RAILWAY EXPERT RETIRING
MR. C. D. LAMBERT
GOING HOME
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July October Hongkong will be losing one of December its most popular residents and the January (1930) Government a most efficient and March valued servant on Tuesday, when May
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Douglas Lambert, Spot Mr. Chief Mechanical Engineer of the British section of the Kowloon- on leave
prior to retirement, after 25 years January
Canton Railway, goes
of official life in the Colony.
Mr. March
Lambert, who holds the rank of Total sales:-166 1ts Major in the Regular Army Re-
FRANCE'S MOST FAMOUS ADVENTURESS
Paris, July 19. Madame Marthe Hanau, known as the "Woman Wizard of French Finated died at Fresnes prison to-day-Reuter,
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Marthe Hanou, the French ad- venturess, was born in Paris in 1886, as the daughter of a draper. Even as a girl she was clever at business with very persuasive ways. In 1906 when she and her mother were running a linen shop she met and married Lazare Block, son of a Lille industrialist. Hay- ing failed, his wife started a scent shop. She created a perfume for midinettes and her business did ~t
Rly. 844 well that she began to manu-
Tient-Pakow. 80facture scent and was able to live
Railway (Supt. the Avenue
Champs des
Loan) Institute of Mechanical Thursday's sales:-32,79,000 bushels
Chienga Corn
War, she Honan Rly. the institute of
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found it desirable to sell her 1911 Transport and of the institute of
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business and her next move was. Lung Ting U
ni y. 1919. £ 15
£15 Accompanied by his wife, Mr. Thursday's sales1,600,000 bushels
Winnipeg Wheat
to exploit the War by selling what Lambert is leaving the Colony by
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Int. German 7. New York Silk
supposed to contained a mixture
This Lars Lot
Lorin, 192254 1.37 1.38
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fconsidered swindle and she and Japan & Sterling
Loun 1907 1.28 1.374 1.58
fined overal In 1919 she started a soup business which failed.
serve of Officers and Ordnance July Mechanical Engineer in the Royal September Army Ordance Corps, is a member December of the
July September December
the K., Tjibadak for Home vin itali, July Java, Australia, New Zealand, the Augukt Panama Canal. lavana and Jamai-
July
ca, taking five months over the trip, September Of a most genial disposition and a December man of sterling qualities. Mr. Lam Toint sales-311 lets bert has, like his wife, made a host
Septemler
of friends in the Colony, who will July keenly regret their departure and wish for them many years of happy retirement in the Old Country,
SON OF DOCTOR Born on April 5, 1886, son of Dr.i W 0. Lambert, 3.1..
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Then she met the wealthy Mme. Josepa and her financier began, In obtamid a divoree from her hus-Allied Tom Found
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and buainess partners, Financed Lambert was educated at Darling-
[by Mme. Joseph, she started the Austin Motors ord ton Grammar School and Emanuel
| Gazette du Finne. Its avowed alm.) School, Wandsworth Common, Løn-
was to me the frane, to rehabili- 1 Boots a dan. He received his technical!
tute French credit and currency. British - American education at Durham follege of
Palmer, Alaska, July 18. Its artaal purpose was to induce Selence, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and
The discovery of gold on some of the public to buy the shares which was a premium apprentice with the London North Eastern Railway at the farms of the New Dea, roloni-were being sold by Mine Haman's Chinese Eng, and the tocomotive works in Gateshead. zation project in the Mantanusha bucket shop. Then she founded curtai en-Tyne and Darlington, under Mr. Valley served to-day to allay some Gazette des Nations which my Distillers
of the home claimed its intention of working Dunlop Hubier..
Masient Wilson Worsdell and the late Ste of the discontent
for universal jasice. Lending Electric
Industries Mussolini and Generni Vincent Raven. Here he had ex-straders.
Anton Anderson, a veteran of the statesmen such as
Electric Aluska
and Kellogg brond perience in all departments of the
(England) railway workshops and in the draw. early gold-strike days of ing office for three years on locomo territory, struck a direet vein in Briand and Loucheur at home gave Hawker Aircraft tive design. He left the L.S.F.R. digging a water well. Anderson interviews and under cover of these impl. Clem. Ind. in 1909 and joined Messrs. Haggie ishid the panning showed value, but distinguished names. Bros., engineers and rip man-other "our doughs" claimed that toners for the bucket shop were to imperial cen
area had bren prospected be recruited. In 1928, she presidintorni. facturers as outside representative, the
Mr. Lambert's association with the ite gold would be en at a breakfast given to jour-Rallye
nalists by Pierre Audibert, form- vh. November, found there, United Press,
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or chef de cabinet of De Monzie, Shai Elec, Constr. Hongkong began in
In foster international understand- | Tate & Lyle .... 1919, when he was appointed arting --
leading part Lepmotive Superintendent of the
played fl
ing by means of the press. She Turner & Newall Kowloon Carton Railway. In 1916, technical side of the development had finance companies with a capl-nited Steel Vickers andl. he was seconded for military ser of this Government undertaking.tal of £136,000,400, oyer
Watney, Combo & vice in the Great War, being given for which he has been wholly res agents in the provinces and £4,000,- - Reid def, urd...
Lieutenant full commission 214
pensible, and under his control of 900 invested with her. At one time | Walworths Ordinance Mechanical Engineer the mechanical department the set her personal fortune was said to After attending a course on gun-vices have been vastly improved. I have been 261,008, „A tremendous į
Ordance College is worthy of mention that he worker, she rose carly, but even in at the
Anglo-Dutch Woolwich, he was in October, 1916, designed the engines which have offer hours was a great consumer
Gula Kalumpong appointed O.M.E., Northern Comben su successfully employed in of champagne and cigarettes.
Rubber mand on coast defence and anti-hauling the fast expresses to Can-Later in the day she and Mme. Pekin Synd, 27
ord. sh....... aircraft guns at the Headquarters,ium, in the construction of which he doseph frequented, the bars and Tynemouth Castle,
assisted whilst at Home In 1929. aight restaurants of Montmartre.bes Trusts ... WAR SERVICE
It is also worthy of nots that in gumbled at Deauville ind were
nery
In November. 1916, Mr. Lambert 1921, when the Government decided joint hostesses at lavish entertain- went to France as O.M.E. to the lo adopt mechanical transport, Mr. [ments. Fifth Corps, Fifth Army, being in Lambert gave lectures and instruc charge of repairs to all classes of tion to the police traifle staff in field guns. He WIS promoted running, upkeep and repairs to all Captain in 1917 and appointed O/C classes of motor vehicles. Siege Artillery, upkeep and repairs, ¦ Mr. Lambert has always taken a
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The Crash
Late in 1928 the crash came., According to one version, it was precipitated by her quarrel with
the business. Another is that the
Burn Curpa. Rs.
10 Commonwealth
Mining Randfontein
Estates
Spring Mines Spaarwater Estates
Nigel
Anglo-Persin
great.banks took action to stop an | Rhokana Corpn., issue by her of 8 p.c. debentures to the tune of £1,360,000, Accord- ing to herself he was being black- mailed by G. Anquetit of La Hurma Oil ...... Rumeur. She refused to pay and Shell Trans and he brought about the collapse of Trad. (Bearer} the Gazette des Nations and Marsman Invest-
ment. Ltd. 1930, arrest. was given 4 years' her,
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in the same Corps. He was in the keen and active interest in Mine. Joseph, who withdrew from Fifth Army retreat on the Somme aspects of mechanical transport in the spring of 1918, and in July and was one of the Best to own a of that year was promoted Major car on the mainland: in fnet, he and O/C Railway Mounted Gun had the first Morris Oxford car to Workshop at Calais, where he had be imported into the Colony. charge of erection, upkeep, repirs
OTHER ACTIVITIES and calibration of all guns on rail-
Apart from his Government ser way mountings for the whole of vice, Mr. Lambert has figured the British Expeditionary Force, largely in the social fe of the Mr. Lambert was transferred Home Colony. He has been a member of from France in December, 1918, the original Committee of ihe and appointed acting Chief Ord- Hongkong Automobile Association result of the crash was that her nance Mechanical Engineer to the and of the Hongkong Flying Club, ellents appeared to have lost many whilst as a Committee member of millions of francs and several of In November, 1919, Mr. Lumbert the Royal Hongkong Golf Club for them committed suicide. -returned to Hongkong and resumed many years he rendered invaluable. his position on the railway as services. In this latter connection, It came out at the inquiry that İLORD MARLEY'S ALLEGATIONS Locomotive Superintendent. He he introduced mechanical machines she had subsidised various papers
AGAINST U. S. SHELLS proceeded to the United States on for cutting and keeping the greens to boom her business and that she behalf of the Railway in 1921 to in trim, and for a number of years had offered the Journal £8,000
London, July 18. perintend the building of rail has been convenor of the Fanling and a £120,000 share in her under- American ammunition suppited motor coaches, and in 1929 he was Chubhouse. Quite recently, in re-takings, if it would stop its ca- in the Great War WILN inferiar appointed Chief Mechanical En-cognition of his services, he was paign against her--an offer in-stuff, according to Lord Marley, gineer, a post which he has held made a Life Member of the Club. dignantly refused. ever since.
Personality
Northern Command.
a
DESIGNED EXPRESSES The last of the original stalf of the British section of the Kowloon Canton Railway, 'Mr. Lambert has
Mr. Lambert holds the General Service and Victory Medals for service in the European War, and was recently awarded the King's Silver Jubilee Medal,
"DUD" AMMUNITION
when giving evidence before the Ar mamenta Trade Commission.
"In the early days of the War,
#113 While under detention she went when I was
artillery com- on hunger strike. She had to be mander," he said, "we always took forcibly fed and it took 8 male care to be as far off as possible nurses to ovripower her. Then when American shells were being she escaped from the hospital and used, as they were always bursting instead proceeded to St. Lazare Prison, in the muzzles of the guns, declaring that she had returned of when they struck the enemy, The Gazette contains full details of because she
--United Press, did not BOOKS ARE THE MEDICINE OF THEĮ
want to undergo any more violent treate MIND, TO APPLY THEN IS THE THING. the revised traße regulations,
ment. Ball of £6,400 was found
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NEWS IN
BRIEF
LIGHT READING DOES NOT DO WHEN THE HEART IS REALLY HEAVY--- Lytton,
Kapsing u bazirano zvy It is notined that the name of the and she was released. She faced for our of per la prod Man Kwok Weaving Mills Company, 5,287 creditors in September and pursue jo para sava d Limited, has been struck or they sheer force of personality, won their support to her proposal to
His Majesty the King has been Register. pleased to approve the appointment of the Hon Mr. W. H. Bell to be an The Manila Observatory, reporting Unofficial Member of the Leginiativent 8.35 am, to-day states that the Council, vice Mr. C. G. S. Mackie, typhoon is in about 125 Long, 22 resigned.
fakt, moving northwards.
being per WEB
O-Song Divine.
My Song goes round the world.
I Love you go."Merry Widow." 4. Kathleen Mavourneen. 7.15-8 chestra. The Forge in the Forest (arr, Lloyd). Turkish Patrol (arr. Lloyd). Everybody's Songs (arr. Geehl).
p.m. London Palladium Or.
K p.m. Time and Weather Report. 8.03-8.50 p.m. Variety. Piano Solos Streamline-Selection, Piano SoloStreamline-The
First Wallz.
Vivian Ellis. Songs-One Night of Love. Songs-When the Robin Sings his
Sung ogah.
Grael Fleik. Voral In the Shude of the old
Apple Tree, Voen! In Walkin' the Chalk Lam
The Four Acen Organ Solo---One Kiss ("New
Moon"i Organ Solus -Lover, Come back to
me ("New Moon"),
Reginald Fourt. Some Thera no more you can say.
Turner Layton (Tenor). Vocal The Gharet of my affection.
The Boswell Sisters. Orchestra Whistling Rufus. Orchestra-Steamboat ill. Vera Violet Loraine--Medley.
8.50-9 p.m. "The Open Road"- A Hiking Medley (arr. 1broy Somers). 9-9.15 p.m. Daventry News Balle tin.
9:16-9,50 p.nl Instrumental items. Cover the Waterfront.
arranged for Eight Pianos.
Nasty Man. The Grasshopper and the Ants.
The Four Bright Sparks. Liebestraum (Lovea Dream) (1kzt). The Blue Danube (Strauss),
Ivory Keys Grand Piano Orchestra, 9.30
Midnight. Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra. (Press Bulle tin at 10 p.m.).
TO-MORROW'S PROGRAMME
Reminiscences of H.M. The King's Silver Jubilee
PETER SIMPLE'S TALK
9.10-10 a.m. Military Parade Ser. vice at St. John's Cathedral.
11.a.m.-12.15 pm. St. John's Cathe dral Service.
12.15.2.10 p.m. Recorded Music. (Time and Weather Report at 1 pm; Press Bulletins at 130 p.m.). Excerpts from Operak..
Voen! Gems-Carmen (Bizet). Band-Faust Ballet Music
(Gound).
Vocal Gems-Die Fledermauk
(J. Strauss)..
Concert Items.
Songs-Reelt: I Rage, I Melt, 1 Burn. Songs-Arin: O Ruddier than the
Cherry (Handel);
Songs-Honour and Arms (Handel).
Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone). Pianoforte Solns-Prelude in G
Minor, Op. 23, No. 5
(Rachmaninoff).
Pianoforte Solos-Marche Militaire
(Schubert).
Mischa Levitzki. Songs-Es blinket der Tau
(Rubinstein).
Songs-Livbesfeier (Weingartner),
Meta Seinemeyer (Soprano). Violin Solon...La Plun Que Lente-
Waltz (Debuxay).
Violin Solos--Menuetto No. 1 and 2
(Bach); The Little Windmill (Couperin).
Songs-Confesion-Taugo,
Heifetz
Songs--La Cumparsiun-Tango.
Tito Schipa (Tenor). Vocal Gema. Mercenary May (Youmans)" Whoopee.
The New Moon (Romberg).
Bolero" (Ratel), Review of Revues". "Chauve-Souris"--Selection.
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7-7.17 p.m. The Lener String Quartet. Quarjet in D-Minor-Andante Cat-
taliile ("Death and the Maiden") (Schubert).
Italian Serenade in G Major
(Hugo Wolf).
7.17-7.80 p.m. Recital by Charles Kullman,
1. I Love Theo (Grick), 2. Still as the Night (Bohm). 3. Come back to Sorrento
(de Curtin), (Continued on Page 4
A Riverside Home in Devon
meet her liabilities in full within 5 about herself from the office of the cars. Her trial did not begin Finance Minister Flaniin. Mme. until October 30. At the end of her | Hanau denied theft, declaring that two days' speech in her own de- there had "simply been a leakage Winter has no rigours in South Devon. fence she was complimented by one at police headquarters” and assert- On the most Venutiful reach of the Dart estuary, at Diztinham, are Ilis Excellency the
Tenders are being invited for the judge. She was given two years' im-ed that she Ofeer Ad-
houses of satisfying design, built ministering the Government has been erection of the new Wanchni Marketprisonment and fined £24. But, as secuter. Sho Was proceeded
with a rare pride of craftsmanship pleased to appoint the following off and also for supplying und laying her detention had lasted 16% against for illicit market operations and beauty of material. They are cers to be official Justices of the patent roofing at the Central British months she had only 7% to serve. but the trial was postponed from ingeniously arranged to reduce house- Peace: Mr. Ernest James Edwards School.
Against this sentence she appealed, month to month until the Stavisky work to minimum and are complete. and Mr. Andrew Todd Hamilton.
No sooner was she at iberty scandal aroused public indignation ly protected against mass develop- It is notified that Hin Excellency The Gazette contains drafts of an the Officer Administering the Govern pending her appeal than she start- and it was recalled that her casement, Golf courses are within easy Urdinance to consolidate, amend and ment, under instructions received ed a new bank and new periodicals, had never been dealt with. Even- reach. For a free booklet giving full in tually in June, 1034, she was sen-particulars of this and the four other simplify the law relating to larceny from the Secretary of State for the Ecoutez-Moi and Forces, and kindred offences; an Ordinance Colonies, has appointed Mr. John which she made violent attacks on tend to 6 months imprisonment Dartington estates, Paignton, Churs. to amend the law relating to the fal- Bernard Prentis to be a Junior Paris
however, and a fine of 3,000 francs, while ton, Carlyon and Exeter, write to: elfication of documents and to amend Legal Officer, Mr. Prentis
in also Auddenly coased for some reason, her former confederate Bloch was STAVERTON BUILDERS, LTD. the Forgery Ordinance, 1022; and an appointed to act an Asier Land In April 1932, she was accused of given eight months, and a similar gaverton, Totnes, S. Devon, England Ordinance to amend the law relating Omeer and Deputy Registrar of Mar- having stolen a secret police repart fine. to falso personation.
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