THE FRAWLEY CO.
(By W. Renwiek `Smith.)]
Well, here
am
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE CAUSEWAY BAY HONGKONG MAN'S WAR
-MOTOR TRAGEDY.
BOOK.
Allegations of Racing Made What "The Athenaeum
at Resumed Inquest.
Says of It.
back in Hongkong to At the resumed, inquest, yester In its issue of November 4th.: complete defio-
day afternoon, on the death of The Athenom gives pride of ito arrange Commander Hooper, who was place to a review of Mr. A. M., ments for the killed in a motor-car accident on Bowes-Smith book "Four Years appearance at the Causeway Bay road whilst on the Western Front." The re the Theatre returning from Repúlas Bay įviewer, in the course of a lengthy Royal of the T. Hotel in the early hours of notice, says
but
Danish Frawlay Company. I left January, allegations of two cars "I was not a soldier, and yet I Manila on Saturday, where Mr.racing were made by the driver have been wandering wall lost Frawley and Miss Adela Blood, of the car that met with the among A Rideman's four years. with whom he is associated, were mishap.
Jon the Western front. He has. smiling over their success there Surgeon Lt. Commander Hayes, not attempted to make a signific. and looking forward to their describing the decasted's injuries ant drams of experiences. His Hongkong engagement.
You may not know who Adele said he was admitted to the Naval book is not a work of art. The Hospital at 3 am, was author bas merely performed a Blood Is do you? Everyona
already dead. His injuries com-¡plain duly, and put everything: back in the States knows her-prised & fractured skull, with down as it happened. He begins abe's one of the best known laceration of the brain. It would with his holidays in August 1914, dramatic stars on the American have been impossible to save his and rambles on innocently and stage and is often referred to as life even had he been admitted leisurely towards the gas-clouds one of the most beautiful blondes in the country. Her fame came after her portrayal of the role of "Everywoman" in the allegorical
play of that asme.
earlier.
of the second battle of Ypres in
Ng Ting-mow, driver of car|April 1915. He comes out of No. 46, giving evidence, said that alive, to bis grest surprise; ao left Repulse Bay at am.and he simply relates things that The car in which deceased and happened, the look of his With Mr. Frawley will come other naval officers were riding pals and their clotbea the Miss Blood and their
COD (No. 118) passed him at Tytam, things they said, what he pany of fifteen artiste, arrivics and he followed at a distance of beard and smelt, the flames in the on the Empress of Russia opbout 50 feet, until at Causewayfsky, the feeling of the mud. thei January 19. The opening rate Bay the occupants of the other cold rain, the wounded waiting in at the Theatre Royal will be the car sigaalted to him to ps the rauck for stretchers which did same evening. The play chosen Hands were waved on both not come, the ruins of a house at is "Enter Madame," a futuristic sides of the car, and be took this cross-roads by night seen by comedy dealing with a tempera to be a signal to pass. He ac intermittens star-shells-his book mestal prima donna, who, by the celerated, and passed the other is a very albam. A Ridleman, way, bas quite a temper!
rebicle, sounding bis horn as he think goodness, hea not troubled Miss Blood comes to Hongkong did so. He knew nothing of the over the selection of significant for the first time but Mr. Frawley
facts. All the facts were signific. will be making his 'steenth, Questioned by the Coroner, this ant to him. He was very sensi- visit here. From all Miwitness told bis passengers told tively coccerord. A child at the Blood has heard of Hong him to pass the others when the door of an estaminet in the battle kong. its civic beauty, its signal was given. He denied zɔns was as remarkable to this hospitality etc, from Mthat he crossed in front of the London clark, newly out, as the Frawley, she says she knows she other car. He estimated the artillery team struggling in is going to like being here. 1.
speed of his car when it was level hasp before the child, where a came through your attractive with the other one at 24 miles an shell bad mixed it up. city en route to Manila and later hour. Otherwise his speed, ba And all of it, of course, was of told Miss Blood and Mr. Frawley maintained, was only 18 miles anțimmense significance. We may they must sive some of their hour. **films
"sboot here. Youl know we carry a cameraman and are filming two feature motion picture stories en route?
accident.
The Other Driver's Story. The Chinese chauffeur of cat No. 118, in which the naval
CAK
courageously pretend, if it affords
us any comfort, that what hap pened in Flanders was episodic, the usual incidents of war; that) such things bare happened be- may happen
The Frawley Hongkong proofficers were travelling, was next fore; that they gramme is As follows: Fri-
called, and gave evidence of the again. We may deny that the day, January 19, Eater period when his car was in use place-names of Fiandors, Artois, Malame," with Miss Blood
by his passengers. He stoutly and Picardy, which still to some Mr. Frawley: Saturday maintained that they left Repuise people are portentous, are more And matinee, Jan. 20. "The First Bay on the return journey. at now than ploughlands, waste, and Year," a comedy with Mr. Fraw-1.25 .10, and not 2.5 am. as reconstruction. But is it got use ley; Saturday evening, "The Cat
alleged by the naval party. less to pretend, to deny, origuore?. and the Canary," a mystery play He denied passing the other There is no doubt that the men to with Adele Blood: Monday, Jan.
Tytam. though he whom those words mean so much 22, 'Smilin' Through,” a fantastic did pais another оде be were present when old Europe comedy drams with both Miss remembered. On the Causeway fell. They
right up- Blood and Mr. Frawley and Bay road, when nearing Ab King's derpeath, so to speak, when the Tuesday, Jan. 23, The Gold Digalipway, he was travelling at 20 roof came down. The downfall RET, farce dealing with the miles an hour. It was thea just of Europe's intricate and crazy life of a Broadway chorus girl in pas: 2 a.m. A car came very establishment, the end of the which both stars appear, The close up behind them, and sound- industrial era (as some gay), the Frawley troupe is scheduled to ed its horn. es on the ariinis on Wednes-him not to let it pass.
His passengers told collapse of imperialism under the top-weight of its guas, are more day, Jan for Singapore.
Cross-examined. the witness than phrases, anyhow. They
were
I am not speaking now as adhered to the statement that the really indicate central truths of biassed advance representative- but, in all candour, I feel that naval officers had told him to go a general disaster. To the men fast. He obeyed in order to who were in France they never Hongkong is going to like the
humour them. One of them. were mere phrases. What seemed new Frawley Company, its new star, Miss Adela Blood, and the Wallare, who was sitting next, phrases to us, to them was a to witness, had made the move-spectacle terrifying enough to
раке.
horse.
new New York and London plays ments of a jockey riding a break up accepted beliefs and which they are offing. If you
He accelerated as the destroy ancient faiths. The lesson don's believe our plays are now other car drew level, and then could not have been emphasized current in both cities, just you noticed that the other vehicle more by a veritabla archangel pick up a London or New York
Things will paper and turn to the theatricalas almost on to the middle of announcing doom
his own car. He drove in to the never, be the 54m9 again,' men used to sly. That The China Frees repo-torial laft of the road. The headlights the
to staff. as well as the boys on the of the other oir fleshed on his should be obvious enough
If any one Manila Bulletin and Timer, said I windscreen and dazzled him. He everybody to-day.
felt two bumps, and knew he had doubts, because he himself was was the first 'truthful' press agent they had ever met. I wonder if truck the kerbstone. The accid.not under the roof when it came. down, that Europe's disrupted the people of Hongkong are thick, ent then occurred.
Pay master. Lt. Webb, Paymas-internal economy is exposed to ing the sams? At ang rate, I
ter Lt. McBride, LL Wallace, the corrosion of wind and hope you will go to see the
LA Beauchamp. and Lt. Capley, weather, let him struggle through Frawley plays and I would be in turn, denied that they had Four Years on the Western willing to Wagar you'll like
told their driver to race the other Front with 'A Riflemen.' He every one of them. If you don't think Adele Blood charm car. Lt. Wallace later said he recollected that he did go through ing and versatile, then I am "all the motions of a jockey as the mized in wrong somehow."! Cheerio as you say, and thanks to other car drew level.
may then begin to understand."
The Daily Mail, in a half- colum review, says the book "has signal merits and tells the Traffic Inspector Garrod gave render a great deal more about the Hongkony Telegraph for allot-evidence of the speed at which the laner side of the war than
ing me this space. I'm off to Singapore on the Plassy.
OBITUARY.
Mr. R. C. Forsyth.
The death of a China veletan, in
the person of Mr. B. C. Forsyth,
of the English Baptist Mission, is
Guth
year.
He
care could go round a 43 foot many pretentious treatises." corner, and pass, in safety. He
considered 20 miles an hour safe,
even at night, if proper care were MRS. BEVAN BUYS AN ESTATE. exercised.
The enquiry was adjourned until to-morrow afternoon.
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Alleged III-Treatment in Asylums.
patients know of. But I bave had ample evidence of it since."
Continuing, Dr. Lomax said that while there might be little or (no ill-treatment in some asylums, system that made it possible sylum was's system that must be done away with. The Lunacy Acts were a generation behind times, and needed drastic reform. At the close of the meeting &
for ill-treatment to exist in any.
Merers. Dibblin and Smith, of Mount-street, London, W. 1, anoounce that they have sold to Mrs. Gerald Lee Bevan, Mr. H Deane-Drummand's old. Tudor The need for Rdyal Commis- Louse, Wickhurst Manor, Weald, tion on lunasy reform was urged Dear Sevenoaks, Mrs. Bevan has by Dr. Montagu Lomas at also acquired through Messrs. crowded meating in Lancaster- reported. Mr. Forsyth had nearly Queen's Building Not For Dibblin and Smith, an adjoining gate, Loulon, recently. completed forty years in North
{farm, so that the whole estate Reference to a recent case in Chids and was within a few weeks of
will now extend to about 11% which the evidence of lunatics passing bis
Bamoure were current in town acres. Wickhurst was the secret bad astonished the Court by its resided for 21 years st Taing- yesterday afternoon and this meeting place of the Protestant lucidity, Dr. Lomax said that member of the audience said that chowin, and then for a further six morning, to the effect that gentry in 1553-1554, after the lunatics were as lucid as normal Dr. Lomax had under-stated the years at Chousut, acting as Tree Queen's Buildings had been sold defeat of Sir Thomas Wyatt at people, provided there was no se regarding ill-treatment, se aurer and Business Manager of his by its owners, the Central Estates the Sale Fields, Wrotham. Sir trenching on their particular she could testify from personal mlesion, but always giving his spare Limited. It will be remembered Hary Isley, who was then owner delusiou, and their evidence of perience. For instance, when time and energy to direct missionary that the same Company recently of the estate, and several of bis the ill-treatment of other patients she rubbed at her wet hair in or work. In 1011-failing health com- sold Prince's Buildings, for $2,750,-friends were executed, some at was entirely reliable, a fact which dar to try it, she was accused of pelled him to retire, and since theu 000, and yesterday's romoure Bevezoaks and some at Maid- few people realized.
**being ruicidal, and was roughly he has, resided at Tataan. His mentioned a very big sum as the store, in February, 1554.
"In my book," he added, “I treated n consequence. only son, a doctor of brilliant pro-purchase price for Queen's
It was announced by the Sacre- said nothing about Ill-treatment, because, though I had my suspi-tary of the National Consell for Lunacy Reform that there WIS It would be hiddền” from the medical dicer or visiting com- |
mise, died last summer at Singa Buildings.
pore, a blow from which Mr.
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