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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1928.
PRINCE GEORGE'S HOLBORN EXPLOSION LOVE LEADS TO
·BIRTHDAY CAKE
SORROW
DAMAGE
SOLD BY AUCTION WHO IS TO BLAME? CRUDE TRAGEDIES REALISES HANDSOME SUM ON GAS COMPANY DISAVOWAL: A SQUALID TRIAL OF DEATH
S.S. "BERENGARIA "
FOR MINERS' RELIEF FUND
London, Yesterday.
Prince
35.
the George, aboard
arrived "Berengaria,"
it
Was
WHAT THEY DECLARE
THE G.P.OS TUNNEL
London, Yesterday.
AND RUIN
to be
SELF-CONTROL LACKING
London. A father's timely and The Board of Trade, in a state- energetic onslaught on a barricaded i at ment, say that an inquiry will be gra-filled bedroom at Peckham saved Southampton this afternoon, held into the cause of the Holborn the lives of his youthful 800, when
Leonard Clifton, and the. latter's revealed that explosion. trke
The couple were cake made in honour of Meanwhile there is keen contro- flances. the Prince's birthday during the versy regarding the responsibility, married at Christmas, and had pur-) voyage was auctioned and re-auc-The Gas Company not merely dis- chased a boot repairing business and tioned and then subdivided into
avow liability but declare that they household furniture. This is one of minute pledes,
will send the Postmaster General a series of double love tragedies It realised £1,067 on behalf of a big bill for, damages, They con- within a few days, two of which the Miners Relief Fund-Reuter, tend that the first explosion occur- terminated fatally.
[H.R.H. Prince George, the King's youngest son, celebrated his red in an old tunnel,, used to carry post-office cables and damaged gas- 26th birthday on the 20th inst
maina. He is well-known in Hong Kong, as he was a lieutenant on the China Station and attached to H.M.S. "Hawkins."
The Postal officials decline to make a statement.
Underground Rumblings He left Hong
Nightmare conditions still pre- Kong a little more than #year
vail in Holborn. The devastation ago]
is accentuated by squads of work
FANCY DRESS SOCIAL men operating with pneumatic drills
HAPPY GATHERING AT KOWLOON
SUCCESSFUL COMPETITORS
way;
The first of these two took place at Hembridge, in Somersetshire, where, according to the evidence at the inquest, a farmer named George Kingston, aged 87, was courting Cladys Martin, aged 17. The girl's father forbade, the friendship be- cause Kingston swore.
The enraged lover, bearing a gun, | forced his way into the Martins' house late at night. Gladys, who
to unearth pipes, accompanied by was in bed, jumped up and rushed
underground rum- Intermittent
downstairs past Kingston, who fol- blings. Here and there crimson and lowed and shot her in the presence yellow fire is issuing in leaping of her mother and then committed pilars from fissures in the road-suteide in an empty cottage nearby. Kingston's father testified that Unlucky Ones
his son was more or less demented! Melancholy groups of inhabitants as the result of his war service. Club took place at the Church Hall are discussing the disaster, which! A verdict of murder and suicide
has ruined their Christmas trade. was returned. last evening, when a large gather-A few of the more optimistic have ing of members and friends were reopened their shops, notwithstand- present.
A Fancy Dress social meeting. held under the auspices of the St. Andrew's Church Young Men's
The hall was tastefully decorat-
ed with coloured steamers and flags, while Chinese lanterns lent The appropriate lighting effects. stage was "dressed". for the occa- sjon.
A dance opened the programme, followed by games and compet! tions, in which young and old took part.
An item rendered by members
of the newly formed Ladies' Club,
"FRESH AND FINE"
North east winds, fresh, fine, is the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow for Hong Kong, the adjacent coast and Formosa Channel.
was deservedly well received, and ing that the public are not per-
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Married Man and Nurse The same verdict was returned at Camberwell inquest on a 22-year- old nurse named, Winifred Rumble and a 40-year-old engineer named Geoffrey Hartnell, a married man, who were found shot dead in a house at Peakham, Rye.
BREWER AFFAIR
A YEAR'S IMPRISONMENT IN WEST AFRICA
TERM. COMPLETED
ཕ་་་ཛི
a sketch presented by the Y.M.mitted to approach.
London, Yesterday. Club and the Ladies' Club, was a The opthalmic hospital nearby is! Mr. Brewer, the second officer' of splendid termination to a very en-practically without fires, steam or the steamer "Clan Lamont," who joyable evening.
gas, Operations are impossible, was arrested in Portuguese West A large number of those present and the patients are being fed on Africa on a charge of theft and were costumed in fancy dress, and tinned foods.
against the severity of whose son- considerable variety was displayed. Prince's Theatre is bemoaning tence a strong protest was made by Past was staged and the loss of £700 at each cancelled, the British to Portuguese authori- A March afforded those not in costume, and performance.-Reuter.
bies, has been released after com also the judge an opportunity to
Sealing The 'Gas, Main pleting his term. It is understood scrutinize the costumes more close-
Masked workmen this afternoon that he suffered from fever con-.} ly.
Prizes were presented to the suc- succeeded in sealing up the great tracted during his. imprisonment.
The belief was widespread that cessful competitors, the presenta-gas main beneath the road in High- tion being made by Mrs. W. W street, Holborn, from which gue the conviction was unjustified. Mr. had been pouring since the ex-Brewer, while awaiting trial and Rogers, wife of the Vicar.
Miss M. White, as a "Gypsy" plesions that did so much damage serving his sentence, was in prison 300 days as a result of a charge of girl, won the first prize for the occurred yesterday.
After the main had been sealed stealing goods valued at £1. ladies' fancy costume and Master E. MacNider as "Parcel Post" was the flames which had been spouting awarded the prize for the gentle-up in the centre of the road for
80 hours ware put out.
men.
FORGED NOTES FURTHER EVIDENCE AT THE
* CENTRAL MAGISTRACY
11 ALLEGED TRAFFICKERS
The authorities dared not put them out before as flames acted as a safety valve by consuming the escaping gas.
Experts and officials are of opin- on that although some risk of further explosion still exists the greater danger has now passed.
Policemen, firemer, ambulance the Central Bank of China at Can-men and gas officials are still on
Mr. Ho Pun-sze, an official 'of
*
The matter is still receiving the attention of the appropriate au- bhorities-British Wireless Service.
M. MOISEIWITSCH
ENGAGED TO A SHANGHAI LADY
Shanghai, Yesterday. The engagement le announced of M. Benno Moiseiwitsch, the famous pianist who met with much success In his recent visit to the Far East, to Miss Annie Gensburger of Shang- hai-Reuter.
ton, was called as a witness to guard lest further explosions should give evidence at the Central Maxia-occur.
One great point which has yet to tracy yesterday against eleven al- leged traffickers in forged bank be settled about the explosions is [Molschwitsch was first married.
In 1914 and has two daughters.] the primary cause. notes.
The Gas Company emphatically Witness told the Court that he had had nine years' banking ex-repudiate responsibility.
They
TRANSPORT ARRIVES
H.M.'s transport "Neuralla," with perience. being latterly in charge state that the trouble began in a of the Issue Department of the Na- duct conveying the telegraph cables the 2nd Batt. South Staffordshire tionalist Bank as its assistant of the Post Office where electrical Regt. on board and bound for ser- He stated that work was in progress and express vice in the North China command, Superintendent. the two exhibits bearing Impres- the opinion that the first explosion arrived here at 10 a.m. to-day from sions of the front and back of a was due to gas generated by the Singapore.
Owing to an outbreak of infecti- Central Bank ten-dollar notes were insulation on the electric cables and
that this explosion damaged the cus; disease on board, the troops fairly good forgeries...
TWO PASSIONATE HUMANS
Son of Araby
Daughter of Paris.
WHO DARED A
FORBIDDEN LOVE!
A lavish screen version of Pierre Rondale's famous. stage play, "L'Insoumise."
FAZIL
With
CHARLES FARRELL GRETA NISSEN
AT THE
The picture which broke all records
in Shangha!!
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY. At 5.15 & 9,20 Only.
2.30 & 7.15. Chinese Picture, "Nemesis," Part 1.
TENSE DRAMA IN THE WILDS OF CANADA!
... A stirring story of the untamed Canadian North-west
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The FLAME of
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