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CHARGES ARISING OUT OF ALLEGED DRUNKENNESS.
MOTOR-BOAT INCIDENT
Charges arising out of alleged drunkenness against Lieutenant C. C. L. Grant, of U.M.S. Berwick,
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XAL WATĦAXXE SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1928. MWAŁ
HORROR OF AERIAL OPIUM SMUGGLING LIGHT AEROPLANE
WARFARE.
VISIONS OF ENGLAND BEING LAID WASTE.
WAR PACTS USELESS.
London, Aug. 17. Visions of London and the Home Counties laid waste in future wars are evoked as a result of the week's mimic warfare by the Royal Air Force.
thetically cut down, "for we Bre
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Chow..,
BRISTOL.
LANCASHIRE BEAT KENT BY AN INNINGS.
Some of the
most interesting. cricket of the present campaign
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Japanese mill girls have been striking for the right to marry. Civil Servants are warned, on That's better than marrying for visiting their old haunt at the the right to strike,.
do.
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READING IN AIR.
N THE
London, Aug. 17.
bag Captain Hubert Broad
C.3.0., that there is a danger of benten the endurance record for
masonry falling on their heads. light aeroplanes. He went up last.
The Marconi Company has It Is bolloved that this has evening with fuel for twenty hours
again made big profits. Share already happened to some of them MORE POPPY GROWING and to-day had been in the air INTERESTING CRICKET. holdiers won't be up in the air without their noticing it. Mr. Lloyd George, in an Inter-"
longer than that time.
about it The previous best was that of
OD view, envisaged "devastation and
London, Aug. 17. annihilation; nothing less."
According to a Manila paper, a He
Bert, Hinkler, who, on his journey
Times change. Do you remen Chinese postal worker, at Tientsin The British Government has to Australia in a light plane, was, declared. that Pacts are useless while nations are perfecting the pinced upon the agenda for the on the first stare of the journey, has been seen in England during her when ladies used to faint has been wounded in the centre
the past three days, rapidly chang- instead of swearing?
of the French Concession." This machinery for devastation. Air forthcoming Council meeting of the in the air for thirteen hours.
Captain Broad's machine, aling wickets, due to ruin, bringing were investigated at a Court Mar- armaments should be most dras. Lengue of Nations a proposal for Gipsy Moth, is the same type of about some surprising results. At
A London Judge has held that reminds of the street hawkor who was nearly pinched in the middle motorists who neglect presa of Wyndham Street. spending millions on a little Air. the appointment of a League craft on which he accured for cerinin stages, the wicket was
DO Force which week's manoeuvres Commission Lo inquire into Britain the 's speed and ideally suited to the batsmen, and tions at a railway crossing are not entitled to recovor. They seldom centuries
Flies are said to bo very trouble- The President of the Court was has proved particularly ineffec- the present position regarding (altitude record or light aircraft.no fewer than fifteen
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some at Cheung Chow. It's time Captain J. Wulfe:Murray (H.M.S. | five."
The machine to-day was laden with were compiled, but bowlers came Brigadier-fien. Groves, former the use of opium' and the present petrol equal to a weight of about into their own later and wickets
Today's stray bat from the somebody taught the Chinese Kent), other members being Com-"
fell rapidly. Flying Operations ineffectual efforts being "made to four meu.
belfry: "How can ono drink a "awat-swat." mander W, Kitson (HMS. Bent). Director of
Ministry Inter-
Captain Broad had not set him- Hammond, the famous Glouces- kidney punch." Commanders F. H. W. Byron, C. Ha the Air
self on any particular course, butter all-rounder, had the rare dis- Philips and R. D. Binney (LMS. viewed by Reuter, pictured the prevent the smuggling of opium in
wandered at will over England. tinction of scoring two separate. The Telegraph gave Glamorgan's other day who said he had played Tamar). Pay Lieutenant Philips result of future warfare as in the Far East.
discriminale killing and maiming. The ground for the proposal is le has been averaging a speed of hundreds in a match. The feat second innings score against one gramaphone record more than neted as Judge's Advocate
that all efforts that have so far about eighty miles per hour.. was accomplished against Surrey, Surrey as 199 for 44 wickets. 2,000 times. Evidently his neigh- been made as a result of the deci When flying on a straight who were defeated at Bristol by Looks like a continuous perform- bours haven't succeeded in locat sions of the Internationa) Opium course, the Moth is
Hammond scored 139 HO easy to 189 runs.
Ing it. Convention of 1912 and of the guide that Captain Brond is able in the first innings and 143 in the Opium Conferences of 1923 and to get the controls and read a book, second. Only once before has ha lle we met in the air to-day by achieved the honour, and curfous- Captain White, also flying a Moth, ly enough, Surrey were on that oc- at a height of four thousand feet. casion the victims of his prowess, He was then reading and eating Hammond making 108 and 128 sandwiches while the machine against them at the Oval Inst year. flew itself-British, Wireless. Lancashire had so much, the best of the needle" match against
If some Kent at Manchester that five of their batsmen scored more th.n these lada com- much the Kent éloven could in two in-plain nings. Macdonald's 15 wickets more.we'll have
call and centuries by Tyldesley and to
thom Hallows enabled a victory by an the Snivel innings and 88 runs.
Service,"
The prosecutor was Captain Wykes-Sneyd MS. Berwick), while Lieutenant Grant was de fended by Mr. II. 6. Macnamara,
Quarter Master's Evidence. Leading Seaman A. Scott (HMS. Berwick) paid that on the night of August 7 and 8 he was on duty as Quarter Master of the Middle Watch. At about twenty minutes past midnight, a "Walla Walla" motor-boat came alongside the ship, stopping at the bottom of the accommodation
went 凯 ladder, Witness
the bottom of the ladder and Lieutenant Grant in the stern of the motor-bonl..
saw
He estimate that bombers during the week dropped 300 tons of bambs on London, they same amount that the Grmans dropped jon Kugland throughout the wur.
He declared that the defence of,
London was only of secondary
importance, and urged the deve- upment of bambers able to atinek enemy cities.
An
official communique saye that fifty-seven bombing raids were made on London during the course of the four nights of the Air Force manoeuvres, of which
nine were only
completely successful in evading the defence. It is estimated that 171 bombers were destroyed," as against 139 defending aircraft.
adds
There was no movement and wil. Tlie official communique ness after boarding the motor-hoat that about 250,000 miles were spoke to Lieutenant Grant, but re-flown during the manoeuvres, and, ceived no reply. Witness spoke a the only accident was one which second time and Lieutenant Grant befel a pilot whose innchine over- then got up and went on board the turned, his nose being slightly in- Borwick.
jured.-Reuter,
"Mumbled Something."
Continuing, witness said he saw the accused on the quarter deck at. three minutes before half past twelve when the latter enlled wit-i ness, to whom he mumbled somer thing. Witness was not able to un-. derstand very well what was said and the only words he could coni- prehend were to the effect that the accused wished to be called at six o'clock in the morning.
Lieutenant Grant was sitting in i the motor-boat with his eyes open and "seemed to be in trance."
KING ALFONSO'S
COUSIN.
STABBED IN RIBS DURING RESTAURANT QUARREL.
1
AGGRESSOR KNIFED.
Deauville, Aug. 17.
He was dressed in civilian clothes. A sensational incident, resulting Witness added that he thought then a cousin of King Alfonen of accused was under the influence Spain being stabbed in the riba, of liquor. His breath also smelt has occurred at a restaurant be
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of drink,
Replying to Mr. Maenamara, wit- ness agreed that he was a little
accounted for his not understand-
tween Le Touquet and Eimples.
The affair was the culmination of a quarrel.
The Kid's cousin and three
BIG CITY PROPERTY DEAL.
National Bank Buys Telephone
Company Premises,
AT 500 A SQUARE FOOT.
Another big properly deal, concerning a big block in the centre of the business quar ter, has been concluded by the sale of the Telephone Com- pany's premises in Queen's Road, part of which is at prè sent occupied as a showroom hy the Hongkong Electric Company. The building was, it will be recalled, for many years occupied by the Grand Hotel.
The purchasers are the No- tional City Bank of New York (incorporating the former In- Lernational Banking Corporn- tion).
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It is understand that the purchase price works out at $60 per square foot..
CAROLINES SANATOASA ::
1925 have been largely rendered of no avail, owing to the enormous amount of smuggling.
Can't Fulfil Promises. This smuggling has reached such
COLONY'S FINANCES.
SLIGHT DROP IN CREDIT BALANCE.
The Colony a crait balance at the and of April was $5,360,492, com pared with $5,452,167 at the end of March,
ance,
$
Some people
a 11 golny up the channel before they can play bowls,
require armada
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We met a Kowloon man the
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The Nahá typhoon WAB na-ba-poo '0 for 雜度 Hong- kong was cerried.
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Some of these
of
beach
Yorkshire won by an Innings at Dewsbury and, granting the If many more rosy prospects of Lancashire's reservations ars third successive
in success in the made
the championhip, a keen struggle for No-War Pact, During April the revenue
between
we shall соп totalled $1,997,242, compared with second place is likely
be having a $1.825,840 for the same, month last Yorkshire, Kent and Notts.
Middlesex had a curious ex No-Paet War. year, whilst the respective ex- penditure frures were $2,088,917perience at Lord's, their first in- and $2.140,472.
ninga score being exceeded by From January to AprilWarwickshire, when Mr. F. T. Inclusive, the revenue amount Mann had seen fit to declare with ed to 87.787,497, against $6,779,-8 wickets down. The Warwick 024 for the same period last effort was a splendid one. vear the respective expenditure' fivores being $6,412,766 and $6,- 106,022,
LABOUR'S LATEST ACQUISITION.
CAPT. WEDGWOOD BENN A
NOTED MEMBER.
Captain Wedgwood Benn, who has been returned as Labour mem her for North Aberdeen, was formerly Liberal member of Par-
deaf, but he did not think that that Spaniards, with a Canndian lady; proportions that the Governments linment for Leith, but last year | ing what the accused said. There were partaking of cocktails before are finding it difficult to implement lunch, when one of the party sud- their promises made at the first was no light in the motor-boat.
denly pulled out a knife and in-Oplum Conference to suppress the flicted a alight wound on him. consumption of prepared opium A friend of the King's cousin within a period of fifteen years.
The recrudescence of the growth of the opium poppy in China has
Not Asleep.
Re-examined by Captain Wykes-
Sneyd, witness said the accommo. dation ladder was lighted and the stern of the motor-boat was about
five feet from the nearest light. There was sufficient light for him
EXPERIMENTS WITH CANCER GERM.
to recognise Lieutenant Grant from | INOCULATION OF PRISONERS
the top of the accommodation lad- der.
SUGGESTED.
he joined the Labour Party and resigned his seat.
He held minor posts in the Liberal Government. before the war and le regarded as a valuable acquisition by the Labour Party British Wireless,
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YANGTSZE DISASTER
DISPROVED.
RESULTS AT A GLANCE.
lizards
should be con-'
fined in the City Hal1) Museum,
Tho Chinese who was fined for trying to Bell diseased pork Waj "I can't think why that stupid fellow is staring at us. evidently trying
to One would think he had never
get seen a woman in his life.” with the bacon.
00 Hongkong Government Servants
Learning that Edinburgh Castle
Way
is to be a prominent feature of are said to have a weakness for the Tattoo, a local enthusiast has slow-motion pictures: they feel so sent the General Committee a bit much at home when seeing them. of Edinburgh Rock!
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Pending the passing of the "Jock:""Clachan Dichter" Budget we understand that if Lancashire defeated Kent by an literally means "cleaning up the road-repairers run short of roads
innings and 88 runa.
village but, according to a long- in the interval, they have received Yorkshire won by an Innings
kong authority on the subject, is Instructions to fill in the time by and 22 v. Derby.
to the comparable
English digging deeper. Sussex descated Somerset by 116 "atirrup cup," ie, the third drink
Wo after the "Deoch an Doris."
understand that when Government broadcasts on a more decorated elaborate scale, there is likely to floats for the Tattoo? The first, be a dispute at the Secretariat as
runs.
Gloucester bent Surrey by 189
⚫ runs.
Essex won on the first innings,
v. Glamorgan.
Middlesex lost on the first in-
nings v. Warwick. Leicester wori on the first in-
nings v. Hampshire.
MANY CENTURIANS.
What about
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some
די
depicting Hongkong women, could to who will be chosen to tell the show a typical tea party, entitled: fairy stories." "Broadcasters at Work."
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At a meeting of the Reading Town Council, a member men-
It le hoped by means of the tloned that a boy aged nine was Tattoo to popularise the kilt. Our thinking seriously of marriage.
The principal Individual perfor-own view is that it is likely to Lots of married men do the
mances were as follows:
Batting.
Hammond (Gloucester)
and
L. G. Crawley (Essex) Hallows (Lancashire) Tyldesley E. (Lancs.) R. Aird (Hanta) Arnott (Glamorgan) Woolley (Kent)
K. S. Dulcepsinhji (Sussex)
VESSEL ARRIVES SAFELY AT Mead (Hants)
'HANKOW.
Bradshaw (Leicester) Sutcliffe (Yorkshiro)
When Mr. Maenamara suggested | retaliated and knifed the aggres- thal Lieutenant Grant might have sor in the stomach. been asleep, witness said he was Someone present then mention- led to great smuggling activity, and nence it in the desire of the British Go- sure that he was sitting up in the ed "Indies present," and
League experts vernment that motor-host with his eyes open. was thereupon restored.--Reuter.
should make an inquiry on the spot to see what further measures can be taken to control the whole trade and thus gradually carry out the desire of the signatories of the agreement that, within a given period of years, by means of gradual suppression, the use of opium, or at all events the legal Havana, Aug. 8. use of opium, shall be entirely
Committee The National
on stopped. Hygiene has adopted a proposal, which will be submitted to Con- grosa, of inoculating prisoners condemned to death with the can- cer germ, subject to their consent, it with the object of studying this, news agencies reporting the loss, G. White (Somerset) and of liberating them if they sur and the means of stopping it, that stated that 600 people perished. ·
of Enquiry is vive after twelve years of medical the Commission observation-Indopacifi.
asked for.
of the recent artling devolop Other Governments with torri teries in the Far East have repliedments and to ako determined supporting the British proposal, plans to counteract the traffic
Reuter.
The Court Martial is proceeding.
HONGKONG LADY'S FORTUNE.
MES, MACDONALD LEAVES OVER $667,000.
Estate to the value of $667,100 was left by Mra. Mary Sim Mac. Donald who died at No. 6, Obser- vatory Villas, Kowloon, early this year.
·COMMUNIST PLOT IN
INDIA.'
GOVERNMENT MAKES NEW
DISCLOSURES,
Delhi, Aug. 17.
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British Idea Approved. Smuggling is at present the principal obstacle in the wo and it
-British Wireless.
Serious Concern.
London, Aug. 17.
A British naval wireless message received in Hongkong to-day con- firms the report that the story of the loss of the Chinese steamer Hsin Shutung, in the Yangtaze Rapids, is unfounded.
E. W. Dawson (Ilcoster), H. J. Enthoven (Mddlesex) Bates (Glamorgan). t. Reilred Hurt,
...Bowling..
The message adds that the vessel Macdonald (Lance.) and ... has now arrived at Hankow.
It will be recalled that Chinese Parker (Gloucester)
Dangerous Drugs Act.
London, Aug: 17.
Tato (Sussex) Shipman (Leicester). Rhodes (Yorkshire)
The Dangorous Drugs Act of " It is authoritatively stated that 1926 which was gassed to give
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be as unsuccessful as the repent-
ed efforts to domesticate the haggis.
It is reported that Manuel
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Quezon took a Hongkong saxo-
A new simile:As embarrassed phone with him to Manila. Wo
as a man meeting the friend to hape he will call here often. whom he sold his second-hand motor cycle.
Talking of Public Schools, we know a Hongkong resident who wears an Old Allenbury Food-fan tie..
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The Telegraph refers to holidays 115 "In the ountry. Away from the
105
sea.
"Thistle do observed Mac Whirter after reading the Scottish B. for 53 items in the Tattoo programme. 7 for 101 7. for 80
8 for 42 This week's teaser:Who In- 8 for 42 vented lichces? Answer:- 5 for 68 Chec. 6. for 57
CHAMPIONSHIP DECIDER?
Brilliant All-Round Play by Lancashire;
If "Tyro," the Post's astronomi- cal expert, could only find a few more stars he would make his fortune at Hollywood.
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The woman always pays; 80 does Advertising.
It is stated that a murder is committed In the Shanghal area
too often,
every night. In our opinion it is
q:
Government has written home aaking whether we may have a harbour pipe line. The answer seems to be in the prospective.
Attention is drawn to a split In- finitivo in a recent Nationalist manifesto. But surely one more little split can't matter much..
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"Enquirer:"The best way to roll a cigarette is to place it on an inclined plane and give it s gentle push.
to
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A heading we never expect see:Government Servant. Charged With Speeding: Magis- trate's Severe Consure."
The D. P golf expert, referring. to Happy Valley, says "there is Application has been granted for
By defeating Kent by an Innings.
nowhere else in the Colony where the resealing of exemplification of
the Powers who have dependencies effect to the International Opium and 88 runs at Manchester yoster-
A scientist has been experiment- one gets such fea." Deah me. probata of the will dated February 22, 1924, to Mr. D. J. Lewis, nt- The Government of India nab- and other interests in the Far East Convention of 1925 will operate on day, Lancashire have practically ing with a view to discovering the torney of Licut-Comdr. R. K. C.shes the text of a long letter, are seriously concerned regarding September 26 and will extend to assured themselves of carrying off effect of wireless music on African Pope, R.N., of No. 4 Park Man-dated December 30th, 1927, from the spread of the illicit traffe In the control of Indian hemp and the Champlonship for the third, elephants, We don't care; we can't Ladies of ten nationalities re-
Hashish.
cently participated in a Hongkong year in succession." Their second bear slephants. sions, North Parade Lowestoft, in the Indian Communist, Rov, to the opfum.
bridge drive. The aubsequent Britain, supported by other The Act of 1920 providing for triumph over the Hop County the County of Suffolk, one of the ex- Central Committee of the Com- ecutors named in the will, to whom munist Party in India and to Powers, will ask the League of the control of morphine, heroin proves them the finest match-win "Knowing how to work is one of "inquests" resembled a League of probate was granted by the Prinel- Indian workers and peasants.. Nations Assembly at the forthcom-and cocaine has also been applied ming side in the country, the the most important things in Orations. pal Probato Registry of H. M. The letter contains instructions ing meetings to appoint a Com-to Benzoyl Morphine, Dihydro visitors being outplayed in every 17 Sir E. Danison Ross, C.I.E., High Court of Justice, in England for pursuing an active Communiat mission to visit the Far East to Oxy-codeinone and Dihydro Co- department of the game,
campaign in India-Reuter. restudy the question in the light deinons-Router.
on April 20, 1928.
(Continued on Paro 10.).
Ph.D. And knowing how to live without, working is the other,
Some cars only require pushing to be a success,