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NINETY FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1935.
ROYAL PRINCE AS FILM DIRECTOR
Grandson Of King Of Sweden
SERVES APPRENTICESHIP IN GERMANY
CHINESE THUG ROBS BAG SNATCHER
MARRIED WOMAN Arrested After Short
Chase
CAUGHT
P. T. S. Officer's Time y Arrival
EUROPEAN LADIES VICTIMISED
Chan Sze a Chinese married woman of 23 years of age, in statement to the Police, reports. that while she was walking in
An Interesting case of bag. Shantung Street at about 8.20 p.m. Prince Sigvard of Sweden; yesterday, a Chinese male sudden-snatching from European ladies grandson of King Gustaf, wholly attacked her and snatched a was heard by Mr. A. W. G. H. before his marriage last year to gold bangle, valued at $20 from Grantham at the Kowloon Magis the German film actress, Erika her left wrist. Patzek, renounced his royal title
tracy this morning when Wong
and hereditary rights and adopt- She was temporarily blinded by Keuk, a 24-year-old odd job ed the ancestral name of Berna-the blow, which struck her on the coolie, was sentenced to eight 'dotte, has been engaged by left eye, but managed to call for months imprisonment. leading American film organisa-help; this resulted in the tion as director and has left Ber- being arrested after a short chase. lin for Hollywood. The former
Prince has for the past two years Bistant film director with served his apprenticeship as as German "UFA" film concern.
thief
The defendant was originally
charged with stealing a purse the from Miss Hermour, of No. 51
Kimberley Road, on Saturday last, but after a gold. cuff link) had been found in his possession an additional charge of stealing a
February 27, was entered.
Detective-Sub-Inspector Whant,
BOAT SUNK IN WHANGPOO purse from Mrs. Fowles
TUG MASTER
AND CREW HAVE
NARROW ESCAPE
SECONDS
on
picked them up. No one's condi- of the C.I.D. of the Water Police! Station, stated in his prosecution The St. Aubin had received in-that on Saturday, Miss Hermiour
ton la said to be serious.
A
structions to attend the inbound... was standing outside shop No. 58 Alnmoor, loaded with lumber from in Nathan Road talking to a ONLY QUESTION OF the North Pacific coast, which was friend, when the defendant took due at 5 am. in the Lower Section, a hand-bag from the complain- Capt. Roussett left the Shanghai ants. Miss Hermour seized the ¡defendant and after short Tug & Lighter Co. station about 4) 8.m, and anchored off Holt's Pootung struggle managed to retrieve her bag, but the defendant escaped Wharf, awaiting his charge. About
and ran away. 5 am, he saw the Alnmoor coming! up on the flood tide, and, welghing anchor, manoeuvred into a position near the incoming freighter.
KIANG SHÚN ALSO DAMAGED IN COLLISION
Shanghai, March 9, In the grey morning yesterday, the tug St. Aubin, badly holed in the mid-section, sank in 30⋅ ft, of
volved.
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P. T. S. Officer To Rescue Inspector Clarke, of the Police Training School, who was pass- ing in a bus, saw the struggle and
..
topposite the Yangtszepeo The St. Aubin approached the immediately jumped off the bus, Duck, as a result of a collision in Alamoor on the starboard side, only After a short chase he arrested which she and the Chine Mero receive instructions to take the defendant in a scavenging chants as. Kiang. Shun were in-position on the port how, so that she lane nearby.
could pass and receive lines. She The purse contained $33.42 in The St. Aubin went down with. got into a position about 80 feet money and many other articles, in a few seconds, without loss of trom the cargo ship, to facilitate all of which were recovered. V Hfe, though Capt. C. A. Roussett passing the first line, and it was and three men only left her when, then, about,5 a.m., that the collision defendant was found to possess
the desks were awash. The Klang Shun suffered severely above the
occurred.
When taken to the station. the
a gold cuff link, which gave the According to the report of Capt. police a clue for the second lar- waterline, several bow plates be-Roussett, his vessel was holed on ceny. ing badly buckled. She is now at the starboard side, abaft the bridge. After being questioned the de the Kinleeyuen Wharf, undergoing The rent was large and water pour-fendant admitted stealing both
repaire.
ed in great quantities, sufficient to bags. cause the St. Aubin, to founder al- [most immediately. Picked up by
Owing to the position of the St. Aubin in the channel of the turn- ing basin between Buoys 10 andampana, with Capt. Roussett, were
a quarter master, carpenter, and
11, with only her masts and· fun- fireman. {nel exposed at high water, the
The tug lies in 80 It, at low water
Customs authorities have had to spring tide. Company divers went!
STATISTICS OF IMPORTS "TO CANTON
(Continued from Page 1)
shift Buoy 10, in order to allow down later in the morning, and re-ston, but recent good local crops the Empress and other boats, due ported after their preliminary combined with the tax on Imported during the week-end, to swing examination that the St Aubin was rice have reduced the demand for with a minimum of hazard.
badly damaged. Salvage negotiations cereals from these countries. are in. progress. -
CREW BARELY ESCAPE
At the time of the accident, the St. Aubin's crew, numbering 18,
JAPANESE SALES, INCREASE DANGER TO NAVIGATION
Japanese goods are steadily in- Because the tug Bank so quickly creasing their sales in the South were about their duties, both on the Master and crew, barely escap China. markets and may reach big deck and below. Their escape ing with their lives, were unable to figures in view of the Nanking- from the rapidly sining tug was beach the vessel or to clear her from Tokyo rapprochement... phenomenal and several firemen the channel. The hydrographer of
горев.
Straits Settlements.
were miraculously rescued. The the Chinese Navy reports that the As regarde exports, China sends Kiang Shun came to a stop, while St. Aubin is wrecked about 800, Itout mostly silk and tea, the official
asserted. In recent years there! the crew tossed down a number of west of No. 11 mooring buoy, near has been a decline in the export of The firomen, roused from the New Engineering & Shipbuild these goods to the United States, below by the force of the impact ing Works, in Section 9 of the har Great Britain, India, and the and shouts from the deck, coupled bour No. 10 buoy has been removed with the inrush of water, barely to make room for a swinging berth managed to get out of the engine- near this point."T The wreck is a pro room. Fourteen men in all clam-danger to navigation, and the Cus. JAPAN AND GERMANY LINKED bered up the ropes, while, three toms have displayed the necessary remained with Capt. Roussett and warning signals by day and night. Direct radio-telephone service be
Germany and Japan" WAS Jumped into the river as the rails The St Aubin is 471 gross ton-tween were going under. The quartette nage, with 1,260 h.p. engines. She formally inaugurated at 1.80 swam about, keeping close to is 185 ft. long, with a beam of 29[(G.M.T.) on the morning of March gether, until sampans from shore feet,
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