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中華民國辛未年四月十一日
1845
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1931.
STORIES OF "TIM'S" BIRD FORCES PILOT THEFT FROM TAIKOO
WIT.
Memories of Great Days
in the Commons.
TWO MILESTONES.
career
TO LAND.
Park Keepers Surprised
to Find Him Unhurt.
A bird striking the propeller of]
an aeroplane 5,000 feet over Loudon compelled Pilot Officer John Baxter
DOCKYARD.
Ruling on Stealing and Receiving.
JAIL FOR CULPRIT.
To-day, Li Sam (30) Was
to make a forced landing on a crie-charged hefore Mr. W. Schofield
with the larceny of a quantity of
The machine crashed and over-lead pipe, the properly of the the pilot cleverly Taikoo Dockyard. Accused turned when manoeuvred it to avoid striking two pleaded guilty, and stated that he park keepers, who were astonished picked the metal up from a rub- to find him not only not dead but bish heap. unhurt.
It is a long stride from shorthand clerk at a pound a week in New castle-in-Tyne to the Governor-ket pitch at Southwark Park. Generalship of the Irish Free State. Forty-seven years separated these two milestones in the
ef Timothy Michael Healy, one of the must brilliant of modern Irishmen, famous alike as fighter and wit.
Into those furly-seven years "Tim" ilealy-for no one ever call- el him anything else-crowded life packed with incident.
a
He was at
a Munsterman, and was burn Bantry Ray in 1855. He came to England at eighteen to earn his liv ing, and for some time was a clerk and shorthand writer on the North Eastern Railway. In 1878 he came to London to write a weekly letter for the Dublin "Nation," and two years later found him fighting the battle of Irish independence as M.P. for Wexford. A little later he became one of Parnell's secre, taries, and accompanied him and
to
The pilot said cheerily: Help me out."
"O.K.
Pilot Officer Baxter, who was up side down, strapped in the cockpit, when released. described his perience.
ex-
Mr. G. T. Bird, watchman, said that they had been missing a lot of lead piping from one of the ships at present in dock, and special men were put on to keep a watch. Accused was seen in the slipway carrying the lead under his arm.
"I was flying at 100 miles per hour," he said, "and had plunged
The Magistrate remarked that into some clouds, when a dark shape it looked to him that a better appeared in front. It grew bigger charge would have been one of re- The subceiving. as it rushed towards me. aoquent jolt and terrific vibrations told me that a bird had struck the propeller.
and
"I switched off the engine the propeller stopped, otherwise the engine would have dropped in the heart of London.
for
EGYPTIAN UNREST.
Dillon on the lour to America which
"When 1 had such far-reaching results.
emerged from the In Prison.
clouds and searched landing Two
he entered turf visible for miles, and, coming years after Parliament
in place, I sighted the only patch of A public speech Dublin earned him, in default of down there, dodged the trees then
intimidating the park keepers." inding bail for an speech, a sentence of six months' imprisonment, but he was released when two-thirds of the sentence had
He hean served.
came back Parliament renforced by his experi- ences and a harder fighter than ever. In the meantime he had been read- ing law, and in 1884 he was called to the English Bar in 1903, and be- came K.C. in 1910. He continued ta represent various Irish constitu- encies at Westminster till 1918, when be conined his energies to working behind the scenes.
During the thirty-eight years he sat in Parliament he became famous As a debater and as a master of Irony and invective, tempered by a happy wit.
WILL THE BRITISH INTERVENE ?
Cairo, May 2. The tension arising from Friday's clashes between the police and Wafdiste is still on the increase, leading on Saturday to a demonstra- tion by inmates of harems, led by prominent suffragettes, including the wife of the ex-Fremier Mahmud Pasha. The feminine demonstrators invaded the courtyard of the Minis try of Interior, shouting, "Down with Sidky Pasha, Down with the elections." By order of Sidky Pasha the gates of the courtyard were closed and the crowd arrested. Other arrests were made at the cen- tral railway station, where thirty- one Wafdists attempted to board a train for Tanta. All persons enter ing the station must now submit to One day in the Commons, when
a searching inquiry. The garrison Irish finance was being debated, he
is being kept in a continuous state attacked the Government on ite of alarm, in anticipation of further
"I broken promises.
want to disturbances. know," he cried, "when the Treasury Moses is going to strike the rock!" Mordant Wit.
The stories told about him would All a volume. Оп one occasion when he was canvassing an elector told him he would rather vote for the devil. "And in Сове your friend does not go to the poll," said Tim instantly, "may count on your vote?"
not even
Cairo, May 4.
Inspector G. A. Stimson (prosecuting) replied that he had been thinking of that all: along, but Mr. R. E. Lindsell (a former Magistrate) had held that if a man was found in the dock- yard or coming out of the dock- yard with any property that be- longed to the dockyard, that per- son must have stolen the article from the yard. Therefore the only charge would be one of lar-!
ceny.
He (Insp. Stimson) had always held that if a person was actually seen in the act of steal- ing then could a charge of lar- ceny be brought against the per-
son.
Inspector Stimson added that 24 feet of lead pipe had been re- ported stolen within the last two weeks.
Accused, who had a previous conviction, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.
AFTER 29 YEARS.
REARREST OF DEVIL'S ISLAND
CONVICT.
Twenty-nine years ago Louis Langard deserted from his regi- ment. Three years later he killed a man in a brawl and was sent to Devil's Island. In 1910, however, after two unsuccessful attempts, he escaped.
He became a mechanic in Dutch Guiana, married a Dutch girl, and to-day has a beautiful daughter of 18 and is an British intervention is hourly ex-
owner of property. pected in an effort to allay the grow He was made good. ing tension, which has received in Longing to see his native land
Langard added impetus from the Beni-Suef again,
embarked for France. clashes, the casualties in which are
Havre He landed at officially given as four dead and and after being questioned by the forty injured. The ex-Premier, authorities was detained as the de- Nahas Pasha, and his companions, serter of 20 years ago. His escape who were arrested at Giza, have from Devil's Island was then re- been released after an extensive vealed.
Ilis mordant wit did apare members of his own party He once said of John Dillon that "the Nationalist Party only keep him to attend funerals,” and of another that "the man's auch a liar it's not safe to beliere the opposite of what The says." On one occasion he and
Professor Kettle. father of the racre cross-examination. Martial law has Langard, when convicted of mur- famous Tom Kettle, who came to been proclaimed at Cairo and the der, was sentenced to eight years' hard labour and banishment for auch a tragic end, arrived simultane- troops and police are being kept in a ously on a village green to address state of emergency throughout life, and it is probable that he will rival meetings.
was scar- Egypt. The postponement of the be sent again to Devil's Island, if cely, room for both, so they tossed, General Elections is anticipated. not to complete his term of hard: and Tim won.
labour, to end his life as a resident of Cayenne, as enforced by the banishment order.
There
Ho began a rollicking speech with the words, "Gentlemen, the. Kettle has lost its spout," and held the gathering till the end.
CORNWALL SCARE.
London, May 6.
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