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Jana ČLIVE BROOK, EVELYN BRENT,
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A HÉCTOR TUANBULL, MARNSTING The picture you've been waiting for ! A tale of the Underworld as it really is Written especially for the screen by Den Hecht, à reporter who has seen the scenes that have been filmed.
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GRAND NATIONAL
PROBABLES.
PROMISE OF A GOOD FIELD.
(THROUGH REUTERʼB AGENCY:)
Losoos March 185.
The Grand National, the most spectacular race in the world, is to be run at Aintree, Liverpool, on Friday. It is probable that over thirty hurdlers with last year's winner top weight, will go to the starting post, the present list of probables and jockeys" being as follows:-
firegalach Gatebook Dan Zelon
Shaungiolin
Everett. T. Morgan. Lyall Cullinan.
Piggott.
Grakle
Donegal
Speck.
Lordf
Stott...
Alike
Barry.
Shady Hook
Leader.
Ibstock
Goode.
K.C.B.
Guilding Light
Reggie's Pride Big Wonder Savernake May King Tootenhill
Paris Flight
Sir Lindsay
De la Rue
Agden
Toy Bell Ballyhanwood Gold Flare Glangesio
Blenner Hasset
Ruddyman May Crescent
Royal Arch II. Soldier's Joy Curtain Raiser Gay Dog II.
The Monk
Cryptical
Mellersay's Belle Merrivale H.
Annandale
The Gosling
Moloney.
T. McCarthy. Weber.
B. McCarthy. Goswell. Wenham. Finall.
.Williams. Wilson. Moseley.
.D: Morgan.
Foster. Maxwell.
J. Browne. .Dutton.
Browne.
Earott.
.Hardy.
Gosange.
Powell.
W. Gurney.
Bennett.
Bisgood... Mason. Brookes.
F. Gurney. Boulton.
Harewood........ Bland
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
Horizontal,
1.-Greek underworld.
8.-Frustrates.
11-Decoratce.
13. A bird.
14.-Within
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15. Method of procedure.
17. Thus,
18. Youth.
20.-American buffalo.
21.-A tree.
22-To dam. ".
24. Sunburo.
25.-A bird.
26-One who eludes. 28.Woods deity. 29.-Blame. 30-Part of body. 31.-English school. 32-Evil spirits. 34.-To state, 35.-To embrace.
36.-Clan. 38.-To offor.
39.-A colour. 41.-Female deer.
42.-Article..
43.-Fetes. 45.-Sun god. 46.-Hurrien
48. Turns aside.
30.-Man's name. 51.-A plant.
1.-Salutes
Vertical.
2.-Grown together,
3. To act.
4. To mistake.
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5-One who looks down on an
other. 6-Native of Finland. 7-A number,
B.-Within, 9.-Injury
10-A bird.
..Thomas.
12.-Sets of rooms. 13.-Wild beast. 15.Former Russian ruler. 19.-Dedicated. 21.-Established.
23.--Estate.
25.-Showers, 27.-Colour. 28.-Enemy. 30.--To bandage. 31.To show. 32.-Pelts. 33.-Pastimes.
34. To make ashamed. 35.-Garden tools. 37.-To plague. 3.-Municipality.... 40.-Volcanic rock, 43.-In favour of 44. Japanese coin. 47.--Upon.
48.One of the Northeastern U.
Sabbr.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
10. 1602
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1930.
QUYAS WILLIAMS
DIFFICULT DECISIONS.
WHEN YOU COME FACE TO FACE WITH ONE OF · YOUR MOST DIGNIFIED NEIGHBORS, LEANING OUT OF HIS WINDOW IN HIS PAJAMAS AND SHOUTING AT A FLEEING BOY WHO HAS APPARENTLY DISTURBED HIS SUNDAY MORNING SNOOZE WITH A WELL-PLACED SNOWBALL THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW. SHOULD YOU COMMISERATE, OFFER TO CHASE THE CULPRIT, OR PASS
ON PRETENDING YOU'RE VERY NEAR-SIGHTED.
TRAGIC END OF A PEER'S SON.
MR.. A. AGAR-ROBARTES' 50-FOOT FALL.
WINDOW DRAMA,
(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.).
"FLYING SQUAD"
EXPANSION.
2-18
SELF-LOADING RIFLE.
SCOTLAND YARD WAR ON TRIALS OF NEW WEAPON
CAR BANDITS.
MORE HIGH POWERED TENDERS.
AT BISLEY,
Representatives of the Vickers firm of armament makers have been firing trials at Bisley with a self The Hon. Alexander George Agar. Scotland Yard has decided to loading rifle invented by Colonel Robartes, aged thirty-five the divide up the Metropolitan Police Pedersen, of the United States. youngest son of Viscount Clifden, Area into districts for patrol by The rifle has not been publicly ex Flying Squad tenders in order tohibited, but in length it resembles was killed in a fall from a third-check the increasing activities of the superseded Lee-Enfield, and it fidor window of the family residence, motor-ear bandits. in Grosvenor-square last month.
A milkman and a taxicab driver were actual witnesses of the accias will also be the personnel of the dent, which occurred at seven o'clock in the morning, when the square was nearly deserted. The milkman was on his carty "round, and the cab-driver was awaiting fare on the rank at the corner of the square.
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In Nursing Home: Only servants were about in the house at the time, and they were in the basement.
For this purpose the number of high-powered tenders in use under various disguises will be increased, Squad.
con.
This step marks an important departure in the Yard's battle with motor-car bandita. It was fidently hoped that the addition of especially speedy tenders made. re- cently would have a much bigger effect than in fact it has had, and the prophecy was made in some quarters that the raiders would in
forced out of business.
This extension of the Squad's operations will entail considerable expense, but it is believed that only some such systematic patrolling of the area as a whole will suffice to cheek raids.
Mr. Agar Robartes had been in indifferent health, and had only recently returned to the house from
How Raiders Escape. a nursing home. He occupied a front bedroom on the third floor, Under the arrangement hitherto with a small window overlooking in force, although a special watch the square, more than fifty feet might be and often was kept in above the area. Outside the win-localities known or suspected to be dow is a narrow ledge, a few inches wide, which runs along the whole front of the building...
ward, and fall head downward into. the area, missing the railing of the balcony on the first floor."
than either,
KING GEORGE'S FUND FOR SAILORS.
HELP FOR NAUTICAL
CHARITIES.
The annual meeting of the Cor- poration of King George's Fund for Sailor's was held in London a Fow weeks ago. Although the Food was inaugurated during the War it is a permanent fund now incorporated under Royal Charter. The Marine Benevolent Institu- tions, which it is the primary ob ject of the Fund to assist, require to raise an income of about £1,000,000 annually. The Fund, to fulfil its purpose of stabilizing the income of those nautical charities. which are temporarily depressed, requires to distribute about £30,000. Annually.
The Lord Mayor (Sir William Waterlow), who presided, said that when the Fund was begun the country's existence as the heart of the Empire was gravely imperilled, and it was then that the in! habitants of these islands appre einted mare keenly than they had done for 100 years how absolutely dependent they were on the sailors, whether of the Royal Navy or the Mercantile Marine. The outlook of the world at large on the ques- tion of war had undergone a 'come plete metamorphosis, and the de- sire for peace was so universal that there was in London to-day a cone ference of the leading naval Powers of the world. He only referred to that important conference in order to point out that, whatever arrange- ments were made by the nations of the world to settle their differences amicably, no human power could control the elements of Nature with which the sailor had to contend. It was only quite recently that our shores were visited by the most severe gales and tempests on ro cord, bringing" in their train lamentable loss of ships and lives. They must keep in mind, therefore, that the seafaret had at all times
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a life of hazard and hardship.. while sickness and accident con- tinually took toll of those whose work was carried out on the deep Fund was inaugurated it had dis waters. In the few years since the tributed among the marine chari- ties no less than £649,776.
Glover ord
New Members of Council.
Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Ingle ia "stocked and cased rather more field announced that the following strongly than the modern S.M.L.E.had been elected members of the It does not appear to be heavier General Council as the result of the voting by the life governers and automatic, but is simply a self Lord Burnham, Mr. J. Howard The rifle is not, like the B.S.A.. governors:-Sir Raymond Back, loader and ejector. The bolt ap
Kylsant, Major parently has a crank action and Oswald C. Magning, the Duke of outwardly resembles that of the Montrose, Mr. Hartington Ratcliffe, Parabellum automatic pistol. It is R.N., Captain Harold Sanderson, operated the recoil, and ejecting B.N.R., Mr. Edward H. B. Skim- the empty shell, replaces it with a "ming, and Captain Thomas M. cartridge from the clip. The band Whitehead. taining 10 cartridges, but it is beputy loading is by means of a clip con- Captain Sir Arthur_Clarke, de chairman of the General lieved that shortly the capacity will be increased to 20 rounds.
Council, moving the adoption of the annual report, which showed The rifle has a bore of „276, and that grants had been made to the consequently the cartridge is lighter marfie charities during 1929 to the than the British Mark VII. The total of £46,525, referred to the cartridge contains about 20gr. of recent death of Sir Thomas Mae- N.C. powder; the bulles is stream-kenzie, who had been a vice pre- lined and weighs 125gr., as compar-sident of the Fund, and said that ed with 154gr. of the Mark VII. of the munificent sum of nearly The muzzle velocity is 2.000ft., £40,000 contributed by New Zealand which is 2001t. higher than that of in the early days of the Fund, the Service Mark VII.
pearly three-quarters was due to the influence of Sir Thomas Mackenzie who was then High Commissioner General Council's thanks to sup- for New Zealand. Expressing the
porters and friends, he said Liver- pool, as hitherto, had not beea backward in its support and he drew attention to the welcome assistance received from the "Big Five" of the great London Joint Stock Banka
Forty Rounds a Minute. favoured by raiders, a raid would frequently be reported from a partminute is a leat well within the As the firing of 20 rounds a of London miles from the nearest "I was near the house," said one cruising tender. This fact has compass of most of the Service of the witnesses, "when I saw a figure again and again permitted the markamen who shoot at Bisley and that includes a bolt movement after leaning right out of a top window.raiders to escape, while proof has
every shot and the loading of three, It seemed to overbalance, lurch for equally often been given that once
put on a hot trial the Yard men separate clips, 40 rounds should be have been more than a match for possible with a rifle from which all their opponents. This has probably physical movement other than trig been the deciding reason for the der pressure and the loading of the A former subscriber was kind now decision to patrol London by How long that rate of fire could with the capital sum of his gener- second clip have been eliminated. enough to present the Fund areas rather than at random.
be maintained has yet to be deter- ous subscription, the interest on The further, schemes suggested to mined. Heating of the barrel, eye which would be considered as his Scotland Yard of enrolling garage strain, nerve tension, and other subscription in perpetuity. They keepers and mechanics as vigilance police under a graduated s tem of factors, mechanical and human, were not committing themselves to rewards payable on the co riction apply more persistently to the hand any great expenditure for collect- of motor bandits and car thieves, mounted weapon than they do to ing funds because conditions gen- and of enforcing a general register the tripod-carried automatic guns, erally were not favourable for ap-
The shouts of the onlookers aroused the household and brought the servants to the doors. They found Mr. Agar-Robartes, who wore his pyjamas and a silk dressing gown, mortally injured, lying in the corner of the area, and they carried him into the house.
Skall Fractured.
An ambulance was telephoned for and the policeman from the nearest point brought in. The dying man, accompanied by his elder brother and the policeman, was taken to St. George's Hospital, but died before he reached there. His skull was fractured and both legs broken.
Viscount Clifden, who is a widow- er, eighty-six years of age, was in residence, but the news of what had happened was not broken to him until later in the day.
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peal work, and it was not the ab-
Ject of the Fund to compete in this regard with the nautical charities
assist. The Central Bureau for
of all cars entering and leaving and a pretty general opinios, held at Hythe and the other, Service Brages or filling stations, over which there has been a good deal small arms schools, sets the effee of discussion recently, will probably tive limit of maintained fire at 30 which it was their main aim to come to nothing. To put either rounds a minuto.
That, however, if realised, would Naval Officers' Charities had now into operation would entail a great be considerably higher than the been in operation about eight deal of organization and super-rate possible with the S.M.L.E. in months. By its means those who vision, and at best the success wore
possible would be very limited. In the hands of the most expert rifle were desirous of getting assistance man. Moreover, as the self-loader were speedily put in touch with almost every case the car used for a smash and grab raid is stolen for calls for no expenditure of human the appropriate fund. Twenty-one the express purpose, and is aban energy beyond that "necessary for charities were now co-operating in dored as soon after as possible tinued use would not make a de- thanks to the Marine Benevolent sim and trigger pressure, its con- the arrangement. He expressed Not once in a hundred raids is a garago ever visited.
mand on physical endurance over Institutions which worked in co- given length of time as great as operation with the Fund and acted that made by the present Service aa almoners for many special funds. rifle.
Owing to their assistance, the work That is all that may be said of the being done gratuitqualy, the dis self-loading rifle until more exten-tribution expenses of the Fund sive trials have been made, As the were reduced to a minimum, and VISITORS HURRIED ESCAPE. the skill of the man behind it, the grants-in-aid without any reduc accuracy of any rifle depends on the beneficiaries received their A favourite centre for English target trials here can have little or tion for administration expenses. no value. What will ultimately de tourists, the Victoria Hotel, Largs, tormine its value is its reliability. (honorary treasurer), who second- Ayrshire, was destroyed by fire last and its ability to stand up to ed, said the shipping industry was month, and the staff and visitors the vicissitudes of campaigning, depressed to an extent previously had to make a hasty exit from the
unknown as a result of bad trade, building, some of them scantily
When trade was bad, it was so
The dead man was educated at Eton, and served in the Grenadier Guards. He gained the Military Cross during the war and was severely wounded.
Later he received an appointment on the staff, and was for a time A.D.C. to the Viceroy of India. He was unmarried.
Sixth Viscount. The present Lord Clifden is the sixth viscoutit. He was Lord-Lieu- tenant of Cambridgeshire, and at one time-before assuming the title --Liberal M.P. for East Cornwall. His eldest son, the Hon. Thomas Charles Agar-Rouartes, M.P. for St. Austell, died from wounds dur- ing the war.
Three sons and four daughters are now living. The heir is the Hon. Francis Gerald Agar - Robartes, M.V.O., who was private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary in 1922-24.
clad.
WELL-KNOWN HOTEL DESTROYED.
During the blaze hundreds of bottles of whisky burst, and "the loud popping of corks could be.. beard,
burn, and had to return for chains
Vico-Admiral
G. R. Mansell
much easier for a trader to reduce
a subscription, but if every one to be fixed to the wheels,
gave the price of a theatre ticket Ex-Provost Malcolm, who is an or cinema ticket annually to the invalid residing in an adjoining Fund, they would never have to The Greenock Fire Brigade was property, was carried out of his make any further appeals, and the summoned to assist the local fire house owing to the danger of the Fund would be in a flourishing con- men, but owing to the frozen ronds fro spreading. The damage dition. the engine nearly skidded into a amounted to several thousands of
The report WIS (Continued at foot of next column), pounds
adopted.
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