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Felts of Distinction

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1936,

Germany And France Lead

Britain In Civil Air Power

'DRY WEDDING FEAST FOR CHIEF WHO WAS

BANIC

TSHEKEDI, the South African tribal chief whom King George reinstated two years ago after his banishment for ordering the flogging of a white man, is to be married at Serowe, his capital, this month.

Tahekedi, paramount chief of Bechuanaland, is thirty. His bride will be his twenty-six-year-old half-cousin, Bagakgametve. They will be married by the Rev. J. H. L. Burne in the London Missionary Society's Church. A thousand white and nativo guests will attend.

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Bride and bridegroom will wear English clothes. The form of marriage will be read in the tribal vernacular.

And afterwards the town will give itself up to feasting,' Oxen will be killed. But there will be no beer-drinking. Tahcked! is a teetotaler.

LONE MAN WHO UNDERWROTE

GRAN CHACO WAR

London, Feb. 11.

Already the virtual ruler of Bolivia, Don Simon Patino, Multi- millionaire, international financier and “Tin King"-who as's store clerk founded his fortune 30 years ago by accepting a tin concession

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WELSH WIZARD RETURNS TO FOLD

that of the oneman underwriter of a war.

From La Paz, the capital of) Bolivia, it was officially announced | yesterday that the three-years conflict with Paraguay in the Gran Chaco, which ended last April, cost the country £39,000,000-and that virtually the whole of this vast sum was provided or guaran- teed by Don Simon.

There is no parallel in history of a lone Napoleon of finance achieving single-handed such a staggering stroke of business allled to patriotism.

The histories of the Rocke- fellers, Carnegie, the Morgans, and Henry Ford. startling or romantle than the life story of Don Simon Patino.

aro no more

Most of his time is now spent in Paris, where ho has been Minister fer Bolivia sincu 1927. His great house in the Avenue Foch is one of the most luxurious in France.

Treasures worth vast fortunes fill the great rooms. Beneath the building is a huge garage for his fleet of cars.

£8,000,000 Dowry

Don Simon also has an enormous chateau among the pines above Nice, a villa at Biarritz and in his native Bolivia, and palatial homes at Cochabamba, Oruro and La Paz

One of his sona married a Bourbon princess, Donna Cristino, daughter of the Duke of Durcal, and one of his daughters is the wife of the Spanish Marques del Merijo. He gave her a dowry of £3,000,000.

Don Simon is known in every 'important capital in Europe and the Americas.

They call him the “Tín King,” for he controls 10 per cent, of the world's tin output.

Brown-eyed, heavily moustach ed, corpulent, and always fault- lessly dressed, Don Simon goes his many ways, few recognising him.

The total amount of his fortune is known only to himself and his private accountants. He pays in- come tax in many countries, and what he pays in his own is a secret of the Bolivian Treasury.

He shuns publicity and maske his movements as closely as pos sible. Except on purely personal trips, he has with him always a confidential accretary and inter- proter-for Don Simon spenks only Spanish.

This extraordinary man's meteoric success began more than 30 years ago, when, he acquired his first concession from a Por-

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Mr. W. Af. Hughes, Australia's wartime Primo" Minister, will return to the Cabinet to-morrow as Minister of Health and Re- patriation. He has been express- ly invited by the Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons,

This is, it is understood, the result of pressure from the ex- Servicemen, who wore against the demand for his resignation mado his last November owing alleged opposition to Sanctions.

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JUST FOR PUBLICITY

INDIAN BARBERS TO STAGE SHAVING "MARATHON"

A "barbers" marathon is to be staged at Pandharpur, in the Bom- bay presidency, by enterprising hair-cutters of the district.

AND U. S. A.

BEATS ALL WITH 7,202

MACHINES HERE are the rather deplorable figures

of the civil air strength of Great Britain and Ireland compared with those of other countries. They have been issued by the Air Ministry:

Registrations.

Under. Regular Transport Companies. Total Great Britain and -

Northern

France

Germany

Ireland 168 1,577

United States of

America

221 2,201

244 1,809

.518 7,202 fourth. The

Britain comes United States is by far the world's greatest civil air Power.

The position of the leading transport companies is as follows:

German Luft

Hansa 225 machines. Air France ... 158 do. do. Imperial Airways 43 Imperial Airways, responsible for our Empire communications, machines has only eight more than the Sabona company of Bel- glum.

The figure for Pan-American. Airways is not given. Germany, so far as the transport companies): are concerned, holds the lead in Europe. And she has no colonies. She regards the development of civil

of air strength as being great importance from the mili tary point of view:

SOVIET DEGRADES. MARTYRS.

TORGLER EXPELLED FROM PARTY Barbers will.compete for a non- stop endurance shaving record, and

Moscow, Jan. 20. it is expected that the winner will

The disgrace of three of the shave faces steadily for at least."martyrs" of the Reichstag fire

75 hours.

The shaves will be free and n steady supply of "victims has been arranged. Should these 'all be shaved before the contest is finished, number of round earthenware pots will then be lathered and shaved." No prizes Are offered. The object of the contest is, frankly, just to get publicity for Pandharpur.

tuguese prospector who could not pay his grocery bill.

Don Simon took it as pay. ment, developed it with money borrowed from a British bank- ing house was made an offer for it and was tempted to, ac- cept. His wife said, "No, wo will either go bankrupt with the mine or "

His interests now are so wide that it is impossible to detail them. He is president of Con- Boldated Tin Smelters, Ltd., and of Patino Mlues and Enterprises Consolidated.

Patino Mines,, through a subal- diary, holds important interests in the British ( Tin Investment Corporation.

To a large extent the whole economic fabric of Bolivia is built up on the activities of this single man-the Man Who Pald for a War.

trial is officially confirmed by a bulletin issued here by the Third International.

The former German Communist deputy, Torgler, has been expelled from the Communist party, and the Bulgarians, Popoff and Tuneff, have been debarred from over again holding any responalblo position in the Communist move- ment.

Dimitroff, the other Jending figure in the Leipzig trial, who afterwards went to Russia, re- máins in favour,

These drastic measures against Torgler, Popoff and Tancff, taken como time ago, have only now been made public.

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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1 One can always find an albino

here.

4 Makes all dotty and drinks quito'

a lot.

9 Kind of dog.

10 Where to get the best rice in

Oxfordshire.

12 Nothing could be more agree-

able, could it?

13 Sleeping partner.

16 Plus,

16 Beats I share with the police. 17 It isn't done.

22 Altered and probably shortened 24 Probably this will be acted upon. 27 Impulsive at first. 28 Gives me a pain. · The reason given in all threo 31 A fragrant gum. cases la their "weak attitude" in 32 The tion of

of wayside flowers? 33 The

Len-set is court at Leipzig, but the special

usually of some importance. reason for making these belated The status of the man who has only small change: not worth noticing.

revelations now seems to be the

fear felt here that Torgler who was recently released after two yeare in a Nazi prison-will be Induced to give evidence against Ernst Thaelmann, the imprisoned ex-General Secretary and the real leader of the German Communist party, in his trial which is ex- pected to open shortly.

The Nazi Prosecutor is expect ed to attempt to show that there was a plot in Berlin in 1933 to overthrow tho National Gov- ernment and bring Germany under the International,

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35 It is obvious that a parent takes

shelter in this.

DOWN

1 What a worm would drink? 2 Nothing but check (4-4),

Placed too high and made to pay too much.

G. Made an offort.

0 Bit suggestive of war's after-"

math.

7. Not much of a clue, this.- B Wind indicators.

11. Héré a bud is broken.in the ast:

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take it away.

This follow is interested in bygone things.

18 To "dine, am" 17 (Anag).

19 Allment, Pepys wald, in another

form.

20 Mortify the staff ratio.

21

Needs mit? There are some grounds for so thinking

23 The bottom of a hill.

25 D'ye "Ken Pin" Yes, ho writes

Anago

26 This le curious, and is not the

finish vulgar?

20 The Niebo of months.

30 An accumulator does when it's

charged.

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