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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 21, 1938.

KING'S HENRY COTTON BEATS BOGEY ALHAMBRA

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BY SHOT IN DARK

HENRY Cotton, world's most famous golfer and "the

who never misses," took a shot in the dark-and still didn't]

man!

miss.

He did it when putting on his first show in the Coliseum!

Baby's Fall From Train

variety bill, which was also the first time in history that a offer Sat Between Rails

has appeared on the stage.

The shot in the dark was dramatic. The lights went down and Cotton vanished. All we could see were his shoes, painted with luminous paint, his loves similarly treated, the golf club and the ball.

THOUGHT HE'D MISS BALL

He swung away from the audience, driving the ball from a coconut mat into a back cloth 80 feet away at the rear of the stage.

The swinging club made a scarlet fan of light as it swept through the air, and the ball whizzed into the blackness beyond. It was easy to see the perfection of the stroke.

In Tunnel

A File mother was detained

by

Edinburgh City Pollen, recently, following the discovery of her Zi- months-old baby on the mala Exin- burgh-Perth rollway line at Inver keithing

The train,

which is due at the WEA

"A nasty moment," Cotton confessed in his dressing-room later. Station at 7.28 p.m..

"After staring into the vivid limelight, I thought when they turned the] lights out and I addressed the ball that I was going to misi "

LONG SHOT COMES OFF

L. V. Manning writes: What were the oxids against a professional golfer standing upon the Coliseum stage and holding a variety audience) for quarter of an hour's golf talk?

To me, a hundred to one against. Colton pulis off a long shot. Only rose with throat irritation even coughed. It was a striking tramph of persuality

Cotton warns £300 for this week's engagement. another week, but I understand he has refused,

by the pulling of the com munication cord, mit when the guard was investigating the cause, a young woman rushed up to him and fallen shouted that her baby hnd

from the train,

Her appeals thuni a search should be made for the baby were promptly rented to by the railway oficius.

From North Queensferry word was sent Inverkeithing, the next the line, and the ther immediately arranged a search. Railway

to He has been offered

station along stallonmaster

fis caddy, an Ashridge product, who dropped three balls at the Brat house, was more nervous than Henry, who told me afterwards he had often had more nerves in a friendly game.

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FRIDAY G plnyces set out along the track and SATURDAY. was particularly interested, after recent events, to nolies Guneral within a few minutes found the baby Critchley in the audience at the second performance.

HOME

OFFICE

'CRAMPING' A.R.P.

in the tunnel outside Inverkeithing.

A SLIGHT BRUISE

It was sitting up between the rails. and the only injury it had received was a slight bruise above the right eye.

The stationmaster carried the child. back to his own house where it was cared for by his wife overnight. The rallway police were municated with, and it was decided

Com

MORE than nine months ago of those lines been the to take the woman into custody, The

which there can be no let up the train was met at Edinburgh by mem health of the future generation stands uers of the Edinburgh City Police, out above all,

and the woman was taken to police headquarters in the High Street, where she remained overnight.

"No armaments will save the

the Home Office were invited to sponsor a special A.R.P. section at the Public Health Ser- vices Congress and Exhibition, British Empire unless British youth which opened at the Agricultural properly equipped physically as

well as mentally to face the future." Ifall, Islington, N., recently.

It took then five months to reply and reject the proposition, although the galleries of the hall would have been at their disposal free of charste. They declined on the ground that they were too busy,

Thus they missed the eppurtunity of getting into personal contact with the hundreds of representatives of focal authorities who will be visiting the exhibition during its five days'

run.

AWAITING APPROVAL

Shopkeepers Plan Own

"Police

The women, it is understood, lives in lodgings in Rosyth.

Before the baby was found in the tunnel.

A train from Inverkeithing to

Glasgow passed through. IL - sumed that the baby instinctively erouched gainst the ide of the tumel.

RESIDENTS of Keaton, Mid LATE NEWS

Salt one Midland uflleint: "Since dlesex, are discussing plaus the crisis we have been inuugated by to form themselves into a pro- pamphlets and memoranda from lection corps to guard their Home Office stating what they think homes in a fresh outbreak of in our duly towards A.R.P.

"But they refuse to Indicate how burglaries is the district. much of the expenditure they ask us! For more than a year burglars have! incur will rank for Government been at work. Itecently a fresh wave! runt."

started and now residents are arrange:

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Last month saw the end of 21 happy play days on board a "Routing nursery" for 600 soldiers' chlidren who arrived here from Bombay in the ilner California,

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Three Sutton, Surrey, men spent six hours in a 256. sealed dug-out re- Their fathers are men of the Buffs. | cuntly. They took gas-maska with the Bedfordshires, the Hertfordshires. them, but did not use them until they and the Hampshires, who have been bud been in the chamber toe four left in India to be ready for duties in hours, Palestine.

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