CHAMPION DOG AT CRUFT'S
HE HONGKONG“ TELEGRAPHL MONDAY MARCH 23, 1936,
Two-Year-Old
Chow Is
England's Best Dog
WINS AGAINST
200 CHAMPIONS:
IS CAMERA SHY
CHAMPION CHOONAM HUNG KWONG, a two-year- old red Chow, was adjudged the best dog in England this month. And-typical Chow-like Chinese tempera- |ment-he objected most strongly to having his photograph taken except under conditions which suited himself and his dignity.
The scene was the main ring|aines then, and is now unques. at Cruft's Show at the Agricul- tionably the best Chow ever tural Hall, Islington. As soon shown in Britain.
"
SALVATION ARMY
· LEADER'S DEATH
as Hung Kwong had been award-Ninety Minutes' Task
It took an hour and a half to ed the prize as best dog in the
Judge the champions; eventually, show-the outstanding cham-numbers were whittled down until ¡pion among 200 champions a cocker spaniel, an elkhound, twenty photographers hustled and a smooth fox terrier stood. round him.
alde by side with Hung Kwong, The Late Brigidler James E.
The elkhound and the terrier Sansom, Officer Commanding the Mrs. Mannooch, his owner, departed, and the spaniel alone-Salvation Army In South China lifted him up to the table on Mr. H. S. Lloyd's Silver Templa jand Hongkong who died inst week. which the "Best dog at Crufts" in) of Ware-stood with Hung always' photographed each year, Kwong. But Hung Kwong got off barried-
Eventually n ring steward fetched on armchair.
as alone, top Experts Fly To
Then a wave of the hand, and Hung Kwong was alone, top of the class. Another dog had
gained world fame, and another Attack
Cruft's was over.
But what a Cruft's it was-the
The best dog in England: jumped up and sat in that-best I have seen in thirty years. like a Chinese Emperor.
and one that must have warmed
of people.
Mosquitoes
the heart of its octogenarian H. S. Leeson and Mr. J. D. Gil- Two young Englishmen. Mr. Hung Kwong's victory was well founder. You could not move lett, left Croydon by air this deserved. Last year his heart-for the press and his owner's-must have been nearly broken, for he was runner- up to the best dog in the show, a Kreyhound, at Cruft's, and runner- up at five other championship shows..
He has improved tremendously
Choonam Hung Kwong with his owner, Mrs. V. M. Manncoch, Science
and the cup he won at Cruft's this month as Best Dog in the Show. In the opinion of an expert he is the finest Chow that has
ever been shown in Britain,
SINGAPORE STARTS
FIVE-YEAR ATTACK
TO CLEAR SLUMS
Singapore, Mar. 18.
SLUMS in Singapore are coming down and the city intends to deal with all the worst areas during the next five years, it is revealed in the annual report on the economic welfare of the Straits Settlements printed here recently.
Takes A Picture
Of A Dream
Iowa City, Mar. 15. Science now can take a picture of your dreams.
The wild flights of imagination during sleep-long a puzzle to from the sleeper's brain and re- psychologists-are being taken corded on sensitized paper by Dr. Lee Travis, University of Iowa psychologist.
Travis' experiments have reveal- of dreams can be measured. The ed that the duration and intensity istrument which measures brain currents consists of platinum
The Straits Settlements have no, The report states that under the building societies to help in influence of the International rehousing schemes, but the main Rubber Regulation Scheme, which work is to be carried out by the came into force on June 1, 1981, electrodes, applied through the Singapore Improvement Trust, the average price for the year scalp to the skull of the sleeper. founded in 1927 to deal
with was double that for 1931, rising The brain's electric Singapore's alum questions.
impulses, from 10.21 centa per pound of closely related to the extent and The truat has for some years standard smoked sheet to 20.63 degree of the imagination's work been hindered by bad financial cents. conditions in the Straits, but, the The total area under rubber in charted on paper.
are amplified 300,000, times and report says, a great slum clear- 1934 is calculated at 346,860 acres, anco effort is beginning.
..
of
The record on the charted graph
They broke all attendance re-mouth for South Africa. They cords at any dog show. For two are first going to Uganda, then hours I swayed with them--by lorry over an area stretching Altering slowly along-stopping from Southern Rhodesia to the where the throng was greatest-Sudan.
trying to analyse which was the When they return home next dog most popular with this host Christmas It is hoped they will of dog-lovers.
Most Popular Breads
Cockers unquestionably ure near the top, but, then,, every sporting breed has its logion of supporters and enthusiasts.
|brlng with them Information which will lay once and for all the white man's bogey in this part of the tropics-the malaria-carrying mos- quito-and lead to the development of vast territory.
The little Border terrier is de-i
CENSUS OF SPECIES finitely creeping up in popular The expedition is being sent, out favour, the untrimmed poodle by the London School of Hygieno perhaps the wisest dog in the and Tropical Medicine. Its main world is attracting that public objeet will be to discover exactly to which the clipped poodle never how many species of anopheles appealed.
(malarin-carrying mosquitoes) there are.
it
With a Chow "topping the bit" was only right to see the tremendously increased interest in this breed.
But if bred Pekingese-which I do not--I should not be alarmed.
A general censua would, I think, still remain the favoured breed,
show that in a one-dog home they
J.S.B.
Tropien!
Hyglone.
"At present we know of only two director of the Ross Institute of species," said Sir Malcolm Watson,
"They are both very much the same, and it is this fact that leads us to suspect that each group may be sub-
and Gillett are going out to establish
divided into other species. Leeson
whether this is so or not."
NAVAL WAR HERO GUILTY
INTENT TO EVADE
CUSTOMS
an increase of 8,794 acres over during a wild dream shows a Open Spaces Established 1933. The area under coconuts change from a slow, normal beat "The Improvement Trust has increased by about 100 netes, to to a faster, shorter bent. After entered on a fixed programme for
83,400 aeres, Prices, however, the intensity of the dream has
COMMANDER MAURICE A. BRIND, who was twice blown up the driving of back lanes through were very low,
been recorded, the subject is during war service with the Navy, was found guilty at existing congested areas," the re- There has been, the report de awakened and reveals the nature Mansion House, London, this month on ten summonses accus- port declares, "and has niso zcelares, a murked improvement in of his dream.
ing him of being concerned in attempted fraudulent evasion of quired several large blocks til Asking
industry. Revenue Thus, Travis explained, thei Customs duties in connection with horses imported from Ireland. slum property and pulled them from licence fees paid for boats, graph record is verified by personal down or established open spaces:
nets and other gear in 1934 was testimony of the sleeper..
Capt. Reginald Henry Portal, Brind was defended by Sir in their centres.
12,546 Straits dollars, nbout Applications of the experiment.N., produced an Admiralty Henry Curtis-Bennett, K.C. and "About 60 acres of waste land £1,463, an Increase of 268 Straits are expected to add to the report on Commander, Brind's Mr. P. Colin Duncan, and Baillle adjoining a particularly crowded dollars on the revenue for 1933, psychologist's knowledge of the career showing that he render by Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., and Chinese area have been bought. More than 12,000 fishermen were brain's reaction in stuttering and ed brilliant service in the Great Mr. Walter Frampton. filled in, provided with roads, and employed:
War. laid out in building lots for sale, with a view to relieving the pre- vailing congestion. The trust has bullt 118 better class cottages at Lavender Street for Occuж- tion by the clerical classes, and two large blocks of tenements comprising about 250 rooms at Kreta Ayer Road."
It is pointed out that improve-
epilepsy-United Press.
Pestered By Lions
Lions After
Witch Doctor's Curse
PENALTIES LATER
He joined the Navy in 1914, and| although his ship was sunk by a Sir Maurice Jenks, adjourning German mine early in his career as both cases said that he would a Beutenant, and he was severely announce the penalties in the case injured, he was "not long deterred of Commander Brind after he from Betive service."
had heard the summonses against He was mentioned in dispatches Baillie. for conspicuously brave action. Sir Maurice suid that Comman- Mr. Harrison spends his life studying the habits of the
After the war he volunteered for der Brind's defence had tried to malaria-carrying tsetse fly in the wilds of Tanganyika where mine-clearing, was, again blown convince him that the values ments elsewhere in the Settle- he is employed by the Government Research Department. up, and a promising career was which Brind Inserted in. hlu de- ments must be undertaken by mu- nicipal, commissioners and
A local witch doctor decided to put a curse on Mr. Harrison. cut short by injury to his eyesight.clarations, although they were not authorities. Here also the im-
local The curae was that Mr. Harrison should be pursed by lions wherever
what they professed to be-name- "UPRIGHT CHARACTER" ly, the cost plus expenses--wero provement, the report states, is:
ho went. noticeable.
hyena, he swilcked on his forch, The report concluded that Bring the real values at the port of im- and was astonished to see six was "an officer of upright charac.portation and that Brind belleved full-grown lions outside his tent, ter, vigour, Initiative and decision them to be true values.... "One lion was killed outright, and a man of courage."
! "Having regard to all the cir and a second badly wounded and Commander Brind, whose nd-cumstances of the case I cannot found the following day. A few dress was given as Fenny Somp. come to that conclusion," added nights later the surviving lions ton, Stables, near Learnington Spa,
"I reluctantly come to the con- again visited the camp and their is a brother of Major-General J.
clusion that he made the faleo spoor showed that they had passed E. Brind." close to the tent.
Ho had pleaded guilty at a declarations with the deliberate "Fifteen days later Mr. Harri-provious hearing to ten summon-intention of avoiding a large pro- son returned to his camp at ees alleging that he made false portion of the duty which Kazĺkazi..he station
declarations on Customs formis. | property "payable.""""" "After dinner he and a friend, Four summonses for alleged Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett "sald sitting on the verandah of the attempted fraudulent evasion of that what Commander Brind said station, heard loud lapping at a duties were also made against was: "I put these false entries water. hole about thirty yards Captain the Hon. Arthur Malcolm upon theso Clucuments because I away. Picking up a torch they Augustus. Baillie, second son of believed I was entitled to put the walked over and saw aix-llons. Baroness Burton, of Woughton opon market valus plus 20 per
One world and is more House Bletchlow.
cant, and that would be the badly wounded, both of which were The cases are being dealt with amount upon which my horser found on the following day. | soparataly: ekk
would have to phy duty
10-
The effectiveness of the witch; Comprehensivo Plan Nooded doctor's curse is described in the The problems of congested areas latest report of the Tanganyika in the larger towns,
Territory Game Preservation De- such ins Singapore and Penang, are,
partment. cording to the report, urgent and
The report tells how a native the necessity for comprehensive punished by Mr. Harrluon, visited measures of clearance, prossing, witch doctor and arranged for Large numbers of city labourers six lions to pester Mr. Harrison." und artisans have their homes in
Mr. Harrison's work later took houses which are divided into cu- him to a spot twenty miles from bicles, with little light and less the garest habitation. Lione had fresh air, or in common. lodging never been there
houses in densely populated areas. SCRATCHING AT TENT.
In rural areas planning schemos The report continues: "The first. Aro also being evolved, and sanita- five days everything was quiet On tion work is progressing rapidly. the sixth night about 10 o'clock Higher Prices for Rubbor. Mr. Harrison was awakened by Meanwhile the Straits rubber something scratching at the wall of Industry Is honefting by higher his tone prices.
Thinking it was a jackal or
Sir Maurice.
Was
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