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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1937.

GREYHOUNDS TO RUN

BREAKFAST TIME

HAS

ITS

QUEER HABITS

London, Nov. 15.

Most people are not wakened by alarm clocks; their average time of rising is 7.40 a.m., and over half an hour passes before they sit down to their first meal.

These facts are based on an investigation which has just been made into the breakfast-time habits of 276 adults and children.

Only 27 dress at once on awaken-

Ing. Seventy-two go to sleep again, 23 read books or magazines, and 158 remain in bed for another three- -quarters of an hour.

WHAT WE EAT Thirty per cent of the total cook their own breakfast, one half eat with,

Only 88 people made a set meal of breakfast.

HOW MUCH WE SMOKE

The inquiries were conducted by Mass Observation, which now pro- mines the resuit of an analysis Into smoking habits and the contents of 000 mantelpieces.

Flying Officer A. E. Clouston and Mrs. Kirby Green bidding good-bye Ito mechanics when the couple оп their record-breaking night from London to the Cape and and back.

It is asking for a detailed account started the rest of the family, but the remain-from over a thousand observers ing 50 per cent. breakfast in shifts. What happens between 10.30

11.30 this morning. At this meal

For every 40 who have porridge, 60 have cereal;

The instructions for to-morrow are: "Describe the morning in detall from the end of breakfast to the end

For every 10 who have toast, to of lunch, have bread;

"Include details of your working

For every 20 who have jam or routine, if you are at work; of house- honey, 80 have marmolade;

hold routine, if you are at home; or of shopping, if you go out to the

For every 20 who have coffec, 80 shops." have tea.

An

In the case of any "national emer-

Golf Club's

"Hole-in-One” Reform

egg fish or meat dish was geney" all observers have a standingOLFERS who dream of doing caten by 60 per cent. of these; 30 per request to make a detailed account of cent, had bacon and eggs; 10 per cent.what happens to them and the re- a bolled egg. Very few ate Ash. factions of those around them.

Herr Hitler Wants

Meet

Wants To Marlene

a "hole in one," but ilrend the consequences of their feat- drinks all round the club and n bottle of whisky for the enddie- may take heart.

Camberley Heath Golf Club com- mmittee has ruled that the player doing hole in one on their course shall himself be entertained-up to 5s, ut the bar.

Brigadier General E. Napper Tandy, captain of the club, described

" should like to see the principle

Herr Hiller saw Marlene Dietrich's) agency to several German news-the old custom as a "tyranny." latest picture. "Angel," a few duys papers including Jew-baiter Julius ago, writes the Daily Express Berlin Streicher's Der Stuermer, for attack-adopted by golf clubs throughout the correspondent.

He led the pleture, liked Marlene, come an American eltizen.

ing Marlene when she decided to be- country," he said. and expressed a wish to meet her when next she visits the land of her birth.

A ali rebuke was later through the omelal German

"The preatest menace of the old Herr Hitler has been told that custom is to the young und proficient Marlene may soon come to Germany golfer who is least able to bear the issued on a business trip. He has indiented imposition and ton diffident to pro-

news that he will invite her to meet him, lest.

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Left-Handed Racing Makes Them Lop-Sided

London, Nov. 15.

Convinced that regular racing on the present left- handed (anti-clockwise) plan will produce a strain of |lop-sided greyhounds, Brigadier-General A. C. Critchley, managing director of the Greyhound Racing Association, Ltd., is intoducing the wright-handed (clockwise) races to keep the dogs straight.

He intends next year to institute a £1,000 race for the right-handed championship. The change is to be brought in gradually. First there will be two right-hand races a week; later, two a night.

formities into the strains is too great to be ignored, A greyhound, he told the preas recently, turns two half-circles, ni- ways (up to now) to the left, at an average speed of 35 miles an hour while he is racing. He does two turns every 30 seconds. So that he is constantly using one side of his body more than the other; develop-

After a practice earlier this week, which

proved that the dogs race round a right-handed track with as Ruch zest us they do round a lett handed track (although they took 3/5th. of a second longer on the right-hand run), the first pubile ex-. hibition of right-handed racing was given at the children's party in atd of the Mount Vernon Hospital for Cancer at the White City track lasting powerful shoulder muscles on the night.

right side and compressing (there- There may be difficulties in the fore shortening) his left foreleg cach

of establishing right-handed time he turns. way racing, but General Critchley thinks

the dogs than by the fans who do they are less likely to be raised by

the backing.

NEW FORM PROBLEMS

At the 60 licensed trucks in this country hackers put in 20,000,000 attendances a year. They are eon- servative souls: right-hand racing will present them with brand new problems of form.

But General Critchley belloves] that the danger of breeding de-

Subaltern

Who Took Togoland

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HOW GERMANS WERE BLUFFED

A remarkable story of how a young Irish subaltern "bluffed" the Cer- mans Into surrendering Toyoland during the Great War was told re- cently by Major-General Sir Regi- naid Hoskins and Lord Davidson. They were speaking at the Ashridge Fellowship reunion at the Bonar

Lawy College. Berkhamsted.

Sir Reginald said that he and Lord Davidson, in the early days of the war, helped in the handling-of-code де the Colonial Office. One day they received a code

message from a young subaltern In the Cameroons who probably, Sir Regi- nald said, had under his command

that

day

two men and a boy, announ

cable

he was going to take To

Before they could

could reply another arrived. This

This said that he had made o

a reconnaissance of the enemy's. position and Intended to attack. Next morning another message stated that he had attacked and that all was well. "I do not know what his name was," added Sir

Sir Reginald," "but I hope that he is a General now."

Lord Davidson, taking up the story. said that this young officer converted This "two men, an

and boy" into 3 "stage army." Actually he split is tiny force info little partlės, marched them up and down the country, and arranged with natives Ro run into Kamera and report that there were enemy forces all over the place.

RIFLE BOLTS REMOVED

The result was that the Germans were led to believe that there were 1,500 men instead of "two men and a boy. They were persuaded that a | half-company of the West African Frontier Force were the Advance part of ย great army, and decided that the best thing was to surrender. The young officer made it a condi- tion that they should pile their arms on the side of the town by which he proposed to approach and that the Germans should retire into the cen- tre of the town. During the had the whole of his force practising he night how to extract the bolts from rifles so as to render the weapons useless. Next morning he found the orma plied as he had commanded. He and his escort advanced further while the remainder of the force removed the bolts from the rifles.

It is understood that the ofeer concerned is now Lieut.-Col. F. C. Bryant, says the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post.

Muzzle Loaders Tried Out

Lewiston, Mont. The muzzle loading rifle club of Montana residents held a ride shoot here in which the contestants crom- med shot down the muzzles of their antiquated weapons. Competitions in shooting the old Kentucky rifle, the flintlock and percussion types were held,

"It might be six or seven gencra- tions before any noticeable change appeared," General Critchley said. "but it would be certals to come. We should be breeding deformed dogs.

"INEVITABLE DISTORTION" "Greyhound racing, now 12 years old, has reached the fourth and th generations of scientille breeding. We are now breeding between 300 and 400 dogs П year. We eliminating all the fighters and all the barkers. We are producing pure racing strains.

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"I feel it is up to us to prevent what would otherwise be an In- evitable distortion of the dors' bodies. I am so convinced about it that I intend to establish right- handed racing against any sort of opposition. I think It is our duty," Ultimately, he believes, the two forms of greyhound racing, right and feft handed, will flourish side by side, and when that happens the nor mal development of greyhound breeds will be assured.

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