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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 25, 1939,
MING, ZOO'S "IT-GIRL," BRINGS
3,000 VISITORS
Jubilee Has A Rival
MING, the baby giant panda, is London Zoo's "Glamour Girl No. 1" these days. Whilst staying in Hongkong, Ming was known as "Baby".
And she deserves the title of "Glamour Girl" for there is not a star in Hollywood who has hit the headlines so forcibly, or so often, in six short weeks.
Ming has faced more cameras than many a screen celebrity, posed for more artists than ever believed existed, and, what is more, increased the attendance at the Zoo by some thousands.
She locks the grace of the young "This increase, at a time when the gazelle, the majesty of the giraffe, Zoo is not really at its most attrac- the impudence of the monkey, but tive, is definitely due to the panda." has an appealing quality usually only And Ming will be a favourite for a held by
a child's favourite teddy-Jong time yet, owing to her "nursery" bear.
appeal.
She will soon have rrpaid the Zoo for the £800 she cost. The other two pandas, who arrived with her, will be on show at Easter.
LIKE TEDDY-DEAR She does, In fact, look like a teddy-bear, and with her clown-Ilke face and strikingly marked body, might easily have come from some fanciful toy shop.
How her box-office value comTM pares with that of Jubilee, probably the most famous chimpanzee in the world, has not yet been reckoned.
As Dr. Vevers, Superintendent of the Zoo, said it would be unfair to compare the two animals,
The Zoo-goer has a short memory. "Buta," the okapi, whose arrival caused almost as great a alir as that of Ming, is visited by, only
very small percentage of those who go to Regent's Park, yet he is a great Ming and in almost oddity than priceless,
Jubilee She Sneezed-And
"The chimp was born in year, when there were thousands of extra visitors in London," he said. "while Ming has only been on show for a few weeks, during the time of the year,
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"NURSERY" APPEAL "Still, I Ming continues to bring in the crowds as she has been doing, she will soon be a very close second to Jubiler
"A good idea of her drawing power can be got from the fact that during the past six werks visitors we have had 3,000 more than over the same perlod last year,
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Caused Car Crash
James Maxwell Kemp, company director, of Clutha-road, Bramhal- lane, Stockport, Cheshire, was killed in a car crash because sneezed.
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At the Leek (Staffordshire) In- quest recently, Mrs. W. M. Hayward, of Oakien, Atherton, Lancs, mild that 31 sazeze caused her to jerk the wheel
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Mr. Kemp's car. Verdict was
No matter how much Andy Devine, gravel-throated comedian of flum and radio, may yell, he's no match for his brand-new cOD, Denny Patrick, as shown here. When Denny starts to yell, he yells! He's shown with his father in Hollywood. Denny is the second son of the comedian.
Girls Drive Lorries Now
EMPIRE NEWS
|BOMBAY PROTESTS AT PROHIBITION. PLAN
Bombay.
Discontent over the Government's Prohibition scheme and the financial burdens which it will impose is And- ing expression In many public pro- tests.
The faxation proposals to meet the cost of Probiblion were trenchently criticised in the Bombay Assembly to-day. Sir All Mohammed Dellavi. Opposition leader, sald that the Bud- bomb- get, which he described as
shell, was also a bombshell to the Cabinet, being the outcome of sug- Kestions from the High Command of Congress.
The Flounce Minister, Mr. A. B. Latthe, denied this hotly.
The Speaker ruled that outside per- sonalities could not be Introduced into the debate.
Mr. Saklatvala cald that to intro- duce Frohibition at one stroke into a great city and an International port like Bombay was venturing too far. Such a sudden move would be o crushing blow to the hotel industry and tourist traffic, which the Govern- ment was anxious to promote. JAMAICA
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BILL TO STOP SHARE PUSHING
Cape Town. Gen. Smuts, Minister of Justice, recently introduced a bill to amend bill at- the Companies Act, The tempts to stop shure-pushing, to compel interlocked companies to dia- And close their Anancial relations generally to ighten up the present Act, which has failed to stop abuses. English company law has been fol- lowed in many respects. The bill will become operative from January. 1940,
NATIONAL REGISTER
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Johannesburg. The movement for a national scr- vlce register has made such progress in Johannesburg that it is stated that thousands of applicants would swamp such a register the moment it was opened.
A meeting of prominent people in commerce and industry on the Rand decided to-day to ask the Govern- ment to undertake the task of or ganising a Union-wide register, as in-view-of-the-ready-response_the private insk was too big for any organisation.
SOUTHERN RHODESIA
USE OF MAN-POWER IN WAR TIME
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The control which the Government would exercise in respect of man- power and production in the event of war was discussed by the Prime Minister, Mr. G. M. Huggins, with a deputation of farmers, ali ex-Army and Navy men, from the Marandellas district.
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