MONDAY, JULY 27, 1931.
C. T. STUDD.
Death of Celebrated Cricketer.
MISSIONARY IN CHINA.
London, Yesterday,
A private cable received in Lon. don, and published in the Sunday News, aunnuhees the death of Mr. Charles Thomas Studd, in Delgian
Congo, on July 16.
WAITERS LOSE.
Action for a Shares in a Sweep Ticket.
THE CHINA MAIL.
FORTUNE-TELLING. Two Sparrows and the Card.
V
SHOT IN CHAIR,
And Some Other Queer Accidents.
'MACHINE-GUN MAN.
How Bolshevik Rising
Was Frustrated,
MAN IN BROWN.
Disguised P.C. Keeps an Appointment..
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4. MISAPPREHENSION.
Ramasamy and Muniand are not In the midst of life we are in-
It was an editor with a machine- the Darby and Joan of an Indian all sorts of perils, as the following gun
A man who gave the name of who killed the Bolshevik William Parker, and who, refused Fourteen Birmingham waiters romance. They are two Java spar examples of claims made on a chances of capturing the centre of to say where he lived, was charg were concerned in an application rows which are helping à man to large American insurance company government in Berlin during the ad at Westminster Police Court heard by Mr. Justice Bennett in cara h comfortable living in for injuries show:
Spartakist rising in 1918. This is with attempting to obtain £50' by London.
Colombo by fortune-telling."
A policy-holder sitting in a bar the story of Mr. Arno Dosch-false pretences from Mrs. Steen, a Mr. Leslie Knight and 13 other
The man la an Indian with an ber's chair was wounded when a Fleurot, an American newspaper doctor's wife, of Elizabeth Street, waiters at the Queen's Hotel, Birm- enviable moustache and a atriking man being shaved in the next chair correspondent, in one of the chap- Pimlico. He was the famous "C. T." of ingham, hurl asked for un in red dot decorating the forehead. accidentally dropped a revolver. Theters of a book "Through War to It was stated in evidence that a the Studd brothers trio, al cole junction restraining Mr. W. H. Silver coins jingle in his pockets at weapon went off and the bullet (Revolution? (The Bodley Head,jman telephoned to Mrs. Steen and brated Canileridge and Middlesex Marks and Mr. Caspar, Berther from the slightest rustle of hla coat.ontered the policy-holder's thigh, 10s. 6d.). cricketers.
purting with moner received by That is an indication of his success causing paralysis. "CT" was converted during them in respect of a Calcutta Sweep in a profession, which, in Colombo,-. While a man WILB The Sankey-Moody spirituni revival, ticket, which drew the Derby wins a trifle overcrowded.. and he abandoned his career alner, Cameronian..-The-ticket was The man is never without his the Bary and a fortune of £100,000 stated to be worth about £110,000. crowd when he takes his post at n to form the Camouï "Combridge' Mr. Marks, a customer at the street corner. Men and women Seven." who undertook missionary Queen's Hotel, gave Mr. Berther, ajelbow each other, to get a tura, ' work in China.
waiter, a half share in the ticket as The system by which ho tells a "tip," and the applicants' case was fortune is so simple that each client that, according to the custom of the does not take more than two hotel, the money should be pooled minutes of his time. Which means, and shared between them.
that he practically earns at the Mr. L. F. Mumford, who appeared rate of ten cents every two minutes. for them, said that at the time the He owes all that rain of silver coin action was conceived plaintiffs wore to the two trained sparrow which under a complete misapprehension ho carries in a celled enge. as to the facts, and they now wished to withdraw the action.
Stadd suffered a severe rents down in health, and later conduct ed a mission in India. In 1916, he founded the Heart of Africa Mission..which carried on its worl
in the Congo, since when he has never been to England, but enrried on his work in spite of his very precarious health..
fin was born in 1861 and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. --Router.
LAWN BOWLS.
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A. Colman
T. Hunter
T. Gooding
W. Mair
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Mr. Marks (the owner of the lic et) was only a formal defendant. With regard to Mr. Berther, plain tiffa wished to emphasise that there never was any moral obligation on him to share the proceeds of the
ticket.
in the circumstances, counsel asked that the motion be treated as the trial of the action, and dismiss od with costs.
The Procedure.
When a patron alts beside him he sprouts lengthwise near the cage a sheaf of thin packets. Then he lifts the door of a cell of the cage and the bird inside peeps out and twitters heltatingly "come
on.
Ramasamy calls out the master in coping, affectionate tones.
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Ramasamy hops out, does variation of a step dance up and down the spread out packets and picks out one with its beak. Inside the packet is a printed card which,
Mr. Buckmaster'sald defendants had no objection to that course heing adopted, but Mr. Berther in a few cryptfe sentences, tells the :24 wished to say that there never was fortune in store for the patron.
any moral claim against him.
Mr. Justice Bennett: There are no moral claims in this court.
The motion was dismissed.
H. G. Cooper
J. V. Ramsay
J. O. Shepheard
F. Cullen-
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League II.
TAIKOO v. C.C.C.
The only skill demanded of the fortune-teller himself is the ability to read Tamil. But he lacks even that ability and gets somebody else to read out the contents of the card.
While
this is being done,
To keep the game of ice hockey Ramasamy retires to his cell happy going at all, it is necessary to make Flying on their own rinks, Tai-paid changes in the team, and ro-Munfandl's turn to be called out of In the knowledge that it is
kno defeated Craigengower by 32
whois. •
Scores:-
Taikoo R.C.
J. Watson
D. Yunre
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W. Brown
serves may be broughton at any the cage next. They have to face moment to replace exhausted play the crowd alternately.
trs. By this means, and by the ahorineas of the periods of play- three sesions of twenty minutes cach--the battle fever of the game is never allowed to drop. And the amazing thing is that the game is so popular with women-Norman R. Collins.
Craigengewer.
D. K. Kharag
J, Whyte
F. K. Modi
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T. Young
W. V. Field
W. GA
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F. Finner
T. Swan
R. Hooper
W. Bell
W. Ward
R. K. Duncan.
A. L. de Souza
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H. 'Rosario
A. E. Alves
W. While
A. V. Barros
P. Dixon
J. G. Ozorio
H. V. Pearce
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W. Cunningham C. Summons
A. MacIndoo
D. Speirs.
R. M. Keown
RECREIO v. K.B.G.C.
Playing on their own green Club
de Recreio lost to the Kowloon | K.C.c. Bowling Green by
margin of two shots.
F.V. V. Ribeiro
the
narrow.C.C.
C. S. Beat'
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`SAUCER' THAT WOULD NOT BREAK.
·OXFORD. DISCOVERY
Strange Behaviour of Gas Mixture.
"ROTTEN EGGS.”
Interest has been
A chemical discovery of great made by Dr.
One can
H. W. Thompson, of Oxford. When od hydrogen sulphide, and known oxygen and that, notorious gas call-
mixed in certala proportions and popularly as "rotten eggs," are
under certain conditions they ex naked for 230 in notes to be paid pinde. Dr. Thompson finds that "Their main mob, soldiers and to Detective-Sergeant Campion to they explode not once only but telephoning, men and women from. Nord Ber-obtain the release of Dr. Steen continue to explode at intervals, of lightning struck a wire in the cir-In," says Mr. Doach-Fleurot, came from custody: cuit and his ear drum was cracked.. thousands strong up the Unter den
a minuta
or so, like a Chinese Watching a motor-car speed race, Linden, crying out. All power to be enclosed in an envelope ad-
The money, it was said, was to cracker. a spectator was severely hurt when the Soldaten und Arbeiter Rat, dressed to Mr. Parker, who would something very strange must be seo immediately that the wheel of a machine came off and singing the Internationale." be waiting the following day at occurring because one would natur- and struck him.
"When it was within twenty Charing Cross Post Office. A pencil stub, in the lining of a yards of the corner of the Wil-would be dressed in a brown suit combined with each other after the Heally expect the gases to be entirely man's coat, suddenly punctured a helmetrasse the Government's with both hands in his pockets first explosion. How the two gasee vein.
guards retreated into Wilhelm-[and wearing a cap. Driving along a highway which strasse.
succeed in continuing to explode is Then, like half a dozen Woman-Patrol Jean Stratton said not yet understood. suddenly expanded with the heat, a taps, as many bullets splashed that.. acting on instructions. sha driver and his car, were flung into down on the concrete, before the went to Charing Cross Post Office, a ditch:
Brandenburger Tor, the spen where she saw Parker. A policy-holder was trying on a bullets humming over the heads of pair of shoes, when the ehopman the crowd, which stopped and grasped his customer's toes, bend- looked up. On top of the Branden ing them back and dislocating one..
burger Tor was a machine-gun.
Gets Jubilee
Pay Cheque
Sixty years of railway service in
Canada were recently marked by the receipt of his Jubilee pay chequo by John Caesar, of Vancou
JOIN CAESAR
ver, B.C., primo mover in the beautifying of stations of the Canadian Paci le Railway by gardening, who started his car cor in 1871. with the old Great Western and tho Toronto, Grey and Bruce Ruff- way, which was taken over by the C. P. R. in 1992 Mr. Caesar, after whom a station on tho Kettle Valley Division. is n
ed, wan first agent at Markdale, Ont., and thereafter was for many yeara suqlated with the com- pany's station gardening activition, Eren, after his peneloning 1017, he retained supervisory responsi bility over all gardens on lines cast.
He is just over
of Fort William. at Liverpool
A Chinese witness County Court concluded the Chinese oath with the usual words, “And. If I do not speak the truth may my soul be dashed into a thousand pieces even as this saucer," at the same time throwing the BLUCET 24 heavily to the floor.
G. E. F. Thompson
H. H. Rose
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But, instead of breaking, sauzer rebounded intact, and second and third attempt proved equally unsuccessful
80 years of age and has been a resident of Vancouver for some years.
She asked him if he was Mr. Parker, and he said yes.
He showed her a card with the name Wm. Parker printed on it.
Then he asked her if she was Mrs. Steen, and said he was
so well
a most original type and may con
The phenomenon seems to be of
tain the germs of extraordinary practical applications. One can im- agine an entirely new type of In- ternal combustion or motor-engine which is driven by "Chinese- cracker" explosions and in which all valve-gears and cycles used to
could be abolished. The speed of plosions in the engine cylinders. the engine would be regulated en- tirely by varying the mixture.
"A man behind it shouted to the crowd to draw back. It stond its ground. Again half a dozen bul police officer and that Detective-space out the time between the ex- lets, nearer this time, in the path Sergeant Campion was his boss. between the plane trees, after "You have something for me," which the boulevard is named. he went on to say. "Don't give it The crowd stood irresolute. The me here where I am leaders started to make a rush for known.
Secondly, the continuously ex- the end of the Wilhelmatrasse, buti Still thinking he was addressing ploding mixture may solve the pro the machine-gun then spinshed its Mrs. Steen, he continued, "Your blem of the gas-turbine. At pre- bullets right at their feet. Few husband has got a kink, you know. sent the temperatures and pressures were touched except by spent bul-but don't worry he will be all produced by the burning of gases Iets.
right when I give Sergeant Cam- are too great to be handled practi- "I tried to induce, one of the pion the money.
cally in a turbine. If the complete. guards to let me go with him to "This sort of thing goes an every combustion of the gases used to drive such a turbine could be re- placed by a series of partial com- bustions puffs through the turbine nozzle, or a succession of small
realisation of the gas-turbine might be in sight. Then the patrol or oil- driven motor-car could have a smooth turbine to drive it, instead of whirring, and vibrating engine.
the top of the Brandenburger Tor.day, you know." He took me to the commahder for
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The policewoman' gave Parker a permission. It was the machine"dummy" envelope which had been gunner. He was the editor of the made up, and remarking that it great Socialist daily, 'Vorwaerts, should contain £50, he left her. victims of the racketeers."
He was taken into custody-direct ly afterwards.
Detective-Sergeant Camplon, who arrested Parker, said that as he had been charged he said:-
EPITHETS.
Leon Daudet's Outburst in a Paris Court.
Extraordinary scenes occurred in
a Paris court during the hearing of.)
"I am hard up and thought this would be a good opportunity of making a pound."
CAWNPORE SEQUEL,
a case in which the principal parties Death Sentence on Man
are Leon Daudet, a taxi driver call-
ea Bajot and the manager of the newspaper L'Oeuvre.
Who. Murdered Woman.
I wish I could see our rich men In the course of a heated passage giving great sums for the advance between Daudet and Bajot's coun- Debidin Patwa has been sentene thement of science and learning in sel, the monarchist leader, who is ed to death by the sessions judge aaomething the same way as the noted for the richness and original-of Cawnpore on a charge of mur American does.-Earl Beauchamp.ty of his epithets and is never apardering a Moslem woman on one of ing in his abuse, shouted out "Shut the main roads of the city during It was not until the witness knelt Sir James Jeans with a powerful up, idiot, grotesque creature, ridicu- the recent communal riots. on the ground and hammered the telescope could not discover Social- lous anthropoid! Chimpanzee! Take P. W. D. L. For Agst. Pts.saucer heavily on the floor that itism in the present Government him to the Colonial Exhibition. .11 10 0 1 602 61 20 broke.
Mr. Lloyd George.
Put him in a cage."
LEAGUE TABLES.
Division 1.
Shots
.10 9 0 1 608 493 18 Taikoo R.C. 10 6 0 4 5 526 12 C.S.C.C....10.5 0 5 5GL
82 10
K.B.G.C.
...11 5 0 3 53 637 10 Recreio .11 4 0
7 607 610
C
8
0
K. Dock...11 407 80 847 Police R.C. 1200 12 581 765
Division II.
Shots
P. W. D. L. For Agst Pts.
Scores:-
Recreio
K.B.G.C.
J. M. M. Alves
F..V. Whitta
J.-J.- Basto
J G. Meyer
F. L. Rapley
F. X. da Silva
V. Petherick
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H. F. Stoneham
:
K.B.G.C...10 7 1.2 625 540 15 K.C.C. 9 8 0 3 682 488 12 Recreio
.10 6 0 4.602 584 12 Taiken R.C. 10 6 1 670 519 12 (C.C.C. ...10 4 0 6,548 009 Yacht C... 9 2 2 5 491 618 C.S.C.C. 9 40 5 488 520 .8 Electric R.C. 3 1 6 8 410 538
G
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Barros
J. Remedios J. 9. Logan. H. Alves
W. E, Hale
J. C. V. Ribeiro. A. W. E. Davidson
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all kinds of surmise, and one hopes Dr. Thompson's discovery raises that the effect may be obtained from all explosive mixtures of gases when the correct conditions are provided.
KARACHI'S IDLE,
Over 6,000 on the Unemployed List.
Karechi as not yet been ascer The number of unemployed tained, but the recently formed em ployment eccuring agency has on its books the names of 6,000 worklene,
the majority of whom belong to the
Thirty accused, who are charg ed with the murder of Moslem men.labouring classes, clerks and other women and children during the clerical workers having been slow, recent communal riots, have been to take advantage of whatever sid committed to the sessions.
the bureau offers in the securing of The magistrate in committing employment." the accused remarked-that-the-case was an illustration of the extent to which communal frenzy could be carried. The absence of any motive, for the commission of the crime, except that the victims be- longed to a different religion, and the cruelty and heartlessness dis played, all went to show what fanaticism and bigotry could achieve in ignorant minds.
The lack of work is so great, how- ever, that the bureau cannot obtain employment for more than an aver age of 20 men daily.
The correct thing to do is to have that kind of voting paper which stupid people will spoil, because o that way you will disfranchise ti stupid part of the population-S Martin Conway.
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