THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
AMERICAN NÁVAL HAIPHONG CHINESE
TRAGEDY.'
ADMIRAL BRISTOL'S DRIVER KILLED ON SHIP,
SHANGHAI ACCIDENT.
Shanghal, Mar. 9.
COMMITTED.
EXTRADITION APPLICATION
SUCCEEDS.
PRIMA FACIE CASE.
COLONY'S CREDIT
BALANCE.
EXCEEDED EIGHT MILLIONS IN NOVEMBER,
LOAN RECOVERIES.
SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1929.
HEAVIER TAXES IN GERMANY.
TO MEET DEFICIT ON THE BUDGET.
The Very Idea!
In his native village of Claypole, near Newark, Nottinghamshire, where 52 years ago,, at the age of 12 he began work as a form labourer, the burjai took placó, recently, of Mr. Harold Coulby,
GOVERNMENT THREAT. the British-American millionaire,
For the first time for some
Berlin, Mar. 15. The case againat Chan Hong-
The increased taxation demand- William Glassford, Jr., machinist chun, whose extradition to, Hal years, the Colony's credit balance
phong is sought by the French on November 30th last exceeded ed by the budget presented to the mat 1st class, United States authorities of Indo-China on agat million dollars. The exact Reichstag, and the usual party The disputes, has made the debate a Nay, and chauffour to Admiral charge of committing an offence figure was $8,273,617.30, Mark L. Bristol, Commander-in-against the bankruptcy laws of balance at the end of October was rather lively one, and Herr hief of the U.S. Asintic Fleet, was that country, WAB concluded be$6,060,390.
Mueller, the Chancellor to-day killed aboard the naval transport fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the It should be explained, however, declared that unless the Budget Chaumont yesterday afternoon Central Magistracy morning. that the total revenue for the was passed, the Government would when struck by a falling boom. His Worship informed Mr. F. H.month ($3,834,839) includes $1,-| realgn.
Losoby, who appeared for the 63,358.77 representing recovery
The tragedy took place at about 2.30 pm. near the Standard 0!1| Co. wharf where the Chaumont is anchored. Two other American sailors who were standing near Glassford when the boom sudden- ly crashed to the deck, narrowly escaped death, the boom missing them by less than a foot,
certified the
The revenue from January to
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who died suddenly in his bedroom at the Ritz Hotel,
Mr. Coulby, who was the son of a Claypole farm labourer, went to the United States at the age of 18. He walked 600 miles from New York to the Great Lakes, and secured a job on a enrgo-carrying boat. He met Colonel Hay, who took a great interest in him, and ho rose step by step until he became head of the Inter-Lakes Stommship Company. He was a where he restored the church and great benefactor to the village,
bulit a village hall.
Herr Mueller enid that the fugitive,, that
from Loan Funds. For the cor- situation in Germany was the documents received from
responding month of 1927 the in-critical that party politics ought French authorities were
to be kept in the background. that he was entitled to consider come was $2,077,745. the point of jurisdiction of the
Introduce French authorities over the mat- November inclusive was $22,839,- It was essential to
138, as against $19,208,485 for then Budget which would not leave a ter as being catablished.
With regard to the other point previous year. The estimate for deficit. Only in this way could Glanford was standing on the raised by Mr. Losoby, hin Worship the whole of 1928 was $20,103,300.proof be given to the Committee rallef when you are working."
Expenditure during November of Experts dealing with the re- also found that a prima facle case
as against parations problem and now meet- had been established on the charge totalled $1,615,552, which his Worship now defined as $1,808,241 in the previous year, ing in Paris, that in spite of her being an offence against the whilst the total from January 1st necessitious conditions Germany bankruptcy lawa." In this con- was $18,545,222, compared with would leave no stone unturned nexion, his Worship ruled that "a ($17,720,901 in 1927. The estimated to fufil her obligations. manager may be made a bankrupt expenditure for the whole of 1928 in respect of the debts of the was $22,183,045. firm."
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 holat 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,
The boom came down quickly and Glasford did not have time to take a step before he was struck. The Admiral's chauffeur was hit over the left eye and the chest and went down like a log. He was immediately taken to the ship's hospital but died there a miauto after being admitted, his skull being fractured and his chest smashed.
Glassford, who was about 31 years old, had been in the United States Navy for eight усага
and was popular with a consider- able portion of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet. 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
the the
His Worship then made of for committal order fugitive to gaol unt the Go- vernor's order for his surrender.
The usual respite of 15 days .tho Magistrate's accompanied
order, to enable the fugitive to ap- peal on a writ of habeas corpus thould he so desire..
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FLOATING CASH. FOR FLOATING ISLES.
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STEPPING-STONES TO U.S.A. AND WEALTH.
Paris, Feb. 11, Count Henri Baoli de Mangon, a Russian aristocrat and former officer in the Inte Taur's Guard,
CHAPMAN'S VIEWS.
DURATION OF TESTS AND
EIGHT BALL OVER,
Melbourne, Mar, 15. Chapman, Interviewed by Reuter. aid the wonderfully happy family) spirit was largely responsible for the ceas of the tour and absence of quarrels.
.
It is estimated that the Budget deßleit will be £18,950,000, to meet which the Government proposes to 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.
Ho paid a tribute to the tact of Toone, the manager of the tour, and the ability of White, both 43 . The Governor-In-Counell has bowler and as vice-captain, Rydor declared that the Dangerous Drugs and his men had played the games in Ordinance, 1923, shall henceforth the most sporting spirit,
apply to the drugs benzoyl-mor-. The only jarring notes were, the phine, dihydro-ozycodeinone, dlhy- Kippax incident of December 14, and drocodeinung and their respective Larwood on March 2, which had been salts and to any preparation, ad- made too much of..
mixture and extract containing benzoyl-morphine, dihydro-oxyco-
He mentioned Hammond's prowess, expected that a Naval Court of In-fainted in the dock of the Bor-saying he had always subordinated quiry will be held within the next few days. It is understood, how deaux Correctional Court when the his natural game to the interests of deinone or dihydrocodeniono. ever, that funeral services for judge sentenced him to two years the side; and tributed Larwood, Tate, it is explained that the drug
Glassford will be held on board the Chaumont to-morrow or the
day after and that his hody will be sent back to the United States.
THE KING GOES OUT AGAIN.
- ACCOMPANIED BY LITTLE
PRINCESS.
London, Mar. 35. II.M., the King passed another good day.
Imprisonment swindling.
on a charge of Duckworth, Hobbs and Sutcliffe,
benzoyl-morphine, which is an' Ho suggested that the Teats' in This Russian noblegum had an future be limited to five days, and tweeter of morphine, should not be confused with benzyl-morphine, ambitious scheme for the construc-hours on the sixth if a result were
on other of morphing. The Int tion of floating islands," to be possible.
air Ho adversely criticised the eight ter drug is occasionally used in "anchored" in the ocean, as
ball over.
medicine, being sold under the stations for Transatlantic avinters.
He thanked all for unfailing cour- proprietary name of "Peronive." : Count llenfi, who was a Tartar
The Health Committee of the texy and kindness, concluding “1] Khan as well as a Gurde oficer am the happiest of men. Naturally Lengue of Nations refer to joined the firing of General Wrangel I should like to see England finish dihydrocodeinone Dlcodide after the Bolshevik, revolution. | undefeated."--Reuter.
When Wrangel's white army dis-
Landed Count Henri sought refuge
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|(dihydro-codeinone).
Labour Exchange official (to applicant for dole)--"How dare you apply for unemployment Applicant "I beg your par- don, sir, but I'm not working."
"But you were seen with a horse and lorry last week selling fire-
wood."
"Well, I do think that is tho limit! Solling firewood! It was me moving to a smaller house?"
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(It is said that telephono 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 beauty7 Well, to be quite candid, no!
Yet officials wise and knowing,' Only healthy maidens scek, And the rose of health la
glowing
On the operator's cheek, 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 Han a quite distinctive touch.
So the young men nevér falter,
Yea, thrice happy they indeed, If auch 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 proliminary
In that numbers are engaged,
in France. He was one day pan-OLD CURIOSITY SHOPS. WAR DEBT PAYMENTS. County
less in Bordeaux.'
From Stable Toy to Isje-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 Craigwell, al- big form. though he kept to the sheltered side of the house,
But the count was not satisfied with this humble past, Princess Elizabeth accompanied One day he confided to. M. "vast scheme" for him in his outing and walked Labadie his araice the bathchair for the three-floating aerodromes (ordiera the high quarters of an hour that the stepping stones") on King was in the grounds.--Britian Atlantic Wireless...
NEW AIR LINER
.SERVICE.
(Continued From Page 8.) 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.
BITTAIN RECEIVES OVER
£6,000,000,
Judge Turner, at Westminster defendant Court: The Baya "Prove your debt." The Common Law of England entitles. him to say it. An invoice doesn't prove debt.
Willesden Applicant: Can I London, Mar. 15. have the man upstairs stopped The Italian Goverument duly from knocking on the floor, so to show the slightest perceptible paid to the British Government that flakes of plaster drop into
to-day a sum of £2,125,000, this my tea? The ancient Egyptians, with their being the seventh instalment pay- Many thousands of prisoners great, piety toward the past, must alle under the Italian War Debt giving evidence for themselves have had them, and the Chinese, al- Funding Agreement of 1926. try to prove too much and get convicted. Mr. Hay Halkett, at ways the world's most devoted anti- quarians, may well have been their The sum of £125,000 in gold Marylebone. inventors. Undoubtedly, however, was released to the Italian Go- must be counted among the more vernment, in accordance with significant signs of our own times Article VII of the Agreement. that old curiosity shops are now The French Government also Leaving his humble post on the multiplying and prospering on every paid to-day a sum of £4,000,000 farm, and living in style with the hand. In the most exacting present to the British Government us the cattle breeder'a money, the count the world has ever seen the past is sixth payment on account of the
coming at last into its own.
French War Debt--British Wire obtained the co-operation of - n 0. S. in the Christian Science less..
Money and High Pairopage: M. Lairadie was impressed and agrised to assist financially with the
scheme...
BETWEEN LONDON AND THE French naval officer, of an official
CONTINENT.
at the town hall of Bordeaux, and also of a newspiper editor who gave him valuable públicity.
de Count several visits to boasted that
Mangon pald Paris, and Marshal Lyunbey and the French * Minister
London, Mar. 16. A new service of air liners be- tween London, Brussells and Cologne is to be commenced by The Imperial Airways on Monday.
The service will leave Croydon of Marine were interested in the aerodome, at 8.39 each weck-day morning and Cologne will be
scheme.
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One day he exhibited an impas- ing "continet," by which the Minis
renched 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 liuers to other cities, which will be brought carry out his scheme,
On the contract were many seals
within less than ton hours of and ribbons and the supposed London-British Wireless.
signatures of various French ad- mirtils.
IMMENSE SUCCESS OF GALLI-CURCI.
cattle-
Arrival of A Rival.
the Much impressed, breeder gave another cheque,
A few weeks later the count, told M. Labadie that he had just heard that an American Inventor had ar PRIMA DONNA ARRIVING rived from America with a famous the HERE ON MONDAY,
French aviator, and that American had a system for float- Madame Galli-Curel and hering islands similar to his own, and party are due to arrive in Hongkong intended to patent it in France.
In order to register his own
on Monday by the 5.8. Priklent system at once in both France and McKinley.
The famous prima donna is giv- America, the count asked for 6,000 ing her concert at the Queen's Theatro 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.
of King's Dr. G. B. Harrison, College, London, has accented the invitation of the University of Chicago to be the first holder of the Frederic Ives Carpenter Visiting Chair of English.
francs
M. Labadie consented. But ho discovered later that no patent for the "inating islands" had been Laken out by the count, and that his scheme was nothing but a fraud,
of the swindle was about 50,000 The police learn that the amount
francs,
Juspector Frederick Storey, of Brixton police, was recently com mended by the coroner "for his plucky and courageous netion" in entering a gas-filled room where a lighted gas jet was burning..
Monitor.
EDASTRUNTZ
ÖIMA OY HIA MENICE, ING-
RELILI PAY, OFF,
"Now don't you upologize to him, Roy,"
"They were singing what they called carols, but it sounded to me more like jazz music."--A con- ! stable at Feltham, Middlesex,
"I wish I could prevent people- from corning to see me; they even send prepaid telegrams to house."Mr. Bingley, the Maryle bone magistrate.
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my
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 step of someone, coming up the newly-gravelledpath, lending from the rear of the house, fell upon our cars. We listened breathlessly, wondering who could bo abroad at that hour of the night. The crunching of the gravel beneath the oncoming and footsteps sounded weltd
silent night. uncanny in the Nearer and 'heurer came the unknown footsteps, growing in-. mistakeably louder as they came.
When we thought the walker was abreast of the verandah, we looked out to see who he was. Almost unconsciously a gasp escaped our ps. The footsteps abruptly died away on the spot. There was no, one therel Fliled with curiosity, we immédiately made, a tour of inspection, but Baw no one. '
The Phantom Footsteps remain an unsolved mystery.
The taxi 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 six- nence for his trouble.
After glancing for a moment at the coin, the taxi-driver In Burly voice "What's this for, guv nor
The old gentleman peerod up into the driver's face and replied, "Well, judging by your nose, it's for a drink!"?
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