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LEN

Thursday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

HARVEY'S FIRST WIN

BROUGHT HIM ONLY 7s. 6d.

Now He Is A Wealthy Business Man

MEET 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 director 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.

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1: written, "We are spending the week-end reminiscences when # just as hundreds of thousands of and he wants to give much time the and thought to it. to make it really Spending other propie week-end." Mrs. Harvey said ingoad. her Kensington flat while Len was taking a well-earned rest from the hundreds of people who called to "We are going congratulate him. to see cumm friends to-morrow.

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

"Since the night he has been busy with all his other aftale.

Rubbing "There is Len's

Oil, which he invented and has always used. It was put the market for athletes about eighteen months ago. Then there in his physical culture

"He has a lot of memories stored 1/]} iz ust mind since that day, eighteen years ago, when at the age of 12 and weighing 5st. 4b. he won his first professional fight at Plymouth for a purse of 75. RI,

USED TO WATCH

"H father,

at then a farmer

Stoke Pimsland, near Faldila. Cornwall, where he was born, used. to take him to the Cosmopolitan, Gymnasium, Plymouth, to watch the boxint.

"H father, only 53 now, is in He came with business in London." Len from Cornwall to Lotion, and

grandmother

school and correspondence course, we andfather in most only did

there is

and his work no boxing promoter well. for Butlin's Holiday Camps. of course, Limited.

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

And, last year, aged 84," Let Harvey,

"Then, you see, he is a writer and journalist, and is trying to find time to write his life story.

"It will be big volume of

a

30

to be the

Len Harvey is said richest boxer- £6,000

year has been mentioned as his income.

"Rubbish,' said Mrs. Harvey. "We are lucky to have a roof over our hearts these days. My husband has to work very hard a busy business-man.

JUFS

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

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.

The Public Health Department of households, have been notifled in the It is more than some the borough in a statement said no borough," added the statement, "and men could do to hold the job offense had been notified recently with there have been two cases who work

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

"in all, 17 cases affecting nine Limited."

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"Investigations made co far point to a common source of infection which probably took place in the middle of October."

Town Hall officials declined to say how many patients are children. They also refused to reveal the "com- mon source of infection."

"NO CAUSE FOR ALARM"

An L.C.C. offelal, however, said that three of the cases occurred in St. Leonard's Hospital and 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 case has been reported."

A Ministry of Health official said that his department did not regard the outbreak as aerious. "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

ESCRIBED s # taillion-to-ene chance, an accident, involving three oxygen tents, caused the death of a boy and injury to two other children in Queen Stary's Hospital, Carshalton (Surrey).

Derck Miller, 9,

of Farringdon

Road, Clerkenwell, was playing with!

toy aeroplane in the oxygen tent,

In which he was receiving treatment, when the tent caught fire,

One theory is that friction in the

| toy ignited the oxygen,

Nurses at once switched of cylin- ders 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 lis bed, electrocuted. Near him were two wires connected with an electric light switch.

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When a man of twenty-four was accused at Grimsby recently neglecting his daughter, ngod teň, thei magistrates questioned the ages of father and daughter. The ages were correct,

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The man, Frederick Lodge, Asherman, und widower, was sent to prison for fhree months.

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