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MAN CHARGED WITH
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Lau Fong, 19, prisoner No. 25201, Victoria Gaol, appeared on remand before Mr. Balfour at the Central Police Court this morning charged No. 23884, In Laichikak Prison on with wounding Tool Tong, prisoner February 18, resulting in the death
the latter on April 2
of
Mr. T. Murphy, A.D.C.I. (Crime) applied for a week's, formal remand. The case is to be transferred to the Kowloon Magistracy.
The remand was granted,
THE HONGKONG | TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936.
|NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. MIGRATORY WORKERS FACE STARVATION
THE INDO-CIUNA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
The Fifty-fifth Ordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Omces of the General Managers. Messrs. Jardino, Muthe- son & Co. Ltd.. Peddor Street. Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 22nd. April, 1936, at noon, for the pur pose of receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Ac counts, and electing Directora and Auditora.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 15th April to the 6th May inclu
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By order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
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Hongkong, 2nd April, 1936.
COLONEL CYRIL FOLEY
DEAD
It will be recalled that an inquest on Taoi Tang was commenced before Mr. Balfour on April 3. It is under stood the inquest is now to be nd-UT-COLONEL CYRIL
dious Office Accommodation in P & Ojourned sine die, Building. Realy for occupation on 1st July, 1936. Apply Mackinnon Mackenzio & Co., F & O Building.
The St. Andrew's Club Amateur Dramatic section are producing Three one-act Plays at St. Andrew's Church all to-night at 9.15 p.m. There will be instrumental music in between acts by a quartette of local artistes, The price of admission are $1.60 (reserved) and $1 inclusive of lax.
MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD
London, Apr. 15.
P.
FOLEY, author, soldier, sports. man and explorer, died inst month in Dorset, aged 67,
His adventures Included taking i part in the Jameson Raid and ne- companying a party which in 1909
It is stated that Mr. Ramsay Muesearched unsuccessfully on the site. Donald in progressing satisfactorily of Solomon's Temple In Jerusalem after the minor operation for which for the Ark of the Covenant. he entered a nursing home yesterday. -British Wireless.
He was the son of General Sir St. George Foley, and was the heir- presumptive to his grand-nephew, the 12-year-old Lord Foley.
He played cricket for Eton and Cambridge, and later earned his place in the Middlesex county team.
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Approximately 1,000 Beld workers and their families drove to Nipomo, California in their rattle-trap motor-cars, set up lean-to dwellings, and prepared to harvest the pea crop. Rains net in. The pea crop was destroyed by blight. The migrants worked only two days in six weeks. They were neur' starvation when relief workers found them, and rushed in food. Photo shows one of the workers' wives with her two chlidren,
U.S. EXPEDITION
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TO STUDY ECLIPSE
New York, Apr., 6.
A joint expedition to observe the next total eclipse of the sun, In South Africa, Colonel Foley ́scheduled for June 19, 1936, will be sent to Soviet Russia by made the acquaintance of Cecil Georgetown University and the National Geographic Society, it was Rhodes and took part in the Jame- announced here. [son raid. Of Rhodes ho once said: ["I do not remember meeting any- one who made you feel so small, physically and meatally as Cecli Rhodes did."
Colonel Foley, claimed last year in his book, "Autumn Follage that he was a Monte Carlo gambler who invariably won. His yearly capital, he said, was £200, and at the end jof 15 years he had made a profit of
£11,000.
In March 1935 Celonel Foley was chosen out of 1.000 applicants to be manager for the Auto-cycle Union Speedway Control Board.
STOPPED TRAINS FOR A KISS
SIGNALS SET AT
DANGER
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The expedition will travel half- cordial invitations to the scientific way around the earth to make organizations to the world to send observations during the brief two expeditions to their territories and one-half minutes when the four abservation of the eclipse, the moon will come between the earth first since that of February, 1984. and the sun and temporarily turn in both countries extensive sur- day into night. Even so brief anj veys have been made of weather observation of the sun is consi-{ conditions and the results have dered well worth while by astro- been communicated to all organi- nomers because it gives them an zations likely to take part in the opportunity to study the sun's observations. corona-a halo of light extending I'hotographs taken during the hundreds of thousands of miles eclipse, timed with great exact outward from the sun but visible nesa, will give astronomers a only during an eclipse when the chance to "hold a stop-watch" on rest of the sun's light is cut off. the movements of the Bolar The corona, it is believed, halda system and ace if it is running clues to the make-up of the sun, on schedule.' Movements of the whose heat and energy make life sun, moon and planets in relation possible on earth. This in turn to one another are predleted with may aid in better understanding extreme accuracy by astronomers, of the nature of the more distant but the predictions can be checked atara.
only when two heavenly bodies Dr. Paul A. McNally, director pass each other, as in the case of of the Georgetown College Obser-¦à total eclipse,→United Press, vatory, will lead the expedition,]. .accompanied by five others to be chosen from the staffs of the uni- versity and the Society. They
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Paris, Mar. 31. THE amorous girl-wife of an elderly level-crossing keeper on a local railway line near Cler-will leave some time in April and
return in July:-- mont Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome, Observations will be made from has just appeared in the Rioma point near Orenburg, Sovici Police Court on a charge of Russia, because past weather
Messrs. Bonjamin and Potts. region "deteriorating the company's offers one of the best promises of ceived the following Straits currency rolling stock."
quotations (buyers) from Singapore to-day for raw rubber: Spot
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Pretty, and with a ready smile, she drew the loving glances of drivers and guards, and even grimy-faced firemen on the trains that passed her little
cottage:
She rewarded her favourites with a wave of her hand, and they would ahut off steam and slow, down to let their gaze linger. Then they began to throw out notes and blow kisaeK.
One day a train stopped near the cottage with the signals against it, and after that nearly every day train stopped there but not always the same train. The young wife of the crossing-keeper was always there to indulge in love-making, and be put right afterwards. mysterious manner the signals would
A watch was kept and it was found that the girl manipulated the signals by tampering with them when a train carrying one of her favourite drivers came in sight.
The court let her off with a small fine and a warning.
EVEREST PORTERS
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Calcutta, Mar. 31. Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, leader of this year's attempt to climb Mount Everest, has made the final selec- tion of 60 Sherpa and Bhutia por- ters to assist in the enterprise. The other porters needed will join the expedition at the base camp→→ which is situated at a height of 16,800ft-direct from their homes. The men selected by Mr. Rutt- ledgo were members of a large party chosen provisionally by Major C. J. Morris, the expedi- tion's chief transport officer.
They are exceptionally well suit ed for the purpose. Young man predominate, but among them is a good Icavening of trusted old hands. who have been appointed vomman- dera of parties.
Jemadar Lachiman "Singh Sahl and two N.C.0.s of the 3rd Gurk- hns have joined as assistants to Major Morris,
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