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12 MEN FOR

KING

EDWARD CUTS DOWN ON "FAGS"

London, Jan. 26. THE new King of England on the side of forty where life is supposed to be just beginning," is: cutting down on cigarettes.

Just as he started reducing his A few daily wine consumption

"cabeb"

years ago King Edward is smok- ing cigarettes that are similar in looks to the American although they haven't undergone Any de-nicotinizing process.

His cigarettes, made exclu- sively for him but without any cross or other marks of royal distinction which might make them prize trophies for the hero-worshippers, contain only half the usual amount of of the tobacco. The rest cylinder is a cardboard tube. The new type of cigarettes is actually a compromise on the part of the King with his will-power, some of his friends sny. For two or three years he has wanted to reduce his cigarette consumption -nob bedause it appeared to bo injuring his health but because he thought it would be rather n "good idea."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, . FEBRUARY 5,

1936.

EVEREST

ON ATTACK

British Explorer To Lead Daring Adventurers

He Likes Hotel

Even though Robert C. Myers, farmer trusted clerk, disappeared from the Hotel De Anza, San Jose, Calif., $850 short in ac counts, the hotel hasn't seen the lant of him. Since his disappear. ance last August, he has returned to the hotel twice, police say, and cach time held-up the night crew and rubbed the cash register.

Girl, Asleep

Plays Pationco 3 Years, May

Often in the privacy of his study

when he felt the argo

for s

cigarette he would steel himself Awaken

against it, obtain a pack of play-

of

ing cards and deal a game Soon

"patience" which is similar to the American game called "soltaire."

BS

But that was too much trouble the half-filled No he deelded on

Beautiful Patricia) cigarettes. Now he smokes just

less Maguire, attacked by the cigarettes but many tobacco.

dread Encephalitis germ and Cigarette smoking in England is almost twice as expensive as the held in a deep sleep for more habit is in the United States than three years, may yet). and one frequently hears and women resolving to swear off awake to the world she left

or budget themselves, early in 1932. entirely package of standard brand el-

men

Successful experiments, in pro- Karettes here costa la shillingpagation of the sleeping sickness 25 cents as compared with 16 virus have been reported by two cents in the United States,

bacteriologists of the University of Rochester 'school of medicine and dentistry and physicians be lieve their work may eventually lead to the reawakening of the "The sleeping girl

Pipe Smokers Pipe-smoking remains a national institution of Great Britain with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin the most famous pipe-smoker of all.

known

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beauty."

The experiments are described He rarely is photographed with- out his pipe as he enters or leaves by Dr. George Packer and Dr.

Selence, No. 10 Downing Street and his lames T. Syverston, in briar although not

under-slung Medical publication.

In 18 months, Dr. Berry report- as characteristic on this side of

in living the Atlantic as that of General ed. they have grown Charles G. Dawes or the thin black cells the virus of human Encep- cigar of the late "Uncle Joshalitis, termed the St. Louis type, "daily strain. For the first time, Cannon.

they said, the germ was developed outside the human body.

A amouldering cigarette is as much a part of the personally if Premier Laval of France as his white necktie

Tiller doesn't smoke, nor does Gandhi, the little brown man of India. But Mussolini doos, al- though-like Calvin Coolidge, the photographers never catch him at

it.

Cigar Smokers.

"first

Described as merely a step" the experiments were con- ducted by obtaining virus from human patients and transferring it into tissue culture made with the tissue of mice.

in

New Hope For Mother at her home Meanwhile, suburban Oak Park, her mother căre for Patricia Lord Lonsdale is regarded as continued her the best-known cigar-smoker in with renewed hope. Great Britain (medium grade cigars cost adarly 25 cents here) and it often has been reported that he smokas only an inch or so of

"She is still the same beautiful girl she was before she became ill." her mother said.

"We have worked over her so

in

her

his customary seven-inch Havanas that we know her muscles are still and then lights a fresh one. His supple and firm. She will be friends insist, however, that he's strong when she awakes."

Some improvement just as liable to moke his cigar down a short butt.

daughter's condition has been Some inveterate cigar-smokors noted by the mother. Occasional- seems to stir from her are very fussy. They are darefully she to pinch the end of a new cigar lethargy and is able to answer delicately to break the ldaf, con-simple questions In arithmetic by tending that to cut or pierce the raising her fingers. She does not tending that to cut or pierce the speak.

NINE HAVE ALREADY

MADE ATTEMPT

The names of the 12 men who, with Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, as their leader, will make the fifth attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest early next year have now been divulged.

Mr. Ruttledge explains below that this party is the strongest that could be got together for the purpose. Of the twelve:

and

Nine have already been to Mount Everest;

Ten are known to be capable of climbing to at least 23,000 ft;

Eight are expected to be capable of going very high.

The party has been limited to

12 to reduce the difficulties of of whom had considerablo, Alpine porterage on the glaciers and to experienee. simplify the problems of con trol.

The members will be:- Hugh Ruttledge, lender (as in

1933)..

the

F. S. Smythe, who will be making

hia fourth expedition to Himalaya.

E. E. Shipton, a member of the 1933 Expedition and famous for

his successful exploration last year, when he and Mr. Tilman were the first to penetrate the of Nanda great glacier basin Devi. Like Mr. Smythe, he will be on his fourth Himalayan ex- pedition, and is probably the fn the best acclimatised man party.

at

KIDNAP FEARS

The result was most illuminat- ing. Three men were four to ne climatise well: the other two, uxcellent mountaincurs though

any and splendid companions in

Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Charles Lind- enterprise, found themselves un bergh's mother-in-law, has also been able to resist the lack of oxygen obliged to fly from America in order Ito find a safer living place in Europe. at altitudes of over 22,000 ft.

Searchlight On London

ANNUAL REPORT OF METROPOLITAN COUNTY COUNCIL

MARRIAGES

BOOMED

SEARCHLIGHTS are turned on the life of London's millions and

1

P. Wyn Harris, Kenya Civil Ser- vire. He has a great climbing record and went to about 28,000 feet in 1933,

ntraster E. G. H. Kempson, a

an interesting report issued by the London County Council. Marlborough College. He has

The

that tells report had long experience of both

the every four Landon births occurs; winter and

noun- county's population is Calling. housing estates which contain mental hospitals Laineering in the Alps and was The estimated 1934 population was 316,570 rooms; with Mr. Shipton last year in 1,230,200, a decline of 144,100 on to accommodate 10,000 patients, the Everest region. Dr. C. B. Warren, formerly of St. the 1911 census figures, a drop and a fire brigade to protect pro-

Bartholomew's Hospital.

the way in which her vast sums of public money are spent in

summer

An-

with Mc.

being shown each year,

slight

perty insured at £2,275,000,000.

Londoners continue to travel more; the average annui number of journeys in the latest available returns for each member of the population being 487. These con-

Where do the "enuine" Lon- other mountaineer of great doners go when they quit the perience, who was

County: They migrate into extra Skipton last year, F. H. L. Wigram, medical student, London, which now has almost as many inhabitants as the county St. Thomas's Hospital. A menu-itself. During 1934 there were sist o 129 by rail, 123 by tram and ber of Mr. Shipton's party last

in- The Post Office continues to im year, and has a long record in 58,853 Hive births in the country, 235 by bus and coach.

which. while ta the Alps. Lieut. J. M. L.. Gavin, Royni En-crease on 1983, was much below port more money into London in gineers. Has never been to the the figure for any year extending the form of postal and money Himalaya, but did extremely back to 1924, when the number orders than it exports, well in Mr. Smythe's party in the Alps last year. His medical report was so good that there is every hope that he will do well on the mountain.

was 85,147.

however.

Marriages boomed. There were 48,165 in 1934, the largest number for 10 years.

During the financial year 1934- 36. such orders, issued totalled 985,000; while those paid aggregat- 41,756,000, their value being £24,- cd 92,771,000, to the value of £46,109,000.

Despite the falling population, the public services have in-

While London's child population creased. The value of the pro-

more children than perty trebled between 1871 and is falling,

are attending secondary 1935, and the expenditure of schools. Of over 200,000 pupits. London local authorities has in polytechnics and evening in- trebled only since the beginning stitutes, 3,500 were unemployed. of the century.

Unemployment in London

ever

Lieut. P. R. Oliver, South Waziris- tan Scouts. Firat made a name by taking a small expedition of his own to the Himalaya in 1933, ! when he made the second ascent of Trisul, 23,406 feet. Has also.

has -considerable experience_in__the_ Alps and was with Mr. Smythe

The 1936 assessable values on fallen steadily from a maximum Jast year. Major C. J. Morris, late 2/3rd which the precepts of the central of 203,460 in January, 1932, to Gurkha Rifles, Assistant trans-authorities are based total £61,- 145,620 in January, and 120.072 in port officer on the Mount Eve-330,802, which represents £14 10s. September 1935. The numbers of and per head of the population. A people killed and injured in the rest Expedition of 1922, will be chief transport ofbleer penny rale produces £255,545. streets have increased from 41,000 next year. He knows the ropes, For the additional money they to 61,000 in ten years, the latter speaks Nepali perfectly and T-contribute Londoners have receiv- total including 1,448 persons betan well, and will devote him-jed municipal hospitals, where one of killed.

self exclusively to transport work.

Dr. Noel Humphreys, who has climbed in Switzerland and East Africa, and recently returned after leading an expedition to Land. A man of Ellesmere proved enduranes with excep ilonal experience of medical work in, out-of-the-way parts of the world. Lleut, W. R. Smijth-Windham, Ro- yal Corps of Signals. One of the two wireless officers who ac- companied the 1933 axpedition.

moun- Though not normally a taineer, he reached Camp, IV on- that occasion. He will be in sole charge of wireless munications.

Qualities Required

com-

This is the fifth expedition to

end is a barbarism. But not Lord Dr. Morris. Fishbein, editor of Lousdale. He hews a big wedge the Journal of the American Medl- out of the cigar and with a formid-cal Association, was among those able pocket knife which he carries who held out hope for Patricia's on the end of a silver vest chain. eventual recovery. He said:

There are supposed to be few "Miss Maguire's condition re-go out, and with each auccessive men who can be either smokers mains the same-sleeping, barely effort the difficulty of the selection or non-smokers at will but Sir moving except to eat and breathe of personnel has perhaps been Malcolm Campbell, the speed No-prevention or cure for encop more plainly realised. The quall- driver, is one of them. Another halitis has yet been found. ties necessary to enable a man lo is C. B. Cochran, producer of hope this new work may clear the do well on Mount Everest-moun- England's biggest musical shows, rod for such a discovery-taineering experience and ability.

-United Press

United Press.

3,000,000 BOTTLES OF WINE LEAVING ADELPHI ARCHES

plete test known to science where- faculties by an individual can be

these

jendurance, capacity to acclimatise, equanimity and so on are obvious essentials; but there is no com- by the possession of all thoroughly tested beforehand.

The problem of very high al- titude mountaineering is so differ- After March 25 housebreakers will start destroying Adelphi ont from those which arise in ex- terraco to make way for flats. The work, of demolition and con-peditions to lesser ranges and to tho Polar regions that it requires struction will take three years.

a special kind of solution.

Three million bottles of wine-half the entire stock housed in the Adelphi Arches--are being moved.

now stands.

reason the

Two now streets will ho built, that site since 1770. Tho tem-It will readily be understood. one from the Thames Embank-perature is ideal under the Arches. ment to the Strand, the other it is a steady 60deg. Fahrenheit. that practical experience on the parallel to Adolphi-terrace as it Even in the height of summer it spot provides a better test: than

theory. For this is never above 56 or 60 degrees Mount Everest Committee sent out For acme time about 50 work- it is quiet, vibrationless and last year a small, preliminary, ex- ICC pow nien have been carting away 80 damp, which is most important for pedition under the leadership of large van-loads of bottles a day. some wines."

Mr. E. E. Shipton, whose task was Aroprosentative of a firm of In addition to the 6,000,000 wino wholesalers said:

bottles In the Arches, there to try out the mountaineering ablilties, and especially the, accli-

Jeaiznao

SISTER ACT AT "GRIPPS"

Dean Sisters, clover members of the de Gaetano team of entertainers

on Saturday.

"We are sorry to see the lust large quantity of fruit, furnituromatising powers, of five men, all at the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel. Their local season concludesi of the Arches. We have been on and other wares.

KING'S

ALHAMBRA |

NEXT ATTRACTION!

THE WHOLE WORLD WILL WANT TO HUG HER!

See Shirley

singing, danc- ing, laughing... Joar-stains on

her chooks, tool

Shirley TEMPLE

THE LITTLEST REBEL

JOHN BOLEST - JACK' HOLT: KAREN MORLEY BILL ROBINSON

TEAMED

AGAIN IN

HE WAS

JAMES

IN TRIUMPH!

HERMAN

CAGNEY QUEEN'S BLONDELLTO-MORROW

JOAN

The far-reaching tentacles of the law closed in upon a society playgirl who sought romance in danger - and danger in romance!

GIRL IN DANGER

with

RALPH BELLAMY

SHIRLEY

GREY

Arthur

Hohl Directed by

D. Roia Lederman

ALHAMBRA

TO-MORROW

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