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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY

"CONFESSIONS" OF 15 EMPIRE

FAMOUS WOMEN

When Miss Picton-Turbervill

Contemplated Suicide

FIFTEEN famous women have

written the stories of their youth stories of early strug- `gles, of difficulties and am- bitions, containing many Intim- ate confessions.

They are published in a book edited by the Countess of Oxford and Asquith called "Myself When Young" (Frederick Mul- ler, Ltd., 12s. 6d.).

The Countess blandly announces, says the News Chronicle: "Had birth

Everest

Climbers

Escape Avalanche

Kalimpong.

control been fashionable in my youth FOUR members of the Mount

I would never have existed...

"A DIFFICULT CHILD"

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Everest expedition, including Mr. W. H. Tilman, the leader, and "I must have been a diffleull child four of their porters, have had a to bring up as I was never robust in narrow escape from disaster on health

I did not know the the perilous slopes of the North meaning of fear. 1 rebelled againa Col of the still-unconquered authority always loathed lessons, because being quick in some highest mountain in the world.

excessively slow in An avalanche started as the elim- others,

half-witted over bers were climbing the slopes, which freshly fallen mathematics that I could never mas were covered with ter the multiplication table,

She says that she was born with an "Impenitent imp..tence" from which she still suffers,

everything

ways

AVAK ind

and

anow,

The whole party was nearly car- ried away.

Captain P. R. Oliver and two of tart long the porters were caught by the tall it thundered Jesus, feltera, speeches, films, nail of the avalanche as

When I leave a theatre down, but were pulled back by the I long to give people who are chil-intely rope,

Avalanches are not usual at this chatting in front of me and blocking

T'he North Col 18 To star of your. exils un neckental push, behind a chauffeur who pulls up for above Chap Three, which the purly every pigeon, and permits perainbu. ; reached at the end of April. lators to pass bim makes me li

the

NOT RETURNING?

Marjorie Bowen, the authoress, This news renched her in a letter spent an unluppy childhood mat from the party poverty, ugly surroundings and von

nuous family rows. She conferear. that if she could obiterate ali meni of 1 she would.

EARLY SADNESS

Yet she probably moves her stevens as a writer to this early sadness. It to escape from unpleasant reality she started weaving stories at an early age and at 18 had written a sticevss- ful novel.

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The letter does not confirm the re- port that the expedition was velorn- is owing to unfavourable wenther. It may, howOKTE have been sent he

AMAT

The

that reported decision. The matter is at present a mystery. letter states that two of the party. MFS Smythe and Mir E. E. Ship- ton, returned to Rongbuis on May 20 to get food

After warsis, they intended to recon- noatre another reute on the west side:

With contorted features Mrs. Leora Moxley broke down in a Los Angeles police station when witnesses sakl her auto sped away after killing two cyclists,

Astronomer, Going Blind, Leaps To Death

he

to

New York. Because he was going

that blind and feared would become a burden his wife, 76-year-old Dr. William Wallace Campbell, world famous astronomer. farmer's son, jumped to death from a window at his San Francisco apartment.

NEWS

INDIA

MEN WHO TUNNELLED WAY TO FREEDOM

Calcutta,

Mr. Campbell Martin, one of the 20 British officers who escaped from Holzminden concentration carop in Germany during the war, has been traced to the Bettlah estate, Bihar, where he has been forest offleer for the past 10 years.

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Efforts are being made to find any of the 20 men who may be in India, in view of the proposal for a reunion dinngr in

London on July 23, in cele- bration

tion of the 20th anniversary of the escape.

The party escaped through a tun- hel 150 yards long. This was dug by men with crude tools, and look months to complete. The final nortion was cut with bread knife,

Ministers Resign-Differences of opinion with the Prime Minister of the Central Provinces, Dr. have led to the resignations or Ministers, All left Jubbulpore for Bombay to-day with Mr. Nehru to I present their ease to the Congress Working Committee, which meets during the week-end. INDIA

of four

EUROPEAN STABBED IN CAR

Calcutta.

Mr. Newton Hickie, 16, European manager of the Reliance Jute Press, neur Calcutta, was the victim of an assault recently. As he was leaving his office by cur members of a gang jumped on the footboard and stabbed bim in

buck and

legs. Mr. Hickie was laken to hospital in n

the

ERADIO BROADCAST

Mollie Mennie With

Z.B.W. Orchestra

LONDON RELAYS

Radio Programme Broadcust by Z.B.W. on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.16 p.m. and 8-11 p.m. on 0.52 m.e's per second.

H.K.T. (BC)

12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe- dral.

12.30 Songs by Robert Ashley (Tenor),

Scala's

Moon For Sale (Trevor, Henderson & Rosen); Thanks A Millon (From the Film); Bird On The Wing (Ken- nedy & Grosz).

Accordcom 12.40 Prio Band.

Song Of The Lift (Butler Damerell-Evans); Old Ship O' Mine (Pelost-Arden); Six Popular Hits No. 10; Intro: Vieni Vieni: Whispers Me; Afraid to in the dark; Sympathy; Remember Dream; Gangway; Delyse (Gilbert-Nicholia): Boo-Hoo (My Heyman-Lombardo-Locb).

10 Local Time Signal and Wen- ther Report.

1.03 Mavis Bennett (Soprano) and Light Symphony Orchestra.

Mavla

My Day Overture (Haydn Wood) Orchestra; Down Vauxhall Way (Oliver)

Bennett with by Gerald Moare; Plano Accomp. Rondel; Mina (Elgar, art. Heydn (Elgar, arr. Song Wood); Shepherd's Haydn'

Lo, Wood). Orchestra; Here The Gentle Lark (Bishop)... Mavis Bennett; Monain Veen (Haydn Wood)....Ore

Orchestra.

1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press, Wea- ther Forecast and Announcements.

1.10 Schubert Duo For Plana And Violin in A Major. Op. 162. And Other Compositions.

Duo For Plano And Violin In A 182....Sergel Rach- the attack is unknown.

maninoft (Piano) and Fritz Kreisler Trade Pact Talks-Negotiations (Violin): Faith In Spring: Cradle for an Indo-British trade agreement

Song

Eisle Suddaby (Soprano): were reopened recently. The atmos-Schubert Waltzes. Symphony Or- phere is more favourable than for chestra conducted by Walter Gochr. many years past. Calcutta business 2.15 Close Down. interests genumely desire agreement |

serious condition. The

The motive for Major,

for mutual benefit. They are anxious

the to confine

to ΠΩΣ

discussion non-political basis.

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Scourge. The Mor-

6.0

Studio The Children's Itour. 6.45 London Relay-"The Pageant or Itadio."

In Memory Of Marconi 1874-1037; On the first anniversary of the death

of Linlithgow, wife of the of Marconi, his memory is honoured in an appeal for the anti-by this special programme which re- tuberculosis campaign, stated that of calls the history of the great laven- Be- the 6,500,000 people who died in tion associated with his name. India in 1935, about 500,000 were Elaning with the faint cracklings of vielims of tuberculosis, most of them the first transatlantic experiments being between 15 bad 30. The the story of radio unfolds down to the disease is increasing. There are only vast network of radio communica- 40 tuberculosta clinics.-B.U.P

tions that enclreies the world to-day. 7.30 Closing Inend Stock Quota- AUSTRALIA Dr. Campbell had

tions.

A newsboy found him lying un Larly Londonderry tells how of Everest, It is added that if this the

When police pavement.

three father unce said to her on Consutus route proves preferable to the North awakened his wife and

wicked old Col the party will try to do it in non-sons, they found farewell notes Lion H

1ere is 21

soch cemulitions. man coming along an his carriage

This is the fifth attempt to

to each. conquer when he is opposite you shoul

Led Το But Bool at him as loud as you can!", the 20.00211 peak of Everest. Accordingly she boood and put her by Mr. Tilman, who is 20, the party written: tongue out. The "wicked old man" consists of Mr. Peter Lloyd, aged 30; Mr. N. M. Odell, aged 47; Mr. Ship- was Mr. Gladstone.

tori, aged 30: Mr. Smythe, Dr.

Miss Edith Picton-Turbervil | C. B. M. Warren, aged 32, and Cap- writing on the depths of children's] tain Oliver. emotiona describes how when she' ran into debt for clevenpence for sweets ahn contemplated suicide.

Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, describing herself as a child of the late nine- teenth century and "an inheritor of the struggle for political democracy. admits that as a child she preferred stories of the social injustices exposed by Dickens to fairy stories.

Even as a child she refused to ex- perience exaltation when gazed upon by Queen Victoria,

Indian Mound Uncovered

Phoenix, Ariz.

Handley Page remakes

a fortune

his wife

"Goodbye Deurest Elizabeth. De of good courage, It is better to o away now with my powers nearly all gone than stay and become an Incompetent person.” Directions

the hallstand "Look in my comet book, led

notca, to family to the other

sons.

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LABOUR BAN ON IRON FOR JAPAN

Sydney.

7.32 The Ill Billies, Frances Day and Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

Alexander's Ragtime Band (Berlin) ....Roy Fox & His Bond vocal chorus by Peggy Dell; The Sunset Trail (Kennedy & Carr).The Hill Billes The steadfast refusal of waterside with Their Own Novelty Accompani mer for several months to load tin ment; The Star And The Rose-Fox- the clippings and scrap iron for Japan Trot. Roy Fox & His Orch, with Like his led to conferences between the Trade vocal refrain: A Pretty Girl Is

Union and Federal legal officers. The

Melody (From To Make His- nicers.

Great Zleg- Federal

expected Cabinet is

feld'); I Don't Want authorise

licences for non-Union tory (From 'Palm Springs') was workers, unless the Union gives an Frances Day, Moon For Sale-Fox-

Trot; A

A Beautiful Lady In Blue

Something

been

Dr. Cambell's sight ruined by astronomical work and by the compliation of charts,

The Astronomer

Spencer said:

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mathematical assurance that it will lift its embargoz.Ray Fox & His Orchestra;

Royal, Dr.

of the

The Trade Union acted originally

The

Report and Announcements.

8.02 London Relay Topical Gazette.'

ns a protest against Japanese aggres- You Have That Extra H

slon in China.

New South (V. Ellis). Frances Day; A Shanty Wales Employers' Federation repre- In A One Horse Town (The Hill "Dr. Campbell was undoubtedly sented that it was

was for the Federal Billies), The Hill Billies with their one of the foremost American as Government, not a single trade union, own Novelty Accomp. tronomers of the post generation. He to decide question of international 8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather was second Director of the Lick Ob-pulley such as prohibition of export servatory and did a great deal to of particulur goods. establish it as one

world's great observatories,

"When I last met him in 1931, tils PAGE, stoutish, fifty-three-health needed great care. He told me year-old managing director of how, at a degree ceremony, his power the aviation firm which bears of speech suddenly and completely his name, has won a new for-teft him. He could not formulate a single word though he knew exactly what he wanted to say.

MR. FREDERICK HANDLEY

An ancient Salt river volley Indlan burial ground has been discovered by Lee Gamble, power shovel opera tor on a state highway construction Jcb on the Salt river near Mesa, Ark Gamble said he uncovered pottery, tune in five years, corn grinders, and crumbling bones In 1932 his company made £8,135 about two feet under the surface. profil. The year before it was only

£3,504.

Latest in the seasonal queen crop in Esther Walker, selected uver 100 contestants an "Queen of the Beaches" at Oceanside, Calif.

Recently Handley Page, Ltd.. announced a final dividend of 20 per cent. tax free for 1837, plus a capital bonus of 50 per cent. This follows an interim dividend

Wrote 299

of 10 per cent. less tax, and, as Bogus Love

recently as December.

bonus of 180 per cent.

capital

In 1937 the company made £210,- 000 profit; in 1036 It was £103,000. Ordinary 5s shares-holders to- day have three free for every one held seven months ago-are worth 37s. Od.

CAPITAL CUT

now

Letters

Mother of two children and wife of a cripple, Mary Eggleton, aged 43, collapsed in the dock at Colchester

when sentenced recently

to six In 1927 the £050,000 Handley Page months' imprisonment for stealing capital was written down to £200,- 78. 6d. from a blind man, James 644. Ordinary shares-Me, Handles street, Colchester.

Henry Winterflood, of Northgate- is the largest indivklusl holder were cut down from £180,000 to

Prge

"It is almost Impossible to Imagine | more despicable conduct," remarked the chairman, Mrs. E. N. Green.

SOUTH AFRICA

COUNCIL RELIEVED OF SURCHARGE

A fortnightly review of things at Home. Presented by Pascoe Thornton, 8.30 Studlo-A Concert by Z. B. W. Orchestra with Maille Mennie (Contralto) accompanied by E. 0. Nell Shaw (Plano).

Cape Town.

Valse Triste (Kuolema - Cape Town City Councillors have escaped having to pay £220 out of Sibellus); 2. Melodia (Azzoni) their own pockets for expenditure Z. B. W. Orchestra; 3. (a) "O Love, which they authorised for the Coro- from thy Power" ("Samson and

Delilah"-Saint-Saens);

(b) "Con- le

nation celebrations,

was decided to defray the fares nais-tu

Nocturne

6.

of five offlelals of the council to Eng-Three Irish Dances (John Ansell);

Thomas) ....Mollie land to represent the council at the Thr

(Tschallcowsky); The officials, all of whom 5. ceremony.

2.B.W wue ex-Servicemen, went, and their Appassionatamente (Rall) passage money was paid,

Orchestra; 7. (n) "Our Little Houre' "At Dawning" The auditors disallowed the ex-j

Coutes); (b) penditure and imposed a fine on the (Cadman); (c) "Coalan Dhu" (Leont) Mollie Mennie: 8. Suite Bellet

(Eric

28 councillors who were present at (Popy); (a) Mazurka; (b) Pizzicatti the meeting which nuthorised It.

(d) Largo; (e)

The councillors have now learned (c) Vaise Lenie; hesten.

that the Administrator of the Cape Province, Mr. J. H. Conradie, has granted them relief from the sur- charge-Reuter. SOUTH AFRICA

GEN. SMUTS TOURS NATAL

£7,500.

But Mr. Handley Page, an elec-

Cape Town. trical engineer, fascinated by alreraft

General Smuls, Minister of Justice, pusabilities since 1900, was the first Winterflood, in evidence, sald be

began his political tour in Natal by to see the value of the "slotted new Eggleton's sister-in-law Flo- addressing a meeting at Vryheld in

air-rence Eggleton, some years ago. wing device which helps an

the interests of Mr. Jansen, Speaker plane to retain lift when stolled. He

Egleton used to bring him letters, of the House of Assembly, perfected it, sold the patent rights in supposed to be from Florence, in overseas countries. It has which she said she wanted to marry innumerable Ilves--and it him. Believing he wag going to helped Mr. Handley Page's company marry Florence, he handed Eggleton and gave him the basis of a new £72 altogether. He thought she fortune.

When Brilain began, rearming his for the ring and goods for the house, would send the money to Florence company was ready. To-day it le among the few abend of delivery could settle down in a

so that when

they morrled they schedules.

comfortabla Their "bombere" are the home.

d

pride of the Royal Air Force,

London Transport Improved

London. London's $200,000,000 transport plan is at its peak this year. The municipal railways will spend $00,-

Mr. Handley Page's co-director is Police Sergeant Dorothy Watson, of 000,000 during the year. Ten miles Wing-Commander Sir Louis Grole, the Women's Police, said that Eggle- of new subways will be bullt In once equerry to the King when he ton agreed that she had not seen her north and cast London, was Duke of York, and Rugby foot-sister-in-law for soven years and

ball and tennis star.

that she invented the story about Florenca marrying Winterflood. She made up the contents of 200, lettera

the money. She admitted "it was s mean way to treat a blind man."

Rock Fisherman Fined herself. She had had the whole of

The Dallés, Ore. Sherman Christian, local barber

Sergt. Watson added that Eggio- and sportsman, was fined $5 and costs In Justice court here for "fishing" ton's husband attributed his wife's with rocks as bait. A game warden actions to financial affairs with tally said the flaherman threw rocks at the men and pawnbrokers, and he re-

fused to be responsible for her.

falt in shallow water...

Woman, 81, Spades Garden

Elyria, O,

Mrs. Ernestina Schroeder, B1, has done her spring planting. She spaded hor garden with her own hands and then planted onions, carrots, corn, Ilma beans and potatoes.

Finale

.Z.B.W. 9.30 London Relay The News, 9.50 Dance Records.

Fox-Trot-Check To Check (From "Top Hat') ....Phil Ohman and His Orch; Rumba-Bellita (Batell); Cuban Dance Lo Comparac (Lecuona) .....Don Barreto and His Cuban Orchestra.

10.0 London Relay Students' Songs."

The B.B.C. Men's Chorus Conduct- ed by Trevor Harvey Henry Cum- mings (Baritone) with Ernest Lush at the Plano; Billy Boy. Come Lasses and Lads. Dashing away with the Smoothing Iron. Drink to me only. Let the Bullgine Run. O No, John. I have Lost the Doh of my Clarinet. One More River. Some Folks do. Widdecombe Fair. Polly Wolly Doodle. (All from the New Fellow- ship Song Book, arr. Walford Davies.) 10.30 Musical Comedy Selections. "The Merry Widow"-Selection (Lebar) Do Groot and His Or- chostra: "The Girl Friend"

"Vocal Gems (Rodgera); Intro: The Girl Friend; The Blue Room; Mountain Greenery; Step on the Blues; the use of talking; "Peggy Vocal Gems (Rodgers);

ero's that Rainbow; Maybe Hello; Where's It's me: A Trea in the

Park

Operati

ta: Bitter Sweet; Fun o' the Fair; This Year of Grace; Mayfair to Montmartre; Private Lives; Wake Up and Dream; Cat and the Fiddle; 1930 Revue; Words and Musle; Music in the Afr; One Dam Thing After An-

Company; C. B. Cochran

(Continued on Page 5.)

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