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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1937.

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And what a great part ho's provided for Bette

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Satan meta Lady

Screened by Warner Beat; me woritten by tomous Dashiell Hammatimi played bý

BETTE DAVIS-Warren WILLIAM

ALISON SKIPWORTH

ARTHUR TREACHER

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1937's SPECTACULAR MUSICAL SMASH! Introducing SONJA HENIE, Queen of the silvery skates, in "ONE IN A MILLION"

TAKE ANY THAN OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS

ORIENTAL

•

OF GRESFORD PIT Led Survivors

Through Gas to Safety

JOHN EDWARD SAMUELS, a hero of the Gresford

pit disaster in 1934, when 265 men were killed, has been awarded by the King the Edward Medal for conspicu. ous gallantry in leading survivors to safety through a gas- laden atmosphere.

Only a few days ago, Samuels was saved from un- employment,

He acceped the offer of an appointment as gardener with Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Alexandor, of Lydney, Gloucestershire. Mrs. Samuels is to be cook, and a bungalow has been provided for the couple to live in.

TURNED BACK-TO DIE

Here 1s the story of Samuels'e courage, as told in the offelal London? Gazeite, which announced the award: "The sole survivors of those work- ing underground were six men, of whom Samuels, #t coalcutting machine-man, was one.

"They had to fight their way for nearly half a mile through an at- mosphere so laden with gan that at an early stage some of the party turned back to seek wanie

Australia Fears Loss

Of Koalas

Church Leader

Dies in Nazi Camp

Vienna, Mar, 23. Imprisoned last September in Sachenburg Concentration Comp Dr. Weissler, leader of the Pro- fessional Church Administration which protested openly against Hitler's plans for reorganising the German Protestant Church, has been found hung.

Friends in Switzerland, ne- cording to the Swiss Evangelical Press Service, And it hard to believe that he committed sul- eide. Recently he was in solltary confinement, but at the time of his death he was under normal camp discipline.

HAD THREE WEEKS LEFT

TO LIVE

INQUEST STORY OF PROPHECY THAT WAS

FULFILLED ·

that mother would die with-

Melbourne, Mar. 15. other The alarming decline in the FULFILMENT of a son's prophecy way out, only to meet their deaths. "teddy bear" population of Aus in three weeks was disclosed at the "At various points they fell behind.tralia has been checked through Kingston inquest on Mrs. Miriam and the temptation, to leave them to

| co-operative efforts of the H, 66, of Wolverton-nvenue, King- their fate must have been "very strong.

government, private individuals ston. and zoological societies.

Mrs. Hi dled at her home, and the funeral

was stopped by the coroner for a post-mortem exam- ination.

evidence that death was due to heart Dr. Eric Gardner, pathologist, gave fallure following high blood pres sure. There were indications that Mrs, Hill had been addicted to un excessive amount of alcohol.

"TERRIFYING"

Until recently it was feared "Throughout Samuels took a lead- ing part in encouraging them, In that the most picturesque and

what should be done or advising

appealing, of Australian fauna, attempted, and in giving other help, the Koala bear, was doomed to staying behind to render assistance at a time when any delay in escap-extinction, But the authorities ing was fraught with grave, danger in the eastern states, the natural "The Chief Inspector of Mines, home of the koala, now report that in the report Just published on the the decline has been checked and that

A detective said he was satisfted explosion, states that Samuels the attention now being devoted to

there was nothing of a criminal summed up the position and dis- them will lead during 1937 to an nature in connection with the death. played qualities of leadership in a Increase in their number.

The woman's husband, William most terrifying slivation.

John fill

Eust of Walton-road, faclors

responsible Molesey, declared

there had been

Two

were

"And there seems to be no doubt mainly for the diminution of the much bitterness in the family. Early that some at least of the party owe "teddy bears", the depredations of in December, he went on, he was their lives to his coolness and cour-foxes and the expansion of settle-bolted out of his house

at New ment. The fox is the natural enemy Malden." His wife and son Albert of the little animals; settlement and were going to Kingston, cultivation destroy

tige."

MEMORY REMAINS

Samuels was one of the

few men to escape unhurt, but the memory of his experience remained-and he has never entered a colliery since.

and his wife went to Beer, Devon, where work as a gardener helped him to forget.

He

Then tragedy followed. Samuels's employer was found shot dead. Samuels had to look for another job.

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LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY THE SCREEN'S GREATEST LAUGH HIT! The most tickling, titillating and tantalizing entertainment you ever saw! A butler in the nutliest family in the world creates a panic.

William

Carole

POWELL LOMBARD

..

MY MAN Godfrey

(UNITERIAS, PICTURE

MOTION

INTHER

LAFLOW

the

trees, the Bum leaves of which are essential as food. "I was hoppy with my wife`until

New homes are

found for Miss Alice Gent came to stay with koalas dispossessed price has been placed on the heads

Beements; a]us," he added.

Alleging that Mias Gent pres- and brandy for his half

of foxes. Koalas, are protected by law throughout Australia even in cribed whisky Queensland where they are estimated Wie, he said: "It went in

Aumblerfuis."

to number several hundreds of thou sands.

GARDEN WORshor MEETINGS To kill a konia in a game preserve George Frederick Packman, of leaves the offender liable to a fine Roseberry-road, Norbiton, Mr. Hl's of E20, with a further penalty of eldest son by her first marriage, £5 for each animal destroyed. In stated that his mother and step- the case, of killings other than in father were both spiritualists. They game preserves, the penulty of a had meetings in a workshop in the

£10 fine. plus the value of the buck corden. animal.

Serious and well-planned efforts to concentrate the koalas in special preserves, and to maintain their

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"My half-brother, Albert Hill, professed to be a med'um, but he was not a medium," he added.

I heard my mother had said that

OFFICIAL evidence suggests food supply, ure now being made. Albert had gone under control' and

that the users of public tele- Efforts in Victoria are typical of told her she had three weeks to live," phones in Britain are gentler, those in all koala states. Public- and that she was to make a will. lighter fingered, less passionate special, preserve for koalas on

spirited citizens have established a

"She had no fear of death-she and less

hectic than their Island and the state government did we may n

on Phillip

ready to dio," sold brothers and sisters in the likewise on Quail Island.

Packman. "In less than three weeks United States.

Other preserves on a smaller scale I heard she was dead. have been established by zoological. "I had heard she had been serious- Such violence is employed in societies and in all preserves, specially ill, and I had been told she was phone box on the carrier of Times trees have been planted to insure given nearly a bottle of whisky a day Square, New York-the most used there shall be no shortage of gum and ice cream." box in the United States-that the leaves, without which the koola can- telephone directory books there have not live. to be changed every 90 hours.

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Albert Hill in evidence denled that his mother drank excessively. Public interest in the preservation "Some months

father the koala led recently to an em-

ago my An official of the London telephone barrassing demand on the govern- went under 'control, and his spirit service was shocked at the new.

ment that extensive aboriginal lands doctor told him to tell Miss Geat "Why, in the average public call-be set aside for the "teddy bears" that willsky would be good for my box here," he said, "the books last The government refused the request, mother," he declared.

since "prior duty" is to the abori ginals and their lands are held "The most used phone boxes in inviolable. London are at Piccadilly Circus and Foxes have been declared "vermin" Oxford Circus; and even here it is and landowners are under penalty i

six monilis.

The jury's verdiet was in accor- dance with the medical evidence,

only occasionally that directories to destroy foxes on their lands. JUSTICE TO WIN

have to be renewed at intervals of a Statewide "fox week or, fortnight,”

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| AFTER 23 YEARS

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After spending 23 years in prison, an Innocent man, now well advanced |! in years; tracked down and wrung a confession from the real culprit.

Ichimatsu Yoshida was convicted in 1013 of murdering a man and robbing him on a road in Aichi prefecture. Testimony against him was by Loshi- hel Kitagawa and Shotaro Kalda, who sold that Yoshida insligated the assault, and subsequently Killed the victim with a bamboo flute.

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the body till the skin was like bone. Mrs. Stelling disliked the macabre men, so Stelling decided to pre- sent it to a friend in Sydney. He got the customs men an une After debating

IN GOOD HEALTH

ALTHOUGH DEAD

Sydney, NSW, Mar. 1..

possessions of G. H. Stelling on his arrival from toms officers here.

London puzzled cus- nearly resembled livestock or a work

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"A ̈petrified cat listed among the percented problem. father it most

of

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