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Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy in "WIFE versus SECRETARY"!

SHOWING TO-DAY

HE SWAPS

THE

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MAY

.22, 1936.

To Testify

LONE CLIMBER'S

A

EVEREST DIARY

FOR A WOMAN

LITTLE worn, green-covered diary which lay for sixteen months 21,000ft. up the side of Mount Everest on the body of missing Maurice Wilson, the only man to attempt the climb to the "roof of the world” alone, has just arrived in England.

hole where it foll, just plain white

FROW."

Faded pencil lines on its flimsy pages tell in terse, unheroic sentences of Wil-left to tell the story, son's adventurous struggle across India and Tibet to more than two-thirds of the way un Everest's 29,000ft.

Now has come back the diary, five" by two and a half inches, all that is

It was left by Wilson to him beni friend, a Londoner, Mr. L. J. Evans. It is all written to beautiful Mrs. Enid Evaru.

One thing it does not reveal. Why, against the advice of all his friends, even of the British Government, did The last entry in the diary, Wilson set out on this enterprise for people labolled him May 31, 1934, ur weakened, which some spidery handwriting, says, "Off"mad"? again, gorgeous day."

WAR-TIME M. C.

Mrs. Evans told the reason. "Maurice had a theory that by healthier living, dieting, and fasting. it would be possible for people to live longer, to become supermen,

That was the spirit in which this "He felt that unless he first applied thirty-five-year-old Yorkshireman, his theory to himself, and then proved avartime winner of an M.C. for galit by setting himself some super- Inntry, went on upwards towards the human task he would never be ablo

ummit, to meet his

death

to compel people's attention to it.

"He trained, dieted, fasted, and once made a parachute jump to test his nerve.

Sixteen months later. in Septem ber 1935, a British party, laying plans for the attempt on Everest which is now being made, discovered Wilson's body a fow hundred yards above Camp 3, 21,000 feet high.

The leader of the party, Mr. Eric described the discovery M.G.M. it was evident that he had

thus: Picture died in his sleep from exhaustion, and not from starvation, as he had found a dump of food left during our previous expedition is 1933.

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le must have been lying in a tent when he died, but it had been hlown from his body,

HE LAUGHED

"Then he said he would reach the summit of Everest alone.

"My husband, his greatest friend, laughed.

"But Maurice's personally was dynamic. He was an ideallat but no dreamer. He had a realist mind plus courage unbounded. For those reasons I could not discourage him, quite so much as other people." The party buried Wilson in a ten- At first Wilson was determined to feet-deep snow crevasse. His body fly a small airplane as high as pos- passed through the snow; "...itsible up Everest, crash it, and climb completely disappeared, there was no to the summit

In Miar

1933, after only forty hours Bying, with no practical [ROSYTH_DOCK MAY knowledge of navigation. Wilson set off on the 7,000-mile flight to India in a second-hand airplane. When he left, watchers at Stag-lane Airdrome were horrified to, seo him take off with the wind instead of head into it That was the sort of flying know- ledge with which he managed to navigate his way, with adventures, but without injury, to India.

In India he was forbidden to fly over Nepal. His scheme to fly.some of the way up Everest was ruined. He was refused even permission to pass through Nepál on foot to Tibet

RE-OPEN

CONSIDERED IN NAVAL EXPANSION PLANS

It is probable that the great Naval Dockyard at Rosyth will enter shortly upon a new era of activity.

.The Firth of Forth facilities uuk largely in the consideration of plans being made at the Ad. miralty in connection with the naval expansion programme. though nothing definite has been decided with regard to Rosyth's future.

TRAVELLED AS PRIEST

He wrote to his friends then: "Actually I'm not a bit more fussy about getting a permit, as I intend to do the job, anyhow, and the fact of doing so in disguise would appeal more

He travelled through Nepal as n Tibetan priest,

His diary began from the time be Previous rumours to the effect that became that travelling priest. It Rosyth Dockyard, which is on a care continued until that "gorgeous day"

basis at present, when he set out to die. and maintenance

Hie letters to have circulated in his friends tell of his adventures be would reopen, Edinburgh and in Fife, and have tween England and India.

Dun- ended in disappointment for fermline workers and traders nud others. On this occasion, however, it Ja..definite, that the Admiralty have discussed Rosyth with regard to the best use that can be made of the great wartime, base.

TRAINING FOR BOYS

Baby's Dread

Heritage Is Fat

The baby, Mary Ellen, weighed but

Edward James Margett, No. 1 man in California Townsend Plan circles, expected to be called to. testify before a House committee investigating its activities.

The Pope Becomes A Librarian

BREAKING DOWN TRADITION

Vatican City, May 20. Pope Pius Xith has proved once more that notwithstanding his 79 years of age he is one of the most active Pontiffs that has ever occupied the golden throne of St. Peter's.

With the death of Cardinal Ehrle in 1934, the post of Librarian of the Holy Roman Vatican Church was vacant, officials who asked His Holiness who the Cardinal's successor was to be were surprised to hear the aturdy Pontiff answer:

"There will be no need for a new

that post!" librarian. From now on I will occupy

a tradition

The Pope thus broke which for ages saw a cardinal occupy the post of Vatican librarian.

The

Pope is an old bookworm and has had plenty of training in the diffi- cult task of keeping a library in good shape, be it even as vast as that of the Vatican. He was librarian of the famous Ambrosiana Library of Milan in 1007 when he was only Father Achille Ratti.

During those daya the present pontift used to invite all the members a plenic of the Milanese Hbrary to which was held in the suburbs of the city once a

The Holy Father's first step as librarian of the Catholic Church was of his private to donate the books collection to the Vatican library. The Pontif's collection consisted principal- ly of important old volumes treating with theology philosophy-and-history. of the Catholic Church.United Press,

150,000 AMERICAN MURDERERS GO FREE

ROAMING COUNTRY

A

are

The Naval programme not only re quires ships and docit facilities, but a

Shreveport, May 15, umber of training centres, and it is

Two anxious parents were believed that Rosyth is being con- sidered as a probable training centre watching their newborn baby here for boys joining the Navy. Rosyth, fearful that she would develop which is well equipped with build- an inherited disarrangement of

Washington, May 15. ngs to house trainees and land upon the pituitary gland that causes an which they might train, would thus

to enormous development of the

BOUT 150,000 murderers become a centre supplementary

Devon body. Farwich,

roaming the United Chatham, those n port, and Portsmouth.

States, according to Mr. Edgar It is not suggested, however, thut 9 pounds 10 ounces at birth by ly Hoover, head of the special Rosyth should become a fully #edged sicians pointed out that this was no Naval base again soon, though this guarantee that the child would escape force of G-Men organised by may be considered on account of its her dread heritage. Her mother, the Government to fight the usefulness in the Great War. The Gertrude Karna, weighs 745 pounds.

"Walking the streets of the towns Forth defences at that time were in-Her father, Cliff, weighs 305 pounds. gangster menace.

The child was born Saturday. The

dress here to-night, "are 300,000 Battle Fleet were frequently in the Karns have another child, Annio Les, of America," he declared in an ad-

now 2, who is of normal size.

that they unaware Forth for rest or refitting.

The Karns travel with a carnival. citizens It was to Hosyth that the battered warships went after the battle off Karrs' brother came here from Dead- doomed to die at the hands of mur- He asserted that one out of 25 per- Jutland, and there were times when wood, S.D. to be around for the dorers". the dockyards were working 24 hours birth. He weighs 12 pounds.

Physicians found in the history of sons in the United States was inclined a day, while the comparatively small piece of ground above the Forth Mrs. Karns cause for alarm for her to criminality. If the criminal world Bridge became a veritable city of children. She weighed 18 pounds at were to marshal its forces, he conti- birth. When one year old, she weigh-nued, they would "tramp ceaselessly 100,000 inhabitants.

It was also to the Forth that the ed 100 pounds, at two, 136 pounds, at past, hour upon hour, in daylight and British Fleet escorted the surrendered three 186, at four, 206. She couldn't darkness, and back to daylight and "An army of criminals could be German Flest following a rendezvous walk until she was six because of her darkness again, 10 or 20 abreast.

she weight and when

collected before which America outside the great estuary.

weighed 502 pounds.

would fall in a few hours." Urging all citizens to declare war on crime, Mr. Hoover declared that the enforcement of law was prevented i by those politicians who had criminal Associates. Citizens paid a personal tax of a year for the privilege of living in a country which each year

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HOME FLEET VISITS

In these days, and even for long after the Armistice, Rosyth appear to be the key to many Naval arrange- ments, but it was eventually put on a care and maintenance basis, much Fifo the consternation of the

to

towns. Since that time, nearly ten years ago, there have been frequent vielts of the Home Flect, and Rosyth has at times resumed its old busy almosphere with flotillas of destroyers and submarines securely harboured at the great concrete wharves.

was 18 sho

A maladjustment of the pituitary gland can develop at any time before gland at the base of the brain that the age of puberty. It is the small a known influence over exercises growth.-Unitest Prens.

TEMPERANCE DRINK

WITH A "KICK”

noteworthy that the "care and MISS BONDFIELD'S HINT It is maintenance basis has kept the base

Southport, May 10.

in a state of repair that would require

ships.

very little to set the workshops going A recipe for a temperance and prepare for work on glant war cocktail was given by Miss Mar

Across the water, on the Lothians garet Bondfield at a public meet- side, is Port Edgar, not yet utilised ing in connection with the of the Southport to any great extent since it was a depot during the war. It was recent centenary

ly stated in the House of Commors Temperance Society to-night,

"It is tomato juice with red pepper that Fort Edgar was not for sale.

With these facilities still available: and celery salt, she said. "It makes and an aerodrome on either aldea perfectly nice drink with a 'kick' Turnhouse and Dontbristles well in and the more red pepper you the Fleet Air Arm headquarters in put in, the more kick you get."

thero Scotland at Leuchars, the Forth Bus Bondfield added that waters might well become a special was an opportunity for a scientist to training centre, for the British Navy find a temporaneo drink with a "kick" of to-morrow."

ля

Ba

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12,000 murders;

47,000 criminal assaults;

280,000 burglaries;

780,000 larcenies; and

300,000 motor-car thefts.

are

In every large city there were nu- by defending men they knew to be erous lawyers who made their living guilty.

Doctor Invented

38-letter Drug

Berlin, May 10.

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FIGHT IN PRISON

PRISONER VINDICATED BY JURY AT SESSIONS.

Spectacle... ection, romance ...filmed by

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Bengal Lancer"

The accused was alleged to ha caused

the death of the deceased

him on atabbing

the right kn during a fight on February 18. T wound became infected and the d ceased died on April-2 from polso ing and toxemin. On the night

A verdict of "Not Guilty" was re-fore the Incident, the deceased w

in commit. an indecent assault on Besalons yesterday in the case turned by the jury at the Criminal alleged to have endeavoured which Lau Fong, aged 19, was accused. charged with the manslaughter of Tsoi Tong, 35, a fellow-prisoner, in Laichikok Gaol,

Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistant Cro Solicitor, appeared for the prose ton, and the accused, who was The jury took almost an hour to legally represented, pleaded B

WEB defence, arrive at their verdict, which. unanimou: The accused was accor- The following jury was empanell

discharged, as ho had already-Messrs. H. H. Pethick (Forem Dr. Friedrich Stolz, of Frank-served his term of nine months' im- CW. L. Spradbery, G. Fen furt, inventor of dimethylamino prisonment for breach of a doporta- Woni Bul-ki Pong King-cheong, phenyldimethylpyrazolonum, other tion order. It is understood how Kwan-wal, and R. J. K, Walker. wise known as pyramidon, has ever, that he will be re-banished..

The trial of Lau Fong for

The United States Consulate, at died in Germany, aged seventy-six.

The drug which he invented is manslaughter of Tao! Tong, a fellow- as common du Germany as aspirin convict, at Lalchikok Prison, was sent housed in the National City E Hayden at the Criminal Sessions this ferred to the Hongkong and Shan Bank building at the end of Jund: the same purposes.--Reuter.

morning. is in Britain. It is used for much continued before Mr. Justice J. J. of New York building, is being e

the