beneath the the night to punish the raiders surface of the station a drive, Red They came up with the ten Compression on the hose sends a light=went "AFÜ miles to the couth & Tinggo, and plumpur into mercury eriteh
!misalng! i hot fre was exchanged, in that rings a bell
The
But the tribesmen were now at Somebody dug up the hose and 50the rate of cholt laki n the hills, istole it
BULLET--PROOF
This gas mixture, given as an
feeding-times in the early days, stirred up the torpid-little bodies and produced an energotic suck- ing.
The Sun Cure
After describing how the babies were fed on drops of warm water on, the first day, Dr. Dafoe gives details of the later diet, showing that it included cow's milk, tomato juice, orange juice and cod liver
oil.
Soon they began to spend hours in the open air.
eyes
"They immediately began to show 4. definite Improvement. Their faces filled out, their sparkled, and these happy little souls soon took on tho rotund appearance of Httle puppies,
"Theit normal development has been continuous 'ever since." United Press and Reuter.
New White Dwarf Star
WHERE MAN WEIGHS 254,625 TONS
New York, Jan. 28. Observers at Mount Wilson | Observatory, California, have re-
ported the discovery of a new | White Dwarf" star only one- third of the size of the earth but of such "density 'that it' weighs 620 tons per cubic inch, has an atmosphere only 12 feet thick, and a gravity 3,400,000 times stronger than the earth's.
star is one of a handful of dwarf stars alghted through tho 100-inch telescope, and the credit for its discovery belongs to Dr. G. P. Kulpar, who has disclosed its measurements and other unusual properties.
With a temperature of 28,000 degrees C. the star's atoma lose their electrons and erowd closer together, to give off gas much heavier than anything obtained on carth-- "Antennis ball filled with Britain's now
warplane, this gas would weight over 1,000 shown above, has been built on a tons, and a man weighing 1501b. on earth would weigh 254,625 tons revolutionary principle. Besides
on the star, whore such a gravity having an enormous radius of action pull would collopes the human It is said to be impervious to bullets, body and spread, It ilke water. Who invector,
grant that te tidal pull would Wallis, was the chief designer of the batter any large stara which
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