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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, JULY

SLIMMING (FOR) SPEEDED UP

MEN

Two-Day Course

55 MINUTES

IN GYM. LOST

1 lb.

10 ozs.

London, June 8.

THIS is a slimming story for men only. Ex-

world fly-weight champion Jackie Brown started it by slimming 130xs. in fifty-five minutes to qualify for his fight with Johnny King at Man- chester on Monday.

I took up the challenge with a two-day experiment, writes a London newspaper correspondent.

Idea was to find out:-

(1) How much weight can be lost in fifty-five minutes?

(2) Can reduced weight be| maintained?

Experiment started at 10 n.m. Tuesday, finished 10 p.m. - yes- terday.

This is what happened:- Starting weight was 13at.

12lbs.

Lunch of steak, chipped potatoes. fruit salad and coffee put me up to 14st. exactly.

That was the weight I took into n Kymnasium with me at 2.30 in the afternoon. Then for fty-five swel- tering minutes skipped, punched a bog, was massaged by a mechanical belt and a trained Insour.

When I stopped on the scales my weight had dropped by 11b. 100.- I was 13st. 12lbs, Jors-

"You'll lose much more than that; after your next meal," promised the 'masseur.

NO TEA

I

Was

didn't take tea. Dinner soup, Ash, roast beef, potatoes and

Hitler

Honours Mussolini

H

Barlin. TIITLER 115 awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle to Mumolini, “as a sign of my friendship and in honour of his great services in the promo- tion of the sincere agreement be- tween Italy and Germany,"

Count Clano, the Duce's son- In-law, has also been awarded the honour.

The order, established a month aro, is reserved for foreignera who have deserved well of Ger many,

Mussoltal and Count Ciano are the first recipients.

AIR-MINDED AUSTRALIA

Australia. the most "air-

greens. I had some beer, too. Up minded". of the Dominions is

Before breakfast yesterday morn-

went the weight again to 13st. 131bs. now importing a new light aero- ing weight unaccountably alumped plane for private use to sell at -Lo 13at. 11lbs. I felt in the pink of £650 in Commonwealth cur

condition except for a little stiftness,

Breakfast of cere

cereal, bacon and rency. It is a "baby" machine,

ond

back IIb, Goss,

coffee-four cups—gave me made from Czecho-Slovakian I walked four miles to the office patents in England, and has a in the morning. By mid-day I was 40 h.p. two-cylinder Praga en- down

another six ounces. A whacking great lunch of cold gine and cruisers at 78 miles an salmon. salad. potatoes, bread, hour. It does not spin when butter, fruit salad and cheese, no stalled, and the petrol cost is forgetting coffee, brought my weight up with a bound to within three miles for twopence. two ounces of the 14st mark.

Costs

Costs 14 Ozs.

NEW YORK MOUNTIE—New York City's mounted policemen are fast gaining a reputation as riders of note, and the blue-coated department planned to put some of the riders in the police pageant scheduled for last month, at Madison Square Garden. This moantic is Patrolman Walter MacKenzie of Squadron 1, getting some practice on the Central Park bridle path,

OUR GUIDE TO THE

CINEMAS

HAVE YOU

1937.

EVER PICKED AN 8-LEAF CLOVER?

BY LOUISE MORGAN

Woodham Ferrers (Essex),

June 8.

IN a private house a few miles from here hangs the evidence

of what is probably the world record for finding five-leaf

clovers.

It was made by Mr. Mark Barr, the distinguished mathematician, three years ago, and is signed by witnesses.

At the border of an ush-path, in which there were rusty nails, Mr. Barr found 63 five-leat clovers in 20 minutes. This season he is trying

to break his record, he told me to-

dayFour-leaf clovers are very com- mon," he said. "The real test is to And those with more than four leaves. Five-leafers are 20 times more rare than four-leafers, seven-leafers · 300 times rarer and six-leafers 80 times.”

TWO EIGHT-LEAFERS Eight-leafers are still more rare. Mr. Bare has found only two in his 10 years of looking.

Rarest of all is the "cornucopia- leat," which, so far as he knows, only he bas ever found. This is a four- leaf clover in which one lest has no midrib and is shaped like a cornu- copia

He can find a four-leaf clover in a few seconds in almost any clover patch.

Quite apart from luck, says Mr. Barr, there is a definite teclinique of searching. The chief thing is to look near "interference"a stone, an old lin, or an ash-path.

.

BOTANY BORES HIM Mr. Barr knows every wild flower in England.

"I have studied them only for their beauty," he said, "and nothing bores me more than to go through a wood with a botanist,"

CHINESE PRESS

PROPAGANDISTS

GIVEN WARNING Deceptive Campaign Harmful To Peace

Changchun, June 26.

"Private Delective 62” (King's this picture, but the film generally is Theatre, to-day);-Polished, com-so attractive, that it outweighs such petent William Powell in a char- small shortcomings, Shirley Temple ucteristic role which he assumes with in her gayest mood, with adult parts A warning to the Chinese customary charm and efficiency. The well handled by Robert Young and story tends to strike a new angle in Fay Wray. Added attraction is the press against the "repeated detective themes and is well told. technicolour film of the Coronation. publication of malicious and I began to wonder if exercise was These machines will be used

Margaret Lindsay plays opposite

groundless reports reflecting on worth while. I cheated at dinner largely by graziers and aquat-Powell and contributes a neat and

"When's Your Birthday" (Star with an omelette and coffee, grinned

Theatre, to-day)-Fabulously funny the prestige of Japanese troops when I saw the scales silde back to ters to help in roundups of convincing understatement.

satire on fortune telling and tellers, and stirring Chinese sentiment "Stowaway" (Alhambra

13s 11lbs. 4025.

At 10 p.m. my weight was the

same.

<days.

and

stock at mustering times on Queen's Theatres, to-day).It is im-with Joe E. Brown thoroughly enjoy- against Japan and Manchoukuo" I had lost 14 ounces in two large stations and leases, says possible to resist a smile of incredulity self and incidentally handing is made in a statement issued by

eut a couple of dozen good, hearty the Kwantung Army.

Austral News.

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AT ALL LEADING STORES AND COMPRADORES

"Continuance of this childish but "San Franscisco" (Oriental Theatre, pernicious propaganda," says the to-day),—-—-—--Mighty and sensitive film statement, "will be

of the history of 'Frisco' with especial peace of the Far mental to the

East."

attention to its rip-roaring days of The statement hopes that, for the the 80's. Spencer Tracy practically | prestige of the Chinese Government steals the film with his performance) and the honour of the Chinese press," as a padre, but featured players are there will be "an immediate cessation Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald. of this wilful and deceptive propa-

"Romance In Manhattan" (Majes-

I mention is made of news

ilo Theatre, to-day).-Versatile Gin-published in Shanghai disparaging to ge: Rogers in a bit of straight acting the Emperor of Manchoukuo, as well for n change, and she does it well as to the "purely unfounded report" and with becoming confidence. Ably of an alleged attack by a Japanese assisted by Francis Lederer, with a Army officer on ✡ While Russian well-balanced cast.

woman aboard a train.

VICIOUS CAMPAIGN

"The Chinese press,” the statement

FRANK VOSPER'S asserts, "is apparently feverishly try-

£10,463

Frank Vosper, the actor and play- wright, who disappeared from the Hiner Puris In March, left £10,463,

It was disclosed in his will that he was a restaurant proprietor.

ing to impair the international prestige of Manchoukun and to create ill feel- ing among the White Russians of China and Manchoukuo."

"There is no room for doubt," It continues, "of a vicious and deceptive campaign on the part of the. Chinese Government to disturb the peace in Manchaukup."

Deploring "ruch

Intrigue," the He left an annuity of £70 to Edlth statement declares that the prestige Walker; £500 and his plays, copy of the Japanese Army, "which is rights and royalties to Geoffrey Hann. under strict discipline, is vart and unshakeable," while the Emperor of The Garden Restaurant, Ebury Manchoukuo "commands the unquali- Street, S.W., he gave to Mrs. Horne fed confidence of the nailon." (May Hallett) and Geoffrey Hann.

"In no country but China," the The residue he left upon trust for statement asserts, "can be found his father, Percy Vosper, for life with newspapers with the great mission of the remainder to his sister, Marjorie reporting daily events publishing Jessie Vosper, requesting her to pro- such wild and misleading news with- vide for his mother during her fo. out a feeling of shame."

Briton Conquers 25,930ft. Peak

LONE ASCENT OF "QUEEN

OF SNOWS”.

(By F. W. R. FERRY) ̧ Kalimpong, June 8, SVETY EXPErienced mountaineer in The "Queen of the 'Snows"- the world. 25,930ft. high Chumolhari-iha sacred Mr. Chapman, who began his mountain which stands од

a Cumberland the mountaineering as Bhutan-Tibet border, has been con- rock-climber, set off some weeks ago quered, probably for the Best time, with Mr. Crawford, a Calcutta busi by a lone 20-years-old Englishman,

man, to regla Chumolhari. Mr. Frederick Spencer, Chapman, They had four Darjeeling porters, who last spring left bis post. schoolmaster in Yorkshire to seek adventors in India;, -

The news reactied hero to-day in a Inconic telegram from Mr. Chap- man "Summit reached; all well."

Mr. Crawford's leave expired, how- ever, before they could complete the ascent together, and Chapman was left with one porter and three days' rations at 22,000.

As the expected mossages did not come through, bir. Crawford became He was recompanied by only returned to the mountain to investi- alarmed for his friend's safety, and one native porter, a feat whlet gate. Then came the triumphant wine for him the admiration of message.

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