THE HONGKONG
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26, 1937. OCTOBER
KINGS Mother's Diary For QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
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After sleeping for five years and like an enchanted seven months princess in a story-book, preity Patricia Moguire, thiriy-two-year- old typist, of Oak Park, Ilinois, died In hospital at the end of last month. On St. Valentine's Day, 1932,Į Patriein came horne after a strenuous) game of tennis, stretched on a settee, apel yawned. "Gee, I feel I'm get-
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JAPANESE DRIVE
Long-Heralded
Offensive Starts
this
Shanghai, Oct. 23, During on oncounter early morning along the Lluhong-Tazang motor rond, the Japanese penetrated into Machlaochia Village where the Chinese were forced to retreat.
Оп the Kwangtu-Chenchinkang sector the Chinese are continuing to take the offensive, and it is claimed to-night that a slight advance had been made during the day.
Forty Japanese tanks led an at- tack at Chenchinhang village Inst night. They succeeded in breaking. through, but this moming they were forced to retreat.
During the Bighing on October 21 around Shihalangkungmiso, and Taowanglao, the Chinese claim to have killed 200 Japanese, including a number of officers, and seized 140 rides and two anti-aircraft machine-· guas--Central News.
CHINESE KEEP POSITIONS
Shanghaf, Oct. 24,
artil- Under the cover of heavy lery fire Japanese forces launched on Chinese repeated flerce attacks positions in the Kwangtu sector last, night and this morning. A unlt of! 400 Japanese troops were especially daliant in trying to drive a wedge into the Chinese line at Heinochia- chal.
The Chinese, however, kept their position intact. Central Neioz.
LONG-HERALDED OFFENSIVE Shanghal, Oct. 24 (3.50 p.m.) The Japanese have launched their long heralded general offensive Reuter.
about," she murrnured.
She forced herself to get up, mail-i ed a valentine to her boy friend, re- turned to her settee.
"Muthier," she called weakly, "Just kiss me." Then she fell asleep. She had been asleep ever since.
Doctors from all over the world who studied her coma were abic only to diagnose it us encephalities lethar- gea (sleepy sickness) of a kind they) had never seen before, writes the New! York correspondent of the Daily Ex- press
They used every conceivable her-scrums, remedy to rouse sunbaths, heat treatments, clec- tric rays, but Fairies slept on
Two months ago serious stomach trouble developed, but doctors dur- Ing her last few days had been pre- vented from operating. pneumonia set in.
Bronchial
BY HER BEDSIDE Pallest, hopeful Mrs. Peter Miley
Reception
Car Carrics Her Through Cheering Crowds In London
Broadbent's
Bad Luck
Jean Butten
London, Oct. 24. When Miss Jean Batten, tous 2 new aviatrix, who to-day set world record in a flight from Aus- nt her tralia to England, arrived
crep into the small hospital room London Hotel from Croydon, she where her daughter died and crab-stated that she could still hear the bed a big red book which lay open on roar of the engine.
She closed it the bedside table. tenderly and took it home.
In that book Mrs. Miley, con- would daughter her fident awaken, had written a chronicle of what happened durius Patri- cia's long sleep, events at home that would have been all-im- pertant
Fatricla,
to
abroad that have re-shaped the course of nations.
Among the entries for 1932 were Kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby
Earhart's light neross the Amelia
Atlantic, Franklyn D. Roosevelt's election as
President
KING'S LESSONS.
AS AIRMAN
QUALIFIED IN SPITE OF OPPOSITION
FLEW OVER WINDSOR CASTLE
Stories of King George in his Alr Force days are told by Mr. Hector Bolitho in the autumn issue of the Journal of the Air Force College.
'Prince Albert, as he then was, had been with the Navy at the Battle of Jutland, and it was not until Septem- ber, 1918, that he was sent out to the Air Force in France.
Lard Trenchard, then Sir Hugh Trenchard, who was in command of the force, received him kindly, but he. was left to eat his meals in the junior officers' mess. It was reported to Lord Trenchard that the Prince had an instinctive respect for authority. Once when Lord Trenchard asked how the Prince was getting on, be was. told that he had been a little shy at first, but that he was "damned good
leap-troppany and especially adept at The Prince was determined to learn to fly, and after certain opposition had been overcome his wish gratified.
A RARE QUALITY
SUM
"Wing Cradr, Coryton looks back upon the months in which he taught Prnice Albert to fly with pleasure and clear-cut recollections. He had the instructor [rare quality which an
always dreams of instilling into his pupil. By instinct he was able to use eyes, hand and brain in unison." Prince Albert was 'amazingly quick' at Icurning to land. He seemed to know where he had his aeroplane in relation to the ground without any trouble, and although he never show- ed great interest in the mechanics of aviation, he was keen upon every mark of his progress.
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"With characteriale patience and application he mastered the pilot's senior oficer was sent to Croydon technique, and within a little time a from the Air Miniry to test Prince Albert's flying. Care still governed the authorities, and they insisted on Prince Albert taking off with his in- structor. But, in Wing Cmdr. Cory- ton's words, he had his hands on greeted by the struts' when they left the ground,SAT.
and he kept them there during the entire flight.
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drove in triumph, Earlier she standing in a car, through the streets, crowds who had cheered by the gathered to welcome her. At Croydon she was her mother who came Zealand for the purpose. overts
When Miss Balton alighted from her plane after the record-breaking st to fight, she was almost too stand. She had to be carried from a milling and the plane through enthusiastic throng-Reuter.
BROADBENT'S BAD LUCK
Baghdad, Oct. 24. Harold Broadbent, the Australian The Hongkong Stock Exchange legalisation of weak beer, but in much
a world offelal suramary of 12.30
P.m. bolder handwriting was the recorder who is attempting Saturday, is as follows:
ing of a smile passing over Patricia's record light from England to Aus- still features.
traila, told Reuter here to-day that 1034 and John Dillinger's reign of he was fed up and would probably terror, King Albert's death. In Belabandon the flight at Basrab as he gium, the burning of the Castle, arrest of Bruno Hauptmann had lost too much time owing to encounterlag headwinds all the way for the Lindbergh kidnapping.
from London.
MARKET FIRM AT CLOSE
The market was Arm, but restrict- ed, and turnover low in consequence.
Buyers
Indo-Chinas (Pret) $51. Indo-Chinas (Def) $43. H.K. & W. Docks $274. Providents (018) $2.07%. Providents (New) $0.30. II.K. & S. Hotels $3.15. ILK. Lands $30. HK. Realties $4.70. HK. Tramways $13.40. Peak Trams (Old) $7. Peak Trams (New) $3%. Star Ferries $80. Yaumati Ferries $234. China Ligtits (Old) $11.45. China Lights (New) $11.10. II.K. Electrics $53. Macao Electrica $10% Cements $124. Dairy Farms $24. Watsons $41⁄4.- Sinceres $1.35. Wm. Powell $0.40. Constructions (New) $1. Vibro Piling $5%.
'Sellers Providents (New) $0.35. Dairy Farm $24. H.K. Govt. 4% Loan 7% pm:
Sales
H.K. & K. Wharves $110. ILK. & S. Hotels $5.20. Star Ferries $80.
China Lights (Old) $11.55. Cements $12/12.35.
In 1933 there were stories of the closing of the nation's banks, of the
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None of these things did Patricia
+
He was forced down in the desert
know. Nor did she know that the 60 miles from Baghdad without dectors put her on a special diet in petrol, borrowed a donkey from that year in a new attempt to cure Arabs, and rode four miles to obtain
her.
Then came 1935. Lindbergh
petrol from the nearest motor ear.
left With this he resumed his fight to
America to live In England, Abyssinin England-Reuter. was invaded by Itallan troops; war- drum sounded throughout Europe.
Lattio
Patricia, in her own world of dreams, turned over in bed without help.
Mrs. Miley wept with joy nă she wrote in her diary, "There are times when Pat seems to recognise us."
But the days lengthened into weeks and months.
Came 1938, and Mrs. Miley kept her history of modern times up to date: with King George's death; outbreak
14 HOURS TO SPARE
London, Oct. 24.
A new record Australia to England solo night was achieved by Miss Jean Batten, when she landed at Lymphe at 3.45 p.m. to-day, beating the record by 14 hours 10 minutes.
Her total time from Port Darwin was 5 days 18 hours 15 minutes, com- pared with F. H. Broadbent's 8 days
hours 25 minutes.
Miss Baltes, whose plane was other planes over the Roosevelt: abdication of King Ed-channel, arrived tired, but smiling, ward.
and was wildly cheered by i crowd
of the Spanish war; re-election of escorted by
With those changes in the world's of hundreds as she was lifted from history tha mother's hopes of Pare plane.
tricia's recovery began to dwindle. She took off again from Lympno at University on the road trom Hong-Then the big red book told of 4.8 p.m. and landed at Croydon 27 kow Park to Klangwan-Reuler. Patricia's loss of fifty pounds in minutes later.-Router.
THREAT TO TAZANG
Shanghai, Oct. 24 (10.3 p.m.),
weight, or her weakening condition,
of her removal from her little square
A Chinese spokesman stated that room in Oak Park to hospital. of the feree fighting was going on a mllefight doctors made to save her life. north of
Japanese Tarang. The
were making a determined attempt
the
Girl Cyclist
RETURN CONFIRMED
Basra, Oct, 24.
Harold Broadbent has experienced more bad weather and has been forced to return to England.-Reuter.
AIDING RED CROSS
CHINESE RETREAT?
to push back the Chinese. line, but Shanghai, Oct. 24 (4.11 p.m.). were being checked. He added that According to a Japanese army Kwangu was still in Chinese hands,
however, that the offensive was but admitted, rommunique launched yesterday with the Chinese Chinese had withdrown a short dls-
Banned For to-day starting to retreat from tance from Chenchlachang, three and Tazang and Klangwan, upon which a balf miles north-west of Tazang.
A Grand Concert will be given on been The Japanese claim they have vie- (bo strongest pressure, "has
One Year Wednesday, October 27, at 8.30 p.m. tually reached the gates of TazaNK
(by applied,
at the Kowloon Tong Club Japanese assert their aircraft) and are about two miles from Nan- are bombing the retreating troops, halang.
Kathleen Taylor, of Grandalia, courtesy of the General Committee), walle warship artillery. is shelin A Chinese communique states tho thern.
uation at the front is absolutely Londonerry, was bound over by the Waterloo Road, by the s.8. Conte (under the leadership of Prof A Chinese spokesmen denies the in hand" and concludes, "Do not le local resident magistrate and ordered Verde Orchestra, the Choral Group Japanese claim and says the Chinese Rave the extravagant claims of the not to erclo for a year. 5e was Guaid!), and many popular local arists, among whom are Mrs. J. P. Lave not withdrawn anywhere. Japanese. Tazang is expected to charged with careless oycling.
altered that Kathleen Choy Mits C. Pang. Prot. Felegatu also claims the capture of Fustan withstand any threat."-Reuter.
caused a motor-car td swerve and M. M. Brovalin, Messrs. G. F. Printed and Published for the Proprietors by Furoznick PERCY FRANKLIN, overturn, and that she did not stop D'Aquino and Mr. Li Chor Chi; in ald
of the Chinese Red Cross," after the crash. at 1 and 9, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong
WEAL
"The examination included the usual tesis: landing on a mark from 2,000 feet without the engine, figures of eight with and without the engine, spinning both ways and looping. On the second day, Prince Albert made his cross-country flight of 80 miles and landed perfectly.. There one pleturesque interlude during this flight. He flew over Windsor Castle, at 4,000 feet."
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