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THRILLS FOR SPECTATORS
Los Angeles, Yesterday. - The "Graf Zeppelin" left for Lakehurst at 12.14 a.m.
She thrilled the spectators by scraping a high tension electric wire with her tail.
The damage caused by scraping -the electric wire was only slight."
A quantity of tins of tea and vegetables were thrown overboard after the ascent to overcome the ap- parent difficulty of gaining the al- titude necessary to cross the Rockies.
She was, sighted over Lower California at a height of 300 miles 3 hours 37 minutes after leaving. Los Angeles-Reuter's American Service.
SOVIET PLANE Reported to Have Reached Irkutsk
Moecow, Yesterday. The "Land of the Soviets" plane has reached Irkutsk-Reuter.
The plane, stated a cable of August 29, falled to arrive at Chita, having been forced to land in an unir.habited place 170 miles from Irkutsk.
[A telegram from Moscow, dated August 12, stated that the "Land of the Soviets," the amphibian aero- plane piloted by M. Shestakov-who flew to Tokyo from Moscow in 1927 and which started on August 8, arrived at Krasnoyarsk on August It. The plane is flying to New York via Alaska to ascertain the extent to which the Siberian route is suitable for a regular air service.
If the fight is successful it is pro- posed to establish an air line in 1931 between Moscow and the Pacific coast of the United States. American aviation
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BRITISH COMPETITORS "MUI TSAI” CASE
"6
WON'T FOOL
THEY WILL RACE” !
DECLARATION BY SCHNEIDER COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
CHINESE AND HIS MOTHER CHARGED
AN ALLEGED ASSAULT
A "mui tsaf" case was mention- ed balore Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, 'at the Central Magistracy, this morn-
ITALY HAS NOT WITHDRAWN ing.
Mr. Hin-shing Lo said that he London, Yesterday. appeared for a Chinese named The Schneider Trophy Committee, Wong Kin-kai charged with as- at the conclusion of a sitting last- saulting a mui tsai, and for the ing all day, announced that the man's mother. Wong Yeung Shi, final withdrawal had not been re- the charge against whom was not ceived from Italy.
mentioned.
Lieut.-Colonel O'Gorman, Chair- The address of these two de- man of the Committee, stated that fendants is given as No. 49. EI- regardless of whether Italy or gin-street.
$DBORGARBAG£95
LOCAL SHOWERS
This morning's weather re- port states:
A week anti-cyclonic area central to the east of Bonins extends over south China. The trough remains over the China Sea, the Philippines and the Pacific to the eastward. The depression is situated to the eastward The depression is north of Hokkaido.
Forecast:-Easterly or vari- able winds, moderate general- ly, with local showers.,
America decide to compete the con- test will be held on September 7, adding:
There is a third defendant in the case, a woman named Lei Wong She, of No. 20, Hollywood- road, who was represented by Mr. A. E. Hall.
The charges against her, all framed under the Mui Tsai Or- dinance, were
(1) Taking in her employment a mui tsai, Lei Ngau-shing, aged 7
years;
(2) Taking in her employment a female domestic servant, Lei Ngau- shing, aged 7 years; and
(3) Transferring a mui tsai, Lei Ngau-shing, aged 7 years to Wong Yeung She, of No. 49, Elgin-street (Mr. Hin-shing Lo's female client).
Both Mr. Lo and Mr. Hall en- tered pleas of "not guilty," and the case was adjourned.
A LOVER OF SMOKES
A Chinese coolie was at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, "The British competitors won't before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, fool about; they won't walk or charged with the unlawful passes. crawl; they will race."-Reuter.sion of one box containing 500 "People" cigarettes, which he said
Another Report
At the conclusion of the meeting he had picked up in one of the of the Schneider Cup Committee at godowns in Cantou-road, where he Calshot to-day it was stated that was arrested by a Chinese detec- the Royal Aero. Club had not re- tive.
and meteorolo-ceived any withdrawal from Italy. The cigarettes were made by the
gical circles are assisting the flight, which is expected to occupy forty daye.]
WIGE DESERTS
HUSBAND DIVORCED IN SHANGHAI
Judge Milton D. Purdy in the United States Court for China, Shanghai, on August 22 granted the application of Claude Thompson Mense, of Shanghai, for, the dis- solution of matrimonial bonds with Schuhl Georgina Regina Menee.
Whether or not Italian or American entries ultimately materialised, it was the intention to hold the con- test on September 7, when the Bri fish team would race as though they were competing against other na- tions. British Wireless Service.
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and Lurton appeared for the plain- tiff, while the defendant naither present herself nor repre- sented by an attorney.
Was
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79 Temperature, 4. p.m.,
yesterday
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LADY MINISTER HURT
Wah Man Tobacco Co.
Defendant was fined $5, or, in default, seven days' hard labour.
LADY'S ESTATE
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Requests Notes from Bench Defendant, when told by his Lord- ship to cross-examine the witness, said that he had not taken down witness's evidence and requested his Lordship to allow him to see the notes which bis Lordship had taken.
His Lordship informed defendant that he could not do that because the
The plaintiff stated in his peti- | 3669906*********notes he had taken were for his own
tion that he was a resident in Shanghai for one year immediate- ly preceding September 23, 1922, the date on which he was married to the defendant, and that he has ever since resided in this port. On or about November 8, 1922, the de- fendant, disregarding the solemnity
information. Defendant would have to take his own notes when the next witness came to the box. This time, London, Yesterday. his Lordship would, however, ac-. While going for a bathe at commodate defendant by reading out Trevarnon- Bay, near Padstow, Miss any portion of the evidence which Margaret Bondfiek, Minister of was material to the case. Labour, fell on some pebbles and
On defendant informing his Lord-|
of her marriage vows, unlawfully fractured an ankle. She was xe ship that he had no question to put and without cause deserted the moved to nursing home at Bodmin. to witness, his Lordship told him plaintiff and that her present-British Wireless Service. whereabouts are not known, al- though ber last known address was
Manila hotel, Manila, P.L.
After proof was adduced of the desertion by the defendant, and of a formal notice in the consecutive issues of local American newspaper of general circulation most likely to reach the defendant, summoning the defendant to be present at the hearing. His Honour granted the
divorce.
ATMAJESTIC
Nathan Road, Kowloon,
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SIR P. LORAINE
that unless he could introduce facts to show that witness was not tall. ing the truth, he would have to accept the evidence, because it had been given under oath.
Signing of the Will
On
London, Yesterday.
Lee Cheung Shi, deceased's old- who Percy Loraine,
is est daughter said that her mother succeeding Lord Lloyd as High the deceased) had mentioned a Commissioner in Egypt, left London will to her prior to her death. to-day to take up his post-British the night of her death, her younger aister brought the will to her, and Wireless Service.
she asked her mother if she would sign the will. The dying woman! nodded her bead and said “yes.”: The will was locked in a safe and the key was placed under the mat- tross of deceased's bed. Her) mother motioned to the younger sister who then took the key out and went to get the will.
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His Lordship's Troubles Defendant after putting a 'quça tion or two to the witness in cross- examination, told his Lordship that he would leave the matter entirely in his Lordship's hands and hoped that the Bench would cross-examine the witness for him. :.. (Als Lordship said that he could not very well do that. "I do not know the facts of the case that's my trouble and unless you can shake the witness's evidence, I smi afraid I will have to take it to be the truth. She has given her evid- ence on oath, and it is up to you to prove if you think she was not tell- ing the truth.***
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