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Lausanne,
HUT
CAPT. CAMPBELL
ADVENTURE FOLLOWS A FORCED LANDING
PAYING THE SHEIKH
Switzerland. Lau- Capt.. Malcolm Campbell has de: sanne Cathedral was the scene of scribed to a correspondent in Lon-
low.
RATES WAR?
THE HAVANA TRADE
CUNARDER SAILS WITH A FULL PASSENGER LIST
NEW YORK PAPER'S COMMENT
New York, Yesterday. Despite the 25 per cent. cut in a tragedy when a French subject don, the adventurous night he the Ward, Line rates the Cunarder named Elmalch jumped from the, spent in an Arab village in the "Caronia" sailed full of passengers tower 200 feet high and was dash-Riff territory after he and Flight on her first invasion into the ed to pleces in the courtyard be Lleutenant Don made a forced Havana shipping trade. Whether anding with their email aeroplane a first-rate shipping war is to de- Elmaleh was being shown over on the coast of Morocco.
velop remains to be seen.
"The World" declares that the the building by a woman guide He has returned to London after. when he suddenly rushed up the his aeroplane search to the Sahara Shipping Board's action' 18 hasty ill-considered. Reuter's steps leading to the spire and Desert for a site on which to and
make an attempt on the world's American Service. Earlier in the day he had left fastest speed record. It was on his hotel and, telling his wife that the return journey from Oran that! he was going to take two of his children for a drive, motored to
leapt into space.
an inn outside Lausanne where he Later he met' a wrote letters. policeman, and under the pretext that he was going to fetch a doc-. tor asked him to look after his little girl, who, he said, had shot herself while playing with his re- volver.
At the hospital it was found in the she had a bullet wound chest. Although her mother, who Is in precarious health, submitted
to save the child, its life is des
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H. SLESSER SLASHING REPLY TO SIR
to blood transfusion in attempts the mishap occurred. 75 miles from LORD BIRKENHEAD paired of. Business worries and Tetuan, toward which place they inability to pay his hotel bill are set out with two Arab given as the cause of the man's Buides. Capt Campbell said:
"We walked along the shore for a whole day and at nightfall came) to a village of hutments. We were conducted to a hut, and found our-
act.
GAVE THOUSANDS BACK
The duel of words between Lord
TO THE SOUTH POLE selves in a room in which about Birkenhead, who recently resigned
U.S. EXPEDITION'S PROGRESS
NEARING THE MAIN BASE
nine Arabs were squatted. Only one candle lighted the room.
"A pail of water was passed round.
from the Government, and Sir Henry Blesser, K.C.,. the former Don had a drink, but I Socialist Solicitor-General, is creat did not like the look of the stuff, ing a great deal of public interest. Sir Henry criticised Lord Birken- Next came plecos of bread and a
It head's acceptance of an ex-Lord pan of, greasy-looking liquid. Washington, Yesterday,
was made clear that if we did not, Chancellor's pension of £5,000 a Commander Byrd's expedition is wish to insult our hosts we must year without assisting in appeal nearing the proposed main base in dip the bread in the oll and eat work.
the Bay of Whales, and a wireless it, which we did with considerable. Sir Henry, whose statement was message has informed, the Secretary distaste.
of the Navy, Mr. Wilbur, that the
made in the House of Commons, The Sheikh's Wives
said that Lord Birkenhead "was not Ross lce barrier. was reached on "The Arab chief or shiekh slept morally entitled to draw £5,000 a Tuesday, Reuter's American Ser-, with his head half out of the only year if he did not perform judicial vice.
amall entrance to the room. We, work."
STELLA MARIS
RECEIVING ORDER AGAINST MR. AUSTIN-SMITH
low.
In a letter to the "Times" Lord Birkenhead described Sir Henry's criticisms as an impertinence. He
added:
were told afterwards that he took Previously, Lord Birkenhead had up this position so that no one stated that he intended to take his should pass him without his being, pension until be settles down to his awakened. His wives, in consider City directorship. able number, slept in the room be-i Moral and Legal Right
Don gave our host a pair of old A receiving order in bankruptcy | against Alfonso Francis Austin- pants and a vest, and I presented 'him with a pair of pink pyjamas. Smith, who figured in the Stella Te seemed delighted with this Marls murder trial at Maidstone in
form of payment for his hospital- In 1926, was announced
the
ity. "London Gazette." The announce
"We trudged on next day. At ment reads:
last we came to a fort manned by Barnstaple, Austin-Smith,
some Spanish wireless operators, Alfona Francia, Riverside, Combe Martin, Devonshire, gen- and they conducted us to a fully manned Spanish fort, where the tleman farmer.
"London commandant treated us with the Last August the
greatest kindness. Gazette" published an order an- nulling' a receiving order against
-
+45
Speaking for myself, if I thought it proper to do so I should hold myself morally, as I clearly am legally, entitled to re- tam my pension.
1
He painted out that his average earnings for the four years before £1,000 a year more than he receivä he became a Law Officer were ed in that office, Then, after atat- ing that the period during which
Mr. Smith on the ground that the COWARDLY ATTACK he would draw his pension would
debts had been paid in full.
FOUR RUNNERS ATTACK A COOLIE
FINED TO-DAY-
not be unduly protracted, he con- tinued:
During each year of my Law Office 1 voluntarily returned many thousands of pounds of my income to the Treasury. The late Lord Cave and the present Lord Chief Justice, each of whom Was Solicitor-General under ma, made the same
unadvertised sacrifice. The stringency public affaire was hardly less
Mr. Smith, who came to Bri- tain from Canada at the age of nine, aerved in the 4th Dragoon Guards before the war and after- wards
In the Black Watch. In
An assault arising, It is alleged, November 1926 he was acquitted at Kent Assizes, Maidstone, on a through jealousy between a street charge of murdering John Adam'coolle and four boarding-house run- Derham by shooting him with a'ners took place yesterday in Salis- revolver at a house named Stella, bury-road near the Star Cerry Maris, Tankerton, near Whitstable, wharf at Kowloon. The street
He was found not guilty of mur coolie, In the course of the scuffle,serious when Sir Henry Slesser der or of manslaughter, but was received an ugly gaah scross his sentenced to twelve months hard face, which penetrated deeply into labour for carrying a revolver his left cheek. He had no chance with intent to endanger life. Since to fight for himself, for while two his release from prison he has been assaulted him, two others held bim by the arms. The timely, interfer- farming in Devonshire.
Last March Mr. Austin-Smith.ence by a Chinese traffic constable, lost his four-years-old son in a fire put a further stop to more damage. at High Trees nursery school, near The sequel was Heard at the Korley, Surrey, in which five chil Kowloon Court to-day, when the dren perished. About a fortnight four runners were brought-before ago Mrs Alfonso Austin-Smith Mr. E. W. Hamilton on a charge was granted a decree nisl of nullity of assault.
by Mr. Justice Hill in the Divorce The first defendant admitted the
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was a Law Officer, I am `up- aware that alther he or his chief) felt it necessary to enter Into any sach self-denying ordinance. As I have unintentionally been led to speak of myself as The following programme will Attorney General, I may, per be broadcast to-day from the Gov haps be permitted to point out ernment radio station on the Peak, that I am the only Attorney the wave-length being 800 metres General known to history who The call sign of the station is
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"The Creation," With Verdure Clad. John Bonner. Boy Soprano. "Popular Songs,"
"Oh. Ray,"
Layton & Johnso Summer Days Suite," (a) Wood Nympha (b) At the Dance.
Queen's Hall Orchestra. "The Bronze. Horse," Overture.
London Symphony Orchestra "Lahengriti, Bridal Chorus.
Tannhauser, Grand March.
Columbia Grand Opera Company «Four Indian Love Lyrics,"
Union Symphony Orchestra. 7,48 pm Evening Weather ReThe Jewess," The Faithless Meri.
"Little Cattle, Little Care,"
Norman "Allin, Bass “Tannhausar," Bacchanale.
Royal, Philarmonic, Orchestra. "Roseminde," Overture."
Halle Orchestra. "Drinking," "Song of the Flea,
Violin
Sir Henry Slesser, K.d., who was port. de offence, but the other three denied striking complainant, who appeared called to the Bar In 1906, was 8 pm to 10.80 p.m-Evening The Sechstary of the Hong Kong, with a wide piece of plaster over the specially made a KC, on the advent Programme. (Columbia Records), General Chamber of Commercs: In- left side of his face
of the Socialist Government of "Poet and Peasant," Overture forms us that a cable was received! The traffic constable, who affected 1924, In which he was Solicitor Grenadier Guards Band. this morning from the Shanghal the arrest, gave evidence of having General. He filled the office till "La Ronde Des Latinis,*** British Charbor of Commerce stat- witnessed the assault.
the dissolution of the Government, Polonaise," Mayer Gordon. Ing that the new Nationalist A fine of $5 or seven days Jail In December of that year. Customs Tariff for Chion will come was imposed on the first defendant, Sir Henry had no seat in the The Jewels of the Madonna," In-
bo effect on February 1, 1929, who, in addition, was ordered to pay Houso, and much of the work foll $5 as compensation to complainant upon the Attorney Genera), Sir Witness at Shoreditch County The other tires were also fined $5 Patrick Hastings, K.G. Court Work! Oh, I've inished or seven days, and all four defen- In the next Parlament Sir Henry with work I'm 73.
dante bound over in a personal was elected for the South-east divi ASD
sion of Leeds, a seat which he still on de 70): 73 Judge Cher (pero is 70): 78 bond in the sum of $50 to be
holde, and done with work!
good behaviour for six.
Capiton Zaporojetz. Bass.
Selections.
CSymphony Orchestra ws Bulletin Dance Music
termezzo
B.-B. C. Symphony Orchestra, Martial Momente,
Grenadier Guards Band.
"Carmen,
Celeste Dotet,
of SongSTART
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