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LEN

Thursday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

HARVEY'S FIRST WIN

BROUGHT HIM ONLY 7s. 6d.

Now He Is A Wealthy Business Man

MER

[EET Len Harvey Limited. The hero of the recent sensational heavyweight championship fight is a registered limited liability company, with himself as chairman and his charming young wife as co-director. He is one of the world's wealthiest boxers.

Len Harvey Unlimited would be a better title. He is a ilirector of three companies and is his own manager, a newspaper correspondent, and promoter of boxing for Butlin's holiday camps. From the point of view of his many interests, his recent winning of the championship was just a small incident in his round of duties. is written, "We are spending the week-end ; reminiscences when it just as hundreds of

of and he wants to give much time other people are spending thend thought to it. To make it really week-end," Mrs. Harvey said in good. her Kensington flat while Len was

"I tus a lot of memories stored taking a well-earned rest from the hundreds of people who called to in his mind since that day. congratulate him. "We are ingeighteen years ago, when at the age

thousands

to see some friends to-morrow.

"HE'S MARVELLOUS" "Whatever else you write about him, don't forget to say that he R the most marvellou man-for really

be

ince the Bght he has been busy with all his other affairs.

There is Len's flubbing C, which he invented and has always used. It was put on the market for athletes about eighteen months ago. Then there is his physical culture school and correspondence course, and his work as boxing promoter And, for Buttin' Holiday Camps, of course, there is Len Harvey, Limited

"He manages all his lights and business affairs connected with them. He has not had a manager for at least six years, and for this turned himself into * company.

Then, you see, he ya writer and journalist, and is tryink to find time to write his life story.

"It will be il big volume at

of 124 am weighing 5st. 4lb. he won his first professional fight at Plymouth for a purse of 75. Od.

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USED TO WATCH "His father. then a farmer at Paldikan

Stole Pimsland, Cornwall, where he was born, used Lz Baker him to the Cosmopolitan wateis Gymnasium, Plymouth, to the box..

"Us father. only 53 now, is in! business in London.

on from Cornwall to London, and his grandfather is no still alive and His grandmother only lied well. fast year, aged 84."

"tubbish," said

TUFS

Abraham and Chana Grynszpan, uncle and aunt of Herschel Grynszpan, 17-year-old Polish Jew who fatally wounded Ernst vom Rath, German diplomat, in Paris. They were arrested by Paris police and charged with complicity, receiving a five-tiny jail sentence, Young Grynszpan's action set off widespread retaliation against Jews in Germany and Austria.

19 TYPHOID CASES IN EAST

LONDON: GIRL DIES

NINETEEN cases of typhoid fever have occurred in a restricted area of densely-populated Hoxton, in the borough of Shoreditch.

A 13-year-old girl, Florence Hale, of Hows Street, Shoreditch. has died, while her mother, Mrs. Ellen Hale (51), and brother, James Hale (26), are in the fever hospital at Tottenham.

to be the Len Havey is said richest boxer-£6,000 a year hus been mentioned as his incong.

Mrs. Harvey, "We are lucky to have a root over our sals these days. My husband

The Public Health Department of households, have been notiffled in the has to work very hard as a busy businessman. It is more than some the borough in a statement raid no borough," added the statement, and men could do to hold the job of jense had been notifled recently with there have been two eases who work

in the borough but live outside. Chairman of Directors of Len Harvey onset later than November 11.

", 17 Cages affecting nine "Investigations made so far point Limited."

to a common source of infection which probably took place in the middle of October."

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Town. Hall offieints declined to say now many patients are children. They also refused to reveal the "com- mon source of Infection."

"NO CAUSE FOR ALARM”

An L.C.C. ofeini, however, said that three of the cases occurred in St. Leonard's Hospital und two in Bethnal Green Hospital.

"The patients were admitted for other reasons," he said. "While in hospital their incubation period end- ed, and they were transferred to an L.C.C. fever hospital.

"Five wards in the two hospitals have been quarantined. No fresh vase has been reported."

A Ministry of Health official saiti that his department did not regard the cutbreak s. serious. "There is no cause for alarm," he added, "and

it is not yet necessary to issue a warning about precautions."

Boy Dies In Oxygen Tent Fire

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DESCRIBED as million-to-one

chance, an accident, involving three oxygen tents, caused the death of a boy and injury to two other children In Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton (Surrey).

Derek Miller, 9, of Farringdon Rond, Clerkenwell, was playing with a toy aeroplane In the oxygen tent,

in which he was receiving treatment,{ when the tent cought fre.

One theory is that friction in the

toy Ignited the oxygen,

Nurses at once switched off cylin- riera supplying oxygen to Derek's tent and those of two other patients, snatched Derek from his burning bed and beat out the flames.

BOY ELECTROCUTED

Allen Harry Chappell (11), of Rectory Lane, Beddington (Surrey) was found by his father lying on his bed, electrocuted. Near hlm were two wires connected with on electric! light switch,

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When a man of twenty-four was Occused at Grimsby recently neglecting his daughter, aged ten, Vie magistrates questioned the ages of falher and daughter. The ages were correct.

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The man, Frederick Lodge, Asherman, and widower, was rení to prizon for three months:

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