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A CRYSTAL PALACE IN DIRTY BAKEHOUSE. LEAVING A BOY TO
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FLAMES.
Artists Masterpieces Being Destroyed. INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED.
Three thousand paintings have been destroyed in a big fire which broke out in the great Crystal Palace at Munich and swept through an art exhibition that was being held there.
Pictures by, famous artists of the German Romantic School and also by modern painters were lost in the flames. They had been lent by museums and private owners throughout Germany. As they were not insured their value cannot be estimated, says
Manager of "Alexandra Cafe Fined.
NOW IN PROPER ORDER,
At the iristance of Sanitary In- spector Allen, the manager of the Alexandra Cafe, Ice House Street, appeared before Mr. W. Schofield in the Central Police Court this morning, to answer A Summona which accused them of having kept the bakehouse in a dirty con-
dition.
trate that he visited the premises Mr. Allen informed the Magls-
for cleansing bad expired, and on June 26, two days after a notice
found the place to be in a very visited the bakehouse this time in dirty condition. Later he again company with Senior Sanitary In ants crawling on the table, and spector Lockhart They found
also decomposed dough lying in Many dispairing artists whose the cracks of the tables. Recent- works were included in the exly metal sheets had been placed on hibition gathered outside the the table tops, and the bakehouse doomed building while their had been put in proper order. masterpieces were being turned
His Worship Imposed a Ane of
the British United Press.
Valuable works of sculpture
have also been lost.
into ashes.
Some of them made futile at
tempts to enter the flames.
Firemen Injured, ·
Three firemen were injured by the falling glass.
The Bavarian Minister of Edu cation, Herr Goldenberger, and the Minister of the Interior, Herr Stuetzel, personally supervised the efforts to save the contents of the building.
The cause of the fire is as yet unknown, although it, is suspect. ved to be the work of incendiaries, as the outbreak occurred simul- taneously at several points.
The authorities, however, hesitate to admit this possibility..
Munich's Crystal Palace was built in 1854, the same year as the London Crystal Palace, at Sydenham. But it is much smaller."
For more than 40 years now it has been used for annual exhibi tions of art..
SALE OF POISONS.
A
Summonses Against
Local Firms.
summons against Messrs.
A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd., for the 'alleged sale of a poison, "Yohim bin" to an unknown person, and the alleged failure to enter parti-
$50.
RAINY.
To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states:
Pressure is highest to the N. E. of Japan and lowest over Tongking.
Forecast S. winds; moder- ata; generally overcast and rainy.
Rainfall."/
Rainfall for 24 hours end- ed at 10 a.m. to-day, 0.78 inch. Total since January 1-42.74 Inches against an average of 44.48 inches-deficit 1.74 inch.
Temperature.
The temparature at certais specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock was ----
78 Hong Kong
Macao
Pratas Island
Manila
Toochow
81
98
76
REBREASS
Amoy
Chefoo Shanghai
64
67
UNREGISTERED MUI-TSAI.
Mr. W. Schofield, in the Central "culars of that sale on June 23, was Police Court this morning, impos- mentioned before Mr. W. Schofielded a fine of $80 on a Chinese in the Central Police Court this woman who was summoned for having had in her control or cus- morning.
Other firma, including the Sin-tody an unregistered mui taal, cere Company, Wing On & Co., aged 15 years. His Worship said were also summoned for similar that in previous cases he had found offences in connection with the that the fine of $50 was rather heavy on the defendanta. In this came poison.
Mr. H. C. Macnamara appearing case there had been no serious ill- for Watson & Co. said that there treatment, according to the evi-
dence. would be argument on points of law and also on points of chemical interest. He explained that there was a great difference between Yohimbin itself and Yohimbin tablets.
His Worship fixed hearing for Tuesday, July 28 at 2.80 p.m.
FRANCO-SOVIET PACT.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. ›
DROWN.
Bargemen Who "Went On."
NO LEGAL OBLIGATION.
"People are not under any legal | obligation to assist a drowning person, but there is a higher law -the moral law. If these youths ore examples of Britens, it makes one ashamed of being British."
This comment was made by
Rodger, at a the coroner, Mr. R. Stuart! Patricroft inquest seven, of Shakespeare Crescent, on James Rheubottom, aged
Patricroft.
At 1.25 p.m. to-day a severe thun- derstorm accompanied by vivid lightning and an exceptionally heavy downpour of rain, swept over the Colony.
Rond, Monton, said that she was Mrs. Ada O'Reilly, of Monton walking along the canal bank
roud,
said, "Jimmie's in the canal." when a boy ran up and
She saw three young men stand- ing on the banks. Two of them been throwing them from the had their jackets off, and had side for the boy to grab.
She took her coat off to go in, but the men said. "It is no uso. He has been down three tinies." The boy's head then appeared above the surface, and she call- ed to men on a passing barge, but they looked over the side and went on.
Jeffrey Bottrill, aged seven, said that a young man on bicycle said, "I can't swim," and rode away.
The inquest was adjourned.. the coroner stating that he wanted to find the young men re- ferred to.
BLASTING PERILS. Fragment Strikes An Amah's Bed.
In the Central Magistracy this morning before Mr. W. Schofield, Pang Yun-ting, a building contrac- tor was summoned by Sub-Inspec- tor H. E. Rogers with having fail- ed to take all necessary precau- tions whilst blasting on a hillside at Tai Hang recently. Defendant, who was represented by a friend, pleaded guilty.
FAMUSEMENTS
Stating the facts, S.-I. Rogers said that during bleating opera- tions one day last month, a huge piece of rock came flying over a new block of flats under construc- tion, and landed in the ground floor of a house in Fly Dragon Terrace A large fragment went into the amah's room and struck.
Another piece broke a her bed. window sill on the first floor.
The Magistrate: If that rock, had hit the amah you would prob- ably be standing in there charg ed with manslaughter,
A fine of $75 was imposed.
VEHICULAR FERRY.
The Colonial Secretary will move at the meeting of the Legislative Council to-morrow:
the
That thie Council approves of the expenditure of $730,000 on Vehicular Ferry during the finan- cial year 1931 which sum shall be met from a future loan and shall meanwhile be charged as an ad- vance from the surplus balances of the Colony
Paris, July 18, Contrary to persistent rumours that Franco-Russian' negotiations for the conclusion of a commercial #greement and a pact of non- aggression had broken down, the Midi reports that a Franco-Soviet A market has been found, re-entisfied with the letter Gandhi re-. agreement, has been practically con- cently, by the Wilson Box Com:ceived from the Viceroy, and bla cluded although on a smaller basis pany, Limited, which operates at visit to London for the Round than was planned originally.
Saint John, for dry sawdust in Table Conference la now a certain- This is taken to mean that carload lots for shipment to Cana ty. A negotiations have been confined to dian and United States points. Gandhi is visiting Simla on Wed- elaboration. of the commercial The firm is building an addition nesday to discuss matters person-
to its plant for sawdust storage.ally with the Viceroy.
Occurring during the tin hour, many office and shop employees were storm-bound for some time but both rikishas and chaira did a brisk trade.
could be ascertained GANDI'S LONDON TRIP. So far as before going to Press, no casualtion
Bombay, Monday. have been reported.
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