Felts of Distinction
A
NEW
LOT
OF THE
CORRECT
FASHIONS
FOR
1936
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1936.
Germany And France Lead
Britain In Civil Air Power
'DRY' WEDDING FEAST FOR CHIEF WHO WAS BANISHED
TSHEKEDI, the South African tribal chief whom King George reinstated two years ago after his banishment for ordering the flogging of a white man, is to be married at Scrowe, his capital, this month.
Tshekedt, paramount chlef of Bechunnaland, is thirty. His bride will be his twenty-six-year-old half-cousin, Bagakgametse. They will be married by the Rev. J. H. L. Burns in the London Missionary Society's Church. A thousand white and native guests will attend.
Bride and bridegroom will wear English clothes. The form of marriago will be rend in the tribal vernacular,
And afterwards the town will give itself up to feasting. Oxen will be killed. But there will be no beer-drinking, Tshekedi is a teclotaler.
LONE MAN WHO UNDERWROTE
GRAN CHACO WAR
London, Feb. 11. Already the virtual ruler of Bolivia, Don Simon Patino, Multi- millionaire, international financier and “Tin King"--who as a store clerk founded his fortune 30 years ago by accepting a tin concession
AND U. S. A,
BEATS ALL WITH 7,202
MACHINES
ERE are the rather deplorable figures of the civil air strength of Great Britain and Ireland compared with those of other countries. They have been issued by the Air Ministry:
Registrations
Under Regular Transport Companies. Total Great Britain and
Northern
France Germany
Ireland 168 1,577
United States of
221 2,201
244 1,809
America ......518 7,202 Britain comes fourth. The United States is by far the
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WELSH WIZARD RETURNS TO
that of the oneman underwriter of a war.
From La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, it was officially announced yesterday, that the three-years conflict with Paraguay in the Gran Chaco, which ended last April, coal the country £39,000,000-and| that virtually the whole of thin vast sum was provided or guaran- teed by Don Simon,
There is no parallel in history of a tone Napoleon of finance achieving single-handed such a staggering stroke of business allfed to patriotism.
The historics of the Rocke- fellers, Carnegic, the Morgans, and Henry Ford aro no more startling or romantic than the life alory of Don Simon Patino,
Most of his time is now spent in Paris, where he has been Minister} for Bolivia since 1927. His great house in the Avenue Foch is one of the most luxurious in France.
Treasures worth vast fortunes fill the great rooms. Beneath the building is a huge garage for his fleet of cars,
£8,000,000 Dowry
Don Simon also has an enormous chateau among the pines above Nice, a villa at Biarritz und in his native Bolivia, and palatial homes at Cocha-bamba, Óruro and La Paz:
One of his sons married a Bourbon princess, Donna Cristino, daughter of the Duke of Durcal, and one of his daughters is the wife of the Spanish Marqúos del Merito. Ho give her a dowry of -£8,000,000.
Don Simon is known in every important capital in Europe and the Amerins.
They call him the "Tin King." for he controls 10 per cent. of the world's tin output.
Brown-eyed, heavily moustach- ed, corpulent, and always fault- | lessly dressed, Don Simon goes his many ways, few recognising him.
The total amount of his fortune, is known only to himself and his private accountants. He pays in- come tax in many countries, and what he pays in his own is a secret of the Bolivian Treasury,
Ho shuns publicity and maska his movements as closely as pos sible. Except on purely personal trips, ho has with him always a confidential secretary and inter- proter-for Don Simon speaks only Spanish..
This extraordinary man's meteoric auccess began more than 30 years ago, when he acquired his first concession from a Por
SALESMAN SAM
FOLD
Mr. W. M. Hughes, Australia's reantime Prime Minister, will return to the Cabinet to-morrowO an Minister of Health and Re- patriation. He has been express- ly invited by the Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons.
This is, it is understond, the result of pressure from the ex- -Servicemen, tɛho were against the demand for his resignation made last November owing tọ, hín alleged opposition to Sunctions,
JUST FOR PUBLICITY
INDIAN BARBERS TO STAGE SHAVING
"MARATHON"
A "barbers"" marathon is to be staged at Pandharpur, in the Bom. bay presidency, by enterprising hair-cutters of the district.
Barbers will compete for a non- step endurance shaving record, and it is expected that the winner will shave faces slendily for at least 75 hours.
has
The shaves wii-be-free-and--u- steady supply of victims" been arranged. Should these all. be shaved before the contest is finished, # number of round earthenware pots will then be lathered and shaved." No prizes are offered. The object of the publicity for Pandharpur. contest is. frankly, just to get
The position of the leading transport companies is as follows:
German Luft
Hansa 225 machines. Air France .... 168 do. do. Imperial Airinys 43 Imperial Airways, responsible for our Empire communications, has only eight more machines than the Sabena company of Bel- jgłum.
The figure for Pan-American Airways is not given. Germany, so far as the transport companies) are concerned, holds the lead in |Europe. And she has no colonies.
She regards the development of : civil
of air strength as being great importance from the mill- tary point of view.
SOVIET DEGRADES MARTYRS
TORGLER EXPELLED
FROM PARTY....
Moscow, Jan. 20.
The disgrace of three of the "martyrs", of the Reichstag fire trial is officially confirmed by a bulletin issued here by the Third International
The former German Communist deputy, Torgler, has been expelled from the Communist party, and the Bulgarians, Popoff and Tanell, have been dobarred from ever again holding any responsible position in the Communist move. ment.
Dimitroff, the other
tuguese prospector who could not figure in the Leipzig, trading pay his grocery bill.
Don Simon took it na pay- mont, developed it-with money borrowed from a British bank- Ing house was made an offer for it, and was tempted to ac cept. Ils wife said, "No, we will either go bankrupt with the mine or-"
afterwards went to Russia, re- mains in favour,
These drastic measures against Torgler, Popoff and Taneff, taken some time ago, have only now been made public.
The reason given in all three cases is their weak attitude" in court at Leipzig, but the special reason for making, these belated revelations now seems, to be the fear felt hore that Torglor--who was recently released after two
His interests now are so wide that it is impossible to detail them. He is president of Con-years in a Nazi prison-will be solidated Tin Smoltera, Ltd., and of Patino. Mines and Enterprises Consolidated.
Patino Mines, through a subsl- diary, holds important interests in the British Tin Investment Corporation.
To a large extent the whole -economic fabric of Bolivia is built up on the activities of this single man-the Man Who Paid for a War.
I AM GOING FOR SAIL IN ZE BALLOON } OKAY;
WIZ LA GOOF!RUN BACK TOZE HOTEL GASSY! AN' BRING FOR ME ZE REAL HEAVY
OVERCOAT
Induced to give evidence against Ernst Thaelmann, the Imprisoned ex-General Secretary and the real leader of the German Communist ' party, in his trial which is ex- pected to open shortly.
The Nazi Prosecutor is expect- ed to attempt to show that there was a plot in Berlin in 1933 to overthrow the National Gov- ernment and bring Germany under the International.
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1 One can always find an albino
kere.
4 Makes all dotty and drinks quita
a lot.
0 Kind of dog.
10 Where to get the best rico in
Oxfordshire,
12 Nothing could be more agreD- 13 Sleeping partner.
15 Plus.
16 Beats I share with the police. 17 It Isn't done.
28 Gives
me
22 Altered and probably shortened 24 Probably this will be acted upon. 27 Impulsive at first. a pain. 31 A fragrant gum. 82 The prude of wayside flowers?
of a
tea-set in 33 The position
usually of somo importance. 34 The status of the man who has only small change: not worth noticing.
35 It is obvious that a parent takes
shelter in this.
DOWN
1 What a worm would drink? 2 Nothing but check (4-4). 3 Piaced too high and made to
pay too much.
6 Made an effort
6 Bit suggestive of war's after-
math.
7 Not much of a che, this. 8 Wind indicators,
Here a bud is broken in the net:
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take it away.
14 This fellow is interested in
bygone things.
Ia To "dine, am" 17 (Anag),
10 Allment, Pepys said, in another
form
20 Mortify the staff ratio.
21 Needs mit? There are
grounds for so thinking.
1 The bottom of a hill.
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25 D'ya "Ken Pin'? Yes, he writes
(Anag.).
26 This curious, and is not the
finish vulgar?
20 The Niobe of month
30 An accumulator does when it's
charged.
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