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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1987.

SLIMMING (FOR)

(FOR) SPEEDED UP

Two-Day 55 MINUTES

MEN

"Course" Costs 14 Ozs:

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 13ozs, 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 a.m. Tuesday, finished 10 p.m. yes- terday.

This is what happened:- Starling weight was 13st. Zozk

121bg.

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

That was the weight I took into a gymnasium with me at 2.30 in the afternoon. Then for fifty-five swel- tering minutes I skipped, punched a bag, was massaged by a mechanical bell and a trained masseur.

When I stepped on the scales my weight had dropped by 1lb. 10ozs, I was 13st 12lbs. Cozs.

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

NO TEA

I didn't take ten. Dinner -uns soup, fish, roast beef, potatoes and greens.

Hitler

Honours Mussolini

Barlin. HITLER has awarded

the Grand Cross of the German Eagle to Mussolin), “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 Clane, the Duce's son- In-law, has also been awarded the honour.

The order, established a month ago. is reserved for foreigners who have deserved well of Geri many,

Mussolini and Count Clans are the first recipients.

AIR-MINDED AUSTRALIA

Australia, the most "air-

I had some beer, too. Up minded" of the Dominions is) went the weight again to 13st 131bs. now importing a new light aero-

Before breakfast yesterday morn ing weight unaccountably slumped plane for private use to sell at to 13st. lbs. I felt in the pink of £650 in Commonwealth cur condition except for a little stiffness.

Breakfast of cereal, bacon and rency. It is a "baby" machine, Czecho-Slovakian origa

and coffee-four caps-gave me made from back 1b; Coza,

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 colajgine and cruisers at 78 miles an salad, potatoes, bread hour. It does not spin when butter, fruli salad and cheese, not stalled, and the petrol cost is forgetung coffee. brought my weight up with a bound to within three miles for twopence. two ounces of the 14st mark.

salmon.

NEW YORK MOUNTIE-New York City's mounted policemen ore 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 Inountie Is Patrolman Walter MacKenzie of Squadron 1, getting some practice on the Central Park bridle path,

OUR GUIDE TO THE

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"Private Detective 02" (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 (acteristic role which he assumes with in her gayest mood, with adult parts 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 These machines will be used delective themes and is well told. technicolour film of the Coronation. I began to wonder if exercise was

Margaret Lindsay plays opposite worth while. I cheated at dinner largely by graziers and squat-Powell and contributes a neat and with an omelette and coffee, grinned when I saw the scales slide back, to ters to help in roundups of convincing understatement.

stock at mustering times on At 10 p.m. my weight was the same. I had lost 14 ounces in two large stations and leases, says days.

Austral News.

13st 11lbs. 4o2s.

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HAVE YOU

EVER PICKED AN 8-LEAF CLOVER?

BY LOUISE MORGAN Woodham Ferrers (Essex),

June 8.

a private house a few miles from here hangs the evidenco 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 ash-path. In which there were rusty nails, Mr. Barr found 63 five-leaf clovers in 20 minutes. This season is trying to break his record, he told me to day.

"Four-leaf clovers are very com- mon," he said. "The real test is to And those with more than four leaves. Five-lenfers are 20 times more rare than four-leafern, seven-lenfers 300 times rarer and six-leafers 60 times."

TWO EIGHT-LEAFERS Eight-leafers are still more rare. Mr. Barr has found only two in his 60 years of looking.

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

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 technique of searching. The chief thing is to look near "interference"-a stone, an old tin, 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."

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Harmful To Peace

Changchun, June 25. A warning to the Chinese press against the "repeated publication

and of malicious groundless reports reflecting on "When's Your Birthday" (Star Theatre, to-day).Fabulously funny the prestige of Japanese troops satice on fortune telling and tellers, and stirring Chinese sentiment with Joe E. Brown thoroughly enjoy- against Japan and Manchoukus"

the Kwantung Army, bag himself and incidentally handing is made in a statement issued by

a couple of dozen good, hearty

"Continuance of this childish but pernicious propaganda,"

says the statement, will be detrimental to the peace of the Far East."

Jaughs.

San Franscisco". (Oriental Theatre. ***** to-day-Mighty and sensitive film of the history of Frisco with especial attention to its rip-roaring days of The statement hopes that, for the the 90's. Spencer Tracy Practically prestige of the Chinese Government steals the film with his performance und the honour of the Chinese press," as a padre, but featured players are Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald, of

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will be "an immediate cessation wilful and deceptive propa-

Special mention is made of news "Romance In Manhattan" (Males- tle Theatre, to-day).-Versatile Gin- published In Shanghai disparaging to ger Rogers in a bit of straight acting the Emperor of Manchoukuo, as well for a change, and she does it well as to the "purely unfounded report" and with becoming confidence. Ably of an alleged altack by a Japanese assisted by Francis Lederer, with a Army officer on a White 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 liner Pars in March, lett £10,483.

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

He left an annulty of £76 to Edith Walker; £500 and his plays, copy rights and royalties to Geoffrey Hann.

The Garden Restaurant, Ebury Street, S.W., he gave to Mrs. Horne (May Hallet) and Geoffrey Hann.

ing to Impair the international prestige of Manchoukuo and to create il 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 Manchukuo."

Deploring "such intrigue," the statement declares that the prestige of the Japanese Army, which is under strict discipline, vast and unshakeable," while the Emperor of Manchoukuo "commands the unquall-

ed confidence of the nation."

"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- vido for his mother during her life. out a feeling of shame."

Briton Conquers 25,930ft. Peak

LONE ASCENT OF “QUEEN

OF SNOWS"

(By F. W. K. FERRY) Kalimpong, June 8.

every experienced mountaineer in the world.

The "Queen of the Snows"—

Mr. Chapman, who began his 25,03016, high Chumolhari-iko sacred

mountaineering as a Cumberland mountain which slands on the Bhutan Tibet border, has been con- rock-climber, set off some weeks ago quered, probably for the first time, with Mr. Crawford, a.Calcutta busi

man, to scale Chumolhari. by a lone 29-years-old Englishman, ness Mr. Frederick Spencer Chapman, Mr. Crawford's leave expired, how

They had four Darjeeling porters. who last spring left his post over, before they could complete the schoolmaster in Yorkiiire to seek

ascent together, and Chapman wa adventure in India,

left with one porter and three days rations at 22,009/t.

The news reached here to-day in Inconie tologram from Mr. Chap

mgn "Summilt reathed; all wall

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As the expected messagos did not come through, Mr. Crawford became alarmed for his friend's safety, and

· He was recompanied by only returned to the mountain to investi.

one naživo porter, a fent which gale. Then, came the triumphant wins for him tho admiration of Į message.

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