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C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
NO. 23,370
FOR ·ØL#ADXF SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1931.
ROYAL SCOT P. AND O. LINER'S FINE RESCUE: PICTURES.
DISASTER.
SIGNAL AGAINST
EXPRESS.
SEEN BY DRIVER TOO
LATE FOR SAFETY.
INQUEST VERDICT.
London, Apr. 24.
At the inquest to-day on the six victims of the Royal Sent ex- press disaster at Leighton Buz zard on March 22. the jury re- turned a verdict of #reidental death due to the driver failing to olmerve the signals.
The jury found, however, that the driver, who was among the victims of the mishap. Was guilty of vulpable negligence, nays
Beater.
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It was not disputed at the in- quiry that the signals were set at danger against the express as warning that it was to be switch- ed from the fast to a slow line The official theory, which was ar cepted by the jury, was that the Thom Hudson. driver Mr.
falled to notice the signals until he was too near to redtive speed sufciently or take the point- 1 safety.
Sharp Curve.
The switch line from the fast
describes to the slow
A shrep curve at the point where the ac- eident ongarred, and is close to the signal inux, while the maximum speed pertated on the switch is 20 miles an hour.
Preat Pictures of the Winjputana's 15 sene feat. Laff, shines the first boat-fed of the sur riters of the Hunk Yang diseteley" bring brought alongrid, the Rajputans, the rad nf which men
Right, these youthfel survivors of the miskup, bered in the buftum right ematr
FLEET
FISHING
DESTROYED.
TWENTY JUNKS SUNK
IN STORM.
SIXTY DROWNED.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Macan, Apr. 24, To Macao comes belated news from Shekki reporting the loss of the lives of over sixty fisher weld folk at Tong Ka Wan, and the opinion sinking of over twenty, Oshing of experts, it brakes were sadden -
on Sunday thjuks and sampans ly applied. The speed of Royal Seet when the disaster last charing the sudden gale and dce red wa- variously estimated thunderstorm which struck this
The risk of derailmerd be great. 1zł The
by wibresses as between 25 part of the South China coast. 45 mil an hour
Signalman's Story,
The sign, loan in the box, hots Trouton, was stað e min
Caught without
warning.
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FINANCE RETURNS FOR A YEAR.
FIVE MILLION INCREASE IN REVENUE.
RAILWAY'S PROFIT.
日八初月三
SUSPICION, AND DISTRUST.
OLD DIPLOMACY AND THE NEW.
MR. HENDERSON ON PEACE OF THE WORLD.
MUCH TO BE DONE.
London, Apr. 24. Arbitration and disarmament were the important factors in securing permanently the peace of the world, ut arbitration alone could not make peace secure, declared Mr. Arthur Hen- deraon to-night, speaking at the annual dinner of the Foreign Press Association.
The old spirit of suspielen and distrust which distinguished pre- war diplomacy from the new could not be effectively banished until the work of disarmaneat and been
NEW YORK SHARE completed, while he was convinc
SENSATION.
BIG STOCK-BROKERS SUSPENDED.
£7,000,000 LOANS.
ed that a successful disarmament conference would go farther than any other single factor towards of the minimising the dangers economic depression.
Transition Stage.
The world to-day, went on the
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FOR... THE
JOB!
$34 PER ANNUM
BINGLY COPT 10 CENTE
LOCAL BRANCH,
Paddar Bldg.
Bulls and Inners.
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A dramatie critic says William
Anticipation! Stabilisation! Re-
Shakespeare Intended most of his juvenation! Congratulation! plays to he acted in semi-darkness.
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The original Light-Saving Bill! A domestic servant has secured
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lier flying certificate. The time
"Best in the Long Run" may be will come when a maid will refuse a gond alugan, but not for hestery sitantlon if there isn't enough manufacturers,
lawn to enable her to take off when leaving.
"When
Oh Wondrous East! Thy magic lure enthralled ne
cinema patrona have With the very promise of thy complaints to make, they should call the manager.** Yes, but spett.
what?
I longed to feast
And answered when you called
me.
"Twas then I fell.
I pictured nights of gindness, „Mid ævented tropic plants.
The glamour and the madness Of insects ghostly chants. But when at night I find me. Abroad to seek thy charms, The reeking odours blind me, Far WorHe than
farms.
Belgium's
I visioned conuely wenches, As pictured in The Strand, Instend i choke from stenches,
In this benighted land.
So, home with whisky-sodus.
I am perforced to stay,
Until the old pagodus,
Receive a "Condy's" spray!
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Judging from
have been very
Foreign Secretary, is in the transithe scantiness tion stage between the 'all indivi- of some of the dualistic diplomacy and the new evening gowns diplomacy of conciliation and co-we'r The complete financial returns of
New York, Apr. 24. operation. Much was being dan lately. the The Colony for the year ended De
Messrs. Pynchon and Com-to reconstruct International rela-designers mun! cember 1st, 1930, are now avail-
pany, one of the largest stock-tions on a better bunis.
The Government set much store aboriginal. able. They disclose that revenue
country. by arbitration and disarmament. exceted the extimates by more broking firms in the
Singing after than five million dollars, whilst has been suspended from mem-They had signed the Optional expenditure was just gnder a mil-bership of the New York Stock Clause and 34 nations had now.
nccepted this obligation. They unsel, so as to Hon dollars more than Corecasted. Exchange for insolvency.
had since adhered to the General case annoy- Taxation increases have, of course,
ue to neigh- materially
The company has also been sus-Act for Pacific Settlement, engtributed
to the
It was impossible to over-est-bours, is illegal pended on the New York Curb Ex- growth of revenue
change and the Chienste Board of mate the importance which the in this Colony. Trade's cotton, coffer, sugar and Government, and, he thought, all But there
parties in Great Britain, attached
plenty produce exchanges,
to the success of the forthcoming squeakensies in No official statement of liabilities | Disarmament Conference,
Kowloon. has been made, but it is reported
A serene International atmos- that the firm has had has apprehere was one of the best guaran- Nimading £7.400,000,
torg af material prosperity.
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Bro.
D D "My time's your time," said the accommodating young fellow when his landlady asked what time he would like his unth. ☐ ☐
An right-month-old baby boy in Peterborough Is being trained as a boxer. We understand that every time his mother pretends to smack him he Hes down and claims a foul.
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A man recently died in Mexico aged 109. He must have had an uncanny instinet in picking the right skie of revolutions.
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A local contemporary which is such a stickler for accuracy may The only time
"How is Sillwell?"
kir!! of
"Flat on his inck,”
e a crown.
sonie
women'
stop talking is
when somebody else is doing it and sometimes not even then.
We heard u ทบท Buggest the other day that our Census officiala mat have had an arduous task Yes, it must be very andaying - to reach 749,247
The total revenue for the year was $27,818,472, compared with an
"Why, I saw the dancing with a dizzy blonde last night." and then lose estimate of $22,712,920, this presenting an increase over the
"So did his wife!"
count. 1929 figures, of $1,263,997. There
perhaps explain its report that were increases under every heads
Gin parties are often like fights Hongkong rehnolloys recently put houts had no ince against thing, the biggest being in respect
-four or five rounds and you're a shot weighing 161 lbs. violence o; the Storm, and, rap- of licences and internal revenge
ច ៗ It is believed, however, that the
Progress in Disarmament. af, sizing on try one with appalling pot otherwise spitled, which | suspension is temporary and that
A Happily. in disarmament,
In Parliament questiourr The Papidity, over sisty persons were brought in $1,268,701 more than with a return to norstid "bom of
A render wants to know the wanted to know whether it is now wires the - \ browned.
the previous year. There was also | zovarities,
pretiton wires had been made. The draf!
scheme recently evolved at Geneva | first necessity for learning to Mr. Alfonso, it seems to be miss Jass. and an increase of $1,215.226 in mise suffer
'bat nesident happen und des ribet The
May we suvest water" enabled the disarmament con-win. of the xperience horro
with the
aboformally
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□ He saw the train approach, the
collagenus recripts
Land sales yielded $2,861,897.m low prices of securities the value of ference to open early next year.
that "Golden Dawn" in the name of Mr. Henderson continued.
With the continued flight of the sudden wobbling of the prest
a new cocktail.' Strange to say, dollar, Hongkong 'may engine, P unst remarkable fear, While thesis tims of the storin sank an timate of one, million dollars. The company's assets are practical | ji was useless to pretend that the
this being an increase of $928,725 | ly equal to its fiabilities.
spirit of suspicion, distrust and it's most in evidence on a thick become thoroughly air-minded, as of reyhand, into the air,
as entopated with 192.
O It is understood that the bank insecurity which plagued the old night. and it crash on one side. the
D D Expenditure totalled $28,119,645 ing credits have offered to sup- diplomacy had been banished. He
Query for the gradual converts A reader wants to know whether to stabilisation.-Is it better to Three couches immediately behind
on an estimate of $27.268,515, this | port offerts to reorganise the firm did not believe they could hurling themselves against and
being $6,810,388 more than in 1929, with new capital. Reuters Ameri-banished unless we completed the Spring cleaning shild be done fence with the question, or keep nver it.
content before or after May, Certainly hedging about it? The biggest increase was $724,524) can Service.
plated in the Versailles Treaty and pot, in the opinion of most hus- in Article 8 of the League Coven- bands.
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in the The disaster Dreameri full view of "would-be helpers in font, whe
to their Boom.
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hudplesalt.
lay or purts of Chung Shan district sommé considerable damage to property has been reported, and telephone lines everywhere were The driver of the Royal Seat had torn up. Telophonic communica been in charge of the pride of the lion has been entirely interrupted, line for many yebra.
He was and it is believed that it will be years of age and had been with some time before the service ean The Company for over 35 years. (be restored,
Communication Cord.
During the Ministry of Trans-
port enquiry, it was suggested
card.
that a passenger may have pulled the communication
this Having the effect of applying the brakes automatically.
Was
NEW VACCINATION
PROPOSAL.
PERIOD OF GRACE MUCH REDUCED.
The Gutarile contains the draft of m Ordinance to amend the Vne-
the
.
in respect of Public Works Extra- ordinary, whilst
Military Con- tribution at $3,863,769 shinwed un advare of,$604,431,
Revenue from the
Office totaled $1,375,207, with expendi- ure at $353.689 plus $129.997 o wireless services, whilst the Kow- brought Toon-Canton
in $975.128 and cost $826,105 to operate.
L. G. CRAWLEY IN LIMELIGHT.
REACHES FINAL OF GOLF TOURNEY.
QUAKE.
work of disarmament
obligations of the League.
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Cornwall has been likened, to
'SCRAPER ROCKS IN greater reliance upon the solemne Prince of Wales, is, due in "ver one meets a Cornishman. it According to a contemporary, the boot of Old England. When- Loudon to-day and wil go ashore may be assumed he has a kick and attend a banquet in his coming. honour given by the Portuguese
resident. A capital mistake.
GREAT ALARM IN THE UPPER STOREYS.
Los Angeles, Apr. 24. The twenty-eight storey City Hall, which was specially built to withstand earth tremors. was put the test yesterday when medium to strong earthquake was felt at Los Angeles.
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The building shivered, but euped damage. Nevertheless, the rocking of the structure caused considerable alarm to the neu- pants of the higher stories.
A number of windows in big
The chief mechanical engineer. however, said that the pulling of the cord could not affect the safe running of the train in any way. Tom Henry Hancocks, guard of the wrecked express, said that cination Orilinance, 1903.
brake
This Ordinance reduces when the
for unvaccinated applied, the train was travelling period of grace at between 60 and 65 miles an children born within the Colony or
London, Apr. 24. hour.
admitted to school therein. from six months to aix weeks und re-
The Cambridge Triple Blue, Mr. peals the sub-section of svetion 14 Leonard G. Crawley, Whose of the principal Ordinance which exploits have hitherto been con- exempted guards from penalties finest, mainly to the cricket field, stores sed in the coastal subari
the city suf- for not causing children to be vac-
for Essex and Cambridge Univer-eracked," otherwise cinated during the summer months.sity, showed that he could hit fered no damage in the quake
Sub-section (3) of that section other things than leg boundaries Reuter's American Servier. is altered so na to allow six weeks in the English Native Amateur instead of one month as the period | Golf Championship at Hunstanton. of grace in the case of children
WOMEN ARTISTS
EXCEL.
TRIUMPH OVER WELL-KNOWN
MEN PAINTERS.
'Lendon, Apr. 21. Despite the rompetition of well-rought here for the first time. known men artists, wonwen have
Ordinance also repeals a won both the silver and bronze
sub-section of section 21 of the
This
medals offered for the first time principal Ordinance the effect of
at the Spring Exhibition of the which is spent. Royal Society of British Artists.
Miss Sylvia Gosse, daughter of the late Sir Edmand Gosse, the woll-known author, won the silver) medal and Miss Dorothes Sharp the bronze medal.-British Warr Jess.
LORD IRWIN'S RETURN.
EXPECTED IN LONDON ON MAY 2ND,
HONDURAS REVOLT -COLLAPSES.
ANOTHER VICTORY FOR GOVERNMENT.
Washington. Apr. 24.
It is reported from Tegucigalpa that the revolution in Honduras has ended, following a further victory for the Government forces London, Apr. 24. yesterday, in which twenty-nine Lord and Lady Irwin are ox-persons were killed. pocted to arrive in London from India on the afternoon of Muy 2nd,
-British Wireless,
The revolt 18 attributed primarily to the economie dopres- {sion.—Reuters. American Service.
CATALONIA.
to
British Policy.
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These continuous references to Yorkshireinen at public gatheringa
២. As far $4 we can see, the greatest objection to stabilisation ls that some people would have to start working for their living!
working
"Bagpipes can be beautiful." says writer in Home newspaper. Distance certainly does lenden- chantment.
The Foreign Secretary said our interest in permanent bence had been the principal object of our active participation in interna- We appreciate the reference by are not necessarily intended as a tional affairs. It had influenced a local journalist to "those excel- tyke off. our policy with regard to the leat vieture supplements publish- Rhineland and other questions, in-fed every Saturday by our two The Telegraph eluding the Franco-Italian naval evening papers."
gets double marks. negotiations.
He felt that a settlement of the
with naval
Malaya. problem
rubber, 2214 Franco-Italian would greatly help the Disarma-Hongkong, with the dollar, could
Conference, And failure do with a little more bounce.
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out value of the London Naval Trenty. Gardening Notes:--Thin
Our position on this issue was blooming bungalarios, beastly bubo. typical.
We are left wondering what the We Intervened partly as nicas and confounded conglomera- European Power to help to settle lins. Prune rambling statements, cut Consul for Cornwall has to any European problem, and partly down climbing spingle-spangles about one of his nationals accept as an extra-European Power, and the fah wong's wages, borrew ing the Presidency of, the St. the interest of world peace and the dustinn, mangle the wurzles, George's Society. friendly international relations.bury the hatchet, take Press cut. Reuter and British Wireless, tings and a sporting chance.
It Jooks
If Hongkong's popular song next year will "Oh, yon beautiful dole!"
LIMCHOW EXPECTED
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These Chinese
bandits who want gramophones as part of the ransom for a captured missionary
have certainly made a now record.
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We hear of a local resident who
- HERE TO-DAY,
ARRIVAL OF CAPTAIN
The total liabilities of a recent is contemplating a 30-mile, walk AND CREW.
bankrupt ran into Ive igures this week-end. For the love of
wife And Those of his
four hike! The captain and crew of the .s. daughters.
☐ ☐ || Limehow, which grounded after
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In one Aberdeen family, there' Motoring Note: "Don't tear have been six weddings in a year. a collision with the 8.4. Canton in
Leave it to the Hainan Streets, have returned to
.០ ញ Hongkong on the s.s.s Tankin.
The a. Limehow, which has been
up the road.· P.W.D."
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L. G. Crawley reached the fiunt AUTOMONY CRY IN of the competition to-day defent- ing one of the favourites, Edward Tipple, of Langley Park, at the twentieth hole, after a grim battle. Throughout the championship
THREATENING SPEECH BY tournament, Crawley has won only
PRESIDENT. one match before the eighteenth.
** 74+ In the Anal, which is to be play-
Madrid, Apr. 24. ed over thirty-six holes to-morrow,!
Menentional declaration by Crawley meets the former Cheshire oil-worker, William Sut-Colonel Macia, the President of the ton, who won the championship in Catalan Republic, is reported in a
successfully anivaged and reflented, Many a man wishes he had away the confetti... Madrid newspaper, according
Is expected to arrive here some enough money to marry which Colonel, Macin, addressing a large crowdfat Barcelona on St.time to-day under tow of the Kow-Then he could buy that car with it.
口口 daloon Dock tug Henry Keswick. George's Day," emphatically
"In 1980 people will pick up ALFONSO AT WINDSOR.clared:
Ng So, a returned banishee, was present-day wireless programmes." "Catalonia, bus temporarily sentenced to three months' imprison. This should put in end to the ex- sacrificed part of her sovereignty men by Mr. Hamilton, at Kowloon pression. "The good old days.", for high patriotic interests, Her this morning. The accused had been aspirations for liberty, as ex- banished for a period of Avo years in- "An unhealthy man must write pressed by plebiscite, will be 1927, and he stated to the Court that unhealthily." Bald 24 speaker, Revised version:-You can con- submitted to the Cortes, and if he calculated sine months to a year. Some of our popular novelists duct an equine quadruped to "the" we meet with refund, we shall Mr. Hamliten remarked that whether fight to the death to achieve our in banishment or imprisonment there must be in a positively dangerous aquatic element, but you cannot
compel him to imbibe. ideals."-Reuter.
1929-Reiter,
RECEIVED BY KING GEORGE.
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London, Apr. 24. His Majesty the King received King Alfonso of Spain at Windsor Castle to-day.--Router.
were no nine months to a year.
condition.
on.
As the next oldest in still at school, it's beon decided to throw
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A local resident thinks a new name should be coined for house- coolies. We've folt that way for a long time.
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