INQUEST ON AIR-LEAP SISTERS
TRAGEDY OF LOVE FOR KILLED R.A.F. OFFICER ANGUISHED VISIT TO CHURCH FOR ABSOLUTION
London, February 26. Ident to the flying-bont at Messina. Broken-hearted because an R.A.F.occurred 'the day before the girl officer, with whom one of them had left Naples for Paris. They had fallen in love, was "kliled in the made the acquaintance of the two the two officers, who were around our Messing air accident, daughters of Mr. Coert du Bois, house a good bit of the 10 days Consul-General of the United Statca preceding." They had not known. in Naples, threw themselves from a these two officers before.
The Coroner: You told us that Paris-bound air liner when over Upminster, Essex, on Thursday. these two sisters were Inseparable. The verdict at the inquest at Do you think that the younger one Romford yesterday. was, in ench was the master mind of the two? case, suicide while of unsound mind. Yes. But not in a dominating! The girls were Elizabeth and Jane sense. She had always been rather 'du Bois, aged 23 and 20 respective-sickly, and her sister gave way to ly, and their anguish in the days her.
before they maile their death-leap It is a fair thing to say a master; was revented in letters read at the mind, ja. it not?--Yes.. inquest.
·Frederick, William Mansfield,"then described how he closed the door of the plane.
tho
One of the girls had fallen in love with Flying Officer John Alexander Charles Forbes while at Naples, and He was quite sure that door was in a letter to her father she said: securely fastened, and he said the "Charles was engaged to an-would be the last person on other girl, but he was going to ground staff to touch the door. break it off, and we would pro- bably have been married thin summer. There will not be any one else for me."
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Clutching the rail of the witness-
Pilot's Evidence
“COULD HAVE DONE.
NOTHING"
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1935
PROBATIONARY NURSES
EXAMINATIONS
Eleven Out Of 66 Past Tests
At Tung Wah Hospital ⠀
jecte.
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To-day's Short Story.
Expert Treatment
By Grosvenor
Reeves
Only eleven Chinese girls, out of a total of 86 candidates, who,
TAMES HARTLEY opened the whelming affection for her nurse sat for the Probationary Nurses examination at the Tung Woh
door of the drawing-room at and a man who hired out donkeys lfive o'clock....
on Scarborough beach would allow. Hospital yesterday, wero sucec8B-
"Jimmy, I am pleased you're It was after two years that Leila ful in passing teste in Chinese, back so early," said Lella Hart took to wanting more than James. English, and Arithmetic sub-ley, turning her head slightly to- She' was temperamentally, in- wards him from a deep armchair capable of doing with one man and The auccessful candidates will
This is Wally Milburn, who's ho was emotionally incapable of sit for a final examination in the been sweet and entertained me shifting his allegiance to another Great Hall of the Tung Wal
this afternoon by taking me to a woman... Hospital to-morrow at 10 am
Ruggér, match.
Had he been a butcher, baker, or They are: Misses Lee Man-chi,"
Hartley said, "How do you do?" barber, James might have takeri the Lai Min-ching. Ho Saw-wah, 1 to a heavy-looking young man with normal view and torn down the web Chow Chi-tuen, Hung Wai-yee,pale blue eyes and a protruding jaw of artifice that held their marriage. The Hok-wun, Lin Yuk-ying.
Meanwhile his brain registered the together. But a man who, in his Chan Fung-chun, Wong Wai-
fact that any man who could get daily work, secs. the human mind chun, Ho Ho-huri and Yeung Leila to a Rugger match on a lose all dignity and individuality, Chinlin.
November afternoon was likely to when the body is wracked by pain be her lover before he was much or threatened with mutilation, tends | older. Five years earlier Hartley to get bored with moral judgmenta. would have been either wretched or where others can spot wickedness, алкту: As it was, his surface he is only able to sea weakness reaction amounted to no more than limitations of the will..
CHINESE ESTATES
LIMITED
Satisfactory Year Reported
INCREASED DIVIDEND
a superficial relief that Lella was going to get some fresh air after six months in Chelsea studios.
But Hartley, was not, by nature, either a weak or complaisant hus- band. He had been manœuvred by circumstance into a position which The 13th
ordinary annual he would have failed to recognise:as meeting of the shareholders of possible if a third party had "des-
4.4
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "It Was "Widows" Night," by Tomlinson Wright.
Besides, James still loved Leila the Chinese Estates, Limited, eribed it to him. Nor, as a rule, and she loved him. Once, contrite was held this morning at the are weak, complaisant men in his arms with unspoken repent-] Company's office, China Build- bone-manipulators of such briance for some breakaway, she had jing.
liance and honesty that at the age said, as if soliloquising: I wish I box with both hands, and obviously John II. Kirton, who piloted the The Report and Statement of of 42 a knighthood threatens them could be several people." making a tremendous effort to cou-aeroplane, anid they left the ground Accounts were proposed by the and the B.M.A. is unofficially grate- He thought of all these things as trol his feelings, Mr. Coert du Bota about 10.2 am. The two girls o-Chairman, Mr. Leung Kwai-ting, ful for their existence. But he had he looked down at her in the was the central figure at the cupied the rear-seats of the cabin and were seconded by Mr. Fung married Leila seven years before; November dusk. Her fair hair was inquest.
and they had one sultcase with Ping-wah,
they had loved each other deeply tumbled down one side of her face, them.
Those present were: Messrs and she had refused two "good" her legs were crossed. In the past The Coroner: Just after you had Leung Kwai-ting (Chairman), marriages for James, who was at ten years her skirts had never risen taken off did one of them say some-Lee Yau-tsun, Foo Yick-pang, that time only earning £1,500 ato her Anees nor descended again to thing to you?—I had just told Lau Tak-ho, Dr. R. H. Kotewall year, and had no reputation outside her ankles. He was thankful that Croydon we were leaving and I (Directors), Fung Ping-fan his profession.
he had never had her watched, and the door opening to the (Director and Secretary); Lee He agreed with the coroner, Mr.jupened
One daughter had been born. that the fiction of her, “beaux" had Reginald Fung, C. E. Lewis, that the younger girl passengers' cabin. She asked me to Ngoi,
Lee Both parents were fond of her, and been preserved. He was glad that Cheung, Lee Ngok, Cheng Yuk, she was as fond of both as an over-she always came back from her ex- was "the master mind of the two, close it as there was a draught. described them as inseparable, and Kirton said that crossing over Leung Ting-kai and Mok Han then referred to the R.A.F. disaster Gidea Fark he would be at a height (shareholders).·
"Inseparable"
GIRL'S CONFIDENCES TO HER MOTHER
at Messina, in which Flight-Lt. H. about 2,000 to 3,000 feat.
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CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH
CORRESPONDENCE.
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"The Young Idea"
[To the Editor, "China Mall”] Sir-It has been brought to my
cursions, and gave Her credit for choosing unattached men. Lella had never wrecked any home, she
had only sailed her own on to a lee
share and left it there quite cons tented with the way she steered.
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The Coroner: Did you turn round' L Beatty and, Flying Officer J. Forbes lost their lives. Mr. du Bois to the passengers to speak to them?
In his review of the year the said that these officers were enter--Three or four minutes after we Chairman said:
had taken off I turned round and "The net profit for the year, after tained by him in Naples.
Capt. Neville Stack, the newly said: "We shall be out of the bumps providing a Reserve for Deprecia.
Wally Milburn, the international appointed managing director of now." One of them replied "All tion on China Buildings ($80,000),
Rugger player, said he must be go- Hillman's Airways Ltd., the owners right," and asked me to close the Bad and Doubtful Debts ($14,000),
ing along. Leila said, "Ring up of the aeroplane, arrived with Mr. flap of the partition between the and Directors and Auditor's Fees
some time, and ask yourself to din- J. Kirton, the pilot.
cockpit and the cabin, so that and other expenses, is $118,644.94, notice that the posters advertising ner," which James knew to mean: Mr. Daybell represented Hillman's could not see in the cabin at all.
which, added to the $317,319.74 the performance of the play by the "Ring me up as 800,, as the old Airways and Major J. P. C. Cooper,
Kirton Overcome.
brought forward from last year, A.D.C, give the prices of the seats boy's gone out to-morrow morning.” Inspector of Accidents, was, also What was the next thing? When makes a total of $485,964.08. as $3, $2 and $1 and do not mention But the comparative Indifference present from the Air Ministry. you were over the Channel did you "The net profit, as compared with the $4 seats upstairs. I much rewith which James at first apotted The first witness called was Mr. have acession to open the door of that of the previous year, shows an gret this error and hope that none this new performer in Leila's pup- Franklin Crosbie Gowen, of Caven- the cockpit?-Yes, I intended to increase of $35,831.03. This reveals of your readers have been misled. pet show soon changed. He might dish-square, London, the American tell them we had now get back into the soundness of our position, in As an experiment the prices of be a magnificent athlete for show Consul in London, who had identi-the good weather,
apite of the depression. All the the, seats for the production of purposes, but off-stage he was a fled the bodies.
"It was then that you saw they shops on the ground floor, and al-"Fresh Fields" were reduced on the seventh-rate insurance broker, who were missing?" asked the coroner. most all the office rooms on the up-first two nights by making the liked to show Leila off in big res- Kirton seemed to be overcome per floors, with the exception of the circle $3 and the stalls $2.50. This taurants. Other men had, preferred by the thought of that dramatic roof, and a small number of rooms, experiment was not, however a suc- their own flats and solo grilla. moment when he found that his are occupied, I am sure that all cess and the Committee therefore Wally Milburn preferred the Turin two passengers had disappeared, shareholders cannot be regard this decided on the present occasion to or worse still for James, free and he merely nodded his head as satisfactory: Your. Directors are revert to the original prices. in assent.
jeffecting retrenchments wherever
The Coroner: Did you see the "girls by any chance on this visit?-
No, sir.
Do you know their handwriting? Yes.
The two letters, which have been such a prominent feature of the
The Coroner: Did you notice that possible, so that overhead expenses tragedy, were then handed to Mr. Gowen. "They are in the hand-the cabin door was ajar?--Yes. may be reduced to a minimum. writing of both of them," he said,
The Master Mind
He sent a wireless message to Croydon and returned to the aero- Mr. Coort du Boia was then call-drome at Abridge, where he aw ed.. He walked slowly to the wit-the door sealed to await the arrival ness-box, and although he took the of the police..
oath in a voice which was scarcely "I am not suggesting that if the audible, he was obviously doing his flap had been open it would have utmost to control his feelings,
Mr. du Bois, a thick-set man of powerful physique answered the coroner's questions in a quiet, low
Voice..
He said that Jane and Elizabeth! had lived with him and his wife at Naples.
prevented this, because if these two (Continued on Page 7).
FREAK CHILD BORN NEAR WUSIH
The Coroner: When did you last Strange Story Of Baby
With Eagle's Head
see them alive, Mr. du Bois?-Last Friday week, Feb. 15.
$9 Per Share for Year
"There have already been three payments of interim dividends of $2 each per share, amounting in all to
Yours faithfully,
E. S. C. BROOKS. Hon, Sec. Hong Kong Amateur Dramatic Club.
SUFFOLK LEAVING ON FRIDAY
meals at the Harleys' house.
And Leila liked it and took away the morning paper from James to read the Rugger prospects. This robbed him of the City page as well, and
inconvenient Was an |change from Leila's former prefer- ence for "Bettine Belgrayve," who Jabutted on "Court and Society."
But it was not until Christmas)
86. Your Directors are now pleased Capt. Manners Obliged that James, relaxing, auddenly be-
dividend of $3 per share, making a to recommend the payment of a final
total of $9 per share for the year, as compared with $5 for lost year,
To Abandon Tennis
gan to feel that a four-year-old résolution to pretend that work H.M.S. Suffolk will leave here alone mattered was so much poppy- cock. He knew that It did matter
This final dividend will absorb for Shanghai on Friday.
$40,500 The reasons for this in- Capt. Erroll Manners, who is twice as much as most people's; he crease in dividend are, firstly, the partnering. Teddy Fincher in the relieved suffering dally-and-his low rate of interest paid by the Colony Lawn Tennis Doubles work on the research side was going banks on cash deposits; secondly, the Championship, in which the pair well. But it was not sufficient.
He opened the small plls” of absence of profitable employment of were conceded a very fair chance
NAVAL MOVEMENTS
surplus funds; and thirdly, the of dethroning the Rumjahn Christmas morning parcels. Leila existing - financial stringency, which cousins, will thus be forced to had given him a new platinum withdraw from the HK.C.C. watchchain, and Sally, "the child, a pencil which could write in four different colours. Other relations had volunteered the ties and hand- H.MS Kent, flying the flag of kerchiate that constitute a man's "After payment of the final divi-the. Commander-in-Chief, and ac-principal Christmas expectations, balance of companied by HM.S. Fal and at the bottom there was a large
Was that when they left for
To be scared to death by the has induced your Directors to pay tournament. Paris? Yes, they left for London,
sight of her own newly born as large a return to shareholders as via Paris.
child was the fate of a woman the position of the Company per- As had been arranged?-Yel. Were they going to London for at Hauliachiao, near Wusih, ac-mits. I trust that this policy wil any particular purpose, or merely cording to recent reports in the meet with your approval
could
Chinese newspapers.
of an eagle, its eyes and ears Secretary's offico." resemble those of a donkey. AN
Directors Re-elected
SIR WM. PEEL FUND·
boy---Wally."
His hand shook as he re-read the |card. And cat that moment Sally
visiting friends 7 They were going The woman was the wife of adond, there will be s to London to take a service flat and bean-shop owner and had a $287,464.08, which your Directors mouth, will arrive here from box of mediocre cigars with a card live by themselves, so that they family of six other children. Her propose, with your concurrence, to Saigon at 8 am, on Thursday, inside; on which was written. "Best do some writing. Their seventh child as abnormal; how. carry forward to the new account. The sloop, HMS. Sandwich, for Xmas and the New Year, old mother was coming up later, and ever. According to the reports, "Dividend warrants are now ready will arrive here to-morrow from my sister from the United States the child was born with the head and may be had on application at the Wei-hat-wel. was also going to join them..
Several Trips Made You say they have made several. The mother, when she saw
The following is the latest list trips together to London?—At least this monstrosity, the reports con- Messrs. Fung Ping-fan and Llang of subscribers to the Sir William twice before. There was nothing at tinue fainted and died. The Tingal, who retired under the Peel fund for the protection of all unusual in that. They were child also, after crying a little. Articles of the Association of the children: more or less in the habit of going died. Both were buried, and Company, offered themselves for re- Previously to places together. They had therefore the means of verifying election, and were unanimously re- ledged
the story from a scientific point elected Directors, on the proposal of Hon. Dr. W. B They were devoted to one an-of view have been lost,
travelled all their livesi, q
other? Inseparable, Jasha
me.”
danced Into the room waving a girl's" paint-box and crying out: *
"Look, what Uncle Wally's given
"Leila, must Sally call every adult who comes to the house Uncle or Aunt? It's hardly fair to the real
know, darling. It is careless 50.00 of her Sally, my pet, you know 10:00 MrMilburn, Isn't your -uncle 1.000,00 even if he did you to tha 200
on your birthday
(Continued on Page 11):
acknow.
9,825.00 ones"
| Mr. Foo Yick-pang, and seconded by: Moore, & Mrg. Moors
the Hon' Dr. K. H. KötéwilLASS
On the proposal of
Li Yau Mr. Eu Tong Sen
And always went about together? One case each of small-pox and
- diphtheria were reported in the Colony Taun, Mr. Li dung" was Mr. du Bois stated that the soci- during the 48 hours ended Bunday, auditor of the Company's accou
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