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Trapped by Unwelcome Suitor,
KEEPS HONOUR CLEAN.
DISAGREE
Was the Bremen or a British Ship to Blame?
OF THEATRE.
Drunkenness Charge Dismissed.
A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
of Crescent
Charlton was in a stall at the. A police constable stated that
Lyceum Theatre. As the per- the formance was about to begin he Bate was asked by the manager to go was one-fifth to the box-office. He refused and
for him to be ejected. British the manager gave instructions
Two naval experts who were call- led to advisa, the Appeal Court on To "keep her honour clean," questions of navigation were unable A case of interest to theatre. Marcelina Buluran, 18, pratty to agree in a case recently and judg-goers and theatre managements Yangco market vendor residing mont had to be reserved. at 407 Pavia, Tondo, flung her- Lord Justices Scrutton, Greer and Court, when John Charlton, aged was heard at Bow Street Police self out of an automobile in Slesser were hearing the appeal by 32, a traveller, which she had been trapped by the owners of the German Hiner Bre-Grove, Clapham, S.W., was ac an unwelcome suitor, says the men and the cross-appeal by the quitted of a charge of being Manila Tribune. She hit the owners of the oil tanker British drunk and disorderly. pavement in front of the Amor Grenadier about the liability for the Studio on Calle Azcarraga and collision between the two, which oc- came to later at the Philippine curred in April 1930. General Hospital badly injured. The Bremen objected to "But I prefer this, even death finding of Mr. Justice -to the touch of that "bandidol" son that ahe she told reporters.
Her family to blame and the will file complaints for frustrated Grenadier to the finding that, she abduction against the defeated was four-fifths to blame. Lochinvar,
As is usual in such cases, the Enrique Santos of Nicodemus, court submitted questions of navi Tondo, several months ago was gation to Vice-Admiral Cecil D. S. captivated by Marcelina's charms Raikes and Captain Selwyne M. Day but failed to win, her after try- Lord Justice Scrutton, in an- ing every way of wooing he could nouncing the decision of the court, think of. Recently he was told said: "This is a difficult case, and that she was already engaged to the court will take time to consider another man. Then he thought its judgment. Counsel will appre of taking advantage of the girl's ciate why we are taking time, when affection for her mother, Lucia.I tell them that the two assessors
While Marcelina was at the do not agree." Yangco market recently,
A Golf Analogy... woman appeared and told her ex- citedly that her mother had mict Bremen), said the German ship was Mr, W. N. Raeburn, K.C. (for the with an accident at Azcarraga. as long as Blackfriars Bridge and the tickets from a man he knew Charlton said that he bought Distracted, Marcelina was taken was about the same length as the at an' hotel in Aldersgate.
a
him, it was alleged he became When the attendants seized violent, and the police constable in the street, Charlton would not was called to assist them when,
go away, and produced the
counterfoils ticketa. of two theatre
tickets had been sent by post to The manager alleged that the another person who had been to the theatre to Inquire why he had not received them.
Sir Chartres Biron-It is very. mysterious.
He-
by the unknown woman into fourth hole at Woking from the mid-paid a shilling more than the car only to find that she was a dle tee. prisoner there. Her mother was the navigation of the British Grena
The judge had described face value. safe at home and Enrique was dier as "utterly wrong and extra- waiting at Azcarraga,
He jumped into the car to
fordinary foolish." force her to say "yes," but she British Grenadier), said that the Mr. G. R. Dunlop, K.C. (for the "never" instead, and collision was due to the Bremen going half-speed ahend after giving the "stopped in the water" signal. The British Grenadier was full of i highly-explosive cargo and manoeuvres which the judge con demned were taken to avoid run. ning into, or being run into by any other ship.
COUNCILLOR'S THEFTS.
time before the finances of said the Colony permit good Jumped out, money to be expended on the building of
more commodious Jail on a new site remote from a congested part of the city or the mainland. As it is, a frightful lot of money is spent now on the annual upkeep of the Jail with its numerous alien in- mates sent there out of harm's way. Evidently the Jail, in spite of its cramped conditions, holds,
Kept Back Money Due to Miners' Widows.
Trouble About Tickets.
Sir Chartres. Whether he had been drinking too much or fered with him if there had not not, nobody would have inter been this trouble about the tickets?
:,"
The police constable agreed.
Sir Chartres-First of all this the is not a public place. Then the man was turned out by force. That may have made him ex- cited. The tickets are transfer- áble, and there is no evidence that he was improperly in pos session of them.
Although differences between the technical advisers of one court, and
those of another are not common. Charlton said that he pro- such a thing as a difference be- duced his tickets to show that he FROM MEN'S COLLECTIONS,
tween the two advisers of the was entitled to the seats. He same court is so rare as to be prae- was dragged out of the theatre tically Sentence of twelve months' Raikes and Captain Day have to. It was stated that no repre
unknown, no terrors for the non-British imprisonment in the second divi-gether assisted the Court of Appeal sentative from the theatre was
Vice-Admiral and was naturally annoyed. sion has been passed at Doncas-for over a year without disagree in Court. ter Police Court on Arthur ment Roberts, aged 49, a member of the West Riding County Council
type of Oriental criminal, who laughs to acorn the efforts made to maintain discipline.
Some way must be found out of the imbroglio, and that as speedy as possible if the authori ties are not going to invite fur ther attacks on British warders by allen criminals. Past efforts to solve the problem have unfor tunately been nugatory. Let the Legislative Council intervene Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 30, 1931. without further loss of time and erase this blot from the escut cheon of our administration.
"
Trouble in the Jail.
and the Don Valley Board of COST OF MOTORSHIPS Guardians, and a former magis trate
Extravagant Intricacy'
Condemned.
Sir Chartres Biron said that he could only act upon the evid- ence. There might have been some misunderstanding about the tickets, but he did not see what right the theatre officials had to act in the way they did. If the tickets had been impro- Perly come by, they had another remedy, He dismissed the in charge.
LOURDES PILGRIMS.
Many Very Ill in Channel Storm,
TWO COLLAPSE.
£20 from Delilah Burke, widow Ho pleaded guilty to stealing of a miner; £20 from Elizabeth Martin, also a miner's widow; and forging an endorsement on tute of Marine Engineers
In a paper read before the Insti. a cheque.
* mall week, entitled "Low Cost of women's husbands met with fatal the well-known Diesel enginer de- It was stated that when the Matorships" Mr. O. E. Jorgensen accidents their fellow-workers, eigner, expressed the opinion that according to custom, made a col the principles followed in motor- lection, the men contributing 6d, ship construction and equipment each and the boys 3d. each, had resulted in "cargo ships of ex- These amounts were handed to travagant intricacy and cost which Roberts as the representative of make ano wonder how the owners the Yorkshire Miners' Associacan afford them in these times of The 700 pilgrims who have been tion, and he handed them to the depression." After 20 years of visiting Lourdes arrived back in During a squall a boat woman self the cheques for the sums same ideas are adhered to through
widows, but he retained for him- motorshipping, he declared, the England after a terrible Channel toria Jail reported by a repre-named Leung Sze (47) accidentally mentioned in the charge, which out, as were found in the old Selan sentative of the China Mail on fell into the harbour from her boat were the colliery companies cus- dia, built in 1912, and he proceeded At least 500 of the party were
ergoing. page 1 of this issue. There is body was recovered later and sent to at Aberdeen and was drowned. Her
tomary contributions. evidently no intention or desire the Public Mortuary.
to outline his ideas to secure, sim arrived. Waves broke over the very ill when their boat, Engadine, plified and cheaper motorship ma-vessel for practically the whole of on the part of officialdom to con-
chinery. firm the fact that unrest has Yellow Dragon is to hand." It is The Summer number of The again set in amongst the pri
an unusually interesting publication soners. In due course the Jus of 120 pages, a large part of which
To-day officialdom is as silent as the Sphinx with regard to the
fresh outbreak of trouble in Vic-
News in Brief,
tices of the Peace may be re- is devoted to school and other sports quested to perform one of the and athletes. It contains four duties asked of them in the pro- the first being a portrait of Mr. Lo whole page half-tone illustrations,
MILLIONAIRE.
"Goes About As If He Had Not 2d. in World."
Statistics of shipbuilding after the journey, and those who had the War, said Mr. Jorgensen, show one on top deck when leaving been to prefer fuel oil to coal and that the tendency of shipowners has Boulogna were quickly drenched. During the last few years there has ordered them to remain on board Two of the party collapsed dur to prefer motorahipa to atanmers. ing the crossing, and doctors
JUDGE'S OBSERVATIONS,
been built mere motorships tonnage for a little when the boat was in the world than tonnage of all
berthed."
pete when the verbial "blue moon" and visit the Cheung-ahui the. President of bookmaker, was sued at have considored the extra cost of companies auch parties said that it
When Captain Ormerod, a conclusively proves that shipowners other ships combined, which fact
The Worst Ever." Prison and make a report and Queen's College Old Boys' Associa
The ambulance officer who ac recommendations which may or class volley ball final the falsh of 11d by a garage firm, a repre-greater economy in operation on the had ever had,
tion, and the others the Inter- Oxford County Court for $16 118 motorships to be justified by their was the worst crossing the pilgrims may not be given effect to by the the Inter-school 440, and the sentative of the firm said that routes for which the majority of The Rev. Canon Carton de Wiart, “high command.” And once Matriculation Volley ball team. Ormerod seemed to be prosper ships have been built. again, needless to say, the public
ous and doing well.
one of the directore of the pil know that?
Judge Randolph-How do you
grimage, when asked if there had been any cures, sald: "Several of the sick members of the Large quantities of rubber toya party are certainly much better, reply, \_|___The_Judge. That does not house of a firm of rubber manufae, ther there has been a definite cure.
turers in Southwark Street, London, mean that he has means. People
There is one case, however gard that of a doctor whose name I can with nothing ride about in big recently cara smoke expensive cigars, and Dense clouds of amoke hung over in a dying condition and went out Fen fire engines were engaged. not divulge who left Folkestone give banquete, but a millionaire the surrounding streets, and fireman on a stretcher to Lourdes goes about as if he had not two-worked in gasmasks, have just seen him on the pence in the world
WAREHOUSE BLAZE.
will be asked to believe that the A WEEK'S DISEASES. sole origin of the trouble lies in TANG "Well, he has a flat, is well the fact of the Prison being over- TUBERCULOSIS ENTERIC FEVER dressed and has a car, was the were destroyed in a fire at the ware but I cannot state definitely whe
AND ADIPHTHERIA.
crowded!
Is it not time that the whole The official problem of recurrent trouble at and deaths dur the Victoria Jall were ntrusted ed June 27 le
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