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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1931.
News from Everywhere
AUSTIN BANQUET
CANCELLED.
In view of the politicnd und finan- cial situation in Britain the ananel Austin banquet te agents will" Taky place this year.
NEW ZEALAND PETROL REVENUE.
Motor spirt has proved a caseful stance of revenue for balancing the New Zénland Budget, the duty hav- ing been raised to 3d per gallon.
AMERICAN FREE WHEELS.
Freewheels are said to be the high spot of the 1032 models of
American cars. They are already standard on 7 makes and opsional on 12 others.
TRIPLEX GLASS PROFITS.
"KILLED ON “WALL OF DEATH."
TRICK RIDER'S COURAGE."
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SPARKS
FROM THE PLUGS
NEW LUXURY OF THE ROAD.
30-TON MONSTERS AND 5-QWT. PIGMIES.
COMMERCIAL MOTOR SHOW MARVELS,
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S
NEW WAR BOOK.
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The two outstanding facts about the war on the Russian front wore that, while, the brave Russia u. mnases could usually, bear down the
WARNING BY A CORONER.
If you drive in this autner you are not safe to be on the streets of London in charge of a car. 11 you cau's drive better than this, MOTOR TRAGEDY SEQUEL. you had better not drivu as all." The coronar said there was an other matter, and for this he wanted the driver's two brothers, who had given evidence to come forward. The brothers, Kaufman and Joseph
PAPERS FOR PUBLIC" PROSECUTOR.
must
Kaufman Wolfs at the resumod boaring, firas of all in reply to the « coroner, said he did not know the Christian name of the man. Wood- houso, but he had soon him on one.. For two previous occasions during
the last few vers.
The Coroner: Is ho a relation of yours-Certainly not.
An Admission,
He does not happen to be your father, does he?How could" my
name would be Wolfe,
heterogenous armies of the Austrian disgust anyone, not only the jury, Wolfe, stopped out in front of the father be called Woodhouse: his
coroner.
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The whole crow of you
but anyone in court. You uny go anid Dr, W. H. Whitehotiss,
Likely to be Prosecuted." the corner, in consuring Benjamin Wolfe, a motor driver, of High-
Adressing the three brothers, the¦ bury New Park, Highbury..
coroner said, "You have come here With his two brothers. Wolfe and have given evidence and havo was uneormed in an evident in perjured yourselves very badly, which Robert Walter
Lomax and you are likely to be prosecut 3 barrister of. Huntered for it. Is is not the part of a House, Bunti-street, Brunswick jury's work to send you to gaol, square, was killed. He was knock-but it is my duty to have the papers ed down by a car in Lewisham sont to the Director of Public Pro- High-street, and the juzy secutions in enses panjury. Lewisham Coroner's Court Yester- day returned a verdict of accident al death.
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The death of Rubers Brisbane A few years ago commercial Empire, they could never stand on Smith, agod 21, a trick rider, who, vehicles were the Cinderellas of the anything like equal terms against was killed on the opening night of rond.. Inevitably, since tyres were the well-organised Gernian troops. Pools, Fair 'while driving a small selid and seats were hard, they', As in Englang, a fierce con varon"the" Wall of Death," was were exceedingly uncomfortablé, ¦ troversy raged in high quarters in the subjent of an inquest at Poole. they were shapeless and ill-painted, Germany between the Westerners I was stated that the cylinder ¦ and the unfortunate drivers aut in pand the Ensterners-between those in which Suffith performed was built the "open on a bare" board. (the ['who urged that the first Business was for motor-gpeles, only, and that the fastidious added a sack), and shiver- to smash Rusin to pieets and those banking at the bottom was not suf. † ed in wind and rain.
who insisted that this was in any case impossible against that great amorphous Imponderability and that the truce strategy was to hold
Addressing Wolfe, the caronor Russia and to see a decision in said, "The jury wish me to censure the only theatre where a decision you for your negligent driving, would be final. In the end Hinden-something loss than criminal neg!
Fortunately, they have found it burg and Ludendorff, the Eastern gener.
ciently wide to enable the car to Dashing by in 'warm saloon car, pise scthly on in the vertigalone always felt a little sorry for wall. The wheels' of the car caught them. in, a groove between the banking | To-day Cinderella is wearing her ntil the wall, Sarith apparently ball dress. And to-morrow, judging wrenched the steering wheel to get from the Commercial Motor Show fee, mounted dio wall too sharply, at Olympia, the driver of motor- and colliding with the guard Wive, couch or lorry will look compassion.ers, vanquished Falkenhayn, the crashed into the pit.
Westerner-and promptly took com- ately' down, from his luxurious ton-
An Easterner himself, Str. Chur-
Joc Silverstone, owner of a paru, on the men who fall behindmand in the West! similar show at the fair, said that in their struggling lide roadsters. The report of the Triplex Safety Smith had too much courage and Class Co., Ltd., shows a proff and was trying to learn in a day that loss account in which the profit | which required a week to aéquire. balance is shown as £63,500, the The jury, returning a verdict of eash having increased from £77,099 || accidental death, expressed the to 100.48%, white in addition, there ; opinion that the banking in the is rather more than £50,130 invested | jat should be widers in British Government veurities.
CANADA'S MOTOR RECEIPTS.
Canada's
From motor
1930, an increase of $1,740,108 or
4.3 per cent. aver the previous year, negording to a preliminary report issued by the Canadian Govern- then Bureau of Statistics.
ROAD LICENCE APPEALS.
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BUS RIVALRY WITH TRAINS.
The accident could have boon avoided. There is no doubt as to that. There was no reason at al that the car should not have been stopped if you were going at the
This Olympia exhibition is even chill tells the story well, and in-sixed you say you were. more astonishing than the recenteidentally gets in a dig at Lord Motor Show. There were long, low Kitchener, who, "with ever-chang motor coaches, with leather-bed
ing mind, the battle-ground of cushions, delicate curtains, and soft these contentions between the lights, which can be relied on to politicians on the British War purr along at a steady 5% (officially Concil, who looked impatiently, to (20) m.p.k.
Comiert and Galety. There were towering, buses, gay 5.R. COMPANY'S COMPLAINT. in light blue and area, and yellow and red, with the softext of seats,
the East for definite results, and the Army Headquarters in France, contemptuous of all "side-shows."*
It is difbedit to understand the stubborn persistence to this day of
Tire the discredited Easterners. Germans won the waưỡ în the East
where the issue was daily decided. The argument urged by British Easterners for the back door en- trance, fails entirely to take ne count of the fundamental fact that Germany's interior lines of com- munication would have enabled her
ezhieles, including registration and railway Companies' representatives (complete with protective anti Speaking at a luncheon given to half a dozen styles of upholstery
gasoline tax.,totalled $41,076,406 in by the Society of Motor Manufac-macksrs), and an elaborate equip and lust everything in the West, eat Motor Transport Exhibition at in plates to protect the steps from tarers and Traders at the Commer-ment of ticket boxes, ash trays, and
Olympia, Mr. Gilbert Szlumper, the contaminating foot of man. (In- assistant general manager of the cidentally, the 21,150 which you Southern Railway Cor expressed may have thought of spending on regret that there were still areas, smart little sports car would buy particularly in the suburbs of you a most luxurious 31-scater, Endon, where is gompany suffer should you be hospitably inclined.) to meet instantly with overwhelm- Mr. P. J. Pybus, Minister af ed from the competition of 'bus and There were lorries, soft. long, Transport, as a buncheon at Olym-coach services. This competition, with tyres so gigantic that to deany
as added, was sometimes most unscribe them as cus-size would be pin in connection with the opening of the Commercial Motor Transport resonry, and he instineed one dis-like calling "Bluebird speeds. Exhibition," said that put of the tries which had fifty-nine trains per And at the other end of the scale many thousand applications for road Boar
We are cheaper; quicker, | there were three-wheel eyele vans. service licences decided by the and afford far greater acummeda with a comfortable tonneau for the tion than these competitors, be de- driver and room for dewt. in the Trafic Commissioners," appeals to lared. "Such competition cannot the Minister had been lodged in | he good fom anybody in the long about 500 cases only, of which about 10 were subsequently with-
rily
van.
Trailers and cranes, auto-tipper Sir George "Beharrell, wh ́ pre and caterpillä tractors-moxsters gidud, said it was now recognis for hauling pig-iron and midgets for ed that rond motor transport ful- Out of the 108 appeals decided by filled definite public need, and libraries, and milk--they were all the Minister up to October, 12 re- that, he believed, would lead to represented in this remarkable die- improved relations between rend salted in orders being made on the rail.'
play. Everywhere the dominant Some services were pre- Traffic Commissioners to, vury their eminently suitable for mail, just noter were greater comfort, decisions. Similar orders were
for rond. The problems raised by colour. Mass-produced themselves," others were pre-eminently suitable efficiency, safety, and gaiety of „being made in respect of 12 further the competition must be solved in
these vehicles are true symbols "of appents recently decided.
the public interest by co-operasion.
this age of the muss, when people go to work in scores, make holiday in hundreds, and have (in the
PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
DICTATOR FOR TWENTY YEARS.
Sir E. Den'son Roas, in a broad- cast talk on "How I Would Change the World," said that the nucleus
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Deduct a certain amount from slightly amended phrase of Mr.
large incomes to improve the con- Birgell), their intellectual, like their ditions of the very poor.
Į lacteal, sustenance brought around Make primary education compul- in vans. sory and secondary education volun- tary.
Introduce into every school the learning of an international or universal script.
Attempt to reform the marriage
of the machinery with which he and divorce laws in Christian coun
would set about his task of world | trics, dictatorship would be the League
of Nations with far wider powers and comprising representatives of all States, whose arbitrament on in- ternational problems would be ne- copted as 'final.
His twenty years dictatorship would take the form of Presidency ovor the League. Among other things he would:-
Abolish the fear of war and in- duce the whole world to accept the brotherhood of man.
"CYPRUS SOLUTION · SUGGESTED.
M. VENIZELOS PROPOSES BRITISH CONTROL OF ONLY PART.
Athens, Nov, 20.--An echo of the recent revolt in Cyprus was heard in the Chamber of Deputies hers to-day when the veteran Prime Minister, M. Venizelos, suggested that Britain should retain only a part of Cyprus and thus satisfy thu Form strong standing international aspirations of the Cypriota. national military, ntral, and air force at the disposal of the League. Put an end to subraariries and the use of gas.
M. Venizelos added that Anglo- Greek friendship had endured for. a century and that the Grocks look- od upon Britain as a "protoctres and a precious friend."
A LITTLE
care in setting up an advertisement often doubles its selling power,
It is that little extra thought and care, which is
given to every advertisement drawn up in the office of the Hong Kong Daily Press, which brings good results.
forcu any new Allied threat at of her back doors.
Mr. Churchill, fortunately, does not distort the perspective by an intrusion of his own views.
He umpires the war on the Easter front with fine restraint. and a deep understanding of the problems which confronted the mili- dry chiefs on both sides.
His
judgment of the character and sol- dierly qualities of the leading figures is shrewd and vividly though not harshly expressed.
Even his inimitable picture of Conrad, the unlucky Austrian Com
mandorin-Chief, who had brilliant ideas which he could not carry out, is not unsympathetic.
A THANKSGIVING FOR OUR
GARMIES.
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I can well imagine that, as he pored over the documents and made himself acquainted with the formid- able tasks set by these immense and intricate Enstern battles, 312. Churchill offered up a silent thanks- giving that our own half-trained armies and our own generals, ac- customed only to the command of a single division, or at the most a corps, were never called upon to meet in open warfare on those vast and tragic helds the confident, well- equipped German armies, directed.
by the best German military brains,
We should certainly have little to fvar if Mr. Churchill could direct
wars and armies as well as he writes about them,
The theme of his lateat book will not make so wide an appeal as its fore-runners to English readers. But the treatment is superb and of
its kind it is a brilliant tour de
force..
Kaufman Wolfe interrupting) We didn't do it intentionally, sir. My father is not in. a. At condition to be brought here.
Doesn't your father ko undor the name of Woodhouse-He might da. I don't know,» As far as I know he does not...
The Corozor: If I causider that
you are hiding those witnesses. I shall commit you to gaol.
.
Wolfe: I am not doing anything to hide them. I have told you exactly what I know of them.
Are you quite sure that the man in the car was not your father 7- He may have been
Was he Remember you are on your oath, and I shall sond the papers to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Was he your father?
The Coroner: You had better stop talking. In fact, I think you Wolfo Sure, he was my father.
When the inquest opened on Oct. man whom he now admitted to se had better go out of my sight. Wolfe went on to say that, the.. 27 the three brothers Wolfo, said on his father was drunk at the time. Loath that there were a man and a and was lying on the bottom of, worn in the eur besides them the car. The reason that he did selves. They said they under- not admit knowing the man striod the names of the two persons said, was that he did not wish it the Woodhouse," who came from generally known that it was his fa New Zealand.
ther who was drunk.
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