THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL
1936.
THE KING'S VISIT TO GLASGOW'S SLUMS
CHATS TO・・ WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Am Your King" Greeting to Blind Man
Glasgow, Mar. 21.
FROM the super-luxury of the world's biggest liner, the Queen Mary, King Edward has just concluded a tour of the tenement homes of some of Glasgow's poorest families.
Only this month he declared in his first broadcast to the Empire that he is still the same man he was as Prince of Wales. And to-day he proved it-in a way that will never be forgotten. Unheralded and alone, he has stood in dimly-lit bed- rooms questioning poverty-stricken housewives about their living conditions and their hardships; he has sought exact particulars about rent and unemployment pay, and has expressed great concern at the way in which some families are compelled to live.
His visits made all the deeper impression on him because he had just come from a long inspection of the Queen Mary nt Clydebank.
For three hours he explored the ship from bridge to stoke- hold, and was particularly impressed with the liner's mechanical] marvels.
wish to see the During the inspection he expressed a humorous drawings by Mr. Tom Webster, the Daily Mail car- toonist, which will form the principal decorations of the gymnasium. For several minutes he studied them, laughing
Earth' And Quake Arrive
(QUETTA TWINS)
(IN. BASKETS)
DON BEATS DAVID-BY A TOOTH
heartily at those depicting golfers from the earliest days and INTRODUCING: Master David and
cartoons of past and present-day boxers.
SEEING FOR HIMSELF.
It was in a narrow court of old smoke-blackened buildings Crieff-court, North-street, Anderston-that the King went to see for, himself how the people lived.
Bare-headed and wearing a long black overcoat with astrakhan collar, he strode over the rough cobbles, stepping through pools of water, in a district which is generally regarded as perhaps the roughest in Glasgow,
To the surprise of women and children who rushed to the win- dows of dingy lenements he turned into a dark alley-way leading to one of the houses, followed by a few officials and to their greater amazement he dicl for half an hour.
not come out
During that half-hour he visited every one of eight tiny two-roomed dwellings in the three-floored build- inse examined them carefully, and talked to the occupants.
A
correspondent standing near the King as he went "into several of the tiny flats suw fiim In many
When Time Will Count On Everest
-BRIEF PERIOD FOR
FINAL ASSAULT
A cases open The essential conditions for the door and walk in after a polite! "Can I come in7"
at the
success of the fifth organised at-
There was a very human incident tempt to scale the 29,002-feet peak first ilat he entered. Mount Everest were explained A woman was standing by the fire last month by Mr. Eric Shipton, a member of Mr. Hugh Kuttledge's with a little ny at her side.
expedition, whose advance party Floft for India recently.
EIGHT IN TWO ROOMS "Are you really the new King ?" asked the little boy.
"Yes, I am the King," he an swered, gravely bending down. The child was Charles Storrie, the 5-years-old-son of Mrs. Storrie, whose sister, Mrs. Thomas O'Rourke, lives in the flat with her husband,
shipworker, and two
small boys.
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Success or failure, he pointed out, depends largely on the time! Tactor. Nature permits only [brief period during which coudi- ions make possible an assault on the Hummit. The state of the weather round the top of Everest
the first fortnight in June will decide whether the mountain will Int last be conquered this year.
"Some time before the end of A few minutes later, in a flat lay," said Mr. Shipton, "we ex opposito, a cheerful-faced woman peet to reach the top of North Col, with spectacles and a mop of hair, where we shall place Camp Four, Mrs. A. Gaddi, told how she lived at a height of 23,000ft. For many in two small rooms with her hus-months of the year terrific blizzards hand and six childrn-two girls of sweep over this region, but If we 18, and 10, three girls of 17, 16,
a period of comparative can get and 14, and a 2-years-old baby quiet between the winter weather girl Vera.
conditions and the coming of the The King's distress was obvious. monsoon, we shall have an oppor- While ho was talking to Mrs.tunity to reach the summit. Gaddi her baby girl was hiding be- hind her skirts, but the King brought a smile to her when he said, "Hullo, baby," and shook her by her hand.
"I AM YOUR KING"
TERRIBLE BLIZZARDS
"So far as we have been able to ascertain, there are no insuperable difficulties in the final stage of the climb. This is providing that we do not encounter one of those ter- No incident of the tour was more rible blizzards, against which it is touching than the moment when hopeless. to attempt to stand. he stepped into a fat and found Another danger lies in deep de- himself face to face with a blind posits of treacherous powder snow, which would inevitably cause a fatal accident. "Who is there?" challenged lost footing at that part of the Any climber who the blind man, Mr. Hugh Queen.ascent would be plunged down an
"I am your King," came the 18,000 ft. precipice." quiet reply.
The assault would be maile, he The blind man's face lit up with added, by parties of two, in turn. a wondering joy, as he stretched No man who has recently made the out his hand and felt a firm grasp attempt would have sufficient
The King asked gent how he strength to try again. had lost his sight, and Mr. Queen
man.
lold how his eyes had been injured
TREACHEROUS SLOPE
In a steel-works accident in 1001." Between Camp Seven and tho On a bed lay Mr. Queen's two-summit the climbers will have to: weeks-old son, and the King turned negotiate a treacherous alope, with to the mother and said "What a crage overhanging each other, fine child!"
rather like the tiles of a roof, at Two other children live in the an angle of 45 degrees. They will fist, and the King asked Mr. Queen have to cross the Great Couloir, a "How do you all manage to live gully of ice-bound rock, possibly here?"!
covered with snow, which the "We are doing our best till climbers of the 1924 and 1933 ex- you manage to get a new home peditions falled to pass; and then,, for us," came the reply.
to reach the summit, they will have to fight their way across further rocky, dangerous slabs.
"I will do my beat to help you," the. King Bald.”
In the next fiat Mr. Hugh Allen was playing tudo with a nephew, William Starr, when the King suddenly walked in. She was no taken aback that she burst into tears, but the King quickly restored her 'calmness by shaking hands.
will
This tremendous task have to be accomplished be- tween sunrise and sunset on a single day, for no human being could live through a night in the open in that ley tempera- ture.
Master Donald Mackenzie, just arrived in London from Karachi, or, as they are called in their birthplace, "Earth” and “Quake !”
The "Quetta" twins as they are likely to be known-were born three months after the earth- quake which last May devastated Quetta and took a death-toll of some thirty thousand lives,
Their mother, Mrs. Muriel Mackenzie-tall, graceful and good-looking brunette went through the horrors of that terrible night of May 31. She was asleep when the first, disturbance rocked the She was thrown into a chair. The town was plunged in darkness. In a back room was her four-year-old son, sleeping with a night-nurse.
town.
Mrs. Mackenzie managed to stagger across the room to rescue her child. Each time the nuTSC lifted up the mosquito netting over the child's cot she was thrown back, and it was not until the earth- quake was over that she was able to get the child. out of the bungalow.
DIFFERENT BIRTHDAYS
Mrs. Mackenzie's husband is a staff captain on the Quetta station. He was out with the troops on manoeuvres, and it was not until the following day that he and his wife were reunited.
David and Donald were born in Karachi, three months after the earthquake.
Now they have come to London to spend a few
months with their grandmother, Mrs. Mcintyre, in
Cricklade-avenue, Streatham Hi, s.w.
It was here that I had the pleasure of making
five- afternoon. They are the bonniest pair of months-olds you could meet. Both have blue eyes, David has fair, curly hair, while Donald has straight dark hair.
Twins they are, but they will have different
September; his brother's the eighth of September. David was born nt ten minutes to mid-night; his brother greeted the world ten minutes after mid. night,
birthdaya. David's birthday is the seventh of
But though David is really the elder, 'Donald is the first to cut a tooth. He did it while cross- ing the Red Seal
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The "Quetta" twins had quite romantic journey to London. They travelled in baskets, and at very stopping-place they created tremendous interest.
TRAVELLED AS "LUGGAGE"
Said Mrs. Mackenzie, laughing heartily: "It was really amusing to see them put on the porters' tracks with the luggage, and wheeled to another train or bont.”
It is Mrs. Mackenzie's sense of humour that hus, helped her forget the nightmare of Quelta. Sitting in her mother's pleasant drawing-room with her bonnie babies in her arms, she seemed Ideally happy.
humour, frada something amusing in everything David seems endowed with his mother's good around him. He just hughs from the time he awakua till he slips off to slumber. Donald is more serious. He thought the fire in the drawing-room was so wonderful that he could not take his eyes off the leaping flames.
And Grandma Melntyre could not be prouder
the acquaintance of the "Quetta" twins yesterday of the "Quetta" twins if they were her ownl
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Vancouver. Moving Toward Free Port
Vancouver. B.C.. Apr.. 1.
- Establishment of a free trado zone at Staten Island in New York harbour has given fresh impetus to the movement to en- tablish free port facilities at Vant- conver.
Considerable, interest In the New York expertinent has, been aroused in Oftawa, and the House of Commons may deal with the subject during the present sen- Mion.
Italifax, on the Aintio const, urged, free port facilliles for some time, but it'« contended here that the re-export from Halifax would be almost negli- rible. There is believed, to "ba mure argument in favour of Van- couver, but here again the ques- Hon of voļame has been raised.,
Too Perfect
MECHANICAL MAN THAT BECAME TOO HUMAN
IT SHOT ITS INVENTOR
San Diego, Mar. 24. The career of, Alpha, the mechanical man, has been turned to activities other than that of an expert marksman following the -single target shooting match in which he fired one shot, scored a
bull's-eye and hung up a lifetime record of 1,000 per cent.
The bull's eye was off the head; -
of "professor" Harold May, the
radio robot's" creator, who left his TALK ON POTATO
hed, his head swathed in bondages and a monkey wrench in hand, to dismember the gadget that minkes) Alpha shoot.
"It's the second time I've made the mistake of teaching Alpha to Įdo something he can do better than
I can," May explained,. “I oncel tried to teach him to box, and it Itook half an hour to revive me."
The professor was formerly con-f nected with the University of London Physics Department, and claims to have invented a type of armoured tank used by the British| during the world war..
ON IRELAND'S DAY
Canberra, Mar. 12. Without a thought for the real significance of the date, the Com- merce Department (and the secretary is Mr. Murphy) has selected the most appropriate day in the year for the first meet- ing of the Australian Potato Advisory Committee.
It is to meet In Sydney next Tuesday, March 17, the day of St. Patrick of Ireland.
weighs 2.400 pounds, stands 10 feet in his steel ahod fect, and is a mazo Alpha is his greatest creation.jof mechanical gadgets Inside, He or Itumokes, sits slown, operated by radio which enables stands up, says good morning, turns May to cause movements with on lights and winks at pretty girls, verbal orders.
Pistol shooting was its neatest The tall, green-eyed monster, trick, up until May was wounded. looks like a medieval knight, and Previous performances were with his cheat, when you open tiny blank cartridges. May exclaims door over hla heart, glows, wita "Shoot" and Alpha fires at the radio tubes. He was "presented" placy where the 'order came from.before the late King George V n.id Once, according to May, a man Queen Mary of England in 1932.. in the audience yelled, "Shoot" and Meanwhile, May is working on a Alpha fired a bullet-wadding bit-heavily guarded laboratory at the ting the spectator between the eyes. Pacific international exposition, on Apparently by accident, Alpha's his Inteat trinket—a "death_ray.” gun was loaded with a real bullot, He claims the ray when perfected but luckily his aim was a bit awry, will destroy files and insect pests, The lead slug creased the inventor's mako, airplane motora stop in mid- bend.
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