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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1929.
AID FOR BRITISH THE R.A.F. BOMBING MOTORISTS & NEW||
MINERS.
LADY SWEEP WINNER GIVES $100.
| CATHEDRAL · COLLECTIONS AT SUNDAY'S SERVICES.
OVER £465 NOW SENT.
Welcome contributions are Again to hand to-day in response to the Telegraph appeal on behalf of distressed British miners and
DISTINCTION their families.
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Lady Himbury, wife of Sir John Bullett, who was alleged William imbury, managing directo. have quarrelled with his wife, assaulted two elderly Indien, tor of the British Colton Growing wrocked their house with an axe Association, has died in a London and burned the furniture nursing home.
By the establishment of a motor pall service between Southend
Was
remanded at frankapme, Dorset, last month for Inquiry into kfa mental condition,
TRAGEDY.
TRIAL OF TANK CORPS WAR HERO OPENS.
CULPABLE. NEGLECT.
Peshawar, Mar. 7.
BUDGET.
DEPUTATION WAITS ON!
CHANCELLOR,
!
LESS TAX ON H.P. AND BIGGER ONE ON PETROL?
A Court Martial over which Brig- General C.M. Wagstaff pre- aided, opened to-day for the purpose of trying Major M.C.C. Harrison, DSO, M.C., of the 1st Armoured OIL CO'S CHALLENGED.
Car. Company, Royal Tank Corps, on a charge of culpable neglect, to the prejudice of good. order and military discipline in connexion with the bombing tragedy; at Jamrud.
The bombing recident occurred near Peshawar on January 23, and thro- Indian ofBetra and thirteen
other ranks loaf, their:livos,
London, Mar 7.
Every branch of the motoring in- dustry and the motoring public whe represented when a deputation wait- ed on Mr. Winston Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, this morning. The whole problem of motoring and taxation was discuss- ed at some length, the deputation urging that the Government should take steps to afford relief of the high motor taxation and the cost
statement was recently made in the Indian Legislative Council ty MpG. Mackworth, Young, Army, Socretary, andia.copyn has been is Bued by the Indin Office of petrol
From. information at present
The subject of the cost of petrol
To-day's donations are headed by a cheque for $100 from Mrs JT. Bagram, the sum being a proportion of her winnligsou the sweepstake ticket No. 670 on the first day of the annual Race Meeting. Our thanks are due to Mra. Bagram for her kindly thought in responding to the bug gestion that sweep winners.should before, them," "itsis stated; : "Tho was also raised in the House of the opinion that the following Premier, personally replied, stating
are provisionally of were the principal contributory that the Government proposed to in 'causes of the accident: t
"The fact that certain authori. vite the oil companies concerned to at different times reasons for the recent increase, in submit a statement explaining the ties who had received information both of the the price of petrol. forthcoming bombing practice on January 23, and of the intended
Recent Price Raise. tactical exercise which was to be held in the vicinity on the same
The Prime Minister emphaalsed day, failed to connect those two that the Government, by taking the events in their minds. It was action mentioned, was not in any this failure of memory and co-way; pre-judging the question of the erdination that in the first in- justification or otherwise of the in- stance apparently rendered
the crease. accident possible.
of dollars were won In this way during the Races, and we stiil hope that other winners will come along with contributions to help those who really need aid in their distress.
Cathedral Collections.
We are also pleased to announce that the collections for the whole of Sunday at St. John's Cathedral will be devoted to the Telegraph Fund on behalf of the miners and their families. In all, there will he four services on Sunday, Holy Communion at 8. u.m., ildren's service at 10 am.. Mating at 1 a.m., and Evensong at 6 pm. We much appreciate the decision gi the Cathedral authorities to help the Fund in this way, and it is to be hoped that there will be. large congregationa at these services, and that donors will be generous in their contributions.
To-day, the Telegraph cabled) Home another substantial sum to the Lord Mayor's Fund, this icing
a dratt for £150. In all, a tutal
of £45 17a, 4d. has now been despatched, this including the sterling equivalent of $100 for the Scottish Miners' Fund, being half the contribution from members of Talkoo Dockyard staff who desired the total to be split between the Lord Mayor's and the Scottish Funda.
Nearly $5,000 Now The 35,000 mark is now within rench, and we would again appeal for further donations to a most deserving cause. Amounts so far received are:
in
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"The despatch of a" bombing aeroplane over the range before there had been time to clear the
range.
"Mistaking the warning signal for the signal that all was clear.
The Court of Inquiry has found that certain officers were to blame in connexion with the causes mentioned above.
"The Commander-in-Chief has most carefully considered the pro- ceedings of the Court. of Inquiry
and the opinions of lorni Com- manders, and has decided that summaries of the evidence should be prepared with a view to the trial of certain officers by Court martial."
Squadron Invisible.
The RA. F. pllot officer had, it would seem, good reason to sup- pose that the ground would have been cleared by the time that he arrived. Thermen of the squadron were dressed in khak! overcoats at it was raining, and wore white turbans. They were not seen by either of the two sccupants of the
He addod that he was not aware of the formation of the merger for marketing between the Anglo-Per- sian oil Company and other oll com- panies. He said the question of selling prices was ordinary com- mercial activity-Reuter,
Reuter recalls that the price of petrol was increased" in Britain on March 1st., by nine farthings per gallon,
Concessions in Budget? The deputation
Mr. Churchill in which wasted on purpose of endeavouring to ohinin concessions for motorista in the next Budgel.
Most of the trade are in favour of a reduction in the annual ear tax and an increased petrol tax to make up for this, and in some quarters it la rumoured that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is considering a reduction of 50 por cent. In the horse power tax. This would greatly encourage manu- facturers to make cars with larger engines and, thus Improve our export trade.
There is one aspect of an in-
Already acknowledged $4,042.haeroplano, and a very careful re-creased petrol tax which the Na-1.
Mrs. J. T.' Bugram
D. 3. B. Cycle No. 462
& 10/
construction of the accident con-
vinced the Court of Inquiry that 100.00,
a squadron: "thus clad could not 20.00.
have been seen from that altitude 5.00. le conditions prevailing.
Tota! ..10/- and $4,772.40. A poignant picture of conditions the mining districts in the North of England is forthcoming from an investigator of conditions there. Ho says there has been a progressive deterioration in the economic position of scores of thousands of families. For two or three years the income from the dole or from poor law relief (which is available when.for any reason a man ceases to be qualified for the dole) has just been sufficient to provide for a low level of sustenance.
Furniture Sold,
It has been impossible for buy parents with a family to clothing or boots, to renew house- hold- dienails, and in many cases even to avoid the sale of furniture. Spare bedclothes have been utiliz ed for making garments.
The troubles have been borne with an astonishing. fortitude and passivity, and the most, indus- trious and thrifty have been the least desirous of making their extreme poverty known.
tional Council of the Roads Im- provement Ansociation consider might be a source of danger to the proper maintenance and con- atruction of the roads.
The Road Fund.
i
Axed on the target, from which Both occupants had their eyos
the aquadron was then about two hundred yards distant. The bomb It is pointed out that for 1928-29 overshot, the target, and, falling the taxation of motor vehicles is as it did upon the squadron in expected to yield about £26,000,- close formation, caused fearful000; of this £4,500,000 is retained havoc.
for general revenue purposes, Pensions on an adequate scale leaving £21,500,000 for the Rand and gratuities will be paid to the Fund. The produce of the petrof hers of those who were killed, x is estimated at £13,000,000, and to those who were permanent. which is being devoted to the ly injured. The heirs of the three Government's rating relief pro- Indian officers will receive gratul-gramme.. ties on the same scale as when
Of the £39,000,000 paid in death was caused by active ser- vehlele and petrol taxation dur- vice:
ing the current financial year, only £21,500,000-or $5 per cent.) of the special taxation of motorists —in received by the Road Fund. the balance of £17,500,000 being retained by the Exchequer for general revenue and the rating relief programme.
CANTON AMATEUR
THEATRICALS.
"THE UNFAIR.SEX” TO BE STAGED.
•
Should the Chancellor decide to reduce the vehicle tax and in- crease the petrol tax, the Council Rehearsals are in full swing for of the Association have formulat- the production on Friday and ed resolutions calling on him to Saturday, 16th and 16th March, devote the increase in the petrol of Eric Hudson's "The Unfair tax to the ronds, otherwise the Sex" by the C.A.TS. In the Can-already Impoverished Road, Fund Only a year ago did the realton Club Theatre. Great things would cease to function. state of affairs become gradually are expected.from this production known to the outside world. They and, Trani what one hear, an even it was discovered by careful | greater acceso de anticipated than
Now electrically driven ma- investigatora how serious the for "A Pair of Silk Stockings" position WIS. Thousands of which was layod-twice last, Dochinery la to be installed at the families who had saved sub-cember by the GAT.S
Abbey Milla West Ham) pumping stantial sums during the prosper Mr. G. M. D. D.. Wolf, who was station' by the L.C.C., at cost of ots years preferred to exhaust the producer of the last play,, is £60,662, these savings rather than ask for himself taking an important role. help, and only when it became im in "The Unfair Bexas Sir Henry possible to buy boots for the Hesketh R.C. Shimpen la looking. children wan the country as
forward to seeing Mr. Wolf in the
Kitty Brown, 79, the "Graco whole allowed to know the production, having learned the Darling of Cresswell, Northum extremity of the need,
quality of his acting on previous borland, who held the Lifeboat in- ocsaitons in various small skolstitution's vellum for services, died chos,
I enclose' herewith the sum of $. as a donation to the British Minera" strass Fund.
Hundreds of thousands of wild
Name
Address
And Chelmsford, where later trains rabbits are reported to have invad- are available, Southend and Loned the villages and countyside of don mails will be speeded up. Sardinia, says the Central News.
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Mrs. Gandesal and Miss Pauline Kemble have already proved their value in "A Pair of Silk Stock Inge," Mr. H. G, Eales, who will take the part of Harvey Fane, la also well remembered by those who witnessed the Instpertor mance of the C.A.T.S.
recent
Mr. R. K. Batchelor will take the part of Diana Trevor and, from what we know of her acting, will make a great success of it.
Mrs. E. I. HII will take the by Mr. F. E, W. Lammert, who has no means unimportant part of only had small roles in the past, Pinker, the maid. Mrs... Hill is is taking an Important part as new to Shameen and has not been Geoffrey Trovor, noplew of Sir seen in theatricals here before, Henry Hesketh. One hears that Mr. H. H. Benson. is also in this he is very keen and working hard production as Smith, a' cabby for the part which suits him well. I Our Own Correspondent
John Barrymore TEMPEST
CAMILLA HORN
LOUIS WOLHEIM
YOU WILL SEE
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Camilla Horn, beautiful new screen "Find"!!
Louis Wolbeim' in his funniest role!
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Vivid and Daring!
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which story, in
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