1936-04-07 — Page 15

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

APRIL

1936.

THE KING'S VISIT TO GLASGOW'S SLUMS

CHATS

WOMEN

ΤΟ AND CHILDREN

"I Am Your King" Greeting to Blind Man

Glasgow, Mar. 21.

FROM the super-luxury of the world's biggest liner, the Queen Mary, King Edward has just concluded a tour of the tenement homes of some of Glasgow's poorest fumilics.

Only this month he declared in his first broadcast to the Empire that he is still the sarne man he was as Prince of Wales. And to-day he proved it—in a way that will never be forgotten, Unheralded and alone, he has stood in dimly-lit bed- rooms questioning poverty-stricken housewives about their living conditions and their hardships; he has sought exact particulars about rent and unemployment pay, and has expressed great concern at the way in which some families are compelled to live.

His visits made all the deeper impression on him because he had just come from a long inspection of the Queen Mary at Clydebank.

For three hours he explored the ship from bridge, to stoke- hold, and was particularly impressed with the liner's mechanical marvels.

wish to see the During the inspection he expressed a humorous drawings by Mr. Tom. Webster, the Daily Mail car- toonist, which will form the principal decorations of the gymnasium. - For several minutes he studied them, laughing heartily at those depicting golfers from the earliest days and cartoons of past and present-day boxers.

SEEING FOR HIMSELF

It was in a narrow court of old smoke-blackened buildings Crieff-court, North-street, Anderston-that the King went to see for himself how the people lived...

Bare-headed and wearing a long black overcoat with astrakhan collar, he strode over the rough cobbles, stepping through pools of water, in a district which is generally regarded as perhaps the roughest in Glasgow.

To the surprise of women and children who rushed to the win- dows of dingy tenements he turned into a dark alley-way leading to one

their greater not come out

of the hounes, followed by a few! officials-and to amazement he did for half an hour.

During that half-hour he visited every one of eight tiny two-roomed | dwellings in the three-floored buik- ing examined them carefully, and talked to the occupants.

When Time Will Count On Everest

BRIEF PERIOD FOR FINAL ASSAULT

A correspondent standing near the King as he went into several of the tiny flats saw! him in many cases open door and walk in after a polite. The essential conditions for the Success of the fifth organised at- tempt to scale the 29,002-Jeet peak

21

"Can I come in?" There was a very human incident entered. at the first at he A woman was standing by the fire with a little boy at her side.

Mount Everest were explained! last month by Mr. Eric Shipton, a member of Mr. Hugh Ruffledge's expedition, whose advance party !rf-for-India-rezently.

EIGHT IN TWO ROOMS

Success or failure, he pointed "Are you really the new King?" out, depends largely on the time

factor Nathre permits only asked the little boy..

"Yes, I am the King." he an-brief period during which condi swered, gravely bending downtions make possible an assault on of the The child was Charles Storrie, the the summit. The state

14-years-old-son of Mrs. Storrie, weather round the top of Everest

Mro. Thomas sister, whose O'Rourke, lives in the flat with her in the first fortnight in June will! husband,

a shipworker, and two ride whether the mountain will

jat last be conquered this year.

"Some time before the end of

small boys.

A few minutes later, in a flat May" said Mr. Shipton, "we ex- opposite, a cheerful-faced woman peet to reach the top of North Col| with spectacles and a mop of hair, where we shall place Camp Four. Mrs. A. Gaddi, told how she lived in two small rooms with her hus at a height of 23,000ft. For many months of the year terrifle blizzarda

band and six childrn-two girls of) sweep over this region, but if we 18 and 10, three girls of 17, 16, can get a period of comparative and 14, and a 24-years-old baby quict between the winter weather girl Vera,

conditions and the coming of the: monsoon, we shall have an oppor- tanily to reach the summit

The King's distress was obvious While he was talking to Mrs. Gaddi her baby girl was hiding be- hind her skirts, hut the King brought a smile to her when be said, "Hullo, baby," and shook her by her hand,

#1 AM YOUR KING":

TERRIBLE BLIZZARDS "So far as we have been able to uncertain, there are no insuperable diflculties In the final stage of the dimb. This is providing that we do not encounter one of those ter No incident of the tour was more rible_blizzards, against which it is attempt to stand. touching than the moment when hopeleen to he stepped into a fat and found Another danger lies in deep de- would inevitably cause al himself face to face with a blind posits of treacherous powder now,

which

Any climber who fatal accident. "Who is there?" challenged lost footing at that part of the the blind man, Mr. Hugh Queen ascent would be plunged down an

"I am your King," "came the 8,000 ft. precipice." quiet reply.

The assault would be made, he The blind man's face lit up with died, by parties of two, in turn, a wondering joy, as he stretched No man who has recently made the out his hand and felt a firm grasp attempt would

man.

have sufficient

The King naked gently how he strength to try again.

had lost his sight, and Mr. Queen

told how his eyes had been injured

in a steel works accident in 1901.

TREACHEROUS SLOPE Between Camp Seven and thei

On a bed lay Mr. Queen's two-summit the climbers will have to weeks-old son, and the King turned negotiate a treacherous slope, with to the mother and said "What a crags fine child!"

overhanging each other, rather like the tiles of a roof, at Two other children live. in the an angle of 45 degrees. They will Ant, and the King asked Mr. Queen have to cross the Great Couloir, a "How do you all manage to live gully of lee-bound rock, possibly here?"

"We are doing our best you manage to get a new home for us," came the reply. "I will do my best to help you," the King said.

In the next flat Mira. Hugh Allen was playing ludo with a nephew, the King William Starr, when suddenly walked fu. Sho was ab taken aback that she burst into tears, but the King quickly restored her calmness by shaking hands.

covered with snow, which the climbers of the 1924 and 1933 ex- peditions failed to pass; and then, to reach the suminit, they will

to fight their way acroaS. have further rocky, dangerous alubs.

This tremendous task will have to be accomplished¡ be- tween sunrise and sunset on a single day, for no human being could: live through a night In the open in that Icy tempara- ture.

Earth And Quake Arrive

(QUETTA TWINS)

(IN BASKETS)

DON BEATS DAVID-BY A TOOTH

INTRODUCING: Master David and

Master Donald Mackenzie, just arrived in London from Karachi, or, as they are called in their birthplace, "Earth" and "Quake !”

The "Quetta" twin-as they are likely to be known were born three months after the earth quake which Inst May devastated Quetta and took a death-toll of some thirty thousand lives.

Their muther, Mrs. Muriel Mackenzie-tall. graceful and good-looking brunette--went through the horrors of that terrible night of May. 31. She was asleep when the firat disturbance rocked the She was thrown into a chair. The town was plunged in darkness. In a back room was her four-year-old son, sleeping with a night-nurse,

town.

Mrs. Mackenzie managed to stagger across the room to rescue her child. Each time the nurse lifted up the mosquito netting over the child's cat she was thrown back, and it was not until the earth- quake was over that she was able to get the child out of the bungalow,

DIFFERENT BIRTHDAYS

Mrs. Mackenzie's husband is a staff captain on the Quetta station. He was out with the troops on mundeuvres, and it was not until the following day that he and his wife were reunited.

David and Donald were born in Karachi, three months after the earthquake."

Now they have come to Londen to spend a few maths with their grandmother, Mrs. Melntyre, in Cricklade-avenue, Streatham Hill, S.W.

It was here that I had the pleasure of making-

afternoon. They are the tenniest pair of five- month-olds you could meet. Both have blue eyes. David has fair, curly hair, while Donald has straight

dark hair.

Twins they are, but they will have différent September; his brother's the eighth of September. David was born at ten minules to mid-night; his brother greeted the world ten minutes after mid- night.

birthdays. David's birthday is the seventh, of

But though David' is really the elder, Donald is the first to cut a tooth. He did it while cross- ing the Rad Sea!

11

The "Quetta" twins had quite romantic journey to London. They travelled, in baskets, and at every stopping-place they created tremendous interest:

TRAVELLED AS "LUGGAGE"

Said Mrs. Mackenzie, laughing heartily: "It was really amusing to see them put on the porters* trucks with the luggage, and wheeled to another train or boat.*

It is Mrs. Mackenzie's sense of humour that: has helped her forget the nightmare of Quetta. Sitting in her mother's pleasant drawing-room with her bonnie babies in her arms, she seemed ideally happy.

David seems endowed with his mother's good humour, finds something amusing in everything around him. He just laughs from the time he awakens till he slips off to slumber. Donald is more serious. He thought the fire in the drawing-room was so wonderful that he could not take his eyes. off the leaping flames,

-And-Grandma_McIntyre could_not_be_prouder

the aequaintance of the "Quelta" twins yesterday of the "Quetta" twins if they were her own!

ANNA LEE

One of the reasons why British motion pictures are winning in- creasing popularity is blonde Anna Lee, one of the reigning stars of Elstree," the English Hollywood."

Vancouver Moving Toward Free Port

Vancouver, B.C., Apr. 1. Establishment of a free trade New zone at Staten Island in York harbour has given fresk Impetus to the movement to es- fablish free port faciles at Van- couver,

in the Considerable interest New York experiment has been aroused in Ottawa, and the Hous of Commons may deal with the subject during the present ser- sion.

Halifax, on the Atlatle coast, has urged free port facilities for some time, but it contended here that the re-export fram Halifax would be almost negll- gible. There is believed to be more argument in favour of Van- couver, but here again the ques- tion of volume has been raised.

Too Perfect

MECHANICAL MAN THAT BECAME TOO HUMAN

་

IT SHOT ITS INVENTOR

San Diego, Mar. 24. The career of Alpha, the mechanical man, has been turned to activities other than that of an expert marksman following the single target shooting match in which he fired one shot, scored a bull's-eye and hung up a lifetime record of 1,000 per cent.

The bull's eye was off the headi

of "professor Harold May, the

"radio robot's" creator, who left his TALK ON POTATO

bed, his head swathed in bandages| and a monkey wrench in hand, to dismember the gadget that makes Alpha shoot.

"It's the second time I've made the mistake of teaching Alpha to do something he can do better than I can," May explained. "I once tried to teach him to box, and it took half an hour to revive me."

The professor was formerly con- nected with the University of London Physics Department,, and claims to have invented type of armoured tank used by the British during the world war.

ON IRELAND'S DAY

'Canberra. Mar, 12. Without a thought for the real significance of the date, the Com- (and the merco Department secretary in Mr. Murphy) has selceted the

most appropriate day in the year for the first meet- ing of the Australian Potato Advisory Committee.

It is to meet in Sydney next Tuesday, March 17, the day of St. Patrick of Ireland.

cause

weighs 2,400 pounds, stands 10 feet In his steel shod feet, and is a maze!

mochanical gadgets inside, Alpha is his greatest creation, jof

down, operated by radio which enables He or Itamokes, sita

movements with stands up, says good morning, turns May to on lights and winks at pretty girls, verbal orders,

The tall, green-eyed monster, Photol shooting was. its neatest trick, up until May was wounded, looks like a medieval knight, and a tiny Previous performances were with his chest, when you open blank cartridges. May exclaims door over his heart, glows wit1; "Shoot!" and Alpha fires at the radio tubes. He was "presented" before the late King George V and place where the order came from.

Once, according to. Muy, a man Queen Mary of England in 1932.

Meanwhile, May is working on a In the audience yelled,"Shoot" and Alpha fired a bullet-wadding hit-heavily guarded inboratory at the ting the spectator between the eyes. Pacific international exposition, on Appaiontly by accident, Alphin's his latest trinket a "death_ray." gun was londed with a real bullet, He claims the ray when perfected but litckily his alm was a bit awry, will destroy flies and insect pests, The lend slug creased the inventor's make nirplane motors stop In mid- air and ba strong enough to kill.- heade

The stobl n

and chromium monster United Press,

TO TINT

not TO PAINT

Truly smart women know that make-up should brighten nut paint! Tangee, Isn't paint. Tangce changes color as you apply it and blends magically with your own natural, individual coloring. Its cream base keeps lips soft, smooth, youthful. Also try Tinger Face Powder, contains the magic color principle. Ends that powdered look.

UCHED

PAINTED

TANGEE

|_Walldrey.

Mast

/famous,

TANGEE

Endi that painted took

Sole Distributor: MULLER, MACLEAN & CO., INC.

ALHAMBRA

Perfect Sound & Vision• NATTIAN ROAD KOWLOON-Most Popular Prices

COMING SHORTLY

GRAND EASTER ATTRACTION !

LY

The sweetest singing lovely girl in all the world is here.

in a brilliant modern romance with music by the composer of "Roberto," JEROME KERN

I DREAM

100 MLICH

With

HENRY FONDA ERIC BLORE OSGOOD PERKINS

PICTURE Directed by JOHN CROMWELL A Pandro S. Berman production

RKO RADIO

The gourmet and the connoisseur, Being men of taste, of course prefer

and that's The best..

A

Bols Liqueur

Sole Agents:

Caldbeck, Macgregor &

Co., Ltd.

Page 15}

リ