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CHAMPION DOG AT CRUFT'S

Choonam Hung Kwong with his owner, Mrs. V. M, Mannooch, and the eup he won at Cruft's this month as Best Dog in the Show. In the opinion of an expert he is the finest Chow that has. ever been shown in Britain..

SINGAPORE STARTS

FIVE-YEAR ATTACK

TO CLEAR SLUMS

Singapore, Mar. 18.

SLUMS in Singapore are coming down and the city intends to deal with all the worst areas during the next five years, it is revealed in the annual report on the economic welfare of the Straits Settlements printed here recently.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPE MONDAY, MARCH 23, · 1936%.

Two-Year-Old Chow Is

England's Best

WINS AGAINST

200 CHAMPIONS:

IS CAMERA SHY

CHAMPION CHOÒNAM HUNG KWONG, a two-year- old red Chow, was adjudged the best dog in England this month. And-typical Chow-like Chinese tempera- ment-he objected most strongly to having his photograph taken except under conditions which suited himself and his dignity.

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The scene was the main ring since then, and is now unques- nt Cruft's Show at the Agriculonably the best Chow ever tural Hall Islington. As soon shown in Britain.

as Hung Kwong had been award-Ninety Minutes' Task Jed the prize as best dog in the It took an hour and a half to whow-the outstanding chum numbers were whittled, down until Judge the champlons; eventually plon among 200 champions-a cocker spaniel, an elkhound, twenty photographers bustled and a smooth fex terrier stood round him.

side by side with Hung Kwong..

Mrk. Manhooch, his owner, Hfted him up to the table on which the "Beat dog at Crufts" is always photographed each year. But Hung Kwong got off hurried-

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Eventually a ring steward fetched an armchair,

Dog

SALVATION ARMY LEADER'S DEATH

The Late Brigadier James E. The elkhound and the terrier Sansom, Officer Conimanding the departed, and the spaniel alone-Salvation Army in South China Mr. H. S. Lloyd's Silver Templa and Hongkong who died last week. of Ware-alood with Hung Kwong.

Then a wave of the hand, and Hung Kwong was alone, topi of the class. Another dog had;

Experts Fly To

gained world fame, and another Attack

Cruft's was over.

But what a Cruft's it was-the

The best dog In England jumped up and ant in that-best I have seen in thirty years- like a Chinese Emperor,

and one that must have warmed

Mosquitoes

the heart of its octogenarian H. S. Leeson and Mr. J. D. Gil- Two young Englishmen, Mr. You could not move lett, left Croydon by air this

press of people.

Hung Kwong's victory was well founder. deserved. Last year his heart-for

the

and his owner's-must have beon They broke all attendance re-month for South Africa. They nearly broken, for he was runner-cords at any dog show. For two are first going to Uganda, then up to the best dog in the show, a hours 1 Awayed with greyhound, at Cruft's, and runner- filtering slowly along-stopping from Southern Rhodesia to the them-by lorry over an area stretching up at five other championship where the throng was greatest-Sudan, shows.

He has improved tremendously dog most popular with this host Christmas it

trying to analyse which was tho When they return home next of dog-lovers.

In hoped they will bring with them information which Most Popular Broads

will lay once and for all the white Cockers unquestionably are man's bogey in this part of the Ben the top, but, then, every troples-the malaria-carrying mos- sporting breed has its logion of quito--and lead to the development supporters and enthusiasts.

of vast territory.

Science Takes A Picture

Of A Dream ́·

Iowa City, Mar. 15. Science now. can take a picture of your dreams,

The wild flights of imagination during sleep-long a puzzle to psychologists are being taken

from the sleeper's bram

corded on sensitized paper by Dr. Lee Travis, University of lowa psychologist,

Travis' experiments have reveat-i The Straits Settlements have noj building societies to help tuinfluctice of the International Instrument which measures brain fed that the duration and intensity The report states that under the of dreams can be measured. The rehousing schemes, but the main Rubber Regulation Scheme, which, work is to be carried out by the came into force on June 1, 1981, electrodes, applied through the currents consists of platinum Singapore Improvement Trust, the average price for the year scalp to the skull of the sleeper. founded in 1927 to deal with was double that for 1981, raing The brain's Singapore's slum questions.,

electric. limpulses, The trust has for some years been hindered by bad financial conditions in the Straits, but, the report says, a great slum clear- ance effort is beginning.

Open Spaces Established "The Improvement Trust has entered on a fixed programme for the driving of back lanes through were very low,

83,400 acres. Prices,

.

CENSUS OF SPECIES

The little Border terrier is de- finitely creeping up in popular The expedition is being sent out favour, the untrimmed poodle by the London School of Hygiene perhaps the wisest dog in the und Tropical Medicine. Its main world is attracting that public jobject will be to discover exactly to which the clipped poodle never how many species of anopheles appealed.

(malaria-carrying mosquitoes) there are.

it

With a Chow "topping the bill

was only right to see the tremendously Increased interest in this breed.

"At present we know of only two species," said Sir Malcolm Watson,

director of the Ross Institute of But if I bred Pekingese-which are both very much the same, Tropical .. Hygiene. "They I do not--I should not be alarmed. and it is this fact that leads us to

A

general census would. I think, suspect that each group may be sub show that in a one-dog home they divided into other species, Leeson still remain the favoured breed, and Gillett are going out to establish

J.S.B.

whether this is so or not."

NAVAL WAR HERO GUILTY

INTENT TO EVADE

CUSTOMS

from 10.21 cents per pound of closely related to the extent and standard smoked sheet to 20.63 degree of the imagination's work cents.

The total area under rubber in charted on paper,

are amplified 300,000 times and 1934 is calculated at 346,860 acres,, an increase of 8,794 aeros

The record on the charted graph over during 1933. The area under coconuts change from a slow, normal beat Я wild dream shows a increased by about 100-acres,

to to a faster, shorter beat. After however, the intensity of the dream has

COMMANDER MAURICE A. BRIND, who was twice blown up existing congested areas," the reclares, a marked improvement in of his dream.

There has been, the report de-awakened and reveals the nature

been recorded, the subject is during war service with the Navy, was found guilty at port declares, "and has also as the fishing industry. Revenue

Mansion House, London, this month on ten summonses accus- quired several large blocks of from licence fees paid for boats, graph record is verified by personal

ing him of being concerned in attempted fraudulent evasion of stum property and pulled them nets and other gear in 1931 was testimony of the sleeper.

Thus, Travis explained, the Customs duties in connection with horses imported from Ireland. down or established open spaces 12,546 Straits

Capt. Reginald Henry Portal, in their centres.

Brind was defended by Sir dollars. about Applications of the experiment produced an Admiralty Henry Curtis-Bennett, K.C., and "About 50 acres of waste land dollars on the revenue for 1933. psychologist's knowledge of the career showing that he render- by Mr. Norman Birkolt, K.C., and

£1,463, an increase of 268 Straits are expected to add adjoining a particularly erowded

to the report on Commander Brind's Mr. P. Colin Duncan, and Baillie Chinese area have been bought, More than 12,000 fishermen were brain's reaction in stuttering and led brilliant service in the Great! Mr. Walter Frampton.

epilepsy.-United Press.

Pestered By Lions After

filled in, provided with roads, and employed. laid out in building lots for sale, with a view to relieving the pre- vailing congestion. The trust has built 118 better class cottages | at Lavender Street for occupa tion, by the clerical classes, and two large blocks of tenements comprising about 250 rooma at Kreta Ayor Road,"

It is pointed out that improve- ments elsewhere in the Settle- ments must be undertaken by mu-

Witch Doctor's Curse

Mr. Harrison spends his life studying the habits of the malaria-carrying tsetse fly in the wilds of Tanganyika where he is employed by the Government Research Department. nicipal commissioners and local The curse was that Mr. Harrison should be pursed by lions wherever A local, witch doctor decided to put a curse on Mr. Harrison. authorities. Here also provement, the report states, la noticeable.

Comprehensive Plan Needed doctor's curse is described in the Intest report of the Tanganyika.

the imho went.

The effectiveness of the witch

War.

He joined the Navy in 1914, and although his ship was sunk by a

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German mine early, in his carcer as both cases said that he would Sir Maurice. Jenks, adjourning a lieutenant, and he was severely announce the penalties in the case Injured, he was "not long deterred of Commander Brind after he from active service."

had heard the summonses against He was mentioned in dispatches Baillie, for conspicuously brave action. After the war he volunteered for der Brind's defence had tried to Sir Maurice said that Comman- mine-clearing, was again blown convince him that the values up, and a promising career was which Brind Inserted in his de cut abort by injury to his eyesight.clarations, although they were not "UPRIGHT CHARACTER" what they professed to be-name- ly, the cost plus expenses were hyena, he switched on his torch, The report concluded that Brind the real values at the port of im and was natonished to ace six was "an officer of upright charac-portation and that Brind believed The problems of congested areas Torritory Game Preservation De-

full-grown Hona outside his tent.ter, vigour, initiative and decision them to be true values. in the larger towns, such

"One Hon was killed outright, and a man of courage.". Singapore and Penang. are,

partmont.

"Having rogard to all the cir- and a second badly wounded and cording to the report, urgent and

Commander Brind, whose ad.cumstances of the case I cannot The report tells how a native found the following day, A few dress was given as Fenny Somp-come to that conclusion," added the necesalty for comprehensive punished by Mr. Harrison, visited nights later the surviving lions ton Stables, noar Leamington Spa, Sir Maurice, measures of clearance, pressing.

a witch doctor. and arranged for again visited the camp and their is a brother of Major-General J. Large numbers of elby labourers Blx lions to peator Mr. Harrison." spoor showed that they had passed E. Brind.

"I reluctantly come to the con- Mr. Harrison'a work later took close to the tent...

clusion that he made the fale and artisans have their homes in him to a spot twenty miles from "Fifteen days later Mr. Harri- previous hearing to ton summon intention of avolding a large pro- houses which are divided into cu-

He had pleaded guilty at a declarations with the deliberate bicles, with little light and loss the nearest habitation. Lions had son returned to his camp at ses alleging that he made false portion of the duty which was fresh air, or in common lodging never been there.

Kazikazi. houses in densely populated arena.

declarations on Customs forms.properly payable. A "After dinner he and a friend, In rural areas, planting schemos

Four summonses for alleged Sir Henry Curtia-Bennett said are also being evolved, and sanita. fivo days everything was quiet. On

The report continuca: "The first!

sitting on the verandah of the attempted fraudulent evasion of that what Commander Brind Fald } station, heard' loud lauping at a duties were also made against i was "I put these false entries | tion work 15 progressing rapidly. the sixth night about 10 o'clock

water hole about thirty yards Captain the Hon. Arthur Malcolm | avon these documents because I Highor Prices for Rubber Mr. Harrisort was awakened by walked over and saw siz lions.

away. Picking up a torch they Augustus Rallile, second son of believed I was entitled to put the Meanwhile the Straits rubbor something scratching at the wall of One was killed and two more Honse, Bletchley,

Baroness Burtun, of Woughton open market value plus 20 per Industry is borefting by higher his tent. prices.

Katzenfes on bagly wounded, both of which were The-casen dro being dealt with amount upon which my horses to found wandered a

cent.. and that would be the "Thinting it was a jackal or found on the following day.". separately,

would have to pay duty"

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