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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH." TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19,

1935.

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WARNING

PLOT TO ASSASSINATE

KING OF BULGARIA

PLAN TO SEIZE ROYAL FAMILY FOILED BY TALKATIVE BIRD

AN armed guard sits beside King Boris of Another guards Bulgaria's bed all night.

his Queen, a daughter of the King of Italy.

The Ministers will not allow them to go out of the palace grounds in Sofia while they are unravelling a plot to kill or kidnap the King.

five

Two hundred and fifteen politicians arrested, and hundred army officers are under suspicion.

discovered

The plot Was through a parrot constantly

screeching, out the words "Kill the King."

BAN ON 'QUINS' MAY BE LIFTED

Montreal, Nov. 1. According to a Toronto message,

the Dionne quintuplets may yet

The royal palace at Sofia has one make their first film appearance

TOO OLD

TO FIGHT?

GENERAL DE BONO, who has bren relieved of the command of Italy's forces in East Africa.

Modern "Arrowsmiths"

of the finest private collections of With David Cros Ontario's In The Congo

parrots.

Mr. A. Croll. į

The one which revealed the plot Minister of Publle Welfare, has was kept in a cage in a room re-rejected for the moment Miss Barved for certain household off-Pickford's offer of £5,000 for this clals only.

Army officers arrested include the commander of the garrison at Silvnitz, General off, three majors, and eleven captains.

purpose.

The babies' cinema' debut cannot take place for a year or more, Mr. Croll states, but when Dr. Dafoe, their physician, is satisfied that it will do them no harm. Miss Pick-

will Some of the arrested men ford's proposition have revealed that a list had

sidered. been prepared of forty people who were to be ruthlessly shot! down by the conspirators.

The list was headed by the Stalin Flew

King and the royal family, the Cabinet, the high command, and the police chiefs.

-Detective-Chafs

The conspirators hoped to cap ture the King and take him off as a hostage to the mountains. From there they were in dietate their policy.

If they were opposed they were to have threatened King.

be con-

THEY FIGHT. THE DREAD TSETSE FLY

Paris, Nov. 12.

In the steaming tropical forests of France's African em- pire, obscure, heroic Arrow. smiths are fighting-and win- ning-the battle against the most dreaded scourge of that region, sleeping sickness.

In stretches of, country as large as France where five years

40,000 Miles To ago 80 per cent. of the blacks

See Mother

.

Moscow, Nov. 2. Stalin, Russia's Man of Steel, fies 2,000 miles to Tiflis to spend one day with his mother.

were affected by the disease, it has been practically stamped

most

of regions out. In Cameroun and French Equa- torial Africa where the number of cases was 60 to every 100 inhabitants in 1935, the propor- tion has now been reduced to 10

It is thought that his example.of to shoot the filial duty and affection may result per hundred.

in a "Mothers' Day" for Russia's millions.

Since King Boris married King Victor's daughter Italian Influence has been considerable in Bulgaria, More than a quarter of the serving officers of the Bulgarian army have been shown to he dis- affected, and these include several generals.

Usually Stalin's movements are kept secret. On this occasion his departure and return were' an- nouneed officially-Reuter.

chiefs and detective-butlers and -apecially chosen footmen.

And, behind the curtains, of the Meanwhile, all food served to

state ballrooin machine guns -peep Queen is bought. the King and

prepared, and served by detective--out-towards the street..

FLIGHTS TO GERM-FREE AIR

OF ARCTIC

Explorer Predicts

Sanatoria Wonderful ·Climate

in

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Days when people.will fly in a few hours from the civilised world to the "day long sunlight and germ-free air of the Polar regions" were foreseen by Mr. Edward Shackleton, son of the late Sir Ernest Shackleton, the explorer, in a broadcast talk from Daventry last week.'

Mr. Shackleton was speaking of was always ferocious in the team, his experiences as lendor of the but was affectionate to his human Oxford University Ellesmere Land i master,

has arrived Once an ice floo on which were expedition, which homo after nearly 16 months in some of the members of the party collapsed. Six dogs were crushed the Arctic.

He said that the climate of the to death and the men had narrow

the escapes. explored regions was health cat in the world, and in- diented that sanatoria might yet be established there for victims of stands lung trouble,

The party sailed from London cable an- in July, 1934, and nouncing the complete success of their enterpriso. was received year later.

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From October to February the 919.43 expedition party were without the Grant land, which is in the

81.25 sun, and 30 dogs died through

winter blizzards, food poisoning northern part of Ellesmere Landl, been penetrated, It was 42.40 or by being killed by their team! had

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Ice Floe Collapse The real Eskimo dog, he said, geographical discoveries made.

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Some areas which had abandoned by man and beast alike have again been made habitable.by destruction of the breeding place bf the tsetse flies that carry the dreaded trypanosome.

Not only daca the colonial doctor who risks his life to penetrate the jungles of the Congo have to seck out his patients in small tribes hidden in almost impenetrable forests, but after he finds them he must convince them to permit treatment.

Pastour Institute's Work There are two centres for the French medical profession's war ngainst sleeping sickness in its African possessions-Ayce, in the In- Cameroun, and the Pasteur

In the at Brazzaville. stitute Congo.

dis- From these contres are patched two, groups of sanitary butts, following one another at an interval of a month. first the treatment group, then the follow- up group.

Mission number one visits each native village in turn, tests ench native for the disease, administers a first Injection, usually of atoxyl. to those found to be suffering from sleeping sickness, and leaves with the patients clinical cards giving the date of, the Injection, and the strength and amount of the dose.

One month later the second mission arrives, and proceeds to regular injections until cures are complete.

Meanwhile the doctors Bend back reports. on all breeding.cet- tres for the teetse ly, and san!- tary engineers

the undertake dangerous task of destroying the humid vegetation on which they Ilve to prevent their propagation.

So successful has the last five- medicine foresees in the not too years' work been that Trench distant future the time when sleeping sickness will have been banished entirely from her African eclonics-United Press.

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6 Congreve said it was soothing enough to softert rocks ar bend a knotted ook: we hear n let of It nowadays. D Rather

aping

possessing it.

wisdom than

10 The 3 Down nation might be pardoned for being slightly so: pardo

so, might wel

11-Mira Heath?

12 Sort of lvil list,

this! Cón- meneer with a minor honour. 13 A minor uathi.

14 Though having at heart wit to do, it is you are trying Bankrupt.

17 Wanting,

19 Man's name.

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21 Delights in ten granes. 24 Finishes a quarter of the year. 20 You'd never think this place waa made of rice mixed with ink' (two words, 3 and 4).

27 Establish a theatre sent. 28 Like ginger-bear,

29 The aquatter's occupation sounds

A Rect,

DOWN

2 Tears might be, but it's splendid

all the same,

A stag with 90 each side in a Northern tongue.

4 Sanction writer.

than half muru

6 Mostly a bone you have. Now,

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OLD CROCKS' RACE

LONDON-BRIGHTON EVENT FOR AGED CARS

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20

24

120

came a pest.

7 Carlyle aid speech is of time!

but this is of atornity.

8 After the Initiu: stage, bo

appears on the boards,

13 'crrying to have the boxing

profession below the nurk. Content.

15

10 Sea most of the game, we're told

(hyphen,

7 and 2).

18 is no good depositing such

bonds with your banker..

20 A vehicle in front of a Welsh town involves myatic interpreta- Lion.

32 Mrs. Mollison set about it in no

unfriendly spirit.

23 Banbury is net, he land of them. 25 Get together again with stroken

quickly exchanged,

Yesterday's Solution ASTRABISMUS

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LANGING STILTON HINGE DE ALI TO'G

VEER AGA IN ECQM}

RETORTAS PEN", T CERN IRAN TO SNEMO RE CAMELEE VOKING

MENDE PRA YEAQUA WE TYRE AN ATTEN EVERENT MOORISH L'EMBAR VONO ABI RIS LEN MOSQUITOES

completed the course,

The winner was a 33 years old Napler. Its owner first purchased the car in 1902 but sold it six years later. Two years ago ho re- sened it from a rubbish heap in Kent. In yesterday's race it at- tained a speed of 50 m.p.h.

London, Nov. 18. The annual London to Brighton

The oldest car in the race was d "Old Crocks" race for. motor cars

99 Connstatt. Daimler built in 1894 over 30 years old attracted entries yesterday and 68 of these 'British Wirclean.

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