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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1936
ZOO ELEPHANT.
RUNS AWAY,
Carrying Children On Back
FRIGHTENED BY A LOUD-SPEAKER
EXPENDITURE UP,
REVENUE DOWN
British Exchequer
Returns
London. To-day.
4-DAY VOYAGE LASTS 14
Girl's Ordeal In Schooner
SHORT RATIONS IN DAMAGED SHIP
Exchequer returns show that total ordinary revenue amounts to the $258.946,769, as Nogay Ko, an elephant at
compared with
The motor auxiliary schooner London Zoo, which has safely car-263,617,680 at the corresponding Six Sisters, 131
tons, put into ried hundreds on her back round date of last year.
Great Yarmouth last month after Great activity in overseas trade have been the gardens, suddenly bolted last!
a fortnight out from month and provided a few mois refected in the total receipts Grimsby owing to bad weather.
from customs and excise, which She had on board Rex Guy, of ments of intense excitement.
$139,074.000 25 against Wolverhampton, the owner, W. B. Carrying a load of children and jare some grown-ups, the elephant was $134,497,000 at this time last year. Evans, John. Bruton and Miss Rose walking past the Pets Corner Total ordinary expenditure
Stokes, aged 20, of Grimsby. compared with when the loud-speaker used to ad£339,641,304, as vertise the Corner and the photo-5325,843,269 at the corresponding date of 1935-British Wireless graphic studio blared out.
Service.
Either this noise or an exposure flash from the studio frightened
the elephant, for she started vic-HUGE EMPIRE lently, turned round and boltedl
to the Elephant House along the route she takes
work.
every day after
Trembling With Fright
The boat set out on August 3 for Fower, 'Cornwall-a voyage of three or four days but lost her. gear. A jury mast was rigged, sails were made frem canvas and a makeshift retort was manufac tured with which drinking water was distilled from sea water. The party ran out of tobacco and
EXHIBITION AT
JOHANNESBURG smoked tea-leaves.
Short Of Food
"We missed the Dowsing Sands said Mr. Guy. by half a cable,"
"We have been
to
last oats with Bour and bicar-
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JUMAY BENEXT
Ann Sothem Lloyd Nokam
Douglass Dumbrile ¿John Arledge! Berton Churchill
Commencing
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Clark GABLE Jamit MACDONALD San Francisco
STRACY
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KOWLOON
She raced along the Broad Walk (Continued from Page 1) and through the tunnel. The on- lookers held their breath, for 15,000 people who attended theventually we were forced there was doubt whether the tun- ceremony. These included old beat up and down in heavy sens nel was high enough, to take an pioneers who had not visited the of the Belgian coast. It was like elephant with a loaded howdah land for 20 years. on her back.
General Hertzog, African Pre-the Flying Dutchman trying to get Fortunately there was just en-mier, welcomed the visitors, and round the Cape.
very short of [SHOWINGS IN ough space for the children, and the recorded speeches of Mr. the adults had the presence of Stanley Baldwin and the Prime food. This morning we had our mind to duck their heads before Ministers of the other Dominions honate of soda, which was meant
Some 3,000,000 visitors are ex- |for indigestion.” Nogay Ko made straight for her
Miss Stokes made light of the own den in the Elephant House Pected before and there she stopped, still trem-closes its doors," and arrange adventure. "I was on board for the bling with fright. Although her ments have been made for visits experience," she said, "and I hope
Ox school-to go to sea again. I was not real-] passengers were scares, nobody by large numbers was hurt. The Gardens were aut children, from all over the Union. frightened. When there was crowded, and nobody was in the The United Kingdom Government 20 food we played the gramo pavilion is dedicated to the peo-
phone." way of the bolting elephant.
ple of the Union, as a tribute of
of esteem by, the people the
the tunnel was entered.
were heard.
the Exhibition
DEVIL'S ISLAND United Kingdom. British Wire-
ESCAPE
Man At Large In
Trinidad
Port of Spain (Trinidad) —
Police were recently hunting all
Jess Service.
NEW LOCARNO MEETING
(Continued from Page 1)
LOSSES MADE ON SHARES
Specialist's £27,330 Liabilities
The statutory 5rst meeting of creditors was held in Bankruptcy- |buildings, Cares-street, W.C, last
over Trinidad for a convict who preparation. It was with the idea month under a receiving order re- escaped from Devil's Island, the of allowing plenty of time for cently made against Reginald French penal settlement, six diplomatic exchanges that the Bri-Hearn, physician, of Wimpole-
tish Government tentatively
Sug-street.
weeks before.
.
The convict, with three others, gested the second week of October Mr. S. W. Hood, the Official Ee had had an adventurous trip as the date for the conference, ceiver, presided.
across the open sea and, in as-which they hoped would be gener A statement was submitted: cordance with the custom of the ally suitable and which they had thowing gross liabilities of £27,330 Trinidad. authorities, a boat was reason to think would be accept of which £20,000 are expected to
rank, and
of prepared and provisioned for them able to the German Government.
estimated assets £4,791, apart from doubtful book!
to go on their way.
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said
that
His companions The bad made a dash for the hills
surrounding Port of Spain.
EXCITING SHORT STORIES
For Those Who Like Thrills
DANGER OF DRIFT
dustries.
Bad Speculations
In his deficiency account he esti-
and
sales of stocks and shares estimated to
The boat was made ready, but Since the preliminary exchanges debts £24,463. when the police went to fetch the are to be made through diplomatic four men from the Salvation Army channels the League meetings in. shelter at which they had been the next few weeks do not involve Dr. Hearn, who has practised as any interruption of work, and that buted his insolvency to unfortun Ja specialist for many years, attri staying, they found that one of the men, Jean Louis Leotand, had date therefore was thought to leave
ample time for preparing ground and options of coal and allied in- ate speculations, chiefly in shares disappeared.
There is a strong feeling in Lon- don that the prospective date is among the first essentials to be agreed by the participating Pomated his losses (unpaid) by wers if the danger of drift, which speculating at $10,958, in addition! would be most regrettable in the to which he returned losses
"differences" present state of Europe, is to be on avoided
The proposal of His Majesty's balance the account at £7,420. Government for the meeting to Dr. 'Hearn's estate was left in] take place before the end of Octo- the hands of the Official Receiver. ber has been found agreeable by Those who like thrills will find the French and Belgian Govern the new Faber and Faber collecments, and it is understood that tion, "My Most Exciting Story," these Governments. would also far- The Duke of York, the Duke of excellent value for money. Twenty our London as the meeting-place. Gloucester, the Duke of Abercorn, writers have chosen their own most The German Government, in what Governor of Northern Ireland. exciting tale, and the result ranges is regarded as an interim reply, and Viscount Craigavon, Prime! from a ghost story by H. E. Wake-have expressed the opinion that a Minister of Northern Ireland, who feld, with the M. R. James-ish meeting in October would provide are all honorary freemen of Lon- title, "He cometh and be passeth insufficient time for the continua donderry, have applied to the city by(and I can assure you the tion of the preparatory discussions, corporation
permission story is as hair-raising 2% the The Italian Government, whose re- erect a tablet in Londonderry title)-to "Baru Pasha" a light-ply was delivered by the Italian Guildhall to the memory of the hearted anecdote in which Mr. Sax Ambassador, Signor Grandi, to Sir late Sir Henry Miller. Rohmer pulis the reader's leg pret-Robert Vansittart, Permanent Un- ty well out of its socket.
der-Secretary, at the Foreign Office-
Mr. AE. W. Mason contributes yesterday afternoon, in thanking
ROYAL FREEMEN'S TRIBUTE
for
to
"The Brown Book," a tense little British Government for the invita should continue. The date for the
therefore drama of spies and blackmail Mr. tion, added that before the fixing conference remains
C. S. Forester's "Between Eight of the actual date for the meeting matter for further discussion. and Eight" tells of a murderer's they thought diplomatic exchanges British Wireless Service. escape from the condemned cell. Other contributors are Messrs.
Beeding, Bridges, Graeme, Horler He
and Masterman.
"Fainted” In The
Windsor.
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fetcheda
was
But the poisoned pineapple (or) whatever the thriller-writer's first prize should be) is won by Mr. His "Third Player
William Josephman asked to be sent to hospi- Temple Ellis. Plays High" contains just that ex-Spackman, aged 52, of Peters-tal, and an ambulance tra inch of tension, that breath-ham-road, Bichmond, who, was
Spackman gave his name asį catching atmosphere achieved by alleged to have obtained food Richardson, and said he lived linking the horrible to the fami- liar, which is most calcalated to and lodging from several hospi-at Uxbridge. -
Dr. Williari Gadd, of Wind- send us looking uneasily into the tals by feigning illness, was at
Windsor last month sentencedjsor Hospital,, said that he kept dark corners of the room before
to three months' hard labour.(close observation on Spackman. we go to bed.
He was charged as a suspected and came to the conclusion that person under the Prevention of he was malingering. Crimes Act
Chief Constable Carter said Sydney Martin, of Windsor, that Speckman had been,-in-
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