C.R.C." AT HOME.”-
MRS. SOUTHORN TO
DISTRIBUTE PRIZES.
LEAGUE WINNERS. REST.
The annual #At Home" of the Chinese Recreation Club has been fixed for Saturday, the 92nd inst.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th, COUNTESS LIFE OF SLIMNESS PERIL TO FILM MOTHER AND GIRE EDUCATION IN THE ARMY,
TERROR.
FEAR OF BOGUS COUNT.
́GERMÁN AIRMAN'S
ADMISSION.
BEALIN
STARS.
SHOT IN
BLINDNESS CAUSED BY *REDUCING."
PRICE OF FAME.
NEW YORK Despatches from Hollywood, writes The secret of the ex-Countess Daily Express correspondent, dis- A very pleasant function is expect Fischler von Treuberg, known as close that a number of prominent ed and in recent years, these events ie Uhl in the days when film actresses are now paying ter- have always been most enjoyablo both from the aporting and social she had royal princes and million-rible penalties for attaining and
anes at her feet in Baden-Baden keeping the elim boyish figure" point of view,
and Monte Carlo, has been reveal demanded by producers.
It is declared that, quite apart ed by the very man strove to protect by her silence. from the present public erate for slimness, the camera enlarges & person on the screen, and that this is particularly the case in the mat. ter of plumpacss.
Mrs. Southern has promised to distribute the prizes at the con clusion of sports, and H.E. the Officer Administering the Govern- ment (the Hon. Mr. Southorn, C.M.G.), will also be present.
#
whom she
That Ailence was all the more 1. Tremarkable because the ex-countess was terrified of thie man who pass ed under the name of Coast roa Araim. She was so terrified that on July 31st, when she feared that he would attempt to enter her fat in the west end of Berlin, she in- duced a young sailor who is a practised boxer to come and stay might be needed.
The League season will simultane- ously be brought to a conclusion; buyer the winners of the three divisions will meet the rea- pective "Rest" teams in exhibition matches, after which the Shields
A star, it is declared, whoar normal weigh is ast., for example, may have to keep her weight down to st at any cost.
Many of those who have been required to retain in maturity the have wought in diet the solution of the problem of reducing and tuberculosis specialist is stated to be taking care of half a dozen of the best-known younger fim stare who have so reduced.
SLEEP.
TRAGEDY IN A HAPPY FAMILY.
FATHER'S SAD STORY,
BIG INCREASE IN ENTRANTS FOR EXAMINATION.
DISAPPOINTING WORK IN
HISTORY.
The primary duty of the Army Albert Spencer Banks, aged 61, may be said to be that of turning! formerly manager of the Labour the givilian into a soldier, writes Exchange at Minehead, Somerset, the London Morning Post military For many years, was charged on remand at Dunster correspondent, Police Court with the murder of when long service with the Colou-s his wife. Edith Banks, aged 33, obtained, it was practically and his daughter, Marion Aldith,question of once a soldier always a aged 20, at Alcombe, near Mine-soldier." head, on July 28th.
The short service system, in, thé | Mr. H. J. Parham, for the course of time, compelled the Army Director of Public Prosecutions, authorities to consider how best said that so far as was known they could turn the soldier into a Banks and his wife and daughter civilian. It was realised that the were a happy and devoted family. enlisted man spent the most im About & am on July 28th three portant years of his life with the
took no notice of them. At 11.15 aim. Banks knocked at a window and attracted the attention of a butcher's boys to whom he said, "Get the police. I am in great trouble.
1928.
WOMAN AND AVIATION.
· LADY..., HEATH SUMS UP POSITION.
interesting
This remarkably and" comprehensive article, was sent to the London "Morning Post" by Lady Heath from Ref, terdam.
PASSPORTS FOR PARK COUPLES.
BUDAPEST SEATS FOR THE MARRIED ONLY.
BUDAPEST, Aug. 6th -Budapest is determined- to, pro- claim itself the strictest, sternest, and most moral city in the world."
The municipal fathers have issued There, when all the principal, a new code of regulations for de British men pilots were engaged portment in public parks which in the race for the King's Cup, would make even hard-hearted the most worthily represented" Dora" smile.
Great Britain, winning another Here are two of the new ordi- triumph in the International | nances:
(1) No couple shall sit on park Light Aeroplane Competitions.
Since then the famous pioneer benches after dark unless they are airwoman has again added to
are married her record by lemporarily join able to prove they ing the Royal Dutch Air Service They must be able to produce at request their marriage lines, pasa- "as second pilot.
ports,
or other identification papers
The week-end that has passed has been a great one for us int aviation. We all of us, men and women alike, are thrilled with the success of Miss Winifred Spooner, which was run concurrently with the King's Cup air race round Great Britain.
(9) It is strictly forbidden to
Qther ordinances are directed" sleep in riverside bungalows, against the wearing of bathing costumes in public gardens and uses and parks may adjoin the bathing, beach.
will be distributed. The success of with her in case his protection measurements of girls of sixteen shots were heard by antheone who | Colours and that it was not a good who won the Siddeley trophy | teahouses, even though these tea
the Chinese Recreation Club in the League in which they have already Shields won the "A" and "B and in probability will do the same
The mysterious count" arrived and was quicker with his revolver than the sailor with his sise wounded the sailor, and as "Pus- in the "C" Division has been now an elder woman, rush notable sporting triumph which the Club intends to celebrate on this ed down the stairs of the house be ared at her. She had to be taken 'occasion.
to a hospital
SHANGHAI FOOTBALLERS FOR MANILA.
The assailant disappeared, and no effort of the police could induce "Puseie" to reveal his identity.
The count has now come for- ward himself, and declares that he BRIEF STAY IN HONG KONG.is Lieutenant Beser, formerly an air-pilot of the German Army. His career has been as adventurous as his victim's.
сег.
Nature's Revenge. Their dieting, it is declared, has deprived them for years of body materials exential to the mainten- ance of health, and nature is now exacting the penalty..
thing either for the Army or the nation that he should be turned suddenly on to the labour market. without some preparation for his new environment. Hence the work of the Army Educational Corpz.
The results of the March ex- py-amination of soldiers for the first He class and special certificates, show that the total number of candidates examined was 4,239, as against 2,603
previous the
examination. There were 3,899 candidates for First Class Certificates, 375 for Special Certificates (the equivalent of Matriculation), and 35 presented themselves for re-examination with
When a constable arrived he found Banks downstairs in jamas and a dressing gown. said, For God's sake come in. terrible thing has happened. have shot my wife and daughter.
Another beautiful star, owing to
which causes of Anemia prolonged dieting, has developed a form alarming epells of blindness.
A number of cases both of gas- tric trouble and nervous break down have also followed in the wake of excessive, dieting..
A Hollywood
A
Shot While Asleep. The constable found that Mrs. Banks had been shot in the back of the head, and the daughter in the head and chest. Both had ag
for
What is more wonderful than her winning the Siddeley trophy, in getting in third in the King and passengers. however, in her marvellous, success
(3) The carrying of light freight An example of Cup itself, which is the biggest air how a light aeroplane may be race held in Europe each year, and utilised in this way Was well which attracts the pick of our shown daring the General Strike British pilots and sets all our air in 1926, when a flight of twelve craft constructors agog to produce light aeroplanes carried news. the latest thing in fine sircraft, papers all over the country for dis-
tribution.
(4) Last of all, there is quite a
This is the second time that a woman has entered this great race Lady Bailey entered last year, but had to make a forced land-pleasant amount to be made by air ing in the middle of a herd of facing and in competitions. There sheep owing to engine trouble.
is a certain amount of money that
nerve epeciálise Parently been shot while they were a view to obtaining "distinguish race is just a race, and only thosations, in the preparation of one's
་་
asleep. A five-chambered revolver ed." containing three spent cartridges
80 ́** Distinguished.” class examination-English, mathe matics, geography, and map-read- ing were taken by 2,000 candidates and 1,233 first-class certificates were of successes as against 61 per cent, in the March examination last
year.
and
The Loh Han football team, from Shanghai, which is on its way to
Shot Dow On Somme. Manila to play a series of aix
He is the son of a rich man games under the auspices of the facturer, and fought in the war, Chinese community there, packed through Hong Kong yesterday by His aeroplane was shot down on claims that the first part of the the sa. Empress of Asia. Owing the Somme in 1916, and he suffer-body to feel the lack of proper and two live ones was found. to the shortness of the stay in ed shock which ended his flying nourishment fs the nervous system
Banks had a certificate for the ar days.
which promptly rebels and pre-revolver which had been granted Hong Kong, no match was
He was next heard of, during the cipitatce a breakdown. ranged with local teams, but the
Another Sim-actress who, for to him when he took up his duties players called on the South China Kapp "Putsch "-that unsuccessful Athletic Association and made the attempt in 1890 to overthrow the years, believed the bad discovered at the Labour Exchange at Mine- club room their social headquarters Republican régime in Germany- the answer to the thinning problem head. He said he would require awarded. This showed 52 per cent. the maps of the route, the oversee good prizes. For instance, Mis
when he acted as information off-in thyroid and other gland extracts it for self-protection in case of is now the victim of an unsightly necessity, as he would be handling affliction which has actually com large sums of money,
Mystery Of Motive," pelled her retirement from the screen.
Constant Turkish baths with Mr. Patham said that it was ré dificult to see what possible peated piolent perspiration to re motive there could be According duce fleth have also taken their toll to a statement' alleged to have Many cases of heart trouble in the been made by Banks he had only famous colony are stated fö 66 due
4. very hazy idea of what happen to this method of reduction
ed that morning.
Herbert Frederick Hillman, de puty-manager of Labour Exchange, stated that Banks, to whom he paid an official jumpy in his manner. Every thing in connectioh with his work was in order.
while in port.
Mr. W. T. Lee is captain and Mr. H. C. Ya, manager. M. Lee "was for several years a star player of the South China team. He is at présent in business in Shanghai Among the players in the team ate H. H. Chen, Y. Y. Voong. S. W. Lee, P. Chen, K. S. Liang, C. W. Chen, W. M. Lee, Y. T Chen, LX. Tai, W. T. Lee. P. Z. Chen, K. X. Chen, Y. K. Hu, Y. S. Au, W. H. Fu and H. C. Y
The team expects" to sail from Manila for Shanghai vid Hong Kong on or about September 27th."
PING 'PONG.
WAH YAN OLD BOYS STILL UNBEATEN.
The Wah Yan Old Boys' Union won their most important match by defeating the Chinese Athletic (ex-Champion team) last Saturday, the scores being 62-46. They have,
Handsome and charming, he em barked on a series of adventures which set the police on his truck, passed under a number of false names, and kept his head shore water by mess which finally brought him to prison for five
yette.
the Taunton
For the last two years he has been on exceedingly friendly terms with "Pussie," and it is believed that he was wildly in love with the woman, who is 23 years his senior. It would seem that she A NEW SATIRE ABOUT PALM visit on July 19th, was jerky and
still retains the art of making men her slaves.
WEALTH:
BEACH.
Frederick Western, of Taunton,
He has now come forward te"
A new book entitled "Move start criminal proceedings against Over." A novel of "our betters," "Pussie and the sailor for con- by E. Pettit, gives an unpleasant another Civil Servant, said be spiring against him and attacking picture of life among the super-formed the opinion that Banks was him. He asserts that he came to
on the verge of a nervous break- the flat to get some money which wealthy of the United States.
down.... Pussie" Uhi owed him.
JEWEL THIEF'S RUSE.
therefore, maintained their unbent. POSED AS SECRETARY TO A en record. Ng Tai Ping, playing
for the Wah Yan Old Bora, cecured
the individual record of the match,.
"MAHARAJA.
namely, 15 points out of a possible GREEK LEADS TO CAPTURE.
·18"
Singles Tourney.
BUDAPEST.
"It shows a number of self-indul- gent men and women, wallowing In enormous wealth, without an "ideal in the world or any aim ex- cept that of satisfying their mor bid craving for pleasure There is an undercurrent of nastiness which would have surprised the Ameri- cans of Mrs. Trollope's day, when even piano-legs for so we are given to understand) were swathed and
hidden from the eye.
This the account of the typical millionaire establishment at Palin
There are altogether twenty-six A, few days before the arrival in Behe kitchen was
entries for the Men's Singles Tourney and eight for the Ladies' Championship Tournament.
LAWN TENNIS.
U.S.A. BEATS GREAT BRITAIN,
Fonzsr Hills; Sept. 3rd: The Anglo-American lawn tennis: contest played here, was won by the United States by five matches to three. The scores were:
Wilmer Allison (U.S.) beat H. K.
Higge 6-2, 6-1. John von Ryn (U.S.) beat E. W.
Austen 6-0; 2-6, 6-3.
J. C. Gregory (Britain) beat F.
T. Hunter 7:5, 6-4,
Budapest some months ago of a maharaja, Bandbox Rudi, an in- ternational crook who owen his nickname to the fact that he is al- ways exceptionally well dressed, presented himself at a large jewel- ler's shop.
He posed as the maharaja'k secretary and chose some valuable pearls and diamonds, declaring that he would call for them when the Three days maharaja" arrived. later the Indian prince installed himself and his retinue in a large Bandbox Rudi Budapest hotel. obtained an introduction to the maharaja. He posed as profes sor of botany, and discussed the possibility of obtaining specimens of Indian plants for museums in Hungary.
Rudi asked, the jewellers to al- H. W. Austin (Britain) beat Willow him to take the selected pearls
mer Allison 6-2, 6-3.
and diamonds to the maharaja'z
John van Ryn (U.S.) beat FL. Krooms, but the firm naturally sent
Higgs 6-1, 6-1.
a. clerk with the maharaja's
1. G. Collies (Britam) Beat Wil-secretary, Rudi, who, for the
bar Coen 6-4, 10-8.
Allison and van Ryn (U.5.) Gregory and Austin 6-1,
bestlers had assumed a turban sad a purpose of interviewing the jewel- 6-2.
darketed complexion showed the firm's confidential clerk into the maharaja's ante-room.
HOME FOOTBALL. ENGLISH LEAGUE RESULTS
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] The following were the results of English League football matches played on Monday:-
Divison L
Ballon 1, Huddersfield 1. Burnley 3, West Ham Wednesday 1, Everton d.
Division II
Blackpool, 2, Swanses 2. Millwall d, Wolves 5. Oldham 0, Hull 1. West Brom. 1, Notts County a
...
División III (Southern)," Bretford 1, Charton Luton 4, Northampton 0.
Division III (Northern), Bradford C4, Carlisle 2: Oreka 2, 8tockport.0. Lincoln 1, Rotherham
The clerk was asked to wait for five minutes while the mahiraja made his selection of the jewellery, and Bandbox Budi entered the mabaraja's sitting-room to keep an appointment.
Jewels, in pocket, Rudi a few minutes later took his leave of the maharaja, going out by another door.
The maharaja shortly afterwards appeared, accompanied by his genuife secretary and other atten- dants When asked for payment for the jewellefy the maharaja de clared that the clerk was inad, and the hotel detective was called. Unfortunately for Rudi, another jeweller's clerk; whom he hid in- structed to call, arrived with a tray of diamond brooches an hour before the appointed time. Rudi had to waste precious minutes in argument. When the hotel detec tive arrived Radi-was-exposed by the two-clerk
He has been sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment."
meat
Abrupt And Impètuðus.. William Stradling, builder and contractor, of Alcombe, said that on July 9th Banks agreed to buy the house subsequently known as Almirdith. He moved in on Saturday, July 21st. Banks seem ed abrupt and impetuous when he (Mr. Stradling) visited him on the following Friday.
Mrs. Doza, Emily James, of Alcombe, said that early on the morning of July 28th she heard forty by two shots close together and she almost certain she heard sitty in size, and the pantry wi farty by Afty... There were third a little later. As there a safe for the silter, a was a great deal of rabbit shoot refrigeration room, a flower reing in the fields close by she was frigeration room, tecreation not surprised.. roomis for fifty-five servants, Richard Arnold Reynolds of exalted, of the Bfty-five servants on the morning of the tragedy sleeping porches for the more Marshfield-road, Alcombe, said that baths for all the servants, and when he went to "Banks's house to servants for the servants. There finish a job, Banks said, "I don't was gold service for 250 guests want you. I don't want you. I and silver service for the same have sent for the police.” number.
Amber Glass Bath
F. A. Wilshirt (for the defence): In what state did Mr. Banks ap-
when you
A him He pear seemed very agitated. Bis face seemed to be contracted.. < "
Inspector Henry Fry said that Banks had suffered from delusional insanity while in the Army in Chris wondered how one should India in 1913, and was in hospital
for 19 days. address à duchess. The architect simplified it for him." "Bitch, Alleged Statement.
When charged at Minebead don't crowd," he said to her, and further admonished, "You Police Station Banks said: may have the first half of my cocktail, but don't grab." Every body. laughed.
In the leading woman's" chamber there was also, we are told, an with amber glass bath-tub "gold fixtures." The conversation is scarcely in keeping with this tawdry magnificence:
This is another example:
the
To be specific," Chris con- tinued, **Don offers. ΟΠ ahrine of culture a good bridge game and an amorous
willing-
дета
1 call that adequate equip- ment Sheila said.
y thought we exhausted the scandal bugaboo yesterday," she said. What the hell do I cafe if someone talks 1" This is a gem from the closing fress 38 chapter when the millionairess i busy changing husbands:
Gilbertson, he said with seriousness..! "I'm going to marry Don: You can neither coerce for dissuade me. Now get this atfight in your mind and then be usual,"
Sheila was often smart when he least expected it.
"Well-would this be out of order? I want to be your next concubine.
on't give a hout in holl tilbering whether you”“like tha .million dollar settlement
notu!
To those outside aviation the has to be put into these competi certain machine, c inside the world. know the gruel; amount of hard work in practising The four subjects of the first ling hard work of it--the long and for them, for no race is won with arduous preparation, when a pilot has to go round and round the out exhaustive examination of the course picking out landmarks and course, as well as one's machine and one's own capabilities." But practising compass courses at vary the organisers of competitions and races realise this, and they give ing heights, the long studying over ing of the preparation of one's
last week-end-prize-money which machine, and, last and greatest of Spooner will win £150 on her race all, the exhausting fight itself.
is graciously awarded and wel! Four men obtained aggregates of
To sit huddled close behind your S per cent, or more of the maxi windscreen, leaning on your throt carned.
A Gallant Trench wonian. four subtle, holding the machine down mom marks for the
ects-Lance Cpl. M. d. Roberts, among the bumps of the hot air We owe much to the pioneer of 12.A.0.C., Warrant Officer G: S. near the ground in a short race women in aviation that gallant Watts, Army Educational Corps; such as we had in Rotterdam and Frenchwoman, the Baroness de la Private J. Fenton, East Surrey in which my little Moth took first Roche, who was the first of all us Regiment, and Lance Cpl. M. Bry.place, is bad enough; but to do the women to fy, and to our English- den, York and Lancaster Regiment. same thing for hour after hour in women, Mrs. Beauvoir Stocks and a long circuit of Britain is a ter- Mra. Maurice Hewitt, who ran her Of the 375 men who sat for the ribly seveta strain on one's phytown aircraft factory before and during the war, and a still greater special certificate, 31 candidates sique and endurance. were successful, and 243 made pro- Well done, Miss Spooner! We debt of gratitude to Madame Bol- gress towards the full certificato be are all very proud of your pluck land, who in 1918 began commer
cial fylag, until it was stopped by passing in one or more subjects and your staying power 1
Here in Holland the women in International law the following Four of the nine re-examined for
**distinguished the record of
aviation have not been idle. A year...
We owe a great debt of gratitude were successful. Altogether 30 can specially beautiful example of the didates obtained distinguished "
British light aaroplane which the to pioneers like Miss Earhart, who De Havilland firm turned out for few across the Atlantic, and who, The examiders stated that there me last week exceeded all expecta although an experienced pilot her- was a great gap between the best tions in the International Light self, was willing to forgo the joy and the worst papers in English Acroplane Competitions, and with of sharing in the actual flying, so An improvement was noticed in very heavy load on board, 400lb., that he first pilot, Mr. Stultz, mathematics, but the standard of climbed faster than any of its In- should make the marvellous knowledge disclosed in map-read-ternational competitors and tors navigational record he did by ing was poor. There were some its way round the speed course striking the British Isles in fog good papers on British History, quicker than any others with not one mile off his course. And but the standard, on the whole, gailaht little lady, who had never we owe a great debt of gratitude was disappointing. In most of the down before, as an unafraid par to women like Lady Maud Hoare, other subjects taken the work, senger.
Lady Cobham, and Mra Bentley, generally, was of a higher order
In the display of acrobatics an- who have gone as passengers with Iban in earlier examinations. other Edglishwoman took first their husbands on long trans-Con-
Soldiers in Work,
place, Miss O'Brien evoking great tinental pioneer flights. admiration by the performance of pleted their courses of training in
During June 125 soldiers com her spins and rolls and loops, and the Army Vocations Training as the itidged said, the most per feet landing of any competitor in Centres, Hounslow, Aldershot, and the landing competitions Chlsledon, and were discharged from the Army on the terminatione, three who have been so lucky
records,.."..
15.
Cost Of Training,
Not all of us can fly ourselves, not all of us can even go as pas sengers, but there is a call to every women in the country to support the cause of aviation.
We make machines which are
need
among the best in the world. We l their coloit · Lervice. Of this humber 98 obtained immediate eu- this last week-end were all pupils produce engines which are used in- ployment in civil life, the majority of a British Light Aeroplane Club ternationally, and the is respect Blumbing, motoring, farming, pri- where one can learn to fly for pilot in every corner of the globed going to bricklaying, carpentry, there are fourteen of them and admiration for the British vats service, and positions of trust.
under £30 and in about 20 lessons but these three things of half an hour each.
National, support before they can When the Air Ministry first come into their own and, before can fully add evolved this scheme of Light Aero- Great Britain plane Clubs it threw the doors of to her mastery of the sen, and the aviation open to the women of our carrying trade of the world by her country as well as to men, and we mastery of the air and its newer are so glad that we have been en form of transport...**
Here in the developinent of abled to show that the confidence of
There were some workmen there, bas I told them I did not want them as I had sent for the police. I then went back into the dining room and sat down again. Soon after a policeman came. I told him all about it."
7
the Air Ministry in the women of avistion and the progress of our When he came to that part of the country has not been mis industry we have a new pathway placed. Many times people ask me to National advancement, we have his statement,
"And it came across me in a Bash that I had how I can earn money by aviation. a new road to a pinnacle of suc shot them in the night, Banks 1 did it for two years, and I made cess and achievement-op which a comfortable profit with lots of road other nations bave travelled wept bitterly.
Just before he was removed. to pleasant hard work My work was much further than we have The entry of women into any new area Exeter Gaol, he (Inspector Fre) divided into four kinds:
(1) Exhibilloh tying such as of life is the hallmark of ita I believe 1.did kill her, but I asked Banks if he cared to get in Miss O'Brien did at Rotterdam, stability, security and safety, and cannot remember properly. I touch with any legal representa which is the easiest and the best the world of National aviation is waiting for our women to give it. woke up this morning in the live on his behalf. dining-room on the sofa between Benks Again broke down, we
wept,
that ball-mark. 11 and 12 o'clock.
and said, No, Mr. Fry. He It gave me a fright because I would only try to get me out of it believed I had gone to bed in the and I do not want that. I want ofdinary way unstairs last night. | tó bá þanged to get out of it
I got up and opened the door
nading from the dining-roof
Into the passage, expecting to
Women In The Gallery, When the court adjourned for
paid of all..
(2) Instruction-the light aero- planes we use, which cost about 2000 and 220 a month upkeep are indeed for instruction as well as for giber work, w
Instruction is perhaps the most interesting work a woman can do.
find my wife and daughter about, luncheon a number of people in the It is a beautiful thing to watch a and I saw a fug and solve publio gallery produced and pupil, who knows nothing about tishions on the floor and my rewiches and fruit Bottles of aviation, but who is deeply en- mineral water were also brought thusiastic, greausily becoming volver beside them, p
nah that I had shot them in the of the occupants of the gallery laat he becomes a fully fledged
A pilot! hight. I tried to go upstairs,were women, mut
"
and would he tell the police to The evidence for the come to the house at once.
but I could not make myself go Dr. Harry Bertram Walker, of In after years one hits an affec- up, so I knocked on a window the Avenue, Minehead, said he tichate, motherly feeling and a to attract the attention of the Bay Banks lying with his eyes shut great pride in the exploits of soy- mdu who was working in the on a couch downstairs. When he one who has launched into the Bir felt his pulse Banks opened his like this. It is perhaps the garden. He did not come, s0 kept on knocking, and but-eyes and said: "Afe you a doctor proudest thing in all my life that cher's boy came over and I told Is this all true, or is it a horrible had the pleasure of giving Lady Bailey her first eight hours' him I was in dreadful trouble dream
her climb from height to height in instruction in the fir and as I see Banks was committed for trial the word of aviation, winning I then went back into the dining-room and waited until at the natutan assizes at Wells; races, and dying to Africa, "I feel There was a “ring at the door, Mr Wilshire saying that Banks much prouder then if I had done
thels, particular fetts myself And I went to the front door. pleaded not guilty and reserved
:(Continued on nézt Column)}; (Continued on heat Column).
was concluded
his defence,
Prosecution
V.B.C. am holding their SECOND NIGHT. FETE
for Thie Besson on SATURDAY: the 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1928, Oom- mencing st 9 7.X, SWIMMING WATER POLO- A TEAM RACE-
A BAND AND DANCING. Come and See the Best Swimming
to be seen in the Colony. All are Waloozda“ Booking at the V.R.C..
C. J. COOKE,
Hon. Secretary,
Hong Kong, 5th Sept, 1928. fuss