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THE HONGKONG . TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929.
THE KING'S STEADY EXPLOSION IN A
PROGRESS.
CONVALESCENCE NOW ALMOST IN SIGHT?
OBTAINING PLENTY OF NOURISHMENT.
SPENDS QUIET DAY.
London, Jan, 18, The King is making steady progress towards recovery and it is stated at Buckingham Palace to-day that His Majesty's improve
ment has now continued for ก
sufficiently long period to give rise to hopes that convalescence is almost in sight.
It la, however, emphasised that one must not jump to conclusions, that the convalescence stage is atill some way off, and it is not yet possible to predict when the King will be sufficiently recover- ed to allow his departure from Buckingham Palace.
The most satisfactory feature at the moment is that the King in obtaining the necessary nourishment In fact, he is taking food in the normal manner very weak invalid.
of a
night,
The King had a fairly good and the progress indicated yes terday appears
to have been maintained,
PUBLIC-HOUSE.
MAN KILLED AND FOUR
OTHERS INJURED.
LIKE CRASH OF BOMB.
London, Dec. 23.
One man was killed and four persons were Injured in an ex- plosion which did considerable damage at the Lord Howick public- house, - Woolwich-road, Charlton, last night.
Just after 0.30 a terrifle report was heard, followed by a crash as if the house had been struck by a bomb..
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THE FOURTH TEST PROSPECTS.
CHANGES IN ENGLAND ELEVEN?
TYLDESLEY, FREEMAN & AMES TO GO IN?
SUGGESTED SELECTION
While it is nearly a fortnight| before the Fourth Test Match opone at Adelaide, there is much position of the English team now speculation regarding the com- the "Ashes" are safely landed.
front of the premises were blown The plate-glass windows in the down, and in the lounge, where Banks, aged forty, of 28, Prospect eleven that did so well at Mel- the explosion occurred, Ralph Australia are "relying on the place Woolwich, was found doadbourne, with the exception that A: with terrible injuries about the Jackson comos in in place of V. Y. hend.
Richardson, who failed in both innings.
Mrs. Emily Maud Miller, aged Kent-road, who, with Banks, had forty-three, of Bonamy-street, Old
the Christmas trade, was injured, been assisting the licenses with
eighteen, and Betty Holt, aged as were also Norman Holt, aged twelve, children of the licensee..
The Australian side will, there-
fore, be:
J. S. Ryder (Victoria),
W. M. Woodfull (Victoria),'
A. F. Kippax (New South Wales), II. L Hendry (Victoria);
C. V. Grimmett (S. Australia), D. Blackle (Victoria),
D. Bradman (New South Wales), A. Jackson (New South Wales),
R. M. Oxenham (Queensland), E. L. A'Beckett (Victoria), W. A. Oldfield (N.S.W.)
So far there has been no b dication of England's probabie team.
of Siemens-rond, Charlton, who was Harriot Hoskins, aged fifty-six,
passing the house, was struck by Mrs. Miller and the Holt children fying glans and injured, and she, were taken to Greenwich and Deptford Hospital,
Their in juries are not serious.
Mr. George Miller, husband of Mr. Miller, anid: "I heard an
A. P. F. Chapman has shown where it was, I thought It must through the Tests up-to-date, and, awful bang and could not think wonderful gifts of captaincy right. be at Woolwich. Then the win-after to-dows flew out, and the next I saw victories, for which his leadership
of the lounge," was my wife being dragged out'
At 8.15 p.m. the following bulletin was issued Palace:
from the
The King has had a quiet His condition is, unchanged. next bulletin will be issued morrow night.”
day.
The
It
The bulletin is gratifying. reveals that the King is holding on in all the ground gained in the past week. There is
every confidence in the Palmer.
Queen Out Again,
anid he did not smell any
Mr. Henry Holt, the licensee, Kas before the explosion; the cause of which was a mystery to him.
Fortunately, there were few customers in the lounge when the explosion occurred.
Ralph Banks, who had been em-
three auch magnificent
Was not a little responsible, it secus almost churlish to write any word of criticism about anything he has done, but when a win is in sight, why not try to make it as convincing as possible?
Our Next England Eleven, Her Majesty the Queen this orning motored. from Bucking-
Duckworth seems to have got ham Palace to Windsor Castle.ployed at the works of Simens on the wrong side of the Austra This is the first ocension Her Brothers, which are near the lian crowd in the Second Test. Majesty has been absent from the public-house, was a single man The two Incidents which gave rise Palace for a number of hours and very popular. He lived with to demonstrations from the Aus- since the King's insa began.
his widowed mother and bad atralian barrackers were the dis- Prince George's cold is report sister.
missal ad to be much
of Kippax, when · Dück- better-British Wireless and Reuter,
worth's opinion was upheld by the square-leg umpire, and an appeal by him.against Blackie for a catch off a bump-ball.
PLUM TREE YIELDS A PEAR?
"IMPOSSIBLE," SAYS ́A SCEPTICAL EXPERT.
A plum tree at Castle Gresley, Burton-on-Trent, has, it is claimed, defied all the known laws of botany, and produced a pear.
Mr. J. L. North, curator of the Royal Botanic Society, is sceptical, "Until I see the pear on the tree I refuse to believe it," he said..
"Peasibly it in a shrivelled-up plum which looks like a peur, but not fruit with a core of seeds. Millions of years ago, maybe, pears and plums were related; but if that family tie ever existed it) was broken so long ago that time has effected the record of diver- genen.
"I have decasionally heard of a nectarine growing on a peach)
Loud Booming Noise. When the explosion occurred men on duty in Messrs. Slemens' factory made a hurried tour of inspection, thinking that it had happened in their building...
"It was a low booming noise, not
There does not seem to be any- thing to justify any real hostility towards him on the part of the cricket public, and in all pro-
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AT THE
QUEEN'S
FINAL SHOWINGS
TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15, and 9,20,
a loud bang one of the staff bability, by the next mabelt, all HAROLD IN HIS FUNNIEST MOODI
stated. "It sounded like some big underground upheaval. Bulld. ings trembled,"
Mr. A. Lambert, a friend of Mr. Holt, who was in the front bar, said: "We were chatting when there was a terrific roar, and in less than a second we were dashed to the floor amid flying glass, smoke and debris."
floor room
The explosion seemed to occur between the ceiling of the ground room above. The floor was blown and the floor of the
out of the upper room.
Mr. Lambert stated that had the explosion occurred an hour or so later there would probably have been over 100 people in the bar.
branch. I have known of almonds FIRST KOWLOON, BANK. and peaches sharing the same tree. Sometimes you will find white and black cherries on one tree. But these all come from the same original; they ard of family.
"Plums are a stone fruil, peàrai a seed fruit, which makes an. in- surmountable barrier against them ever appearing on the same tree.
"Apart from their. flowers, the only similarity is that they both begin with the same letter."
But the defenders of the Castle] Gresley miracle tree refuse to for- Bake their faith.
BURIED TREASURE
BOLIVIA?
BRITISH SEARCH PARTY'S RETURN.
- FEATURES OF NEW PREMISES,
A photograph, appears in the Pictorial Supplement of this issue illustrating the handsome interlor of the new Kowloon Sub-Agency of the Hougkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation, at the Junction of Salisbury and Nathan Roads,
The branch, which is under the management of Mr. W. G. Clark, is now open for all kinds of banking business, and is the first foreign bank to be opened on the Kowloon side of the harbour.
The banking hall, which fa
to
will be forgotten.
The question arises as to whether the same side will do duty for England again. The whole team has done so well that perhaps it is unnecessary to make any alteration, but, as we have three victories to our credit, it might be permissible in the next Test to make some experiments, especially in view of the visit of the South
following batting order?. Africans to England this summer.
How about trying this side in
1. Hobbs, 7. Larwood, 2. Sutcliffe,
8. Ames, 3. Tyldesley,
9. Geary,
4. Hammond, 10. Tate,
5. Hendren,
6. Chapman,
11. Freeman.
This would be one of the strongest batting sides the world has ever acen, und would give some of those who, so far, have not had a chance in a Test the their opportunity of showing mettle without in any way, weakening our chances,
COALYARD FIRE IN
KOWLOON.
EXTENSIVE BLAZE EARLY
THIS MORNING.
Extensive damage was done to a coalyard to No. 2, Soy Street, IN modern in every respect, has a hand- Mongkok, by a fire which occurred Bome teakwood counter, wax pollah- shortly before five o'clock this ed in its natural colour, surmounted morning. A corrugated iron and by bronze grilles-the whole of this wooden structure situated within work being executed by the Hang- the yard was practically des- kong and Whampoa Dock Company, troyed, the damage to properly aigns indicate the and stock being estimated to Members of a party of English- Ltd. Nent men who went out to Bolivia to various departments of banking amount to $2,000,
A apark from a furnace inside reek dor treasure said to have been business conducted. The flooring is
of black buried by Jesuits at Sacambaya,
and white marble the Man Bin, Cheong sugar re- arrived back at Liverpool for squares, a black marble skirt-finery which is situated side by Christmas on board the liner ing the counter complot-side with the coalyard is believed Ordana,
£ rich The party originally ing
effect. This work to have started the fire which had numbered twenty-three, but the was executed by Mesars. A. attained formidable dimensions number dwindled as some of them Vannini and Co., the marble being when the fire applicances arirved had returned to England previous specially imported from Italy. from the Kowloon and Mongkok ly on acount of ill-health.
Stations. Thone who landed at Liverpool for Christmas expressed thel conviction that the treasure, sald to have been deposited by Jesults in 1767 and to amount to millions, can be reached. Although the party encountered tremendous diffeultles and hardships, they do. clared that it was their intention to return and pursue further Investigations,
The party which reached Liver- pool for Christmas Included Col. A. M. Kettlewell, Major F, A. Man- sell, Dr. P. B. P. Mellows, Mr. Kenneth F. Herron, and Mr. J. Shotton.
The ceiling plaster work was car- ried out by Messra, Arts and Crafts, Ltd., and the electrical work by Mesars, William C. Jack and Co., Ltd. Special atrong rooms have been constructed by the Hongkong Engineering and Construction Com- pany, strong room doors and safes being by Mesara. Chubb.
The architects were Mr. Geo. Grey, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I., and Mr. J. Bentley Hawker,
Mr. H. J. Enthoven, the Cam- bridge and Middlesex cricketer, la engaged to Miss Margot Gulliland, of Hurstpierpoint, Sussex,
By focusing their hoses on the sugar refinery, the firemen were able to save it, although not without some damage being dong by water and smoke to the con tents. A cement godown adjacent to the refinery was left untouch- ed by the flames.
The engines returned to their stations an hour afterwards.
Mr. F. K. Kellberg, who has given £25,000 to the miners' fund, is also employing miners on the rebuilding of his house at Stockgrove, Leigh- Iton Buzzard, Beds,
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