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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH SATURDAY

SEPTEMBER

1935.

HELLO WORLD!

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

Prices:

..from HK.$145.00

Guitars Ukuleles $105.00 & $200,00 Mandolines $150.00 & $220.00

London Man

Large discounts for CASH. Who Saw

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Tel. 24648.

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JUST RECEIVED

700 Inquests

MR. R. J. MARKS DEAD

THE "Inquest King" has died

In London. In the last 50 years Mr. Robert J. Marks at. tended and reported between 60,000 and 70,000 inquesta. For that achievement he earned his "monarchy." Last week his death in hospital was announc- ed.

Mr.

In his younger days Marks never missed a big trial at the Old Bailey. He travelled all over the country, reporting

SHIPMENT of VARIOUS Assize cases for the London

Press...

In 1878

He was probably the last of

New One, Hand Operated the reporters who, in 1878, were

Hand-Bags

SPECIAL

OFFER

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rushed to Woolwich when the pleasure steamer, the Princess Alice, sank with the loss of hundreds of lives.

He reported the Inquests which followed the death of one' of Jack the Ripper's victims, the first fatal motoreur accident, and the first, motorbus and taxi. cab fatalitles.

He was present when Mme. beauty Rachel, the notorious parlour swindler, was sentenced. He attended the Inquest when slie poisoned herself in gaol.

FIRST GLIMPSE OF A BRAVE NEW WORLD Baby ostriches emerging from their egg. A picture taken during the hatching period. The nest consists of a pit scraped out by the parent birde with their feat.

Heiress To Marry Third Husband In London

J

Two of the wealthiest families of France and America will be united by the wedding of Mrs. Delphine Dodge Baker and M. Timothy M. Godde. They became engaged in London several days ago, but kept it secret while wedding plans were discussed.

The Duke of York taking some film shots during a visit to a holiday camp in Suffolk, where 400 youths from

PRICES! Shortly afterwards, he attend. schools and factories were assembled.

HING CO.

THE SHUI HING

189-193, DES VOEUX ROAD, CTL. TEL:-32648 & 20049.

HONGKONG benevolent SOCIETY

DONATIONS GRATEFULLY'

RECEIVED

Please send to the Honorary Treasurer:----

Mrs. E. I. Wynno-Jones

404, The Poak.

ed a coroner's inquiry into the death of a woman who shot her- Mme. self in a cab. It was Rachel's daughter.

Loafer Jurymen In the days when Mr. Marks after serving an apprentice- ship as a paper boy at Charing Cross Station-first began re- porting inquests, they were in- variably held in public houses. He used to tell how loafers made a habit of calling on the coroner's officer in the hope of securing work on the jury for the day at a shilling a case.

"What with the illiteracy of juries the squalor of sorc of the 'courts' and the unpunctua- lity of coroners, I have seen some queer inquiries," he said.

Mr. Marks once reported an inquest in a royal palace-the inquiry which followed a fatal fire at Hampton Court.

He could remember a ·case when, after two bodies had been identified and the insurance money drawn by relatives, the two "dead men" turned up alive and well.

In recent years he had a form of writer's cramp brought on through writing by hand many millions of words.

SALESMAN SAM

POSTED HERSELF

BY PACKET POST

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S

A report ran through American circles in London and in the United States that they were actually married

To this Mrs. Baker's brother, Mr. Horaco Dodge, replied:

"They are engaged, and I hope the wedding will take place from my London home in September."

Mrs. Dodge Baker is the daugh- ter and heiress of one of the most famous "mushroom" millionaires of this century-Mr. Horace E.. Dodge, who built up with his brother the colosani motor-car firm which still bears his name..

When the two brothers died fifteen years ago and the bust- ness was sold, the widows hind more than £15,000,000 each given to them and their fami les.

Castle And Chateau

Across

1 "Cam needs rivet," showing a want of proper care (anag.).

8 Famed for her tea-shop activit

les, she put away a hoard in her own home,

9 before twenty,

11 The filing-clerk puts letters in

this.

12 Narrow-minded.

14 Just follow, and pray for the Win the barges did when bumped reminded him to take this with his fruit.

15

10 This throw more light than over on the dark ways of a great city (hyphen 3. 4.).

18

gi

Where one may study tree art

retirement. Campaign.

22 Of course the anchor is before

the vessel starts one.

24 Large, valuable foolish bird., 27 Thin

his can only be seen hy visiting Japan 28 Boredom.

Where a salt finds all the places ho has visited. 30 Dare I can it, son? This cer

tainly requires thought.

These

may ally, are.

Down

be solid-and, gener-

3 Where one requires a screen to

be of service,

4 Masked, like a knight of old. 5 This Berkshire town la noted for

its literature.

It does Round as though these were brought in on themselves

CONVICTS ON STRIKE ALLEGED WANT OF FOOD IN KWANGTUNG GAOL

M. Timothy M. Godde is the son of M. Jules Godde, n rich silk manufacturer, who owns one of the show cantles of France, u chateau near Alsace. He has Ilved in According Amerien à great many years, has Lungchuen, in a home at Rye, New York, and is an outstanding amateur golfer.

M. Gadde will be Mrs. Baker's third husband. She first mar- .....rled....Mr. James Cromwell, now.

the husband of Miss Doris Duke, American tobacco millionairess, In 1920. After eight years she divorced him at Reno, and then married Mr. Raymond T. Baker, a director of the United States Mint.

This year, while Mrs. Baker was visiting her brother in London, her husband died. She then thought of taking up a musical career by Kiving concert recitals in London, but romance has intervened.

FEMALE "MAIL": The resources of the post-office have been demonstrated at Allo

After seeing. her mother (who way (Scotland), where a horse has been married again to a 'popu- handed in" for express delivery lar Broadway netor, Mr. Hugh at an address in Ayr was duly Dillman), off to America, Mrs. Baker disappeared to an obscure delivered in charge of a special vilinge by the sea to get a rest messenger for the exceedingly from telephone inquiries for a moderate fee of one shilling.

Even that, however, is not the strangest achievement of the kind

week.".

on record by Scottish postal of-hotel, she went to a post office and requested to be delivered by special messenger.

ficiale

During the women's suffrage compaign Mr. Winston Chuchill. was holding a meating in Dundee, when a young enthusiast, denied admittance to the hall, decided to get speech with the enemy next morning by subtler methods,

Fastening a label on her breast addressed to Mr. Churchill at his

Canton, Sept. 6. to reports. from the northeast of

at a dinner.

7 There is no Managing Director

on this Bonre.

8 End in rare cat? Quite possibly

If one is this.

10 A race for bats in the belfry? 13 It is so extremo: why say any-

thing?

17. We all love a good one.

.10

They

have lost their spirits,

a return is indicated.

but

20 Part of this vessel is much

21

larger than the whole of it.

One whom I would gladly turn over to the coroner...

23 Here you have a piece of music

composed by the donor.

2 Eaten in the morning, drunk at

night.

20 Go with oil, for the home.

Yesterday's Bolution.

BOUND DETERRENT SINO JI BI AN NI MIRROR SATURDAY

BANDITTIVATE

J OCTANE L PROGENY ELASTIC TUGE ST B V TABET STRAINED "C" ROB THE YNN LON R PANORAMA POLYPE ST THE OF O TENTACLES BNO OD

Kwangtung, 300 convicts in the Lungchuen district prison have [started a hunger strike as a pro- test against getting inbuflicient food.

The provincial judicial nuthor)- les are investigating the matter..

Reuter.

APARTMENT FLATS IN CENTRAL DISTRICT.

SOMETHING NEW IN RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION IN HONGKONG.

The

One, two and three-roomed up-to-date furnished and unfurnished apartments, cach with kitchen, pantry, bathroom, and detached servants' quarters, will be available, at moderate rents, in the new modern 8-storey re-inforced concrete building-known as "DINA HOUSE"-now nearing completion in Duddell Street. furnished flats will be fitted with furniture of modern type.

A telephone and frigidaire will be provided in each apartment. The order was accepted, she Automatic lifts (Waygood Otis).. These apartments are bright pald the regulation fee of three and airy, the majority of them facing towards the Gardens or the pence, and was delivered at the | harbour. hotel by telegraph-boy."

. Mr. Churchill's private secre- tary, however, defeated her plan by refusing to accept delivery of the "packet."

Those who have already booked flats, and persons wishing to view the premises, are informed that lifts have now been installed and that they will be shown over the building if application is made at Messrs. H. Ruttonjee & Son's offices next door--No. 7 'Duddel), Street.

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ghing troubles

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