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£1,200,000 for His Wife After Divorce.
MILLIONAIRE'S DEATH."
RESULT OF GENERAL OFFENSIVE.
AMMUNITION SHORTAGE.
Nanking. Thursday.
THE CHINA MAIL.
CHEMICAL WORKS DISASTER.
Testing of Samples of Acids Recommended.
CASTLEFORD INQUEST.
Castleford, July. 26.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1930.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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LETTERS AND RADIO POLITICS AND CRIME
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IN INDIA.
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
ADDRESSES WHICH CANNOT BE TRACED.
POST OFFICE LIST
A. General, Post Office notifica
tion, gives the following unclaim-
jed correspondence, etc., waiting
Mixture of Politics and Murder.
DENOUNCED BY EX-JUDGE.
"
IDEAS
WSHIRT
As the plans adopted for the New York, July 20. annihilation of Reds have been
Mr. W. Amcer Ali, formerly a Chien Searching inquiry as to the the Post Office, and alga julge in the Indian Civil Service, Mr. Harry S. Black, aged sixty-completed, General Ho seven, the multi-millionaire head of commenced a general offensive cause of the explosion at Messrs. claimed radio telegrams at the speaking at the Liberal Summer the United States Really and Im-against the Communists on the Hickson and Partners chemical Radio Telegraph Office. Govern School at Oxford referred to In- provement Corporation, which owns 10th inst. from five different works on July 4 was made by the meat Building:
Adair, Germain Abily, John dians who mix politics with rob- number of leading American directions:-The 1st commianded Coroner for the Pantfract, Dis Baker, K. Bruno, E. de Britto, E. N:/bery and murder.
Hotel by General Lo Lin; the 2nd by trict (Mr. W. Bentley) as the re- Brown, S. A. Carlson, R. Dilley arrest of a man thought to be in- He gave a hint of the possible hotels, including the
Plaza General Kung Ping-fen; the 3rd sumed inquest to-day on the thir R. W. Daimfri, Eastern Trading Plaza and the Savoy Hotel, New York, died last night at by General Wei Su-chung; the 4th teen victims of the explosion. It Co., Ltd Mrs. D. Fraser, 976 Volved in the recent bomb out-
rage against the Viceroy's train.. his country home. Lloyd Harbour, by General Tso Kwang; and the was necessarily an inquiry involv
D. J. Fraser, Mrs. J. C. been last by General Liu Chin-shu. ing technicalities, but every effort
"There," he said, "is the ease Long Island, after having found in bed yesterday morning With the assistance of the 'planes, was mude to keep it intelligible to Griffiths, Mr. Ganning, Miss A. Dof a man who, up to now, has
Hancock, Miss Grace Humphries, avoided arrest. in his head, the Government forces achieved the laymen on
The case may with a bullet wound
great success,
re- Office experts were present at the A. Hall, W. M. H. Ismail, shortly be sub-judice, so I shall while his hund clutched a revolver #
of sult
which 6,000 Reds inquiry.
not say much about him. containing two spent cartridges.
killed,
the rest
The jury found that an explosion Leader, Wm. James, R. E. Johnson, has never been seen twice in the THE and The police at first thought he had were
Be had occurred in the acid mixer and 8. Steel Traveller, C. W. Kong, same place, he always carries fire-|
K. J. Marshall,. J. Mackenzie, 8.8. arms, and there are strong ren been the victim of fool play, but were dispersed in disorder.
self-inflleted.
lost heavily on the stock market.
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resist any further; they will be
far future, it is generally con- ceded.
the jury. Home
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later investigations caused them to cause of the shortage of am- wns caused by the presence of Lyeemun, Mrs. L. Morrison, Mrs-sons for believing that he laid | believe that the wound had been imunition, the Reds are unable, to nitro body; that it was accidental G. E. Metcalf, J. J. O'Brien. E. C.the little egg which was meant 3A, Wyndham Street. Tel. 20022 |
and there was no negligence; and Mr. Black is reported to have totally exterminated in the not they recommended that in future Powell, G. C. Pelham, W. Pinder to blow up the Viceroy's train last]
samples of the acids should be de V. da Silva, J. F. Varthorne,
(West River), Harry Shutte, F. F. December. taken and tested before being Mrs. V. Volkova, Mrs. A. Way placed in the "eggs," or vessels, Rev. J. W. Wright, C. Watson, F. A. through which they are supplied to the mixer.
The Coroner said that this was a verdict of death-from misadven ture.
He arrived at his summer home on Friday night, accompanied by Mr. Robert Vanbuskirk, an artist friend.
At eight o'clock yesterday morn ing Mr. Black's valet heard him moving about in his bedroom, and in accordance with his' usual custom the valet turned on the wireless in an adjoining room.‚·
The wireless was still on when at 10.30, the valet went to the bed- room and found Mr. Black lying un- Nobody had conscious in bed. heard the shots fired.
'Government Reinforcements.
Hankow, Thursday. President Chiang has decided to despatch six more National divisions to Hunan, Hupeh and Kiangai, that is, to send two divi- sions to each of the above three provinces, for the suppression of Reds and
bandits. Canton News Agency,
·STOLEN PINCERS ?
The explosion took place in what was referred to throughout the inquest as the acid-mixing de- partment-a department where sulphuric acid and nitric acid were mixed by mechanical means. It was stated that the sulphuric acid wns blown into the mixer by com- pressed air from a boiler, referred to as No. 28, and the nitric acid
Last October Mr. Black was found inconscious, with his head under CHINESE GETS BENEFIT OF THE was poured in from drums. water in a bath tub at the Hotel Plaza.
British Officer's Son
DOUBT.
4.
present.
York.
there may be politics, their hearts "Although on some people's lips
Pair
•BOOTS & SHOES. are really inspired by the hope of Leather Sole Canvas Shoes ...$ 4.50 pelf. In India there is a serious Crepe Rubber Sale Canvas Shees $ 5.00 risk that the masses will not toler-Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00 J.ale a retrogression in the adminis- Black or Brown Shoes from $8.00 tration of Government. They will Children's Boots ur Shoes from $2.00 Black or Brown Brota from ..$ 8.00 feel that they have been betrayed by the British.
Registered Articles. I. Adler, Mrs. K. Daniels. G. P. Goncharov, H. R. Meier, K. Marshall, R. L. Wyllie.
Unpaid Correspondence, R. E. Johnson a.s. Steel Traveller, H. McDermid, D. P. Tahilig.
Unclaimed Radio Telegrams. 5958, from Shanghai,
Hoihow.
Wing Tai, Boyhumn (Bonham?) Strand, from Tekekam.
9234 3055 2975 4395 0356 5804 0577 0003 5714 0059 2869 1728 1446 for-10088, from Canton.
Two Theories. The leading witnesses put "I am rather against these cases ward two theories to account for The dead millionarie, who was where a man is challenged to the explosion. Mr. George Her- born at Coburg, Ontario, was a son prove up to the hilt where he got bert Frank, the technical director of Major Thomas Black, an officer thing he has in his pocket," re-and works manager of the firm, of the British Army. He was marked Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith thought it could have been duc educated in Canada, and after work-on Saturday morning, when only to the presence of hydro ing as a commercial traveller be- Chinese, charged with the unlaw-carbon in some form, but could not ful possession of a pair of pincers explain how hydrocarbon could be came interested in banking.
Afterwards he became associated pleaded that he picked it up from
The suggestion that with Mr. George A.. Fuller, head of the pavement opposite the Ko there might have been a leakage one of the largest American con- Shing Theatre; in Queen's Road from a benzol-pipe, which passed struction companics, and married West.
about fifteen feet away from the Detective-Inspector C. P. Fallon mixer, hardly seemed tenable, in his daughter.
When they were divorted in told the Magistrate that the de his opinion, because the pipe had 1905 Mr. Black gave to his wife fendant was searched by a detec- not been charged and used for £1,200,000, which represented £500,- tive, at about 3.45 p.m. on Septem- twelve hours before the explosion. 000 she had inherited from her ter 11, and the pincers were found Mr. Hubert Hoyle, who was in im- father, plus the amount her hus- to be in his pocket. band had added to it by investment. was asked where he got them from mediate, control of the mixing de partment, expressed very similar and he told the "sleuth" that his views, i uncle had given them to him, This was found to be untrue, and the uncle told the police that he had not seen his nephew for several days,
In 1922 Mr. Black married Miss Isabelle May, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Henry May, of Washing
ton.
She is now touring Ireland. The dead millionaire was pro- minently identified with a number of financial institutions and was a director of the National City Bank.
STANDARD TIMES
SUNRISE AND SUNSET
COLONY.
IN
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for September (Standard time of the 120th Meridian, East of Greenwich) are as follow:--
Sunrise Sunsel
a.m. p.m. 6.10
6.27
Defendant
The Magistrate decided to dis- charge the defendant, but confla cated the pincers, which Inspector Fallon said he would send to the Police Stores.
LESSON SERMON.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG. "Substance" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches on Sunday, of Christ, Scientist, September 14.
The Golden Text was:
hope for that we see not, we with patience wait (Romans 8:25).
"If we
for it"
Skinning the British Lion." "The British electorate may be hustled into accepting some
7115 4141 6068-0984 2869 0068 scheme of constitutional develop 714 2489 6037 2639 5894, from ment which will place hundreds of millions of illiterate peasants at the mercy of privileged towns- men. Where the educated urban intelligentsia of India are reinforc ed by other elements you may find apparent adherence to national slogans, but there will be very when it considerable. dissent comes to plans for dividing up the pelt of the British lion-always supposing that the British lion will be so foolish as to allow him- self to be skinned in India."
1529, from Hankow. Leong Wing-tung care Man Kea Chang, Pou Kee Lee Street, from Cholon.
0145, from Swatow. 5656, from Swatow. Mercy, from Bangkok.
SEDITION CHARGE.
REDUCTION OF BAIL
DISALLOWED.
Mr. Ali added that there were numerous difficulties associated with the maintenance of order in India, and much trouble "was caused by village feuds and ven- dettas.
CHURCH WALL CRASHES DURING A HYMN.
"Village feuds are too terrible] Before Mr.TS, Whyte-Smith on for words," he said. "To smooth Saturday Mr. C. E. L. Griat made them over requires a considerable application on behalf of a sampan amount of personal energy. They at the son., and cherished and watered man, charged with having dis- are handed down from father to tributed seditious papers Kowloon Wharves. for the reduc- like an aspidistra plant in a small Mr. Sidney Herbert Newman tion of bail of $1,000, and asked English home." (engineering inspector of fac for a date to be fixed for the hear- tories) and Dr. E. H.
Watts ing. (inspector of explosives) both Detective-Sergeant W. G. Hum-) thought the explosion must be due phreys: The police objected to to the presence of a nitro body in reduction of ball.
. London, July 20. the mixer. Mr. Newman believed His Worship: "Could I see the
The congregation at the Wesleyan the nitro body must have been papers"? (after scanning them
Church, Headington, Oxford, had blown into the mixer when I was through); "If it is proved, that
of the charged with sulphuric acid, and papers of a similar nature were just started the singing said that tests made at the boiler found in his possession, I think it second hymn at morning service, No. 28 showed that a nitro body is a rather bad case of sedition. when there was a loud crack, and was actually present in the form I am not inclined to reduce the the wall behind the pulpit collapsed. The preacher, Mr. E. J. Smith, of of oil.
bail."
Mr. Frank described in some de- The Magistrate fixed the hear-Blaydon, the organist, and the choir tall the process of mixing auling for October 1, at 2.15 p.m., scrambled to safety in the nick of phuric and nitric acid. The mix defendant being on bail of $1,000, time.
was non-flammable as before. ture, he said, and non-explosive,
The service was brought to an
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a prayer of thankfulness for the escape of the congregation.
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The Coroner Have you any former required an "insert" key to opinion to express as to what there opon it; the latter was opened with was to cause, 'first fire, and second- & spanner. then.dely an explosion? There should be
In reply to Mr. John Law (H.M.caused by excavations close to the nothing in the process to cause superintending inspector of fac-wall.
tories), Mr. Frank said he did not
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September
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YOUTHFUL CHARM.
Lovely Anita Page who appears with Polly Moran and Marle Dressler in "Caught Short" at the Queen's Theatre
that.
The night, service was held at a Is it a new process, or has it think there was any possibility of social club in Old-Headington.
Mr. A. Harris, been carried on some time?-The a nitro compound in the mixer to
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the following from the Bible: works have been carrying it on cause an explosion. If the agita-secretaries, said that the church, "And he said unto them, Go yo since 1915. This and similar mix-tor inside the mixer had failed which has accommodation for about into all the world, and preachings must have been done three there might have been a "boil 200 people is being replaced by a the gospel to every creature. .
times a week.
over," and perhaps are, but not, new building. . And these signs shall follow
Crack in the Wall. Have you any knowledge of fire in his opinion, an explosion. them that believe; In my name or explosion occurring in this bus!
He added that in the morning, "A Vapour Explosion." shail they cast out devils; they neas prior to this?--No, never. Mr. R. S. Bishop (solicitor re- when he entered the chapel, he shall speak with new tongues;
Can you express an opinion as presenting Hickson and Partners): noticed a crack in the wall but did to what could cause fire or explo-Was it in your opinion a vapour not think anything about it. if they drink any deadly thing, it sion-As a matter of chemical explosion, or was it an explosion ehall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they knowledge that is a query to my of nitro bodies? I think It was a said. The preacher, the organjat; shall recover" (Mark 16: 15, 17,
They shall take up, serpents; and
self.
mixer.
vapour explosion.
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"We suddenly heard a crack," he
and a mixed choir all hurried away Yes, or any other kind of know- The Coroner: You do not accept from that end of the church, and the
on the Saturday, the suggestion. that there were wall came in with a crash. The Lesson-Sermon also includedge?-Well, ed the following passages from morning afterwards I felt certain nitro bodies present to cause the "For a time it was impossible to It must have seo anything but when the dust the Christian Selence text-book, that some sort of hydro-carbon had explosion?-No.
cleared away we saw the ruined "Science and Health with Key to get into the wrong department. I been due to hydro-carbon. the Scriptures," by Mary Baker can think of only a hydro-carbon Where did the hydro-carbon pulpit and organ and brickwork
lying all over the choir seats. Eddy: "The substance of all de acting in that way. It would ex come from?-I don't know.
Where could it have come from? There was very little excitemet, votion is the reflection and de plain the brown fomes, possibly a
--fire and an explosion afterwards. From a leaking pipe or a wrong and the congregation, most of whom monstration of divine Love, heal you mean that some form of drum?I could not say
were women, showed remarkable ing sickness and déströying sit
hydro-carbon, had found its way If it were from wrong coolness under the ordeal, Our Master said, "If ye love' me, into the vessel? Either Into the drum, there must have been a
By a curious coincidence, the keep my commandments" (p. 241), mixer or the neighbourhood of the great error on somebody'a part?-lesson for the day was the story of Pada J I think it was virtually impossible Elijah and the thunder in the MUKDEN'S CONFERENCE. The witness added that they had to confuse the drums. They were mountains.
In the works benzene, toluene, and such distinctive drums, xylone, and some of thesa hydro If the explosion were due to: Linoning, Thursday.
carbons were stored in drums and bydro-carbons, that would mean a General Han Fu-chu has decid some in tanks. The storage tanks, great error on somebody's part, ed to assume the chairmanship, however, were not connected with and it would mean a leaking pipe and the other officials the mem the nitration plant at all. The auch distinctive drums. |bership of the Provincial Govern- nearest point at which there was The witness's reply was to the ment Committee of Shantung at 2 hydro-carbon was a pipe-line some effect that while he could not sug- pim. to-day the oath of office will fifteen feet away from the main gest how hydro-carbons could have got in or near the mixers, hydro- be administered by Minister T. V. storage tanks to the mixer. Ë Soong who arrived from Tsingtao The Coroner: If the man respon-carbons only could have caused on the morning of the 10th sible for putting the nitric acid the brown fumes he saw. He was General Chang Hsueh-liang has into the mixer had got hold of a able to indicate on a plan of the commissioned Messrs. Pang Shu- banzol drum he could hardly have works a spot near to the exploded pon and Lin Hsiang-lid to Tainan, failed to notice the difference be mixer where a hydro-carbon drum representing him at the inaugura- tween it and a nitric acid drum? was afterwards found. He did not tion ceremony of the Chairman The witness explained several think it possible that a bensol pipe and members of the Shantung differences between a benzol drum, fifteen feet away from the mixer. Government: Canton News and a nitric acid Gram. One im could have produced the results he Agency
portant difference was that the saw.
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