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ACTION AGAINST HOTEL CO.
ITALY'S GESTURE TO FRANCE.
. OFFER TO SUSPEND NAVAL
CONSTRUCTION,
Rome, June 3:
(Continued from Page 1.) In pointing to the submission off When a Chinese coolie, employed the defence, Mr. Sheldon referred at a residence on the Peak, was His Lordship to the fact alleged| charged before, Mr. Lindsell, this that practically all the machinery
A gesture to France was made morning with the possession of was not in proper condition and by Signor Grandi when addressing literature which is alleged to be could not do the work required of the Senate on the subject of the of a seditious nature, he strenuous-it, and that as the plants were in- ly denied having anything to do capable of making ice as stated, Naval Treaty, with the papers.
He was walking, he said, along Barker Road on Saturday when he found some papers lying on the ground. At that very moment, a Shantung policeman appeared
the defendants were not liable to payment.
Guarantees Given.
Signor Grandi said that, pend-
France did likewise.-
As a result the defence claimed ing negotiations on questions not that the plaintiffs put in plant not solved by the London Conference. capable of carrying out the duties Italy was prepared to suspend her expressly guaranteed or impliedly naval construction-for-1930,-pro- from behind a rock-and-accused guaranteed or warranted, and by him of possession of the papers.
"He advised me," defendant reason of that and in addition to vided continued, "to tell the Inspector suffering severe losses of meat ste, Reuter. that I had picked up the papers)
they put in a counter-claim of from the roadway."
$100,000..... The Magistrate expressed his
gone into, and one of the astonishment that the cotistable) The reply filed by the plaintiffs arst things Mr. Hacker found out "should have been such a fool as on March 28th, in defence of this was the water sunnly available to advise him to say that," and was to the effect that the plain-for the plant when it was erected, questioned Detective Sergeant tits made certain guarantees and and Mr. Brearley replied that the O'Donovan, who was in charge of representations to the effect that water would be quite all right. the case, on the matter.
the plant erected was capable of It was a little brackish, but per- Sergeant O'Donovan agreed that carrying out the work demanded. fectly good in the closed defendant hnd mentioned the same
Mr. Potter pointed out to Hiddensers. Mr, Hacker recommend- thing when brought before the Lordship that the defence intended fed that the open condensers be Inspectors at two Police Stations. to object to the admissibility of installed, but Mr. Brearley said It had also occurred in his written these representations and would he wished the same type as that statement, made after being charged by the Inspector.
ask His Lordship to judge on a operating in the Palace Hotel, The Shantung constable in his that in law they were wholly inac-condensers, and Mr.
question.of fact. He submitted Shanghai. They were the closed evidence, declared that he saw the defendant take a bundle of papers
agreed to install this type. from his pocket and scatter them on the roadway. He also found three other papers on the defen- dant when searching him.
The case was remanded for a translation to be made of the
papers.
CUBAN PUZZLES
POLICE.
PROFESSES INABILITY TO SPEAK ENGLISH,
Alfredo Fernandez, alias, Al-
missible.
Proposed lee Plant.
con-
Hacker
Mr. Sheldon, in outlining the Mr. Hacker then enquired about case, said that in March 1928, the the temperature of the water, as plaintiffs were asked to prepare a this was naturally very essential. specification of a refrigerating Mr. Brearley replied that the tem- plant for the Peninsula Hotel,perature of the water, which was Previously, in 1926-7, there had in a well, was 70 degrees Faren- been some negotiations for the heit, but when being pumped out, erection of a plant for the Hotel the temperature would decrease. Company, and specifications had Mfr. Hacker then made his cal been made by the plaintiffs but culations and told Mr. Brearley owing to certain circumstances, the that he would require 35 to 40 gal scheme was shelved.
lons of water per minute at a ten- Mr. Hackery the plaintiff's chief perature of 70 degrees, and this engineer and refrigerating expert Mr. Brearley agreed to supply. called down to see Mr. Brearley, who was at that time the chief engineer for the Hongkong and About June, 1928, an ice plant Shanghai Hotels, for the purpose was contemplated, by the defen- fred Tam, alius Alfred Fively, aged revising the original proposi-dants, by which they could make
tion of 1926. been given when Mr. Hacker was July, Mr. Brearley and Mr. Hacker It had previously their own ice at the Hotels. In in Shanghai and he called down again met to discuss the require- to discuss the matter at greatments for making the ice, and the length with Mr. Brearley. and a case in which he was de
discussion followed on similar |fendant accordingly had to be ad-
lines to that of the original pro- journed for 24 hours in order to Mr. Brearley informed Mr. position. Once again the ques- procure a Spanish interpreter. Hacker that the original scheme tion of water came up, as. It was When Mr. Grantham read out was entirely given up, and that quite obvious that the original the charge alleging that Fernadez the requirements from Mr. Hacker supply of 35 to 40 gallons per
would being a vagrant had absented him- would be entirely new. The sys- minute
not be suffi- self from the House of Detentiontem he wished to install was the cient to nieet the new and on April 29, the Cuban shook his brine circulating system, instead larger demand. Mr. Hacker en- Fead.
of the direct Expansion system,quired as the amount of "No hablo Ingles; solo Espanol," which was on the original proposi-water available, and was told by he lisped:
tion. Mr. Brearley also told Mr.Mr. Brearley that they could sup- Sergeant Whant, who prosecut-Hacker that the original proposal ply 120 gallons per minute. As was too expensive and he suggest-regards the temperature of the "But this man has given me aed the use of the Carbondale water, Mr. Hacker had taken the statement in quite good English," machine, which he had been using temperature of the water in the he said "and he has also appeared Mr. Brearley said he had used the instead of 70 as stated by Mr. In the Palace Hotel in Shanghai.well, and found it to be 73 degrees before Mr. Lindsell without any machine and was cognisant with Brearley.
30 years, of Santa Clara, Cuba. either could not or would not understand Mr. Grantham at the Central Magistracy this morning
ed, looked amazed.
trouble."
New System,
one. He then told Mr. Hacker
to
"Well, if he persists, he is en-it, and in is opinion it was a good
Mr. Hacker discussed the plant titled to an interpreter." remarked that Messrs. Andersen, Meyer and with Mr. Bourne, who was then Mr. Grantham in adjourning the Company, had, in 1926, made out ong Hotel, just about the time of the Superintendent of the Hong- their specifications, which were
case,
Vincent Sullivan who appeared the lowest of those submitted, and the acceptance of the specifica- on a similar charge was ordered that the Hotel Company were tions. Mr. Hacker, an expert in imprisonment for a month. Ser- quite prepared to see the new job refrigerators, stressed the great geant Whant sail that the Ameri- was given them, if they put for importance of proper hand- can Consul had pipers showing ward a reasonable proposition. the Sullivan was an American citizen and had promised to get him away on the first opportunity.
Cost Analysed.
ling of the plant, and Mr. Brearley replied that he had
then sat down and for two
been used to the plant in Shang- Mr. Hacker and Mr. Brearley hai, and that he would assure Mr,
ur
three weeks, worked together very handled in an efficient and proper Hacker that the plant would be amienbly, and went through the
more
One hundred new chigines of the separate items of the machinery manner, Mr. Brearley said that it nought-six-nought tank chuss have which Mr. Hacker proposed to put would be handled even just been placed with British firms in. Mr. Hacker gave Mr. Brearley efficiently than the plant at the by the Great Western Railway the entire figures for the matter, Palace Hotel, Shanghai, and that Company. The orders, which showed the cost of the machines, the refrigerating rooms would reach a total value of more than and the approximate cost of the only be opened once 1 day, £250,000, are intended to continue labour and also the profit which instead of frequently as in Shang the company's policy of assisting he (Mr. Hacker) would make for hai. All necessary supplies would. the revival of trade. They have his firm.
transferred from a storage been distributed among four firms, The question of water, being room. each of which is to supply 25.
of very great importance, was The case is proceeding.
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