1936-01-27 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY

BRITAIN ON TOP

DUCHESS' VISIT TO HOSPITAL

Here is a delightful study of the Duchess of Kent as she visited the Hampstead Chikiren's hospital on her first official engagement since the birth of her sou, 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 simost 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 Ist spinster sister, Mary Alice and 2nd Battalions, a fund used Leckie, was lodged at the Comfor the benefit of old members of

the regiment, missary Office in Edinburgh,

She left £20,046 less a few small legacies to the officer command- ing the Royal West Kent Depot at Maidstone.

· Her

will go fortuno

Sea And Air Travel Is

Growing Safer

to the

Travel grows safer by sex and by air.

Figures issued in London thin month show that R.A.F. air- planes flew more than 50,000,000 miles during 1935-equal to

OF

27, 1936.

THE WORLD

Striking Facts About Nation's Prosperity:

Outlook for 1936 Better Still

280,000 FOUND

WORK IN 1935 :

As King Edward VI!! comos to the Throne of Britain he receives from his dead Father a heritage 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-

For Britons 1936 will be a more prosperous year even than 1935, no matter what part of the Empire they live in.

district whence I came to Hongkong?-that is the question everyone here will want to know.

How will 1936 find the

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 1985, nearly 280,000 workers have found the em- ployment needed.

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

Vital industries, main blood-stream

show an increase in 1935 over 1934,

of Britain's

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NEW ARMY

守负知明

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Recruits for the Chinese Army are being pressed Into service for what? Pleture shows a view from a recruit- ing ofce in the North.

life. THE GIRL

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 Steal

In iron and steel industries £10,- 850 more has been paid in wages this year..

Exports increased by £2,118,000. Production is up by nearly 50 per cent, over the 1930 figures! Coal

Every week £21,000.more gues in wages to transport workers,

Railway traffic on the four muln lines, Britain's arteries of steel, shows an appreciable increase,

NOT DIE

SHE HAD LOVED AND LOST

Warsaw, Jan. 12.

The total up to October was £136,332,000; an increase of £1,186,000 over last year, More motor-cars are being made. MARIA BANSKA, a beautiful twenty-three-year-old blonde The year ended September, 1935, manicurist, loved a young man of saw a record output-311,044 cara her own age. But her love was against 266,866 for the previous not returned.

In, coalmining, 9,000 more men were employed during the year up to September. Twenty-four when the seasonal demand for year. thousand more miners found work conl started in October.

During October, too, 19,800,000 tons of coal were mined, compared with 19,500,000 tons in October of last year. Catton

The rhythm of the looms takes on a quicker beat. In cotton an-

Miss Leckle had fow relatives, She had few near friends.

At a private hotel in North Ber-employment this year is down by wick where she died the story of the Devoted Sister was told to a London press representative.

"Mins 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 the regiment. He was fond of her and she of him.

11,000,

Exports are up £952,000.

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

Wool: Textiles

There are 13,000 more people employed in wool than a year ago. Five thousand names left the dole, registers in October alone.

Textile wages jump up. £9,000 week.

manufac Woollen yarns and very

tures exports climb by £921,000 over last year.

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

Fought in Africa

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

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During the year 17,000 men jeft |the dole queues.

Every week engineering wages are up by £40,450 over 1934.

Engineering exports in October were higher than any month since October, 1980.

Major A. A. E. Chitty, com 2,000 journeys round the world. manding officer of the regimestal

The number of serious ac-depot at Maidstone, said:

"Miss Leckle's brother joined cidents, in spite of the increni. ed amount of flying and the the second battalion in 1872 and Railways,

retired as major in 1889. growth of the servico, is

"He fought in South Africa | Transport comparably less than in any in 1881 and died in March 1905. We never saw Miss Leckie here. previous year. Forty-one men have lost their Her only interest in Maidstone, 17,000. lives this year in twenty-va belleve, was to pay a man ten R.A.F. flying accidents, nine of shillings every Christmas for

Unemployment figures

down

them in one disaster to a flying polishing a brass memorial to her Thelma Todd Mystery boat which flow into a hillside in brother which is in All Saints' Church, where the twenty-seven colours of the regiment Hang."

a cloud.

The worst year was 1021. The service was then about one-quar ter of its present size, and its machines flow only about 5,000,000' milea..

PNEUMONIA

Pittsburgh, Jan. 15. PNEUMONIA now is to be com- batted with science's newest

Thirty-seven men were killed in twenty-two accidents. That your every 2,288 hours. Now there is one death in 12,000 bying hours,

Shipping Victory The men who own Britain's ships also claim a victory over the quinin. parila that ride the waves.

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

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

hauled out. Food and Drink

Twice she drank a dose of hydro-

Doctorn saved her. jchloric acid.

Wages in the food, drink and

Fourteen times she tried to pol- tobacco industries have risen by

son herself with gas. She failed £2,700 a week.

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

Wrecked Room

As prosperity increases, to

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

This year beer brewed totalled in the first nine months 11,939,729 and 16,125,404 standard barrels bulk barrels. Brick, Pottery, Glass

Eight thousand more are work- ing in pottery, glass, and allled Industries.

Wages are up by £8,950 every week. Summary

WAL

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 sho should go into a sanatorium, but Maria, cheated, so long by death, cheated her judgo.

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. tions that would go crazy with joy died in hospital..

Maria had succeeded at last.. She could such a survey yield such a result.

But it is better to watch thankfully the returning tide.

ACTOR PLANNED

POSE AS BRITISH

'PEER AT PARTY

New York, Jan. 10. Former welter-weight wrestling champion of San weapon Hydroxyethylapo-Francisco, styling himself "Lord Lansdowne," and a Hollywood film actor named Duke York, to-day sprang a The substance derivative that the British public should not of ordinary quinin, the oldest new surprise in the mystery of the recent death of the

[beautiful star, Thelma Todd. draw wrong. Inferences about therapeutic known to medicine

British rahipowners are anxious

Negroe's Heart Removed In Operation

SURGICAL FEAT

Riverside, Calif., Jan. 15. Thomas Simmons, 86 year old negro, recently underwent an un- usual surgical operation in which he had his heart removed, Simmons was brought to the sowed and restored to his body. Coachella Valley hospital almost Blood spurted from d “We were then to pretend dead.

imprecactually mbembeyayout where he had been of the British nobility visiting stabbed in the heart during Hollywood.

gfight with a Filipino."

Dr. Russell M. Gray decided to Records of the San Francisco State Athletic Commission show risk the operation as the only that "Lord Lansdowne's" real means of saving Simmons' life.

The hugo negro was placed on name la Patrick Finnigton, and ho is in native of Ohio,

the operating table, a section of Miss Zasu Pitts, the film star, ble ribs removed, the heart lifted Within a few hours. the farm out and sewed. grand jury inquiry into Miss Todd'a doath this afternoon. labourer was able to talk, and now "Lansdowne was going to She told the jury thoro was no scoms well on the way to recovery. dress similarly, and Thelma truth in the report that she, her "If it were not a case of taking was going to introduce us-husband, and a "mystery man" a chance to save a life, I would 'Lord Lansdowne and Duke had luncheon with Theimaths not have risked the operation," the York?

Saturday before her death. physician declared United Press.

wafety at sea from listed dis being produced by the T

The two men told the police! nsters.

Mellon Institute

they were the mystery guests – The Chamber of Shipping of the Time was when Hydroxyethyla-whom Thelma had declared she United Kingdom have issued a statement claiming that British poquinin was no dangerous to use was going to take to a cocktail But party at Mrs. Wallace Ford's ships are the safest in the world, as it is formidable to name.

home on the afternoon before are safor now than they have over hot now.

Dr. W. W G. Maclachlan, aseo her death in a garage, been, and that last year there were 883 persons killed on the clate professor of medicine at the

"I was going to wear a starched rends for every one passenger loat University of Pittsburgh, and at sea in British ships.

widely known pneumonia special-shirt with ribbon across the front To the question: Are our ist, described the new medicant at and atlek a monocle in one eye," gave evidence, before the resumed

science fraternity said York. ships safe?" declare the chaman honorary ber, the answer is that they mooting here.

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are safe, and becoming safer. "It is too early to say what Three-year averages show that results will be," he said, "but wo hydroxyethylapo- thut one ship in 160 ww lost between beilove 1920 and 1922; by 1932-34, the loss quinin can be used with safety,"| had fallon to one ship in 242. ~~United Prása,

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