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•KINGS

OPENING SUNDAY

And when they kiss...

You'll thrill to the screen's most exciting love-team!

ib as a bay withtoomanymil- Alions and Loretta

Matthis secret sweetheart!

Robert TAYLOR Loretta YOUNG

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"Secret Interlude

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PATSY KELLY

BASIL RATHBONE MARJORIE GATESON

a TOR picture

'Darryl F. Zanuck

In Charge of Production

Directed by Ray Dei Ruth, Alsociate Producer Raymond Gründ

Based on play by Clavos Kinkana!

KING GEORGE V

MEMORIAL FUND

A FINAL APPEAL.

Christmas is approaching with its numerous calls for generosity, and it seems desirable to close the King George, V. Memorial Fund before it becomes one of too many claims on our charity.1 therefore propose to close the subscription lists on Saturday, December 19th, and I ask every citizen of Victoria and Kowloon to put to himself the following questions:

(1)

Have I fully appreciated

the nature of the Memorial, which is that the thank-offerings of those who prospered under the late reign will be devoted to the recreation of poor people in crowded areas; so that Hongkong's monument to King George will not be a lifeless statue of him but a living and permanent realisation of his desire for the health and happiness of his poorest subjects?

(2) Are the ninety thousand dollars that have already been raised the most

that Hongkong can do?

·

(3) If not, can I add to the amount, even though my contribution be small?

(4) Or, having already given, can !

give more?.

A. CALDECOTT,

COVERNOR.

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER.. 18, 1936.

BAD LUCK HOSPITAL HAS

GOOD LUCK The Serpent They

Wouldn't Pull Down

GOOD LUCK has come to East Grinstend's new cottage hospital since the authorities defied superstition and refused to spend £63 in removing the twined serpent- symbol of Aesculapius, god of healing-which rears itself from the roof.

Superstitious East Grinstead people shuddered when they first saw the snake on the roof. "It's bad luck," they said, and shook their heads.

ALWAYS BLAMED

They blamed the serpent for the rain that fell when Princess Helena Victoria opened the hospital on January 8.

They blamed the serpent when the matron, Miss Garlett, and

a nurse fell ill and became the hospital's first patients.

They blamed the serpont when two patients died within ten days of the opening ceremony.

THREAT

TO LYNCH GENERAL IN JAIL

Louisville

(Kentucky), Dec. 17. BRIGADIER-GENERAL

HENRY DEN- HARDT, 60-year-old for- mer Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky, has been brought to the jail here, charged with the murder of his 40-year-old fiancee, Mrs. Verna Taylor.

The scene of the alleged crime was 70 miles away, but, Den-

mob violence.

In February they demanded that the serpent should go-and hardt was moved for fear of

a weather vane take its place.

But the authorities said, "Nonsense,

The serpent cannot do.

us any harm. Besides, it will cost £63 to take it away."

People who read about the hos-| pital and the serpent sent dona- tions.

Miss Gariell said:

"We had one anonymous donation

for £1,000. No one has the faintest

idea who sent it.

"We have now one of the finest

X-ray departments in the country,

"The serpent has certainly brought us no bad luck. It is still up there and we're all cheerful down here below it.

"Everything looks very rosy. Most of the patients get better. We are very happy about everything-and I don't think any one fears the ser- pent.now."

BALKAN POWERS DISCUSS

NEXT WAR

Ankara, Dec. 17.

the NEGOTIATIONS for

unilled command of the armica of the Balkan Entente (Turkey, Rumania, Greece, and Yugoslavia) should the Entente ever find itself at war are believed to be afoot.

This is the upshot of the con- versations which Marshal Chak- mak, Turkish chief of the gen- eral staff, had with his fellow chiefs of staff at the recent Bal- Entente conference at

kan

| Bucharest.

The Marshal had since had a series of important conferences with President Ataturk on this subject.

Chaperones

For Tokyo Girls At Olympiad

Tokyo. Dec. 18. PRINCIPALS of Tokyo schools

met to discuss "the organi- sation of a special agency to work for a manifestation of the true spirit of Japan in 1940 (Olymple Games year) through the graceful demeanour of its girls."

This is what they decided about the girls:-

1. They should stop dresing

like revue actresses;

2. They should be chaperoned when attending the Games;

3. They must not ask foreign athletes for autographs.---

Reuter,

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Vowed To Wed

Woman Lovely As His Mother

Died A Bachelor, Left £587,457

MR.

Proston, Dec. 10.

WILDING WILLIAM GALLOWAY, of Bils borough Hall, near Preston cotton magnate, brilliant ganist and pianist, who died Jast September aged 82-left £587,- 457.

Mob Around Jail At Newcastle on Friday, after he had been remanded to go before a grand jury on a charge

of first degree murder, Ken-

tucky Hill folk swirled around the little jail with threats

lynch him.

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In his first utterance since arrest Denhardt to-day sald the aristocrat widow he had frequently threatened to end her on their last motor life, and that trip she had suggested, "Let's die

Tokemer nacing the three-room

the

suite of the entostable "cells," where he is watched day and night for fear of suicide attempts, Den- hardt told an interviewer his version of what happened.

"We erhills when suddenly she reached into

driving through were the glove compartment of the car and seized my heavy Army revolver, It was fully loaded. I wrenched it from her, replaced it, and locked the

The greater part of his fortune compartment. will go to the townspeople' of Preš-| ton.

Forgiveness Plea

"Then she told me almost hysteri- Among bequests in his will, pub- cally how she had been courted by lished to-day, were £10,000 to Pres- another man. He had expected to ton's poor and needy, and £10.000 marry her until I gave her an en- for the benefit of the employees of gagement ring

Horrockses, of which firm he

patted her head and told her president.

to stop thinking about it. Then she pleaded for

Wae

Mr. Galloway' was a bachelor. A I'd anything forgiveness—as if man who had known him for

years to-day told why:

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"As a very young man he made the vow that until he met a woman As lovely in face, figure and dis- position as his mother ho would

never marry.

to forgive. "When the car broke down later I was trying to arrange repairs when Mrs. Taylor evidently slip- Ded away suddenly. I was shocked by the blast of a gun,

HIT rushed to the car and found the

glove compartment open, the gun gone, and the keys missing. heThen I heard a second shot.

"And not so very long ago said to me: I never found her equal. That

why I remained bachelor.""

"I hurried down the road with two farmers. We found her in the ditch, my revolver at her side."

Famous Author Asks Coronation Amnesty

MR.

[R. COMPTON MACKENZIE, the famous author, has issued a forceful appeal for a Coronation amnesty for Dartmoor Prison mutineers.

And

The inspiration of this appeal was a visit which Mr. Wilfred Macartney, author of a sensational prison book, who had served 10 years' penal servitude, paid to Mr. Mackenzie in the novelist's home on the Island of Barra

For 12 months Mr. Macartney to the Archbishop of Canterbury, stayed on Barra and wrote his Lady Oxford, Lord Nufleld, exposure of prison conditions, many others, states that the extra sentences brought some mutineers' "Walls Have Mouths." But for terms up to as much as 18 years' Mr. Compton Mackenzie's en-penal servitude. couragement this book, which

Sent Him Mad shocked all Britain, might never have been written.

"One man by the name of Ibbots- had son," the appeal states, "who Now Mr. Mackenzie, who only a few months to serve to Anish heard many grint tales of a four years sentence, was given an additional 10 years. It sent him prison horrors during the

mad, and he is now in Broadmoor writing of the book, appeals Asylum.

At

the last two Coronations con- for remission of the long sen.

siderable remissions of sentences tences

servitude of penal passed' on convicts who took were granted to prisoners. Is it too much to ask that at the forth- part in the Dartmoor mutiny. coming Coronation the suffering of The appeal, which has been sent these men shall not be forgotten?"

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