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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1936.

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BACHELOR KING'S THRONE

This solitary throne in the House of Commons was used by King Edward VIII only once... Henceforth there will be two thrones, as in the days of King George V.

NEW KING WILL BE "WEDDED"

TO ENGLAND £90 Coronation Ring

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· BROKE HER LEG AGAINST A STAIR

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IN a little workshop in Clerkenwell a jeweller is making "the wedding ring of England," which the Archbishop of Canterbury will place on King George VI's betrothal finger at his Coronation in Westminster Abbey.

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In another Clerkenwell workshop three crowns are being made. After they have been worn during the Coruna tion ceremony for about three minates they will be brokenations for the Palace of Soviets, de- signed to be the tallest as well as the

Moscow, Dec. 1. Day

and night behind

a high wooden fence near Kropotkin Square, within sight of the Kremlin, power shovels and complicated construction machinery grind on preparing found-

up.

They are for Garter, Claren- ceux and Norroy, Kings of Arms, Made of silver gilt, they will cost

about 60 each.

500,000 SEATS A curvey of the route of the Coronation shows that there will be sents for just under 50,000 people, Standing room for which charge will

be made will accommodate another 800,000, and a million and a quarter spectators are expected to line the streets.

Sixty pounds a scat has already been paid for the best positions. Some private rooms have been let

for £500,

It is estimated that £100,000,000 will be spent throughout Britain during the Coronation period. In dustry expects to reap about a quar- ter of this from the sale of specially manufactured articles.

GANGSTER ADMITS

FIVE MURDERS

PAID £12 A HEAD

New York, Dec. 1. Under the glare of floodlights at police headquarters to-day three New York gangsters boasted openly of their crimes and admitted several

TELEPHONES Travel Dept. -20524

murders that should send them all. Banking Dept. 23201 to the electric chair. Shipping Dept.

20525 Manager-N. J. PERRIN.

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN. THE SOCIETY ASKS FOR

$25,000

in 1937, to continue its work for sick and destitute children.

Hon; Treasurers;

Dr. A. MCKELLAR, O.A!

e/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co..

P. & O. Buliding.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Hongkong.

November 10, 1930.

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More than a million cubic yards of earth has excavated.

ESCALATORS TO BE USED

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With problems of the foundation worked out the details of the build- solved, architects and engineers

ber of persons to be served, one hall ing Itself. Because of the huge num-

escalators will replace elevators. alone scating more than 10,000,

The main hall will have a of blue aluminium with huge square cupola windows, from stream

which light will on thousands of seats ar- ranged in an amphitheatre and on the stage, where mess performances

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"small hall," relative only in finest quality polish, smeliness, as it will seat approxi- mately 0,000, or four times as many Theatre, will follow out the princi- DB Moscow's famous Bolshoi (big) ples of theatre construction. HUGE LENIN STATUE PLANNED Sculpture, bas reliefs, columns and fountains will adorn the foyers. The occasion was the "line-up," a high, will crown the building. Con-

A huge statue of Lenin, 180 feet, daily event in which 200 of the city's structed of non-rusting steel, the detectives are the spectators at a statue much of the time will be parade across a briliantly lighted shrouded in the clouds. stage of all the criminals arrested during the previous 24 hours.

One man,

Tough Tony, who is 30, calmly admitted that he had kill ed on elderly park-keeper last week. His two companions revealed that all they had earned for their part la the murder was £12 aplece.

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Two hundred thousand tons of W. R.. Loxley & Co. (China), Ltd. steel and 400,000 tons of concrete will be used in the construction. Total weight of the building will be 1,300,000 tons.

ave and six years will be necessary to complete the palace.

It is now estimated that between CANTON AGENTS

A KING ON THE DOLE

Burraga is King, by descent and right, of all the Illawarras, His palace is only a "humpy" or scrub hut, it is true, and he has been living on the dole.

And in spite of the allegiance of all his black subjects in New

South Wales,, ho. is to be evicted. The Hurstville Council whose amenitics he enjoys have decided that his "humpy" ond those of his court are according to the health inspector, "holding back the progress

a beautiful district.".

of

Burraga was out on a royal foraging expedition when he was In- formed. He Immediately summoned his court chamberlain and made arrangements to go into exile. So far they haven't quite made up their

"minds where Austral News, Burroga is known as Joe Anderson

Locally, says

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and his mother, who was queen until she died, have lived for many years in the districts,

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