THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH,
AMERICAN NAVAL HAIPHONG CHINESE
TRAGEDY.
ADMIRAL BRISTOL'S DRIVER KILLED ON SHIP.
SHANGHAI ACCIDENT.
Shanghai, Mar. 9.
COMMITTED.
EXTRADITION APPLICATION
. SUCCEEDS.
PRIMA FACIE CASE.
Buch
COLONY'S CREDIT BALANCE.
EXCEEDED EIGHT MILLIONS IN NOVEMBER.
LOAN RECOVERIES.
.
SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1929.
HEAVIER TAXES ‘IN GERMANY.
BUDGET.
The Very Idea!
In his native village of Claypole, TO MEET DEFICIT ON THE |near Newark, Nottinghamshire, where 52 years ago, at the ngo of 12 he began work as a farm labourer, the buzjai took place, recently; of Mr. Harold Coulby,
GOVERNMENT THREAT,
Berlin, Mar. 16. The increased taxation demand-
the British-American millionaire,
who died suddenly in his bedroom at the Ritz Hotel.
For the first time for some The case against Chan Hong-
Mr. Coulby, who was the son chun, whose extradition to, Hai-years, the Colony's credit balance William Glassford, Jr., machinist phong is sought by the French on November 30th fast exceededed by the budget presented to the of a Claypole farm labourer, went mate let class, United States authorities of Indo-China on a eight million dollars. The exact Reichstag, and the usual party to the United States at the age of Navy, and chauffeur to Admiral charge of committing an offence figure was $8,279,677.39, The disputes, has made the debato a 18. He walked 600 miles from and Herr New York to the Great Lakes, and Mark L. Bristol. Commander-in- against the bankruptcy laws of balance at the end of October was rather lively one, hief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, was that country, was concluded be $4,060,390.
Mueller, the Chancellor to-day secured a job on a cargo-carrying killed aboard the naval transport fore. Mr. E. W. Hamilton at theit should be explained, however, declared that unless the Budget boat. He met Colonel Hay, who Chaumont yesterday afternoon Central Magistracy morning. that. the total revenue for the was passed, the Government would took a great interest in him, and when struck by a filling boom, Hia Worship informed Mr. F. mouth ($3,834,889) Includes $1,- resign.
ho rose step by step until he the
became head of the Intor-Lakes The tragedy took place at about Loseby, who appeared for 963,358.77 representing recovery Herr Muclier said that the Steamship Company. He was
that 2.30 p.m. near the Standard Oil fugitive,
the certified
from Loan Funds. For the cor situation in Germany was SO Co. wharf where the Chaumont is documents received from the responding month of 1927 the in-critical that party politics ought where he restored the church and great benefactor to the village, anchored. Two other American French authorities were
built a village hat. aflore who were standing near that he was entitled to consider come was $2,077,745.
The revenue from January to to be kept in the background." Glassford when the boom suddon- the point of jurisdiction of the ly erashed to the deck, narrowly French authorities over the mat- November inclusive was $22,839,- It was essential to introducc 138, as against $19,208,496 for then Budgot which would not leave a escaped death, the boom missing ter as being established, them by less than a foot.
With regard to the other point previous year. The estimate for deficit. Only in this way could Expenditure" during November of Experis dealing with the re-
as against parations problem and now meet- Applicant "I beg your par- totalled '$1,615,562, $1,808,241 in the previous year,ing in Paris, that in spite of hordon, sir, but I'm not working."
"But you were seen with a horas whilst the total from January lat necessitious conditions Germany was $18,545,222, compared with would leave no stone unturned and lorry last week selling fro- $17,726,301 in 1927. The estimated to full her obligations. expenditure for the whole of 1928 was $22,183,045,
*
Labour Exchange official (to applicant for dole) "How dare you apply for unemployment
Glassford was standing on the raised by Mr. Loseby, his Worship the whole of 1928 was $20,103,390.proof be given to the Committee relief when you are, working.".
deck of the transport near the rails watching the Admiral's car being taken off the Chaumont and put on a lighter. Everything was made ready to hoist the car over the side of the transport but when the car had been lifted about 10 feet, the topping lift supporting the main boom suddenly carried
away.
also found that a prima facie case had been established on the charge which his Worship now defined as being an offence against the bankruptcy laws." In this con- nexion, his Worship ruled that "a manager may be made a bankrupt in respect of the debts of the firm."
Hia Worship then made
committal
for
the
of
the Go-
The boom came down quickly order and Glasford did not have time fugitive to gaol until the in take a step before he was vernor's order for his surrender. struck. The Admiral's chauffeur, The usual respite of 15 days Magistrate's the was hit over the left eye and the accompanied chest and went down like a log. order, to enable the fugitive to ap- Ho was immediately taken to the peal on a writ of habeas corpus
should he so desire. ahip's hospital but died there minute after being admitted, his skull being fractured and his chest) smashed.
Glassferd, who was about $1 years old, had been in the United States Navy for eight years and was popular with is consider- able portion of the U.S. Asiatic Flect. He boarded the Chaumont) at Manila and was leaving the ship here to await the arrival of Admiral Bristol,
Admiral Bristol was notified of the tragedy by radio and it is expected that a Naval Court of In quiry will be held within the next few days. It la understood, how
for ever, that funeral services Glassford will be held on board the Chaumont to-morrow or the
day after and that bie body will be sent back to the United States.
THE KING GOES OUT AGAIN.
ACCOMPANIED BY LITTLE PRINCESS,
London, Mar. 15. II.. the King passed another good day.
FLOATING CASH FOR
1
FLOATING ISLES.
STEPPING-STONES TO U.S.A.
AND WEALTIL,
CHAPMAN'S VIEWS.
DURATION OF TESTS AND EIGHT BALL OVER.
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Melbourne, Mar. 16. Chapman, interviewed by Reuter. said the wonderfully happy family! spirit was largely responsible for the success of the tour and sbsonco of | quarrels.
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Ho paid a tribute to the tact of Toone, the manager of the tour, and the ability of Whilo, both bowler and as vice-captain. Ryder and his men had played the games in the most sporing spirit,
The only jarring notes were, the Kippax incident of December 14, and Larwood on March 2, which had been made too much of
Paris, Feb. 11. Count Henri Baoli de Mangon, Russian aristocrat and former
He mentioned Hammond's prowess, officer in the late Tsaris Guard. fainted in the dock of the Borsaying he had always subordinated deaux Correctional Court when the his natural game to the interests of judge sentenced him to two, yours the side; and tributed Larwood, Tate,
Duckworth, flobbs and Sutcliffe. imprisonment a charge
llo suggested that tho Testa swindling.
future be limited to five days, and twoj
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of
This Russian nobleman had an
ambitious scheme for the construc-hours on the sixth if a result were tion of floating islands," to be possible.
He adversely criticised the eight "anchore", in the ocean, us
ball over. stations for Transatlantic aviators.
air
Count Heri, who was a Tarlar Khan as well as a Guards' officer, joined the army of General Wrangel after the Bolshevik revolution. When Wrangel's white army dis- banded Count Henri sought refuge
It is estimated that the Budget defeit will be £18,950,000, to meet which the Government proposes increase the tax on beer, death duties and property, It is also hoped that additional revenue will be derived from the spirits monopoly-Reuter.
TONGUE TWISTERS.
ADDITIONS TO DANGEROUS
DRUGS ORDINANCE.
The Governor-in-Council has declared that the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, shall henceforth apply to the drugs benzoyl-mor- phine, dihydro-ozycodeinone, dihy- drocodeinone and their respoelive salts and to any preparation, ad- mixture and extract containing benzoyl-morphine, dihydro-oxyco- delaone or dihydrocodenione.
His explained that the drug benzoyl-morphine, which is af ester of morphine, should not be confused with benzyl-morphine, an ether of morphine. The lat ter drug is occasionally used in medicine, being sold under the He thanked all for unfailing cour-proprietary name of "Peronine."
and kindness, concluding The Health Committee of the am the happiest of men. Naturally League of Nations refor lo should like to see England finish dihydrocodeinone as Diendide undefeated."--Renter.
in Frais. He was one day penni-OLD
less in Bordeaux.
From Stabile Bay to Isle-Maker.
He made the acquaintance of a Despite the persistence of cold rich cattle breeder, named Labadie, easterly winds the brilliant sun-who took pity on him and gave him shine enabled the King to go out the post of head stableman on his In the grounds of Praigweil, al- big farm. though he kept to the sheltered side of the house.
M.
But the count was not satisfied with this humble post,
One day he confided to Princess Elizabeth areompanled him in his outing and walked Labadie his vast scheme for (or "flera i sice the bathchair for the three. floating aerddromes
on the high quarters of an hour that the stepping stones") King was in the grounds.-British Atlantic.
Money and High Patronage. M. Labidle was impressed and agreed to assist financially with the
Wireless.
NEW AIR LINER SERVICE.
(dihydro-codeinone).
wood."
"Well, I do think that is the limit! Selling firewood! It was me moving to a smaller house!"
.
[It is said that telephone girls marry young because they are healthy, have nice voices, and are able to dress well.]
.
When, despite the calls that
cumber
Every live and tingling wire, I demand a. certain number
Which I happen to require, And a limpid voice and fluty,
Echoes back my own to show That the maiden heeds her duty. Do I think of youth and beauty? Well, to be quite candid, no!
Yet officials wise and knowing, Only healthy maidens, acek, And the rose of health is
• glowing
On the operator's check, While as sure as D's for Dover,
Her emolument is such That she finds herself in clover, And her smart get up all over Has a quite distinctive, touch.
'.
So the young men never falter,
Yea, thrice happy they indeed, If such maids to Hymen's altar
They are qualified to lead And myself will be more chary
Of becoming too enraged.
If they wed, Ann, Joyce, and
Mary,
'Then a clear preliminary
Is that numbers are engaged.
Judge Turner, at Westminster
CURIOSITY SHOPS. WAR DEBT PAYMENTS. County Court: The defendant
#Continued from Page'S.) rather, in keeping them precisely what they are. No doubt there. have always been such shops, or at any rate they must have existed ever since the stream of time began
| current,
'BRITAIN RECEIVES OVER
£0,000,000;
says "Prove your debt." Tho Common Law of England entitles him to say it. An invalce doesn't prove debt.
Willesden Appleant: Can I have the man upstairs stopped from knocking on the floor, Ho that, flakes of plaster drop into my tea?
Many thousands of prisoners giving evidence for themselves try to prove too much and get convicted. Mr. Hay Halkett, at Marylebone.
London, Mar. 15. The Italian Government duly to show the slightest perceptible paid to the British Government to-day a sum of £2,125,000, this The ancient Egyptians, with their being the seventh instalment pay- great piety toward the past, must able under the Italian War Debt have had them, and the Chinese, al- Funding Agreement of 1926. ways the world's most devoted anti- quarians, may well have been their The sum of £125,000 in gold Inventors. Undoubtedly, however, was released to the Italian Go-
"They were singing what they must be counted among the more vernment, in accordance with called carols, but it sounded to me. more like jazz music."-A con- significant sigas of our own times article VII of the Agreement. that old curiosity shops are, now The French Government also stable at Feltham, Middlesex. Leaving his humble post on the multiplying and prospering on every paid to-day a sum of £4,000,000
"I wish I could prevent people farm, and living in style with the hand. In the most exacting present to the British Government as the from coming to see me; they even
prepaid telegrams to cattle breeder's money, the count the world luas ever seen the past in sixth payment on account of the send
coming at last into its own.
French War Debt.-British Wire-house."--Mr. Bingley, the Maryle- 0. S. in the Christian Science tran
bone magistrate. Monitor.
scheme.
obtained the co-operation of
а
BETWEEN LONDON AND THE French naval officer, of an official
CONTINENT
at the town hall of Bordeaux, and also of a newspaper editor who gave him valuable publicity.
Count de Mangen several
London, Mar. 15. A new service of air liners be tween London, Brussels. and
and the
paid
visits to Paris, and
Marshal Lyautey Cologne is to be commenced by boasted that
French Minister the Imperial Airways on Monday.)
The service will leave Croydon of Marine were interested in the aerodome at 8.30 each week-day scheme.
One day he exhibited an impos- morning and Cologne will be
ing "continet," by which the Minis- reached at 1.45 in the afternoon try of Marine agreed to place 25 At this town, connexions will be million franes at his disposal to made with German air liners Carry out his scheme. other cities, which will be brought
hours within less than ten London-British Wireless,
of
IMMENSE SUCCESS OF GALLI-CURCI.
PRIMA DONNA. ARRIVING HERE ON MONDAY.
her
Madame Galli-Curel and party are due to arrive in Hongkong
on Monday by the ss. President McKinley.
On the contract were many seals and ribbons and the supposed signatures of various French ad- mirals.
Arrival of A Rival. Much Impressed, the cattle. breeder gave another cheque.
A few weeks later the count told M. Labadie that he had just heard that an American inventor had ar rived from America with a famous French aviator, and that American had a system for float ing islands similar to his own, and intended to patent it in France.
the
In order to register his Own system at once in both France and The famous prima donna is giv. America, the count anked for 6,000
franes.
Queen's M. Labadie consented. But he discovered later that no patent for the "outing islands" had been taken out by the count, and that hla scheme was nothing but a fraud.
ing her concert at the Theatre on March 25th.
A telegram received from Manila this morning states that at her final concert there last night, all box- office records for the Far East were broken, over Pesos 12,000 being
taken.
The police learn that the amount of the swindle was about 50,000
franes..
Dr. G. E. Harrison, of King's Inspector Frederick Storey, of College, London, has accented the invitation of the Tniversity of Brixton police, was recently com- coroner "for his Chicago to be the first holder of the mended by the Frederic Ives Carpenter Visiting plucky and courageous action in entering a gas-filled room where a Chair of English.
lighted gas jet was burning.
ED STRUNTZA
MOVER
O1914, BY HEA LERVICE, UNG,
PIEGU. PAT, OFF,
"Now don't you apologize to him, Roy".
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To-day's Ghost Story-A few weeks ago my friend and I stood talking beneath the verandah of a house which is surrounded by hedges.
Suddenly the steady coming up the step of someone newly-gravelled path, leading from the rear of the house, fell upon
cars. We listened breathlessly, wondering who could the be abroad at that hour of night. The crunching of gravel beneath the oncoming weird and footsteps sounded
our
the
WAS.
allent night. uncanny in the
the nearer came Nearer and unknown footsteps, growing un- mistakeably louder as they came.
When we thought the walker was abreast of the verandah, we looked out to see who he Almost unconsciously a gasp escaped our lips. The footsteps abruptly died away on the spot There was no one there! Filled with curiosity, we immediately made a tour of inspection, but saw no one.
The Phantom Footsteps remain an unsolved mystery.
•
The tax drew up and an old gentleman in a large fur coat got out.
The taxi-driver glowed with expectation. He made himself useful, and then, after receiving his usual fare, was given Aix- pence, for his trouble.
After glancing for a moment at the. coln, the taxi-driver. In Burly voice-"What's this for, guv hor
The old' gentleman peered up into the driver's face and replied, "Well, judging by your nose, I' for a drink!!!
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