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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1936.

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UEEN MARY, according to a United Press message received this afternoon, has moved into Mari- borough House. She is the first Queen of England to reside there since Queen Alexandra. Queen Mary will find Marlborough House almost exactly as it was when she left it twenty-six years ago to become Queen.

by the

Many of the carpets and curtains, years watching her son facing the In use when Queen Mary lived at janme responsibilities on the throne, Marlborough House with King while she is surrounded George as Prince and Princess of things that remind her of those Wales have been kept in storage young days. ever since.

They have been, looked after to carefully that they are still in per- feet condition, and, by the Queen's own wish, they will be. replaced in their old positions.

room

She decided not to have Marl- borough House allered at all, ex- and cept for essential répales additions to bring it up to date. The great dining

on the Queen Mary, as all her close ground floor, where forty-five people friends know, has happy memories can sit down to dinner, is not being of the days she spent at the big red | touched. house with its lovely gardens that look on the bland beauty of the Mall. NOT TO BE ALTERED

room.

drawing The magnificent which leads out of it, with a smooth parquet floor that makes it an ideal room for evening dances or recep- Now, with the passing of her hus-tions, is not to be touched either. band's reign, she wants to spend her

JONKER'S DIAMOND FOR LONDON

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New York, Sept. 25.

PROFESSOR LAIRD, of Colgate University, says that

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the evolution of man is tending towards an all-fours immondi of recent years, cut from posture.

While man dwelt

An experiment to determine why, dwelling creature. students were dull after eating, re-in trees, it was necessary for him to vealed that they thowed a higher walk on all fours. The farther he mental effetency when lying with advances as a land dweller the more

he must tend their feet in the air.

posture.

Professor Laird concluded from this that if mankind walked on all fourn it would produce a better blood supply for the brain.

Professor E. A, Briggs of the Zoology Department, Sydney Uni- versity, said last night he found it Impossible to agree.

All the evidence, sald Professor Briggs, tended to show that man was evolving in the opposite direction towards a more erect posture.

Man's evolution was ù descent from an arboreal creature

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Two Countries Rebuked Six European States were granted loans totaling £81,000,000 by the

Lee of Nations between 1923 and

1028.

London, Sept. 20. ONDON is to have an opportunity of seeing the most remarkable) the celebrated Jonker's Diamond,

Mr.. Harry Winston, of New York,

To-day the League Louns Cohmit- who last year paid. £150,000 for the tee (under Sir Austen Chamberlain's Jonker's Diamond, said to

chairmanship) praise Austria, Dan- the world, has fourth largest in

zig, and Estonia for the way they in erect arrived

London. To-day

have discharged their obligations. talked of his plans.

Hungary

has partially defaulted, The stone, which was found at but the committee indicate she is do- Elandsfontein in

her best, rom the spot where

two countries, Diamond was found in 1905, was:

criticised by the commitice, sharply bought for the Diamond Corporation Greece and Bulgaria, however, re for £03,000 by Sir Ernest Oppen- who declare that both these Govern

Jacobus Jonker. When the Diamond Corporation the stone up for sale, Mr. Wins- on bought, it and it was taken to America.

"Nor can I agree that an all-fours posture would mean a better blood supply," said Professor Briggs.

"The sise of the human heart has

Increased greatly since man walk-

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Upstairs, on the first floor, the small bing room, where Queen Mary will take her meals when she is alone, has been modernised by the provision of electrle hot plates and a new service lift from

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Queen Mary's private rooms-her sturdy, boudair, and bedroom-on the same floor are being made more comfortable, and the hot water system is being modernised.

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She has chosen her own wall papers and paint. Many of the papers, in old-fashioned designs, are those she remembers from the age old days.

Satin-striped papers, with plain grounds, in whites and Ivories are among Queen Mary's choice for re- ception rooms.

Corridors and ante-rooms are to be carpeted in the same.rich crim- son as the corridors at Buckingham Pulace. Curtains and hangings in the formal chambers are to be of the same shade.

SAME FURNITURE

ed creek, and a bigger heart, in-heimer from, its finder, Transvaal ments could have done better if they. There will be little, if any,

evitably supply.

means * belter blood

"The heart is a powerful pumping organ, and it develops a greater head of pressure when the body is erect." As to students being less duli with their feel in the air, it was Professor Brigg's experience that they often dull wherever their feet were, and whether they had eaten or were hungry.

SLEEPING UPRIGHT

were

A leading Sydney doctor thought that possibly Professor Luird based his theory on the assumption that, with the feet in the air, more blood would go to the upper parts of the body, and the brain might function

more easily.

Professor Harvey Sutton, of the School of Public Health, said that although he did not agree with Pro-

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stones now being cut in New York BY EMBASSY

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He is to bring them to London to put them on ex

exhibition.

"The largest plece will weigh from 185 to 175 carats, according to the final cut," he

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"believe that this stone will be

of the most beautiful diamonds in the world."

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Story Of Assault By Two British Soldiers

furniture needed for Queen Mary's new home.

At Buckingham Palace, Windsor Cantic, and Sandringham House, there is a great quantity of furni ture which is her personal pro- perty, much of li accumulated by In the past twenty-five years. her For many weeks she has been en- gaged in sorting this out, deciding which pieces she wishes to take witli her, and which are to remain, or to be sent into storage.

In viher rooms at Marlborough House, Queen Mary intends to re- store furniture that Was used by Queen Alexandra when she lived there.

By Special Correspondent

At the top of the house are the LEARN of an extraordinary

example of Japanese propa-quarters for Queen Mary's servants, ganda in Pekin (Northern China)., present occupied by some of the

King's domestic staff. This stone will be much larger

On August 26 Shimbun, the than the Koh-I-Noor, which weighs local Japanese newspaper, carried

GREATEST PROBLEM 100 carats, but will be smaller than

Rooms for the Queen's secretary, fessor Laird's evolution theory, the the largest stones of the. Cuilinani A sensational story of un assault

which are included in the Crown and by two British soldiers on the the Hon. Gerald Chichester, and her Comptroller, Lord Claud Hamilton, Sceptre und weigh 510 and 309 French Vice-consul, M. Legrand,

According to this account Mare at the side of the house, fncing The famous

Here the dally work of the Queen's diamond me

owned by the area, when two British soldiers ad- Habsburgs) weighs 133 carats. The vanced towards him brandishing correspondence and her other affairs him, will be carried on, with offices for Victoria weighed 180 carats when whips. They closed in on

all-fours posture vantages,

some nd-

Horses could sleep while standing up, but very few humans could do 50. The all-fours posture gave the body greater stability.

Queer Talent

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or Tusenny Legrand was walking in the Legatlon Marlborough Gate.

glasses with their whips.

cut, and was bought by the Nizam justled him, and knocked off

Hyderabad for £400,000. The reason why a "raw" stone is

of

Due To Man's risky. There is always the danger he borrowed

'Dual Brain'

Sydney, N. S. W. Sept. 21. There is a man in Sydney who can do two entirely different things at once, and do them well. He Is Stirling Wilkinson, known to his friends as the man with the "dual brain."

Among other accomplishments, ho can write different words and] sentences simultaneously with both! hands. He can write

the same wording backwards. He can also! do two separate drawings at the same time.

As a bookkeeper he will be parti- cularly envied as he con make simultaneous entries the figures with one hand and the items with the other.

Wilkinson says that he was born

he found) that way. As a child, that he was writing backwards with his left hand-to the discomfort of

ta use his teachers, who had mirror to read his writing. Special- lets who examined him, decided that he had 'n discase of the brain. To Induce correct writing with the right hand, they strapped his left arm to his body.

mis-

When he entered college, he jealously guarded his secret. After a time, he

some committed demeanour and was given 400 linca to write. By using both hands once he completed the task in half,

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his clerks and typists immediately be-

hind.

Queen Mary's ladics-in-waiting so much "chenper" is that the pro- M. Legrand, it is stated, took and the other members of her staff cess of splitting and cutting is so refuge in the Halian Embassy, where will also have their private rooms the Italian telephone on the second floor, above her own that the diamond may be injured. and asked his own Embassy for as- rooms, within easy call.

Five French, soldiers were Greatest problem of all for Queen "The future of the stones," said sistance.

be divulged sent. They arrested the two British Mary, however, is the same problem Mr. Winston, "cannot yet. Certain offers have already soldiers and took them to the French that confronts most people when

Embassy.

moving-how to get everything in. been received."

Soon afterwards, the story The insurance premium on largest stone will amount to £2,000 tinues, ten British military constables or £3,000 a year, Interest on the arrived, and demanded that the two locked-up capital it represents prisoners should be handed over to refused. amounts to several thousand pounds them. The demand was

the

con-

The Queen has one of the larg est and most valuable collections of objects d'art and paintings in the country, now divided among four great houses. Large as is the accommodation at a year. The cost of possessing such The constables assumed a threatening a diamond is between £0,000 and attitude, but, in view of the superior Marlborough House, she has great

in Anding force of the French, who had 40 dificulty £10,000 a year.

soldiers present, they were forced to display her marvellous treasures to

full advantage. withdraw,

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bridge.

Noted engineers, college pro- fessors and philosophers noticed thila and pondered. Seagulls don't get dizzy, they argued, it wasn't too cold and gulls make so much noise themselves that it couldn't have been because of 1110 racket of the construction gonga.

The thinkers went into a hud- dle and finally they brought out the solution. The bridge is a suspension structure and every wire and cable vibrates con- stantly.

Seagulla didn't like this vi- It made their feet bration. ilckle.

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The prisoners, according to the newspaper, are still held by French, and the whole incident is said to be causing the British Em- bassy the greatest anxiety, for the men have been caught in the act and "this time the Embassy will be un- able to invent a false alibl as in the case of the murder of the Japanese officer Sasaki."

“AND THE TRUTH The facts of this extraordinary "incident" are as follows.

gation

As soon as the newspapers came out with this story, the British Em- bassy conducted a thorough investi- Into the charges. After con- sultation with the French Embassy Vice-Consul. and with the French M. Legrand, the Embassy discovered that the report was an entire fabricn- tion. An official dementi to thin effect has now been issued in Pekin. The so-called "incident" is an il- luminating example of the peculiar methods. of Japanese propaganda. In China.

the time taken by the other boys. TROOPS BLOW UP CHURCH

The astonished master accused

of having another boy to help him,

and then Wilkinson find to explain

New Delhi, Sept. 1.

his ability to do two things at once. ST. MARY'S CHURCH, Quotta, quo of the fincat churches in India, has After that his detention was double been blown up by a squad of Royal Engineers. The building was that of the other boys United Press. left unsafe by, the earthquake of May Inst year.

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