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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1937.

"No Woman Need Grow Old"-Yogi wOOLLEN JUMPERS

Expert Claims "Miracles"-

WOMAN OF 70 NOW THERE ARE

OF 70 NOW THERE ARE SIX ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE

LOOKS

LIKE A GIRL

A man who admits to being over 50, with the boyish features and the vitality of a young man of 25, claims to be able to take 10 to 30 years off the life of almost every woman over 50.

Seated in his London flat, his fore arms bound with two serpents of gold, his long black hair coiffured,

France Doubles Her Women

Pilots Trials To Begin

Paris, Dec. 31. more women pilots have passed the tests for the public New holders aerial transport certificate, making the total six.

THREE

are:

At Once

BE CARRIED NEXT AUTUMN

Mme. Finut, who recently few to Madagascar as a tribute to the MAILS TO memory of her aviator husband, killed in a crash in Kenya in 1935; Mme. de la Combe, who has taken part in many air races; and Mlle. Lion.

Previous holders were Mlle, Maryse Hilsż, the "Amy Johnson” of France; Mlle. Maryse Bastie, who flew from Le Bourget to Gorki, in Russia, in record time in 1931 and broke Jean Batten's South Atlantic record this week; and Mlle. Regina Winska.--Reuter.

I

By VICTOR BURNETT, HAVE discovered the secret of Colonel

Lindbergh's flying visit to Ireland.

like a woman's, the Rajah Ex-King Edward Sold 15 Famous Dogs

Lala Krishna Raphael Ram Singh made an impressive figure as he described to a London Newspaper repre- sentative the "miracles" he has wrought.

20 Years Younger

The walls of the little room were covered with photographs of beauti ful women-the women whom the Rajah says have lost 20 years and re- gained new youth and looks by his system.

He pointed to the smiling portrait of a well-known London hostens.

When

she came to me her halr was grey and turning to silver," sald

the Rajah.

"She placed herself in my hands, hair and within a fortnight her

had been restored to its youthful brown colour.

"To-day that woman

feel

20 years younger.

looks

This girl he pointed to a studio photograph of a healthy young wo- man who looked about 30-"come and told me that she had Anished: with life.

"She was 70, and thought that there was nothing left for her but a few years of miserable old age and death.

Within a few months she had turned to the career. of her

and was singing once more upon the concert platform."

The Rajah waved his thin gold- ringed fingers as if in blessing. "No woman who submits to my system of diet, exercise, and mental control need ever grow old or be ugly," he Buid.

His System

"Beauty comes

from

within.

There is no short cut to rejuvenation, and I do not possess an elixir of life.

“Gracefulness. gentleness.

lo

kindness, motherless - those

teach qualities I are the women. A woman who nossessen them must be young and appear young.

"By a perfected system of Yogi breath control and by strict attention to a diet based on the simple pro- ducts of the earth, every woman can cultivate the characteristics that will give her beauty."

Just before his abdication, ex-King Edward sold, pulled down because upkeep was unnecessary and ex- his fifteen clumber spaniels, bred by King George V. pensive. at Sandringham, to a Sussex resident "for a high price."|

At the spaniels' names begin with the letter "S." They include the famous feam Sandringham, Seton. Sparkle, and Scurry, which have appeared at many shown

Queen Mary probably noticed other changes when

she visited Sandringhara at Chrisimas.

Part of the kitchen gardens has also been put to grass,

There are now no fallow deer in the woods, Sandringham has contained a big Christmas tree, from which Queen Mary kanded gifts to the servants, The King and Queen with Princes Elizabeth and

Queen Mary estate tenants, and their children.

with Princess Margaret, stayed

The vinerler and many greenhouses have been Sandringham.

WINTER LAY-UP

The German airship "ilindenburg" recently undertook her last voyage ross the Atlantic Ocean for this sea- She will lay up for the winter.

Son.

Rome And The Revolt

In Spain

Rome, Dec. 30. Mr. Average Italian is LOCH NESS MONSTER horrified by the brutality of the civil war in Spain but his sympathies are all with the Nationalists.

#

£30,000 TO

FIGHT

DISEASE

Government's Gift

for Research

CHEMO-THERAPY INSTITUTE

The announcement that the British Government will give £30,000 to- wards the establishment of a new institute of chemo-therapy-In which new artificial drugs will be made and

disease tested their influence on

was made by Mr. Neville Chamber- lain. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the anniversary dinner of the Royal Society of Claridge's Hotel, recently.

at

Both the Medical Research Coun- elf and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Mr. Cham- berlain ctated, had urged the founda-

such an institution. of

Hon

"I believe," he added, "that we shall be starting something of which it is difficult to-day to foresee all the possibilities."

After the dinner, Professor E. Mellanby, the Secretary of the Medical Research Council, told.a re- presentative of the hopes held by its! reientifle sponsors,

THE INSTITUTE'S AIMS The new institute. Professor Mel- tanby explained, in likely to be established at Mi' Hill, where the Council has already laboratories. It will deal, as have German scientists, with the systematic production and testing of new anti-malarial drugs-

but its medicul alms will be very

much more general than that.

The biggest hope, Professor Mel-

Makes Film Debut

London, Dec. 10. Cinema-goers in Australia and New Zealand may soon get a glimpse of the famous-and some say fabulous Monster of Loch Ness. It has made its debut on the British screen this Nationalists and execrates the established this

ngainst

EDWARDIAN ·

THE KING MUST NOT ABDICATE

at

During the crisis in England muny propie showed their sympathy for King Edward VIII. In London this cyclist rode through the streets wear- ing the placard, The King Must Net Abdicate.

He was one of a party that forged the last link in negotiations for North Atlantic air service.

Other members of the party were Mr. G. E. Woods Hum-

Imperial Airways, Juan Trippe, phrey, managing director of president of Pan-American Air- ways, America's biggest airline corporation, and J. C. Cooper, a vice president of the combine.

Colonel Lindbergh is Alluntie nd- vlser to Pan-American. Imperial Airways and Pan-American Airways are to co-operate in running the Atlantic service.

The reason for the visit was to approve the site chosen for the final Jumping-off place on this side.

It is at Kilconry, Co. Clare; a tiny village near a deserted bay desolate const.

on ກ

During the next five years a small town

wn will spring up there, with hotel accommodation for passengers and a landing ground for land planes.

It will become one of the most Im- portant air junctions in the world. station on the newest transport line.

AGREEMENT

The Lindbergh party reached com- plete agreement with de Valera about Irisly representation in the combine and division of costs for upkeep of the base.

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The purpose of the trial dights is to get information about Atlantic flying

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Ground Troops Discovery of Ancient Still Vital

In Warfare

"AIR FORCES ALONE

NOT ENOUGH"

"If Franco takes Madrid, it lanby suggested, lay in the production of artificiul drugs which would have will not be with his bombers, but

ngainst bacterial dis Influence He really hasn't much choice same influe

-ease,

successful use of the with his ground troops." "red chemical because everything he reads in che

General Sir Walter Kirke, had, he suggested, exalts his newspapers

the puerperal fer prontosti possibility.

Director-General of the Terri Mr. Chamberlain also indicated torial Army, expressed this that

the Government had, within the opinion recently at the distribu-

increased their ex- past two years, penditure on research in the interests tion of prizes to the 23rd London of defence to £3,800,000 a year-an Regiment (The East Surrey Increase

£1,300,000. of £1

Regiment) at Clapham Junction. Sir William Bragg.

President of the Society, pointed out that research was Sir Walter was pointing out the being more and more relied upon as essential part which the

week as star of a special feature in Loyalists. the first humber of a Scottish month-

The influence of the Catholic ly frm review, "Things That Hap- Church is also wielded in favour of The Osservatore pen."

the Nationalists. As much money has been spent on Romano, semi-official organ of the tracking the monster as on the salary Vatican, has gone into greater detail of a film-stor with box-office draw. about alleged Red atrocities in Spain

But the Loch Ness monster is us than any Italian newspaper. elusive as Greta Garbo. Both seem

What amazes the Average Italian to have the cold northern tempera- is the savagenes from reading his of the Spanish war. ment.

It is his The aim was obtained only six newspapers, that all the atrocities weeks ago, after three years of

are committed by the Loyalists, while cHort.

the Nationalists are delivering the

It shows an animal more than 30 country from the alleged horrors of

Army,

a incuos to human betterment, and Regular and Territorial, had to fill expressed the opinion that one of the In our own fighting forces. most encouraging features of the pre- sent time was the fact that social, The huge armies which Continental selence was just beginning to be "nations were organising and equip- real thing."

ping, he said, showed clearly that they had no exaggerated, opinion of the decisive effect of als forces.

feet long carcering through the loch Com-the-street is told, and ! PRISON FOR MAN' WHO

at a speed of 30 knotsas fast as The the Queen Mary.

""Dark grey.... nlmost black in

he believes it, that the

war in Spain

is no longer between Spaniards of

colour, and very shiny; the head and different political philosophies, but neck were parallel with the surface between Spaniards (the Nationalists) and rising and falling with the move and Red foreigners, assisted by a ment of the huge body; humps visible as the flippers move beneath them." few bolshevised Spaniards.

Typical was the comment of your That is how Malcolm M. Irvine, correspondent's grocer: "We Itatlans" director of Scottish Film Productions, he said, "ore in favour of the who "shot" the monster with a tele- Nationalists because the other are

of pricats, nuns murderers scople camera, described the beast.

children who want to bring com- munism to Spain."

"1938" STAMP ERROR JOHANNESBURG VALUES

LIKELY TO SOAR

and

ONCE OWNED £20,000

STARTED AS MESSENGER

BOY'

On the Territorial Army rested the responsibility for the ground air de- These fences and the coast defences. would come into action in advance of all other services. Their object was to gain time to

to mobilise

our

resources.

Passive defence would never pre- A man who had risen from messen-serve the British Empire, nor would

Nallons.

Civilisation

ISOLATED KINGDOM IN ASIA ABOUT 1800. B.C.

One more has been added to the lint of early

civilisations which archiologists must explore if they are to piece together the full history of man. It is that of the kingdom of the Mitanni, in the upper valley of the Habur, not far from the Turk- ish frontier of Northern Syria.

Although under Sumerian Influence been It has at an earlier period, proved that at least during the period about 1800-1400 B.C. there was, in this isolated district of Asia, an in- dependent and virile civilisation.

The discoverer is Mr. Mowa pucer of in expedition to agar Bazar, which has been joint- Chagar Bazar,

the

ly sponsored by the British School of

Archaeology in Iraq and British Museum. Mr. Mallowan des- cribed his discoveries at the annual meeting of the Fund at Burlington House,

London, recently ORGANISED MILITARY STATE

Among his

hls conclusions were that the houses of Chagar Bazar at this period were solidly built of mud brick; their Inhabitants were skilled In smelting copper, cast their own weapons, and were members of a well-organised military state. Horses bore elaborate trappings, and charlots were used in war.

There is evidence of contnet with Egypt, and the kingdom of Mitanni must at this time, it is believed, have had control of the trade routes to the

cularly of Cappadocia.

A grain recelpt among the dis- taken to represent some coveries in individual payment of rent or taxes, more than 3,000 years ago,

ger boy to own £20,000 was sent to itnable us to fulfil our engagements in ores of ́Asia Minor, and parti- prison for 18 months at the Man-to France and Belgium, or any other chester Assizes recently for the frau obligations which we might accept dulent conversion of £1,705.

The money was the bulk of an estate for water the Covenant of the League of which he was trusted.

There are some who think that He was Edmund Ogden, aged 70,

may coal merchant and formerly a milf offensive air action by itself Owner, of Smluy Bridge, Little-enable us to do so," General Kirke

added,

"but there is, I fear, nothing borough, Lancashire. It was stated that he had been a member of the to show that air action alone will grand jury in the court in which themselves have powerful air forces. stop the advance of armies which he was sentenced.

"Neither have we any reason to, "It is a painful duty to have to sen tence a man of your age," said Mr believe that the indiscriminate bomb- Justice Lawrence,

Ing of the civilian population will cause a proud people to surrender."

Italian newspapers have no cor- respondents on the Loyalist side.. What news they print from this alde comes from foreign sources. But all referentes to Loyalist courage are An error in the date on some of the deleted. Occasionally the newspapers special South African stamps Issued admit the Reds, as the Loyalists are to commemorate the Johannesburg called, are puiting up stubborn Exhibillon may unexpectedly increase resistance, but they attribute, this, their value. News of this printing | to foreign support. oversight reached, London recently. Foreign allegations that Gericral'

It was stated that a few of the Franco's air force. includes mony stamps are dated 1938, instead of Italian and German pilots, as well 1930. The error was discovered by as machines have not been mentioned a gatekeeper who took a casual glance in the Italian press. The average at the stamps, which form part of a Italian, from reading his paper, collection at the Exhibition..

and A fourpenny New Zealand, printed Russlo are openly sup

would get the idea, that France

supplying the In 1803, had by some mischance its Loyniists with prms and munitions, centro: printed upside-down. Six while Haly continues officially to years ago it was sold in London for maintain an attitude of neutrality. about £30. Other rarities includedBut the man-on-the-street Imows eleven | West Australian, fourpennies that Italy is quietly sending men and willyan inverted swan. Some of materini to Spain. Thla information ment because they wished to give He died, Intestate. Letters of ad- igno have been valued at nearly ho gels from the grape vine diaFranco additional support to speed ministration have been granted to

tribution of news which is not per-up the conclusion of the war, kit widow, Miss Florence Desmond.

Campbell Black-

£4,736, ··

- No Will

mitted to appear in the Italian papers. He knows it is true because his friend, Signor X, on air pilot, has quietly disappeared from Rome and now writes to his family from Spain. There are many such familles In Rome receiving letters from

Mr. Tom Campbell Black, the air- Spain....

man, who was killed, at Liverpool on "Mr. Average. Italian was shrewd October 19 when his plane collided enough to guess that Italy and Ger with an R.A.F. bomber, has lef many recognised the Franco Govern-£4,730, 12s. 6d.

Mr. Mallowan is to continue his excavations in the coming Benson, seeking specially for further inscrip tions. He will also exenvato Tall Brak, described as the most Import- ant "mound" In the neighbourhood.

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