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J.P.'S, "INCURABLE OPTIMISM."

£1,038 CLAIM BY A BOO MAKER.

NAVAL, COOK IN HOT

WATER.

MISHANDLES, HIS COOKING

CHEST.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1930.

An accident recently occurred to Major Bertram William Arnolda Naval Cock Rating who was Kennel, ál, Weston Old Hall, near severely scalded when opening a Norwich, a justice of the peace, who stena cooking chest. It appears was described by his own counsel that the man attempted to open the as a nun who had to be protect chest without taking the precaution ed against his own incurable on of first draining It; consequently timism," was the defendant in anthere was a rash of steam and act arising out of betting trans-water from the door of the chest actions, which was heard recently when it was opened. Also, it seens evident that the excess of steam in, the King's Bench Division,

A claim against him for sumsi pressure above 5 lbs, must have cor- amounting to £1,025 wis made by tributed to the force of expulsion Mr. James Henry Clare, caresing of the steam and water on opening on business, as a bookmaker at the door. verbal contract alleged to have been made whereby evok ratings will re Walbrook, London, respecting a "fature arrangements will be made between his representative ceive instruction in the manipula tion of these cooking chests and sa and Major Keppel last June.

to the danger involved in cooking at any excess of steam pressure.

"Financial Contusion." Major Keppel, giving evidence, said that in 1911 he got into great financial confusion and trouble. and settled all his property on

trustees.

Major Keppri's wife, the

Mrs. Alice Evelyn Agatha Keppel. stated that the income from her husband's estate exceeded £2.000 a year. Her brothers-in-law acted as trustees,

She said. in cross-examination, thal, she herself had betting trans actions with. Mr. Clare, and had been paid when she won.

Mr. Cartwright Sharp, addressing the jury for the defenre. said that it was heraus Major Keppel had to be protected against his own incurable optimism that a deed had had to be made settling his property on trustees.

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LOST LEADER OF 1921 WAR ON "THE RIFF."

MOORISH SLAVE,"

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BAD DEBTS AT. OXFORD.

UNIVERSITY AUTHORITIES

BLAMED.

CUPIDITY OF. TRADESMEN."

A suggestion that the debts of undergraduates to the Oxford tradespeople of the town amount to £230,000, much of which is irrecover- able, is made in a leading article

in the Isis.

HELM ORDERS REFORM.

SHIPMASTERS FAVOUR THE PROPOSED CHANGE.

The auticnl adviser to the Bins Funnel Line (Alesars. Alfred Holt &Co.), Captain Elliston Warrall, who has been over fifty years at sen and thirty years in the service of the company in the course of an interview with in representative of The Journal of Commerce re-

A French expeditionary force. recently left Paris for the Sahara Desert "to ace "if it can find any trace of General Silvestre and a of other distinguished number Spanish officers who are supposed.

The writer launches a blunt at-garding the present controversy on tack on the authorities for allowing helm orders, said that he approved slaves" under criel Moorish task such a state of affairs, and urges very strongly indeed of the altera- to be working there

masters. The tale is one that that the time has come to enforce tion to be made, and he believed that anyone who said the British makes "Beau Geste" seem pale bygalised credit limit, such as is

in fores at Cambridge.

Merchant Navy could not get accus comparison.

It is said that not very long tomed to these orders was very In July 1021 a Spanish army of ago an undergraduate was, sent

ordinary much under-rating the 21,000 men, under General Fer-down from Oxford because the British seaman's ability and men nandez Silvestre, was ambushed at authorities discovered some quite Annoual, in Spanish Morocco, by small debt with a local tradesman," tality.

Help to British Shipping.

and there men,

followed the Such a report seems fantastic, Abd-el-Krim and his Riffian tribes the paper states.

Most of the people who were greastet masunere of modern times. beyond words when one considers writing in the Press about it did Abd-el-Krim eaptured enough for a moment the extraordinary not seem to realise that they had military materials to carry on war-lentangy of the credit system from to accept the new Convention in and which the Oxford tradespeople its entirely, and that there were fare against the French Spanish armies for five years. The derive all their livelihood.

very many things in it of great ad- Yer it would appear that the vantage to British shipping. They │» disaster caused a wave of horror in Spain that almost led to a revo-authorities are actually not aware were giving a very small quid pro lation.

of do not choose to admit that theyque when they were altering their Son's Vain Search.

are aware, of any such debt as that helm orders to be in conformity. of members of the university to the with other nations. Other seafaring inhabitants of the town.

nations gave direct orders but in the British Merchant Navy, when they wanted the ship to go to star- board they ordered the heim to port which was manifestly absurd on the face of it. (

The strangest feature of this Ambush was that when Spanish re inforcements arrived from Milika they were unable to find the bodies of the "commanding general and n number of his principal staff off-

cers.

The son of General Silvestre, who searched among the dead for his father, declared that he had undoubtedly been carried off as a prisoner, and it was felt by many in Spain that the general was held by the Moors, and that, according to their custom, he was forced to work as a slave.

We can well believe that they are not aware of its size-it" has been roughly estimated at $230,000 -but it is plainly absurd for them to deny ita existenen alto- gether.

for the existence of such a debt, "There is no possible justification which only the torpor of the author. ities has in the first place made possible.

Despotic Powers.

In the sailing-ship days there, was starboard or port, and if following nothing like it. They never used

a tng, the order was not port or atarboard, but to put the holm up or down. He believed that if right and left were used for a period of "Nothing could be more deplor-six months, they would then doubt- In recent years, many well-found-able than the way they mis-spend less revert to port and starboard the comprehensive, and despotic in the direct sense, and he main powers that they enjoy in this restained that there would be no pect, by simply sending down a few casualties whatever. miserable individuals from time to time while the goot of the evil rë mains untouched.

ed rumours have reached Spain that there were a large number of these white slaves in the hands of wandering tribes in the Sahara.

This mystery about General Sil vestre's disappearance was "only part of a skeleton that has been rattling in the cupboard of the. Spanish monarchy and the Spanish Government ever since the defeat at Annoual.

It is widely believed in Spain, that King Alfonso personally or dered. General Silvestre to advance into the Riff country against the advice of General Berenguer, the present Prime Minister, who was then Spanish High Commissioner. in Morocco. Although this point was thoroughly discussed when General Berenguer was, court-mar-

tiailed and disgraced for alleged responsibility for the massacre, the records of the court-martial have

been kept secret.

Help From France.

In view of the widespread con- virtion in Spain that General Sil- vestre and some of his officers are still alive and held as slaves, Gen- oral Berenguer took up the matter with Lucien Saint, resident-general of French Morocco, when he was in Madrid a few days ago, and Asked if the French Army could send an expedition into the Sahara in search of the missing men.

The Spanish Government does not believe that General Silvestre and his officers are alive, but it

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M. Saint agreed, after consulta- tion with the French military' chiefs, to send an expedition into the Sahara.

If the floating quarte of a million pounds represents wanton incompetence on the one hand, it is no less regrettable on the other 13 a witness of the lengths to which cupidity has

driven the shopkeepers.

They complain unceasingly of the bad debts they are compelled to write off, forgetting that it is simply the penalty of both" at- tempting to eat and to have the cake."

More innocent customers," the article adds, "have to suffer for the ains of the guilty ones by paying prices that, in any other town. would be recognised as shamelessly exorbitant. The chopkeeper has gambled on undergraduates being Fable to pay in the long run, and.is

now without means of redress."

A prominent Oxford tradesman to-day made light of the suggestion that the university debt reached a total of a quarter of a million.

No One Complains." - "At a very liboral estimate; col leges included, it is not £30,000,'' he said "The "credit. system is part of the life of the university. Cal- leges could not exist without the system, and no one complains.

Pilots Against Change.

A deputation from "the United Kingdom Pilots Association and the Gravesend pilots waited on the. Pilotage. Committee of the House of Commons recently to protest against the proposed change in helm orders.

Mr. Richard Lewis (Liverpool) said, the pilots did not require any change, nor was one necessary, but if there was any alteration the old

terms "port

and starboard " should be used in a direct sense; that was to say, if the order was port" the ships head would go to port. The old words were inter- national.

Mr. Burrows (representing the Thames River pilots) said.

the

change in the river would be fraught with the utmost danger. Sixty per. rent of the river pilots work was done in the dark, and it would be impossible to carry out any changò whether the words were used in a direct sense or not,

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