TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1933.
BALCONY COLLAPSE
ENQUIRY
Jury's Verdict.
FIND DEATH DUE TO
MISADVENTURE
SIMPSON CASE ENQUIRIES
Reason For Consul's Protest.
London, To-day. The case of Mr. Lenox Simp-
The Coroner's enquiry into the ison, former Editor of the Harbin
PRINCE WIELDS A SICKLE.
Royal Visit To Abbey Wood Allotments.
FREE SEEDS FOR WORKLESS
London.
THE CHINA MAIL.
„To-Daya Short Story.
Love's a Funny Thing
THE HALL - PORTER'S STORY
As Told To PETER CHEYNEY.
deaths of Cheng Tai, an amah, and Times who has been ordered The Prince of Wales took up F anybody ever tells you that than he was getting, so he thought were killed in the balcony collapse to leave Manchuria, was raised a sickle.
Its interesting job being out a big idea and started
Jessic Housan, a schoolgirl, whe
at No. 15 Yuk Sau Street, Happy again in the House of Commons He gripped it firmly, and Hall-Porter at a Night Cluba betting book with a half-breed Valley, on June 3, was concluded at by Mr. Thomas Williams, yester-tackled some rushes, big rushes don't you believe 'em! It's no Indian, who was a pretty By cus- the Central Police Court yesterday. day.
more interesting than any other tomer. The jury retired for an hour, and Replying to Mr. Williams, the-eight feet high.
¡job,
A Nasty Jar. for Under-Secretary
Hack, hack, then another Foreign returning gave the following verdict..
Everybody-bets in the Army, and Night Clubs aren't bad places like. Affairs, Capt. Anthony Eden, re-hack, then several more. Either people think they are. It's the in India they do it twice as much, Death was due to collapse of the ferred to his reply of July 12the rushes were extra tough, or people not the places; but I believe and the book-making business was balcony by reason of the placing ofį steel bars in a long position, and, and said that the precise groundlse the sickle - a silver-plete that night-life is finished in London, decidedly good. He
of the British Consul-General's
I've
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doing was, therefore, due to misadventure. protest was, that the charge was souvenir → was none too sharp. different story.
anyway. Before the war. It was a pretty well and splashed his money
about more than ever. The contractor's foremennils- not brought in the Consular understood the details of the steel Court.
At last the rushes fell.
Anyhow, he was living within hisj been Hall-Porter at three income, and everything would have work, and placed the bars wrongly,
"Phew" said the Prince, as he night-clubs and I don't believe that been lovely when all of a sudden the Therefore, it was clearly im-[ .and the person
or persons respon possible for him to discuss with stood upright again. "That was would make what I'd call a story with the cash after a big race,
anything has ever happened that half-breed partner does a vamoose sible for supervision failed to per- the local authorities whether hard work, but" - form their duties in checking the their complaints against Mr. smiled "I think I must blame if I wanted to.
and he mind you, I could tell you a story, position of the steel bars before the Simpson were justified or not. concrete was poured.
the sickle!"
The strangest things happen to This was what happened when people when they least expect 'em the Prince of Wales
I suppose you'd call it fate. The story I'm going to tell you is what Abbey Wood, near Woolwich, tofra call a bit of luck!
Reuter.
JEWELRY THEFT Our FROM EUROPEAN
We recommend measures to be taken to deal with architects who fail to supervise their work properly.
We
wish
to
express zympathics with the relatives ofİ the dead."
Mr. Schofield acted as Coroner and, the special jury empanelled com-! prised Mesars, R. A. Rodgers (fore- man), Colbourne Little, and Li Koan-chun.
Mrs. Coote Misses Ring And Locket.
SERVANT GAOLED
went to
He couldn't do anything about it, because, naturally, he had to keep his bookmaking activities very quiet as far as the regiment was concern- ed, but It gave him a nasty jar and it put him badly in debt, because he had to borrow money left, right and
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "1715," by George Robey.
see the allotment gardens which It happened to a man I knew. We centre in order to pay out half a workless men are cultivating un-were band-boys together in the dozen people who would have made der a scheme run by the Society Army, years and years ago. We it pretty hot for him if he hadn't! of Friends, the Winter Distress belonged to a regiment of the Line League, and an allotment so that thought a hell of a lot of itself, ciety.
an' we thought a hell of a lot of it. The total area of the land is self, an' we thought a lot of our Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K.C., (instruct- La Yec, a market-coolie in the em- about 66 acres, and already near-selves, too. ed by Mr. F. E. Nash, of Messrs.ploy of Mrs. Coute, at No. 5ly 350 men 95 per cent. of Weakness for the Girls. Woo and Nash appeared for the con- Magazine Gap Road was sentenced them ex-Service men-re Well, eventually this man trans- tractors, Messrs. Wang Tak and Co. to two months' hard labour at the working there, and have put 27 ferred to another regiment, and the Mr. H. J. Arstrong of Messrs. Central Police Court this morning acres under cultivation in 225 next thing I knew was that be was Deacon's, for the architect, Mr. A. for theft of a gold finger ring and a plats. It is hoped that it will not a full-blown Regimental Sergeant- 7. Lane, and Mr. M. K. Lo, of Messrs. gold locket.
be long before between 400 and Major. Pretty quick promotion, I'm
The next thing he did was to get Lo and Lo, for the owner of the It was
stated that Mrs. Coote 500 men will find profitable em telling you, after only twelve years mixed up with a very charming house Mr. Kwok Wai-sam.
missed her jewellery last Saturday: ployment there.
service.
woman-at least she looked char- Mr. F. C. Jenkin, in his sub-afternoon and immediately inform
The Prince of Wales distribut-)
He was a funny sort of fellow.ing-who said she was an actrees, mission to the jury on behalf of the ed the police. The defendant, whetors, who included seven women, had a weakness for the girls. He/around on the chance of picking up ed seed potatoes to the cultiva. He was very dapper and smart and but who seemed to just hang had been engaged at the beginning | "I put it you with confidence of the month, was suspected. On and chatted to them about their always had two or three of them in anything that was going.
rontractors, zaid:
that there has been no criminal searching his belongings the two crops. neglect of duty of the contractor in articles were found in a pillow case. this case, and I put it to you also The defendant then confessed having that you should absolve him from ing stolen them. any responsibility whatever."
Mr. H. J Armstrong, for the Architect, Mr. A. J. Lane, said:
"My submission is that in this! case there is no evidence before you | which is sufficient to find Mr. Lanej guilty of any negligence.
Mr. M. K. Lo, on behalf of the owner, said that there could only be three persons.responsible for the col- lapse-the owner, the architect and the contractor. With regard to the owner, Mr. Lo said he was not try ing to be flowery, but Mr. Kwok did; feel a very overwhelming respon- sibility to his brother for the death
been made in vain.
U.S. DEFICIT IS $1,750,000,000
Fiscal Year Closes With Deficit.
Washington. The United States closes the fiscal year with a deficit of $1,750,000,000, the second largest peace time deficit in the history of the country. This does not include as addi-
He was in love with that woman tow, and he used to like to throw his "And how is your garden go- money about too.
all right. Mind you, I believe that: he asked Mr. F. W. Gooch,
he knew that she was a bad 'un,! But he managed to get along on bat he just couldn't sort of escape aged 72.
"Fine, thank you, sir," said Mr.to make all right, until his regiment
his pay, and some odd bits he used from her-you know what I mean, planting." Gooch, "I have done most of my went to India, and then the trouble the place for six months he was in Anyway, after she'd been about
started.
it up to his neck. He had borrow-j "What have you got in already""First of all he found he was spend-to a spot of cash from regimental He got into all sorts of odd jams.led more money; he'd helped himself money funds in his charge, which he'd
་
"Good," the Prince replied.
So Mr. Gooch recounted that ing a deuce of a lot more he had planted: 42 lbs. of pota- toes, two rows of beetroot, six rows of peas, six rows of beans, three rows of parsnips, four) rows of carrots, some raddishes,l and lettuce.
"How's that, sir " he asked as he ended the list.
"Why," answered the Prince, have the best of luck with them "I think that's fine. I hope you
NEW ATTRACTION
AT PENINSULA.
of his niece, as well as to the family tional $1,249,692,983 given to all." - Reuter. of the amah who died. He invited the Reconstruction Finance Cor them by their verdict to clear the poration, which, if included in owner of any responsibility at all the budget, would make the de- in the collapse. He felt they would ficit approximately $3,000,000,000. do so, and that his appeal had not; Expenditures outside this lat-
He submitted that Mr. Lane "was '000
ter amount included $3,950,000,-)
and guilty of the grossest negligence".$2,200,000,000.
income was only but that of course depended on what i the jury found Mr. Lane had done was forced to borrow to cover the As I Fault the government} in the case. He point out the dif- difference, bringing the public ference between the evidence of Mr. debt up to $22,500,000,000, the Lane and that of Mr. Moore, of the highest figure since 1922. P.W.D., whom he described as the
Treasury receipts
EUROPEAN BOY BITTEN.
Son Of Lincolnshire Sergeant.
NOW IN HOSPITAL. `
hoped to be able to pay back some- how, and he'd run up bills in the way a First Class Warrant Officer can run 'em up in India-that's if he wants to!
Then there came the final blow. Her ladyship informed him that she hadn't a lót of time for a man who was broke, and that unless he did something about it she would have to do the vanishing act.
A Big Chance. Ronald Herbert, aged 5, son of This shook him up a bit. I told| talion the Lincolnshire Regiment, love with that woman, an' he went Sergeant Herbert, of the 1st Bat-you that he was head over heels in living at President Apartments, off and had a quiet think in his was bitten by a dog yesterday
quarters. afternoon and is now being treated He took a bit of paper and did at the Military Hospital.
some arithmetic and the result made trace the owner of the dog, which his neck, and unless se u
The police have been unable to him shudder. He was in it up to has been sent to Mau Tau Kok for vil of a sum of money inside a couple An added attraction for the next observation, Peninsula Hotel concert, on July.
of weeks he knew that there was only independant witness in the in mount-due to the recent pick-up der a sole. He has chosen the by a dog owned by Mr. A. Roberts,
Another Dog Victim. 28, is Prof. Harry Ore, the well-
going to be the deuce of a row-and jury. "It is clear law and common in business.
Knows piano virtuoso who will ren-was bitten on the left leg yesterday of E
Leung Kwan, a Chinese coolle General Court Martial on the end "sense," said "Mr. Lo, "and it has been a point conceded by Mr. Lane him More than $10,000,000 month-overture of "William Tell" by living at No. 8b Carnarvon Road, who would alway's take a chance, and I told you that he was a fellow self, that he should inspect the rods.)
ly is being received in the trea-Rossini and Liszt which is a com- Kowloon. He The point for the jury is a simple sury as revenue on 3.2 per cent. Position of great beauty, and im Kowloon Hospital for treatment,
was sent to the he made up his mind there an' then beer
one. Did Mr. Lane inspect the ruds?"
..
Dealing with the contractor, Mr.
Lo pointed out that one of the
U.P.
are now
Prof. Harry Ore Booked For Sunday Concert.
mensely difficult to pay.
No Bargaining With Congress
clauses in the specification read, "I Revolt Against Congress?
have seen the plans and know and understand them." The duty of the
contractors therefore was to build
Continued from Pape 1.)
according to the plan and to have of initiating negotiations with the reasonable amount of supervision Government regarding these con
If they had not had that reasonable ditions.
Government as a result of auch dis-
A Better India
(Continued from Page 1)
Dealing with the financial posi-
MARINE OFFICER
PASSES.
to take the biggest one he'd ever even thought of. He had to have s lot of money, and there was only one way to get it.
There was a horse called Quetta frunning in a race the biggest event
Capt. A. M. Sinclair of the year in India-end he knew
FUNERAL TO-DAY.
misunderstood the details of the cussion, the Civil Disobedience about, although it had excited high tion Company,
something about it.
He knew that it had a big chance; that it wasn't fancled, and that if be could back it quietly enough and
So he started to back it. He'pot
amount of supervision, then they been decided that unless the Con-India might look back with satis Arthur Munro Sinclair, formerly
It also appears to have tion, he said that the Government of the Kowloon Hospital of Captain self-if it won.
The death occurred yesterday at for enough money he could save him- also were guilty of negligence.
The jury were also of the opiniones reached settlement with the faction on the improvement brought of the Indo-China Steam Naviga- money on it regimental money all that "the contractar's foremen had
over the place. Within a week be steel work and placed the bars campaign will be resumed on taxation. Government securities resided at the Melbourne House in the Indian Empire.
The late Captain Sinclair, who had the finest collection of vouchers wrongly and the person or persons August 1.
had risen and borrowing had been Kowloon, was admitted to the Hos: He told his lady friend what he responsible for the supervision fail-
"The position of the Govern- effected at declining rates. ed to perform their duties in checkment is, that Civil Disobedience is
pital last Friday and passed away was doing, and she smiled and satd) ing the positions of the steel bars wholly unconstitutional, that there Regarding law and order, ha anid early yesterday morning.
she'd just stick around and see what before the concrete was poured." can be no compromise with it and that the general state of feeling to Far East in 1919 and joined the
Captain Sinclair came to the happened. The jury further recommended that the Government cannot enter wards the Government was shown in Marine staff of the Indo-China and went up country to see it run. On the day of the race he got leave that measures should be taken to into any negotiations for its with the particular way in which central Steam Navigation Company everything was going to be all right. deal with architects who failed to drawal.. supervise their work properly,
"If. Congress desires to resume passed legislations to replace Or Master at Shanghai 18 months
and provincial legislatures had third officer. He retired its position M a constitutional dinances. It was also shown by the ago. party and to put an end to the lack of interest taken in the Civil During the War he served in the movement which has brought grave Disobedience movement which had R.N.R. with the North Sea con- Injury and suffering to the coun- tallen to mich a low ebb that the as-voys.
News In Brief.
It was a lovely day and he felt that
she went with him, and, believe me, He had that lucky sort of foeling:
she looked a peache
ghe pick it half a dozen times
Benten by a Bhori Head,
more of the course; and he put all
with his other betting youchers, and put the eket in tunie pocket. He'd bicked It to v and if it did! win he was. Tou trouble and with,
try, the way is open to it as it al-pension of it, at the beginning of The funeral takes place this the betting tickets in the envelope A fatal motor-lorry_accident oc-ways has been. Mr. Gandhi's recent fast made little aftercoon, passing the Monum curred yesterday morning when a "It is within the power of Con- or no practical difference,
at 5.30 pm,
WEATHER FORECAST
Chinese woman named Cheng Sze gress to restore peace by with There was only one-Afth of the was knocked down in Third Street by drawing, onsite own initiative the Civil Disobedience of two years motor lorry 2289. The woman re- Civil Disobedience movement. An, ago and one tenth of that ceived severe injuries and died be however, the Congress la not wil of three years ago, although the Fair to showery with moderate money fore reaching the hospital. The ling to take that action: an inter- majority of the Congress Com easterly of variable winds is the time to stra driver, Fan Lan stated that the lorry view would be to no purpose.mittee were not in prison at all-weather forecast isased by the Royal he was due akidded and got out of control British Wireless Service,
British Wireless Service.
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bundle of would have
thten things out before|| render his accomnti.
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