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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1936.

BRITAIN ON TOP OF THE

DUCHESS' VISIT TO HOSPITAL

Hero is a delightful study of the Duchess of Kent as she visited the Hampstead Children's hospital on her first official engagement since the birth of her aon, Prince Edward.

WOMAN LEAVES REGIMENT £20,000: HER LOVE STORY

An eighty-year-old woman who in her younger days was so devoted to her only brother, a soldier, that she gave up a prospective husband to be with him, has died and left almost all her fortune of £20,646 to his regiment-forty six years after he retired from it.

Her brother, Major Norman Houston Leckie, retired from the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment in 1889, and died thirty years ago.

A fortnight ago the will of his "Compassionate Fund" for the 1st sister, Mary Alice and 2nd Battalions, a fund used spinster Lockle, was lodged at the Comfor the benefit of old members of

the regiment. missary Office In Edinburgh.

She left £20,646 less a few small legacies to the officer command- ing the Royal West Kent Depot at Maidstone.

Her

fortune will go to the

Sea And Air Travel Is Growing Safer

Travel grows safer by sea and by air.

Figures issued in London this month show that R.A.F. - air- planes flow more than 60,000,000 railes during 1935-equal to 2,000 journeys round the world.

The number of serious ac cidents, in spite of the increas- ed amount of flying and the growth of the service, is

Miss Leckle had few relatives. She had few near friendo.

At a private hotel in North Ber. wick where she died the story of the Devoted Sister was told to a London press representative.

"Miss Leckie left the money in memory of her brother," said Mr. John Campbell the manager.

She was a woman of the 'old school and could not easily make friends in her new life.

"Every one thought she was very reserved, but I learned something about her. She told me that she had a brother in

He was the regiment.

very fond of her and she of him.

"As a matter of fact, she was so devoted to him that she gave up her chances of marriage be-1 cause she did not like to think of him being alone."

Fought in Africa ·

Major A. A. E. Chitty,, com manding officer of the regimental depot at Maidstone, said:

WORLD NOVEL!

Striking Facts About Nation's Prosperity:

Outlook for 1936 Better Still

280,000 FOUND.

WORK IN 1935

As King Edward VIII comes to the Throne of Britain he receives from his dead Father a heritago that is thriving.

From an exhaustive inquiry carried out at the begin- ning of the month by a London newspaper in the great industrial areas, in mining and agricultural districts, in manufacturing cities and seaports, one fact emerges—-

in:

For Britons 1936 will be a more prosperous year even than 1935, no matter what part of the Empire they live I came How will 1936 find the district whence to Hongkong?-that is the question everyone here will want to know.

-And here is the answer-in the facts and figures revealed by the newspaper investigators:--

There are more people employed to-day than ever in our country's history.

A million people work to-day who were on the dole four. years ago.

During 1935, nearly 280,000 workers have found the em- ployment needed.

In October the Unemployed Insurance Fund received more money than it paid out.

NEW ARMY

守

紀費

Recrulis for the Chinese Army are being pressed into service for what? Picture shows'a view from a recruit- ing office in the North.

Vital Industries, main blood-stream of Britain's life, THE GIRL

show an increase in 1935 over 1934.

Here are some details which newspaper correspondents WHO COULD

have compiled, showing clearly what the year has brought to the greatest departments of the nation's life. Iron and Stocl

In iron and steel industries £10,- 860 more has been paid in wages this year.

Exports increased by £2,113,000, Production is up by nearly 50

Coal per cent, over the 1930 Agures!

Every week $21,000 more goes in wages to transport workers.

Railway traffe on the four main lines, Britain's arteries of steel, shows an appreciable increase.

The total up. to October was £136,332,000; an increase of £1,185,000 over last year. More motor-cars are being made. In coal mining, 9,000 more mon The year ended September, 1935, were employed during the year saw a record output $11,644 cara thousand more miners found work against 256,866 for the previous coal started in October.

up to September. Twenty-four

when the veasonal demand for year.

During October, too, 19,800,000 tons of coal were mined, compared with 19,600,000 tons in October of last year. Cotton

The rhythm of the looms takes on a quicker beat. In cotton un- employment this year is down by 11,000.

Exports are up £952,000.

In October 8,000 more cotton spinners were working than in October, 1934.

Wool: Textiles

There are 18,000 more people employed in wool than a yar ago. Five thousand names left the dole registers in October alone.

Textile wages jump up £9,000 a

week.

Woollen yarns and manufac- bures exports climb by £921,000 over last year.

Artificial silk production is up 200 per cent, since 1930. Engineering

During the year 17,000 men left the dole queuca.

Every week engineering wages are up by £40,450 over 1984.

Engineering exports in October were higher than any month since October, 1930.

"Miss Leckle's brother joined the second battalion fa 1872 and Railways. retired as major in 1880.

"He fought In South Africa | Transport comparably less than in any in 1881 and died in March 1905. previous year.

We never saw Mies Leckie here.

Unemployment figures

.

down

Forty-one men have lost their Her only interest in Maidstone 17,000. lives this year in twenty-five believe, was to pay la man ten R.A.F. flying accidents, nino of shillings every Christmas than in one disaster to a flying-polishing a brass memorial to her Thelma Todd Mystery boat which flew into a hillside in brother which is in All Saints'

a cloud.

for

Church, where the twenty-seven

"

Building

NOT DIE

SHE HAD LOVED

AND LOST

Warsaw, Jan. 12. MARIA BANSKA, a beautiful twenty-three-year-old blonde manicurist, loved a young man of ber own age. But her love was not returned.

A year ago he married another. Life held nothing more for Maria commit and she determined to

Unemployment. has made its suicide. record drop this year, 43,000 men But death eluded her. Four have found work in this industry, times Maria throw herself into the Each time she was and £47,000 a week more is being River Vistula. paid in wages.

hauled out. Food and Drink

Wages in the food, drink and tobacco industries have risen by: £2.700 a week.

The sales of food and perish- ables were up by more than 10 per cent. in October.

Twice she drank a dose of hydro- chloric acid. Doctors saved her.

Fourteen times she tried to pol- son herself with gas. She, failed each time."

Wrecked Room

"As prosperity increases, so

She became famous in Warsaw as does the consumption of beer"the girl who could not die." in Britain.

This year bear brewed totalled in the first nine months 11,939,729 and 16,126,464 standard barrels bulk barrels.

Brick, Pottery, Glass

Eight thousand more are work- ing in pottery, glass, and allied industries.

Wages are up by £8,960 every

week

Summary

Was

A few days ago Maria tried once more to kill herself with gas. The escaping gas exploded by an oil lamp and the entire room was wrecked but Maria escaped.

This last attempt was too much for Warsaw's good-hearted magis trates. One ordered that she should go into a sanatorium, but Marla, cheated so long by death, cheated her judge.

To-day a pistol shot was heard in It would be easy to be wildly her flat and caused neighbours to optimistic. There are many na-break down the locked door.

Maria had succeeded at last. Sbe tions that would go crazy with joy could such a survey yield auch, a died in hospital. reault.

But it is better to watch

thankfully the returning tide. Negroe's

The worst year was 1921. The colours of the regiment hang. ACTOR PLANNED

service was then about one-quar- ter, of its present size, and Its machines flew only about 5,000,000 miles.

Thirty-seven men wore killed in twenty-two accidents. That year every 2,238 hours. Now, there is one death in 12,000 bying hours.

Shipping Victory

PNEUMONIA :

Pittsburgh, Jan. 15.

PNEUMONIA now is to be com-

POSE AS BRITISH

'PEER' AT PARTY

New York, Jan. 10.

batted with science's newest Former welter-weight wrestling champion of San The man who own Britain's weapon ---- Hydroxyethylapo- Francisco, styling himself "Lord Lansdowne," and a ships also claim a victory over the quinin.

Hollywood film actor named Duke York, to-day sprang a perils that ride the waves.

British shipowners are anxious The substance a derivative new surprise in the mystery of the recent death of the that the British public should not of ordinary quinin, the oldest beautiful star, Thelma Todd. draw wrong inferences about therapeutic known to medicine wafety at sea from isolated die--is being produced by the

asters.

Mellon Institute.

Heart Removed In Operation

SURGICAL FEAT Riverside, Calif., Jan. 15. Thomas Slimmons, 86 year old negro, recently underwent an un- usual surgical operation in which he had his heart removed, Simmons was brought to the sewed and restored to his body. Coachella Valley hospital almost Blood spurted from a "We were then to pretend dead. The two men told the police

that we were actually members wound where he had been they were the mystery guests

of the British nobility visiting stabbed in the heart during a The Chamber of. Shipping of the

Time was when Hydroxyethyla whom Thelma had declared she

fight with a Filipino. United Kingdom have lasued a atatement claiming that British poquinin was as dangerous to use was going to take to a cocktail Hollywood.

Records of the San Francisco Dr. Russell M. Gray decided to ships are the safest in the world, as it is formidable to name. But party at Mrs. Wallace Ford's

home on the afternoon before State Athletic Commission show risk the oporation na the only are safer now than they Have over not now.

that "Lord Lansdowne's real means of saving Simmons' life, Dr. W. W G. Maclachlan, asse her death in a garage.

The huge nogro was placed an boon, and that last year there

name is Patrick Flanigton, and he

the operating table, a section of were 333 persons killed on the clate professor of medicine at the

and "I was going to wear a starched is in native of Ohio.

Miss Zaau Pitte, the Alm star, his ribs removed, the heart lifted raids for every one passenger lost University of Pittsburgh,

widely known pneumonia special-shirt with ribbon across the front

the farm at sea in British ships.

Within a few hours Misa To the question: Are our ist, described the new medicant at and stick a monocte in one oye, gave evidence before the resumed out and sewed.

grand jury inquiry into

Jabouror was able to talk, and now Todd's death this afternoon.. ships safe?" declare the chaman honerary Helenco fraternity said York. ber, the answer is, that they meeting here."

She told the jury there was no seems well on the way to recovery. truth in the report that she, her "If it were not a case of taking husband, and a "mystery man" a chance to save a life, I would "Lord Lansdowne and Duke had luncheon with Thelma the not have risked the operation," the physician declared United Press York.

Saturday before her death..

are safe, and becoming safer. It is too early to say what Three-year averages show that results will be," he said, "but wo one ship in 150 was lost between believe that hydroxyethylnpo- 1020 and 1922; by 1982-84, the loss quinin can be used with safety." had fallon to one ship in 242.

United Press.

"Lansdowne was going to dres similarly, and Thelma was going to introduce

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