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Expert

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. · SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1936.

DEATH AT SAME MINUTE OF OLD DEVOTED COUPLE

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HAPPILY MARRIED.

FOR 45 YEARS

Drama in Hotel Room Near

Burned Home

Atany a time....... they prop,

That bath be summoned in the self-same day.

**~-Edmund Blunden.

RETIRED naval officer, aged 84, and his wife, aged 81, died at

the same minute after a happy married life of 45 years.

They were Captain Thomas Hadley and Mrs. Edith Hadley, who.

had lived for two years at a quiet Lake District hotel.

On the stroke of 10 o'clock at

night a nurse who had looked

after the couple for SDyeral

months called a doctor's attention U.S. Surgery

to Captain Hadley.

The old captain was dent.

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Then the doctor and ; nurso Wins New

turned away from his bed. They found that his wife had died while

they were examining her husband. Triumph

"IT FITTING"

Since January, 1934, Captain and Mrs. Hadley had lived at the! King's Arms Hotel, not far from the site of the Holme, a Hawks- head, their £5,000 mansion, which was destroyed by fire in February last year, when they both had nar-

row escapes.

The manageress of the hotel told a reporter of the devotion of the fold couple, and aid: "It was fitting they should die together. They had flyed together so long nad so happily.

"ZIP" FASTENERS FOR YOUR TUMMY

New York, Jan. 3. American surgery has won remarkable now triumph in the struggle againat disense.

The scent of the success is a Chicago hospital. A zip fastener has been attached to an inclsion in a patient's stomach so that the "I expect the old couple will be wound may be opened and closed buried together at Hawkshead easily and conveniently every day Cemetery оп Saturday in the for treatment of a tumour with an middle of the countryside they electric needle. loved."

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The name of the Ingenious ̧«ur- - HOW THEY ESCAPE During the fire at their manaion geon who hit upon this device for

replacing the old method of sur-j Captain Hadley was found in bathroom and helped to safety. As gical clips, adhesive tape and gauze ho and his rescuer reached the is kept secret, as is also the name

hnd of the patient. staircase they lawn the

descended was cut off by flames.

Mrs. Hadley was discovered by. a mld, who searched through the smoke-filled tric torch.

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TALL MINISTER

A new photograph of Viscount Halifax, who succeeded Lord Lon. donderry as Lord Privy Seal.

Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of) rooms with an elec-The Journal of the American the incision and the zip fastener

hooked to them. found her mixtress|Medical Association, in explaining

When treatment with the electric helpless in an upper bedroom, and the procedure, states that the

stomach was first sewed to the needle is given the zip fastener carried her downstairs.

opened in the ordinary way, and Captain Hadley had a distin-jalxdominal wall.

the incision aperture is closed gulshed naval eateer.

again by pulling the fastener in the reverse direction.

He com-

manded the gunboats Pheasant,

Strips of adhesive tape were then Starling and Watchpole. 1le held placed on the skin on each side of the Queen's and King's South African Medals.

The couple had no family..

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A Belgian civil engineer, Mr. Pete Bergmans, has arrived in London to negotiate with a treasura-hunting company, which is financing an expedition now in Cocos Island, in the Pacific Ocean.

The yacht Veracity. with á Government of Costa Rica, on the staff, exclusive of artists, of 1,000. party, of treasure-seekers, has South American mainland, has

TWO THEATRES

bown there since February last undertaken to provide protection when the whereabouts of the trea Major C. H. Bell, the consulting year. engineer, of Wardour Street, - ex- plained:

Mr. Bergmans says that he is sure are disclosed. He intends to sure the treasure will be unearth-return to the island shortly. "Main contracters for this gigan-

"I was shipwrecked on the yacht i tic scheme are Messrs. Sir Robert before next April. Ho has

other survivor were in the island Quotations for special printing upon McAlpine and Sons (London), Ltd. spent several months with the Westward," he said. "I and the

"Studios will provide accom expedition. application to

modation for 16 productions at He thinks that the treasure was for about Boven weeks. After the same time. They will be probably hidden by pirates, or by making our discovery of the trea- equipped to Hollywood stan- the survivers of a South Ameri- suro's hiding place we set out in a dard to meet the most exact-can revolution.

small boat and had many advon- ing demands.

tures before we were picked up on the ocean..

--"I-came-back to London recently. because I bad. J

bad heard of the death of my father in Belgium. While here I am completing the contrict with the company which organised this expedition...

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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The Society asks for $25,000

in 1936 to continue its work for

sick and dostitute children,

Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A..

c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co...

P. &.O. Bullding.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chins,

Hongkong.

He told to-day how he and "There will be eight large stuitios, two-review-and re-recording, then another man, now doad, were cast tres, each equal to a 1,000-seat away on Cocos Island uix years chilema, 16 cutting” rooms, four ago private projection theatres, separ

While on the island he acciden- ate administration offices for each producer, 20,000 square feet of sot tally stepped upon a piece of rock, building shops, 100 crowd and part It gave way and the hols It reveal dressing rooms, costume space for, ad seemed to lead to a cavern. 5,000 artists.

BAG OF GOLD

"It is being arranged that my share of the treasuro shall be 25 per cent.

THE EXACT SPOT

"When that is agreed to, I am prepared to indicate the exact spot where the trosure lies.

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away a collection of golden ob "Important production plans will facts in a bag... begin early in the summer.

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